Welcome to the GTP show.
I am your host Jason.
I have my co-host here Dylan.
Say hi Dylan.
Hey guys.
What's up?
So as you noticed we were on a little hiatus there for I think what two weeks?
Yeah about two weeks.
About two and a half or so.
Maybe one.
I don't know.
It's somewhere in that range.
You know we trapped me and my wife traveled and then out to California.
Got the hang out with Dylan and his wife and then yeah then there was like some health
stuff that came up.
So that also postponed us.
You know Dylan's starting a new job which also was getting used to.
So there was a lot of stuff that kind of put us in a place to where we couldn't get to
a spot where we could both record at the same time.
So that was a lot of fun.
But we're here.
Very very fun.
Yeah they try to figure out the balance and like everything going on.
Yeah.
You guys traveling and then you know the medical stuff that happened too.
Yeah medical stuff the traveling.
You new job.
There was a lot of stuff all at once for sure.
Lots of fun stuff.
I do apologize for that little wait but hope you guys understand like life happens.
It's fine.
We're back.
But we have to get back in the flow here.
So we're all good.
Yeah.
Everyone's alive.
Yeah we're all we're all kicking and screaming.
Yep.
So yeah.
So how are things with you right now?
How are you doing?
I'm doing doing better.
I'm doing better.
Okay.
After everything that happened.
medical stuff that happened with Mar.
Yeah, just in general.
It was just kind of, yeah, it was a little emotional.
So it was not the easiest thing.
Yeah, I've been there.
So that was something we had to go through.
Lots of prayer and a lot of people praying for us.
So that was nice.
Yeah, otherwise, you know, just day by day, you're getting through stuff and it's going good with the new job and loving it and God's proven and providing.
So it's exciting.
How about yourself?
How are you guys doing after all the traveling and everything?
Well, this is the first month and was it September?
So it's been what?
Let's see here.
June, July, August, September.
So this is the first month in like five months that we haven't traveled to California.
We've been doing it once a month at minimum.
So this is like the first month where we actually are able to kind of breathe and just be like, OK, what what's next?
Like, let's just take a breather, take some time, relax, do what we want to do here.
And yeah, we've been going to California at least once a month.
And it's an eight and a half hour, nine hour drive from where we are.
So it's good to kind of be home.
Obviously, when I did it, it was only like eight.
It is good to be home, but we do miss our friends and family.
And we do see that more and more every day where we're just like, man, we're driving this eight, nine hour trip and then we don't get to see everybody or hang out with everybody we want to hang out with.
And then we have to tell people, no, then they think it's them.
It's not them.
It's just we don't have time because we already made commitments.
I mean, as long as you see me, that's all that matters.
Right.
So there's that.
And then I've been working on my other projects and that's been taking up a lot of my time in general.
It's been it's been one crazy, busy road, but it's been it's been good to see everybody and it's been good to kind of see where our priorities are like me and Jess together and kind of putting that on a plate to be like, this is what we could have.
And this is what we do have.
And then deciding what we actually want to do because we do love Arizona. We love it out here. It's gorgeous. It's beautiful. It's pretty. There's sites, there's foods, there's stuff.
And then but we grew up over in California with all our friends and family.
And I know how it feels.
Yeah.
Yeah, that we like I know how it feels to not be around family because I've been not around my family for like 10 years.
It's no, I'd say about actually closer to seven, maybe seven or eight.
But it's been a long time.
So I know how that is.
Five to seven. I don't know.
I think around seven.
Most of my family are not around me.
So I know what that feels like. Yeah, I know what it feels like.
So I know with Jess and her family, it'd be good to be closer to them because I know what that's like.
And it's not it's not a good situation to be in for a long time.
Just it's nice to have that support where it's people you're familiar with, et cetera.
So, well, yeah, that's kind of where we're at.
It's been it's been good, though, because God is good and just trusting in him, praying and spending time with him, which we're going to talk a little bit about, too.
You'll see why everybody else.
But yeah, you make sure to spend time, you know, be being in the word.
Yeah, being in the word. Yep. Yep.
Which is, I think, another Christian term, which is a Christian term.
So we're going to totally, you know, segue into this.
So this week's topic is going to be Christian needs little terms that Christians, you know, we use.
And you'll be like, what the heck do they mean?
Like, this is just what you know? Yeah.
Because there's some things that you say, you know, like, oh, he's being led by the spirit.
What? Like he's being led by a spirit like a ghost or like, you know, that's really dive in that and.
I think I should go spend some quiet time.
Yeah, I think I should a story that you wanted to start off with, right?
Do I? About somebody who is asking you questions.
Oh, yeah.
That's right. Thank you for reminding me that was like two and a half weeks ago.
It was like two weeks. But yeah, there was a friend that I know of on Facebook.
Like, I haven't met them in person, but I talk with them a lot and he's newer Christian.
And he was asking questions and he was like, I don't think I don't understand some of the terms that I hear in my church.
I'm like, like what? He's like something about like we're going to spend quiet to make sure to get quiet time in.
Or they'll say we're going to do some life groups.
And then one of the things that they talked about was like traveling mercies.
And he was like, I don't understand any of this. Like, what is this?
And I see your parent. If you're a parent, though, you understand what quiet time is.
Yeah, that is the beautiful hours that the child's children are sleeping.
And the house is finally quiet. Fortunately, my household, I'm still very loud, so my wife doesn't have to get a break.
No, the main question he asked was what does spend time with God mean?
He's like, what? I don't understand.
Like, he's not physically here or like down the street where I go to an address and there's God.
Like, that's he's like, that's not how I understood it. So what does what do people mean to spend time with God?
What does that look like? And that was another Christian is.
And that's where this whole topic came from was the idea of like there's a lot of Christian terms, which Christian is if you don't know,
it just means terminology or words that are used strictly in a Christian or church setting that we get from biblical nature.
And we use it in everyday discussion or talks where other people who are new to Christian or not Christian will just be look at us and be like, the Frick did you just say?
So that's that's where that came from.
