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 --> 00:00:07.519 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.439 --> 00:00:13.080 Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible Guys. 5 00:00:13.119 --> 00:00:16.480 I'm Chris, this is Jeff, and we together are guys 6 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:18.000 who like the Bible. 7 00:00:18.199 --> 00:00:21.000 Big fans of the Bible. 8 00:00:21.879 --> 00:00:24.800 Yep, yep, I agree with that, big fan, big fang 9 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:26.039 highly recommend it. 10 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:29.079 Yes, yes, yes, And so we should call our show 11 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:32.000 the Bible Guys. Yeah, you know what, it's a it's 12 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:34.920 a it's a good name, okay, but but but we 13 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:37.320 needed something else, just a little bit more, a little flair. 14 00:00:37.399 --> 00:00:41.439 Oh, we can say daily daily, the Daily Bible Guys. Okay, 15 00:00:41.759 --> 00:00:43.159 even even though it's not every day. 16 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:43.840 It's not every day. 17 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:46.560 By the way, I had, I had a lady good friend, 18 00:00:46.920 --> 00:00:50.640 knowing them for years, and she's now a greeter at Heritage, 19 00:00:50.679 --> 00:00:52.880 and so she stands by the doors and sometimes between 20 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:55.600 the services where we preach at I'll walk out and 21 00:00:55.840 --> 00:00:58.200 I'll say hi to people and such. So she she 22 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:02.280 catches me and she says, hey, can can the Bible 23 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:05.640 guys do something on Saturday? And I said, I said 24 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:08.480 why she goes? Well, she goes, I come here on Sundays. 25 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:10.799 So she goes, I hear you guys on Sunday, she goes. 26 00:01:10.799 --> 00:01:13.879 Then I hear you Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, she goes. 27 00:01:13.879 --> 00:01:16.120 And I realized that Saturday is the only day I 28 00:01:16.120 --> 00:01:19.640 don't hear you. And I thought to myself, I can't 29 00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:23.560 believe you want more. It's six out of seven days, 30 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:25.519 right And she by the way she's listening, she knows 31 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:28.359 exactly who she is right now. And then I had 32 00:01:28.840 --> 00:01:31.959 you know on our staff. He's on our staff. And 33 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:34.280 he says, we're sitting at one of the staff meetings 34 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:37.120 and I said something about the Bible, guys, and he goes, 35 00:01:37.159 --> 00:01:39.040 I've never listened to the Bible guys. And I said, 36 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:41.719 oh really, I said, you don't really listen, and he goes, dude, 37 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:45.280 he goes, I serve all four services on Sunday and 38 00:01:45.319 --> 00:01:46.519 he goes, sometimes. 39 00:01:46.159 --> 00:01:48.239 I listen to you for four hours. He goes, that's 40 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:49.000 enough for my week. 41 00:01:50.439 --> 00:01:52.400 Ye not everybody's a fan. 42 00:01:53.879 --> 00:01:56.719 I just thought to myself, I thought that is so funny. 43 00:01:57.040 --> 00:01:59.640 And then and then Ryan looks and goes, he just said, 44 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:01.120 that your face, but. 45 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:01.920 I'm not going to tell you who it is. 46 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:04.000 It didn't say it to my face, right, right. 47 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:05.680 It'd be rude for me to say it. 48 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:08.000 Was though, right, Yeah, just give me his initials. 49 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:14.400 It's Zachary. It doesn't matter because he won't be listening. 50 00:02:14.439 --> 00:02:15.719 Yeah, yeah, exactly. He doesn't know. 51 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:17.680 He doesn't know everybody. 52 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:19.159 When we call him in and fire m, I'll have 53 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:20.039 no idea what just happened. 54 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:22.080 Yeah, but everybody in the staff just walk by and 55 00:02:22.120 --> 00:02:23.560 be like, boom, just boot Zachary. 56 00:02:23.639 --> 00:02:25.039 Yeah, that's right, that's so funny. 57 00:02:25.080 --> 00:02:25.960 That's funny. 