Welcome to the Gospel Truth Project Podcast.
I'm your host, Jason, and I'm here with my co-host, Dylan.
What up?
Hello.
Awesome.
Well, how are you doing today, Dylan?
I'm doing good.
I'm just having a good day.
Recorded on a Friday.
Nobody knows when we record and what days are because they come out different times.
But it's been a good day.
It's back in school now, which is nice.
That way it gives them some of the energy out.
You've tried to entertain me for a whole day.
You understand what it's like.
So that's just that.
I'm excited to hear what we're going to talk about because like I did to Jason last time,
he has not told me anything basically until five minutes ago.
So we'll see how this goes for me.
Well, actually, I'm going to add one to that.
I didn't know the topic until five minutes ago either.
I work with a lunatic.
Okay.
Let me give back story because I told you I was going to say a story before we started.
And so here's the story.
I have been on Facebook forums.
I have been on TikToks.
I've been talking to people in comments, etc.
A lot of communication, a lot of talking, a lot of like trying to share the gospel and
stuff like that.
And I've been doing a lot of it.
And today, especially, it really hit me to where I had like 15 different topics I wanted
to talk about and discuss.
And we will get to those topics because they're on our list.
He always wants to.
He always wants to, you know, 15 different.
He's like, I can do this, this, this, this or that.
And I'm like, well, which one, Jason?
I need to write.
And he tells me at least five options.
Yeah.
And then I was I've been listening to the Gospel Truth Project, GTP worship playlist
that I created on Spotify.
And it's got good music, guys.
It's good.
And I've been listening to it all morning and it's really been hitting me home, hitting
home for me where, you know, I was like, there's all those different things going on and all
this stuff that people are dealing with.
There's like we could talk about marriage.
We could talk about parenting.
We can talk about validity of the Bible.
We can talk about sarcasm.
Even like we talked about before.
We can even go and talk about LGBT stuff.
We can talk about like this thing after thing after thing after thing we could discuss and
talk about how we treat others, how we interact with others, how we should be talking, how
we should be acting, how do we actually live out a humility in humility and actually what
that looks like in real time.
And there's so many things that we could discuss.
And while I was kind of praying about it and walking around about it and I actually had
experience yesterday morning, which I'll explain that's the story I wanted to share.
But I was kind of pacing in the house and kind of thinking, what do I talk about?
What do we God, what do you want me and Dylan to talk about today?
And it's the pace guys.
So I feel sorry for his wife.
And it came out to where worship was the topic on my mind in the last minutes where I used
to be on a worship team for like 11, 12 years, I would go to different churches and be on
their worship teams.
I would go to multiple events and be on worship teams.
I was hired to be on worship teams in some places.
And that's just kind of what it was.
And I have a really big passion and big heart for worship.
And I think this is a good topic to go on.
That's just since I'm leading today's episode.
I think it's going to be really good.
And it ties into my story that happened yesterday.
So that that's where we're at.
Yeah.
I'm glad to have Jason, somebody who's been on a worship team.
I think I was on the youth worship team and played like the bongos.
That's my little boom, boom, boom, boom.
That's my worst experience with this guy is the really, like he says, been in multiple
worship teams can sing, can play 20 something plus instruments.
So like he knows worship.
You know, I can't sing.
So Dylan was the little drummer boy.
Yes.
You know, who hasn't seen the six to 200 plus drummer boy?
Not the not the little drummer boy.
No, no.
The oh, my gosh, the drummer boy.
I don't know.
All Lord drummer boy.
So yeah.
So that's that's the base.
He's just walking.
He's walking.
So I wanted to share first off, what is the definition of worship and then share my story
because the short story, it's not that long.
Probably the pulpit guys go in.
No, not a pulpit today, but worship and a definition is any expression of obedience,
praise, honor, adoration, gratitude offered to the true God by a regenerate soul who knows
the truth about God and loves him.
That is the basic definition.
And most people think worship is just singing songs.
So that's the definition and that's that's the true definition of worship.
And we will get into versus talking about that.
That's going to be easy.
Here's the story that happened to me yesterday.
And Dylan, I didn't tell you yet, but I've told like three or four other people.
So before me, before you, I thought that's OK.
You didn't respond to me.
I was trying to talk with you.
I'm sorry, but I was parenting and.
You just have to say I'm parenting and that's it.
And then plus it was my parents anniversary.
So you know, yeah, I did see that.
Yeah.
Congratulations to them for sure.
And he yeah.
Thirty two years.
It's crazy.
That's funny.
I had to get Miranda involved and like Dylan, where's your phone?
I had to like message it where Miranda saw it.
She's like, she's like, she's like, Jason's messaging the group.
You need to respond.
I'm like, OK, I'm going to be like, I shared.
I asked him, when can you record?
I sent him like a photo that I created.
I sent him marketing material for Gospel Truth.
I sent them links.
I was like, he's not responding.
And not not only that, he didn't see any of the messages or open any of them because it
tells me if he opens my messages, he was leaving me on read.
He didn't get read.
No, nothing was seen.
He was just seeing the messages and swiping them away.
Like, I don't want to look at his text right now.
I had so many understand I had.
He I had coach soccer yesterday.
You know, I mean, you cook dinner and see my parents at the time.
I'm like, it's like a cooking in the middle cooking, you know, dinner.
And I get, you know.
Yeah, when?
Volume off on your phone.
Yeah.
Jason's trying to get a hold of you.
So you need any answer?
I'm like, it's been all day.
Yeah, I think I saw something.
I told myself, because I'm like, it's in message me respond to him later.
Like cleared notifications.
And I'm like, and your response, your response was thumbing up.
What are my messages?
All response.
I just see this Dylan like to put a message.
I was like, that's his response.
And I go in there.
He like, do you want to record tomorrow?
Thumbs up.
Let's do it.
I was like, OK, then I clicked on the worship.
Thank him.
I listen to some worship.
It's good stuff.
Oh, cooking.
I mean, I mean, not sure how many not shows and to status.
Good stuff.
And the hot oil and trying not to burn myself.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Whatever does whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Right.
And if it's not shows, it tastes good, too.
So yeah, you get rewarded.
Worth the pain.
Yeah.
All right.
So regardless of that, this is the story that I was going to tell you yesterday that we
told you is going to be a pulpit guy.
He's been talking about the story for like the past 10 minutes.
No, it's not.
It's just kind of interesting.
So I woke up at like two fifty a.m. yesterday.
Frighteningly, I was going to throw up.
I hated it.
It was like some food poisoning or something that got me.
I was I knew without a doubt.
If I ever had that feeling, I'm going to throw up.
That's just my personality.
I know it's gross, but that is just when I feel that feeling, I know it's happening.