You guess for Christians, you probably have heard before, if you're a Christian guy, you know, you wanted to date that one girl and then she's like, oh, no, I'm just focusing on, you know,
that's calling me to, you know, a season of tingle.
This I've never heard that.
Oh, singleness.
Okay.
So singleness.
And you know what happens?
I said something with a D like dingle.
This I'm like, what the heck is dingle?
This guy calls you to go use the toilet and get rid of those dingleberries.
Oh, my gosh.
You know, I think I forget I want to say it was somebody one of our friends, maybe it was Alex.
I definitely had someone tell me.
And he said, I mean, yeah, I'm sorry.
Like, you said I don't want to date you.
I'm just being called to a season of singleness to focus on my relationship with God, my walk with God.
And they always end up every time I've heard this from somebody getting married, like eight months later.
Can I like add in something to that statement?
Because I've seen this from both like a woman saying it.
And I've also seen men say a version of it.
But it's really just trying to use it's using God incorrectly because you're using God as a crutch to hide ways to where you don't want to be a part of it
or you don't want to hurt someone's feelings and just say, like, I'm not interested in you.
You just instead you're saying that and you're using God as a cover. So people have to get mad at God or accept what you said.
And that is a horrible way to interact in any sort of.
Like Christian faith based stuff is like you don't you don't use God as a crutch that way.
And people who do, you don't understand what God is there for.
It's not to be used as a crutch to bypass emotional or serious talks with someone.
So that, yeah, definitely don't do that.
That's true.
But I think if you've if you're being sincere with it and actually mean it like, hey, like I've been actually like I think if you're not using it, like just get out of relationship.
But it's like real just say valid.
Just say no. Instead, say I feel like I don't I'm not ready for a relationship right now.
That's it. You just say I'm not interested in that right now. That's it.
You don't have to use God as a crutch to be like, I hope it doesn't hurt your feelings because I'm going to use God to for you to blame instead of me.
It's not my fault. It's God. It's not me saying it.
I'm just God's calling me. So you can't say anything about it.
It's like, no, just be real with somebody and be like, hey, even if you feel like that is something that's going on, you got to be real with the person.
Say, hey, I'm not interested in that right now. I don't see myself in that relationship and I I'm not looking for a relationship right now.
Just be simple, just straight up with the person because they're not going to look at you and be like, oh, OK, well, if you unless they're a bad person, which that does happen.
But I'm saying it in the sense that don't use God as a purse.
It was a place to blame so that you can get through conversations easier.
That's like the that's oh, man, we should have a whole episode on Christian pet peeves.
Oh, I know that might be a whole season.
Oh, that just literally reminded me.
It's like when people want to like if someone is doing something that another I've seen this happen so many times inside the church where they're like, I don't like what that person's doing.
So they'll go up to that person. I feel like God's telling me to tell you, blink, blink, blink.
And then they use that to tell the person that they don't like what they're doing.
And it's just like you did what now?
Like, are you kidding me?
It's ridiculous. Yes.
It's like 100 percent like, yes, I've seen that.
It's like, I don't think that's no.
Don't say that. Don't go up to someone just because you don't like what they're doing or what they said. And you're like, no, it's told me to like, tell you not to do.
And God told me that you're full of baloney.
Ever heard you talking, Becky?
I was told to be wolves in sheep's clothing.
That's messed up. OK, yeah, we definitely need to do like a whole nother episode on Christian pet peeves and go off.
Like there's things out there.
I yeah, I agree with your statement that you are making.
OK, so I got I got a fun. So let's get back on topic for you for your topic here.
Like. I have I have one that you know. OK, first off, let's let's let's talk about the one that we got, the original one, which is spend time with God.
Because that's a Christian. That's a that's a big one.
And that person asked, so we should probably address that one for sure.
Yes, that's probably a good idea to actually address things that people have asked us.
Or you know that we've been asked about, you know, just maybe a piece to our audience.
Oh, yeah. A little bit.
It's a little bit. So, yeah, the whole.
I don't even know where to start. Go ahead and start, actually.
But I mean, I think you sit here and think on it a little bit.
OK, I'll do too, because I know there's like many, many different ways.
And one wrath about is Jesus. Jesus himself modeled prioritizing time with God.
And what that meant with time with God, Mark 135 talks about where Jesus very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and he went to a solitary place where he prayed.
And you can see in the Bible multiple times where it talks about when we were praying to God, we're not to do it in front of a whole bunch of people to show him like, look at me, I'm praying and I'm doing it because I'm holy or righteous.
And it was like, find a solitary place, pray to God. And you're just and prayer is pretty simple where if you read the sample prayer, it's really asking God to be in your life, his will to be done in your life, that you thank him for everything that's going on daily bread, etc, etc.
And you're really just interacting and showing praise to God by by honoring him, by wanting his will, not yours, and by thanking him.
And that's like a sign of praise as well, because we know as we talked before, praise is a part of that.
And then we got stuff like Luke 11 28, where Jesus replied to, I think it was the Pharisees at the time with where he said, but even more blessed are the all who hear the word of God and put it into practice.
And we can we can see that kind of consistency where we read the word of God, we hear the word of God and what Jesus talks about and what like the kingdom of heaven it looks like and what the Holy Spirit looks like and how our life is supposed to look like with the Holy Spirit.
And we put it into practice, not in the sense of like earning salvation, but in the sense that we worship God. So we want to reflect God and we want to look like God in a sense that we want to look like what Jesus wants us to look like.
So we need to know what that looks like. So that's why we, Jesus himself said, who hears the word of God and puts into practice.
So we are to we are called to live a life of peace, love, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. So a little stuff like that right there is some examples of spending time with God, reading the word, put the practice, solitary places to pray, you know, don't make a show of it.
So, I can add in if you're if you're still thinking I have more to add.
No, yeah. Just, you know, spending time in the word.
I just see like I think of like, you know, Jesus in the garden.
All right. Right before he died, he was what was he doing? Spending time in the word talking to his father.
He is the word. Yeah, you know what I mean? But like that's like where he was at. He was like, man, you know, he's about to die. He's like, OK, cool. You know, be great.
And we talked to my father and he like he needed time.
