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 --> 00:00:16.879 practical ways. Good Morning, good morning. We talked whole night 4 00:00:16.920 --> 00:00:19.440 through good morning, good moaning to. 5 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:22.920 You and you and you nice dude. I have nothing 6 00:00:22.960 --> 00:00:27.559 add to that. I'm this the silver Edition. I apologize, 7 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:29.800 I have nothing. I have nothing to add to that. 8 00:00:29.879 --> 00:00:32.039 This is welcome to Kyle on the Bible Guys, the 9 00:00:32.119 --> 00:00:34.439 silver Edition, not platinum, not bold. 10 00:00:34.679 --> 00:00:36.920 But the last couple of weeks, I've done good Morning 11 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:39.960 on Tuesdays because normally I reserved for Wednesdays or Thursdays 12 00:00:40.039 --> 00:00:42.600 late in the week. But by the way that I 13 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:44.600 don't know how that became a thing. I think I 14 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:47.840 did it a long long time ago. I think I 15 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:50.560 had some people, like literally ad Heritage Church, which is 16 00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:54.359 the shirt that I'm wearing, by the way, stays to 17 00:00:54.439 --> 00:00:57.439 me in the lobby. Hey, that really cheered me up. 18 00:00:57.479 --> 00:01:00.759 I like that. So there was one woman in particular 19 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:03.200 lessons every day and I said, well, I'll sing it 20 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:05.920 for you. That's just for you, right, And I did, 21 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:07.480 and then it sort of became a thing. 22 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:09.319 So, oh man, someone's going to ask you this Sunday. 23 00:01:09.480 --> 00:01:12.799 You know that now probably anyway, good morning. My name 24 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:15.079 is Chris. This is Kyle, and today we are the 25 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:18.599 Bible Guys Silver Edition. I want to say that I am. 26 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:20.680 You know. That's fine, dude, it's fine. It's silver Edition. 27 00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:22.719 It's okay. I got on my gray hair growing out, dude, 28 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:25.480 that's true. Yeah, I get that. 29 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:29.400 It's so. So anyway, Jeff is out of the country 30 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:32.920 and along with Dave Wilson and Tom Blount. Uh and 31 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:37.040 so anyway, they're doing great things, and so are we, Kyle. 32 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:39.040 We're great doing great things here holding on the four 33 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:39.680 that's right. 34 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:44.239 And today we are covering U famous sayings by Jesus 35 00:01:44.599 --> 00:01:48.239 and it's really Jesus and the Outsiders, and that's the 36 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:50.959 theme of the week. And today's famous saying is come 37 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:54.799 down immediately, zach keus great names as zach Kus. 38 00:01:54.879 --> 00:01:55.760 Yeah, I gotta love that. 39 00:01:56.239 --> 00:01:58.719 Yeah, it sounds like zucchini. I always think. Is really 40 00:01:58.799 --> 00:02:01.000 I don't know why that's funny, you know, I mean 41 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:03.480 how many how many words are have that sound? 42 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:06.120 No, it's it's strange. And I actually heard somebody recently 43 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:08.240 because this was the message actually that our herited church 44 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:10.199 kids can This is one of the messages, and the 45 00:02:10.199 --> 00:02:12.319 person who gave the messager was like, man, this person 46 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:13.879 had a great The name was z A chias anybody 47 00:02:13.879 --> 00:02:15.680 here knowing he's a chias Is And the kids were like, 48 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:17.520 hands shot up and they're like, you know, because if 49 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:19.280 you ask the kid, does anybody know? Everybody wants to 50 00:02:19.319 --> 00:02:21.000 raise their hand right right right, And there's just funny. 51 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:22.639 All these kids hand shot up and you see and 52 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:24.919 bring their hand down, you know, is a kyus? No, 53 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:25.599 that's funny. 54 00:02:25.879 --> 00:02:27.960 Hey, So we're going to do a segment that Desiree 55 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:30.400 is placed in here for us called Phil in the Blank. 