WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:04.879 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a couple of friends talk 2 00:00:04.919 --> 00:00:12.160 about the Bible in fun in practical ways. All right, well, welcome 3 00:00:12.199 --> 00:00:15.160 to the Bible Guys. My name is Chris and I'm Jeff. And here 4 00:00:15.199 --> 00:00:18.120 we are here the Bible Guys were the Bible Guys. There you go. 5 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:22.440 Hey, we're gonna start out with a segment today, which is a fun 6 00:00:22.760 --> 00:00:29.839 segment sometimes sometimes called stump the pastor yes, and these these often are questions 7 00:00:29.879 --> 00:00:33.240 that are difficult. Yeah, this is a good question today. It is. 8 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:37.000 And so let me go ahead and say this. Whatever I think about 9 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:39.159 stump the pastor, I think, oh this is good. 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Okay, 29 00:01:55.599 --> 00:01:57.239 man, you're already bored today. Man, you're boring me. I 30 00:01:57.280 --> 00:02:01.200 am boring you. Your trunk fell asleep, right, they give you there. 31 00:02:01.319 --> 00:02:07.319 I'm so bored. My trunk fell asleep. Okay, so today, 32 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:09.800 are you meaning my torso or no? Yeah? Yeah, your torso like 33 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:14.039 an elephant's trunk. No, no, your torso, I see yeah, 34 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:15.879 the trunk of your body, I see right, right, So usually you 35 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:19.639 have hands or feet fall asleep, but this one, your entire body goes 36 00:02:19.719 --> 00:02:23.039 numb because you got it? Got it? That was rough, Chris. 37 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:25.520 Why don't I don't refer to my torso is a trunk? So okay, 38 00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:30.240 you don't have to. Some people do, Okay, don't judge them, 39 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:36.919 Johnny P. Here's the question someth the pastor. Is it only considered tithing 40 00:02:37.080 --> 00:02:40.479 when you give to the church? What about Saint Jude's or Salvation Army or 41 00:02:40.479 --> 00:02:44.599 tunnels to towers, et cetera. Hm, that's a good question, Johnny. 42 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:46.840 Good thinking, yeah, very good thinking. Yeah. Well, and 43 00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:53.080 and let's just be clear because some people what they do is they'll they'll take 44 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:57.280 their tithe and they say, okay, if I'm supposed to give back. 45 00:02:57.319 --> 00:03:00.159 And by the way, the word tithe means ten percent. And so if 46 00:03:00.199 --> 00:03:01.919 I'm supposed to take ten percent of my income and I'm supposed to give it 47 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:07.400 back to the church, what about paying for people's groceries at the gas station? 48 00:03:07.560 --> 00:03:15.199 What about donating to a parachurch organization or anti sex trafficking or a you 49 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:17.560 know, feed the hungry or dig a well, right, these are all 50 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:23.680 good things, you know, supporting orphans in a church organization like Salvation Army, 51 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:30.759 by the way, is a organization that has two legs, which is 52 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:36.080 it's an actual church organization. But a Salvation Army is a donation tax detectible 53 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:39.400 donation kind of a thing that generates money to do good. Right, Yeah, 54 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:43.039 so what's your answer to this, Well, I was waiting for your 55 00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:47.759 answer. You just well, okay, then I'll just say so the Bible, 56 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:51.919 the Bible whenever talks about tithe, it talks about bringing it to the 57 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:58.719 church. It doesn't talk about it bringing to a parachurch organization. So therefore 58 00:03:58.759 --> 00:04:01.360 we have to conclude that there's the bride of Christ and then there's the bride's 59 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:05.599 maids. And the bride'smaids are not The bride is as beautiful as the bridesmaids 60 00:04:05.639 --> 00:04:11.520 are. Right, they're they're supposed to bring glory to the bride. Right, 61 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:14.479 they're supposed to They're supposed to draw attention to the bride. And bridesmaids 62 00:04:14.520 --> 00:04:18.399 are great. But that's what that's what parachurch organizations are. They're the bridesmaids. 