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 --> 00:00:12.800 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible guys. 4 00:00:12.839 --> 00:00:14.119 Hey, do you know what we're celebrating today? 5 00:00:14.279 --> 00:00:15.160 Oh? What is today? 6 00:00:15.279 --> 00:00:15.759 Episode? 7 00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:22.480 Oh? That's okay? What five three four? Man? 8 00:00:22.519 --> 00:00:23.640 Don't mess this one up today. 9 00:00:23.719 --> 00:00:24.519 That's a big day. 10 00:00:24.600 --> 00:00:27.679 Don't mess this one up, which basically which. 11 00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:29.079 Basically means every day is a big day. 12 00:00:29.320 --> 00:00:31.760 Every day's a big day. That's right, that's what we're saying. 13 00:00:31.760 --> 00:00:35.520 Well, listen, listeners, we're going to give you the privilege, nay, 14 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:39.840 the the what I should I should have said something 15 00:00:39.880 --> 00:00:42.159 and then said nay, the privilege started. I messed it up. 16 00:00:42.399 --> 00:00:44.880 I was gonna say the honor, nay, the privilege. 17 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:46.799 What an introduction to this next segment. 18 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:47.399 I blew it. 19 00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:50.560 I'm hanging I'm hanging on the just every word now. 20 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:53.240 Okay, I have to explain myself since I blew it 21 00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:57.200 so badly. Have you seen Knight's Tale with Yes, you 22 00:00:57.200 --> 00:01:00.520 know what I'm talking about? What's his name? Who asked away? 23 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:01.039 Uh? 24 00:01:01.079 --> 00:01:06.719 Huh batman joker anyway? Uh he uh? That that that 25 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:09.439 line is from that movie where he says, he says, 26 00:01:09.719 --> 00:01:10.439 he says. 27 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:13.560 I give you the honor, nay, the privilege. 28 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:14.799 Which is why I messed up in my mind, right 29 00:01:14.879 --> 00:01:16.040 honored name that privilege. 30 00:01:16.079 --> 00:01:18.120 Yes, you want to try it again. Yes, we're gonna get, 31 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:19.280 ladies and gentlemen. 32 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:22.120 The honor nay, the privilege of hearing from Jeff. Because 33 00:01:22.159 --> 00:01:25.840 Desiree has asked this question. What made Jeff mad this week? 34 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:29.920 Okay, oh this was and it's amazing. Yes, because when 35 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:32.599 we walked in the studio, which for you was what 36 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:35.599 four days ago for our listeners, yes, for us, it 37 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:39.760 was like two hours ago. We walked in the studio, 38 00:01:40.799 --> 00:01:47.280 we were talking with our our our inestimable I mean, 39 00:01:47.439 --> 00:01:52.239 our fabulous, incredible producer director. What is he? What is he? 40 00:01:52.280 --> 00:01:55.879 Our technic technical director? Yes? Is that Josh? Yes? Yes, 41 00:01:56.079 --> 00:01:58.439 so Josh behind the scenes. You never get to see him. 42 00:01:58.799 --> 00:02:00.640 But Josh is the one who does all the cuts 43 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:02.519 and makes the sound sound good, all that kind of stuff. 44 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:07.200 We were talking with him about a technical install recently speakers, 45 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:10.800 all this kind of stuff. Tons of money spent, Yes, 46 00:02:11.400 --> 00:02:16.759 and I was complaining about the fact that the installers, 47 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:19.719 not Josh. Josh is the one who fixed the problem 48 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:24.439 because he's a flipping genius, right. But the installers come in. 49 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:27.599 There's a thing when you install a big sound system 50 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:29.199 into a special room. Then you come in, you set 51 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:31.840 up some special microphones, and then the computer will pay 52 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:33.639 attention to it and go ooh, change this, change that, 53 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:37.599 realign this, do these things with the EQ all this 54 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:39.360 kind of stuff so that you get the best sound 55 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:41.120 you can get in the room. It's not perfect at 56 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:43.319 that point, but he gets it super close. Then the 57 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:45.639 geniuses with the golden ears go in make a few tweaks. 58 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:49.599 It's better. Well, they install this expensive thing and we're like, this. 59 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:50.759 Is horrible, horrible. 