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 --> 00:00:12.240 practical ways. O, good. 4 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:14.960 Morning, everybody. Welcome to the Bible. And we're thankful. 5 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:19.760 We're so incredibly thankus. We don't deserve your presence with 6 00:00:19.839 --> 00:00:21.160 us today on this podcast. 7 00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:22.440 Well that's actually partly true. 8 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:25.679 But you know what I forgot to do. I forgot 9 00:00:25.679 --> 00:00:28.359 to celebrate that you're back with us. This week you 10 00:00:28.440 --> 00:00:29.000 were gone. 11 00:00:29.320 --> 00:00:31.199 Oh you guys record when I was gone. 12 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:33.759 Yeah, yeah, yeah. We just kind of had a detox 13 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:35.240 of the bizarre ball thing for a while. 14 00:00:35.359 --> 00:00:36.000 Yeah yeah, yeah. 15 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:39.000 People are like who and we needed that and we 16 00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:41.359 had we had Wesley with us last week. So it 17 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:45.560 was platinum edition. Yeah yeah, yeah, Well we told everybody 18 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:48.560 every day it was a platinum edition. Yeah. But you're 19 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:52.560 back with us, and we missed you, like we thank you. 20 00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:55.359 Grieved over the fact that you weren't with us. We're 21 00:00:55.359 --> 00:00:58.920 grateful for I missed you. And you know, one of 22 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:01.679 the things we didn't have the benefit of the blessing. 23 00:01:01.359 --> 00:01:02.399 Of the blessed. 24 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:06.000 What's for you to share with us? What made Chris 25 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:07.799 mad this week? It was you weren't even here to 26 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:09.760 tell I wasn't even here to tell us. So we figured, 27 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:11.920 now you got two weeks worth pent up inside. 28 00:01:12.040 --> 00:01:13.280 Yeah, well today is Friday. 29 00:01:13.359 --> 00:01:14.719 Yeah yeah, well. 30 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:16.439 Two weeks worth. But I'm only going to tell. 31 00:01:16.359 --> 00:01:19.000 You one thing, only one thing. You got plenty because 32 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:23.480 it said you have plenty. Yeah, but this week. 33 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:24.040 It took it took me all the ten seconds. 34 00:01:24.040 --> 00:01:25.439 I think I might know what this one is. 35 00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:30.079 Yeah, I think you do too, Yeah, so and so away, Chris, 36 00:01:30.120 --> 00:01:32.599 there was a there was a specific incident that happened. 37 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:36.560 But to be honest, it connects to the world because, 38 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:38.239 after all, Jeff, remember. 39 00:01:38.040 --> 00:01:42.280 Yeah, you're only mad on behalf vicariously for the war. 40 00:01:42.359 --> 00:01:43.159 For the rest of the world. 41 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:46.599 Yeah, I get mad for others, Yes, because I don't 42 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:49.200 think of just me, Jeff, thank you, I think of everybody. 43 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:51.599 Thank you. You're more than good. 44 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:53.640 So I'm going to give you. I'm going to give 45 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:55.879 you what makes me mad for the world first, okay, 46 00:01:55.920 --> 00:01:58.519 and then I'll tell you what made me mad specifically 47 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:02.599 and what caused me to feel this. Okay, this week 48 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:06.040 in particular, for the last like seven days, I've been 49 00:02:06.319 --> 00:02:11.000 very mad at this type of people, the type of 50 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:14.120 people who have the ability to work and earn a 51 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:19.159 good living, but instead choose to be freeloaders and live 52 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:20.560 or it sounds like a political statement. 53 00:02:20.680 --> 00:02:22.759 Yeah, well I know where you're going with this one. 54 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:25.560 I know, but that's really what it is. I was. 55 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:29.919 I was literally angry at that entire group of people 56 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:34.240 because I'm like, I'm thinking, these guys have the ability 57 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:38.159 to do really anything they want. They're sharp guys, and 58 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:42.080 yet they choose to inconvenience the rest of the world, 59 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:45.879 right because they decide to be pickpocketing thiefs. 60 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:47.520 Yes, so tell us, tell us what happened. 