WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:16.440 practical ways. Well, good morning, good morning, we talk moment 4 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:20.039 do good morning, good morning to you and you and you. 5 00:00:20.559 --> 00:00:22.399 We made it, we made it. It's Friday. 6 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:25.039 It's Friday. Who you're saying good morning? And I never, 7 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:28.199 well hardly ever do it on a Friday. But today 8 00:00:28.440 --> 00:00:29.280 is a good day. 9 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:32.320 It's a great day. And you know what makes today amazing? 10 00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:34.200 What what makes today phenomenal? 11 00:00:34.280 --> 00:00:35.960 What what makes stupendous? 12 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:36.479 Wow? 13 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:38.960 I'm trying to put out all the adjectives here. 14 00:00:39.119 --> 00:00:39.479 Wow. 15 00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:45.079 What makes today absolutely utterly amazing is it's the thing 16 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:46.399 that everybody waits for. 17 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:49.000 I don't believe this. Every time people do that, there. 18 00:00:48.920 --> 00:00:52.359 Is someone at home right now a tear, a single 19 00:00:52.439 --> 00:00:59.920 tear is going down their face because it's the segment 20 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:04.599 of segments. What may Chris Matt this week? 21 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:07.120 I just hate that intro, but you know what, I 22 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:09.000 gotta be honest, that was the best intro to this 23 00:01:09.079 --> 00:01:12.760 say ever. A single teared on somebody's side of their 24 00:01:12.799 --> 00:01:15.200 face is so funny. 25 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:17.840 Okay, they want to know the listeners are what made 26 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:18.920 Chris Matt this week. 27 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:20.519 Well, it only took me a few seconds to think 28 00:01:20.519 --> 00:01:23.359 about it, Wesley, because it happened this morning. Okay, all right, 29 00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:25.680 so it made me mad, and I'm going to take 30 00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:28.400 a different it's going to be a radically different take 31 00:01:28.439 --> 00:01:28.640 on this. 32 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:29.640 Okay. 33 00:01:29.719 --> 00:01:29.959 Yeah. 34 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:33.079 Oh so buckle up, ladies and gentlemen, it is ready ready. 35 00:01:33.719 --> 00:01:37.400 Today I got mad at myself, oh for being selfish. 36 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:40.280 Oh man, Yeah, this might be a record right here. 37 00:01:40.439 --> 00:01:42.959 That's right, that's right, instead of being mad at the world, 38 00:01:43.519 --> 00:01:46.480 right for the world. Because normally I'm like, hey, i'm 39 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:49.280 mad at this thing, I'm mad for everybody else. And 40 00:01:49.400 --> 00:01:52.599 today I'm going to say, let's be let's let's let 41 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:56.840 let's everybody else take time to sometimes be mad at ourselves. Yeah, 42 00:01:56.879 --> 00:01:59.319 because sometimes we could be pretty selfish. Yeah, So let 43 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:00.000 me tell you why I was. 44 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:02.040 What happened. 45 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:05.920 I was mad at myself for being mad at other things. 46 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:08.439 So I was sir enough by being mad at my 47 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:13.400 lawn guy, right, because here's what happened. So literally, in 48 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:16.080 this particular case, we started filming the Babba guys at 49 00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:18.840 nine am. We filmed five of them back to back, right, 50 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:21.639 and so I was due here at Heritage Church. This 51 00:02:21.719 --> 00:02:25.039 is our stage at nine am. And so what did 52 00:02:25.080 --> 00:02:27.199 I do. I got in my car. I was heading back. 53 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:29.360 I was heading in my car probably about I don't know, 54 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:33.400 maybe twelve minutes or fifteen minutes to nine. I'm heading 55 00:02:33.439 --> 00:02:36.479 out to my car or my truck. And then there's 56 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:39.680 a guy who sprays my lawn and he's only been 57 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:42.000 spraying it for like maybe six months or so, new company. 