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 --> 00:00:13.519 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible Guys. 4 00:00:13.880 --> 00:00:14.640 It's good to be here. 5 00:00:14.679 --> 00:00:17.079 My name is Chris and this is Jeff and we 6 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:19.839 are your hosts for this podcast. 7 00:00:19.839 --> 00:00:21.199 And we're gonna do the best we can. We're not 8 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:22.679 gonna mail it in. This is the last one we 9 00:00:22.719 --> 00:00:23.160 have this week. 10 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:23.920 Let's get ready. 11 00:00:23.960 --> 00:00:25.480 We're going to do the best we can on this. 12 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:27.640 Wee all right, all right. We are in middle of 13 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:31.800 a series about dangerous prayers, and today it is faith 14 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:35.920 doubt and the Dad who prayed both. How about that? 15 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:39.079 That's a good that's good, a title that'll preach man. 16 00:00:39.399 --> 00:00:42.000 But before we get through that, we have a segment, the. 17 00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:45.399 Most important segment of our show every time. Our fans 18 00:00:45.439 --> 00:00:48.320 love it more than anything else. We did one last week. Yeah, 19 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:49.079 we're gonna do it again. 20 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:50.000 It's pretty cool. 21 00:00:50.079 --> 00:00:54.840 What made Chris mad this week? And for longtime listeners, 22 00:00:54.840 --> 00:00:57.520 if you don't know, Chris isn't just a man raging 23 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:00.560 all day every day. No, Chris is a man who 24 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:04.560 finds himself offended on behalf of all of the rest 25 00:01:04.599 --> 00:01:07.760 of humanity, yes, for the poor performance of others. 26 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:10.920 And so with that being in the back of our. 27 00:01:10.840 --> 00:01:14.000 Minds, Well, that's assuming that I'm mad at a person. Okay, okay, 28 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:16.319 So because I sometimes I get mad at things and 29 00:01:16.359 --> 00:01:18.319 today is actually not, I'm not mad at a person, 30 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:22.079 you might be tempted to say that I'm mad at 31 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:24.400 I'm just mad at the way that things are. Somebody 32 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:27.439 might say, well, wait a minute, maybe are you mad 33 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:29.920 at God? No, I'm not mad at God today, and 34 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:32.799 I'm mad at mankind. I don't think i'm mad at mankind. 35 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:37.599 I think I'm just mad that the dynamics that I'm 36 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:39.760 about to complain about just exist. 37 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:43.519 Oh okay, so this is a this is your negative 38 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:45.599 side of Jerry Seinfeldt's. 39 00:01:45.079 --> 00:01:47.599 What's up with that? Yeah, that's right, Okay, that's right. 40 00:01:47.719 --> 00:01:48.120 Okay. 41 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:52.719 I am angry that the human body is so fragile 42 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:58.159 and that the smallest thing can take you down. Think 43 00:01:58.200 --> 00:02:00.920 about it, so, you know, think about your entire body 44 00:02:01.159 --> 00:02:07.640 and a splinter. Yes, a single splinter can take you down, right. 45 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:09.639 It can hurt. It doesn't take me down, but it 46 00:02:09.639 --> 00:02:10.199 aggravates you. 47 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:13.159 It can depending on the splinter aggravates but it definitely 48 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:16.439 aggravates you, right, and it'll it'll, it'll put you out, it'll, it'll, 49 00:02:16.479 --> 00:02:18.960 it'll prevent you from doing everything that you want to do. 50 00:02:19.639 --> 00:02:22.639 And uh, and so the human body. Think about how 51 00:02:22.680 --> 00:02:27.080 many things that mankind has invented that can kill the human. 52 00:02:27.439 --> 00:02:30.000 Oh yeah, right, yeh, it is so easy. We are 53 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:32.280 on a razor's edge of life all the time. 54 00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:34.800 All the time, every time we get in our car, 55 00:02:35.479 --> 00:02:38.240 on the razor's edge of life. Yes, there are things. 56 00:02:38.159 --> 00:02:40.520 We're hurtling down the road at seventy miles an hour 57 00:02:40.719 --> 00:02:43.039 in a in a mellow metal box. 58 00:02:43.159 --> 00:02:46.560 Right, yes, and and and so think about how many 59 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:48.879 things can cut you even I mean just the skin 60 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:51.360 is so I could get hurt. 61 00:02:51.719 --> 00:02:56.439 Now, fall off, Bite your own tongue with your own teeth. 