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 --> 00:00:14.320 practical ways. Good morning, Jeff, Good morning Chris. Hey, it 4 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:16.960 is a good morning because this is the Bible Guys. 5 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:17.519 We're back. 6 00:00:17.879 --> 00:00:20.719 We are better than ever. Yes, and we're both wearing 7 00:00:20.719 --> 00:00:21.640 black today. 8 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:24.199 Yes, back in back in blah. 9 00:00:25.160 --> 00:00:27.280 I've got the Bible Guy's logo on my shirt. 10 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:30.640 Yes, and I have just a black shirt. Yes. All right, well, 11 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:32.079 hey today dangerous. 12 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:35.399 Yes, we're actually launching into a brand new series called 13 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:37.039 Dangerous Prayers. 14 00:00:37.399 --> 00:00:38.880 Maybe that's why we're feeling dangerous. 15 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:42.920 Yeah, we are oh danger Yeah. 16 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:44.759 Have you ever see the Grin System Christmas? 17 00:00:45.159 --> 00:00:45.520 Yes? 18 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:48.640 Jim Carrey version, Yes, that's one of my favorite parts 19 00:00:48.679 --> 00:00:52.159 saw though, when he's talking to this Lulu, what's your name, Cindy, 20 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:53.600 Luhu Cindy and he. 21 00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:56.600 Goes danger danger That's what I like. 22 00:00:56.920 --> 00:01:01.640 Okay, I like that part anyway. Yeah, anyway, it just 23 00:01:01.640 --> 00:01:02.439 comes into my mind. 24 00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:04.120 That's what she got on Monday people. 25 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:08.040 Sorry, sorry, we're gonna be jumping into a segment before 26 00:01:08.079 --> 00:01:12.280 we jump into the prayer thing that Desiree wrote here, 27 00:01:12.359 --> 00:01:13.799 and it's called show video. 28 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:15.400 What is that. 29 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:18.040 Oh no, that's rolling video. No, No, she didn't name 30 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:18.439 the section. 31 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:19.519 She didn't name the segment. 32 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:21.959 Oh, that's it. Yeah, I was reading the line. 33 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:24.120 He read the line before on the show notes. 34 00:01:24.439 --> 00:01:27.000 On the roll in. That's the rolling note. 35 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:31.400 It says today we're starting a new series on dangerous prayers, 36 00:01:31.719 --> 00:01:34.640 and today's passage is about the prayer that could ruin 37 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:37.719 your comfort. So let's ask this question, when's the last 38 00:01:37.719 --> 00:01:42.640 time you did something that scared you in a good way. Now, 39 00:01:42.719 --> 00:01:45.079 I've I've jumped out of planes a couple of times, 40 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:48.920 three times. I've done rock climbing over like three hundred 41 00:01:48.920 --> 00:01:53.359 foot cliffs. I've done bungee jumping. I've done pair sailing. 42 00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:55.760 Usually anything with heights gets me. 43 00:01:55.959 --> 00:01:58.079 Really, what's a pair of sailing scared to you? 44 00:01:58.120 --> 00:01:59.400 Oh it's twelve hundred feet? 45 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:00.879 Was it scary? 46 00:02:01.319 --> 00:02:04.920 Uh? Yeah, kind of because you know, at any. 47 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:07.159 Time people are just kind of floating there like that. 48 00:02:07.480 --> 00:02:11.000 Yeah, that that part is smooth, But like think about 49 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:13.800 like something go wrong and just if it fell, you're. 50 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:16.960 Done, Okay, right, sure, there's always. 51 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:19.879 A possibility, there is, so so yeah, I would say 52 00:02:19.879 --> 00:02:20.879 it was a little scary. 53 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:23.199 Literally wearing a parachute. 54 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:27.039 No, you're it's it's not the same. It's not the 55 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:28.520 same as a parachute. 56 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:30.319 What's something behind you? 57 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:30.719 Okay? 58 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:34.840 Did you also know that if the boat stops going, 59 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:36.560 then you go down. 60 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:38.520 Yeah with the parachute. 61 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:42.319 Yeah, no, it's it's faster than you think. 