WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:16.079 practical ways. Everybody the Bible Guys man, we appreciate you. 4 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:17.440 That was pretty enthusiastic. 5 00:00:17.559 --> 00:00:20.519 Oh yeah, well you know what, Jeff, I'm a bold 6 00:00:20.519 --> 00:00:21.280 of enthusiasm. 7 00:00:21.399 --> 00:00:23.000 You're nothing if you're not enthusiastics. 8 00:00:23.079 --> 00:00:25.920 I am. Yeah, and you know what, pure enthusiasm is 9 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:29.079 gonna get me through this episode. Not Bible knowledge, but 10 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:30.079 pure enthusiasms. 11 00:00:30.079 --> 00:00:31.960 We've already established that for both of us. 12 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:35.439 That's right. That's right. Hey, well listen we uh before 13 00:00:35.439 --> 00:00:37.159 we dive into the Book of Hebrews. 14 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:38.240 Yes, we are. 15 00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:41.719 We are going to do what Desiree calls a hot 16 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:46.840 takes showdown. Now, this is a very quick segment, and 17 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:49.399 this is what she says. She says, stand your ground 18 00:00:49.479 --> 00:00:50.799 while debating these topics. 19 00:00:50.920 --> 00:00:53.399 No middle Oh, but I'll be honest. 20 00:00:53.479 --> 00:00:57.880 She picked she picked two very very bold statements like 21 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:02.759 it's one thing to say so kind of, but she said, definitively. 22 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:04.359 Yeah, so I hadn't even read these. 23 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:06.640 Well, I just read them a second ago. 24 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:08.840 Yeah, and you're right, I don't know if I. 25 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:12.359 Could definitively stand on my grounds on both of these, 26 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:15.519 although I do want to build a case for them. 27 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:17.879 Okay, go ahead, all right, you want me to take So 28 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:20.959 the first one is Taco Bell is the best fast 29 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:22.120 food restaurant out there. 30 00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:25.480 Ok. Well, it depends on what she means by the 31 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:29.120 word best. I'm a very literal person, so best means 32 00:01:29.239 --> 00:01:31.920 it has to be number one, superior, which means on 33 00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:34.920 all different levels. So if I were to be literal, 34 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:35.480 I would. 35 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:39.799 Who's best, Your best or everybody else's best? No, my 36 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:41.599 favorite has to be your fath Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. 37 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:45.840 So here's the thing. I think Chick fil a is 38 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:51.079 a much better fast food restaurant. However, I go to 39 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:54.280 Taco Bell ten times more than I do Chick fil 40 00:01:54.280 --> 00:01:56.239 Ay because I love it that much. 41 00:01:56.280 --> 00:01:57.239 You love Taco Bell. 42 00:01:57.319 --> 00:01:59.599 Yeah, but see, I already have this love hate relationship 43 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:02.680 with Taco Bell, which I know my body is not 44 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:05.319 going to thank me the next day, right, I feel 45 00:02:05.319 --> 00:02:07.519 sluggish afterwards. I'll get up in the middle of the night, 46 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:10.800 you know, worship the porcelain God. 47 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:14.520 But you love it. I love it, you love it. 48 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:16.840 But then I then I'm also angry about it because 49 00:02:17.159 --> 00:02:20.960 they'll bring items and then they'll take them away. They'll 50 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:22.400 just they'll bring them and I'm like, this is the 51 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:24.639 best I am. They're like just kidding and they'll take 52 00:02:24.639 --> 00:02:26.680 them away. And I don't understand that philosophy. 53 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:29.680 I just I I it feels to me like even 54 00:02:29.719 --> 00:02:31.879 though she said no middle ground, it feels like you 55 00:02:31.960 --> 00:02:34.000 are just conquering the middle ground here. 56 00:02:34.159 --> 00:02:37.360 I am, which which again because she used the word best. 57 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:39.719 But I think I think the proof is in it. 58 00:02:39.759 --> 00:02:42.280 Don't tell me what you think is best, show me 59 00:02:42.319 --> 00:02:44.840 what's best. And in your life, you're showing me that 60 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:46.000 Taco Bell is what's best. 61 00:02:46.199 --> 00:02:47.560 That's that's my conundrum. 