WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.680 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.519 --> 00:00:13.279 practical ways. Hey guys, thanks for tuning into the Bible Guys. 4 00:00:13.320 --> 00:00:15.359 Whether it's your first time or the first time in 5 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:19.280 a long time, we're gonna ask that you please take 6 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:23.199 a moment and share maybe perhaps this link with a 7 00:00:23.239 --> 00:00:26.760 friend or to promote the Bible Guys on social media. 8 00:00:26.839 --> 00:00:27.559 Just help us out. 9 00:00:28.199 --> 00:00:31.000 I'm excited about it. This is gonna be a good 10 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:33.840 day as you're looking through stuff. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, so. 11 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:35.200 You are Chris. 12 00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:37.320 That had nothing to do with anything, but I'm excited 13 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:37.679 about it. 14 00:00:38.039 --> 00:00:41.280 Yeah. So I can't quite seem to get my voice 15 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:42.200 in sync. 16 00:00:42.520 --> 00:00:44.119 You're even raspier than normal. 17 00:00:44.679 --> 00:00:48.079 I don't know why, but anyway, we want to go 18 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:50.079 ahead and say that we're in the middle of a 19 00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:53.560 series called well, we're talking about the Beatitudes. I'm not 20 00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:55.640 sure we have a title for it. But before we 21 00:00:55.679 --> 00:00:58.280 get to that, we have a segment that really is 22 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:02.759 this is sort of the first time the desiree has 23 00:01:02.759 --> 00:01:06.400 formulated this segment this way. Yes, we've had this premise, 24 00:01:06.439 --> 00:01:09.359 but not in this way. So she's calling this segment 25 00:01:09.480 --> 00:01:12.120 monkey rich, and she says, Chris will tell a story, 26 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:15.959 Jeff will interrupt every ten seconds with a random word 27 00:01:16.159 --> 00:01:19.400 that the storyteller must immediately incorporate in the story. Yes, 28 00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:22.319 so we've sort of done something like this, but not this. 29 00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:25.200 What was what did we do last time? That was 30 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:28.959 like that? How did it go? It was? 31 00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:33.040 I can't remember, but it wasn't this did I? 32 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:35.680 Yeah, I can't remember. It was I injected things into 33 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:38.319 your story. I just don't remember how how. But I 34 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:41.280 like this better because it's like these crazy random words 35 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:44.799 a sentence yes, yes, yes, and then you had to 36 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:46.840 finish it. That's it. This is better because it's gonna 37 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:49.120 go quicker because that was kind of the issue with 38 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:50.519 the other one. Is it kind of plodded along a 39 00:01:50.519 --> 00:01:51.719 little bit? Okay? 40 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:55.439 So all right, So did I ever tell you here 41 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:57.599 comes the story? You ready? So you're still looking at stuff? 42 00:01:57.599 --> 00:01:57.920 I got it? 43 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:01.079 Okay? Did I ever tell you the time when I 44 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:05.640 was a little boy, I was walking to the convenience 45 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:10.000 store and along the way I saw a guy with 46 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:13.319 a leaf blower in his front yard. But the strange 47 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:16.879 thing is the squeaky shoes blowing leaves. He was blowing 48 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:21.879 squeaky shoes, and every time he blew them, they squeaked. 49 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:24.280 And the closer he got the leaf blower to the 50 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:28.159 squeaky shoes, the louder the shoes squawked. 51 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:31.280 Yeah, walkie talkie, And so I. 52 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:34.639 Thought to myself, that sounds exactly like my dad's walkie talkie, 53 00:02:34.919 --> 00:02:36.759 you know the kind that he has in the back shed. 54 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:38.159 Holy guacamole. 55 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:40.159 Every time that I would go in the back shed, 56 00:02:40.199 --> 00:02:42.560 it would be so dirty. I would say, holy guacamole. 57 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:45.439 And I would look for different things. 58 00:02:45.479 --> 00:02:49.159 And I came across these walkie talkies inflatable kayaks. 