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 --> 00:00:13.480 practical ways. Hey, good morning, everybody. Welcome to the Bible Guys. 4 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:16.079 We're glad you're here, and we have a great episode 5 00:00:16.120 --> 00:00:17.480 in store for you. We sure do. 6 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:21.719 We're gonna be incredible. Yes, everyone, this week we've said that, yes, 7 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:23.760 surely we're going to get one of them. 8 00:00:23.839 --> 00:00:25.920 And have we over promised an under delivered? 9 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:28.320 Jeff, Well, I don't know. People keep coming back. 10 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:31.640 Okay, well they do. They kind of do well, you know, 11 00:00:31.679 --> 00:00:36.479 it's so funny. I see the numbers sometimes and I 12 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:38.880 always wonder like are those the same people or are 13 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:41.520 they people who fluctuate who? You know. It's kind of 14 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:44.119 like when you see the crowd of church, right, You're like, 15 00:00:44.399 --> 00:00:46.119 are these the same people? They only come to church 16 00:00:46.159 --> 00:00:48.399 once a month, you know? Or are they are they 17 00:00:48.439 --> 00:00:50.920 faithful people? What percentage of people come week? 18 00:00:51.119 --> 00:00:54.280 So on the on the YouTube side, so I don't 19 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:57.079 get as good metrics. We're working on getting a new 20 00:00:57.159 --> 00:01:00.920 dashboard to figure out all the podcasts, but I'm on 21 00:01:01.039 --> 00:01:07.280 the on the YouTube side. It's usually hundreds and hundreds 22 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:14.640 and hundreds of new listeners joining the thousand regular listeners. 23 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:16.560 You know what I mean. So it's kind of a neat, 24 00:01:17.239 --> 00:01:19.000 neat thing. I don't have that in front of me 25 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:21.879 right now, but there's a yeah, it doesn't want to 26 00:01:21.879 --> 00:01:25.879 open up. Yeah, So lots of long timers stay with us, 27 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:28.159 and you're with us every day, and then you know, 28 00:01:28.200 --> 00:01:30.400 on a regular basis, it's all the time, more and 29 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:32.519 more people. Hey, by the way, we just crossed our 30 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:37.799 two thousandth listener subscriber subscriber on YouTube on YouTube. Yeah, yeah, 31 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:40.680 and you know who it was. I looked at it 32 00:01:41.079 --> 00:01:43.680 and we were at nineteen ninety nine and I was 33 00:01:43.719 --> 00:01:45.000 sitting at my dinner table. 34 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:45.920 That's a good song. 35 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:49.400 And I asked my whole family, Hey, who hasn't signed 36 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:52.439 up yet subscribed? And it was my daughter in law. 37 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:54.439 I hadn't subscribed, so she went on and she was 38 00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:56.719 number two thousand. I literally I watched it click over 39 00:01:56.719 --> 00:02:00.200 to two thousand subscribers. Yeah, so it's kind of fun. Hey, 40 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:02.159 did you know this? Let me tell you. Well, no, 41 00:02:02.319 --> 00:02:04.560 I'm going to keep it a secret. Oh I have 42 00:02:04.599 --> 00:02:08.560 a secret. Well, Today's Friday, yees, Today's Thursday. 43 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:10.719 No, no, no, no Friday. For the podcast. 44 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:12.400 No, today's Thursday for the podcast. 45 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:13.919 Oh am I skipping over? 46 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:18.840 Yes you are, because the episode tomorrow is a very 47 00:02:18.879 --> 00:02:25.360 special episode, big celebration. Yeah, so today we moved things 48 00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:28.759 and we're changing things. This thing's up this week because 49 00:02:28.759 --> 00:02:32.639 tomorrow's a special episode. So on this Thursday. The big 50 00:02:32.719 --> 00:02:36.479 question is it's it's everybody's favorite segment? What made Chris 51 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:37.080 mad this week? 52 00:02:39.240 --> 00:02:43.479 Oh? They they they are doing. Oh they moved it 53 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:44.479 up today. Yeah. 54 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:48.400 Yeah, so it's Thursday. Okay, so this Thursday, because it's 55 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:50.439 it's such a you're such a man of routine, That's 56 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:50.919 what happened. 