63 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:23.279 But but the church is the bride, right, So the good deeds, 64 00:04:23.639 --> 00:04:27.160 yes, outside of a local church. Yeah. So I think when 65 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:30.680 you mentioned the tithe is always to the temple. Yeah right. So, 66 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:34.600 so the tithe in the New Testament isn't referenced as going to the church, 67 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:40.040 but it's to the temple. And Malachi is where you would get that, 68 00:04:40.079 --> 00:04:44.040 where he says, bring all the tithes into the storehouse, right, Uh, 69 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:46.160 bring it all to the temple so that the my my house will be 70 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:49.879 full, So the table will be full, and all the resources will be 71 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:54.920 there, which would have been their church right right, and so their church 72 00:04:54.959 --> 00:05:00.720 building. Yeah right, So the the principle would be story house tithing. 73 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:03.639 And I think that's the question she's asking, is what is God's expectation. 74 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:08.759 I personally believe I'm not going to die on this hill, but I personally 75 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:13.560 believe that when he says tithe, you bring the tithe to the storehouse. 76 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:20.199 That's the local body of believers, right collectively. But Jesus refers to tithes 77 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:30.399 and tithes offerings and alms, So tithes would be God's ten percent offerings and 78 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:34.279 alms are over and above the ten percent, so the ten percent goes to 79 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:38.959 the storehouse. That in my mind now in the church ages the church, 80 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:44.480 just like it would have been in the temple before. Offerings are when you're 81 00:05:44.600 --> 00:05:50.839 planning to give more than your tithe for some cause. What is this salvation 82 00:05:50.959 --> 00:05:57.560 army for instance, or something like that. And then alms is spur the 83 00:05:57.639 --> 00:06:01.920 moment, special gifts, homeless man on the street, salvation army, ringing 84 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:05.839 the bell right in that moment. Oh, it's pocket change. It was 85 00:06:05.959 --> 00:06:12.519 unplanned. So tithes are God's rent for living on earth. That's ten percent, 86 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:15.759 and you and all of his blessings. And he says, I'll see 87 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:18.120 if I don't open the windows of heaven and part of blessing on you. 88 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:21.759 So tithes are the requirement. I believe. That's storehouse tithing. You bring 89 00:06:21.879 --> 00:06:25.800 to the local body of believers, and it's God's, not yours, right, 90 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:30.800 so you surrender it. You don't designate it. Then the offerings would 91 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:36.040 be designated gifts over and above tithe that would go over and above that ten 92 00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:40.279 percent that would go to a thing you're designating, Saint Jud's or something like 93 00:06:40.360 --> 00:06:44.240 that. And then the alms is the ringing of the bell, the spur 94 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:47.079 of the moment, homeless person kind of a special gift paying somebody's bills. 95 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:53.319 Right, that that kind of a thing, and so biblically that those are 96 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:57.360 the three ways of giving. And so when it comes to the tithe, 97 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:01.680 God doesn't promise to bless our offerings and our alms until after we've done our 98 00:07:01.720 --> 00:07:05.000 tithe too, right, So God's looking for that bare minimum ten percent. 99 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:08.839 So yeah, that's a big one, man, Johnny. That's a great 100 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:11.040 question to ask. A great question shows where your heart is, right, 101 00:07:11.160 --> 00:07:13.519 where your treasure is. That's where your heart is. And what you're saying 102 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:15.720 is, man, I want my heart to be for Jesus, right, 103 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:18.680 that's what you're saying. That's really good. And I also believe that it's 104 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:23.720 okay too, since we're talking about the nuances, it's okay to give to 105 00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:29.120 not necessarily all the time. Although I've always had the practice of giving like 106 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:30.920 ninety five percent of the church that I'm a part of, but we have 107 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:34.639 other churches that we're just friends with that we give as well. So we 108 00:07:34.680 --> 00:07:38.920 actually use some of our tithe our whole lives. We've done this. It's 109 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:43.120 a very small portion, but we actually support other as long as it's the 110 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:46.079 church, you know, it's not my local church, but it is a 111 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:49.639 church that I believe in, but it's a part of the church, so 112 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:53.439 we do that too. Yeah, So I believe that's right. So anytime 113 00:07:53.439 --> 00:07:56.480 my wife and I have given to other churches, it's it's outside of our 114 00:07:56.519 --> 00:07:59.759 tithe it's over and above. Yeah. Because of that, I have pretty 115 00:07:59.800 --> 00:08:05.560 strong belief in the storehouse tithing. So all those churches are not my storehouse. 