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, everybody, welcome back to the Bible Guys. 4 00:00:13.919 --> 00:00:17.039 My name is Chris. This is Jeff, and we are 5 00:00:17.399 --> 00:00:20.760 qualified to be the Bible Guys because we love the Bible. 6 00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:23.359 Well, because we got the U r L first, right, 7 00:00:23.399 --> 00:00:24.199 Bible Guys dot. 8 00:00:24.079 --> 00:00:25.640 Com, Bible Guys dot com. 9 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:27.879 So that makes us, That makes us pro. Now you 10 00:00:27.879 --> 00:00:30.120 can you can trust everything that you hear on the Internet, 11 00:00:30.239 --> 00:00:31.199 that's right, the. 12 00:00:31.160 --> 00:00:35.039 World Wide Web, that's right. So today we are kicking 13 00:00:35.079 --> 00:00:38.079 off a segment that Desire put together and this is 14 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:40.640 a spin off of a very favorite segment. 15 00:00:40.799 --> 00:00:42.119 Yeah, this is one of our favorites. 16 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:45.039 Well, oftentimes we do a Dad Joe competition, which I love. 17 00:00:45.159 --> 00:00:46.719 That's right, we all love them as long as they're 18 00:00:46.759 --> 00:00:50.840 good jokes. But this here's the spin she said. These 19 00:00:50.920 --> 00:00:55.039 are featuring jokes sent in from our listeners this week. 20 00:00:55.119 --> 00:00:59.000 This is fantastic. Yes, yes, I'm very excited about these, which. 21 00:00:58.840 --> 00:01:01.640 By the way, I didn't even we didn't even ask 22 00:01:01.799 --> 00:01:02.600 for people to do this. 23 00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:04.680 Well, people send us all kinds of fun stuff. 24 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:07.079 Yeah, so this is pretty great. So great. So let 25 00:01:07.079 --> 00:01:09.280 me just say, if you're listening and you know a 26 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:10.840 good dad joke and you're like, hey, if I wonder 27 00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:12.799 if I send it in, I wonder if it ever 28 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:14.959 make the show? Well, here it is? Well, here it 29 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:18.680 is so info at is it Bible Guys or the 30 00:01:18.719 --> 00:01:19.480 Bible guys dot com? 31 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:21.560 What We'll put it right here on the screen. Info 32 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:22.879 at the Bible Guys. 33 00:01:22.519 --> 00:01:25.680 The Bible it's info at the Bible guys dot com. 34 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:28.760 Give us an email. Yes, so, okay, here we go. 35 00:01:28.920 --> 00:01:30.000 So you want to do the first one? 36 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:33.719 Yes, I just went off that screen. Here we go, ready, yep? 37 00:01:33.799 --> 00:01:36.840 I told my wife. She was drawing her eyebrows too high. 38 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:37.920 She looked surprised. 39 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:43.439 Did you open mine? Oh? I opened? 40 00:01:43.480 --> 00:01:45.519 You quit looking at my stuff? 41 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:47.599 Oh yeah, okay, here you go. Okay, here's mine. 42 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:52.799 So Chris is spelled c h. 43 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:57.480 All right, here we go. Mine says, got a couple 44 00:01:57.519 --> 00:02:01.159 of sock puppets for sale? Anyone interested in taking them 45 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:01.879 off my hands? 46 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:05.599 That's a good one. 47 00:02:05.719 --> 00:02:06.480 I like that. Yeah. 48 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:10.080 Hey, our listeners are good. Why don't skeletons fight each other? 49 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:11.599 They don't have the guts. 50 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:16.960 Oh, there you go. That's pretty good. That's funny like 51 00:02:17.039 --> 00:02:20.759 that one. Okay, hey, listen, I know you're busy, but 52 00:02:20.840 --> 00:02:22.800 can you say one ton backwards? 53 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:29.759 Ton one not now, not now? That's one ton one time, 54 00:02:29.919 --> 00:02:37.360 not now, not now? Oh really yeah, oh one ton? Yeah, okay, 55 00:02:37.479 --> 00:02:39.360 that's one of those you have to read. Yeah, I guess, 56 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:40.199 so thank you for that. 57 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:41.000 Yeah, you're welcome. 58 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:43.840 That was amazing. Okay, what do you get when you 59 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:46.840 drop a piano down a mine shaft? A flat minor? 60 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:48.599 A flat minor? 61 00:02:48.759 --> 00:02:51.120 Oh my, a flat minor? Yeah right, right right, a 62 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:51.759 flat minor. 63 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:52.439 That's a musician. 64 00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:53.879 Joe, yep, yep, very funny. 65 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:59.840 Yeah, okay, my friend lost his car. I call him Carlos. 