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 --> 00:00:07.480 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:14.400 Hey, everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Bible Guys. 5 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:20.120 We are going to kick off this episode with one 6 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:21.600 of our favorite. 7 00:00:21.239 --> 00:00:24.199 Things that I like to do. That's right, right, because 8 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:27.160 because we are dedicated to giving you great news. 9 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:30.280 Yes, and and and now us being you know, both 10 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:32.920 of us quite gifted athletes in our day. 11 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:35.359 Yeah, well yeah, yeah, I'm in. 12 00:00:35.399 --> 00:00:36.600 So this is a sports edition. 13 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:38.520 I know that you say that tongue in cheek, but 14 00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:41.439 that that is true your Yeah, were you? I was? 15 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:42.560 I was? I was a decent. 16 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:46.479 Yeah so yeah, yeah, and so this is a sports 17 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:50.200 edition of a new segment. Right, So we're doing a 18 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:53.479 sports segment today, and this is incredibly important. We only 19 00:00:53.479 --> 00:00:55.880 bring from the finest sources, and of course we think 20 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:58.280 the finest source of any kind of news on the 21 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:00.600 Internet is the Babylon b Yes. 22 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:04.319 Right, so, which is more reliable than most news. 23 00:01:04.359 --> 00:01:06.599 Absolutely, you can trust them more. There's more truth in 24 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:09.159 what they write. If you don't know the Babylon Bez 25 00:01:09.159 --> 00:01:11.959 a satire website, very very funny, you should look them 26 00:01:12.040 --> 00:01:14.840 up anyways, Here's what it says. Here's the article today. 27 00:01:14.840 --> 00:01:18.480 This is the sports edition. Referees annoyed as football game 28 00:01:18.599 --> 00:01:20.319 keeps interrupting their penalty. 29 00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:21.680 Calls, which is accurate. 30 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:26.159 Kansas City, Kansas referees at a recent Chiefs game were 31 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:29.000 reportedly less than thrilled to find that an NFL football 32 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:32.200 game kept interrupting their penalty calls. According to several reps 33 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:34.280 at the game, the teams of players lining up and 34 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:36.879 trying to move the football across the field quote totally 35 00:01:36.920 --> 00:01:40.239 messed up their attempts to keep calling random calls from 36 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:43.879 the favorite Patrick Mames. I blame the coaches, always trying 37 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:46.519 to get their players to get another play going, said 38 00:01:46.519 --> 00:01:49.920 head referee Chut Brand as he adjusted his inch and 39 00:01:49.959 --> 00:01:51.120 a half thick glasses. 40 00:01:51.799 --> 00:01:53.760 Nice. Nice, We're all. 41 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:57.159 Busy here trying to invent calls people never even seen before, 42 00:01:57.359 --> 00:01:59.599 so that our homie Mames could kick butt by all 43 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:03.359 these loser football players keep getting in the way, really 44 00:02:03.519 --> 00:02:04.799 really disrespectful. 45 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:08.360 While fans have tended to take rather dim views of 46 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:12.520 the referees complaints, one source here referred to as quote 47 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:17.520 Patrick Metric poems to protect his identity, claims that the 48 00:02:17.639 --> 00:02:22.000 ref's grievance is completely valid. At publishing time, NFL referees 49 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:25.439 had decided to teach those upstart players a real lesson 50 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:27.360 by awarding the next three games to Mahomes. Is a 51 00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:30.319 penalty for starting a play that's so good. 52 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:34.080 So, because that was such a quick segment, let me 53 00:02:34.159 --> 00:02:38.439 ask you this question. Do you believe I mean, I'm 54 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:41.000 a skeptic. I always had said that from the stage, Yes, 55 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:43.159 but I truly am a skeptic. I'm not sure people 56 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:47.680 understand just how skeptical my brain actually is. But like 57 00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:50.560 when I start to see things that really look fishy 58 00:02:50.599 --> 00:02:54.800 and they're hard to believe, Like I'm absolutely convinced that 59 00:02:55.240 --> 00:02:55.960 things happen. 