61 00:02:47.879 --> 00:02:52.520 I was in the Dominican Republic and I was pickpocketed. 62 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:55.120 So, for our listeners, you were in the Dominican Republic, 63 00:02:55.159 --> 00:02:59.599 not a vacation. Transform one. Transform one, Yeah, organization that 64 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:03.039 rescues miners from sex trafficking. 65 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:06.159 And I actually was there having meetings and of course 66 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:08.639 some of it was R and R, but most of 67 00:03:08.680 --> 00:03:11.439 it was meetings. And then I took my son, Yes, Steven, 68 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:15.800 who listens every day by the way, Yeah, and so anyway, 69 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:17.240 he was there with us, and he got to see 70 00:03:17.240 --> 00:03:18.840 a little bit of that and we got to do 71 00:03:18.840 --> 00:03:21.759 a little bit of serving with a community, a poor, 72 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:25.400 poor community of Punchaminto. But anyway, the point is is 73 00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:28.919 that I was coming at what we had visited, a 74 00:03:28.919 --> 00:03:32.360 piece of property that we're looking into possibly purchasing, and 75 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:34.280 we were coming back and we stopped in this city 76 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:36.680 that was a We sort of knew it was a 77 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:41.319 rough area, right, we knew. And I took my passport 78 00:03:41.719 --> 00:03:44.639 from my back pocket and I intentionally put it in 79 00:03:44.639 --> 00:03:47.280 my front pocket. And in retrospect, it would probably been 80 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:49.560 better in my back pocket. But you know, they always 81 00:03:49.560 --> 00:03:52.479 say front pockets better, but probably only if you walk 82 00:03:52.520 --> 00:03:55.360 with your hands in your pockets. And better yet, like. 83 00:03:55.280 --> 00:03:57.960 You said, or keep people away from keep it zipped up, 84 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:00.360 keep it zipped up. Yeah, you need pockets zip uplish 85 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:03.560 you're traveling and I have shorts. 86 00:04:03.639 --> 00:04:06.560 I have shorts that zip, and I did not have 87 00:04:06.759 --> 00:04:09.039 these pockets. So I had this. And by the way, 88 00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:11.000 I have my phone in my hand, Thank goodness, I 89 00:04:11.039 --> 00:04:12.680 didn't have my wallet. That's what they were looking for. 90 00:04:12.719 --> 00:04:15.960 They certainly weren't looking for a for a passport. 91 00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:19.639 Maybe there's a lot of identity opportunities with the passports. 92 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:22.160 Okay, anyway, so I have my phone in my hand, 93 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:26.079 my wallet's in the car because I forgot it and uh, 94 00:04:26.199 --> 00:04:27.759 and then all of a sudden, I get this passport 95 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:29.839 in my hand, and we're walking into this ice cream 96 00:04:29.879 --> 00:04:33.480 shop and you know, it's called bond bo n or Bone, 97 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:36.560 whatever it's called, and they're really popular in the Dominican Republic. 98 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:39.199 And as we're walking in, these four guys are walking 99 00:04:39.240 --> 00:04:43.279 out and they're pretending like they've been drinking, I think, 100 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:45.319 but in retrospect, I don't think they were drinking at all, 101 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:47.079 and they were pretending like they're having a good time. 102 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:50.720 And one guy pushes another guy like he's like pushing, 103 00:04:50.759 --> 00:04:53.879 like horsing around, and this guy flies into me and 104 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:57.519 falls into my waist and literally grabs my waist like 105 00:04:57.560 --> 00:05:00.439 he's trying not to fall. And meanwhile, it's soon the 106 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:03.079 second he does that, this guy who pushed me runs 107 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:05.399 up and it puts his face within one foot to 108 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:08.480 my face and starts talking to me in Spanish, you know, 109 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:11.079 and he goes, oh, oh, so sorry, so sorry, excuse me, 110 00:05:11.079 --> 00:05:13.120 excuse me, And so I have no choice but to 111 00:05:13.319 --> 00:05:16.160 engage with this guy who's in my face, who's so 112 00:05:16.319 --> 00:05:19.959 incredibly apologetic. Meanwhile, I'm trying to hold up this guy 113 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:22.720 who's you know, trying to trying not to fall, but 114 00:05:22.839 --> 00:05:26.519 meanwhile he's just grabbing stuff in my pockets. Right, So anyway, 115 00:05:26.519 --> 00:05:28.600 then then all of a sudden, I say, hey, no problem, 116 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:30.560 and then they get up and they then they vanish, 117 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:33.120 and all of a sudden, I just realize they stole 118 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:37.040 my passport. So anyway, I have no passport. I feel 119 00:05:37.040 --> 00:05:38.120 completely violated. 