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 --> 00:00:13.519 practical ways. Hey, everybody, Happy Friday. 4 00:00:13.919 --> 00:00:16.640 Man, it's good to be here. Tgif today it is 5 00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:19.920 wonderful Chris, Today's a big day. It is a big 6 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:23.519 day because it's Friday. We're wrapping up our entire week 7 00:00:23.719 --> 00:00:26.879 on the peace of God. Yes, and all the promises 8 00:00:26.920 --> 00:00:29.719 that God gives us for peace. And today we're going 9 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:32.719 to be reading one of my favorite passages of course. Yeah, 10 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:36.119 and so that's really important. But before we do that, 11 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:39.600 it's very very important to our people that we don't 12 00:00:39.679 --> 00:00:46.520 forget the most satisfying, satisfying, joy giving segment that we 13 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:51.359 do for our fans. Our fans love to know what 14 00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:53.399 made Chris mad this week. 15 00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:55.439 I don't think so, but okay, And it doesn't take 16 00:00:55.479 --> 00:00:58.200 you long usually, no, I remember to meet you. 17 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:01.920 Get to these pretty quickly. Yes, so I was, and 18 00:01:02.039 --> 00:01:03.240 thank you in advance. 19 00:01:03.479 --> 00:01:07.680 Yeah, for sinking us. I was pretty irate the other day. 20 00:01:08.280 --> 00:01:12.439 It was actually like four days ago. On the way home, 21 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:17.200 I stopped at our local taco bell, meaning the taco 22 00:01:17.239 --> 00:01:20.400 bell like half a mile from my house, and I 23 00:01:20.480 --> 00:01:23.799 walked in and there was a lady, a young lady, 24 00:01:24.280 --> 00:01:27.079 and she was behind the counter where you would normally order. 25 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:31.000 There is a computer there, there's a computer screen. There 26 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:35.040 is everything you need with the paying thing is right there. Yes, 27 00:01:35.359 --> 00:01:37.200 I walked over and I said, hey, and I only 28 00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:40.040 wanted to get one item, just one item, actually two items. 29 00:01:40.439 --> 00:01:42.519 I just remember I got an item for Steven too, 30 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:44.519 but I wanted to get one item for me. Yes, 31 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:46.519 and I walked up to the counter and I said, 32 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:52.920 I would like a chili cheese burrito and a chicken Quesadia. 33 00:01:54.159 --> 00:01:56.879 And she said, I'm sorry, sir, but you have to 34 00:01:56.959 --> 00:02:00.519 use the kiosks. And I said, what do you mean? 35 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:03.920 Because that's not my taco bell, but apparently it is 36 00:02:03.959 --> 00:02:06.359 now and so I turn around. I look, and by 37 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:08.520 the way, the whole restaurant's EFETI. I'm the only human 38 00:02:08.759 --> 00:02:12.360 in the whole thing, the only human. And she goes, no, 39 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:14.919 you have to use the kiosks. And I turn around, 40 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:16.919 I go, what do you mean? Okay? So I walked 41 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:20.240 over and first of all, it's different than McDonald's, which 42 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:21.800 means like you're taking a little bit of time. You 43 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:24.759 have to read everything because it's new And what I 44 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:28.120 discovered is when I stand in front of the human 45 00:02:28.319 --> 00:02:30.599 and say I would like one chili cheese burrito and 46 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:35.240 one chicken Quesadia, it takes about two seconds, but instead 47 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:37.960 I spent the better part of like three and a 48 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:40.919 half minutes. And I bet you I had to hit 49 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:44.759 like I tapped that screen. I'm not kidding. Two items 50 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:51.240 fifteen times? Wow, skip, don't donate? Would I like a fry? 51 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:55.360 Would I like this? Suggest this? You know, by the way, 52 00:02:55.439 --> 00:02:58.240 he wanted to like no sauce on it. So I 53 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:01.159 got to figure that out. I got to go through 54 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:02.479 there and figure that out. And by the way, I 55 00:03:02.479 --> 00:03:05.080 couldn't even do it. Oh, not to mention it didn't 56 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:07.639 have any bahah blast freeze. And then and then and 57 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:10.199 then I'm thinking to myself, if I ever ordered this again, 58 00:03:10.879 --> 00:03:13.840 Uh my wife loves bahah blast freeze. I wasn't ordering one, right, 59 00:03:14.479 --> 