60 00:02:56.520 --> 00:02:57.960 Like you know, when you watch NFL. 61 00:02:57.719 --> 00:03:00.360 You're like, there's no way there's a conspiracy, no way 62 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:02.520 that they're trying to control an outcome. You know, there's 63 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:06.439 no way that Patrick Mahomes will slide, you know, and 64 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:09.199 not cross the end zone. He's gonna let the clock 65 00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:12.159 run down the last twelve seconds because that would have 66 00:03:12.199 --> 00:03:15.560 covered the spread. And by the way, the swing is 67 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:17.599 one billion dollars of bets. 68 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:18.759 But he's sliding. 69 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:19.919 He's not going to be on the take for a 70 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:23.879 million dollars, or the referees want Mahome to win, Mahomes 71 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:28.120 to win because the Chiefs bring in so much momentum 72 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:31.680 with Taylor Swift and all those kind of things. I 73 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:34.560 am actually convinced that there is some of that going 74 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:34.680 on in. 75 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:37.000 His favor for the Chiefs. I'm for Mahomes. 76 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:39.039 Well, I mean not just that. 77 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:42.599 I just think in general the refs are on the take. 78 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:45.080 I think that there's some of that that goes. 79 00:03:44.919 --> 00:03:49.520 On, you know, so on an individual basis perhaps, but 80 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:52.360 I don't think for advantage, but more as a fan. 81 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:55.360 I think I think it's impossible for refs not to 82 00:03:55.360 --> 00:03:59.240 be fans and to have maybe rose colored glasses for 83 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:03.199 the ours versus the average player, you know that kind. 84 00:04:03.039 --> 00:04:04.639 Of like in their hearts, they want to see my 85 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:05.400 home succeeds. 86 00:04:05.639 --> 00:04:08.199 They believe he did succeed right, right, right, So I 87 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:11.039 think that there's there's some of that, But to think 88 00:04:11.039 --> 00:04:13.759 that there's a conspiracy behind it. The refs just don't 89 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:17.519 get paid enough money. So somebody would have told the 90 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:20.199 world because they would make more money writing a book 91 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:23.240 about it than they would than they ever will in 92 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:26.560 their careers. Yeah right, yeah, So so if they ever 93 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:30.879 if somebody actually broke that in a in a book 94 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:34.319 or in a news thing, they would be so rich 95 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:37.639 and they're not. So you know, man alive when you 96 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:39.759 have the vice president United States turn on a president 97 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:42.800 in what eleven days or something right dere in Watergate, 98 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:46.480 and he was offering to protect everybody, right, So you 99 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:48.360 get the most powerful person in the world offering to 100 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:50.480 protect you, and they roll over on them and then 101 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:53.360 they all go right. Books later, I think it would 102 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:55.639 happen some ref over the one hundred and some odd 103 00:04:55.680 --> 00:04:59.120 years that football has been going would have exposed it. Yeah, 104 00:04:59.279 --> 00:05:02.720 well it was conspiracy as opposed to just bias. 105 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:04.120 Of course, I believe that. 106 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:06.680 I believe that it's going to happen in some ref 107 00:05:06.759 --> 00:05:09.439 that's what you're saying, but I'm saying it's way bigger 108 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:12.759 than that. So like, for instance, it happened for me 109 00:05:12.920 --> 00:05:16.920 last year when it was an unlikely comeback. It was 110 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:19.439 the Chiefs, and I remember like they were going to 111 00:05:19.519 --> 00:05:23.000 come back, and he was running toward the end zone 112 00:05:23.399 --> 00:05:27.040 and there was nobody around him within like fifteen yards 113 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:28.959 and all he had to do was cross the end zone. 114 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:31.120 But he takes a slide on the two yard line. 115 00:05:31.399 --> 00:05:32.639 What all he had to do was take a knee 116 00:05:32.680 --> 00:05:35.839 on the next drive, right on the next down, right, 117 00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:38.639 because he got the first down, and had he just 118 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:42.959 taken two more steps, the industry, the betting industry, would 119 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:44.519 have lost a billion dollars. 