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, everybody, welcome to the Bible guys. We 4 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:15.919 are excited to be here in this Thursday. 5 00:00:16.320 --> 00:00:20.440 And we have a surprise for our longtime listeners. They're 6 00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:21.920 gonna be shocked and they're not going to know what 7 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:24.519 to do with themselves. Well, do you know why? Because 8 00:00:24.600 --> 00:00:28.039 today is the day we're gonna do what made Chris 9 00:00:28.079 --> 00:00:31.399 Mad this week on a Thursday. Normally it's on a Friday. Hey, 10 00:00:31.719 --> 00:00:34.799 we're shaking it up, baby shaking, bake, baby shaking. 11 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:37.439 Do you remember tell Dagon Nights? 12 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:41.960 Yeah, and he goes, he goes shake and bake youmever 13 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:45.920 you know anyway, Uh, you know there is there's a 14 00:00:45.960 --> 00:00:50.640 reason why because Desiree has something tomorrow specifically. 15 00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:51.600 Did you know that super good? Yeah? 16 00:00:51.640 --> 00:00:55.280 Yeah, because it's because technically tomorrow's episode is gonna air 17 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:57.759 on fourth of July, so she wants us to tell 18 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:01.320 a fireworks story. But but that's why she's putting what 19 00:01:01.359 --> 00:01:05.000 made Chris Mad today on Thursday. So okay, So here's 20 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:07.599 the thing. Here's the way she read it or wrote it. 21 00:01:07.640 --> 00:01:10.560 She said, last week, I had mentioned that I had 22 00:01:10.599 --> 00:01:13.400 two things that made me mad, and some listeners were 23 00:01:13.400 --> 00:01:16.040 wondering what was the other thing? Yes, and so she said, 24 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:17.920 so what was the other thing? Checking the last week. 25 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:19.799 But I'll be honest, I don't remember. 26 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:21.640 It makes you mad when people ask those questions. It's 27 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:22.359 none of their business. 28 00:01:22.359 --> 00:01:24.920 None of their business. That's not true. But I don't remember. 29 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:26.040 I don't remember. I promise. 30 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:28.120 It's been such a long time, it's been a full week. 31 00:01:28.120 --> 00:01:30.400 I don't remember what made me mad the other thing. 32 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:31.640 So I apologize. 33 00:01:32.239 --> 00:01:35.760 There's so many though, well, there's so many things that 34 00:01:35.799 --> 00:01:37.920 make you mad. You don't need last weeks. You've got 35 00:01:37.959 --> 00:01:38.480 this week's. 36 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:41.159 Well, yeah, that's true. 37 00:01:41.719 --> 00:01:45.239 Well it happened. It happened three days ago. Yes, it 38 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:48.040 happened three days thank you, Jeff. It happened three days ago. 39 00:01:48.519 --> 00:01:50.879 And I was in a grocery. 40 00:01:50.439 --> 00:01:52.040 Store line, right. 41 00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:54.799 Those are less common these days with self checkout line right, 42 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:56.200 So it wasn't a self checkout. 43 00:01:56.200 --> 00:01:58.319 It was an actual human lane. 44 00:01:58.640 --> 00:01:58.799 Yes. 45 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:01.120 And by the way, our the one by my house, 46 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:04.680 has like twenty five lanes. It's a super Kroger. Wow, 47 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:08.039 is one of those really big marketplace. Once and usually 48 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:12.280 there's two people in line and then there's all the 49 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:13.439 self castrots. 50 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:17.159 Right, so they built twenty five lines and none of 51 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:17.960 them are mant. 52 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:21.240 Right, that's the way that just the weekend before Thanksgiving, 53 00:02:21.319 --> 00:02:22.400 I guess so. 54 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:24.560 So anyway, the point is is that this was an 55 00:02:24.599 --> 00:02:28.000 actual grocery store where there was a human and I 56 00:02:28.120 --> 00:02:30.240 was in line and I was in a very very 57 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:33.680 big rush, and the guy in front of me goes 58 00:02:33.719 --> 00:02:37.639 to check out, and then he says, ready for this, Oh, 59 00:02:37.960 --> 00:02:39.400 I forgot an item. 60 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:40.840 I'll be right back. 61 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:45.439 I'll be quick, yep. 62 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:49.560 And so the lady is ringing him up and has 63 00:02:49.719 --> 00:02:54.439 no choice but to say, uh, okay, because. 