62 00:02:43.199 --> 00:02:46.800 So anyway, Uh, you're probably right, but I. 63 00:02:46.759 --> 00:02:49.039 Just I just want to It just felt dangerous. 64 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:50.159 It felt dangerous to me. 65 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:52.280 The perception of danger was there. 66 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:56.360 Okay, Uh, anyway, but I've done like scary roller coasters, 67 00:02:56.400 --> 00:02:59.680 and so the question was, when's the last. 68 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:01.120 Time, And yeah, I'm having a hard time. 69 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:03.080 I'm having a hard time too, because here's the thing. 70 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:07.960 I don't think I've done anything that extreme. 71 00:03:07.560 --> 00:03:11.039 For a little bit. It's time, it is time, I think, 72 00:03:11.319 --> 00:03:12.240 I think it is time. 73 00:03:12.919 --> 00:03:15.759 But I think probably the last time I did something 74 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:18.400 extreme was jump out of a plane and that was 75 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:22.520 like six years ago. But I have done height things 76 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:26.800 like I remember going to the top of a very 77 00:03:26.840 --> 00:03:30.000 tall lighthouse with just a couple of inches walking around 78 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:33.560 the ledges. That felt pretty dangerous. Again, height things are 79 00:03:33.560 --> 00:03:35.360 a big thing for me. I went on like a 80 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:38.199 glass bridge, you know, I went to the top of 81 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:41.360 the deal in New York, you know, those kinds of things, 82 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:43.240 but maybe a roller coaster. 83 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:44.560 I don't know. 84 00:03:45.319 --> 00:03:47.680 Have you been historically the kind of person who does 85 00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:50.680 like extreme things? Yeah? 86 00:03:50.719 --> 00:03:53.360 Yeah, like not do things. Yeah. 87 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:56.159 Well, you know what, when I was younger, I always 88 00:03:56.159 --> 00:03:59.319 thought to myself, because I am definitely afraid of heights, 89 00:03:59.879 --> 00:04:00.800 I just want. 90 00:04:00.680 --> 00:04:03.120 To do those things overcome it, to overcome it. 91 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:07.319 So I've done all the height things right, and and 92 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:10.039 then you know, I've done fast things I've done. I've 93 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:14.120 done reckless, dangerous things in that way too. But you know, 94 00:04:14.240 --> 00:04:15.400 some things I did not enjoy. 95 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:18.480 Yeah, I have I have things on my you know, 96 00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:20.720 I've mentioned before, I have a bucket list. I've got 97 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:23.160 like one hundred and something thing, one hundred fifty things 98 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:25.279 or something like that on my bucket list. But a 99 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:29.399 few of them I can't do because Heritage Church has 100 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:32.160 a key Man life insurance policy on me, and it 101 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:37.240 specifically excludes them. Like I'm not allowed to cage dive 102 00:04:37.279 --> 00:04:40.920 with sharks, I'm not allowed to skydive. I'm not allowed 103 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:42.720 to drive a race car. There's a few things like 104 00:04:42.759 --> 00:04:45.000 that I'm allowed to do. So that's kind of frustrating 105 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:47.319 to me. So I'm a little nervous about saying the 106 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:48.319 things I have been doing. 107 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:53.399 There you go in fear that the insurance agent is 108 00:04:53.480 --> 00:04:54.800 listening our listeners. 109 00:04:55.040 --> 00:04:58.920 Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I've always been that person that 110 00:04:59.079 --> 00:05:03.519 somebody says, I dare you, and I'm like, okay, I 111 00:05:03.720 --> 00:05:05.800 just always have had a lot of confidence in my 112 00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:08.560 ability to pull a thing off or to survive a thing, 113 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:10.800 and you know whatever. And then I have a weird 114 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:15.759 mechanism in my head that says, Okay, it's dangerous, right, 115 00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:20.000 there's this perception of danger. But how many one hundred 116 00:05:20.040 --> 00:05:22.759 thousand people did that thing jumped out of a plane 117 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:26.639 today or this week and not all of them died, 118 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:29.839 