57 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:52.240 It took me a while to digest that. 58 00:02:52.439 --> 00:02:55.319 Yeah, so it's we're just changing things up Chris. Sorry, 59 00:02:55.360 --> 00:02:57.800 we moved it out of order. Yes, but on this 60 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:01.879 on this episode, because tomorrow is a very special episode. Yes, 61 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:04.879 so on this we decided to move this forward to 62 00:03:04.919 --> 00:03:08.159 everybody's favorite segment? What made Chris mad this week? 63 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:08.919 Okay, I'm up. 64 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:11.840 It's because you love us. You love us, and you 65 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:14.360 are angry on behalf of all the rest of us. 66 00:03:14.439 --> 00:03:17.000 I do. I am angry on behalf of you know what. 67 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:19.919 My wife has a sing and she says all the 68 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:22.840 time she says, you know, it doesn't take a lot 69 00:03:22.840 --> 00:03:26.080 of effort to be kind. That's true, it really does not. 70 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:29.120 It doesn't, you know, Like my son and I went 71 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:32.159 into This is what made me mad. My son and 72 00:03:32.199 --> 00:03:36.719 I went into a place. I'm not going to name 73 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:39.919 the restaurant, but it was a restaurant. It was a 74 00:03:39.960 --> 00:03:44.039 restaurant that was it was really popular at one point, 75 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:48.000 and then the management ran amok. There was like a 76 00:03:48.039 --> 00:03:52.240 big reputation in the city that it was under poor management, 77 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:55.120 and then the attendance went down. Then somebody bought it 78 00:03:55.400 --> 00:03:57.879 and they put these signs up and the name they 79 00:03:57.879 --> 00:03:59.879 gave it, the new name was a terrible name, but 80 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:01.960 they said under new management and all these different things. 81 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:04.360 So my son finally says, hey, let's go check out 82 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:07.960 that revised, you know, renovated restaurant whatever. So we walk 83 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:10.120 in and turns out it was great, and we met 84 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:13.639 the owner and the food was fine and the rest 85 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:16.959 of the environment was fantastic. He was great, and he 86 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:20.959 said it hasn't gone very well. I was like, wow, huh. 87 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:24.639 So then what ended up happening was the other day 88 00:04:25.879 --> 00:04:27.000 I said, hey, where do you want to go? And 89 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:29.720 he says, let's go back and let's support this restaurant 90 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:31.720 that didn't seem to be doing very well. I was like, 91 00:04:31.800 --> 00:04:33.920 all right, let's do that. So we went there and 92 00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:36.720 we walked in and he was not there, and there 93 00:04:36.759 --> 00:04:40.240 was an employee apparently who was running the show. And 94 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:43.879 she was behind the bar, she was on the floor, 95 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:48.040 she was, you know, just running the whole entire restaurant, right, 96 00:04:48.680 --> 00:04:53.439 And we sat in a booth and we waited. It 97 00:04:53.600 --> 00:04:57.360 was we looked at our watches, it was thirteen minutes, okay, 98 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:02.480 And she had walked by us like twelve times. And 99 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:05.120 when I mean walk by us, I'm talking like within 100 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:07.560 I could reach out and touch her, that's how close 101 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:10.959 she walked by us. And she never once said, hey guys, 102 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:12.959 I'll be with you in a minute, or hey, welcome 103 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:15.560 to so and so. Right, she literally ignored us. And 104 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:17.319 we were sitting there for like twelve or thirteen minutes, 105 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:20.279 and uh, and I thought to myself, Okay, now I 106 00:05:20.319 --> 00:05:24.079 know why this guy's restaurant is failing because of probably 107 00:05:24.120 --> 00:05:27.600 a few really really bad employees. Right, yeah, And it 108 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:32.600 was it was her. And so here's what I don't appreciate. 109 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:34.079 Here's what got me mad this week. I was. I 110 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:35.279 was mad on two fronts, Jeff. 111 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:37.560 Okay, I'm super excited. 112 00:05:37.720 --> 00:05:40.079 Not just one. I mean you laid some groundwork here, 113 00:05:40.120 --> 00:05:40.920 but two fronts. 114 00:05:41.560 --> 00:05:44.480 We're getting a double whammy. Yes, it's a double whammy. 115 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:47.600 What made Chris mat here's the first. 