WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:04.879
You're listening to The Bible Guys,
a podcast where a couple of friends talk

2
00:00:04.919 --> 00:00:12.919
about the Bible in fun in practical
ways. Hey, welcome everybody. We

3
00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:16.920
are so appreciative that you have tuned
in or you know, watched, So

4
00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:20.000
appreciative the Bible guys. So appreciative. Yeah, I think we are,

5
00:00:20.399 --> 00:00:23.600
and we're just bursting at the seams
of appreciation. Yes, well, I

6
00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:25.879
always am, Jeff, I don't
know about you. I can't speak for

7
00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:29.960
you. I am. I actually
believe, I'm, I'm I'm always bursting

8
00:00:29.960 --> 00:00:33.039
the seams of being dumbfounded. I
just can't believe. Keep tuning in.

9
00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:37.520
Well, we do appreciate it very
much, absolutely and phenomenal. Today.

10
00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:43.320
Desiree, who is has become famous. She's super famous. If we ever

11
00:00:43.399 --> 00:00:46.560
changed staff members and we're in trouble, we're in trouble. If we have

12
00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:49.920
a mutiny, yeah, they'd be
like uh and then the new the new

13
00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:53.679
Hiary would be like somebody like Sally. And then we're gonna say when Sally

14
00:00:53.719 --> 00:00:57.960
people boo yah. Right anyway,
So desire right now now, we can't

15
00:00:58.039 --> 00:01:02.439
hire a Sally right in las name
Sally. I just said that. So

16
00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:06.000
Desiree is going to ask us to
do something she's never asked us to do

17
00:01:06.079 --> 00:01:10.840
before, which is to do a
draft list on iconic duos. Okay,

18
00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:12.840
yeah, so so the way she
wrote it was, Jeff and Chris are

19
00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:15.840
our favorite iconic duo. For today's
draft list, let's pick some of the

20
00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:21.560
other favorite iconic duo. So Rock
Paper Scissors first? Ready? Ready?

21
00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:26.079
One two three? Shoot? Oh? We both did scissors one two three

22
00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:33.480
shoot oh? P one two three? Shoot I did rock scissors. Yes,

23
00:01:33.599 --> 00:01:37.719
Okay, there we go. Okay, iconic duo. I know you're

24
00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:42.640
gonna choose iconic duos. Well,
I'm going to choose one. You're not

25
00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:44.799
going to choose right off the top. Well, I know I know what

26
00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:49.680
you're gonna choose, Salmon frodo what
that's where your brain went or you're just

27
00:01:49.719 --> 00:01:55.480
trying to You're just trying to pick
go ahead, that's what you're saying.

28
00:01:55.920 --> 00:02:00.719
Okaym the rings that I have to
choose Batman Rock, you would That's why

29
00:02:00.719 --> 00:02:01.879
I gave it to you. Well, I don't like that, but I

30
00:02:01.959 --> 00:02:05.799
know I know I want I wanted
to leave it for you. I wanted

31
00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:08.240
you to choose it's slow hanging fruits. I wanted to hear you say,

32
00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:12.719
well, is that an iconic duo
Batman and Robin. Yes, well,

33
00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:15.800
they were known as the Dynamic duo, Dynamic duo. Yes. Yeah.

34
00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:21.159
In fact, I would venture to
say they may be according to just social

35
00:02:21.199 --> 00:02:25.879
polls, maybe the uh because we
all learned them as children right in our

36
00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:30.120
generation. Yes, I would say
people who are older than us, no,

37
00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:34.319
but I would say for for for
younger, Yeah, I even today.

38
00:02:34.840 --> 00:02:37.960
Wouldn't you think that somebody who's like
twenty years old, if they said

39
00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:40.000
name an iconic duo, don't you
think they would say Batman run Around number

40
00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:44.080
one? I think so. Yeah. Absolutely, I've rejected it on purpose

41
00:02:44.120 --> 00:02:47.000
because I wanted you to say it
Sam and Frodo. By the way,

42
00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:51.280
you know, I hate that,
right, like like I wanted to like

43
00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:54.039
the Salmon proto so much, but
then like you know, you know,

44
00:02:54.159 --> 00:02:59.439
it's just it's why I chose Sam
and Frodo, and then they're forced you

45
00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:01.039
to say badman. I remember the
journey, Remember the journey to the very

46
00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:04.639
last scene when he's trying to get
up to the mountain to throw it in,

47
00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:07.919
and and and it's so long and
drawn out, and then there's all

48
00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:10.159
these close ups where he's just staring
at one another and he's like, it's

49
00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:14.840
me, you're sad, and I'm
like, oh my god, that's Peter

50
00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:16.039
Jackson. That's not the buzz.
I'm like, I know, but I'm

51
00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:20.800
like, let the pain end.
It was so painful. Go ahead,

52
00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:28.280
I'm gonna say Michael and Scottie.
Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippin. Oh yeah,

53
00:03:28.439 --> 00:03:30.840
of course, yeah, Michael.
Yeah, that's a great duo.

