WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.720 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.480 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:17.280 practical ways. Hey today, Oh wow, todayda Hey everybody. 4 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:19.719 I was just gonna say happy Monday because today's Monday. 5 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:22.920 Oh, it's everybody's favorite day except for Garfield. You sound 6 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:25.079 a little too excited about it. 7 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:26.160 It was happy Monday. 8 00:00:26.239 --> 00:00:29.559 Well, I'm trying to manufacture energy, okay, Ring, I'm trying 9 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:34.439 to tell myself that I'm excited because it was It's 10 00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:34.799 nine a. 11 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:39.000 I'm in the studio. It was believable, and today's actually Wednesday. 12 00:00:39.119 --> 00:00:39.640 Wednesday. 13 00:00:39.799 --> 00:00:42.560 But happy Monday to the listener. If you're listening on 14 00:00:42.679 --> 00:00:44.240 those days, they could be archiving this. 15 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:45.640 I bet they are. 16 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:48.399 They could be at the gymnasium. I can't believe I 17 00:00:48.439 --> 00:00:51.520 said gymnasium. They could be at the gym working out jimsium. 18 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:54.439 How old are you, dude? Well, you know. 19 00:00:56.560 --> 00:00:58.000 The red Wagon. 20 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:00.719 So no, they could be at the gym at two 21 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:02.439 in the morning. I just got that in the lobby too. 22 00:01:02.679 --> 00:01:03.000 Okay. 23 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:04.719 God came up to me and says, you know, I'm 24 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:07.079 the guy that works out at two am and every day, 25 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:09.159 And I said, you work at at two am, he said, 26 00:01:09.159 --> 00:01:09.760 listen to the Bible. 27 00:01:09.799 --> 00:01:10.159 Guys. 28 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:12.280 Why so happy technical morning. 29 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:13.959 Okay, well, good morning to you. 30 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:14.640 Yes for sure. 31 00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:17.280 Well, hey, we have a special for our two. 32 00:01:17.159 --> 00:01:21.120 Am listeners because we have a very special segment this 33 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:25.079 morning as we're doing. Yesterday was Easter, and so we're 34 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:29.560 going to do an Easter draft for our favorite things 35 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:30.159 about Easter. 36 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:31.879 Yeah, what do we like the most about Easter? 37 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:34.239 Easter traditions? What do you like the most about Easter? 38 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:35.519 Yeah, the same. 39 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:37.200 All right, we're gonna do rock paper scissors, so you 40 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:41.519 get to go sure, okay, ready rock two three? Oh 41 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:43.599 he had rock, eye had scissors, So you get to 42 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:43.959 go first. 43 00:01:44.040 --> 00:01:44.680 I'm superior. 44 00:01:44.719 --> 00:01:47.760 You always beat me, right you cheat? Did you cheat? 45 00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:51.599 No, no, you don't, Liz, I know your mind's or Liz. 46 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:56.040 So here's scary thought. Here's my favorite favorite thing about Easter. 47 00:01:56.319 --> 00:01:58.239 And it has to be and I'm going to take 48 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:01.719 still your thunder. Uh, the Christmas services at churches? 49 00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:05.359 So right, because I know Christmas services at churches. 50 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:06.239 What did I say? 51 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:09.520 You say, Christmas Easter services at church? Easter services at 52 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:12.039 church are your favorite thing about Eastern No? 53 00:02:12.039 --> 00:02:14.280 No, no, wait a minute, you didn't say it has 54 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:15.919 to be number one is trumps. 55 00:02:15.639 --> 00:02:17.479 Number two, you know, but I mean, I get it. 56 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:19.560 It's so it's traditions, it's all your favorite it's in 57 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:21.400 the things that you like in the top. 58 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:22.879 But you're going to steal my thunder. 