59 00:02:48.840 --> 00:02:52.000 And I have to move the inflatable kayaks to the side, 60 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:54.319 and you know those ducks that they would float in 61 00:02:54.360 --> 00:02:56.800 the water if all this hunting gear. But I would 62 00:02:56.800 --> 00:02:59.560 get to these walky talkies and I would think, to myself, 63 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:02.400 this sounds just like these inflatable shoes. That's what I 64 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:04.800 thought in the moment as I was walking my dog 65 00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:06.240 to the convenience store. 66 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:09.879 You see Grandpa's face Facebook post. 67 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:14.280 They didn't have Grandpa's fish back in those. 68 00:03:14.159 --> 00:03:16.599 Days, but if he did, I thought. 69 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:21.599 I did, because as I was walking to the store, 70 00:03:21.759 --> 00:03:27.120 I was actually getting something that my grandpa. My grandpa's 71 00:03:27.159 --> 00:03:30.199 Facebook post talked about he actually posted the. 72 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:35.400 Fact unsupervised toddlers licorice? Did you say unsupervised toddlers? 73 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:39.599 He wanted licorice? And so I thought to myself, Okay, 74 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:42.560 I'm gonna go buy some liquorice because we ran out 75 00:03:42.919 --> 00:03:45.759 because I gave my bag of licorice to a group 76 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:50.520 of unsupervised toddler. So because he posted about it and 77 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:52.639 he wanted it, I knew that we ran out. So 78 00:03:52.680 --> 00:03:54.199 I thought to myself, I'm gonna go get it. 79 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:56.400 Emotional support lama. 80 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:03.879 So therefore I was turning the corner where this guy was, 81 00:04:04.840 --> 00:04:07.240 you know, blowing leaves, and I came across this pen 82 00:04:07.879 --> 00:04:11.479 and it was filled with believe it or not, emotional 83 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:14.759 support lamas. Oh wow, where they were just there? So 84 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:17.680 I stopped to say hi to them, and I realized 85 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:19.879 that they were very used to people. I was worried 86 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:21.279 at first they were going to spit on it clip 87 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:26.759 on tie, but they didn't. And the reason why they 88 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:30.240 didn't spit on me is because oh she whizz is 89 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:33.879 because they were trained. But I knew I was passing them, 90 00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:36.839 so I purposefully wore a clip on tie just in case, 91 00:04:37.240 --> 00:04:38.800 because I had they spit on me, I would have 92 00:04:38.879 --> 00:04:40.120 protected my shirt with this car. 93 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:42.199 I see spaghetti. 94 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:45.279 But anyway, I walked all the way over to the store, 95 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:47.959 and as I was getting to the store, I realized 96 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:51.959 they had a sale on spaghetti newdles. And I thought 97 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:54.839 to myself, should I buy my licorice or should I 98 00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:58.759 buy the spaghetti noodles? Because you know my mom is Italian, yes, 99 00:04:58.839 --> 00:05:01.519 and she works very hard. And I thought to myself, 100 00:05:01.519 --> 00:05:05.199 I could delight my mom with spaghetti noodles. 101 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:06.240 Instead suspicious castle. 102 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:11.399 So I decided to go ahead and buy the spaghetti 103 00:05:11.399 --> 00:05:14.800 noodles instead, knowing that I might disappoint my grandpa because 104 00:05:14.839 --> 00:05:17.959 of his Facebook post. So I brought them home and 105 00:05:18.160 --> 00:05:21.079 I gave them to my mom and in hopes that 106 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:24.120 she would make my favorite disc spaghetti. But instead I 107 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:27.240 came home the next day after school, Jeff, and instead 108 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:31.040 of making spaghetti, I saw this suspicious looking castle role 109 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:35.279 on the table filled with noodles. I had no idea 110 00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:36.120 what was underneath. 111 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:38.279 So the moral of the story, the moral. 112 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:41.800 Of the story is, Jeff, just go ahead and do 113 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:44.839 the good deed and buy your grandpa what he wants. 