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 --> 00:00:07.519 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.640 --> 00:00:14.720 Good morning, good more morning, Yeah. 5 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:19.480 Talk all right, Chris is coffee is kicking in. That's 6 00:00:19.519 --> 00:00:22.399 what I'm said seeing right now in the morning in 7 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:25.359 the Sorry, I never I never go past that mark. Okay, 8 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:28.800 So dude, you really livened up due caffeine. 9 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:29.039 Hit. 10 00:00:29.239 --> 00:00:32.039 Send a couple of nice text messages. Feeling good. 11 00:00:32.920 --> 00:00:36.880 He's referring to in between the all right, hey today 12 00:00:37.119 --> 00:00:39.079 this if you don't know, if you're just joining us today, 13 00:00:39.079 --> 00:00:41.799 this is kyleer is standing in for Jeff because Jeff 14 00:00:41.880 --> 00:00:45.039 is out of pocket, and so we are delighted, thrilled, nay, 15 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:48.359 we are privileged to have with us this week The 16 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:50.359 Bible Guys with Kyle and Chris. 17 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:53.000 Yes, it was pretty terrible then first, I don't know 18 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:53.759 how that happens. 19 00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:57.240 Yes, yes, deserved, but well deserved. 20 00:00:57.280 --> 00:00:58.880 I don't know about that, not at all. But thank you. 21 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:02.240 Well. Hey, today's desiree wants us to do two truths 22 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:04.680 in a lie. Yep, and the way she wrote it is, 23 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:07.200 oh I lost my place now, it says Kyle, we 24 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:09.239 always enjoy having you as a Bible guy. 25 00:01:09.359 --> 00:01:11.239 She had to write that that's good getting. 26 00:01:10.959 --> 00:01:11.879 To know you more. 27 00:01:12.359 --> 00:01:14.000 Let's play two truths and a lie to see how 28 00:01:14.040 --> 00:01:16.840 well Chris knows you? All right? Can he figure out 29 00:01:16.840 --> 00:01:19.959 which statement is a lie? And she put exclamation mark 30 00:01:20.079 --> 00:01:22.519 question mark as if that's so intense? 31 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:25.519 Can he find out? I figured us see if we 32 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:29.120 can figure it out. Okay, we got three things for you, Chris. 33 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:32.480 Two truths, one lie. First thing is this is that 34 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:36.359 I graduated from the same high school that your kids 35 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:37.760 graduated from. 36 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:41.120 Yeah, I know that's true, buddy. 37 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:42.079 Wait for me to say. 38 00:01:41.959 --> 00:01:44.079 All three Yeah, Well I'm I'm just calling you out. 39 00:01:44.120 --> 00:01:48.599 Okay, there you go. I am the youngest of my 40 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:51.480 older of the three siblings in my family, I'm the youngest. 41 00:01:51.799 --> 00:01:54.040 That's the second thing. And then the last is that 42 00:01:54.599 --> 00:01:57.599 the last one's a lie. Okay, the last thing, the 43 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:00.280 last thing son of a gun. 44 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:01.040 I already knew. 45 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:04.680 Okay, I was married in Hawaii, So there are two 46 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:07.000 truths and a lie in that I was married in Hawaii. 47 00:02:07.159 --> 00:02:08.400 I'm the youngest of Uh. 48 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:12.000 Hey, I'm proud. I'm really proud because you know we 49 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:14.319 know each other. But I but you know, obviously I 50 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:16.400 don't know you nearly as well as some other staff 51 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:19.439 members because you run staff well before me, right, And 52 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:21.280 so I'm really proud that I got this. 53 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:22.599 I knew both of those things. 54 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:24.400 Yeah. So the truth is I did go to Troy 55 00:02:24.439 --> 00:02:26.759 Athens High School, graduated away before his kids, but went 56 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:29.479 to the same high school as them. The other truth 57 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:32.120 is that I actually have six siblings. I'm not the youngest. 58 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:34.520 I'm right in the middles. 59 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:36.479 I get it wrong, I get it wrong. 60 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:38.280 You said that you said you thought that was the truth. 61 00:02:39.400 --> 00:02:41.240 No, no, no, I said, I said the last ones. 62 00:02:41.639 --> 00:02:43.520 Uh, oh, so you are wrong. 