WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:02.200 Hey, everybody, we're the Bible guys, and if you're just 2 00:00:02.240 --> 00:00:05.320 tuning in recently, just know that we are showing a 3 00:00:05.320 --> 00:00:07.120 little bit of reruns for a few months, and then 4 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:09.839 we'll be back bigger and better than ever on August 5 00:00:09.919 --> 00:00:13.519 thirty first, because behind the scenes we're taking a hiatus 6 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:14.720 to do some very important things. 7 00:00:14.759 --> 00:00:18.399 Yeah, we're building building out a new studio and we've 8 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:21.399 got some new structure. Super excited about it. So August 9 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:24.399 thirty first, brand new content. But in the meantime, enjoy 10 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:25.480 some of our greatest hits. 11 00:00:26.079 --> 00:00:28.800 Well today it is out with the old and in 12 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:29.440 with the new. 13 00:00:29.800 --> 00:00:31.719 This is going to be a great discussion, it is. 14 00:00:31.839 --> 00:00:33.600 I think it's going to be amazing. So he's Chris 15 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:47.200 and I'm Jeff and we're the Bible guys. Well, I 16 00:00:47.240 --> 00:00:48.920 think I set the bar pretty high there. It's going 17 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:51.840 to be amazing. Yeah, sure, yeah, I don't let us down. Chris, 18 00:00:52.520 --> 00:00:54.719 think it's something good to say. Man, oh on me. Okay. 19 00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:58.399 So here's what we like to do these segments sometimes 20 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:06.799 that try to recall great your amazing ability to recall that. Yes, 21 00:01:06.959 --> 00:01:09.079 and so today here's what we thought we've done this 22 00:01:09.120 --> 00:01:12.920 before Psalm or pop song. Right, so we take phrases 23 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:15.200 from the Book of Psalms or a phrase from a 24 00:01:15.239 --> 00:01:18.280 pop song. Well, today you know the most. 25 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:19.799 And you're gonna read these to me. 26 00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:23.920 Yes, today may be the most surprising lyrics in the 27 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:26.040 whole Bible are in the Book of Song as Solomon. 28 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:29.480 Oh so, so I'm gonna it's song as Solomon or 29 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:31.239 pop song. You have to tell me it's song of 30 00:01:31.359 --> 00:01:32.560 Solomon or pop song. 31 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:34.120 Okay, I'm gonna botch this up. 32 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:36.640 Okay, here you go. Ready, So here's the first one. 33 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:38.840 I look and stairs so deep in your eyes. 34 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:41.959 Oh, that could be either one, but I'll go with 35 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:42.480 pop song. 36 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:43.920 Yes, do you know who? 37 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:44.719 No? 38 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:49.040 Crazy in Love by Beyonce. Okay, let me see playing 39 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:52.159 outside in the street kissing in plain view of everyone 40 00:01:52.280 --> 00:01:56.040 and no one thinking anything of it. 41 00:01:56.280 --> 00:02:01.560 Wow, gee whiz, I'm gonna say song of Solomon. 42 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:05.799 Oh you're right, Chapter eight, verse one. All right, what's 43 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:08.680 he talking about? Okay, here you go. The fire of 44 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:11.400 love stops at nothing, it sweeps everything before it. 45 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:13.560 Oh, that's definitely song Solomon. 46 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:16.759 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Song of Solomon eight, verse seven. 47 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:19.879 I look at my kingdom. I was finally there. 48 00:02:20.840 --> 00:02:23.759 Oh the heck you go either way. It sounds like 49 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:26.560 Song of Solomon. But that's that's gonna be like a 50 00:02:26.719 --> 00:02:30.080 like a like a that's some bait there. You know what, 51 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:32.960 I'm gonna go against my instinct. I'm gonna say, pop song. 52 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:36.599 Dude, you're four for four. That's a fresh Prince of 53 00:02:36.599 --> 00:02:37.680 bel Air theme song. 54 00:02:37.879 --> 00:02:41.639 Oh that's hilarious. 55 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:43.840 You know, there's a whole bunch of forty five fifty 56 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:45.599 year old people going, oh, that's for Prince. 57 00:02:45.759 --> 00:02:47.280 Yes, Yeah, okay's hilarious. 