Welcome to the GTP show.
I'm your host Dylan with my other coast.
Hello, I'm Jason.
Okay.
Well, welcome back.
It's been a little bit guys.
We've got it back on schedule now.
We've had some fun things going on in life and that's what happens sometimes.
So we're back.
We're going to get going again.
Sorry for the delay.
I don't know, Jason, you want to say anything?
Yeah, sure.
I mean, shoot, like I think a lot of this just kind of goes to you were starting a new
job and then I have deadlines to meet with my other stuff that I'm doing on the side
and we just couldn't find the time to do the recordings at the same time.
So we were doing a lot of like, hey, I'm available now.
And I'm like, I'm not available for the next eight hours.
And then it was back and forth a lot.
So I think it really just came down to like scheduling conflict for this was just absolutely
terrifying.
Yeah.
Like because that's like, you know, past couple months you've been on the very schedule,
worked out great.
Yep.
And that was like, oh, you start work at like three in the afternoon.
I get off at two.
When are you off?
Oh, I will be in bed sleeping.
Right.
Because you got early morning.
That's what happens when you're a mailman.
That's exactly what happens.
You go to work at six, you get off early in the afternoon.
It's really nice.
The news is next month, I'm off so off at two starting next week.
Oh, yeah.
We'll get ahead.
I'm done helping out with homework and everything.
We will have so many months recorded that we will not have an issue.
Yeah, we won't have an issue for the next month that comes after.
It'd be fine.
It may not until the next year.
Perfect.
Yeah.
Perfect.
Yeah.
So, yeah, there's been a lot of fun.
Fun stuff going on.
We're just going to hop into it here.
But we're not waiting any longer.
This week is going to be about respect.
R-E-S-P-C-T.
Find out what it means to me.
E-C-T?
E-C-T, yeah.
You know, whatever.
I don't know.
It's a little late.
It's like nine o'clock.
I've been up since like three this morning.
Me too.
I actually clocked in at three thirty this morning.
Oh, my gosh.
See this limit check.
I knew what.
I didn't actually.
I just I woke up at three.
But I mean, I'm going to sleep.
I woke up at five.
But yeah, I was.
I clocked in.
I clocked in at three thirty and stayed up from there and worked till six.
And then at six, I got up.
I laid down for like 20 minutes, got up and then did a meeting at seven and then another
meeting at eight.
Right.
I was supposed to be part of that meeting.
Yeah.
I was going to be part of it.
I was going to do it, but then I had to go deliver the mail.
Yeah.
So it's fine.
It's going to work out eventually.
So yeah, I would have been on that call, but I got a call from USPS that they needed at
a big old bulk order.
A bulk order is like over like two hundred and something pieces.
Wow.
I had to go there earlier to pick some stuff up.
That makes sense.
It's so totally fun.
I mean, I love it.
So it's fun.
I mean, it's like I'm like, can I just bring it to like, is it working for the college?
I'm like, can I just bring it to the department?
Just throw it at them.
Yeah, I've got student workers.
No, I love it.
No, actually, actually, I got a there is a piece of mail that actually came for your
sister in law.
I was like, oh, she doesn't work here anymore.
I can still deliver it to her.
I know where to find her.
I'm like, no, no, no, no.
That just goes to the department.
I'm like, I know who this is.
You understand.
You know, this person, I could like I could Snapchat them if I needed to.
Right.
You know, I just so we're going to talk about respect.
I just think that was one thing I saw was God uses people regardless of their age.
So we should respect the value of young people and who knows what we'll learn from them.
The like a little quote I saw.
OK.
I also remember like, you know, this is respect, I remember hearing respect your elder and
I were finding out an elder is just somebody who is wiser than you.
An elder is not so many, which is by age.
Like, because even an old man can be foolish.
It doesn't mean he's an elder to you.
This means wisdom there.
And I think, you know, that's what I was I thought of.
Or my brother, me when he found out, we're like, you're not my elder.
You're not.
You know, we're smarter than you.
And it's like it wasn't smart to say at the time because I think they got us in some trouble.
But you know, when you're kids, that's what happens.
Yeah.
But you had a story you wanted to share, right?
Oh, yeah.