63 00:02:43.759 --> 00:02:46.400 Let's go totally misunderstood you. Yes, it's right. So I 64 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:48.680 actually was married in Hawaii. I really was two thousand 65 00:02:48.680 --> 00:02:51.439 and seven, got married in Hawaii. And uh, and no, 66 00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:53.960 I'm I'm not I'm not the youngest. I am right 67 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:55.280 in the middle of the six siblings. 68 00:02:55.759 --> 00:02:58.439 I said. I said, I know you're the youngest, but 69 00:02:58.479 --> 00:02:58.800 you're not. 70 00:02:59.039 --> 00:03:02.560 No, I'm not right in the So wow, yeah, I 71 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:05.439 have two older siblings and then and then three younger 72 00:03:05.439 --> 00:03:08.840 than me. So six of us six. It's okay. You 73 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:11.039 were getting a little confident, and I actually trusted your 74 00:03:11.039 --> 00:03:13.120 confidence that's the worst part is also you know he's right, 75 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:13.599 He's got me. 76 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:15.400 Did you ever see Willie Walker at the end when 77 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:21.680 he goes wrong, sir wrong? Yes, you get married in Hawaii. 78 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:24.360 Yeah. So we basically we had the opportunity. When we 79 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:27.360 were planning our wedding, we were just broke as a joke, yeah, 80 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:29.520 and we were like, you know, we were talking about 81 00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:31.240 what are options where we could have done a big 82 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:34.719 wedding in the area and probably spent too much money 83 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:37.000 that we didn't have. We could have done a small 84 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:39.199 wedding in the area and left out a bunch of people, 85 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:41.520 or what we decided was another option was what if 86 00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:43.599 we go to Hawaii and we just invite whoever wants 87 00:03:43.639 --> 00:03:46.719 to come and uh, and then we we stay there 88 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:48.960 and we get married there. So we ended up inviting 89 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:51.080 whoever wanted to come and thirteen people joined us. It 90 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:53.120 was really great two thousand and seven. So my family, 91 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:55.639 her family, close family. We didn't have anybody stand up 92 00:03:55.639 --> 00:03:57.439 in the wedding. It was just on a beach and 93 00:03:57.479 --> 00:04:01.199 the couple that did we basically hire a couple that 94 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:04.319 was there. She did the photography, he performed the wedding 95 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:06.080 and it was really sweet. It was out in the 96 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:09.840 on a beach where like nobody around us. It was awesome, 97 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:12.639 very cool, very cool. It was it was a guy 98 00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:16.319 we found like a like a online pastor. We found 99 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:20.680 rent a pastor. Yep, it was great, very nice guy. 100 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:24.800 Wow. So a pastor at our church hired a rena 101 00:04:24.879 --> 00:04:25.920 pastor in Hawaii. 102 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:27.759 Was before I actually wanted to go in the ministry. 103 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:29.000 So I was just like, I just need to get married. 104 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:30.240 We just gotta figure this out. There's got to be 105 00:04:30.279 --> 00:04:32.959 somebody we could, uh we could find to do this. Wow. 106 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:34.319 So yeah, it was not. I mean I had I 107 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:36.480 had other pastor friends I could have invited. 108 00:04:36.600 --> 00:04:40.040 But let's pretend that you were single up until now. Uh, 109 00:04:40.079 --> 00:04:42.480 and let's just say you just met Kristen right and 110 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:45.800 you guys are going to get married. Uh. My question is, 111 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:49.319 would you be okay hiring a rena pastor now or 112 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:52.839 would you like say, gosh, I just can't do that. 113 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:54.800 I have to have whoever special in your life. 114 00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:56.120 So you're saying you want to go to Hawaii. Is 115 00:04:56.160 --> 00:05:00.920 that what you're saying? No, I'm just no, no, no, My mindset 116 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:03.040 is definitely different, but you have to I was very 117 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:06.160 very young, we did not like, we didn't have much like, 118 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:08.639 so I'm trying to think of, like what's the most 119 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:10.920 easy and efficient way to get this thing legally taken 120 00:05:10.920 --> 00:05:11.240 care of. 121 00:05:11.319 --> 00:05:13.240 That's why people hire rena pasters. 