So I went to the restroom and I was waiting for that moment to happen where I was going
to throw up.
I was gagging.
I was like, this is not good.
This is not good.
I'm thinking, man, it's three a.m.
I I'm so tired from this week.
It's been a long week.
I can't have this.
And so I laid down on the bathroom floor face down, laying down, and I laid there just feeling
this feeling and gagging and just like, I don't want to do this.
And I turned it and I was like, God, thank you for this opportunity I have right now
to thank you and talk to you and worship you.
And I laid there face down and on a bathroom floor saying, God, thank you for this.
Thank you for what I'm dealing with, whether I do throw up or don't throw up.
Thank you that I get this moment to to worship you and express that to you and express gratitude
towards you.
And I thank you for this.
And this was for 20 minutes, 15, 20 minutes.
I was just for three on the on the floor of the bathroom.
Yeah.
I said the bidet.
Yeah.
I was just like, I'm going to throw up.
And then I felt the warmth presence, like the warm presence of the Holy Spirit lay on
me on my back, like a press could have been the Arizona heat guys could be, you know,
could be.
I probably it was the Holy Spirit.
Yeah.
And I was laying there and I felt God explain to me, go eat two anti acids and eat three
vitamin C pills and lay down on the back on bed on your back.
Don't roll, don't sleep which way I sleep on my side.
So sleep on my back is really hard for me and sleep on your back and it will go away.
And I kept hearing that in my head over and over again.
And I was like, this is nothing I would never do that.
I would eat an anti acid just one because I don't like to eat two.
I would eat one and leave it at that and try to sleep.
That's how I try to deal with it.
But it never works.
So I'm laying there face down like I believe that's God because that's not something I
would do.
Why the vitamin C?
I don't even know if I had vitamin C right now.
So that's kind of weird.
But I'm like laying there face flat.
I'm like, I don't know if I can even get up right now without throwing up.
So I pushed myself.
I got up, felt like I was about to just throw chunks in the kitchen because I was that's
where all my vitamins and stuff are.
I opened up the cabinet.
I find the anti acids.
I eat two of them and that look and there was sure enough some vitamin C left and I
ate three of those.
I went to the bedroom and I'm like, I feel like I'm going to throw up on this bed.
I can't do that though.
I'm like, it's fine.
I'm doing what God's instructed.
I know it's God.
And I laid down on my bed on my back and instantaneously the feeling of throwing up went away.
Absolutely gone.
And I was like, thank you God that you gave this to me.
And I fell asleep.
I woke up the next day.
Well rested.
It felt fantastic.
And it was such a cool experience to see that I accepted whatever does happen to me that
night that morning.
Whatever one you like to say, I accepted it.
It's 233 AM.
So I accepted what was happening to me and what was going to happen one way or another.
If it was for my benefit or my wants or it wasn't for my wants of my benefit, I accepted
it and thank God for it because he deserves the praise and by doing that, he gave me instructions.
I listened and I followed and that's an expression of worship is that obedience, honor, praise,
adoration.
And so while I'm over here pacing, thinking about what to talk about today, I realized
I had a story this share about what happened and it does relate to worship and it all falls
back into place about what is worship and how do we live that out.
So that's my little story from yesterday morning.
I got to deal with.
Yeah, I assume it makes me think about what my mom always said.
I wake up early like at like three, four in the morning sometimes.
And I assume like, oh, it's your ADHD.
No, I'm like, no, I just wake up and I can't go back to bed.
Mom's like, that's because God's trying to tell you something now.
So you need to pray and you need to read.
Did you make time?
They before I like, oh, did they?
Sometimes God gives you a stomach ache, too.
This is like, hey, rely on me.
You need to rely on me a little bit.
Pray to me, talk to me, Jason.
I need that.
Yeah.
And maybe you were sick and maybe, you know, you're good.
You listened, heard what he was trying to tell you.
Yeah.
I mean, he just some cakes in the middle of the night.
And I think that's something I would always be told.
So I think of them like, you know, God's like, hey, you need to focus here for a little bit.
You forgot about me.
I was you cut out my time.
You were cutting out some sleeping time, which is, you know, huge.
I loved I love sleep.
So, you know, and it's one of those things where it's like, man, need that.
It's like you need sleep, but you also need to have time with God.
So, yeah, he's going to make sure that he gets his time.
Right.
Some of us here he means to make he make sure.
Yeah.
And it's interesting, too, because when I was younger, when I was a lot younger, like
18, 19, I used to.
Yes, that's a long time ago, Dylan.
No, don't you say it like it's a long time ago.
But I'm like, no, it was.
It was over a decade.
Yeah.
It's like 11 to 13 years ago.
It's only 10 years for me as a decade.
When I was younger, that age, I used to I remember getting sick a couple of times and
I used to think why was God forsaking me?
And that was my mentality.
Why is God letting me deal with this?
Why why does he not love me enough to keep me from feeling this?
And that was a lot of my ideology because I felt that and I was also taught that from
some of the churches was that, you know, God removes sickness.
And if he's not going away, then you don't have enough faith.
You don't believe hard enough.
You done something wrong.
It's generational wrong that you can't.
That's not something you're supposed to experience.
And realizing that's wrong.
That ideology was wrong.
And I think God through all of it and I give him I open doors as in like I talk to people
and I give God opportunity for the Holy Spirit to intervene in situations and use me as a
vessel.
And so that's what I do nowadays.
And I think whether it goes my way or think when it doesn't go my way, because it's not
about my way, it's about his way and me following his way.
Oh, way, yeah, way.
Yeah, I know.
I've ever been told that I suppose I had appendicitis that God was trying to tell me something and
then I wasn't listening.
I was going like, no, I'm pretty sure it's because my appendix got inflamed.
Like I don't think God's like here to sickness because you're not obeying God brings good
things.
Every good and perfect thing that's from him.
Yeah, it's a good every good and perfect thing comes from you.
And you sing it to God.
Yeah, that's like early 2000s worship right there early.
You know what?
I'm going to sidetrack us here a little bit because you reminded me of another topic that
I was trying to think about talking about and we will talk about it sometime, but I
just want to touch up on it because you mentioned it.
There are things that we like not everybody, but there are things that everybody has been
taught from churches or leaders that are more of the manmade side rather than the biblical
side.
Like, for example, don't say maybe I want to share this one thing.
This is the side tangent.
We'll do this for like five minutes or something.
But I want I was listening to a preacher, right?
Someone who was just sharing the gospel, just talking about it.
And he they asked him, how do you see?
How do you know how well off you are building your relationship with God?
Have you heard that term building a relationship with God?
Yeah.
How are you building that?
No, it's oh, he hasn't heard it for a while.
