WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:13.640 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to The Bible Guys. 4 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:20.640 Today is Friday, Friday, Everybody's favorite day, TGIF, buddy, because 5 00:00:21.079 --> 00:00:25.359 not only TGIF, but because on most Fridays on this 6 00:00:26.199 --> 00:00:30.320 highly esteemed show, is it most is many Fridays. 7 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:32.399 Many Fridays, our. 8 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:35.960 Listeners are waiting, hoping for Everybody's favorite segment. 9 00:00:36.719 --> 00:00:41.600 True, which is what made Chris mad this week? 10 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:42.039 What mad? 11 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:44.880 And if you are a new listener, the thing you're 12 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:48.399 going to discover about just how incredible of a person 13 00:00:48.479 --> 00:00:51.880 Chris is because he's not mad for himself, thank you, Jeff. 14 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:53.399 He is mad on. 15 00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:55.439 Behalf of all of the rest of us little people, 16 00:00:56.960 --> 00:00:58.920 and he's ready to tell us about it, and he 17 00:00:58.960 --> 00:01:00.000 never even has to think about it. 18 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:01.880 When I ask what made you mad this week, Chris, 19 00:01:01.880 --> 00:01:02.719 You're like, oh, I know. 20 00:01:03.119 --> 00:01:06.480 Well, usually usually I had to think for a minute 21 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:11.239 this morning, but it happened Monday night, So it's what's today. 22 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:14.719 We're recording on a Wednesday, right, Yes, Okay, So two 23 00:01:14.799 --> 00:01:19.439 nights ago I had stopped in a place for a 24 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:23.319 Capriezy salad, right, And I was only there for a 25 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:26.120 very short time, and it was a place where I 26 00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:29.480 was eating outside because they had an outside area on 27 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:32.079 a porch and I only had I just had to 28 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:36.040 run somewhere. And I was by myself because that's I know, 29 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:38.040 that's odd to a lot of people eating at a 30 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:42.159 restaurant by yourself, but I actually I'm a high extrovert 31 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:46.079 and I'm always with people, and I find that going 32 00:01:46.120 --> 00:01:48.719 to a movie by myself or eating at a restaurant 33 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:51.480 by myself are sort of the only two things that 34 00:01:51.519 --> 00:01:54.599 I do that are sort of loner things. And I 35 00:01:54.640 --> 00:01:57.359 find that those that's my time to get away. So 36 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:01.719 I and people wouldn't dare do and either of those things, right, 37 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:04.840 but I do that all the time. And so and 38 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:08.080 people always say like, uh, I say just one, what 39 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:10.599 do you have two seating for two? Just one? And 40 00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:14.360 they're like, oh, just one anyway, and then. 41 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:18.719 They're like this is this is awesome. 42 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:19.319 I'm just kidding. 43 00:02:19.319 --> 00:02:22.120 I'm just away from people. So anyway, I'm sitting there 44 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:27.840 outside and I see a truck very meticulously try to 45 00:02:27.960 --> 00:02:30.360 back up into a parking space because people who drive 46 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:33.120 trucks have a tendency to back up into a space. 47 00:02:33.639 --> 00:02:35.479 And so it's because we can look on the camera, 48 00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:37.080 it's way easier to get into. 49 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:42.719 Yes, yes, So anyway, this truck backs up and uh 50 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:46.280 and uh, you know, just trucks are big, right, So 51 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:50.520 this person gets out of the truck and smacks the 52 00:02:50.599 --> 00:02:53.599 bright white Cadillac right next to them on the door. 53 00:02:54.039 --> 00:02:56.879 So his door swings wide open. His truck doors are big, 54 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:01.639 and smacks this uh car. But I couldn't see whether 55 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:03.319 or not it made a mark or anything. It just 56 00:03:03.319 --> 00:03:05.919 looked it was like and it just hit like really bad. 57 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:10.759 So the guy notices, he gets out, he looks, and 58 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:14.479 then he gets back in his truck and then moves 59 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:18.479 his truck across the parking lot, parks in a different spot, 60 00:03:19.159 --> 00:03:23.520 and then gets out and goes inside. So now I'm facing. 