122 00:05:13.279 --> 00:05:15.120 Yes, yes, so now I would say I definitely want 123 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:16.959 to fly out somebody who'd be important to me and 124 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:17.959 have them do the wedding one. 125 00:05:18.680 --> 00:05:20.959 Yes, yeah, okay, yeah, even though that'd be a more 126 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:23.439 expensive Yes, absolutely that point, you might as well stay 127 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:27.839 at home and yes, so but but wow, that is amazing. 128 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:31.480 So so yeah, you probably have incredible photos. 129 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:34.439 Yes, it's great and also was it was before the 130 00:05:34.519 --> 00:05:37.079 age where like everything's digital, right, so we have a 131 00:05:37.079 --> 00:05:39.199 lot of great printed photos, we have a few digital 132 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:42.399 photos and some really just good good memories from that. Actually, 133 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:44.079 I'll tell funny. I know we're probably run out of 134 00:05:44.079 --> 00:05:46.319 time for this segment, but we were on this beach 135 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:48.480 and it was like totally like like the rent to 136 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:51.319 pastor helped find us the spot, and it was beautiful beach. 137 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:53.439 No one's around, and there's this guy in a speedo 138 00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:58.000 that's ceremonies about to start runs by a speedo and 139 00:05:58.439 --> 00:06:00.480 my dad is like kind of like, I mean he's 140 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:02.319 a very nice, kind guy, but he also has an 141 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:04.319 aggresive side. Don't want to mess with him. So sure enough, 142 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:06.160 like the guy runs by and we all kind of 143 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:08.600 got to laugh, right then the guy runs by again, 144 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:11.639 second time. By the third time, he's just running laps. 145 00:06:11.800 --> 00:06:14.319 My dad was like, I honestly might tackle this guy 146 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:16.720 in the speed home and into the ocean. And so 147 00:06:16.839 --> 00:06:18.439 just a funny thinguse we were just like a memory 148 00:06:18.439 --> 00:06:20.639 that we have is just some guy making laps. He'd 149 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:22.480 run like a football field link running back. And finally 150 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:24.600 Mike had to say, can you please leave? There's a 151 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:27.439 wedding happening because we're standing up there about to get married, 152 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:29.600 about to exchange vowels and some guys running behind him. 153 00:06:29.639 --> 00:06:30.600 Did he say please? 154 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:32.399 Yeah, I think he said in a more firm way 155 00:06:32.439 --> 00:06:34.680 than that. But and then the guy did not come back, 156 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:36.839 that's for sure, but it made for a really funny 157 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:40.319 Dad's also muscular. Yes, yes he's not. He's not messing around. Yeah, 158 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:41.519 he's not messing around. 159 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:45.600 Your dad said to me leave, Yes, I would leave, yes, yes. 160 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:47.839 And this guy, I mean again, we're in the middle 161 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:49.759 of nowhere, in this beautiful spot, and this guy thought 162 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:52.120 it was a good idea to run across where the 163 00:06:52.120 --> 00:06:54.319 photos were being taken so many times, yeah, three different times. 164 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:54.519 Yep. 165 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:54.800 Yeah. 166 00:06:54.959 --> 00:06:56.879 So anyway, all right, we should probably talk about the Bible. 167 00:06:57.120 --> 00:06:57.279 Yep. 168 00:06:57.399 --> 00:06:58.759 Yeah. Well, I mean, hey, we did good. 169 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:02.319 We were within our time, all right, A right, So David, 170 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:05.199 as we know, many of us already know that David 171 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:08.399 wrote many of the psalms, right, almost exclusively, all of them, 172 00:07:09.319 --> 00:07:10.639 and many times. 