No, like to spend with his father. It's like we all need that because like there's times where it's like, you know, I feel it's more of the time when our walk is with this Christians, we feel like we're doing great.
We're feeling we're doing fine. So. Like, OK, cool, I'm good. And then you're like, oh, have I been spending time?
I think that's when your walk is what's really affected is when you forget about that.
You forget this time on the word like you. I feel like I noticed that like a walk all of a sudden doesn't feel like it's like, oh, I need to be doing more.
And it's just the things that I think you notice more is like when you need to be in the word, you know, it's just not the you're not feeling it.
It's whole walk is often a sense. And I feel like that's what people like to say.
Yeah, and you spend time. I think it's important to remember how important that time is for sure.
Because that's the whole thing of walk by faith was the second Corinthians five seven that says before we walk by faith, not by sight, that that word faith is actually a pistis, which is conviction of the truth of anything.
What did you say? It's generally with the included idea of trust and holy fervor born of faith and jointed with the relation to God or relating to Christ and the religion beliefs of Christians who follow Christ.
So it's it's important to know that with that in mind, we can see that Paul talks about it in Romans, which you love Romans.
I know that it's a great book. It is Romans 1017 says, So faith comes from hearing and hearing through the word of words of Christ.
And we know that the this builds on Paul's quote of Isaiah in the previous verse, which Isaiah asked the Lord who has believed what he has heard from us, which is Isaiah 53 one want to go back and read that.
But Paul was showing that a refusal to believe what God says amounts to disobedience that according to scripture is the root problem when people hear the gospel and do not accept it, which you can read that in John five thirty nine to forty as well as John seven seventeen.
Those who disbelieve do so because on some level they do not want to believe it's a choice.
So it's it that's that's kind of what if you hear Christians say in general or you see something that says spend time with the word or spend time with God, it's really reading the word so we can understand why we have faith in what we believe.
And then to walk in that is way Christ wanted us to walk because you can you can see a lot of people in media and stuff like that who say they're Christian who are very angry, who are very aggressive.
And if you read the word, you can see that that's not biblical.
That's not godly.
The Jesus says that you'll know me because I'll be with them kind of thing like the Holy Spirit will be with them and you can see that in Galatians five with that letter where it says if they are the fruits of their work are this like if you see in their life they have peace, they share peace, love, joy, patience, all the stuff that's really good.
That means that they have the Holy Spirit with them and they don't have that and they don't.
So when you see these people who are angry, yelling, screaming, like that's that's just blasphemy of of the what the word is and who God wanted us to be because it clearly says not to do that.
There's nothing loving about that.
So that's why it's important to to understand what the word is and what God is and who we're supposed to look like as followers of Christ in that sense.
100%
With that that explains that Christian is what else what other Christian thinking thinking with that too is like that goes like to like being with you know salvation you shouldn't be acting like that but not saying that there we don't have their you know mistakes
things are working on but like that's definitely one of them. You think about it like that.
I don't miss miss you know have problems with right too quickly or you know me. So, and I was thinking about that.
That that yeah that's just what it means when you hear that that yeah like spend time with God is just spend time with God is talking about.
Yeah.
So the other one is, I mean, gosh, you go ahead, go ahead.
Sure, how'd you protection.
I love this one and I use it all the time.
It is it every day when it comes from.
Oh, I just use it I don't actually know this.
What's that. So, so the hedge hedge of protection actually comes from job job one, like, first chapter job job.
And verse 10 he says, it says has now.
Let me switch to a easier to read translation, because I have it in King James for a reason.
The word hedge is literally just exactly that it's a fence built up like a protection it's a primitive route. And it's it literally is just defining like protecting its protection, that's really all it is.
So that term has your protection came from that directly. And the only reason why it's continued to use in a Christian sense is that we have multiple verses mostly in Psalms if I'm being honest, it's like Psalms 140 Psalms 91 Psalms 121 Psalms three and Psalms 23.
And it's consistently saying like, keep me a Lord protect me, you know, your protective love you'll protect me from harm you'll shield me you'll give me peace during those times like you'll darkest valley the lowest lows you'll out fear no danger if you're no evil.
All this stuff about protection so overall that terminology is just in reference to that just the protection of of God because it was used that way.
That's the simplest it gets.
Yeah, and I think when we use it to like this we use it for that like for God to have over his protection and he oversees the thing.
You know, I talked about like, you for travel mercies is kind of I feel very much the same thing it's best for his protection.
Those things and make sure that they're safe.
Yeah, you know what does bug me about about the idea of the hedge protection, the only thing that bugs me with the terminology there.
One thing okay let's hear it.
The only thing that bugs me about that one is that the only time that the word hedge is used and it's in the idea of hedging like protection protecting someone in this house is in job one like I said but knew who was the person that said it Satan told God don't you put a hedge around him and protect them.
That's the only time it mentions it that way.
Really.
Yeah, let's see only interesting.
Yeah, obviously it's like there's a lot of times in the Bible where it says like God's protective and you will shield us and he will give us peace and you'll strengthen us through the hard time stuff like that there's tons of that, but the only time it's mentioned as a hedge was was when Satan specifically talk to God about job.
So it's interesting. Yeah, it's just interesting. I just had to throw that in there.
We use that but it's like there is a hedge protection you see, but I clearly I mean there is such thing because why else would take me the same as a God.
You can see he was saying as I does does not it will because the previous verse right before verse nine he's Satan says to God about job saying well does he not fear and respect God because of all this like it comes with a price like he does all this stuff and you protect them.
So no wonder why he loves you and that was the whole start of job.
If you read protection of this man.
What does he have right? Yeah, exactly. So Steve. Yeah, so it was like a less bet. That's that's cat bet.
Yeah, you're here first on the GT PP show.
I got that's a good project podcast.
Yeah, PP.
Yep. A lot of a lot of people I think have used that as a Christian use term and not everybody would understand that.
No, 100% no.
So like what are you hedging something you have a hedge fund, you have like what your protection your hedging something like you're protecting your assets are you know like, right.
It gets it across like you know the main point for the word protecting something like what is why are you being protected.