120 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:39.959 So I guess I just live here now. 121 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:42.920 I guess I just live in the Republic. And by 122 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:46.959 the way, I was very worried. You know. I called 123 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:48.759 my wife and she's like, what are you gonna do. 124 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:50.720 I'm like, well, you can't leave the country without a passport, 125 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:54.480 and you know, you're googling everything, and then you're talking 126 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:56.360 to people and they're like, sometimes I could take up 127 00:05:56.360 --> 00:05:58.560 to three business days, but my plane left in forty 128 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:02.399 eight hours, right, all these different things. And then then 129 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:08.360 I had the privilege, nay, the pleasure of calling our 130 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:12.600 executive pastor, Chad, who takes care of all things like this. 131 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:14.879 Chad is also a regular listener. Way to Go, Chad, 132 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:19.600 Way to Go, Chad. He focused all of his powers. Yes, 133 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:23.439 I'm giving you the best step by step and listen 134 00:06:23.639 --> 00:06:24.160 exit plan. 135 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:29.319 I often praised Chad for some things often often often, Yeah, 136 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:31.519 you're here and there right all the time. But I 137 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:34.480 got to tell you, in this moment, I was just 138 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:37.000 really upset. I was emotional, I was I was worried, 139 00:06:37.480 --> 00:06:40.040 I was these things. And he goes, he goes, listen, 140 00:06:40.519 --> 00:06:42.759 he goes, I'm telling you right now. And the way 141 00:06:42.759 --> 00:06:45.319 he made it sound, he goes, I'm very confident. I'm 142 00:06:45.439 --> 00:06:48.639 ninety something percent confident. He goes, if you do these things, 143 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:51.040 you will have your passport by the end of this day. 144 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:55.439 And I didn't know. Chad's an operator man, so just 145 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:56.079 how to get done. 146 00:06:56.160 --> 00:06:57.560 And so he says do this. I'm like, well, I 147 00:06:57.560 --> 00:06:59.360 wouldn't have done that. And he's like, and you need 148 00:06:59.399 --> 00:07:00.519 to do this. You need to make sure of this. 149 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:02.560 And I'm like, oh, I wouldn't have done it that way. 150 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:05.680 But sure enough, everything he said was right. So we 151 00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:08.319 so we did those things and then and then here's 152 00:07:08.360 --> 00:07:10.920 the best part of the conversation. So he could see 153 00:07:10.959 --> 00:07:13.319 I'm a little bit emotional, right, I'm sort of worried, 154 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:16.120 I'm sort of violated. I'm like I felt violated. Yeah, 155 00:07:16.199 --> 00:07:18.680 and and and he goes, okay, Chris, he goes, now, 156 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:22.279 get off the phone with me, and you call Liz 157 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:25.759 back and let her know everything's going to be okay. 158 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:30.839 That's what we said. And because he cares enough and 159 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:33.879 knows Liz enough to know that she's at home worry. 160 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:37.920 Everybody needs a Chad. Ye, it's like a rock yep. Yes. 161 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:40.480 So I call Liz and I tell Liz that Chad 162 00:07:40.519 --> 00:07:43.160 said that, and she just starts bawling and she's like, 163 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:46.399 tell him thank you. And so she's listening right now too. 164 00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:49.680 So anyway, all that to say, then I got mad. 165 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:52.240 I got upset at these men, at these four guys. 166 00:07:52.279 --> 00:07:56.000 They're so clever, they're so smart, they have all these skills. 167 00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:57.560 Can you imagine if they open up a little business 168 00:07:57.639 --> 00:07:59.839 or if they started yes, yeah. 169 00:08:00.040 --> 00:08:01.839 Tell insurance for crying out, Like open up a. 170 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:05.360 Car wash man, yeah, something, you're hustling and doing a 171 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:08.879 good job. Do something instead their pickpockets. 