54
00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:35.400
Yeah yeah, iconic, very economy
and issue sports. There's no doubt.

55
00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:46.240
I'm going to say Laurel and Hardy
to give over Abbott Costello. Well really

56
00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:49.520
yeah. Well here's the reason why
Laurel and Hardy came to my mind,

57
00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:53.439
because my grandfather used to say Laurel
and Hardy that and step and fetch it.

58
00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:57.000
Yeah, but I'm not choosing step
and fetch it. I'm choosing Laurel

59
00:03:57.039 --> 00:04:04.719
and Hardy. Wow. Okay,
I'm gonna say Butch and Sundance. Butch

60
00:04:04.840 --> 00:04:09.759
and Sundance Yeah, wow, Okay, that's great Sundance kid. Yeah,

61
00:04:09.840 --> 00:04:11.840
yeah, yeah, I used to
love those books, by the way.

62
00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:15.759
Yeah, yeah, there's no doubt. And then I'm going to say,

63
00:04:17.399 --> 00:04:21.439
let me think I didn't think this
through. I'm gonna say, how about

64
00:04:21.439 --> 00:04:24.879
this one? Ready, we're gonna
go a different genre. How about Sonny

65
00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:29.720
and Chaer all right, so this
would be more like this would be more

66
00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:32.800
like my mom growing up, right, you know, like it's either it's

67
00:04:32.839 --> 00:04:38.079
either like Donnie Marie or Sonny and
She in the music work Captain too.

68
00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:42.279
I'm gonna say, Sonny and Shri, I'm gonna give a tribute. Okay,

69
00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:48.759
how about let me see Andy and
Barney, Andy and Barney. There

70
00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:53.079
you go? Wow? What is
that again? Andy, Andy, Griffith

71
00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:56.319
and Barney. Yeah, okay,
and then it's my last one, right

72
00:04:56.360 --> 00:04:59.399
because she said four, Okay,
here we got ready, I'm gonna I'm

73
00:04:59.399 --> 00:05:02.399
gonna go for a I'm going for
all the gamut here. I'm gonna go

74
00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:06.680
with Shaggy and Scooby. Oh man, that's a great one. That's a

75
00:05:06.839 --> 00:05:11.600
great one. Yeah. Yeah,
yeah, So I almost did Bugs and

76
00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:15.120
Daffy. Oh but they weren't necessarily
the jew I know, where you see

77
00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:17.199
one, you see the other kind
of thing? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

78
00:05:17.279 --> 00:05:21.399
Still when you think of yeah,
yeah, yeahs and Day Okay,

79
00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:26.959
well, good job, Yes,
I like that one. Shaggy, yeah,

80
00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:30.399
Scooby, Yeah, that's great.
Right, Yeah, that's such a

81
00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:31.959
good one. All right, well, hey, thanks Dez. That was

82
00:05:32.680 --> 00:05:36.680
incredibly enlightening. Yes, I think
so too. Now what ones did we

83
00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:40.600
miss? Did we miss any really
important? Well? I think I sort

84
00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:43.959
of named a few of them,
but I know there's going to be ones

85
00:05:43.959 --> 00:05:46.079
that people are going to type in, Yes, like things like that,

86
00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:49.120
things like that where they're like,
come on people, Yeah, right,

87
00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:51.879
there's gotta be ones that are like
that. I can't think of any others.

