WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.720 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 --> 00:00:14.519 practical ways. Hey, everybody, if this is your very first 4 00:00:14.519 --> 00:00:17.199 time tuning in, we are the Bible Guys. I'm Chris 5 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:20.960 and this is Jeff. Yes, I'm just welcoming new people. 6 00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:24.839 What a wonderful things just stumbled across the Bible Guys. 7 00:00:25.160 --> 00:00:27.960 What are the chances that somebody's tuning into this episode 8 00:00:28.199 --> 00:00:29.199 for the very first time? 9 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:32.119 Yeah, well they're probably wondering who names themselves the Bible Guys? 10 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:37.439 Well, people who are guys who talk about the Bible 11 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:38.520 in fun and practical ways. 12 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:39.640 Yes, just a couple of friends. 13 00:00:39.880 --> 00:00:42.640 Just a couple of friends. Yeah, that's a bit much, 14 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:46.759 right there, A bit much a couple of friends. Wemptuous, 15 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:49.039 by the way, we never told them to say that. 16 00:00:49.079 --> 00:00:49.560 I don't think. 17 00:00:49.759 --> 00:00:50.679 I wonder if anybody knows. 18 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:54.479 I think I said a couple of guys who who 19 00:00:54.920 --> 00:00:56.719 like to talk about the Bible and fun and practical ways. 20 00:00:56.920 --> 00:00:58.200 But they said a couple of friends. 21 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:02.759 Yeah, presumptuous. Hey, so this segment that Desiree is having 22 00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:03.359 a story, we. 23 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:06.439 Better we better become friends at some point here, Yes, well, 24 00:01:06.519 --> 00:01:09.159 you know, ages, it's over five episode I guess. So. 25 00:01:10.079 --> 00:01:12.640 Hey, remember when we were celebrating the five hundred episode, 26 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:15.719 which was twenty four episodes ago, and you said, I'm 27 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:17.519 not sure I want to do five hundred and anything 28 00:01:17.519 --> 00:01:19.920 with you? And then I start laughing and you go, No, 29 00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:22.239 what I meant to say was and I was like, no, 30 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:24.480 that's what you meant to say. You're trying to back 31 00:01:24.519 --> 00:01:27.000 then you're trying to make a terrible joke. 32 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:29.879 Oh no, it was terrible. Yeah, funny. I really, I 33 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:32.519 really do enjoy doing this with you. I enjoyed with 34 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:32.920 these two. 35 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:36.000 Yes, I do too, all right. So Desiree has us 36 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:39.120 doing a segment called would you rather? And so it 37 00:01:39.239 --> 00:01:40.879 is just a question of which one would. 38 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:42.319 You rather do? Okay? These are fun. I haven't looked 39 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:42.799 at this yet. 40 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:45.120 I haven't either, but I like these. I like this 41 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:46.079 concept in this game. 42 00:01:46.159 --> 00:01:47.040 Okay, number one? 43 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:50.120 Would you rather always be able to find a parking 44 00:01:50.120 --> 00:01:50.920 spot right away? 45 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:51.560 Yes? 46 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:55.799 Please? Or never have to wait in line at a store? 47 00:01:57.439 --> 00:01:58.599 Both of those are really good. 48 00:01:58.680 --> 00:02:00.519 So if you choose one, you never get the other one? 49 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:02.680 Is that what's happening seems to be the you can 50 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:04.920 only say one Yeah, you're not going to be cursed. 51 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:06.879 This is the seller. The one we did one must go. 52 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:08.360 This time we're choosing one. 53 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:11.240 Yeah, but you think about it. If you choose the line, 54 00:02:11.360 --> 00:02:14.479 that means lines are magical, but your parking space, parking 55 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:16.759 spot experience is still the same. Yes, it's not like 56 00:02:16.759 --> 00:02:19.280 you're cursed with parking spots that are bad. 57 00:02:19.560 --> 00:02:23.560 Yeah. Man, I don't know. That's a hard one. I 58 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:26.159 think I choose the parking spots. I want the parking spot. 59 00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:29.319 Nah, I not me. I would choose the line any day, 60 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:31.960 and let me tell you why, because I don't ever 61 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:36.960 really recall that's I don't really recall going, oh my goodness, 62 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:40.240 this parking spot situation is really driving me nuts, and 63 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:42.280 I have to walk across the whole parking lot like 64 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:43.400 I don't mind. 65 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:45.840 Yeah, back when malls were a thing and you had 66 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:47.680 to park three miles from the food court. 