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 --> 00:00:07.519 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.240 --> 00:00:15.279 Hey, everybody, we're back. We are back than ever and 5 00:00:15.359 --> 00:00:17.199 we we're the Bible Guys. We want to welcome you here. 6 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:19.519 If this is your first time, I'm Chris, this is Jeff, 7 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:22.079 and we are the Daily Bible Guys. 8 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:22.800 That's right. 9 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:26.719 Our title is Daily Daily, but it's it's really only. 10 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:28.920 Five days a week. We're the five days a week 11 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:29.480 Bible Guys. 12 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:33.119 You know what, it's false advertising. Yeah, it's not really true. Daily. 13 00:00:33.159 --> 00:00:34.759 We have so much content you can go back and 14 00:00:34.799 --> 00:00:37.399 listen to us for years. Daily. 15 00:00:38.039 --> 00:00:40.880 Oh well okay, sure, okay, if you want to a 16 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:43.479 little lawyer in your brain justifies the word daily. 17 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:46.359 Yeah. I think we put Daily Bible Guys there because 18 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:48.159 there used to be some other Bible guys. 19 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:49.479 That's exactly why we did it. 20 00:00:49.479 --> 00:00:51.359 That's why we did it. Now we're just the Bible Guys. 21 00:00:51.640 --> 00:00:52.880 That's right. That's right. 22 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:56.320 So today, by the way, I don't think anybody knew 23 00:00:56.359 --> 00:00:58.079 that that was new information. 24 00:00:58.119 --> 00:01:00.000 Sure, anybody looked up the Bible Guys to find out 25 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:00.799 other Bible guys. 26 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:03.000 Yeah, okay, yeah. 27 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:07.319 So today Desiree put together a segment and the segment is. 28 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:09.400 Called mail bags. 29 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:14.680 Mail bags is just if you have a question or 30 00:01:14.719 --> 00:01:17.760 a comment that you would like us to address. Heck, 31 00:01:17.879 --> 00:01:21.239 we just like comments and questions in general anyway. 32 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:23.120 There comments and questions are our favorite. 33 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:25.319 They are and they're not always for the purpose of 34 00:01:25.359 --> 00:01:28.239 mail bags, but sometimes Deziel grab them and throw them 35 00:01:28.280 --> 00:01:28.599 in here. 36 00:01:28.719 --> 00:01:30.079 That's right, We've not even read this. 37 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:34.599 People send us stuff all the time, nice things, nice yes, yeah, yeah, 38 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:35.200 fun things. 39 00:01:35.280 --> 00:01:37.359 So this one is from Marissa L. 40 00:01:37.719 --> 00:01:39.599 Hey, I have a niece name Marissa. 41 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:40.640 Oh do you really? 42 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:40.920 I do? 43 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:42.079 Wow? 44 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:49.159 Thanks for that random piece of information. You said like 45 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:51.640 it was gonna be this big story. Hey, I have 46 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:53.200 a niece named Marissa. 47 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:55.200 Thanks. 48 00:01:55.480 --> 00:01:56.799 Here's what Marissa says. 49 00:01:57.239 --> 00:02:00.200 If Jesus showed up in your town for a day, 50 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:01.680 where would you take him and why? 51 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:04.519 Wow? Oh that's a hard one. 52 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:06.959 Well, I mean I wouldn't take him anywhere because he'd know. 53 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:11.199 Yeah, but you still want to have fun, you. 54 00:02:11.159 --> 00:02:14.919 Know, Jesus. Look, I got to show you downtown Detroit. 55 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:15.599 I've seen it. 56 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:16.560 Mm hmm. 57 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:18.199 Hey have you ever seen that? 58 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:20.520 But you don't think he'd want to spend time with you, 59 00:02:20.680 --> 00:02:24.000 doing stuff with you. Sure, because he went places even 60 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:25.680 though he'd already seen it when he was on earth. 61 00:02:25.719 --> 00:02:26.599 Well, you know what I would do. 62 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:30.039 I would, Well, he's seen it, he sees it now, 63 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:32.680 that is what he saw it before, I know. 64 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:34.759 And he did stuff and he'll see it tomorrow. 