173 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:11.560 What he did was he. 174 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:17.240 Wrote them, you know, throughout his journey and and and 175 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:20.240 it'll literally tell us when he wrote them, right now, 176 00:07:20.279 --> 00:07:24.480 each psalm had a tune. They were actually songs, right 177 00:07:24.920 --> 00:07:27.279 and we don't have the charts, we don't have the 178 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:31.000 chords of the melodies. But he actually would write music. 179 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:33.600 He was a musician. And this one says a psalm 180 00:07:33.639 --> 00:07:36.519 of David which he sang to the Lord concerning Cush 181 00:07:37.399 --> 00:07:40.480 of the tribe of Benjamin, which is right where we 182 00:07:40.519 --> 00:07:42.079 are chronologically in his life. 183 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:44.399 All right, So right there in Psalm seven, i'll read 184 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:46.680 it today. It says, I come to you for protection, 185 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:50.480 O Lord, my God, save me for my persecutors. Rescue me. 186 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:53.839 If you don't, they will maul me like a lyon lion. 187 00:07:53.959 --> 00:07:56.279 Tearing me to pieces with no one to rescue me. 188 00:07:56.839 --> 00:07:59.000 Oh Lord, my God, if I've done wrong, or I'm 189 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:02.000 guilty of justice injustice, if I betrayed a friend or 190 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:05.639 plundered my enemy without cause, then let my enemies capture me. 191 00:08:06.279 --> 00:08:08.319 Let them trample me into the ground and drag me, 192 00:08:08.560 --> 00:08:12.360 drag my honor in the dust. Arise, o Lord, in anger, 193 00:08:12.920 --> 00:08:16.040 stand up against a fury of my enemies. Wake up, 194 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:19.360 my God, and bring justice. Gather the nations before you 195 00:08:19.879 --> 00:08:23.279 rule over them from on high. The Lord judges the nations. 196 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:26.720 Declare me righteous, o Lord, for I am innocent. Almost 197 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:29.720 high End the evil of those who are wicked, and 198 00:08:29.759 --> 00:08:33.600 defend the righteous. For you look deep within the mind 199 00:08:33.639 --> 00:08:38.320 and heart, Oh righteous God, God is my shield, saving 200 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:41.039 those whose hearts are true and right. God is an 201 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:44.279 honest judge. He is angry with the wicked every day. 202 00:08:44.799 --> 00:08:47.200 If a person does not repent, God will sharpen his sword, 203 00:08:47.519 --> 00:08:50.399 he will bend and string his bow. He will prepare 204 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:55.120 his deadly weapons and shoot his flaming arrows. The wicked 205 00:08:55.320 --> 00:08:58.639 conceive evil. They are pregnant with trouble and give birth 206 00:08:58.679 --> 00:09:02.240 to lies. They dig deep pit to trap others, then 207 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:05.240 fall into it themselves. The trouble they make for others 208 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:08.480 backfires on them. The violence they plan falls on their 209 00:09:08.519 --> 00:09:11.919 own heads. I will thank the Lord because he has 210 00:09:12.200 --> 00:09:14.480 just I will sing praises to the name of the 211 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:18.360 Lord Most High. It was a good, good psalm of David. 212 00:09:19.320 --> 00:09:24.320 Yeah, it is, yes, And you know, it's interesting to 213 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:30.480 me how whenever you read a psalm like this we 214 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:33.440 eat today on the other side of the cross. We 215 00:09:33.559 --> 00:09:37.799 try to obviously apply that. We try to say, Okay, 216 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:40.879 what does this mean for me not to be selfish 217 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:44.039 because we're trying to you know, obviously, you know, sort. 218 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:46.200 Of become like Christ, become like God, what God wants 219 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:46.519 us to be. 220 00:09:47.039 --> 00:09:48.720 Yeah. Yeah, I guess what I was going to say is, 221 00:09:48.759 --> 00:09:52.080 you know, we're trying to receive it. You know, when 222 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:54.799 it was written with what intent was it written for? 223 00:09:55.120 --> 00:09:55.320 Yeah? 224 00:09:55.639 --> 00:09:56.879 What did it mean to David? 225 00:09:57.120 --> 00:09:57.279 Right? 226 00:09:57.919 --> 00:09:59.879 Oh, you're saying that's the correct way to approach it. 227 00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:03.440 Yeah, I'm saying, yeah, that's we have to understand the context. 228 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:06.840 The stuff that doesn't relate to us, it's they're still important. 