120 00:05:44.839 --> 00:05:48.079 Well, how many seconds were left in the clock, like twelve? 121 00:05:48.199 --> 00:05:52.439 Well that's why. That's why. So he doesn't want to 122 00:05:52.480 --> 00:05:54.040 score a touchdown and give the ball back to the 123 00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:55.120 other team with top seconds. 124 00:05:55.360 --> 00:05:56.160 I do understand that. 125 00:05:56.360 --> 00:05:58.800 Yeah, maybe that's the clock management thing there. 126 00:05:59.079 --> 00:06:00.800 Maybe I'm wrong then, Yeah. 127 00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:03.519 Anyway, all I know is all of our non football 128 00:06:03.560 --> 00:06:05.480 fans are like, why are you guys talking about them? 129 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:08.959 That's probably true, that's pubbly true. Yeah, I guess because 130 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:12.199 we read a football thing, right. Yeah, I actually believe 131 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:15.680 that there are conspiracy things. Okay, and my wife gets 132 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:16.079 mad at me. 133 00:06:17.439 --> 00:06:18.360 I think that way. 134 00:06:18.439 --> 00:06:20.759 He also Chris also has aliens peeking in his window. 135 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:23.600 And I didn't say all that, but I do think 136 00:06:23.720 --> 00:06:25.160 government conspiracy. 137 00:06:25.879 --> 00:06:29.040 I mean, he sleeps with a moon land. 138 00:06:29.879 --> 00:06:32.360 But I'm talking about like I'm talking about like us 139 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:33.319 being sheep and all that. 140 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:35.360 I started buying a lot. 141 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:37.879 Of the whole Roman Empire had that idea of give them, 142 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:41.879 give them bread and games, right, remember that right, freedom, 143 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:44.120 and let them give them some entertainment that they won't 144 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:45.639 overthrow us. Is that what you're saying? 145 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:46.199 Colosseum? 146 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:50.160 So this is these stadiums are colosseums. No, there are 147 00:06:50.199 --> 00:06:53.319 gladiators that far. But but yeah, I think some of 148 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:55.920 it's rigged. I really do. Okay, Well, there you go. 149 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:58.759 You have it. Now, if Chris disappears, it's because he 150 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:01.759 said something. He exposed NFL now, and somebody's going to 151 00:07:01.800 --> 00:07:03.680 catch you in the afternoon. Put a hood over head 152 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:05.240 through you in a white van. You're just going to disappear. 153 00:07:05.319 --> 00:07:07.199 No, I did not say anything about with shove Obama. 154 00:07:07.439 --> 00:07:08.120 Let's be clear. 155 00:07:11.279 --> 00:07:14.079 No. No, we just got we just got canceled. We 156 00:07:14.439 --> 00:07:15.279 just got shut down. 157 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:17.720 I said I did not, Yes, I know I did not. 158 00:07:18.399 --> 00:07:21.240 Okay, so it's your transition. 159 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:22.079 Okay, okay. 160 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:27.160 So, speaking of making good calls, no, no, no, oh, yeah, 161 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:28.160 that's that's pretty good. 162 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:32.279 Dang it. Why don't you just do it? That was 163 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:33.720 really good. I can't talk that. 164 00:07:33.839 --> 00:07:35.639 No, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead. No, we're trying 165 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:36.160 to do bad ones. 166 00:07:36.199 --> 00:07:39.600 Speaking of making good calls, Solomon is about to execute 167 00:07:39.720 --> 00:07:43.240 a brilliant good call in this scenario, demonstrating how much 168 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:43.839 wisdom he has. 169 00:07:43.959 --> 00:07:44.879 Dang it, there you go. 170 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:46.120 That's a good one. 171 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:46.600 I blew it. 172 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:47.120 Good job. 173 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:49.600 No, you, it's you. It's all about you. 174 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:51.480 It's all about me. Let's be honest. 