58 00:02:42.520 --> 00:02:45.840 And this guy walks out and sees me walking out 59 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:50.719 to my truck and says, Hey, it is you, pastor Chris, 60 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:53.159 because I saw your name and I've been spraying your 61 00:02:53.199 --> 00:02:55.120 house for months, and I saw your first and last name, 62 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:56.560 and I thought, I wonder if this is the same 63 00:02:56.639 --> 00:02:58.639 Chris zar Ba, which, by the way, I got news 64 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:01.080 for you. There's no other bizarre bar except in Texas, 65 00:03:01.479 --> 00:03:03.719 like literally in the whole United States except for in Texas. 66 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:06.719 So anyway, and he's a lawyer, by the way, So 67 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:09.840 but anyway, he goes, he goes, I thought it was you. 68 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:12.520 He goes. I used to be I used to go 69 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:14.439 to your church and now I don't go anywhere. And 70 00:03:14.479 --> 00:03:16.759 you were my pastor for years and years. Wow, And 71 00:03:16.759 --> 00:03:19.000 I was like wow, and I was like, that's cool. 72 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:20.599 So we talked a little bit about it, and he goes, 73 00:03:20.599 --> 00:03:22.599 and so I'm thinking to myself like, Okay, I gotta go. 74 00:03:22.759 --> 00:03:25.759 I gotta go. I got somewhere to be, and he goes, hey, 75 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:27.280 so let me just ask you a question. He goes, 76 00:03:28.039 --> 00:03:30.439 can I just tell you about my marriage? And let 77 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:32.599 me ask you, can you pray for me? And so 78 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:36.360 he just starts unloading all these legitimate, like good things, 79 00:03:36.879 --> 00:03:38.840 you know, and I'm just like, Okay, what am I 80 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:39.319 going to say? 81 00:03:39.479 --> 00:03:40.680 Yeah, hey, I'm late for you. 82 00:03:40.759 --> 00:03:43.560 I got to go. I can't pray for you. Right, 83 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:47.199 So I'm like legitimately listening to this guy. So you 84 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:49.280 already know the answer to this. So I texted you saying, hey, 85 00:03:49.319 --> 00:03:51.520 I'm going to be late because I'm doing this. And 86 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:54.240 I figured that's the better choice. Right. It's definitely worth 87 00:03:54.319 --> 00:03:56.199 me being late ten minutes for me to spend time 88 00:03:56.240 --> 00:03:56.800 with this guy, right. 89 00:03:56.879 --> 00:03:57.240 Yeah. 90 00:03:57.280 --> 00:03:59.680 So I made the choice, and I stayed like twenty 91 00:03:59.719 --> 00:04:01.879 minutes talking to this guy. But in the entire time, 92 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:03.879 I'm like, I'm sort of mad at him for making 93 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:06.360 me late, right, And I'm like Okay, So I get 94 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:09.000 in my car and I'm heading here, and then all 95 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:11.360 of a sudden, I get in this bumper to bumper 96 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:16.079 traffic jam. Now, normally this is the place where at 97 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:18.040 like five o'clock it would be the place where the 98 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:21.680 traffic jams. It's coming off of you know, a freeway 99 00:04:21.720 --> 00:04:24.759 which turns into a main road, and that's normally where 100 00:04:24.759 --> 00:04:26.839 that where it's bumper to bumper traffic, but only normally 101 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:29.519 like at five pm. So here it is at nine am. 102 00:04:29.920 --> 00:04:32.639 I'm thinking, we're past the window of eight am. Why 103 00:04:32.759 --> 00:04:35.759 is this jammed up? And it is seriously jammed up. 104 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:39.600 So I'm late another ten minutes. I'm behind schedule on 105 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:42.839 another ten minutes, and the whole time I'm mad at 106 00:04:42.839 --> 00:04:47.920 whatever's happening up there, right until I get up there 107 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:52.399 and I realized somebody, this poor guy smashed his truck. 108 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:55.480 It looks like a brand new twenty twenty five GMC 109 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:59.079 white truck, full sized truck, and he smashes it into 110 00:04:59.399 --> 00:05:03.800 what looks like a twenty twenty five unbelievably beautiful jeep 111 00:05:03.839 --> 00:05:08.519 renegade o man and one smashes into the other. These 112 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:10.439 poor people are on the side of the road and 113 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:13.759 they're just like like, you know, like probably their lives 114 00:05:13.800 --> 00:05:20.759 are devastated. Yeah, but I'm angry because they're ten minutes late, right, 115 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:22.600 and so I So then all of a sudden, I 116 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:25.480 went from being angry at my long guy to being 117 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:29.560 angry at whoever's causing this traffic jam, to oh, it's 118 00:05:29.639 --> 00:05:32.079 those guys up there with the traffic, with the with 119 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:34.160 the lights and the tow trucks, to all of a 120 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:37.480 sudden being angry at myself, going like, why am I 121 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:38.720 so selfish? 