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 --> 00:00:13.640 practical ways. Hey, well, good morning, good afternoon, good evening 4 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:15.720 whenever you're tuning in, and welcome to the Bible Guys. 5 00:00:16.280 --> 00:00:19.719 I'm Jeff and that's my cue to say, I'm Chris. 6 00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:21.519 There you go. We got it in there. 7 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:25.600 Yes, and today we are kicking off with a brand 8 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:28.879 new segment for this week called Stump the. 9 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:32.000 Pastor brand new segment for this week. Yeah, that's the 10 00:00:32.039 --> 00:00:32.799 second day of the week. 11 00:00:32.920 --> 00:00:35.439 I started to say brand new segment. I did not recover. 12 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:40.399 Okay, it's brand new for this week, brand new for 13 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:45.200 this week. We've done it forty times, but yeast. So 14 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:47.520 this is a good one. This one's from Karen h. 15 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:48.960 By the way, So hi Karen. 16 00:00:48.920 --> 00:00:49.920 Hey, what's up Karen? 17 00:00:50.039 --> 00:00:53.679 And she says one of the ten commandments is thou 18 00:00:53.799 --> 00:00:56.439 shalt not kill? Why is there so much killing in 19 00:00:56.479 --> 00:01:00.640 the Bible? Good question. It's a good question, by good question, 20 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:01.600 very thoughtful. 21 00:01:02.119 --> 00:01:02.439 Yeah. 22 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:06.879 Well, I mean I just watched with my family really 23 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:11.680 a movie really yeah, and it was called come on, 24 00:01:11.719 --> 00:01:13.760 What was the Conscientious subjector? 25 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:20.480 Andrew Garfield in the war, we climbs up the wall. 26 00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:23.840 I don't know, dude, you would love this movie. I know, 27 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:26.319 I know you. This is a movie you would actually love. 28 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:27.599 Hats all rich. 29 00:01:28.599 --> 00:01:30.799 Yeah, but anyway, it was it was sort of the 30 00:01:30.840 --> 00:01:33.519 same thing. It was sort of the same thing. He 31 00:01:33.719 --> 00:01:37.680 was a conscientious objector who joined the war World War two. 32 00:01:38.040 --> 00:01:40.319 This is a true story. But he wouldn't touch a 33 00:01:40.319 --> 00:01:44.120 gun because he said, I'm. 34 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:44.719 Not supposed to kill. 35 00:01:44.760 --> 00:01:45.680 It's not supposed kill you. 36 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:47.920 Okay, So what's the answer. 37 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:52.519 Well, the answer is sin, wickedness, rebellion. 38 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:54.040 Killing exists because of sin. 39 00:01:54.719 --> 00:01:55.799 Well, for sure it does. 40 00:01:56.400 --> 00:02:02.319 But the uh, I think it's because God gives an 41 00:02:02.319 --> 00:02:06.959 initiative to those who serve him, and it's it's warnings 42 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:12.479 against you know, his his invitation. His rule is judgment 43 00:02:12.520 --> 00:02:15.199 when people are wicked and they serve false gods and 44 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:18.960 God is passing his judgment. It's the same judgment, by 45 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:22.599 the way, I think that would be given to us, 46 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:25.520 except for the fact that Jesus died in our place. 47 00:02:26.759 --> 00:02:31.439 Yeah, so good answer. By the way, there's multiple kinds 48 00:02:31.479 --> 00:02:33.800 of killing in the Bible. So I think you first 49 00:02:33.919 --> 00:02:36.240 have to go to the law thou shalt not kill. 50 00:02:37.319 --> 00:02:44.280 The Roman or the Hebrew word there means murder seems 51 00:02:44.319 --> 00:02:49.520 to specifically mean premeditated right murder. So there's a difference 52 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:52.759 between you know, hitting somebody with your car accidentally and 53 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:57.680 murdering somebody because you hate them, right, planning the death 54 00:02:57.680 --> 00:03:00.400 of this assassination of this person. So that'd be the 55 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:04.479 first thing. The word thou shalt not kill, That word 56 00:03:04.719 --> 00:03:12.159 kill leans towards premeditated murder, don't murder as opposed to 57 00:03:12.719 --> 00:03:15.879 there's a dozen times in the Old Testament where God 58 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:19.439 sets up the death penalty for certain behaviors in society. 