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 --> 00:00:15.880 practical ways. Good morning, good morning, we talked, not do 4 00:00:16.039 --> 00:00:23.280 good morning. Good morning to you. Nice nice, thank you. Yeah, 5 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:31.160 you usually don't add that. That's great, that's great. We're 6 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:33.719 getting into it. Get in the studs. Hey, welcome to 7 00:00:33.719 --> 00:00:36.240 the Bible Guys. We are starting off with a segment 8 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:39.200 that has a jingle. It is our only segment that 9 00:00:39.240 --> 00:00:41.119 we get to sing, and it's so this is. 10 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:43.240 Such a good one too, and it might be our 11 00:00:43.240 --> 00:00:43.880 best jingle. 12 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:46.079 Yes, and here it is. We're going to be doing 13 00:00:46.479 --> 00:00:51.039 mail bags. Okay, well, hey, what you still from Blues Schools? 14 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:56.159 It was super sophisticated. So we're trying to model our 15 00:00:56.759 --> 00:01:01.119 show after only the finest, yes, finest prom and so 16 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:10.560 Blues Clues is right at the top of our viewing list, so. 17 00:01:09.439 --> 00:01:10.000 That's blue. 18 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:13.280 Yes. So anyways, hey, this is a great one. 19 00:01:13.400 --> 00:01:13.640 Yes. 20 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:18.760 We have so many card and letter that have come 21 00:01:18.799 --> 00:01:23.000 into our mail bags, and the email and text have 22 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:26.400 come in. So this is a message from Christina M. 23 00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:30.920 And she says Hi. Well, first of all, Hi Christina M. Hi, Christina, 24 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:34.000 I can't miss saying hi, thank you for and I 25 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:34.799 know this is amazing. 26 00:01:34.840 --> 00:01:37.480 We do appreciate anybody who writes in and pays attention. 27 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:40.519 And I'm telling you she has I think a great 28 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:46.040 thought here, Yeah, what's your go to karaoke song? And 29 00:01:46.120 --> 00:01:48.840 can you give us a preview? And then she gets 30 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:51.599 really honest and she says, I'm just trying to get 31 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:52.959 Chris to sing some more. Ha ha. 32 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:55.680 Oh, Then that's appropriate that I started with good morning. 33 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:57.920 There you go, you're saying good morning. So I'm just 34 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:00.719 going to come out and say, I have never, ever, 35 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:03.519 one time in my life done karaoke. What I know. 36 00:02:04.079 --> 00:02:06.400 I knew that, so I have no I have no 37 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:07.000 go to song. 38 00:02:07.079 --> 00:02:08.800 But even though I knew that, I still say what. 39 00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:13.080 I know what? It's the back of the throat. Not 40 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:13.840 just a regular what. 41 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:16.080 This is a serious this is a whisper what. 42 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:19.159 That's right. So there's the what, and there's the what, 43 00:02:19.560 --> 00:02:20.439 and then there's what. 44 00:02:21.159 --> 00:02:24.639 By the way, how could you? How's that possible? 45 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:25.800 How could you? 46 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:27.759 You've never been to a party or gathering. 47 00:02:27.919 --> 00:02:31.360 I never have. I don't get in. That's that's a 48 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:34.280 boring guy. I've never been I've never been. 49 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:37.680 Karaoke I'm gonna ask you serious questions. 50 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:40.080 Leave when karaoke starts, stop. 51 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:44.400 Stop listen. I'm gonna ask you serious questions. And this 52 00:02:44.520 --> 00:02:46.879 is true. This is you have to be truthful. Have 53 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:51.840 you ever been in a situation where someone whether it's 54 00:02:51.919 --> 00:02:54.759 even at a church, whatever, where there was karaoke and 55 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:56.960 you had a choice whether to volunteer to go up 56 00:02:57.000 --> 00:02:58.960 and sing karaoke or you had a choice to not 57 00:02:59.039 --> 00:03:00.000 to have you ever. 58 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:03.039 Come on, I've never been in a room. I've seen it. 59 00:03:03.080 --> 00:03:05.680 I've seen on TV shows where like there's there in 60 00:03:05.759 --> 00:03:07.560 some kind of restaurant or a club or a bar 61 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:09.639 