122 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:39.199 Right? 123 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:41.639 I mean, I'm a few minutes late, and those guys 124 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:44.680 whole lives have been turned upside down. Who knows, maybe 125 00:05:44.759 --> 00:05:47.040 that guy is whiplash. He's going to struggle with his 126 00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:49.720 spine for the rest of his life. Right, you're mad, 127 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:53.839 But I'm mad about ten minutes of my meeting because 128 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:57.319 I didn't plan for more cushion or margin, right, Because 129 00:05:57.319 --> 00:05:58.519 I could have been here at eight thirty. 130 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:00.040 Yeah, right, I would have. 131 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:01.480 By the way, I would have avoidered everything if I 132 00:06:01.560 --> 00:06:03.079 was just coming at eight thirty. Right. 133 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:06.519 That's it, ladies and gentlemen, Chris made Chris Matt this week. 134 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:07.000 That's right. 135 00:06:07.079 --> 00:06:07.879 That's what about. 136 00:06:08.279 --> 00:06:10.600 Hey, you know what, it's going to be mad for 137 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:13.199 the world. I'm challenging the world to be mad at 138 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:16.279 themselves every once in a while because we can lose perspective. 139 00:06:16.519 --> 00:06:17.360 Yeah that's true. 140 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:19.600 Right, that's very So I'm mad at Chris today. 141 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:22.279 Yeah, that's it, and marked that in your calendars. It 142 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:23.920 happened this day, tay you what. 143 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:26.319 For the years that I've been doing this, I've never 144 00:06:26.360 --> 00:06:28.920 been mad at myself. Yeah, well I have, but I've 145 00:06:28.959 --> 00:06:29.680 never talked about it. 146 00:06:29.800 --> 00:06:30.000 Yeah. 147 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:31.720 Right, so that's it. 148 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:32.720 That's good. 149 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:35.959 Yeah, that's so funny. All right, Well, you wanted to 150 00:06:35.959 --> 00:06:37.720 come up with a transition, I'll give you a couple 151 00:06:37.759 --> 00:06:39.720 of seconds. I know that you weren't thinking of a transition, 152 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:41.519 but I'm going to put you on the spot. I'm 153 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:43.160 gonna give you like ten seconds to come up with 154 00:06:43.160 --> 00:06:45.920 a transition, because this is about Jesus praying in the garden. 155 00:06:45.959 --> 00:06:46.439 Get semine. 156 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:49.639 Another thing that you can be mad at is when 157 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:53.680 people don't pray. Okay, that was terrible, it was. 158 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:56.959 It's a good thing that this is terrible segments. Yeah right, 159 00:06:57.040 --> 00:06:59.560 terrible segments. Yeah, because actually that that says nothing to 160 00:06:59.560 --> 00:06:59.959 do with anything. 161 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:04.319 Yes, well, sort of. Jesus was telling them that, you know, 162 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:06.240 if you could stay awake and pray with me for 163 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:06.600 you know. 164 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:08.399 But but how does my story have anything to do 165 00:07:08.439 --> 00:07:08.759 with prayer? 166 00:07:08.839 --> 00:07:10.240 I don't know. I'm just trying to tie it. 167 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:12.920 Wait, the fact that I didn't pray, I don't know. 168 00:07:13.279 --> 00:07:15.240 It was bad. It just was bad. We're just gonna 169 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:15.800 let it die. 170 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:19.680 No, no, no, let's let's resurrect it. Let's resurrect it. 171 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:24.000 Listen, listen. 172 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:27.519 I should have prayed while being on the road. Yeah, right, 173 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:31.000 And the fact that I didn't pray is just like this. 174 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:33.639 Story there, that's where we're going with that one. Okay, 175 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:36.240 that's what we're going with all right. Oh man, so 176 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:40.519 funny Luke twenty two, verses thirty nine through forty six. 177 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:42.759 Yeah, so this is only like seven verses. 