61 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:24.919 I'm mad this one now. 62 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:28.599 Yes, yeah, So here's a guy who dinged. Actually it 63 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:31.039 wasn't a ding, it was it was a scrape. And 64 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:33.879 it wasn't even like us. It was probably a scrape 65 00:03:33.879 --> 00:03:35.280 that could be buffed out because I used to work 66 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:37.599 at a car dealership and those things can be buffed out. 67 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:42.560 But anyway, so anyway, but you know, I don't think 68 00:03:42.919 --> 00:03:44.960 most people know that. It was a clear mark on 69 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:47.280 the side of his door. So this guy gets up 70 00:03:47.319 --> 00:03:50.879 and moves rather than you know, wow, you know doing 71 00:03:50.919 --> 00:03:52.919 something about it. You know, you could there's not that 72 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:58.719 many people in places. Well, there's probably at the most 73 00:03:59.080 --> 00:04:02.360 ten people in this entire establishment, which means you could 74 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:05.240 easily walk in and be like, hey, who is the Cadillac? Right? 75 00:04:06.039 --> 00:04:09.319 So anyway, he walks into the place, and I'm outside 76 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:11.520 just because I'm meeting out there, and then I get 77 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:13.680 a phone call. So I get this phone call, and 78 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:15.520 there was a couple other guys outside. I didn't want 79 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:17.680 to disturb them, so I sort of walked beyond the 80 00:04:17.959 --> 00:04:20.160 perimeter of the seating area and I was sort of 81 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:22.639 talking on the phone while I decided to walk over 82 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:24.600 while I'm on the phone, and look, and I see 83 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:27.319 this thing on the Cadillac door, and I'm like, you've 84 00:04:27.319 --> 00:04:29.279 got to be kidding me. So I get done and 85 00:04:29.319 --> 00:04:31.519 I walk over. I look at the guy behind me 86 00:04:31.560 --> 00:04:33.360 after I got the phone, and I said, hey, you 87 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:35.519 didn't drive a Cadillac, did you. He says, no, No, no, 88 00:04:35.560 --> 00:04:38.120 I didn't. I said, Okay. So I walk inside and 89 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:42.279 I'm talking to the server, and I just couldn't help myself. 90 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:48.240 I'm thinking, I have to I have the t is 91 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:50.040 tattled the right word, I guess it isn't. 92 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:52.680 So I just needed to let somebody know. 93 00:04:52.839 --> 00:04:56.720 I just teacher, teacher. I just think to myself, this 94 00:04:56.800 --> 00:05:00.519 guy is a piece of garbage. So I said, hey, 95 00:05:00.519 --> 00:05:01.959 what do you guys didn't drive away Cadillac? 96 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:02.279 Do they? 97 00:05:02.600 --> 00:05:05.480 Oh? Yeah, yeah, yeah I do. I drove the white Cadillac. 98 00:05:05.519 --> 00:05:07.920 I said, yeah, I think somebody pulled up beside you 99 00:05:07.959 --> 00:05:11.680 and uh and uh, you know, bumped your door and 100 00:05:11.720 --> 00:05:14.480 then moved their truck. And they're like, are you kidding me? 101 00:05:14.879 --> 00:05:16.920 And they're like, who was it? And I said, well, 102 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:20.560 it's it was God, no, I said, I said, I said, uh, 103 00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:22.000 I said, we All you have to do is look 104 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:25.160 at the color that's on your Cadillac and look at 105 00:05:25.160 --> 00:05:26.839 the colors of the vehicles in the parking. There's not 106 00:05:26.879 --> 00:05:29.279 that many, right, I said, So you can figure it out. 107 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:34.000 Oh okay, So you gave him, You gave him enough hints, 108 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:36.439 you left some breadcrumbs for him, and then but you 109 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:37.839 didn't point it that. 110 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:41.319 I conveniently paid my bill and left, so I didn't 111 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:42.519 stick around for the aftermath. 112 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:44.920 Okay, I don't want to say his name, but his 113 00:05:44.959 --> 00:05:47.240 initials are right, Bob Johnson. 