or something, and there's a karaoke thing there and people 62 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:12.680 go up and there's I've seen that. I've never I've 63 00:03:12.680 --> 00:03:14.639 never had an opportunity. It was for me. I've been 64 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:18.199 in places where we were eating and then karaoke started 65 00:03:18.360 --> 00:03:19.439 and I got up and left. 66 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:21.520 Okay, okay, all right, so you have. 67 00:03:21.639 --> 00:03:23.960 Them, well, not where it was an opportunity for me. 68 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:26.360 It was I was eating here, didn't know karaoke was 69 00:03:26.360 --> 00:03:28.439 a thing here. It starts over there, and before the 70 00:03:28.479 --> 00:03:30.479 song's done, we've left. 71 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:32.759 You just you just like stop in the middle of 72 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:33.159 your meal. 73 00:03:33.280 --> 00:03:35.599 Yeah, Well, yeah, we we just yeah, but it's only 74 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:37.639 been like once or twice. I'm not how many places 75 00:03:37.639 --> 00:03:39.439 that car came. 76 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:42.080 The stake just came to their singing run. 77 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:45.520 I only eat a sophisticated restaurant. The kind of places 78 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:47.159 you eat at versus the kind of places they eat 79 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:48.919 at maybe are two different, two different things. 80 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:52.120 Well, I grew up in clubs and stop. 81 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:59.960 Prayers doesn't have kaoke, right, Yeah, you said you hang 82 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:03.240 out at truck stops, and well that is, by the way, karaoke. 83 00:04:03.319 --> 00:04:05.560 That is true when I was in high school. This 84 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:07.639 is totally off topic, and there's nothing wrong with we 85 00:04:07.879 --> 00:04:09.000 would we would. 86 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:12.039 We would go to truck stops and drink coffee. Even 87 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:14.080 in high school. I would do stuff like that because 88 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:16.360 you know, you sort of grew up around it and everything. Anyway, 89 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:18.800 the point is is that there. 90 00:04:19.199 --> 00:04:21.360 So I've never never been around and never had the 91 00:04:21.360 --> 00:04:25.000 opportunity to do karaoke. Okay, they have so much anxiety 92 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:25.800 about the idea. 93 00:04:25.879 --> 00:04:27.360 Since we're going to wrap up, since we're going to 94 00:04:27.399 --> 00:04:28.639 wrap up this, we got to wrap it up. 95 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:29.240 You sing it. 96 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:32.279 I will give you a preview of what I because 97 00:04:32.279 --> 00:04:34.079 I do have a go to believe or not yes, 98 00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:36.879 of course. But I have to ask you this, if 99 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:40.560 you did, if you did have a karaoke song, what 100 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:41.000 would it be. 101 00:04:42.040 --> 00:04:44.040 I've never contemplated this though. 102 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:45.600 Well I'm asking you to contemplate it now. 103 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:48.759 No, I don't have a go to song. Just no, 104 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:50.199 you got to sing a song. Let me think about 105 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:50.839 it while you're singing. 106 00:04:50.920 --> 00:04:54.439 Okay, So anyway, here's mine. I would say I've done 107 00:04:54.519 --> 00:04:58.439 karaoke maybe, I don't know, not very many times. Maybe fifteen, yes, 108 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:01.879 fifteen times, yeah, maybe twenty maybe at the at the max. 109 00:05:02.360 --> 00:05:05.600 But I always like the one that goes I've got 110 00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:12.959 friends in low place. Yeah, yeah, because it says what 111 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:15.240 does it say? I have to have the lyrics in 112 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:20.040 front of me but in low places? You know? Yeah? 113 00:05:20.279 --> 00:05:24.319 Because I I like it. I like it because it 114 00:05:24.480 --> 00:05:26.680 is like it is. I'm a blue collar guy, and 115 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:31.480 I know it has the whole bar whiskey thing to it, right, 116 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:34.680 But that's not the part that I necessarily cling to. 117 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:38.480 I I like the idea that with Garth Brooks. First 118 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:40.839 of all, I love Garth Brooks. But Garth Brooks is saying, 119 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:45.160 uh is that he sort of uh puts his guy. Yeah, 120 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:48.480 he puts his he snubs the the people who snub 121 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:49.959 him because he. 122 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:53.079 Subs the people who don't eat at places they have carry. 