62 00:02:56.439 --> 00:03:02.759 Yes, yes, yes, yes, you feel like you've been shot, right, 63 00:03:05.439 --> 00:03:10.280 don't you. 64 00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:12.199 You bite your own tongue, and you can't for just 65 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:14.159 a split second, can't figure out what just happened? 66 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:18.240 Yeah, right, what just happened? Right? Right? Yeah? The human 67 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:24.240 body is so fragile. This is it, that's right. So 68 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:26.080 that's the reason why I'm saying, like I'm not mad 69 00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:28.719 at God for making us fragile. So it's I don't think. 70 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:30.599 I don't think my anger is at God, and I 71 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:33.599 don't think I'm also mad at mankind for inventing vehicles 72 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:37.120 and metal things that can slice the right right, you know, 73 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:39.080 like but like I said, like if I had an 74 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:42.879 accident and and this, uh, this this chair on wheels 75 00:03:42.919 --> 00:03:46.000 where to just flip, I could have a concussion, right, 76 00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:47.719 And it's like it's like if I hit my head 77 00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:48.240 on the stage. 78 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:51.800 So it's like, so, what is the current fragility that you're. 79 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:53.400 I cracked a molar? 80 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:56.039 You cracked I think, I think, I think so, but 81 00:03:56.080 --> 00:03:56.560 it's hurting. 82 00:03:56.840 --> 00:03:59.199 It's hurting, and I think, uh, and so what happens 83 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:01.599 is I've actually cracked. I think I grind my teeth. 84 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:04.039 In fact, I know I do. And the doctor gave 85 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:06.680 me one of those things that I don't wear, and 86 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:07.439 it's my fault. 87 00:04:07.599 --> 00:04:10.080 But I've cralled lost everybody that the doctors have given 88 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:11.240 those two don't wear them. 89 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:14.039 Yeah, I know it's really difficult for me to sleep. 90 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:16.439 I know I can get used to it. But the 91 00:04:16.680 --> 00:04:20.279 uh so, I've cracked two molars in the past, and 92 00:04:20.279 --> 00:04:22.360 and so I know the pain of cracking a molar 93 00:04:22.680 --> 00:04:25.120 and then you know, of course it's just removal extraction, 94 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:27.160 and then you have to get implants and it's a 95 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:30.519 big deal. Right. But I think I cracked my third 96 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:36.800 molar just yesterday because I was eating something and and 97 00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:38.160 I and I hit it and I heard like a 98 00:04:38.920 --> 00:04:40.800 and I felt the tremendous amount of pain. I thought, 99 00:04:41.079 --> 00:04:44.000 I think it's a hairline fracture because it doesn't hurt 100 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:46.680 as bad today because because some other ones were actually 101 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:50.279 like wide open, loose kind of tooth. But anyway, but 102 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:53.279 I'm thinking to myself, ge whiz, like how many nerve 103 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:55.720 endings are in your mouth? And it's like just a 104 00:04:55.759 --> 00:04:58.360 toothache can just like kill somebody. 105 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:00.399 I know. The question I'm gonna ask to get to 106 00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:02.920 Heaven is why the nerve endings in our teeth? 107 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:04.319 Right right? 108 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:09.360 That feels like a bad idea to some Some angel 109 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:11.959 is up there going watch this. He's in there. He's 110 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:13.959 got his big thick glasses on. You know those guys 111 00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:16.399 that work on micro chips and stuff. He's got those 112 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:19.680 big guys. Story he's watch this. 113 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:21.560 And he's just wiring every tooth. 