59 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:25.719 Because that's what you're going to say. Okay, right, no, 60 00:02:26.319 --> 00:02:28.080 oh right, We'll go ahead and like. 61 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:31.159 So yours is all the gajillions of services. So we 62 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:33.759 did like twenty two services across our campuses. 63 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:37.240 Yeah, I love that. You love love the camaraderie. I 64 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:38.000 love the people. 65 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:40.199 I love the energy, the chaos. 66 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:42.560 I love the chaos. I love all the people, the 67 00:02:42.639 --> 00:02:44.879 artistic moments, all of it. Yep. 68 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:48.360 Yeah, So favorite things about Easter? So that was your 69 00:02:48.360 --> 00:02:50.879 first draft pick, number one draft pick. You used your 70 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:52.919 draft pick on Eastern Service. 71 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:54.360 Hush, are you going to make fun of me because 72 00:02:54.360 --> 00:02:55.159 of my family staff? 73 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:59.520 So nope, My favorite thing about Easter is Jesus the Resurrection. 74 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:01.120 The Resurrection. 75 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:05.639 You left the best player on the board, dude, So 76 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:08.919 the resurrection is kind of a big deal about Easter. 77 00:03:09.159 --> 00:03:12.360 Okay, I didn't know that you were meaning what that. 78 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:15.280 I thought you you experiencing the holidays. 79 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:17.680 You said your favorite thing about Easter. 80 00:03:18.599 --> 00:03:21.479 Why you're doing so much setup you set me at 81 00:03:21.479 --> 00:03:21.960 the fail. 82 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:25.599 I was just hoping, I was hoping you'd choose anything 83 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:28.879 other than that. So I got the Resurrection. Big fan, 84 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:31.520 big fan by the way, big fan of the Resurrection. 85 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:33.800 One of my favorite things. 86 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:37.080 That's a journey Christian love. 87 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:44.120 All Right, I'm gonna go with, Uh, Okay, anything besides. 88 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:45.479 Is out. 89 00:03:45.680 --> 00:03:52.039 I'm gonna say, he's your basket, Resurrection Salvation, Okay, right, 90 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:53.599 So I'm gonna. 91 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:55.560 Go with you know, I just I just drafted Tom Brady. 92 00:03:55.599 --> 00:03:57.080 You know that, right, Okay? Okay. 93 00:03:57.120 --> 00:04:00.199 So here's the thing. Uh, did you just compare Tom 94 00:04:00.199 --> 00:04:02.080 Brady the Resurrection, well the goat? 95 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:07.280 Okay, I would say this. I would say I enjoy 96 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:10.000 very much. So the tradition that I have with my 97 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:12.280 family that most people who know me know this. 98 00:04:12.479 --> 00:04:14.520 Yes, we hide Easter baskets. 99 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:17.199 And my kids are in their twenties, and I even 100 00:04:17.240 --> 00:04:20.439 have one that's in her thirties. And she said, she said, 101 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:22.720 I will never get too old for Easter baskets. I said, oh, 102 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:26.120 trust me, there will be a day where I mean, 103 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:27.759 I'm not going to be eighty and you're going to 104 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:31.079 be fifty coming home for you know, Easter, and then say, Dad, 105 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:33.040 hide my Easter basket. I said, that's just not going 106 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:37.600 to happen, right, But currently I can't believe I'm still 107 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:37.920 doing it. 108 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:40.879 But here I do. Here, I find myself hiding Easter 109 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:41.839 baskets every year. 110 00:04:42.040 --> 00:04:44.160 It's a big deal. I mean, like very big deal. 111 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:47.040 You have epic videos the whole night. Yeah. 112 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:50.639 I figured you'd say that. So after my first draft pick, 113 00:04:50.759 --> 00:04:53.920 I'm going to take a flyer. No, no, no, no, 114 00:04:53.959 --> 00:04:59.560 I'm going to take a flyer and say, Reese's peanut 115 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:00.199 butter eggs. 116 00:05:01.079 --> 00:05:03.199 Wow, resurrection. 