66 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:03.599 Oh no, no, nope, not laughing at that one. 67 00:03:03.639 --> 00:03:04.560 No, that was terrible. 68 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:08.000 Okay did you hear about the claustrophobic astronaut He just 69 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:08.960 needed a little space. 70 00:03:11.159 --> 00:03:16.000 That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Okay. Ready, instead of water, 71 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:19.879 I put red Bull in the back and the oh sorry, 72 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:22.240 instead of water, I put red Bull on the back 73 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:24.639 of my coffee maker. This morning, I was halfway to 74 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:26.639 work before I realized I forgot my car. 75 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:36.439 Glass of red bull. 76 00:03:37.599 --> 00:03:39.400 Okay, that is really funny. 77 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:44.159 This past summer, my wife and I were in Austria 78 00:03:44.439 --> 00:03:49.039 and we were going to a little village called Halstat. 79 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:51.800 It's really beautiful. Anyways, on the way we passed the 80 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:56.000 Red Bull World headquarters and it's in the mountains and 81 00:03:56.080 --> 00:03:59.240 in this forest, but and it's like really space age 82 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:02.919 looking as effect all the buildings they're kind of tied together, 83 00:04:03.159 --> 00:04:06.080 but they look like spaceships, round space ships like this. 84 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:08.759 And coming out of one of the it's the main 85 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:13.199 main entrance building, the glass looks like it's broken, and 86 00:04:13.240 --> 00:04:16.319 a whole herd of bulls are running out and then 87 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:21.120 they're huge, like copper bulls or brass right, and they're 88 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:24.319 statues and they're running right down into a lake. It's 89 00:04:24.399 --> 00:04:27.199 really magnificent. Really, yeah, I was really impressed by the 90 00:04:27.240 --> 00:04:30.759 Red Oh I can't imagine. But the owner of Red 91 00:04:30.759 --> 00:04:33.279 Bull is the richest man in or was. I don't 92 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:35.600 think he's alive anymore, but was the richest man in Austria. 93 00:04:35.759 --> 00:04:36.519 So wow. 94 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:40.319 Okay, anyways, yeah, but it's funny to me all of that, 95 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:44.600 all that caffeine and in his mind, you know, what 96 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:46.319 the whole world needs to think when they drive past 97 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:49.560 my place is so much energy that comes crashing out 98 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:52.160 of our building, right, it's kind of yeah. Okay, why 99 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:54.800 did the girl keep her trumpet in the snow? She 100 00:04:54.879 --> 00:04:58.199 wanted to play cool jazz? That was a rough one. 101 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:03.800 That's actually, well, not as rough as your Carloss Carlos. 102 00:05:03.959 --> 00:05:06.399 Yes, yeah, I didn't even I try to make it 103 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:10.079 sound good by saying Carlos. Yeah, yeah, Carlos, it's Carlos. 104 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:10.759 It's terrible. 105 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:14.199 Okay, okay, whoever, So you know who sent that in? 106 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:14.959 Right right? 107 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:17.240 You know who are? If that's you, bow your head 108 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:20.959 in shame. Look away, don't make our contact with the 109 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:21.879 screen right now. 110 00:05:21.720 --> 00:05:25.480 Look away, look away, right now. But you match my eyes? Boy? 111 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:30.720 Oh no, okay, here we go. Last one, my friend 112 00:05:30.839 --> 00:05:35.199 joined a dating site for arsonists. He's been set a 113 00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:36.000 lot of matches. 114 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:43.279 Oh no, that's pretty that's clever, clever. Okay, all right, 115 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:46.680 we're sorry. We're sorry for that. Thank you listeners putting 116 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:49.560 up with it. Yeah, well, thank thank eight of the 117 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:52.120 ten listeners. Yes, we're going to thank eighty percent of 118 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:52.920 our listeners today. 