WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:17.239 practical ways. Well, good morning, good morning, we talk the 4 00:00:17.239 --> 00:00:20.760 home that through. Good morning, good morning to you and 5 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:24.679 you and yes, good morning you. Welcome to the Bible guys. 6 00:00:24.760 --> 00:00:25.079 Man. 7 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:28.440 Yes, what a great way to kick off the day, or, 8 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:30.440 as we learned earlier this week, the evening. 9 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:34.240 Yeah, the drive home, the drive home from work. Good afternoon. 10 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:40.280 Oh wow, that does change it. Good evening and good evening, wow, 11 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:47.000 good afternoon. Good okay, wow, well hey it's it's good 12 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:49.479 morning now. Now you know what, I'm never gonna forget that. 13 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:52.280 Now we looked up time of day and that's going 14 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:53.799 to mess me up every time I send that song. 15 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:55.439 Thanks for drawing that to my attem. 16 00:00:55.479 --> 00:00:57.119 I'm sorry, man, I'm sorry. 17 00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:00.159 Yeah, take the joy right out of it. Yeah, but 18 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:03.600 it is a good morning. We're here at the Bible Guys, 19 00:01:03.679 --> 00:01:06.280 and we're in the middle of a series and it's 20 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:09.319 talking about God's promises. And this week focuses on a 21 00:01:09.359 --> 00:01:12.840 theme and every day this thing we're talking about God's provision. 22 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:16.760 He always provides, that's right. Yes, but before we do that, yes, 23 00:01:16.840 --> 00:01:22.280 We're going to try one more time, yes, because we've 24 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:24.799 we've been trying to make this one work and Dez 25 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:25.799 just won't give it up. 26 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:26.239 Yep. 27 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:28.519 So you know what she's thinking. That's right, she knows 28 00:01:28.560 --> 00:01:29.159 what she wants. 29 00:01:29.239 --> 00:01:32.519 She's thinking, you guys, you know I can eventually get 30 00:01:32.519 --> 00:01:32.879 this right. 31 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:35.560 Yeah. So this is our last shot. It's the fill 32 00:01:35.599 --> 00:01:36.079 in the blank. 33 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:36.599 Okay. 34 00:01:36.680 --> 00:01:38.239 So what's gonna happen is I'm going to start a 35 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:39.920 sentence and then you have to complete it in an 36 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:43.599 unexpected way. Okay, okay, So I hear a few of them? 37 00:01:43.799 --> 00:01:44.319 Okay, good? 38 00:01:44.439 --> 00:01:47.799 And should I do it like a movie? Should I 39 00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:49.280 do like a movie? Intro? 40 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:50.120 Always? 41 00:01:50.920 --> 00:01:51.640 Okay? Okay? 42 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:52.359 Always? 43 00:01:52.519 --> 00:01:55.760 All right, here you go? Ready, okay, ready, Yes. When 44 00:01:55.799 --> 00:02:01.840 the last shred of dignity clocked out early, oh that's it. 45 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:05.159 I was really preparing for something more that was very. 46 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:10.199 Very few in the last shred of dignity clocked out early. 47 00:02:11.599 --> 00:02:15.000 Okay. When the last shred of dignity clocked out early, 48 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:22.000 Charlie found himself standing in front of his classroom doing 49 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:29.639 the spelling bee totally naked. You see, Charlie's whole life. 50 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:33.520 He had had anxiety about being embarrassed in front of 51 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:37.199 his friends, and now his worst humiliation has come true. 52 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:40.840 But then Charlie woke up and thanked the lord. It 53 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:41.960 was just another dream. 54 00:02:42.039 --> 00:02:45.319 Wow, But you sounded like William Shatner, you're timing. 55 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:53.919 Yeah, And then Charlie woke up, so you sounded like, Okay, 56 00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:55.240 how about that? 57 00:02:55.439 --> 00:02:56.240 That was unexpected? 58 00:02:56.360 --> 00:02:57.360 That was pretty awesome. 59 00:02:57.439 --> 00:02:59.080 I mean, I mean it took me a minute, but 60 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:00.560 I yeah, he got there. 61 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:04.360 The sun had barely risen. 