58 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:49.240 Well, dude, you went four for four. That's all I've got. 59 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:50.039 Wow. 60 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:54.520 Yeah, yeah, that's amazing. Well, I don't think anybody's ever 61 00:02:54.599 --> 00:02:55.599 done that on this show. 62 00:02:55.800 --> 00:02:58.280 Wow, look at that right. Yeah, I'm saying. 63 00:02:58.800 --> 00:03:00.599 This is what I'm saying. This is why we love 64 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:02.439 it when you do these games. Yeah. 65 00:03:02.479 --> 00:03:05.879 Whatever, that's hilarious. That's so good. 66 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:09.120 So Song of Solomon was as a kid was quite 67 00:03:09.159 --> 00:03:13.680 a shocking. I mean it's it's PG thirteen plus. Yeah. 68 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:17.719 Well you know, so listen, I became a Christian, you 69 00:03:17.719 --> 00:03:19.439 know a little bit later in my teenage years, and 70 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:22.000 then didn't decide to go into ministry until almost I 71 00:03:22.039 --> 00:03:24.639 was ready to go to college, and then went straight 72 00:03:24.639 --> 00:03:28.080 into college. And so as I was in college, people 73 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:31.599 were like, my very first day of college, my Old 74 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:37.199 Testament professor said, Okay, come prepared on Wednesday, just having 75 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:40.000 memorized all sixty six books of the Bible. And out 76 00:03:40.039 --> 00:03:42.479 of the two hundred people in the class, everybody was 77 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:45.360 like ha ha ha. And everybody had already memorized it. 78 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:47.520 They laughed because they all grew up in church. I 79 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:50.400 think I might have been among the small five percent 80 00:03:50.439 --> 00:03:52.800 that I was like, oh no, like I've got to 81 00:03:52.840 --> 00:03:56.400 memorize this, right, So I was hearing in Old Testament 82 00:03:56.439 --> 00:03:58.879 history the stories for the very first time in the 83 00:03:58.919 --> 00:03:59.400 Old Testament. 84 00:03:59.439 --> 00:04:00.680 Oh yeah, it was like it. 85 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:03.159 Was like fascinating anyway, all that to say this because 86 00:04:03.159 --> 00:04:05.560 I was so new to the Bible. In Bible college. 87 00:04:05.960 --> 00:04:08.560 My wife had grown up in church. We were engaged 88 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:11.319 to be married, right, and we would write letters because 89 00:04:11.319 --> 00:04:14.400 back then there's no FaceTime. There's letters. There's handwritten letters 90 00:04:14.439 --> 00:04:17.759 and written and she would she would use like sexy 91 00:04:17.839 --> 00:04:20.519 verses and like, and so it was like it was 92 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:23.319 this way of like sort of being godly right, because 93 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:24.839 you don't want to be like, you know, too like 94 00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:27.720 inappropriate in that right. Sure, she'd sort of like write 95 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:29.639 a verse and I'm like, oh, this is like a 96 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:31.879 flirting kind of a thing, right, and then I write it. 97 00:04:31.959 --> 00:04:32.920 Then I write went back. 98 00:04:33.079 --> 00:04:35.199 You know, all from the song is all from the 99 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:36.480 song of so. 100 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:38.600 So all that to say, we quoted the song of 101 00:04:38.759 --> 00:04:41.680 solov It back and forth to each other as a 102 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:44.560 way to sort of, you know, you know, sort of 103 00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:47.839 prepare for our wedding night. But we did it biblically, right. 104 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:52.399 So let's take a second on this, because a lot 105 00:04:52.439 --> 00:04:55.040 of people have grown up believing that you know, romance, 106 00:04:55.079 --> 00:04:58.240 are flirting or any of those things. Those are you know, 107 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:03.199 somehow kind of bad. We shouldn't so they are certainly adult, right. 108 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:07.480 But God made romance. God made the delights and the 109 00:05:07.480 --> 00:05:11.000 pleasures of that of the married relationship, right, and so 110 00:05:12.040 --> 00:05:15.279 as the closer you're getting to your wedding night, obviously 111 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:18.920 the delight and the enthusiasms and the joys of that 112 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:22.480 are perfect find and God made that that way, right, 113 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:25.160 So then this is why he put you know, some 114 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:29.199 of the biblical scholars and ancient times questioned whether that 115 00:05:29.240 --> 00:05:33.160 should be in the Bible, right, as if maybe romance 116 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:36.240 and love are inappropriate for being in the Bible, and 117 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:38.399 God's like, no, not only that, I'm going to push 118 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:41.959 it right to the edge of public appropriateness in this 119 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:45.199 love song between these the you know, the groom and 120 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:52.000 the bride, and God delights in us expressing romance to 121 00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:55.800 the spouse that He's given us right, right, and it's 122 00:05:55.879 --> 00:05:57.959 it's a beautiful thing, not a non negative thing. So 123 00:05:58.120 --> 00:05:59.720 it is funny though when you compare some of those 124 00:05:59.720 --> 00:06:02.759 phrase is to you know, pop songs. 