WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:13.480 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to another week. Hopefully you're 4 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:16.440 with us all week. Hopefully of the Bible Guys. 5 00:00:16.160 --> 00:00:18.719 As opposed to the first six seconds going I'm out, 6 00:00:18.879 --> 00:00:19.280 I'm out. 7 00:00:19.519 --> 00:00:21.120 Yeah, these guys aren't good looking enough for me. 8 00:00:21.359 --> 00:00:23.000 That's right. Well, that's not why they would cancel. 9 00:00:23.239 --> 00:00:24.920 Oh look at you confidence. 10 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:25.559 I like it. 11 00:00:25.879 --> 00:00:29.399 I like it, Jeff. We are starting a brand new 12 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:32.280 week this week of the Bible Guys in our series 13 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:35.439 about the promises of God, and today's theme. 14 00:00:35.759 --> 00:00:36.240 Is a good one. 15 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:38.159 It's a good theme, good one, it's a big one. 16 00:00:38.679 --> 00:00:41.960 I'm a big fan of this theme. I don't know. 17 00:00:42.079 --> 00:00:45.399 I love every time you say that it's God's salvation 18 00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:50.159 and eternal life. Holy Christmas, literally Holy Christmas. I always 19 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:52.399 say Holy Christmas, but it always seems appropriate around Chris. 20 00:00:52.679 --> 00:00:54.039 It does up. 21 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:58.000 And so today, before we dive into that, Desiree has 22 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:01.320 come up with a segment where she has pulled from 23 00:01:01.399 --> 00:01:05.000 our fans. And this segment has a theme, a jingle, 24 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:10.680 and it's called mail Bags. I think we're getting better 25 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:11.120 over the years. 26 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:14.519 We're getting oh man, incredible which you recorded? Yeah, wait 27 00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:18.000 a minute, I just did here you go. We could 28 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:19.719 just we get a bus and hit the road. 29 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:23.560 You remember you remember back in the day, uh, in 30 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:26.000 all those old movies where they would do sound effects, 31 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:29.400 you know, like for radio disc jockeys, and they would 32 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:32.480 be like on cassette or sometimes like even like an 33 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:34.719 a tract tape where they punch it in and there'd 34 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:37.560 be one guy just waiting in the wings with sound effects. 35 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:39.879 Mail bags, Yeah, you're just super excited about it. 36 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:48.840 Yeah. Anyway, explosions, all those kinds of things. Yeah, all 37 00:01:48.879 --> 00:01:52.719 those things. So anyway, so today we're doing mail bags 38 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:55.319 and this is from Jen m Hi. 39 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:55.640 Jen. 40 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:57.799 Jen says, just wanted to take him out to say 41 00:01:57.840 --> 00:01:59.920 thanks for all you done. 42 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:04.040 Yep, very nice all that we do. Every I took 43 00:02:04.040 --> 00:02:08.199 the garbage oue this morning. Good for you. And Jen's appreciative. Yes, 44 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:10.080 it's nice to have somebody appreciate what we do. 45 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:14.159 Are you saying your family, Jeff, you just say your 46 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:17.639 family doesn't appreciate you. Where do you go if you 47 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:19.840 had to give here's the question, if you had to 48 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:23.159 give a Ted talk right now with no prep, what 49 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:24.080 would your topic be. 50 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:27.159 TED talks are the pinnacle. 51 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:30.319 They are the cinnicle. So I made a joke right 52 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:32.759 before I just literally read this before we started recording it. 53 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:35.520 I said, anybody who even answers this has a sense 54 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:39.080 of arrogance, right, because because that would mean that you're qualified, 55 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:41.319 you would think that you But that's not what she's saying. 