62 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:17.879 And yet so hard, and yet the goblins were eating 63 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:24.120 the wheat. The goblins had invaded once again Old McDonald's 64 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:28.479 wheat field. Usually they wait until the evening, but they 65 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:31.800 couldn't even wait until the sun got up that morning. 66 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:38.280 But this time Farmer McDonald was ready for them. He 67 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:41.319 had seven what do you call those things? But they 68 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:45.280 tear up the wheat with the big razors, they plow. 69 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:50.400 It, come on harves. Yea, what do you call those combines? 70 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:58.000 Yeah? Combines? Remember remember cars? Remember remember they had Chase Vader. Okay, okay, yeah, 71 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:01.919 he had seven combines waiting, and as soon as the 72 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:06.680 goblins showed their face, all seven of his sons mowed 73 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:09.039 them down, and they had goblin. 74 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:13.719 Stew Wow, that's rough. Well, I mean pretty good. It 75 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:17.560 was epic, you said, movie. Yeah, yeah. Can goblins be 76 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:20.199 in the sunshine? Don't they turned the stone? 77 00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:22.199 It depends on what kind of goblins they are. 78 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:29.519 Okay, all right, all right, one more I'm really going 79 00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:32.519 deep on okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Goblins eating wheat with 80 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:33.959 farmer Y Donald applying them down. 81 00:04:34.839 --> 00:04:35.639 It's pretty rough. 82 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:38.959 They said it couldn't be done, and they were right. 83 00:04:42.199 --> 00:04:53.040 Oh wow, the highest this the world record holder of 84 00:04:53.839 --> 00:04:58.199 a high dive, swore that he would break his own 85 00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:01.160 record by adding one thousand feet to his high dive 86 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:07.240 and landing only in a glass of water. They said 87 00:05:07.240 --> 00:05:11.959 it couldn't be done, and they were right because once 88 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:14.720 he decided to dive, when the whistle blew and the 89 00:05:14.839 --> 00:05:19.240 crowd was gathered around about three quarters of the way down, 90 00:05:19.319 --> 00:05:23.959 he thought, maybe this was a bad idea. And guess what, 91 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:26.079 that's the last thing he thought. 92 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:29.199 Do you know what the last thing was? It went 93 00:05:29.199 --> 00:05:37.279 through his mouth, his feet. That's awesome. 94 00:05:37.319 --> 00:05:40.639 Those were some pre imaginative So he's he's. 95 00:05:40.519 --> 00:05:43.879 Gonna jump dive into that's what? What is he like? 96 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:44.759 The Geico gecko? 97 00:05:45.279 --> 00:05:46.800 No, no, no, he's a full size man. 98 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:50.480 Yeah, that was a bad choice. Yeah, okay, okay, I. 99 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:52.720 Don't to be honest, I think we sort of nailed it. 100 00:05:52.879 --> 00:05:55.360 Yeah. I don't know if that was what she was intending, 101 00:05:55.439 --> 00:05:56.160 but we got there. 102 00:05:56.199 --> 00:05:57.079 All the pressure on me. 103 00:05:57.279 --> 00:05:58.279 Yeah, good job, Chris. 104 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:00.000 I used my imagination on that one. 105 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:01.360 Yeah. 106 00:06:01.399 --> 00:06:03.360 So, hey, I hope you were riveted. 107 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:05.759 That was It was absolutely riving. You wanted to know 108 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:08.879 what else is riveting? You know what? 109 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:10.879 That doesn't become our default transition. 110 00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:14.319 All we do is speaking. 111 00:06:23.279 --> 00:06:25.120 Speaking of what else is? 112 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:29.800 All we have to do is like pick one word 113 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:30.879 and then. 114 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:33.720 Just apply it. That has really become our default transition? 115 00:06:33.839 --> 00:06:35.199 Is it is? 116 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:38.279 It is so easy, and maybe we're getting tired? Should 117 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:41.560 we or should we not abandon the bad transition? 118 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:44.800 Maybe maybe maybe we should start doing like legit transitions. 