117 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:05.560 I don't want you to steal those from me. I 118 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:06.759 don't want you to steal those from me. 119 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:10.000 Yeah, so I don't want you to steal those because 120 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:11.759 I was afraid you would punish me. 121 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:14.920 That's what I was afraid you would. I should, I should, 122 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:16.240 So I needed to grab that one. 123 00:05:16.879 --> 00:05:17.079 Thank you. 124 00:05:18.360 --> 00:05:19.319 Okay, this is the. 125 00:05:19.319 --> 00:05:22.399 Third thing that I'm going to choose, as I'm going 126 00:05:22.439 --> 00:05:26.560 to say that, my family does another big, crazy thing 127 00:05:26.600 --> 00:05:28.439 and it's and it's it's massive. 128 00:05:28.839 --> 00:05:31.120 It's just as big as the Easter baskets. And that 129 00:05:31.279 --> 00:05:32.399 is we do an egg fight. 130 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:35.399 And so we do egg fights just like the Greeks 131 00:05:35.439 --> 00:05:36.120 or the Italians. 132 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:37.639 Uh, it's it's tradition. 133 00:05:37.720 --> 00:05:39.879 If you ever seen My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Yes, 134 00:05:39.959 --> 00:05:41.959 the movie, I remember they walked by and they did 135 00:05:41.959 --> 00:05:43.240 it and they cracked the eggs. 136 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:44.560 Well, we have brackets. 137 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:47.040 I'm glad you explained it because most people were envisioning 138 00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:48.480 like flinging eggs. 139 00:05:48.279 --> 00:05:48.839 At each other. 140 00:05:48.879 --> 00:05:51.920 That's correct, Thank you, thank you, you're welcome. So we do. 141 00:05:51.959 --> 00:05:52.759 We do egg fights. 142 00:05:52.759 --> 00:05:56.639 And so like my Youngstown family growing up Youngstown, Ohio, 143 00:05:57.399 --> 00:05:59.519 what they would do is they would literally, like you 144 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:01.560 would have a fights in your own home and then 145 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:04.120 you would meet together. And so like my uncle would 146 00:06:04.120 --> 00:06:07.160 have egg fights with his family, and then the winner 147 00:06:07.240 --> 00:06:10.680 of that egg he would bring to the final round 148 00:06:10.839 --> 00:06:12.839 right right, and then he would bring it all over. 149 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:15.079 And then we would just do winners against winners, and 150 00:06:15.079 --> 00:06:17.959 everybody has to submit names for their eggs and everything. 151 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:19.040 I mean, it's pretty crazy. 152 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:21.519 Okay, So can you give us the ground rules very 153 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:22.959 quickly on how to do an egg fight? 154 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:26.240 Yeah, see hardbowed egg and then one person holds it 155 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:28.160 and the other person depends on you know, who's on 156 00:06:28.199 --> 00:06:31.240 the bracket on the draft. But one person holds it 157 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:33.199 and one person strikes pointy gets pointy. 158 00:06:33.439 --> 00:06:36.160 Only one's going to crack. Always two don't crack. 159 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:37.040 That's just one. 160 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:39.160 Then you flip it and you do the other side. 161 00:06:39.240 --> 00:06:41.519 And if it's one in one, then the third one wins. 162 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:44.399 And sometimes if you have one end cracked and one 163 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:47.959 and not, I've seen a limp egg make it all 164 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:50.959 the way to the end, like one end is cracked. 165 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:52.600 One is not, and he wins. 166 00:06:52.920 --> 00:06:55.759 How is there a limit to how hard you can hit? 167 00:06:57.120 --> 00:06:58.839 Just hard enough to crack the shell? 168 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:02.079 Okay, tap, not a smash. 169 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:04.399 I'm sure if you smash smashed, both of them probably 170 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:05.600 would bring and then they're both out. 171 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:07.399 Yeah that would be okay. 172 00:07:07.439 --> 00:07:09.879 Okay, So you're trying to crack the other one. 173 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:11.720 You're hitting just hard enough to crack the other one, 174 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:14.800 but not crack yours correct? Okay, good, it is riveting. 175 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:17.759 This is riveting material, by the way. Okay, so was 176 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:19.600 that your number three? We got to get hurrying. 