116 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:51.279 Here's the first front. If you are a server, it 117 00:05:51.319 --> 00:05:54.040 does not take a lot of effort to smile and 118 00:05:54.040 --> 00:05:55.319 say and I don't care what kind of bad day 119 00:05:55.319 --> 00:05:58.199 you're having, this is your job, okay, and say hey, 120 00:05:58.240 --> 00:06:01.920 I'll be right with you. That's it. That's all we wanted. Right, 121 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:04.120 we would have waited the fifteen minutes for a menu. 122 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:06.600 Oh right. And by the way, guess how many people 123 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:10.879 were in the restaurant, like eight? Well it was it 124 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:13.519 was bad, okay, it was really bad. Okay, So so 125 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:15.480 she could have like she it wasn't like her running 126 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:17.920 the whole restaurant. Oh I feel so bad for the server. 127 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:19.800 She was the only one. No, no, people listen to me. 128 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:22.720 It was a party of six and one other booth 129 00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:27.240 of two. That's it in the whole restaurant. Okay. And 130 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:31.800 so anyway, that's that's the first front. The second front 131 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:37.160 made me three times as mado, which is why is 132 00:06:37.199 --> 00:06:40.480 it that we as young adults and she was probably 133 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:43.560 mid twenties. Why is it that young adults can't think 134 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:48.279 beyond themselves sometimes and actually think like, hey, listen, maybe 135 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:51.720 I'll do something for the benefit of the owner, right, 136 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:54.600 Like maybe maybe I'll try really bad. Why don't I 137 00:06:54.639 --> 00:06:57.800 care about somebody else's restaurant, right, Why don't I actually 138 00:06:57.800 --> 00:07:00.879 think to myself, Hey, I better really be you know, 139 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:04.079 because I like my boss, he's a great guy. I 140 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:07.480 want this to succeed, right, instead of being wrapped up 141 00:07:07.480 --> 00:07:09.680 in your own world. And sure, there are may be 142 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:12.279 extreme circumstances of what kind of day you're having, but 143 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:16.240 for the most part, I'm guessing that she wasn't that distraught. 144 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:18.839 She didn't look that distruught. So guess what we did. 145 00:07:18.839 --> 00:07:21.040 We got up and left. Oh really, Oh yeah, we 146 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:21.759 get up and left. 147 00:07:22.040 --> 00:07:27.199 So that owner it's not getting any better. So so Chris, 148 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:27.759 you learn. 149 00:07:27.639 --> 00:07:30.519 Seriously thought about going back to that restaurant and finding 150 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:33.199 the owner and saying like, I figured out your problem. 151 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:34.240 Yeah I really have. 152 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:37.360 Hey it might be yeah, go serving helping. Yeah it's 153 00:07:37.399 --> 00:07:39.879 a good idea. Okay, Well, thank you Chris for that. 154 00:07:39.879 --> 00:07:43.319 That is a double feature. Yes, super two for the 155 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:45.600 price of one. It doesn't take that much effort to 156 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:48.439 be kind fantastic, I know, but for you, for you 157 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:51.319 to vicariously carry all of the anger that the rest 158 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:53.680 of us should be having in society, yes, and you 159 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:55.160 being willing to carry it for. 160 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:57.639 Us, it's a tough burden, that's right. 161 00:07:57.920 --> 00:08:01.920 It is fantastic. Yeah, yeah, you know very quickly. When 162 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:05.480 I was working for Marriott, one of the back then, 163 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:11.040 they had this kind of structure where managers would be promoted, 164 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:14.360 kind of like in a train. So a manager would 165 00:08:14.360 --> 00:08:16.480 build his team and when he get promoted a lot 166 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:18.120 of times the people on his team would follow right 167 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:20.240 behind him. So you hit your wag into the right train, 168 00:08:20.360 --> 00:08:22.759 you can move up in the organization pretty quickly. And 169 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:26.199 I learned that I would succeed far more by making 170 00:08:26.279 --> 00:08:29.040 my boss win than by making me win, right, right, 171 00:08:29.519 --> 00:08:32.600 And if I could make what I wanted him to do, 172 00:08:32.679 --> 00:08:34.600 is know that I was helping him. So it