59 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:21.919 So you have to remember that the Ten Commandments are 60 00:03:21.960 --> 00:03:25.120 not governmental laws for the government or for society. They're 61 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:29.639 for individuals. You don't lie, you keep the sabbath, You 62 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:34.439 don't commit adultery, right, you don't commit murder. That's it. 63 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:37.560 But then God sets up within the government there are 64 00:03:37.719 --> 00:03:42.400 consequences for bad behaviors. If somebody does murder somebody, then 65 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:44.360 God sets up the death penalties to say, an eye 66 00:03:44.360 --> 00:03:45.680 for an eye, tooth for truth, a life for a 67 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:48.960 life right. So then the government is supposed to take 68 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:53.199 the life of the person who who committed murder for instance, 69 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:57.560 or whatever so God sets up this what we would 70 00:03:57.560 --> 00:04:01.439 say is killing to kill this person that is a 71 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:05.360 horrific criminal. God says, execute them. And so in that situation, 72 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:10.800 that's not premeditated murder, that's executing judgment for evil behavior. 73 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:14.000 There's a difference, right, So God, God uses governments to 74 00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:18.240 execute judgment, and that then is and God says they 75 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:21.160 represent him when they do it. So there's a difference 76 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:25.800 between you committing murder and the government executing judgment. That'd 77 00:04:25.800 --> 00:04:27.959 be one. The other one is sometimes God used the 78 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:33.040 people of Israel as tools of his justice, bringing judgment 79 00:04:33.079 --> 00:04:34.920 on other nations, and so he would send them in 80 00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:37.759 and go, hey, I want you to bring judgment on Itedom, 81 00:04:37.839 --> 00:04:39.800 or I want you to bring judgment on the Amalekites 82 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:41.000 or on the Mobibites or whatever. 83 00:04:41.079 --> 00:04:42.720 Right, which is where we are right now? 84 00:04:43.959 --> 00:04:46.720 Right, that's right, And the other one would be then 85 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:49.959 God also allows, and he says it in the law 86 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:53.600 self defense, if somebody breaks into your house in the 87 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:57.160 middle of the night and you struggle and the guy dies, 88 00:04:57.399 --> 00:04:58.600 well then you're free. 89 00:04:58.839 --> 00:04:59.040 Right. 90 00:04:59.399 --> 00:05:02.399 So when you're defending your property, when you're defending yourself, 91 00:05:02.439 --> 00:05:05.680 when you're defending your family, if the other person dies 92 00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:07.720 as a result of you trying to protect your family, 93 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:10.680 then God says you're free from that, so he allows 94 00:05:11.199 --> 00:05:14.560 the idea that's not premeditative murder, although somebody dies, right, 95 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:18.879 so he allows that. And then obviously when Cain killed Abel, 96 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:21.319 that's just evil, that's just sin that rose up. And 97 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:25.079 God's just telling the story without blinking. He's letting us know, Hey, 98 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:28.639 this is the reality humanity. So there's there's multiple kinds 99 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:32.040 of killing in the Bible. Some of it is justice, 100 00:05:32.439 --> 00:05:36.720 some of it is self defense. And but what God 101 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:39.519 forbids you and me is for us to just willfully 102 00:05:39.519 --> 00:05:42.439 go and commit murder. Right, that'd be the difference between 103 00:05:42.439 --> 00:05:42.879 those things. 104 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:46.360 That's great. Yeah, yeah, and that's a great question. 105 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:50.120 And thank you. What's your name, Karen, right, Yeah, Karen's 106 00:05:50.120 --> 00:05:51.959 the one that wrote in. Yeah, thank you Karen for 107 00:05:51.959 --> 00:05:52.399 writing in. 108 00:05:53.199 --> 00:05:56.759 So that's a hard one. That is a really tough one. 109 00:05:56.839 --> 00:05:57.360 I agree. 110 00:05:57.639 --> 00:06:03.639 So, Karen, you as as a citizen, a private citizen, 111 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:08.959 there is no real situation other than self defense. There 112 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:11.079 is no situations justifiable in the Bible for you to 113 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:16.000 kill somebody. If you became the governor and your state 114 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:19.959 permitted the death penalty, it's not a sin for you 115 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:24.319 to execute judgment on somebody who did evil and qualifies 116 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:26.839 for the death penalty. That does make sense. So as 117 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:29.399 a tool of the government, as a tool of the people, 118 00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:33.600 that's different than the individual choosing murder, and that it's 119 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:35.519 really really hard to separate the two. But if you can, 120 00:06:35.839 --> 00:06:40.319 then that's why the Bible allows it in some instances, 121 00:06:40.360 --> 00:06:42.439 but forbids it for individuals, right. 