60 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:53.719 Now, the equipment's fabulous. What we invested in was great, 61 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:56.039 but the install was bad, so we were really struggling 62 00:02:56.039 --> 00:02:57.759 with it. We get back in behind the scenes and 63 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:03.840 realize they literally took the computer's recommendations, went nah and 64 00:03:03.919 --> 00:03:07.000 tried to do their own thing, and every single speaker 65 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:09.840 they installed was eqed wrong, every one of them, every 66 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:11.039 one of them, every single one. 67 00:03:11.159 --> 00:03:14.800 In fact, I would venture to say, maybe the worst 68 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:18.599 sound experience. You know, when you stand in different parts 69 00:03:18.639 --> 00:03:22.879 of the room. The inconsistency was so different in different 70 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:25.639 parts of the room. It's the worst as far as 71 00:03:25.639 --> 00:03:27.800 that goes. It's the worst that I've ever personally exerce. 72 00:03:28.479 --> 00:03:30.199 And I wound up walking you down the island going 73 00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:32.680 this is ye first speaker because it's a six speaker 74 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:34.159 in array, right, and I keep saying that, look how 75 00:03:34.199 --> 00:03:36.680 bad that is. Now let's step fifteen more feet and 76 00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:38.840 now listen. You listen to next week and it's different, 77 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:41.960 radically different. It was horrible. So what makes me mad 78 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:45.800 is when when you have the technology in front of you, 79 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:48.000 or you have the expertise in front of you, and 80 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:51.319 then you throw off that and go, nah, I'm better 81 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:54.960 than that. That always makes everything worse. I've never had 82 00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:57.759 a time when somebody took what was clearly in front 83 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:01.240 of them as the best advice and they get rid 84 00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:02.879 of the best advice and just do their own thing. 85 00:04:02.919 --> 00:04:07.280 I've never seen anything turn out better because some guy 86 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:11.080 thinks he's better than the advice. Right, And the Bible 87 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:13.919 says there's wisdom and a multitude of counselors. Counseling is 88 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:15.360 what you need. You need, you need a group of 89 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:16.560 people who are giving you a good idea. 90 00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:19.360 Did you just turn what this guy Jeff mad? This 91 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:20.319 week into a sermon? 92 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:23.519 Well, what made me mad this week? It just makes 93 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:27.000 me mad when the guy had everything he needed to succeed, yeah, 94 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:29.439 and threw it off. Okay, I wouldn't and then made 95 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:32.839 everything bad for us when we paid for good customers. 96 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:35.920 I wouldn't have gone that route on that story. I 97 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:41.600 would have just said they're terrible at equeuing. 98 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:44.120 Well, all I'm saying is there's a better way, and 99 00:04:44.160 --> 00:04:46.560 that is take to take good advice. Gave good advice, 100 00:04:46.600 --> 00:04:48.439 takeo advice. That's what I was trying to say. But 101 00:04:48.519 --> 00:04:50.319 you know I can't help it. Then I'm a Bible 102 00:04:50.360 --> 00:04:53.120 guy and it just oozes from me. Ye right? Does 103 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:53.920 does that make sense? 104 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:54.879 Yes? Yes? 105 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:57.279 But I'll also be honest with see in your. 106 00:04:57.079 --> 00:04:59.160 Blood, I am not sermonized everything. 107 00:04:59.160 --> 00:05:01.199 I am not so and I just give a little 108 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:04.240 Bible verse just to chat about that. You're the sermonizer, 109 00:05:05.319 --> 00:05:07.279 But I would say I'm also not as good at this. 110 00:05:07.319 --> 00:05:08.720 What made Jeff mad this week? 111 00:05:09.240 --> 00:05:10.319 Yes you are. 112 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:12.399 You're like a pro at it well, and I feel 113 00:05:12.439 --> 00:05:15.360 like I stumbled through it. I feel like I stumbled 114 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:17.480 through and then failed at the What made Jeff mad 115 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:18.120 this Week's. 116 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:20.240 No, No, No, you just turned it into a lesson. 