123 00:05:53.439 --> 00:05:57.680 R right, because he's a blue he's a blue collar guy. 124 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:00.879 And so anyway, that's that's why I like it. And 125 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:03.839 I like it. How at the end there's guys that 126 00:06:03.959 --> 00:06:06.480 go yeah, and the whole thing, you know, and then 127 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:09.920 usually the crowd joins in I've got friends, and then 128 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:12.600 the whole crowd sings it. So that's my go to song. 129 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:15.040 That's great. I still don't know that I can think 130 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:17.560 of a of a song I would try to sing 131 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:20.040 I'm having troubles. 132 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:22.399 Well, I bet you if you thought about it, there's 133 00:06:22.439 --> 00:06:25.560 an easy song, right, I mean, come on, who's Who's 134 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:30.199 Who's like a pop song to you? Oh my goodness, you. 135 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:31.439 Go see we got a little bit of it. But 136 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:33.879 she wanted to hear you sing. Do you see this? 137 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:36.360 This isn't about what Jeff would sing. So I'm going 138 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:38.160 to draw a line in the sand on this episode 139 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:42.879 and say, I'm just trying to get Chris to sing more. Okay, 140 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:48.360 she would have you rather have you sing your A 141 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:50.959 and B go to songs and to hear me sing 142 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:52.639 any songs. That's what I'm trying to say. 143 00:06:52.759 --> 00:06:55.560 Yeah, so so I looked at the lyrics. It starts 144 00:06:55.560 --> 00:06:59.319 off and it goes blame it all my roots. I 145 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:03.279 shoot up in boots, some laughing when I'm saying it 146 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:08.800 ruined your black tie affair. Yes, last one to know, 147 00:07:09.879 --> 00:07:12.600 last one to show. I was the last one you 148 00:07:12.839 --> 00:07:14.519 thought you'd see there. 149 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:21.279 Okay, I saw the sur fear in your eyes. I 150 00:07:21.319 --> 00:07:27.120 am so sorry, listener, So sorry, listeners, that's pretty sure. 151 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:29.120 You sing too many more words and we're gonna have 152 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:30.000 to pay royalties on this. 153 00:07:30.079 --> 00:07:33.920 You know, really that might be a thing. That might 154 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:37.720 be a thing. Okay, let's move on, all right, Okay, 155 00:07:37.839 --> 00:07:38.519 so that's it. 156 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:42.480 Well, hey, Christina m thanks for bringing that up. Let Chris, 157 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:47.160 just you know, just indulge in all the glory of 158 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:50.879 that one. And if this this, if this podcast gets 159 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:52.600 shut down, well it might be your fault, That's all 160 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:54.600 I'm saying, because we're going to be broke. We get 161 00:07:54.639 --> 00:07:56.360 sued for singing all the works. 162 00:07:56.600 --> 00:07:58.759 Really meaning, thanks Christina. 163 00:07:59.319 --> 00:08:02.560 Thanks? Okay, Well good, did you get that out of 164 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:03.000 your system? 165 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:06.800 Yes? I had nothing in my system yet, I'm just 166 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:09.680 trying to play along. I was asked this, this was 167 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:10.519 forced upon me. 168 00:08:10.600 --> 00:08:14.759 This wasn't my choice, Okay, So man alive. There is 169 00:08:14.839 --> 00:08:16.839 just no way to even pivot from no. 170 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:22.519 Not really, especially since well the Absolom gets reconciled to David. Yeah, 171 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:26.319 you're right, there's no roots. Yeah, there's no transition. 