00:03:16.360 but I literally said, because again, we're the only ones 60 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:18.360 in Taco bell I said, why isn't there a baha 61 00:03:18.439 --> 00:03:21.520 bahah blast freeze on here? She goes, there is. I said, no, 62 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:23.680 there's not. I just looked. And she comes walking out 63 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:25.039 and she goes, let me show you, and she goes 64 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:27.479 clickly clicking, and she goes, no, there isn't Like do 65 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:30.479 you offer baha blast freezes? Yes, but they're not the 66 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:33.439 little Kiosta. Anyway, here's here's what I'm mad at. You 67 00:03:33.479 --> 00:03:35.000 already know you know, you already know what I'm doing. 68 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:36.759 Yes, well you've just made me mad. 69 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:40.840 I'm saying, just take my order, for the love of God. 70 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:43.479 Right, there's nobody else in the building, just let me 71 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:43.719 do it. 72 00:03:43.759 --> 00:03:45.639 And not only that, but then it makes me mad 73 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:49.960 for automated check out lines at Kroger, right, like where's 74 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:52.280 the human interaction? Like like what about feed you? 75 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:55.599 Like you automatic? Do you? Yeah? I like those because 76 00:03:55.639 --> 00:03:57.479 I get out so much quicker than waiting in line 77 00:03:57.520 --> 00:03:59.759 behind Grandma who came barely. 78 00:04:02.039 --> 00:04:05.120 Yes, but that's just a matter of whether or not 79 00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:08.039 they have enough lines open. That's a grocery store, probably 80 00:04:08.520 --> 00:04:10.960 punching my number and go yeah okay. But still the 81 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:13.240 whole point is what about the bank teller drive throughs? 82 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:15.680 Yeah? Right, I don't know. I don't go to the teller. 83 00:04:16.759 --> 00:04:19.160 I'm only four minutes in. Please let me tell you something. 84 00:04:19.160 --> 00:04:21.560 I walked into a P and C bank and I 85 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:26.680 wanted to make a U a transaction and literally, there's 86 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:29.680 not a single drive through at the PNC bank, and 87 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:32.600 there's not a single teller. There's not a teller window 88 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:36.319 in this bank. There's just like people sitting behind desks 89 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:39.839 and cubicles, and there's one ATM machine outside. And have 90 00:04:39.879 --> 00:04:41.160 you ever seen the come where you can call a 91 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:44.879 video person. No, So this big, huge ATM machine has 92 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:46.959 a video person. And all I was doing was like 93 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:49.000 making a deposit, and I said, I want to make 94 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:51.160 a deposit, and they says, well, what can I use 95 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:53.319 the machine? I said, I just tried three different times. 96 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:55.240 It's not making one. And she goes, oh, let me 97 00:04:55.279 --> 00:04:57.279 help you. She gets out of her cubicle, walks over 98 00:04:57.360 --> 00:05:01.560 this ATM machine, punches seventeen buttons, and then all of 99 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:03.519 a sudden, this guy in the video screen comes up 100 00:05:03.560 --> 00:05:05.439 and says, can I help you? And he's my teller 101 00:05:06.279 --> 00:05:10.240 and he's sitting somewhere and like, you know, bangkok, Yeah whatever. Well, 102 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:12.399 and I'm thinking to myself, like, are you kidding me? 103 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:13.959 Where's the human interaction? 104 00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:15.000 Yeah? 105 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:17.399 You know, I mean, bring me back to nineteen fifty five. 106 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:18.839 So that's what your irate about. 107 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:21.759 I am I rate that I have to use I 108 00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:24.120 have to use a what what is it called a kiosk? 109 00:05:24.199 --> 00:05:24.560 Kiosk? 110 00:05:24.839 --> 00:05:27.680 Where's the human human to human? I just want to 111 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:28.600 buy a chili cheese. 