65 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:37.800 And he went places with you know, James, John, You or. 66 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:41.479 I would do. I would want to do what Jim 67 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:45.800 Carrey did in Brush Almighty? Which is which is? Which is? 68 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:50.319 Uh uh? Morgan Freeman said, come take a closer walk 69 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:50.560 with me. 70 00:02:50.639 --> 00:02:53.680 Remember it's so great. It's so great, And then they 71 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:56.680 walked on the lake. They were walking on the lake. 72 00:02:56.719 --> 00:02:58.280 So you want Jesus and take your like out on 73 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:01.680 Stony Creek Lake like La Saint Clair, Like Saint Clair. 74 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:04.039 Just go for a walk. Yes, walk over to Canada. 75 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:04.919 That's where I would do. 76 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:06.599 That's what you do. That's you would take him to. 77 00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:10.639 I think I would take him someplace for like a 78 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:12.000 really good fish dinner. 79 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:15.439 Because he likes he said a lot of those. 80 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:17.800 Yeah, but even after he resurrected, he went back and 81 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:19.199 fixed the fish dinner. 82 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:20.840 Okay, where would you take him? 83 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:23.719 I don't know because I'm not a big fish guy. Yeah, 84 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:26.639 so I would struggle with that one fish leos for 85 00:03:26.639 --> 00:03:27.319 fish and chips. 86 00:03:28.439 --> 00:03:30.960 Wow, fish and chips. Hey, Jesus, have you ever heard 87 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:31.400 a little. 88 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:31.919 Bit of vinegar? 89 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:38.919 Yeah? Yeah, they're so good. 90 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:41.159 Okay, but she said where would you take him? So, 91 00:03:41.159 --> 00:03:43.120 so you'd go for a walk on Lake Saint Clair. 92 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:46.479 I'd take him for a good fish dinner. Oh oh, no, 93 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:47.879 you know what I do. I'd bring him in my 94 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:50.680 house and I would do a cedar plank to salmon. 95 00:03:51.080 --> 00:03:53.560 Oh there, yeah, smoke it on cedar plank. 96 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:54.919 That's better. And Jesus would appreciate it. 97 00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:58.479 Yeah, with some lemons and some dill, yeah, parsley, Yeah, 98 00:03:58.520 --> 00:03:58.960 that'd be good. 99 00:03:59.000 --> 00:03:59.479 Did you hear me? 100 00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:00.479 Like a wind sauce? 101 00:04:00.520 --> 00:04:02.599 Did you hear me? Just suppose what Jesus would appreciate this? 102 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:06.039 He like that? Yeah? Yeah? And then would you want 103 00:04:06.039 --> 00:04:08.080 to would you? Uh? Would you take you to meet 104 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:08.560 your family? 105 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:14.039 Well they already know him, but yes, in person, I would, Yeah, 106 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:17.319 for sure, it'd be cool. Yes, okay, well I'd never 107 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:18.160 thought of that before. 108 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:20.040 You know, where would you take Jesus? 109 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:22.319 Neither? And by the way, once again, I thought of 110 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:23.040 that goofy song. 111 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:25.480 My Redeemer lives because remember the very end before it 112 00:04:25.519 --> 00:04:26.639 fades out, She goes, I. 113 00:04:26.519 --> 00:04:33.160 Spoke to him this morning. Yep, ye, so yeah, okay, well, Marissa, 114 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:36.560 l great thoughts. Thank you for asking us that question. 115 00:04:37.120 --> 00:04:37.439 That was a. 116 00:04:37.480 --> 00:04:38.959 Challenge exercise of the brain. 117 00:04:39.079 --> 00:04:41.600 I know I had never I don't think that thought 118 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:44.079 has ever gone through my head before. Yeah, and that's 119 00:04:44.160 --> 00:04:45.759 rare because I have lots of thoughts. 120 00:04:45.879 --> 00:04:48.199 Right, Yeah, did I say you? I think I told 121 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:50.079 you this when I was in Israel. Uh, you know 122 00:04:50.120 --> 00:04:52.079 the Dead Sea? You jump in it, you float because 123 00:04:52.079 --> 00:04:52.800 of it's all content. 