88
00:05:53.560 --> 00:05:55.560
Yeah, well we could look it
up if we really want. People

89
00:05:55.560 --> 00:06:00.120
are going to start sending in Yeah, famous duos paints. Yes, all

90
00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:01.319
right, Well, hey that was
just off the top of our heads,

91
00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:03.759
and that was a fun one,
so thank you, Doz. We had

92
00:06:03.800 --> 00:06:08.639
a lot of fun with that.
So yesterday we read from Deuteronomy chapter five,

93
00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:13.839
Yes, where God reestablishes through Moses. He's reminding them of the importance

94
00:06:13.879 --> 00:06:16.920
of the commandments, and then he
unpacks a couple of these ideas, particularly

95
00:06:17.399 --> 00:06:23.040
the first one, and so I'm
going to just go ahead. We were

96
00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:25.680
only going to read just a few
verses, yes, but I think I'm

97
00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:28.120
going to read the whole chapter.
And there's a reason for it. So

98
00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:31.079
Deuteronomy, chapter six, Verse one
says, these are the commands. Remember

99
00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:34.079
he's still talking. Yes, he's
still talking. This is all same conversation

100
00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:38.160
as what we had yesterday, only
expanded. He says, these are the

101
00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:41.480
commands, decrees and regulations that the
Lord your God commanded me to teach you.

102
00:06:41.480 --> 00:06:44.480
You must obey them in the land
you're about to enter and occupy,

103
00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:47.399
and you and your children and grandchildren
must fear the Lord your God as long

104
00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:51.439
as you live. If you obey
all his decrees and commands, you will

105
00:06:51.519 --> 00:06:56.000
enjoy a long life. Listen closely, Israel, and be careful to obey.

106
00:06:56.439 --> 00:06:59.120
Then all will go well with you, and you will have many children

107
00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:00.759
in the land flowing the mid honey, just as the Lord, the God

108
00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:04.160
of your ancestors promised you. Listen, o, Israel. The Lord is

109
00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:08.920
our God, the Lord alone.
And you must love the Lord your God

110
00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:11.639
with all of your heart, all
your soul, all your strength. And

111
00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:15.040
you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to this
commands that I'm giving you today. Repeat

112
00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:18.319
them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you're at home,

113
00:07:18.360 --> 00:07:20.319
and when you're on the road,
and when you're going to bed,

114
00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:24.839
and when you're getting up. Tie
them to your hands and wear them on

115
00:07:24.920 --> 00:07:28.439
your foreheaders reminders. Write them on
the doorposts of your house and on your

116
00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:30.600
gates. The Lord your God will
soon bring you into the land he swore

117
00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:34.279
to give you when he made a
vow to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac

118
00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:38.519
and Jacob. It's a land with
large, prosperous cities that you did not

119
00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:41.839
build. The houses will be richly
stocked with goods you do not produce.

120
00:07:42.360 --> 00:07:45.120
You will draw water from cisterns you
did not dig, and you will eat

121
00:07:45.160 --> 00:07:48.000
from vineyards and olive trees you did
not plant. When you've eaten your fill

122
00:07:48.079 --> 00:07:51.360
in this land, be careful not
to forget the Lord who rescued you from

123
00:07:51.399 --> 00:07:55.000
slavery in the land of Egypt.
You must fear the Lord your God and

124
00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:58.639
serve him. When you take an
oath, you must use only his name.

125
00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:01.639
You must not worship any of the
gods of neighboring nations. For the

126
00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:03.600
Lord your God, who lives among
you as a jealous god, his anger

127
00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:05.920
will flare up against you, and
he will wipe you from the face of

128
00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:09.360
the earth. He must not test
the Lord your God as you do.

129
00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:15.319
As you did when you complained at
Masa. You must diligently obey the commands

130
00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:16.959
of the Lord your God, all
the laws and decrees he's given. You

131
00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:20.519
Do what is right and good in
the Lord's sight, so all will go

132
00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:24.839
well with you. Then you will
enter and occupy the good land that the

133
00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:28.480
Lord swore to give your ancestors.
You will drive out all the enemies living

134
00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:31.040
in the land, just as the
Lord said you would. In the future,

135
00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:33.759
your children ask what is the meaning
of these laws, decrees and regulations

136
00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:37.639
of the Lord our God has commanded
us to obey. Then you must tell

137
00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:41.360
them. We were Pharaoh's slaves in
Egypt, but the Lord brought us out

138
00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:45.080
of Egypt with his strong hand.
The Lord did miraculous signs and wonders before

139
00:08:45.080 --> 00:08:48.759
our eyes, dealing terrifying blows against
Egypt and Pharaoh and all the people.