112 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:30.360 I think I should have the option to do both. 113 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:32.560 If there's a cash register on the front on the 114 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:35.240 front counter, and there's somebody just standing there, I should 115 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:36.120 be allowed to go. 116 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:38.560 Further than that. I don't. I don't want the option 117 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:39.480 of anything else. 118 00:05:39.959 --> 00:05:43.360 Human read What if you can't read, right? If you 119 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:45.720 can't read, then then that's you should tell him. I'm sorry, 120 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:46.680 I can't read your kiosk. 121 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:49.199 You remember Wayne's World when he goes I could read 122 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:54.360 and it said Oscar nomination, Oscar Performance. But it's like, yeah, 123 00:05:54.360 --> 00:05:55.800 what I mean, what are you going to make somebody 124 00:05:55.839 --> 00:05:56.959 say that they're illiterate? 125 00:05:57.439 --> 00:06:00.519 I don't know, right, Yeah, that's what you should have 126 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:02.360 told him, I can't read your kiosk? 127 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:07.199 I did? I did? I did? Yeah, Okay, yeah I don't. 128 00:06:07.279 --> 00:06:10.079 I don't want to say that I did one time 129 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:13.680 go off on a guy and say somethings better. Yeah, 130 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:15.839 but but yeah, I mean, where's the human interaction? That's 131 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:16.399 what I'm mad at. 132 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:19.000 I don't know. People, if you owned the humanity of. 133 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:20.839 It, if you own a business and you have the 134 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:24.639 option to go with no humans or human connection. Please 135 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:25.560 do the human connection. 136 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:28.560 Well, it's more expensive, substantially more expensive to do the 137 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:31.959 human connection. Like like you know, Elon Musk is getting 138 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:34.920 ready to roll out all these robots. Yeah, and they're 139 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:35.720 going to have all of them. 140 00:06:35.839 --> 00:06:37.560 Said that before, But I don't see any robots. 141 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:39.879 Yeah, they're coming, They're twenty twenty six is what he says. 142 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:40.439 That's not true. 143 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:42.439 Yeah, Well they've got like over two hundred thousand built. 144 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:43.600 I'll believe it when I see it. 145 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:49.199 His trillion dollar pay is incumbent upon over a million sales. 146 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:52.839 So they just offered him a trillion dollar pay package. 147 00:06:52.839 --> 00:06:55.279 But he has twelve things he has to hit over 148 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:57.079 the next ten years, and one of them is they 149 00:06:57.079 --> 00:06:58.199 have to sell a million robots. 150 00:06:58.199 --> 00:06:59.360 Are you going to buy a robot? 151 00:06:59.480 --> 00:07:02.279 Well, they're only be like twenty five twenty six thousand bucks. 152 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:04.959 So I told Chad, I was like, I might get 153 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:06.920 rid of Chad and buy three robots. 154 00:07:08.360 --> 00:07:11.600 Hey, that's a big compliment to Chad. That's a pretty 155 00:07:11.639 --> 00:07:14.519 big compliment to Chad. It's just gonna take three robots 156 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:18.319 to replace Chad. Hey, that's a pretty good deal. 157 00:07:19.040 --> 00:07:21.360 Chad's our executive pastor. I heard a church so but no, 158 00:07:21.480 --> 00:07:22.279 I was just joking. 159 00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:26.279 I wonder how many robots it would take to replace me. Am, 160 00:07:26.279 --> 00:07:27.120 I as complicated. 161 00:07:28.519 --> 00:07:31.480 That's all it needs to replace you. I can tell 162 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:33.160 chet ChiPT to do things in the voice. 163 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:37.199 Of chat shept can't hug people in the lobby, that's true. 164 00:07:37.519 --> 00:07:38.160 That's true. 165 00:07:38.519 --> 00:07:45.279 So anyways, talking about being hugged, what Jesus said. 166 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:47.959 Let me give you one big spiritual. 167 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:51.519 Hug, Yeah said, Come to me all who are weary 168 00:07:52.040 --> 00:07:54.160 and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. 169 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:57.279 Yeah. I think there needs to be maybe a forethought 170 00:07:57.279 --> 00:08:01.079 on these trends. We need to spend probably a bit more, 171 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:02.519 a little bit more effort. 