124 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:55.759 Don't jump in the dead Sea. Why you don't want 125 00:04:55.800 --> 00:04:58.959 to go under the water? Why because it burns your eyes? 126 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:00.879 Oh? I went underwater? 127 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:04.279 Well that wasn't smart. Didn't you see all the signs everywhere? 128 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:07.959 Don't go underwater? Yeah, there's signs everywhere. Yeah, don't go 129 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:08.519 under the water. 130 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:08.839 Yeah. 131 00:05:08.839 --> 00:05:12.279 Okay, So anyway, it when I said, when I said 132 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:15.519 to our tour guide, who has to be very very 133 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:18.759 very very educated, right, and all three Wold religions and 134 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:20.639 everything else. And I said the tour guide, I said, 135 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:22.519 how long has the Dead Sea been the Dead Sea? 136 00:05:22.519 --> 00:05:25.759 And he says, well, it's as long as biblical times existed, right, 137 00:05:25.879 --> 00:05:27.879 because it refers to the Dead Sea, even the Old Testament. 138 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:30.079 So it's been dead for it's been like this. 139 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:32.079 And I said, so you're trying to tell me that 140 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:36.079 even when Moses was alive, that people when they got 141 00:05:36.079 --> 00:05:38.639 in this water, it was magical, like it floated, you 142 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:43.199 could float. And he said, yes, absolutely, we could definitely 143 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:45.600 say that. And I said, so, I said, I wonder 144 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:48.800 why anybody would walk around the Dead Sea. Why wouldn't 145 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:53.360 they take their armies and just say, let's just float 146 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:55.959 across the other side, because walking around it would take, 147 00:05:56.639 --> 00:06:00.759 you know, much longer than cooling off and just floating 148 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:01.680 because it's very cool. 149 00:06:02.519 --> 00:06:03.040 And uh. 150 00:06:03.079 --> 00:06:05.319 And he looked at me and he said, what you 151 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:07.319 just said. He looked at me and said, I've been 152 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:11.600 doing this for thirteen years and nobody has ever asked 153 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:13.360 that question, nor have I ever. 154 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:14.920 Had that thought, he said. 155 00:06:14.920 --> 00:06:18.439 But now I'm picturing people of the Old Testament floating 156 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:21.279 across the Dead Sea, he says, And of course they did. 157 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:24.480 Why wouldn't they, he said, of course they did. Yes, 158 00:06:25.959 --> 00:06:30.959 So there you go. Okay, well you just said that. No, No, 159 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:33.920 I'm following you. I was following my comment was much. 160 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:36.120 But I just haven't thought about your niece having the 161 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:36.639 same name. 162 00:06:37.959 --> 00:06:41.879 Okay, yeah, you know it was. It was. I was 163 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:44.480 still thinking about it, Okay, I was. I was just 164 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:45.399 caught up in thought. 165 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:48.160 Well you said this was, Yes, it was, and it 166 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:51.000 reminded me of this brilliant man. 167 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:53.079 I know, you're defending a thing you don't need to 168 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:57.319 defend on I'm with you. I was amazed by your thinking. 169 00:06:58.160 --> 00:06:59.160 You were bored, you're changing. 170 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:02.000 No, no, no, no, that's not true. That's true. I 171 00:07:02.040 --> 00:07:06.759 was actually thinking, I think if armies floated across the 172 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:11.079 water is so caustic that one, it would take you 173 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:12.519 too long to get all the way across, because it 174 00:07:12.519 --> 00:07:14.560 was much bigger back in Jesus Stay than it is now. 175 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:17.040 It's only like a third of the size of what 176 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:19.040 it used to be, right, So that'd be part of it. 177 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:20.959 But the other part was it seems like it would 178 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:21.800 ruin all their metal. 