175 00:07:51.879 --> 00:07:54.879 Yes you, you do. 176 00:07:54.920 --> 00:08:00.480 You see the difference if you've never seen Brian Reagan's 177 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:03.600 comedy special I Walked on the Moon, Yes, you have 178 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:06.399 to watch it. Yea, it still holds up well, it 179 00:08:06.439 --> 00:08:11.720 still defines a lot of our interaction with each other. Right, okay, anyways, 180 00:08:11.879 --> 00:08:16.120 here we go. Solomon judges wisely in First Kings Chapter three, 181 00:08:16.199 --> 00:08:18.959 and we're gonna start with verse sixteen. So he's been 182 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:20.920 sitting on the throne, he's doing all kinds of stuff. 183 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:23.920 God gives him wisdom. And then it says, sometime later, 184 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:26.800 two prostitutes came to the king to have an argument settled, 185 00:08:27.319 --> 00:08:29.680 please my Lord. One of them began, This woman and 186 00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:32.159 I live in the same house. I gave birth to 187 00:08:32.200 --> 00:08:34.039 a baby while she was with me in the house. 188 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:37.399 Three days later, this woman also had a baby. We 189 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:39.799 were alone, there were only two of us in the house, 190 00:08:40.200 --> 00:08:42.799 but her baby died during the night when she rolled 191 00:08:42.840 --> 00:08:44.960 over on it. Then she got up in the night 192 00:08:45.039 --> 00:08:47.480 and took my son from beside me while I was asleep, 193 00:08:47.799 --> 00:08:49.600 and she laid her dead child in my arms and 194 00:08:49.639 --> 00:08:52.080 took mine to sleep beside her. In the morning, when 195 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:54.120 I tried to nurse my son, he was dead. But 196 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:55.879 when I looked more closely in the morning light, I 197 00:08:55.879 --> 00:08:57.879 saw that it wasn't my son at all. Then the 198 00:08:57.879 --> 00:09:00.960 other woman interrupted, it certainly was your son, and the 199 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:03.279 living child is mine. No, the first woman said, the 200 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:04.960 living child is mine and the dead one is yours. 201 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:07.039 And so they argued back and forth before the king. 202 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:10.879 Then the king said, let's get the fact straight. Both 203 00:09:10.919 --> 00:09:13.000 of you claim the living child is yours, and each 204 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:16.080 says the dead one belongs to the other. All right, 205 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:18.480 bring me a sword. So a sword was brought to 206 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:20.120 the king, and then he said, just cut the living 207 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:22.320 child in two and give half to one woman and 208 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:24.960 half to the other. Then the woman, who was the 209 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:27.080 real mother of the living child and who loved him 210 00:09:27.159 --> 00:09:30.039 very much, cried out, oh no, my Lord, give her 211 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:33.000 the child. Please don't kill him. But the other woman said, 212 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:36.000 all right, he'll be neither of ours, neither yours nor mine. 213 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:38.159 Divide in between us. And then the king said, do 214 00:09:38.279 --> 00:09:40.039 not kill the child, but give him to the woman 215 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:41.879 who wants him to live, for she is his mother. 216 00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:45.279 When all Israel heard the king's decision, the people were 217 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:47.480 in awe of the king, for they saw the wisdom 218 00:09:47.480 --> 00:09:51.919 God had given him for rendering justice. That's an eat story. 219 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:54.240 It's also incredibly unorthodox. 220 00:09:54.799 --> 00:09:57.919 Yeah, we're not advising, but you keep a sword by 221 00:09:57.960 --> 00:09:58.399 your desk. 222 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:02.840 Yeah, but I mean, what a brilliant, absolutely brilliant thing 223 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:03.200 to do. 224 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:04.679 Yeah, how do you sort out what's true? 225 00:10:04.799 --> 00:10:08.519 Yeah, So, so as he's listening to their claims, and 226 00:10:08.519 --> 00:10:10.879 and back then, you know, there was no footprint on 227 00:10:10.919 --> 00:10:14.559 the birth certificate. I'm most likely right, there's no fingerprints, 228 00:10:14.600 --> 00:10:16.440 there's no DNA tests. 