It kind of ties into this, ironically, for respect.
Awesome.
Let's dive into that.
OK, so you'll find this kind of funny at the same time.
Some people like what?
So today, it's not yet.
So today I was I was off work today.
Well, from three thirty to six, I was working.
But today as a whole, I'm off.
I don't have a schedule today.
So I'm like, I don't know.
I think it was like around two thirty.
I was like, I did everything I needed to do, like my side stuff.
So I'm going to play a game I haven't played in like two years, which is VR chat and which
is actually pretty fun because you can kind of go on there.
You can create put your own avatar to your person.
You just talk to people.
That's silly.
It's like chat rooms, whatever.
So I got on there and one of the it was interesting because like I would go into a room.
There's a whole bunch of kids.
I'm like, oh, no, thank you.
And I left that room, went to another room.
I finally got to a room and there was about I think twenty eight people in that room and
there were six people all standing over in one of the corners.
And I was like, oh, I'll just go walk up and be like, hello and be funny with my voice
changer because I have one.
And I walked up and I said hello.
And then I was listening and one person on the stage and there was like six people there
and one person there and they're like, oh, I'm going to go to the next room.
And there's a person there and they're like, anybody, anybody have questions about the
Bible?
Anybody, anybody want to talk about it or anybody care?
And I was like, wait.
I'm like, wait a second.
And I started asking them questions.
I was like, oh, yeah, I definitely have questions.
And I'm like, you were talking about the Bible.
Yeah, that's crazy.
I feel like, yeah, it's actually a little platform.
Yeah.
And I was like, this is cool.
Yeah, so I was like trying to figure out if they were like mocking it and just kind of
like making jokes about it or they actually legitimately wanted to talk about it.
So I was like trying to play it off a little bit like, oh, yeah, I've heard of that.
I've heard the Bible talking the Christian Bible, the Mormon Bible.
What are we talking about today?
Like, are we talking about the original text?
And they're like, well, they're like, well, you know, I'm just I mean, I'm newer to Christianity
and I've been studying and reading and I just am trying to learn more.
So this guy over here is my friend and we were talking about it and these other people
came in and they're talking about it.
And I was like, oh, that's really cool.
I'm like, I'd like to be part of the conversation.
I like, yeah, sure.
So I sat there.
I was like, all right, cool.
So we all started talking.
You're telling me you're telling me that you had a virtual reality Bible study.
I did.
I never thought I would.
I'm kind of jealous.
That sounds really awesome.
It was really cool to do that.
Yeah, it was really cool.
And when the part that I was talking about, that was like the respect park that so I was
talking she's she and her friend him, he was like, they're like, wow, it seems like you
actually know a lot about the Bible.
I'm like, yeah, just a little bit.
I'm like, yeah, I study it pretty well.
And they're like, well, maybe you might know this answer.
And they're asking me questions.
And I was going back and forth with them and they were really happy.
They're like, wow, I didn't know that verse existed.
I didn't know that.
That's what the verse was talking about.
I didn't know the context of that.
And we were just talking, you know, just being respectful.
And while I was talking with them right behind my ear, I hear this guy say, well, what about
blank, blank, blank, blank?
And I turn around and and this guy is like right in my face.
And I was like, oh, like, oh, that's a that's a great question.
I've gotten that one a lot.
And we started talking and I realized he he was from Poland and he was he was talking
about how his his family is Islamic and that he was raised in a Roman Catholic setting
because Poland, if you don't know, is like 85 percent Roman Catholic as as claimed by
the people there.
And he was saying, like, oh, yeah, we're Roman Catholic, but the Poland Church doesn't recognize
the pope as like the leader because they think he abandoned the real faith.
And so it's an orthodoxy.
And and we and this is the part that was kind of cool with the respect part is that he had
completely different opinions about stuff than I did.
And so we were able to just sit there.
I mean, he was about my age, I think.
It sounded like it.
And we just sat there and talked for an hour about different views where he was like, well,
you know, this is about like the Koran says this.
But then you had the Bible that says this.
And he was like bringing up good points that a lot of people should have those questions.
If you're if you're skeptical, which you should be, you should be skeptical and research things.
Anything that you believe in, you should.