172 00:08:26.560 --> 00:08:33.279 Yes, So David brings Absolom back into town. If you've 173 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:34.960 missed any of these other episodes, you should go back 174 00:08:34.960 --> 00:08:37.039 and kind of catch up on the Absolum stuff here. 175 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:43.039 But they were separated because absolutely killed Amnon. Finally, Joeb 176 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:46.559 convinces David to bring Abslom back, and so he brings 177 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:48.120 it back, but he won't see him. He refuses to 178 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:50.600 even look at his face, right, right, And so then 179 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:53.440 in second sam to chapter fourteen, verse twenty five, we'll 180 00:08:53.440 --> 00:08:55.559 pick up there. It says now Absolom was praised as 181 00:08:55.600 --> 00:08:58.960 the most handsome man in all Israel. He was flawless 182 00:08:59.159 --> 00:09:02.080 from head to foot. He cut his hair only once 183 00:09:02.120 --> 00:09:04.240 a year, and then only because it was so heavy. 184 00:09:04.759 --> 00:09:07.639 When he weighed out, it came to five pounds. He 185 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:11.000 had three sons and one daughter. His daughter's name was Tamar, 186 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:14.120 and she was very beautiful. Absolom lived in Jerusalem for 187 00:09:14.159 --> 00:09:15.759 two years, but he never got to see the king, 188 00:09:15.799 --> 00:09:18.200 and then Absalom sent for Joeb to ask him to 189 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:22.159 intercede for him, but Joib refused to come. Absolom sent 190 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:24.679 for him a second time, but again Joeib refused to come. 191 00:09:25.039 --> 00:09:27.360 So Absalom said to his servants, go and set fire 192 00:09:27.360 --> 00:09:30.120 to Joeb's barley field, the field next to mine, And 193 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:33.480 so they set his field on fire, as Absolom had commanded. 194 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:35.960 Then Joeb came to Absolom at his house and demanded, 195 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:38.960 why did your servants set my field on fire? Absinom replied, 196 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:40.639 because I wanted you to ask the king why he 197 00:09:40.679 --> 00:09:43.200 brought me back from Giesher. If he didn't intend to 198 00:09:43.240 --> 00:09:45.960 see me, I might as well have stayed there. Let 199 00:09:45.960 --> 00:09:48.720 me see the king. If he finds me guilty of anything, 200 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:51.480 then let him kill me. So Joeb told the king 201 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:55.039 what Absalom had said, and then at last David summoned Absalom, 202 00:09:55.159 --> 00:09:57.759 who came and bowed low before the king, and the 203 00:09:57.840 --> 00:10:02.440 king kissed him. Hmm, well, there you go. 204 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:06.080 Yeah, there you go. And and again it's just it's 205 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:11.279 it doesn't give us a lot of insight about truly 206 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:16.120 what David is feeling and thinking and why he basically 207 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:21.000 shunned his son. Obviously he's angry. Obviously he didn't approve 208 00:10:21.039 --> 00:10:24.840 of what he did. But again, I have a tendency 209 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:27.240 to believe, I really do. I have a tendency to 210 00:10:27.240 --> 00:10:31.240 believe that David wants to avoid it all because inside 211 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:34.879 he knows he set this in motion. I really do. 212 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:37.360 I think I think that inside he has so much 213 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:43.159 turmoil stacked upon the you know, the the ruinous set 214 00:10:43.159 --> 00:10:46.159 of events that have happened in his in his children's lives, 215 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:49.080 because he knows this was him all along. So I 216 00:10:49.679 --> 00:10:51.679 just have a feeling he didn't want to deal with it, 217 00:10:51.720 --> 00:10:54.000 and every time people wanted to talk about it or 218 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:56.519 bring it up, He's just like, I just know, I 219 00:10:56.559 --> 00:10:58.360 don't want to deal with it. So it's what is 220 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:00.879 it easier to do. It's easier to row yourself into 221 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:04.200 other things, stick stick your head in the sand. You know, Hey, 222 00:11:04.279 --> 00:11:06.840 let me just spend all my energy being king. As 223 00:11:06.879 --> 00:11:09.360 long as I know that my son Absolom is say hey, 224 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:11.399 I brought him home, didn't I he's over there. I 225 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:13.320 give him. I gave him a house next to Joe Abs, 226 00:11:13.320 --> 00:11:17.679 which means obviously he's being treated well in a nice neighborhood. Yes, right, 227 00:11:17.720 --> 00:11:19.519 and so and so, Hey, that's enough. 228 00:11:19.399 --> 00:11:21.240 He's got everything he needs. Just leave me alone. 