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 --> 00:00:13.800 practical ways. Hey, everybody, good morning and good evening. 4 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:19.160 And oh, by the way, I just had some couple 5 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:21.120 tell me, gee, where was it? 6 00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:24.039 It was? I think when I was in La City. Yes, 7 00:00:24.079 --> 00:00:25.000 it was in Mla City. 8 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:29.280 There was a couple who walked out of that campus 9 00:00:29.679 --> 00:00:33.359 or Heritage Church campus, and they said, man, my husband 10 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:36.439 and I listen to you every evening. We come home 11 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:40.479 and we listen to you every evening. And I said, okay, 12 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:44.359 I said, well, good evening, good evening, and they said 13 00:00:44.439 --> 00:00:46.200 and they said, yes, yes that's us. 14 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:46.719 There you go. 15 00:00:46.799 --> 00:00:47.560 So it's hilarious. 16 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:50.840 Well, good evening, Yes, good evening. Yes, we are the 17 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:54.759 Bible guys. He's Jeff, I'm Chris, and we are. 18 00:00:55.479 --> 00:00:56.880 The Bible guys. Right. 19 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:00.439 So we're about to jump into another there one of 20 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:03.679 God's promises about God's future and purpose for our lives. 21 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:06.799 But before I do, or before we do, we have 22 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:09.079 a hot takes showdown. 23 00:01:09.159 --> 00:01:11.560 Oh hey, we did one of these a while ago. 24 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:13.959 Well for Thanksgiving. No was it. 25 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:15.879 We had to argue, we had we had to take 26 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:16.680 a side. 27 00:01:16.439 --> 00:01:19.359 Well last week, yeah, oh it was Taco Bell was 28 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:20.560 the best food restaurant. 29 00:01:20.760 --> 00:01:22.760 Yes, that's right, Yeah that was last week. 30 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:27.480 So this one says, as we are in Christmas week, 31 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:31.040 let's do a hot take showdown focusing on the holiday season. 32 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:32.400 Pick aside, no middle grade. 33 00:01:32.439 --> 00:01:34.959 Okay, all right, all right, you want to go. So 34 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:38.920 the first one is nobody actually likes fruitcake. We're just 35 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:40.120 too polite to admit it. 36 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:46.000 I am going to say, resoundingly true. But I don't 37 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:48.760 think the motivation of not admitting it is politeness. 38 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:52.719 That was gonna be my argument as well. Really, I 39 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:54.840 was gonna say. The thing I disagree is we're not 40 00:01:54.879 --> 00:01:57.280 polied about it. I don't know anybody who's plaied about fruitcake, 41 00:01:57.319 --> 00:01:57.519 do you. 42 00:01:57.799 --> 00:02:03.359 I don't know anybody who's ever said, man, try no, man, 43 00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:04.120 I like fruitcake. 44 00:02:04.159 --> 00:02:05.439 I know people who make it. 45 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:07.680 Yeah. Oh I had a friend in college who would 46 00:02:07.719 --> 00:02:11.759 eat all the fruitcake. Really oh yeah, wow, it was horrible. 47 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:14.680 We were like, here, just have this, Darren, dude. 48 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:18.120 I seriously don't think I've ever because I've tried. How 49 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:19.840 many different types of fruitcakes have you tried? 50 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:22.360 Oh? I gave up. I've probably had five. 51 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:26.479 Oh, I've had way more than that. Ye, yeah, I 52 00:02:26.520 --> 00:02:27.439 bet you it's twenty. 53 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:30.599 Oh, this will probably be a good one. Let's try it. Oh, well, 54 00:02:30.599 --> 00:02:32.240 this will probably be good. Let's try it. What's kind 55 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:34.039 of like you look at fruitcake. 56 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:35.120 You know you're not gonna like, Well, it's kind of 57 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:38.199 like it's kind of like some of those recipes for 58 00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:41.400 chili or all chilies are so different, right, and yet 59 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:42.080 it's all chili. 