like one hundred thousand of them lived whatever. And so 119 00:05:29.879 --> 00:05:31.399 there's this mechanism in my head he goes, it's not 120 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:34.399 that dangerous. There's a perception of danger, but these companies 121 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:37.000 couldn't stay in business if they were. 122 00:05:37.319 --> 00:05:37.959 Yeah. 123 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:40.480 I did that on my first guy Divee, the guy 124 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:42.600 that was tandem strapped to me. I said, how many 125 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:45.199 times have you cause you know there's three shoots, right, 126 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:47.040 there's a shoot, then there's a backup shoot, then there's 127 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:51.160 even an altimeter shoot, which if we both pass out, 128 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:54.160 it opens and so so I felt okay there. But 129 00:05:54.199 --> 00:05:55.639 I looked at him and he was an older guy, 130 00:05:55.839 --> 00:05:57.240 and I said, how many times have you jumped? 131 00:05:57.240 --> 00:05:58.360 And he goes, oh, he goes, I'm in. 132 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:01.480 A really really elite class. I said what, and he goes, 133 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:05.680 I've jumped ten thousand times. I said, you've jumped ten 134 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:06.879 thousand times, right, and. 135 00:06:06.839 --> 00:06:08.279 He said yeah. And I was like, oh, I'm good. 136 00:06:08.759 --> 00:06:09.879 Immediately was good like that. 137 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:11.759 You didn't have a sense like he's about due. 138 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:12.519 No. 139 00:06:12.920 --> 00:06:15.240 I did not, No, I just it was the same 140 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:17.800 logic you this is like, it's like, oh, I'm good. 141 00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:19.720 This guy knows what he's doing, right, he's going to 142 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:20.360 pack the Shoot. 143 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:23.759 Fine, I'm going next week. I'm going to a pretty 144 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:26.720 dangerous city. It's a in the world. It's a well 145 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:29.959 known dangerousy I don't want to say it, but and 146 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:31.839 I had a couple of people go, oh, maybe he 147 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:33.879 shouldn't go. That's such a dangerous city. Yes, well, how 148 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:36.040 many people live there? Like, I don't know? I said, 149 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:41.680 over twenty million people live there, right, right, So that's 150 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:44.279 how many people lived there yesterday. There's twenty many people. 151 00:06:44.279 --> 00:06:45.800 Do you know how many people woke up this morning? 152 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:47.519 Twenty million people. 153 00:06:47.879 --> 00:06:49.759 Well maybe not, maybe not. 154 00:06:49.959 --> 00:06:53.360 Yeah, no, Still, they didn't lose twenty million people yesterday. Right, 155 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:55.720 So the probability is something bad happening to you on 156 00:06:55.879 --> 00:06:58.240 that day is really really small. It's like greater than 157 00:06:58.279 --> 00:07:00.160 getting struck by lightning. Right. 158 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:02.639 So right, Well, I did go to South Sudan when 159 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:06.240 it was very unsafe, and but that wasn't something that 160 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:08.560 I was feary in a good way. That was actually 161 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:10.480 a bad way. 162 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:10.079 Way. 163 00:07:10.920 --> 00:07:11.839 Yeah, that was intense. 164 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:14.920 Yeah, I've had some of those. A lot of mine 165 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:17.519 are with animals. I think maybe I was thinking, you know, 166 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:19.959 I've been this whole time just killing time, trying to 167 00:07:19.959 --> 00:07:22.560 figure out something recent. I think the most recent thing 168 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:26.160 that happened to me that scared me. I was on 169 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:29.720 the border of Sudani Kenya. So when you said Sudanic clicked, Yeah. 170 00:07:29.800 --> 00:07:34.199 And we were staying in this I don't know, like 171 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:37.839 a Safari kind of a camp and in my room 172 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:40.920 on the second night, oh yeah, you told me this. 173 00:07:41.040 --> 00:07:42.920 In my room on my second night, I had a 174 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:46.000 tarantula that I had to get out of my room 175 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:49.279 and I didn't want to go ask for help because 176 00:07:49.319 --> 00:07:52.920 those guys are so tough. Yeah, you know, and so 177 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:54.439 I had to figure out how to get it out myself. 