172 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:11.199 Right, their pickpockets and so and so here I am. 173 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:14.800 You know. The next two and a half days, I 174 00:08:14.879 --> 00:08:18.160 missed all these other meetings that I had inconvenienced everybody 175 00:08:18.199 --> 00:08:20.480 else who had to help me, So everybody's schedule was 176 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:22.759 all messed up, even the people that we were supposed 177 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:26.279 to meet with was like totally inconvenienced. And then uh, 178 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:28.560 and then I'm driving down six and a half hours, 179 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:32.159 spending the night in the city, spending so much more 180 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:35.080 money on a return flight and hotels and gas and 181 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:38.960 rental car, all these extended things. I mean, it was 182 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:42.039 just so inconvenient and I and I got mad at 183 00:08:42.120 --> 00:08:44.840 this group of people. I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, 184 00:08:44.919 --> 00:08:49.960 these are four sharp, young, able guys who could do 185 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:54.279 anything right, but instead they decide that they're special and 186 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:56.519 they're gonna benefit off of everybody else's hard work. 187 00:08:56.759 --> 00:08:59.320 I got mad. Yeah, a lot of times it happens 188 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:02.000 that they make a little bit more money doing that 189 00:09:02.039 --> 00:09:03.840 than they would if they took a job somewhere and 190 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:07.080 started building a career. Sure, easy money, right, it's easy money, 191 00:09:07.159 --> 00:09:10.120 but it's a debt. It's a dead end stry discount. Yeah, 192 00:09:10.159 --> 00:09:12.279 but it's a dead end street because if you begin 193 00:09:12.320 --> 00:09:15.360 to build a business, you build a career there, you're 194 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:18.399 your only ceiling, right you can you can keep growing 195 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:21.080 that thing and turn it into something meaningful where you're 196 00:09:21.080 --> 00:09:25.000 providing resources and money and jobs for other people while 197 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:28.120 you're increasing your own potential. All those kind of things. 198 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:32.440 But when you're just a pickpocket, the ceiling is the 199 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:35.200 risk you're willing to take on spending significant amounts of 200 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:38.679 time in jail, right, And eventually that's the path you 201 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:42.159 go down. Is that and so on? Today you might 202 00:09:42.159 --> 00:09:44.159 make a little bit more money, but over the course 203 00:09:44.159 --> 00:09:46.879 of your life without going into deeper and deeper and 204 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:50.120 deeper life of crime, there's a significant ceiling on the 205 00:09:50.200 --> 00:09:52.600 kind of lifestyle you can live. So you're wasting so 206 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:55.039 much your time using skills that you could be building 207 00:09:55.039 --> 00:09:57.320 a life. And it's just it's a lack of patience, 208 00:09:57.360 --> 00:09:59.720 it's a lack of being willing to put in the time. 209 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:04.200 Well, I have to tell you I have multiple, multiple 210 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:08.159 times I prayed for those four guys, and you know 211 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:12.919 who else prayed for others? Ooh Jesus. Oh, because today's 212 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:16.320 topic is his phrase, is I pray also for those 213 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:17.320 who will believe? 214 00:10:17.480 --> 00:10:19.480 Wow, Chris, what a transition. 215 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:21.559 Yeah, well, actually that was a real. 216 00:10:21.799 --> 00:10:24.159 But I don't think Jesus was like, God, kill those people, 217 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:27.519 help them get caught by the cops. Is that how 218 00:10:27.559 --> 00:10:29.679 you were praying? No, I'm saying Jesus, No, I was 219 00:10:29.720 --> 00:10:32.600 just questioning how you prayed oh, you prayed multiple times. 220 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:35.720 I did not send the cops and bust those guys. 221 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:38.960 It's like that song I prayed here, right, I prayed 222 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:41.200 your breaks go down, running down a hill, I pray 223 00:10:41.240 --> 00:10:43.399 they go out. I pray a flower falls from a 224 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:45.360 windowsill and knocks you in the head, like I'd like 225 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:48.559 to know. That's not the way I pray. No, I 226 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:50.720 prayed for them specifically. 