119 00:06:45.399 --> 00:06:48.800 But that requires hundred eight hundred and three episodes in now. 120 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:51.759 That requires work, And it's the premise of the Bible, guys, 121 00:06:52.240 --> 00:06:54.879 is two guys sitting down, opening the Bible, talking about 122 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:58.839 it and having a meaningful uh conversation about what God 123 00:06:58.879 --> 00:06:59.680 says about it, right. 124 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:03.000 And find practical ways waste So it's all spontaneous. I 125 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:06.079 don't know if our listeners know this, Yes, on purpose. Yeah, 126 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:10.040 we do it one hundred percent spontaneous. We're not coming 127 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:12.360 in with show notes or prepping or any of those things. 128 00:07:12.519 --> 00:07:12.800 Zero. 129 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:15.959 So Dez gives us the things and from there we 130 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:18.240 just come in and we open the Bible. We've got 131 00:07:18.279 --> 00:07:20.079 good study bibles, so we like looking at what the 132 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:22.240 notes have to say. We like to just take and 133 00:07:22.279 --> 00:07:24.680 we think that the words on the page can can 134 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:25.759 really speak to us. 135 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:28.040 Yeah, because guess what, every new Christian is in the 136 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:30.639 same boat, right, that's right. So every new Christian opens 137 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:32.920 the Bible and they're and they're like, okay, I've never 138 00:07:32.920 --> 00:07:36.000 read this before. I mean, obviously we've read the Bible 139 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:39.079 several times once or twice, once or twice. But but 140 00:07:39.079 --> 00:07:41.720 but every new Christian would do that. They wouldn't have 141 00:07:42.079 --> 00:07:44.720 any other preparation other than say, okay, let's read and 142 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:46.839 what does God? What does God's word have to say 143 00:07:46.839 --> 00:07:47.120 about it? 144 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:47.560 Yeah? 145 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:49.959 Of course we you know, we we definitely have, you know, 146 00:07:50.040 --> 00:07:51.399 a knowledge of reservoir. 147 00:07:51.519 --> 00:07:53.519 So so here here's a thing I want to say, 148 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:56.519 get yourself a good study Bible, for sure. I've had 149 00:07:56.600 --> 00:08:00.079 so many people ask us recently ask me, Hey, I 150 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:01.000 want to get a good Bible. 151 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:01.839 Get it in the lobby. 152 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:02.959 I want to get a good Bible. What kind of 153 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:04.399 by whould I get? And I'm like, you listen to 154 00:08:04.439 --> 00:08:06.000 the Bible, guys, you don't know what Bible we get. 155 00:08:06.199 --> 00:08:09.000 So we always like to say, and Tyndale does not 156 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:12.000 sponsor us, the publisher, but we really really like the 157 00:08:12.040 --> 00:08:14.759 life application study Bible. That's right, right, And so here's 158 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:18.000 how a study Bible works. You'll have the text that 159 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:20.279 you're reading, and like on this page today, it's the 160 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:23.959 top half of the page. Then there's some really interesting 161 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:27.639 thoughts right here, seven reasons not to worry from this 162 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:31.279 passage that's highlighted. And then below for each of the 163 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:34.120 verses there's a little note that explains what's happening most 164 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:37.919 of them. Yeah, And then on the side column, for ever, 165 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:41.120 almost every verse nineteen twenty, twenty three, twenty five, twenty six, 166 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:44.080 twenty nine, thirty, thirty, two, thirty three, there are cross 167 00:08:44.120 --> 00:08:48.960 references where this same idea is referenced in another place 168 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:52.360 in the Bible. Yeah, and so like for verse nineteen, 169 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:55.200 Proverbs twenty three four and James five two through three. 170 00:08:55.559 --> 00:08:57.519 So people go, wow, how do you know all these 171 00:08:57.519 --> 00:08:59.679 things because we read the notes and we do the 172 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:03.000 cross references right, right, And that's really how it works. 