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 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:15.199 Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode, an exciting episode of 5 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:15.640 the Bible. 6 00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:18.920 Exciting. It is exciting, Yes, because we had said earlier 7 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:20.199 this week we're going to try to make those our 8 00:00:20.239 --> 00:00:23.359 best episodes. Yes, yeah, they were okay, but this one's 9 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:26.000 an exciting one. Oh, yes, super exciting one. 10 00:00:26.039 --> 00:00:27.120 I'm super excited. 11 00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:29.239 And a big reason why it's so exciting because we're 12 00:00:29.239 --> 00:00:31.839 gonna do everybody's favorite segment today. It's been a while. 13 00:00:31.879 --> 00:00:33.600 We didn't do it last week, you guys in the 14 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:36.520 Platinum edition, you didn't do it, did not But now 15 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:38.439 that Wesley's not here, we're going back at it. Baby. 16 00:00:38.479 --> 00:00:39.119 Yeah, that's it. 17 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:43.240 And everybody's favorite segment is what made Chris mad this week? 18 00:00:44.359 --> 00:00:47.320 Yes, well I'll tell you this. I didn't take me 19 00:00:47.359 --> 00:00:50.240 long to think about it. Of course I didn't, because 20 00:00:50.759 --> 00:00:53.359 I had something that just got on my nerves and 21 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:56.560 I'm like, come on, people, and I think it applies to. 22 00:00:56.679 --> 00:00:59.079 Everybody who shares. 23 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:01.759 I know this is a weird thought, but like, if 24 00:01:01.799 --> 00:01:03.880 you're in a household with kids, if you're in a 25 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:06.480 household with your spouse, this is true for you, right. 26 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:09.680 Or if you have a roommate, okay, right in this. 27 00:01:09.640 --> 00:01:12.120 Case, if you live, if you live in a domicile 28 00:01:12.239 --> 00:01:13.480 with another human being. 29 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:17.719 Or in this case, there's a community shower right at 30 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:20.159 a church, so I I have. 31 00:01:20.079 --> 00:01:22.599 At share space with other human beings. 32 00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:24.879 Yeah, well I'm trying with specifically about showers. 33 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:29.319 So I actually shower here at the church a few times. 34 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:31.599 A week, which Chris, yes, thank you. 35 00:01:31.959 --> 00:01:34.000 But because there's a we actually work out. 36 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:35.719 We have a gym here at a church heritage fitness 37 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:40.560 center by the way, and so and so after most workouts, 38 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:42.840 I'll bring a change of clothes and I go back there. 39 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:49.079 Now we have sort of like big huge community shampoos 40 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:52.280 and you know, liquid soaps and things like that, right 41 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:54.640 and then uh, and then even there's like like a 42 00:01:54.680 --> 00:01:57.879 bar shop in there too. Now that applies at a 43 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:01.159 community place if you share shampoos with somebody else at 44 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:04.040 a gym or something, or a roommate like I said, 45 00:02:04.239 --> 00:02:07.319 or a family you share shampoos. So here's what get 46 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:11.000 on my nerves, And this is true for everybody. I 47 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:16.159 cannot get over how every single time I get in 48 00:02:16.280 --> 00:02:21.080 that shower, somebody has used the Irish spring soap. 49 00:02:21.159 --> 00:02:23.080 And they leave, they leave it flipped. 50 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:26.240 And then there's another one in there and it's like 51 00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:29.479 a sport like axe thing soap, and that lids up. 52 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:32.840 And then there's a shampoo that is in there. It's 53 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:33.840 like a community shampoo. 54 00:02:33.919 --> 00:02:35.199 And then and that. 55 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:37.800 Thing just sort of like you sort of press the lid. 56 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:40.080 Down and like click, it just clips open right, and 57 00:02:40.159 --> 00:02:40.719 that's up. 58 00:02:40.759 --> 00:02:43.759 And that's up right. And so then I'll use it. 59 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:46.039 I'll go click, click, click, and then I'll you know, 60 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:48.080 I'll use it. Now. Shut them all and then the 61 00:02:48.159 --> 00:02:49.960 very next time I go to take a shower, they're 62 00:02:50.039 --> 00:02:50.400 up again. 