67 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:50.800 Yes, yeah, that was tough. But anyway, but I do 68 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:53.599 recall being in line, thinking this is ridiculous. 69 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:55.840 Well, I drive a full sized pickup truck. You do too. 70 00:02:55.879 --> 00:02:57.560 A lot of times I find myself just parking at 71 00:02:57.560 --> 00:02:59.120 the end anyways and walk it in because it's too 72 00:02:59.159 --> 00:03:01.879 hard to cram that truck into the little parking right right, 73 00:03:01.879 --> 00:03:03.719 that's true, So that's true. Can I change my Can 74 00:03:03.759 --> 00:03:07.520 I change my? Okay, I'd like to revoke it and 75 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:10.280 to instead choose never have to wait to lie? Yeah, 76 00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:11.639 that's you won me over. 77 00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:14.319 You want to take number two? 78 00:03:14.439 --> 00:03:17.439 Would you rather be able to speak and understand every language, 79 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:19.960 but never be able to travel or travel anywhere but 80 00:03:20.039 --> 00:03:21.759 only speak your native language? Oh? 81 00:03:21.879 --> 00:03:22.960 Easy, peasy. 82 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:27.120 Yeah, that's that's the travel anywhere, but speak my language. 83 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:29.280 That's what it is for me. Now, yes, that's it's 84 00:03:29.319 --> 00:03:31.240 exactly that's the life I'm living today. 85 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:31.879 Right. 86 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:35.120 Yeah, we're Americans, right, isn't that you've heard that? Right? 87 00:03:35.159 --> 00:03:40.000 My So, my daughter's boyfriend is uh from Mexico. And 88 00:03:40.039 --> 00:03:41.759 he said, he told me, he said, do you know 89 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:43.360 what you call a person who says who can speak 90 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:47.120 two languages? I said what he said, bilingual? He said, 91 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:49.319 you know what you can call a person who speaks 92 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:51.439 three languages? I said tri lingual. He said, you know 93 00:03:51.479 --> 00:03:54.080 what you call a person speaks one language? He said no, 94 00:03:54.319 --> 00:03:55.479 he says American. 95 00:03:56.439 --> 00:04:01.599 That's hilarious. That's really fun. If it's true, it's probably true. 96 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:04.520 It's true. Man, everybody else speaks so many languages. I 97 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:06.599 was just in a meeting here recently. A guy speaks 98 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:10.080 eight languages. Yeah, that's eight languages from Africa. It's unbelievable. 99 00:04:10.199 --> 00:04:16.759 Yeah, it's crazy. But anyway, you can surround yourself with translators. 100 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:18.160 Right, yeah, that's what I have to do. 101 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:21.319 And think about the other option. You understand every language 102 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:23.439 but never be able to travel. That's a curse. That 103 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:25.480 means you have a bunch of knowledge that you cannot use. 104 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:29.720 That's correct, unless you just happen to run people. Yeah, 105 00:04:29.959 --> 00:04:31.160 in the grocery store, you're. 106 00:04:31.079 --> 00:04:33.560 You work at the una, you speak all the languages. 107 00:04:33.560 --> 00:04:36.120 You're like, man, I interject in this conversation just because 108 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:41.360 I understand you. Yes, that's terrible, right, would you say ola? 109 00:04:41.519 --> 00:04:41.720 Yeah? 110 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:46.759 Yeah, jeez yeah live bit uhte death than that? Number three? 111 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:50.680 Would you rather be at the world's best Nope, let 112 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:53.600 me start again. Would you rather be at the world's 113 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:54.879 best at? 114 00:04:55.160 --> 00:04:57.079 Would you rather be the world's That's. 115 00:04:56.959 --> 00:04:59.279 The reason why I'm screwing this up. Would you rather 116 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:03.199 be the world's best at a completely useless, useless hobby 117 00:05:03.560 --> 00:05:08.240 like competitive paper clip bending or mediocre at a hobby 118 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:09.480 that everyone is obsessed with. 119 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:14.120 Okay, first of all, competitive paper clip bending what? Yeah, 120 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:15.639 we can't overlook. 