229 00:11:21.320 --> 00:11:25.240 Yes, and I honestly, and again, it's just interesting to 230 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:28.240 me how there's really not that much insight. It doesn't 231 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:30.200 say because the Bible will tell us, you know, Absolom 232 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:33.320 was angry, or David was angry, David was jealous, David 233 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:36.919 was you know, sad, whatever. But but there's no insight whatsoever. 234 00:11:37.720 --> 00:11:39.720 We just know that he refused to see him. And 235 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:42.799 I have to believe there's inner turmoil going on in 236 00:11:42.879 --> 00:11:47.960 David's life about himself. But poor Absolom, so Absolom just 237 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:51.600 he's so desperate that he doesn't get any you know, 238 00:11:51.799 --> 00:11:54.159 he's this refusal, he gets this shun. And by the way, 239 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:56.480 keep this in mind, that's a public shun. 240 00:11:56.759 --> 00:12:00.240 Yes, everybody sees it. Everybody sees it because the king 241 00:12:00.279 --> 00:12:03.000 would have spent all of his time his the crown 242 00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:04.559 Prince would have been with him all the time. 243 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:08.639 Yes, everybody knows, which means which means like, uh, now, now, 244 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:13.399 Ebsolom is you know, his disgrace is being you know, amplified. 245 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:17.720 It's public and uh and and he's so desperate uh, 246 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:19.480 and Joe Abb doesn't know how to deal with it. 247 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:21.840 Joeb has done all the things that he could do. Hey, 248 00:12:21.840 --> 00:12:24.200 he brought him back, didn't he? And and then uh 249 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:28.120 and he sets far to abs field and then he's 250 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:33.320 why did you do this? He's so petulant by the way. 251 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:35.879 You know what, let's not look over the fact that 252 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:38.639 his hair weigh five pounds. You know what that deserves? 253 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:40.440 You know what that deserves? 254 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:41.519 What? What? 255 00:12:44.600 --> 00:12:44.679 Not? 256 00:12:44.799 --> 00:12:45.279 A what? 257 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:50.080 Because five pounds? Think about the biggest haircut you've ever seen. 258 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:52.879 If you've ever had a child donate third hair? 259 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:58.840 What the guy who played for the for the Pittsburgh Steelers, 260 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:00.159 they had the long hair of it. 261 00:13:00.279 --> 00:13:04.240 Wow, that's a throwback. Yeah yeah, he's all yes, yes, yes, yes. 262 00:13:04.440 --> 00:13:07.559 He's on the head and Shoulders commercials, the old ones 263 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:10.279 still now he was on last season, was he? 264 00:13:10.519 --> 00:13:10.879 Yeah? 265 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:13.320 It was it was it was him and Patrick Mahomes. 266 00:13:14.120 --> 00:13:17.879 Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. Anyway, anyway, the 267 00:13:17.960 --> 00:13:21.600 point the point is is I I've seen girls donate 268 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:23.960 their hair to uh uh. 269 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:25.360 A hair donating place. 270 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:28.600 Yeah, come on, it's love love locks. Oh yeah, lots 271 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:30.879 of love, lots of what a great Yeah, it's lots 272 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:32.720 of love. And what they do is they have to 273 00:13:32.799 --> 00:13:35.639 grow over over twelve inches that you donated and then 274 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:38.519 they use real hair to make wigs for those child 275 00:13:38.919 --> 00:13:39.720 cancer patients. 276 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:41.480 Right, what great lots of love. 277 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:43.600 And I know that people actually like they grow their 278 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:47.919 hair specifically just four locks? Did she really? Good for her? 279 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:51.080 Good for her? Anyway? When when you take all that 280 00:13:51.159 --> 00:13:54.480 hair and you that's what they do. They weigh it. 281 00:13:54.480 --> 00:14:00.639 It's like it's like an eighth of a pound, right, pounds? 282 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:01.960 Five pounds. 283 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:03.759 The only cut his hair because it was too heavy. 284 00:14:04.120 --> 00:14:06.320 Well, I think I think, first of all, if I 285 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:11.159 had five pounds on my head, like that would hurt, right, well. 286 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:14.080 That would have meant he'd ever really thick nick I. Also, 287 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:14.799 I was so handsome. 