56 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:44.560 She's saying, if you had to right, yeah, And so 57 00:02:44.599 --> 00:02:46.439 she's not saying you're going to be a great at it, 58 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:48.080 She's just saying, on your mark set go. 59 00:02:48.439 --> 00:02:51.479 Yeah. Well, let's let's explain for the listeners who don't 60 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:54.560 know what a TED talk is. Oh yeah, TED talks 61 00:02:54.599 --> 00:03:00.120 are usually so there. It's business people and thought leader 62 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:06.159 and sometimes cultural Yeah, cultural icons that tend to be 63 00:03:06.199 --> 00:03:10.039 subject matter experts on a thing or they're leading thought 64 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:14.199 or thought leaders on a concept, and they make what 65 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:15.599 are they twelve minutes? Is that how long? 66 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:15.759 There? 67 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:18.360 Yeah, there's something like this, twelve minute speeches in front 68 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:22.520 of these giant crowds, and it's just for downloading the 69 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:25.280 biggest thoughts and the best information or the most clever 70 00:03:25.319 --> 00:03:27.639 way of thinking of the thing. And so there's kind 71 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:30.719 of a formula to how they how they build the speeches, 72 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:34.280 and they just tend to have this tremendous impact. It's 73 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:37.039 really really powerful. So, you know, to be invited to 74 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:40.000 be a ted Talk speaker is I mean, there's not 75 00:03:40.039 --> 00:03:42.879 many things higher as far as praise of saying, man, 76 00:03:42.919 --> 00:03:44.400 you're a good speaker or a good thinker? 77 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:47.080 Yeah, what were somebody who has a lot of knowledge? Yeah, 78 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:50.319 we're early above yeah yeah yeah yeah, and the answers. 79 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:52.240 So what would what would be your ted talk right now? 80 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:53.240 Word with no preder. 81 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:57.840 Honestly, I this is such an inadequate answer, It really is, 82 00:03:57.960 --> 00:03:59.560 because I can't think of anything. 83 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:01.719 Right, what do your subject matter expert on? 84 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:04.919 Well? I mean expert means ten thousand hours plus. 85 00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:08.360 Right, Okay, if that's your if that's your standard, true, 86 00:04:08.919 --> 00:04:12.159 well welcome Gladwell's thought in Yes, outliers. 87 00:04:12.199 --> 00:04:12.759 Yeah that's right. 88 00:04:12.800 --> 00:04:15.439 Not only that, also if you're born in January that helps. 89 00:04:16.759 --> 00:04:18.399 What I read the book? Didn't you read the book? 90 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:18.759 No? 91 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:22.199 Why? No? Okay, it's a whole other thing. 92 00:04:22.519 --> 00:04:25.639 Nugget, that nugget was passed on. That nugget was passed 93 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:28.439 on that I picked up that somebody once said, and 94 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:31.639 I'm sure it's from this book. If somebody puts ten 95 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:36.319 thousand hours into something, then they're probably in the category 96 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:40.079 of an expert. Sure, right, So honestly, if I had 97 00:04:40.079 --> 00:04:44.600 to give a TED talk about something right now, and now, 98 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:47.360 this is crazy, but I think I would give a 99 00:04:47.399 --> 00:04:50.720 TED talk on those who lead funerals. 100 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:53.240 Oh well, yeah, leading funerals. 101 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:56.839 Yeah. And the reason why is because I definitely have 102 00:04:56.920 --> 00:05:00.240 my ten thousand hours in them. I've been told by 103 00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:04.079 people who have spent their entire lives funeral directors, funeral owners, 104 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:08.079 people who have literally seen tens of thousands of funerals. 105 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:13.920 I've been told by those people that, well, let's just say. 106 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:17.079 That you do a good job, yeah or above, it's impactful. 107 00:05:16.680 --> 00:05:20.680 Yeah or above. They've made some outlandish statements. So I 108 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:24.480 never I never wanted to be good at funerals. I 109 00:05:24.519 --> 00:05:27.120 didn't seek to be good at funerals. But I've been 110 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:31.800 told that I'm good at funerals in a really high way. 111 00:05:32.680 --> 00:05:36.000 And then when I was told that, like twenty years ago, 112 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:40.279 I started to really pay attention to those who lead funerals. 