119 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:55.360 Like Carlos, you don't like what was the one? 120 00:05:55.399 --> 00:05:55.600 Cool? 121 00:05:56.720 --> 00:05:56.759 You? 122 00:05:57.279 --> 00:05:57.680 Those two? 123 00:05:57.759 --> 00:05:57.959 Yeah? 124 00:05:58.120 --> 00:05:58.959 Not mad? 125 00:05:59.079 --> 00:06:01.680 I think I actually am about Carlos. Yeah, because it 126 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:04.600 doesn't make any sense, like cool jazz, you understand it? 127 00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:06.480 Yeah, yes, right, it's like, oh, it's just a. 128 00:06:06.519 --> 00:06:10.600 Terrible joke, but Carlos doesn't sound like Carlos. 129 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:13.360 Okay, well, hey, we want to invite you. We believe 130 00:06:13.399 --> 00:06:15.480 in redemption. Send us a better one. 131 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:16.639 Okay, you know what. 132 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:17.639 That's good. 133 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:22.639 I dare you to to top it, right, So, but 134 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:26.519 by topping of what we're really meaning is redeem it. Yes, okay, 135 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:28.639 and let us know I'm the Carlos person. 136 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:33.519 You don't have to do that, right yeah, yeah, okay, 137 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:38.079 Well we'll never know otherwise, Well Deaz knows, well, she knows. 138 00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:40.480 If she does searching your history or whatever. But but 139 00:06:40.519 --> 00:06:42.800 if somebody announces it, then it'll be a segment. Then 140 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:45.360 our listeners will be like, oh, it's the Carlos person. 141 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:49.560 All right, Well how many? How many do they have 142 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:51.079 to send to redeem themselves? So that was a bad 143 00:06:51.160 --> 00:06:52.959 enough joke, just one? Oh, I would say it needs 144 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:55.519 to be probably four or five, don't you think? Well 145 00:06:55.839 --> 00:06:58.360 four or five better is long. It was so bad 146 00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:01.519 it brought the whole segment down for so long. The 147 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:09.399 consequence of that should be still currently Okay, So whoever 148 00:07:09.519 --> 00:07:12.920 whoever sent in that joke, just understand if you wherever 149 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:15.759 our friends, you would just spend your time being brutalized. 150 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:17.600 Because this is how we this is how we show 151 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:19.519 love to each other and the other people we. 152 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:22.279 Love, which means we love the freak. We love you 153 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:22.920 send it in. 154 00:07:22.920 --> 00:07:27.319 Yes, we love it our sense of just we Actually, 155 00:07:27.399 --> 00:07:30.120 if we're super super polite to you, either we don't 156 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:31.360 know you or we don't like you. 157 00:07:31.720 --> 00:07:34.199 That could be true, actually, right, right, might be true. 158 00:07:34.399 --> 00:07:38.720 Like sometimes you find yourself just being as surface polite 159 00:07:38.759 --> 00:07:42.240 as possible, like hoping the conversation ends quickly. 160 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:46.759 That that content made me imagine those moments, and I 161 00:07:46.839 --> 00:07:47.639 just get exhausted. 162 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:52.399 You need to just go, oh well, okay. 163 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:55.600 Thank you polite. Yeah, and just going through motions of 164 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:58.319 being surface polite is it's hard. It's hard. 165 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:00.920 Yes, it's more fun to have fun. 166 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:03.560 Yeah. Well, you know when when you have good friends 167 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:04.639 over and all of a sudden you look at the 168 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:07.839 clock and it's midnight, You're like, oh my goodness, it's midnight. 169 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:10.439 It's like that's when you know they're good friends, right right, 170 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:13.000 when time just goes by and it's easy, you know. 171 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:16.839 So anyway, I just I just hiccuped in Yon. 172 00:08:18.439 --> 00:08:20.839 So is there a name for that? A hiccup and 173 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:21.560 a yon hic cup? 174 00:08:21.560 --> 00:08:27.680 Ay, yeah, we're just being ridiculous. 175 00:08:27.879 --> 00:08:32.399 Okay, Well this is a rough passage, so not rough, 176 00:08:32.440 --> 00:08:36.600 but it comes up twice in First Corinthians chapter four. 177 00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:40.039 Also Second Chronicles chapter one. So if you're reading and 178 00:08:40.320 --> 00:08:45.279 they're you know, you're doing a kind of a chronological study. 