63 00:02:51.159 --> 00:02:52.919 Yes, I'm convinced that if there. 64 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:55.240 Was a cap that's screwed off, the cap would be 65 00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:57.960 on the ground right. And so here's the question. The 66 00:02:58.039 --> 00:03:01.599 question is, how can a human being, any human. 67 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:06.439 Being, any decent human, any decent human being like flip 68 00:03:06.439 --> 00:03:09.280 oth of the brain in their head, flip open something, 69 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:10.240 you know. 70 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:13.360 I mean, do they do they leave the kap a 71 00:03:13.439 --> 00:03:16.680 toothpaste if there was toothpaste, probably if it was connected, 72 00:03:16.719 --> 00:03:17.199 they would. 73 00:03:17.039 --> 00:03:19.080 Just leave it. O get why. 74 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:20.919 I don't know how, because they're not thinking. 75 00:03:21.639 --> 00:03:22.639 That's not true. 76 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:25.159 They're not thinking. Nobody's thinking, you know what I'm gonna do. 77 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:28.240 I'm gonna leave this lid up forget the next person. 78 00:03:28.479 --> 00:03:31.000 Fine, fine, you sold me on that thinking. But it's 79 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:32.919 well beyond that. That's a small. 80 00:03:32.599 --> 00:03:34.520 Piece of it. It is it is. 81 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:38.039 This is the nature of some people, Like they don't 82 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:40.520 want to close the door behind them, They don't want 83 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:42.919 to return their shopping cart, they don't want to park 84 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:43.879 between the lines. 85 00:03:43.919 --> 00:03:47.240 You're projecting evil intent on people want as far as 86 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:50.199 want so so so so, so let me say so. 87 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:53.000 I was trying politely to say they're slops. 88 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:56.800 That's what I was trying to politely say. I wasn't 89 00:03:56.800 --> 00:03:58.520 trying to put evil. 90 00:03:59.039 --> 00:04:02.120 They weren't house broke right at their MoMA. Their mama failed. 91 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:04.199 Yeah, I was just saying, like, some people aren't wired 92 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:05.919 to do to be tidy. 93 00:04:06.319 --> 00:04:12.479 So, so I was in the kitchen and I was cooking. Uh, 94 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:15.719 I forgot what I was cooking. Oh, a crown roast, 95 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:17.480 a pork crown roast. You know if the bones I'll 96 00:04:17.480 --> 00:04:19.920 stick up sea Yeah yeah, yeah, it's cooking one of those. 97 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:24.920 And I'm just going one hundred miles an hour and 98 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:27.160 my wife comes out and she goes, you don't know 99 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:28.920 how to close one cabinet door. 100 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:30.720 Oh, you leave cabinet doors. 101 00:04:30.759 --> 00:04:34.079 And I turned around and almost every cabinet door was open. 102 00:04:35.160 --> 00:04:38.199 But all's that happened was I need I need a tablespoon, 103 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:40.480 a kosher salt. I need I need a little bit 104 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:44.279 of where's the where's the time? Right? I'm thinking what 105 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:48.600 I need to do, not thinking whatever reason closed that 106 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:50.839 door closed, that door closed it. I wasn't like you 107 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:51.639 to difference. 108 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:53.839 You want to know the difference. If you were the 109 00:04:53.879 --> 00:04:56.600 one at the end of the meal, you would have 110 00:04:56.600 --> 00:04:58.439 not walked away from that kitchen without closing. Oh. 111 00:04:58.560 --> 00:04:59.920 When I was all done, I would have tried on. 112 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:03.360 Oh my gosh, all the there's the difference because before 113 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:04.959 I leave a thing, I try to wipe everything down. 114 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:06.199 I try to look. 115 00:05:06.519 --> 00:05:09.839 You wouldn't leave the soap up flippingly if I'm. 116 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:11.920 In the restaurant, wash my hands. I just had a 117 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:15.040 guy at the airport. I was in the sky club, 118 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:18.680 Delta sky Club, and went in and washed my hands. 