wasn't 173 00:08:34.639 --> 00:08:36.320 like I was just doing it generically. But I was 174 00:08:36.360 --> 00:08:38.639 engaging in this relationship. And I was only twenty years old, 175 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:41.759 and I was engaging in this relationship. I was trying 176 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:43.960 to figure out what was important to him what was 177 00:08:44.039 --> 00:08:46.240 important to his boss. I wanted to know his boss. 178 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:48.000 I wanted to figure out all those things and figure 179 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:50.120 out how to create the thing that he was trying 180 00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:52.799 to create. So my boss was one of the real 181 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:55.960 up and comers. He just did a was doing great job, 182 00:08:56.120 --> 00:08:58.600 and as he got bumped up, so did I. I 183 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:00.519 wanted to making more money. Bonus. All that kind of 184 00:09:00.519 --> 00:09:03.240 stuff came behind when I was helping my boss win. 185 00:09:03.320 --> 00:09:05.720 So I didn't own that hotel. I wasn't you know, 186 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:09.679 I wasn't a manager. I wasn't. But as he succeeded, 187 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:11.799 so did I, and my life was better and it 188 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:14.080 wound up giving me more purpose at work. It was 189 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:16.000 more fun. It was a more fun job to do 190 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:19.480 when I knew that my my productivity would help all 191 00:09:19.519 --> 00:09:22.600 of us get better, right as fulfilling his vision? 192 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:24.799 There it is, yeah, generation ze, listen up. 193 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:25.519 There's something about that. 194 00:09:27.080 --> 00:09:27.519 There. Yeah. 195 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:29.759 All right, well, hey, thank you so much, Chris. And then, 196 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:32.360 like I said, tomorrow is a very special day. So 197 00:09:32.440 --> 00:09:34.919 our listeners don't want to miss out on the episode 198 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:36.679 just follows this episode today. 199 00:09:36.720 --> 00:09:39.039 Do they know why? No? I don't think so. I 200 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:39.639 almost blew it. 201 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:40.919 I think if they look around a little bit. They 202 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:42.519 might figure it out, but I'm not going to tell them. 203 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:46.159 Tomorrow is the big day, big day. Okay, are you ready? 204 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:46.480 Yep? 205 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:50.279 Okay. So we are in First Samuel, and let me 206 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:52.919 give you some background up to this point. Now, Samuel 207 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:57.879 was like a boy, a young man, and serving Eli. 208 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:00.759 God speaks to him. He continues to be faithful through 209 00:10:00.759 --> 00:10:04.240 the time. Eli continues to work. Eventually Eli dies as 210 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:07.919 God had said. The Philistines are causing trouble. They actually 211 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:10.720 come in, they raid, they steal the Arc of the Covenant. 212 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:14.600 It gets really bad. Then they decide God brings judgment 213 00:10:14.639 --> 00:10:16.240 on them for stealing the Ark of the Covenant. They 214 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:18.000 decide to bring it back. They just give it back. Okay, 215 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:19.960 we don't want this anymore. It's a really funny story. 216 00:10:20.600 --> 00:10:22.399 It's really funny story. You should read it. It's in 217 00:10:22.440 --> 00:10:26.240 First Samuel, first couple chapters. And then it comes to 218 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:29.279 a town and like all these people go, hey, let's 219 00:10:29.279 --> 00:10:30.679 go look and see what's in the Ark of the Covenant. 220 00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:32.320 And they open the arcat of the Covenant and seventy 221 00:10:32.320 --> 00:10:35.039 people die. Guy said, do not touch the Arc of Covenant. 222 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:37.320 They did. They open it up if I found the 223 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:39.600 Archa of the Covenant, I want to look at it. Well, 224 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:42.799 it happened Indiana Jones. It happened in Raiders the Lost Art. Yeah, 225 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:44.480 they guys, they opened it up and they melted. 226 00:10:44.559 --> 00:10:44.639 Right. 227 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:47.720 Yeah, so so God, God's not messing around. 228 00:10:47.960 --> 00:10:48.440 Exploded. 