58 00:02:26.039 --> 00:02:29.319 Well, so, hey, I recommend it to I had somebody 59 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:30.840 come and tell me the same thing. Hey, we need 60 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:33.120 you to do something on Saturdays, and I said, listen 61 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:36.120 on the Heritage Church dot com website, we have like 62 00:02:36.280 --> 00:02:37.960 six years worth of Sunday messages. 63 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:38.879 How about you go back. 64 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:40.479 And yeah, it just started at the beginning to start 65 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:42.960 with and get a reminder. Are you doing everything you've 66 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:43.360 ever heard of? 67 00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:43.680 Teach? 68 00:02:43.759 --> 00:02:46.520 No, go back to the beginning. Right, that'll be good 69 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:49.000 because that messages for you. Give us a day off, lady. 70 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:52.319 That's so funny. Hey, and thank you by the way 71 00:02:52.360 --> 00:02:52.919 for the compliment. 72 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:53.639 It's wonderful. 73 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:55.280 Very like we're going to do. 74 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:57.800 A segment called and it's a very quick segment. Who's 75 00:02:57.879 --> 00:02:58.560 most likely? 76 00:02:58.719 --> 00:02:59.840 Who's most likely? 77 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:02.639 I like these I'm trying to think of a new tune. 78 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:04.800 Oh, you're trying to sing it like mail Bag. 79 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:05.199 Yeah. 80 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:07.000 No, I didn't try to sing it like Mailbags. I 81 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:08.879 had a new tune, but it didn't work. Let's go on. 82 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:13.080 No, it was sort of wild. Yeah, so we're going 83 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:15.199 to just go ahead and try to decide quickly. There's 84 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:16.840 only five questions. I'll do the first one. 85 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:17.639 Here goes do it? 86 00:03:18.080 --> 00:03:21.080 Who's most likely to move to a different country on 87 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:21.520 a whim? 88 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:22.240 This guy? 89 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:25.919 Yeah, of course, it's not even close. Me me, me, me, 90 00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:29.680 it is not even Listen. Hey, the fact that you 91 00:03:29.719 --> 00:03:32.639 went to Costa Rica for your sabbatical and. 92 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:34.199 You're like, oh, I take my whole family cost Rica. 93 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:35.039 We hung out, it was great. 94 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:39.000 My wife is like, we've got a month, right. 95 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:42.280 My wife says, I don't even want to go out 96 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:46.000 of the country period ever. Yeah, because you know, I'm 97 00:03:46.039 --> 00:03:48.319 on the board of this organization in the Dominican Republic, 98 00:03:48.719 --> 00:03:50.240 and I can. I can go there and stay in 99 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:54.599 a nice place for free. Sometimes if I tried and uh, 100 00:03:54.599 --> 00:03:55.800 and I said, hey, would you want to go, and 101 00:03:55.800 --> 00:03:56.360 she goes. 102 00:03:56.199 --> 00:03:58.319 I don't. I don't want to go there. I don't 103 00:03:58.360 --> 00:04:00.000 want to go out of the country. I think it's 104 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:03.319 it's pretty and it's free. She's like, nah, yeah, I 105 00:04:03.319 --> 00:04:03.840 shouldn't want to. 106 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:05.280 My wife likes to go. 107 00:04:05.719 --> 00:04:09.280 And on a regular basis, we're like, let's buy a 108 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:11.599 place in Portugal, or let's. 109 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:12.400 Buy a place in Panama. 110 00:04:12.479 --> 00:04:14.680 You know, yeah, because every once in a while you'll 111 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:16.879 hear somebody I have a friend who got a condo 112 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:19.199 in Florida. Yeah, And I was like, I don't think 113 00:04:19.199 --> 00:04:21.639 I want to condo one. Condos in Florida are fortune 114 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:24.600 yeah by a condo and Panama for like one tenth 115 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:28.399 of what it cost to buy, right, So exactly, I 116 00:04:28.439 --> 00:04:30.800 was like, hey, let's do that, and everyone's we never 117 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:33.040 have and we probably never will. But we talked about 118 00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:35.959 a lot. Okay, who's most likely to become a mad scientist? 