114 00:05:44.920 --> 00:05:49.000 Because when you go shopping, just buy what you're wanting 115 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:52.399 to buy, no matter how many distractions of beaf blowers 116 00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:55.959 and squeaky shoes and lamas, right, just buy what you're 117 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:58.920 gonna go there for. And it all ended up being 118 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:02.600 score and good, you know, and mixed. 119 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:06.199 Up glitter tornado. That's your last one. 120 00:06:07.240 --> 00:06:12.240 I thought I was wrapping up, okay, okay, And I 121 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:15.839 remember that day very well because that was the day 122 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:20.639 that a tornado came through the the the barn in 123 00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:23.639 the back. It actually hit the barn and one thing 124 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:26.480 that my mom was a was a huge craft maker, 125 00:06:26.519 --> 00:06:28.800 you know, she used to knit and make crafts, and 126 00:06:28.839 --> 00:06:31.879 I remember it hit the barn and glitter just got 127 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:34.279 sucked up in the tornado and it just spread. And 128 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:35.680 did you know that, for the next two years we 129 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:36.560 found glitter in the. 130 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:38.519 Gut, I believe you. Yeah, eactly. 131 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:40.800 So we refer to that event as the glitter tournail, 132 00:06:41.319 --> 00:06:43.560 which is why I remember every detail of that day. 133 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:46.839 That's incredible, Chris, Thank you well. You know, I think 134 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:49.920 it's one of the things our listeners love is having 135 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:54.079 the opportunity to just learn more about your life and 136 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:56.920 you know, those kinds of things. Now that glitter tornado 137 00:06:57.000 --> 00:07:00.800 thing gives me nightmares. Yeah, I hate glitter. Yeah, I 138 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:03.680 hate it. I think it should be outlawed. How do 139 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:05.680 you think that did? It was really good, Chris. I 140 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:06.160 enjoyed it. 141 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:08.439 Yeah, although you threw me some pretty tough. 142 00:07:08.279 --> 00:07:09.240 One tough ones. 143 00:07:09.319 --> 00:07:12.800 Yeah, I was like, wow, that's those are I mean glitter? 144 00:07:13.399 --> 00:07:15.439 Well, Ted GPT helped me out with that because I 145 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:17.360 was I was struggling this a little bit coming up 146 00:07:17.399 --> 00:07:20.360 with good ideas. But glitter tornado was from h and 147 00:07:20.439 --> 00:07:21.800 spaghetti were from desire. 148 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:22.839 Oh were they? 149 00:07:22.920 --> 00:07:23.120 Yeah? 150 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:26.079 All right, well oh she gave you suggestive words, yes, 151 00:07:26.199 --> 00:07:29.040 h huh oh wow, well hey, I think I think 152 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:31.040 I jump made it make sense. 153 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:32.639 So you were telling me before we started that you 154 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:35.480 and your buddy used to make these stories. Yes, like 155 00:07:35.519 --> 00:07:35.879 that right? 156 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:38.160 You used to be one of my favorite things to do. Uh. 157 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:41.120 Me and my buddy would sit in biology and we 158 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:43.920 would like write a sentence and then like start the 159 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:46.360 next sentence and then fold down the paper so so 160 00:07:46.399 --> 00:07:48.680 they couldn't see the previous sentence and you would have 161 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:51.040 to just make another sentence based on just a few words, 162 00:07:51.480 --> 00:07:53.319 and then then you would you know, do the same thing, 163 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:55.399 and we would full, full, full, for full, we do 164 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:57.519 the whole paper, and then at the end we would 165 00:07:57.600 --> 00:08:00.920 literally unravel it and then read the story. And it 166 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:04.040 was one big run on sentence, you know, or sometimes 167 00:08:04.120 --> 00:08:06.360 we would you know, start a new sentence, and we 168 00:08:06.759 --> 00:08:10.720 used to cry laughing, and they were just outlandis stories 169 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:13.279 and we loved it, and it was something that passed 170 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:15.040 the time. When the teacher was being boring. 171 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:16.600 I was gonna say, you were doing this not in 172 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:19.279 English class, you were doing this in biology class. You 173 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:21.920 were doing a writing exercise in biology. 