114 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:56.399 This Bob Johnson. I didn't know the guy obviously. Anyway, 115 00:05:56.399 --> 00:06:00.240 all that that was a big, long explanation, obviously, but it. 116 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:02.480 Just made you. Man, you're out there protecting all of us. 117 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:05.839 So if Chris Evert comes and tells you, hey, I'm 118 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:07.560 not going to say the name, but just go look 119 00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:09.519 at your door, Go look at the. 120 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:13.519 Color the windshield. Man, just leave and just say just say, hey, 121 00:06:13.519 --> 00:06:15.360 this may only cost you thirty bucks to get this 122 00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:18.160 buffed out, but please call me and let me know. 123 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:20.560 I'd be more than happy to pay for it, because 124 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:24.040 I believe this isn't a bad scratch. Right, But you 125 00:06:24.079 --> 00:06:27.600 can take it to mister C's autosh which is near us, 126 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:30.600 and you can buff that thing out for thirty bucks. Yeah, 127 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:33.639 just do that, right. Don't drive off and park in 128 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:37.639 another space. It's kind of a coward move, yes, Just 129 00:06:37.720 --> 00:06:40.240 be have integrity, be a kind human being. 130 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:43.120 He's driving that big pickup truck because he's compensating for 131 00:06:43.160 --> 00:06:43.800 his cowardice. 132 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:47.399 Well, you drive a pickup drug, I know everybody. 133 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:49.439 I would go tell him that's what I'm saying he 134 00:06:49.480 --> 00:06:51.519 doesn't deserve to drive that pickup trucking. 135 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:54.319 Take it away from him, right, you should be in 136 00:06:54.319 --> 00:07:00.639 a yarist right, a little prius prius, that's right. What 137 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:01.759 are you doing in the trucks? 138 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:03.680 Take it away from you. 139 00:07:03.759 --> 00:07:05.920 You're disgraced the truck owners everywhere. 140 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:10.839 Although I'll be honest with you, the front end of 141 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:13.480 my truck so big I can't see if it weren't 142 00:07:13.519 --> 00:07:14.759 for the little camera in the front. Do you have 143 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:16.199 a front a front facing camera. 144 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:17.560 I do, but I never use it. 145 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:17.839 Yeah. 146 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:19.160 Oh, I do it all the time because I can't 147 00:07:19.160 --> 00:07:20.839 get in a parking spot if I because I can't 148 00:07:20.839 --> 00:07:23.680 see the where So. 149 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:27.639 I did see this reel on Instagram the other day. 150 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:30.600 This is just near here, here nor there. Okay about 151 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:34.680 men being men, This guy is interviewing two women and 152 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:36.519 he walks up to them. It's like a man on 153 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:38.319 the street type thing, and he goes, hey, let me 154 00:07:38.360 --> 00:07:41.199 ask you a question. He goes, is a man less 155 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:43.399 of a man if he doesn't know how to change 156 00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:46.079 a tire? And both women are like, you know, maybe 157 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:48.439 in their twenties. They're very pretty, you know, and they 158 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:52.000 go absolutely and he goes and they both agree, and 159 00:07:52.040 --> 00:07:54.199 he goes, Okay, he goes, is a woman less of 160 00:07:54.199 --> 00:07:56.160 a woman because she can't make a meal from scratch, 161 00:07:56.839 --> 00:07:58.519 and he puts the microphone to them and they both 162 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:01.720 go it just cuts off. 163 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:05.879 It's terrible, all right, you just waded into it. That's 164 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:11.439 gonna make other people mad. Yeah, you're gonna Yeah at 165 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:13.439 the Bible guys dot com. That's all you have to 166 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:14.920 send it to him. 167 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:20.560 That's all right, let's move on. Let's move on. That's 168 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:21.000 funny though. 169 00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:22.160 That's a riot. 170 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:22.600 Yep. 171 00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:28.319 Okay, so we are in. I lost my page. 172 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:29.839 I think it's four nine. 173 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:33.960 Okay, yes, you are correct. Thank you. You saved me 174 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:38.679 once again once again. Yeah. Oh, I'm looking at the 175 00:08:38.679 --> 00:08:39.519 wrong thing. That's why. 176 00:08:40.360 --> 00:08:44.080 Right, we're talking today about the Lord's Covenant promise to David. 