And it was really cool to be able to sit there and talk to this guy, not as someone I'm trying
to compete with, someone I'm trying to argue with, someone I'm trying to convert, but someone
that generally is interested in kind of discussing and being able to sit there and discuss, even
though we see differently and believe differently.
The respect there was that we can treat each other with respect and with honor, that we
both are doing what we can to research and to understand, to grow and know.
And by the end of the hour, this this guy was like.
It sounds like you know a lot about the Koran.
It sounds like you know a lot about Roman Catholicism.
I didn't even know those things like about the sacraments and the catechism and some
of the entry points that were back in 1870, 1826 and 1704.
And I was talking to him about this stuff.
Like this guy, or look at him.
No, it was true.
He was he was laughing a little bit.
He's like, wow, like secretly, I'm a PK this whole time.
Right.
And he one of the things that he mentioned was like along the lines of what was it?
We were talking about something and I was like, do you really believe that?
He's like, well, from the Bible of the Bible, I believe that because the Bible teaches that.
I'm like, I don't know any verse that teaches that.
He was like, oh, he's like, well, he's like, I was always taught that growing up.
I was like, hmm.
I'm like, well, if you think about it and I gave him five verses right off the top of
my head, I'm like, there's this verse that talks about this.
This verse also contradicts that.
This verse contradicts it.
And this verse contradicts it.
I'm like, and that's not like that's a that's old law.
That's Torah, like in the Torah, which is the first five books of the Bible.
It's like those are pretty hardcore part of like the the the the holy code that God put
into position for them to understand who he was.
And I was like, that's all contradicted to what you're saying.
He's like, I didn't know those verses existed.
It was kind of a point where he was like, wow, that changes.
That changes how I should I should check this out.
I needed research this.
I'm like, awesome.
I encourage you to do so because if you believe that and there's already five verses off the
top of my head that all contradict you and they're in context of contradiction, then
I would recommend looking into that subject more to see what you think.
That was it.
And I think I think that's why I wanted to share the story is just that that mutual respect
to be able to listen and legitimately listen, not just be like, I'm listening just to defend
myself or I'm listening just to respond to you.
But I'm like, I'm listening because as a human being to another human being who I value as
a life, as someone that that's created in God's image, I'm going to listen to you and
hear why you conclude and why you talk about this and why you think that.
And then let's talk about it and actually discuss because we're both human.
We're both trying to find the truth.
We're both trying to grow.
Maybe you're not.
That's OK.
But that's the point to where I wanted to bring that.
That's where it fits into this.
Today's episode is that that respect was there where we just chatted.
And we chatted for an hour.
Like I it was like two thirty.
I was talking with them to forty five.
That guy showed up three forty five.
I was like, oh, shoot, it's almost four o'clock.
And then his Internet cut out mid-sentence and he got disconnected.
And I was like, oh, man, we could have kept talking.
But yeah, that's the story that actually happened today.
That was like five hours ago.
So that's so awesome.
The whole point is, you know, like with this, like with the Gospel of Truth project is to
be having, you know, healthy discourse and, you know, just discuss the Bible and discuss,
you know, what we believe and why believe it, but in a loving way.
And, you know, like I try to do with like my youth group to make a healthy, healthy
space to talk about God and not to be off putting to others, you know, but also with
which goes of the whole respect thing is there is times, though, that were.
Blaming in and saying what the Bible says can come off as offensive to some people and
can defend people.
There's not a book that's, you know, because the world does not agree with everything that
God says in the Bible.
It can be hard to navigate.
And I go through that.
I think this is something, you know, definitely it's a big topic here, you know, because like
the big thing is, you know, they, you know, that's like, well, once one kid one time,
what does it say in the Bible?
Like, that's not OK to be gay.
I'm like, well, like I can give you a handful of verses.
And you know, and I and as a leader, I'm not trying to come off as like, listen to me,
because I'm in charge.
I'm you know, I know more than you.
You have to come like, look at here, get the resources that are available to you.
This is where it says it.
I'm like, it's not that I'm saying it.
I just am saying in agreement with what the Bible says and what God says in his word.
I want to add in on that because I 100 percent agree with you and there's a way you're doing
with the Bible.