178 00:07:54.439 --> 00:07:56.279 I wound up catching it and getting notes. I didn't 179 00:07:56.279 --> 00:07:58.199 want to kill it, so I caught it and got 180 00:07:58.199 --> 00:08:00.680 it outside. But it was one of those things that 181 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:04.839 I had seen it subconsciously and hadn't It didn't register 182 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:08.079 the first day, and then I slept all night with 183 00:08:08.120 --> 00:08:11.639 that spider in my room. Yeah, and then the next. 184 00:08:11.519 --> 00:08:13.399 Day my wife, My wife just shivered. 185 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:16.519 It was it was about it was about as big 186 00:08:16.519 --> 00:08:17.959 as my hand, not quite as big as my hand, 187 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:19.360 maybe half the size of my hand. 188 00:08:19.720 --> 00:08:22.279 You know, you and I live parallel lives, right, I 189 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:24.040 mean we had a lot of the same stories I had. 190 00:08:24.079 --> 00:08:26.879 That happened to me in uh in Haiti. There was 191 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:27.519 a transla. 192 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:28.720 Oh really, yeah it was. 193 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:30.480 It trapped me in a shower. 194 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:31.279 It trapped you. 195 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:33.080 Yes, there was one hallway. 196 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:36.000 There was one hallway, and it was right there and 197 00:08:36.039 --> 00:08:38.759 I was screaming coming out of the shower and screaming help, help, 198 00:08:38.759 --> 00:08:40.799 and nobody was around, and it literally it was. 199 00:08:40.720 --> 00:08:43.240 A really thin transla. Saw you coming out of the thing. 200 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:45.320 It was screaming too, help right right. 201 00:08:45.720 --> 00:08:48.240 I only had a towel, that's it. So I didn't 202 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:48.600 know what to do. 203 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:50.039 So I just I had to hold up the towel 204 00:08:50.039 --> 00:08:52.279 because those things could leap. I had to hold the towel, 205 00:08:52.279 --> 00:08:53.879 and I had to walk by, and I was I was. 206 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:55.840 As close to that transfer as me to you. 207 00:08:55.840 --> 00:08:57.440 You didn't me too. I had to catch it. I 208 00:08:57.480 --> 00:08:59.960 had to catch mine. Oh you didn't show your towel 209 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:01.279 on the translate. 210 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:03.559 I was, yeah, no, I didn't think of that. 211 00:09:04.120 --> 00:09:08.039 Throw your towel on the translant, scoop it up, get outside. Yeah, no, anyways, I. 212 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:09.559 Just held the towel up, thinking if he jumps, she's 213 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:10.240 gonna hit the towel. 214 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:13.360 Right, that's funny. Yeah, that's probably the main one. But 215 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:16.080 most of mine are animals or events like what you 216 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:18.000 were talking about, you know, skydive and stuff like that. 217 00:09:18.039 --> 00:09:19.440 I just I'm not allowed to do those. 218 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:20.720 Things, so gotcha. 219 00:09:20.919 --> 00:09:23.639 Okay, well talking about dangerous. 220 00:09:23.559 --> 00:09:27.039 Yes, we're talking about dangerous. Well that was an easy transition, it. 221 00:09:27.080 --> 00:09:29.480 Was, it was. But for the next couple of weeks, 222 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:32.240 they're all dangerous prayers. Yes, And I thought this was 223 00:09:32.240 --> 00:09:34.200 a really cool idea. You know, many of us we 224 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:39.120 pray these prayers, you know, these polite, little dinner time prayers. 225 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:42.799 You know, God is good, God is great. Kind of stuff. 226 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:44.600 It's that is great. God is good. 227 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:45.759 God is great. God is good. 228 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:48.080 What do we because because people think for some reason, 229 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:49.080 food rhymes was good? 230 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:54.120 Okay, good good food? Yeah? What's the what's the ones 231 00:09:54.159 --> 00:09:57.399 we teach our kids? Now I lay me down to sleep. Yeah, yeah, 232 00:09:57.440 --> 00:09:59.399 those are the kind of prayers that most of us 233 00:09:59.399 --> 00:10:01.879 wind up praying. Do you know we pray for Aunt 234 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:06.360 Gertrude's bunions, right, we pray for those kinds of things. 