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 --> 00:00:07.480 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:13.800 Good morning, Jeff, we're back, Yes, we are back. 5 00:00:13.880 --> 00:00:17.640 You have a song for us, good morning, good morning, 6 00:00:18.239 --> 00:00:22.440 we talk home, not do good morning, good morning to 7 00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:24.199 you and you and you. 8 00:00:24.039 --> 00:00:25.879 And it takes almost no nudge. 9 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:28.640 Yes. Yeah. 10 00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:31.039 And by the way, last time I sang that I 11 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:32.640 couldn't come up with the words. I went back and 12 00:00:32.679 --> 00:00:36.119 watched it. Nothing could be grander than being Louisiana. Nothing 13 00:00:36.159 --> 00:00:37.479 could be granted them being Louisiana. 14 00:00:37.479 --> 00:00:39.159 That's that's what they say. What one of our listeners 15 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:40.759 put that, posted that on YouTube? 16 00:00:40.799 --> 00:00:42.240 Are they really that's great? 17 00:00:42.920 --> 00:00:45.759 Well, hey, if indeed you're listening in the morning, we 18 00:00:45.799 --> 00:00:46.799 want to say good morning. 19 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:48.560 If it's at night, then well good morning. 20 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:50.159 Anyway, tomorrow is going to be a good morning. 21 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:50.520 That's right. 22 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:54.479 There, you go. Well, today is Friday Friday, and as 23 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:57.000 is one of our customs. That's not the only Friday custom, 24 00:00:57.039 --> 00:01:00.159 but one of our customs is it's time for the 25 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:02.600 best segment of the week. I don't know about that, 26 00:01:02.759 --> 00:01:05.640 and that is what made Chris mad this week. 27 00:01:05.799 --> 00:01:07.799 Yes, and so I haven't. 28 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:09.760 Hey, you've had all these days to find something you're 29 00:01:09.760 --> 00:01:10.120 mad about. 30 00:01:10.359 --> 00:01:15.560 Yes, well, it happened yesterday, and uh yes this morning. Yes, 31 00:01:16.280 --> 00:01:19.079 well not this morning, yet it will happen today. Probably 32 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:23.079 it will happen today. And the thing that I've decided, 33 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:25.000 and by the way, I'm not even sure if anybody 34 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:29.480 will even notice this, but I've decided that if an 35 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:31.120 ad comes up in the middle of the video that 36 00:01:31.159 --> 00:01:34.439 I'm watching, I refuse to watch the end of the video, 37 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:35.400 no matter how compelly it is. 38 00:01:35.439 --> 00:01:37.239 Wow, don't tell people that, because I think ads pop 39 00:01:37.319 --> 00:01:38.359 up in the middle of our videos. 40 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:41.239 Oh well there's a big difference. 41 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:43.359 Oh, you should finish ours, but Chris isn't going to 42 00:01:43.359 --> 00:01:43.920 finish yours. 43 00:01:44.040 --> 00:01:48.000 Yeah, yeah, well, well I think is usually. 44 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:48.560 At the beginning in the end. 45 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:50.480 Well, happened to think about this? 46 00:01:50.959 --> 00:01:54.840 So our YouTube ad it's a twenty five minutes that's right, deal, 47 00:01:54.920 --> 00:01:56.920 and then our ads are what ninety seconds. 48 00:01:56.640 --> 00:01:57.200 At the most? 49 00:01:57.280 --> 00:01:57.519 Right? 50 00:01:57.799 --> 00:02:01.239 Okay, So didn't you say that you were watching a minute? 51 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:04.719 Yeah, so yesterday this happened. Yesterday. I watched a one 52 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:08.159 minute in six second video, sixty six seconds, but I 53 00:02:08.199 --> 00:02:12.199 had an unskippable ninety second commercial at the beginning of it, 54 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:15.960 Yes for candy crush. 55 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:19.199 Right said right, mind numbingly right, right, and so and so. 56 00:02:18.719 --> 00:02:20.439 So here's so, here's my deal. 57 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:24.560 My deal is is I uh, I'm scrolling through, you know, 58 00:02:24.599 --> 00:02:26.439 I'm just like wasting time, you know, sort of those 59 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:27.800 brain dead sort of like videos. 60 00:02:27.919 --> 00:02:28.960 So they're pretty quick anyway. 61 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:30.439 The videos are probably like a minute and a half 62 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:32.599 on you know, whatever it is, like Facebook videos or 63 00:02:32.599 --> 00:02:35.520 Instagram reels or TikTok videos, whatever it is is those. 