What do you need that from it's like anything.
That's all I can think about saying is a lot of things like you know the enemies alive and well and people don't see that people don't realize that because
people especially here we're comfortable so we don't think of protection from anything we're like oh no I'm good.
Good.
And live in our comfortability and I think that's why we need to take steps out always.
That's another rant going on. So honest. Well I'll go back to a Christian use term you already said once.
Quiet time me.
Because, because, oh yeah but like it in in in a Christian term, because any a lot of people use this quiet time I'm just going to sit there.
It's not time out like let's use usually use like as a timeout kind of thing but in a Christian term it literally just means I want to go solidarity or sorry like by myself.
Sit there read my read the Bible pray like that's usually the quickest way to say I'm going to go do that is just say oh I'm going to spend some quiet time with God or I'm going to spend some quiet time and it literally just means like you're just going to go read and pray by yourself.
That's it.
Not not put, but baby in a corner.
Yeah, no, no, we put baby in a corner. But, um, you know, it is the quiet time is like having that time.
Be in the word.
Yeah, that's it.
And I'll really just connect with that.
Because being the word spending time in the word, and then having that quiet time to self reflect and we're going to need to, you know, work on in your walk to be in prayer.
You know, in other words, I'll be in prayer about it. I'll go you know, like, what we in prayer about it like okay.
Yeah, because being in prayer over something you know, other kind of a Christian thing but I mean, a lot of people pray.
Just, you know, being in prayer about something to
you know, your quiet time having quiet time with God and they all kind of they all kind of work together.
Yeah, these Christian use.
Um, but definitely feel like, yeah, quiet time is because you know life gets crazy.
It gets very chaotic. Yeah, everything that's been going on in the past couple weeks.
There's been times where I'm saying okay, a new job.
I'm driving around I'm like okay cool let's spend some time with God, kind of like sit there and pray over things and
it's another new people at work to be praying for them and you know, hear people, people are going through and then you listen to our podcast.
Yeah, oh, I do. I leave it on. I know you do.
Is over there probably like he does too much.
Of course I'm going to listen to it because sometimes I listen to myself. I'm like, oh, oh, pretty good.
And actually sometimes I know what I'm talking about.
Yeah, she said some of the day because I wasn't being too patient and we were talking about for the spirit.
That's like, you remember your episode about the spirit. I'm like, I know you're talking about.
Like, maybe we need accountability.
Gosh, you need it smoking hot smoking hot wife and accountability is please.
I'm only one of those things.
No, it's crazy. I think honestly, like, yeah, it's marriage is awesome. I love it.
Yeah, no, it's a.
As the what I got another Christian use term for you.
Okay, I want to know if you've heard this because I've definitely heard this, but it's been a long time since I've heard this.
Say daddy Jesus, okay.
No, no, no traveling mercies.
Oh, yeah, all the time going on mission strips like, oh, they're going to have a traveling mercy and pray over them.
And it's like, oh, you know, because traveling mercies, that makes sense.
Like, you know, with that, definitely in the early church, they'd go out to like Ethiopia, Rome, Corinth, all those places.
It's in the book of Acts alone with Simon and John Mark.
I realized that I was like, you know, this whole story is telling a really cool story.
And it's like in John Mark was there. It's like, what? Yeah.
John Mark was like, like, we're going to her. Okay, guys.
Okay, let's go. Yeah.
I was, you know, teaching through acts and I'm like doing that.
I'm like, John Mark, I just showing up. He's like, where's the party?
Yeah. So I just thought it was funny. Yeah.
Yeah. It's really like safe trip.
It's like a religious way to say safe. Yeah.
It's like, you know, have a safe trip. Hope you get there. Okay.
Yeah. It's like saying safe trip. I'll be praying for you.
That's pretty much like some 100 percent what that is.
It's like we're making, you know, we'll pray to God that you have a safe trip.
Right. It's like what? John 14, 27, where he's like, peace.
I leave with you my peace. I give to you.
Not as the world gives. Do I give to you?
Let your hearts not be troubled near and neither let them be afraid.
And it's there's a lot of verses that talks in that sense.
It's like, don't worry about tomorrow.
James had to bring in James.
We talked about romance. It's okay.
And there's a lot of verses and a lot of conversations that happened that was consistent with don't be troubled.
God's God's got you one way or another.
He'll bring peace to your life one way or another.
Just let him open the doors, pray consistently that his will be done, et cetera, et cetera.
But it was just like that's that's really it.
It's like, hey, traveling mercies just means.
They travels. I'll be praying for you.
Live long and prosper.
You know what I mean?
It's the Christian nerd.
Christian Star Trek thing.
The Christian Star Trek thing.
So they're doing the thing with your hand.
They do like a little like Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
I know that's a Catholic stuff.
I don't know.
Catholic Lutheran.
Yeah, I escaped before I was too old.
That's that's a good that's a good one, though.
That's a good one.
What are those?
Can you think of there's tons of them?
I mean, I have a list of like 50.
Shoot, man.
I'm like, oh, being led by the spirit are filled with the spirit.
Oh, those are good.
Now, that's one that you hear like, what are you led with?
What was the spirit?
What are you drinking?
Like, this actually is in reference to verse that I already brought forward, which was Galatians five led by spirit.
It just means that we choose to.
Right.
We choose to follow the Holy Spirit.
That's literally all that means.
And if you haven't yet read it, because we talk about Galatians Galatians in general a lot in this podcast, Galatians five.
Read that that right there explains everything when you hear led by the spirit, follow the spirit, whatever, and talks about the Holy Spirit.
There's your answer.
Pretty, pretty straight stuff.
It went out real quick.
Really?
Yeah, it's just like what you just said.
It's just it's really just our sinful flesh and the Holy Spirit are both constantly in conflict inside of us.
We have choices to do.
That's it.
It's really it's spelt out very well for us to say, look for this and look for this.
If you know this is the Holy Spirit, you know this is the flesh.
So it's very put out there to understand which one's which so that you can be like, oh, it's really easy to tell if I'm doing something that's I'm not supposed to be doing.