229 00:10:06.879 --> 00:10:08.200 I guess this is what I'm trying to say. There's 230 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:10.399 a lot of stuff in the Old Testament remember yesterday's 231 00:10:10.399 --> 00:10:13.039 story he stabbed into the gut and split out his guts. 232 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:15.480 You're like, what does this have to do with me today, 233 00:10:15.679 --> 00:10:18.679 in my life in twenty twenty four, Right, So we 234 00:10:19.320 --> 00:10:20.840 have to appreciate it for what it is and what 235 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:23.080 it means and how it applies to the life of David, 236 00:10:23.159 --> 00:10:25.240 is what I'm saying. But then also you sort of 237 00:10:25.240 --> 00:10:26.879 have to short of apply and say, Okay, God, what 238 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:30.120 does this mean for me? Because every verse, you know, 239 00:10:30.159 --> 00:10:32.399 there's there's a sermon in there somewhere, right, every verse 240 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:35.080 can lead you to Christ. But anyway, what I was 241 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:38.279 just going to say is, sometimes when we are trying 242 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:42.600 to receive a psalm for us today in twenty twenty four, 243 00:10:43.159 --> 00:10:46.000 we come across things that could be a little discouraging. 244 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:46.440 You know. 245 00:10:46.559 --> 00:10:49.279 Sometimes it says He's angry with the wicked every day. 246 00:10:49.639 --> 00:10:53.000 God is an honest judge. If a person does not repent, 247 00:10:53.080 --> 00:10:57.279 God will sharpen his sword, he will bend and string 248 00:10:57.360 --> 00:11:00.600 his bow, he will prepare his weapons, the weapons and 249 00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:01.840 shoot his flaming arrows. 250 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:05.759 And it's like, holy cow, it's like those. 251 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:08.399 Of us who have a past, those of us who 252 00:11:08.440 --> 00:11:11.000 currently struggle. You know, I can imagine that there are 253 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:13.600 probably some people listening to the podcast even right now, 254 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:16.960 They're like, that's me. I'm the wicked person, right Like 255 00:11:17.039 --> 00:11:20.279 I try to be good, i just can't. Or I 256 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:23.360 try to be good, I'm just not as disciplined as 257 00:11:23.399 --> 00:11:26.519 I want to be, right, Ye, And so let's just 258 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:31.799 be reminded. Here's the here's the statement of the day 259 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:36.759 that God still does hate wicked things every day. So 260 00:11:36.840 --> 00:11:40.759 the Bible says that, you know, God is the same yesterday, today, 261 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:44.679 and forever. So God does not change God. Whatever sin 262 00:11:44.759 --> 00:11:47.080 that God hated in the Old Testament, God still hates 263 00:11:47.120 --> 00:11:50.679 in the New Testament. Right. There's nowhere in the Bible 264 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:53.240 does it say that God has changed his stance on sin, 265 00:11:54.320 --> 00:11:57.919 nor does he feel about sin any differently than he 266 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:02.039 did even back then. The only difference is, and trust me, 267 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:06.480 it is a massive difference, is God's response to sin 268 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:10.879 changes greatly. So God's response to sin is different because 269 00:12:10.919 --> 00:12:12.440 of Jesus Christ. Right. 270 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:14.440 So in the Old Testament we see the. 271 00:12:14.440 --> 00:12:17.799 God of wrath, right, you know, like, you know, God 272 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:22.000 executes his judgment on the spot for sin, you know, 273 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:24.759 and he just boom, just lays it out. 274 00:12:25.320 --> 00:12:27.120 You know, we're going to strike people down. 275 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:29.679 And again he struck people down in the New Testament 276 00:12:29.879 --> 00:12:31.639 and in Iis and Sephirah in. 277 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:32.360 The Book of Acts. 278 00:12:32.399 --> 00:12:38.080 Right like, there's still execution, you know, happening in the 279 00:12:38.120 --> 00:12:42.360 New Testament post Christ. But for the most part, we 280 00:12:42.440 --> 00:12:46.240 have to understand that God's response to us in twenty 281 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:50.000 twenty four for our sin is radically different than it 282 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:54.320 was before Christ, because Jesus Christ came to pay for 283 00:12:54.360 --> 00:12:58.360 our sins. Right, So, what happens in the Old Testament is, 284 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:03.080 you know, they would live trying their best to please God, 285 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:06.840 and obviously because of their sin, they would sacrifice an animal. 