121 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:16.639 That underwater basket weaving. 122 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:19.360 Cool. Okay, So you could be the world's best at 123 00:05:19.399 --> 00:05:23.160 something that's completely useless or mediocre at something everybody's obsessed with. 124 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:26.040 I'd rather be mediocre at something every he's obsessed with, 125 00:05:26.079 --> 00:05:27.720 because that's the truth now and I enjoy it. 126 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:31.879 What is it? Everything? What are your mediocre at that 127 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:32.439 everybody else is? 128 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:37.040 For instance, like fantasy football, that's a hobby. I'm in 129 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:38.720 your mediocre mediocre adit? 130 00:05:38.839 --> 00:05:40.720 Well, you got pretty you were pretty good last year. Yeah? 131 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:44.199 I was good last year, pretty good? So, but pretty good? Everyone? 132 00:05:44.519 --> 00:05:45.279 You almost won? 133 00:05:45.519 --> 00:05:50.839 I did almost and you won. Yes, that's everybody. 134 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:53.120 You brought it up. I just felt like people should 135 00:05:53.160 --> 00:05:53.560 know the truth. 136 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:55.720 I led the entire season, the. 137 00:05:55.720 --> 00:05:59.600 Whole season, and you dominated. You dominated the whole two games. 138 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:02.399 Uh, I all of my players get injured. 139 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:06.040 That's how it happens in football. Yeah, okay, So you'd 140 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:08.600 rather be mediocre at a hobby that everybody is obsessed with? 141 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:10.920 Yes? Why be great at quite? 142 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:15.519 I really would be the other way, really, Yeah. 143 00:06:16.040 --> 00:06:18.639 You'd rather do a party trick that nobody cares about. 144 00:06:19.279 --> 00:06:21.519 Yeah, look at me. I don't know as a party trick, 145 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:25.199 but yeah, yeah, yeah, be great at something yeah wow. 146 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:27.199 But I think that's the dif between you meet. So 147 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:29.000 you got that whole WU thing. You want to be 148 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:30.240 out in the middle of the crowd and doing what 149 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:32.680 everybody else is doing, right, I don't care what everybody 150 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:34.399 else is doing. I'd rather just really be great at 151 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:37.000 something I like, because see, my hobby be sick so 152 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:39.680 I love it, doesn't matter the world hates it. So 153 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:41.639 I'd rather be great at the thing I loved than 154 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:44.240 be always frustrated and be in the middle of the 155 00:06:44.279 --> 00:06:45.240 pack with everybody else. 156 00:06:45.399 --> 00:06:48.160 And see, I would hate being fantastic as something that 157 00:06:48.199 --> 00:06:49.000 nobody cares about. 158 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:51.279 Yeah, well I care about it. It's my hobby no 159 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:54.000 matter what other people think. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, 160 00:06:54.120 --> 00:06:55.560 I think that's a differ between us. 161 00:06:55.639 --> 00:06:56.959 Yeah. Maybe you're probably right. 162 00:06:57.120 --> 00:07:00.000 Yeah yeah, Okay. Would you rather have a magical clause 163 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:03.519 that that instantly provides any outfit but only in neon colors, 164 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:08.079 or wardrobe that only ever contains pajamas but in all 165 00:07:08.120 --> 00:07:09.120 styles and fabrics? 166 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:14.800 Okay, what a silly question? What a silly question? A 167 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:18.360 magical closet that provides any outfit, but only in neon colors. 168 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:20.800 What kind of stipulation is that? 169 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:21.279 Wow? 170 00:07:21.399 --> 00:07:24.480 Yeah, well obviously the pajamas. 171 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:27.000 Really, I was exactly the opposite, Like I would not 172 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:28.399 want to live in pajamas. 