177 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:19.800 Then. 178 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:24.079 I love gathering the family around after a great Easter 179 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:25.759 church services. 180 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:27.639 And having a big Easter dinner. Yeah. 181 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:30.399 I love it and I love it, and I would say, uh, 182 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:32.839 another tradition for us. 183 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:37.839 Is I would say I love. Well, ge whiz, I'm 184 00:07:37.839 --> 00:07:41.439 gonna go with our Easter dinner too, okay, yep, okay, 185 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:42.879 so yours versus mine? 186 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:47.560 Yes, okay, better I doubt it. And then actually. 187 00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:53.279 Then I would say around the Easter time, I love 188 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:56.000 the My wife is usually starting to fill every everything 189 00:07:56.040 --> 00:07:59.519 with flowers. So yeah, the daffodils and all the stuff 190 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:01.160 coming up in Michigane, she loves that. 191 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:02.360 So we're done. 192 00:08:02.519 --> 00:08:04.800 Okay. Was that it was that in our five? Okay? 193 00:08:04.839 --> 00:08:08.560 Well it was four at least, so at least four. Good. Well, Hey, 194 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:09.360 we have. 195 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:14.800 Been going through chronologically through the Old Testament, and we 196 00:08:14.959 --> 00:08:18.759 kind of have been a in a Isaiah chunk. But 197 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:21.560 then you did a bunch of proverbs and psalms, you. 198 00:08:21.720 --> 00:08:26.600 Right, speaking of chunks of chunklate, there are also chunks 199 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:27.120 of scripture. 200 00:08:27.240 --> 00:08:32.720 Yeah, okay, good, good, because I was having trouble with 201 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:35.759 a with a bad thing. So for this chunk of 202 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:38.639 scripture that we're going to talk about is Psalm ninety 203 00:08:38.679 --> 00:08:39.240 one today? 204 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:40.200 Chunks of scripture? 205 00:08:40.279 --> 00:08:42.200 Well it is, yeah, it's okay. 206 00:08:42.279 --> 00:08:44.360 Well, so when God wrote it, had it written, He 207 00:08:44.399 --> 00:08:47.600 didn't have it written in verses and chapters, correct, right, 208 00:08:47.639 --> 00:08:49.799 which people actually so then people chunked it up. 209 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:52.759 Okay, leader or not. 210 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:56.720 Most people don't know about the verses in chapters right right, Yeah, 211 00:08:56.720 --> 00:08:58.639 they don't really know that they came in the form 212 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:02.080 of you know, mostly let and the long manuscripts. 213 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:06.600 So we are in Psalm ninety one today, and the 214 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:09.960 Bible doesn't necessarily say who the author was. No, so 215 00:09:10.200 --> 00:09:13.720 it says anonymous actually a ninety mouse, So here you go. 216 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:15.799 It says those who live in the shelter are the 217 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:18.919 most high, will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty. 218 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:22.279 This I declare about the Lord. He alone is my refuge, 219 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:24.639 my place of safety. He is my God, and I 220 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:27.799 trust him, for he will rescue you from every trap 221 00:09:27.840 --> 00:09:31.080 and protect you from deadly disease. He will cover you 222 00:09:31.159 --> 00:09:33.759 with his feathers, he will shelter you with his wings. 223 00:09:34.120 --> 00:09:37.240 His faithful promises are your armor and protection. Do not 224 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:39.159 be afraid of the terrors of the night, for the 225 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:42.000 arrow that flies, nor the arrow that flies in the day. 226 00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:45.600 Do not dread the disease that stalks in darkness, nor 227 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:48.799 the disaster that strikes at midday. Though a thousand fall 228 00:09:48.840 --> 00:09:51.000 at your side, though ten thousand are dying around you, 229 00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:54.000 These evils will not touch you. Just open your eyes 230 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:56.399 and see how the wicked are punished. If you make 231 00:09:56.440 --> 00:09:58.440 the Lord your refuge, If you make the most High 232 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:01.519 your shelter, no evil will conquer you, No plague will 233 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:04.639 come near your home, for he will order his angels. 