56 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:32.639 This is not a common segment. We've only done it 57 00:02:32.680 --> 00:02:35.840 a few times. Listen, I'm gonna go on record. Oh boy, 58 00:02:36.039 --> 00:02:37.960 I'm gonna go on record and say that this isn't 59 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:40.919 Jeff's thing. Okay, I've tried this with Jeff and this 60 00:02:41.080 --> 00:02:41.520 just isn't his. 61 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:43.039 Are they like just sayings or no? 62 00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:45.319 This okay, It says, let's see how Kyle does with 63 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:48.199 this segment. Boy, Chris will start a sentence and then 64 00:02:48.280 --> 00:02:50.680 Kyle will have to complete it in unexpected ways. 65 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:52.520 Oh boy, okay, okay, so you have to. 66 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:55.039 Use your imagination. Maybe maybe The problem is I didn't 67 00:02:55.039 --> 00:02:58.039 give Jeff enough context. Okay, try to make it unexpected. 68 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:02.080 Maybe maybe fun if you can, right, but maybe just 69 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:04.000 something that's maybe a little bit outrageous. 70 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:05.759 All right, Okay, let's give it a whirl. 71 00:03:05.879 --> 00:03:10.800 So here's the beginning of the sentence. You're ready. Yeah, 72 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:19.560 I was on the golf course and the other day, 73 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:24.879 and you'll never believe what this one legged golfer did. 74 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:34.039 Comma, they putted the ball in with their big toe. 75 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:35.719 Wow, that's pretty good. 76 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:38.319 I don't know. Okay, Hey, that's that's not about one 77 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:40.960 leged person, you know. I just I just imagine that 78 00:03:40.960 --> 00:03:41.919 would be pretty impossible. 79 00:03:42.039 --> 00:03:47.599 You're meaning his prosthetic big toe, right, yes, okay, okay. Now, 80 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:49.039 by the way, the reason why I said that is 81 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:51.280 I have a friend who's a prostal golf. 82 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:52.120 Yeah about that. 83 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:54.479 He is a prosthetic limp was leg So I thought 84 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:56.080 of Kevin Balance. Yeah, I've heard a good friend as 85 00:03:56.080 --> 00:03:56.879 a pastor in Florida. 86 00:03:56.879 --> 00:03:58.319 I've heard he's a very good golfer too. 87 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:01.280 He's actually was one time, one time the number one 88 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:04.240 amputee golfer in the world. 89 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:04.719 Oh my gosh. 90 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:06.680 And they would fly him everywhere. So I go for 91 00:04:06.759 --> 00:04:09.080 them like just last look four weeks ago. 92 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:10.479 Yeah, and I still got it. 93 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:12.240 Oah, he's crazy, he's crazy. 94 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:14.319 That's frustrating. Here we are with our with our legs, 95 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:14.680 trying to. 96 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:16.519 Okay, let's let's have another century. 97 00:04:16.759 --> 00:04:17.439 Ready, I'll try. 98 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:27.319 I was walking down the steps of my house early 99 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:29.920 in the morning when suddenly. 100 00:04:34.720 --> 00:04:37.240 Oh, dude, on first thing out of. 101 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:38.439 Your mouth, it's the first thing in your mind. Go, 102 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:41.120 don't think about it. When suddenly, what. 103 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:44.120 Hurry, Come on, dude, this is so hard. Dude, I'm 104 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:45.680 trying to think of all your cats you got, I'm 105 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:47.560 trying to think of your life. I'm trying to think. Okay, 106 00:04:47.959 --> 00:04:52.720 when suddenly, when suddenly a cat yes, jumped on my leg, yes, 107 00:04:52.759 --> 00:04:55.800 and took me, tackled me down to the ground. 