229 00:10:48.600 --> 00:10:51.519 Yeah, God's not messing around. He says, don't touch the 230 00:10:51.559 --> 00:10:53.559 covet the ark of the Covenant. They do, they die. 231 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:55.519 So then they're like, hey, get this thing out here, 232 00:10:55.519 --> 00:10:58.360 and they send it back. They re established the tabernacle, 233 00:10:58.559 --> 00:11:01.440 all those kinds of things. This whole time. Samuel now 234 00:11:01.519 --> 00:11:04.120 is the leader. There's a great He leads the people 235 00:11:04.120 --> 00:11:08.600 in this incredible victory, a battle against the Philistines. God 236 00:11:08.759 --> 00:11:11.600 wins the battle actually with thunder. He scares the Philistines 237 00:11:12.440 --> 00:11:15.720 really intimidating thunder. They're frozen in fear, and the Iselites 238 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:17.759 are able to defeat them and finally brings a little 239 00:11:17.759 --> 00:11:21.519 bit of peace. So now Samuel has led the nation 240 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:23.519 for years and years and years, and now he's starting 241 00:11:23.519 --> 00:11:25.639 to get some years on him, he's getting some miles 242 00:11:25.639 --> 00:11:27.960 on him. He's becoming an older man. His children have 243 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:32.399 grown up, their adults. He's doing ministry all around the country. 244 00:11:33.559 --> 00:11:37.159 So with that being said, in chapter eight, it says, 245 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:39.799 as Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons to be 246 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:43.480 judges over Israel. Joel and Abijah, his oldest sons, held 247 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:46.039 court in Beersheba. But they were not like their father, 248 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:48.240 for they were greedy for money, and they accepted bribes 249 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:51.320 and perverted justice. Finally, all the elders of Israel met 250 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:53.840 at Rama to discuss the matter with Samuel. Look, they 251 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:55.960 told him, you are now old, and your sons are 252 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:58.200 not like you. Give us a king to judge us, 253 00:11:58.200 --> 00:12:01.039 like all the other nations have. Samuel was displeased with 254 00:12:01.080 --> 00:12:03.320 their request and went to the Lord for guidance. Do 255 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:05.639 everything they say to you, Lord replied, for it is 256 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:07.919 me they are rejecting, not you. They don't want me 257 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:10.559 to be their king any longer. Ever since I brought 258 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:13.120 them from Egypt, they have continually abandoned me and followed 259 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:15.799 other gods, and now they're giving you the same treatment. 260 00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:18.799 Do as they ask, but solemnly warn them about the 261 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:22.120 way the king will reign over them. So Samuel passed 262 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:23.840 on the Lord's warning to the people who were asking 263 00:12:23.919 --> 00:12:25.679 him for a king. This is how a king will 264 00:12:25.679 --> 00:12:28.600 reign over you, Samuel said, the king will draft your 265 00:12:28.600 --> 00:12:31.320 sons and assign them to his chariots and his charioteers, 266 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:34.200 making them run before his chariots. Some will be generals 267 00:12:34.240 --> 00:12:36.519 and captains in his army. Some will be forced to 268 00:12:36.519 --> 00:12:38.600 plow in his fields and harvest his crops, and some 269 00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:41.200 will make his weapons and chariot equipment. The king will 270 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:43.120 take your daughters from you and force them to cook 271 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:45.559 and bake and make perfumes for him. He will take 272 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:47.679 away the best of your fields and vineyards and olive 273 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:49.960 grows and give them to his own officials. He'll take 274 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:52.559 a tenth of your grain and your grape harvest, and 275 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:55.600 distributed among his officers and attendants. He'll take your male 276 00:12:55.639 --> 00:12:58.279 and female slaves and demand the finest of your cattle 277 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:00.919 and donkeys for his own use. He'll demand a tenth 278 00:13:00.919 --> 00:13:03.320 of your flocks, and he'll you will be his slaves. 