WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:07.480 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:14.640 Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Bible Guys. My name is Chris. 5 00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:17.000 Should I wear my hat forward or backward? 6 00:00:17.079 --> 00:00:18.359 You see this shadow on my face? 7 00:00:18.559 --> 00:00:18.760 Yeah? 8 00:00:18.760 --> 00:00:20.320 I don't think peop want to see my pretty I 9 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:22.000 don't think pretty bloody cares. 10 00:00:22.039 --> 00:00:24.960 But I was like this, I like this is cool. 11 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:28.600 Jeff Yeah, yeah, Jeff yeah? 12 00:00:28.679 --> 00:00:30.640 Is that? Did you ever wear your hat backwards? Not 13 00:00:30.719 --> 00:00:31.440 very often? Yeah. 14 00:00:31.480 --> 00:00:33.560 I was gonna say I don't ever do it, but 15 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:34.640 my wife likes when I do it. 16 00:00:35.039 --> 00:00:37.479 She's like, you look cool, cool, look, you look cool. 17 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:39.640 You are elevates the cool factor. All right, that's how 18 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:41.799 I don't wear it this way. It says Detroit. 19 00:00:41.799 --> 00:00:43.240 They see, yeah, that's very cool. 20 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:45.600 And for those of you who don't know, Detroit is 21 00:00:45.799 --> 00:00:47.840 a city Michigan, that's right. 22 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:50.920 And uh, Detroit is a tough town. That's why you 23 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:52.759 and I are so tough. That's right, because from Detroit. 24 00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:53.920 That's why I wear my sweatshirt. 25 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:58.079 That's right in the morning, that's right. That's right. Okay, 26 00:00:58.119 --> 00:00:58.520 I'm cool. 27 00:00:59.240 --> 00:00:59.560 All right. 28 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:02.159 Well, hey, today we are going to do a segment 29 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:07.599 that Desiree has. She has plucked from fed from the 30 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:10.640 people who are right in Yes. So, if you have 31 00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:15.319 a question that you want answered or at least considered 32 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:18.480 to be answered, she is gonna present us with a 33 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:21.439 question called stump the pastor yes. So, somebody wrote in 34 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:26.239 a question and so she has plucked it from the responses. 35 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:29.480 And here it is. This is by Anonymous. Okay, okay, 36 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:31.359 hello anonymous, Hello anonymous. 37 00:01:31.920 --> 00:01:33.599 Uh. The question is how do you deal with the 38 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:38.079 guilt of sin and avoiding falling back into that bad habit? 39 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:42.439 So these are related, but there are two two different 40 00:01:42.719 --> 00:01:46.920 sort of answers, because guilt of sin is internal and 41 00:01:46.959 --> 00:01:49.680 it's you know, it's it's it's it's you know, dealing 42 00:01:49.719 --> 00:01:53.560 with uh, you know, your attitude and your emotions responding 43 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:57.239 around that one sin. Apparently I'm assuming that one sin 44 00:01:57.280 --> 00:02:00.239 that trips you up, right, Like in Hebrews, it talks about, 45 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:03.480 you know, putting aside and getting rid of the one 46 00:02:03.560 --> 00:02:06.760 sin that so easily trips you up or besets you, right, 47 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:10.159 So I'm assuming that's just what they're talking about, because 48 00:02:10.199 --> 00:02:13.479 it says avoid falling back into that bad habit. 49 00:02:14.639 --> 00:02:16.520 So Hey, how about this. 50 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:19.960 I'll talk about the guilt of sin part okay, and 51 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:22.439 you could talk about how do you avoid falling back 52 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:26.039 into that one temptation that trips you up. So I'll 53 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:29.919 just say this about guilt. The Bible is really clear 54 00:02:29.919 --> 00:02:33.479 about guilt, that guilt is a good thing when it's 55 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:37.159 used for God's purposes. So guilt is given to us 56 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:41.560 in the form of conviction, in the form of repentance. Right, 57 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:45.719 So if guilt leads us to repentance, and the word 58 00:02:45.759 --> 00:02:49.240 repent means to turn away from it's a fancy church 59 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:51.520 word that means just to go the other direction. Change 60 00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:54.719 your state of mind, change your