62 00:02:47.639 --> 00:02:50.199 Yes, yeah, yeah, the Book of James. It's a biblical principle. Yeah, 63 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:51.319 don't just talk about faith. 64 00:02:51.759 --> 00:02:57.159 Faith, Jeff w I right there, I sit at your feet. 65 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:01.439 Well, I'm I'm just trying to enforce the rules. She 66 00:03:01.479 --> 00:03:03.319 said no middle ground, and you just spent the whole 67 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:04.199 time in the middle ground. 68 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:05.680 I did, Okay, But I think your. 69 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:08.879 Lifestyle proves Okay, Taco Bell is your favorite. 70 00:03:09.919 --> 00:03:12.479 Okay, then yes, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go full 71 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:14.840 all in. Taco Bell is the best one out there. 72 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:15.240 Yeah. 73 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:17.319 I crave it the most. I have it the most. 74 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:20.319 It's my greatest weakness of all the fast food restaurants. 75 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:23.120 And I think when I hit and when they bring 76 00:03:23.159 --> 00:03:25.400 back an item that I love, I love it. 77 00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:27.759 You love it? So what what what item have they 78 00:03:27.759 --> 00:03:28.960 recently brought back that you love? 79 00:03:29.599 --> 00:03:32.280 They brought back the Mexican pizza for the umpteenth time. 80 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:35.280 They took away the inchurito. They brought it back. Now 81 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:37.960 they took it away again. Haha, it's gone forever. You're 82 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:42.479 so funny. The chili cheese burrita, the Gordidas are gone, right, 83 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:44.439 I mean all these different things. 84 00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:47.120 You're convincing me. There is no middle ground for you. 85 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:49.319 This is I can't go through the Taco Bell menu. 86 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:52.000 What you don't know these things? 87 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:54.680 Well I know them. When you say them, I wouldn't 88 00:03:54.680 --> 00:03:55.000 think of it. 89 00:03:55.039 --> 00:03:57.039 I still remember the Bell Beefer when I was a kid. 90 00:03:57.360 --> 00:03:58.039 Bell Beefer. 91 00:03:58.400 --> 00:03:59.680 Yeah, it was actually a hamburger. 92 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:04.120 Yeah, I remember, I remember let cheese. It was essentially 93 00:04:04.199 --> 00:04:06.120 a Mexican sloppy Joe what it was. 94 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:09.000 And I'm telling you we love the Bell Beefers, and 95 00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:12.439 they're just like just kidding. No more Bell Beefers, no 96 00:04:12.520 --> 00:04:13.280 more happiness. 97 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:16.079 Okay, Well I'm going to stand my ground and say 98 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:19.759 this is a ridiculous statement. It's not true. I think 99 00:04:19.800 --> 00:04:25.199 that the best fast food restaurant in America is Boy. 100 00:04:25.399 --> 00:04:29.319 Now I'm about to waffle on this one. I'm gonna 101 00:04:29.319 --> 00:04:29.959 say Shakeshack. 102 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:36.199 Whoa you mean shake shack Okay, at first I thought 103 00:04:36.199 --> 00:04:37.199 you were gonna say steak. 104 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:41.639 And shake shake shack y. Yeah, those are those are 105 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:46.600 the best fast food. Smash burgers. I like the crinkly fries, 106 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:48.959 and then I like all their varieties. 107 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:53.199 And I literally don't know another human that would say 108 00:04:53.800 --> 00:04:55.240 that is the best fast You know. 109 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:58.680 The guy who founded Shakeshack was a very high end 110 00:04:58.720 --> 00:05:00.720 He ran one of the top restaurants in the world 111 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:05.360 when he founded Shakeshak. Really that's a fact. Yeah, wow, Yeah, 112 00:05:05.879 --> 00:05:07.000 it's a legit chef. 113 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:10.680 And by the way, I've never once heard a single 114 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:12.920 person say, hey, let's go get some eat real quick. 115 00:05:12.959 --> 00:05:13.759 Let's go to Shakeshak. 116 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:17.120 Yeah, because it costs you three arms and two legs. 117 00:05:17.319 --> 00:05:20.439 Oh it's expensive, but you drop in there and if 118 00:05:20.439 --> 00:05:25.399 you order a single burger, a fry, and a drink, 119 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:28.600 it's gonna cast you twenty bucks. Yeah, that's why. By 120 00:05:28.600 --> 00:05:30.439 the way, as opposed to a tackle bell. You could 121 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:32.319 have ordered half the menu twice. 