If I'm trying to represent Christ, because I'm a I'm like, I'm a Christ ambassador kind of thing because I'm trying to represent the kingdom of God.
And that's what you do.
Straight up.
That's a good.
Oh, wait, you got any more Christian things that you see?
You got a list of 50.
So that's your why I got plenty of them.
I just checking on you because otherwise I would just keep mumbling.
That's not going to stop you.
Fine.
Washed by the blood.
Oh, can you imagine people who've never been to church before walking to a Christian church?
I would be a weird one.
That would be washed by the blood in the what?
Is this a cult church? What does that walk into?
I don't know about that.
OK, he says he got Jesus.
He's like, well, we washed in blood.
Like he said, what are you going to?
It's a weird church.
Right.
You know, normal washed in blood.
What?
Need some milk.
Yes, it's not normal at all.
They hear that outside of the church.
They know you don't hear that.
Mm hmm.
I mean, Jesus, the reason why we got this, this is from Jesus himself, who in Matthew 26, 28, remember correctly, you can look it up.
But it says for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
This is like when he was like the doing the communion and passing out bread and the wine and stuff like that.
And that's where we got communion from, which is another Christian term, which most people want to understand was communion.
Hebrews talks about it.
The Hebrews, chapter nine, I recommend reading.
I think it's nine one through 18.
If you remember, I know it's chapter nine, but verse 14 talks about how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purified our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
So anytime we're mentioning or talking about blood, we're talking about specifically Jesus dying on the cross to cover that of all the sin before, because he was the perfect sacrifice, because he was without blemish.
He was perfect. He lived a perfect life without sin.
And with that, he died and he rose again and fulfilled the old covenant, which the old covenant said there had to be blood that was paid for sin that happened.
And so he covered that.
And that's what that meant.
So when you hear that, that's the Christian is behind it is Lily just talking about the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ that he covered.
He started a new covenant with us through him and through his sacrifice and his resurrection.
Yeah.
Just like the whole like one of the most probably important things, you know, can really mention or talk about being covered in the blood.
And I mean, that is a huge one. But thank you. So, you know, like, I just think of it like, like, definitely the Christian, like a Christian, his word, like I couldn't imagine using like in a sporting event like how do you feel you did out there today, kid?
Why was this really, you know, I was really just, you know, covered in the blood of Jesus Christ out there.
They really just helped me win to be like, what now? What did you do? What you were covered in? What the Jesus Christ?
Okay. Yeah.
Checked out.
Like, yeah, it sounds it sounds off. It sounds culty. It sounds kind of gross, but it's just it's interesting because like in my opinion, this is just my opinion, because as a Christian, you accept Jesus Christ.
Right. You have faith in him. You accept him into your life and then you follow him.
The opinion is that we know that. So we say it in a simple term, sum up the gospel and wash by the blood.
But I think if you think we should be more vocal about what that means because it's easy to summarize something, but someone who doesn't understand or who doesn't know or who is new Christian might look at them like, I don't understand this.
This sounds weird. The sounds off or I don't get why it's blood. Like what is this? And it's easier to explain. Like, it's a simplified version of the gospel and we need to make it more accurate than simplified.
Like, this is what happened.
Eyewitnesses saw Jesus and knew his life.
Say that again real quick. I like that.
Say that again.
Which part?
We need to make it more.
Make it more what?
I'm going to have to go back and check it.
Oh my gosh. Okay. We need to make it more accurate.
Yes. Thank you.
More. Yeah. That's what I said.
We need to be on top of it more.
That's what I was like.
Make it more accurate for people instead of trying to find shortcuts, verbal shortcuts to make sense to other Christians. It's kind of like creating a click that no one can get a part of.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Exactly what I was. We need to do them like, ooh, that. Yeah.
Right there.
Because it's so true.
It reminds me of another Christian needs that is used a lot and I don't a lot of people know the word.
It's a very common word. Everybody knows the word, but not many people knows what it what it means.
And that's where it's interesting.
Hallelujah.
In like that we are. Yeah, we pronounce it with the H. Hallelujah. But the original Hebrew word for this was allelujah, which with the H is silent.
I'll let which. Oh, God.
Hallelujah.
So which in Hebrew, it literally translates to praise Yahweh. That's it. It's literally just praise Yahweh, which is really cool. That's getting more and more common.
It's just I would say as a Christian use term in the sense that it that's what it's that's the original translation that is the translation for hallelujah. And that is what it means is just praise Yahweh. That's as simple as it gets.
And it's being used a lot, but it's it's being, I think, used more along the lines of like just praise or like as an expression rather than just like, Hallelujah.
I got, you know, I had my test. All right. It's good. It's like, yeah, but that's actually like that's that's almost I say it's like it's holy.
Word. Oh, yeah. And since it gets holy means to be set apart and that word is should be set apart.
I believe it's pretty important. Yeah. Yeah.
It's something literally giving praise to the Lord.
Like no other Lord Buddha, the crazy guy in the desert. Oh, my gosh. Joseph Smith, anybody like that. It's giving to the one true God or Mary of Kings, the Lord of Lord Jesus Christ Trinity three in one. Yeah.
Which is super important. You did remind me we definitely need to do an episode talking about the Trinity in general because it's obviously very complex and easy at the same time.
It's like with a mixture of the two, which, you know, would be really cool to talk about it because I've definitely on some of the forums I'm on on Facebook.
So groups will ask, like, what does it mean? Three in one. What does it mean? There's three, but there's only one. I don't understand if it's trying to. Yeah.
So that's that's another episode that will be coming. It is. I know we can use for the cover.
I think that's the only reason why I pointed out. All I knew was in the long run, it's just translation. That's really it. Just what's the translation for it?
It's good to look up the original Greek or Hebrew or Aramaic, depending on what scripture you're reading and see what the word itself is, because English is very limited in a sense to where which is a stinky language.
I'm doing the first grade. I'm doing first grade homework. My boy. Mm hmm. Just like I don't have. I don't have. I can't do it.
My wife does it. I'm silly when like, excuse me. I'm like, this is now on my English is dumb.
English is so poopy. It's not the best. No, no. I will say I'm sorry. We're like, no. Yeah, no.