thinking, change your direction, 61 00:02:54.919 --> 00:02:58.560 change your choices right, change your heart. And so once 62 00:02:58.680 --> 00:03:02.439 that happens, guilt has of his purpose because God will 63 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:06.800 use guilt for that. And so guilt will then turn 64 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:10.000 us to, for instance, like apologies. It will turn us 65 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:15.319 toward making up for a right relationship, mending a relationship, 66 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:18.520 turning away from our bad actions, turning back toward God. 67 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:22.280 These are great things that guilt can propel us to do. 68 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:25.639 And so gil has a purpose. So God didn't make 69 00:03:25.639 --> 00:03:28.879 a mistake when he give us guilt. However, God is 70 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:33.120 actually pretty crystal clear that there is no condemnation for 71 00:03:33.199 --> 00:03:36.560 those who are in Christ Jesus. That once we turned 72 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:38.879 back to God, that we need to understand that our 73 00:03:38.919 --> 00:03:42.879 sins are forgiven because that sin has been repented, that 74 00:03:42.919 --> 00:03:47.439 sin has been confessed and forgiven, that sin has been 75 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:51.439 forgotten by God. Literally, it actually says God has chosen. 76 00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:55.840 He doesn't have to, but he has chosen to forget 77 00:03:55.919 --> 00:03:59.439 our sin. He has removed our sin as far as 78 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:02.199 the east is from the west. He has buried our 79 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:05.319 sin in the deepest ocean, God says, And he says, 80 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:07.719 I choose to remember your sins. 81 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:08.840 No more. 82 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:11.840 He doesn't do that because of us. He does that 83 00:04:11.879 --> 00:04:15.400 because of the sacrifice of Jesus. Christ Jesus is the 84 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:21.279 sinless sacrifice, that is the only sacrifice worthy enough to 85 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:22.360 eliminate our. 86 00:04:22.279 --> 00:04:23.639 Sins from us. 87 00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:28.639 And so I would just say God never intends for 88 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:32.240 us to live in guilt. Once we have used guilt, 89 00:04:32.319 --> 00:04:34.839 or God has used guilt for us to return to repentance, 90 00:04:35.399 --> 00:04:38.959 then you need to realize if God has chosen to 91 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:41.959 forget your sin, forget your sin, then you should choose 92 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:42.680 to forget your sin. 93 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:47.560 And by the way, easier said than done. 94 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:51.959 So we should we you know, forgive and forget, right, 95 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:55.040 I mean, it's really hard to forget. But we need 96 00:04:55.079 --> 00:04:58.839 to understand that God doesn't have us live in guilt. 97 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:01.199 So let me just say one thing and I'll hand 98 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:02.480 it over to you. And that is. 99 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:08.600 Some people believe that wearing guilt as a badge of 100 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:11.120 honor is a good thing. Like I'm gonna I'm gonna 101 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:14.439 go ahead and punish myself. I don't deserve to be 102 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:18.480 treated kindly. I don't deserve you. I'm not worthy of 103 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:20.360 of all things. You know, I walk into a church 104 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:22.480 and and I'm a I'm a piece of garbage, that 105 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:26.680 kind of thing. And and just understand that God will 106 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:30.360 use those who repent. God used the apostle Paul, God 107 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:35.519 used David got, God restored Peter. God even blessed Manassa 108 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:38.399 for crying out loud. God is going to use those 109 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:44.279 who repent. We just covered the Ninavites, right, so so 110 00:05:44.279 --> 00:05:48.319 so God is going to continue to use you and 111 00:05:48.319 --> 00:05:52.079 bless you if we repent. So so, don't don't wear 112 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:54.920 guilt as a badge of honor. You may think it's 113 00:05:55.120 --> 00:05:57.959 noble to do that, but it's not noble. It's not 114 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:00.680 what God intends. It's it's it's it's a bad thing. 