122 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:34.759 Right, exactly, which, by the way, just because this was 123 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:36.879 a little bit quicker of a segment, even though we 124 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:38.959 didn't get to the second question yet. Do you know 125 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:40.800 where the phrase that will cast your arm and a 126 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:44.879 leg came from? No, back when they used to do 127 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:48.519 massive self portraits of important people, right, yeah. Yeah. They 128 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:52.399 would always paint from the chest up, and you often 129 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:55.399 sometimes see like full portraits all the way down where 130 00:05:55.399 --> 00:05:57.639 it's like a full body and they would charge you 131 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:01.040 by an arm down to your waist, full legs and 132 00:06:01.439 --> 00:06:03.399 it's going to cast your armored leg is because the 133 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:05.720 cost was dependent on how big the suff portrait was. 134 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:07.519 Yeah, I knew that as soon as you start talking 135 00:06:07.519 --> 00:06:11.160 about it. I remember reading that before. That's great, man, Yeah, okay, okay, 136 00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:14.279 now's the second one. Pizza is way better cold. 137 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:18.600 I'm gonna have to say, no, way, yeah, it is good. 138 00:06:18.759 --> 00:06:20.439 There is no debate on this one. 139 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:21.279 No, there's no debate. 140 00:06:21.319 --> 00:06:24.399 Yeah, sorry, now, way, she even used way better. 141 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:26.839 That's what I'm saying. What a strong statement. Way better. 142 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:29.759 It's not just better, Jack, I know it is way better. 143 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:31.439 I'm almost embarrassed by the question. 144 00:06:32.079 --> 00:06:33.680 If she would have said way better hot, we'd have 145 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:36.720 been like absolutely absolutely, Yeah, tell me why it's not 146 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:38.279 better cold. 147 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:44.079 Because it's better hot. The melty cheese, a little bit 148 00:06:44.120 --> 00:06:47.199 of grease, pulling in the in the in the the 149 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:51.600 the pepperonis, yeah yeah, yea. The soft sausage. 150 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:53.399 Oh man, you're getting hung good. 151 00:06:53.560 --> 00:06:54.319 Yeah yeah wow. 152 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:56.720 Yeah. So that was a quick one for sure. 153 00:06:56.800 --> 00:06:59.360 The garliky flavor stands out a little bit more. 154 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:01.399 Yeah, there's no middle ground on this one either. I 155 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:04.240 like cold pizza. I just don't know. I don't I 156 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:07.120 don't think I know anybody. I'm not sure I've asked 157 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:09.839 this question. Really, Hey, you like a better cold? I 158 00:07:09.879 --> 00:07:12.720 do know that almost everybody I know likes cold pizza. Yeah. 159 00:07:12.759 --> 00:07:14.680 I like cold pizza. I'll eat it, it's just not better. 160 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:19.199 I just got a pizza stone from my from my grill. 161 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:21.639 Did you build yourself in a wood fire oven? 162 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:25.319 No, it goes inside of my smoker. Oh it's so good. 163 00:07:25.560 --> 00:07:29.079 The wait the stone. Yeah, you're gonna make pizza in 164 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:30.680 your grill? Oh, in your smoker? 165 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:32.759 Yeah yeah yeah yeah, because my smoker will go up 166 00:07:32.759 --> 00:07:33.560 to six hundred degrees. 167 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:34.240 Wow. 168 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:37.480 And so it's a it's a wood pellette smoker like 169 00:07:37.480 --> 00:07:41.240 six degrees and the stone goes in there. We make 170 00:07:41.279 --> 00:07:43.040 our dough, we put it in there and make the 171 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:44.920 whole pizza thing. Put it in there. It's like crispy 172 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:49.519 on the bottom. It tastes like and smells like wood 173 00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:52.160 fired pizza, because that's what it is. It's inside the smoker. 