173 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:06.120 And the more you get familiar with the Bible, the 174 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:08.360 more the Holy Spirit can bring it back to you 175 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:11.759 remind you again. So get yourself a good study Bible. 176 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:14.559 Mine here is kind of getting beat up by. Bought 177 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:18.159 it online at Amazon for like twenty bucks. It's a 178 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:20.320 hardcover version because it sits on my shelf easy. 179 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:22.360 And then the type of Bible is different than the 180 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:25.080 translation of the Bible, right, So we choose the NLT 181 00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:29.200 most of the time at Heritage just because it's a 182 00:09:29.639 --> 00:09:33.960 practical translation. In fact, one time I remember hearing a 183 00:09:34.039 --> 00:09:38.440 very well respected pastor say that the NLT was translated 184 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:39.720 for the eighth grader. 185 00:09:40.200 --> 00:09:42.840 Yeah, or maybe it was eight year old eighth grade. 186 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:47.960 It's a conversational, very conversational in this style, and it's 187 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:50.200 written for eighth grade reading level. 188 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:51.960 Yeah, which by the way, is exactly how. 189 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:53.879 It's designed for memory content and all those things. 190 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:56.919 Yeah, Jesus taught on that type of level where he 191 00:09:57.000 --> 00:10:00.320 where where he taught things at their fundamental basic leve 192 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:04.879 these stories, you know, parables, and so yeah, eighth grade 193 00:10:04.919 --> 00:10:07.519 reading level honestly, is where most of us learn the best. 194 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:14.960 Most of us speak in a high school level conversational way, 195 00:10:15.080 --> 00:10:19.840 and so this is a conversational style translation, New Living translation. 196 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:22.480 So life application study Bible, and then we always use 197 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:24.440 a New Living translation, so we don't think it's the 198 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:26.039 only one. We just think it's a practical one for 199 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:29.039 what we're doing. So that's right. Here we go in 200 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:31.080 Matthew chapter six. We're gonna start off FM verse nineteen. 201 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:33.559 We'll read to the end of the chapter. Is that correct? Yep? Okay. 202 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:38.120 Jesus said, don't store up treasures here on earth, where 203 00:10:38.159 --> 00:10:40.919 moths eat them and rust destroys them, and where the 204 00:10:40.919 --> 00:10:43.759 thieves break in and steel. Store your treasures in heaven, 205 00:10:43.759 --> 00:10:47.080 where moths and rust cannot destroy, and thieves do not 206 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:50.600 break in and steal. Wherever your treasure is there, the 207 00:10:50.639 --> 00:10:54.159 desires of your heart will also be. Your eye is 208 00:10:54.240 --> 00:10:56.279 like a lamp that provides light for your body. When 209 00:10:56.279 --> 00:10:58.200 your eye is healthy, your whole body is filled with light. 210 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:00.679 But when your eye is unhealthy, your whole body is 211 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:03.200 filled with darkness. And if the light you think you 212 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:07.279 have is actually darkness, how deep that darkness is? No 213 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:10.279 one can serve two masters. For you hate one and 214 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:12.600 love the other, you will be devoted to one and 215 00:11:12.639 --> 00:11:15.720 despise the other. You cannot serve God and be enslaved 216 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:17.759 to money. That is why I tell you not to 217 00:11:17.759 --> 00:11:20.759 worry about every day life, whether you have enough food 218 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:24.440 and drink or enough clothes to wear. Isn't life more 219 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:27.200 than food in your body more than clothing. Look at 220 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:29.480 the birds. They don't plant or harvest or store food 221 00:11:29.519 --> 00:11:32.440 and barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren't 222 00:11:32.440 --> 00:11:35.559 you far more valuable to him than they are? Can 223 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:37.879 all your worries at a single moment to your life? 224 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:41.519 And why worry about your clothing? Look at the littlies 225 00:11:41.559 --> 00:11:43.039 