116 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:09.319 They're a different storehouse, right, And so it's the temple that I'm 117 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:11.360 a part of. That's where I would give my tithe to. And then 118 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:16.399 it's appropriate to give offerings outside of that too. So yeah, I think 119 00:08:16.399 --> 00:08:18.920 we have a little bit of a different opinion there, but yeah, yeah, 120 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:22.759 yeah. But either way though, I think that the church, there's 121 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:26.000 a big difference between the church and then a parachurch organization, which, by 122 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:30.959 the way, let me as a side note, I want to poke fun 123 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:35.120 at poke. I'm literally announcing I'm poking fun at it. Okay, Okay, 124 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:39.960 I love the Salvation Army. They're great, but I want to poke 125 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:43.840 fun at their slogan. Okay, their slogan says you know what it is. 126 00:08:45.720 --> 00:08:50.080 It says doing the most good as if to imply, hey, I 127 00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:56.240 know you do good, but we do the most good, right, And 128 00:08:56.480 --> 00:09:03.600 I think that's a misquote of their founder. Yes, yes, but that's 129 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:07.320 how it reads. And so if you go to any ring a bell thing, 130 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:11.519 it'll say Army. The only thing printed underneath that logo is doing the 131 00:09:11.559 --> 00:09:13.679 most good rights, as if to say like, hey, all you other, 132 00:09:15.080 --> 00:09:18.840 all you other peasants out there trying to do good. I know you're 133 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:22.320 doing okay, but we do the most good, right. So, and 134 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:26.039 I know that's not what they met. I think what they're meaning is they're 135 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:31.840 about doing the most important things, right. That's right, That's what they're 136 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:35.080 that's what they're saying, right right. So General Booth, William Booth was 137 00:09:35.080 --> 00:09:39.360 the founder of the Salvation Army, and he has a quote, I can't 138 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:43.960 quote it exactly, but we should do the most good that we can do 139 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:46.759 all the time. Yes, right, it's kind of the idea. And 140 00:09:46.799 --> 00:09:52.120 so they shortened that piece, but the quote is a long quote. Yes, 141 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:56.320 And so what they're trying to do is remind Salvation Army people why they 142 00:09:56.360 --> 00:09:58.279 why they do what they do, And it's because we're trying to do the 143 00:09:58.279 --> 00:10:01.679 most good we can with the TI and we have. That's it, And 144 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:05.519 there's a good chance that maybe somebody who works for the Organization of Salvation Army 145 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:09.600 is listening, and I would just say, please talk to somebody, because 146 00:10:09.679 --> 00:10:13.360 what you're doing is you're announcing your arrogance. Yeah, now what it seems 147 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:16.240 like, right, So they're not announcing there against, they're quoting their founder 148 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:18.279 who's saying, we're going to do everything we can to do the most good 149 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:22.360 with our No. So I've already said I think I understand what they're meaning. 150 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:26.039 So this is kind of a Christianese moment. There's times when we say 151 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:28.399 what we know what we mean, yes, but the rest of the world 152 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:31.000 doesn't perceive it the way we know what it means. Yes, and that 153 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:35.799 that's what's happening. I'm saying. So it's not arrogant. I'm saying what 154 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:39.480 you're saying is not what you're meaning. Yes, because what you're saying is 155 00:10:39.799 --> 00:10:43.480 the sounds arrogant in my mind. Yeah, so I don't I don't think 156 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:48.440 it sounds arrogant. But we're doing the most good. Yeah, we're doing 157 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:50.240 better than anybody else, no matter who else does. So I think you 158 