64 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:56.639 He just runs, right. He just runs. 65 00:02:57.240 --> 00:03:00.599 Now, what should have happened is he should have said, God, Adam, 66 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:03.919 can I go get it? And she'd say I'm so sorry, No, 67 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:06.800 you have to finish your order and then you have to, 68 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:07.840 you know, if you want to go at night, and 69 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:08.439 you're gonna. 70 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:09.479 Have to go back through the line, right. 71 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:13.159 But the guy says, I'll right back, I promise, and 72 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:16.120 he just starts running and then turns out what he forgot. 73 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:18.240 Was milk all the way at the back of the store. 74 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:20.280 It's literally at the back of the store. 75 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:23.560 Now it's one county over and those those giant the 76 00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:27.439 Kroger marketplaces. Yes, it's a county over from where you're at. 77 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:29.400 So well, actually it wasn't. It wasn't a Kroger that 78 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:31.319 I was doing. This was at Ninos. 79 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:34.120 Value, so but it was. 80 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:37.439 But it still is quite the opposite side of the store, right, 81 00:03:37.639 --> 00:03:40.560 and it's it's a smaller store, but it was. This 82 00:03:40.719 --> 00:03:43.360 was in this case. And so this guy runs and 83 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:45.280 he comes back and I and. 84 00:03:45.240 --> 00:03:48.000 I literally go, milk. I go. 85 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:49.960 You ran all the way there, I go. And now 86 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:52.599 granted he did run right, but the point is he 87 00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:55.800 shouldn't have left right. It made me mad because I'm 88 00:03:55.800 --> 00:03:58.039 thinking to myself, dude, if you're a person who forgets something, 89 00:03:58.639 --> 00:04:01.000 it's your fault. There are constant glances of you forgetting 90 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:03.800 your milk, and the consequences are either a you go 91 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:04.639 home with no milk. 92 00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:06.360 So did he make you wait a long time? 93 00:04:07.039 --> 00:04:08.960 I mean he made everybody wait a long time. 94 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:10.960 I was just she was all done, ringing everybody up, 95 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:12.439 and then you guys over. 96 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:14.520 Here, she did have like five or six. 97 00:04:14.479 --> 00:04:16.120 More items, so she wasn't done yet. 98 00:04:16.439 --> 00:04:21.639 But listen, she was done at least two full minutes. 99 00:04:21.399 --> 00:04:22.560 Before he came back with the milk. 100 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:25.240 Oh okay, right, okay, we're just all. 101 00:04:25.160 --> 00:04:27.399 Sitting there for at least one hundred and twenty seconds. 102 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:28.800 But that's not the point. 103 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:30.399 And that's one hundred twenty seconds you're never going to 104 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:30.759 get back. 105 00:04:31.399 --> 00:04:33.839 Listen, I'm not trying to emphasize that I can't wait 106 00:04:33.839 --> 00:04:34.240 too minute. 107 00:04:34.399 --> 00:04:35.439 I'm empathizing with you. 108 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:38.079 I'm trying to emphasize that you don't do that. 109 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:40.240 You don't do it, have you ever? It's the principle 110 00:04:40.279 --> 00:04:40.720 of the thing. 111 00:04:40.839 --> 00:04:43.399 Yeah, it's the same thing where if you ever get 112 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:45.560 in the wrong lane, yes, right, It's like if you 113 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:48.399 got in the wrong lane, you have to you have 114 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:50.680 to take an unnecessary left and then pull into a 115 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:52.920 parking lot and then turn around because you messed. 116 00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:54.600 Up instead of cutting back across three. 