119 00:05:19.079 --> 00:05:21.519 And when I was done, you know, I just take 120 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:23.199 a little extra paper towel, I'll wipe off the thing 121 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:25.199 and I goes, oh, no, no, no, that's my job. I said, 122 00:05:25.199 --> 00:05:26.920 that's all of our job. Man, thank you for doing 123 00:05:26.959 --> 00:05:30.120 yours right and wiping out. I just think you're there, 124 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:31.920 wipe down the water drop list that you had on 125 00:05:31.959 --> 00:05:33.680 the thing, right, you just just kind of cleaned up. 126 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:36.480 I think that there is something to that. But in 127 00:05:36.519 --> 00:05:40.160 the moment, for me, a lot of times, especially when 128 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:43.279 I'm cooking, everything's just open, yeah, and it looks like 129 00:05:43.279 --> 00:05:43.639 a bomb. 130 00:05:43.879 --> 00:05:46.360 That's fine because you're still in the middle of something, right, 131 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:48.600 But they're still not showering when I walk in there. 132 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:51.600 But my wife would say, there are times I'll step 133 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:54.759 over a thing four times and not even notice it. Okay, 134 00:05:54.839 --> 00:05:58.519 yeah I really do where I just didn't even see it. 135 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:02.279 But it's it's I have a really I don't think 136 00:06:02.279 --> 00:06:05.639 about things I need to do. I'm thinking about I'm 137 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:10.800 thinking thoughts, right, ideas, concepts a lot of times, and 138 00:06:10.839 --> 00:06:12.639 so a lot of times I'm just in my head 139 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:17.199 and everything else is just there, but I'm not seeing 140 00:06:17.240 --> 00:06:20.800 it a lot of times, unless like if I'm walking 141 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:23.079 through the building here and I'm looking for something, well, 142 00:06:23.079 --> 00:06:25.079 then I see it, Hey, that needs to be repainted, 143 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:27.000 This needs to be there's a scuff over there, let's 144 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:29.160 fix that draw. Well, I see that, because now that's 145 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:31.519 what I'm thinking in the moment, that's what I'm working on. 146 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:33.879 But if I'm working on something in my head, I'm 147 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:35.120 oblivious to what's around me. 148 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:35.240 No. 149 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:38.480 Well, it dawns on me that I will probably never 150 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:41.399 know who else showers and leaves all those caps open, 151 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:43.639 because I don't care enough to know, right, But I 152 00:06:43.720 --> 00:06:45.319 just want to send the message out there. 153 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:48.160 You know who you are if they listen to the. 154 00:06:48.199 --> 00:06:50.600 Ar right, and who doesn't? 155 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:52.199 Yeah, well, who knows. 156 00:06:52.480 --> 00:06:55.720 But I'm sure everybody on our staff is hanging on 157 00:06:55.839 --> 00:06:56.720 every word we say. 158 00:06:57.000 --> 00:06:58.040 I'm sure that is not true. 159 00:06:58.040 --> 00:06:59.759 They just don't get enough of us through the rest 160 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:01.879 of the week. They want to spend another twenty five ans. 161 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:04.279 Actually, stephf member said that to me. Step member goes, hey, 162 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:04.959 did you listen to the Bible? 163 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:05.160 Guys? 164 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:06.639 And the staff member said to all the other staff 165 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:07.680 members and goes, are. 166 00:07:07.519 --> 00:07:10.000 You kidding me? I'm here around him all week long, 167 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:11.519 That's what he said. 168 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:14.439 I was like, thanks, Prophet has no honor in his 169 00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:15.839 own town. That's what Jesus said. 170 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:18.879 So anyway, the bottom line is is listen. It's not 171 00:07:19.040 --> 00:07:22.639 just for the guy here who showers and leaves it up, 172 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:26.319 or maybe it's multiple people, who knows, but it is 173 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:29.839 also for the wives, for the husbands, for the children, 174 00:07:30.199 --> 00:07:33.040 for the roommates. Just not only do you need to 175 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:38.199 close every cap, but then here's an idea, like be 176 00:07:38.360 --> 00:07:40.319 organized in the shower with your empty bott. 177 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:40.879 Don't be a slob. 178 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:42.639 But I don't want to say it that way. 179 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:45.839 Okay, I just did. Okay, So I have this thought 180 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:48.160 and I've been working on this this year, yep, more, 181 00:07:51.160 --> 00:07:55.240 and I think I said it in January to our staff. 