174 00:08:22.199 --> 00:08:28.120 Just pay attention. So that's good man like biology. And 175 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:30.560 I certainly didn't like the lady who was teaching biology 176 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:33.120 at the time. You know, we didn't like her at all. 177 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:38.600 So the only thing I remember from college biology class 178 00:08:38.759 --> 00:08:43.360 I had. I had a maybe he was a nice man, 179 00:08:44.440 --> 00:08:48.440 but maybe the single most boring voice I've ever heard 180 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:50.919 in my life. It was a deep voice. He had 181 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:54.120 been a lawyer before he became a professor, and he 182 00:08:55.120 --> 00:09:00.440 this very deep voice and completely monotone. So he go, 183 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:07.000 homogeny recapitulates phylogeny. Wow, And that's the only It was 184 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:09.039 one of the funnies things because I had just complained 185 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:12.000 about his voice. Bonnie my wife, now, she was my 186 00:09:12.039 --> 00:09:13.919 girlfriend then we were sitting next to each other in 187 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:18.440 biology class and I had just told her, I said this, 188 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:20.799 this guy has the most boring voice I ever heard 189 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:23.759 in my life. And she was laughing about that. And 190 00:09:23.799 --> 00:09:26.039 as soon as I said those words, he goes homogeny 191 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:31.480 recapitulates phylogyny, and I just lost it. I started laughing, 192 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:33.679 so I couldn't stop it. Yeah, so I remember that. 193 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:35.639 That's the only thing I remember from that biology class. 194 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:38.720 Wow, that's great. 195 00:09:39.320 --> 00:09:40.600 Yep, it was great. 196 00:09:40.759 --> 00:09:45.960 We are moving on to our segment, and she wiz, 197 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:49.440 I actually I would say this. You know what, it 198 00:09:49.480 --> 00:09:52.480 takes a pure heart to be able to take words 199 00:09:52.799 --> 00:09:54.759 and tell a very clean and innocence. 200 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:58.279 Does it? Does? It takes well? Good news for you then, 201 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:00.799 because about Jesus said blessed of the peer and heart, 202 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:02.559 because they're going to see God's. 203 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:04.759 Good for me. 204 00:10:05.480 --> 00:10:06.279 Who would have thunk? 205 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:06.679 Yeah? 206 00:10:06.759 --> 00:10:10.759 Yeah, So here's what Jesus says. We've been doing the 207 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:13.919 beatitudes in Matthew chapter five, and he gives us whole 208 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:18.120 list of things of what God promises to bless right 209 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:21.960 and when he talks about blessing he's talking about, you'll 210 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:26.759 be happy, you'll be fulfilled, you'll have God's favor on 211 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:30.000 your life, right, that all these things and so this 212 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:35.279 one phrase he says, God blesses those whose hearts are pure, 213 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:38.159 for they will see God. And that's it today, that's 214 00:10:38.200 --> 00:10:40.679 what we're talking about. And it's not really just about 215 00:10:40.720 --> 00:10:42.799 being pure enough to be able to tell a nice story. No, 216 00:10:42.919 --> 00:10:44.120 so we probably should unt pack that. 217 00:10:44.600 --> 00:10:47.600 Well, I mean, you said at the end of my story, 218 00:10:47.639 --> 00:10:49.320 you made a comment and said, we just want to 219 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:51.360 get to know you better. I thought to myself, what 220 00:10:51.399 --> 00:10:54.080 if somebody tuned in late or fast forwarded the YouTube 221 00:10:54.919 --> 00:10:56.519 or hit fast forward and they actually think that was 222 00:10:56.559 --> 00:10:59.200 a true story or me lying about my childhood. 223 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:05.039 Yeah, yes, it was so thank goodness, because I mean, yeah, 224 00:11:05.080 --> 00:11:08.600 all those emotional support lamas running around it really would 225 00:11:08.679 --> 00:11:11.240 make the thing confusing for people. So, uh, I just 226 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:12.840 thought I would jump into this. I looked up the 227 00:11:12.840 --> 00:11:18.399 word pure, right, what does he mean pure in heart? Well, 228 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:20.360 I was curious because there's a lot of different Greek 229 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:25.399 words that get translated as pure. So this is Katharo's 230 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:32.759 is the word, and it means clean, It means unmixed, 231 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:37.639 and it means undivided. Isn't anything you ever you ever 232 00:11:37.679 --> 00:11:41.039 hear the word cathartic. That was cathartic, and and usually 233 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:43.080 what that means it kind of cleansed my soul. When 234 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:44.840 when I did that, it kind of cleansed me clean. 