English is because like, you know, if you say if you say you love try to.
Right. For example. Yes. And then you say you love your wife. Is that love the same? I would assume. No, exactly what it is. You know what I mean?
So that that's my only point is that English English can be limited to a degree. So it's it's good to go back research, see what definitions are from original Hebrew, original Greek or Aramaic, depending on which verse or which section of Bible you're reading and to make sure that's in the context that it's talking about.
Like when we are talking about specific versus like I might say, you know, let's talk about first Corinthians 1212 and then but 1212 the context is 12 to 27 because like we said before, the Bible isn't was never written with verses.
It was it was letters. It was scrolls. It was it was passages that were written about all this stuff and all the history and all these things that were documented and they weren't separated with verses like they are separated with verses now to make it easier for us to go through and reference stuff.
But if you go to like if you actually go to Israel and go over there, they actually have the Dead Sea Scrolls where you can go read them. And I'm sure you can find them online, too.
But if you go read them, it's an original language. It's not it's not actually separated like verse 12 verse 13 verse 14 chapter one.
It's not separated like that. So it's just yeah. Yeah, that's why that's why I always say make sure that you understand the get a study Bible get study tools that show you this is the passage that's all one passage like for example, first Corinthians 1212 to 27 is one passage.
That's all one context and then you can read it that as a full because it's now fully in context. And if you are curious about a word, you go and find strong coordinates or something like that that explains the original Hebrew Greek wherever you're reading.
And it kind of helps you delve deeper into what this is trying to express or say. So that's why I always say do your own research.
Oh, like 100% with that because like I said, even though if you like you quote a verse like it's not on us, just take your word for it.
No, no, that's right. Yeah. If we say, yes, look it up for yourself.
And if we're wrong, it's accountable and lovingly kind way or not.
I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, I agree. I 100% agree with that.
And then the next episode will come back. Yeah. What about that?
Tell us we are always right. You are wrong. We you're a listener.
Hmm. Yeah, we're joking. That's not the case. Yeah.
You know, we're right. No, I'm just joking.
No. Wow.
Okay. I miss this so much. Yeah, it's been a bit. It's been a little bit.
Almost like definitely needed this. So.
No, it's a fun one. This actually did scare away someone that I brought to youth group back when I was like 16, 15.
And okay. Back in the day, I brought someone who wasn't Christian and there were a friend of mine.
I was like, you should come to my youth group. It's a lot of fun. We have pizza Little Caesars. I mean, hot and ready is my bad.
And we hang out at homemade pizzas. Yeah, sometimes. Yeah. And I was like, yeah, it's really fun.
Like, I recommend coming like we're going to have pizza when I music and then it's like a lesson.
It's really cool. There's a lot of good people our age. So they came with with me.
And at the end of everything, the youth pastors at the time were like, okay, so anybody have a prayer request where we can pray for them, which is simple enough.
Like that's prayer requests. Everybody to a general knowledge. Most people would understand what that term is.
And they were like, oh, yeah, I have this prayer request. My mom's been going in and out of the hospital.
She has a lot of health issues and we're having a hard time. Like my dad's having a hard time supporting her, et cetera, et cetera.
And so the youth pastors like, OK, great. Let's lay hands on on them and we'll pray for it.
And they freaked like lay hands on like, what do you mean lay hands on? Because that's that's a Christian.
But the pack you out like lay hands on like they're like, what the this is weird.
I get that because you know what? Also, not being like being a Nazarene church, you know, like in the beginning of my ministry, you know, beginning of everything.
I never went to a church, you know, I was, you know, laying hands, speaking in tongues, anything like that. It was more.
You know, so I remember that like the first time, you know, going to youth here with you guys, and I went like, oh, this is a little different.
People are talking weird and they're healing people. And well, I mean, yeah, yeah.
I mean, it's interesting because like you have a, you know, don't lay a hand on her like lay a hand on her.
That's a strong term like don't do it. And it's like as a Christian, it's like really easy if you grew up in a church.
It's just like, oh, yeah, lay hands on them. OK, but I learned hands and heal.
Right. Right. And we know that this comes from obviously the Bible when we see this.
And what was it? Mark 16, 17 through 18, where it literally says, and these signs will follow those who believe in my name.
They'll cast out demons. They'll speak with new tongues. They will take up serpents and that they drink anything deadly will not by means hurt them.
They will lay hands on the sick and they will recover. And we take that terminology there versus lay hands on them.
And we've just adopted it as like a generic hands on them.
They hands lay hands, my hands. But for someone who was an outsider, that person was legitimately kind of freaked out by it.
I was like, that felt really weird and strange. Everybody's sweaty hands touching me.
And I don't like being touched. But I learned from that because I learned from that.
Because at that time I was really like, oh, let me lay hands on you.
And I just like put my hand on people and try to pray. It wasn't a big deal.
It was like, well, now you get like, you know, it's like, hey, now I ask very much.
Now it's a church. Yeah. Now it's like, you mind if we lay hands on you?
It's like, oh, so even if it is weird, it's not like I really like if someone asked me like the other day, a friend of mine here was like, hey, can you pray for me?
I said, do you mind if I put my hand on your shoulder and pray for you? And they're like, no, go for it.
OK, so I just put my hand on his shoulder.
But I ask because if I'm just like, sure, man, put my hand on a shoulder and just start praying for him.
Maybe he doesn't like like being touched or you never know.
It's off putting. So you just got to ask because it's it's an easier way to like, I'm not going to do something that's uncomfortable to you.
Like, I'm not trying to make you uncomfortable. You mean not put you in a weird spot.
Right. And, you know, someone who grew up in the church for me, I was weird not doing that.
But then I realized this is how we do it.
Right. And so I learned from that.
You don't like it. Bummer.
I put my hands on you and I will I will heal you.
Oh, right. Right. Right.
It's just it's just it was a learning moment for me and that stuck with me since.
Yeah, definitely stuck with me since.
Where does it go out there? Make sure you ask to lay hands and pray.
They say, no, that's fine, too.
Just like, yeah, that's great.