182 00:07:55.879 --> 00:07:58.360 But I have this phrase that I wrote down in 183 00:07:58.399 --> 00:08:00.959 a couple places where I see it, and it says, 184 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:03.240 the way you do anything is the way you do everything. 185 00:08:04.040 --> 00:08:06.040 I agree with that, right, And so. 186 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:08.680 I've been trying more and more and more. Change out 187 00:08:08.680 --> 00:08:11.680 the toilet paper roll, don't leave just one one square left, 188 00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:14.279 you know, and the thing throw it away. If you 189 00:08:14.319 --> 00:08:16.560 miss the garbage can, stop, turn around and pick it up. 190 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:18.639 Put in the garbage can. Just because I think if 191 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:21.720 I pay attention to more of the details, and I'm 192 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:24.279 not as fastidious as you are, I'm not as detailed 193 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:28.279 as you are, but I want to be. And so 194 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:30.120 I've got that phrase the way you do anything is 195 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:32.039 the way you do everything, And I'm trying to remind 196 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:32.600 myself of that. 197 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:36.080 That's really good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because. 198 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:36.879 It's just quality issues. 199 00:08:37.159 --> 00:08:40.120 It's it's it is that way most of the time. 200 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:42.120 That's why I was trying to say earlier, it's the 201 00:08:42.120 --> 00:08:44.720 same person who you know can't park between the lions 202 00:08:44.799 --> 00:08:46.440 or put their shopping cart back, or. 203 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:47.679 We hate those people. 204 00:08:47.759 --> 00:08:50.639 Well, I just know, I just think I don't want 205 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:52.759 to use the word hate, Okay, I'm just saying, like, 206 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:53.200 you know. 207 00:08:53.240 --> 00:08:56.840 Well, I'm just getting excited about that. The rage in 208 00:08:56.919 --> 00:08:57.679 you is coming out. 209 00:08:57.759 --> 00:08:57.919 You know. 210 00:08:57.960 --> 00:08:59.519 The whole segment is what made Chris mad this week. 211 00:08:59.519 --> 00:09:02.279 And so it's just it's it's like it's like contagious. 212 00:09:02.519 --> 00:09:05.559 Well and plus fight him now? And does does shampoo 213 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:08.559 go bad? I don't know. Well, I think it's a 214 00:09:08.559 --> 00:09:09.120 little bit of water. 215 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:10.559 I don't know, but I'm worried about it. 216 00:09:10.600 --> 00:09:12.440 I want to go find let's let's let's just go around, 217 00:09:12.519 --> 00:09:14.559 let's interrogate hm. Let's get a big bright light. I 218 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:16.600 will grab one of these lights from the show, say. 219 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:18.159 Did you do it? Do you know who did it. 220 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:19.600 I just realized we went like a minute and a 221 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:20.000 half over. 222 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:21.080 Okay, sorry about that. 223 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:23.639 Well, I was excited about it. Sorry, Okay, talk about 224 00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:28.639 other things I'm excited about. In Colossians chapter two, yes, 225 00:09:30.279 --> 00:09:32.279 it's talking about freedom from the rules and new life 226 00:09:32.279 --> 00:09:34.279 in Christ, which is similar to the passage we read 227 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:38.399 yesterday about the law. So this is the same guy. 228 00:09:39.159 --> 00:09:43.279 Now he's writing to the church in Colossie, which is 229 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:50.159 in Greece, and he they they have a problem in 230 00:09:50.200 --> 00:09:55.840 their church of people who want to say, yes, Jesus 231 00:09:55.960 --> 00:09:59.120 is enough for salvation, but you also have to keep 232 00:09:59.159 --> 00:10:01.960 all these other religious rituals, so you can't go to heaven, right, 233 00:10:02.519 --> 00:10:04.399 And so he's kind of busting their chops on that, 234 00:10:04.840 --> 00:10:08.759 particularly with regard to the Jewish Christians who were demanding 235 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:11.919 that you maintain all of the religious holidays and that 236 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:14.279 you maintained circumcision, right, which was. 237 00:10:14.600 --> 00:10:16.440 Because their whole lives. 