227 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:51.799 Okay, in a good way. So this is a kind 228 00:10:51.799 --> 00:10:54.480 of a neat passage in John chapter seventeen, because Jesus 229 00:10:54.519 --> 00:10:57.919 prays for us, yes, which is kind of neat. Yes, right, 230 00:10:57.960 --> 00:11:02.120 that he thought to pray for us. He says, he's 231 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:05.840 this whole thing has been praying, and he goes, I 232 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:09.559 am praying not only for these disciples, talking about the 233 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:12.279 twelve and then the seventy two and all the others. 234 00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:15.120 I'm praying not only for these disciples, but also for 235 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:18.519 all who will ever believe in me through their message. 236 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:21.159 That's you and me, what everse are you? Starting with 237 00:11:21.320 --> 00:11:22.480 verse twenty, it. 238 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:23.919 Says thirteen through twenty six. 239 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:26.600 Oh well, I'm even more excited to read verse thirteen. 240 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:31.399 Just wait, that was the preview. Yeah, that was the preview. 241 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:40.279 We'll watch this. This is what Jesus says. Now, I 242 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:43.279 am coming to you. I told them many things while 243 00:11:43.320 --> 00:11:45.559 I was with them. He's talking to his father and 244 00:11:45.559 --> 00:11:49.000 he's talking about them. Is the Disciples. I told them 245 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:51.039 many things while I was with them in this world 246 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:53.759 so they would be filled with my joy. I've given 247 00:11:53.799 --> 00:11:57.080 them your word, and the world hates them because they 248 00:11:57.080 --> 00:11:59.279 do not belong to this world, just as I do 249 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:00.000 not belong to the world. 250 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:00.360 World. 251 00:12:00.679 --> 00:12:03.399 I'm not asking you to take them out of this world, 252 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:06.080 but to keep them safe from the evil one. They 253 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:08.039 do not belong to this world any more than I do. 254 00:12:08.559 --> 00:12:11.600 Make them holy by your truth. Teach them your word, 255 00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:14.600 which is truth. Just as you sent me into the world, 256 00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:17.080 I am sending them into the world, and I give 257 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:20.360 myself as a holy sacrifice for them so they can 258 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:24.440 be made holy by your truth. Now Here it is 259 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:28.000 I am praying not only for these disciples, but also 260 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:31.399 for all who are ever believe in me through their message. 261 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:34.159 I pray that they will all be one, just as 262 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:37.639 you and I are one. As you are in me, Father, 263 00:12:37.799 --> 00:12:40.320 and I am in you, and may they be in us, 264 00:12:40.559 --> 00:12:43.519 so that the world will believe you sent me. I 265 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:45.639 have given them the glory you gave me, so they 266 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:48.200 may be one as we are one. I am in 267 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:51.000 them and you are in me. May they experience such 268 00:12:51.039 --> 00:12:53.320 perfect unity that the world will know that you sent 269 00:12:53.399 --> 00:12:55.840 me and that you love them as much as you 270 00:12:55.879 --> 00:12:59.120 love me. Father. I want these whom you have given 271 00:12:59.159 --> 00:13:01.480 me to be with me I am. Then they can 272 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:03.519 see all the glory you gave me because you loved 273 00:13:03.559 --> 00:13:06.559 me even before the world began. Well, righteous Father, the 274 00:13:06.600 --> 00:13:09.279 world doesn't know you, but I do. And these disciples 275 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:12.600 you sent me. I have revealed you to them and 276 00:13:12.679 --> 00:13:15.000 I will continue to do so. Then your love for 277 00:13:15.120 --> 00:13:18.759 me will be in them and I will be in them. Yeah. 278 00:13:19.360 --> 00:13:21.639 So this is Jesus praying for his disciples and for us. 279 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:25.000 Well, I got to tell you, I love absolutely love love, 280 00:13:25.039 --> 00:13:30.519 love love that he said. I am praying not only 281 00:13:30.919 --> 00:13:33.080 I love that right there. I'm praying not only for 282 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:37.519 these disciples, but also for all who will ever believe 283 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:40.200 in me through their message. 