60 00:02:42.439 --> 00:02:44.759 So then you try some chilies and some chilies you 61 00:02:44.759 --> 00:02:45.120 don't like. 62 00:02:45.240 --> 00:02:48.159 I complained about fruitcake one time in church, and I 63 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:50.840 had three different from stage, and I had three different 64 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:53.319 women that you're bring me fruitcakes and go try mine. 65 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:54.240 You're gonna love this. 66 00:02:54.719 --> 00:02:57.080 And you tried it and thought no way. Yeah, and 67 00:02:57.120 --> 00:02:59.080 those are the only three that you've tried in your life. 68 00:02:59.159 --> 00:03:01.800 Yeah, I've just so it really happened right in the 69 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:04.759 lobby on one Sunday. I had two different ladies bring 70 00:03:04.759 --> 00:03:07.639 them to me in the service, you know, out in 71 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:09.719 the lobby and give me two. I was walking around 72 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:11.800 with two fruitcakes in my hand. Yeah. 73 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:13.800 So I've had fruitcakes that was soft. 74 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:17.400 I've had fruitcake that was completely dense, yeah, and all 75 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:17.759 that stuff. 76 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:19.639 Yeah, you get fruitcake. This big in a way is 77 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:20.639 like a gold brick. 78 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:25.000 Yeah, yes, yes, yea. So I would just definitely say 79 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:26.960 this is true. Nobody likes fruitcare. 80 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:28.919 Dude, I'm not even gonna argue with it. We're supposed 81 00:03:28.919 --> 00:03:31.360 to pick a side. I picked the same side you picked. 82 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:33.400 Yes, And I don't think that people are polite. I 83 00:03:33.439 --> 00:03:35.680 just don't think that nobody talks about it because nobody cares. 84 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:37.400 Right, We just we try not to make eye contact 85 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:39.199 with anybody we know that's carrying a fruitcake. 86 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:42.439 Yes, yeah, that's all avoided at all costs. 87 00:03:42.680 --> 00:03:43.919 That's right, all right. 88 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:47.639 So number two, this one is people who leave their 89 00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:51.639 lights up until February are the true villains of winter. 90 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:56.840 I'm going to get on my soapbox and say this 91 00:03:57.120 --> 00:04:01.400 is absolutely true. Now, wait a minute, there's only one 92 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:05.400 caveat to this. You can you can be prevented of 93 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:10.000 not taking your lights down if it's dangerous. And you know, 94 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:13.400 there's icicles everywhere and you can't get up on the roof, 95 00:04:14.280 --> 00:04:17.439 but you cannot turn them on. So I'm guessing that 96 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:20.120 what desire is meaning is they. 97 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:20.560 Keep them on. 98 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:23.399 Yeah, they're using them, they're. 99 00:04:23.319 --> 00:04:26.759 Using them, yes, right, because because I have. I have 100 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:29.720 left my lights up until the spring because I had. 101 00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:30.600 To because you couldn't get them down. 102 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:32.759 I couldn't get them down. I literally physically could not 103 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:33.319 get them down. 104 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:34.720 I think we're in a winter this year. 105 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:37.839 This might be that way, I thought. I think I 106 00:04:37.839 --> 00:04:38.639 thought the same thing. 107 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:44.319 Well, so you've been in my in my subdivision, nice 108 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:47.759 houses and nice Ye, there's a there's a house right 109 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:51.160 around the corner from my house that has lights built 110 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:55.600 into the house and they use them every night, you mean, 111 00:04:55.639 --> 00:04:57.879 like Christmas type light So they have, Yeah, so they 112 00:04:57.879 --> 00:05:02.680 have there's there's like a little facia and the recess 113 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:06.319 lights on the inside, and they go they change the 114 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:12.319 colors based on the next holiday. So like at Saint 115 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:15.560 Patrick's Daily term green, it's all green. Right in fourth 116 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:21.360 of July it's red, white, and blue. Easter it was 117 00:05:21.399 --> 00:05:28.600 like Pastel's Thanksgiving it was oranges. In Halloween it was 118 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:31.360 black and orange, and then they went to black and purple. 