117 00:04:54.639 --> 00:04:57.120 But you don't do is make all the traffic behind 118 00:04:57.160 --> 00:04:59.920 you wait because you're going to cut three lanes over 119 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:02.800 because you screwed up. Right, if you messed up, you 120 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:03.800 just own the mess up. 121 00:05:03.800 --> 00:05:05.040 That's the that's the bottom line. 122 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:07.519 Inconvenience yourself rather than inconveniencing everyone. 123 00:05:07.639 --> 00:05:08.959 Yes, there it is. 124 00:05:08.959 --> 00:05:11.399 Is this what you're saying Jeff, Yes. 125 00:05:10.920 --> 00:05:13.040 If you messed up, own the mess up. Do not 126 00:05:13.160 --> 00:05:14.839 inconvenience others for your mess up. 127 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:17.519 I see, right, And so that's a good lesson boys 128 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:17.959 and girls. 129 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:20.040 Yes. So if you're a person who says. 130 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:23.600 Don't make Chris mad, no, don't make the world mad, 131 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:27.959 inconvenience yourself if you make a mistake, rather than inconveniencing 132 00:05:27.959 --> 00:05:28.480 everyone else. 133 00:05:28.519 --> 00:05:31.759 Well, the guy behind me was at least I said, wow, 134 00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:32.759 you went and got milk. 135 00:05:32.959 --> 00:05:34.720 I was like, that's impressive. You ran all the way there. 136 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:36.680 I was trying to like give him a backhand and compliment. 137 00:05:36.759 --> 00:05:40.560 At least the guy behind me said, hey, hey, what 138 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:42.160 is he doing? He didn't say to his face, but 139 00:05:42.199 --> 00:05:44.399 he goes, what's he doing? You allowed him to do that? 140 00:05:44.439 --> 00:05:47.000 He's yelling at the cash register. He's like verbal. All 141 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:49.120 the people behind him are grumbling, and I'm thinking to 142 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:50.000 myself like he's just. 143 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:51.319 Muting a mutant, a mutiny. 144 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:55.839 No more ninos, no more ninos. 145 00:05:56.120 --> 00:05:59.360 But I'm just thinking myself, like, dude, like who does that, right, 146 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:00.199 So don't do that. 147 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:01.759 Don't be that guy or gal. 148 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:03.519 Wow, thank you Chris. 149 00:06:03.639 --> 00:06:04.360 Yeah you're welcome. 150 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:08.160 Maybe maybe you saved somebody from making a horrific error. This, Well, 151 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:11.680 just don't be that guy or girl, especially if you're 152 00:06:11.720 --> 00:06:14.720 in the kind that Chris may be kind. 153 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:17.360 Be considered to the world, Jeff, not to Chris to. 154 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:20.279 The world, to the world, because yes, it's for the 155 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:21.600 rest of us that you do these things. 156 00:06:21.639 --> 00:06:23.879 That's correct. Yeah, you just don't. You just don't do that. 157 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:25.680 Own your mistakes people. 158 00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:30.040 Well, thank you, well talking about owning your mistakes. Oh, 159 00:06:32.279 --> 00:06:34.600 go ahead, Jesus says. No one who puts their hand 160 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:36.680 to the plow and looks back. You can get in 161 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:38.800 the Kingdom of Heaven if you grab a hold of 162 00:06:38.839 --> 00:06:42.240 the plow and they realize you shouldn't have Well, hang on, anyways. 163 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:44.160 That's not bad. It's not bad. Yeah, I mean it's 164 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:47.079 it's a little it's a little long, but it's applicable. 165 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:48.240 I couldn't forget what to do. 166 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:50.920 Yeah, it's it's better than what makes Jesus mad. 167 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:58.040 Right, put in your hands in looking back by the way, Uh, 168 00:06:58.360 --> 00:06:59.480 it was better than my transition. 169 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:01.839 Lest Yes, when I missed the scripture. 170 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:05.399 Yeah, you had two transitions and missed both of them. 171 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:07.720 Terrible, terrible. 172 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:09.120 Yeah, you should go back and watch that if you 173 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:11.240 didn't see it, because that's what made Jeff mad this week. Oh, 174 00:07:11.319 --> 00:07:12.560 there you go, here we go. 175 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:14.240 Hey, thank you for embracing it. 176 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:17.120 You never say that, you never admit that you get mad, 177 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:18.519 but you get mad all the time. 178 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:20.959 I don't ever get mad. Come on, the last time 179 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:24.160 you saw me mad Monday? 