279 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:06.120 When that day comes, you will beg for relief from 280 00:13:06.120 --> 00:13:08.399 this king you are demanding. But then the lord will 281 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:10.759 not help you. But the people refuse to listen to 282 00:13:10.840 --> 00:13:14.200 Samuel's warning. Even so, we still want a king, they said. 283 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:17.200 We want to be like the nations around us. Our 284 00:13:17.279 --> 00:13:19.639 king will judge us and lead us into battle. So 285 00:13:19.639 --> 00:13:21.960 Samuel repeated to the Lord what the people had said, 286 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:24.200 and the Lord replied, do as they say and give 287 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:27.039 him a king. Then Samuel agreed and sent the people home. 288 00:13:29.120 --> 00:13:31.320 Yeah, it's you know, this reminds me of this is 289 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:35.320 a very strange analogy. But I remember when I was 290 00:13:35.320 --> 00:13:38.000 about eight years old, I tried to sneak a cigarette 291 00:13:38.039 --> 00:13:42.039 from my mom. Oh, and she smoked at that time. 292 00:13:42.480 --> 00:13:45.360 And I think everybody smoked back then. Yeah, I think 293 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:48.559 we all smoked. You're right, we all smoked. I didn't 294 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:50.720 light up, but man, every restaurant you went to full 295 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:52.639 of smoke, every plane you got on full of smoke. 296 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:54.200 Everything was his second hand smoke. 297 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:57.759 Yep. We all smoked and didn't want to. Yeah, but anyway, 298 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:00.159 but I remember I trying to sneak a cigarette and 299 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:02.279 I was trying to hide it and I had a 300 00:14:02.360 --> 00:14:04.600 lighter and I was heading out and she was sitting 301 00:14:04.639 --> 00:14:06.919 there with her friend and she saw me and she goes, 302 00:14:06.960 --> 00:14:09.120 what do you got there? And she busted me and 303 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:10.720 I said, oh, it's a cigarette, you know. And I 304 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:12.840 thought I was gonna get in trouble. And she goes, oh, 305 00:14:12.960 --> 00:14:14.360 she goes you know what. She goes, why don't you 306 00:14:14.519 --> 00:14:17.000 go ahead and light that up? And I was like 307 00:14:17.039 --> 00:14:19.399 eight years old, and I said, what are you serious? 308 00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:21.600 And she said, yeah, oh yeah, let's do that right now. 309 00:14:21.720 --> 00:14:23.320 She goes, let's go and do it. So she took 310 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:25.000 it and she she lit it up and she goes, uh, 311 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:28.559 go ahead and puffet. So I went and she goes, no, no, no, 312 00:14:28.600 --> 00:14:30.480 she goes, you have to inhale. Let me show you. 313 00:14:30.519 --> 00:14:34.360 So she got a cigarette like this and she goes, 314 00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:36.440 she goes, go ahead, do that. So I did it 315 00:14:36.519 --> 00:14:38.840 and then I, of course, you know, just gagged, right. 316 00:14:38.840 --> 00:14:42.279 I just started started coughing and you know, and then 317 00:14:42.600 --> 00:14:45.600 they made fun of me in front of everybody, in 318 00:14:45.639 --> 00:14:47.440 front of like the whole room of women, and they 319 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:50.320 were just pointing and laughing. And she goes, now give 320 00:14:50.360 --> 00:14:51.960 me that thing. And she goes, now get out of 321 00:14:51.960 --> 00:14:55.360 here and don't ever touch that again. And guess what 322 00:14:55.600 --> 00:14:59.600 it worked. Wow. I never came close to anything like that. 323 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:01.960 I thought to myself, I'm like, well, she gave me 324 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:04.840 what I wanted, right, and I got what it was, 325 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:08.279 had it and I wish I hadn't had it. That 326 00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:10.879 to me, it's like it also reminds me of Luke 327 00:15:10.919 --> 00:15:13.360 chapter fifteen, where it says, remember the younger came to 328 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:15.159 him and begged, give me the share of my inheritance. 329 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:17.559 And it says then his father just gave it to him, right. 330 00:15:17.879 --> 00:15:20.759 And it's like it's almost like you almost wonder if 331 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:22.960 what the father was saying to the younger son was 332 00:15:23.480 --> 00:15:25.919 I think this is the only way you're going to learn, 333 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:29.480 because it's you're going to learn by misery, and you 334 00:15:29.559 --> 00:15:33.559 have chosen misery, and you won't stop. You're convinced that 335 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:34.919 this is what you want. I'm going to give you 336 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:36.679 what you want, and you're going to see and you're 337 00:15:36.679 --> 00:15:39.600 going to learn the hard way. And and and Samuel, 338 00:15:40.320 --> 00:15:45.000 you know, hears from God, and God basically says they've 339 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:48.600 done this continually. Right, judges have ruled for three hundred 340 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:51.919 years and and Samuel and longer than that now because 341 00:15:51.919 --> 00:15:56.159 same as old right, and and and so, and it's 342 00:15:56.159 --> 00:15:58.840 almost like what God is saying is like, hey, tell 343 00:15:58.879 --> 00:16:01.200 them all the bad that's coming, tell them it's a 344 00:16:01.240 --> 00:16:04.360 bad idea, but give them what they want, because they 345 00:16:04.679 --> 00:16:10.360 just won't shut up. They just won't stop. They're like children. 