64 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:37.719 Kinds of things. Sure, and I'll stop and I'll see 65 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:39.479 something and I'm like, oh, this is great. You know, 66 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:41.639 I'm like waiting for it. I'm waiting for it, and 67 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:42.840 it's like building up to it. 68 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:45.840 And then they purposefully put the ad so that you'll 69 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:48.039 wait and see the conclusion of the video. And I'm 70 00:02:48.039 --> 00:02:50.599 telling you right now, it does not matter how compelling. 71 00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:53.000 I want to know what happens in that video. 72 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:53.960 I'll stand on principle. 73 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:56.400 I was standing on principal and I will swipepe. I'm 74 00:02:56.439 --> 00:02:58.280 just like, I'm like, well, it looks like I'll never know. 75 00:02:58.520 --> 00:03:00.759 That's right, I just release it. I release it to 76 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:04.599 the curiosity. Gods, small g yes, because I'm just like, 77 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:05.280 I'm like, I'm done. 78 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:05.800 I'm like, I'm not. 79 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:09.280 I refuse to do so. Is a man of principle? 80 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:11.360 Yes on this one instance. 81 00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:12.120 Well here. 82 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:20.199 As opposed to he's very open of life, very open 83 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:22.120 to a lot of things. But he's going to draw 84 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:22.560 the line. 85 00:03:22.639 --> 00:03:24.719 Well, you know what I'm thinking, I'm thinking about I'm 86 00:03:24.759 --> 00:03:27.800 just like, this is outrageous, right, outrageous, outrageous, and it 87 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:29.879 may be mad because I'm thinking to myself, like we 88 00:03:29.919 --> 00:03:32.599 shouldn't have to uh, you know, like there are certain 89 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:34.639 things like I get it, like you either pay for 90 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:38.000 Amazon Prime and you pay the monthly fee and then 91 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:40.159 there's no commercials, or if you want the free version, 92 00:03:40.199 --> 00:03:41.360 then you need commercials. 93 00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:43.199 Like I get that part of it right. 94 00:03:43.240 --> 00:03:45.360 But then there's this, there's the other side of things 95 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:47.400 where it's like, now even the weather channel, did you 96 00:03:47.439 --> 00:03:49.879 know this? The weather channel, I click on, I look 97 00:03:49.879 --> 00:03:51.520 at the weather. Oh that's great, and then I click 98 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:53.759 on the radar. And before the radar, if you want 99 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:55.240 to see the radar, you got to see the commercial. 100 00:03:55.719 --> 00:03:57.400 It's like, and it's like, oh you don't you just 101 00:03:57.560 --> 00:03:59.439 click off? Then you're not going to see how close 102 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:01.680 is the town because you're not gonna watch that video. 103 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:06.840 I'm not watching it. I'm gonna put my family. I'm 104 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:07.800 not gonna watch that video. 105 00:04:07.960 --> 00:04:10.039 No, but it didn't make me mad, And I thought 106 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:13.159 to myself, unskippable ads are out of control people. So 107 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:16.399 whoever's in charge of unskippable ads, I'm mad, and I 108 00:04:16.439 --> 00:04:17.560 think the I think. 109 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:21.240 The nation is to nay the world, nay the world. 110 00:04:21.399 --> 00:04:22.120 That's right. 111 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:25.319 Uh so I believe ours. 112 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:26.920 So you know, we're not in charge of whether or 113 00:04:26.959 --> 00:04:28.560 not YouTube puts ads on stuff. 114 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:29.399 If you get. 115 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:32.720 Clicks, that's Unbible guys. Yeah, yeah, but I think what 116 00:04:32.959 --> 00:04:35.040 ours right now are relegated at the beginning. In the end, 117 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:36.680 we've we've asked them not to do. In the middle, 118 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:38.759 you can kind of click on that thing, and uh 119 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:40.839 but we don't have a lot of control over those. 