122 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:45.959 And it's also the reason why we witness both ends. 123 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:47.959 Right. We witnessed that shot and not kill, and then 124 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:52.040 we also witnessed, you know, battling and killing Philistines left 125 00:06:52.040 --> 00:06:53.800 and right, right, right, So. 126 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:57.600 It's self defense for one, because the Philistines were raiders. 127 00:06:58.199 --> 00:07:02.879 And two it was of God from are using the 128 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:06.120 people of Israel to do that and God to do that. 129 00:07:06.040 --> 00:07:08.519 Which is how I initially responded, Yep, that's great, good job. 130 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:09.319 All right. 131 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:12.920 Well, hey, Psalm chapter one is where we are today, 132 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:15.720 which we're like, how crazy is that that we're in 133 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:17.720 the middle of this David and Goliath story, in the 134 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:19.759 middle of Samuel, the Book of Samuel, and all of 135 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:22.040 a sudden we're just taking a break and we're jumping 136 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:22.560 to Psalm one. 137 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:23.519 Why is that, Jeff. 138 00:07:24.920 --> 00:07:27.040 So we don't know when the book when Psalm one 139 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:29.879 was written, but we do know lots of Psalms were 140 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:32.800 written in the early part of David's life, and so 141 00:07:32.839 --> 00:07:34.480 we just we're going to grab this one and say, hey, 142 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:37.920 here's a theme from a time in David's life when 143 00:07:37.959 --> 00:07:40.199 he was really walking with God, when he had a 144 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:45.040 great desire to serve God. And so we just want 145 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:47.600 to introduce the psalms. And then now throughout the stories 146 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:51.360 of David and the Kings, we're going to pepper several 147 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:53.920 of the Psalms into the stories of David, and then 148 00:07:53.959 --> 00:07:55.759 you know, eventually we get the Salomon will pepper in 149 00:07:55.839 --> 00:07:59.279 some of the proverbs as well in spots where they 150 00:07:59.319 --> 00:07:59.839 kind of naturally. 151 00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:04.839 So Psalm one, because we're doing this chronologically. 152 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:08.000 That's correct. So someone, you know, we don't know at 153 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:10.800 what point this would land, but it's a good one 154 00:08:10.839 --> 00:08:11.240 to start with. 155 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:13.680 Yeah, and it's only six verses. 156 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:17.920 Yeah, so we get to talk for ten minutes perverse. 157 00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:23.079 That's nice. No, spoken like a true preacher. 158 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:28.439 Okay, So here's Psalm chapter one and says, Oh the 159 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:31.079 joys of those who do not follow the advice of 160 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:34.480 the wicked or stand around with sinners, or join in 161 00:08:34.519 --> 00:08:37.200 with mockers. But they delight in the law of the Lord, 162 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:40.279 meditating on it day and night. They're like trees planted 163 00:08:40.279 --> 00:08:43.759 along the river bank, bearing fruit each season. Their leaves 164 00:08:43.879 --> 00:08:47.000 never wither, and they prosper in all they do. But 165 00:08:47.080 --> 00:08:50.399 not the wicked. They're like worthless chaffs scattered by the wind. 166 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:53.399 They'll be condemned at the time of judgment. Sinners will 167 00:08:53.399 --> 00:08:56.320 have no place among the godly, for the Lord watches 168 00:08:56.480 --> 00:08:58.759 over the path of the godly, but the path of 169 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:02.879 the wicked leads to destruction. Well, yeah, this is really 170 00:09:02.879 --> 00:09:05.200 consistent with what he just did in this victory he had. 171 00:09:05.240 --> 00:09:07.960 He saw that battle as being very black and white, 172 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:11.480 either your for good or against God. And hey, the 173 00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:13.559 ones for God are going to win. The one against 174 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:14.320 God's going to lose. 175 00:09:14.720 --> 00:09:18.639 Right. You know what I love about God's creation is 176 00:09:18.679 --> 00:09:21.840 that it represents life. And well, I mean, it doesn't 177 00:09:21.879 --> 00:09:25.120 represent life, it is life, but it represents our lives. 