108 00:04:56.199 --> 00:04:57.879 Okay, there you go. I don't know, there you go. 109 00:04:58.199 --> 00:04:59.240 I see why Jeff doesn't. 110 00:04:59.279 --> 00:05:01.399 It doesn't have to be be okay, why don't you try? 111 00:05:01.399 --> 00:05:03.399 Okay, yeah, how about read one because you probably read 112 00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:04.800 the next one? Or are they done? 113 00:05:04.839 --> 00:05:05.839 No, it's supposed to be. 114 00:05:05.879 --> 00:05:07.519 Oh you're making them up. Oh you're making them up. 115 00:05:07.519 --> 00:05:08.839 Oh there's great, there's great. Now I got one for you, 116 00:05:08.839 --> 00:05:13.160 all right, Okay, Okay, So I was driving down Hall Road, yes, 117 00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:17.040 in the middle of Christmas season. Yes, And I looked 118 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:19.079 to my right and I see. 119 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:26.920 A man and a Halloween mask scaring everybody, with all 120 00:05:26.959 --> 00:05:29.759 the children around him crying in the other cars. 121 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:34.480 Okay, there we go. That's good. It's Halloween mask with 122 00:05:34.519 --> 00:05:35.759 all the children. An that was good. 123 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:36.199 Yeah. 124 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:37.240 Yeah. 125 00:05:37.399 --> 00:05:40.000 By the way, I I only said that because it's 126 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:41.279 the first thing that came to my mind. I saw 127 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:42.000 that on TikTok. 128 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:43.600 Yeah. Oh really, there's a guy. 129 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:46.160 Wearing a Michael Myer's mask who literally would pull up 130 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:48.720 to people, roll down his window and then and then 131 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:50.800 get the film. The reaction and people would. 132 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:53.319 Scream, Oh really, that's son just so funny. You're like, 133 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:54.000 I could try that. 134 00:05:54.279 --> 00:05:56.279 And so anyway, yeah, it's just the first thing that 135 00:05:56.319 --> 00:05:56.879 comes to your mind. 136 00:05:56.920 --> 00:05:57.560 That's so funny. 137 00:05:57.639 --> 00:05:58.680 Yeah, and it's unexpected. 138 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:01.120 Yeah yeah. And so yeah, well that's terrible. All right, 139 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:03.040 Well we may it may not be for me. Maybe 140 00:06:03.079 --> 00:06:05.120 you can bring platinum edition into it next time. 141 00:06:05.240 --> 00:06:07.000 Okay, we'll try to see next time. 142 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:08.079 He's got a great imagination. 143 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:12.079 All right. Well, hey, Kyle, that was outrageous. It was wild, 144 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:15.120 and you know what else, was outrageous. The story of zach. 145 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:20.680 Tius dude, wildly outrageous, Yes, because actually it is outrageous. Uh, 146 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:24.560 and unexpected. It is unexpected. What happens to is a 147 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:26.879 kias yes, when he falls out. Oh wait, you don't 148 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:28.000 know he fell out of traudvocate. 149 00:06:28.399 --> 00:06:32.680 It was a spoiler spoiler alert falls out all right. Hey. 150 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:35.560 By the way, there was a guy that I knew, uh, 151 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:40.000 who's a pastor in California. He preached this entire message 152 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:42.639 on a Sunday morning, the entire message, and he had 153 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:45.120 Nicodemus up in the sycamore tree. Oh my, and he 154 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:47.879 said Nicodemus the whole time. After he read the scripture, 155 00:06:47.879 --> 00:06:49.279 he said, zachiis and then. 156 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:51.639 After that he just stuck on Nicodemus and. 157 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:54.639 He said Nicodemus. And not a single person in his 158 00:06:54.839 --> 00:06:58.240 entire church raised their hand or shouted or came up 159 00:06:58.279 --> 00:07:02.160 and whispered. They allowed the man to just say Nicodemus, 160 00:07:02.199 --> 00:07:05.040 even though every person listening knew it was that cute. 161 00:07:05.079 --> 00:07:06.000 Oh my goodness. 162 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:07.879 And it's like it's like if you have something hanging 163 00:07:07.879 --> 00:07:10.319 out in your nose and nobody says anything yeah, or 164 00:07:10.360 --> 00:07:11.920 you know, or like you know whatever it is right, 165 00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:14.199 your zippers down, and nobody. 166 00:07:13.879 --> 00:07:16.360 Tells this is the trigger for me because this just 167 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:19.040 happened six weeks ago to me. Really, yes, zipper down 168 00:07:19.439 --> 00:07:22.839 and nobody told you yep on stage yep, So what happened? Yeah, 169 00:07:22.839 --> 00:07:25.040 it was six weeks ago. I hope Kristen's listening my 170 00:07:25.079 --> 00:07:26.920 wife because I was a little friends. She was like, 171 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:28.319 what what do you want me to do? So we 172 00:07:28.399 --> 00:07:31.240 I was wearing black pants. Luckily what I was wearing 173 00:07:31.319 --> 00:07:34.279 underneath was not bright or louder. That was like gray, 174 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:36.120 so it kind of went a little bit. But apparently 175 00:07:36.120 --> 00:07:38.560 my zipper had