179 00:08:45.480 --> 00:08:47.559 Just understand the life of Solomon and the life of 180 00:08:47.639 --> 00:08:50.879 David show up in multiple books, and so we just 181 00:08:50.919 --> 00:08:52.600 keep flipping back and forth. We're not trying to read 182 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:54.960 all of them. They basically say the same thing. But uh, 183 00:08:55.360 --> 00:08:58.960 here in One Kings, chapter four, verse twenty, that's what 184 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:02.600 we're reading, right, yep. Yes. The people of Judah and 185 00:09:02.679 --> 00:09:05.120 Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore. 186 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:08.200 They were very contented, with plenty to eat and drink. 187 00:09:08.759 --> 00:09:11.879 Salomon ruled over the kingdoms from the Euphrates River in 188 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:13.519 the north to the land of the Philistines and the 189 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:16.360 board of Egypt and the south. The conquered peoples of 190 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:19.399 those lands sent tribute money to Solomon and continued to 191 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:22.919 serve him throughout his life. The daily food requirements for 192 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:26.200 Solomon's palace, where one hundred and fifty bushels of choice flour, 193 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:29.919 three hundred bushels of meal, also ten oxen from the 194 00:09:29.919 --> 00:09:34.200 fattening pens, twenty pasture fed cattle, one hundred sheep or goats, 195 00:09:34.360 --> 00:09:37.559 as well as deer, gazelle's roe deer and choice poultry. 196 00:09:38.200 --> 00:09:40.639 So that was just refast, lunch, and dinner every day. 197 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:45.320 Yeah, that's every day. Wow, for the palace, for the armies, 198 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:45.799 for the west. 199 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:50.480 Okay, everybody there, meat eaters, buddy. Yeah. Solomon's dominion extended 200 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:53.240 over all the kingdoms west of the Euphrates River, from 201 00:09:53.279 --> 00:09:57.000 Tipsha to Gaza, and there was peace on all his borders. 202 00:09:57.279 --> 00:09:59.679 During the lifetime of Solomon, all of Judah and Israel 203 00:09:59.679 --> 00:10:01.519 lived in peace and safety, and from Dan in the 204 00:10:01.559 --> 00:10:04.360 north to Beersheba in the south, each family had its 205 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:07.720 own home and garden. Solomon had four thousand stalls for 206 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:10.159 his chariot horses, and he had a twelve thousand horses 207 00:10:10.159 --> 00:10:13.840 and the sinct. The district governors faithfully provided food for 208 00:10:13.960 --> 00:10:16.759 King Solomon at his court. Each made sure nothing was 209 00:10:16.840 --> 00:10:19.559 lacking during the month assigned to him. They also brought 210 00:10:19.559 --> 00:10:22.000 the necessary barley and straw for the royal horses and 211 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:25.679 the stables. God gave Solomon very great wisdom and understanding 212 00:10:25.720 --> 00:10:28.519 and knowledge as vast as the sands of the seashore. 213 00:10:29.039 --> 00:10:31.480 In fact, his wisdom exceeded that of all the wise 214 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:33.960 men of the East and the wise men of Egypt. 215 00:10:34.200 --> 00:10:37.480 He was wiser than anyone else, including Ethan, the Ezra Height, 216 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:42.840 and the sons of Mayhall. He Man really wow, Wow, 217 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:48.440 Kelcall and Darta. Right. His fame spread throughout all the 218 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:50.039 Only he Man got its own TV show. 219 00:10:50.279 --> 00:10:50.639 I know that. 220 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:53.399 Yeah, the others not so much. Cal Call and data. 221 00:10:53.919 --> 00:10:54.960 Yeah. 222 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:58.200 His fame spread throughout all the surrounding nations. He composed 223 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:02.080 some three thousand proverbs and wrote one thousand and five songs. 224 00:11:02.799 --> 00:11:05.159 He could speak with authority about all kinds of plants, 225 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:07.480 from the great cedar Lebanon to the tiny hitsip that 226 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:10.159 grows from cracks in a wall. He could also speak 227 00:11:10.159 --> 00:11:13.120 about animals, birds, small creatures, and fish. And kings from 228 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:15.639 every nation sent their ambassadors to listen to the wisdom 229 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:18.759 of Solomon. Yeah, and I love this. 230 00:11:19.120 --> 00:11:22.840 Yeah, I did too. And it's prosperity and wisdom. And 231 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:25.320 you know what, I know, it's you know in. 232 00:11:25.320 --> 00:11:27.320 Terms of like it feel similar to yesterday? 