120 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:43.160 So if a video pops up, a commercial pops up 121 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:45.480 in the middle of ours, you wouldn't be mad about 122 00:04:45.480 --> 00:04:47.240 a video in the middle of one of our videos. 123 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:51.120 Well maybe maybe if you'd watch the whole thing and 124 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:51.800 you'd keep going. 125 00:04:52.120 --> 00:04:56.000 Well, only because the Jews has to be worth the squeeze, right, 126 00:04:56.439 --> 00:04:59.560 So you gotta you gotta just eat right. You got 127 00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:01.600 to be like, well, I'm going to endure it because 128 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:03.560 I want to watch the bibble guys. And by the way, 129 00:05:03.560 --> 00:05:06.680 there are things like that where I'm on my Apple 130 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:09.079 TV whatever I searched for a movie and it says, yeah, 131 00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:11.040 you can watch it on this network and it's one 132 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:13.160 of these weird networks like two B or tuo vo 133 00:05:13.319 --> 00:05:16.279 whatever that's called, whatever that is, and and it's like, Okay, 134 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:18.920 you're gonna want You're gonna see six ads throughout the movie. 135 00:05:19.319 --> 00:05:21.759 It's a very very rare thing that I say yes 136 00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:24.000 to that, really, But if it's something that we just 137 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:26.959 specifically say as a family, we want to watch this movie. 138 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:27.959 You pay nine dollars for it? 139 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:33.600 No, no, no, well, no want to watch any comm No, 140 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:36.560 but we will endure them. But it's just painful. It's 141 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:37.160 just painful. 142 00:05:37.399 --> 00:05:39.040 Do you remember when when you were a kid, do 143 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:41.199 you remember being the remote control for your family? 144 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:41.879 Yes? 145 00:05:42.199 --> 00:05:44.199 Right, So commercials come on and my dad would be like, hey, 146 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:47.279 flip the channel real quick. See what's that channel seven? Yes, 147 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:51.040 and then we'd have to change the antenna, yes, move 148 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:51.680 on the roof. 149 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:53.680 On the roof. Wow, those were the days. 150 00:05:53.879 --> 00:05:55.959 So we were stuck with commercials back then. Yes, but 151 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:58.040 I think there's more commercials now than there used to be. 152 00:05:58.319 --> 00:05:59.000 I do agree. 153 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:01.079 So this is the thing you're mad about. Yes, you're 154 00:06:01.160 --> 00:06:03.439 you're mad for all of humanity. 155 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:05.480 For the world, Jeff, for the world, Yes. 156 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:08.759 Over unnecessary video commercials in the middle of it. 157 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:12.160 It's like bank fees and credit card interest rates and 158 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:14.399 home insurance interest rates. You can't do anything about it. 159 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:16.959 But if the world gets mad, Jeff, we can maybe 160 00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:17.920 do something together. 161 00:06:17.720 --> 00:06:19.040 Do something. So, of all the things we need to 162 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:21.240 change in the world, let's start on this one. 163 00:06:21.639 --> 00:06:23.399 Let's start with this. Let's put it on the list. 164 00:06:23.480 --> 00:06:26.040 Let's I didn't say start with it, okay, but it 165 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:26.920 needs to be on the list. 166 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:30.120 All right, thank you, Thank you for being I rate 167 00:06:30.759 --> 00:06:31.240 the rest of us. 168 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:31.759 You're welcome. 169 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:34.399 I'm not sure that I had thought about being mad 170 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:37.360 about it. I've been frustrated a few times. I think 171 00:06:37.399 --> 00:06:39.480 you're elevating my my frustration to anger. 172 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:40.439 I think you're agreeing with me. 173 00:06:40.519 --> 00:06:41.480 I'm gonna start protesting. 174 00:06:41.639 --> 00:06:43.439 I'm tapping into something. 175 00:06:43.160 --> 00:06:46.199 That needs to be there, Okay, right, Okay, the whole 176 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:50.759 world needs to rise up, rise up against unscable. 