119 00:05:31.519 --> 00:05:33.759 You can see like black lights and purple lights. 120 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:34.199 Yeah. 121 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:37.160 So, so do you know that my good buddy Josh Eisenhart, 122 00:05:37.240 --> 00:05:41.680 he owns a business locally called let It Glow, and that. 123 00:05:41.680 --> 00:05:45.680 Is his sales pitch using you around. 124 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:48.920 Yes, his sales pitch is by the ones that we 125 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:52.360 can install, and he has them in his house and 126 00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:53.120 it's the same thing. 127 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:55.000 Does he live around around the corner from my house? 128 00:05:56.279 --> 00:05:58.959 No, he doesn't live in your sub But the thing is, 129 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:01.160 I always think that that's sort of. 130 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:06.240 Like, I don't know, it's it because it's not common. 131 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:07.879 Right, it really makes them stand out. 132 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:10.720 Yeah, it's it's not common for someone festive to have 133 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:12.519 Saint Patrick's Day green lights. 134 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:13.800 It's not very common. 135 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:16.160 So I Vantine's Day is going to be pink. We 136 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:17.800 know that it's gonna be pink and white. Yeah, right, 137 00:06:17.839 --> 00:06:20.360 that's what they do. It's it's if you think about it, 138 00:06:20.519 --> 00:06:23.639 about every six weeks there's another holiday that does have 139 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:25.639 like a color thing. Yes, yes, so that's what they 140 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:29.480 do is but it's every night. As soon as Christmas 141 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:31.519 is over, they're going to go into whatever the next 142 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:31.839 one is. 143 00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:32.240 Yeah. 144 00:06:32.279 --> 00:06:33.439 Yeah, that's that's how it works. 145 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:33.920 Wow. 146 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:37.199 Well, I gotta tell you, I I think it makes 147 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:41.199 sort of the the awesomeness of lights on a house. 148 00:06:41.199 --> 00:06:42.079 It sort of goes away. 149 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:45.240 Yeah right, if that's if that's what you have, so, 150 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:49.399 but but let it glow. His Company ninety eight percent 151 00:06:49.480 --> 00:06:50.600 of everything he does. 152 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:52.839 Is just seasonal, just like Christmas. 153 00:06:52.920 --> 00:06:56.120 Right, But the two percent is I think it's a 154 00:06:56.120 --> 00:06:59.279 big ticket item because they're permanent lights and everything else, 155 00:06:59.319 --> 00:07:01.279 and you can trolling from your phone and all that. 156 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:03.600 During the daytime when you drive by, you can't see 157 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:07.079 them because they're recessed. Yes, right, so yeah, yeah, you 158 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:09.160 can't see where the lights are. But at nighttime the 159 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:10.040 house gloves. 160 00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:11.360 Are you saying? They're built into the house. 161 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:13.439 I don't know how they did it, but yeah, they 162 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:15.920 they have They have like eaves or they're just under 163 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:18.360 the lip of the they're hidden. You can't see any 164 00:07:18.399 --> 00:07:20.040 of the lights. You just see the glow of the lights. 165 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:22.120 Okay, so just maybe how the house is built. 166 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:23.839 Yeah, I think I think it was probably built that way. 167 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:24.079 Yeah. 168 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:25.800 Yeah, and then they just found a way to put 169 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:28.720 it under the lip of the Yeah. Okay, well, I 170 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:32.040 gotta tell you, I think that that was a So. 171 00:07:32.040 --> 00:07:34.759 My wife and daughters love it, That's what I'm saying. 