114 00:05:21.839 --> 00:05:23.680 Yeah right, they touched that one. 115 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:23.959 Baby. 116 00:05:23.959 --> 00:05:26.000 They're just gonna go off because that's the other one 117 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:31.160 is no toothache, And suddenly like you feel like again 118 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:33.800 you got shot in the face, right, you can't figure 119 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:34.720 out what happened man? 120 00:05:34.879 --> 00:05:35.120 Yeah? 121 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:38.319 Yeah, Although, were you implying that angels made mankind? 122 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:39.839 Designing? 123 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:41.199 Designing? 124 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:41.720 What if? 125 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:43.959 What if God delegated a bunch of the design stuff? 126 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:44.920 Oh delegation? 127 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:47.040 Yeah, yeah, so he's delegating all these all right, guys, 128 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:48.879 I want you to design teeth and I want you 129 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:49.800 to design what. 130 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:52.120 Doesn't it say that God formed man from the dust 131 00:05:52.120 --> 00:05:54.519 of the ground. Yeah, so you think that it was 132 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:57.199 a complex, long design. 133 00:05:56.920 --> 00:06:00.879 Well, like uh, like the Renaissance painter. In the Renaissance 134 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:05.279 sculptors would have teams of people. They would design things, 135 00:06:05.319 --> 00:06:07.279 and then teams of people would help make the models. 136 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:10.560 They actually went and made the thing because they only 137 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:12.800 have one shot at that chunk of marble. So they 138 00:06:12.839 --> 00:06:15.120 practice on all these on all these on all these 139 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:17.759 these these other things. So maybe maybe I don't know. 140 00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:19.600 It's it's like it reminds me of it. 141 00:06:19.639 --> 00:06:23.240 Wouldn't diminish God that if he used others to remind me, 142 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:24.079 would it would? 143 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:26.279 It? Would? It was the perfect creator? 144 00:06:26.360 --> 00:06:28.439 Yeah, I was just gonna say I was gonna say, 145 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:31.120 I was gonna say, like you picture you picture painted 146 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:36.560 a picture of like do you ever see Endgame? Yes, Marvels, Yeah, 147 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:39.959 where where vision is up in Wakanda and they're trying 148 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:42.920 to remove the mindstone from him and and and uh 149 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:45.519 and so all those lights show everything and she's like, brother, 150 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:49.319 there's a trill, there's at least a trillion connections, and 151 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:53.399 she's removing every wire by by by hand. That these 152 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:54.720 are the nerve endings in our teeth. 153 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:58.600 Right, that's exactly right. It'd be terrible. So anyway, terrible, terrible. 154 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:03.519 So I am angry at the fact that the human 155 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:08.439 body is actually no match for almost everything that exists. 156 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:12.360 We are the most fragile thing ever. And I you 157 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:13.360 know what, I'm angry about it. 158 00:07:13.399 --> 00:07:14.199 You're angry about it. 159 00:07:14.360 --> 00:07:14.879 I'm angry. 160 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:15.680 Well, thank you, Chris. 161 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:16.879 Right now, I'm angry for my tooth. 162 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:20.319 You're showing compassion, yeah, in a way, yes, showing compassion 163 00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:22.079 to all of humanity for our fragility. 164 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:26.160 Yes. I wish we were like, you know, like more resilient, 165 00:07:26.279 --> 00:07:28.959 and we had like an armor that could resist so 166 00:07:28.959 --> 00:07:29.480 many things. 167 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:32.560 And yet we are resilient. That's what's weird people live 168 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:36.480 through the most bizarre things and die from the weirdest things. 169 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:37.959 It's true, It's it's weird. 170 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:42.079 But anyways, well, thank you Chris for that. You want 171 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:48.639 to talk about a struggle and resilience. This guy in 172 00:07:48.680 --> 00:07:52.319 Mark chapter in Mark chapter nine. We've talked about this 173 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:55.600 passage a couple of times. It's one of my favorite 174 00:07:56.120 --> 00:08:01.040 passages in the Bible, of interactions of humans. 