235 00:10:06.399 --> 00:10:08.000 I can't believe you just said that. That is but 236 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:10.440 I keeld have gone all day without a visual aid. 237 00:10:12.360 --> 00:10:16.039 Right. But we wonder why there's not a lot of 238 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:18.200 power and sometimes why there's not a lot of adventure 239 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:21.720 in our lives. And it's because we're praying either weak 240 00:10:21.759 --> 00:10:24.080 prayers or we're praying the wrong kind of prayers. And 241 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:25.799 so I thought, hey, this would be a fun series 242 00:10:25.840 --> 00:10:28.240 to do. Hey, dig into the Bible these really powerful, 243 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:29.120 dangerous prayers. 244 00:10:29.240 --> 00:10:32.519 I don't often say this because I always tell stories 245 00:10:32.519 --> 00:10:35.200 of dysfunction of my family, but did you know that 246 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:37.799 my family would not have a family meal, which we 247 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:40.440 did almost every night we had a family meal. We 248 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:42.360 would not have a family meal without saying a prayer. 249 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:45.519 And we never went to church growing up, but it 250 00:10:45.639 --> 00:10:47.840 was that prayer. God is great, God is good, and 251 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:51.000 where we think him for this food from his hands 252 00:10:51.000 --> 00:10:51.600 we must be fed. 253 00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:55.000 Give us a little this daily bread amen at something. Yep. 254 00:10:55.360 --> 00:11:00.759 So as insanely dysfunctional as your family was, I like 255 00:11:00.759 --> 00:11:04.320 the poke fun that you you pretty much grew up feral. Yes, yes, yes, 256 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:09.360 but you guys had family dinner every night, almost every night. Yeah, 257 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:11.399 and you prayed together. 258 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:11.919 Yes. 259 00:11:12.279 --> 00:11:12.799 Isn't that amazing? 260 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:14.519 They didn't. They didn't call it prayer though. They said, 261 00:11:14.519 --> 00:11:14.919 say grace. 262 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:15.559 Yea, I say grace. 263 00:11:15.639 --> 00:11:16.039 Yeah. 264 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:19.200 Wow, that's amazing. That's probably why you guys are still close, 265 00:11:19.240 --> 00:11:21.159 even though you had such a crazy family grow up 266 00:11:21.279 --> 00:11:25.360 growing up with family dinner, family Dinner's magical. Man. Okay, anyways, 267 00:11:25.480 --> 00:11:27.759 we've killed enough time. Let's jump into this. We're only 268 00:11:27.799 --> 00:11:31.200 looking at two prayers, but the reality is Psalm one nine, 269 00:11:31.320 --> 00:11:34.200 the whole thing is a prayer. Yeah right. As a 270 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:36.000 matter of fact, as you read through the Psalms, they're 271 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:40.000 all songs that the Hebrew people, the Jewish people would 272 00:11:40.039 --> 00:11:42.519 sing many times going up to the temple or in 273 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:45.440 the temple or throughout their day and other things. But 274 00:11:45.559 --> 00:11:48.240 every one of them is also a prayer that was 275 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:51.559 put to song, right, put to music, and so this 276 00:11:51.600 --> 00:11:56.000 one is a psalm of David, and he ends the 277 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:59.080 prayer with this. He says in verse twenty three, search me, 278 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:02.279 Oh God, and know my heart, test me and know 279 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:06.159 my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, 280 00:12:06.519 --> 00:12:08.759 and lead me along the path of everlasting life. 281 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:09.320 Yeah. 282 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:13.320 So, dude, that's a that's a dangerous prayer. God. He's 283 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:16.559 literally inviting God to do some exploratory surgery. Yes, hey, 284 00:12:17.120 --> 00:12:18.720 just check a see is there anything in there that 285 00:12:18.759 --> 00:12:21.240 I need to be fixed? Right? That's amazing. But let's 286 00:12:21.240 --> 00:12:22.279 give a little bit of context. 287 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:25.240 He says, point out. Yeah, he wants he wants God 288 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:26.799 to bring to his attention. 