Oh, no, I'm in.
I'm agreeing with how you get by like handling situation and that comes up.
And even with the question that you just said that you get, right.
That question usually is asked in the in.
I would say mostly 70 percent of the time or more that question.
When I get that question and people ask me a question, it's always in a sense to try
to get you the whole gotcha.
It's not to be asked as in like they're curious or generally curious.
Usually it's said to be in like a oh, yeah, where's your proof?
Where's your proof, bud?
Like you don't have any proof because they don't know better.
So which which reminds me of like stuff like Second Timothy to twenty three, twenty four,
where it says have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies, you know, that they
breed corals because we're not really supposed to coral because, you know, that puts up a
wall that can harden people's hearts.
But in that verse, you could see it says and Lord servant must be must not be coralsome,
but be kind to everyone able to teach and patiently enduring evil.
It doesn't say like like like I was saying earlier and like you're saying it's like if
you're generally curious, I'm more than happy to discuss.
And this same with showing that guy respect.
I'm listening to generally understand what they're saying and then be like, OK, cool.
Well, you believe in this.
I believe in this.
Like we both believe in the Bible.
So let's talk about it.
You said you believe this.
Well, this verse, this verse and this verse says this.
So what do you think about that?
Not a sense like I'm not trying to point the finger and say, ha, you're wrong.
I got you back because then you're just going to start going back and forth as the fingers
like who blame who, who blame who or who win, who wins, who wins.
The conversation needs to be very strictly.
OK, so you're asking that.
Do you want me let's discuss this because you believe the Bible.
I believe the Bible.
So let's discuss this.
Let's talk about it.
This is why I believe this and this is where it says it.
And on that topic that you mentioned, if you haven't already on our website, there's a
new blog post talking about that subject.
I don't know if you read it yet.
I was going to and I fell asleep.
I yeah, I would encourage you to read it because I want your opinion on it, obviously.
Yes.
I know because then you can give it to your youth youth and who have that question.
Because that's an important question, not because it's more severe or more anything,
but just because it is a prevalent line of questioning that has a lot of different discussions
about it and around it.
So it makes it really tough for people to find what the truth is.
And if you want to find the truth, you go back to the source.
Yeah.
The same time, it's actually not that hard to find what your, you know, the actual answer
is more whether you want to accept it.
I mean, because like I said, like people were like, well, since then, the Old Testament,
we're seeing the new and I'm like, is it in the new too?
And some people like to like, I mean, like, I think the more of the issue is, is that
it's like some people, you know, even if you're told that it's the wrong thing, you're
not right.
You still want to, you don't want it to be wrong because you and you're happy with where
you're at in your sin.
As the enemy has you comfortable where you are at, they don't want you to grow.
So I think that's a lot of thing to where you see that or like, well, where's the say
that?
And then you have people who, you know, do the deconstruction of the Bible people and
say, oh, now that's taking out of contents.
And then they basically try to alter what the word says.
So yeah, I don't know if you knew, I'm sure you knew this.
I'm sure you know this and I think it will help listeners in general as well as maybe
you.
I do not know this, but if you if you really study how Jesus because Jesus obviously got
told by the Pharisees a lot, right?
Pharisees came up, disciples came up, people came up, everybody came up and asked questions
and hard questions.
And a lot of times the Pharisees were trying to get him in a gotcha moment to prove that
he didn't follow the Torah or the laws, the Mosaic law or ceremonial law or the holy codes.
So the holiness code back from Leviticus.
And so a lot of times they were trying to get him in a gotcha moment.
See, you can't be the Messiah because the Messiah is supposed to follow these really
strict steps and stuff.
And so when you look at Jesus and how he responded, because a lot of these people were trying
to get him in gotcha moments, there are well over like 20, 30 accounts where Jesus replied
with a question where Jesus, when people asked him like, well, how is it that we and the
Pharisees fast, but you and your disciples do not fast?
And Jesus answered with a question saying, how can the guests of the bridegroom mourn
while he is with them?
And it made them think like, why is he bringing up prophetic verbiage in this instance?
Like what the frick?
And he would ask them a question for them to think to a specific passage.
He would reference passages.