140
00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:52.840
He brought us out of Egypt so
he could give us this land he had

141
00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:56.240
sworn to give our ancestors. And
the Lord our God commanded us to obey

142
00:08:56.320 --> 00:08:58.519
all the decrees and to fear him
so he can continue to bless us and

143
00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:01.519
preserve our lives, as he has
done to this day. For we will

144
00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:05.320
be counted as righteous when we obey
all the commands the Lord, our God

145
00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:11.639
has given us. I find this
chapter very comforting. Yeah, I find

146
00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:15.200
it very It's like to me,
it feels like a warm blanket. It's

147
00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:18.519
like it's like, what God is
saying is he saying, I care so

148
00:09:18.679 --> 00:09:22.240
much about you that I'm giving you
my decrees, my rules, and if

149
00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:26.559
you just trust in me, not
anybody else, one God, right,

150
00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:31.080
then you'll live a long and happy
life. Right. And what he's really

151
00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:37.200
saying is is he saying, I've
given these things not you know, not

152
00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:41.000
not to bother you or to you
know, for your you know, to

153
00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:46.080
make you frustrate or anger. I'm
giving everything for your benefit. And he's

154
00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:50.679
not demanding, which is another thing
too. It's not like do this or

155
00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:52.960
else. It doesn't have that apparently
go to your room kind of a thing.

156
00:09:54.159 --> 00:09:56.480
It's what it's saying is like,
hey, I'm saying it strongly,

157
00:09:56.120 --> 00:10:01.120
but it's also an invitation, right, so just just please obe And to

158
00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:03.519
me, it just it feels great
to me because it's it's even back then

159
00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:09.759
when people are often quick to say
the Old Testament is you know, the

160
00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:11.759
wrathful God, which is you know, there's a lot of truth to that.

161
00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:16.919
But you know there's there's that that
type of spirit. Well, that's

162
00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:20.320
not this type of spirit here.
So for me, this is this is

163
00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:28.240
a great chapter. Yeah. So
verse four is the foundational verse for Judaism

164
00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:35.000
and is a key concept within Islam
and is fundamental to Christianity. So it's

165
00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:37.879
kind of interest. I'm not saying
that those will equate. I'm just saying

166
00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:41.879
this is a very important concept,
and that is listen, o Israel,

167
00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:45.720
the Lord, our God is our
God, the Lord alone, or it

168
00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:48.159
could have been translated to the Lord, our God is one Lord, or

169
00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:52.200
the Lord our God, the Lord
is one, or as the Jews would

170
00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:54.679
quote it, the Lord is our
God, the Lord is one. Right,

171
00:10:56.080 --> 00:11:01.360
and this is called the Shama within
Judaism, and it's often repeated,

172
00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:05.080
and this is the foundation to the
idea of monotheism. But the fact that

173
00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:09.080
there's one got Mono being one,
theism being God, study of God,

174
00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:13.039
or belief in God. So monotheism
is stands in contrast to most of the

175
00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:16.799
West, of the rest of the
religions in the world, and almost all

176
00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:22.480
of the religions of that time right
were polytheistic, poly meaning many so much

177
00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:28.159
many, many different gods as opposed
to having one God. Yeah, and

178
00:11:28.519 --> 00:11:31.639
that's foundational too, as he's trying
to establish don't have any other gods before

179
00:11:31.720 --> 00:11:33.360
me. He said, By the
way, I just want to remind it

180
00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:37.519
there's only one God. Yeah.
So the rest of these are just idols.

181
00:11:37.639 --> 00:11:39.759
So stop making idols. Stop bound
down. Yeah. So I'm going

182
00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:43.120
to bring up something that I rarely
ever bring up, even even with me

183
00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:50.240
and you. But my brother Jim
is active in with people from India.

184
00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:54.200
Remember that I mentioned that once or
twice. So my brother Jim, who

185
00:11:54.279 --> 00:11:56.440
was a pastor for years and years
and then all of a sudden, he's

186
00:11:56.480 --> 00:12:01.240
now working with creationism. He's working
for a company. I should know the

187
00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:05.639
name of it, but it's a
it's a company that works on creationism and

188
00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:09.480
it's versus evolution and it's pretty cool. And he's a video guy, a

189
00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:13.360
content guy anyway. So he's been
doing that for the past several years and

190
00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:18.159
stepping away from the pastoral role,
but he's in a way he's still a

191
00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:24.240
pastor because in his church, people
coming over from India. The government had

192
00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:28.240
called his church because it's so large, and they said, will you will

193
00:12:28.279 --> 00:12:33.360
you be able to develop a program
within your church to welcome these people who

194
00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:35.080
step off the plane for the very
first time from India in the United States.

195
00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:39.279
I guess Texas for some reason is
some sort of a hub where they

196
00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:43.240
arrive from. I guess. So
there's plenty of that going on. Well,

197
00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:46.879
it turns out that my brother Jim
stepped up volunteered and then he became

198
00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:54.399
so integral in doing this that now
the government officials call his house directly.