You already have a relationship with God.
God has done everything on his side of that relationship, so to speak.
He sacrificed his life.
He's come back from the dead.
He's conquered sin.
He's given a new covenant to humankind.
He already has shown all his cards.
His love, his grace, his compassion, et cetera.
When people say building a relationship, they like to think that it's a human relationship
where both sides are working on it.
Both sides are figuring out both sides are doing their part to try to work it out.
This isn't how it works with God.
Our relationship with God, it's not in the sense that we're building together.
We can never build something with God.
He already set the stone.
He set the foundation.
He gave us everything we need to do to get close to him.
When it comes to relationship with Christ, which we've mentioned before, we're talking
about our side of things and knowing how deep that love goes.
That's important.
That's something that I heard today that just threw me off.
I was like, oh, I've heard that before.
I've heard I'm building a relationship with Christ before.
Yeah.
I haven't heard that.
I feel like in a really long time because that's like, there's not it's like it's the
relationship is already there.
Everybody has a relationship with God, whether it's a good one or a bad one.
It's on us.
You know what I mean?
It's on us.
Exactly.
It's not him.
It's not on him.
Like, you know.
So there was this is one of the so many stuff to talk about, but there was one talk about.
Yeah, it's not Tuesday yet, but I will share this and I encourage you to keep an open mind
because a lot of people, a lot of Christians, as soon as I say this, they freak the frick
out.
And it's insane to me because there is a God that loves us all and it's insane to think
about.
So there's this there's this guy on TikTok.
All he does is preach the gospel.
He he he talks the Bible.
He loves God.
You can see the Holy Spirit, the fruit of the Spirit through everything he does, says
and does.
And the sad thing is, is that this guy is he is gay.
He's attracted to the same sex.
But here's the thing.
He's celibate.
And he said this before.
I respect him wholeheartedly for this.
He has said it before that God is greater than his lust, his desire and his passions.
That doesn't change necessarily who he's attracted to.
And it didn't for him specifically, but he went celibate because he knew that that is
something he struggles with and he knows what the Bible says about it.
And he continuously strives to show the gospel and who God is.
And there was people in the comments.
Oh, you can't teach.
You can't speak about God.
You can't talk about the Bible.
You can't talk about the gospel because you're still gay.
You're still attracted to the same sex.
And he was like, I, I understand that living that life is wrong, but that doesn't change.
That doesn't always end up changing my mentality of who I am.
That's my sin I struggle with.
I have a huge issue.
If not with that gentleman at all, I have an issue with people who are thinking like
that because those people that are calling him out, it's the same thing we talked about.
I think it was last week.
Oh, pulling out the eye thing.
Removing the spec.
Somebody else says I wouldn't have to hold the log.
Not at all saying that it's okay.
You know, but that's his sin that he's dealing with and he's doing a lot better than most
people.
I'll see.
So they act out on their sin and they, you know what?
And like, you know, I remember hearing this one thing is like 60% of pastors deal with
a problem of pornography.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
60%.
So that's 60% of your pastors.
Like I remember there was a thing, a guy with stockings going like the clerk or whatever
the hotel is going like, yeah, you guys sure get a lot of pornography.
They're buying a lot of pornos and he was shocked when he heard that and he was like
to find out the stats.
It's like 60%.
And that's his pastors.
The congregation, like there's, I'm not saying that's everybody's problem, but it's
people have anger issues.
That's another big one.
Everybody has a different sin.
If somebody is working on their sin is our job to be encouraging.
Right.
Like my crisis and the encourage like, Hey man, you know, and on you for, you know, saying
single being so celibate and you know, not acting on your sin.
Um, maybe even open up and say, Hey man, I'll be keep praying for you.
You know, I can use prayer in this area.
We're all struggling with the sin on this planet and the single somebody out.
And then he's trying to, you know, show that's even good because there might be somebody
who like a teenager or somebody who is struggling with that sin and those feelings like, ah,
but I know it's wrong, but you know, I told by society that now anybody who doesn't accept
me their biggest, their sex, their, all these hateful homophobic people, but that's putting
a positive light on it going like, Hey, you know, Oh, he believes in Christ.
Oh yeah.
He knows it's not right too.
And he's dealing with it.
He's not still able to have a relationship with Jesus.
Right.
The same thing.
Like I tell my youth kids, I'm like, um, I'm like, I'm this old, you know, I waited for
marriage to have sex.
I waited for her.
I've never, I haven't been drunk.
I haven't smoked pot.
I haven't done any of that stuff.
I'm like, I'm almost 30.
I'll be 30 here in six months.
And I'm like, I have made it three decades without doing any of that stuff.
I'm like, I'm saying like, I mean, I'm so thinking amazing because I fall short in many
other places when like, look at, Hey, it's cause everybody seems like everybody's doing
something doesn't mean you, you have to, and you can stay strong and know that, you know,
there's temptations, but you don't have to fall into them.
I think that's a great example.
Um, that guy, um, you have to send me his, yeah, I think it is afterwards.
Yeah.
Cause yeah.
Cause it's, there's a, like we talked about in the previous episode about sin is that
there's a difference between living in sin and sinning and falling short.
Cause we all fall short.
We all sin, but the difference is that you're choosing to continuously live in sin is where
we're not truly following Christ.
And that's where we do not have the Holy spirit with us because we do not continuously live
in sin unless we are choosing to walk away from God.
And anyone like this guy who's like, God is Jesus is Lord.
He's my Lord and savior.
He's rescued me from this world, from this life that I lived before.
And that I still struggle with these feelings.
I still struggle with these desires, but his love and his kingdom is greater than my lust,
my str my struggles and anything I deal with.
I'm like, dude, I even sent him a message.
I'm like, I'd love to have you on my podcast to be honest.
I'm like, I'd love to hear your testimony because I've seen it on his Tik TOKs.
I'm like, dude, this site, this guy really, really pushes, uh, I'm not going to share
his name on here, um, just in general, but, uh, it's really, really cool to see that kind
of dedication and that falls for everybody.
Like even if us, even us too, if we look at a woman and in lust after her, that right
there is a sin.
We've already committed adultery done.
That's it.
And we fail.
That's that's that's going to happen.
And so, you know, with porn, that's one of the easiest and most accessible ways to get
into lust and get into that sin because it's so accessible.
You got your computer, you got your phone, you got your tablet.
I mean, shoot, you could probably yell out to Alexa over there and say something and
it will start playing porn sounds like it's so accessible to everything.
It's like, yeah, you can probably sneeze on accident and your phone will go to porn.
Like it's so accessible to everybody and it's so easy to get involved with and get hooked
on.
And then people pretend like, oh, well, that's just a soft sin.
It doesn't hurt any blind.