177 00:08:44.200 --> 00:08:49.320 Yeah, so David is making this promise to God based 178 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:52.799 on the fact that God has blessed him. And we'll 179 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:54.879 unpack it all but here here's what it says. In 180 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:57.799 Second Samuel chapter seven, verse one, it says, when King 181 00:08:57.919 --> 00:09:01.240 David was settled in his palas and the Lord had 182 00:09:01.240 --> 00:09:04.240 given him rest from all the surrounding enemies, the king 183 00:09:04.320 --> 00:09:07.840 summoned Nathan the prophet. Look, David said, I'm living in 184 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:10.519 a beautiful cedar palace, but the Ark of God is 185 00:09:10.519 --> 00:09:13.519 out there in a tent. Nathan replied to the King, 186 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:15.519 go ahead and do whatever you have in mind, for 187 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:18.200 the Lord is with you. But that same night, the 188 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:20.600 Lord said to Nathan, go and tell my servant David, 189 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:22.840 this is what the Lord has declared. Are you the 190 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:24.320 one to build a house for me to live in. 191 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:26.519 I've never lived in a house. From the day I 192 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:29.440 brought the Israelites out of Egypt until this very day, 193 00:09:29.879 --> 00:09:32.399 I've always moved from one place to another with a tent. 194 00:09:32.440 --> 00:09:34.799 A tabernacle is my dwelling. Yet no matter where I 195 00:09:34.799 --> 00:09:36.960 have gone with the Israelites, I have never once complained 196 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:40.240 to Israel's tribal leaders, the shepherds of my people Israel. 197 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:42.480 I've never asked them, why haven't you built me a 198 00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:45.519 beautiful cedar house. Now go and say to my servant David, 199 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:47.519 this is what the Lord of Heaven's armies has declared. 200 00:09:47.960 --> 00:09:50.559 I took you from tending sheep in the pasture and 201 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:52.879 selected you to be the leader of my people Israel. 202 00:09:53.240 --> 00:09:55.480 I've been with you wherever you've gone, and I've destroyed 203 00:09:55.519 --> 00:09:58.360 all your enemies before your eyes. And now I will 204 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:01.159 make your name as famous as anyone who has ever 205 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:04.480 lived on earth. And I will provide a homeland for 206 00:10:04.559 --> 00:10:07.399 my people Israel, planting them in a secure place where 207 00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:10.600 they will never be disturbed. Evil nations won't oppress them 208 00:10:10.600 --> 00:10:12.759 as they've done in the past, starting from the time 209 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:15.879 I appointed judges through my people Israel, and I will 210 00:10:15.879 --> 00:10:17.519 give you rest from all your enemies. 211 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:19.159 Furthermore, the Lord. 212 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:21.200 Declares that he will make a house for you, a 213 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:24.039 dynasty of kings, for when you die and are buried 214 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:26.519 with your ancestors, I will raise up one of your descendants, 215 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:29.320 your own offspring, and I will make his kingdom strong. 216 00:10:29.879 --> 00:10:31.440 He is the one who will build a house a 217 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:34.039 temple for my name, and I will secure his royal 218 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:36.480 throne forever. I will be his father, and he will 219 00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:38.720 be my son. If he sins, I will correct and 220 00:10:38.759 --> 00:10:40.840 discipline inim with the rod, like any father would do. 221 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:43.600 But my favor will not be taken from him, as 222 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:46.879 I took it from Saul, whom I removed from your sight. 223 00:10:47.279 --> 00:10:49.440 Your house and your kingdom will continue before me for 224 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:52.639 all time, and your throne will be secure forever so 225 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:55.240 Nathan went back to David and told him everything the 226 00:10:55.279 --> 00:10:59.159 Lord said. And then I'm reading through. 227 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:04.799 What well, I think first chronicle seventeen chronologically takes place. 