199
00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:58.320
And so now he has over a
thousand I think I believe over a thousand

200
00:12:58.360 --> 00:13:05.279
Indians right who. That's all he
does is just has them over his house.

201
00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:07.200
So he has he posts pictures all
the time. They're like, oh,

202
00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:09.799
we have this party, we have
like a Christian Duali, and and

203
00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:15.279
it'll be like a huge picture of
like three or four hundred people and it's

204
00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:16.679
Indians. And then you see like
a couple of white guys in the middle

205
00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:20.159
and it's him and his wife.
So anyway, the point is this is

206
00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:24.720
that I told you all that to
say this, he has lived his life

207
00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:33.360
in trying to explain Jesus to a
polytheistic culture. Yeah, because the Hindus

208
00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:37.279
have millions of gods, yes,
and so so for you and me.

209
00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:43.840
We live in the United States of
America, and it's easier to introduce the

210
00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:48.240
concept of a of one God,
and people don't necessarily, you know,

211
00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:54.039
in the United States lean that way. But in where you know, in

212
00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:58.200
his little world, he fights.
And here's what he says. He says,

213
00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:01.039
Chris, he says, I spend
all my time in convincing it in

214
00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:05.919
these three different steps. He said, Number one, Jesus is a God,

215
00:14:07.080 --> 00:14:11.360
and then Jesus is the God.
And he said, you know,

216
00:14:11.720 --> 00:14:16.240
God among God's and he said,
and then the third step is Jesus is

217
00:14:16.440 --> 00:14:20.120
the only God, and Jesus,
you know God, the Father Father is

218
00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:22.720
and the Holy Spirit. Right and
so, which is a pattern Paul uses

219
00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:26.960
in the Book of Acts when he's
at the marsh Hill at Mars Hill.

220
00:14:26.039 --> 00:14:28.519
Yeah yeah, yeah, to the
unknown God. Let me tell you about

221
00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:33.639
the God right right, right,
So, so the but it's just an

222
00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:37.559
incredible idea that you and I read
this and we go, oh cool,

223
00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:39.559
the Lord God is one. It's
like no, no, no, no,

224
00:14:39.639 --> 00:14:41.600
no, no, no, you
don't you don't understand, right.

225
00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:43.320
If you live into that, the
world does not believe that, right,

226
00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:50.279
And if you live in that world, do you understand how unbelievably difficult it

227
00:14:50.519 --> 00:14:54.200
is to introduce that concept to somebody, especially you know, in their day,

228
00:14:54.759 --> 00:14:58.559
every pharaoh was their own god,
right and then they they and they

229
00:14:58.559 --> 00:15:05.720
were a god among gods. And
so yeah, this idea is a radical

230
00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:07.519
concept, is what I'm saying.
So God is driving that deep and then

231
00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:09.960
he's also telling them, hey,
I'm going to send you into this land,

232
00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:13.240
I promise, and you're going to
have to remove these enemies of God.

233
00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:18.000
And that can be you know,
you mentioned the wrathful God or whatever.

234
00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:22.720
People sometimes can be surprised by that
idea, but you have to remember

235
00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:26.679
a couple of things. One,
all of the humans on the planet were

236
00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:31.440
part of God's creation, and some
leaned into God. Many rejected God and

237
00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:35.799
then took up all kinds of evil. We know that the Canaanites did human

238
00:15:35.879 --> 00:15:41.279
sacrifice. We know that the Canaanites
had sexual practices as their religion, as

239
00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:46.360
their religious practices, all these things, abuse of children, and it was

240
00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:52.120
pretty horrific. And so throughout history
God always calls people to himself, and

241
00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:58.960
these people had rejected God aggressively.
And so God is love, certainly God

242
00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:03.919
that is also just, and God
will always bring to justice every evil,

243
00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:08.320
and so he chose to use the
people of Israel to bring to bring the

244
00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:12.720
other Canaanites, the Canaanite people to
justice. And if you can think of

245
00:16:12.799 --> 00:16:18.320
this as in World War two,
Nazism was taking over the world, this

246
00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:23.600
horrific concept that there are superior humans
and inferior humans, and that we are

247
00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:29.799
going to not only promote what we
view as the superior, but we're going

248
00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:34.639
to exterminate the inferior. And then
the other nations, Great Britain, the

249
00:16:34.879 --> 00:16:38.600
US, the Allies, they rise
up and go no. And not only

250
00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:45.440
did they decide to defeat Nazism,
they decided to try to eradicate Nazism,