117 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:21.240 I know. I didn't know that. 118 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:23.120 It was like, it's like it's like the parents. 119 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:24.720 I didn't feel like there's any rules. Do you guys 120 00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:25.600 need to coach me up on it? 121 00:05:25.639 --> 00:05:28.279 Do you ever have a kid who uh has the 122 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:32.519 mom or the dad who turns everything into a Bible lesson? 123 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:36.480 Yeah, my kids have that dad. Yeah, I'm afraid they do. 124 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:37.079 Yeah. 125 00:05:37.279 --> 00:05:38.519 You know the Bible says. 126 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:42.240 Yeah, well that's uh, that's that could be good sometimes, 127 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:45.160 but I've not seen that work out too well. 128 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:46.959 I don't teach them, I don't preach with them, but 129 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:48.519 when they ask for advice, I'll say, well, here's what 130 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:49.199 the Bible says. 131 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:52.639 Well, no, that's that's good. That's always good if they ask, right. 132 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:55.879 But it's like it's like I've met people though, and 133 00:05:56.240 --> 00:05:59.160 this isn't necessarily you, but I've I've met people who, uh, 134 00:05:59.399 --> 00:06:01.360 they'll see anything and it'll be like, oh, look, opinion 135 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:04.759 on the ground. You know, the Bible says there's hidden treasures, 136 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:06.759 you know whatever, And I'm just like, oh my gosh, 137 00:06:06.839 --> 00:06:08.000 not everything is a sermon man. 138 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:10.439 So half the Bible guys doesn't like it when other 139 00:06:10.439 --> 00:06:13.279 people quote the Bible is that what I heard. Let 140 00:06:13.319 --> 00:06:15.279 me tell you another thing that made Jeff mad this week. 141 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:17.600 I think I think you hear what you want to hear, 142 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:21.560 because that's not what I heard. By the way Heath led. 143 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:23.319 Your Yeah you got I thought I thought of that 144 00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:24.279 name too, was sitting there. 145 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:24.560 Yeah. 146 00:06:24.639 --> 00:06:26.480 So I'm sorry that I failed at that. What made 147 00:06:26.519 --> 00:06:27.040 Jeff made this? 148 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:29.240 Well? My goodness, I never said failed. 149 00:06:28.879 --> 00:06:31.600 Well it felt like it. No, you had an opportunity 150 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:33.839 to say, good good effort, Jeff, wait to try. 151 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:36.920 Hey, I I am I'll do what you have done 152 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:39.399 for me in the past. Okay, I am one hundred 153 00:06:39.399 --> 00:06:42.680 percent with you on this one because that Sometimes i'll 154 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:45.759 give it what made mad and you say, okay, good job, 155 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:48.120 you're mad for the world. And then sometimes I'll give 156 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:50.079 it and you're like, I'm with you in this one. 157 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:51.639 I'm with you in this one. Well, I am one 158 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:52.879 hundred percent with you in this one. 159 00:06:52.959 --> 00:06:59.480 Well, it doesn't take much to get you mad. Everything. 160 00:06:59.519 --> 00:07:01.000 I just got an other thing to be mad about. 161 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:06.399 Thank you, Chris. Your support means the world to me. 162 00:07:06.759 --> 00:07:09.120 Well, so I will say this. I will say this. 163 00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:14.439 You can't necessarily blame somebody for trying if they try 164 00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:17.279 their best, right, right, So that's not what I what? 165 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:19.920 What the thing to be mad about here? Right? What? 166 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:23.399 What you what you can sort of be mad about 167 00:07:23.560 --> 00:07:26.800 is hey, pay us for something that has promised you, 168 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:30.240 and then thank you for the money. Now we're not 169 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:30.879 going to do. 170 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:33.720 I'm a pro. I'm going to take a tremendous amount 171 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:39.199 of money for me, but I'm not going to pay 172 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:41.759 attention to the technology or the advice I have in 173 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:44.800 front of me. Right oops, I can't fix it, see