284 00:13:40.279 --> 00:13:40.840 Yeah. 285 00:13:40.919 --> 00:13:44.519 So very clearly. I mean, this isn't just like a 286 00:13:44.679 --> 00:13:47.320 far fetched to connect the dots kind of an idea. 287 00:13:47.799 --> 00:13:52.639 This is a very clear and direct application to you 288 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:57.440 and to me today where Jesus is praying. Hey, he's 289 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:01.200 almost predicting in a way of saying, like, there are 290 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:03.759 going to be so many others that will hear and 291 00:14:03.799 --> 00:14:06.519 believe in this message, and I'm praying for all of them. 292 00:14:06.679 --> 00:14:10.159 And then he prays for you know what, his followers, 293 00:14:10.200 --> 00:14:15.759 which later on he calls the church right right, So 294 00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:18.200 the church is going to be established in the church. 295 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:20.559 By the way, it's not a building, it's not brick 296 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:23.039 and mortar. The church is literally I call that group 297 00:14:23.039 --> 00:14:25.559 of people. It is the people. We are the church. 298 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:28.679 So if he's praying for those who are going to 299 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:31.720 believe in his message, what he is praying for is 300 00:14:31.759 --> 00:14:35.879 the church. That's what he's praying for future believers. And 301 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:39.039 so I just love that, and I love that he says, 302 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:42.960 I pray that they'll be one. And so I love 303 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:46.840 the idea of unity. Paul talks about that in the 304 00:14:47.159 --> 00:14:53.360 book of What Is It Philippians right, unity and harmony 305 00:14:53.399 --> 00:14:58.039 and helpfulness within the church. And I think that this 306 00:14:58.120 --> 00:15:00.279 is one of the most inspiring things for me that 307 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:04.000 God on the earth, Jesus himself looks forward to the 308 00:15:04.039 --> 00:15:07.000 future and says, this is what I pray that they 309 00:15:07.039 --> 00:15:09.159 will be. Because if you look at it, look at it. 310 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:12.200 There's a lot of ways that we're not one, are we, right? Right, 311 00:15:12.240 --> 00:15:16.000 there's a lot of disunity in the church at times, right, 312 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:20.519 and certainly corporately across the globe. There's a lot of disunity. 313 00:15:20.919 --> 00:15:22.799 And anyway, I think that's great. 314 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:24.960 Yeah. So when he says in verse twenty, I'm praying 315 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:27.159 not only for these disciples, but also for all who 316 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:29.960 will ever believe in me through their message. All the 317 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:32.720 things he just prayed for his disciples, he's also praying 318 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:35.039 for us, that's right. And then he adds to it 319 00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:38.480 the unity and love. Right, So then he's also praying 320 00:15:38.519 --> 00:15:44.120 for us that we would be wholly through his word. Right, 321 00:15:44.600 --> 00:15:47.240 He's praying that we would be able to be safe 322 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:53.200 from evil. Right. The world hates us, He's reminding them, 323 00:15:54.360 --> 00:15:56.840 reminding God, they don't belong to this world anymore than 324 00:15:56.879 --> 00:15:57.080 I do. 325 00:15:57.200 --> 00:15:59.639 Yeah, which is also great, right, Right, So we're in 326 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:01.000 the world, but not of the world. 327 00:16:01.080 --> 00:16:04.519 Right. Well, So a lot of Christians feel frustrated because 328 00:16:04.559 --> 00:16:07.080 what they thought was that Jesus was just gonna make 329 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:11.320 everything way better. All of their goals, all of their 330 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:14.159 plans were going to be even better because of Jesus, 331 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:16.840 and Jesus is going. This world is not even your home, right, 332 00:16:17.480 --> 00:16:20.159 you're in it, but not of it, and this world 333 00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:22.480 you're not of the world. So of course there's gonna 334 00:16:22.480 --> 00:16:24.519 be times when the world hates you. They're gonna hate 335 00:16:24.559 --> 00:16:26.919 what you have to say, they're gonna hate what you believe. 336 00:16:27.559 --> 00:16:30.279 And don't be afraid. I think for a lot of 337 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:33.240 people Christians spent some time there a few years ago 338 00:16:33.320 --> 00:16:37.000 really afraid of cancel culture, and Jesus is like, of 339 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:37.799 course they're gonna hate you. 340 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:40.360 They thank goodness, that's going away. 341 00:16:40.200 --> 00:16:43.639 That's passing away. Hey, it'll it'll go back and forth, 342 00:16:43.679 --> 00:16:46.679 swing back and forth. Cancel culture normally isn't a thing 343 00:16:46.759 --> 00:16:49.399 until we slip into this idea where we're afraid of 344 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:52.200 the people who threaten to cancel us. But if you 345 00:16:52.200 --> 00:16:55.000 don't read the comments, you don't care what they're saying. 