115 00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:01.759 That's it. 116 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:05.959 There's a theological term that is mentioned many times in Bible, 117 00:06:06.040 --> 00:06:06.959 the word justified. 118 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:09.079 You and I. We just talked about it someday in church. 119 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:12.639 Right, and so that verse that you mentioned Romans eight one, 120 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:15.480 there is now therefore no condemnation for those who are 121 00:06:16.079 --> 00:06:19.879 in Christ Jesus. When the Bible talks about us being justified, 122 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:23.800 we are justified in Christ Jesus. The word justified. The 123 00:06:23.800 --> 00:06:26.560 easiest definition is that God makes us just as if 124 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:29.519 I had never sinned. So it's not that God looks 125 00:06:29.519 --> 00:06:31.639 at me and remembers, boy, he used to be a sinner, 126 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:34.920 but he's not anymore. God looks at me, and because 127 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:37.800 I'm in Jesus, he saw me. He sees me as 128 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:41.839 if I've never sinned. So right, that's a that's a 129 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:46.240 mind blowing idea. So when God sees you, if you're 130 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:48.240 a fouler of Christ, if you've trusted Christ, you know. 131 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:51.160 First John one nine tells us that if we confess 132 00:06:51.160 --> 00:06:53.360 our sins, He's faithful and just to forgive us our 133 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:58.199 sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Every hint 134 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:01.519 of it, right, And so that's the idea of justification, 135 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:05.079 that God looks at you just as if you'd never sin. 136 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:10.519 Yea, And so he is not mad at you right 137 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:15.519 right right on this. But you know what you've done. 138 00:07:16.279 --> 00:07:18.639 So where God looks at you because you're in Jesus, 139 00:07:19.399 --> 00:07:22.000 if you've trusted Christ as your savior, he looks at 140 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:25.279 you in Jesus. And because he's seeing Jesus on you 141 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:28.680 and you in him, there's no sin to see, right, 142 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:31.800 nothink Jesus is perfect. So then for you, how do 143 00:07:31.839 --> 00:07:35.279 you navigate through this one? Confess your sin first John 144 00:07:35.279 --> 00:07:38.120 one nine. So you confess it, and you know you 145 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:39.439 don't have to keep doing it over and over and 146 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:42.319 over again. But you confess your sin. I think remembering 147 00:07:42.319 --> 00:07:44.879 your identity in Christ, the fact that you know the 148 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:51.199 Bible says that you no longer are your own anymore. Right, 149 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:54.040 You've become a new person in Christ, the Bible says, 150 00:07:54.279 --> 00:07:56.079 and the old life has gone, a new life has begun. 151 00:07:56.160 --> 00:07:58.759 So then you begin going down this past. So there's 152 00:07:58.759 --> 00:08:00.360 a few things. Here's what I would say as far 153 00:08:00.360 --> 00:08:02.600 as learning how to avoid you sent First of all, 154 00:08:02.600 --> 00:08:05.319 you need to renew your mind daily. Rome's chapter twelve 155 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:08.399 says one and two. It says, give your body as 156 00:08:08.439 --> 00:08:10.879 a living sacrifice. That can be difficult. It's a choice 157 00:08:10.920 --> 00:08:13.439 every day to do that. God, my body's yours, and 158 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:16.600 so help me to honor you. That's an by hour, 159 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:18.160 sometimes minute by minute decision. 160 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:18.639 Right. 161 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:21.839 Then renew your mind and renewing your mind to spending 162 00:08:21.879 --> 00:08:24.079 time in God's word. You change your mind to start 163 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:26.199 thinking like his mind. And the only way you can 164 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:28.600 do that is He gave you his words. And so 165 00:08:29.120 --> 00:08:31.800 the podcast. Right, we're spending time in God's word every day, 166 00:08:32.279 --> 00:08:33.360 reading the Bible on your own. 167 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:34.080 That's a big one. 168 00:08:34.279 --> 00:08:37.279 Proverbs chapter four tells us to guard our hearts above 169 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:38.279 all else. 170 00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:38.799 Yep. 171 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:41.679 So that means you need to start setting up parameters 172 00:08:42.919 --> 00:08:45.320 of fences around your life a little bit that if 173 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:48.240 you know you have a weakness with, say alcohol, I 174 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:50.600 got the idea, don't go with your friends to the 175 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:51.759 bar and drink a diet coat. 176 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:52.639 Right. 