you, 174 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:47.279 but thank you for the pay thank you for a 175 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:51.279 tremendous amount of money. And then I walk in and 176 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:54.720 will I don't get paid tremendous amount of money to 177 00:07:54.759 --> 00:07:57.040 do those things. I'm a musician, so I have some 178 00:07:57.160 --> 00:08:00.279 ears I can hear, and I'm like, well, that's not right, 179 00:08:00.519 --> 00:08:02.560 And thank god for guys like Josh you step in 180 00:08:02.600 --> 00:08:03.759 and go I know how to fix it. 181 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:04.720 Yeah, I know. 182 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:05.199 How to fix it. 183 00:08:05.279 --> 00:08:08.319 So thanks for nothing. We have to fix the problem 184 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:10.759 that you created that you promised wouldn't. 185 00:08:10.399 --> 00:08:12.959 Be a problem. That's right. That's all that makes me mad, okay, 186 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:13.439 right there? 187 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:17.079 Well hey, that was that was fascinating, riveting, but we 188 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:19.879 have to move on. We took eight well, we only. 189 00:08:19.800 --> 00:08:23.240 Have a few verses to read today, and oh yeah, 190 00:08:23.279 --> 00:08:26.639 the consequences of everything that we've been talking and we've 191 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:30.360 been really setting this up for a while. David abdicating 192 00:08:30.360 --> 00:08:33.240 his responsibility to be a mentor to his son, David 193 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:38.159 abdicating his responsibility to correct his other son for behavior 194 00:08:38.159 --> 00:08:39.879 that David also had in his own life. But it 195 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:43.480 repented from David's failure to raise his sons to have 196 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:46.519 God first place in their life and God's ways. It 197 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:49.039 all finally comes to a head. And then David refusing 198 00:08:49.399 --> 00:08:52.039 to engage with his son when his son's trying to 199 00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:55.039 come back to his dad. It's refusing. There was this moment, 200 00:08:55.039 --> 00:08:57.600 there's this little window of time that things could have 201 00:08:57.639 --> 00:09:00.480 been fixed, and instead, here's what it says in Second Samuel, 202 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:04.039 chapter fifteen, verse one. After this this is you know, 203 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:06.639 member David briting back gave him a half hearted kiss, yep. 204 00:09:06.879 --> 00:09:10.080 Or at least after this, Absolull, So did Absolom? I 205 00:09:10.120 --> 00:09:15.080 think it didn't make things better? After this, Absolom bought 206 00:09:15.080 --> 00:09:18.279 a chariot and horses, and he hired fifty bodyguards to 207 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:20.720 run ahead of him. He got up early every morning 208 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:22.559 and went out to the gate of the city. When 209 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:25.279 people brought a case to the king for judgment, Absolom 210 00:09:25.320 --> 00:09:27.279 would ask where in Israel they were from, and they 211 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:30.600 would tell him their tribe. Then Abslom would say, you've 212 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:32.480 really got a strong case here. It's too bad the 213 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:34.559 king doesn't have anyone to hear it. I wish I 214 00:09:34.600 --> 00:09:37.080 were the judge. Then everyone could bring their cases to 215 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:40.159 me for judgment. I could give him justice. When people 216 00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:43.120 tried to bow before him, Absolom wouldn't let them. Instead, 217 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:45.759 he took them by the hand and kissed them. Absolom 218 00:09:45.799 --> 00:09:48.039 did this with everyone who came to the king for judgment, 219 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:49.639 and so he stole the hearts of all the people 220 00:09:49.679 --> 00:09:53.320 of Israel. After four years, Absolom said to the King, 221 00:09:53.480 --> 00:09:55.600 let me go to Hebron to offer a sacrifice to 222 00:09:55.639 --> 00:09:57.759 the Lord and fulfill a vow I made to him, 223 00:09:57.840 --> 00:10:00.240 For while your servant was at Geesher and Aram, I 224 00:10:00.279 --> 00:10:02.720 promised the sacrifice to the Lord in Hebron. If you 225 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:05.879 bring me back to Jerusalem, all right, The King told him, 226 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:08.919 go and fulfill your vow. So Absolom went to Hebron. 