of the field and how they grow, And they don't 226 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:46.799 work or make their clothing. Yet Solomon, in all his glory, 227 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:49.279 was not dressed as beautiful as they are. And if 228 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:52.440 God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers that are here today 229 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:54.960 and thrown in the fire tomorrow, he will certainly care 230 00:11:55.000 --> 00:11:57.679 for you. Why do you have so little faith? So 231 00:11:57.720 --> 00:12:01.320 don't worry about these things? Say saying what will we eat? 232 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:03.679 What will we drink? What will we wear? These things 233 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:07.240 dominate the thoughts of unbelievers. But your heavenly Father already 234 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:10.600 knows all your needs. Seek the Kingdom of God above 235 00:12:10.679 --> 00:12:13.440 all else, and live righteously, and he will give you 236 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:16.519 everything you need. So don't worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow 237 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:19.639 will bring its own worries. Today is trouble enough for today, 238 00:12:20.799 --> 00:12:21.799 and and that's the truth. 239 00:12:21.879 --> 00:12:23.200 Today is trouble enough for today. 240 00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:24.720 Yeah, that's right, that's right. 241 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:27.039 Today brings its own trouble. Don't even worry about tomorrow. 242 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:32.360 I think that way for going to bed, and I 243 00:12:32.440 --> 00:12:34.440 solved as many of the problems I could solve today. 244 00:12:34.639 --> 00:12:36.080 Tomorrow is going to have its own problems, and just 245 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:39.240 go to bed. So in our guest room above the 246 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:41.320 bed and our guest room is a great big sign 247 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:43.440 and it says give it to God and go to sleep. 248 00:12:44.159 --> 00:12:44.759 That's great. 249 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:47.960 This is right up about the bed and guests. 250 00:12:49.559 --> 00:12:54.120 So it's uh so that that works if you get 251 00:12:54.120 --> 00:12:56.639 in a fight with your guests. He said, just go 252 00:12:56.639 --> 00:12:59.360 go to bed, we'll read the sign and give it 253 00:12:59.399 --> 00:12:59.600 to God. 254 00:13:00.600 --> 00:13:01.000 That's right. 255 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:04.440 So the promise in this chapter, obviously there's a lot 256 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:07.000 of promises, there's a lot of truth there, but the 257 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:10.120 one that sort of wraps everything up is seek first 258 00:13:10.200 --> 00:13:12.840 the Kingdom of God above all else, and you and 259 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:15.559 live righteously, and then he will give you everything you need. 260 00:13:16.120 --> 00:13:18.159 And then we learned it as seek ye first the 261 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:20.559 Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things 262 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:22.120 shall be added unto you. 263 00:13:22.360 --> 00:13:24.159 Yes, which is the King James. 264 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:26.320 Version, and which of course is a. 265 00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:28.240 Song, Seek ye first the Kingdom of God. 266 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:29.559 Yeah. Yeah, good, and sing it. 267 00:13:29.759 --> 00:13:30.279 You sing it? 268 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:32.960 No, you sing it, You sing it. The people want 269 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:33.759 you to sing it. 270 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:35.960 I'm not saying it. You sing it. 271 00:13:36.080 --> 00:13:42.039 Seek ye first, the Kingdom of God and his righteousnesses, 272 00:13:42.559 --> 00:13:46.440 and all these things shall be added unto you. Haley 273 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:48.879 lou a lailu. Yeah. 274 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:52.000 And you sing it in a round too, Yeah, I'm 275 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:52.360 not going to do. 276 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:57.559 And then there's a girl part. She's like see yeah, 277 00:13:57.039 --> 00:13:59.759 so yeah. In my wife would always sing the girl 278 00:13:59.799 --> 00:14:02.799 part and we were singing at church and and so yeah. 279 00:14:02.840 --> 00:14:05.360 I mean it helps you to memorize scripture when you 280 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:07.840 put in the song. And so this is a very 281 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:11.200 famous one, and I love that it says above all else. 282 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:16.480 It's almost like an overarching principle that says, if you 283 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:20.600 seek God and make that your primary thing that you seek, 284 00:14:21.080 --> 00:14:24.320 then you're going to find and he's going to provide overall. 