180 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:26.639 You're mad Monday? 181 00:07:26.959 --> 00:07:31.639 It was Monday? That why so we are in Luke chapter. 182 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:34.399 Nine and Tree both commented that you were mad at. 183 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:36.759 Then you should. Yeah, like, dude, why are you so mad? 184 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:39.399 Why are you so mad? Because we said we didn't 185 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:40.639 like your idea? That's why. 186 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:43.879 No, No, it wasn't that I was spouting off about something. 187 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:47.000 Yeah, yeah, we can figure it out, like why is 188 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:47.639 Jeff mad? 189 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:50.959 Verse? 190 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:54.120 So what's making me mad? Now? So here we go, 191 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:57.680 it says here. As they were thinking about it, joking, 192 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:01.399 thinking about it. As they were walking, someone said to Jesus, 193 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:04.959 I will follow you wherever you go. But Jesus replied, 194 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:07.759 foxes have dens to live in, and birds have nests. 195 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:09.720 But the son of Man has no place even to 196 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:13.040 lay his head. He said to another person, come follow me. 197 00:08:14.079 --> 00:08:16.079 The man agreed, but he said, Lord, first, let me 198 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:18.720 return home and bury my father. But Jesus told him, 199 00:08:18.759 --> 00:08:21.639 let the spiritually dead bury their own dead. Your duty 200 00:08:21.720 --> 00:08:23.480 is to go and preach about the Kingdom of God. 201 00:08:24.079 --> 00:08:25.879 Another said, yes, Lord, I will follow you, but first 202 00:08:25.920 --> 00:08:28.399 let me say goodbye to my family. But Jesus said 203 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:30.720 to him, anyone who puts a hand to the plow 204 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:32.879 and then looks back is not fit for the kingdom 205 00:08:32.919 --> 00:08:33.279 of God. 206 00:08:34.879 --> 00:08:36.960 Man, are you going to leave me now too? 207 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:40.519 That's it right there, right, I mean, that's the kind of. 208 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:43.759 Thing that would right. 209 00:08:44.039 --> 00:08:46.360 But that's the kind of thing that would get all 210 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:47.480 the French people to leave. 211 00:08:47.559 --> 00:08:49.039 That's right, because that's really. 212 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:49.399 What he's saying. 213 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:54.799 There's a cost of following Jesus. I will follow you 214 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:59.039 wherever you go. Foxes have holes and birds have the 215 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:00.919 air and nests, but the sun of man has no 216 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:03.919 place to lay his head. Which, by the way, don't 217 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:07.240 people haven't you heard over the years? Side note that 218 00:09:07.399 --> 00:09:10.679 people refer to this as Jesus being a person who's. 219 00:09:10.519 --> 00:09:12.519 Poor because he had no home. 220 00:09:12.679 --> 00:09:13.879 Sure, sure, but. 221 00:09:14.840 --> 00:09:17.440 Do you believe that Jesus had zero resources? 222 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:20.919 No? I did not believe Jesus was impoverished. 223 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:23.399 Yeah, and tell me why, because this is an important fact. 224 00:09:23.440 --> 00:09:25.399 Because I agree with you, and. 225 00:09:25.320 --> 00:09:29.080 He didn't own a home, right right. He was the 226 00:09:29.080 --> 00:09:31.960 oldest son yep, so he would have had the resources 227 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:39.720 of his family at least fifty So at least he 228 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:44.120 didn't own a home. Clearly he says this. But the 229 00:09:44.120 --> 00:09:47.639 people he hung out with were highly resourced people. Peter 230 00:09:47.879 --> 00:09:51.279 was a very successful businessman, had multiple boats. John and 231 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:57.240 James came from a fishing enterprise and some of the 232 00:09:57.279 --> 00:09:57.679 others did. 233 00:09:57.759 --> 00:10:00.559 Then Zebedee finance Son. 234 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:05.240 Of Thunder with olive oil. Yeah. And then you have 235 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:11.720 four women that are mentioned, Mary Magdalene, Cleopus's wife, the 236 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:14.159 other Mary. There there were four women that were mentioned 237 00:10:14.159 --> 00:10:16.679 that it talked about that they leverage their resources to 238 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:20.440 help fund Jesus ministry, to the point that when Jesus 239 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:24.519 was crucified, they gambled over his clothes, right right, So 240 00:10:25.080 --> 00:10:28.080 it doesn't say that he was impoverished. And certainly other people. 