177 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:55.519 I have a friend that says, hey, if you go 178 00:08:55.559 --> 00:08:58.759 to the barbershop often enough, you're going to get your haircut. Right, 179 00:08:59.159 --> 00:09:01.720 that's what happens. So you guard your hearts, set up 180 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:04.039 some fences. Not that God's mad at you, but you 181 00:09:04.120 --> 00:09:06.559 care enough to say, I'm going to avoid that spot 182 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:08.720 for me. You have to rely on the Holy Spirit, 183 00:09:08.840 --> 00:09:10.879 not just your power. Galatians tells us to walk in 184 00:09:10.919 --> 00:09:13.919 the spirit every day, and you won't fulfill the desires 185 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:16.960 of your flesh. So that really is going to require 186 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:19.919 that you're replacing bad habits with good habits. That now, 187 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:22.320 instead of that thing that you normally would do on 188 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:26.399 Friday nights, you decide to fill Friday night with something good. Right, so, 189 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:31.720 and then you run from those evil things and evil people, 190 00:09:31.799 --> 00:09:33.519 and you run two good people. You have to surround 191 00:09:33.559 --> 00:09:37.480 yourself with good people. Hebrews chapter ten says, let us 192 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:39.480 think of ways to motivate one another to acts of 193 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:43.080 love and good works the one another's There's so many 194 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:45.480 times in sixty something times in the New Testament talks 195 00:09:45.480 --> 00:09:48.360 about the importance of one another. We can't go on 196 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:52.279 this spiritual journey alone. We really need other Christians. I 197 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:54.000 need you to encourage me to do the right thing, 198 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:55.519 and you need me to encourage you to do the 199 00:09:55.559 --> 00:09:56.799 right thing. We need one another. 200 00:09:57.200 --> 00:09:59.159 And then he says to run. 201 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:03.120 From tempta we're tempted to kind of just peek around 202 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:05.000 and look and see how strong we are today. But 203 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:07.840 he says, run we just read this yesterday. Isn't to 204 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:10.480 do what is good and run from evil so that 205 00:10:10.519 --> 00:10:11.039 you may live. 206 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:11.679 That's right. 207 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:17.399 And so I would say that those tools are helpful. Ultimately, 208 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:20.159 walk in the spirit. You won't fulfill the lust of 209 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:23.000 the flesh. But it's all those other tools you need 210 00:10:23.039 --> 00:10:24.679 one another. You need to spend time in God's word. 211 00:10:24.759 --> 00:10:27.159 Let God change your mind those things. And then when 212 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:31.000 you trip, and you may when you trip, confess your sins. 213 00:10:31.240 --> 00:10:33.919 First John one night, and he's faithful, and he's just 214 00:10:34.039 --> 00:10:37.080 to forgive your sins and to cleanse you from all 215 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:41.200 in righteousness. Literally, you are justified, just as if I'd 216 00:10:41.240 --> 00:10:45.679 never sinned. So sleep well tonight knowing that you've been forgiven, 217 00:10:45.840 --> 00:10:47.679 get up tomorrow and get back to work. 218 00:10:47.799 --> 00:10:48.039 Yep. 219 00:10:48.679 --> 00:10:52.799 Just remember, God says you need God and you need others, right, 220 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:54.200 so you have to have you have to have that 221 00:10:54.240 --> 00:10:56.840 in your life. And hey, listen, being in a position 222 00:10:57.159 --> 00:10:59.679 of being tempted by sin is a difficult position at times. 223 00:11:00.159 --> 00:11:03.080 And you know what else is a difficult position, uh, 224 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:07.200 When when a prophet gives you a warning of a 225 00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:09.320 coming judgment in. 226 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:11.039 A difficult You're in a difficult position. 