288 00:14:14.840 --> 00:14:17.559 I almost wonder sometimes, you know, the Bible is pretty specific. 289 00:14:17.799 --> 00:14:20.000 If the Bible says five pounds, it means five pounds, right, 290 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:22.360 that's correct. So so I almost wonder, like did that 291 00:14:22.399 --> 00:14:25.320 include like the beads. I don't know, right, maybe they 292 00:14:25.320 --> 00:14:26.000 had beads in there. 293 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:28.960 Weighed two hundred shekels, right, well, there had to be 294 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:31.600 beads in that two point three kilo because it. 295 00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:34.480 Allows for that, it allows for decorate hair decorative things 296 00:14:34.559 --> 00:14:38.919 maybe yeah, because yeah, so yes, otherwise you're a punzel. 297 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:44.879 That's right, right, it's down to his ankles. That might be. 298 00:14:45.080 --> 00:14:49.120 I don't know. So yesterday, remember we struggled Crystal Gale 299 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:52.000 for our listeners. Yeah, no, yesterday we struggled to remember 300 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:54.480 the name of the person who was allowed to get 301 00:14:54.559 --> 00:14:55.399 vengeance for the family. 302 00:14:55.440 --> 00:14:56.120 Yeah you looked it up. 303 00:14:56.360 --> 00:14:57.039 No I did not. 304 00:14:57.360 --> 00:14:57.919 You remember it? 305 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:00.240 Yes, I did? What is for our listeners? That was 306 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:00.960 twenty four hours. 307 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:02.000 It's not revenge for you and me. 308 00:15:02.159 --> 00:15:03.279 It was fifteen minutes ago. 309 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:04.440 Yeah, it was not revenge getter. 310 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:09.840 Yes, that's no, it's not. It's the blood avenger. Oh yeah, 311 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:11.480 yeah it was. It's pretty close. So the blood Avenger. 312 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:14.639 So if a family member was killed and there was 313 00:15:14.759 --> 00:15:19.279 no local justice available, then the family could choose one. 314 00:15:19.480 --> 00:15:21.000 It's not the whole thing. It's not this a big 315 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:25.240 posse going out, you know for vigilantism. It was one 316 00:15:25.279 --> 00:15:28.519 blood avenger could go and bring vengeance against this person 317 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:33.399 who murdered the other person. So Absolom probably was choosing 318 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:37.759 that kind of loophole to give himself permission to kill 319 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:41.840 Amnon even though there was government in his town, right, 320 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:43.960 I think that's what he was doing. He's justifying, Hey, 321 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:46.320 our law allows this. And this one of the reasons 322 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:48.759 why I think David doesn't kill Absolom then, is kind 323 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:51.200 of within our culture, there's this thing, this blood avenger, 324 00:15:51.399 --> 00:15:52.960 and that's what he did. And you know that that 325 00:15:53.080 --> 00:15:55.080 was a big part. I believe you can know that 326 00:15:55.080 --> 00:15:58.399 that was a big part of Absolom's sense of justice 327 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:01.159 because the Bible mentions that he has a daughter and 328 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:04.120 he named her Tamar, which is wonderful, which is the 329 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:08.320 name of his sister who was abused by Amnon. 330 00:16:07.720 --> 00:16:09.120 Which shows his love for his sister. 331 00:16:09.240 --> 00:16:12.600 That's right, and it shows his elevated sense of justice. 332 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:14.879 Here's a young man who has a strong sense of 333 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:17.799 what is right and wrong, and he's missing out on 334 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:21.600 David being a mentor to guide that strong sense of justice. 335 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:25.159 He has an opportunity. David has an opportunity to nudge 336 00:16:25.159 --> 00:16:28.279 his son towards God, to lead his son, the future king, 337 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:32.840 to God, to develop the relationship that David had with God, 338 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:36.200 to really lean into the laws and the words of God, which, 339 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:40.919 by the way, God says to Joshua, it's meditating on 340 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:43.240 my law's day and night that will make you a success. 