227 00:10:08.919 --> 00:10:11.519 But while he was there he sent secret messengers to 228 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:13.559 all the tribes of Israel to stir up a rebellion 229 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:16.120 against the king. As soon as you hear the rams horn, 230 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:18.840 his message said, you are to say Absalom has been 231 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:21.960 crowned king in Hebron. He took two hundred men from 232 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:24.480 Jerusalem with him as guests, but they knew nothing of 233 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:28.240 his intentions. While Absolom was offering the sacrifices, he sent 234 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:32.080 for a Hithafel, one of David's counselors who lived in Guilo. 235 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:38.279 Soon many others joined Absalom, and the conspiracy gained momentum. 236 00:10:38.559 --> 00:10:41.600 So we're really not we're not reading the actual incidents. 237 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:44.240 Well, there's more coming, but this is where he rises up. 238 00:10:44.279 --> 00:10:45.039 You want me to keep going. 239 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:47.799 There's a part of me that really wants to. There's 240 00:10:47.840 --> 00:10:50.120 a lot more verses for the story. 241 00:10:49.840 --> 00:10:51.000 Though, Yeah, there's a bunch of it. 242 00:10:51.080 --> 00:10:53.960 Maybe that's the reason why we're gonna save that for 243 00:10:53.960 --> 00:10:54.600 a whole episode. 244 00:10:54.639 --> 00:10:56.279 Yeah, the way you and I tell the story, we 245 00:10:56.279 --> 00:10:58.360 can get it done in twenty five minutes. But the 246 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:00.759 way that it's written here is there's a lot of 247 00:11:00.799 --> 00:11:04.039 writing about this. Yeah, right, look at a couple of 248 00:11:04.080 --> 00:11:06.279 songs David wrote during this time too. There's a lot 249 00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:07.440 of stuff we'll cover here. 250 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:11.919 Yeah. So, so there's a note in the Life Application 251 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:14.840 Study Bible, and it says about diverse number two. It 252 00:11:14.840 --> 00:11:19.679 says the city gate was like was like city Hall 253 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:24.039 and the shopping center combined. Because Jerusalem was the nation's capital, 254 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:27.360 both local and national leaders met there daily to transact 255 00:11:27.399 --> 00:11:30.960 business and conduct government affairs. The city gate was the 256 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:33.480 perfect spot for this because the government and business transaction 257 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:38.559 needed witnesses to legitimate, and any to be legitimate, and 258 00:11:38.639 --> 00:11:41.399 anyone entering or leading the city had to enter through 259 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:44.720 the gates. Merchants set up their tent shops near the 260 00:11:44.720 --> 00:11:46.759 gate for the same reason. So Absolently therefore went to 261 00:11:46.759 --> 00:11:49.080 the city gate to win the hearts of Israel's leaders 262 00:11:49.480 --> 00:11:52.000 as well as those of the common people. So that 263 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:55.120 gives us a little insight. That's kind of a cool picture, 264 00:11:55.279 --> 00:11:58.600 because after all, you wonder, like, how, you know, where 265 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:01.799 would he where would he pop esture himself to gain 266 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:04.320 that much influence in here that you know that many 267 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:08.440 cases and and but so the city gates makes sense. 268 00:12:08.960 --> 00:12:13.919 So you think about the patients that Absolom has already 269 00:12:13.960 --> 00:12:17.399 demonstrated by waiting two years to take revenge on eminen, 270 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:20.919 so we know that he's a cunning, patient person. 271 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:22.799 And then two years for his dad to bring him home. 272 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:24.559 Yeah, two years for dad to bring him home. 273 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:26.759 And then wasn't it two? Was it two or three? No? 274 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:30.840 It was two. There's two, and then it says four years. 275 00:12:30.879 --> 00:12:35.240 Four years. He did this for four years. So he 276 00:12:35.559 --> 00:12:41.080 actually decided to, uh, you know, wait for the right time. 277 00:12:41.639 --> 00:12:45.480 In other words, he has is a lot of cunningness 278 00:12:45.919 --> 00:12:48.399 and a very good sense of when is the right 279 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:51.639 time to pull off a plan? Apparently right, So he's 280 00:12:51.639 --> 00:12:55.159 decided like, hey, how how long until I feel like 281 00:12:55.559 --> 00:12:58.399 if we pulled off this plan people would back him? 282 00:12:58.840 --> 00:13:01.919 And so I mean for years trying to show compassion, 283 00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:04.919 win the hearts of people, and then basically turn everybody's 284 00:13:04.960 --> 00:13:06.159 heard against his father. 285 00:13:06.120 --> 00:13:10.240 Right man, that is how cool are you? For one? Yeah, 286 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:12.480 you have your own release. He goes and buys like 287 00:13:12.519 --> 00:13:14.000 a Corvette chariot. 