174 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:54.959 Wow, and it's amazing and your your family loves it. 175 00:07:55.160 --> 00:07:55.560 I love it. 176 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:58.000 Yeah, yeah, well you just said I love it. 177 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:00.000 I love it. I like it because it makes a mess. 178 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:02.519 I destroyed the whole kitchen. So my wife's like, are 179 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:06.800 we making pizza again? Because that's when I cook. I 180 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:11.160 get like every pan, every measuring cup. I destroy the 181 00:08:11.240 --> 00:08:12.720 kitchen and then it takes us an hour to clean 182 00:08:12.759 --> 00:08:15.240 it up. But I like it. Anyways, there you go. 183 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:18.279 So we held our ground on one and then we 184 00:08:18.519 --> 00:08:20.199 both took the same position on the other. So it 185 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:23.000 wasn't a debate. You we didn't hold our ground. We're 186 00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:27.040 debating with her. That's it. You're wrong, We're right. You know. 187 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:29.839 You know what standing your ground really means. It means 188 00:08:29.839 --> 00:08:35.320 attaching your name and your opinion to to to what 189 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:35.679 you say. 190 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:36.639 Right, Yes, that's credit. 191 00:08:36.879 --> 00:08:38.519 So it's attaching your name to it. And you know 192 00:08:38.600 --> 00:08:40.600 what doesn't have any name attached to it? 193 00:08:40.679 --> 00:08:46.480 What the Book of Hebrews. Yeah, you're right, that's true. 194 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:47.840 We don't know who the author is. 195 00:08:47.919 --> 00:08:50.840 That's correct. Which, by the way, if you are a 196 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:52.840 person who wants to get to know more about the Bible, 197 00:08:53.480 --> 00:08:55.519 you know you can you can sort of take some 198 00:08:55.600 --> 00:08:57.919 books of the Bible. You can categorize them, like you know, 199 00:08:57.960 --> 00:09:00.720 there's like we said just yesterday, there's my major prophets, 200 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:03.480 minor prophets. We talked about Jeremiah. In the New Testament, 201 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:06.240 there's the Gospels, and then there's the Birth of the Church, 202 00:09:06.279 --> 00:09:08.799 and then there's the Prison epistles. You know, Paul wrote 203 00:09:08.799 --> 00:09:10.080 those when he was in the prison and all those 204 00:09:10.120 --> 00:09:14.080 kind of things. And then there's Hebrews. And Hebrews, I 205 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:16.919 would say, sort of stands on its own in the 206 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:18.559 New Testament, right that one. 207 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:20.200 In Jude I would say, right, well, I would say, 208 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:24.440 Hebrews balances off Romans. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So in Romans, 209 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:29.200 Paul's explaining the Gospel to gentiles, and he's kind of tough, 210 00:09:29.320 --> 00:09:32.519 buttoning up all the loose ends so they understand. In Hebrews, 211 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:35.679 the author of Hebrews is kind of doing the same thing, except. 212 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:37.440 To Jews and committed Jews. 213 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:40.799 Yes, like Jews that would really know their own theology. 214 00:09:40.879 --> 00:09:43.960 Yeah, because Hebrews. It's one of the reasons why a 215 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:46.480 lot of people, I'm not sure if it's the majority 216 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:49.320 of people, but I know that there's definitely a lot 217 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:51.240 of people that would say Paul wrote Hebrews. 218 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:53.240 Yeah, do you think Paul wrote Hebrews. 219 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:57.120 I honestly, I'm just I'm exactly where you are. There's 220 00:09:57.320 --> 00:09:58.919 parts of the of Hebrews where I read it and 221 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:01.320 I'm like, that sounds like Paul. And then there's parts 222 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:02.759 of it I read it and I'm like, that doesn't 223 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:03.320 sound like Paul. 224 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:08.279 All in the King James version which we grew up reading, right, Paul, 225 00:10:08.600 --> 00:10:12.799 when he writes, sometimes a whole chapter will be one great, big, 226 00:10:12.840 --> 00:10:15.720 long run on sentence, And in the Book of Hebrews, 227 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:19.440 sometimes that happens, where it's eight, nine, ten, twelve verses, 228 00:10:19.480 --> 00:10:21.320 all just one great big run on sentence. I'm like, yeah, 229 00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:23.200 this has got to be Paul, right. And then there's 230 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:25.320 other times I read it and it doesn't sound anything 231 00:10:25.399 --> 00:10:28.159 like how Paul writes. In Romans, for instance, Yeah, but 232 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:30.120 Paul also is the one who said I've become all 233 00:10:30.159 --> 00:10:33.039 things to all men, so that by all possible means 234 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:36.480 I might save some. I think he also was very much, 235 00:10:36.720 --> 00:10:38.320 very adaptive to the different thing. 