He would reference Old Testament and be like, hey, look, I'm referencing this, so you know,
because the Pharisees specifically, he had to talk to him.
Like he had to make sure that they understood that he was trying to fulfill stuff because
of the Old Testament.
He was fulfilling the prophecies.
He was fulfilling all this stuff.
So when we're being asked questions and where we're being asked certain things, like I did
with the guy on VR chat, I asked him questions.
I'm like, so you believe this, right?
Okay.
But what do you think about this, this verse and this verse?
Because you believe the Bible is true.
So what do you think about it?
So it's coming back to that whole, I know we're getting off topic, but it's coming back
to the whole idea of like, it's, it's easy to ask questions to make them think and make
them check it because that's going to be more impactful than you just telling them because
just telling someone doesn't have any foundation to, to truth.
They need to see it.
I know I went on a tangent and you're muted too.
Yes.
Yeah, no, it's true because it's like the old saying, you know, you can lead a horse
to water.
It doesn't mean that you're going to drink.
I think that's the most important part if we really want, like if I really want to equip
my students, hopefully they're listening to this because they like to listen to the podcast
for some reason.
I think it's awesome.
So if you're listening, Hey guys, that's how you're getting it.
Go read the blog post on gospel trees project.
It's worth it.
We'll, we'll do a recording.
Wednesday.
Don't worry.
I'll go over it Wednesday.
We don't have to read it.
No.
Okay.
There you go.
We'll go over next Wednesday.
I'll call.
I'll read it.
Oh, he probably will.
Okay.
I'll call right before you just say hi to everybody.
Yeah.
Jason has a habit of, uh, I, uh, youth group happens on Wednesday nights and he will call
me in the middle of youth group and I'm like, Jason, it's Wednesday.
He's like, Oh yeah, I'm sorry.
Okay.
Everybody said hi to Jason and there's always, uh, there's a one student named Ruben.
He's like, is that the couple?
This that's just the other GDP guy, GDPP.
He gets, Oh gosh.
He is a, he's a class clown as for sure.
That's always good though.
Oh yeah.
I, I understand him a lot because that was also me in youth group.
So yeah.
Yeah, you're probably really happy that I said his name in the podcast.
So you're probably freaking out at this point in the podcast.
That's cool.
Yeah.
Um, anyways, yeah, but, um, yeah, honor or respect my bed.
You're state.
I have a verse now that you talk about it.
Go for it.
Um, try to remember.
It's a rain and give a verse.
Well, I mean, if you have a verse, I'm missing, I'm missing.
No, go for it.
Go for it.
I'm still looking at my verses.
Okay.
Uh, so off the top of my head, if you don't know, uh, first Peter, second, uh, first Peter
two 17, the context here is, uh, verse 13 to 25.
That's the full passage for this.
So definitely go read it because it reveals God's will for those who are free in Christ
to willingly submit to human authority for God's sake and stuff.
It's really, really good.
Um, so in this verse we can see where, um, he's writing this, uh, letter and he says,
honor everyone, love the brothers and sisters, fear God, honor the emperor.
Right.
Um, so with this honor, um, a lot of translations translate that to respect as well because
that, that word honor there, um, is, is actually the word, uh, tomorrow tomorrow in Greek,
which is to, um, revere, um, and it's, it's revere someone to your own eyes.
So that's the best way to say it is to understand and revere someone to yourself, like understand
to revere them, um, or to honor them.
So yeah, you can say it's respect because that's what we take respect as as like what
we know as.
And um, it's really important to see how they define that.
But this is, this verse also just talks about, it says honor everyone, honor the emperor.
Cause like if I said, this whole chapter is actually talking about how citizen of heaven,
citizens live on earth and how we, we deal with the government, how we deal with leaders
and how we submit the governing authorities, et cetera, et cetera.
It's really good chapter, but when it's talking about honor and everyone, I just wanted to
bring that verse in for that specific point.
Um, because it's a broad statement, but it also makes life very simple for believers
instead of like picking and choosing who is worthy of our respect.
God's will for us is that to give respect to every single person, like will everyone
deserve such treatment?
Obviously not.