173 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:31.120 What doesn't he have to live in them? It just says, 174 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:32.079 which would you rather have? 175 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:34.279 What else are you going to wear? Do you wear 176 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:36.040 pajamas if you have a wardrobe? 177 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:37.720 So let me back up from this question. 178 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:39.079 Do you have not a pajama guy? 179 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:42.439 Okay, that's the difference. I wear pajamas every day, every 180 00:07:42.519 --> 00:07:47.519 day in the middle of the day sometimes yeah, sometimes yeah. 181 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:50.199 You know, there are times where I'll come home and 182 00:07:50.199 --> 00:07:53.240 if I'm wearing like like uncomfortable like a dress shirt 183 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:56.839 or something, I'll come home and immediately I'll run upstairs 184 00:07:57.079 --> 00:07:58.560 come back down. If I know I'm going to be 185 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:01.000 in for the rest of the day, pajama bottoms and 186 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:01.519 a T shirt. 187 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:04.240 Yeah, with slippers, that's fantastic. 188 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:06.319 And sometimes if it's cold, a robe. 189 00:08:06.680 --> 00:08:09.240 Yeah, I'm taking it to mean that these are the 190 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:11.759 only things you can wear, because that's not what it says, 191 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:12.680 that's your wardrobe. 192 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:15.199 Why are you imposing things don't Okay? 193 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:18.360 So you're saying that just because it's a magical closet, 194 00:08:18.759 --> 00:08:20.720 you could have like a chester drawer somewhere the heead 195 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:23.759 of the rest of your clo Okay, it's all right. 196 00:08:23.839 --> 00:08:25.279 Then I would also choose the pajamas. 197 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:28.240 Then, yeah, would you have this thing or this thing? 198 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:30.480 Yeah? I see, yeah, okay. 199 00:08:30.199 --> 00:08:31.639 Yeah, because you know it'll help you. 200 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:33.840 Well, that was riveting, but only if you like. 201 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:40.240 Yes. Well, today we're launching into the book of Psalm 202 00:08:40.480 --> 00:08:44.440 Psalms and it's actually isn't Isn't it the last Psalm? 203 00:08:44.799 --> 00:08:47.159 This is the end of the Book of Psalms. Yeah, 204 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:49.919 there are one hundred and fifty songs. Yeah, and we're 205 00:08:49.960 --> 00:08:53.519 going to read Psalm one fifty. Yeah, it's not very long, 206 00:08:53.879 --> 00:08:57.240 but I love how it ends. It says, Praise the Lord. 207 00:08:57.799 --> 00:09:01.159 Praise God in his sanctuary, Praise Him in his mighty heaven. 208 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:05.360 Praise him for his mighty works. Praise his unequal to greatness. 209 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:07.799 Praise him with the blast of the rams horn, Praise 210 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:10.480 him with the leer and the harp. Praise him with 211 00:09:10.519 --> 00:09:14.120 the tambourine and dancing. Praise him with strings and flutes, 212 00:09:14.399 --> 00:09:17.240 Praise him with a clash of symbols, praise him with loud, 213 00:09:17.279 --> 00:09:21.720 clanging symbols. Let everything that has breath sing praises to 214 00:09:21.799 --> 00:09:25.480 the Lord. Praise the Lord. It's let everything that breathes. 215 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:27.559 Yeah, so what do you think of when you hear 216 00:09:27.639 --> 00:09:30.879 that last verse? Let everything that breathes sing praises to. 217 00:09:30.840 --> 00:09:38.320 The Lord, that every everybody should be praised everything. Oh yeah, 218 00:09:38.360 --> 00:09:38.840 I hate that. 219 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:41.399 Praiser Lord, yeah, praiser. 220 00:09:41.879 --> 00:09:44.840 Yeah, you don't like that song, but I like the song. 221 00:09:44.879 --> 00:09:47.840 I just don't like that part, oh, the beginning. Yeah, 222 00:09:47.879 --> 00:09:48.480 it's just weird. 223 00:09:48.559 --> 00:09:55.840 Yeah yeah, yeah, well you know it's different, but weird different, weird. 224 00:09:58.399 --> 00:09:58.919 Anyways. 225 00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:02.559 Anyway, but yeah, that song, if you're familiar with it. 226 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:06.720 About it though, somebody's praising the Lord? What's that when 227 00:10:06.720 --> 00:10:10.440 they're shouting at I am my wife? Is? 228 00:10:11.159 --> 00:10:13.320 My wife is? You should see her during the beginning. 229 00:10:13.639 --> 00:10:18.000 She loves it. But anyway, and she's going to say, well, thanks, Jeff, 230 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:19.639 I'm never going to sing that first part around. 231 00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:23.240 You ya, No, no, go ahead. She's probably not a jack. 232 00:10:23.480 --> 00:10:24.799 I tell the worship leaders that I want to. 233 00:10:25.759 --> 00:10:26.679 Jeff thinks you're weird. 