235 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:47.000 It's it's where we get that word right, And so 236 00:11:47.559 --> 00:11:52.679 it's not just the The general meaning behind katharos isn't 237 00:11:53.080 --> 00:12:01.759 just moral cleanliness. It's right. It's a single hearted devotion 238 00:12:02.039 --> 00:12:03.679 to right. 239 00:12:03.759 --> 00:12:05.679 So a lot of times, like for flips too, when 240 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:09.279 it says be like minded, yes, and he's talking about 241 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:13.000 the church not being divided in their thinking right to 242 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:16.639 be of one accord, you think it's sort of. 243 00:12:16.559 --> 00:12:19.240 That way when when you are dialed in all in 244 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:23.000 on God and God's ways, you are going to wind 245 00:12:23.080 --> 00:12:25.279 up living a more pure life. You're going to have 246 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:26.279 a more pure heart. 247 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:30.519 Divided mind. Would be somebody who lives in the world 248 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:33.480 and then also lives in God's work, right, Yeah, somebody 249 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:35.519 who hasn't officially abandoned. 250 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:38.200 This is why Jesus said you can't serve both God 251 00:12:38.279 --> 00:12:42.200 and money. You need to choose right. This is why 252 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:44.440 at the very end of this message he preaches in 253 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:47.840 Matthew Chapter seven. The very end, he goes, Listen, you 254 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:50.159 have a choice here. You can either build your life 255 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:51.879 on the sand, or you can build your life on 256 00:12:51.919 --> 00:12:57.360 the rock. Yeah. Right, And and so if you're foolish, 257 00:12:57.600 --> 00:12:59.600 you're just gonna keep building your life on the sand, 258 00:12:59.639 --> 00:13:01.759 and when the storms comes, gonna fall. If you're wise 259 00:13:02.279 --> 00:13:04.399 and you're going to do and you do what I say, 260 00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:08.480 then you will build your life on a rock, and 261 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:12.080 then when the storms come, it'll stand. And so it's 262 00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:15.759 the same. You can't build on the rock and the sand. Right, 263 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:18.639 That's what he's really with this whole message. He's kind 264 00:13:18.679 --> 00:13:21.919 of driving a wedge between trying to have your cake 265 00:13:21.960 --> 00:13:25.399 and eat it too, where you want God to answer 266 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:27.200 all your prayers and to be your good luck charm, 267 00:13:27.320 --> 00:13:29.000 but you want to live like the rest of the 268 00:13:29.039 --> 00:13:31.879 world lives all the time. And Jesus, through the whole message, 269 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:35.840 is separating that your religion is not checking all the 270 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:38.360 boxes so you can be right with God. So stop 271 00:13:38.440 --> 00:13:42.279 thinking that. Instead, understand, be single minded, be all in 272 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:44.720 with God. But when you are, you're going to start 273 00:13:44.759 --> 00:13:46.600 seeing the world from the perspective he sees it, and 274 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:49.320 you're going to have a different, a different mindset. I 275 00:13:49.360 --> 00:13:55.159 remember I had a friend who watched a documentary about 276 00:13:55.320 --> 00:13:59.960 food and suddenly couldn't go to McDonald's anymore. Well, yeah, 277 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:04.559 up right, because he had new new information the famous movie. 278 00:14:04.679 --> 00:14:08.159 Yeah yeah, yeah, So he had new information and he's like, 279 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:10.159 I can never go and he said, you should watch 280 00:14:10.159 --> 00:14:12.240 that movie. I said, I will never watch that documentary. 281 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:17.440 I don't want to be changed, right, but for him, 282 00:14:18.679 --> 00:14:22.759 But for him, when he adopted the viewpoint of that 283 00:14:23.759 --> 00:14:28.519 filmmaker and he genuinely believed the information he was given 284 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:31.879 been given, he built a different life. So we always 285 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:34.120 used to go to McDonald's together. Suddenly he's never going 286 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:36.840 to McDonald's again. And it changed him. Whereas for me, 287 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:40.080 I know about it, but I'm not embracing it, right, 288 00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:43.200 And so I stopped McDonald's on the way to work today, right. 