But Christians, because we're set apart, we are supposed to be known as people who give
respect to others because of our obedience to Christ period.
Not like honor everyone, but there was honor everyone.
He used the word and he's like within yourself, respect others because you value them.
And like I said with that guy earlier, even though I didn't, you know, as long as I, I
didn't like really agree with him on everything, but I respected him because as a Christian,
I am called to love others and understand that they are also children of God or created
as a created in the image of God.
So I want them to know God.
So I want to listen to them and generally talk with them.
Anyways, that's, that was my first verse to the table.
Yeah.
I just always think of like, this is one verse that is sticking out a lot now to me.
Um, our verbs 22, six, um, now being a father and everything.
That's what I was thinking about.
Direct your children for the right path.
And when they are older, it will not leave it.
So I building that respect early, you know what I'm saying?
And having it respected for God and that understanding of God, that young age.
And you know, my, my children will then be walking with the Lord and have respect for
the Lord, which will, you know, will not waiver.
In these times where that is not something that is as prevalent in society now.
Right now the respects, it's funny cause that respect would be a lot nicer right now as
we are going through that one age six, seven, there's a little bit more added to now because
I think it was every seven years you're growing up as a boy, you get a little boost of testosterone.
So we're going to do that.
He's having fun with that.
Everything is a, you know, is a, is a contest of, well, not a contest, but a match.
So I keep thinking of that versus kind of been there, you know, dress your shoulder
onto the right path.
When they're older, they will not leave it.
So to instill that early on, to have that respect for the Lord is huge.
Um, yeah, it goes right in my thing for me with the Psalm 71 18.
Now that I am old and gray, do not abandon me, oh Lord.
Let me proclaim your power to this new generation that you might, your mighty miracles to all
who have come after me.
So we are responsible to teach the younger people God's way, investment in their future.
Okay.
And we have to have that respect that they are also to come up and become the next generation.
You know, and then a moment of God, godliness today may produce a lifetime of service tomorrow.
So we have to be willing to serve them and, you know, respect them too.
I mean, I think of the youth kids, I'm like, there could be people who, you know, they
could be moving into the same position that I'm in one day.
So I need to, you know, they need to, it's a respect thing too.
I do youth group, I respect them.
If they give me respect, that way they don't feel like they're being talked down to as
kids.
But they're seen as more young adults who can also serve the kingdom.
And I think that's a big thing.
My issue, I mean, I had a church when I was younger, I mean, as a young adult, like at
18, 19, I had this idea I wanted to do and they did this.
They're like, no, you're a kid.
You don't know what you're talking about.
And then eventually ended up doing it.
And they're like, oh, this actually works out really good.
And they kept doing it even after I left that church.
Because it's like, yeah, you know, there are times that you need to actually, you know,
you know, let the next generation help out a little bit.
So they know what they're doing and be respectful about you, you know, people that have come
before you.
It's a fun mix.
Yeah.
So I just think of that.
If any of the youth kids are listening, don't even try to challenge me.
I will put you in your place so fast.
I'm joking.
I'm pretty sure it's we just read the verse.
We just read the verse that says you honor everyone and doesn't say if or buts.
All inclusive, all inclusive.
I am joking.
They know that I I'm clarifying.
They know if they want ice cream after a youth group, they better listen.
No.
Oh, goodness.
I will I will say that that's a that's a pretty that's a pretty good point.
You see that a lot in like respecting authority in general, like you see it respect authority
with parents, you see respect and authority with with leaders, you see it respect and
authority with with governments, you see it respect and authority with the law.
There's a lot of things where you can see their respect is there.
And as Christians, we are to give it not to and to have respect towards people unconditionally
in the sense that they might not earn it or they might not.
You know, they might not deserve it.
But that is, as the Christian walk, what we need to do.
Yeah.
There's a good there's a good verse about this, actually, because I think I said it
before, not on this episode, but I've talked about it before.
And I think we both talked about it.
We're.
What's it called?
We talked about it in the sense that, like, I think we mentioned that God discriminates
in the sense of like you you accept Christ or you don't accept Christ.
That right there in itself is like, oh, in the sense of like, well, you didn't accept
Christ.
So bye.
Like, that's your choice.
I'm going to respect you for it.