Well, sin is sin.
You're cheating on God.
Yeah, we could do a whole episode on that, too, because that is detrimental to mental
health and health wise for men.
Yeah.
And the damage does, you know, men's damage is so much.
Yeah, we've been part of so many men's Bible studies or, you know, I've talked about that.
We've discussed it.
It is the problem with it is that, you know, most people don't talk about it because it's
one of those taboo things.
And you know, we're here talking about worship today.
Oh, yes.
And this actually ties all back in to worship, because what was the very first thing of that
definition I mentioned was that worship is any expression of obedience, praise to God,
honor, adoration, gratitude offered to God by a regenerate soul who knows the truth about
God and that God loves them.
And that's the beauty of this.
And we're going to get into some verses with it that everything that we've been talking
about, it shows that obedience is part of worship.
And I mean, there's even points to where like it's not just going to church on Sunday and
singing some worship songs.
Worship in itself is continuous obedience and reverence of God, of Jesus.
And so first off, I wanted to bring up John 4 24.
Do you know this passage?
On 4 24.
Yeah, it's the most famous moment in Jesus earthly ministry by far.
Like it is absolutely it's between verse five and 26.
But here he converses with the Samaritan woman.
I'm sure you recognize that where this particular woman is not only an unclean quote Samaritan,
but an outcast among her own people.
She actually attempts to avoid Jesus teachings, giving flippant and sarcastic answers, that
kind of stuff.
And despite that, despite knowing all about her sin, Jesus encourages her with the love
of God.
And this breaks through her hard heart, and as a result, many others are brought to meet
Christ.
And disciples are also taught a valuable lesson about the purpose of their mission.
Rather than preaching to you know who just Jews, they were like, wow, this is a Samaritan.
This is like.
What the heck?
Like, these are the people that we don't like.
So it's like, I mean, shoot, you can you can say American versus any other country out
there.
But I'm just going to them and saying like, hey, you know, we love you guys.
It's like what?
Like Americans over to Germans, even if they're part of the Nazi Party or not, not part of
the Nazi Party, just to be extreme in that sense.
We still show them that love and like, hey, you're my people that I'm trying to reach
out to.
You're the people I'm trying to to show God's love to.
I'm not trying to show the people who are already in church or the people who already
accept Christ.
I'm looking for the people who don't know God, who might be dealing with the worst of
the worst and who might need God the most.
That's where I'm at.
So that's very true.
Yeah.
So in verse 24, I mean, you're there, right?
On 424.
Yeah.
Go ahead and read that one.
So God is spirit and his worship must worship in the spirit.
The woman said, I know that Messiah.
With Christ is coming and when he comes, he will explain everything to us.
And Jesus says, I am the one you speak of.
I am he.
Yep.
Right.
There's Jesus claiming.
Yeah, he's claiming he is him.
And he says those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
This is really cool because it makes a clear point that God himself is spirit and God is
not simply a more complex physical being or a limited creature.
In other words, God is not restricted to seeing, hearing or being in a single location like
the false gods of most religions, especially at this time.
This also helps to keep Genesis 126 in context.
The fact that man is created in the image of God does not mean we have some physical
resemblance to him.
We share his moral and rational nature.
And I love this.
I love this verse and I think it's a great verse to talk about in general, but it goes
to show a little bit about, OK, so now we're starting to touch into verses talking about
worship and I have another verse that you will probably like a lot.
So then Romans, it is in Romans.
Romans 12, one.
Roman Romans.
Oh, man.
Of one.
12, one.
Oh, oh.
The context here is one to two, so two.
Therefore I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy to offer your bodies
as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God.
This is our true and proper worship.
Do not conform to the patterns of this world, but be transformed with the renewing of your
mind and you will be able to test and approve that what God's will is.
Is good.
Beasing imperfect will.
So that's good right there.
Oh, yeah.
This is the true and proper worship is sacrificing is a living sacrifice.
We should be living sacrifice for God.
It means and holy and pleasing to him.
So that means we need to be holy, which is set apart, set apart and pleasing the Lord.
That is the true purpose, the true proper worship to be set apart and to please God.
We are set apart for him to just worship him.
I sense then you'll be able to test and approve God's will.
So then by doing this and by wishing him and being set apart for him, it sounds like in
a sense of having discernment and you will know because we will be set apart for him
that we will be in him.
We will know things that are not of him.
Like that.
It's really cool because here he's answering the question.
How should we respond to God's great mercy to us?
And the answer is to become living, breathing sacrifices like you were saying and like this
is saying and.
It's true and it's really cool because it's an ongoing worship.
It's not just like I said, church on Sundays.
It's an ongoing living and continuous sacrifice of who I am or who he is.
Right.
100%.
That goes back to the tick tock guy I was talking about where he's like, God is greater
than anything that I want and deal with.
And so therefore I submit to him.
I submit to him.
I submit to his authority.
I said I submit to everything he is and follow him because he is the true king.
He is a savior.
He is salvation.
So that that is something that's really important to understand.
Now the cool thing is, is that with that being mentioned, where is it?
There is a verse that references this Hebrews 1315 is actually referencing Romans because
it says through him, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God.
That is the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.
So it takes that continuous sacrifice and says, acknowledge his name, which is really
cool because it's not just saying like not just a lifestyle.
It's more than that.
It's sacrificing your life, everything you are and giving it to God as as he sacrifices
life for us.
We sacrifice our life for him and for his kingdom.
And we announce it with our we acknowledge his name.
We continue to say his name.
This whole section for Hebrews 13, it contains practical instructions for the Christian believers
for seven through 17.
Highly recommend reading it.
These follow major themes from the rest of this letter, including perseverance, peacefulness,
praise.
This text also includes like parallel component components of the old covenant with the ministry
of Jesus, specifically those these verses compared to the disposal of sacrifice to animals
with Jesus crucifix crucifix crucifixion.
Talking too much now.
I'm going too fast, but but both occurred outside the borders of the community.
Right?
I can see.
I couldn't say it, but crucifixion.
It's it's important to crucifixion.
So I was saying it wrong, but sound like you're talking in tongues for a second.
Right.
So instead of sacrificing animals, Jesus sacrificed himself for us so we wouldn't have to do that.
So in return, we sacrifice who we are for the glory of his kingdom there.
Much easier, much easier to understand.
I thought you're like trying to be Moses there for a second with that speech and put him
in there or something like are me.
I think the worship, like you said, man, is this like, you know, it's that set apart giving
yourself for him.
And like you're saying with that one gentleman, you know, his sin and sacrificing yourself
to your sin.
Oh, yeah.
No, sacrificing yourself to God, not your sin.
Right.
Because he divulged into your sin to deny your flesh.