113 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:45.000 So I'm not talking about like, you know, Aunt Betty, 114 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:47.680 who you know gets up and says a few words 115 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:49.319 about the deceased. I'm not talking about that. 116 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:51.120 I'm talking about all the rest of the pros. 117 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:53.720 I'm talking about the officiants right now. There's a big 118 00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:56.839 difference obviously, between like a Catholic mass funeral, like I'm not, 119 00:05:56.920 --> 00:05:59.160 certainly not any expert on that, although I did grow 120 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:00.879 up Catholic and have gone to my share of those, 121 00:06:01.279 --> 00:06:04.120 But for a Protestant funeral for those who you know 122 00:06:04.439 --> 00:06:11.680 are Christian Protestants who you know, gather information about the deceased, 123 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:15.240 and then they present, and then they you know, they 124 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:18.720 lead people right, and then they they share comforting promises 125 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:23.120 of the scriptures and all the above. I feel like 126 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:25.920 I've put my ten thousand hours in and I feel 127 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:29.240 like I can really coach people. And the reason why 128 00:06:29.879 --> 00:06:31.720 is because it's and this is a this is a 129 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:34.560 built bold statement. I don't want to be offensive, but 130 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:39.560 it is amazing to me how little little coaching there 131 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:41.519 is in this area. Like have you ever read a 132 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:42.160 book about that? 133 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:44.759 Yes? Have you really? Yes? 134 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:45.920 Okay, well I've never had. 135 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:47.480 Yeah, before my first funeral. 136 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:51.079 I've never even seen a book about that. Yeah, And 137 00:06:51.480 --> 00:06:54.199 certainly I've never heard and you've never talked about it, 138 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:56.199 so it must not have been a great book, right, 139 00:06:56.560 --> 00:06:59.079 So I've never heard anybody talk about books like that, 140 00:06:59.480 --> 00:07:01.160 So I don't think that there's a lot of coaching 141 00:07:01.160 --> 00:07:03.720 in this area. And it's amazing to me how bad 142 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:07.560 people are. And that's the bold statement. I don't mean 143 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:10.959 to offend, but there are so many people who leave 144 00:07:11.079 --> 00:07:14.639 bad funerals and they somehow make it about them, right, right. 145 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:16.360 It's like it's like somehow I'm gonna get up there 146 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:18.600 and I'm going to pretend to talk about the person 147 00:07:18.839 --> 00:07:21.560 that we're honoring today, but somehow I'm going to turn 148 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:22.120 it back to me. 149 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:22.680 Yeah. 150 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:27.480 I remember one time I was nobody cares. Nobody cares, right, 151 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:31.560 this this you know, in my life, nobody cares. Right. 152 00:07:32.160 --> 00:07:34.399 So anyway, that's it. That's what I would say. 153 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:37.480 Okay, what's a great way to start Monday about funerals 154 00:07:39.079 --> 00:07:41.439 as opposed to I also think you're a subject a 155 00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:45.040 matter expert on just public speaking in general, so you 156 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:47.839 could talk about that too, which you know, funerals is 157 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:51.000 a subcategory of the rest, So yeah, you can do that. 158 00:07:51.040 --> 00:07:51.639 I appreciate that. 159 00:07:51.720 --> 00:07:54.079 Yeah, yeah, well good, that was exciting. Seven minutes and 160 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:55.240 forty seconds in is great. 161 00:07:55.480 --> 00:07:56.639 You're just saying I took two hour. 162 00:07:56.639 --> 00:07:59.600 Well no, no, I mean everybody was riveted on funeral conversation. 163 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:02.439 Well, I felt like I had to explain. Yeah, I know, 164 00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:04.560 I didn't realize that we we sort of wasted two 165 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:05.079 minutes before you. 166 00:08:05.160 --> 00:08:07.600 Well you almost gave a TED talk on the Ted. 167 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:12.319 Talk, except that didn't do any of the how. 168 00:08:12.279 --> 00:08:15.839 To exactly what you got? You got four more minutes, woun. 169 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:17.519 Then give back it down, but then give us give 170 00:08:17.600 --> 00:08:19.639 us at least a thirty second answer on the subject 171 00:08:19.680 --> 00:08:20.360 matter of your time. 172 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:23.120 I don't know, I was trying to all the time. 173 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:27.720 I don't know. Uh, global mission, strategy, building culture and 174 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:32.039 an organization barbecuing on your back patio barbecue you. 175 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:34.320 Did so yeah, right, I'm not saying you couldn't in 176 00:08:34.360 --> 00:08:35.360 the others I could. 