251
00:16:45.039 --> 00:16:48.720
right, and you and I would
stand him and go yay, get rid

252
00:16:48.759 --> 00:16:52.480
of the Nazis. That was the
concept. Now, let's have this be

253
00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:57.799
a full on religious affront against the
Creator, raising up and celebrating other gods

254
00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:02.759
that are quite honestly, they're demons. Right, So they're worshiping demons and

255
00:17:02.799 --> 00:17:06.920
they're sacrificing humans and making sexual abuse
and all kinds of things a part of

256
00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:10.480
the religious belief system. And God
says, I'm going to use the people

257
00:17:10.519 --> 00:17:15.880
of Israel to wipe out these people
who are living such horrific lives and choosing

258
00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:18.720
to go against God. If you
can think of it in those terms,

259
00:17:19.240 --> 00:17:23.720
then it's not so much the harshness, the harshness or the heavy handedness of

260
00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:26.759
God as it is the justice of
God. God draws a line and says,

261
00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:32.079
Okay, they're done doing what they're
doing, right, and that's reasonable.

262
00:17:32.119 --> 00:17:33.519
God. God has the right,
as the creator of the world to

263
00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:38.960
execute justice, and we wanted him
to execute justice against Nazis, right,

264
00:17:40.079 --> 00:17:42.519
so we have to be content that
he would execute justice against everybody who stands

265
00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:47.480
against all that is good and moral
and right, that's good and the abuse

266
00:17:47.519 --> 00:17:49.880
of humanity. Yeah, that's good
perspective on that. So anyways, he

267
00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:52.559
says this, you're gonna go in
You're gonna have houses you didn't build,

268
00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:56.319
You're gonna eat food you didn't cook, and you're gonna drink water that you

269
00:17:56.359 --> 00:17:57.680
didn't dig the wells. Right,
God says, I'm gonna give you this

270
00:17:57.759 --> 00:18:02.000
because I'm gonna run out these other
people. But in between those two things,

271
00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:03.319
there's only one God, and I'm
going to give you everything I promised

272
00:18:03.359 --> 00:18:06.119
to give you. In between,
he says, hey, don't forget to

273
00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:10.039
teach your kids them over and over
and over. Where you sit down,

274
00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:11.599
when you get up in the morning, when you sit down at the dinner

275
00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:15.039
table, when you're walking along the
way, put it on the doorpost of

276
00:18:15.079 --> 00:18:18.720
your house. Wear it right,
all of my words and obey the words.

277
00:18:18.759 --> 00:18:22.279
Teach your children to obey my words. Yeah, and it's a great

278
00:18:22.359 --> 00:18:26.480
pattern. I've definitely heard this in
family ministries over and over because it says

279
00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:30.359
when you get up in the morning
and when you lie down at night,

280
00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:33.759
right, and so it's like it's
like and then when you walk along the

281
00:18:33.880 --> 00:18:37.759
road, So it just it indicates
like it's when you walk down the road

282
00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:40.599
means like during the day, right, So it's the first thing in the

283
00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:44.200
morning, it's it's it's during the
day. It's as you're doing life with

284
00:18:44.319 --> 00:18:48.000
them, and it's also you know, walking on the road. And then

285
00:18:48.119 --> 00:18:49.839
when you're putting them down at night. And then it says put it on

286
00:18:49.920 --> 00:18:52.400
your door posts. Well, we
all know what that means. That is

287
00:18:52.440 --> 00:18:56.839
a that is a statement about you
know, what your home represents. And

288
00:18:56.920 --> 00:19:02.240
so every time you enter in through
through you know the gates of your house,

289
00:19:02.799 --> 00:19:06.279
or through you know the front door
of your house. It's it's what

290
00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:08.160
your house stands for, which is
a very big statement. You know,

291
00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:11.559
it's like, hey, it's for
me and my house, we're going to

292
00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:14.160
choose the Lord kind of thing.
So when you walk in my house,

293
00:19:15.279 --> 00:19:18.359
that's actually one of the two things
that you see. You open up the

294
00:19:18.359 --> 00:19:22.680
front door and you walk in,
and I think my wife has psalms.

295
00:19:23.039 --> 00:19:26.880
You know, this is the day
the Lord has made. And then and

296
00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:30.200
then there's and you sort of turn
left, and then there's another really big

297
00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:32.240
one that says as for me and
my house was sort of the Lord.

298
00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:36.279
And and again it's just a statement
about this is what this house stands for.