341 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:47.440 David's success was directly connected that same thing. David knows 342 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:51.279 these things, and he just keeps Absolom away. Yes, you 343 00:16:51.320 --> 00:16:54.879 can come home thinking that Absolom's motivation for wanting to 344 00:16:54.879 --> 00:16:56.879 come home was just to live in luxury. Again, Well, 345 00:16:56.960 --> 00:16:59.000 got news for you, David. He was already living in 346 00:16:59.039 --> 00:17:01.919 a king's house. Father. There's also a king right in 347 00:17:01.960 --> 00:17:05.599 another kingdom. Yeah, smaller, right, but but still it's not 348 00:17:05.640 --> 00:17:07.079 like he was starving. Right. 349 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:10.240 Well, there's there's a there's a sense of uh, you know, 350 00:17:10.279 --> 00:17:12.039 when you're raised by a king, whether it's a large 351 00:17:12.119 --> 00:17:16.200 kingdom or small. Uh, you know, you still have importance, people, 352 00:17:16.319 --> 00:17:19.039 people treating you the respect. There's still things to model, 353 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:21.519 there's still things to teach. And by the way, another 354 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:24.359 lesson hidden in here is uh that even though that 355 00:17:24.400 --> 00:17:27.279 Absolom is a grown man and has you know, sons 356 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:30.200 and a daughter and a house of for himself, that 357 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:33.079 you never stop being a parent. You never stop being 358 00:17:33.079 --> 00:17:36.599 a role model. And in this case, job changes, yes, 359 00:17:37.240 --> 00:17:39.799 and and and so it's more peer to peer and 360 00:17:39.799 --> 00:17:43.720 and but David, and you understand that David has the 361 00:17:43.839 --> 00:17:48.920 role of father, but also of king, and also of mentor. 362 00:17:49.160 --> 00:17:51.559 So she's wearing all these different hats for Absolom, and 363 00:17:51.559 --> 00:17:54.039 he refuses to do any of them. And so it's 364 00:17:54.079 --> 00:17:56.079 just a challenge to us. No matter how you know, 365 00:17:56.119 --> 00:17:59.200 what age you are, it's never too late to you know, 366 00:17:59.319 --> 00:18:01.839 to fulfill the roles you know, no matter how old 367 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:03.799 your kids are, you know you you still look to 368 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:05.759 them by the way. You want you want some insight 369 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:08.079 as to how my brain works, Yes, you want? 370 00:18:08.519 --> 00:18:11.960 I don't know, do we not? 371 00:18:12.039 --> 00:18:14.400 Really? Not really, because I'm going to tell you that 372 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:16.440 even though I'm trying to think of all these godly 373 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:19.720 sermons that come out of this passage, I can't get 374 00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:23.079 over the term blood Avenger. As I love Marvel movies 375 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:25.400 and I'm thinking of the Avengers, and I thought, wow, 376 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:28.039 a blood Avenger could be a character. And if an 377 00:18:28.039 --> 00:18:31.839 Avenger blood Avengers. Yeah, if an Avenger joined, who would 378 00:18:31.880 --> 00:18:33.400 be the blood Avenger? And I thought, well, you know 379 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:35.440 who else is in the Marvel universe, which was the 380 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:38.079 first Marvel movie really that was ever popular, which was Blade. 381 00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:40.440 He was a vampire, he would be the blood Avenger. 382 00:18:41.039 --> 00:18:43.960 So if Captain America would invite Wesley Snipes in to 383 00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:46.880 join the Avengers, he would be the blood Avenger. Okay, 384 00:18:46.880 --> 00:18:48.039 that's all I have to say about that. 385 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:49.960 Okay, so it's in your head. Now, you get that 386 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:50.240 out of you. 387 00:18:50.319 --> 00:18:51.160 I got that out of my system. 388 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:53.480 Okay, yeah, I had back to the Bible. 389 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:54.200 Back to the Bible. 390 00:18:54.680 --> 00:18:56.119 Sorry, back to the Bible. 391 00:18:56.279 --> 00:18:59.319 Yes, we should call our show that back to the Bible. 392 00:18:59.359 --> 00:19:01.559 There was a show called that back to the future. 393 00:19:01.640 --> 00:19:04.400 No, there there was an old radio show that had 394 00:19:04.559 --> 00:19:06.440 thousands of episodes called back to the Bible. 395 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:10.160 Really huh oh oh? Is it the idea that we've 396 00:19:10.160 --> 00:19:12.920 strayed from the Bible and our generation should go. 397 00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:15.400 Back to as a Bible teaching radio program back. 398 00:19:15.319 --> 00:19:17.480 Like focus on the family, Like, let's put all the 399 00:19:17.480 --> 00:19:18.119 focus back on. 400 00:19:18.200 --> 00:19:20.519 The think out of back to the Bible came Do 401 00:19:20.559 --> 00:19:22.359