234 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:05.480 To protect you. Wherever you go. 235 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:07.840 They will hold you up with their hands, so you 236 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:10.600 won't even hurt your foot on a stone. You will 237 00:10:10.639 --> 00:10:13.039 trample upon lions and cobras, and you will crush fierce 238 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:15.720 lions and serpents under your feet. The Lord says, I 239 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:17.879 will rescue those who love me. I will protect those 240 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:20.120 who trust in my name. When they call on me, 241 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:22.600 I will answer. I will be with them in trouble. 242 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:25.320 I will rescue and honor them. I will reward them 243 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:29.039 with a long life and give them my salvation. I 244 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:30.720 love that those who live in the shelter are the 245 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:33.279 most high will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty. 246 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:34.240 Yeah. I love that. 247 00:10:34.360 --> 00:10:37.159 Yeah, it's one of the most poetic verses in the Bible. 248 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:38.159 Yeah, I agree. 249 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:42.519 So we love the Life Application study Bible and the 250 00:10:42.600 --> 00:10:46.480 first note here underneath that says God is a shelter. 251 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:47.840 A refuge when we are afraid. 252 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:51.440 The writer's faith in God as protector would carry him 253 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:52.039 through all. 254 00:10:51.879 --> 00:10:53.960 The dangers and fears of life. This should be a. 255 00:10:53.879 --> 00:10:57.440 Picture of our trust, trading all of our fears for 256 00:10:57.600 --> 00:11:01.320 faith in Him, no matter how intense our fears. Then 257 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:04.039 we must live and rest with Him. 258 00:11:04.639 --> 00:11:07.559 By entrusting ourselves to his protection and pledging our daily 259 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:09.840 devotion to him, we will all be kept safe. 260 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:13.600 You know, when it says refuge, uh, in the Old Testament, 261 00:11:14.039 --> 00:11:18.039 there were actually cities of refuge, right, And I'm not 262 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:21.519 sure anybody really grasps the fact that you know that 263 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:24.759 word refuge is you know, there were places where you 264 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:26.960 could run and claim refuge. 265 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:29.039 So if you were being hunted. 266 00:11:28.759 --> 00:11:33.799 Or if you were being you know, unlawfully chased, you 267 00:11:33.799 --> 00:11:35.240 could actually go. 268 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:37.840 To and and it's very similar to sanctuary. 269 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:38.840 Right, yeah, it's exact same. 270 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:42.519 Yeah, So so you could actually and and uh, you 271 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:45.399 know what, I went to Cuba one time. Well, you 272 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:47.840 were in Cuba too. You probably saw the doors. Did 273 00:11:47.840 --> 00:11:49.080 you see how thick the doors were? 274 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:50.240 They give you that speech. 275 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:51.240 So there's this. 276 00:11:51.279 --> 00:11:55.799 Really big cathedral in Cuba, and and and as they 277 00:11:55.799 --> 00:11:59.320 were giving us this tour, uh, they had opened these doors. 278 00:11:59.320 --> 00:12:01.120 And this is from the same sixteen hundreds, and so 279 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:01.720 this seventeen. 280 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:05.320 Yeah, because that one tower was built in seventeen seventy six. 281 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:06.080 That's why I remember that. 282 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:09.039 Oh there you go, that's funny, seventeen seventy six. 283 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:12.559 Anyway, they opened the doors, and this door was I 284 00:12:12.600 --> 00:12:16.240 mean probably three inches thick, and it was it was 285 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:20.039 solid wood. And to move the door even it wasn't 286 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:22.799 he look like an incredible amount of strength. And you 287 00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:27.279 could see how somebody would run into a church and 288 00:12:27.320 --> 00:12:30.759 claim sanctuary and they would shut these doors and both 289 