299
00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:41.119
And it's just a great pattern for
us to say, Okay, this

300
00:19:41.279 --> 00:19:44.920
is how God wants us to teach
our families, and this is how our

301
00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:48.839
kids needs to be raised up,
you know, under the nurturing and admonition

302
00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:55.720
and the instruction of the Lord.
Always there's something distinct that's missing in this

303
00:19:55.880 --> 00:20:00.519
passage that has permeated our culture,
even Christian culture. God does not say

304
00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:04.359
that your children grow up and try
to figure out what they believe right right

305
00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:11.200
right? God says, teach them
that you used to be slaves Mom and

306
00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:15.480
Dad in the modern time. Teach
them you used to live in sin,

307
00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:19.039
and that you needed a savior and
that God rescued you. And if there's

308
00:20:19.119 --> 00:20:22.559
a God in heaven that forgives sin
and saves us from our sin, and

309
00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:26.359
that if we choose to go God's
way, God will bless us. There's

310
00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:30.119
an underlying threat there as well.
Right, So he says multiple times,

311
00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:34.119
if you obey me, you're gonna
live well. Right, But the other

312
00:20:34.200 --> 00:20:37.000
side of that is if you don't, there's consequences. Matter of fact,

313
00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:40.160
he ends the Book of Duteronomy that
way. He says, I'm giving you

314
00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:41.599
a choice between life and death.
Oh, that you would choose life.

315
00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:45.839
That's how he ends the book.
Right, there's a good way to live,

316
00:20:45.880 --> 00:20:48.799
in a bad way to live the
good way. Follow my way and

317
00:20:48.119 --> 00:20:52.000
you're gonna have a good life.
You go your way and you're gonna have

318
00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:56.759
death. Everything's going to be destroyed. And so God does not say,

319
00:20:56.960 --> 00:20:59.240
let them figure it out on their
own and make their own choices. God

320
00:20:59.319 --> 00:21:02.799
says them from the day they're born, Teach them when they get up in

321
00:21:02.880 --> 00:21:04.359
the morning, Teach them when they
go to bed at night. Teach them

322
00:21:04.400 --> 00:21:07.400
while you're walking along the way.
Teach them while you're sitting down at dinner.

323
00:21:07.640 --> 00:21:11.839
Make sure it's on the doorposts to
your home, meeting, spread all

324
00:21:11.880 --> 00:21:15.279
throughout your house. Make sure that
it's you know he's talking about you know

325
00:21:15.319 --> 00:21:18.759
how the Orthodox Jews WI wear the
little box on their head and the box

326
00:21:18.839 --> 00:21:21.720
on their wrists. That's they're using
that as this. But what he's saying

327
00:21:21.839 --> 00:21:23.599
is wear it. Have it be
a part of your life all the time.

328
00:21:25.039 --> 00:21:27.279
Everywhere your children turn, they should
see that there's a God in heaven,

329
00:21:27.480 --> 00:21:30.599
and mom and Dad genuinely believe in
it. So I would reject the

330
00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:33.799
concept that we should just let our
children figure it out. God is being

331
00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:37.400
very clear there's a right way and
a wrong way to live, and mom

332
00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:40.000
and dad, it's your responsibility.
Teach them the right way, teach them

333
00:21:40.079 --> 00:21:44.079
God's way, point him to Jesus
and be aggressive about it. And he

334
00:21:44.119 --> 00:21:47.799
says, and by the way,
they'll have a long, fulfilling, meaningful,

335
00:21:48.119 --> 00:21:49.759
blessed life if they do. Yeah, And it's the single best thing

336
00:21:49.759 --> 00:21:53.160
you can do. I like the
word intentionality, right, so you know,

337
00:21:53.599 --> 00:21:59.400
just to do it, havehazardly,
or to do it when you think

338
00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:02.279
of it, but rather to be
intentional. And if you think about it,

339
00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:06.240
we're intentional about so many things in
our lives. And we're intentional about

340
00:22:06.480 --> 00:22:11.599
making bagged lunches every day, right, We're sometimes intentional about checking the weather

341
00:22:11.240 --> 00:22:14.640
based on what we wear. We
are intentional about so many things. We

342
00:22:14.759 --> 00:22:18.400
plan ahead and all of that,
but we you know, hopefully financially plan

343
00:22:18.519 --> 00:22:21.200
for the long haul. You know, there's so many things that we have

344
00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:25.079
to think intentionally about. And so
I would just say, if you have

345
00:22:25.240 --> 00:22:30.839
not thought about your family's spiritual journey, and you know, if you if