175 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:02.040 With Jesus, you know, people with Jesus. 176 00:08:02.120 --> 00:08:05.519 You know what, though, I'm actually convinced that every passage 177 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:06.839 is one of your favorites. 178 00:08:06.680 --> 00:08:09.759 But this one is This one is particularly I'm fond 179 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:12.120 of because of the idea, the idea. 180 00:08:12.319 --> 00:08:13.600 Do you know why I introduced here? 181 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:14.519 You know why I say that. 182 00:08:14.519 --> 00:08:15.920 Of this Why because I say it all the time. 183 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:19.360 Well, yes, but even more so when you say it. 184 00:08:19.439 --> 00:08:21.759 I tried to take note of it. So I'm like, oh, 185 00:08:21.800 --> 00:08:24.319 he likes this one. And then I'll be like, well, okay, 186 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:26.600 I remember your favorite passage, and then you'll say it again. 187 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:29.199 I'm like, oh, he likes these two, And now I'm like. 188 00:08:29.399 --> 00:08:32.879 Oh, he likes these thirty three thousand verses. 189 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:35.720 Yeah, I'm like, I just I'm this is. 190 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:37.600 This is one of my favorite. I use this a 191 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:40.840 lot when I'm sharing the gospel. Yeah, because people struggle 192 00:08:40.840 --> 00:08:42.120 with how much faith is enough faith? 193 00:08:42.279 --> 00:08:43.240 Yeah yeah, yeah. 194 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:45.840 So today the idea is faith doubt and the Dad 195 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:46.519 who prayed both. 196 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:48.080 So here's what it says. 197 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:52.679 In Mark, chapter nine, verse fourteen says when they returned 198 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:55.279 to the other disciples, they saw a large crowd surrounding them, 199 00:08:55.279 --> 00:08:58.240 and some teachers of religious law were arguing with them. 200 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:00.639 And when the crowd saw Jesus, they were overwhelmed with 201 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:02.919 awe and they ran to greet him. What is all 202 00:09:02.919 --> 00:09:05.879 this arguing about, Jesus asked, am I the right spot? 203 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:06.120 I am? 204 00:09:06.200 --> 00:09:07.039 Yeah, you're in the right spot. 205 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:08.679 Yeah. One of the men in the crowd spoke up 206 00:09:08.679 --> 00:09:10.519 and said, teacher, I brought my son so you could 207 00:09:10.519 --> 00:09:13.080 heal him. He's possessed by an evil spirit that won't 208 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:16.440 let him talk. And whenever this spirit seizes him, it 209 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:19.200 throws him violently to the ground, and then he foams 210 00:09:19.240 --> 00:09:21.519 at the mouth and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid. 211 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:23.960 And so I asked your disciples to cast out the 212 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:27.039 evil spirit, but they couldn't do it. Jesus said to them, 213 00:09:27.039 --> 00:09:29.919 you faithless people, how long must I be with you? 214 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:32.120 How long must I put up with you? Bring the 215 00:09:32.159 --> 00:09:34.600 boy to me? And so they brought the boy. But 216 00:09:34.679 --> 00:09:36.960 when the evil spirit saw Jesus, that threw the child 217 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:39.360 into a violent convulsion and he fell to the ground, 218 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:42.039 writhing and foaming at the mouth. How long has this 219 00:09:42.080 --> 00:09:44.919 been happening, Jesus asked the boy's father. He replied, since 220 00:09:44.919 --> 00:09:47.240 he was a little boy. The spirit often throws him 221 00:09:47.240 --> 00:09:49.960 into the fire into water, trying to kill him. Have 222 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:52.759 mercy on us and help us if you can. What 223 00:09:52.759 --> 00:09:55.559 do you mean if I can, Jesus asked, Anything is 224 00:09:55.600 --> 00:09:59.120 possible if a person believes. The father instantly cried out, 225 00:09:59.159 --> 00:10:03.440 I do believe. But helped me overcome my unbelief. And 226 00:10:03.480 --> 00:10:08.519 when Jesus saw that the crowd of onlookers was growing, 227 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:11.639 he rebuked the evil spirit. Listen, you spirit that makes 228 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:14.120 this boy unable to hear and speak. He said, I 229 00:10:14.159 --> 00:10:16.120 command you to come out of this child and never 230 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:19.360 again enter him. Then the spirit screamed and threw the 231 00:10:19.360 --> 00:10:22.120 boy into another violent convulsion and left him, and the 232 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:24.559 boy appeared to be dead. I murmur ran through the 233 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:27.519 crowd as people said, he's dead. But Jesus took him 234 00:10:27.559 --> 00:10:29.639 by the hand and helped him to his feet, and 235 00:10:29.639 --> 00:10:32.399 he stood up. Afterward, when Jesus was alone in the 236 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:34.240 house with his disciples, they asked him, why couldn't we 237 00:10:34.279 --> 00:10:36.879 cast out that evil spirit? And Jesus replied, this kind 238 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:39.879 can be cast out only by prayer. Remember when we 239 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:42.120 talked about this a while ago. Yes, only by prayer. 240 00:10:41.960 --> 00:10:44.399 Prayer, fasting. Yeah, and guess what you did, the same 241 00:10:44.440 --> 00:10:47.320 thing that you did before. When you read it, do 242 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:49.639 you know what I'm about to say? No, when you 243 00:10:49.919 --> 00:10:54.000 read it's so funny. When you read this verse, you 244 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:56.799 it says, So, here's what the verse says. It says, 245 00:10:56.919 --> 00:10:59.240 the boy appeared to be dead. I murmur ran through 246 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:02.080 the crowd as the people said, he's dead, but Jesus 247 00:11:02.080 --> 00:11:03.559 took him by the hand and helped him on his 248 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:06.759 feet feet, and he stood up. And here's how you 249 00:11:06.799 --> 00:11:10.559 read it. You said, the boy appeared to be dead. 250 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:12.919 A murmur ran through the crowd, and the people said 251 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:18.080 he's dead, but Jesus took him by the hand. 252 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:21.480 And I was like, I was like, so I didn't 253 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:22.440 realize that, I. 254 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:25.720 Know, and you didn't realize it last time. The story, man, 255 00:11:25.759 --> 00:11:27.720 this is the story you're right there with it. Man, 256 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:31.919 it says, it says, it's a murmur right, He's dead. 257 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:33.000 Pass it on. 258 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:35.440 When you're reading, do you do you see the story? 259 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:38.639 Oh? Are you kidding me? When you even ask me that, 260 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:42.840 I see everything right, My mind's eye just goes to everything, 261 00:11:42.919 --> 00:11:47.039 every reaction, every facial expression. Which is why I see 262 00:11:47.080 --> 00:11:50.080 life as a movie, right. I see zoom in's. I 263 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:53.000 hear scores. I hear scores underneath these stories. 264 00:11:53.039 --> 00:11:56.440 When when I watch movies on the screen, I like them. 265 00:11:56.519 --> 00:11:59.720 But when I watch a movie on the screen, I 266 00:11:59.759 --> 00:12:02.840 feel like I'm sitting outside of this really cool story. 267 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:04.720 I feel like I'm in a theater. I don't feel 268 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:05.480 like I'm in the movie. 269 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:07.360 Are you kidding me? But when I read, that's the 270 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:07.960 opposite of me. 271 00:12:08.039 --> 00:12:10.720 When I read, I feel like I'm in the story. 272 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:12.480 You know what, Probably it's because I grew up that tea. 273 00:12:12.679 --> 00:12:14.639 I was going to say, probably go to movies when 274 00:12:14.639 --> 00:12:17.080 I was a kid, and you know what, you could 275 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:18.720 we could all go to a counselor and he could 276 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:21.519 probably explain this, right, the part of the brain or 277 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:25.159 the developmental years and and all that stuff. You're what 278 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:28.240 is that hippocampus whatever? Is that called but anyway, but 279 00:12:28.279 --> 00:12:31.399 it's a it really is it. I learned about this 280 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:34.120 in counseling a long time ago when we talked about 281 00:12:34.159 --> 00:12:40.279 the strength of your experiences during those formative years, especially 282 00:12:40.279 --> 00:12:42.639 in your brain. And uh, and I will bet you 283 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:47.000 that it's just that your experience was such because you know, 284 00:12:47.320 --> 00:12:50.759 the bottom mine is. I also think that way about books, right, 285 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:53.200 because you know, you read a good book, and especially 286 00:12:53.200 --> 00:12:54.519 if it's like nonfiction or. 287 00:12:54.639 --> 00:12:56.559 You were a big comic book guy, so you're reading 288 00:12:56.600 --> 00:12:57.480 books with pictures. 