172 00:07:35.279 --> 00:07:37.720 They love They like that house of being lit up. 173 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:40.519 Every they love they love lights. Yeah. 174 00:07:40.600 --> 00:07:41.720 Yeah, here's what I'm gonna say. 175 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:43.920 I'm going to say anybody who puts Christmas lights up 176 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:47.079 and then leaves them up until February and keeps using 177 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:48.519 them and keeps using them. 178 00:07:48.680 --> 00:07:50.560 I would say, you. 179 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:52.920 Are a villain. You are a villain of a true 180 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:56.040 villain of winter. Yeah, I mean this is hardcore statement. 181 00:07:56.480 --> 00:07:58.920 Yeah, well true villain. I mean she used the word 182 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:01.560 true villain. Yes, these are hard statements. 183 00:08:02.040 --> 00:08:03.759 But I'm going to go on record and say, yes, 184 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:05.560 you are the true villain of winter. 185 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:07.720 But you know what they did is they did the 186 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:11.639 work and then they completed it by just leaving it up. 187 00:08:12.519 --> 00:08:14.759 You see what you're doing there, you see. Yeah, So 188 00:08:14.839 --> 00:08:17.600 they did the work and then they completed the work. 189 00:08:17.399 --> 00:08:19.079 The work, and then they left it right, they left 190 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:20.480 it up, but it was just the way that they 191 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:20.920 wanted it. 192 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:23.920 You know, Jeff, that very much sounds like our verse 193 00:08:23.959 --> 00:08:26.000 for today. What he who began a good work and 194 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:27.279 you show we'll complete it. 195 00:08:27.399 --> 00:08:29.800 He's faithful to complete He's faithful to complete it. Well, hey, 196 00:08:29.879 --> 00:08:31.720 let's see if we can find it. Yes, I know, 197 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:34.559 let's just start reading in the first chapter of Philippians 198 00:08:34.639 --> 00:08:36.159 until we find that verse. What do you think. 199 00:08:36.440 --> 00:08:37.879 I think you're going to get to it pretty quick. 200 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:42.480 In Philippians, chapter one, verse one, he says this is. 201 00:08:42.639 --> 00:08:46.000 This letter is from Paul and Timothy, slaves of Christ Jesus. 202 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:48.720 I'm writing to all of God's holy people in Philippi 203 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:52.399 who belonged to Christ Jesus, including the church leaders and deacons. 204 00:08:53.039 --> 00:08:55.399 May God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ give 205 00:08:55.440 --> 00:08:58.799 you grace and peace. Every time I think of you, 206 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:01.360 I give thanks to my God. Whenever I pray, I 207 00:09:01.399 --> 00:09:04.240 make my requests for all of you with joy, for 208 00:09:04.320 --> 00:09:06.399 you have been my partners and spreading the good news 209 00:09:06.399 --> 00:09:09.519 about Christ from the time you first heard it until now, 210 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:12.039 and I am certain that God, who began the good 211 00:09:12.080 --> 00:09:15.200 work within you, will continue his work until it is 212 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:19.240 finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns. That 213 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:20.879 sounds a lot like what we were just talking. 214 00:09:21.039 --> 00:09:22.039 That's like Christmas light Shore. 215 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:23.960 Yeah. No, well it's not exactly that way, but yeah. 216 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:26.279 So it is right that I should feel as I 217 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:28.000 do about all of you, for you have a special 218 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:31.279 place in my heart. You share with me the special 219 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:34.200 favor of God, both in my imprisonment and in defending 220 00:09:34.200 --> 00:09:36.840 and confirming the truth of the good News. God knows 221 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:38.960 how much I love you and long for you with 222 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:41.720 the tender compassion of Christ Jesus, I pray that your 223 00:09:41.759 --> 00:09:43.879 love will overflow more and more, and that you will 224 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:47.559 keep on growing and knowledge and understanding, for I want 225 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:49.960 you to understand what really matters, so that you may 226 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:52.679 live pure and blameless lives until the day of Christ's return. 