285 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:27.480 Because after all, he's already given examples. He's talked about 286 00:14:27.519 --> 00:14:30.399 Lily's and he's talked about sparrows, and he's talked about 287 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:34.240 all these different things, and he talked about the futility 288 00:14:34.279 --> 00:14:37.279 of worry. So he's gotten into our he's gotten into 289 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:43.159 our tendencies, the human the human reaction, you know, the anxiety, 290 00:14:43.240 --> 00:14:46.519 the worry. He's gotten into all of that, used practical examples, 291 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:48.759 and then he ends with this sort of big promise 292 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:52.320 that says, if you seek God above all else, he's 293 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:53.960 going to provide for you, and he's going to take 294 00:14:53.960 --> 00:14:56.159 care of you. He's going to give you everything that 295 00:14:56.200 --> 00:14:56.559 you need. 296 00:14:57.519 --> 00:15:01.600 So you know, we've talked about this before. How the 297 00:15:01.639 --> 00:15:05.360 Middle Eastern mind and the teaching works a lot of 298 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:10.399 times rabbis, especially the Middle Eastern thought process is often 299 00:15:11.799 --> 00:15:14.799 we start with an idea out around the edges, we 300 00:15:14.919 --> 00:15:17.240 kind of talk around it, we come to the middle 301 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:20.759 of the conversation is often the main point of it, 302 00:15:21.159 --> 00:15:23.279 and then it pivots back off again. It goes out 303 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:25.639 to the big ideas all around it. What they're doing 304 00:15:25.679 --> 00:15:29.120 is they're probing all the ideas you and I. For 305 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:31.679 Western thinkers, most of us start off at point A, 306 00:15:32.240 --> 00:15:34.559 and we go point B, point C, point D, we 307 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:40.000 continue to logically build an argument. Whereas a rabbi will 308 00:15:40.480 --> 00:15:44.080 start with the ideas, but he's taking you to the 309 00:15:44.120 --> 00:15:46.639 center or the core of his idea, and then he'll 310 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:49.799 expand back out from there. Blow your mind right as 311 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:52.600 she does. So the center of this because he pivots. 312 00:15:53.000 --> 00:15:56.240 The beginning is he teaches us a bunch about the 313 00:15:56.320 --> 00:15:59.720 law in chapter five. This is all the sermon of 314 00:15:59.720 --> 00:15:59.960 the Mound. 315 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:00.720 Chapter five. 316 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:04.320 Yeah, and then in chapter six he's teaching about giving 317 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:09.039 and prayer and fasting. That's a whole big idea, yep. 318 00:16:09.960 --> 00:16:12.519 And then he pivots again. And now he's talking about 319 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:16.320 how we feel about money, right, and so in that 320 00:16:16.440 --> 00:16:18.759 don't store up treasures here on earth. Oh hey, that's 321 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:20.799 a new idea. Where are you going? He's starting out 322 00:16:20.799 --> 00:16:23.120 on the edges, and then he's gonna take you to 323 00:16:23.240 --> 00:16:25.120 the core of this. 324 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:26.919 You cannot serve God in money. 325 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:30.240 You can't serve God and money rights. That's where he's 326 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:32.840 gonna take He's gonna take you to the center of that. 327 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:36.039 So on the front end, don't store up treasures here 328 00:16:36.039 --> 00:16:39.600 on earth. Then in the middle, you can't serve two masters. 329 00:16:39.600 --> 00:16:40.879 You gonna have to choose who you can serve. It's 330 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:42.960 either going to be money or God. But if you 331 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:45.840 serve God, that what's the very last verse, seek the 332 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:48.600 Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously all 333 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:51.120 these things. He will give you everything you need, so 334 00:16:51.159 --> 00:16:52.200 you don't have to worry about tomorrow. 