289 00:12:57.600 --> 00:13:01.120 Yeah, I say, those those are visuals, right yea, So those, 290 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:05.080 you know, didn't require my imagination as much. 291 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:07.279 You still had to read it though, if you're going 292 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:09.559 to take in the story, yeah, for sure read it. 293 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:11.919 And certainly well, I mean I read books too, but 294 00:13:12.039 --> 00:13:15.440 the ratio between movies and reading for me as a 295 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:19.919 kid was like one hundred to one, right, I mean, 296 00:13:19.919 --> 00:13:20.960 it was always. 297 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:23.159 More me too, but it was the other way around, 298 00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:24.360 right exactly. 299 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:27.080 That's what I'm saying. And so I'm saying, I bet 300 00:13:27.120 --> 00:13:30.279 you it's just that's what your brain it was developed 301 00:13:30.279 --> 00:13:35.200 that way because I can't imagine being in a really 302 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:37.720 great movie and not feeling like you're in the movie. 303 00:13:38.360 --> 00:13:42.080 When my dad died, he left me his entire Louis Lamore. Yeah, 304 00:13:42.200 --> 00:13:45.559 Cowboy book collection. It's one hundred and ten novels or 305 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:48.360 something like that. He had the whole set. And so 306 00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:50.559 I've just started at the beginning of the second series 307 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:52.320 I started, so I've always got one of my nightstand 308 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:53.679 I'll read for a little bit, for a little bit, 309 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:56.759 And yeah, it's amazing because I grew up reading all 310 00:13:56.879 --> 00:13:59.039 that stuff, you know, and you just imagine in. 311 00:13:58.960 --> 00:13:59.720 Your head, you know. 312 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:02.799 Also, that's what happened on that story. Yeah, that's what 313 00:14:02.919 --> 00:14:04.200 I was just in the middle of the story, in 314 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:04.559 the moment. 315 00:14:04.679 --> 00:14:07.080 Yeah, well in the uh And by the way, that 316 00:14:07.080 --> 00:14:11.879 probably explains a lot about even the art that we 317 00:14:11.919 --> 00:14:14.440 talk about, right, we talk about videos and all these 318 00:14:14.519 --> 00:14:17.879 kinds of things. Whereas I always find myself in the story, 319 00:14:17.879 --> 00:14:19.879 which is why I cry, Right, I could. I could 320 00:14:19.919 --> 00:14:23.240 watch a thirty second clip and be completely immersed. I 321 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:27.080 am in that clip, and I will literally cry based 322 00:14:27.080 --> 00:14:30.200 on the emotion that's being conveyed, and I think, Wow, 323 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:33.080 they did their job right. They drew me in. I 324 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:36.000 was I was feeling everything that that person was feeling. 325 00:14:36.519 --> 00:14:39.000 And that's I get caught up in it. 326 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:41.159 Because I'll tear up on occasion. 327 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:44.120 Sure, sure that that'll happen, but it's not I don't 328 00:14:44.159 --> 00:14:45.519 throw myself at a movie. 329 00:14:45.799 --> 00:14:46.240 Most of the time. 330 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:48.240 When I approach a movie, I approach it like I'm 331 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:50.000 sitting in a theater and it's on the screen. Yeah. 332 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:52.919 Well, I cried during Aspirin commercials, so. 333 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:55.600 Yeah, so anyways, Hey, let's cry about this guy's son. 334 00:14:55.679 --> 00:14:57.080 Yeah for sure, probably get to that part. 335 00:14:57.200 --> 00:15:01.200 Yeah, right, So so you know this guy we again, 336 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:04.480 we just talked. It feels like we just talked about it, right, 337 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:10.200 But I love how Jesus is asking questions like, what 338 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:13.200 is this all? What is this arguing about? Now? I 339 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:15.960 think Jesus knew what the arguing was about, right, I 340 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:17.320 believe that he knew. 341 00:15:17.639 --> 00:15:19.159 This feels more like a parent walk in the room. 342 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:23.240 What's going on in here? That's what it feels like. 343 00:15:24.679 --> 00:15:28.120 Right, right, right, right? And and he says, you faithless people, 344 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:30.200 how long must I be with you? How long lest 345 00:15:30.279 --> 00:15:32.120 I put up with you? Bring the board