119 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:40.079 I'm gonna say me, is it you you think so? 120 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:40.680 Is it? 121 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:40.920 Well? 122 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:43.519 Well, it depends. I mean, the scientist part is the 123 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:44.839 thing that throws me. 124 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:47.639 But the insanity part totally makes sense. Yes, you're most 125 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:49.519 likely to go and say, okay, let's just leave it 126 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:49.720 at that. 127 00:04:49.839 --> 00:04:53.959 Yeah, Well, the more hectic, uh, you know. And I 128 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:58.120 picture also the spontaneity of somebody who's like a mad scientist, 129 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:00.480 like the lifestyle, you know. And and I think that 130 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:01.920 fits me more than does you. 131 00:05:02.439 --> 00:05:02.839 I had. 132 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:06.040 I had a friend who had a His dad was 133 00:05:06.079 --> 00:05:12.240 a scientist kind of guy, yeah, and so he always 134 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:18.839 was buying him, you know, the chemical sets, the chemistry sets, 135 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:22.199 but his dad would supplement the chemistry sets with all 136 00:05:22.279 --> 00:05:24.360 kinds of other stuff you normally don't get in kids 137 00:05:24.480 --> 00:05:29.199 chemistry sets. So I found myself we were like seventh 138 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:31.839 or eighth grade, and at that point, now his dad's 139 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:34.519 trusting with some pretty significant things. We could blow stuff up, right, 140 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:39.000 And I found myself becoming somewhat moniacal with trying to 141 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:43.560 find ways to blow stuff up right in the backyard. 142 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:45.639 I changed my answer immediately. 143 00:05:46.439 --> 00:05:48.920 I just was like, oh man, And I remember thinking 144 00:05:49.240 --> 00:05:52.600 this is not good for me, right, Like, if we'd 145 00:05:52.600 --> 00:05:54.759 had the Internet, I think we would have blown up 146 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:56.680 his entire block right right. 147 00:05:56.800 --> 00:05:59.240 But so we my mom and dad had bought me a. 148 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:02.040 Brand new You remember back in the day when you'd 149 00:06:02.040 --> 00:06:04.360 wear like your your athletic jackets and it'd have all 150 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:05.720 your patches on it. 151 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:08.720 Your starter for this or that or whatever. So I 152 00:06:08.839 --> 00:06:09.399 had one of those. 153 00:06:09.399 --> 00:06:11.040 So this must have been ninth grade because I was 154 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:13.399 a starter in ninth grade and I had one of 155 00:06:13.439 --> 00:06:15.360 those brand new jackets. We were doing some stuff in 156 00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:18.399 the garage and this thing exploded on us and ate 157 00:06:18.839 --> 00:06:21.360 my coat. It was brand new, and we were like, 158 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:23.240 I told you, I've told you before. We didn't have 159 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:23.920 any money. 160 00:06:24.040 --> 00:06:25.480 You had a letterman jacket. 161 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:27.279 And I had a letterman jacket on and it ate 162 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:30.839 holes through my coat all over the place and it 163 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:34.839 was bad. But yeah, I found myself being very attracted 164 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:37.720 not to chemistry, yeah, but to. 165 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:38.560 What chemistry can do. 166 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:40.920 I changed my answer immediately. 167 00:06:41.959 --> 00:06:44.560 All right, Number three, who's most likely to keep a 168 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:47.439 secret for years without anyone knowing? 169 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:49.079 Neither of us? We can't keep secrets. 170 00:06:49.399 --> 00:06:50.000 Yeah, I was. 171 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:54.000 I was going to say, I've only kept one major 172 00:06:54.199 --> 00:06:57.160 secret that somebody. 173 00:06:56.879 --> 00:06:58.319 Did not ask me to keep. 174 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:00.319 Oh really, And I thought, you know what, I'm gon 175 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:02.879 I'm gonna decide not to sure that was that. 176 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:06.800 I'm not telling no. 177 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:09.720 Okay, who's most likely to become a professional gamer? 