236 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:41.159 He could have written this in pharisee mode, yeah right, 237 00:10:41.639 --> 00:10:43.679 So maybe it was the style of the Pharisees. That's 238 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:45.799 the way he used to write his dissertations or whatever 239 00:10:45.840 --> 00:10:51.120 it is. And actually, another thing to say about this 240 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:54.000 is that it would make sense that Paul wrote it 241 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:59.519 because a pharisee would understand everything that Paul unpacks about 242 00:10:59.519 --> 00:11:02.519 the temple, Jewish customers, the symbolism. 243 00:11:02.679 --> 00:11:06.360 He's a full on Hebrew theologian. Yes, that's saying, and 244 00:11:06.519 --> 00:11:09.080 Jesus is the messiah we were looking for. Yeah right, 245 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:11.440 that that's what he's doing. And I don't know that 246 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:14.639 we know anybody else in that early Christian history. There 247 00:11:14.679 --> 00:11:17.759 have been some people who've questioned if Nicodemus wrote it, 248 00:11:17.879 --> 00:11:21.279 Oh wow, right, I had it. He was a pharisee, 249 00:11:21.320 --> 00:11:24.840 and the first Christian pharisee we know, first christ Father. 250 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:27.919 So there's there's there's been that question to have something. 251 00:11:27.919 --> 00:11:31.559 I keep reaching for it cobweb or something. 252 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:35.000 I don't know, so, so there it could be that. 253 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:38.799 It could be some people think silas because we don't 254 00:11:38.799 --> 00:11:41.840 have silas. Thank you. It's oh, there you go, that's 255 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:44.360 it tickling me, yeah, thank you. We're like gorillas now, 256 00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:52.720 so uh, some people think maybe silas. Some people have 257 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:57.559 suggested Barnabas. There's no real evidence of that. Yeah. Priscilla 258 00:11:57.600 --> 00:12:03.399 specifically is interesting because it's not signed. A woman would 259 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:07.559 not have signed a treatise like this back then, right 260 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:10.759 even into the early twentieth century, women a lot of 261 00:12:10.759 --> 00:12:13.240 times wouldn't take credit. They'd write under male pseudonyms and 262 00:12:13.279 --> 00:12:17.000 things for credibility. So that's it. I don't believe that 263 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:19.960 that's the case here. And then when I get to 264 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:23.200 this chapter, chapter thirteen, I finally come back and go 265 00:12:23.320 --> 00:12:25.120 because I go back and forth in the first twelve 266 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:28.240 chapters it's Paul. No, it's not Paul. It's Paul. No, 267 00:12:28.279 --> 00:12:30.320 it's not Paul. But I get the chapter thirteen and 268 00:12:30.360 --> 00:12:31.799 I end it with I think it's Paul. 269 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:32.279 Yeah. 270 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:35.600 And it's because he ends this book the same way 271 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:38.120 he ends every book. He writes, Oh, he's got like 272 00:12:38.200 --> 00:12:39.639 nine things, he needs a cram it. Don't forget this, 273 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:41.360 don't forget this, don't forget this, for don't forget this. Yeah, 274 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:42.960 and that's kind of what he's doing. So let's just 275 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:45.279 read it and you'll pick up on it. Says, keep 276 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:48.519 on loving each other as brothers and sisters. Don't forget 277 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:50.960 to show hospitality to strangers. For some who've done this, 278 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:54.120 I entertained angels without realizing it. We've talked about that 279 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:59.039 many times, right, Remember those in prison. So you see, 280 00:12:59.080 --> 00:13:02.559 he just said, keep on loving each other, show hospitality. 281 00:13:02.799 --> 00:13:06.919 Remember people in prison. Angels, Yeah, angels. He just cramming 282 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:08.519 stuff in now at this point, at the end, it's 283 00:13:08.519 --> 00:13:10.000 like he knows he's done with the book and he 284 00:13:10.039 --> 00:13:13.080 wants to finish stuff. Remember also those being mistreated, as 285 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:15.759 if you felt their pain in your own bodies. Give 286 00:13:15.799 --> 00:13:18.799 honor to marriage. Where is this come from? Give honor 287 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:21.240 to marriage? Or remain faithful to one another in marriage. 