179 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:24.439 Well then then fine, that maybe not armies, but maybe 180 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:25.639 tribes of people walking there. 181 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:27.600 Yeah, yeah, I bet they would. Yeah, I bet they would. 182 00:07:27.639 --> 00:07:30.439 It's cool. Hey, wonderful question, Chris, Yes, thanks, thank you. 183 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:32.040 Almost as good as Marissa's. 184 00:07:32.600 --> 00:07:35.199 Uh well, Marissa believe or not. That was a that's 185 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:37.120 a that's that's a new thought. 186 00:07:37.279 --> 00:07:42.199 Yes, speaking of new thoughts. Oh, Jesus in his very 187 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:45.439 first message that he preached in the synagogue, Oh, was 188 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:46.879 not trying to bring a new thought. 189 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:48.759 Oh terrible. 190 00:07:48.839 --> 00:07:52.399 He quoted terrible from Isaiah chapter sixty one. 191 00:07:52.480 --> 00:07:53.560 Jesus didn't have a new thought. 192 00:07:53.720 --> 00:07:56.000 He did have a new thought. But in this moment, 193 00:07:56.160 --> 00:07:58.480 on his very first message you ever preached in synagogue, 194 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:03.319 he quotes from Isaiah sixty one. Was that a rough transition? 195 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:04.680 I was looking forward to it. 196 00:08:04.720 --> 00:08:06.399 If you're a new listener, one of our goals is 197 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:08.160 to have the roughest transitions possible. 198 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:09.319 Yeah, let me down. 199 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:10.480 Yeah, they'll let you down. 200 00:08:10.519 --> 00:08:10.680 You know. 201 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:13.800 Really, I'm sorry, satisfying, I'm sorry. Here you go in 202 00:08:13.879 --> 00:08:15.879 Isaiah chapter sixty one, and I think this is going 203 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:17.680 to be the last that we read from Isaiah. There's 204 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:20.720 many other good things, but we're going to move on anyways. 205 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:23.480 It says here in Isaiah chapter sixty one, the spirit 206 00:08:23.600 --> 00:08:26.480 of the Sovereign Lord is upon me. For the Lord 207 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:29.040 has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. 208 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:31.759 He has sent me to comfort the broken hearted and 209 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:34.639 proclaim that captives will be released, and prisoners will be freed. 210 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:36.879 He has sent me to tell those who mourn that 211 00:08:36.919 --> 00:08:39.360 the time the Lord's favor has come, and with it 212 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:42.360 the day of God's anger against their enemies. To all 213 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:45.360 who mourn in Israel, you will give a crown of 214 00:08:45.399 --> 00:08:49.960 beauty for ashes, a joyous blessing instead of mourning, festive praise, 215 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:52.799 instead of despair. In their righteousness, they will be like 216 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:55.159 great oaks that the Lord has planted for his own glory. 217 00:08:56.120 --> 00:08:59.080 They will build the ancient ruin, rebuild the ancient ruins, 218 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:02.600 repairing cities long ago. They will revive them, though they 219 00:09:02.639 --> 00:09:06.440 have been deserted for many generations. Foreigners will be your servants, 220 00:09:06.440 --> 00:09:08.519 and they will feed your flocks, and plow your fields 221 00:09:08.519 --> 00:09:11.600 and tend your vineyards. You will be called priests of 222 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:14.759 the Lord, ministers of our God. You will feed on 223 00:09:14.799 --> 00:09:16.960 the treasures of the nations and boast and their riches. 224 00:09:17.279 --> 00:09:19.639 Instead of shame and dishonor, you will enjoy a double 225 00:09:19.639 --> 00:09:22.159 share of honor. You will possess a double portion of 226 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:25.200 prosperity in your land, and everlasting joy will be yours. 