So yeah, there's a consistent theme with worship.
And I don't know how it got so lost in the church in general, where churches teaching
worship to be worship is just singing.
You come, you sing and you sing praise and there you worship and that's worship.
And we've come to the idea that that is what worship is.
And that's not biblically accurate at all.
Yeah, we do sing praises.
That is exactly what we should be doing.
But it's a lifelong every day.
Everything we do, like when I was on the bathroom floor, I thank God for it because I knew it
was the same concept that I give up everything I'm doing, my life and everything to him and
say, no, I don't care the outcome because God is good.
And that's the most important part of my aspect of my mentality is that God is good and that
it's and all be the glory to him, no matter what the circumstances or the outcome of those
circumstances are.
John four twenty three, which we already read in four, but this is a little bit later where
it says, but the hour is coming, which I'm sure you've heard before, is now here where
the true worshipers will worship the father in spirit and truth, for the father is seeking
such people to worship him.
And I, I, this is going to hit a little harder in my opinion, because I've seen this and
I know it's common when persecution comes for Christians and those who believe and follow
Christ.
People will have the choice to say that they worship God or say they don't and face the
penalty, whatever it is, could be death, someone like out to kill them, could be whatever it
is, persecution.
And we're going to see real quickly who's actually followers of Christ and who's not.
And I think this kind of falls in line with what this verse is talking about in the sense
that like true worshipers will worship the father in spirit and truth.
And this is this is very important in general.
This is because this verse is crucial for two reasons.
First, this is the part of Jesus correction on the meaning of worship.
The Samaritan woman, this is the same chapters before when we're talking about the Samaritan
woman, she attempted to distract Jesus from her sin by asking him to resolve an old spiritual
argument.
This was the question of where proper worship should occur.
Mount Gerizim or the Temple of Jerusalem or rather than taking the bait, Jesus clarifies
that true worship of God is not tied to a location, but to the inherent or the inherent
intent of one's heart.
It's not about places, not going Sunday, not about doing something.
It's the one's heart and their intent behind it.
And this is very important because he's setting that standard.
Worship is not just I'm going to Jerusalem, I'm going to worship and by singing, he's
like, that's not what worship is.
And you think that way, you're not a true bullet.
You're not a true worshiper.
I'm not looking for that.
He goes to the point to like, father is seeking such people who to worship him when they're
true worshipers who worship the father in spirit and truth.
I just go to a building and say, I'm worshipping.
He's looking for the people who actually worship.
Yeah, I, it's a hundred percent true.
It's like, I always think of a, the church sign has church was missing the, uh, it is
spelled C H T H and it has a tube length.
He's like, what's missing?
You are, huh, that's like, you're missing.
No, it's good.
It's like, is you are missing like, is you are the church.
Yeah.
I was like, doesn't matter.
And a building is just like you and me right now.
We are the body.
We are the church of Christ.
We talked about church too.
It did.
That's a good episode.
Yeah.
What is the church?
There's a plug here.
Um, no, but I think that's huge.
Um, cause people get caught up with the four, four, four walls.
Oh, oh yeah.
You can mortar of it all.
And it's not the case.
Like that's where, yes, you, you can meet and you can grow, but not everybody is reached
those four walls.
We're called to go out and we're going, you know, like how should be an extension of your
church?
Right.
Anywhere you go should be an extension of the church.
Yes, exactly.
And an extension of worship and you know, an extension of God.
Um, that's, that's what it is.
Um, that's what I say.
I don't like it.
Sorry, but you know, you know, and the church isn't just the church on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
I have, uh, I will say this because you touched up on a point that I had been arguing, debating
with people on Facebook that I knew were Christian leaders in their church and respective churches
who are, they were like fed up.
They're like, the government does lockdowns again, stand against it, like rebuke it and
don't do it.
And I was like, why you say that?
Because in the Bible it says, unless it's telling us to do something against God, we're
supposed to follow it as if it was God's law in the sense that we respect the land.
No matter if it tells us to pay taxes a lot or not, or the wear a mask or to not, or to
lock up or not, it doesn't say go against it if you feel uncomfortable.
Like, so where are you getting this?
And they said, because we weren't allowed to go to church.
I said, then you don't know what church is because in the definition of the Bible, church
is the individual.
That's one sense of the church, the individual as a body of Christ representation of Christ,
like you mentioned, to the second representation, church is the gathering of any individuals
in any place to represent God.
That is the second church, not a building, not a place with a cross in it, not a pews
in Bible and music.
But the second and most coming forth part of church is two or more people gathered for
Christ in representation of Christ.
And we talked about that.
So I'm like, so where are you getting that, that just because the government said don't
go to church, like an actual building, where do you get at to say that that is against
God?
Because God never commanded you to go to the four walls.
He never commanded you to go to a building.
He commanded you to commune with each other, whether that's two people or more.
He didn't say it has to be a minimum of 50 people or else you don't have a church.
He said two or more.
We grow together.
Congratulations.
You're a church.
You and me, Dylan on here talking, growing.
We're a church.
Whether people are listening or not, whether people listen or not, we're a church, biblically
structured church, which is the foundation of what God set upon was that he would set
up this church, this foundation upon his rock and you call it his church.
And the church and that definition is those who are chosen to follow Christ, who actually
pick up that cross and say, I will follow him.
That's it.
So whether you're against this or against that, that pride is freaking filling you up.
And I see it every single time with these people on Facebook who just have pride and
arrogance and like, I'm for this political party.
I'm for this political party.
I'm for this or that.
And the government can't tell me what to do.
And I say, shut up.
I even DM him.
I said, you have a serpent's tongue.
How dare you speak in front of all these people who believe in you because you're a leader
of the church and you use your position to speak against what the Bible says.
Bible's very clear about what we're supposed to do as Christians in this, in this place.
No matter what the government's doing, we are to obey it.
Government says, do not do this.
If it doesn't get go against what God is calling me to do, I will, I will comply because that's
what God told me to do.
We're not called to the become together and communion.
And what does that look like?
You can't do it at your house.
It's two or more Dylan.
You get people to come to your house.
Hey, hey, look, fuck it.
I cleared that with the wife.
Okay.
Right.
You know, I, I don't agree personally with shutting down churches and schools and stuff.
At the same time, I understand where people, you know what, some people they rely, they
they rely on that community in doing that.
Oh, the scripture and quoting all that.
Yeah.
I see what you're talking about.
So I only have one question.
You know, okay.
Yeah.
Cause I know where you're going.
What a crazy.
So how far away are we right now from each other?
I drove it.
It's like eight and a half, nine hours.
Are we, are we having communion with each other right now?
Connects.
We are.
Yes.
Right.
We have technology, dude.