288 00:13:21.399 --> 00:13:23.799 God will surely judge people who are immoral and those 289 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:26.919 who commit adultery. Don't love money. Now he's talking about money. 290 00:13:27.120 --> 00:13:29.639 Don't love money. Be satisfied with what you have, for 291 00:13:29.720 --> 00:13:31.679 God has said I will never fail you, I will 292 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:34.440 never abandon you. So we can say with confidence the 293 00:13:34.440 --> 00:13:36.759 Lord is my helper, So I will have no fear. 294 00:13:36.919 --> 00:13:39.240 What can your people do to me? Now he's talking 295 00:13:39.240 --> 00:13:42.440 about leaders. Remember your leaders who taught you the word 296 00:13:42.440 --> 00:13:44.320 of God. Think of all the good that has come 297 00:13:44.360 --> 00:13:46.279 from their lives, and follow the example of their faith. 298 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:50.399 Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today and forever. So 299 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:53.120 do not be attracted by strange new ideas. Your strength 300 00:13:53.159 --> 00:13:55.639 comes from God's grace, not from rules about food, which 301 00:13:55.840 --> 00:13:58.600 don't help those who follow them. Where did the food 302 00:13:58.600 --> 00:13:59.720 thing come from? 303 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:00.559 No idea. 304 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:04.200 I don't even remember him talking about food in Hebrews, 305 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:06.639 but he brings it up here, he says. But Paul 306 00:14:06.679 --> 00:14:10.000 talks about it in Philippians, right, he talks about in Galatius. 307 00:14:10.080 --> 00:14:11.919 He doesn't even mention. He just says, your strength comes 308 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:14.759 from God's grace. No romans from rules about food. 309 00:14:14.919 --> 00:14:17.559 Yeah, yeah, he talks about food, and romans he talks 310 00:14:17.559 --> 00:14:20.840 about So we have an altar from which the priests 311 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:23.639 in the Tabernacle have no right to eat under the 312 00:14:23.639 --> 00:14:25.879 old system, the right the high priests brought the blood 313 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:28.320 of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, 314 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:31.080 and the bodies of the animals were burned outside the camp. 315 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:34.679 So also Jesus suffered and died outside the city gates 316 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:37.519 to make holy his people holy by means of his 317 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:41.279 own blood. So let us go out to him outside 318 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:44.320 the camp and bear the disgrace hebore. For this world 319 00:14:44.399 --> 00:14:46.840 is not our permanent home. We are looking forward to 320 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:50.840 a home yet to come. Therefore, let us offer through 321 00:14:50.919 --> 00:14:53.679 Jesus a continual sacrifice of praise to God, proclaiming our 322 00:14:53.679 --> 00:14:56.519 allegiance to his name. And don't forget to do good 323 00:14:56.639 --> 00:14:58.919 and to share with those in need. These are the 324 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:02.399 sacrifices that police God. Obey your spiritual leaders who do 325 00:15:02.440 --> 00:15:04.440 what they and do what they say. Their work is 326 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:07.039 to watch over your souls, and they are accountable to God. 327 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:08.919 Give them reason to do this with joy and not 328 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:11.159 with sorrow that would certainly not be for your benefit. 329 00:15:11.799 --> 00:15:13.919 Pray for us, for our conscience is clear, and we 330 00:15:13.960 --> 00:15:16.000 want to live honorably in everything we do. And especially 331 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:18.399 pray that I'll be able to come back to you soon. 332 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:21.960 That feels like Paul. Now, may the Grace of Peace 333 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:23.759 or the God of Peace, who brought up from the 334 00:15:23.799 --> 00:15:25.879 dead our Lord Jesus, the Great Shepherd of the Sheep, 335 00:15:25.919 --> 00:15:28.679 and ratified an eternal covenant with his blood. May He 336 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:31.200 equip you with all you need for doing his will. 337 00:15:31.639 --> 00:15:34.039 May He produce in you, through the power of Jesus Christ, 338 00:15:34.120 --> 00:15:36.639 every good thing that is pleasing to him, All glory 339 00:15:36.679 --> 00:15:39.480 to Him forever and ever. Amen. That feels like Paul. 340 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:42.039 I urge you, dear brothers and sisters, to pay attention 341 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:44.960 to what I've written in this brief exhortation. That feels 342 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:47.480 like Paul. I want you to know that our brother 343 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:49.159 Timothy has been released from jail. 344 00:15:49.320 --> 00:15:50.320 That really sounds like Paul. 345 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:51.960 And that's the only time is mentioned that Timothy