241 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:32.960 They go to Peter's home and I've been there, You've 242 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:35.600 been there. It's a pretty big house, yeah, And it 243 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:39.159 was big enough that all of jesus disciples plus Peter's 244 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:41.720 family could be there and they put on a feed 245 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:44.399 for everybody. Right. His mother in law winds up being 246 00:10:44.440 --> 00:10:47.000 healed by Jesus, and she gets up and cooks a 247 00:10:47.039 --> 00:10:51.960 meal for everybody. The ministry had to have gone forward, 248 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:55.000 and he was he was fine, he wasn't broke. But 249 00:10:55.080 --> 00:10:57.200 what he is saying is, listen, I don't have a 250 00:10:57.279 --> 00:10:59.039 stable My life is not stable. 251 00:10:59.440 --> 00:10:59.639 Right. 252 00:11:00.159 --> 00:11:02.919 So foxes have dens to live and they go back 253 00:11:02.919 --> 00:11:06.320 to their den, and birds have nests. They go back 254 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:08.840 to their nest. I don't go back. I'm moving all 255 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:11.360 the time. I'm an itinerant preacher. I don't have anywhere 256 00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:11.919 to lay my head. 257 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:12.759 Yeah. 258 00:11:12.799 --> 00:11:15.960 So he's a traveling preacher who goes from town to town, right, 259 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:18.279 And he's saying like, hey, I don't have a headquarters. 260 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:22.480 So this is not necessarily him saying poverty is my way, 261 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:24.960 and you're not going to like being poor. He's saying 262 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:27.559 I don't have roots, and you're not going to like that, right, right, 263 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:29.399 And he's not even telling the guy he's not going 264 00:11:29.440 --> 00:11:31.240 to like it. The guy just apparently doesn't follow him. 265 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:34.200 That's like, oh, that's not what I'm looking for. And 266 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:37.399 then he says, another person, come and follow me. And 267 00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:40.320 he said, let me go home and bury my father. 268 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:44.799 We think of that as he's saying, my dad just died. 269 00:11:44.840 --> 00:11:47.519 I need to go have a funeral. I don't believe 270 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:49.399 that's what it's saying. I don't even think that's the context. 271 00:11:49.879 --> 00:11:52.960 I think he's saying, my father's an old man. When 272 00:11:53.080 --> 00:11:56.639 he dies, I'll come and follow you. Because they're burials 273 00:11:57.000 --> 00:12:01.200 were the next day, right, it was twenty four hours 274 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:03.519 was all the time they had in their religious belief 275 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:07.679 system to bury the dead. So he could have said, Jesus, 276 00:12:08.200 --> 00:12:10.559 I'll catch up with you tomorrow, right, And he doesn't 277 00:12:10.600 --> 00:12:12.960 say that. So I think what he's saying here is 278 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:15.159 my father's an old man, and I'll follow you after 279 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:15.840 my dad dies. 280 00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:18.879 Right, Yeah, let me go attend to my affairs. 281 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:21.200 Yeah right, I ask some other stuff I feel like 282 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:22.279 I need to do first. 283 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:26.480 Right, And so what Jesus is saying here is he's 284 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:30.799 keep in mind that Jesus looks at the intent of 285 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:34.559 the heart more than the actual circumstance. Right, So all 286 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:37.679 the way through the scriptures, Jesus does this, so like, 287 00:12:37.720 --> 00:12:41.399 for instance, remember the rich young ruler. Yeah, and he says, hey, 288 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:45.399 what must I do to inherit eternal life? And Jesus says, well, 289 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:47.720 you know the commandments, right, you know, love Lord, your God, 290 00:12:47.759 --> 00:12:49.960 with all your heart's, all my strength, love your neighbors, yourself. 