come down, and we're doing this element, 176 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:41.160 remember like the messages about like fear or something like that, 177 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:43.360 where we did like the what's in the box? Oh yeah, yeah, 178 00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:45.639 So she noticed when I put my hands around that 179 00:07:45.680 --> 00:07:47.160 all of a sudden, like my zipper was down. 180 00:07:47.399 --> 00:07:47.680 Yeah. 181 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:49.519 She mentions it to one person next to her. They 182 00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:53.079 start giggling and laughing, and then somebody else on our 183 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:55.839 staff was texting saying, texting me saying, hey boss, your 184 00:07:55.920 --> 00:07:58.399 zippers down, your zippers down, your zippers down. Nobody got 185 00:07:58.399 --> 00:07:59.920 off like no, like this, let me sit there, and 186 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:01.720 then they got done. With the game. I did the 187 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:06.000 announcements with my zipper down. Oh and nobody goodness stopped 188 00:08:06.040 --> 00:08:06.720 to say so. 189 00:08:06.759 --> 00:08:10.360 By the way, anybody listening in any church environment whatsoever, 190 00:08:10.879 --> 00:08:12.800 if you're a church who has a stage hand, yes, 191 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:15.959 here's the right thing to do. Send the stage hand out, 192 00:08:16.079 --> 00:08:20.759 yes to whisper something in Kyle's ear or the passer's 193 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:23.600 ear or the person's ear. And then, and by the way, 194 00:08:23.639 --> 00:08:24.560 that's perfectly normal. 195 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:27.279 Yes, normal. Yeah, I thought the same thing. I was like, 196 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:28.879 just come tell me. She said, well, that would be 197 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:30.720 more weird. I'm like, it's more weird than sitting on 198 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:34.159 my zipper down. I don't know. So anyways, yeah. 199 00:08:33.879 --> 00:08:36.720 So hey, I'm sure she really appreciated that you throwing 200 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:39.039 her into the yes in front of all of our listeners. 201 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:40.039 Let me know next time. 202 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:42.000 Yeah, that's so funny. Yes, all right, Well, hey, we 203 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:44.240 need to move on. So we are in Luke chapter 204 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:47.919 number nineteen yep, and today we're talking about the story 205 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:48.840 of Zechiez. 206 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:52.120 That's right, So Luke nineteen Jesus entered Jericho and made 207 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:54.559 his way through the town. There was a man there 208 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:58.480 named Zachias. He was the chief tax collector in the region. 209 00:08:58.919 --> 00:09:01.440 He had become very rich. He tried to get a 210 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:03.720 look at Jesus, but he was too short to see 211 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:06.159 over the crowd. There was a song about that, probably 212 00:09:06.200 --> 00:09:07.879 when you're growing out, like a Wana song or whatever. 213 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:08.159 Yep. 214 00:09:08.480 --> 00:09:11.000 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore fig tree 215 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:13.360 beside the road for Jesus was going to pass that way. 216 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:16.399 When Jesus came by, he looked up at Zechias and 217 00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:19.879 called him by name, Zakias. He said, quick, come down, 218 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:22.200 I must be a guest in your home today. 219 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:23.799 I'm going to your house. Dude. 220 00:09:23.879 --> 00:09:26.519 Yeah, I was thinking of the zia wee little man, 221 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:28.639 A wee little man. That's that's the one to say, Oh, 222 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:31.480 he'll be combined. It good, there you go. Uh, quick, 223 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:33.120 come down, I must be a guest near home today. 224 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:35.919 Zakias quickly climbed down and took Jesus to his house 225 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:39.240 in great excitement and joy. But the people were displeased. 226 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:42.000 He has gone to be the guest of a notorious sinner, 227 00:09:42.039 --> 00:09:45.919 they grumbled. Meanwhile, Ezekiah stood before the Lord and said, 228 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:48.240 I will give half my wealth to the poor Lord. 229 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:50.200 And if I have cheated people on their taxes, I 230 00:09:50.200 --> 00:09:54.799 will give them back four times as much. Then Jesus responded, 231 00:09:55.000 --> 00:09:57.440 Salvation has come to this home today, for this man 232 00:09:57.480 --> 00:10:00.720 has shown himself to be a true son of Abraham. 