289 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:47.399 And And there is something to that when you really 290 00:14:47.639 --> 00:14:51.279 genuinely believe what God has said and you're aligning with 291 00:14:51.600 --> 00:14:55.879 his principles, it's not that you're still wanting He doesn't 292 00:14:55.919 --> 00:14:59.480 want McDonald's anymore, right, It's not like, oh, dude, you 293 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:00.960 know what, level love to go get me a big 294 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:02.240 mac right now? He's like, do you know what a 295 00:15:02.279 --> 00:15:04.080 big mac's gonna do to you? Right? Do you want 296 00:15:04.080 --> 00:15:06.000 a large friend is gonna do to you that? That's 297 00:15:06.039 --> 00:15:09.200 a he's horrified. Yeah, that I would go. And that's 298 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:11.840 that's what it means to be single minded with God 299 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:14.320 is once you align with God's thoughts. It's not that 300 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:17.000 now you're constantly fighting with Oh my gosh, it's so 301 00:15:17.080 --> 00:15:19.360 hard not to keep doing those old things. It's, oh 302 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:20.759 my gosh, you know what that's gonna do to you? 303 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:21.200 Right? 304 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:21.480 Right? 305 00:15:21.720 --> 00:15:24.360 Yeah, that's good. And that's a heck of an introduction. 306 00:15:24.559 --> 00:15:25.519 Before we read the verse. 307 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:28.200 I did read the verse. I read it twice. Oh 308 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:29.240 you already read it twice. 309 00:15:29.639 --> 00:15:31.039 Oh, I thought you were referring to it. 310 00:15:31.080 --> 00:15:31.720 I read it twice. 311 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:32.440 Okay, read it. 312 00:15:32.440 --> 00:15:34.840 But that's okay, let me let me do it again. Yeah, 313 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:37.240 Blessed are those whose hearts are pure, For they will 314 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:37.639 see God. 315 00:15:39.879 --> 00:15:41.080 That's three times longer. 316 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:42.320 That's three times. 317 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:45.879 That's so funny. So, uh, that's three times. 318 00:15:45.960 --> 00:15:48.240 That's good though. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna drive this 319 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:48.720 one home. 320 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:52.639 Yeah yeah, well, you know, so when he says for 321 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:56.960 they will see God, that's a different promise, isn't it? Right? 322 00:15:57.039 --> 00:16:00.840 Because the other ones where they will be satisfied, they 323 00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:05.039 will be comforted. You know, the Kingdom of Heaven is 324 00:16:05.159 --> 00:16:08.200 theirs that it talks about an inheritance, right, But this 325 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:11.519 one says for they will see God. That's interesting is that. Yeah, 326 00:16:12.320 --> 00:16:16.000 the reward of that of being pure and hard or 327 00:16:16.279 --> 00:16:20.480 like minded or going fully devoted to God's way, will 328 00:16:20.519 --> 00:16:26.279 see God. So I don't literally take it as seeing God, 329 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:30.440 because we know that the Bible says that no man 330 00:16:30.519 --> 00:16:33.799 can look upon God and live right, right, So Moses 331 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:34.840 couldn't look upon God. 332 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:37.440 And some people would say this must mean go to heaven. 333 00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:40.720 But none of these verses mean go to heaven. No, 334 00:16:41.240 --> 00:16:42.799 not a single one of them means go to heaven. 335 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:47.000 Because you can see God in you know people, you 336 00:16:47.080 --> 00:16:49.960 can see God glorified, right, you can see God through 337 00:16:50.039 --> 00:16:53.919 any Christian so so, but or you can see God 338 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:55.519 in a way that you haven't seen him before. 