227 00:09:53.039 --> 00:09:55.200 May you always be filled with the fruit of your salvation, 228 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:58.480 the righteous character produced in your life by Jesus Christ, 229 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:01.399 for this will bring much golory and praise to God. 230 00:10:01.799 --> 00:10:03.559 And I want you to know, my dear brothers and sisters, 231 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:05.919 that everything this happened to me here has helped us 232 00:10:05.879 --> 00:10:09.039 spread the good news. For everyone here, including the whole 233 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:11.240 palace guard, knows that I'm in change because of Christ 234 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:14.080 and because of my imprisonment. Most of the believers here 235 00:10:14.279 --> 00:10:17.320 have gained confidence and boldly speak God's message without fear. 236 00:10:17.720 --> 00:10:20.120 It's true that some are preaching out of jealousy and rivalry, 237 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:22.799 but others preach about Christ with pure motives. They preach 238 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:25.320 because they love me, for they know I've been appointed 239 00:10:25.840 --> 00:10:28.039 to defend the good News. Those others do not have 240 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:31.279 peer motives as they preach about Christ. They preach with 241 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:36.039 selfish ambition, not sincerely intending to make my chains more 242 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:38.840 painful to me. But that doesn't matter whether their motives 243 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:41.360 are false or genuine. The message about Christ is being 244 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:43.960 preached either way. So I rejoice and I will continue 245 00:10:43.960 --> 00:10:45.759 to rejoice, for I know that as you pray for 246 00:10:45.840 --> 00:10:48.240 me and the spirit of Jesus Christ helps me, this 247 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:51.360 will lead to my deliverance. I love it. 248 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:55.399 Yes, I think we're good. 249 00:10:55.679 --> 00:11:00.320 I've often wondered about those other preachers that preach about 250 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:01.639 Christ with bad motives. 251 00:11:02.200 --> 00:11:05.759 So what what bad motives is he referring to? Just 252 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:06.159 just like. 253 00:11:06.200 --> 00:11:09.600 Look at me, like he seems to have been playing 254 00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:11.279 that they're capitalizing on his fame. 255 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:14.480 On Paul's fame, yeah, yeah. 256 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:16.200 And then it seems like there's some that are actually 257 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:20.519 even mocking his message. Not right, Oh, I think you've 258 00:11:20.519 --> 00:11:25.360 got both going. So some selfish ambition that's they're capitalizing 259 00:11:25.399 --> 00:11:28.320 on his fame, and then some not sincerely intending to 260 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:32.399 make my chains, you know, not sincerely they're trying to 261 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:35.159 make things worse for him. I think they're well. 262 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:37.519 At first, when I read it, I thought maybe they 263 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:40.679 were doing it for financial game, right, But then but 264 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:42.000 it doesn't really indicate that. 265 00:11:42.080 --> 00:11:44.039 Yeah, Paul wasn't getting rich preaching. 266 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:46.320 No, no, but but but these people might have. 267 00:11:46.519 --> 00:11:49.240 Yeah, right, let's take let's take a love offering for myself, 268 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:52.799 right right, so so that that could be it, I guess, 269 00:11:53.159 --> 00:11:55.720 but he doesn't indicate that. So I always straight away 270 00:11:55.720 --> 00:11:59.440 from that thinking, uh, you know, because because he would. 271 00:11:59.639 --> 00:12:02.159 He off and we talk about motivations of money, you know. 272 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:05.799 I was, I was going through. I was watching on YouTube. 273 00:12:06.600 --> 00:12:12.080 YouTube for me is almost only barbecue videos for me. 274 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:15.559 That's so funny, either barbecue or music, right, Christian music 275 00:12:15.879 --> 00:12:17.519 that those are the two things I do a lot. 276 00:12:17.600 --> 00:12:22.960 So YouTube for me is not barbecued, but it's funny 277 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:27.320 because it knows your algorithm. Yeah right, So, and Google 278 00:12:27.480 --> 00:12:30.879 just follows you everywhere, so they know everything about you. 279 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:33.639 And so even though the only thing I watch on 280 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:37.399 there is going to be barbecue videos or gospel music. 