233 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:03.120 For the son of Man came to seek and to 234 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:06.639 save those who are lost. Love that verse, yeah, Luke, 235 00:10:06.720 --> 00:10:08.639 nineteen ten. That's one of my favorites. For the son 236 00:10:08.679 --> 00:10:11.159 of Man came to seek and save those who are lost. 237 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:14.080 Yeah. So I love this story. 238 00:10:14.159 --> 00:10:14.399 Yep. 239 00:10:15.080 --> 00:10:17.559 First of all, those who are those of us who 240 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:22.159 are vertically challenged, love the fact that Jesus honors a 241 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:23.039 man who is short. 242 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:24.799 Okay, So I never. 243 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:27.360 Realized how short I am, Kyle, until I see photos 244 00:10:27.399 --> 00:10:30.639 of me next to people. So I'm five, like barely 245 00:10:30.759 --> 00:10:34.519 under five eight, yeah right, And I never really viewed 246 00:10:34.519 --> 00:10:36.799 myself that way. And I see myself next to the 247 00:10:36.919 --> 00:10:38.840 average person who's usually five ten. 248 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:41.320 Yeah yeah, and I'm like, god, dude, yeah, I love Yeah. 249 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:43.039 When you get around somebody and they take a photo 250 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:45.440 and then you look like that's me, who's that guy? Yeah? 251 00:10:45.480 --> 00:10:48.240 Yeah? And we just take pictures all the time, yeah, 252 00:10:47.919 --> 00:10:50.120 of our staff and I'm like, are you kidding me? 253 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:50.840 That guy? 254 00:10:51.080 --> 00:10:52.600 And they're like, hey, put the short people in the front. 255 00:10:52.600 --> 00:10:54.159 You're like, yeah, short people should go on in the front, 256 00:10:54.120 --> 00:10:57.320 and they're like no, no, no, short people go there. That's funny. 257 00:10:57.360 --> 00:10:59.720 Yeah. So anyway, so that's one reason why I like it. 258 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:03.519 Reason obviously I'm joking about the short I like it 259 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:08.559 because I have a heart for those who are far 260 00:11:08.600 --> 00:11:11.960 from God. So I've made no secret about this before. 261 00:11:12.039 --> 00:11:14.200 Let me try to say this in the really correct way, 262 00:11:14.240 --> 00:11:17.519 because I often say it in the incorrect Okay, but 263 00:11:19.080 --> 00:11:21.000 one of the things that let me see if I 264 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:24.559 can say this delicately, because again I say this indelicately 265 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:27.360 all the time. One of the things that frustrates me 266 00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:30.799 the most about being a pastor for the last thirty 267 00:11:30.879 --> 00:11:35.360 four years is the thing that I dislike the most 268 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:40.720 are the culture of christian some of the how about this? 269 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:44.399 The negative culture of Christian how about that? Right, So 270 00:11:44.440 --> 00:11:47.240 it's sort of the same thing we mentioned yesterday. It's 271 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:50.279 either a Christian can be legalistic or a Christian could 272 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:53.080 be judging right. And by the way, even in the 273 00:11:53.120 --> 00:11:56.639 healthiest of churches, that still happens, right And so you know, 274 00:11:56.759 --> 00:11:59.399 for instance, like we have a very healthy church, our 275 00:11:59.480 --> 00:12:03.159 current church, and we have I think it's actually a 276 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:07.000 great culture. Our staff. Cultures pretty good, right, it's a 277 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:10.480 pretty great culture. But in the church our size, there's 278 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:15.360 always going to exist a group of people who fall 279 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:19.799 in that sort of like that typical Christian category of 280 00:12:19.840 --> 00:12:22.120 either somebody who either you know, writes in all caps 281 00:12:22.200 --> 00:12:25.440 or doesn't understand the true mission of God or doesn't 282 00:12:25.480 --> 00:12:28.240 understand you know, and all those different kinds of things. Well, 283 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:38.519 for me, I get very indignant and frustrated with people 284 00:12:38.559 --> 00:12:42.679 who ruin people's lives, Like, for instance, I'll give you 285 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:46.440 an example that's associated with me. So I just had 286 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:48.600 become a no. In fact, I wasn't even a Christian. 