335 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:54.679 Well, technically they didn't have verses when this. 336 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:56.960 Was written, now I know, but this idea, because then 337 00:16:56.960 --> 00:16:59.120 he moves on from there, and he chapter seven starts 338 00:16:59.159 --> 00:17:01.919 off with judging others. So every one of these ideas 339 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:04.240 he starts out, he starts out on the edge. He 340 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:06.599 brings you to the center, the main point, and then 341 00:17:06.599 --> 00:17:10.240 he finishes. So the front edge of this is quit 342 00:17:10.440 --> 00:17:13.119 just trying to collect stuff. You're putting all your trust 343 00:17:13.119 --> 00:17:15.359 and money. You're gonna have to decide. In the middle, 344 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:17.880 you have to decide who you're gonna trust. Either you 345 00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:20.240 trust God or you trust money. You can't have two gods. 346 00:17:20.480 --> 00:17:22.519 And then the end is but if you seek him 347 00:17:22.599 --> 00:17:25.119 first above all else, he'll give everything you need. 348 00:17:25.240 --> 00:17:28.759 Yeah, And I think it's also interesting how he talks 349 00:17:28.799 --> 00:17:33.359 about treasures because actually the word translates his money here, 350 00:17:33.799 --> 00:17:37.079 but the actual word is mammon, right, and you know 351 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:40.160 that mammon is actually better translated as the word stuff 352 00:17:40.279 --> 00:17:43.880 stuff yeah, which of course money buys. Right. So so 353 00:17:43.960 --> 00:17:45.039 really we got to say. 354 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:46.920 Do you remember do you remember veggietails? 355 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:47.559 Of course? 356 00:17:47.799 --> 00:17:48.319 Smart? 357 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:50.200 Yeah, stuff Mart. 358 00:17:50.519 --> 00:17:52.160 Yeah, we love stuff so great. 359 00:17:52.599 --> 00:17:53.839 It's so great, stuff Mark. 360 00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:56.400 It's a big story. They like the shop at stuff Mark. 361 00:17:56.319 --> 00:17:59.759 Stuff Mart. But the idea is is you can't serve 362 00:17:59.799 --> 00:18:02.720 God and stuff. It sort of goes right along with 363 00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:06.079 he starts with this idea of like, hey, a lot 364 00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:09.839 of you put so much value in earthly treasures, and 365 00:18:09.880 --> 00:18:12.079 to be honest with you, we do. I mean like 366 00:18:12.359 --> 00:18:16.559 when this iPhone sixteen pro came out, whoa, I guess 367 00:18:16.599 --> 00:18:18.960 what I did. I went and got it. You know 368 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:22.119 why because I could because I didn't need it. I 369 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:24.680 didn't need it all although my phone was the battery 370 00:18:24.759 --> 00:18:26.319 was getting a little fritzy and I needed to. 371 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:29.279 I'm getting there, yeah, yeah, yeah, mine's about to be. 372 00:18:29.559 --> 00:18:31.880 Yeah. So but the point is is that now the 373 00:18:31.960 --> 00:18:35.119 iPhone seventeen's ooh right, so I haven't. 374 00:18:34.880 --> 00:18:36.960 Done that jump there's seventeen. 375 00:18:37.079 --> 00:18:41.519 Yeah, good, there's a piece of garbage obsolete. But the 376 00:18:41.759 --> 00:18:44.799 but the whole point is is that we can value 377 00:18:44.839 --> 00:18:47.599 stuff and even even you know, like I, you know, 378 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:50.400 I've never necessarily said that you get into the ministry 379 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:52.400 to make a ton of money. And so I don't 380 00:18:52.440 --> 00:18:54.880 think I've been a person that's necessarily had a lot 381 00:18:54.920 --> 00:18:57.400 of stuff. But the stuff that I do have, I 382 00:18:57.440 --> 00:18:59.599 recognize I've had it. It's it's better than most of 383 00:18:59.640 --> 00:19:02.279 the world, right. I mean, it's a twenty year old, 384 00:19:02.359 --> 00:19:05.960 crappy lawnmower, but people don't have a lawnmower, right, It's 385 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:08.519 that kind of thing, right, And so but by the way, 386 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:10.400 I gave away that lawnmower, and I do have a 387 00:19:10.400 --> 00:19:14.480 brandow I do because but I did keep it for 388 00:19:14.480 --> 00:19:17.119 twenty years. I did keep it. But the point is 389 00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:19.400 is that like, there are people out there who do 390 00:19:19.519 --> 00:19:21.799 have a lot of wealth and then they then they 391 00:19:21.880 --> 00:19:24.319 end up getting stuff. And I just I'm going to 392 00:19:24.359 --> 00:19:25.839 give you an example of a guy that I know. 393 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:27.519 I'm not going to say his name, and I'm not 394 00:19:27.599 --> 00:19:29.599 joking this time. I'm really not going to say his name, 395 00:19:30.519 --> 00:19:34.200 but he is the poorest rich person that I know. 396 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:37.200 Yeah, and amazing, Yeah, right, I've known people like that. 397 00:19:37.319 --> 00:19:41.319 Yeah, he is super wealthy, makes millions with an S. 398 00:19:42.119 --> 00:19:45.240 And all he can do when we're together is talk 399 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:47.680 about how he is so poor compared to the billionaires 400 00:19:47.680 --> 00:19:50.079 that he hangs out with because he's on a boat 401 00:19:50.079 --> 00:19:52.119