125 00:06:02.920 --> 00:06:03.879 Yeah that's very funny. 126 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:07.279 Yeah, yeah, that's great. So anyways, let's pick up. We're 127 00:06:07.279 --> 00:06:10.040 going to start in second critne these chapter three, and 128 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:12.639 this chapter really is to me, it's just a delight. 129 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:17.399 It's such a good as opposed to all those undelightful chapters. 130 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:19.519 Right like the Book of Numbers. 131 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:22.439 Well, even Paul apologized for some of his previous writings, 132 00:06:22.439 --> 00:06:24.519 but this is a really good one here. So it's 133 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:27.439 just so if you remember, he ended the last one 134 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:31.399 saying that God watches us, right and knowing that God 135 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:34.199 is watching over us, and so then he says, are 136 00:06:34.199 --> 00:06:37.199 we being beginning to praise ourselves again? Are we like 137 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:39.839 others who need to bring you letters of recommendation or 138 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:42.319 who ask you to write such letters on their behalf. 139 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:46.240 Surely not The only letter of recommendation we need is you yourselves. 140 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:49.319 Your lives are a letter written in our hearts. Everyone 141 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:52.279 can read it and recognize our good work among you. Clearly, 142 00:06:52.319 --> 00:06:54.199 you are a letter from Christ showing the result of 143 00:06:54.199 --> 00:06:57.480 our ministry among you. This letter is written not with 144 00:06:57.600 --> 00:06:59.519 pen and ink, but with the spirit of the Living God, 145 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:02.680 is carved not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts. 146 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:05.240 We are confident of all this because of our great 147 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:07.639 trust in God through Christ. It is not that we 148 00:07:07.639 --> 00:07:09.360 think we are qualified to do anything on our own. 149 00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:12.680 Our qualification comes from God. He was enabled He has 150 00:07:12.759 --> 00:07:15.439 enabled us to be ministers of His New Covenant. This 151 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:17.800 is a covenant not of written laws, but of the spirit. 152 00:07:17.839 --> 00:07:20.959 The old written covenant ends in death, but under the 153 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:25.680 New Covenant, the spirit gives life. The old Way, with 154 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:28.199 laws etched in stone, led to death. Though it began 155 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:30.279 with such glory that the people of Israel could not 156 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:32.800 bear to look at Moses's face, for his face shone 157 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:34.639 with the glory of God, even though the brightness was 158 00:07:34.680 --> 00:07:38.199 already fading away. Shouldn't we expect far greater glory under 159 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:41.079 the New Way? Now that the Holy Spirit is giving life. 160 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:44.120 If the old way which brings commendation was glorious, how 161 00:07:44.199 --> 00:07:46.560 much more glorious is the new way, which makes us 162 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:49.040 right with God. In fact, that first glory was not 163 00:07:49.079 --> 00:07:51.959 glorious at all compared with the overwhelming glory of the 164 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:54.480 new way. So if the old way which has been 165 00:07:54.519 --> 00:07:57.439 replaced was glorious, how much more glorious is the new 166 00:07:57.680 --> 00:08:01.399 which remains forever. Since this new gives us such confidence, 167 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:03.959 we can be very bold. We're not like Moses, who 168 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:05.560 put a veil over his face so the people of 169 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:08.439 Israel would not see the glory, even though it was 170 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:12.240 destined to fade away. But the people's minds were hardened, 171 00:08:12.399 --> 00:08:14.839 and to this day, whenever the Old Covenant is being read, 172 00:08:14.879 --> 00:08:17.000 the same veil covers their minds, so they cannot understand 173 00:08:17.040 --> 00:08:20.160 the truth. And this veil can be removed only by 174 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:23.839 believing in Christ. Yes, even today, when they read Moses' writings, 175 00:08:23.839 --> 00:08:25.800 their hearts are covered with that veil, and they did 176 00:08:25.800 --> 00:08:28.720 not understand. But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the 177 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:31.240 veil is taken away. For the Lord is the Spirit. 