172 00:08:02.759 --> 00:08:04.360 Well that's what you can be mad about next week. 173 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:07.600 I gotta be honest. You're a mariachi band. Yesterday transition 174 00:08:08.360 --> 00:08:10.839 was the best ever. It was one of the best 175 00:08:10.879 --> 00:08:14.319 I've ever heard ever. But this one was really bad. 176 00:08:14.439 --> 00:08:16.560 Fun this one was bad, But no, yesterday it was 177 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:17.079 so great. 178 00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:17.759 Yeah. 179 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:19.959 Hey, speaking of mariachi bands, you know he's not in 180 00:08:19.959 --> 00:08:21.120 a mariachi band, Peter. 181 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:28.199 So. In this passage in Matthew chapter eleven, John is 182 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:31.600 in prison John the Baptist, Jesus cousin. Yeah, and he 183 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:34.080 sends to Jesus, goes, are you really the one? 184 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:36.720 Which I told you just one? That is one of 185 00:08:36.759 --> 00:08:37.519 my favorite messages. 186 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:41.799 Right, He's like, are you just shoot straight? You're really 187 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:42.440 the one? Right? 188 00:08:42.559 --> 00:08:42.720 Who? 189 00:08:42.919 --> 00:08:45.120 I love that because he's about to die. Yeah, and 190 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:50.679 I think he knows that. And so Jesus uh sends back, Hey, 191 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:53.440 go back and tell John what you've seen and what 192 00:08:53.480 --> 00:08:57.320 you've heard the blind sea, the lame walk, those with leparsyerk, 193 00:08:57.559 --> 00:08:59.559 the deaf, here the dead or race of life, good 194 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:02.919 news being preached to the poor. And then added, God 195 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:05.120 blesses us, who's not fall away because of me? Right? 196 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:09.639 And so John's disciples go. He's talking to the crowds, 197 00:09:09.720 --> 00:09:10.799 He's telling them all these things. 198 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:18.120 It's perhaps one of the most meaningful passages for me personally, 199 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:19.759 and all of the Gospels. 200 00:09:19.960 --> 00:09:22.840 The fact that John is struggling with his faith, the. 201 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:27.720 Fact that John, more than anybody else, should not doubt 202 00:09:28.519 --> 00:09:33.960 the fact that his job, which was anointed by an angel, 203 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:37.120 and he has seen miracle after miracle after miracle, and 204 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:40.399 his only job was to say, here comes the Messiah. 205 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:44.480 After four hundred years of silence and after thousands of 206 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:49.679 years of prophecies, and he baptizes Jesus. He's related to Jesus. 207 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:54.960 He's inside conversations with Mary, Joseph and everybody else. And 208 00:09:55.039 --> 00:09:59.080 yet because his life was at stake, and because he 209 00:09:59.159 --> 00:10:02.679 was about to die, he didn't ask to be rescued. 210 00:10:02.759 --> 00:10:05.720 He didn't ask to be you know, to pull the 211 00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:08.759 Jesus influence card. He just he was willing to accept 212 00:10:08.759 --> 00:10:10.480 his fate. But he just had to hear the words 213 00:10:10.519 --> 00:10:14.000 and say, just tell me, because I just need to 214 00:10:14.039 --> 00:10:17.080 hear from you. You are the son of God, right, yeah, 215 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:21.159 please tell me. I haven't wasted my life on nothing. 216 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:25.120 And even those of us who have been Christians for 217 00:10:25.159 --> 00:10:28.519 thirty years or more, even those of us in ministry, 218 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:32.360 even those of us who who have seen miracle after miracle, 219 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:35.480 when when the stakes are high and when when life 220 00:10:35.559 --> 00:10:39.919 is low and when the pressure's on, it's okay to 221 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:43.759 have doubts. It's okay to like, you know, people feel 222 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:47.559 so guilty about having doubts. And it's like even John 223 00:10:47.639 --> 00:10:50.759 the Baptist, and then and then I love how Jesus 224 00:10:50.919 --> 00:10:55.240 also didn't save him. Yeah, like he didn't spare him 225 00:10:55.279 --> 00:10:58.120 he didn't come and rescue him. He actually just said 226 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:01.960 he basically said, here's scripture to prove that I am 227 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:05.159 who I say, I am, right, Go tell John. And 228 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:08.639 he started mentioning all the things that Messiah should have done, 229 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:11.600 and this is what I'm doing. Go tell John these things. 