288 00:13:14.080 --> 00:13:17.720 Right, and with the five pounds hair. 289 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:20.480 Fifty bodyguards out in front of him. Fifty dude, that's 290 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:23.639 the size to get fifty people. That's twenty five people 291 00:13:23.720 --> 00:13:26.879 running side by side, right, twenty five lines side by 292 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:30.360 side out in front. Is that in his chariot? Would 293 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:32.559 have been like the size of a school bus. Yeah, 294 00:13:32.600 --> 00:13:37.799 cruising through on those narrow streets, right, we think of boy, 295 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:40.320 a school bus would make a big production driving down 296 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:41.879 the road if you had it all fixed up, you know, 297 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:44.960 something that that big and that long on our roads 298 00:13:44.960 --> 00:13:47.639 which are wide and big, but there inside of a 299 00:13:47.679 --> 00:13:51.200 walled city, right, everybody would have had to get off 300 00:13:51.200 --> 00:13:53.399 the street. Which in order for this and order for 301 00:13:53.440 --> 00:13:57.039 this procession, he literally hired himself a parade every single day. 302 00:13:57.200 --> 00:14:01.639 And here's which begs the question, how could David still 303 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:04.519 not know what's going on with Absolom? 304 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:07.519 Well, because at this point now David's living like a king. 305 00:14:08.679 --> 00:14:12.000 But this is what you do if the opulence, the fanciness, 306 00:14:12.080 --> 00:14:15.440 he's he's kind of walked away from the every guy 307 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:18.600 thing now, right. The fact that he thought that bringing 308 00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:20.960 Apselom back and just give him a fancy house next 309 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:23.080 to Joe Apps was going to be enough meant that 310 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:25.639 David's thought David's priorities had shifted. 311 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:29.000 Yeah, right right, I'm going to show my love through 312 00:14:29.039 --> 00:14:30.679 your stuff, through status and stuff. 313 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:33.159 Yeah. And so the fact that Appslom already has long hair, 314 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:35.919 he's a little bit of a peacock anyways, looking at you, 315 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:39.120 just by himself a Lamborghini. So on my way here 316 00:14:39.159 --> 00:14:42.600 today to the studio, this guy came ripping out of 317 00:14:42.600 --> 00:14:45.320 a parking lot right next to me. And you know, 318 00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:47.320 I drive a pickup truck, so it's pretty big. But 319 00:14:47.399 --> 00:14:49.559 this guy comes flying out a parking lot in a 320 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:53.279 Lamborghini blue Lamborghini Wow. And so I'm trying not to 321 00:14:53.279 --> 00:14:55.000 make eye contact, but I can't quite looking at it, 322 00:14:55.000 --> 00:14:58.879 and it's like, and he's trying to get around me. 323 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:00.519 He's trying to get around the cars around us. But 324 00:15:00.679 --> 00:15:03.200 you know where we're at, where we live on Hall Road, 325 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:05.279 him fifty nine is a very busy road, so there's 326 00:15:05.320 --> 00:15:07.320 a lot of traffic and all that kind of stuff. 327 00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:11.639 But everybody was looking at him. Everybody was looking. Every 328 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:13.759 car around me, everybody was looking at him. And I 329 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:16.039 just was struck by the fact that this guy's peacocking 330 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:20.919 and frustrated that because he's a peacock, everybody's looking, which 331 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:23.559 makes everybody drive slower, which is frustrating him because he 332 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:26.679 wants to get around them, right right, right, everybody's driving 333 00:15:26.679 --> 00:15:31.000 slower because they were looking at his car. But you know, 334 00:15:31.080 --> 00:15:33.360 I don't know his story. I'm guessing he's pretty rich. 335 00:15:33.440 --> 00:15:36.240 His car costs much of my house, right, right, so 336 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:38.559 I'm guessing he's pretty rich. This is what people would 337 00:15:38.600 --> 00:15:41.200 have done. It's everybode went wow. Nobody was mad at 338 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:44.960 this guy. Everybody was looking at his Lamborghini. Wow, how 339 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:47.200 cool is he? I wonder what he does for a living? Right, 340 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:48.200 that's what you start doing. 