I respect your decision.
I think we talked about that before.
And I want to make it clear that this is that it's not the same way we use discrimination
today where we're discussing discriminating because a person is.
Like they blink, blink, blink.
The only way we describe that in the Bible and see that is if they accept Christ or not.
And you can see this in Acts 10, 10, 35, the 10, 34 to 35, because Peter speaks and he's
talking to the Gentiles on this.
And he said, in truth, I understand that God doesn't show favoritism, but in every nation,
that person who fears him and does righteousness is acceptable to him.
And if we actually look at that word where he says doesn't show favoritism, the Greek
word is prosopola prosopola apetace.
It's a long word because it's talking about a long thing and talking about he is not one
who discriminates and he is an acceptor.
He accepts a person and it follows by a condition.
In this instance, he is saying he doesn't discriminate, he doesn't have favorites, but
in every nation, he who fears him, not like I'm afraid, but respects him in that sense
and does righteousness and lives a life that he is calling to them to be in, which is uphold
righteous before God, a good life, just life in the sense of what the Holy Spirit guides
you is accepted with him.
So that just reminded me of that verse.
So I had that passage, I had to bring it up.
Yeah, that was, yeah.
You know, it's a good verse.
There's a lot there.
Just, yeah, I just, what was it?
And I just, I was floating by the verse and, you know, I just, as they go back to the thinking
about how you'd said, you know, respecting one another too, you know, and I was thinking
of, it was Matthew 5, 9, God blesses those who work for peace.
They will be called children of God.
You know, and I think that it talks about like, you know, working for peace.
So that means like you're saying, you know, having respect for like I said, government,
in the law, you know, and all these people who are put in power, having respect for them.
And I think that is a good verse because I think a lot of times we do see a lack of respect
with some of those authorities, you could say, even whether it be, you know, as simple
as, you know, your mom and dad, leadership in church, you know, but I think if God's
got you somewhere and got you in a place, you need to be mindful of that and respect
what he's doing.
You know, if God's got you called to this one church, you need to be respectful and
hold there, do what he's doing and what he's calling you to.
God gave you your parents.
Those are your parents.
They may not be the best parents.
They may not be your actual parents.
They could be adopted parents.
They could be, you know, step parents.
But you still need to have that respect because they're an authority in your life and they're
trying to help.
The same thing with police not saying, you know, like you need to respect them.
You have to, you know, you need to respect given, but they also respect everyone no matter
what.
And also, you know, know your rights and know what you're allowed to do, what you can do,
but do it respectfully.
That's the whole thing.
The respect goes a long way.
It's a two way street.
You know, when you mentioned the one about parents, we brought that verse up before and
I said, I used the same word, the male, the male in Greek is within yourself to revere
someone else, right, and to honor someone else to have honor.
So when you see stuff like in vision six, when it talks about honor, your father, mother,
your respect, your father, mother, because some translations use the word respect instead,
you can see that that is using the same word as to male, which is just to revere in that
aspect.
Yeah.
Crazy.
I don't know what I put.
I put my notes down, which is we'll see how that goes.
Yeah.
I just thought that's the biggest thing about respect is that you're saying it's a two way
street, you know, but which would you make it harder when somebody doesn't respect you
to show them respect?
Yeah.
Like I said earlier, just because they do, they always deserve it.
No, but it's an absolute.
It's an absolute.
No.
I think one of the best things you can look at, like you were saying earlier, was look
at Jesus and how he was, you know, with the Pharisees and all the leaders, even with the
Romans, even, you know, as he's being crucified and being, you know, he was respectful.
He picked up, you know, he picked up the cross and carried it and he did what he was told,
you know, and he was special of his father's wishes when he's in the garden.
He's praying God like, Lord, father, please don't make me bear this.
And you know, here's part of his father's wishes and his father said, sorry, this is
what you have to, what has to be done.
Like he had respect for his father and he showed respect to all.
It's just, you know, and that's a, he's, you know, it really, he's a great example
for anything you want to look at.
There's love, respect, you know, slow to anger even, you know, like the great one.
Yeah.
And that's a key with being respectful is having patience and the slowness to anger.
Is there certain people that earth and I even does it for a reason.