178 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:46.519 Yeah, so it's super short, it says. Then, accompanied by 179 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:50.480 the disciples, Jesus left the upstairs room and went as 180 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:54.439 usual to the mount of olives. There he told them, 181 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:58.680 pray that you will not give into temptation. He walked 182 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:02.519 away about a stone own's throat and knelt down and pray, Father, 183 00:08:02.639 --> 00:08:05.079 if you are willing, please take this cup of suffering 184 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:08.759 away from me. Yet, I want your will to be done, 185 00:08:08.879 --> 00:08:13.319 not mine. Then an angel from heaven appeared and strengthen him. 186 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:17.160 He prayed more fervently, and he was in such agony 187 00:08:17.160 --> 00:08:19.959 of spirit that his sweat fell to the ground like 188 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:23.839 great drops of blood verse forty five. At last he 189 00:08:23.959 --> 00:08:27.160 stood up again and returned to the disciples, only to 190 00:08:27.240 --> 00:08:31.759 find them asleep, exhausted from grief. Why are you sleeping? 191 00:08:31.879 --> 00:08:34.639 He asked them, Get up and pray so that you 192 00:08:34.759 --> 00:08:36.919 will not give in to temptation. 193 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:40.799 Yeah. You know, what's interesting is that we have covered 194 00:08:40.919 --> 00:08:46.080 this exact passage, it seems like a few times recently. 195 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:50.919 So we did, we did the Gospels, and then we 196 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:53.279 covered it in the Gospels, and then what we did 197 00:08:53.399 --> 00:08:57.240 was we did a series basically famous sayings of Jesus, 198 00:08:57.279 --> 00:08:59.039 like what if Jesus had a podcast, he would cover 199 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:01.919 his famous sayings. And then and it just seems like 200 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:04.679 just a few weeks ago we went ahead and talked 201 00:09:04.679 --> 00:09:07.840 about this, so we sort of revisited it, like, you know, 202 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:11.360 maybe I don't know, a couple months apart. And then 203 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:15.080 we had a choice on whether or not to include 204 00:09:15.080 --> 00:09:17.039 it in this podcast, and you know, we all decided 205 00:09:17.799 --> 00:09:21.519 we have to include it because you can't have a 206 00:09:21.759 --> 00:09:24.559 new series called Dangerous Prayers. 207 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:27.159 Without without this prayer one from Jesus. 208 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:30.240 Because this is perhaps one of the most dangerous prayers 209 00:09:30.279 --> 00:09:33.720 of all and so it is, it is the goat 210 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:36.240 of these moments. Right, So we're like, well, you know what, 211 00:09:36.279 --> 00:09:38.679 We're going to talk about it again, maybe from a 212 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:42.799 different angle, because you know, again there's always something new 213 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:45.799 to learn from the same passage of scripture. By the way, 214 00:09:45.799 --> 00:09:47.720 have you ever done that? Have you ever read, like, 215 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:50.360 for instance, like John three sixteen or something and something 216 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:53.519 stands out to you and you're like, wow, that's that's amazing. 217 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:56.360 And then you go back and you read something is 218 00:09:56.799 --> 00:09:59.679 you know, basic for salvation as John three sixteen again 219 00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:04.080 and somehow something else completely comes to life. And and 220 00:10:04.600 --> 00:10:08.080 what's always interesting about the scripture is that sometimes you'll 221 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:10.799 read a verse and it may even have the same meeting, 222 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:13.480 but then somehow it applies to an entirely different thing 223 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:16.399 that you're going through, right. And that's the beauty of 224 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:19.519 reading God's word daily, because I I can't even tell 225 00:10:19.559 --> 00:10:21.159 you the number of times where I thought to myself, 226 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:24.080 I've read this before, and yet it's like, man, that 227 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:26.639 applies directly to what I'm going through now. And the 228 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:28.960 last time I read this I wasn't going through anything 229 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:31.600 like that, and how could this apply to this? And 230 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:33.840 it's like, well, that's just the magic of God's word, 231 