177 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:39.200 I could do all three probably on Tuesday. 178 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:43.200 Yeah. Yeah, especially with the help of chet GPT in 179 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:47.399 our lives, right, So uh yeah those are good. Yeah. 180 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:50.559 And by the way, uh, do you feel like there 181 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:54.440 is a major need? Probably the barbecue is the least 182 00:08:54.440 --> 00:08:56.879 major need, right, because there's a lot of food people 183 00:08:56.919 --> 00:08:59.360 out there, sure, right, But the other ones, do you 184 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:00.080 feel like there's. 185 00:08:59.879 --> 00:09:03.279 A I haven't written one and haven't researched it. I 186 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:05.919 don't think I've ever contemplated this thought until we read 187 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:07.679 it like nine minutes ago. 188 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:09.519 Right, yeah, well we read it seven minutes. 189 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:11.799 You'll take it because we read it right before. 190 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:14.559 We we wasted two minutes. Ye oh yeah, yeah, yeah, 191 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:17.720 because we read it before. She said record that's right. Okay, 192 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:20.320 So sorry, that was the fun one. Sorry to take 193 00:09:20.360 --> 00:09:21.480 all the minutes, Sorry to take. 194 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:24.840 You gen that was amazing, and uh, just the fact 195 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:27.159 that she took a minute to say thanks, Yeah, it's great. 196 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:30.559 Yeah, and uh, you know what else takes just a 197 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:33.559 split second, and it's a very short amount of time's salvation? 198 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:37.840 Yeah for you what God's worked through all of human 199 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:40.000 history to get to your salvation. But yeah, for you, 200 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:41.279 it only takes a split second. 201 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:43.960 Yeah, well I mean for you too. Yeah. 202 00:09:44.120 --> 00:09:44.320 Yeah. 203 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:47.559 So so yeah, there's the transition for each of us. Yes, 204 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:51.279 today we're talking about Romans chapter ten, one of the 205 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:55.080 most inclusive and famous verses in the Bible when it 206 00:09:55.080 --> 00:09:55.759 comes to salvation. 207 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:59.159 Yeah, sure, yeah, chapter ten. 208 00:09:59.480 --> 00:10:02.840 Yeah, are you still throwing off that? 209 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:04.440 I was trying to figure out. I was trying to 210 00:10:04.440 --> 00:10:05.679 figure out No, I was trying figure out where I 211 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:07.320 wanted to start, Let's just start in verse five. I 212 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:09.440 think verse five is a good spot here. In Romes, 213 00:10:09.480 --> 00:10:12.440 chapter Tennis says, for Moses writes that the law's way 214 00:10:12.600 --> 00:10:15.879 of making a person right with God requires obedience to 215 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:19.279 all of its commands. But faith's way of getting right 216 00:10:19.320 --> 00:10:21.279 with God says, don't say in your heart, who will 217 00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:22.919 go up to heaven to bring Christ down to earth? 218 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:24.799 And don't say who will go down to the place 219 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:26.240 of the dead to bring Christ back to life again. 220 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:28.720 That's weird. We'll talk about that in a minute. In fact, 221 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:31.240 that says the message is very close at hand. It 222 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:34.440 is on your lips and in your heart, and that 223 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:36.759 message is the very message about faith that we preach. 224 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:39.840 If you openly declare that Jesus's Lord, and believe in 225 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:42.000 your heart that God raised him from the dead, you 226 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:44.600 will be saved. For it is by believing your heart 227 00:10:44.600 --> 00:10:46.440 that you're made right with God, and it's by openly 228 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:49.320 declaring your faith that you are saved. As the scriptures 229 00:10:49.360 --> 00:10:51.759 tell us, anyone who trust in Him will never be disgraced. 