228 00:11:04.639 --> 00:11:07.399 Is the next piece, but the same that's. 229 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:07.840 The same story. 230 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:08.480 Yeah yeah. 231 00:11:08.519 --> 00:11:12.000 And then after that, David just in verse eighteen, yeah, 232 00:11:12.279 --> 00:11:13.240 he gives a prayer of thanks. 233 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:16.200 Yes. He says, who am I Sovereign Lord? That your 234 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:16.960 yeses for me? 235 00:11:17.240 --> 00:11:21.879 Yeah, yeah, which is a humble response. Right, yeah, that's 236 00:11:21.919 --> 00:11:24.679 really good. And then and then you know, you could 237 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:27.279 let me just read the last sort of like the 238 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:30.120 last part of his prayer. His response prayer first number 239 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:32.840 twenty seven, It says, O, Lord of Heaven's Armies, God 240 00:11:32.840 --> 00:11:35.080 of Israel, I have been bold enough to pray this 241 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:39.039 prayer to you because you have revealed all of this 242 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:41.120 to your servants, saying I will build a house for you, 243 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:43.600 a dynasty for your kings, for you, or God's sovereign Lord, 244 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:47.159 your words are truth, and you have promised these promised 245 00:11:47.240 --> 00:11:49.639 these good things to your servant. And now may it 246 00:11:49.799 --> 00:11:53.039 please to bless the house of your servant so that 247 00:11:53.120 --> 00:11:55.480 it may continue forever before you, for you have spoken, 248 00:11:55.879 --> 00:11:57.960 and when you grant a blessing of your servant, O 249 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:02.480 sovereign Lord is eternal blessing. So you know David's response 250 00:12:02.799 --> 00:12:06.399 is total humility. Who am I that he should bless me? 251 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:10.679 You know, this promise is a covenant from God. And 252 00:12:10.960 --> 00:12:13.960 there's a little note in the Life Application Study Bible 253 00:12:13.960 --> 00:12:17.559 that talks about covenants and it says a covenant is 254 00:12:17.600 --> 00:12:21.320 a legally binding obligation or a promise. Throughout history, God 255 00:12:21.360 --> 00:12:24.840 has made covenants with his people that he would keep, 256 00:12:25.759 --> 00:12:27.720 that he would keep his side if they would keep theirs. 257 00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:30.440 And here are seven covenants from the Bible talks about 258 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:33.840 God's covenant in the Garden, God's covenant with Noah, God's 259 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:38.799 covenent with Abraham, and then with Moses. I'm outsinai the priesthood. 260 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:43.799 Aaron's descendants would be priests forever to Aaron. Then David's covenant, 261 00:12:44.799 --> 00:12:48.080 and then the New Covenant, which is what Jesus made. 262 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:52.759 To his people forgiveness and salvation available to yes, everybody 263 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:53.559 through faith and Christ. 264 00:12:53.600 --> 00:12:56.080 And you know what's cool about a covenant is that 265 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:59.559 it is defined as a as a until death. When 266 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:02.120 a covenant is made, it is made until death. So 267 00:13:02.159 --> 00:13:04.120 whenever God made a covenant with his people. It's his 268 00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:07.639 intention that the people should keep it forever. So it's 269 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:10.840 not a you know, timed promise agreement that type of 270 00:13:10.840 --> 00:13:13.879 thing is. It is a promise for the rest of 271 00:13:13.879 --> 00:13:16.919 your life. And the cool thing about God is that 272 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:22.120 his promises go forever because he lives forever. Like for instance, 273 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:25.000 when he made a covenant with his people, well with Noah, 274 00:13:25.039 --> 00:13:28.360 excuse me, which is with you know, the world. But 275 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:31.480 he made a promise with Noah, and he made his 276 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:34.120 covenant and he put a rainbow in the sky as 277 00:13:34.120 --> 00:13:37.240 a sign as a symbol of the covenant in Genesis 278 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:40.360 chapter nine, and it says that, hey, here's my promise 279 00:13:40.480 --> 00:13:43.159 to you again. After the flood came, he said, I 280 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:47.240 will never again destroy the earth with rain and so 281 00:13:47.279 --> 00:13:50.399 therefore as a sign he puts the bow in the sky. Now, 282 00:13:51.080 --> 00:13:53.840 scientists can look at a rainbow and tell you how 283 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:59.720 droplets of water reflect and they cause light, you know, 284 00:13:59.799 --> 00:14:02.720 and they'll be able to