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:52.759 think there's judgmentalism in it, I don't think so. No, it's a 159 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:56.360 claim judgmental Yeah, it's just a claim that we're best. No, so 160 00:10:56.360 --> 00:11:00.759 we're doing the best we can, is what I hear it say. I 161 00:11:01.320 --> 00:11:03.840 do not hear that they're doing better than me. That's what That's how it 162 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:09.559 reads. I think it's an indicator of your heart. No, I think 163 00:11:09.559 --> 00:11:16.480 that you're easily offended. Absolutely might not believe the best. You're choosing to 164 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:20.240 believe the worst. Just believe words you might. So if you read a 165 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:22.720 thing like that from people who are good, we're literally sacrificing their life, 166 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:28.039 ringing a bell, taking care of homeless people I love. So you have 167 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:30.679 to just choose to believe the best. When you don't understand a thing, 168 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:35.159 maybe you don't have complete understanding. All you said to me was overlook their 169 00:11:35.240 --> 00:11:39.639 bad slogan. That's all that needs to And all I'm saying is maybe because 170 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:43.399 maybe just misunderstand it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right. You shouldn't 171 00:11:43.399 --> 00:11:46.799 have to have somebody believe the best in your wording. Well, we have 172 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:48.840 to. We have to rely on people believe in the best in us all 173 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:52.879 the time. Well, just choose different wording, that's all I'm saying. 174 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:56.000 That's all I'm saying this guy. So hey, by the way, for 175 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:58.840 our listeners, you also got an episode of What made Chris Mad this week? 176 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:05.639 That's right. Somehow I turned it into rant against the Salvation Army. 177 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:09.840 I don't know if that's a winning strategy. Dude, dude, Hey, 178 00:12:09.879 --> 00:12:13.000 I already said I love it. I don't like their quotes. So good 179 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:18.120 job, Jony, Thank you for your question. That's fantastic. Tithes rent 180 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:22.960 for living on Earth ten God says, I'll bless you offerings over and above. 181 00:12:24.360 --> 00:12:28.600 You designate it alms, spur the moment, give to people in situations 182 00:12:28.600 --> 00:12:31.360 in need. Right, that's it, So good job on that. So 183 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:35.399 we are reading. Actually, we were able to take twelve and a half 184 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:39.879 minutes on that segment because this may be maybe we were just talking about this 185 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:46.480 before it started. The least amount of content in a single episode, let's 186 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:48.559 be honest, that's call for what it is. So we both scrambling, 187 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:50.360 going, what are we going to say on this one? We have some 188 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:54.799 good thoughts though, I think we have thoughts. We'll let the listeners. 189 00:12:54.840 --> 00:12:56.519 We'll let the listeners be the judge whether they're good thoughts. Or not. 190 00:12:56.799 --> 00:13:01.399 Okay, So we're reading Matthew chapter twenty, verses sixty two through sixty six. 191 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:05.639 That's it, and it says the next day on the Sabbath, remember 192 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:11.039 they took Jesus' body down off the cross. Joseph, Arimathea, Nicodemus, 193 00:13:11.320 --> 00:13:13.440 Mary, the two Marys are watching. They put the body in the tomb. 194 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:16.960 The next day on the sabbath, the leading priests and pharisees went to 195 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:22.120 see Pilot. They told him, sir, we remember what that deceiver once 196 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:24.240 said while he was still alive. After three days, I will rise from 197 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:28.159 the dead, So we request that you seal the tomb until the third day. 198 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:33.080 This will prevent his disciples from coming and stealing his body and then telling 199 00:13:33.120 --> 00:13:35.720 everyone he was raised from the dead. If that happens, will be worse 200 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:39.200 off than we were at first. Pilot replied, take guards and secure it 201 00:13:39.240 --> 00:13:43.759 the best you can. So they sealed the tomb and posted guards to protected 202 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:46.559 that's it. There you go. So the content says, hey, post 203 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:50.399 some guards and pots it. Okay, okay, okay, all right, 204 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:56.360 go ahead, but there are several service there's some really neat things in here 205 00:13:56.360 --> 00:13:58.960 hereh yeah, for sure. So let's talk about the seal in itself. 