230 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:54.679 Jew and gentile are the same in this respect. They 231 00:10:54.679 --> 00:10:56.720 have the same Lord, who gives generously to all who 232 00:10:56.759 --> 00:10:59.360 call in him, for everyone who calls in the name 233 00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:02.120 of the Lord will be saved. But how can they 234 00:11:02.120 --> 00:11:04.120 call on him to save them unless they believe in him? 235 00:11:04.159 --> 00:11:06.679 And how can they believe in him if they've never 236 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:08.679 heard about him? And how can they hear about him 237 00:11:08.840 --> 00:11:11.120 unless someone tells him? And how will anyone go and 238 00:11:11.159 --> 00:11:13.679 tell them without being sent? That's why the scriptures say, 239 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:15.320 how beautiful are the feet of the messengers who bring 240 00:11:15.360 --> 00:11:18.399 the good news. But not everyone welcomes the good news. 241 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:21.279 For Isaiah, the prophet said, Lord, who has believed our message? 242 00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:24.799 So faith comes from hearing that is, hearing the good 243 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:27.440 news about Christ. How about that? 244 00:11:27.759 --> 00:11:31.200 Yeah, well, I'll tell you what. There's some pretty classic 245 00:11:32.200 --> 00:11:38.720 and powerful and fundamental thoughts about salvation. And I know 246 00:11:38.759 --> 00:11:41.000 that you said we're going to talk about those things. 247 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:42.840 Yeah, let's get the weird part out of the way. 248 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:43.720 Let's do that for us. 249 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:46.639 So he says. Moses says that the only way to 250 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:49.639 get right with God is to obey the law. That's 251 00:11:49.679 --> 00:11:52.200 the law's way is you have to obey all of it, 252 00:11:52.559 --> 00:11:55.320 all of its commands. But he says faith's way of 253 00:11:55.320 --> 00:11:57.080 getting right with God. Says, don't say in your heart 254 00:11:57.120 --> 00:11:59.399 who'll go up to heaven or and don't say who'll 255 00:11:59.399 --> 00:12:00.919 go down to the place to the dead right to 256 00:12:00.960 --> 00:12:04.919 bring back Christ back. That's a really weird phrase, but 257 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:08.120 it's a it's kind of a Greek Hebrew thing. And 258 00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:12.519 what he's talking about is extreme measures. Heaven is the 259 00:12:12.559 --> 00:12:16.480 hardest thing to get to up right, the place of 260 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:18.679 the dead, or Hell is the hardest thing to do 261 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:22.519 or get to going down. That's that's really it. And 262 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:25.919 so that phrase is saying you don't have to go 263 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:31.159 to extremes to have your sense forgiven and be made 264 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:32.840 right with God. As a matter of fact, the very 265 00:12:32.879 --> 00:12:35.279 next sentence says, in fact, it says, the message is 266 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:37.960 very close at hand. You don't have to go extremely 267 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:40.480 far one way or that up or down. You don't 268 00:12:40.519 --> 00:12:41.960 have to go to the ends either. It would almost 269 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:43.360 be like if you and I said, listen, you don't 270 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:45.320 have to give a million bucks, you don't have to 271 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:47.840 do a thousand push ups, you don't have to suddenly 272 00:12:47.840 --> 00:12:50.000 be a good boy for you know, three hundred days 273 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:51.679 in a row in order to be right with God. 274 00:12:51.720 --> 00:12:55.360 That's not you know, go to go to seven thousand 275 00:12:55.440 --> 00:12:58.320 church services that you know, that's all he's saying, is 276 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:01.440 he's trying to use extreme illustrations to say you don't 277 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:03.480 have to go to the extremes. It's right at hand 278 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:04.799 for you. Yeah, it's just faith. 