346
00:22:30.839 --> 00:22:33.279
you've not thought about an end product
you know, and how to get there

347
00:22:33.319 --> 00:22:37.039
the best way and an end product
is you know, the success, which

348
00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:41.880
is what is when your children leave
and their faith stops being mom and Dad's

349
00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:45.039
faith, and their faith becomes their
own, you know, and they and

350
00:22:45.119 --> 00:22:51.200
they adopt that. They they they'll
be educated, they'll be grounded. What

351
00:22:51.279 --> 00:22:53.440
does the Baba say teach a child
and the way that he or she should

352
00:22:53.440 --> 00:22:56.920
go, and when they're old they
won't depart from its right. So just

353
00:22:57.200 --> 00:23:03.079
just to be intentional about it,
I think is just a great takeaway,

354
00:23:03.279 --> 00:23:07.039
probably the best takeaway I think from
this chapter. And so all of this

355
00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:14.240
is in the context of verses four
and five. So verse four being there's

356
00:23:14.279 --> 00:23:18.359
only one God, worship him.
Verse five is the verse Jesus quotes in

357
00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:22.160
Matthew chapter twenty two, you must
love the Lord your God with all your

358
00:23:22.200 --> 00:23:25.440
soul, all your mind, and
all your strength. And then from there

359
00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:30.160
he immediately pivots to so teach your
children. Yeah. Right. So one

360
00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:33.599
of the indicators of whether or not
mom and Dad really really really do love

361
00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:36.160
God with all of who they are
is if they're raising their children to do

362
00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:37.960
the same, right. Right.
It's not the only one, but it's

363
00:23:38.000 --> 00:23:41.599
one of them that it's so important
that you need to pass us on to

364
00:23:41.640 --> 00:23:45.759
your children. And so for those
of you that have grown children, hey,

365
00:23:45.200 --> 00:23:48.319
you don't do your battles with your
words. You do your battles on

366
00:23:48.319 --> 00:23:49.640
your knees. Now, it's prayer. You know. My grandmother prayed for

367
00:23:49.680 --> 00:23:53.640
my dad every day for forty years. But for those of you that are

368
00:23:53.680 --> 00:23:57.119
listening that have children in your home, make it every morning. The thing

369
00:23:57.160 --> 00:24:00.680
my mom and dad did right out
of all all the things, because I

370
00:24:00.759 --> 00:24:03.200
mean they had some rough boys to
raise, was every morning and every night

371
00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:07.359
we spent time in the word.
Every morning, my dad shared with us

372
00:24:07.559 --> 00:24:10.359
what it was he was reading in
the Bible. Every evening before we went

373
00:24:10.400 --> 00:24:12.440
to bed, we read of one
of the proverbs. Right, whatever the

374
00:24:12.559 --> 00:24:17.039
date was for that day, we
read that proverb, and it was every

375
00:24:17.240 --> 00:24:21.200
single day. And I would say
that, you know, all four boys

376
00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:22.920
are in the ministry serving the Lord. There's a reason for that is because

377
00:24:22.960 --> 00:24:26.119
my mom and dad were faithful in
this area. It's how they demonstrated that

378
00:24:26.160 --> 00:24:29.680
they loved God, is that they
taught us. And we certainly don't have

379
00:24:29.799 --> 00:24:33.039
time to get into what happens when
a parent tries their best and then they

380
00:24:33.079 --> 00:24:37.839
have wayward sons and daughters. Because
God did. God had two sons,

381
00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:40.319
Adam and Jesus, and only one
of them turned out. Right, that's

382
00:24:40.400 --> 00:24:45.400
right, that's right. So it's
a you know, if anybody listening,

383
00:24:45.480 --> 00:24:48.799
who you know, they're thinking,
geez, I tried to do everything you're

384
00:24:48.839 --> 00:24:52.559
saying, and yet I'm just really
praying and I don't understand what I did

385
00:24:52.599 --> 00:24:57.119
wrong. I would just say you're
in good company. And just like Jeff

386
00:24:57.160 --> 00:25:00.119
said, the battle is on our
knees of this point. Right. So

387
00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:06.519
anyway, that's another topic for another
day. But but yeah, just do

388
00:25:06.680 --> 00:25:11.880
your best and serve your way back
into their lives intentional, strong, pray,

389
00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:15.079
everything else. So hey, that
is our time, so we will

390
00:25:15.119 --> 00:25:22.240
see you next time, hopefully on
the bibble guys. Mhm hm hm