206 00:14:00.519 --> 00:14:03.320 So the seal in itself, the reason why it's such a big deal when 207 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:07.799 it is broken is because when Pilot puts a seal, or any Roman officer 208 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:11.559 for that matter, puts a seal on something, and in this case a 209 00:14:11.639 --> 00:14:13.240 tomb, if it's broken, it meant death for the guard. It's a 210 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:16.759 death penalty. It's a death penalty. So the idea for the person breaking 211 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:20.559 it and for the ones guarding it. Yes, yes, So so that 212 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:26.200 that's important, So that that part is becomes important later on during the resurrection, 213 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:31.360 which would be like I guess on Monday number two for the resurrections on 214 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:35.200 Sunday, but we're going to talk about it on Monday, correct, correct, 215 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:37.480 Yeah, that's what I meant to say. See, where's you're important 216 00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:41.639 to? I know they are slogans, sure, all right, So the 217 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:48.679 point is is that so that's important. And then also we have the fact 218 00:14:48.759 --> 00:14:54.639 that they really paid attention to Jesus' words, like they knew Jesus had made 219 00:14:54.679 --> 00:14:58.120 the claims that he was going to rise again on the third day, right, 220 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:01.200 the Bible says his disciples often didn't understand he was saying he's going to 221 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:03.879 rise on the third day. But these guys are smart enough. They knew 222 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:07.159 what he said, yes, and they knew what he meant, right, 223 00:15:07.240 --> 00:15:09.399 and they were little intimidated by it. Yeah, well there's a lot of 224 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:13.720 things here right, right, so they they're afraid that perhaps it really would 225 00:15:13.720 --> 00:15:20.120 be stolen and that and that his disciples would leverage that to create some sort 226 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:22.440 of a spooky ghost in the legend. But at the same time, you 227 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:28.159 could almost sense that they're like, like, the last thing we want is 228 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:35.639 another another Lazarus or another blind guy seeing or another you know, layman being 229 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:39.799 healed or whatever, because we've seen it, and so it sort of freaks 230 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:43.000 us out. So we know that you're the most powerful force in the world. 231 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:45.720 If you place guards and a seal, that'll make us feel a lot 232 00:15:45.799 --> 00:15:50.799 better. And you know, you never find the Pharisees or the religious teachers 233 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:54.720 of the law. You never find them saying Jesus didn't do the thing. 234 00:15:56.080 --> 00:15:58.240 They always acknowledge the miracle was done. He just did it in the power 235 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:03.440 of the devil, right, So they never reject the miracles. They acknowledge 236 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:06.399 the miracles. They just say he was doing it in the power of the 237 00:16:06.399 --> 00:16:08.559 devil or he was some kind of charlatan or whatever. And so in this 238 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:12.000 situation they may have believed, hey maybe maybe maybe the devil bringing back the 239 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:17.080 life too. Can you imagine though, There's a couple things. One we 240 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:21.759 totally blow over the fact that on the Sabbath they're doing business, which is 241 00:16:21.799 --> 00:16:23.879 considered a form of work. What right, right do as I say, 242 00:16:23.879 --> 00:16:26.720 not as I do? I guess politics is that important. I think for 243 00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:30.759 a lot of Christians, politics is more important than their faith a sermon, 244 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:34.080 right there, let's move on. But in this situation, and you said 245 00:16:34.159 --> 00:16:41.600 more than my slogan ranch right if that? But hey, you tell me 246 00:16:41.639 --> 00:16:45.480 if you don't know Christians who their religion is, there is their politics. 