227 00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:13.399 Then when God's saying that I'm going to come down, 228 00:11:13.480 --> 00:11:14.519 you like a lion. 229 00:11:14.759 --> 00:11:16.840 Yeah, yeah, that's right. Hey. 230 00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:19.320 By the way, Uh, my wife and I watched the 231 00:11:19.320 --> 00:11:23.559 comedian John mulaney and he was interviewed by David Letterman 232 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:26.519 on that new show My Next Guest and uh he 233 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:28.799 and this was a while back, but he on that 234 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:31.440 show he said that he had just celebrated three years 235 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:34.799 of sobriety. So he went into rehab because of an 236 00:11:34.840 --> 00:11:37.759 intervention with all his friends. So all his friends came in. 237 00:11:37.960 --> 00:11:40.399 There's all these famous comedians that uh, you know came 238 00:11:40.440 --> 00:11:43.480 to him and and uh, you know, intervened and uh 239 00:11:43.519 --> 00:11:45.759 and so it was it was both uh you know, 240 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:49.879 Uh he has faith, right, so it's God and then 241 00:11:49.919 --> 00:11:53.159 it's others and the other's part uh is you know 242 00:11:53.279 --> 00:11:56.159 for him especially, was put into place in a really 243 00:11:56.200 --> 00:11:58.840 really strong way, you know, which was really cool. 244 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:00.799 It's very very important that we don't go on this 245 00:12:00.879 --> 00:12:04.759 journey alone of recovering from whatever. So you run from it, 246 00:12:04.840 --> 00:12:06.360 get rid of whatever you can get rid of. That 247 00:12:06.559 --> 00:12:09.960 is a temptation. You fill your time. You know, what 248 00:12:10.159 --> 00:12:12.080 used to be time that you spent for the wrong thing, 249 00:12:12.159 --> 00:12:14.720 you you change it right, and you do the right 250 00:12:14.759 --> 00:12:17.279 thing and then guard your herd above everything else while 251 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:19.399 you're walking with God and letting God change your mind. 252 00:12:19.480 --> 00:12:22.039 So yeah, it's it's an it's a it's a journey 253 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:24.679 that you're on. Very rarely do I ever see somebody 254 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:27.559 just miraculously suddenly never do that bad thing again. 255 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:29.840 Right, it's it's it's a battle. 256 00:12:29.879 --> 00:12:32.600 And what you're doing some heavy lifting, right, and that 257 00:12:32.679 --> 00:12:34.480 heavy lifting is going to make you strong. That's the 258 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:36.559 only way you can build muscle. So you begin to 259 00:12:36.639 --> 00:12:39.440 build spiritual muscle by doing the heavy lifting every day. 260 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:41.159 And next thing, you know what used to be too heavy, 261 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:44.159 you can do easily, right, And that's that's that's. 262 00:12:44.039 --> 00:12:44.600 What God does. 263 00:12:44.799 --> 00:12:49.799 So talking about this coming judgment thing, yep in Amus 264 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:51.679 chapter five, verse eighteen, we're gonna be a bunch of 265 00:12:51.759 --> 00:12:55.039 verses today. Yeah, one of my favorite verses in the 266 00:12:55.080 --> 00:12:57.559 book of Amos. So we've got a couple, but one 267 00:12:57.600 --> 00:12:58.240 of my favorite. 268 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:01.519 You know, you remember how you talk about me speaking superlatives? 269 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:02.039 Huh? 270 00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:06.039 You have like twelve one of my favorite verses in 271 00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:07.960 the last like twenty podcast. 272 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:10.200 Telling you I love it. I love this verse. It's 273 00:13:10.200 --> 00:13:12.159 one of my favorite ones verses. Y. 274 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:15.120 Yes, I've read the Book of Amos, so I got 275 00:13:15.120 --> 00:13:16.559 some favorite favorite ones in there. 276 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:19.080 Yeah, for sure. Yeah you should read It's pretty cool. 277 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:24.480 Oh you know what that's it? Then, Jeff, just listen, 278 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:27.600 I'll read it. Okay. I'm so glad I could be 279 00:13:27.639 --> 00:13:28.279 sitting here with you. 280 00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:32.759 It says what sorrow awaits you who say, if only 281 00:13:32.799 --> 00:13:34.600 the day of the Lord we're here. You have no 282 00:13:34.679 --> 00:13:37.639 idea what you're wishing for. That day will bring darkness, 283 00:13:37.879 --> 00:13:39.840 not light, And that day you will be like a 284 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:42.480 man who runs from a lion only to meet a bear. 285 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:44.840 Escaping from the bear, he leans his hand against a 286 00:13:44.840 --> 00:13:47.440 wall in his house, and he's bitten by a snake. Yes, 287 00:13:47.480 --> 00:13:49.200 the day of the Lord will be dark and hopeless 288 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:52.559 without a ray of joy or hope. Good morning, good morning, 289 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:55.279 good morning, you want to say, good morning? 