234 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:30.360 I didn't say, Liz is weird that the writers were 235 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:32.720 weird kind of what it sounds. No, No, it's okay, 236 00:10:32.840 --> 00:10:35.799 it's good, it's fine. Everybody, everybody should praise the Lord. 237 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:39.080 So there's a pattern here. The first pattern is he says, 238 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:44.480 praise God in his sanctuary, Praise God in his mighty heaven. Right. So, uh, 239 00:10:44.799 --> 00:10:48.279 it's it's a great encouragement to know that what David 240 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:50.559 is saying is he's saying, when you're in the House 241 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:55.080 of God, there should be praise. And he's talking about instruments, 242 00:10:55.279 --> 00:10:57.879 and not only not only in all kinds of instruments 243 00:10:57.879 --> 00:11:02.159 of that day, but he's also saying instruments, which which 244 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:06.639 justifies our decibel usage on Sunday mornings. 245 00:11:06.840 --> 00:11:09.840 Yeah, yeah, right, Well, so there's so many times throughout 246 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:16.519 the Book of Psalms that says, shout unto the Lord. Yes, yeah, yeah, 247 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:19.559 he said shout on the God with a voice of triumph. Right, 248 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:23.480 it says says play skillfully with a loud noise. Yep. 249 00:11:24.279 --> 00:11:26.320 There's so many, so many places in the Book of 250 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:29.039 Psalms that talk about volume that what he's not looking 251 00:11:29.120 --> 00:11:33.360 for is some kind of liturgical dirge, some kind of 252 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:35.159 funeral song, right. 253 00:11:35.279 --> 00:11:37.399 Like singing sentences. 254 00:11:37.759 --> 00:11:40.320 Yes, so he's he's saying, Man, I want this to 255 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:42.320 be a party. When you come into my house, I 256 00:11:42.320 --> 00:11:45.279 want you to be celebrating. Now, there are, as you 257 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:48.200 read through the book of Psalms, there are confession songs. Yep, 258 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:51.320 there are struggles. Hey, God, I'm struggling in my worship. 259 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:54.120 I'm struggling in this moment. There are so there are, 260 00:11:54.279 --> 00:11:57.759 There's all kinds of emotion. But he's saying, when you 261 00:11:57.799 --> 00:12:00.679 come into the God Sanctuary, you should come in and 262 00:12:00.759 --> 00:12:03.360 have an understanding that a big part of this is 263 00:12:03.399 --> 00:12:05.120 just celebrating how good God is. 264 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:08.759 Yeah, And I think verse number two particularly, it says, 265 00:12:08.759 --> 00:12:11.200 praise him for his mighty works and praise him for 266 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:17.399 his unequaled greatness. So that two different things. And it's 267 00:12:17.399 --> 00:12:20.679 actually what we just preached on last week, which is 268 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:22.919 recognizing God for who he is and what he has 269 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:26.080 done in the past. And so we were actually in 270 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:28.639 the Book of Jonah and we were talking about how 271 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:33.440 Jonah was never given an explanation from God about Nineveh. 272 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:36.159 He tried to run from God, he gets swallowed by fish, 273 00:12:36.200 --> 00:12:38.320 and he repents in the fish's mouth, and all he 274 00:12:38.360 --> 00:12:41.200 comes to all these great conclusions, and yet the entire 275 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:45.080 time God never explains himself. God never goes well, Jonah, 276 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:49.120 let me explain to you why, you know, let me, 277 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:51.000 let me try to teach you about my compassion or 278 00:12:51.039 --> 00:12:53.960 my perspective. God doesn't offer any explanation. And so what 279 00:12:53.960 --> 00:12:59.279 does Jonah do? Jonah repents based on two things, the 280 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:02.279 character of God who he is, and the greatness of 281 00:13:02.279 --> 00:13:05.879 God unequal greatness of what He has done in the past. Right, So, 282 00:13:06.200 --> 00:13:08.320 and that's a great lesson for our lives here. So 283 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:11.480 this verse number two, you know, that could possibly be 284 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:13.639 a verse that we can memorize. It would it be 285 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:17.000 great for us to when when whenever we try to 286 00:13:17.039 --> 00:13:19.559 find out the why and we're like, you know, I 287 00:13:19.559 --> 00:13:22.200 can't understand the why. We're angry with God because God 288 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:25.039 