227 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:29.000 For I the Lord love justice, I hate robbery and wrongdoing, 228 00:09:29.360 --> 00:09:32.080 I will faithfully reward my people for their suffering and 229 00:09:32.120 --> 00:09:35.159 make an everlasting covenant with them. Their descendants will be 230 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:38.600 recognized and honored among the nations. Everyone will realize that 231 00:09:38.639 --> 00:09:41.120 they are a people. The Lord is blessed. I am 232 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:43.639 overwhelmed with joy in the Lord, my Godfrey has dressed 233 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:46.039 me with the clothing of salvation and drape me in 234 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:48.600 a robe of righteousness. I'm like a bridegroom in his 235 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:51.879 wedding suit, or a bride with her jewels. The sovereign 236 00:09:51.919 --> 00:09:54.120 Lord will show his justice to the nations of the world, 237 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:56.879 and everyone will praise him. His righteousness will be like 238 00:09:56.919 --> 00:10:02.240 a garden in the early spring, with plants springing up everywhere. Well, 239 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:02.679 there you go. 240 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:04.200 That's good news for the oppress. 241 00:10:04.320 --> 00:10:04.840 Good news. 242 00:10:05.440 --> 00:10:05.960 Yeah. 243 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:08.480 So the Life Application Study Bible, there's a note that says, 244 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:11.559 under the Old Covenant, God ordained the priests of Israel 245 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:14.840 to stand between him and his people. They brought God's 246 00:10:14.840 --> 00:10:17.639 word to the people and the people's needs and sins 247 00:10:17.679 --> 00:10:21.320 to God. Under the Old Covenant, all believers and priests 248 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:24.679 of the Lord and one Peter two five, reading God's 249 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:27.679 word and seeking to understand it, confessing their sins directly 250 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:29.840 to God ministering to. 251 00:10:29.879 --> 00:10:32.120 Others, and he's referring to. 252 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:36.120 The verse number six when he says, you will you 253 00:10:36.159 --> 00:10:40.799 will be called priests of the Lord, ministers of our God. 254 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:43.799 So that's pretty cool. That's great insight, isn't it. 255 00:10:44.600 --> 00:10:45.200 That is cool. 256 00:10:45.279 --> 00:10:48.159 Yeah, So that we believe in the priesthood of every believer, 257 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:48.480 don't we? 258 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:49.120 Yes, we do. 259 00:10:49.559 --> 00:10:53.240 And you know, there's a there's a book that I 260 00:10:53.360 --> 00:10:55.759 read that pretty much changed my life. 261 00:10:55.879 --> 00:10:59.440 It was Oh, come on, it was a good one. 262 00:10:59.639 --> 00:11:04.480 Oh, I can't believe I said. It just pretty much 263 00:11:04.519 --> 00:11:07.120 changed my life. And I can't remember this. 264 00:11:08.919 --> 00:11:10.879 That's one of the best moments I've ever experienced. 265 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:15.200 Terrible anyway, Uh, but but but it talked about the 266 00:11:15.240 --> 00:11:17.759 priests of every believer, and it talked about you know, 267 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:21.200 to some he was he gave apostles, prophets, pastors. 268 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:21.519 Right, that's right. 269 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:27.440 And and it's actually Alan Hirst, yeah, who wrote But anyway, 270 00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:30.039 and I'm not advocating everything that he writes, but this 271 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:34.039 book was phenomenal. And anyway, what he said in this 272 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:37.879 book is he broke down the practicality of the application 273 00:11:37.960 --> 00:11:41.639 of that verse and said that's the reason why, Uh, 274 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:45.440 most of us grew up with pastors thinking that they 275 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:48.399 should be good leaders, that they should also, you know, 276 00:11:48.759 --> 00:11:50.679 have the gift of teaching at the top of that, 277 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:52.879 they should have the gift of counseling, and the pastors 278 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:56.720 shepherd and they should also, uh, you know, have discernment. 279 00:11:57.200 --> 00:12:00.360 And when actually the Bible says that God you know, 280 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:03.919 disperses those gifts to different leaders in the church, and 281 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:07.759 he disperses the different spiritual gifts to members of the congregation. 282 00:12:08.679 --> 00:12:13.360 And so therefore it's silly to think that one leader 283 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:16.039 that we hire called pastors should have all of those things. 284 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:19.559 One person doesn't have those gifts. One person excels in 285 00:12:19.639 --> 00:12:23.440 maybe one or two of those leadership gifts. And the 286 00:12:23.480 --> 00:12:25.120 same is true with spiritual gifts. 287 00:12:25.159 --> 00:12:25.360 Right. 