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:36.080 God's word through the power of the Holy Spirit. Is 232 00:10:36.440 --> 00:10:40.679 that I says, it's alive, it's living, it's active, right, 233 00:10:40.720 --> 00:10:44.919 it's profitable for teaching, for correction, for a proof for 234 00:10:45.039 --> 00:10:48.320 instruction and righteousness. And is it cuts to the joints 235 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:51.080 and the marrows. It divides the thoughts the intents of 236 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:53.879 the heart. And it's like, it's just amazing to me. 237 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:58.320 How again, the same passage of Scripture can apply to 238 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:00.600 what we're going through and it totally different way. 239 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:04.399 Yeah, that's very true, and that's funny. Verse forty is 240 00:11:04.600 --> 00:11:07.799 where it says there he told them pray that you 241 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:13.120 will not give into temptation. And I love that because 242 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:18.799 every single person watching today has some form of temptation 243 00:11:19.159 --> 00:11:23.440 in their life. Yeah, whatever that thing is, Jesus is 244 00:11:23.519 --> 00:11:28.039 telling us that we can pray about that thing. Oftentimes 245 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:31.759 people will struggle with their temptations. For someone, it could 246 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:34.320 be drugs. For someone, it could be alcohol or whatever 247 00:11:34.399 --> 00:11:38.159 that thing is. You can find help in your time 248 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:41.399 of need. You can pray and ask the Father to 249 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:45.440 help me with this temptation, and God will that's the 250 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:49.320 beauty of it. But oftentimes, when there is a temptation 251 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:53.480 or an addiction or something like that, asking God for 252 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:57.039 help with that temptation is oftentimes the last thing that 253 00:11:57.080 --> 00:11:59.399 people would do. Yeah, that's right, and they'll seek out 254 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:01.000 other means to try to get relief. 255 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:03.720 Yeah, and and uh, you know, when you ask God 256 00:12:03.759 --> 00:12:08.320 for help, sometimes the answer that God gives is more 257 00:12:08.360 --> 00:12:12.320 practical than supernatural. Right. So it's like it's like, uh so, 258 00:12:12.440 --> 00:12:16.200 for instance, you were saying something like alcoholism, which, as 259 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:19.799 we all know, is extremely powerful disease. Right, so you 260 00:12:19.840 --> 00:12:22.120 know you're praying, like, okay, God, help me with this temptation, 261 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:25.799 you know, to drink or not. The simple answer that 262 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:28.320 God might say is, well, your first step is leave 263 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:28.679 the bar. 264 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:30.559 Yeah that's true. 265 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:34.000 Just just just walk out, right, and and that. 266 00:12:34.039 --> 00:12:36.240 What that bottle that you have at home, pour it out, 267 00:12:36.279 --> 00:12:37.159 pour it out. Yeah yeah. 268 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:39.000 And you're like, well, I don't have the strength to 269 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:41.840 do either one of those choices. Okay, Well then that's 270 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:44.279 why we have others in our lives. And of course 271 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:46.559 in that world, you know, most of us know it 272 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:50.279 as sponsors, right, So so there's there's the practical sponsor, 273 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:53.200 and then there's you know, the spiritual advisor, and oftentimes 274 00:12:53.240 --> 00:12:54.480 that person is one and the same. 275 00:12:54.960 --> 00:12:55.720 Yeah. 276 00:12:55.759 --> 00:12:59.039 But but anyway, all that to say, when you pray, 277 00:12:59.480 --> 00:13:01.960 God help me with this temptation, I guess what I'm 278 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:04.960 really trying to say is it's not as if God 279 00:13:05.080 --> 00:13:09.519 is going to magically always remove the temptation. Yeah right, 280 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:13.440 God would. God would oftentimes just say, just make this 281 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:16.840 choice so that you so that the temptation removes itself. 282 00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:20.279 Yeah right, that you know, remove yourself from the temptation, right, 283 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:24.000 being removed from your life, just by making these guidelines 284 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:27.240 or these rules or these systems, you know, put them 285 00:13:27.240 --> 00:13:31.240 into place. You know, we call it accountability, right, we 286 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:35.440 call it prevention. All these all these different types of things. 