to me? 346 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:37.919 That that is amazing. How Jesus responds to the fact 347 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:41.440 that the disciples couldn't cast out the evil spirit, right 348 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:43.919 because Jesus has told them time and time again. We 349 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:46.480 didn't talk about this last time, but Jesus has told 350 00:15:46.519 --> 00:15:48.600 them time and time again, if you have the faith 351 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:51.159 of a mustard seed, you can move mountains. You could 352 00:15:51.159 --> 00:15:53.360 do great things, right, you can? You can? And he 353 00:15:53.399 --> 00:15:56.279 says you faithless people. Now, do you think he was 354 00:15:56.279 --> 00:15:58.600 talking to disciples or do you think he was talking 355 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:01.360 to the people bringing the boy to him? 356 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:02.279 Disciples? 357 00:16:02.480 --> 00:16:03.519 Yeah? I think so too. 358 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:05.320 Yeah, I think that he's talking to the disciples. 359 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:09.559 Yeah. And that's interesting, isn't it. So think about that 360 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:12.279 because we didn't camp on this last time. So when 361 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:16.600 Jesus tells us to believe and have trust, don't you 362 00:16:16.639 --> 00:16:21.879 think that that applies to for instance, let's just say 363 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:25.080 somebody is having a hard time giving financially, right, yes, 364 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:28.799 and yet they have seen God provide in the past. 365 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:31.240 Don't you think that Jesus would show up and say, you, 366 00:16:31.320 --> 00:16:34.360 faithless people, how much more do I have to do 367 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:35.960 in your life to prove that I'm going to take 368 00:16:35.960 --> 00:16:36.279 care of you? 369 00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:36.720 Right? 370 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:41.399 Yeah? I good point, you know what I mean? 371 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:44.960 Yes, I think I think sometimes we try to rely 372 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:49.720 on yesterday's victories and think, well, I was ready for 373 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:52.080 that battle before, So I'm ready for all battles forever 374 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:56.759 now because the Disciples two pages before cast out demons 375 00:16:58.080 --> 00:17:02.399 in chapter six, So they did cast out demons before. 376 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:05.960 Now they can't cast this demon out. So I think 377 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:09.160 sometimes we're at tempted to think that religious experience took 378 00:17:09.160 --> 00:17:11.799 me to a new level, and now that's my permanent level. 379 00:17:12.640 --> 00:17:16.680 And if we're not constantly maintaining and building, we don't 380 00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:20.000 stay where we're at spiritually. We slide back. And we're 381 00:17:20.039 --> 00:17:22.640 in the Baptist world we are backsliders, right, right, So 382 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:27.559 you automatically slide back from where you were at spiritually 383 00:17:27.640 --> 00:17:30.400 with God if you're not actively leaning in and moving 384 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:35.359 towards him, you don't just maintain. This is true in 385 00:17:35.400 --> 00:17:38.480 relationships too. It's true in your marriage. Your marriage does 386 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:41.000 not go stagnant. Your marriage goes backwards if you're not 387 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:44.839 moving forward. Sure, right, in most things, it's not just 388 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:48.440 a flatline. You achieve a level, and now that's the 389 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:48.960 new level. 390 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:49.960 You slip backwards. 391 00:17:50.039 --> 00:17:52.200 And so the Disciples, we're out casting out demons and 392 00:17:52.279 --> 00:17:55.000 sharing the gospel in chapter six and now here in 393 00:17:55.079 --> 00:17:58.160 chapter nine, they can't cast out this demon. So sometimes 394 00:17:58.160 --> 00:18:00.680 you can rely on a previous experience. It's in your life, 395 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:03.680 a previous mountaintop moment, and think you're still that guy. 396 00:18:03.799 --> 00:18:07.000 Remember when Samson got up and shook himself off, was ready, 397 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:08.880 and then found out he didn't have any power. 398 00:18:08.839 --> 00:18:09.400 Right, right? 399 00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:11.119 He didn't even know the powered left him, right. 400 00:18:11.039 --> 00:18:12.160 I didn't know the power left him. 401 00:18:12.319 --> 00:18:13.960