ever 346 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:54.240 went to jail. By the way, if he comes here soon, 347 00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:57.320 I will bring him with me to see you. Greet 348 00:15:57.399 --> 00:15:59.759 all your leaders and all the believers there. The believers 349 00:15:59.799 --> 00:16:02.120 from Italy send you their greetings. That sounds like Paul. 350 00:16:02.600 --> 00:16:05.000 Make God's grace be with you all. So it doesn't 351 00:16:05.000 --> 00:16:07.519 it that he's just He talks about marriage, he talks 352 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:09.879 about money, he talks about leaders, he talks about he 353 00:16:09.919 --> 00:16:12.919 talks about theology, Jesus dying outside the city. He talks 354 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:17.240 about everything in this last ten Yeah. Yeah, food, the law, yeah, 355 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:21.120 be kind to people and yeah yeah, angels yeah angels yeah. 356 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:23.440 So yeah, you're right. He does that often at the 357 00:16:23.519 --> 00:16:26.440 end of chapters. He just sort of at the end 358 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:29.679 of the books, it's almost like, hey, uh now mom 359 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:32.039 and dad are going to be gone. Listen to the 360 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:36.600 babysitter and make sure that you're really good. Well, it's 361 00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:40.120 like it's like, okay, now, don't forget, don't forget, listen, 362 00:16:40.679 --> 00:16:42.759 you know, make your bed, go to bed on time, 363 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:45.120 brush your teeth, right, it's all those things. And so 364 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:48.000 Paul is like he's sort of saying that. He's saying like, hey, 365 00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:51.279 I'll come I'll come back soon, just like the babysittering, Yeah, 366 00:16:51.320 --> 00:16:54.000 I'm coming back back soon, but don't forget. In the meantime, 367 00:16:54.279 --> 00:16:56.759 do these twelve things right. 368 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:01.200 And it's like and it's no fighting, right, don't jump 369 00:17:01.240 --> 00:17:04.720 on the bed, you know. So anyways, I think it 370 00:17:04.839 --> 00:17:09.240 feels very much like Paul Paul's writing here, and it's 371 00:17:09.240 --> 00:17:11.720 one of the reasons why I love the chapter so 372 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:16.519 much is because he genuinely loves the people he's writing to. 373 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:20.319 This isn't just some kind of theological treatise where he's 374 00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:23.480 trying to get a grade or get a degree. This 375 00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:26.680 is listen. He starts off talking to dear brothers and sisters. 376 00:17:26.680 --> 00:17:29.920 He's ending talking to dear brothers and sisters. He's saying, listen, 377 00:17:30.119 --> 00:17:32.039 let me use my expertise. So, whether this is Paul 378 00:17:32.119 --> 00:17:34.119 or not, whoever's writing it has a love for the 379 00:17:34.160 --> 00:17:36.880 people he's talking to. He knows them and their culture 380 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:40.160 very deeply. He knows their belief system very well, and 381 00:17:40.200 --> 00:17:43.759 he's able to connect everything they believe to Jesus. Right, 382 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:45.759 let me start at the beginning of the Bible, get 383 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:47.960 to the end of the Bible. Everything points to Jesus. 384 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:50.240 I'm just telling you, if you knew Jesus like I 385 00:17:50.279 --> 00:17:53.319 know Jesus, everything would change. And I've talked about that before. 386 00:17:53.319 --> 00:17:58.400 I've had different people that you know, working around the world, 387 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:01.400 talking to people who were really skeptical of me being 388 00:18:01.400 --> 00:18:03.839 in their village or me being in their town. And 389 00:18:04.519 --> 00:18:08.440 I had one guy who was a leader of a 390 00:18:08.440 --> 00:18:12.160 pretty significant terrorist organization who didn't like that I was 391 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:17.079 coming into his village and I admitted to him I'm 392 00:18:17.079 --> 00:18:22.160 a Christian and he didn't like that. And I said, 393 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:27.720 but you know, I believe Jesus loves Christians and Jews. 394 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:29.759 But I said, I also believes he loves Palestinians and 395 00:18:29.799 --> 00:18:33.160 Egyptians and he loves you, and he goes, I think 396 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:36.640 that too. I said, it's fantastic, and he goes, well, 397 00:18:36.680 --> 00:18:39.039 then why are you here? He said, are you trying 398 00:18:39.079 --> 00:18:42.759 to make us all become Christians? And I felt like 399 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:47.920 that was a challenge. Yeah, And so I said, my 400 00:18:48.039 --> 00:18:50.359 goal is not to get you to leave your building 401 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:55.000