177 00:06:50.199 --> 00:06:53.759 Start like a political party against ads. 178 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:57.600 If if that is worth your tie. 179 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:00.439 If that is your life protesting Google, you give your 180 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:01.360 life to that, that's great. 181 00:07:02.519 --> 00:07:06.920 Okay, So hey, we're getting into one of my favorite parts. 182 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:08.680 And I've already referenced this a couple times. I think 183 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:11.199 this week in Deuteronomy, as we get to the end 184 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:14.560 of the Book of Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy chapter twenty eight, this 185 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:20.360 is kind of the last big Hurrah for Moses, and 186 00:07:20.439 --> 00:07:25.000 this happens where he kind of hits this blessing curse 187 00:07:25.079 --> 00:07:28.439 thing a couple of times. This one is really amazing 188 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:32.920 because what he has there's two hills, the valley in between, 189 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:35.759 and half you know, there's twelve tribes of Israel. Half 190 00:07:35.839 --> 00:07:39.759 the tribes are on Mount Ebel and half the tribes 191 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:43.480 are on Mount Garrison, and they're chanting these things back 192 00:07:43.480 --> 00:07:46.759 and forth, the curses and the blessings, and the curses 193 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:49.480 and the blessings. It's kind of a big illustration people 194 00:07:49.800 --> 00:07:51.839 calling these things out. So we're only gonna because Chris 195 00:07:51.839 --> 00:07:53.600 doesn't believe in the cursings, We're just going to read 196 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:54.160 the blessings. 197 00:07:54.279 --> 00:07:54.680 Wow. 198 00:07:54.720 --> 00:07:56.680 Here in Deuteronomy chapter and by the. 199 00:07:56.680 --> 00:07:58.959 Way, side note, if you have a life application study Bible. 200 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:02.839 There is a cool little photo of Mount Ebel and 201 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:09.040 Mount grism Gurrism here that actually shows you where it 202 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:11.160 was where it was, which is extremely cool. 203 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:12.800 It's one of my favorite things about the Bible is 204 00:08:12.839 --> 00:08:16.519 this rooted in real history in real places, right, and 205 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:19.360 so that's really cool. Anyways, here you go and dud 206 00:08:19.439 --> 00:08:22.079 Rhanomy chapter twenty eight says, if you fully obey the 207 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:25.040 Lord your God and carefully keep all his commandments that 208 00:08:25.079 --> 00:08:27.240 I'm giving you today, the Lord your God will set 209 00:08:27.279 --> 00:08:29.839 you high above all the nations of the world. You 210 00:08:29.879 --> 00:08:32.159 will experience all these blessings. If you obey the Lord 211 00:08:32.159 --> 00:08:34.440 your God. Your towns in your fields will be blessed. 212 00:08:34.519 --> 00:08:36.919 Your children and your crops will be blessed. The offspring 213 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:39.480 of your herds and flocks will be blessed. Your fruit, 214 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:42.120 baskets and bread boards will be blessed. Wherever you go, 215 00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:45.480 whatever you do, you'll be blessed. The Lord will conquer 216 00:08:45.559 --> 00:08:48.039 your enemies when they attack you. They will attack you 217 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:50.639 from one direction, but they will scatter from you in seven. 218 00:08:51.039 --> 00:08:53.320 The Lord will guarantee a blessing on everything you do, 219 00:08:53.440 --> 00:08:56.639 and will fill your storehouses with grain. The Lord your 220 00:08:56.639 --> 00:08:58.639 God will bless you in the land he is giving you. 221 00:08:59.240 --> 00:09:01.360 If you obey the commands of the Lord your God 222 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:03.840 and walk in his ways, the Lord will establish you 223 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:05.960 as his holy people, as he swore he would do. 224 00:09:06.519 --> 00:09:08.240 Then all the nations of the world will see that 225 00:09:08.279 --> 00:09:10.039 you are a people claimed by the Lord, and they 226 00:09:10.080 --> 00:09:12.480 will stand in awe of you. The Lord will give 227 00:09:12.480 --> 00:09:14.720 you prosperity in the land he swore to your ancestors 228 00:09:14.720 --> 00:09:18.240 to give you, blessing you with many children, numerous livestock, 229 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:21.159 and abundance crops. The Lord will send rain at the 230 00:09:21.159 --> 00:09:24.240 proper time for his rich treasury in the heavens, and 231 