247 00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:48.919 Yeah, it's it's pretty bad. It's pretty bad in the politics of the 248 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:52.919 religion. So anyways, here politics were so important that they were willing to 249 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:56.480 go ahead and walk the edges of if not break the Sabbath on the passover 250 00:16:57.080 --> 00:17:00.000 to go make sure that they can keep this guy in the grave. And 251 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:03.279 that's a big one. But then can you imagine how nuts pilot musself out 252 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:07.759 These people were, really so you want to kill a guy because he's a 253 00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:12.920 little nuts claiming that his kingdom isn't of this earth. And I did that 254 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:15.920 for you. I tried to let him go, and you start a riot 255 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:19.039 to get me to kill him. Okay, so I killed him. It's 256 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:22.759 another life. Who gives a rip about another life? And now you'r afraid 257 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:25.440 it's going to come back to life or that somebody's gonna come and steal the 258 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:29.359 body? Are you flipping serious? And it doesn't end with Pilot because he 259 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:32.319 tried to wash his hands, he tried to say no, he tried to 260 00:17:32.440 --> 00:17:34.880 release Barabus, right, he tried everything right, he didn't want to do 261 00:17:34.920 --> 00:17:37.559 it. But he's worried about the people. He's worried about keeping peace. 262 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:41.240 It's his only job. Well, his job is actually collect taxes, right, 263 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:45.880 Harry really was more of the keep the peace guy. But Pilot's job 264 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:48.200 also is to keep the peace and the whole riots and everything else. And 265 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:52.680 then remember when they said, hey, change the sign, but it says 266 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:56.720 King of the Jews, But the change it to say that Jesus claimed to 267 00:17:56.759 --> 00:18:00.680 be the King of the Jews. Don't actually give him the title the Jews 268 00:18:00.759 --> 00:18:03.799 and Pilots like, I'm so sick of you and so what he says is, 269 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:06.759 I have written what I've written, right, you already forced me to 270 00:18:06.839 --> 00:18:11.279 kill him. I'm not changing the sign on this. I'm not changing the 271 00:18:11.319 --> 00:18:15.440 sign to because you know, because of your I'm not accommodating you. And 272 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:18.559 so they're coming back the next day going, yes, hey, we need 273 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:21.319 to we need official seal. Yeah, we need official and then what does 274 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:22.960 he say. He's thinking to himself, Okay, if that does happen, 275 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:26.480 that would be chaos. It would be it would be way worse and there 276 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:29.279 and that's what they're trying to tell him, and he's like, well, 277 00:18:29.319 --> 00:18:33.680 I got to keep the peace. So I could imagine his disgust and saying, 278 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:37.039 go ahead, so just take some guards and secure the best you can. 279 00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:38.880 Right. He's like, I'm just done with this, right because they're 280 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:44.519 nuts, right right. Well, everything, everything about Pilot's attitude, his 281 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:49.559 conversations, and his responses indicate that that would have been exactly his demeanor, 282 00:18:49.920 --> 00:18:52.640 right, And he's done with this. Uh, And so okay, so 283 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:57.279 we have that and then uh, and then let's talk about this. There's 284 00:18:57.279 --> 00:19:03.359 another sermon hidden in here, and that is all the people who, throughout 285 00:19:03.359 --> 00:19:08.559 their entire lifetimes for two thousand years who have tried to disprove Jesus's resurrection, 286 00:19:10.920 --> 00:19:14.279 right, think about that. That's all another sermony. Yeah, because there 287 00:19:14.279 --> 00:19:17.599 are people who have we have friends, good friends absolutely who we know, 288 00:19:18.119 --> 00:19:22.119 who have basically spent their entire lives, you know, trying to disprove Jesus. 