233 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:30.159 It does, but you know, you always ask yourself there's 234 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:32.360 a sermon in there somewhere, right, like where's the sermon? 235 00:11:32.840 --> 00:11:36.000 And before I get to any attempt on a sermon thought, 236 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:39.600 I just want to marvel at the fact that the 237 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:42.799 Queen of Sheba observed when we read first chronicles yesterday 238 00:11:43.639 --> 00:11:49.279 at she observed how organized, yeah, the kingdom was, and 239 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:53.679 she marveled over the organization. Well, you can't even you know, 240 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:55.879 this gives us a little bit more insight. Think about 241 00:11:56.200 --> 00:12:00.399 ten oxen from the fattening pins, twenty pasture fed cattle, 242 00:12:00.440 --> 00:12:03.440 a hundred sheep or goats, as well as deer, gazelle's 243 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:06.679 road deer, and choice poultry with one hundred and fifty 244 00:12:06.720 --> 00:12:09.559 bushels of flowers three hundred bushels a meal. So think 245 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:13.360 of think of everybody who lived in the palace or 246 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:16.320 around the palace, or the armies that served the palace, 247 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:19.960 the servant guards, and think of how organized you would 248 00:12:19.960 --> 00:12:23.759 have to be in order to execute ready, not not 249 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:29.639 one big kitchen, but rather how many kitchens hundreds, right, 250 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:32.159 so many, so many and then and then just and 251 00:12:32.200 --> 00:12:34.120 then have that just I mean it's just an incredible 252 00:12:34.159 --> 00:12:37.799 thing to establish that from nothing, And so I would 253 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:40.240 imagine that if you've never seen anything like that. A 254 00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:43.080 queen who comes from Ethiopia sees that and says, I've 255 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:44.120 never seen anything like this. 256 00:12:45.240 --> 00:12:51.960 Let's ask let's ask uh chat GPT, how many meals 257 00:12:53.200 --> 00:12:58.879 can an average ox provide? 258 00:12:59.200 --> 00:13:00.759 She is what a question? 259 00:13:04.960 --> 00:13:07.720 Between five hundred and seven hundred pounds of usable meat. 260 00:13:08.840 --> 00:13:11.120 So if it was seven hundred pounds of meat between 261 00:13:11.799 --> 00:13:14.200 somewhere around fourteen hundred meals. 262 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:17.120 Wow, So one ox. 263 00:13:17.519 --> 00:13:22.960 And they're killing ten oxen. Wow, so fourteen thousand meals. 264 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:24.679 Let's say it was on the low side, ten thousand 265 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:28.879 meals okay, right, just from the oxen. Wow, he's feeding 266 00:13:28.919 --> 00:13:31.080 ten thousand people a day just from his oxen. Then 267 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:34.320 it's twenty twenty pasture fed cattle. That's probably going to 268 00:13:34.360 --> 00:13:38.679 be five or six hundred more meals. Times twenty, it's 269 00:13:38.679 --> 00:13:42.039 gonna be another ten thousand meals. And then he's got 270 00:13:42.039 --> 00:13:45.240 one hundred sheeper goats. You and I we've eaten sheep 271 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:47.200 and goats in Africa before. 272 00:13:47.039 --> 00:13:47.720 Right, sure? 273 00:13:47.759 --> 00:13:50.320 And I mean it feeds the whole village one hundred people, 274 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:53.559 right right, So you're talking another one hundred of them. 275 00:13:53.600 --> 00:13:56.799 That's going to be another ten thousand people. It's crazy, right, 276 00:13:56.919 --> 00:14:00.440 he's thirty thousand people a day. He's feeding a day, 277 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:02.200 So ten thousand people a day if he's eating three 278 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:02.639 times a day. 279 00:14:02.759 --> 00:14:06.360 Okay, So perhaps a sermon in here is this is 280 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:11.000 that when the king does well, in other words, when 281 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:13.639 he is a person of prosperity, and in this case 282 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:16.279 he's a person of wisdom and prosperity who follows God. 283 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:16.600 Right. 