178 00:09:25.320 --> 00:09:27.480 Right, It's it's the it's the same. 179 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:30.120 This reminds me of the same thing where Jesus said, Okay, 180 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:33.960 I'm the vine, you're the branch, and literally they're walking 181 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:37.159 through a vineyard when he teaches that that was actually 182 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:39.279 the last lesson that he gave before he went to 183 00:09:39.320 --> 00:09:42.799 the garden Againstemine and uh and Jesus, you know, is 184 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:46.360 literally pointing to a vine and he's saying, do you 185 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:48.720 see the way this vine grows? And do you see 186 00:09:48.759 --> 00:09:50.879 that this branch right here? And see how the branch 187 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:53.879 is thriving and how it has fruit on it. You know, 188 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:56.960 I am the vine, I'm the source of life, and 189 00:09:57.000 --> 00:09:59.320 you're the branch. But guess what, there's a branch on 190 00:09:59.320 --> 00:10:01.399 the ground. Everybody look at it. That's the same kind 191 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:03.320 of branch. But guess what, it's not connected to the vine, 192 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:05.639 and there's no fruit on it. That's you, if you're 193 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:06.480 disconnected to me. 194 00:10:06.919 --> 00:10:10.759 And people are like, oh, why, Well, because everybody grew grapes. 195 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:17.320 Everybody understood, they planted trees, They understood agriculture way more 196 00:10:17.720 --> 00:10:20.320 than the average person in the western world today. And 197 00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:23.840 so here's David, you know, and I could even imagine, uh, 198 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:28.840 you know, maybe perhaps him writing this psalm underneath a 199 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:31.679 tree right planted by the rivers of water. 200 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:34.000 You know, think about a field. 201 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:37.240 You know, you know, you've seen old movies, right Westerns 202 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:40.159 and such where you know, they're traveling through the desert 203 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:43.240 and you know, they're parts and looking for a well 204 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:45.960 or something like this, and they finally come across a stream. 205 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:48.960 And then what grows right next to all the streams, 206 00:10:49.480 --> 00:10:52.399 all the trees. You know, they're lush and they're green 207 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:56.080 because water is life and and that's you know, I 208 00:10:56.120 --> 00:10:59.120 could just picture, you know, in the old dusty, you 209 00:10:59.159 --> 00:11:03.039 know sections of Israel where David is, you know, taking 210 00:11:03.080 --> 00:11:06.559 his sheep and he's wandering from field to field, and 211 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:09.159 you know, and he has to plan those things. And 212 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:14.200 sometimes when shepherds would take their sheep, sometimes they would 213 00:11:14.200 --> 00:11:16.960 go on to pilgrimage because because there, you know, the 214 00:11:17.279 --> 00:11:21.159 grass was so scarce, they'd have to take their sheep. Yes, 215 00:11:21.919 --> 00:11:24.919 I remember reading one shepherd's book that talked about how 216 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:29.440 sometimes in the really uh you know, barren parts of Israel, 217 00:11:29.639 --> 00:11:31.840 they would have to go on a journey that took 218 00:11:31.879 --> 00:11:34.720 a year, and they were they they have to. They 219 00:11:34.759 --> 00:11:38.360 had they couldn't overgraze a field because if they overgrazed it, 220 00:11:38.360 --> 00:11:40.279 it would die and it would be gone for years. 221 00:11:40.799 --> 00:11:42.960 And so every shepherd had an understanding that you don't 222 00:11:42.960 --> 00:11:44.840 overgraze so you have to move on. 223 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:48.000 You have to move quickly with sheep because sheep reached out, 224 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:51.000 so cows clip off the tops of the grass, so 225 00:11:51.039 --> 00:11:54.480 to horses. Donkeys clip the tops of the grass. But 226 00:11:55.000 --> 00:11:57.559 sheep will pull the roots up and then the grass 227 00:11:57.600 --> 00:12:00.919 won't go back, so they have to move quickly. With sheep. 