178 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:33.759 Wherever the spirit of the Lord is there is freedom. 179 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:36.919 So all of us who have had that veil removed, 180 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:39.720 can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And 181 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:42.200 the Lord, who is the Spirit, makes us more and 182 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:45.480 more like him as we are changed into his glorious image. 183 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:49.559 So when you read verse seventeen, were you singing it? Yes, 184 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:53.039 where the spirit of the Lord is there is free you. 185 00:08:53.679 --> 00:08:54.399 Such a good song. 186 00:08:54.919 --> 00:08:57.919 So there's a lot in here, oh boy. And the 187 00:08:57.960 --> 00:09:01.399 first is he talks about, hey, we don't need to 188 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:06.279 write recommendations for ourselves, because you know, our power is 189 00:09:06.440 --> 00:09:10.120 with God, not in ourselves. And he's he's referring to 190 00:09:10.639 --> 00:09:14.919 the false teachers who actually claim, uh actually they were 191 00:09:14.919 --> 00:09:20.960 walking around with these false letters of recommendation to falsely 192 00:09:21.759 --> 00:09:25.840 verify or or you know, give validity to their claims 193 00:09:25.879 --> 00:09:29.639 of having, you know, being empowered. And so Paul wrote 194 00:09:29.879 --> 00:09:33.440 a couple of recommendations, one to Phoebe, one to Timothy. 195 00:09:33.559 --> 00:09:36.879 Uh So he actually wrote recommendations before. And what he's 196 00:09:36.919 --> 00:09:39.440 really saying here is he's saying like, hey, I don't 197 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:41.120 I'm not like one of those guys that walks around 198 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:43.159 and says, hey, if you don't believe me, here's here's 199 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:46.039 this letter of recommendation. So he's written them before, but 200 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:48.720 he's What he's really saying is he's saying like, hey, 201 00:09:49.399 --> 00:09:52.159 our power is evident through God, not in our you 202 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:53.480 know of ourselves. 203 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:55.559 And the proof of the effectiveness of our ministry is 204 00:09:55.679 --> 00:09:56.639 your changed lives. 205 00:09:56.960 --> 00:09:57.799 Right, Right. 206 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:02.440 Have you ever sat the listening to a quote unquote expert. 207 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:04.759 They wrote a book and they sold a bunch of 208 00:10:04.759 --> 00:10:07.279 copies and now they're getting trotted out on stage as 209 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:10.879 the expert, and then you go, dude, you have like 210 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:15.600 zero results. There's a particularly famous author that I think 211 00:10:15.639 --> 00:10:19.080 about every time for whatever reason, I've wound up being 212 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:22.399 around them, and they're a theorist, but they talk like 213 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:24.360 they're an expert. There's a big difference between being a 214 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:26.120 theorist and being an expert. 215 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:29.039 Right, So people are like, oh, we should all go 216 00:10:29.120 --> 00:10:29.799 do it, he. 217 00:10:29.679 --> 00:10:32.399 Says, and I'm like, he has no fruit. It's a 218 00:10:32.480 --> 00:10:35.799 neat idea. Somebody should try the idea. But you can't 219 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:39.919 just suddenly overturn all of what you've been doing based 220 00:10:39.960 --> 00:10:42.399 on this idea because he's an expert, just because he 221 00:10:42.440 --> 00:10:45.759 has a PhD after his name or whatever. So what 222 00:10:45.799 --> 00:10:48.440 Paul is saying is, it's not about the recommendations. It's 223 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:50.679 not about the paper I have hanging on the wall, 224 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:53.600 or my degrees or all the commendations I can get. 225 00:10:53.919 --> 00:10:57.279 The proof of the fact that God is moving is 226 00:10:57.399 --> 00:11:00.039 your changed lives. And so I think one of the 227 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:04.840 most important things, as we have so much information available 228 00:11:04.879 --> 00:11:09.279 to us, sometimes people just get big social media platforms 229 00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:13.720 or big promotional platforms and they've they suddenly come out 230 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:17.720 of nowhere as some kind of expert. My question always is, 231 00:11:17.960 --> 00:11:20.600 whether it's in marriage, or it's in raising your kids 232 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:23.759 or managing your finances, is what's the proof? 