287 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:38.639 So I think that you know, pray that you will 288 00:13:38.679 --> 00:13:44.080 not leave me in temptation isn't always just God's supernaturally 289 00:13:44.519 --> 00:13:48.799 changing our desires and our hearts. It is providing us 290 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:50.639 with a means to escape. 291 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:55.000 Yeah right, And oftentimes it's a process. You know, it's 292 00:13:55.039 --> 00:13:57.519 not kind of like what you're talking about. It's not instant, 293 00:13:57.559 --> 00:14:01.240 it's not just poof and then you're you know, instantly 294 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:05.799 transformed or something like that. Oftentimes, think of it this way. 295 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:09.080 For those of you who are watching, it took you 296 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:12.080 a while to get into it, so it may be 297 00:14:12.200 --> 00:14:14.919 a process to get out of it. You know, it's 298 00:14:14.960 --> 00:14:17.240 not always going to be just instant and then you 299 00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:19.639 walk away from the thing. Now. I have seen some 300 00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:23.000 miracles happen in people's lives where they did have some 301 00:14:23.600 --> 00:14:26.720 instant things happen. But for most of us, it's going 302 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:30.399 to be a process for the transformation that you're seeking 303 00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:32.399 in your life. It's not going to be just instant 304 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:34.120 and then boom it happens. 305 00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:35.600 Yeah, that's exactly right. 306 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:36.279 Yeah, you know. 307 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:40.960 James Chapter one, verse twelve is one of the first verses. 308 00:14:40.960 --> 00:14:43.720 In fact, it maybe the very first verse I've ever memorized. 309 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:46.600 In fact, now that I'm thinking about it, I think 310 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:49.200 it is. Okay, but I'm going to read it though, Yeah, 311 00:14:49.240 --> 00:14:49.559 because we. 312 00:14:49.840 --> 00:14:52.200 Read that this is James one for the listeners. 313 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:55.399 Yeah, James one twelve. Okay, it said God blesses those 314 00:14:55.399 --> 00:14:59.559 who are patient, who patiently endure testing and temptation. Afterwards, 315 00:14:59.600 --> 00:15:02.480 they were the crown of life that God has promised 316 00:15:02.519 --> 00:15:05.360 to those who love him. And remember that when you 317 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:08.120 are attempted, do not say God is tempting me. God 318 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:12.039 God is never tempted to do wrong, and he never 319 00:15:12.120 --> 00:15:15.840 tempts anyone else. Temptation comes from our own desires, which 320 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:19.879 entice us and drag us away. These give us, These 321 00:15:19.919 --> 00:15:22.759 give birth to sinful actions, and when sin is allowed 322 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:26.240 to grow, it gives birth to death. Beth, So don't 323 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:29.039 be misled, dear brothers and sisters. So then it goes on. 324 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:33.720 You know, it's interesting how the King King James version. 325 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:37.759 I memorized it in the King James version, and so 326 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:40.000 it says, blessed is the man that endures temptation, for 327 00:15:40.039 --> 00:15:41.639 when he has tried, he should receive the crowd of 328 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:44.679 life to which the Lord has promised to them that 329 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:48.080 love him. And then there's another one. You know what, 330 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:52.639 now that I'm reading this, there's another one on Corinthians 331 00:15:52.679 --> 00:15:55.799 ten thirteen. And again I memorize everything in the King 332 00:15:55.879 --> 00:15:58.440 James version, which is the old English version written in 333 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:02.639 the sixteen hundreds, it says, but there is no temptation 334 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:05.559 taking you, but such as is common to man. But 335 00:16:05.639 --> 00:16:09.639 God is faithful, who will with the temptation always provide 336 00:16:09.639 --> 00:16:11.840 a way to escape. So you may be able to 337 00:16:11.879 --> 00:16:14.960 bear it, right, and so, and the reason why that 338 00:16:15.039 --> 00:16:19.320 came to mind is because there is a you know, 339 00:16:19.480 --> 00:16:23.000 an implication there that again, God may not necessarily remove 340 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:25.120 the temptation desire. Right. 