286 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:09.639 The Bible says in the Book of Hebrews. Without the 287 00:13:09.639 --> 00:13:12.200 shedding of blood, there is no repentance for sin, there's 288 00:13:12.240 --> 00:13:17.240 no forgiveness of sin. And so they would, excuse me, 289 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:21.360 they would have to offer a blood sacrifice. In those 290 00:13:21.399 --> 00:13:25.120 blood sacrifices they would have to offer continually. But the 291 00:13:25.159 --> 00:13:29.159 Bible says that Jesus Christ was the one and only 292 00:13:29.279 --> 00:13:33.639 an ultimate sacrifice. He was the Lamb of God. John 293 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:36.080 the Baptist said that takes away the sins of the 294 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:39.720 whole world. When his blood was shed, it covered all 295 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:42.039 of our sins, not only all the sins that we've 296 00:13:42.039 --> 00:13:44.919 committed in the past, but all the sins in the future, 297 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:48.840 all of our future sins. God's one sacrifice is enough 298 00:13:49.559 --> 00:13:54.879 to forgive everything that we will ever do for our lives. 299 00:13:55.279 --> 00:13:58.240 So I just want to say, as we receive the psalm, 300 00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:00.759 just know this God is still a God of justice. 301 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:03.519 He's still a God who hates sin. He's still a 302 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:06.960 God who, by the way, will have us answer for 303 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:11.600 our sins. Right, we have judgment in our lives. Judgment 304 00:14:11.679 --> 00:14:14.240 is still relevant. We have to answer for our sins. 305 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:16.720 The Bible says, our sins are going to find us 306 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:19.840 out right. Whatsoever we sow, we're going to reap. 307 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:22.840 We understand those things. But just know that his. 308 00:14:25.639 --> 00:14:29.679 Anxiousness to sharpen his sword and get you back because 309 00:14:29.679 --> 00:14:32.120 of your sin, that is not the spirit in which 310 00:14:32.360 --> 00:14:36.720 we live under the Blood of Christ. Right. God is 311 00:14:36.720 --> 00:14:39.639 not out to get us. God is out to love us. 312 00:14:40.039 --> 00:14:43.559 God pursues us, He loves us, He forgives us, He 313 00:14:43.679 --> 00:14:47.200 invites us into a loving relationship with him, offering us 314 00:14:47.320 --> 00:14:49.720 continual forgiveness for our sins. 315 00:14:50.200 --> 00:14:53.159 Right, especially when you figure the context of who's writing this, right, 316 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:57.720 it's David a man after God's own heart, yet has 317 00:14:57.879 --> 00:15:01.080 so much like things that honestly to feel a lot 318 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:03.399 of shame or reret and pain over of his own 319 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:05.559 sins and mistakes. And the verse that stood out to 320 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:07.960 me that is kind of a beautiful verse, but also 321 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:09.519 like a scary verse, kind of like you're saying, sometimes 322 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:11.440 people read this stuff and they're like, oh, my goodness, 323 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:13.919 this applies to me. But in verse nine it says, 324 00:15:14.240 --> 00:15:18.120 for you look deep within the mind and heart. You know, 325 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:20.600 reading that, some people can take so listen that they 326 00:15:20.600 --> 00:15:22.320 can say, man, the God he just sees my heart, 327 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:23.799 and he just knows my mind, what I'm thinking, he 328 00:15:23.879 --> 00:15:26.240 knows my intentions or pure whatever. But then others maybe 329 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:29.320 read that and they're like, wow, that's that's scary to 330 00:15:29.399 --> 00:15:32.559 know that that the God actually knows deep within your 331 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:35.679 mind and heart. He knows your motives, he knows you 332 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:38.519 know what you're thinking, he knows your temptations, your struggles 333 00:15:38.519 --> 00:15:39.679 and that sort of thing. And that part of it 334 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:41.519 feels a little bit convicting. It feels a little bit like, 335 00:15:42.159 --> 00:15:44.320 you know, a little bit revealing. It feels like, you know, 336 00:15:44.360 --> 00:15:47.679 a vulnerable moment. But I think it's also a reminder 337 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:50.480 that as Christians we can kind of live with like 338 00:15:50.559 --> 00:15:54.600 the mask off, pretending not you know, stop pretending to 339 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:57.840 be something or not, Stop pretending like you're perfect, right, 340 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:00.840 stop pretending like you know, all this rightiousness you walk around, 341 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:03.080 self righteousness you walk around with because end of the day, 342 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:04.720 no matter what it is, we have a God who 343 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:07.039 sees deep within the mind and heart, and