Like people will act like question as soon as church is closed.
Yeah.
Oh, I think this is good enough for the, no, here's the thing.
I get what you're saying.
Yes.
For some people, this is fine.
But my question is what about for the children?
What do you mean?
You like, they need physical interaction with another, like they need that.
It's psychologically and very much proven.
Like kids need that.
Like my six year old, he needs to be able to go out and hang out with friends and do
that.
Okay.
Go to the park with them.
Who says you have to stay home?
Who says it has to be a four walls building?
No, you can go to the park.
That's always been allowed.
Even when the, when government news said, we don't recommend it in the California.
Cause I know what it was.
People would still go to the park because they can't enforce that.
It was with buildings they had an issue with.
And I said, it doesn't matter if it's a building or not.
What about schools though?
It doesn't matter.
School is school.
Like that's not biblical required.
If they shut down schools, that's their stuff that they're shutting down.
They have full right to shut down a school because that is their derogative.
That is their property.
That is their stuff.
And then it just hurts our children.
But that's them.
It hurts our children.
So you, right.
But that's you now need to do.
So right.
But it's like, that's where we go to normal school.
So right.
But that's where us as individuals rely on God.
God, what do you need us to do?
He's not going to ask you to be rebellious.
He's not going to ask you to go against what he's already told you in the Bible in Titus
3, in Romans 2 as well.
There's multiple points in the Bible where it says that we follow the law as it is written
in wherever we live and we bless the people in charge.
We don't pray against them.
We don't pray that they get kicked out.
We pray that God intervenes and God blesses them.
God shows up in them.
That the Holy Spirit lays their hand on them that they experience who God is at the whole.
And because I'm listening to God, he's going to bless me for it.
Just like he'll bless you for it.
Just like you'll bless everyone for it because that's that consistent worship of obeying
what has been told for us to do and any given circumstance, whether we like it or not.
And it's been such a hardcore argument.
You can tell I'm passionate about it because I get loud, but I'm passionate about it because
there's this false sense of doctrine that doesn't line up with the Bible and it's being
spread as if it's our God given right to do these things and stand up against the laws
of the land because we don't like it.
Like good job showing you don't read the Bible or good job showing you don't care about all
of it.
Like it's either all or none of it.
You can't be a little bit of it and say, oh, do we not have a right to have communion
with one another in our building of our place of worship?
If it gets taken away, guess what?
I have I'll share this.
I understand.
It's a good point.
It's a good question.
I have a friend who lives in Afghanistan.
Okay.
He is a he's a preacher over there.
He is a he's a pastor.
His church just got burned down yesterday and three people got sent to the hospital
because they were there when they got burned down by people who hate them because they
are Christian.
Yes, they don't have a building anymore.
No, he did.
He sent me pictures of all the kids from his youth group and all the parents in the back
alley behind his house in the alleyway, worshiping, praying, reading the Bible.
No, I because his community has nothing to do with a building.
Community has that to do with everybody who is a believer in Christ, just like you and
me gathering together in any place that we can sit, whether it be a house, an alleyway,
a park, a building.
Sure.
We're we're lucky enough over here to have a building and not have to worry about it
being burned down the next day.
Great.
We're spoiled.
We're very spoiled.
You might be hit with fines and everything.
Yeah, sure.
That's what we get.
We get hit with fines and you get hit with labels and stuff.
Instead of them burning the building down and getting sent to the E.R. and an E.R.
that doesn't care if you survive because you're Christian.
Oh, you're part of the Christian group that got burned down.
OK, well, you can you can sit on death row over there.
We don't care about you.
That's what happens over there every single day.
Yeah, we have a good here in America.
I'm not ever going to say we don't because we were blessed.
Right.
But it's that spoiled nature of like they won't let me go to my church building.
Oh, what?
Like they get all like huffy puffy.
I'm like, you think that that's you think that that's the only community you have?
You think that's the only way you can commune with each other?
That's the only way that you guys can hang out together or be a ministry?
I don't think it is.
That's not the only way, but I think it's the it's the main way that most people know
how to today.
Right.
And because of the comfortability that we have here in the States, we don't know.
The other way, they grew up in a house church.
It's a little different, like, oh, just go to somebody else's house because they're
in the church.
Now, see, most people, they're used to the brick and mortar, the four walls.
But for them, yeah, that is and it feels like an attack.
So they become defensive as well.
Right.
Because they don't understand what church really is.
Because if you have a full understanding of what church is and you believe that you are
the representation of Christ in your life on a daily walk, then it doesn't matter where
you meet.
It doesn't matter where it's at, because if you truly understand the definition of
church, which that is you as an individual and church in a group is two or more people
meeting.
If you understand that, then it doesn't matter where.
Because that is what church is and God is there and God's going to bless you for it
and God's going to protect you and be a provider and give you the Holy Spirit to bring peace
during those times.
And that's that's the difference.
It's like we just have to adapt to whatever the country throws at us.
Sure.
But until it tells me to stop worshipping God, I'm told to follow the law, whether
I like it or not.
And for those people, you know, that's all they know for them, that's what it feels like.
I mean, you understand that.
But that means that they don't understand what church is.
OK, well, people, either side of the aisle are sheep and they're not they're not a clip
and they're not well, they're not articulate enough in what they know.
Scripture or whatever it is to know the facts and to know things like that, most people
aren't said they don't they like the intelligence or the knowledge, let's say, of what is what
is the church?
What does it mean?
And you know, so.
So whose whose fault is it then that they do not believe leaders should be good in telling
the people, but also the leaders, you know, because you live in a country that says separation
of church and state, the church should be if they're free to govern themselves.
That's where I'm like, OK, I get that.
My whole thing is I'll just I'll say this because I'll let you finish that with it.
Don't care what you think, what you believe.
I just know that no matter what it is with all this going on, if it goes on again, I
need to think about the kids and about the youth.
You look at developmental issues and everything goes on.
If what happened after the last time we locked down and did all this stuff, it's detrimental
to the kids' development and health.
You've seen a rise in suicide, depression and anxiety throughout these kids.
That's my only main concern I have.
And that's where I stand on it.
And it's more or less when you think of the future for the kids.
Also, I don't even make kids.
They get sick all the time and they bounce back.
Sure.
So I and you know, as I said, you know, people that know that has cancer.
He was on people who was like cancer, but ain't nothing.
Oh, and that's where he stands on it.
You know, each person is different.
You know, it's also for those people who really want to meet at church.
Most churches have a courtyard meet outside if the way you can still follow the law.
You really have to be there.
Yeah, I.
Yeah.
The stance on this is that there's nothing sacred about a church building.
And I said that before and people I've definitely been blocked because of that statement.