346 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:11.720 He's fed up with it. 347 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:14.519 Yes, and and that's that to me. So when I 348 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:16.279 read that, I think of my mom's cigarette. 349 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:18.799 Yes, so them getting their king was almost a punishment 350 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:19.240 from God. 351 00:16:19.399 --> 00:16:22.679 Yes, right, yes, give what they want then they'll see 352 00:16:22.759 --> 00:16:23.559 yeah right. 353 00:16:23.480 --> 00:16:25.240 And at that point there's no getting out of it. 354 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:25.720 Right. 355 00:16:25.879 --> 00:16:29.639 So so it's interesting Samuel, you know, as an old man. 356 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:32.519 The Bible says that he had set up there were 357 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:35.679 three Let me see if I can find those those cities. 358 00:16:36.039 --> 00:16:39.120 There were three cities that he had set up. Each 359 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:41.759 year he traveled around setting up his court, first at Bethel, 360 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:44.960 then at Gilgel, and then at Mizpah. He judged Israel 361 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:46.600 out of these places and then he'd return home to 362 00:16:46.720 --> 00:16:49.679 Rama and he's your case is there? Right? So he 363 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:52.080 had these four places where he just he was kind 364 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:54.879 of like this itinerant judge that would travel around Israel 365 00:16:55.080 --> 00:16:58.879 provide justice, he'd provide godly leadership. He do all these things. 366 00:16:59.799 --> 00:17:04.400 And the people loved Samuel, yes, they loved him. But 367 00:17:04.599 --> 00:17:08.119 Samuel's sons just didn't have any character. Yeah, and it's 368 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:15.359 it's interesting. So God held Eli accountable for his sons. Sorry, 369 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:19.480 God held Eli accountable for his sons, and hey, you're 370 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:21.480 going to lose your ministry and you and your sons 371 00:17:21.519 --> 00:17:24.519 are going to die. But there's not that same kind 372 00:17:24.559 --> 00:17:28.519 of consequence for Samuel. And I often think I wonder why. 373 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:32.160 I think I might know why I think Samuel. I mean, 374 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:35.000 I think Eli. The Bible is pretty clear Eli knew 375 00:17:35.079 --> 00:17:36.880 that his sons were doing the wrong thing, and he 376 00:17:36.960 --> 00:17:40.000 was warned, yeah, and he didn't do anything about it. 377 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:44.079 He was allowing them to do the wrong thing. And 378 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:46.880 a lot of times, you know, parents, oh, well, you 379 00:17:46.960 --> 00:17:49.240 know how Johnny is. You know, that's just how his 380 00:17:49.319 --> 00:17:52.160 personality is. That's just what he does, and we don't 381 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:55.160 want to confront them. And it seems like maybe that 382 00:17:55.279 --> 00:17:59.599 was a pattern the boy's whole life, Like he indulged 383 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:06.279 them and you know, spoiled him rotten. And so God 384 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:08.599 was like, hey, you are the cause. You're the one 385 00:18:08.599 --> 00:18:11.799 who you're the enabler for that, as opposed to in 386 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:15.160 this situation. Now, Samuel is an old man, and in 387 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:19.880 his old age he appoints his adult sons, who Now 388 00:18:20.279 --> 00:18:23.160 it's not about how Samuel raised his sons, it's about 389 00:18:23.160 --> 00:18:25.039 how his sons are choosing to behave as adults. 390 00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:26.000 Right. 391 00:18:26.119 --> 00:18:29.519 I think that there's a difference here, probably because he's 392 00:18:29.519 --> 00:18:33.559 an old man appointing his grown men sons. And it 393 00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:36.000 turns out when the opportune because I think you just 394 00:18:36.039 --> 00:18:38.279 don't know. You don't know how you're going to respond 395 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:40.559 until you get around money. You don't know how you're 396 00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:42.839 going to respond until you get around power. You don't 397 00:18:42.839 --> 00:18:44.880 know how you're going to respond until you get around 398 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:48.680 temptations of any kind, right, right, And in this situation, 399 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:51.000 it turns out that his sons were very tempted by 400 00:18:51.039 --> 00:18:53.559 money and they were taking bribes. But it wasn't that 401 00:18:53.640 --> 00:18:57.200