284 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:19.360 Right, So you know, have you ever heard the saying 285 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:23.320 everything rises and falls on leadership? Yes, And so you know, 286 00:14:23.480 --> 00:14:27.279 when the king and the leader does well, then everybody 287 00:14:27.279 --> 00:14:29.559 in the household, who, by the way, may not even 288 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:33.039 deserve it, may not even earn it or work for it, 289 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:35.960 but yet everybody gets well taken care of. And so 290 00:14:36.440 --> 00:14:39.519 you know that speaks into the roles that God has 291 00:14:39.559 --> 00:14:42.840 given for instance, like me, So God has given me 292 00:14:42.919 --> 00:14:46.600 a role as a father, as a husband, as a leader, 293 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:50.039 as a friend, as a family member. Right, And so 294 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:53.240 I'm a provider. I do all sorts of things. And 295 00:14:54.120 --> 00:14:57.799 when I don't follow God, and when I am not 296 00:14:57.919 --> 00:15:01.759 doing well, my life is not my own. Right, there's 297 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:04.879 the sermon. My life is not my own. So people 298 00:15:04.960 --> 00:15:06.919 always think, hey, I'm just gonna I met with a 299 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:10.039 guy yesterday. In fact, we obviously I won't give you 300 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:13.480 his name, but he is. I did their wedding five 301 00:15:13.559 --> 00:15:16.679 years ago. And uh and they're struggling. And he's been 302 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:18.840 in and out of rehab and he literally just got 303 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:20.960 out of rehab a couple of days ago. And this 304 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:23.960 is his third rehab in uh in in just in 305 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:27.000 one year. And uh and he's not doing well. 306 00:15:27.399 --> 00:15:29.720 And uh, well, if you're listening, stick with it, man, 307 00:15:29.799 --> 00:15:32.000 don't give up. Don't And you know what, here's the thing. 308 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:35.200 When I met with him yesterday, I was very encouraged, 309 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:38.080 and I was hopeful, and I was prayerful. We prayed 310 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:41.200 together at the restaurant and uh and so I'm just 311 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:44.200 prayed like maybe it's this time, right and and and 312 00:15:44.360 --> 00:15:47.480 this fighting, this is the time, keep on fighting. But 313 00:15:47.799 --> 00:15:52.399 here's the thing. We talked about the consequences of him 314 00:15:53.080 --> 00:15:54.240 wanting to do what he wanted to do. 315 00:15:54.799 --> 00:15:56.720 When he when he indulging himself, when. 316 00:15:56.559 --> 00:16:00.879 He indulges himself, it's not just his life, right, It's 317 00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:04.399 his wife, it's his family, it's his loved ones. And everybody. 318 00:16:04.440 --> 00:16:09.559 Everybody suffers because of you know, obviously in this case 319 00:16:09.559 --> 00:16:12.559 it's an addiction, but in a lot of cases it's 320 00:16:12.679 --> 00:16:13.600 just selfishness. 321 00:16:13.639 --> 00:16:13.759 You know. 322 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:17.559 I'm not talking about him anymore. Rights as a leaders, 323 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:21.919 as a family, man, as a father, right, anyway, I 324 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:25.919 just think that this is a great lesson, even under 325 00:16:25.960 --> 00:16:30.039 these goofy stats of trying to figure out twenty thousand 326 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:32.360 ox and meals, right, you know, and here we are 327 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:34.639 doing that math. But there's a sermon in there somewhere 328 00:16:34.879 --> 00:16:37.559 that says, your life is not your own, and everything 329 00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:40.039 rises and falls on leadership. And when you serve God, 330 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:44.039 when you follow God, then the blessings and every life 331 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:48.559 you touch benefit, and the responsibilities certainly that God has 332 00:16:48.600 --> 00:16:54.240 given you also benefit because you're just living life. 333 00:16:54.279 --> 00:16:56.480 And I've been very struck by the fact that the 334 00:16:56.519 --> 00:17:01.480 world is run by kings. Yeah, pray for good kings 335 00:17:01.519 --> 00:17:04.240 and hope that God stops bad kings. Right, that's it. 336 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:07.799 And whether we're talking about kings of industry or kings 337 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:14.519 of nations or leaders in communities, right, there's this kind concept. 338 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:17.119 And so what you pray for is good kings. And 339 00:17:17.119 --> 00:17:18.799 if you have the opportunity to be a king in 340 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:21.200 your office or at your corporation, be a good one, 341 00:17:21.480 --> 00:17:23.799 be a good man, be a good woman. And what 342 00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:25.519 you see here is it starts off the people of 343 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:27.920 Juda and Israel, whereas numerous as the sand on the seashore, 344 00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:30.960 which is what God promised Abraham. It says they were 345 00:17:31.240 --> 00:17:35.759 very contented, with plenty to eat and drink. Right, So 346 00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:38.400 a good king doesn't work for himself. This is what 347 00:17:38.440 --> 00:17:41.039 we warned about yesterday, because eventually Solomon shifts the other way. 348 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:45.039 But during this time he was good, and he worked 349 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:47.799 for the benefit of his people. He leveraged his wisdom, 350 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:50.720 he leveraged his power, he leveraged as well. You notice 351 00:17:50.759 --> 00:17:52.960 it never mentions that he's taxing his own people here. 352 00:17:53.039 --> 00:17:55.559 It mentions that the money kept coming in from everywhere else. Right, 353 00:17:56.839 --> 00:18:00.279 but his people are prospering and they love him. 354 00:18:01.160 --> 00:18:02.480 He had their own home and garden. 