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:35.240 them and it would quite frankly keep out like I 290 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:38.720 wouldn't say an army, but raging hordes. I would definitely say, 291 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:41.720 I would say, you know, definite you know, groups of 292 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:45.279 bandits and thieves and mobs, mobs and things like that. Right, 293 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:48.320 and so, but in the Old Testament, they actually had 294 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:52.320 cities that were like this, And so didn't David run 295 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:53.480 to Gath. 296 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:56.480 Yeah, that wasn't a sanctuary city. That was a philistine city. 297 00:12:56.600 --> 00:12:57.639 There was a philistine city. 298 00:12:57.440 --> 00:12:58.600 But he found sanctuary there. 299 00:12:58.720 --> 00:12:59.039 Okay. 300 00:12:59.159 --> 00:13:02.120 So the premise behind the Old Testament sanctuary cities was 301 00:13:03.159 --> 00:13:07.279 God set those up as places to be able to 302 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:10.120 get a fair trial. So if you were riding your 303 00:13:10.159 --> 00:13:12.960 camel and you accidently ran over some guy and he dies. 304 00:13:14.279 --> 00:13:18.279 There wasn't like the sheriff in town. So the families 305 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:22.360 would choose a blood avenger, somebody to hunt down the 306 00:13:22.360 --> 00:13:26.679 guy who killed the family. And you know, it couldn't 307 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:28.240 be the whole family. It just had to be the 308 00:13:28.279 --> 00:13:31.519 one blood avenger, and he would be then like deputized 309 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:33.480 to be the sheriff, but he'd also be the judge 310 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:35.919 and the executioner, so he'd try to he'd hunt you down, 311 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:40.559 he'd find you and execute you. So they so they 312 00:13:40.600 --> 00:13:43.320 set up these cities of refuge in the north and 313 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:45.480 the south, the east and the west of Israel, and 314 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:49.080 if you felt like it was an accident, you could 315 00:13:49.159 --> 00:13:52.159 run to that city claim refuge. They would protect you 316 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:54.639 until they could do a legal trial. So that was 317 00:13:54.679 --> 00:13:57.159 the original idea behind the cities of refuge. 318 00:13:57.159 --> 00:13:57.759 It's in the law. 319 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:00.759 I'm not sure if we talked about that when we 320 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:02.440 when we were in that part of the Bible. But 321 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:06.360 then in this one, refuge in general is just a 322 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:09.480 safe place, right. It's a it's a castle if you're thinking, 323 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:12.399 or it's a it's a high spot. When the flood 324 00:14:12.440 --> 00:14:15.600 is is, you know, pouring in It's it's all those things. 325 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:18.120 It's that the safest place you can possibly be. And 326 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:19.879 that's what it's trying to explain, is that God is 327 00:14:19.919 --> 00:14:22.799 our safest place in the middle of the storm or 328 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:23.320 the problems. 329 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:26.000 Can you imagine being slow enough to where you couldn't 330 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:27.080 get out of the way of a camel? 331 00:14:27.440 --> 00:14:28.519 Yeah? 332 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:32.240 Or if you're the writer, oh no, I'm. 333 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:35.759 A lot of There were a lot of camel accidents 334 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:37.399 back then. If you just read the old newspapers, it 335 00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:43.879 was pretty pretty horrific. So yeah, exactly. So I love 336 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:47.840 the imagery of those first four verses right, that He 337 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:51.279 alone is my refuge, my place of safety. He's my God. 338 00:14:51.720 --> 00:14:55.200 I trust him. He will rescue you from every trap, 339 00:14:55.279 --> 00:14:58.279 protect you from deadly disease. He'll cover you with his feathers, 340 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:01.679 He'll shelter you with his wings. His paint faithful promises 341 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:04.240 are your armor and protection. Have you ever seen a 342 00:15:04.279 --> 00:15:06.600 hen that will drop down and pull all of her 343 00:15:06.600 --> 00:15:09.399 baby chicks underneath? And if you've ever come in and 344 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:12.919 startled a hen with a bunch of chicks, the chicks 345 00:15:12.919 --> 00:15:15.120 will immediately turn and run from you, and the hen 346 00:15:15.159 --> 00:15:18.279 will run towards her chicks, throw out her feathers, the 347 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:18.919 chicks will run. 348 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:20.639 Underneath, and she'll use her body to protect her. 349 00:15:21.320 --> 00:15:24.360 Shall we share with our listeners the goose that's outside. 