341 00:16:25.399 --> 00:16:25.559 Yes. 342 00:16:25.799 --> 00:16:27.679 So the reason why I read those two is because 343 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:30.080 the first one in James one twelve said it's not 344 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:33.120 God's desire that he placed in you. God doesn't tempt. 345 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:35.559 You to say, you can't blame God, right. 346 00:16:35.480 --> 00:16:39.559 He comes from your desires. So when you pray, pray 347 00:16:39.600 --> 00:16:41.720 that you will not lead us in temptation, don't expect 348 00:16:41.759 --> 00:16:44.759 God to necessarily change your desires. It says in one 349 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:47.879 Corinthing ten thirteen that he will give you a way 350 00:16:48.159 --> 00:16:48.799 to walk away. 351 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:50.480 Yeah, it's kind of like a life raft. 352 00:16:50.600 --> 00:16:52.039 Yeah, I'll give you a means to escape. 353 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:54.399 Yeah yeah, yeah, no, that's really really good. 354 00:16:54.519 --> 00:16:57.200 Yeah, yeah, for sure. And then the other dangerous part 355 00:16:57.240 --> 00:17:01.120 of the prayer, and of course the main thing is Father, 356 00:17:01.480 --> 00:17:05.319 not my will, but yours be done. Right. We talked 357 00:17:05.359 --> 00:17:07.319 about the cup of suffering and if you'll let this 358 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:10.319 cup pass from me. A few weeks back we talked 359 00:17:10.319 --> 00:17:13.640 about this, and we talked about how the cup can 360 00:17:13.720 --> 00:17:18.160 be symbolized in revelation but oftentimes it was cultural, and 361 00:17:18.279 --> 00:17:20.920 I believe it was more cultural. When you're sitting around 362 00:17:20.920 --> 00:17:22.599 a campfire they pass you a cup and you need 363 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:24.640 to choose to partake or not, and he's saying, I 364 00:17:24.680 --> 00:17:27.720 don't want to partake with what you're offering me. You know, 365 00:17:27.880 --> 00:17:32.279 sometimes we feel like God says, do this thing, be 366 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:35.599 a part of this and if we if we recognize 367 00:17:35.599 --> 00:17:38.799 it's God's will, there are just times where we say, God, 368 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:42.160 I don't want to do this. I don't want. I 369 00:17:42.200 --> 00:17:42.519 don't want. 370 00:17:42.519 --> 00:17:44.720 It's too hard, it's too difficult, it's going to cost 371 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:45.359 me too much. 372 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:48.240 It's yeah, yeah, But then the dangerous part of that 373 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:51.079 prayer is the comma that says, God, even though I 374 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:55.359 want to acknowledge this, I want to also say, nevertheless, 375 00:17:55.519 --> 00:17:58.039 not my will, but yours be done, total surrender. 376 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:01.759 I think the important thing here to remember, along with 377 00:18:01.880 --> 00:18:05.720 what you're saying, Chris, is at a very practical level. Yeah, 378 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:10.880 when you say that prayer, oftentimes what God will have 379 00:18:11.119 --> 00:18:14.960 you do will not make sense. There's a verse in 380 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:17.559 the Bible that talks about my ways or not your ways, 381 00:18:17.640 --> 00:18:20.880 and my thoughts are not your thoughts. Yeah, Isaiah, Yeah, 382 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:25.599 Oftentimes when God asks you to do something. It will 383 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:29.599 not make any sense whatsoever. You're not gonna want to 384 00:18:29.640 --> 00:18:31.559 do it, but you just have to trust that he 385 00:18:31.759 --> 00:18:34.759 knows the better route or the better path. But he's 386 00:18:34.839 --> 00:18:37.960 God and it's oftentimes not going to make sense to you. 387 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:40.599 Yeah, you know, I think I think it is worth 388 00:18:40.680 --> 00:18:44.440 spending a minute talking about. And if you were journeying 389 00:18:44.480 --> 00:18:47.079 with us for the whole week, think about the think 390 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:51.759 about the quality of these different calling prayers. Yeah, okay, 391 00:18:52.279 --> 00:18:54.720 So on Monday we talked about and a lot of 392 00:18:54.720 --> 00:18:56.960 people did not listen, so this would be beneficial. On 393 00:18:57.079 --> 00:19:01.400 Monday we talked about how Samuel failed to recognize God's 394 00:19:01.480 --> 00:19:04.640 voice and and when he did he said speak and 395 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:08.000 I'm listening, and so so, to the non Christian or 396 00:19:08.119 --> 00:19:10.400 to the new Christian, it's important to learn how to 397 00:19:10.440 --> 00:19:13.359 recognize God's voice, and to the mature Christian it's important 398 00:19:13.400 --> 00:19:14.480 not to ignore his voice. 399 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:15.160 Yes, that's true. 400 00:19:15.279 --> 00:19:18.319 Right. That was the lesson. That was the dangerous calling prayer. 401 00:19:18.680 --> 00:19:22.200