230 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:16.240 Then he gets frustrated. Jesus is like, he turns to 231 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:19.039 the crowds as John's disciples go back to the prison 232 00:11:19.120 --> 00:11:22.039 to tell John. Jesus turns and starts teaching the people, 233 00:11:22.039 --> 00:11:23.360 and it's like, you, guys. 234 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:26.320 You know, no one's greater than Yeah. 235 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:28.600 You go running out there, Oh, look at John. He's 236 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:33.399 this crazy guy in the woods, and you're just attracted 237 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:36.679 to him for so many different reasons. And I'm telling you, 238 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:40.919 nobody has ever been greater than John. And you don't 239 00:11:40.960 --> 00:11:41.840 even know what you were looking at. 240 00:11:42.879 --> 00:11:44.480 And by the way, that means it's a true statement, 241 00:11:44.519 --> 00:11:47.600 because Jesus said it, no one's ever been greater. 242 00:11:48.759 --> 00:11:51.039 And then he says, yet even the least person in 243 00:11:51.080 --> 00:11:52.759 the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he is. But 244 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:54.559 he's talking about no one who has ever lived. 245 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:56.080 Yeah, no one who ever lived. Think about all the 246 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:58.919 people who have lived, all the people and of the 247 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:00.960 human race up until that point. 248 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:03.360 Yeah, up until the Kingdom of Heaven, right, yep. And 249 00:12:03.399 --> 00:12:05.799 then he says, so John's out there preaching about the 250 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:10.440 Kingdom of Heaven. It's been forcefully advancing. Violent people are attacking, 251 00:12:10.440 --> 00:12:14.679 and he's talking about King Herod at this point, and 252 00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:16.799 he's like, you guys are like, oh, maybe he's the 253 00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:21.399 resurrect at Elijah. Maybe he's right, and Jesus just like 254 00:12:21.480 --> 00:12:24.000 frustrated with them, like you don't even know what's going on. 255 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:27.240 And then he goes to, what can I compare this generation? 256 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:30.960 It's like children playing a game. This isn't a game, people, right, 257 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:34.759 And then he said, you know, you were frustrated because 258 00:12:34.919 --> 00:12:37.039 John didn't come out and spend all this time eating 259 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:38.639 and drinking, and so now all of a sudden, some 260 00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:40.720 of you're saying, oh, he's possessed by a demon? Are 261 00:12:40.759 --> 00:12:43.639 you serious? And he's just really frustrated. But wisdom is 262 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:46.879 shown by to be right by its results. He says, 263 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:49.240 this is what I can tell you, right, you can 264 00:12:49.240 --> 00:12:51.320 look at his life and you can tell what's real. 265 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:59.039 And then he is he's mad about the towns where 266 00:12:59.080 --> 00:13:01.440 he's done a bunch of miracle and they didn't respond. 267 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:06.200 So he's connecting John's ministry to his ministry. Listen, you 268 00:13:06.320 --> 00:13:09.919 keep getting all these opportunities. John came and told you repent, 269 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:12.440 the Kingdom of Heaven is near. And you were like, oh, 270 00:13:12.519 --> 00:13:15.000 let's have some fun, John, do some miracles. John, let's 271 00:13:15.039 --> 00:13:16.799 do it. You're kind of a wild man out in 272 00:13:16.840 --> 00:13:19.159 the desert. John. And then you're like, you're no fun. 273 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:21.480 You don't eat and drink. You see, you have no 274 00:13:21.519 --> 00:13:23.919 idea what you just missed. And then he turns any 275 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:29.279 pivots to was it Corsine and Bethseda and he's like, 276 00:13:29.960 --> 00:13:32.840 and then here I show up. I'm raising people from 277 00:13:32.879 --> 00:13:37.399 the dead. I'm making blind people see and lepers be healed. 278 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:41.600 And you people totally blew it off. And then he goes, 279 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:44.240 it's gonna be really rough for you and the judgment. 280 00:13:44.759 --> 00:13:47.039 You people who had an opportunity and then blew me off. 281 00:13:47.320 --> 00:13:48.720 It's gonna be rough for you and the judgment. So 282 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:51.320 you see, Jesus, really there's a lot of emotion. 