350 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:26.799 Yeah, you've got just outside. Well, that's how we keep 351 00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:28.720 the riff raff out of the studio. So we've got 352 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:29.519 a couple of geese. 353 00:15:29.639 --> 00:15:33.559 Yeah, and one is nesting and the other is protecting. 354 00:15:33.960 --> 00:15:35.879 And so literally, if you walk too closed. And I 355 00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:39.240 was walking in with my buddy Jeff Miller and who's 356 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:41.120 here of this today, And so as we were walking 357 00:15:41.120 --> 00:15:43.879 in together, I said, don't don't even go near that 358 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:45.720 side of the parking lot. He goes why, and I go, oh, 359 00:15:45.799 --> 00:15:46.279 it'll get you. 360 00:15:47.440 --> 00:15:50.120 I've been gotten yeah, yeah, yeah, you got got several 361 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:50.879 times last year. 362 00:15:51.000 --> 00:15:54.279 Yes, yes, and so, and that goose keeps on coming back. 363 00:15:54.600 --> 00:15:57.039 And it's in the landscaping of the building. And for 364 00:15:57.080 --> 00:15:57.720 some reason they. 365 00:15:57.639 --> 00:15:59.879 Think make a big nest in the mulch. 366 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:02.480 Yeah, that's that's where they wanted. That's what they wanted. 367 00:16:02.519 --> 00:16:04.159 That's because they found a bunch of cowards they can 368 00:16:04.159 --> 00:16:06.639 bully us, so they just keep coming back, I guess. 369 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:11.320 But so there's this this imagery that the farmers, the 370 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:14.960 agricultural type people. You know, most people get their chicken 371 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:18.120 in a bag handed out the window now in our 372 00:16:18.200 --> 00:16:23.440 in our culture, right, But back then chicken was was 373 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:28.639 you know, you kept chickens and then you'd have your eggs, certainly, 374 00:16:28.679 --> 00:16:30.919 and then eventually you'd make you so because of that, 375 00:16:31.320 --> 00:16:34.279 they would have chickens everywhere. This is one of those 376 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:37.679 images that everybody would have known. Everybody would have understood 377 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:42.000 this one, right, that she'll she'll die protecting her chicks. 378 00:16:42.320 --> 00:16:42.600 Right. 379 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:46.039 She provides the shelter and the protection for those chicks 380 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:49.559 is under her wings, under her care. And that's what 381 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:52.639 it's talking about here, is that's how God views his people. 382 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:54.039 So those first four. 383 00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:56.399 And by the way, I love how God connects his 384 00:16:56.559 --> 00:17:00.679 nature to motherhood, right because you know, he created both 385 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:05.039 Adam and Eve both in his image. And so you know, 386 00:17:05.079 --> 00:17:08.000 we all you know, twenty twenty five nobody wants to 387 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:12.160 well not nobody, but culture is trying to make men 388 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:15.240 and women less different than they are, right, and so 389 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:17.880 we have to understand, like, you know, God created men 390 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:20.920 completely different than women. So if you look at all 391 00:17:20.920 --> 00:17:24.039 the differences, it's pretty striking, right, right. But you know, 392 00:17:24.119 --> 00:17:27.759 somehow culture wants to. 393 00:17:26.680 --> 00:17:30.519 Say, you know, and by the way, equality is different. 394 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:33.359 We believe that you know equal rights versus you know, 395 00:17:34.160 --> 00:17:34.839 different roles. 396 00:17:34.920 --> 00:17:38.720 Right. So anyway, the point is is that the motherhood role, 397 00:17:39.279 --> 00:17:44.119 which is usually you know, fulfilled by the motherly instinct, 398 00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:47.400 that that is also a god instinct. Right, That's a 399 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:50.640 God that's part of God's nature, which is pretty cool, 400 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:51.440 I think. 401 00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:52.079