289 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:30.200 Yeah yeah, search me, point it out. You show me God, 290 00:12:30.279 --> 00:12:32.279 I love you so much. I want you to show 291 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:35.200 me anything in me that needs to change. And that's powerful. 292 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:36.679 That's like standing in front of your husband and says, 293 00:12:36.679 --> 00:12:39.480 does this dress make me look fat? Tell me the truth? 294 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:42.440 But they don't want the truth. Yeah, right, But but 295 00:12:42.519 --> 00:12:43.600 David's praying for the truth. 296 00:12:44.120 --> 00:12:48.559 So for some context, he really lays out already through 297 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:51.879 this whole chapter. God, you know everything right, That's really 298 00:12:51.879 --> 00:12:54.039 what he's doing through this whole chapter. In the first 299 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:57.039 six verses, it says, Oh, Lord, You've examined my heart 300 00:12:57.039 --> 00:12:59.120 and know everything about me. You know when I sit 301 00:12:59.200 --> 00:13:01.679 down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when 302 00:13:01.679 --> 00:13:04.240 I'm far away. You see me when I travel, when 303 00:13:04.279 --> 00:13:07.200 I rest at home. You know everything I do. You 304 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:09.799 know what I'm going to say even before I say it. Lord, 305 00:13:10.039 --> 00:13:12.679 you go before me and follow me. You place your 306 00:13:12.679 --> 00:13:15.240 hand a blessing on my head. Such knowledge is too 307 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:18.799 wonderful for me, too great for me to understand. He 308 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:20.639 goes on. He says, I can never escape your spirit. 309 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:22.480 I can never get away from your presence. If I 310 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:23.879 go up to heaven, you're there. If I go down 311 00:13:23.879 --> 00:13:25.720 to the grave, you're there. If I ride the wings 312 00:13:25.720 --> 00:13:28.159 of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest sea, 313 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:30.480 even there, your hand will guide me, and your strength 314 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:32.919 will support me. I could ask the darkness to hide 315 00:13:32.919 --> 00:13:34.360 me in the light around me, to become night. But 316 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:37.039 even in the darkness I cannot hide from you. To you, 317 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:39.919 the night shines as bright as a day. Darkness and 318 00:13:40.039 --> 00:13:43.240 light are the same. To you. You made all the 319 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:45.840 delicate inner parts of my body and knit me together 320 00:13:45.960 --> 00:13:50.039 my mother's womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex. 321 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:54.399 Your workmanship is marvelous. How well I know it? Just 322 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:56.919 so funny, man, God, you did a good job making me. 323 00:13:57.279 --> 00:13:58.639 Look how marvelous this is. 324 00:13:58.720 --> 00:13:59.919 It's wonderfully come by. 325 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:04.080 How well I know it. Your workmanship is marvelous, he says. 326 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:06.720 You watch me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, 327 00:14:06.879 --> 00:14:08.919 as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. 328 00:14:09.600 --> 00:14:11.720 You saw me before I was born. Every day my 329 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:14.320 life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid 330 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:17.080 out before a single day had passed. How precious are 331 00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:19.759 your thoughts about me? Oh God, they cannot be numbered. 332 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:22.600 I can't even count them. They outnumber the grains of 333 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:24.759 the sand. And when I wake up, you're still with me. 334 00:14:25.320 --> 00:14:28.679 Oh God, if only you would destroy the wicked. And 335 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:31.639 now he's mad at it. He does this a lot 336 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:34.000 in his prayers. He's like, God, you are so awesome. 337 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:35.879 You're so great. By the way, I got some enemies. 