229 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:18.440 So so back. 230 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:21.600 Then, I'm sure that this kind of thing probably happened 231 00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:23.759 more than we would even care to think about, you know, 232 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:26.399 I mean there was there was probably no way for 233 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:29.440 uh uh, you know, think about it. You could probably 234 00:10:29.440 --> 00:10:31.759 claim this woman's deranged, she's trying to steal my baby. 235 00:10:31.759 --> 00:10:34.000 This is my baby, and nobody around you would know 236 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:34.399 the difference. 237 00:10:34.399 --> 00:10:36.279 There's no proof, there's no winds, there's no. 238 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:39.159 Proof, right, you know, so so so yeah, I mean 239 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:41.919 they're They're going back and forth, and this entire time, 240 00:10:42.720 --> 00:10:45.080 Solomon's only thinking, Okay, one. 241 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:46.000 Of these is the real mother. 242 00:10:46.559 --> 00:10:49.080 What's what's What's a way to discover who the real 243 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:52.279 mother is? So it comes up with this elaborate thing, Uh, 244 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:54.799 you know, something that would just draw out the love 245 00:10:54.840 --> 00:10:55.279 of a mother. 246 00:10:55.519 --> 00:10:56.120 It's brilliant. 247 00:10:56.200 --> 00:10:57.399 Yeah, it was fabulous. 248 00:10:57.480 --> 00:11:01.039 Yeah, and so yeah, and so what where's the sermon 249 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:06.000 in here? The sermon in here is that either a, 250 00:11:06.159 --> 00:11:09.759 you are going to exercise wisdom and take care of 251 00:11:09.799 --> 00:11:12.320 the disputes among your staff and among your church and 252 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:15.559 among your people or your organization, or b. And this 253 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:19.600 is the thing that we all need to hear. If 254 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:23.799 you don't have wisdom, surround yourself with people who have wisdom, 255 00:11:24.120 --> 00:11:27.960 because you can see the benefit of wisdom, right, oh man, 256 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:30.960 The benefit of wisdom here is unbelievable. And to have 257 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:34.679 somebody who is able to discern and execute wisdom, it 258 00:11:34.799 --> 00:11:39.559 is a priceless thing that we should never overlook. You 259 00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:41.879 have to have somebody around you. If you don't have 260 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:45.360 discernment wisdom, then surround yourself with somebody who does. 261 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:49.159 There's so many decisions that are more than just you know, 262 00:11:49.159 --> 00:11:50.600 you read this story. You go, wow, he was so 263 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:53.159 smart and the right lady got the baby. Yep, But 264 00:11:53.279 --> 00:11:57.159 what you're talking about is the lives of an innocent 265 00:11:57.200 --> 00:12:02.960 woman and an innocent child. A kidnapper, right, right, so 266 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:10.320 an actual crime, an innocent mother, and and and the life, 267 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:13.440 the whole life of this child. So if this woman, 268 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:16.759 the wrong woman, had gotten that baby, that baby would 269 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:19.879 have grown up probably in a miserable situation, his whole life. 270 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:20.320 Yeah. 271 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:22.960 Right, there's been a resentment and right, well, wouldn't have 272 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:25.960 never known perhaps or the other way. She's she's already 273 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:29.519 a bad person. She's trying to kidnap him, uh and 274 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:32.080 and all these things. And so it's more than just 275 00:12:32.120 --> 00:12:34.320 the moment that the decision needs to be made. It 276 00:12:34.440 --> 00:12:40.600 really has uh life impacts on three different people. And 277 00:12:40.639 --> 00:12:43.559 instead of of her maybe going on and doing more 278 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:45.600 criminal things. We don't know what she did, but she 279 00:12:45.720 --> 00:12:48.240 was exposed as a criminal in that moment. That there's 280 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:50.440 a lot of these things that the kingdom is better 281 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:54.519 and the lives of his people are better. Innocent people 282 00:12:54.559 --> 00:13:02.720 get justice, Guilty people find justice, right, And it's more 283 00:13:02.799 --> 00:13:04.600 than just a good decision in the moment, right, We 284 00:13:04.600 --> 00:13:06.799 could just read this stroying. Wow, he's so smart. But 285 00:13:07.759 --> 00:13:09.879 this is a demonstration. This is why people loved him 286 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:12.320 so much. Right when all Israel heard the king's decision, 287 00:13:12.360 --> 00:13:14.639 that people were in awe of the king because they 288 00:13:14.639 --> 00:13:17.039 saw the wisdom that God had given him for rendering justice. 