And I mean, you know, that you grab them by the neck and you start praying really hard.
I'm just joking. I don't do that either.
This is this is a joke.
I'm not held responsible.
I claim that right now I hold no responsibility for anybody else.
Oh, my gosh. My child.
Make that a make that a shirt.
They resist the prayer, grab their neck and pray for them.
So the light goes out in their eyes and then you know, oh, my God, that's dark.
It's very dark. It got very dark.
Very dark. Very quick. Of course, it would be very dark because I mean, you can't.
Oh, you know, yo.
Uh huh.
That's that's that's no, we don't do that.
We took a hiatus and this is how we get canceled.
This is this is how we lose the one subscriber.
We get like five more. Well, I guess they were into that. OK, cool.
I think, oh, no. OK, moving on.
That's I gosh.
Um. Yeah, I think I think there's a lot of we I know that we did have an episode before where we talked about a little bit of Christian is, but we didn't get really into it because it was like one of our first episodes were just like, let's just talk about random stuff.
And that's what we talked about was random.
I mean, Mexico, let's do it. Yeah, let's do it. And it was very, very random and very, very all over the place.
But I think this has been a little bit better structured.
Yes, I would.
I would say another one is obviously saying body of Christ.
Because if you're just like, this is the body of Christ and people are like, what is like, are they're new or they don't know what the Bible talks about?
Just blurting out like the body of Christ, the body of Christ.
My favorite thing is when people said the body of Christ and communion, communion is like Lord, Sefer Lord, you know, like, you know, like, you know, they talk about like, this is the body of Christ.
And I think that's the key to in remembrance of me for the kind of like, Jesus, like, I mean, I get we're not really but like, you know, like, and yeah, someone was like coming like the first time and hearing that it's like,
what is like?
Mm hmm.
You die.
No, it's a good point because it was it was great symbolism.
It's in Luke 22.
I mean, any of the Gospels will talk about this when they were at the table and Jesus was talking about the bread and the wine and like his body and his blood, etc.
And it was it was him showing that it's it's a new covenant that his body is a sacrifice and he will spill the blood for this new covenant and that he was setting the premise that this new covenant would mean that they'd be poured.
The Holy Spirit would be poured out.
They would have the Holy Spirit to help them in their life, make their life pure before God and through the sacrifice and resurrection that Jesus made.
And that was the whole idea was was just that was just a symbolism like this is the new covenant.
This is this is now what's going to happen.
And obviously the disciples sitting there like, what is he talking about?
We don't know what he means, but this is my body and this is the blood that poured out.
What is he talking about?
Because they didn't see the future bread and wine.
Right.
Jesus obviously being somebody's been too much into the one.
Right.
And we know that Jesus being God in the flesh is sitting there like, I know what's going to happen.
I'm going to die and set a new covenant and the Holy Spirit will be as a gift for those who follow me.
And and the disciples are sitting there like, hmm, this has to be a metaphor.
This has to be one.
I keep doing it.
It might be.
This is a different parable.
This parable like and you and that's kind of the crazy part is it's funny and interesting because you'll see like Jesus will say before the days that like over, you'll deny me three times over.
I was Peter and Peter's like, never do that.
Never. I would never do that.
And then when he did it, it like hit him in the gut where he was like, he knew.
And then everything clicked.
He was like, wait a minute.
Everything makes sense now.
He's like, everything he said up to this point makes sense now.
And it hit him and he freaking ran and you'll betray me.
Is it me, Lord?
Yeah, they didn't know.
Oh, Peter, it's not you.
You remember that?
Yeah.
Yeah, I saw the video.
Yeah, I saw it.
It was a comedian, like it was, you know, I think he was Hawkins.
Tim Hawkins.
I think it might have been Tim Hawkins where he was going like it was.
He's going to betray me.
It's like, it's me.
No, Peter, it's not you.
Is it me?
John.
Is it me?
Is it me, Judas?
Yeah.
It was really funny to go watch his comedy skits.
It's funny.
He's a funny guy.
Yeah, I think I've seen a once in concert.
I know I haven't.
I know I haven't, but he's funny.
But you did mention communion.
That's everything we just mentioned with that.
So we covered the body of Christ in that sense, as well as communion.
Body of Christ also can be a metaphor in the sense of the people of the church, like the actual individual people that make up the body of Christ.
And if you don't know the reference, it's 1 Corinthians 12, 12 through 27, as I was talking about earlier as an example, because I didn't want to forget it.
But it's literally just talking about how the body has many different parts to it.
You have your hand, but your hand can't do what your foot can.
You have your foot, but your foot can't do what the ear can.
You have an ear, but it can't taste anything like your mouth can.
And they have all these different functions.
Can't?
Right.
Can't.
Don't believe me, I can.
And it was like we're all given the same spirit.
If we follow Christ, we're given the Holy Spirit.
Yeah, we're given the Holy Spirit.
All gave.
All gave in the same.
All given.
Not gave it, given.
My bad.
Given.
I don't know why I have to razz you.
It's fine.
I definitely recommend reading 1 Corinthians 12, 12 through 27.
That's the passage.
That's the in context passage.
And it talks about it.
It's not like I can say to the hand, I don't need you.
And then the head can't say the feet, I don't need you.
And they all work together.
Right.
Otherwise, they're weaker.
The body's weaker.
So it just remembering that like you and me might interact differently with some people,
but we're given the same spirit.
So when it comes down to it, even as individuals who talk different, who act different, who
are individuals, we're given the same spirit.
The life around us, the people around us, and what we experience should be the same,
which is the Holy Spirit itself, which is the love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,
goodness, faithless and gentleness and self control.
If people experience that around you from your life, and then you live that lifestyle,
that is from the Holy Spirit, which again, Galatians 5 talks about that.
But that is the visual or the actionable representation of Christ in our lives through the Holy Spirit.
And so that is a consistency in following Christ.
And if you actually do accept Christ, you'll see that consistently through those people.
So it's a really easy check the box.
Like, well, they don't have peace.
They're not making peace.
They don't love people.
They're very hatred.
They're very angry there.