355 00:18:02.559 --> 00:18:06.559 Yeah, yeah, everybody, everybody. Yeah, that's incredible. The whole country. 356 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:11.559 Everybody was satisfied. Produced. And so there's this idea. And 357 00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:14.000 you know you mentioned everything rises and falls on leadership. 358 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:17.839 John Maxwell became famous for that. That statement existed way 359 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:20.599 before John Maxwell. I hate to break your buster bubble. 360 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:25.880 But he became famous for John also was famous with 361 00:18:25.960 --> 00:18:30.200 really introducing the American business world to the idea of 362 00:18:30.279 --> 00:18:33.279 servant leadership built around Jesus being a servant leader. Right, 363 00:18:33.559 --> 00:18:36.039 And so a servant leader doesn't only work for his 364 00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:38.680 own benefit, he works for the benefit of others. A 365 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:42.519 servant leader in the household, the father doesn't just work 366 00:18:42.519 --> 00:18:44.200 for his own comfort and his own benefit. He works 367 00:18:44.200 --> 00:18:46.279 for the comfort and benefit of the whole family. Well, 368 00:18:46.279 --> 00:18:49.279 then what happens is he also gets comfort and benefit, right, 369 00:18:49.519 --> 00:18:51.240 And that's what happens with the king. I've had the 370 00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:57.680 privilege of knowing a couple of and meeting President in Africa, 371 00:18:58.599 --> 00:19:03.079 working for King in Africa, working for shakes in Middle 372 00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:06.640 East that are I'm not saying that they're completely moral people, 373 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:10.240 but their mindset is work for the betterment of the 374 00:19:10.319 --> 00:19:12.480 nation and the betterment of the people. And in all 375 00:19:12.519 --> 00:19:15.559 three of those countries, the people loved their leaders. I'm 376 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:17.519 a saying that they're perfect. They also do some things 377 00:19:17.519 --> 00:19:21.839 I wouldn't agree with, obviously, but the people love these 378 00:19:21.920 --> 00:19:25.920 leaders because these leaders are building streets and good water 379 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:30.640 supply and sewers and prospering the people and supporting business 380 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:33.839 and bringing in business from outside the country, and bringing 381 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:37.000 in other revenues, and building hospitals and schools and all 382 00:19:37.079 --> 00:19:40.400 these things. Those kings could, by right of the law 383 00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:43.279 of their land, just hoard all that stuff, and instead 384 00:19:43.480 --> 00:19:45.720 they turn it out to the people in a way 385 00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:48.519 that the people benefit. And then they're providing education and 386 00:19:48.559 --> 00:19:50.359 training so that the people get better and better and 387 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:53.240 the nations become stronger and stronger. You and I have 388 00:19:53.279 --> 00:19:55.440 also been in nations where the kings were the other way. 389 00:19:55.559 --> 00:19:59.119 They took everything, and everybody lives in poverty, everybody lives 390 00:19:59.119 --> 00:20:02.519 in ignorance, nobody has education, people die young because they 391 00:20:02.519 --> 00:20:06.039 don't have any medical supplies, any care. Right. So this 392 00:20:06.119 --> 00:20:08.359 is what you see with Solomon is he's a phenomenal 393 00:20:08.400 --> 00:20:11.519 leader who is putting God and people first, and he 394 00:20:11.599 --> 00:20:16.480 has outrageous wealth himself. Right. The other thing that I'd 395 00:20:16.519 --> 00:20:17.920 like to just kind of end with this, this is 396 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:20.720 very interesting God gave it, says in verse twenty nine. 397 00:20:20.720 --> 00:20:23.279 God gave Solomon very great wisdom and understanding and knowledge 398 00:20:23.319 --> 00:20:25.240 as vast as the sands the sea shore. And then 399 00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:27.720 it said it exceeded all of the wise people. And 400 00:20:27.799 --> 00:20:29.640 we made jokes about he man and all those guys, 401 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:31.880