238 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:20.120 And so Paul's mission in life was to bring in gentiles, 239 00:10:20.440 --> 00:10:23.440 those who did not grow up doing all the Jewish practices. 240 00:10:23.960 --> 00:10:25.720 And and it almost seems like to me when I 241 00:10:25.759 --> 00:10:28.480 read it, I get a I attach an attitude to 242 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:31.600 it of all the Jewish people like, hey, I worked. 243 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:32.440 Really hard to get here. 244 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:34.559 Yeah. Well, you know, we still carry a lot of 245 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:40.159 our cultural predispositions in and so the Jewish Men were 246 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:44.639 raised to look down on the gentile men, who you're gross, 247 00:10:44.840 --> 00:10:50.080 you're not circumcised, and and they're they're bathing places, they're gymnasiums, 248 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:54.279 they're they're you were in that Roman town in northern 249 00:10:54.440 --> 00:10:56.039 Israel right where. 250 00:10:55.840 --> 00:11:00.559 They uh something you no, no bet? 251 00:11:00.919 --> 00:11:06.039 Yeah, And they had public bathhouses, they had public restrooms 252 00:11:06.039 --> 00:11:08.240 that were wide open. In fact, all the seats were 253 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:12.039 right along the edge of the thing. It was funny, right, Uh. 254 00:11:12.799 --> 00:11:14.480 And it was just all public and open. As a 255 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:16.000 matter of fact, that's where we get the phrase doing 256 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:18.360 your business is there they would go and they would 257 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:19.960 do business while they were in the bathroom. So it's 258 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:27.200 so funny. So uh, nudity was a lot more public, right, 259 00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:29.759 men with men, women with women, but it was more public. 260 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:32.639 And so the Jewish men were taught and the boys 261 00:11:32.679 --> 00:11:36.759 were taught those are dogs if they're not circumcised like us. Right, 262 00:11:36.840 --> 00:11:44.360 that's that's h and so so so it's hard sometimes 263 00:11:44.360 --> 00:11:46.600 even though I've been saved and I've been redeemed and 264 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:50.879 I've been pulled out of all of the cultural things. 265 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:54.080 It's still deep in me, my family and the way 266 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:56.559 that we grew up is so I didn't grow up 267 00:11:56.559 --> 00:11:58.320 that way, right. That's a lot of this is what 268 00:11:58.360 --> 00:12:02.519 they're dealing with in Calautionans chapter two. So he says, 269 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:05.600 and now just as this is verse six, and now, 270 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:08.080 just as you accepted Christ as your lord, you must 271 00:12:08.080 --> 00:12:11.080 continue to follow him. Let your roots grow down deep 272 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:13.840 into him, and let your lives be built on him. 273 00:12:14.159 --> 00:12:16.320 And then your faith will grow strong in the truth 274 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:19.480 you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness. There's 275 00:12:19.480 --> 00:12:21.480 that gratefulness thing all the time. See it's the key. 276 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:26.200 Don't let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high 277 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:28.399 sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the 278 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:31.279 spiritual powers of this world. He's talking about family tradition 279 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:36.279 and social tradition rather than from Christ. For in Christ, 280 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:39.679 for in Christ lives all the fullness of God in 281 00:12:39.720 --> 00:12:43.720 a human body. So you also are complete through your 282 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:46.559 union with Christ, who is the head over every ruler 283 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:49.919 and authority. When you came to Christ, you were quote 284 00:12:49.960 --> 00:12:53.840 unquote circumcised, but not by a physical procedure. Christ performed 285 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:58.240 a spiritual circumcision, cutting away of your sinful nature. For 286 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:01.200 you were buried with Christ, and you were baptized, and 287 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:04.600 with him you were raised new life because you trusted 288 00:13:04.600 --> 00:13:06.519 the mighty power of God who raised Christ from the dead. 289 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:09.720 You were dead because of your sins, and because of 290 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:12.200 your sinful nature was not yet cut away. And then 291 00:13:12.240 --> 00:13:15.639 God made you alive with Christ. For He forgave all 292 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:20.080 our sins. He canceled the record of the charges against 293 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:23.559 us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. 