279 00:13:04.840 --> 00:13:07.159 And he starts off by talking about Moses, writes that 280 00:13:07.759 --> 00:13:10.240 you know the law, it's the law's way of making 281 00:13:10.279 --> 00:13:12.960 person right, and that would that would be the perfect 282 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:16.519 example to couple with Moses, because obeying all of the 283 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:19.600 law is also an extreme example. So he starts with 284 00:13:19.639 --> 00:13:21.759 the law, and then he talks about heaven and Hell. Right, 285 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:24.840 so all three of those are extreme. But then he's 286 00:13:24.919 --> 00:13:27.039 then he's saying, no, that's not the case. 287 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:30.840 Right right, So verse five or verse six says faith's 288 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:34.480 way of getting right with God isn't extreme. Then he 289 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:36.840 gives these phrases that would kind of set us off 290 00:13:36.879 --> 00:13:38.240 a little bit trying to figure out what it means, 291 00:13:38.480 --> 00:13:40.799 and then he keep he buttons it up saying, in fact, 292 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:43.919 it says so it's all one big idea. He could 293 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:46.879 have just said faith's way of getting right with God 294 00:13:46.919 --> 00:13:50.399 doesn't require us going to extremes. In fact, it's right 295 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:52.360 at hand. That's what he could have said, but he 296 00:13:52.519 --> 00:13:54.759 used a colloquialism in their day that they would have 297 00:13:54.799 --> 00:13:57.519 understood that. Sometimes we have to explain. Yeah, anyways, that's 298 00:13:57.559 --> 00:13:58.759 out of the way, and it. 299 00:13:58.759 --> 00:14:01.080 Really and reinforces the the law versus grace. 300 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:02.840 Right, And he says, and that's the very message we 301 00:14:02.879 --> 00:14:06.000 preach about faith that we that we preach. Right, if 302 00:14:06.039 --> 00:14:08.080 you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in 303 00:14:08.120 --> 00:14:09.600 your heart that God rais him from the dead, you 304 00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:10.320 will be saved. 305 00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:15.600 So let's pose this question real quick. Does a person 306 00:14:15.720 --> 00:14:19.519 have to say it out loud? That? Because I've heard 307 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:21.639 people say that before, in fact, even just recently, right, Ye, 308 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:25.200 Because sometimes on Sundays I'll say, hey, I'll pray the 309 00:14:25.240 --> 00:14:27.120 Salvation prayer. You can pray with me, and you don't 310 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:28.080 have to say it out loud. You could say it 311 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:29.759 in your mind and in your heart. And then and 312 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:32.159 some person said, hey, and they pose a question, and 313 00:14:32.200 --> 00:14:33.759 they said, doesn't the Bible say you have to say 314 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:35.559 it out loud confess with your mouth And they're referring 315 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:36.600 to this verse in Romans. 316 00:14:36.679 --> 00:14:39.480 That would mean every mute person is on their way 317 00:14:39.480 --> 00:14:40.840 to hell. They cannot be saved. 318 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:42.519 That's correct, Yeah, that's correct. 319 00:14:42.559 --> 00:14:44.679 That made it impossible. Aha, you can't. 320 00:14:44.519 --> 00:14:47.519 Yeah, so I actually looked up some sit ready. In 321 00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:51.960 the Greek, the word homo loggio means to openly agree 322 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:55.519 or to publicly affirm. It's about willingness, not just volume. 323 00:14:55.639 --> 00:14:57.960 Right, you could nod your head, that counts. 324 00:14:57.759 --> 00:15:00.399 That's right. So in an ancient world, confession wasn't sentence 325 00:15:00.399 --> 00:15:04.120 that you recited. It meant openly identifying with Jesus, not 326 00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:08.559 being ashamed of him or declaiming loyalty even when costly. Right. 327 00:15:08.840 --> 00:15:12.799 So scripture shows people saved without audible speech, like the 328 00:15:12.840 --> 00:15:16.039 thief on the Cross, people healed by Jesus, and the 329 00:15:16.039 --> 00:15:19.000 Book of Acts. People believe with their heart, then baptism 330 00:15:19.039 --> 00:15:23.360 became their public confession. Right if on the Cross asked, well, yeah, 331 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:27.159 it says he never expressed the sinner's prayer. He simply expressed. 332 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:28.559 Trust in Jesus expressed faith. 333 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:32.080 Yeah, he definitely expressed faith for sure. But the heart 334 00:15:32.080 --> 00:15:35.360 of the Gospel always describe salvation through faith by grace, 335 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:39.039 not of good deeds, which would include having to jump 336 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:41.840 through the hoops of saying something with your vocal courts. Right, 337 00:15:42.320 --> 00:15:45.679 so confession looks like today, you know, not being ashamed 338 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:48.279 of Jesus, identifying with him, publicly living out your faith, 339 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:50.399 acknowledging him before others went asked. 