228 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:02.960 You can't stay in the same place for months at 229 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:04.639 a time. They'll go right down and they'll start pulling 230 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:08.759 the dirt up right Whereas the cows and the horses, 231 00:12:08.799 --> 00:12:11.480 you just move them from field to field and back again, 232 00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:14.120 because they're not tearing up the roots, but the sheep do. 233 00:12:14.399 --> 00:12:17.240 And we see that by the way. Big Ben National 234 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:20.159 Park in the boot heel of Texas. Yeah, used to 235 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:23.519 have a lot of natural grasses, but it's a desert environment, 236 00:12:23.559 --> 00:12:27.000 so the natural grasses don't come back quickly. And when 237 00:12:27.039 --> 00:12:29.759 they brought cattle through it would be fine, but a 238 00:12:29.799 --> 00:12:33.080 bunch of sheep herders back in the early twentieth century 239 00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:36.840 came in and totally obliterated the grass has never come back. 240 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:38.159 See isn't it crazy? 241 00:12:38.879 --> 00:12:42.879 It's crazy enough to where it just that story. That 242 00:12:42.919 --> 00:12:47.320 explanation is a reminder how we don't necessarily understand all 243 00:12:47.320 --> 00:12:51.360 the nuances of the salts. We don't understand the word pictures, right, 244 00:12:51.559 --> 00:12:55.360 and so here it is. I think it's not just oh, 245 00:12:55.399 --> 00:12:58.200 you know, if we're near God, God's the source of life. 246 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:00.600 God's like the river, then we're gonna like a tree, 247 00:13:00.679 --> 00:13:03.559 We're gonna be prosperous. Well, those are great conclusions. It's 248 00:13:03.559 --> 00:13:06.679 pretty evident that's what he means. But what we don't 249 00:13:06.759 --> 00:13:11.039 understand are perhaps the implications of what it means not 250 00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:14.000 to be by the rivers, right, like like just this 251 00:13:14.240 --> 00:13:17.639 just a picture. God creates his beautiful creation, and then 252 00:13:17.679 --> 00:13:22.320 he points to it and says, this is how we are. This, 253 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:25.840 this lesson, this object lesson represents your life. I just 254 00:13:25.879 --> 00:13:28.639 think it's an incredible thing. So I pictured David as 255 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:32.279 a shepherd, perhaps sitting underneath a tree, you know, thinking 256 00:13:32.279 --> 00:13:37.879 about man, this oasis is is just like what it 257 00:13:38.559 --> 00:13:41.679 you know, what it is to love God. We we 258 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:43.279 we we go to God and it's like and it's 259 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:48.039 like we are equipped to produce fruit. We have we're strong, 260 00:13:48.200 --> 00:13:52.360 we're nourished where you know, there's there's water for our roots, right, 261 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:53.039 all those things. 262 00:13:53.600 --> 00:13:59.279 So he often writes with this very binary worldview. Either 263 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:01.399 you're serving God you're not though those are the only 264 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:04.240 two options. There's no middle ground. There's I'm trying to 265 00:14:04.279 --> 00:14:08.000 serve God. I'm kind of you know, I want to 266 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:10.759 be a good Christian. But whatever, right he sees it. 267 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:12.480 Either you're choosing to walk with God or you're not 268 00:14:12.600 --> 00:14:14.879 walking with God. Those are the two things. Partial obedience 269 00:14:14.919 --> 00:14:18.480 is disobedience, and that's how he views it. So there's 270 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:20.960 the joys of those who follow who do not follow 271 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:23.960 the advice of the wicked, the ones who don't stand 272 00:14:23.960 --> 00:14:26.879 around with sinners, the ones who don't join in their mockery, 273 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:29.360 which the mockery a lot of times, it doesn't have 274 00:14:29.440 --> 00:14:32.080 to be overt it can just be a total indifference 275 00:14:32.960 --> 00:14:35.960 to God's way, right if you look at that original word. 276 00:14:36.080 --> 00:14:39.559 But instead they're delighting in God's laws and they're meditating 277 00:14:39.559 --> 00:14:40.879 on it day and night. This is one of the 278 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:43.120 reasons why we, hey, we always commend our listeners. You're 279 00:14:43.159 --> 00:14:45.480 choosing to spend a little bit of time contemplating God's 280 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:48.600 word every day, and it's that kind of thing. It's 281 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:50.399 in your mind now. Now the Holy Spirit has something 282 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:52.399 to bring up and to keep it, and that's what 283 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:54.720 he's talking about you're meditating on it, you're thinking about it, 284 00:14:54.759 --> 00:14:57.039 you're taking more of God's word in on a regular basis. 