346 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:58.600 A budget, right, that's the thing. So they don't belong 347 00:16:58.600 --> 00:17:00.759 to this world anymore than I do. Love that phrase. 348 00:17:00.799 --> 00:17:03.080 And then he says, make them holy by your truth, 349 00:17:04.119 --> 00:17:08.319 and teach them your word, which is truth. So the 350 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:11.240 importance of God's word in our daily lives. We're getting 351 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:14.559 ready to do a series is fall on the disciplines 352 00:17:14.680 --> 00:17:18.240 spiritual disciplines of life, and one of those is spending 353 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:21.559 daily time in God's Word is a spiritual discipline. There's 354 00:17:21.559 --> 00:17:24.599 a lot of different benefits of it, you know, wisdom 355 00:17:24.680 --> 00:17:27.160 for daily life and all these things. But Jesus said 356 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:30.839 holiness is his goal with regard to God's Word, that 357 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:35.200 we would be holy people. And I would say this, 358 00:17:36.559 --> 00:17:39.559 people that are living like the rest of the world 359 00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:43.200 and aren't living a holy life. When you dig in, 360 00:17:43.240 --> 00:17:45.039 you also find they're really not spending much time in 361 00:17:45.079 --> 00:17:47.640 God's Word. But it is interesting the people who spend 362 00:17:47.720 --> 00:17:50.119 more and more and more time in God's Word, you 363 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:54.440 can just see this holiness kind of growing in their life. 364 00:17:54.960 --> 00:17:58.559 And it's not holier than thou. It's not a judgmental holiness. 365 00:17:58.839 --> 00:18:02.200 It's just a cleanness of living that begins to grow 366 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:05.279 and grow and grow and grow because they're they're extracting 367 00:18:05.359 --> 00:18:09.279 their daily priorities out of the things of the world, 368 00:18:10.079 --> 00:18:12.759 and they're because that's what holy means. Holy doesn't mean 369 00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:16.480 we think holy means perfect. We think holy means deserving 370 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:19.359 a being put in a shrine or cathedral. Right, that's 371 00:18:19.400 --> 00:18:22.400 what we think holiness means. A holy person is somebody 372 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:25.599 they make a statue of If you're in some religions, 373 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:28.279 you pray to those saints, right, that are holy. That's 374 00:18:28.319 --> 00:18:29.599 what we think holy means. And it doesn't. 375 00:18:29.680 --> 00:18:31.519 Yeah, some people think holy is sinless. 376 00:18:31.720 --> 00:18:33.920 Yes, and it doesn't mean that. It just means set apart, 377 00:18:34.240 --> 00:18:37.480 that's right. So it's interesting when he says being holy, 378 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:40.759 set apart for what For God? That's what means. So 379 00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:43.039 he says, they're not of this world, so make them 380 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:45.480 holy through your word. I gave them your word. Now 381 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:47.960 make them holy through your word. The more you remember 382 00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:51.519 when Jesus said, you're my friends, and so obey me. Right, 383 00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:54.680 it's the same thing. It's the same idea, only now 384 00:18:54.720 --> 00:18:57.799 he's talking to God, his father, saying, make them holy 385 00:18:57.839 --> 00:19:00.279 through the words that I taught them. If we choose 386 00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:02.799 to obey what we learn, we will be wise, we 387 00:19:02.839 --> 00:19:05.519 will have a better life. But we also should be 388 00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:08.799 becoming more and more and more holy. The opposite of 389 00:19:08.839 --> 00:19:12.680 holy is carnal in the Bible. Fleshly right those words, 390 00:19:12.920 --> 00:19:15.279 and so we should become less about our flesh and 391 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:17.799 less about the carnal things of this world, and more 392 00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:21.720 and more extracted from the priorities of this world. Even 393 00:19:21.720 --> 00:19:22.960 while we're on mission in it. 394 00:19:23.319 --> 00:19:27.759 Yeah, yeah, And I love how Jesus reiterates the concept 395 00:19:27.799 --> 00:19:30.519 that we are in him and he says, you know, 396 00:19:31.039 --> 00:19:33.160 they were one with one another, just as I am 397 00:19:33.240 --> 00:19:34.839 one with you and you and me and I am 398 00:19:34.880 --> 00:19:37.799 with you. And it's like this idea all the way 399 00:19:37.799 --> 00:19:41.079 through the New Testament. What does Paul say over and 400 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:43.960 over again? He says, we are in Christ, right and 401 00:19:44.160 --> 00:19:48.200