178 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:14.519 Oh? Gee, wiz me me, of course? Oh yeah, that's right. 179 00:07:14.680 --> 00:07:18.439 Yeah, because you you're actually like high ranked something or 180 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:18.759 the other. 181 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:19.439 Yeah. 182 00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:23.360 Call of Duty Mobile, Yeah, yeah, I was for a 183 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:25.920 little while. I was in the top half percentile in 184 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:26.959 the world ranked. 185 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:27.319 Yeah. 186 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:28.959 I haven't played in quite a while, but when I 187 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:31.040 when I play, I get really obsessive. And then I 188 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:33.319 told you I won a video game tournament. Yeah, I 189 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:36.199 was the only adult that won it. And so they 190 00:07:36.199 --> 00:07:38.839 wind up calling me because it was all throughout the country. 191 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:39.519 I show up. 192 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:42.360 My sons were at this this video game thing. They 193 00:07:42.399 --> 00:07:44.160 wanted me to play. So I sit down a play. 194 00:07:44.199 --> 00:07:46.759 I wind up winning, and I've never played this game before, 195 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:47.720 but I wind up winning. 196 00:07:48.040 --> 00:07:48.920 And then a. 197 00:07:48.839 --> 00:07:51.360 Couple weeks later they called me and we're gonna fly 198 00:07:51.480 --> 00:07:56.519 me and my uh my guardian down to Dallas for 199 00:07:56.519 --> 00:08:01.000 the World Championships. And I was like, well, oh, instead 200 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:02.560 of a guardian, can I bring my wife? And the 201 00:08:02.600 --> 00:08:05.800 lady goes, how old are you, Jeffrey because it was 202 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:08.319 the Jeffrey on the thing, And I said, well, I'm forty. 203 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:11.680 I can't remember like forty three. She's like what, And 204 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:14.079 I said, are there not any other adults? And she said, well, 205 00:08:14.079 --> 00:08:15.759 you're gonna be old this one there. And I said, well, 206 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:17.240 what's the average age, and she said most of them 207 00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:18.040 are like fifteen. 208 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:23.240 So I didn't. I didn't go. But it's the World Championships. 209 00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:25.959 Yeah yeah, so yeah, that's hilarious. 210 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:26.600 That's funny. 211 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:28.240 That was inadvertent and I didn't do it, but they 212 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:30.079 sent me a bunch of prizes, so it's cool. Who 213 00:08:30.199 --> 00:08:33.000 was most likely to buy something on impulse? It and 214 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:39.519 regretted immediately. I don't know. I don't do this often. 215 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:42.679 I don't have many regrets, right right. 216 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:46.440 Right, You're like, well, I don't like it, but it's okay, Yeah, 217 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:50.879 I don't know. I don't I don't buy a lot 218 00:08:50.919 --> 00:08:54.960 of things impulsively. And I can't remember a time, you know, 219 00:08:55.080 --> 00:08:56.639 because you know, for. 220 00:08:56.679 --> 00:08:58.360 Me, are you a researcher? 221 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:05.440 Yes, I think I am. I'm not like I should 222 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:08.039 be right, like you know, like I just for instance, 223 00:09:08.039 --> 00:09:12.600 I just upgraded. My TV was very very old, very old, 224 00:09:12.679 --> 00:09:14.600 like fifteen years old. It was on the brink a 225 00:09:14.720 --> 00:09:16.279 flash a little bit. So I just got like a 226 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:21.440 new TV literally this week. And I probably could have 227 00:09:21.559 --> 00:09:24.559 spent hours looking at all the TVs, but I didn't. 228 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:27.279 All I did was like I researched it for like 229 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:31.879 an hour, okay, and I was like, oh, this one's good. Yeah. 230 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:33.919 I when I have a big. 231 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:37.399 Purchase coming, I research and research and research and research. 