288 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:28.480 So you know, that's the reason why when you call 289 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:32.080 the church and you say, hey, I need counseling, chances 290 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:34.039 are it's not Christ or Jeff. It's going to be 291 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:37.200 meeting with your right because that's not our spiritual gift. 292 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:40.600 So therefore, we have people on staff who are gifted 293 00:12:40.919 --> 00:12:43.480 and that is their number one spiritual gift. They have 294 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:48.600 the pastor or the pastoral or the shepherd gift. And 295 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:52.159 so anyway, all that to say, the priests of every 296 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:55.919 believer means that God has gifted every one of you. 297 00:12:56.559 --> 00:12:59.519 If you're a Christian and you are a believer in Christ, 298 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:03.080 you have been given a spiritual gift. And so therefore 299 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:05.759 God is calling you to use that gift in the church. 300 00:13:06.559 --> 00:13:08.879 So it's not for church leadership, it's for you. 301 00:13:08.879 --> 00:13:11.799 You are a pastor, you are a leader. You are 302 00:13:11.799 --> 00:13:12.440 an apostle. 303 00:13:12.919 --> 00:13:16.279 You are a prophet in the sense where you have 304 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:19.720 discernment from God right right, and and you know the 305 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:23.360 ability to start new things. That's the apostle gift to you, 306 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:27.159 to venture off and start new things. So so yeah, 307 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:29.360 ap prec of the believer is a huge thing, and 308 00:13:29.519 --> 00:13:31.320 so yeah, this is a great reference to that. 309 00:13:32.039 --> 00:13:35.639 So that you know, it's funny. One of the things 310 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:37.480 that happens a lot of times is people want to 311 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:39.480 counsel with me and they're like, oh, Pastor Jeff, I 312 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:44.000 really identify with your teaching and all this stuff. We're 313 00:13:44.039 --> 00:13:46.559 just alike, would you counsel And then they're so disappointed 314 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:48.639 when they actually counsel with because I'm not a very 315 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:51.519 good counselor, right right, And then they're always like, hey, 316 00:13:51.600 --> 00:13:54.519 is pastor Kevin available because he's such a good counselor 317 00:13:54.559 --> 00:13:56.759 he's a gift that he's trained, he's skilled at it. Yeah, 318 00:13:56.879 --> 00:13:59.000 you know, so some of us are teachers and evangelists 319 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:00.000 and apostle. 320 00:14:00.360 --> 00:14:01.120 Gifted by God. 321 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:04.240 Yeah. The Forgotten Ways, Oh, forgotten Ways, that's the name 322 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:07.000 of the book. It's hysterical. You forgot the name of 323 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:10.720 a book called forgotten the Forgotten Ways, and those ways 324 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:14.960 changed your life, right, those forgotten ways that you forgot 325 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:17.440 about change your life. That's fantastic. 326 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:18.120 It's so ironic. 327 00:14:18.200 --> 00:14:21.440 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's so good. Well, this message 328 00:14:21.519 --> 00:14:23.919 and I was looking it up here in uh it's 329 00:14:23.960 --> 00:14:27.039 in Luke. Chapter four is where Jesus shows up. Let 330 00:14:27.039 --> 00:14:28.440 me let me pull it up for you because I 331 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:33.039 love the fact that Jesus quotes this passage. Look four 332 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:36.360 and then it's like eighteen or something. So Jesus goes 333 00:14:36.399 --> 00:14:42.879 off and goes out into the wilderness and is tempted 334 00:14:43.159 --> 00:14:45.000 in his mystery. Remember he gets baptized. 335 00:14:45.279 --> 00:14:46.559 Yeah, immediately goes off. 336 00:14:46.679 --> 00:14:49.320 Before he's baptized, John the Baptist says, behold the lamb 337 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:51.279 of God who takes away the sin of the world. Right, 338 00:14:51.679 --> 00:14:55.279 and then Jesus comes to be baptized. And John says, 339 00:14:55.320 --> 00:14:58.480 I don't deserve to baptize. You should baptize me. And 340 00:14:58.559 --> 00:15:01.120 Jesus said, no, this is the right thing. And so 341 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:03.919 Jesus gets back to fulfill all righteousness, and he gets baptized, 342 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:05.360 and coming up out of the water, the spirit of 343 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:07.879 the Lord descends like a dove and says, and from 344 00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:09.879 heaven a voice says, this is my beloved son and 345 00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:13.440 whom I'm well pleased. And this is in fact. Now 346 00:15:13.480 --> 00:15:15.159 you've got the Father's son and Holy Spirit all in 347 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:18.039 the same place at the same time, right, And it 348 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:25.840 kicks off Jesus kind of recognition. As now John the 349 00:15:25.879 --> 00:15:30.480 baptist is handed off kind of this prophetic leadership to Jesus. 