281 00:12:39.320 --> 00:12:40.200 They also you know. 282 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:45.159 That I purposefully don't sign into Google, and I clear history, 283 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:48.080 and I don't have the Google app, and I don't 284 00:12:48.159 --> 00:12:49.120 have the YouTube app. 285 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:50.159 I refuse to get them. 286 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:52.480 Oh yeah, yeah, so you go on YouTube you don't. 287 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:56.279 Yes, yeah, And I never sign in for that reason, 288 00:12:56.600 --> 00:12:57.600 so it. 289 00:12:57.240 --> 00:12:59.440 It I can't staying well, I have a lot of 290 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:02.080 subscriptions and things that they you know, so I use 291 00:13:02.159 --> 00:13:06.919 it anyways. It's interesting to me, how often did you 292 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:10.320 hear about Rick Warren? Did you hear about Hillsong? Did 293 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:12.720 you hear about Mark Driscoll? Did you hear how? And 294 00:13:12.759 --> 00:13:16.639 then if you click on it half a minute into it, 295 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:19.919 you realize it's an AI script and they're putting in 296 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:23.440 just junk photos and videos. It's just right, it's all 297 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:27.679 just here's people just getting clicks. And if you look, 298 00:13:27.759 --> 00:13:32.559 it's one hundred thousand views, wow, or five hundred I 299 00:13:32.600 --> 00:13:35.200 just saw one the other five hundred thousand views bashing 300 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:37.799 Rick Warren. But it was clearly if you know AI 301 00:13:37.879 --> 00:13:41.000 at all, you know it was fake voice. Right, somebody 302 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:43.000 wrote a script and then had a fake voice read it. 303 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:47.600 Because they're cowards and they're just making money off of 304 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:53.720 salacious information about some other preacher. Right, So Paul's complaint here, 305 00:13:55.399 --> 00:13:58.120 it's the same today, two thousand years later. There's just 306 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:02.480 jerks that decayed. Hey, when a guy's down, I'm gonna 307 00:14:02.559 --> 00:14:05.440 kick him. Whether the things you're saying are true or not. 308 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:09.480 You're not rescuing the rest of us. You're making money 309 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:14.440 through clicks, jerk, right, and and so, But Paul says Hey, 310 00:14:14.879 --> 00:14:18.279 I don't care, Thank God that the gospel is being preached, right, 311 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:21.559 if that's what you're doing, whatever, man, And and so again, 312 00:14:21.600 --> 00:14:24.879 remember when we talked yesterday, talked about resiliency. Paul's like 313 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:25.879 in prison. 314 00:14:26.039 --> 00:14:28.480 Right, and in this case it isn't house arrest. No, 315 00:14:29.399 --> 00:14:31.399 this is prison, prison with chains, yeah. 316 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:37.679 Right, And even then he's like, man, good news. The 317 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:41.039 whole palace guard knows about Jesus now, right, So talk 318 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:44.799 about resiliency. There is something just to be said about 319 00:14:44.799 --> 00:14:46.840 being a person who doesn't get beat down by their 320 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:50.320 circumstances but stands back says, Okay, the current circumstances I 321 00:14:50.360 --> 00:14:52.480 have right now, how do I make them better? And 322 00:14:52.519 --> 00:14:54.399 he's not trying to make them better for himself. He's 323 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:56.159 trying to make the world better. He's trying to make 324 00:14:56.200 --> 00:14:58.159 life better. He's trying to make the life of these 325 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:01.000 these prison guards better. He's trying to introduce him to 326 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:03.200 Jesus and that kind thing. And there's just I'm just 327 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:05.039 it's such an admirable trait. 328 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:09.799 But anyways, now this isn't the prison where he where 329 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:11.399 the gates open up and he flies out. 330 00:15:12.879 --> 00:15:16.480 So but you know, Paul has the uh uh. 331 00:15:17.320 --> 00:15:19.639 Oh wait a minute, Yeah, is it? Yeah, I don't 332 00:15:19.679 --> 00:15:22.080 know if it was this event the Philippian Yeah, but 333 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:24.240 it was the Philippi and jailer, yeah, jail, right, So 334 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:25.720 I don't know if it was this time, because he 335 00:15:25.759 --> 00:15:28.799 says it's him and Timothy riding, not him and Silas. Okay, 336 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:35.240 so I think this is one of his favorite jails. Hey, 337 00:15:35.240 --> 00:15:38.080 do you remember remember on Andy Griffiths show that town 338 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:41.000 Drunk would come in check himself into the jail. He 339 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:44.120 goes over to, Hey, Andy, what was the guy's name 340 00:15:44.159 --> 00:15:47.639 of your guy's name? Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no drunk, 341 00:15:47.799 --> 00:15:50.320 town drunk whatever, he's a hey Andy, And they'd say, hey, 342 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:51.879 Bob or whatever, you go, and he just opened up 343 00:15:51.919 --> 00:15:54.279 to sail and go and lay down on the bed. 344 00:15:53.799 --> 00:15:58.799 So yeah, but Paul was in prison multiple times in Philippie, 345 00:15:58.799 --> 00:15:59.519 now that I think about it. 346 00:15:59.600 --> 00:16:05.120 Yeah, so so so Paul, you know, uh, there's evidence 347 00:16:05.159 --> 00:16:05.519 of Paul. 348 00:16:05.639 --> 00:16:09.679 He's not writing from Philippi. He's writing from Rome to Philippi. 349 00:16:09.799 --> 00:16:10.279 Oh that's why. 350 00:16:10.360 --> 00:16:11.759 Yeah, that's. 351 00:16:13.159 --> 00:16:13.480 Okay. 352 00:16:13.519 --> 00:16:17.799 So so, uh my point is is Paul has a 353 00:16:17.879 --> 00:16:22.159 history of caring for his captors. 354 00:16:22.480 --> 00:16:25.080 Yeah, right, so you know he's talking about the the 355 00:16:25.639 --> 00:16:27.320 the palace guard. 356 00:16:27.360 --> 00:16:30.200 He's talking about the Philippi and jailer, right, I mean, 357 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:32.399 he has interactions with those people. And by the way, 358 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:36.360 in the case of the Philippi and jailer, they would 359 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:37.039 have been charged. 360 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:38.840 The jailer would have been in charge of. 361 00:16:39.240 --> 00:16:42.759 Hurting him, right, Yeah, I mean you know, because he 362 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:44.960 because he was charged with putting him on the inner 363 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:48.000 the center of the prison, right, and the center of 364 00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:51.639 the prison was like stocks and so and so here's 365 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:57.320 Paul being super kind and and sharing the Gospel with everybody. 366 00:16:56.879 --> 00:16:58.519 Including those who mean him harm. 367 00:16:58.960 --> 00:17:01.720 And and again, even though I know that there's not 368 00:17:01.879 --> 00:17:06.559 evidence of that here in Rome, because this isn't his. 369 00:17:06.799 --> 00:17:09.400 This isn't his where he dies, right, is it? 370 00:17:10.119 --> 00:17:12.279 No? I don't think so, Okay, Yeah, because this was 371 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:14.119 approximately sixty one ad as. 372 00:17:14.200 --> 00:17:16.920 Okay, so yeah, one of his favorite prisons in Rome. 373 00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:19.519 Yeah, he was in and out of jail there too. 374 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:22.319 He was in out of jail there so anyway, But 375 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:27.359 but Paul definitely has a history of caring for those 376 00:17:27.400 --> 00:17:31.200 and sharing the Gospel for those people who have done 377 00:17:31.240 --> 00:17:36.559 him wrong. So I'm gonna give a little nod to this. 378 00:17:36.559 --> 00:17:39.960 This will air before our Christmas services next week. Right, 379 00:17:40.599 --> 00:17:43.799 so look forward to if you come to a Heritage 380 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:47.440 Christmas service, look forward to a video story by a 381 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:53.680 good friend of mine who actually shares about caring for 382 00:17:53.839 --> 00:17:57.079 somebody who caused them harm as well. Right, So she 383 00:17:57.160 --> 00:18:00.279 grew up with a father who was not not a 384 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:02.799 good father, and then she became a Christian and she 385 00:18:02.839 --> 00:18:04.960 went back to prison where he was. 386 00:18:05.559 --> 00:18:07.799 And making the best of a bad situation. 387 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:09.759 Making the best of a bad situation. And guess what 388 00:18:09.839 --> 00:18:14.480 her motivation was, strictly to share the Gospel with him, 389 00:18:14.559 --> 00:18:15.279 just like Paul said. 390 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:20.480 Right. So, another interesting fact is Philippi is the very 391 00:18:20.599 --> 00:18:25.839 first European Christian church. Oh isn't that neat? 392 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:26.720 That is net? 393 00:18:26.799 --> 00:18:31.559 Yeah, yeah, so that's neat. Paul and Silas established this 394 00:18:31.720 --> 00:18:34.960 church on the first or on the second missionary journey 395 00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:38.440 that he takes, and that's what Acts sixteen or whatever. 396 00:18:40.039 --> 00:18:43.519 And this was the first church in Europe. So all 397 00:18:43.559 --> 00:18:46.480 the other people of European descent that have ever become Christians, 398 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:49.640 this was the first. This was the seed church in 399 00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:51.640 all of Europe, which is kind of a neat thing. 400 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:53.839 And so here he is, he's writing to them and 401 00:18:53.880 --> 00:18:57.000