289 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:26.920 And it was during that pursuit that they understood that, you know, 290 00:19:26.039 --> 00:19:33.359 Jesus's life defied mathematical odds, fulfilling the prophecies, that his resurrection can never 291 00:19:33.400 --> 00:19:37.279 be disproven. And people who have spent you know, and by the way, 292 00:19:37.279 --> 00:19:40.559 there's a lot of stake trying to disprove this. Oh. Absolutely, 293 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:45.319 I have a friend. He was in Baghdad. He was a student in 294 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:51.119 Baghdad when the Second US invasion happened, and he got sucked into a pretty 295 00:19:51.200 --> 00:19:56.160 radical group of religious radicals and began to coordinate hits against American soldiers in the 296 00:19:56.160 --> 00:20:00.240 Green Zone. Wow. And he started feeling guilt about that and couldn't do 297 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:07.240 it anymore. He had befriended an American soldier and was coming up to assassinat 298 00:20:07.279 --> 00:20:10.519 him, and when the soldier saw what was happening, he said, hey, 299 00:20:10.519 --> 00:20:11.960 whoa wha whah, whoa whoa, whoa. I pray for your country 300 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:15.240 every day. And it was the first time my friend had ever heard those 301 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:18.440 phrases, that phrase. He was, what do you mean you pray for 302 00:20:18.519 --> 00:20:21.319 my country every day? And he said, I'm a Christian and I just 303 00:20:21.359 --> 00:20:25.680 want peace and bagdad and so I love you and I love everybody here and 304 00:20:25.799 --> 00:20:27.039 it doesn't have to happen. So churs they're porting guns at each other, 305 00:20:27.400 --> 00:20:30.119 and he said it was like God just froze his hand and he couldn't pull 306 00:20:30.119 --> 00:20:33.599 the trigger, and so he walked away and he lived that day. And 307 00:20:33.640 --> 00:20:37.519 then he was moved by the fact that he couldn't kill this guy who said, 308 00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:41.000 I'm praying for you. He said, it never dawned on him that 309 00:20:41.519 --> 00:20:45.240 Christians prayed. So he went back to his religious leader. And he was 310 00:20:45.279 --> 00:20:48.920 a journalism student and he said, you know, I don't think I can 311 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:52.759 kill anymore, but what can I do? And this religious leader said, 312 00:20:52.759 --> 00:20:56.319 well, okay, you're a journalism student. Let's disprove Christianity. And we're 313 00:20:56.359 --> 00:20:59.319 going to write all these books and pamphlets. We're gonna spread them all over. 314 00:20:59.519 --> 00:21:03.599 We're going to we're going to convert the American soldiers and so he became 315 00:21:03.640 --> 00:21:08.400 a researcher, and he started investigating churches and all these things, and he 316 00:21:08.440 --> 00:21:12.000 said it was the resurrection that hung him up to the point that he's like, 317 00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:15.680 I think I'm convinced. The Holy Spirit began to convince him of the 318 00:21:15.319 --> 00:21:21.839 authenticity of the resurrection. And this is exactly what the religious leaders are saying 319 00:21:21.880 --> 00:21:25.880 here. If the tomb is empty, if that happens, we'll be worse 320 00:21:25.920 --> 00:21:29.400 off than we were at first, right. We know, hey, if 321 00:21:29.440 --> 00:21:33.480 the resurrection happens, if this tomb is empty, it's going to destroy everything 322 00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:37.200 we're trying to build against Jesus in this moment. And that's what happened, 323 00:21:37.279 --> 00:21:41.799 was that my friend came to the conclusion that the tomb really is empty through 324 00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:45.079 his efforts to try to disprove Christianity. And then the last thing that happened 325 00:21:45.160 --> 00:21:52.400 was a neighborhood had burned down, a Christian neighborhood was torched by radicals. 326 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:56.960 And he went to the church in that neighborhood and the pastor they were singing 327 00:21:56.960 --> 00:22:00.680 about God's blessings, which what do they have to say sing about? He 328 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:03.599 said that would blow his mind, that how God blesses him. And then 329 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:06.480 the pastor got up and said, hey, we love those who hate us, 330 00:22:06.759 --> 00:22:10.119 and so we're going to receive an offering. There was a Muslim widow 331 00:22:10.440 --> 00:22:14.000 whose house also burned, and the very first offering the church took up to 332 00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:18.319 rebuild the neighborhood was for the Muslim widow first. And he just starts crying 333 00:22:18.319 --> 00:22:19.799 and he said, that was it for me. So the resurrection is real 334 00:22:19.839 --> 00:22:23.400 and it changes lives. These people are different than me. And he said, 335 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:26.359 I realized I was full of hate and what I needed was the hope 336 00:22:26.359 --> 00:22:29.759 that comes through the resurrection of Jesus. And he gives left to Christ. 337 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:33.680 That's awesome. Radically transformed him to the point where now you know, he 338 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:37.599 shares the gospel everywhere. God's used even significant ministry all over the Middle East 339 00:22:37.599 --> 00:22:40.799 and with the Middle Eastern people here in the US now. So it's really 340 00:22:40.920 --> 00:22:42.720 really a phenomenal story. But it was the power of the resurrection that got 341 00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:45.839 it for him. That's great. Well, I mean, those are the 342 00:22:45.880 --> 00:22:51.240 details leading up to what's about to happen. And yes, Jeff, it 343 00:22:51.240 --> 00:22:55.359 does happen on Sunday, but we will pick up our episodes on Monday. 344 00:22:55.720 --> 00:22:59.119 Yeah, so hopefully we will see you then, next time on the Bible Gush