285 00:14:57.600 --> 00:15:01.720 So he says, there's delight for those that choose to 286 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:04.679 look into God's ways. And then the next one he says, 287 00:15:04.679 --> 00:15:05.960 but that's not the way it is for the wicked. 288 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:08.440 So the ones who who spend time in God's word 289 00:15:08.440 --> 00:15:10.799 and then choose to live God's way, you're gonna thrive. 290 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:14.000 Blessing comes from that. And then he says the other side, 291 00:15:14.120 --> 00:15:16.080 that's not that way for the wicked. He says, they're 292 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:18.879 like worthless chaff scattered by the wind. Do you ever 293 00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:21.559 sometimes when you're done with the popcorn, do you ever 294 00:15:21.639 --> 00:15:23.240 just grab a couple of seeds and chew on the 295 00:15:23.240 --> 00:15:23.879 seeds or whatever. 296 00:15:24.519 --> 00:15:26.240 I don't chill on them, but I do sort of 297 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:29.759 mess with them when you're done with popcorn? 298 00:15:29.759 --> 00:15:31.679 Do you ever have like some of that that the 299 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:33.759 outer skin of the seeds stuck in your teeth all 300 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:37.960 the time, to the point where I get obsessed with it, 301 00:15:38.519 --> 00:15:40.639 Like it's almost I can't think anything else if I've 302 00:15:40.639 --> 00:15:43.039 got to, especially if it's up near the gum line. 303 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:45.480 You can feel your gums starting to swell a little bit. 304 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:47.799 It's uncomfortable. It's all you can think about. You're right, 305 00:15:47.840 --> 00:15:51.799 you got this. So that's the chaff of the of 306 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:56.879 the the corn. The corn sit kernel is that outer skin, 307 00:15:57.320 --> 00:15:59.759 and it's absolutely useless. So for them, again, like you 308 00:15:59.759 --> 00:16:02.639 were saying, you know, with regard to shepherds, with regard 309 00:16:02.679 --> 00:16:05.240 to vineyards or whatever, they understood that maybe even better 310 00:16:05.279 --> 00:16:08.399 than us, because we don't. That outer skin is the 311 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:11.279 chaff of wheat. And if they would plant a whole 312 00:16:11.320 --> 00:16:13.480 field of wheat, and they would spend days and days 313 00:16:13.480 --> 00:16:16.279 and days just getting the chaff, beating the chaff off 314 00:16:16.279 --> 00:16:20.000 of the kernels of wheat in order to because it 315 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:23.080 was totally useless in their minds, there was no benefit. 316 00:16:23.240 --> 00:16:25.559 You couldn't get the nutritional value of the wheat unless 317 00:16:25.559 --> 00:16:27.360 you got rid of the chaff. And then it's just 318 00:16:27.399 --> 00:16:30.519 an irritant. It's just a problem. It would make a mess, 319 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:32.559 and so it would just be blown away in the wind. 320 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:36.120 And God says, listen, it's the same way. The wicked 321 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:39.120 are like that. They're an irritant, they're useless, they have 322 00:16:39.320 --> 00:16:43.600 no real value apart from so our value is in God. 323 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:46.679 And then he causes us to thrive when we choose 324 00:16:46.720 --> 00:16:48.799 to put our roots down into His word. But if 325 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:52.759 you don't do that, then there's a uselessness to it. 326 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:55.960 And then he said, ultimately there's judgment that comes as 327 00:16:55.960 --> 00:16:58.159 a result of that. And so David is very binary. 328 00:16:58.200 --> 00:17:00.919 Either you're for God or against the And the proof 329 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:02.759 is what are you doing with God's word? Are you 330 00:17:02.759 --> 00:17:05.680 taking it in, meditating on and applying it or are 331 00:17:05.680 --> 00:17:10.319 you just you know, standing around with sinners, living living 332 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:11.400 like everybody else lives. 333 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:14.960 Right? You know, have you ever? Have you ever? I 334 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:15.400 know you have? 335 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:18.839 This is just sort of you know, what do you 336 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:21.160 call it? Like a lobbing a softball? 337 00:17:21.200 --> 00:17:21.359 Right? 338 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:27.039 Have you ever been in a situation where immediately God, 339 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:30.160 it's almost like the Holy Spirit recalls a verse that 340 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:32.160 you know that applies to that situation. 341 00:17:32.640 --> 00:17:36.279 Like I remember just first becoming a Christian. 