339 00:16:55.840 --> 00:16:59.559 Have you ever heard the phrase we don't lose sight 340 00:16:59.639 --> 00:17:01.960 of God because he's hiding from us. We lose sight 341 00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:05.279 of God because our heart gets cloudy. You've ever heard that? 342 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:08.319 That was I've heard that multiple times. I heard a 343 00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:10.680 whole message preached on that, And that's part of it 344 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:15.000 is in those moments. Okay, today we woke up and 345 00:17:15.039 --> 00:17:20.319 it was foggy, really foggy. Right, Well, I couldn't see 346 00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:24.079 to the end of my street. Yeah, right, So when 347 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:27.799 things get cloudy, you can't see very far when and 348 00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:30.279 all that is is water vapor coming in from off 349 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:33.160 the lake that we live near. Right, the ice is melting, 350 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:35.599 and so there's all this water vapor, temperature and all 351 00:17:35.640 --> 00:17:37.279 that kind of stuff, and it gets in the way 352 00:17:37.319 --> 00:17:39.759 and it starts a cloud. You can't see normally. I 353 00:17:39.880 --> 00:17:42.119 turned the corner and on the street leading out of 354 00:17:42.160 --> 00:17:44.319 my sub it's a half mile long street, I see 355 00:17:44.319 --> 00:17:46.519 all the way to the end, just about right. And 356 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:50.160 it's the same thing when you are really clear and 357 00:17:50.359 --> 00:17:53.240 everything is blown out of the way, there's a nice breeze, 358 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:56.759 everything's blown out of the way, nothing is blocking your view. 359 00:17:57.160 --> 00:17:59.759 You can see and you can see God moving. We 360 00:17:59.839 --> 00:18:02.279 can't see God. It's because we've allowed things to creep 361 00:18:02.319 --> 00:18:04.519 in that make that cloud up our view and we 362 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:08.240 get distracted. The Book of James says a double minded 363 00:18:08.319 --> 00:18:11.480 man is unstable in all of his ways. Right, This 364 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:13.880 idea being double minded makes it very difficult for me 365 00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:17.079 to focus on anything. I had a friend, This is funny. 366 00:18:17.200 --> 00:18:19.480 I had a friend that had both of his eyes 367 00:18:19.559 --> 00:18:22.680 went slightly opposite. Did you ever see somebody with one 368 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:27.039 lazy eye? Yeah, the new Superman, so he had that's true. Uh, 369 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:30.640 he had two lazy eyes, both of them went slightly 370 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:32.799 He had these special things that they were. They tried 371 00:18:32.839 --> 00:18:35.039 to fix it, but it was always you were always 372 00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:36.759 trying to figure out as he's looking at me, you know, 373 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:39.960 and somehow he could see, he could he could see, 374 00:18:40.279 --> 00:18:42.519 but they weren't significant. It wasn't like they were, you know, 375 00:18:42.599 --> 00:18:45.599 opposite directions, but they were just off from each other. 376 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:50.640 And anytime I think of this, a double minded man 377 00:18:50.720 --> 00:18:52.759 is on the stable waist. If you're looking at two things, 378 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:57.039 you're not actually focusing on anything, right, And that's what 379 00:18:57.119 --> 00:19:00.839 we want to do. We think we're good multitask and 380 00:19:00.920 --> 00:19:04.200 there's a ton of research on it. We're not good multitaskers. Right. 381 00:19:04.519 --> 00:19:06.240 Everything we do then it winds up being about seventy 382 00:19:06.279 --> 00:19:07.599 percent of our very best that we could do. If 383 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:09.759 we just focused on one thing, we get way less 384 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:12.720 done when we're trying to do more things. But when 385 00:19:12.759 --> 00:19:14.960 you have focused I was just talking with one of 386 00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:18.880 our leaders here at Heritage Church. He's on staff. He's 387 00:19:18.920 --> 00:19:22.039 got a big team and a big budget, has a 388 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:25.720 lot of pressure and a lot of deadlines. And so 389 00:19:25.880 --> 00:19:28.680 I was talking with him that his entire team does 390 00:19:28.839 --> 00:19:31.200 all the work, and I said, I really think what 391 00:19:31.279 --> 00:19:33.000 you need he has two really good leaders. I said, 392 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:36.000 I think you need to divide it and have one 393 00:19:36.079 --> 00:19:39.880 of your guys paying attention to this group of thoughts 394 00:19:40.359 --> 00:19:43.039 and one of your guys in that team thinking of 395 00:19:43.119 --> 00:19:44.920 this group of thoughts, because what they're doing is they're 396 00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:46.839 going back and forth. I need to work on this 397 00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:48.839 chord progression. I need to make sure that I got 398 00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:51.640 volunteers scheduled. We've got to design this thing. We've got 399 00:19:51.720 --> 00:19:53.400 to get this video out, we've got to write. And 400 00:19:53.960 --> 00:19:56.359 when you're thinking about one hundred things, it's hard to focus. 401 00:19:56.759 --> 00:20:00.519