explain that to you. Right, yeah, 285 00:14:02.720 --> 00:14:05.960 you even knew more than me. And then you know, 286 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:07.720 there are other people that just say, oh, look at 287 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:10.879 how pretty. But you and I know that here it 288 00:14:10.960 --> 00:14:15.360 is thousands of years later, and that rainbow is nothing 289 00:14:15.399 --> 00:14:20.080 more than absolute proof that God is keeping his promises. Why, 290 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:22.360 because he comes after the rain. It comes in the 291 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:25.399 presence of water. Even sometimes there's a rainbow in the 292 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:31.000 mist right from Niagara Falls, right, because God is reminding 293 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:34.320 his people of the promise that he made so long ago. 294 00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:38.080 Don't worry. This is water, But don't worry. It's not 295 00:14:38.159 --> 00:14:40.519 going to overtake you. It's not going to kill or 296 00:14:40.600 --> 00:14:43.360 destroy the world as it has done in the past. 297 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:46.440 You know, one of my favorite things about this passage 298 00:14:46.679 --> 00:14:52.159 is david Is has basically vanquished all of his enemies. 299 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:54.159 If you turn the page a couple more pages. He 300 00:14:54.200 --> 00:14:56.120 goes to Gath and wipes out Gath, and that's kind 301 00:14:56.120 --> 00:14:59.200 of the end of him having any more enemies. So 302 00:14:59.279 --> 00:15:01.679 he was thirty years old when he ascended to the throne. 303 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:05.919 Finally thirty. He was chosen as a teenager, estimated somewhere 304 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:10.120 around fifteen years of battles and running and hiding, he 305 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:12.679 finally sends to the throne at thirty. He has a 306 00:15:12.679 --> 00:15:14.399 little window of time and it doesn't take him long. 307 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:16.440 He defeats all his enemies. Now he's got one hundred 308 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:19.759 and twenty thousand soldiers and thirty thousand elite fighters. 309 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:21.080 He's ready to go. 310 00:15:21.320 --> 00:15:25.759 Man, and he just defeats all of his enemies. And 311 00:15:25.759 --> 00:15:29.519 then he's sitting in his beautiful palace and it's cedar 312 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:34.320 and fancy, and he has all this privilege that people 313 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:37.519 love him. He's passing out raising cakes and you know, 314 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:42.279 they're having celebrations and the worship is great, and then 315 00:15:42.320 --> 00:15:46.960 he goes, you know, God deserves better. I've got such 316 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:50.200 a good life, and his good life. Contemplating his good 317 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:52.679 life leads him to start thinking about God again, which 318 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:53.559 is really phenomenal. 319 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:54.399 You know. 320 00:15:54.759 --> 00:15:57.759 In a previous episode, I think one of the little 321 00:15:57.840 --> 00:16:00.559 challenges that we were doing, I had mentioned that I'm 322 00:16:00.840 --> 00:16:02.240 relatively content person. 323 00:16:02.480 --> 00:16:06.600 Yes, right, I don't have super highs or super lows. 324 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:12.840 I'm pretty leveled that way, and I'm fairly content, so 325 00:16:12.879 --> 00:16:14.960 I don't spend a lot of time thinking about, Man, 326 00:16:15.039 --> 00:16:16.639 I want this thing or that thing. I don't have 327 00:16:16.679 --> 00:16:19.840 a whole, big, long list. But a while back we 328 00:16:19.919 --> 00:16:21.960 heard about somebody getting a whole bunch of money all 329 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:23.840 at one time. So then it starts turning into this 330 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:25.879 little conversation of man, if you had that kind of money, 331 00:16:25.879 --> 00:16:28.480 what would you do? And it doesn't take you long 332 00:16:28.519 --> 00:16:30.840 to figure out. Well, I would move to that neighborhood. 