289 00:13:17.519 --> 00:13:22.039 Now it's not only this circumstance. People began to believe 290 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:27.559 Solomon has answers right, it's solidified as leadership. Even more right, 291 00:13:27.879 --> 00:13:31.399 David had several coups. Even his generals sometimes turned against 292 00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:33.960 him because they would wonder, man, he's a little reckless, 293 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:36.480 and he was. Now he always landed on top, but 294 00:13:36.480 --> 00:13:40.600 he was reckless, right, And now they see this stable thinking, 295 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:44.639 this deep wisdom, and it's one of the things that 296 00:13:44.759 --> 00:13:48.279 caused his people to love him deeply. They made significant 297 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:52.000 sacrifices for him because they believed in him. They really 298 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:55.039 trusted him. And so it's the life impact of these 299 00:13:55.080 --> 00:13:58.559 women and this baby. But it also affected the entire 300 00:13:58.679 --> 00:14:01.759 kingdom where they began to go, oh, wow, we've got 301 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:04.440 a good one. We've got a good king. And you know, 302 00:14:04.879 --> 00:14:07.120 I think we've seen in our in our nation over 303 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:11.279 the last few presidencies. Our nation doesn't have a lot 304 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:14.440 of trust in our leaders. Right, So the whole nation 305 00:14:14.840 --> 00:14:18.360 is unstable, right, Right. When there's a lot of trust 306 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:21.840 in a leader, the nations tend to stabilize, right, because 307 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:24.240 the leader is able to build confidence in the people. 308 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:26.919 And this is what you see in Solomon's reign from 309 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:29.960 here on out, that people sacrifice, that people work extra hard, 310 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:33.320 they give even more of their resources. They're willing to 311 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:35.240 do whatever it takes for the betterment of the kingdom 312 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:37.360 because everything is getting better because they have a great leader. 313 00:14:37.879 --> 00:14:40.000 And this is one of those things that establishes that. 314 00:14:40.159 --> 00:14:41.960 So I love it. I think it's fantastic. 315 00:14:42.279 --> 00:14:42.519 Yeah. 316 00:14:42.559 --> 00:14:47.279 So, so, of all the spiritual gifts, wisdom is a 317 00:14:47.279 --> 00:14:48.200 spiritual gift. 318 00:14:48.039 --> 00:14:49.120 Right, yes, huh yeah. 319 00:14:49.159 --> 00:14:52.799 And so there's knowledge, there's wisdom, there's discernment, there's there's 320 00:14:52.840 --> 00:14:53.320 those three. 321 00:14:53.559 --> 00:14:53.759 Yeah. 322 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:55.879 Right, what is the difference. We've already talked about the 323 00:14:55.879 --> 00:14:58.759 difference in knowledge and wisdom. What about discernment? 324 00:14:59.399 --> 00:15:02.480 Yeah, So, so I maybe misspoke this a little bit 325 00:15:02.559 --> 00:15:05.399 yesterday I lumped wisdom and discernment together. So knowledge is 326 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:09.879 knowing stuff, yeah, facts, right, Right, it's the lowest on 327 00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:10.639 this scale. 328 00:15:10.919 --> 00:15:11.159 Right. 329 00:15:12.360 --> 00:15:18.679 Wisdom is knowing the right thing to do. Discernment is 330 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:21.440 all about the right thing, the right way, with the 331 00:15:21.519 --> 00:15:25.360 right people in the right moment, right right. It's Discernment's 332 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:29.120 all about applying wisdom. So discernment has no use apart 333 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:31.639 from wisdom. So that's why wisdom is the principal thing. 334 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:34.799 So is discernment the one that's connected to God hearing 335 00:15:34.840 --> 00:15:38.039 from God? Is there a God component to discernment that 336 00:15:38.120 --> 00:15:40.840 does not exist with wisdom because wisdom can be either 337 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:43.240 godly or worldly. 