350 00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:32.600 And then the first thing God does is he takes 351 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:36.320 him into the wilderness for temptations. So Jesus fasts in 352 00:15:36.360 --> 00:15:39.200 the wilderness for forty days and forty nights, and during 353 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:42.159 that time the devil comes and tempts him with bread 354 00:15:42.279 --> 00:15:44.840 and with power, and you know all those things, I'll 355 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:47.759 give you all the lands. And Jesus keeps quoting Scripture 356 00:15:47.759 --> 00:15:49.240 to him. Yes, now, this is one of the reasons 357 00:15:49.279 --> 00:15:50.399 that you and I talked about it when we got 358 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:53.480 to that passage before. It's one of the reasons why 359 00:15:53.480 --> 00:15:55.879 scripture is so important. Your opinion or your feelings, you're 360 00:15:55.919 --> 00:15:59.879 even your best arguments won't hold up when you're at 361 00:15:59.879 --> 00:16:02.759 your weakest moment physically and spiritually against the devil. But 362 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:05.039 what does hold up is God's words, right, And so 363 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:07.639 Jesus quotes the word back to him and defeats Satan. 364 00:16:07.639 --> 00:16:09.799 Because because the power is in God's words, not in 365 00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:10.399 our own. 366 00:16:10.240 --> 00:16:13.200 That's right, right, And so then the devil, it says 367 00:16:13.240 --> 00:16:16.600 in verse thirteen Luke, chapter four. Then the devil, when 368 00:16:16.600 --> 00:16:19.279 the devil had empted all the temptation, he departed for 369 00:16:19.360 --> 00:16:22.559 him from him for a season, and Jesus returned in 370 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:24.559 the power of the spirit. Now he's got God's Holy 371 00:16:24.559 --> 00:16:28.000 Spirit in him, the power of this Holy Spirit into Galilee. 372 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:31.080 And there went a fame of him through all the 373 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:33.919 region I'm reading from King James round about, and he 374 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:37.720 taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. And then 375 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:39.799 he came to Nazareth, where he'd been brought up, and 376 00:16:39.840 --> 00:16:42.360 he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and 377 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:46.039 stood up to read. It's interesting, did you go to 378 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:48.399 Nazareth when you were in around Galilee. Yeah, and did 379 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:50.679 you go into that little synagogue that was there, right, 380 00:16:50.759 --> 00:16:51.360 isn't that neat? 381 00:16:51.559 --> 00:16:52.399 It's amazing? 382 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:55.960 Yeah, yeah, that was that the synagogue that was built 383 00:16:56.039 --> 00:16:57.080 upon the other foundation. 384 00:16:57.480 --> 00:16:59.960 It was, Yeah, that's in compernaum. This is this will 385 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:03.039 though it was a model of this of the synagogue 386 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:05.039 that was in Nazareth. 387 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:05.799 That's right, that's right. 388 00:17:06.359 --> 00:17:10.000 And so then they hand him the Book of Isaiah. 389 00:17:10.039 --> 00:17:11.599 And then he opened the book and he said, the 390 00:17:11.640 --> 00:17:13.480 spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has 391 00:17:13.519 --> 00:17:16.160 anointed me to preach the gospel of the poor. He 392 00:17:16.279 --> 00:17:18.720 sent me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance 393 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:21.960 to the captives, and recover the sight to the blind, 394 00:17:21.960 --> 00:17:24.279 and to set at liberty them that are bruised, to 395 00:17:24.359 --> 00:17:26.880 preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed it, 396 00:17:27.160 --> 00:17:29.400 and he gave it to the minister, and he sat down, 397 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:32.880 and all of the people in the synagogue were watching him, 398 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:35.799 and he began to say to them, this day is 399 00:17:35.799 --> 00:17:39.480 the day the scripture is fulfilled in your ears. Right. 400 00:17:40.039 --> 00:17:42.640 So sometimes you read prophecies and you go, ah, that 401 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:45.519