290 00:13:55.399 --> 00:13:56.039 Yeah, there you go. 291 00:13:56.799 --> 00:14:00.039 I hate all your show and pretense, the hypocrisy of 292 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:03.320 your religious festivals and solemn assemblies. I will not accept 293 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:05.720 your burnt offerings and grain offerings. I won't even notice 294 00:14:05.720 --> 00:14:09.919 all your choice peace offerings away with your noisy hymns 295 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:11.919 of praise. I will not listen to the music of 296 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:15.240 your harps. Instead, I want to see a mighty flood 297 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:17.919 of justice and an endless river of righteous living. 298 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:18.679 That's what I like. 299 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:22.559 I that's my favorite verse right there, right, I want 300 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:24.720 to see a mighty flood of justice and an endless 301 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:26.840 river of righteous living. Quit going to church, Quit doing 302 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:29.000 all the religious stuff, acting like you're a good person, 303 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:31.600 and then living wickedly. That's what he's saying, right, just 304 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:35.559 be just and righteous. Was it to me you were 305 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:38.519 bringing sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the 306 00:14:38.519 --> 00:14:44.480 wilderness Israel. No, you served your pagan gods, Saco, Secou, 307 00:14:44.840 --> 00:14:47.919 Secouth your King God, and Kaiwan, your star God, the 308 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:51.519 images you made for yourself. So I will send you 309 00:14:51.519 --> 00:14:54.320 into exile, to a land east of Damascus, says the Lord, 310 00:14:54.360 --> 00:14:57.440 whose name is the God of Heaven's armies. What sorrow 311 00:14:57.440 --> 00:14:59.720 awaits you, who lounge and luxury in Jerusalem and you 312 00:14:59.720 --> 00:15:03.200 feel secure in Samaria. You are famous and popular in Israel, 313 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:05.679 and people go to you for help. But go over 314 00:15:05.720 --> 00:15:08.279 to Kalna and see what happened there. Then go to 315 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:10.519 the great city a Haymath, and down to the Philistine 316 00:15:10.519 --> 00:15:12.519 city a gath. You are no better than they were, 317 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:16.399 and look how they were destroyed. You push away every 318 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:18.840 thought of coming disaster, but your actions only bring the 319 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:21.519 day of judgment closer. How terrible for you, who sprawl 320 00:15:21.519 --> 00:15:24.399 on ivory beds and lounge on your couches, eating the 321 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:27.320 meats of tender lambs from the flock and of choice 322 00:15:27.559 --> 00:15:30.600 calves fattened in the stall. You sing trivial songs to 323 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:32.600 the sound of the harp, and fancy yourselves to be 324 00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:35.600 great musicians like David. You drink wine by the bowl full, 325 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:38.720 and perfume yourselves with fragrant lotions, and you care nothing 326 00:15:38.759 --> 00:15:41.240 about the ruin of your nation. Therefore you will be 327 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:43.639 the first to be led away as captives. Suddenly all 328 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:47.320 your parties will end. The sovereign Lord has sworn by 329 00:15:47.320 --> 00:15:49.320 his own name, and this is what he, the Lord, 330 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:50.360 God of Heaven's. 331 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:50.639 Army, says. 332 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:54.200 I despise the arrogance of Israel, and I hate their fortresses. 333 00:15:54.399 --> 00:15:56.360 I will give this city and everything in it to 334 00:15:56.399 --> 00:15:59.279 their enemies. If there are ten men left in one house, 335 00:15:59.279 --> 00:16:01.559 they will all die. And when a relative who is 336 00:16:01.600 --> 00:16:03.960 responsible to dispose of the dead, goes into the house 337 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:06.200 to carry out the bodies, he will ask the last survivor, 338 00:16:06.399 --> 00:16:08.639 is anyone else with you? When the person begins to 339 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:11.879 swear no by he will interrupt and say stop. 340 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:13.360 Don't even mention the name of the Lord. 341 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:17.480 When the Lord gives the command, homes both great and 342 00:16:17.480 --> 00:16:20.960 small will be smashed to pieces. Can horses gallop over boulders? 