340 00:15:50.679 --> 00:15:55.039 So the sentence structure of Hebrews and of Greeks tends 341 00:15:55.080 --> 00:15:59.480 to put the adjectives, adverbs and the biggest ideas at 342 00:15:59.480 --> 00:16:03.000 the end at the beginning right. And so if you 343 00:16:03.080 --> 00:16:06.840 take this passage together, he talks about openly declaring. That 344 00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:09.399 means you're you're affirming that Jesus is your lord. That 345 00:16:09.399 --> 00:16:11.879 means king lord is just an old English word for 346 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:14.679 king or leader or ruler. And you believe in your 347 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:16.159 heart that God raised him from the dead, you will 348 00:16:16.200 --> 00:16:18.960 be saved. Then he says, because it's by believing your 349 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:21.080 heart that you're made right with God. So that's the 350 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:25.440 faith moment for you know, salvations by faith. And then 351 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:28.919 he says, it's by openly decarrying your faith that you're saved. 352 00:16:29.399 --> 00:16:32.799 And he says anyone who trusts in Him will never 353 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:36.279 be disgraced. So he talks about openly declaring, and he 354 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:40.039 talks about believing two times, and then he buttons it 355 00:16:40.120 --> 00:16:42.759 up by saying, because anybody who trusts in God will 356 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:45.200 be saved, right, And so that's he's kind of putting 357 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:48.120 the putting the exclamation point on it. It's the trust thing. 358 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:53.879 It's not the act of saying Jesus is my lord. Right. 359 00:16:54.679 --> 00:16:59.440 But if you are, if faith has really penetrated your 360 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:02.039 heart and you you do believe, and you've decided that 361 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:03.639 you want God to be the king of Jesus to 362 00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:07.839 be the king of your life, then obviously you're not 363 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:09.359 going to be ashamed of it. You're not going to 364 00:17:09.400 --> 00:17:12.079 try to hide it. I was just listening to a 365 00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:17.519 podcast and a tattoo artist in Jerusalem. His family has 366 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:21.000 owned the same shop for seven hundred years. Oh, come on, 367 00:17:21.160 --> 00:17:26.079 seven hundred. He's the twenty seventh direct person in line. 368 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:28.640 Can you imagine if you were the guy that said 369 00:17:28.680 --> 00:17:29.720 I want to be a dentist. 370 00:17:29.759 --> 00:17:31.440 Well, he told his dad he wasn't going to do it. 371 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:33.279 He told his dad he wasn't going to do it, 372 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:35.279 and he left. I just made myself last. 373 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:41.359 I just made myself alive. Hervey, Yeah, Herbie wants to 374 00:17:41.359 --> 00:17:42.279 be a dentist. 375 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:47.519 Yeah, that's right. So he's the twenty seventh person in line. 376 00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:49.279 And when he was a young man he told his dad, 377 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:50.319 I'm not going to do it. But when he was 378 00:17:50.319 --> 00:17:51.880 in his thirties, he came back and said, I need 379 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:53.319 to do this. I feel like God wants me to 380 00:17:53.319 --> 00:17:57.279 do it well. And the tet they were Coptic Christians. 381 00:17:57.839 --> 00:18:02.200 When Islam took over Egypt, their family left, but their 382 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:05.720 family was responsible in Egypt when Islam took over. There's 383 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:08.400 a tax in some of the more the stronger things. 384 00:18:08.640 --> 00:18:11.480 If you're a Christian and you refuse to convert, then 385 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:13.839 you have to pay jazia jesse is an extra tax 386 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:17.079 for your because you're not a Muslim, so you're not 387 00:18:17.079 --> 00:18:19.079 getting a rebate, you get to pay extra. And so 388 00:18:19.119 --> 00:18:23.680 they began tattooing Christians with a cross on their arm. 389 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:25.920 Then they would just pull it up and go, okay, 390 00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:28.039 you owe extra right and have to pay extra tax. 391 00:18:28.680 --> 00:18:31.440 So his family was responsible for doing that. They would 392 00:18:31.440 --> 00:18:35.279 do that well. Then they left and they moved. His father, 393 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:38.160 his great great great you know, twenty seven grandfathers Ago 394 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:42.720 went to Jerusalem on a pilgrimage and helped tattoo some 395 00:18:42.759 --> 00:18:47.799 people who were celebrating their pilgrimage to Israel seven hundred 396 00:18:47.880 --> 00:18:50.759 years ago. And people were thrilled. And you know, when 397 00:18:50.799 --> 00:18:53.200 you would go and traveling like that, you'd have to 398 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:55.200 stay for weeks or months at a time, and so 399 00:18:55.240 --> 00:18:57.920 that's what he's doing. He was given these commemorative tattoos 400 00:18:57.920 --> 00:19:01.000 of the fact you made it to Israel for Christians. 401 00:19:01.039 --> 00:19:03.880