that's what 344 00:16:07.080 --> 00:16:09.480 matters most. And we see right here we have someone 345 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:11.639 like David who's considered a man after God's own heart, 346 00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:14.600 and yet he's being completely real about the fact that 347 00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:18.639 God sees him, knows him, knows all his issues, and 348 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:21.399 yet still deeply loves him. Yeah. 349 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:25.440 Well you know, I mean, you know, he's not claiming 350 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:28.320 perfection right to you to the point he's just made. 351 00:16:28.519 --> 00:16:30.360 But when he does say that, at the very beginning, 352 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:33.720 he says, hey, you know, if I've done wrong, if 353 00:16:33.759 --> 00:16:36.639 I'm guilty of an injustice or portrayed a friend, then hey, 354 00:16:36.679 --> 00:16:38.799 let the enemies capture me, tramp me in the ground, 355 00:16:38.879 --> 00:16:41.440 drag my honor through the dust. What he's talking about 356 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:44.159 here is his reputation. You know, I love this note. 357 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:47.320 In the Love of Life Application Study Bible says this, 358 00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:52.000 Have you ever been falsely accused or so badly hurt 359 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:54.919 that you wanted to take revenge? Instead of taking matters 360 00:16:54.960 --> 00:16:57.320 into your own hands and striking back, David cried out 361 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:01.960 to God for justice. The proper response to slander is prayer, 362 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:05.319 not revenge, because God says I will take revenge, I 363 00:17:05.319 --> 00:17:07.440 will pay them back, and then it gives some cross 364 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:10.480 references and it says, instead of striking back, ask God 365 00:17:10.759 --> 00:17:14.160 to take your case, bring justice, and restore your reputation. 366 00:17:15.400 --> 00:17:17.440 I'm not sure if you could relate to this, but 367 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:18.519 I could relate to this in. 368 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:21.160 A very massive way. 369 00:17:21.559 --> 00:17:22.519 Something you know well. 370 00:17:22.559 --> 00:17:24.480 I mean, I don't want to get into details, because 371 00:17:24.519 --> 00:17:27.400 people who know me personally and they know the church 372 00:17:27.440 --> 00:17:30.279 that I came from, they know that there was some 373 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:33.160 of that involved in leaving my other church. And as 374 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:38.359 long as you've known me, even personally in conversation, how 375 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:40.480 many times have you ever heard me mention this? And 376 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:43.400 the answer is almost zero? Right, I never talk about it. 377 00:17:43.440 --> 00:17:46.880 I certainly never say anything publicly. And the reason why 378 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:51.319 is because my goal isn't to slander other churches. My 379 00:17:51.400 --> 00:17:54.880 goal isn't to say bad things about people. Right, There's 380 00:17:54.920 --> 00:17:57.720 no good that'll come from that. You know, sometimes when 381 00:17:57.759 --> 00:18:00.400 we leave churches, sometimes it's a really good leaving and 382 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:01.039 sometimes it's not. 383 00:18:01.720 --> 00:18:04.640 And it's complicated, right and so and so my. 384 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:08.359 Goal is not to slander anybody listening who knows anything 385 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:11.599 about my leaving. But I will say one thing, and 386 00:18:11.720 --> 00:18:14.079 and again, this is one thing. This is a very 387 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:17.480 it feels like a very safe comment. Okay, a very 388 00:18:17.519 --> 00:18:22.400 safe comment. Uh. There was there was a thing that 389 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:26.720 happened where, you know, I spoke up against you know, 390 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:32.240 leadership and had some attitude issues against leadership and things. Well, anyway, 391 00:18:32.680 --> 00:18:35.559 I was put on a leave of absence and and 392 00:18:35.559 --> 00:18:37.200 and all I said was all I said was I 393 00:18:37.240 --> 00:18:39.400 just said this. I just said, hey, listen, I said, 394 00:18:39.400 --> 00:18:42.240 do me a favor. I said, just make a statement, 395 00:18:42.759 --> 00:18:44.559 and make the statement that says, hey, the reason why 396 00:18:44.599 --> 00:18:46.920 Chris is on leave absence has nothing to do with 397 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:51.960 anything illegal, immoral, or unethical. Because when you hear that 398 00:18:51.960 --> 00:18:54.920 a pastor gets put on leav absence, that's where everybody's 399 00:18:54.920 --> 00:18:56.200 brain goes. 400 00:18:55.839 --> 00:18:57.640 Right, I said, you filmed the gap. 401 00:18:57.799 --> 00:18:58.440