343 00:16:21.279 --> 00:16:24.519 Can oxen be used to plow them? But that's how 344 00:16:24.519 --> 00:16:26.759 foolish you are when you turn justice into poison and 345 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:29.440 the sweet fruit of righteousness into bitterness, and you brag 346 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:32.919 about your conquest a lodabar. You boast, didn't we take 347 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:36.519 Canaeum by our own strength? Oh people of Israel, I'm 348 00:16:36.559 --> 00:16:38.759 about to bring an enemy nation against you, says the 349 00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:41.440 Lord God at Heaven's army. They will oppress you throughout 350 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:45.399 your land, from Lebelheymoth in the north to the Araba 351 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:46.840 Valley in the south. 352 00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:50.080 It's at the end of it. I think that's the 353 00:16:50.200 --> 00:16:51.399 end of it. We got it right there. 354 00:16:51.720 --> 00:16:56.919 Yeah, so I'm not joking around. Yeah, there's definitely a 355 00:16:57.639 --> 00:17:01.399 lot of specifics here. In fact, I think that it 356 00:17:01.519 --> 00:17:05.079 is so not strange, I guess, but like, because you know, 357 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:07.480 God's gonna if he says this, it's. 358 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:09.440 Gonna happen, right, but that whole. 359 00:17:09.359 --> 00:17:14.079 That whole like verse nine ten eleven, uh where he 360 00:17:14.160 --> 00:17:16.599 gets where he says, okay, all right, there's ten men 361 00:17:16.599 --> 00:17:19.599 in the house. He says, they'll all die, and when 362 00:17:19.599 --> 00:17:22.119 a relative was responsible to dispose of that, goes in 363 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:23.200 the house and carries out the body. 364 00:17:23.200 --> 00:17:25.799 He's the last, the last survivor. Is anyone else with you? 365 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:28.680 But then when the person begins to swear no bycomma 366 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:32.119 dot dot dot end quote, he will interrupt and say stop, 367 00:17:32.119 --> 00:17:33.039 don't even mention the name. 368 00:17:32.960 --> 00:17:35.720 Of the lord in parentheses. Right, So guy was gonna 369 00:17:35.720 --> 00:17:36.920 say no by the Lord. 370 00:17:36.960 --> 00:17:37.799 Right right, right, right right. 371 00:17:38.680 --> 00:17:41.799 But it's so so specific. 372 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:44.519 Right, So it seems it's seemingly so random. 373 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:48.319 But yet you know, God is really getting very specific 374 00:17:48.400 --> 00:17:50.079 about how it's going to be. 375 00:17:50.279 --> 00:17:52.400 It's gonna be rough. It's going to be rough, he says. 376 00:17:52.440 --> 00:17:54.000 In that day, it'll be like a man who runs 377 00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:55.960 from a lion only to meet a bear when he's 378 00:17:56.039 --> 00:17:59.720 leaning against the wall. The rest he said, you're not 379 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:02.079 getting away from me, That's what he's saying. Yeah, you 380 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:04.119 will not get away from my judgment. Now, this is 381 00:18:04.119 --> 00:18:05.799 thirty something years in the future. 382 00:18:05.920 --> 00:18:06.160 Yep. 383 00:18:06.599 --> 00:18:09.039 But he says, if you don't repent, because remember in 384 00:18:09.079 --> 00:18:11.720 the previous chapter he says, do what's evil and run, 385 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:13.400 or do what's good and run from evil so that 386 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:15.720 you may live. God saying come back to me, then 387 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:16.759 maybe maybe. 388 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:17.759 I'll hold off on this stuff. 389 00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:19.920 Yeah, but then he goes back, He goes back and 390 00:18:19.920 --> 00:18:21.559 say it's gonna be rough if you don't. 391 00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:22.559 You know. 392 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:26.400 The part that sticks out to me is he says, 393 00:18:26.559 --> 00:18:29.799 away with your noisy hymns of praise, right, I will 394 00:18:29.839 --> 00:18:32.319 not listen to your music of your harps. Instead, I 395 00:18:32.319 --> 00:18:34.039 want to see a mighty flooded justice, which is what 396 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:36.680 you pointed out right, Like that concept. I love it, 397 00:18:37.079 --> 00:18:40.240 and it's it's the idea of like who was it 398 00:18:40.319 --> 00:18:44.960 in the Old Testament? Was it David right? When he says, 399 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:49.720 you don't desire sacrifice, you don't want my burnt offerings. 400 00:18:49.799 --> 00:18:50.960 Instead, God, you want to. 401 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:53.880