333 00:16:31.000 --> 00:16:33.720 I'd probably go on this vacation and sure, right, you 334 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:35.919 start kind of working things out. It's kind of funny 335 00:16:36.200 --> 00:16:39.279 if you had it, what would you do with it? Right, 336 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:44.679 David's got all of it right. And David says, you 337 00:16:44.759 --> 00:16:47.759 know what, I only have it because of God and man. 338 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:53.000 God shouldn't be living in a tent, right, it's unreasonable 339 00:16:53.720 --> 00:16:57.240 that I would live so well. And I'm leaving the 340 00:16:57.320 --> 00:17:01.080 arc of the Covenant in this tent. So it's not 341 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:03.919 that God lived in a tent, but the presence of 342 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:05.880 God and the worship of God was in this tent, 343 00:17:05.880 --> 00:17:08.440 the tabernacle. And so he goes, God, I want to 344 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:12.599 go build you a great temple. And I love that. Again, 345 00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:16.640 it shows the heart of David that he's humble. He 346 00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:19.960 has all these insane blessings, and it's in that humility 347 00:17:19.960 --> 00:17:21.799 of saying God, I want to build a temple for you, 348 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:23.839 that God goes, No, let me do something for you. 349 00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:26.400 You're not going to build a temple for me, but 350 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:28.240 I'm going to establish your kingdom forever. 351 00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:29.319 Yeah. 352 00:17:29.359 --> 00:17:32.599 It was when David said, with everything I have and 353 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:36.160 all the accomplishments I've got. I'm not taking credit for it. 354 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:39.279 God deserves better than I've already given him. Right, and 355 00:17:39.319 --> 00:17:43.599 God goes you win. Right, You're the winner. I'm going 356 00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:45.720 to not only bless you in this life, I am 357 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:48.920 going to establish a kingdom from you that will last forever. 358 00:17:49.160 --> 00:17:52.039 Yeah. And it's just another reminder that when we have 359 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:56.000 an attitude of worship and obedience and humility, that God 360 00:17:56.039 --> 00:17:56.799 honors those things. 361 00:17:56.880 --> 00:17:57.759 Yeah. 362 00:17:57.960 --> 00:18:00.920 I pull out my phone because you were talking about 363 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:02.400 how if we had a bunch of money, it wouldn't 364 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:03.200 figure out how. 365 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:04.960 It doesn't take you long for you how to spend it, 366 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:05.519 how to spend it? 367 00:18:05.880 --> 00:18:08.440 So my daughter who lives in Florida, was trying to 368 00:18:08.440 --> 00:18:10.559 get us to buy a Mega Million's ticket last night. 369 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:11.960 It's like eight million dollars. 370 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:13.880 Yeah, it's eight million currently right now. 371 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:18.359 Somebody wanted, Oh did they okay? Texas Okay? 372 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:22.759 So anyway, it says, She says, I know it's mostly 373 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:24.799 a waste of money, but you should go buy ticket. 374 00:18:24.839 --> 00:18:27.119 Blah blah blah. And so my wife writes back and 375 00:18:27.160 --> 00:18:31.039 says she goes, oh, she goes, Uh, I don't get 376 00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:33.279 caught up in that. The last time I bought what ticket, 377 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:35.839 which was years ago, she said, made me crazy. And 378 00:18:35.839 --> 00:18:37.680 then and then and then there's a time that goes 379 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:40.240 by like an hour or not quite an hour, and 380 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:43.279 then she writes back, and she goes, but dot dot, 381 00:18:44.039 --> 00:18:46.480 I do want to buy Christo's a plane, which is 382 00:18:46.519 --> 00:18:49.279 our future son in law, and Torri and arts studio, 383 00:18:49.359 --> 00:18:51.359 and pay off all our debt, and pay off Sarah's 384 00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:54.039 loans for Sarah and Brandon, then buy them a big house. 385 00:18:54.039 --> 00:18:55.480 And I want to buy Steven a big truck to 386 00:18:55.480 --> 00:18:57.200 pay for school, and then to buy him everything he 387 00:18:57.240 --> 00:18:59.200 needs to own his own company, and also buy new 388 00:18:59.200 --> 00:19:01.000 cars for everyone ever, model my entire house, and get 389 00:19:01.039 --> 00:19:03.319 a new kitchen also by dad, a new truck, and 390 00:19:03.359 --> 00:19:05.559 a fancy sports car. And I may just buy myself 391 00:19:05.559 --> 00:19:08.680 a fun Bronco, you know, just those things. 392 00:19:08.519 --> 00:19:12.920 As she said, ten million dollars worth of the eight 393 00:19:13.000 --> 00:19:16.640 hundred million, isn't it funny? So it doesn't take you 394 00:19:16.720 --> 00:19:21.039 long to make even the insane blessings of God, because 395 00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:22.920 you know, there's there were people praying, oh God help 396 00:19:22.920 --> 00:19:24.519 me win the lottery. Oh God helped me win the lottery. 397 00:19:24.519 --> 00:19:26.000 Oh God helped me win the lottery. But then they 398 00:19:26.039 --> 00:19:30.880 had a list like that. Right, David did win the lottery, yes, right, 399 00:19:31.279 --> 00:19:33.160 and took and it took him forty years to do it, 400 00:19:33.160 --> 00:19:33.759 by the way. 401 00:19:33.680 --> 00:19:35.039