291 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:52.960 And then the man says, well, I've done this since 292 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:55.720 I was a little boy. Of course I've done this. 293 00:12:56.039 --> 00:12:58.279 What else do I lack? And then it says, then 294 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:00.840 Jesus looked at him and loved him in his arrogance, 295 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:05.240 in his naivity, and you know, his in his absolute, 296 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:06.919 you know, just ignorance. 297 00:13:07.480 --> 00:13:09.320 Jesus still looks at this man and loves him. 298 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:11.919 But the reason why Jesus says what he says next 299 00:13:12.120 --> 00:13:15.600 isn't necessarily because the circumstances dictated. 300 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:17.200 It was because Jesus. 301 00:13:16.840 --> 00:13:19.480 Knew the man's heart, and he knew the man's heart 302 00:13:19.960 --> 00:13:22.840 was he had a stronghold for materialism, he had a 303 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:26.840 stronghold for riches, and he was going to choose riches over. 304 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:27.440 God every time. 305 00:13:27.639 --> 00:13:27.759 Right. 306 00:13:27.919 --> 00:13:30.519 You know, here's this man who thinks he's self righteous. 307 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:32.600 And so Jesus says, okay, I have an idea. Sell 308 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:34.240 everything you have and give it to the poor, and 309 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:36.799 then come follow me. And it says the man walked 310 00:13:36.799 --> 00:13:40.480 away from Jesus and he was, you know, discouraged because 311 00:13:40.559 --> 00:13:41.879 he was a very wealthy man. 312 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:42.960 He wasn't willing to do that. 313 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:47.720 So Jesus wasn't necessarily addressing something circumstantial as he was 314 00:13:47.879 --> 00:13:51.799 revealing the man's heart. Yes, and so Jesus is revealing 315 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:54.720 this man's heart. It wasn't about his dad being elderly. 316 00:13:54.759 --> 00:13:58.279 It wasn't about his dad needing something. And you know, 317 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:00.159 like it's a very noble thing to want to take 318 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:01.200 care of your elderly father. 319 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:02.240 Sure, right, And. 320 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:04.360 He's not telling him shirk your responsibilities. 321 00:14:04.480 --> 00:14:07.559 No, No, he's revealing the man's heart about excuses. 322 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:09.240 And so the man has his excuses. 323 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:10.399 If it wasn't going to be his father, it was 324 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:14.240 gonna be something else, right, right, And so Jesus is saying, hey, listen, 325 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:17.840 I know what you're doing there, and you're saying like, hey, 326 00:14:17.919 --> 00:14:20.480 I'll follow you, just not right now. I'm not ready 327 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:22.799 to jump in. I have some other things to take 328 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:24.639 care of. It's always going to be something else to 329 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:26.679 be taken care of. And so what I'm saying is 330 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:29.279 follow me now, right, which is why he says, hey, 331 00:14:29.679 --> 00:14:32.720 let the bed dead bury they're dead. And you know, 332 00:14:33.799 --> 00:14:36.559 you know, he says still another I will follow you, Lord, 333 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:38.000 but first let me go back and say good bye 334 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:41.240 to my family. And so there's two excuses here, and 335 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:44.240 Jesus is using both of those examples and saying, no 336 00:14:44.279 --> 00:14:45.720 one who puts their hand to the plow and looks 337 00:14:45.759 --> 00:14:47.000 back is fit for the surface of the. 338 00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:47.679 Kingdom of God. 339 00:14:48.759 --> 00:14:50.840 Putting your hand to the plow and then looking back, 340 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:54.080 what is the actual plow and looking back? 341 00:14:54.120 --> 00:14:54.879 What does that mean? 342 00:14:56.759 --> 00:14:59.519 So if you're going to plow straight, and plowing straight 343 00:14:59.600 --> 