233 00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:24.320 Right? 234 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:29.200 Where? Where is their results? I don't care what you're claiming. 235 00:11:29.519 --> 00:11:30.559 I want to see your results. 236 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:34.120 You know. It reminds me so much of long A 237 00:11:34.159 --> 00:11:36.879 while back, somebody wanted to wanted me to hire somebody, 238 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:39.039 and they kept on coming to me with this guy's resume, 239 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:40.879 and they said, oh, this guy is going to be 240 00:11:40.919 --> 00:11:43.399 a great like number two for you, and he's he's 241 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:46.639 just awesome, and here's here's here's why he's so awesome. 242 00:11:47.200 --> 00:11:50.200 And I and and I just like rebuttaled and and 243 00:11:50.279 --> 00:11:53.639 I just said, well, then how come nobody follows him? 244 00:11:55.360 --> 00:11:58.240 Just tell me that, right, because he looks good on paper, right. 245 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:01.240 But the fact remains is that the fruit of his 246 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:04.720 life is that his resumes may say one thing, but 247 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:06.200 it's just not the case. 248 00:12:06.279 --> 00:12:08.120 He's a great leader. He just has no followers. 249 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:12.240 He's a great leader of no one. So it's like, 250 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:14.919 it's like and listen, it's just what it is, right. 251 00:12:14.960 --> 00:12:17.720 I'm sure, I'm sure like he has other things happening 252 00:12:17.720 --> 00:12:20.480 in his life, just not that particular job description, right, 253 00:12:21.159 --> 00:12:25.159 And that's fine because we all have different roles. But anyway, 254 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:28.320 but that's what arises me because it's not about the resume. 255 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:31.360 It's not about the letter of recommendation. It's about the 256 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:33.360 you know, just like you said, it's got to be fruit. 257 00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:36.399 It's got to be you know, changed lives, it's got 258 00:12:36.399 --> 00:12:37.200 to be results. 259 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:40.720 I got I got interested, you know, I do goofy things, 260 00:12:40.759 --> 00:12:44.600 get interested in weird things. And I was trading global 261 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:49.679 currencies and I love the four X concepts and it's 262 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:52.120 always interesting to me. But I was doing it on 263 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:55.960 a trader account. It wasn't I wasn't using money. I 264 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:58.799 was just practicing learning how to do it. And so 265 00:12:58.840 --> 00:13:00.639 I was doing tons of research and I'd read like 266 00:13:00.679 --> 00:13:02.600 five books on this and all this, and I came 267 00:13:02.639 --> 00:13:05.720 across this guy that I liked his ideas. Ideas were 268 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:08.200 really really interesting. And he had this course that he's 269 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:11.200 selling for you know, a thousand dollars or but right now, 270 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:12.879 if I hurry right away, I can get it for 271 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:15.360 two hundred dollars. And there's all this stuff. And then 272 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:18.759 I was very interested in it. And then he set 273 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:20.759 himself up as a world class expert, and he had 274 00:13:20.759 --> 00:13:23.519 this massive social media following. But when I got the 275 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:26.519 digging into it, I discovered that, sure, he made a 276 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:29.279 couple million dollars last year, but almost no money trading. 277 00:13:29.519 --> 00:13:33.399 When you finally found his trading numbers, he barely beat 278 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:36.759 the norm, right, barely beat it. But he was making 279 00:13:36.799 --> 00:13:39.600 millions of dollars selling his course. Right. Well, dude, the 280 00:13:39.639 --> 00:13:41.360 fruit is so if I want to learn how to 281 00:13:41.399 --> 00:13:42.879 sell a course, I should take your course. 