232 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:40.679 Do you watch YouTube videos and read reviews and see 233 00:09:40.679 --> 00:09:42.559 that's what I should do, And that's that's what I do. 234 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:46.360 So I rarely regret, you know a thing. I usually 235 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:48.039 talk myself into spending a little bit more to get 236 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:48.559 a better one. 237 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:50.320 Yeah, right, when you do the research. 238 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:53.799 But yeah, I don't really and I don't do very 239 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:56.159 many impulse buys. But when I do an impulse buy, 240 00:09:56.399 --> 00:09:59.519 it's like the other day, my wife wanted to go 241 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:02.399 to this or it's a discount store, and she was 242 00:10:02.440 --> 00:10:04.320 looking for a couple of things. Well, then as I 243 00:10:04.320 --> 00:10:08.799 came around the corner into the kitchen area, they had 244 00:10:08.840 --> 00:10:12.080 a bunch of glass. 245 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:15.879 Bowls, you know, like with lids that snap on them. 246 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:17.480 Yeah, I was like, oh, I need these, And I 247 00:10:17.519 --> 00:10:19.559 looked and they were really inexpensive. I just filled the 248 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:22.120 cart with them because we're in the process of moving 249 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:24.840 right now anyways, and we didn't have anything that match 250 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:27.080 to nothing that really fit in the thing. And then 251 00:10:27.120 --> 00:10:29.039 I couldn't find several of the lids. So I was 252 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:30.679 really happy about that. So I got home and I 253 00:10:30.679 --> 00:10:33.080 wound up spending like fifty bucks on like three hundred 254 00:10:33.080 --> 00:10:34.080 dollars worth of storage. 255 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:34.639 You know. 256 00:10:34.919 --> 00:10:37.639 It spent like fifty bucks and I was getting on going. 257 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:39.720 I don't know if I needed those right now, So 258 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:41.440 that might be a little bit of the regret, but 259 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:44.159 it's way better than what we had and we needed 260 00:10:44.200 --> 00:10:46.679 to do something anyways, right, So yeah, in that moment, 261 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:48.639 I don't know I needed to spend fifty bucks, but 262 00:10:48.679 --> 00:10:49.240 I was glad I. 263 00:10:49.240 --> 00:10:50.960 Did, to be honest with you, the TV that I 264 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:53.679 just bought, I opted for the cheaper one. 265 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:54.519 Oh wow. 266 00:10:54.519 --> 00:10:58.720 So and I bought a brand that I've never ever 267 00:10:58.879 --> 00:11:02.279 even heard of my entire life. Really, so it's like, 268 00:11:02.399 --> 00:11:03.480 so I'll let you say. 269 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:06.399 You know, China spye On. You now what it is? 270 00:11:06.559 --> 00:11:08.679 Hey, I'll let you know in like a year, ask 271 00:11:08.759 --> 00:11:10.080 me whether I regret that purchase. 272 00:11:10.600 --> 00:11:11.759 But I did buy the cheaper. 273 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:16.759 Well, talking about regrets, this entire book of Ecclesiastes is 274 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:21.120 just Solomon airing out all of his regrets in life. 275 00:11:21.120 --> 00:11:22.159 You're so clever, Jef. 276 00:11:22.279 --> 00:11:22.799 You see that. 277 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:24.279 When I grew up, I want to be as clever 278 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:24.559 as you. 279 00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:30.039 Well, you'd have to grow up first, right, That's true. 280 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:35.039 Okay, So Ecclesiastes, Chapter seven, verse fifteen. 281 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:38.399 The thing that Solomon is most famous for is what 282 00:11:38.519 --> 00:11:39.399 chris wisdom? 283 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:43.399 Wisdom, Yeah, even though he's like super billionaire rich, actually 284 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:45.120 trillionaire rich probably. 285 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:48.679 So even here now, you know, he's talked about the 286 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:51.600 difficulties of how short life is and how wealth disappears, 287 00:11:51.679 --> 00:11:54.399 and you know, we waste our lives all these things. 