338 00:14:35.879 --> 00:14:40.799 If you kill them for me, and he said, get 339 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:43.720 out of my life, you murderers, they blaspheme, you your 340 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:46.799 enemies misuse your name. Oh Lord, shouldn't I hate those 341 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:49.720 who hate you? Shouldn't I despise those who oppose you? Yes, 342 00:14:49.799 --> 00:14:52.240 I hate them with total hatred, for your enemies are 343 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:55.799 my enemies. And then he says, search me, o, God, 344 00:14:55.799 --> 00:14:57.440 and know my heart, and test me and know my 345 00:14:57.480 --> 00:15:01.440 anxious thoughts, point out anything in that offends you, and 346 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:06.279 lead me along the path of everlasting life. So really 347 00:15:06.279 --> 00:15:08.679 really powerful because he admits, God, you know everything about 348 00:15:08.679 --> 00:15:11.519 me from the first second of conception. You knew who 349 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:11.799 I was. 350 00:15:12.240 --> 00:15:15.559 You know I love It's been a while since I've 351 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:17.840 thought of this. When he says, how precious are your 352 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:20.399 thoughts about me? Oh God, they cannot be numbered. They 353 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:24.240 I can't even count them. They outnumber the grains of sand. 354 00:15:25.240 --> 00:15:29.000 So David is saying that if you try to count 355 00:15:29.440 --> 00:15:34.080 all the grains of sand, God has more precious thoughts 356 00:15:34.120 --> 00:15:36.759 about you than the grains of sand. 357 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:39.480 Yes, And I know it's David saying. 358 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:42.799 It's not God saying it, sure, but it is, you know, 359 00:15:42.960 --> 00:15:45.679 inspired by God, and it is contained in God's word. 360 00:15:46.120 --> 00:15:48.440 So I have to believe that that's true, Right, I 361 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:52.919 have to believe that that God has precious thoughts about us. 362 00:15:52.919 --> 00:15:54.240 That out number the grains of sand. 363 00:15:54.799 --> 00:15:57.519 Is amazing if it's in his Holy word, right, pretty amazing. 364 00:15:57.600 --> 00:16:00.399 So either way, it's it's just in a phenomenal though, right, 365 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:03.159 that God has precious thoughts about me, and he says, 366 00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:07.320 you know all my days time is time is relevant, 367 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:10.759 day and night is irrelevant to you God, everything is 368 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:14.320 the same. And then also, of course this is a 369 00:16:14.399 --> 00:16:16.960 very famous chapter. We have to say this. It's a 370 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:23.559 very famous chapter that is very pro life, isn't it. 371 00:16:23.559 --> 00:16:24.600 It's the pro life chapter. 372 00:16:25.639 --> 00:16:29.120 It's well, I'm sure that there are multiple places in 373 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:31.960 the Bible where God highlights the value of human life. Yeah, 374 00:16:31.960 --> 00:16:34.320 you're right, but this one is talking about God knew 375 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:36.799 me at conception, that's right, that's what and was paying 376 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:40.399 attention to me from the moment I was conceived, all 377 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:42.919 through my development before I was ever born, and God 378 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:45.840 had a plan for my life before I was ever 379 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:46.360 even born. 380 00:16:46.519 --> 00:16:49.679 Yeah, and he talks about knowing the number of days 381 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:52.879 while he's in the womb, and so he mentions it 382 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:53.440 several times. 383 00:16:53.879 --> 00:16:54.919 So the reason why I say pro. 384 00:16:54.840 --> 00:16:56.480 Life, I was gonna say, don't think David wrote it 385 00:16:56.480 --> 00:16:57.480 to be political, No. 386 00:16:57.480 --> 00:16:57.960 Of course not. 387 00:16:58.360 --> 00:17:01.240 But the reason why I was saying that is because normally, 388 00:17:01.320 --> 00:17:04.039 when when you talk about somebody on whether they believe 389 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:06.279 that life begins a conception, they'll go to Psalm one 390 00:17:06.279 --> 00:17:06.720 thirty nine. 391 00:17:06.799 --> 00:17:10.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, Jeremiah has some things about that that 392 00:17:10.039 --> 00:17:12.200 God knew me in the womb and things like that 393 00:17:12.240 --> 00:17:15.000 as well. There's other places that talk about how God 394 00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:19.559 knows us from the very beginning of our existence, before 395 00:17:19.559 --> 00:17:21.039 we knew us, God knew us. 396 00:17:21.200 --> 00:17:21.960 Yeah, and I know that that. 397 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:23.960 I know that's a hot topic even for a lot 398 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:25.920 of you know, Christians who are working their way through 399 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:26.519 their beliefs. 400 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:29.160 But we firmly believe that life begins a concession. 401 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:30.960