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:26.759 will bless all the work you do. You will lend 232 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:28.840 to many nations, but you will never need to borrow 233 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:31.519 from them. If you listen to these commands of the Lord, 234 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:33.200 your God that I'm giving you today, and if you 235 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:35.639 carefully obey them, the Lord will make you the head 236 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:38.080 and not the tail, and you'll always be on top 237 00:09:38.159 --> 00:09:40.639 and never at the bottom. You must not turn away 238 00:09:40.679 --> 00:09:43.159 from any of the commands I've given you today, nor 239 00:09:43.240 --> 00:09:46.960 follow after other gods and worship them. There you go, 240 00:09:47.440 --> 00:09:47.919 There you go. 241 00:09:48.440 --> 00:09:51.559 You got one in good job, Chris, you go come, 242 00:09:51.960 --> 00:09:52.600 what we're talking about. 243 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:53.399 I'm influencing you. 244 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:57.799 Yes, And so I've always had a phrase and I 245 00:09:57.799 --> 00:10:01.240 actually thought about writing books and one of the one 246 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:04.080 of the titles of the books, uh you know, or at. 247 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:05.080 Least a chapter title. 248 00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:08.600 I think that I've always coined throughout my life is 249 00:10:08.639 --> 00:10:12.159 that God's commands are for first and foremost. It's for 250 00:10:12.200 --> 00:10:14.080 his glory, but always for our benefit. 251 00:10:14.480 --> 00:10:15.600 Oh there you go. That's good. 252 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:17.519 So, so I like to actually write that book. 253 00:10:17.519 --> 00:10:19.240 You should write it and just put it on our website, 254 00:10:19.279 --> 00:10:20.279 the Bible Guy's website. 255 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:22.480 Oh there you go. I really should. I should write 256 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:23.559 a mini book or an e book. 257 00:10:23.639 --> 00:10:27.240 Right, yeah, But the idea that like you read some of. 258 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:33.159 It, read some of it. I love it. I love it. 259 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:35.120 It's see, I'm able to take it. 260 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:37.919 Jeff just a minute ago, you go, because Chris doesn't 261 00:10:37.960 --> 00:10:40.320 believe in the cursings, just move on. 262 00:10:40.840 --> 00:10:41.000 Right. 263 00:10:41.159 --> 00:10:42.600 But if I were to say, if I were to say. 264 00:10:42.519 --> 00:10:43.879 To you, I actually thought in my mind when you 265 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:45.919 were reading that, I thought to myself, I'm going to say, well, 266 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:48.200 because Jeff doesn't believe in the grace of God, and 267 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:48.639 move on. 268 00:10:48.799 --> 00:10:51.600 But you couldn't take it. You'd say well wait a minute, No, No, 269 00:10:51.639 --> 00:10:52.279 I couldn't let that. 270 00:10:52.559 --> 00:10:54.600 That's wrong off the sleeves, that's right, off the sleeves, 271 00:10:55.120 --> 00:10:56.039 that's fighting words. 272 00:10:56.960 --> 00:10:58.639 So so, but I could take it. 273 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:00.200 The oldest brother and the youngest. 274 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:01.360 Brother, right, right, right, that's it. 275 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:04.960 That might be it. I am five, right, I am yeah, 276 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:07.000 and I'm the oldest brother of four. Or maybe it's 277 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:09.440 just because I beat down my brothers. You took the 278 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:10.000 beat down from. 279 00:11:10.039 --> 00:11:12.799 Maybe it's because I don't. I don't. 280 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:16.399 I don't view debate is the sport as much as 281 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:19.799 you do. Although I do view debate as a sport, 282 00:11:19.960 --> 00:11:21.399 just not as much as perhaps you do. 283 00:11:23.039 --> 00:11:24.480 So I'm able to I'm able to take it. And 284 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:28.159 I like humor. That was funny, Yes, it was funny. 285 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:30.159 So that's what the point is. 286 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:32.960 Is that early on, when I was like eighteen, I 287 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:35.039 think I wrote a message or a sermon or whatever, 288 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:37.559 and I and I and I talked about for His glory, 289 00:11:37.759 --> 00:11:40.440 for our benefit, and I thought to myself, that is 290 00:11:40.639 --> 00:11:47.120 really key for people who view God's commandments as punishment 291 00:11:47.320 --> 00:11:48.480 or restrictive. 