doesn't explain the why. If God would just let me 289 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:28.120 know why this happened, then I could be okay with it. 290 00:13:28.519 --> 00:13:31.039 But chances are you're never going to know the why 291 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:34.879 outside of eternity for a big conundrum like that. But 292 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:38.919 if you were to be like David and just say, okay, 293 00:13:39.240 --> 00:13:41.840 you know, maybe quote this verse. I don't understand the why, 294 00:13:42.039 --> 00:13:44.759 but I'm gonna praise him for his mighty works. I'm 295 00:13:44.759 --> 00:13:47.159 gonna praise him for his unequal greatness, for who he 296 00:13:47.240 --> 00:13:48.240 is and what he has done. 297 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:50.759 Yeah, when you praise him for his mighty works. When 298 00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:53.519 when when you're celebrating what God has done, that's praise. 299 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:58.919 When you're celebrating who he is, that's worship. Yeah right, 300 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:01.320 So you got both p's and worship in this thing. 301 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:04.519 Now he's saying praise him because this whole passage is praise. 302 00:14:04.759 --> 00:14:08.159 So you can praise God when you're worshiping him, certainly, 303 00:14:08.279 --> 00:14:09.960 but you have to also choose to praise him just 304 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:11.879 for what he's done. And so when you talk about 305 00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:15.679 his mighty works every once in a while, I just 306 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:19.759 recently read an article by a pretty famous faith leader, oh, 307 00:14:19.879 --> 00:14:20.600 complaining about it. 308 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:21.639 I didn't know I wrote an article. 309 00:14:21.720 --> 00:14:26.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, No, it wasn't you thank God, No, 310 00:14:26.120 --> 00:14:30.039 because I disagreed fundamentally with it. So he's he's a 311 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:35.200 distinguished preacher that clearly has very limited understanding of music 312 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:38.639 and worship. So it was kind of taking shots at 313 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:45.559 modern worship, uh, and elevating what he felt like was 314 00:14:45.639 --> 00:14:49.960 more respectful him and begins to hint towards. 315 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:52.919 By the way that my yuch, so sorry, I Get 316 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:56.879 explained that yuck. I wasn't meaning yuck on the preferences 317 00:14:57.159 --> 00:15:00.480 because because because all preferences are good, I mean, taking 318 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:02.559 shots at one preference over the other is yuck. 319 00:15:02.679 --> 00:15:04.840 But there was kind of a hint that the pipe 320 00:15:04.960 --> 00:15:11.159 organ choir thing or the hymns of Luther Martin Luther 321 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:20.399 were superior to the current worship of you know, songs. 322 00:15:20.440 --> 00:15:24.279 And I'm not saying that every single song sung by 323 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:28.360 every single worship leader is valid, but he was already 324 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:35.879 making a stylistic argument as if white European music from 325 00:15:36.200 --> 00:15:39.720 five hundred years ago was superior to something that sounded 326 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:42.679 a little bit more Latin or African. And it felt 327 00:15:42.679 --> 00:15:45.039 like cultural elitism more than it had anything to do 328 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:48.639 with a with a faith based thing. Because here's what 329 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:50.879 I know, and I've had these arguments so many times. 330 00:15:51.039 --> 00:15:52.879 You know, the world we grew up in had very 331 00:15:52.919 --> 00:15:55.799 strict rules about music, very strict rules about what it 332 00:15:55.840 --> 00:15:57.960 was and wasn't acceptable. In the world I grew up in, 333 00:15:58.080 --> 00:15:59.600 we weren't allowed to have drums, we were allowed to 334 00:15:59.600 --> 00:16:01.279 have basic we were allowed to have symbols, we were 335 00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:04.840 allowed to have guitars at all. We're very, very very precise, 336 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:07.039 and they made all these rules, and they began to 337 00:16:07.159 --> 00:16:11.279 kind of imply that there's you know, appropriate worship music 338 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:16.360 and inappropriate worship music styles. And I just began to 339 00:16:16.519 --> 00:16:19.919 study the Book of Psalms. I asked for Professor wal Time. 340 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:23.360 I said, did you realize there's the biggest book in 341 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:26.320 the Bible is a songbook? And he goes, you're absolutely right. 