282 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:43.240 Right. 283 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:45.559 But that's hilarious. 284 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:47.720 Right, And so he's kind of challenging this idea that, hey, 285 00:13:47.720 --> 00:13:52.480 we don't need any proof other than the actual results 286 00:13:52.519 --> 00:13:54.960 of God's changed you know, God changing your life. So 287 00:13:55.039 --> 00:13:59.600 then he gets into comparing the beauty and the glory 288 00:13:59.720 --> 00:14:02.639 of the law. And sometimes I think those of us 289 00:14:02.679 --> 00:14:05.159 that love the grace of God, we kind of shoot 290 00:14:05.159 --> 00:14:08.039 down and make negative the law right in such a 291 00:14:08.039 --> 00:14:11.200 horrible way. And he's talking about it was beautiful. It's 292 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:14.759 just that grace is even more beautiful, right, And that's 293 00:14:14.919 --> 00:14:16.639 a real challenge for us to keep those two things 294 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:17.320 in perspective. 295 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:21.120 Well, I love his I love his comparison of the veil, 296 00:14:21.759 --> 00:14:24.240 you know. And it's great because he says, just like 297 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:26.840 Moses when he comes down off the mountain, and he's 298 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:29.399 referring to the story of Moses would actually meet with 299 00:14:29.559 --> 00:14:32.080 God and then when he came down off the mountain, 300 00:14:32.440 --> 00:14:36.039 his face would glow. Think about this, I mean, we 301 00:14:36.080 --> 00:14:37.960 read about it. You may know the story from you know, 302 00:14:38.080 --> 00:14:40.399 from you know, learning about it as a kid, but 303 00:14:40.519 --> 00:14:42.960 just think about like what that must have been like. 304 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:46.080 And it says that he his face would glow because 305 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:49.120 he talked with God so much they had to actually 306 00:14:49.159 --> 00:14:52.120 put a veil on his face. And so everybody who's 307 00:14:52.519 --> 00:14:57.039 listening to Paul, they know that story. And so he's 308 00:14:57.080 --> 00:14:59.600 talking about that veil and then he sort of uses 309 00:14:59.639 --> 00:15:03.360 that as a comparison and says like it's just like, 310 00:15:04.120 --> 00:15:06.240 you know, think about it. It's it's he's referring to 311 00:15:06.279 --> 00:15:09.639 a veil that that sort of hides God's glory. Now 312 00:15:09.639 --> 00:15:12.240 they did it because it was so bright. But but 313 00:15:12.240 --> 00:15:14.960 but still the purpose of that veil was to get 314 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:17.799 in the way of the viewer to see the glory 315 00:15:17.799 --> 00:15:20.639 of God. And so he's using that as a veil. 316 00:15:20.679 --> 00:15:23.200 And he's saying like, hey, it's those people who hear 317 00:15:23.240 --> 00:15:26.720 the word of God and and and they reject the gospel. 318 00:15:27.080 --> 00:15:29.679 It's like there's a veil. And he says, and when 319 00:15:29.720 --> 00:15:33.120 when they when they trust Christ, that veil is removed, right, 320 00:15:33.240 --> 00:15:35.480 But but for now they just can't see it. They 321 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:37.799 just can't see it. And some of these veils, if 322 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:40.360 you think about it, they're self imposed, right, Like we 323 00:15:40.639 --> 00:15:42.759 can we can put up a you know, today I 324 00:15:42.759 --> 00:15:44.559 would say instead of a veil, I would say, people 325 00:15:44.600 --> 00:15:47.360 put up a wall, right, And it's just the wall 326 00:15:47.399 --> 00:15:50.440 of doubt or the wall of skepticism, or the wall 327 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:53.440 of like being angry with God or you know, we 328 00:15:53.679 --> 00:15:56.720 built all sorts of kind of walls. Well, Paul is 329 00:15:56.759 --> 00:15:59.559 talking about veils, and uh, and I thought that was 330 00:15:59.559 --> 00:16:00.000 really cool. 331 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:05.120 Yeah, So you know, Moses' proximity to God changed him. 332 00:16:05.159 --> 00:16:07.159 That's what it was. That he got so close to 333 00:16:07.159 --> 00:16:09.480 God and nobody else was that close. He got so 334 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:11.840 close to God it it changed him. And so then 335 00:16:11.879 --> 00:16:14.879 he covered himself because people couldn't look at him. It 336 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:18.480 was too shocking. But we do know that that glory 337 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:20.039 faded over. 338 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:21.879 Time because he said, naturally it was going to face. 339 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:22.120 Yeah. 340 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:24.879 Yeah, so he keeps he keeps this veil so people 341 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:28.960 don't see the fading of this this radiance. And what 342 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:32.039 he's referencing here is the beauty of the law. God 343 00:16:32.279 --> 00:16:35.360 gave the people of Israel the best way to live. 344 