294 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:27.039 In this way he disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. 295 00:13:27.240 --> 00:13:29.679 He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on 296 00:13:29.759 --> 00:13:32.159 the cross. So don't let anyone condemn you for what 297 00:13:32.240 --> 00:13:35.360 you eat or drink, or for not celebrating certain holy 298 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:38.840 days or moon ceremonies or sabbaths, For these rules are 299 00:13:38.879 --> 00:13:42.960 only shadows of the reality to come, and Christ himself 300 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:46.679 is that reality. Don't let anyone condemn you by insisting 301 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:50.200 on pious self denial or the worship of angels, saying 302 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:53.399 they have had visions about these things. Their sinful minds 303 00:13:53.399 --> 00:13:55.480 have made them proud, and they are not connected to 304 00:13:55.559 --> 00:13:57.120 Christ the head of the body, for he holds the 305 00:13:57.159 --> 00:13:59.679 whole body together with his joints and ligaments, and it 306 00:13:59.720 --> 00:14:03.480 grows as God nourishes it. You've died with Christ, and 307 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:05.799 yet yet he has set you free from the spiritual 308 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:07.639 powers of this world. So why do you keep on 309 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:09.799 following the rules of the world, such as don't handle, 310 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:14.759 don't handle, don't taste, don't touch. Such rules are mere 311 00:14:14.840 --> 00:14:18.120 human teachings about things that deteriorate as we use them. 312 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:21.679 These rules may seem wise because they require strong devotion, 313 00:14:21.879 --> 00:14:25.080 pious self denial, and severe bodily discipline, but they provide 314 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:30.320 no help in conquering a person's evil desires. That's good man, 315 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:33.519 So he's getting after it. But the promise that we're 316 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:37.120 reading today is thirteen verse thirteen. 317 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:39.200 Yeah. 318 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:42.000 So verse thirteen says you were dead because of your 319 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:46.600 sins and because of your sinful nature, and because your 320 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:49.559 sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made 321 00:14:49.639 --> 00:14:53.120 you alive with Christ, and he forgave all of your sins. 322 00:14:53.399 --> 00:14:55.039 I think the next one, too, can be part of 323 00:14:55.039 --> 00:14:58.519 that promise. He canceled the record of the charges against 324 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:00.919 us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. 325 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:01.799 Yeah that's really good. 326 00:15:02.440 --> 00:15:06.600 Yeah, and uh, you know, I I like the you know, 327 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:09.000 when Jesus sometimes talks about sin, he talks about the 328 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:12.200 leaven of the Pharisees, and then therefore you're forced to 329 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:18.759 think about the visual image of of yeast right inside bread. 330 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:22.320 I like that visual image better than this comparison of sin. 331 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:26.080 Yeah, that death or circumcisions. 332 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:28.919 Circum He's like, it's like throwing away for his skin. 333 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:31.720 It's like, oh, thanks for that visual Yeah. 334 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:35.720 So circumcision was how what was the defining element for 335 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:40.360 the Jewish religion, right that and their sacrifices, and so 336 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:42.720 the men had a lot of pride in it and 337 00:15:43.320 --> 00:15:44.960 took a lot of pride in it, although it made 338 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:46.720 it difficult to recruit new Jews. 339 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:49.759 Yes, if you got saved later on in life, if 340 00:15:49.759 --> 00:15:52.440 he became a Jew or yeah, excuse. 341 00:15:52.120 --> 00:15:53.559 Me, yeah, became a Jew leader in life. 342 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:56.000 Yeah, you're like, yeah, that's there's a there's a lot 343 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:56.720 of requirement. 