283 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:51.960 Yeah. 284 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:56.559 In Matthew chapter eleven, and then he prays at that time, 285 00:13:56.639 --> 00:13:59.480 Jesus prayed this prayer. I love it. Motions are spilling 286 00:13:59.519 --> 00:14:02.399 over Jesus praise, and he says, Oh Father, in verse 287 00:14:02.399 --> 00:14:04.840 twenty five. At that time, Jesus prayed this prayer, Oh Father, 288 00:14:04.919 --> 00:14:07.360 Lord of heaven and Earth, thank you for hiding these 289 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:11.000 things from those who think themselves wise and clever, and 290 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:15.360 for revealing them to the childlike Yes, Father, it pleased 291 00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:17.320 you to do it this way. My father has entrusted 292 00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:19.919 everything to me. No one truly knows the son except 293 00:14:19.919 --> 00:14:21.799 the father, and no one truly knows the father except 294 00:14:21.799 --> 00:14:24.200 the son and those to whom the son chooses to 295 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:28.559 reveal him. And then Jesus said, and here's the promise today. 296 00:14:29.039 --> 00:14:31.960 Come to me, all of you who are weary and 297 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:35.559 carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take 298 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:38.080 my yoke upon you. Let me teach you because I 299 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:40.320 am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find 300 00:14:40.440 --> 00:14:43.679 rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy to bear, 301 00:14:44.039 --> 00:14:47.480 and the burden I give you is light. So it's 302 00:14:47.480 --> 00:14:51.799 interesting they think they're so clever. They're just out playing games. God, 303 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:53.919 thank you for holding it back from the people who 304 00:14:53.960 --> 00:14:56.639 think they're so smart. Thank you for making it available 305 00:14:56.679 --> 00:14:59.279 for those who have a childlike faith. And then he 306 00:14:59.360 --> 00:15:02.000 literally invites, are you worn out by this world like 307 00:15:02.080 --> 00:15:04.799 I am, Just run to me like a little baby, 308 00:15:04.919 --> 00:15:06.720 like a little child, and I'll give you the rest 309 00:15:06.759 --> 00:15:09.080 you need. It's it's a beautiful passage. 310 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:13.080 Yeah. And uh and I love by the way that 311 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:18.279 Jesus often referred to the yoke of the Pharisees as heavy. Yeah, 312 00:15:18.679 --> 00:15:21.720 and and so he talked about how to describe so 313 00:15:21.759 --> 00:15:23.759 that a yoke is a piece of wood that connects 314 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:29.200 to oxen or calf or excuse me, or cows or donkeys, 315 00:15:29.679 --> 00:15:31.960 two animals, and and it's it's a piece of wood 316 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:33.559 that wraps around their necks. 317 00:15:33.960 --> 00:15:35.799 And and so you would place it so they could 318 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:36.559 pull together, so. 319 00:15:36.559 --> 00:15:39.039 They could pull together, so so one could lean on 320 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:41.720 the other, right, and so if this one's pulling, this 321 00:15:41.759 --> 00:15:43.799 one pulling, and it keeps them pulling at the same time. 322 00:15:44.200 --> 00:15:47.080 Because if you have, you know, two animals that that 323 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:49.559 are pulling, it's going to be hard to make sure 324 00:15:49.600 --> 00:15:52.279 that they that you're you have a straight line and 325 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:54.919 you know they're in fields and they and part of 326 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:58.639 the you know, talent is is making straight lines. So 327 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:00.759 so the yolka is a tool that that ensures that. 328 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:03.639 And then when he talked about earlier. He often uses 329 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:06.960 the yoke and says, don't be unequally yoked, right, And 330 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:09.159 he's saying, like, hey, just like everybody knows if you 331 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:12.840 put an ox and a donkey together that you're going 332 00:16:12.879 --> 00:16:15.559 to go in circles because one is much much stronger 333 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:19.919 than the other. So then he gives us instructions not 334 00:16:20.039 --> 00:16:24.080 being in, you know, important relationships with unbelievers, because we'll 335 00:16:24.080 --> 00:16:28.000 be unequally yoked. And so that's certainly a warning against marriage, right, 336 00:16:28.399 --> 00:16:30.240 that's certainly a warning against some of the most important 337 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:33.639 relationships in our lives, especially the most important, which is marriage. 