292 00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:48.759 Right. 293 00:11:49.000 --> 00:11:51.279 You know, in the seventies they would have say cosmic 294 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:54.480 kill Joy, right, like he's the cosmic kill joy. He's 295 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:56.679 he's the God, He's the He's the one who gives 296 00:11:56.720 --> 00:11:58.200 you all the rules so that you won't have any 297 00:11:58.200 --> 00:12:01.919 fun and and and that's the idea. But you know, 298 00:12:02.039 --> 00:12:04.440 we've been talking about this, especially in the Book of Deuteronomy. 299 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:07.279 How you know, God gives us commandments and even though 300 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:09.519 we don't necessarily understand it, it's actually for our benefit. 301 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:12.480 And the thing that I think I mentioned here before, 302 00:12:12.519 --> 00:12:14.360 so I won't expand on it, but it's like the 303 00:12:14.440 --> 00:12:17.679 rules of football, right, So can you imagine if somebody said, man, 304 00:12:17.720 --> 00:12:19.679 what do you love about football? I just love the 305 00:12:19.720 --> 00:12:22.960 fifteen yard penalty of you know, personal foul. I just 306 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:23.279 love it. 307 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:25.919 Right, It's just like, man, I just I live for that. 308 00:12:26.440 --> 00:12:27.159 It's my favorite thing. 309 00:12:27.159 --> 00:12:29.000 And it's like no, no, no, no, It's like you avoid 310 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:32.200 all those things so that you can enjoy the brilliance 311 00:12:32.200 --> 00:12:33.159 of football. 312 00:12:32.759 --> 00:12:33.759 Of the game, right of the game. 313 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:36.159 And so then when everybody does the rules, and nobody 314 00:12:36.200 --> 00:12:38.240 goes out of bounds, and everybody is able to not. 315 00:12:38.200 --> 00:12:40.519 To you know, hit each other in the face, mask. 316 00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:42.440 And all this kind of stuff happens on the field. 317 00:12:42.399 --> 00:12:45.159 Magic happens. And then and all of a sudden football 318 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:47.919 becomes football and you know, and it's like, you know, 319 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:49.360 it's it's that phrase they say. 320 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:52.000 Like when Lebron James takes nine steps to the basket. 321 00:12:51.759 --> 00:12:55.399 Without it, Oh my goodness, trade for travel. If Trey's listening, 322 00:12:55.679 --> 00:12:58.799 he's getting write in, well, Michael Jordan, I remember one guy. 323 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:01.320 Remember Michael Jordan leapt from the free throw line. 324 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:02.440 That's right, that's right. 325 00:13:02.799 --> 00:13:04.000 You didn't have to take nine steps. 326 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:06.919 That's correct, that's correct, that is exactly correct. 327 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:09.080 But when you obey the rules, when you follow the rules, 328 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:11.840 the game is not the rules. The rules are so 329 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:13.720 the game can be played well, right. 330 00:13:13.559 --> 00:13:15.000 That's right, that is right, that's right. 331 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:16.879 But the whole point is is that if you want 332 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:20.000 to watch football, it's a well remember the Titans. What 333 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:23.320 he say, let the boys play? Ref right, let him 334 00:13:23.320 --> 00:13:25.559 play right, And it's like that's what you got to do. 335 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:27.960 You got to like, hey, let him play. But then 336 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:29.840 the ref's like, hey, as long as they obey the rules. 337 00:13:29.720 --> 00:13:30.799 They can play right. 338 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:30.720 Right. 339 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:31.919 But but but you know, but. 340 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:35.120 Then then that illustration can carry further on on the 341 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:36.639 phar pharasetical rules. 342 00:13:36.679 --> 00:13:36.840 Right. 343 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:40.080 But the point is is that that's really what this 344 00:13:40.200 --> 00:13:43.360 chapter reminds me of right because it's saying like, hey, 345 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:46.679 here here are the rules that God is going to 346 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:49.559 lay out, and if you will experience verse number two, 347 00:13:49.799 --> 00:13:52.399 you'll experience all the blessings if you obey the Lord, 348 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:55.679 your God. And the key of that isn't obey. The 349 00:13:55.759 --> 00:13:59.120 key is you'll experience the blessings. So every time that 350 00:13:59.159 --> 00:14:01.919 God gives us a rule in our lives. 