287 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:50.960 I wasn't even a Christian yet. And I was invited 288 00:12:51.279 --> 00:12:54.960 to a car wash to do this great, big serving 289 00:12:55.000 --> 00:13:00.519 event at this church. And I was there doing this wash. 290 00:13:00.759 --> 00:13:02.759 I was not a Christian. I was only fifteen years old, 291 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:05.720 and here I'm trying to serve. And I run into 292 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:08.240 the bathroom to use the restroom. And there was a 293 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:10.639 guy who had worked on staff at that church. And 294 00:13:10.679 --> 00:13:13.000 it was a legalistic church that I grew up in. 295 00:13:13.720 --> 00:13:16.559 And I was singing in Elvis Presley song, right, and 296 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:18.600 I was washing my hands because in the eighties that's 297 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:20.519 what people did they sung fifty songs now that we're 298 00:13:20.519 --> 00:13:23.000 in the twenty twenty five as we sing eighty song, right, 299 00:13:23.120 --> 00:13:25.360 it's the songs of our parents, right. So I was 300 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:28.039 singing fifty songs and this man comes out of the 301 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:31.120 stall in a three piece brown suit and he and 302 00:13:31.159 --> 00:13:34.240 he says, that's the devil's music. And he started going 303 00:13:34.279 --> 00:13:36.159 off and he says, if you have to tap your 304 00:13:36.200 --> 00:13:38.759 toe before listening to the lyrics of any song, that's 305 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:41.039 from the devil. And he just started yelling at me 306 00:13:41.399 --> 00:13:44.519 and condemning me and telling me that, you know, this 307 00:13:44.679 --> 00:13:47.440 was no place for me, and all these kinds of thing. Now, 308 00:13:47.919 --> 00:13:50.720 I could have very easily been like, well, I'm never 309 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:53.840 coming back to this church or any church for that matter. 310 00:13:55.000 --> 00:13:58.159 So do you catch the strength the weight of that, right, 311 00:13:59.120 --> 00:14:02.879 you know? And it's like but instead, thank God that 312 00:14:02.919 --> 00:14:05.279 I just said, oh, okay, well that guy is a goober, 313 00:14:06.039 --> 00:14:07.480 and I'm just going to come back in spite of 314 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:08.919 that guy. You know, I'm not going to stay away 315 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:12.559 because of him. One of our ladies on staff told 316 00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:14.039 me one of the worst stories I've ever heard in 317 00:14:14.080 --> 00:14:18.960 my life, in my whole life, where a guy in 318 00:14:19.000 --> 00:14:21.919 the seventies came to church and he had longer hair 319 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:24.960 back then in the seventies, and and the pastor looked 320 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:26.679 at him and said, young man, you're not going to 321 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:28.879 step foot in my church with that hair. Go get 322 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:30.039 a haircut and then come back. 323 00:14:30.120 --> 00:14:31.159 Oh my gosh. 324 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:34.120 And I'm like, and I get so I had a 325 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:38.679 visceral reaction. I literally I go, what I'm like. That 326 00:14:38.720 --> 00:14:41.320 guy could be in hell right now for all we know, 327 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:44.799 because he never because he never went over over a haircut, right, 328 00:14:45.399 --> 00:14:48.320 that's the negative hairbne. That's negative stuff I'm talking about, right, 329 00:14:48.440 --> 00:14:50.559 that's terrible. And so anyway, all that to say this 330 00:14:51.080 --> 00:14:55.120 so because I've tried to say that politically correct, I 331 00:14:55.120 --> 00:14:58.600 took a long time. But by the way, I think 332 00:14:58.600 --> 00:14:59.200 that's important for. 333 00:14:59.159 --> 00:15:00.519 Our listeners right hundred percent. 334 00:15:00.639 --> 00:15:03.480 But to see it says he's gone to the guest 335 00:15:03.559 --> 00:15:07.279 of a notorious sinner. They grumble. So they were angry 336 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:11.799 because Jesus decided to forgive a notorious sinner. Well, zach 337 00:15:11.879 --> 00:15:16.000 Kius was a tax collector right there. It was a man. 338 00:15:16.320 --> 00:15:18.240 He was a chief tax collector in that reason, not 339 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:21.039 just the tax collector of the chief of them right now. 340 00:15:22.120 --> 00:15:25.759 Tax collectors were people known in that culture to have 341 00:15:25.840 --> 00:15:30.120 betrayed their own kind because the Jewish people were occupied 342 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:33.000 by Roman territory. Roman taking over the world, which is 343 00:15:33.039 --> 00:15:36.759 why you know, we read, you know, in Jesus's crucifixion. 