288 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:56.919 But now he's even challenging his own wisdom. And he 289 00:11:56.960 --> 00:12:00.879 says in verse fifteen, I've seen everything in this meaningless life, 290 00:12:00.960 --> 00:12:03.559 including the death of good young people and the long 291 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:04.679 life of wicked people. 292 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:07.639 So don't be too good or too wise. 293 00:12:08.679 --> 00:12:08.840 Man. 294 00:12:08.879 --> 00:12:10.679 He is miserable right now, isn't he right? 295 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:13.799 Why destroy yourself? On the other hand, don't be too 296 00:12:13.799 --> 00:12:17.320 wicked either, Don't be a fool? Why die before your time? 297 00:12:17.840 --> 00:12:20.720 Pay attention to these instructions. For anyone who fears God 298 00:12:20.799 --> 00:12:22.159 will avoid both extremes. 299 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:23.440 There's a conclusion. 300 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:24.639 Yep, that's great. 301 00:12:25.159 --> 00:12:28.440 One wise person is stronger than ten leading citizens of 302 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:31.399 a town. Not a single person on earth is always 303 00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:34.879 good and never since. Don't eavesdrop on others. You may 304 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:39.120 hear your servant curse you, for you know, how often 305 00:12:39.399 --> 00:12:42.519 you yourself have cursed others. I've always tried my best 306 00:12:42.559 --> 00:12:44.759 to let wisdom guide my thoughts and actions. I said 307 00:12:44.799 --> 00:12:47.519 to myself, I am determined to be wise, But it 308 00:12:47.559 --> 00:12:51.559 didn't work. Wisdom is always distant and difficult to find. 309 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:54.879 I searched everywhere, determined to find wisdom and to understand 310 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:57.399 the reason for things. I was determined to prove to 311 00:12:57.440 --> 00:12:59.879 myself that wickedness is stupid and that foolishness is mad. 312 00:13:00.840 --> 00:13:03.559 I discovered that a seductive woman is a trap more 313 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:06.559 bitter than death. Her passion is a snare, and her 314 00:13:06.559 --> 00:13:09.440 soft hands are chains. Those who are pleasing to God 315 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:11.720 will escape her, but sinners will be caught in her snare. 316 00:13:12.240 --> 00:13:15.039 This is my conclusion, says the teacher. I discovered this 317 00:13:15.080 --> 00:13:18.039 after looking at the matter from every possible angle. Though 318 00:13:18.080 --> 00:13:20.600 I have searched repeatedly, I have not found what I 319 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:23.399 was looking for. Only one out of a thousand men 320 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:25.399 is virtuous, but not one woman. 321 00:13:25.960 --> 00:13:31.519 Wow Wow, But I did find this. God created people 322 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:33.840 to be virtuous, but they have each turn to follow 323 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:37.120 their own downward path. How wonderful to be wise to 324 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:40.840 analyze and interpret things. Wisdom lights up a person's face 325 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:44.519 softening its harshness. Well, I'm going to leave that to you, Chris. 326 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:45.919 I'm gonna step out real quick. 327 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:46.879 Yeah, for sure. 328 00:13:47.279 --> 00:13:51.080 Hey, have you ever seen somebody obviously you have take 329 00:13:51.080 --> 00:13:52.200 one verse out of context. 330 00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:56.080 Yes, And you know, you know how like we had 331 00:13:56.080 --> 00:13:56.720 a weight room. 332 00:13:56.960 --> 00:14:00.600 It was a yucky weight room at my college, Bible college, 333 00:14:00.879 --> 00:14:03.039 and they would always have like pictures of people benching, 334 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:05.120 and then and then they put they take the verse 335 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:07.600 I can do all things through Christ to strengthens me. 336 00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:09.360 It right, And by the way, I. 337 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:11.559 Wonder it's a famous fighter that has that tattooed on 338 00:14:11.639 --> 00:14:13.840 him right now, And I'm like, really, yeah, I'm not 339 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:15.200 sure that's what that passage means. 340 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:18.720 And so tell everybody that versus mainly referring to what 341 00:14:19.080 --> 00:14:23.600 generosity right, yes, right, it's a generosity contentment conclusion. 342 00:14:23.639 --> 00:14:25.879 That's correct, right, and so and. 343 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:27.879 So it's hilarious how people are like, I could do 344 00:14:27.960 --> 00:14:30.399 all things, So just put another plate. 