338 00:15:42.960 --> 00:15:49.480 Wordly wisdom, Yeah, yeah, I think so. I think good 339 00:15:49.559 --> 00:15:53.639 question as a spiritual gift. Certainly wisdom is a spiritual gift. 340 00:15:53.840 --> 00:15:56.600 I think that all those are God connected as opposed 341 00:15:56.600 --> 00:15:59.440 to worldly wisdom and worldly discernment. I think that there 342 00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:01.720 are people who are discerning that that are able to 343 00:16:01.720 --> 00:16:05.799 put too and two together. Usually highly discerning people have 344 00:16:05.960 --> 00:16:09.200 a strong sense of logic, right, which is the science 345 00:16:09.320 --> 00:16:14.159 side of it, but then also have this instinct of 346 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:16.399 being able to see through the words being said or 347 00:16:16.440 --> 00:16:18.720 the circumstances. Right. There's some people just have that good 348 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:21.960 instinct like that. That's not necessarily the spiritual gift side. 349 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:24.000 But what God does with spiritual gifts is he takes 350 00:16:24.039 --> 00:16:28.559 things that would be a normal strength that somebody has, 351 00:16:28.600 --> 00:16:30.840 and he says, I'm going to supernaturally enhance that in 352 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:34.200 you as you you know, all of God's if then 353 00:16:34.240 --> 00:16:36.840 promises with Solomon, if you choose to do these things, 354 00:16:36.840 --> 00:16:39.679 they pour this out on you. And yeah, so the 355 00:16:39.720 --> 00:16:45.039 discernment side is in my mind, when you have somebody 356 00:16:45.080 --> 00:16:48.360 who has like the gift of prophecy or a word 357 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:50.120 of knowledge as if, I will say that those have 358 00:16:50.200 --> 00:16:53.039 discernment kind of gifts to them are supernatural. Yeah. 359 00:16:53.080 --> 00:16:56.080 So I've been told in the past, and and it's 360 00:16:56.080 --> 00:17:02.039 so funny because there are times where you know, you 361 00:17:02.159 --> 00:17:05.000 never you never can rate yourself right. Other people have 362 00:17:05.039 --> 00:17:07.000 to rate you right. It's the same thing. 363 00:17:06.839 --> 00:17:11.680 When well one Corinthians chapter fourteen says, when it's talking 364 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:14.319 about spiritual gifts, says, the profits are subject to the prophets. 365 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:16.759 That's right, meaning those who have certain gifts are only 366 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:18.599 the only ones that can really affirm it in others. 367 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:20.039 That's right, that's right, that's right. 368 00:17:20.359 --> 00:17:21.839 And so yeah, if you have the gifts of teaching, 369 00:17:21.880 --> 00:17:23.960 you recognize the gifts of teaching, and then you say, hey, you. 370 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:26.000 Have the gift of teaching, you're a good teacher. Yeah, 371 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:28.480 that's why everybody else might say I like his teaching, right, 372 00:17:28.839 --> 00:17:31.559 but somebody with gifted teaching goes, here's why you're a 373 00:17:31.559 --> 00:17:33.400 good teacher. This is what makes you a good teacher. 374 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:36.000 That's right. I see you. I see the potential in 375 00:17:36.039 --> 00:17:38.119 you as being a great teacher, right right, I see 376 00:17:38.119 --> 00:17:41.519 this gift in you. And so spiritual gifts are often 377 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:43.640 affirmed by or should be affirmed by the ones who 378 00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:44.640 have those spiritual gifts. 379 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:48.920 Yeah, which is incredibly wise, and it's a great rule 380 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:49.279 of thumb. 381 00:17:49.319 --> 00:17:51.400 So wisdom is one of those things you can begin 382 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:53.319 to believe maybe God's given you some wisdom, but it's 383 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:55.599 only affirmed in others. Others will affirm it in you. 384 00:17:56.119 --> 00:17:57.400 So here's here's what I would say. 385 00:17:57.440 --> 00:18:00.240 There are times in my life where I was I've 386 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:03.839 been told by others and it's been affirmed where I 387 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:06.880 have wisdom. And so it's like, so you know the 388 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:10.079 right thing to do in the moment. I think I 389 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:13.359 have some of that. You know, now, is it incredibly high? 390 00:18:13.480 --> 00:18:16.599 I would say it's on the higher end. Maybe I 391 00:18:16.599 --> 00:18:19.960 don't think it's as high as some. But then there 392 00:18:19.960 --> 00:18:22.079 are times in my life where again this is just 393 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:23.200 where the weird part falls. 394 00:18:23.200 --> 00:18:23.279 In. 395 00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:26.599 But there are times where I think I have good discernment. 396 00:18:27.519 --> 00:18:30.480 But I think that there have been other areas of 397 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:34.559 my life where where there's a gaping hole. I think 398 00:18:34.680 --> 00:18:38.039 that's the part that lacks discernment. So I've been told 399 00:18:38.039 --> 00:18:40.680 by others who says, who tell us, hey, man, you 400 00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:44.559 get good knowledge, you demonstrate great wisdom in a lot 401 00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:47.119