And thinking that there's something sacred, he's over there like, I'm going to meet myself.
There's nothing.
My mic, everything I'm done.
Now it's just messing.
There's nothing sacred about a church building.
The idea is that I understand your children are special and they are.
You know, God says that about the kids.
Correct.
Does he say like, you must provide a building for the kids because they don't get to talk
with each other.
We have an issue.
No, no, he doesn't.
When it comes to when it comes to my whole thing is like, you know what?
As a youth pastor, when they canceled youth group and it was on zoom, it's that zoom does
not cut it for the kids.
Right.
Go to the park.
Yeah, go to the park.
You know, like that's still legal.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
But you guys have Waller Park.
A lot.
It's a lot harder.
Get a lot of parents to go to a park.
And then who's fault is that?
Well, that's the parents because you know what?
You can't at night go into a park.
So that'll sketch you when there's a lot of drug addicts.
You don't live in the best place.
So it's safer to do it inside a building.
That's the only thing on that.
And like I said, it's my whole thing is the kids.
Right.
And I am with you and I will back you up.
I need and I need a place where I can watch them.
I worry about people coming in and out.
That's my whole thing.
So I will I will back you up and say that in the sense that for kids, it's nice to have
a safe spot, a safe place.
You can call like this is where we're going.
I think parents tend to when there's a change, a lot of times in the church setting, parents
are usually not too forward about doing the right thing for their kids.
It's usually like, well, I don't want to do that.
And it's usually a lot of selfish reasons or it's just like, I don't I don't want to
get myself up and deal with this, too, because now I have to worry about going to pick them
up again or whatever.
And it has a lot of stuff on that.
That's a lot of stress on them.
And they're doing that wrong, too.
Great because biblically, we're supposed to in humility, which we talked about, is is
understand that someone else's needs are more important than our own.
And we see that failing in a lot of the parenting and a lot of the church members and a lot
of people in general.
When when it comes to like the lockdown stuff, I don't think we try hard enough and I don't
think we do enough.
And I say that in the sense of this.
If if let's say one of the pastors at your church, for example, they have a home, they
have a garage.
What if they decided to pay 50 bucks a month to put everything in their garage into a storage?
So it's out of the way.
And then they just put chairs in the garage so they can all kind of hang out, have a foosball
table.
Now you got youth group at the garage.
But it's inconvenient because they have to pay extra or they have to move stuff or they
have to empty stuff or they have to make it safe or whatever.
But then that means that they're not doing everything that they can rather than they
like to sit behind their computer and complain than rather than do the actual work.
This is true, but we also pay for a building, have a building.
Right.
But that's that's a luxury.
That's not required.
Building is a luxury.
We will never there will be a time where we're not even allowed to have a church anymore.
And that's common.
That's promise.
That's a that's a prophecy.
I think that's more where we won't have a choice.
This scares a lot of the people because there's an easy way they get that started.
And I think people are, you know, and I see in that sense.
Yes, of course.
Have that incident that inclination to.
Fight that because I mean, it makes sense.
I said, I just, you know, it's the kids, you know, if a lock a lockdown does happen because.
It's really easy to say the fear.
It is.
That's all I care about.
Right.
Children.
Right.
And I agree.
And I'm saying that there should be a safe spot.
But then we see leaders of the church.
Like for example, I was saying with like a pastor who has a garage, maybe or or even
a backyard, maybe and say, hey, guys, come over to my house.
We're going to hang out in the backyard, have some bonfire stuff and discuss the word.
But you don't see them doing that because it's inconvenient.
But you don't see them doing that because like, man, I really don't want to be a host.
Man, I don't really want to give my time like that.
I don't want to do that kind of stuff.
That's not what I was.
We we pay for a building.
So we should have to get the right to use the building.
That's the government's building, for one, because they own everything land wise, building
wise.
You're just renting.
And when it comes down to it, they want it back.
They can have it back because that doesn't define what the church is.
And I know that's a little off topic from the worship, but I had a couch, though.
I read couches are that red.
That red couch has to come with you guys wherever you go.
I don't care.
I'll go in there and find some red couch that has been there longer than anybody else.
You put it over your shoulder.
You take it out with you.
You're like, it's fine with me.
I'll fit in my little Honda Accord.
Yeah, I do.
Eventually when I have a whole episode talking about like kind of like biblical prophecy
because you know me, I study it a lot.
A lot.
And I can even go through and show you all the prophecies from Daniel that were fulfilled
over the years, undeniably fulfilled over the years.
And I'd love to go on and talk about that and stuff.
And we will.
We will eventually.
But I all this stuff about the church, it ties in with worship because like I said before,
a lot of people have the idea that worship is just going to the building, singing my
songs and that's worship.
And we see it's consistently not in the Bible.
It's not ever explained that way.
It's never told that way.
I will say in Colossians 3, 16, it does say, let the word of the Christ dwell in you richly
teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom and singing psalms and hymns and spiritual
songs with thankfulness in your heart to God.
And this is just saying that we need to sing praises.
We need to be allowed.
We need to be expressive to God.
This is really easily just the show that it's more than just the sacrifice in life.
We're all encompassing sacrificing our life and we express thankfulness and gratitude
because we understand his position in our lives and his position as authority and everything.
And I only brought up the whole church thing and the people on Facebook who are saying
like rebel, rebel, rebel.
And I'm just like, do you not understand that God is not a God of fear?
And when things happen, just know that church, what the actual definition of church is and
any place that you want to meet, you can meet up.
People just don't do it because it's inconvenient.
They like to point fingers elsewhere to say, well, it's out of my control because we're
not allowed to go to the church anymore.
Well, whose backyard can we go hang out at?
What do you mean?
Whose backyard can we go hang out?
People have property, I know, especially in California, there's pastors with yards, garages,
houses.
Whose house can we go crash?
I'm not one of those.
I know, but I know who are because I know my church is over there and I know who's who.
And I've been to a lot of their house.
People that got some money in houses.
I'm like, that must be nice.
And yeah.
And those people, those are the people that the church, the group of community needs to
rely on and say, hey, since we can't go to their building, can we come to your yard?
Can we come to your house?
Can we rely on you as another member of Christ, the body of Christ to do this?
And they say no.
Then do they really understand who God is and what humility is and what living life
like Christ is or doing your part to know who God is?
And it's it's usually a no.
We're so spoiled in the US where we don't understand what we have and we like to abuse
it rather than take care of the problems by doing the right thing because it points fingers
back to us.
Yeah, we had some technical difficulties.
Devil attacking us is fun.
That could be the enemy one way or another.
We're still we're tracking on.
But that's that's I gave my two cents about that and what you know, it's all responsibilities
if you are truly a follower of Christ, it's all our responsibilities to live up to that
and to follow Christ, not just one or the other.