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:37.759 That that that's what he did. So there are all 345 00:16:37.799 --> 00:16:41.240 the laws with regard to sacrifices, certainly, and that was 346 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:43.399 a religious law, but he also gave them a ton 347 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:50.480 of laws about social guidance, about health, about just how 348 00:16:50.519 --> 00:16:54.879 to manage, you know, the the business of life as well. 349 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:57.279 And what he was saying was listen when you when 350 00:16:57.320 --> 00:17:00.200 I codified these things for you, if you will follow them, 351 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:02.559 you're going to have a peaceful society. You're going to 352 00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:05.599 have an equitable society. You're going to have a society 353 00:17:05.640 --> 00:17:08.920 that works for the betterment of everybody, not just yourself. 354 00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:10.799 But you're going to be able to prosper because you're 355 00:17:10.839 --> 00:17:14.000 going to be free. But what happened was people then 356 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:18.319 began to make the law the point. And then what 357 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:21.839 he says now is instead this when the law became 358 00:17:21.880 --> 00:17:24.319 the point, suddenly everybody realizes there's no way I can 359 00:17:24.440 --> 00:17:27.039 keep this whole law. It's impossible. So then there's all 360 00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:30.079 this guilt, there's all this oppression. What was supposed to 361 00:17:30.119 --> 00:17:32.920 be beautiful became too heavy of a burden. And then 362 00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:36.799 he says, but the new way, through Christ his grace 363 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:40.240 takes us to a whole other level. Now no longer 364 00:17:40.279 --> 00:17:42.680 is it about us trying to keep every letter of 365 00:17:42.759 --> 00:17:45.799 every rule. Instead it's about living every moment of our 366 00:17:45.839 --> 00:17:46.920 life to please God. 367 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:47.519 Yeah. 368 00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:49.319 And he said that this brings us to a whole 369 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:50.920 other level of glory. Yeah. 370 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:53.839 And it's so interesting about the law because even today, 371 00:17:53.960 --> 00:17:56.559 if you walk around to a person and you know, 372 00:17:56.559 --> 00:17:58.440 if a person doesn't know how to get to heaven, 373 00:17:58.720 --> 00:18:01.000 and if a person is just you know, under the 374 00:18:01.039 --> 00:18:03.559 belief system that you know, at the end of our life, 375 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:07.720 are good has to outweigh our bad, right, those people 376 00:18:08.519 --> 00:18:11.240 who don't realize that it's not in trusting in ourselves 377 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:13.400 and our good behavior. The Bible goes out of its 378 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:15.839 way to say that it's just about trusting in Jesus 379 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:18.359 and the sacrifice that was done for us. So anyway, 380 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:22.240 all that to say, those people have a tendency to say, well, 381 00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:23.920 you know, I've lived a good life and I've tried 382 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:27.720 to keep the Ten Commandments, and they sort of keep 383 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:31.759 the Ten Commandments as the bar. What's so interesting is 384 00:18:31.759 --> 00:18:35.920 is that over and over the Bible tells us that 385 00:18:35.960 --> 00:18:38.799 the law was actually given to us to show us 386 00:18:39.319 --> 00:18:41.920 that we're sinful. The law was actually given. It says 387 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:44.160 the purpose of the law was to show us that 388 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:47.039 we're sinners, that we can't make it to heaven by ourselves, 389 00:18:47.200 --> 00:18:51.039 that there's absolutely no way to keep the full law. 390 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:54.839 That's the purpose of the law. And then it says 391 00:18:54.839 --> 00:18:58.119 that you know, it led to death. It actually talks 392 00:18:58.119 --> 00:19:02.000 about how the over and over he says the old 393 00:19:02.119 --> 00:19:04.960 law was death. And what he's meaning is not to 394 00:19:05.039 --> 00:19:08.400 your point, not not the beauty of the law. He's 395 00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:12.599 referring to. It leads to death, meaning you can't perform 396 00:19:12.680 --> 00:19:15.240 to get your way into heaven, and so you're going 397 00:19:15.279 --> 00:19:18.279 to leading to death means you're going to fail every 398 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:21.279 single time. It's a it's a separation from God. It's 399 00:19:21.319 --> 00:19:21.960 it's it's. 400 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:24.839 Not the answer, and so which wasn't a mistake on 401 00:19:24.880 --> 00:19:28.039