Whatever it is, you can check the box when it comes to what the Holy Spirit looks like.
And you only have the Holy Spirit if you're saved and you're saved because you accept Christ and you follow Christ.
That's what Christian means is to follow Christ.
Just like.
Yeah.
So that's kind of what the body, when churches or people talk about body of Christ,
it's the individual believer who follow Jesus Christ and his teachings and who he wants us to be.
And living that lifestyle with the Holy Spirit.
And it might look different in the sense that I might be very patient or you might be extra loving or someone else might be more than like like.
In gentle, you know, and you see these qualities of the Holy Spirit, we're given the same Holy Spirit.
And you might be exuding one of the traits of the Holy Spirit more than the other.
And that's for sure.
That's gifting, which you talked about in one of our early episodes.
And that's really what it's going to come down to is that if you're like over here being Mr.
Peaceful and you're always peaceful and you always have peace around you and people always feel peace around you.
And I'm over here like, that's not how you do it.
Why can't you be more like your brother?
It's that that's we're all from the same Holy Spirit.
We all follow Christ.
So you might have the gift in the Holy Spirit or you're stronger in one of them or the other.
Like someone's better at gifting things like they want to give to people, take care of people.
We talked about that, too.
That's a common thing.
Yeah, there's like people who are there to serve others and who are very called to it and are very good at it because they're in tuned with that with who God is.
And then there's others who are very in tune with studying, who reading and knowledge of the Word of God and scripture and are there to be teachers or preaching.
And there are others who are who are called to just just be loving, being able to go out and see people hurting.
Like, hey, how can I how can I help you?
Like I see you're hurting.
Do you need someone to talk to?
Like I'm like even with friends and family, he was like, hey, I'm always here.
Doors always open.
Like I'm always here if you need someone to just talk to.
And there's there's different expressions of this and you can see some are better than others.
And that's OK.
There's different parts, parts of the body of Christ.
Like we have different roles.
That's great.
That's gifting the Holy Spirit.
We're stronger in other fields than others.
We do fall short.
We will fall short.
But that's where God picks us up again and strengthens us through the next time we get tempted or we fall.
And that's just kind of the cool thing with this.
This relationship is that we understand what we need to do, when we need to do it and how we need to do it based upon what the word says and continue through.
So.
Yeah.
And God is good.
Like.
Even though we're going through things and.
Everything it's just like, you know.
And covered in the blood of Christ and having those quiet times and seeing all these things like it's really just.
It's all are important things, even though they're these Christian these things.
They all make sense.
Oh man.
Just that, you know.
It's been rough.
Just thinking about that more and more.
Like it's not been easy.
And.
No, it won't be.
Oh, um.
I think God's got a plan.
Mm hmm.
And.
I'm just thinking about it more and more.
Just like with everything that was said.
God is really good.
And.
And we have all of our little Christian these things that we say.
No, I just.
I think it just comes back to what I was saying earlier.
It's just knowing that if you following Christ and believing in Christ, we're not trying to be clicky that we shouldn't be trying to be clicky and create clicks within our groups like, oh, I don't understand what you just said.
Oh, well, you need to know more.
We should make it more accessible.
Easier to understand.
Better explained, more accurate to what we're trying to say instead of trying to shorten everything and make it easier to like, oh, no, I get what I get what you're saying.
It's not like it's wrong.
It's not like it's a sin or anything.
And if we want to make it easier for newcomers or people who are curious about God, it's easier to talk with a better, more accurate and better understanding of it by simplifying it in the sense that's accurate.
Yes. Simplifying the sense it's accurate, not just simplifying. So other Christians will like, oh, I know what you're hinting at. Explain it. Say it.
Don't be around the edge of protection.
Yeah, it comes down to it.
It's the importance of knowing and be able to spread the word and tell people about the word.
Even if it is with Christianese words and stuff.
So like that's the main important part. Even with the Christianese that we look at.
Not all words and all the Christian stuff make sense even to some Christians.
True, true.
It's more important to say maybe not simplify it to the point where it makes sense.
But not taking away either from the word.
Right. I agree.
That's the most important thing.
Keep true to the word.
And it's important thing with Christian, with other Christianese sayings is that sometimes simplify it too much or even it gets lost on others who don't know.
I think that's the most important thing we can take from Christianese.
You know, all the things that, Christianese is a Christianese word in itself.
It is.
You know.
Yeah.
You know, sayings that have been, you know, and even it's good to normalize little sayings too.
Sure.
Just, yeah.
Just filling off now.
Well, hey, this is your episode.
No, it's just still times where it kind of hits in a little bit.
Yeah, I hear you.
And talk a lot more about sharing anything, but yeah.
But the real thing that happened, but yeah.
Yeah.
I think you say it's all I could do right now at this point.
Just leave it at that.
And I'd say if you could, you know, anybody listening, it could be just be praying for me and my wife.
A little bit of a health thing come up.
Just, you know, there'd be healing there and you'd be okay.
And then I'd be okay.
We're all good now.
Yeah.
It's more just the mental stuff that we're dealing with.
And getting back into the regularness.
It did not help starting a brand new job with everything.
Right.
But yeah, I eventually maybe I'll make a post or I'll let you guys know what happened.
But right now it's still just a little too raw.
A little more too raw.
Yeah, it's all good.
And then I don't want to tell you guys, but, you know, it's not just my own thing to share.
It's my wife's too.
Right.
Yeah.
So I think I just if we could just end it with this is you want to pray us out, Jason?
It's your episode.
I'm doing next week.
Okay.
We pray then.
Heavenly Father, thank you for this day.
For all that you do for us, Lord, and provide for us, Lord.
I pray for your will to be done.
I pray for everyone here who's listening, Lord, that you would.
You would bless them, Lord.
And I just pray that you would be with Jason and I as we prep for the next episode, Lord.
I pray for hedge protection over everyone, Lord.
Keep us safe in our walk, Lord. Challenge us at the same time.
Thank you for the opportunity that we have to share your word and talk.
And spread your word and for this in your name.
Amen.
All righty.
Okay.
Well, I'll see you on the flipity flop.
Bye.