342 00:17:36.440 --> 00:17:39.359 Right. So we worked at the Canfield Fair, you know 343 00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:41.880 there's a big fair at home and me my best 344 00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:45.759 buddy Jeff. We were working at a couple of different 345 00:17:46.519 --> 00:17:48.519 booths and we had a walkie talkie back and forth. 346 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:52.000 We're working for some lady who hired us and I 347 00:17:52.039 --> 00:17:54.480 was selling ho giz, he was selling French fries. Well, 348 00:17:54.799 --> 00:17:56.640 back then there was no cash register. It was just 349 00:17:56.640 --> 00:17:57.599 a wooden drawer. 350 00:17:57.920 --> 00:17:59.480 We'd open up, we'd deal with cash. 351 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:03.279 Well, that's very tempting for a teenager who you know, 352 00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:04.960 is around a bunch of cash and doesn't have a 353 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:07.119 lot of money growing up poor, and you're around hundreds 354 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:10.680 and hundreds of dollars. Well, come to find out, this 355 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:13.200 lady later on told me that she expected teenagers to 356 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:16.200 steal from them because they always did. So here am I. 357 00:18:16.839 --> 00:18:19.400 You know, I'm tempted with all this cash. Well, Jeff's 358 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:21.920 over there too, and we're all by ourselves. Well, he 359 00:18:21.960 --> 00:18:24.559 gets on the walkie talkie and he he and he 360 00:18:24.599 --> 00:18:27.519 says to me, He's like, you know, granted, I'm not kidding. 361 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:31.000 We just started going to church, right, we just became Christians. 362 00:18:31.119 --> 00:18:32.839 I bet you he was a Christian like a month 363 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:35.200 and I was a Christian a couple months before that. 364 00:18:35.960 --> 00:18:37.240 And you know, he gets on the walkie talkie and 365 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:41.279 he goes and he goes, God is tempting me. God 366 00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:43.119 is tempting me. He goes, I know this is a 367 00:18:43.119 --> 00:18:45.799 test from God. This is what God's doing. He's tempting 368 00:18:45.799 --> 00:18:48.519 me because all this money. And I said, wait a minute, 369 00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:51.960 I said, I literally just read because I was in 370 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:54.119 my booth and I had a pocket New Testament, and 371 00:18:54.160 --> 00:18:55.680 I said, I just read somewhere. 372 00:18:55.680 --> 00:18:56.880 I don't even know where it is, but it was in. 373 00:18:56.880 --> 00:18:59.599 The Book of James where it says, don't say that 374 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:02.319 God tempt you, because God does not tempt any man. 375 00:19:02.759 --> 00:19:05.359 But when a man is tempted, he is enticed and 376 00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:08.240 drawn away from sin, right. And then sin, when it 377 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:10.319 is produced, it brings death, you know, and all these 378 00:19:10.359 --> 00:19:12.960 kinds of things. And so I just remember going, wait, wait, 379 00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:17.240 I know, I know that I know something here. I'm like, 380 00:19:17.240 --> 00:19:20.200 don't blame God for your temptation. Your temptation is coming 381 00:19:20.200 --> 00:19:23.440 from from from your own lust and from your own sin. 382 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:26.000 I'm like, God isn't doing this, but here's what he says. 383 00:19:26.039 --> 00:19:27.440 He says, if you give an a temptation, it's going 384 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:28.319 to lead to bad things. 385 00:19:28.960 --> 00:19:33.960 And so we agreed not to steal because God brought 386 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:37.519 to mind something that I had read, right, And so 387 00:19:37.640 --> 00:19:40.119 that's really what you're saying. You're saying, if you re 388 00:19:40.279 --> 00:19:43.759 if you put yourself around God's verses, God's words, that 389 00:19:43.839 --> 00:19:44.519 he's going. 390 00:19:44.319 --> 00:19:46.640 To recall and and you're going to be able. 391 00:19:46.440 --> 00:19:49.079 To meditate, especially in the times when it, you know, 392 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:51.359 will help you choose the right paths. 393 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:54.279 I was just in the Middle East, Jordan, in Egypt, 394 00:19:54.400 --> 00:19:57.200 and you're driving across open desert. At one point we 395 00:19:57.279 --> 00:20:00.319 drove for about four hours across the Sahara Desert and 396 00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:05.720 it's just, honestly, I have so much, so many minutes 397 00:20:05.839 --> 00:20:10.279 of just brown. It's just tan as far as you 398 00:20:10.319 --> 00:20:12.839 can see. And then all of a sudden there'd be, 399 00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:14.599 you know, and you see all these little valleys, all 400 00:20:14.640 --> 00:20:16.799 these little spots across the desert, and all of a 401 00:20:16.799 --> 00:20:18.480