342 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:28.799 I said, so, would you think that then, since the 343 00:16:28.879 --> 00:16:31.360 largest book one hundred and fifty chapters, by far, the 344 00:16:31.399 --> 00:16:35.600 most words, the longest chapter in the Bible is a 345 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:41.960 worship song that if God decided that the largest book 346 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:44.879 in the whole Bible was going to be a songbook, 347 00:16:45.399 --> 00:16:48.159 then that would mean that worship is like super important. 348 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:52.200 He goes absolutely, And I said, great, how come he 349 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:58.200 didn't include the music notes? How come he didn't include 350 00:16:58.200 --> 00:16:58.960 a rhythm chart? 351 00:16:59.759 --> 00:17:00.000 Right? 352 00:17:00.559 --> 00:17:04.519 He gave us the lyrics. Our attitudes should be what 353 00:17:04.559 --> 00:17:08.240 these are, confession of sin, worship of how great he is, 354 00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:11.359 praising everything that He's done, the heart of it. But 355 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:13.559 he did not give us notes. Do you know why? 356 00:17:13.960 --> 00:17:18.960 Because God doesn't want Jeff in twenty twenty four worshiping 357 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:25.000 with a style that is culturally connected to and limited 358 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:28.160 to a worship style that David was doing three thousand 359 00:17:28.279 --> 00:17:28.720 years ago. 360 00:17:29.279 --> 00:17:31.559 God wanted and harps and clings. 361 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:33.920 God wanted me to worship him. Well, I think all 362 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:37.640 those things are legit. I mean literally. He has brass instruments, 363 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:41.480 he has string instruments, he has woodwind instruments, he has 364 00:17:42.039 --> 00:17:45.200 percussion instruments, all the instruments we use today, he mentions 365 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:50.319 in this little short book. So, but the difference is, 366 00:17:50.680 --> 00:17:52.720 can you imagine the music David listened to back then? 367 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:55.519 Is I'm not currently tuning that in on my radio. 368 00:17:56.119 --> 00:17:59.200 There's not even a radio station. Even Serious XM doesn't 369 00:17:59.200 --> 00:18:01.599 have a station that has his style of music on there. 370 00:18:02.359 --> 00:18:05.599 So that's why God says over and over and over 371 00:18:05.640 --> 00:18:08.720 in the Book of Psalms, sing a new song to 372 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:11.559 the Lord. Right. He doesn't want me to rely on 373 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:16.039 the stale belief system of my fathers and my grandfathers. 374 00:18:16.319 --> 00:18:18.039 He wants me to have the belief system, but my 375 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:20.720 worship should be fresh. So I have the worship or 376 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:24.160 the belief system that's been passed down from generation to generation. 377 00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:26.279 That's why he gave us the words to his worship. 378 00:18:26.559 --> 00:18:30.079 But the style should be something that comes from my 379 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:32.039 heart and it should be a new thing. And that's 380 00:18:32.039 --> 00:18:34.440 why he didn't give us any notes. The guy says 381 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:37.720 to me. His response was, well, you know, music notation 382 00:18:37.880 --> 00:18:41.400 didn't happen until the nine hundreds a d. Nineteen hundred 383 00:18:41.480 --> 00:18:44.359 years after Jesus or after David. I said, well, that's 384 00:18:44.359 --> 00:18:46.400 amazing because he made sure that they could write a thing, 385 00:18:46.839 --> 00:18:49.920 but God couldn't make sure that they wrote notes. I said, 386 00:18:49.960 --> 00:18:52.039 it was a miracle that he worked out letters so 387 00:18:52.039 --> 00:18:54.599 that they could write this book, but God couldn't have 388 00:18:54.720 --> 00:18:57.359 worked out some music notes. And so now you telling 389 00:18:57.400 --> 00:18:59.759 me that only white European music from five hundred years 390 00:18:59.759 --> 00:19:03.480 ago is acceptable for worshiping God. Are you serious? And 391 00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:06.480 then you know the preferences like Martin Luther kind of songs, 392 00:19:06.519 --> 00:19:08.759 I said, the dude, growe five thousand songs, we sing 393 00:19:08.839 --> 00:19:10.960 like three? Do you know why? Because the rest just 394 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:15.319 aren't that good. Right, So we're supposed to sing new songs. 395 00:19:15.319 --> 00:19:19.240 We're supposed to use every instrument and everything that has 396 00:19:19.319 --> 00:19:21.599 breath should should praise the Lord. That's what he's saying. 397 00:19:21.799 --> 00:19:24.559 He's saying, dude, it needs to be in you from 398 00:19:24.599 --> 00:19:28.200 you right right about me, so you praise me for 399 00:19:28.319 --> 00:19:31.799 my Mighty works, and you recognize my unequal greatness and 400 00:19:31.839 --> 00:19:34.319 everything that makes noise and everything that makes breath, you 401 00:19:34.359 --> 00:19:37.160