344 00:15:56.840 --> 00:16:00.200 Now it's goad to be all in. Yeah, exactly. And 345 00:16:00.679 --> 00:16:03.639 it's interesting, you know, this is an important thing to men, 346 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:08.320 and so God says, hey, your sexuality is very important 347 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:10.440 to me, and so that that was the whole point. 348 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:12.799 But I think it's interesting here that he connects now 349 00:16:13.159 --> 00:16:17.120 spiritual circumcision to baptism, and this is why Christians would 350 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:22.159 view Now, Paul says, everybody can get baptized, right, and 351 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:24.559 so whether it's Jew or Greek or whatever. And so 352 00:16:24.639 --> 00:16:27.600 it's kind of the new symbol. It's the outward symbol 353 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:30.679 of what Jesus did on the inside. Circumcision was supposed 354 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:32.159 to be an outward symbol of what God was doing 355 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:34.600 on the inside, and that was that I've surrendered everything 356 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:38.039 to him, everything to him. Right, And now he says, hey, 357 00:16:38.120 --> 00:16:42.399 this baptism thing demonstrates that. He says, you can't do 358 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:44.759 it on your own. You're only right with God. What 359 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:47.759 did it say? So, you're also complete through your union 360 00:16:47.799 --> 00:16:51.000 with Christ, who has head over every ruler and authority. 361 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:53.720 So it says that we can't do it in our 362 00:16:53.799 --> 00:16:58.720 own body. Only Christ, who lives in Christ lives all 363 00:16:58.759 --> 00:17:01.519 the fullness of God and human He says, So now 364 00:17:01.559 --> 00:17:04.400 you're complete, not through yourself or through your own behaviors, 365 00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:07.680 but through the fact that you're in Christ. So then 366 00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:11.759 this is why baptism is like modern day circumcision. He says, 367 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:14.759 when you go under the water, you're buried with Christ 368 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:16.640 in the likeness of his death, and when you come 369 00:17:16.680 --> 00:17:18.680 up out of the water, you're raised to walk in 370 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:22.119 a brand new life. And he said, so, this is why, 371 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:26.160 for now two thousand years, Christians have viewed baptism in 372 00:17:26.200 --> 00:17:31.119 a similar way. It's the defining symbol of the It's 373 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:32.920 the outward symbol of what Christ has done for us 374 00:17:32.960 --> 00:17:35.079 on the inside, similar to how the Jews would have 375 00:17:35.119 --> 00:17:36.119 viewed circumcision. 376 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:40.480 Yeah, and how he says, hey, you're so, He's almost 377 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:43.799 saying to them, you're so demanding that everybody performed the 378 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:46.400 ritual of circumcision. And what I'm telling you is there 379 00:17:46.440 --> 00:17:49.359 is a spiritual circumcision that has happened, right, And he's 380 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:51.799 talking about the mechanism of salvation. And by the way, 381 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:55.799 that is not unlike the Book of Hebrews when everybody 382 00:17:55.920 --> 00:17:58.680 was talking about the rituals of the temple, and the 383 00:17:58.720 --> 00:18:00.839 writer of Hebrews is like, I get news for you. 384 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:04.759 Jesus is the high priest. Jesus is the sacrifice, You 385 00:18:04.799 --> 00:18:08.480 are the temple. All those things that were that. 386 00:18:07.799 --> 00:18:11.039 We were a part of growing up. Jesus has fulfilled 387 00:18:11.119 --> 00:18:12.039 all of those things. 388 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:15.279 And what he's really saying is Jesus has fulfilled the 389 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:19.480 requirement for circumcision, right, and then, yeah, I like the idea. 390 00:18:19.519 --> 00:18:22.039 I don't think i've ever heard, by the way, anybody 391 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:25.720 say that they thought, perhaps baptism is sort of the 392 00:18:25.839 --> 00:18:29.319 new outward symbol, just like circumcision was. 393 00:18:29.440 --> 00:18:31.359 Well, he's tying them together right here. 394 00:18:31.480 --> 00:18:31.640 I know. 395 00:18:32.039 --> 00:18:34.319 I just I just never and I never looked at 396 00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:35.400 it as a substitute. 397 00:18:35.480 --> 00:18:38.799 Yeah, it's it's it's a replace, it's a right, a 398 00:18:38.839 --> 00:18:42.880 religious right, right or practice that we're doing that demonstrates 399 00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:47.039 outwardly the fact that our sins have been washed away, 400 00:18:47.359 --> 00:18:49.920 as opposed to and he says, as opposed to being 401 00:18:50.119 --> 00:18:52.960