345 00:14:30.159 --> 00:14:33.240 On this, bitch, I can do all things, baby, you 346 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:34.399 know that's the way it is. 347 00:14:34.559 --> 00:14:38.679 Well, can you imagine somebody taking this one verse and 348 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:39.480 putting it on. 349 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:44.000 A poster by itself out of what was it? 350 00:14:44.200 --> 00:14:46.440 Only one out of the thousand men is virtuous, but 351 00:14:46.480 --> 00:14:51.480 not one woman. Ecclesiastes, Chapter seven, Verse number twenty seven 352 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:52.639 or twenty eight. 353 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:54.879 Hey, you know how sometimes people ask you to sign something, 354 00:14:54.879 --> 00:14:56.399 do you ever write a Bible verse next to it? 355 00:14:56.480 --> 00:14:56.759 Now? 356 00:14:57.480 --> 00:14:59.720 Yeah, sometimes I dare you to start writing that one 357 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:04.320 grav just right. Ecclesiasts Chapter eight. 358 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:07.720 By the way, side note, total side note. I saw 359 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:11.240 a comedian who said that he wanted to sign a 360 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:14.600 Bible verse, and and he guessed his Bible verse and 361 00:15:14.639 --> 00:15:16.759 he was like he put like psalms or something, and 362 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:18.159 he's like, oh no, He's like, I don't really know 363 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:20.159 any psalms. And he started to write it and he 364 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:22.000 didn't know what to do, so he just made up 365 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:23.559 a verse. And then he went home and he looked 366 00:15:23.559 --> 00:15:24.559 at it and it. 367 00:15:24.559 --> 00:15:27.639 Was like the worst possible verse ever. It was. It 368 00:15:27.679 --> 00:15:29.480 was just it was crazy. He goes, he goes, that 369 00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:31.600 person's gonna go home and look at that verse. It's 370 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:32.399 just gonna be terrible. 371 00:15:32.519 --> 00:15:34.919 So talking about taking things out of out of context. 372 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:39.480 In the Book of Acts, yeah, when Paul is getting 373 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:42.759 ready to have his his Paula is on the ship 374 00:15:42.879 --> 00:15:46.480 and they wind up having a shipwreck. Yeah, there's a 375 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:49.320 spot where when they pull out of the harbor, the 376 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:52.480 Bible says, so we let her drive, talking about. 377 00:15:52.200 --> 00:15:54.080 The boat, Oh yeah, yeah yeah. 378 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:57.279 And then you go a little further in the passage 379 00:15:57.320 --> 00:16:00.159 and it says, and so we're driven, right, and it 380 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:01.799 was talking about the wind was blown really hard. But 381 00:16:01.840 --> 00:16:04.360 the end phrases and so we're driven. And then the 382 00:16:04.480 --> 00:16:07.320 last phrase in that section says, and all hope that 383 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:09.840 we should be saved was then taken away. And so 384 00:16:10.120 --> 00:16:12.080 I preached a message when I was in Bible college 385 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:16.120 against women drivers. Their first mistake was they let women drive. 386 00:16:16.679 --> 00:16:18.879 We let her drive, and when you let her, she 387 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:22.080 will right. And so we're driven. And then what happens, 388 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:24.200 it's on you. Now you're free to make your choices, 389 00:16:24.200 --> 00:16:26.159 you're not free to choose the consequences. I'll hope that 390 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:28.320 we should be saved was a takeaway. And I preached 391 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:30.559 it on a bus and it was only girls and 392 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:31.720 me and one other preacher. 393 00:16:31.759 --> 00:16:31.960 Boy. 394 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:32.799 Oh my god. 395 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:35.919 So we preached that message and I got booed off 396 00:16:35.919 --> 00:16:36.279 the bus. 397 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:40.559 Oh sure, So anyways, we said all that to say, 398 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:44.559 this does is Solomon saying that there are no virtuous women. 399 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:47.480 There's a great note here in. 400 00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:49.919 The Life Application Study Bible that I'd like to highlight, 401 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:52.159