00:15:03.600 is importan for efficiency and for the flow of water 344 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:06.600 through the field and all those things. So if you're 345 00:15:06.600 --> 00:15:08.639 gonna plow straight, you have to be looking forward and 346 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:11.879 you look beyond. You're looking out maybe towards a tree 347 00:15:12.360 --> 00:15:15.000 way out past the field. If you're paying attention to 348 00:15:15.039 --> 00:15:17.919 the row, you're going to do this right. So you're 349 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:20.120 going to be looking out past there and you're. 350 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:21.960 Plowing, which is what I do, what we do when 351 00:15:21.960 --> 00:15:22.559 we alongs. 352 00:15:22.600 --> 00:15:25.639 Yeah, same thing, same thing, right, But if you look back, 353 00:15:25.879 --> 00:15:28.919 it's gonna go all caddy wampus and you're not gonna 354 00:15:29.039 --> 00:15:30.679 hey that's a good word. Now, I haven't used that 355 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:32.639 over in a long time. Uh, it's it's gonna get 356 00:15:32.679 --> 00:15:35.000 all kind of crazy, and it's going to be it's 357 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:36.799 going to ruin the work you're trying to do, you 358 00:15:36.799 --> 00:15:38.360 have to go back and plow back over top of 359 00:15:38.399 --> 00:15:40.720 that again. And so that's what he's saying is, man 360 00:15:40.759 --> 00:15:43.279 if you're not committed, if you're constantly looking in the 361 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:46.240 rear view mirror, you have to be looking forward, looking ahead. 362 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:49.799 That's my kingdom. My kingdom is an action oriented kingdom. 363 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:54.679 Discipleship is immediate following of me. You're looking forward. But 364 00:15:54.720 --> 00:15:56.480 if you're going to spend all your time looking back, 365 00:15:56.519 --> 00:15:58.879 looking back at what you're missing looking back, what's chasing 366 00:15:58.879 --> 00:16:01.240 you looking back at If you're doing that, you're never 367 00:16:01.320 --> 00:16:03.720 going to be able to be effective at what you're doing. 368 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:05.200 So he says, soon as you grab a hold of 369 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:07.639 the plow, basically you have to make the commitment. 370 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:08.200 Yeah right. 371 00:16:08.200 --> 00:16:09.679 There's a little bit of danger involved too. I mean, 372 00:16:09.679 --> 00:16:14.000 you guys donkeys out there or oxen out there, there's 373 00:16:14.120 --> 00:16:17.440 there's some some some danger with regard to if you're 374 00:16:17.480 --> 00:16:20.840 not managing that thing, well, it's going to get away 375 00:16:20.840 --> 00:16:25.039 from you. And so he's saying, discipleship requires all in 376 00:16:25.159 --> 00:16:27.720 commitment so that it doesn't get away from you. 377 00:16:28.080 --> 00:16:31.879 Yeah right, I know, I know. This reminds me. It's 378 00:16:31.879 --> 00:16:32.879 a close cousin to. 379 00:16:34.840 --> 00:16:37.759 This idea of I know a lot of marriages, not 380 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:40.840 a lot over the years, probably a lot, but currently 381 00:16:40.840 --> 00:16:46.360 at least a few marriages where people are consumed with 382 00:16:47.200 --> 00:16:50.080 looking back on what they missed out on. I missed 383 00:16:50.080 --> 00:16:52.320 out of my college years because I married my wife 384 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:55.919 so young. And now that it's you know, X amount 385 00:16:55.919 --> 00:16:59.519 of decades into it, I'm regretting the fact that everything 386 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:02.200 I missed out on, right, even though I'm blessed with 387 00:17:02.279 --> 00:17:04.960 this great marriage, with great kids and a godly wife 388 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:07.759 and all these kinds of things. And so I'm I'm 389 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:11.599 you know, I have some people. There's at least two, 390 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:15.039 if not three, that fall into this category right now 391 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:17.680 that I could name you of people who feel that way. 392 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:20.359 How old were you when you get married twenty one? 393 00:17:20.759 --> 00:17:22.839 Right? And you get married in Bible College? 394 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:25.279 Right, So I get married at twenty one in Bible 395 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:25.880 college as well. 396 00:17:25.880 --> 00:17:28.359 We've lived the same life life in so many ways. 397 00:17:28.839 --> 00:17:31.880 Uhris chrys La Belle, my good buddy, same same story. 398 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:34.880 Jeff Miller, my best, my best buddy, same story, right, 399 00:17:35.839 --> 00:17:39.119 you know, just married a girl in Bible College that I. 400 00:17:39.160 --> 00:17:40.079 Dated in high school. 401 00:17:40.359 --> 00:17:43.119