That includes everybody that says they're Christian under in the church, that they have
a responsibility to Christ.
And no, I brought up the end time stuff prophecies because I know when when people are going
to start getting persecuted for this, whenever that does happen, like Christians, it was
to see so many people fall off and say, I'm not Christian.
No, I never was.
I only did it because I felt like the moral thing to do.
I didn't want to be a part associated.
It's going to be so hardcore.
And from the words of Brad Stein, which he is a comedian, but he has some really good
like actual teachings.
From the words of Brad Stein, he said, what are you willing to die for?
Like legitimately willing to die for?
And there's no question that's a very good question.
Yeah, because if someone came into your house and was like, are you a Christian?
And you're like, yes, they're like, I am going to kill you because you're a Christian.
OK, anybody listening?
Is that something like I found with the 12 gauge?
I'm like, cool.
Send me up to him.
I'm glad to see him early, I guess.
It's scary.
I know I'm going to get a gauge.
Would you like to meet him?
No.
To the Lord, forgive me Lord.
No, it's true, though.
What are you willing to die for?
And you can see that even with the you know, remember, I know this is off topic of worship,
but it just comes back to our life living daily in obedience and reverence of him.
But you remember in the the Garden of Samadhi?
Garden where Jesus and the disciples and they came.
I'm staying awake.
You know this.
I know I'm saying they were falling asleep.
Yeah, they were falling asleep and you know, they came for Jesus, right?
And someone was like, no, you ain't and got up and cut off the guy's ear.
Right.
Remember this?
And at that point, Jesus looked as like, no, this is this is this is not that's not how
this is going to go.
And he healed the guy's ear.
And that guy was like, well, what the he just put my ear back on.
But hearing this, some guy comes to attack me and my family.
I shoot him and I pray for him.
I don't think that that's the message.
That is what I heard.
I agree.
I like it.
OK, you heard it here first in the GDP show.
Oh, my God.
We're going to talk about it, dude.
One of the one of these times we've got to talk about weapons and stuff like that, because
that's such a good topic.
Yes, weapons are amazing.
I mean, I got a twenty two somewhere, but how do you not know?
OK, well, to be fair, yeah, never mind.
It is it is a twenty two.
It's a twenty two rifle.
It's just somewhere.
I know where it's at.
I mean, I don't think about it for a second, but I remember it's at.
This is why some people shouldn't have guns because they don't keep track of them.
I have two places for it and I don't have any kids.
So that's a positive.
You know, that's fair.
That's fair.
If I had kids, I'd be a little more concerned.
I do that.
And next thing I know, I was like, look at that's not the toy gun.
Put that down now.
That's not the nerf.
It's not nerf.
It's never nothing, dad.
No, it's nothing for nothing.
Not a sponsor.
No, I, I only I want to finish off with one verse.
OK, only one verse.
Two verses.
I'm sorry.
Wait, you be a man of your word.
I'll finish.
I'll do one verse.
OK, Romans 11, thirty six.
OK, for him.
Or from him and through him and to him are all things and to him be the glory forever.
Amen.
This is the conclusion of Romans 11.
Paul builds on the question he asked the previous verse, who has given anything to God valuable
enough that God owes him something back?
And with this, the answer is nobody.
God doesn't owe us anything.
In this verse, Paul explains why everything that is in the universe came from God.
To start with, he is the creator, the source of all things as good.
How could we ever give him anything if he doesn't already have?
And second, all things are through God.
Not only is God the source of all things, he holds them together, he sustains everything
he that is is actively and present in the work of keeping the universe running and all
things that exist continue through him.
And third, all things are to him are for him.
In all other words, everything that exists has been made for God's purpose.
They all reflect glory back to him.
Nothing exists that doesn't serve his great plan and purpose for all things.
I will lightly say and we will talk about this too sometime that that doesn't mean bad things
happen and he's sitting there like good, good, bad things.
Yes, because the world has bad things and that was not the original intent, but it was
the possibility of free choice by humans.
And we brought sin into the world.
Freaking Adam and Eve.
And yeah, we brought sin in this world.
But that's the consequences because that was a covenant and God doesn't break covenant.
He said a covenant.
He said, hey, this is what's going to happen.
And so when that happened, everything was going, you know, crazy because now at this
point the flush is taken over.
We understand the right, the good and evil.
We know what it is.
And so our bodies crave things that are our own understanding, which is not of God, which
is why we crave sin.
And we talked about sin before on an episode.
Go back and read it.
I just wanted to clarify that this is not what is in.
Yeah, that one.
But this is not saying that God is up there sitting there like, ah, give that person cancer.
Make that person get hit by a bus.
They would just know this.
That's that's stuff that happens in this world because sin exists and people are fallible
and they will make mistakes and stuff happens.
And God can use those things for the greater of his kingdom and glorify him as long as
we trust him through those things that happen and rely on him when those things happen.
And that is going to be part of worship.
That constant.
Thankful gratitude towards him and that constant reverence of him and that constant obedience
to him is all worship.
And that's why we're doing worship today.
Any thoughts?
No, I think that was good.
I just.
Hey, men and amen.
This is a long conversation.
Definitely a longer episode.
Yeah.
I mean, to be fair, there are some bloopers in the first 20.
So and we'll see if they'll make it.
Yeah.
We had to snack down on a smoke is uncrustable right before we recorded.
So it was me.
It was you.
I put that on our.
Yeah.
I take talk as all the bloopers.
Yeah.
So go follow us there.
I check out the blooper reel we have there.
You'll be up there in a little bit.
Right.
I'll work on it.
Yeah.
All righty.
Well, I'll pray us out and we're going to end this episode.
All right, Lord.
Thank you for everything that we.
Get to experience because of you.
I thank you for your redeeming love and that you are constantly with us whenever we need
you.
I praise you for the good times.
I praise you for the bad times.
I thank you for the good times and I thank you for the bad times.
I thank you that you bring me out of those times and that you bring me into a new understanding
of you, that you bring peace, that you bring understanding, that you bring love, you bring
joy with anything and everything that I deal with on a daily basis.
I pray for those who listen to this episode that that they just not hear it from us, but
hear it from your word as we share your word.
And I pray that they take your word as truth and not our own.
I just pray that we're able to guide them the right way to understanding who you are
and discuss who you are and what you are wanting us to do when it comes to worshiping you.
And I thank you for your understanding and your grace.
In Jesus name, amen.
Amen.
So on that note, we're going to end this podcast and we will be seeing you on the next episode
we're dealing as hosting.
And we'll see on talking on who knows.
We don't.
Yeah.
Well, see you all in the flippity flop.
Bye-bye.