341 00:15:48.399 --> 00:15:48.559 Man. 342 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:51.559 I wish I was him, and so Abslom did it, 343 00:15:51.639 --> 00:15:54.159 and his dad goes hah. Abslom is a peacock. Look 344 00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:57.759 at his long hair. Look at his fancy chariot. He's 345 00:15:57.759 --> 00:16:01.000 got these fifty guys out in front of him. But whatever, Hey, 346 00:16:01.080 --> 00:16:02.639 as long as he's staying out of my hair, as 347 00:16:02.639 --> 00:16:04.480 long as he's not causing me trouble, and then it's 348 00:16:04.519 --> 00:16:08.080 not unreasonable. The city gates were also the marketplace. This 349 00:16:08.120 --> 00:16:09.919 is where you'd go shopping. This is where you go 350 00:16:09.960 --> 00:16:12.440 hang out, This is where all the action was. You've 351 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:14.519 been in the Middle East before, where there's where there's 352 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:19.240 gates and stuff, right, So so many times, I've been 353 00:16:19.240 --> 00:16:22.519 in so many places where it's where everything happens. There's 354 00:16:22.559 --> 00:16:25.279 somebody cooking some food, a few different little restaurants, there's 355 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:28.320 people selling trinkets. There's you can buy shoes and clothes 356 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:31.159 and soccer balls, and then there's people standing around. Clearly 357 00:16:31.200 --> 00:16:33.720 the old man are doing business. That's what's happening. So 358 00:16:33.759 --> 00:16:37.600 it's not unreasonable that he would go there. Because David 359 00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:40.440 now is doing all his business in the palace. He's 360 00:16:40.440 --> 00:16:42.399 not down with the people. But it's not unreasonable that. 361 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:44.440 You know, if you have a fancy car, you're going 362 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:46.320 to drive it where people can see it. And that's 363 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:49.080 what Absom does. The whole thing made sense to David 364 00:16:49.080 --> 00:16:50.200 because he wasn't paying attention. 365 00:16:50.600 --> 00:16:53.799 Yeah, and so think about how cunning he is. It 366 00:16:53.879 --> 00:16:56.799 says that he refused to anybody bow to him and 367 00:16:56.799 --> 00:17:00.480 and he oh he oh, I just I think you 368 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:02.519 have such a good case. And he said he did 369 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:03.159 this with all the people. 370 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:03.919 Tribe you from? 371 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:05.119 Right? What tribe you from? 372 00:17:05.240 --> 00:17:09.680 Yeah, he's developing constituencies right right, Oh, that's a good tribe. 373 00:17:09.799 --> 00:17:11.519 One of my favorite tell me about how are your 374 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:12.119 daughters doing? 375 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:12.359 Yeah? 376 00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:15.960 Yeah, what do I tribe you from? Wow? How's How's 377 00:17:16.039 --> 00:17:17.279 how's a little billy man? 378 00:17:17.319 --> 00:17:19.000 I wish I wish my dad cared about you as 379 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:20.960 much as I do. I just wish there's something I 380 00:17:20.960 --> 00:17:23.240 could do about that. Yes, that's what he's doing. 381 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:25.279 And so listen again. I said this a couple of 382 00:17:25.319 --> 00:17:28.079 podcasts ago, and I said, I was impressed with the 383 00:17:28.119 --> 00:17:33.160 patience of Absolom, you know, exacting his revenge, which is 384 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:35.599 a terrible thing, but like, I just have to admire 385 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:38.599 somebody who, like holy Cow, he wants to overthrow his dad, 386 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:41.400 and he puts a plan in motion and took four 387 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:44.400 years to cultivate that plan. Give it up for this guy. 388 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:49.000 If he had used those so he's outrageously talented and 389 00:17:49.079 --> 00:17:54.079 incredibly intelligent. He's very savvy. If again, his dad had 390 00:17:54.119 --> 00:17:56.880 taken him on a similar journey of personal development and 391 00:17:56.920 --> 00:18:00.359 walking with God, those talents and those skills would have 392 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:04.240 taken Israel way beyond where David could take it. That's right, 393 00:18:04.279 --> 00:18:06.119 because he's standing on the shoulders of a great man. 394 00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:10.640 But instead he's using his gifts for himself. And so 395 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:12.960 often that's what we do, is we use our gifts 396 00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:15.759 for ourselves instead of for God in God's plan. And 397 00:18:16.400 --> 00:18:20.680 so here you go, David is kind of asleep at 398 00:18:20.680 --> 00:18:25.920 the wheel. He's left his everyman personality and his everyman persona. 399 00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:28.559 I guess where before he was one of the people. 400 00:18:28.759 --> 00:18:31.319 He was a champion of the people. You know, he 401 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:33.680