344 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:40.039 There was both, you know, the Caiaphas and the Pharisees, 345 00:15:40.320 --> 00:15:43.639 along with Herod and along with Pontius Pilot. They all 346 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:46.200 had to be a part of jesus death because the 347 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:52.000 Roman government was over the Jewish people. So the Romans 348 00:15:52.039 --> 00:15:56.279 would recruit Jewish people as tax collectors, and Jewish people 349 00:15:56.320 --> 00:15:58.600 would have to betray their own and they can get 350 00:15:58.600 --> 00:16:01.679 as rich as they want by unjust taxing their own people. 351 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:04.480 So they betrayed their own people, worked for the Romans, 352 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:07.399 and then tax their own people unjustly. And so what 353 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:09.279 would people say about that. They'd say, you're not a 354 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:12.279 Jewish person, no trader, trader, you're not one of us. 355 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:12.600 Yep. 356 00:16:12.679 --> 00:16:15.399 And what does Jesus say, he is truly a son 357 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:16.039 of Abraham? 358 00:16:16.120 --> 00:16:17.120 Yeah? Yeah, wow. 359 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:19.960 Do you realize how intentional that was for Jesus to 360 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:20.320 say that? 361 00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:23.639 Yeah? Yeah, even even Jesus. You know, Matthew is another one, 362 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:25.720 if you know, you know scripture, Matthew was a tax 363 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:28.600 collector as well. So even that bringing Matthew into the 364 00:16:28.919 --> 00:16:32.360 fold of the twelve, that was quite a you know, 365 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:34.879 that's a big thing. He wasn't the chief tax collector, 366 00:16:34.919 --> 00:16:37.840 but he was hated. Matthew was hated among his own people. 367 00:16:38.200 --> 00:16:40.120 And I think the thing that stands out for me is, yeah, 368 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:42.519 the whole tax collector thing, just to realize like how 369 00:16:42.600 --> 00:16:46.720 much people despised his presence because he was a trader, 370 00:16:46.759 --> 00:16:49.360 because he was taking advantage of them, like he was 371 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:51.039 that guy that you see in membery he walks other 372 00:16:51.080 --> 00:16:53.080 way and then Jesus says, I want to come to 373 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:54.639 your house, invites himself over. 374 00:16:54.519 --> 00:16:55.440 Which is a huge deal. 375 00:16:55.559 --> 00:16:57.000 And the thing I think that stands out for me 376 00:16:57.440 --> 00:17:01.639 is Jesus was not afraid of being guilty by association. 377 00:17:02.159 --> 00:17:04.119 Right when you think about it, how many times was 378 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:09.559 Jesus labeled something often untrue, things like he eats with sinner, 379 00:17:09.599 --> 00:17:12.079 he's a sin, like he's a drunker, like he's accused 380 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:13.920 of these things. He doesn't go and be like old 381 00:17:14.160 --> 00:17:16.240 just you know, he didn't say he doesn't even say hey, 382 00:17:16.279 --> 00:17:18.079 just so you know, everybody in this crowd, I'm going 383 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:20.559 to Zakias's house because I want to lead him to salvation. 384 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:22.960 He's like, no, no, I'm just invite me over. He knew 385 00:17:23.079 --> 00:17:27.039 there would be rumblings and grumblings and speculation and rumors 386 00:17:27.079 --> 00:17:30.039 and all this stuff. And that made the religious people 387 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:33.440 so mad that this RELI the quote unquote religious leader, 388 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:36.119 that they were unsure about Jesus, that he was inviting 389 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:38.519 himself over to these well known sinners. And it's just 390 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:40.440 I think it's so cool just to look back that 391 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:42.359 Jesus didn't go and say, hey, just want to clarify, 392 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:44.400 here's what I'm doing with this sinner. I've got an 393 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:46.759 agenda here, you know. Eventually he does say by saying 394 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:49.000 for the Son of Man came to seek and save 395 00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:51.119 those who are lost. But that's his mission that he 396 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:54.319 shared with Zachiez. And I'm assuming Zachias's friends. But I 397 00:17:54.319 --> 00:17:56.240 just love that he's not afraid of being guilty by 398 00:17:56.240 --> 00:17:57.720 association of who he spends time with. 399 00:17:57.880 --> 00:18:01.000 Yeah, well, it's it's it's also I remember one time 400 00:18:01.160 --> 00:18:04.319 at again my college was also filled with rules. I 401 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:10.279