351 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:03.519 Or don't you feel like the key to the blessings 352 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:07.840 is the if you unlock the blessings. 353 00:14:08.799 --> 00:14:12.080 With the if Oh yeah, there's no doubt. Yeah, because 354 00:14:12.080 --> 00:14:12.919 we talked about that before. 355 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:15.840 But the point, the point isn't the obey. The point 356 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:17.159 is the blessings God's offering. 357 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:19.000 Well, I think I think the point is the relationship 358 00:14:19.000 --> 00:14:21.159 with your heavenly Father. Yes, I think I think the 359 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:23.679 point is is that to know God, right, to know God, 360 00:14:23.720 --> 00:14:27.159 to love God, to depend on God, because God's ultimate end. 361 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:28.879 Game, want to bless you. Here's how you get them. 362 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:31.600 Yeah, God's ultimate endgame even today. 363 00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:35.799 The application from Deuteronomy to today is is that you 364 00:14:35.799 --> 00:14:39.679 know God's endgame is our relationship with him. So God 365 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:42.440 calls us, gives us commandments, he invites us, or he 366 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:47.559 commands us. Both invitations and commandments are given ultimately for 367 00:14:47.679 --> 00:14:50.159 His glory, for the furthering of His kingdom, so that 368 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:53.080 God may get the glory in all things. And I 369 00:14:53.080 --> 00:14:57.960 think primarily that you know that that chief among those 370 00:14:58.000 --> 00:15:01.679 in our lives is that we might experience God in 371 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:03.879 a way that we would not if we weren't so 372 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:06.320 close to him, obeying him, experiencing him, getting to know 373 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:09.919 him so ultimately our relationship with him. And then from that, 374 00:15:10.039 --> 00:15:16.039 the overflow of that is also you know, our benefit. 375 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:18.759 It's going to We're going to experience the blessings from that. 376 00:15:19.039 --> 00:15:22.200 We're going to experience good things. We're going to experience God, 377 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:24.480 God's favorite. We're going to have the stories. We're going 378 00:15:24.519 --> 00:15:26.519 to be a part of God's story. We're going to 379 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:28.240 be able to say, man, I was a part of that. 380 00:15:28.519 --> 00:15:31.559 God used me. I get to see miracles. And I 381 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:33.679 think that so anyway, all that to say, it's for 382 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:37.159 His glory first, but always for our benefit. Always the 383 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:39.840 word is always, it's not most of the time, it's always. 384 00:15:40.240 --> 00:15:42.799 Well, when I read these passages, because what we didn't 385 00:15:42.799 --> 00:15:45.279 read I mentioned, you know, you had Mount Ebel and 386 00:15:45.320 --> 00:15:50.519 Mount Garrizone and they're calling. It's a call and response 387 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:52.720 kind of a thing that's happening here. So what we 388 00:15:52.759 --> 00:15:56.919 didn't read was the curses side, which, by the way, 389 00:15:56.919 --> 00:15:59.480 the curses are exactly the opposite. Where he says your 390 00:15:59.480 --> 00:16:01.080 towns and fears to be blessed. He said, your towns 391 00:16:01.080 --> 00:16:03.279 and fields are going to be cursed, right, your children, 392 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:05.759 your crops will be blessed. Your children and your crops 393 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:08.759 will be cursed. He unloads it that way. It's exactly 394 00:16:08.759 --> 00:16:10.919 the opposite. That's when he's calling out to them back 395 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:14.600 and forth. When you get down to verse literally verse sixteen, 396 00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:16.200 your towns and your fields to be cursed. Your fruit 397 00:16:16.200 --> 00:16:18.159 baskets and bred boards will be cursed. Your children and 398 00:16:18.159 --> 00:16:20.120 your crops will be cursed. Your offspring of your herds 399 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:23.639 and flocks will be cursed. So what he's doing is 400 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:26.000 he's going, hey, there's a choice here when I read 401 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:29.559