338 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:37.240 So there's a direct application to that. But in this case, 339 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:39.399 what he says is is he says, the yoke of 340 00:16:39.440 --> 00:16:41.919 the Pharisees is heavy. So if you get yoked up 341 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:44.840 with a Pharisee who's all about the rules and the 342 00:16:44.840 --> 00:16:48.000 burdens and the laws. And remember he wasn't just talking 343 00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:52.240 about the precepts. He was talking about the Pharisees who 344 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:56.320 created laws on top of the laws. Right. Yeah, So 345 00:16:56.399 --> 00:16:59.279 Pharisees would do this really weird thing where they would 346 00:16:59.480 --> 00:17:03.799 it wasn't we it was just burdensome. How they would 347 00:17:03.879 --> 00:17:06.160 create laws to make sure that you didn't break the laws. 348 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:08.640 And it was like a guardrail. They were saying like, hey, 349 00:17:08.640 --> 00:17:10.319 we don't want to get you too close to the cliffs, 350 00:17:10.319 --> 00:17:12.920 so we're going to create this guardrail so that you 351 00:17:12.920 --> 00:17:15.119 don't even come close to the cliff. But the problem 352 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:18.440 was is that they were treating the guardrail laws just 353 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:21.839 as important as the actual laws of God. Right, so 354 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:24.759 if the rule wasn't like, you know, if the rule 355 00:17:24.839 --> 00:17:28.519 was like, you know, don't take ten steps, they would say, well, 356 00:17:28.519 --> 00:17:31.000 don't even get close, don't even take eight steps. And 357 00:17:31.000 --> 00:17:34.359 if somebody took nine steps, they would say you broke 358 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:36.720 God's law. And they were like, that's not God's law, 359 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:39.880 that's your law. Right, God said ten steps, right right, 360 00:17:39.960 --> 00:17:43.000 that's what they would do. So they created all these 361 00:17:43.079 --> 00:17:47.039 laws and all these extra things. And so Jesus referred 362 00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:49.680 to their yoke as burdensome. And yet what he's saying 363 00:17:50.640 --> 00:17:54.000 about his yoke is he's saying, come to me, because 364 00:17:54.160 --> 00:17:56.759 mine's light. And you're going to find out that you're 365 00:17:56.759 --> 00:17:58.440 not going to feel like a slave. You're not going 366 00:17:58.519 --> 00:18:00.880 to feel tired, you're not going to feel you're not 367 00:18:00.880 --> 00:18:03.359 gonna sweat and and feel like this is, you know, 368 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:06.400 a task that's too hard for you. My burden is 369 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:09.960 light and my my yoke is easy to bear. I 370 00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:13.400 think that that is amazing how Jesus is almost like 371 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:17.400 flipping the tables on the fact that he is going 372 00:18:17.480 --> 00:18:18.839 to be a person that if you if you walk 373 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:21.319 with Jesus and Jesus is the one who does the pulling, 374 00:18:21.839 --> 00:18:24.160 then you're just gonna, you know, you're gonna you're you're 375 00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:27.720 gonna experience something that is much easier because Jesus is 376 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:30.160 doing the heavy pulling. Yeah. 377 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:33.680 So, uh, I've done some hunting in an area where 378 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:36.640 there's a lot of Amish people and so they use 379 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:41.079 horses and oxen. Yeah, and I just looked this up 380 00:18:41.160 --> 00:18:44.519 to confirm it. But I had an Amish man tell 381 00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:48.839 me that a yoke exponentially increases the impact. 382 00:18:49.640 --> 00:18:53.160 Thank you for saying exponentially and not exponentially exponentially like 383 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:56.839 everybody says, no, I don't, but yeah, yeah, there you go. 384 00:18:57.160 --> 00:18:57.720 That's a yoke. 385 00:18:57.960 --> 00:19:02.359 So he's in a cider mill, sits on their shoulders, 386 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:04.920 it sits on their neck, but leans into their shoulders. 387 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:07.640 Are actually leaning in right, so they lean in with 388 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:09.519 their shoulders and what it does is it gives almost 389 00:19:09.559 --> 00:19:12.640 perfect alignment, which is what you have to have. H So, 390 00:19:12.839 --> 00:19:19.200 one oxen typically can pull five thousand pounds one oxen. Wow, 391 00:19:19.519 --> 00:19:21.559 so you got one thousand pound ox being able to 392 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:25.079 pull five thousand pounds of weight. But when you align 393 00:19:25.200 --> 00:19:28.920 them almost perfectly together, it's not uncommon for them to 394 00:19:28.960 --> 00:19:32.920 go more than fifteen thousand pounds. Oh really, So one 395 00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:35.519 oxen at five thousand plus one oxen at five thousand, 396 00:19:35.519 --> 00:19:36.680 you think it get ten thousand pounds. 397 00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:37.039 Yep. 398 00:19:37.319 --> 00:19:41.880 But two oxen hooked up together in perfect alignment can 399 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:46.079 go exponentially larger. With greater weight, they can accomplish more. 400 00:19:46.200 --> 00:19:49.480 So it's interesting. Jesus is not saying, give all your 401 00:19:49.480 --> 00:19:52.559