I'm going to reference how I met your mother quick.
You know, you've watched it, right?
I watched how I met your mother.
Yes.
Many times.
Okay.
So yeah, you know, Robin.
She, she hates Patrice.
And is there any reason?
No, no.
No.
And I believe that God puts people in your life that just like box you for no reason
at all.
Yeah.
They bug you.
Now see, I had, I had, I had one of these people in my, in my life in middle school
and high school.
I probably looking back, she was so super sweet, super nice.
This girl, I won't say her name because I don't want to listen, but people that might
know me and might know who I'm talking about.
And not to say this, like sweetest sweet girl, but I'd be like, she's like, Oh, look at,
we all have the same, we have the same classes.
I'm like, Oh, I don't want to be in the class with you.
I don't like you.
You didn't say nothing, but a nice person to me, but I don't know.
It was just her.
And I'd be like, Oh, it's like, I want to ask you, but trace like, I just, Ooh.
Yep.
And I'm like, and I believe that God does put people in your life that he gives you
disdain for, for no reason, your tests, your patients and your respectfulness and stuff
like that.
I share this with my youth group.
They're one thing.
It sounds like she was a nice person.
I'm like, yes, I'm pretty sure she was a very nice person.
But I, even thinking about it now gets me frustrated.
Like, I, you, I was so annoyed and irritated.
And I think that's a great way to put it is that we need to find that person, find our
Patrice and our life, and we need to be kind to loving and respectful.
You you literally reminded me of three different verses within that, that tangent or that pulpit.
Everybody buckle in because here comes the three verses in three, two, one James one
19 and 20.
Of course it's Jane.
You did it.
You brought it in.
Because it says, no, this my beloved brothers, let every person be quick to hear, slow to
speak slow to anger for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God,
which you, you've told me I have.
And then it reminded me of Galatians five 20.
And if you haven't, I talk about Galatians five a lot because it explains more depth
of a godly life with the Holy Spirit guiding you and a fleshly life where you're listening
to your flesh to do things.
And one of the things about the flush is, is both wrath and strife.
And it ties into what you were saying, because the, the, but the strife thing, I think it's
going to come down to a little bit on the side of respect that we were talking about
before.
And if you look up the word strife, if in Greek, it's, it's Erythia, which Erythia is,
it's interesting because that word is found in Erythia.
So that's where just Erythia.
So like that word is found before New Testament times only in actually Aristotle.
When he talks about it, where it's denotes a self seeking pursuit of political office
by unfair means is how he was using and Paul exhorts to be one in the mind of Christ, not
putting self forward or being selfish.
And he uses the word in a conjunction to say, like, is it don't put yourself forward as
in like in a participant or as a argument in a situation, put yourself above.
And that was part of that respect thing is that you respect others, you humble yourself,
which we talked about humility.
Thank you, Dylan.
And this, this falls into place of that in the sense of talking to others, because you
can see it very clearly that this is part of the thing where Galatians five is really
important, because if you see people doing that, put themselves above others in an argument
of state that that is of the flesh and that they live that way, then they are not of God.
It's very clearly says that that's how they live life.
Not that they do that once, because obviously that is sin.
But there's a way of living life.
When Bible talks about living that way, it's explicitly saying that they do it without
regret, without repentance, without turning without trying to fix it or work on it.
That's a living the life of that.
So that was verse two.
The last verse said you remind me of was Titus to seven, which it says it is it's in all
things.
What was it?
I know it's late, but no, no, Titus to seven is about everything.
Set an example of good works yourself with integrity and dignity in your teaching.
And Titus to seven, you don't know the context is to one through 10 is the full context of
it, because it's Paul's instructions to Titus regarding the way various groups within the
church should be coached.
He's trying to help them help them teach them.
But this is just goes to show that even in the teaching sense that he's trying to teach
that we should show integrity.
We should be with dignity that we should be serious in the sense of when we're talking
in the sense of doctrine and stuff like that, but uncorrupted, not putting our personal
agenda or trying to be above or try to be self righteous.
But in the sense of humility, like we talked about before, and a sense of respect for others
and talking to someone not in the sense of like, I'm talking to you just to answer you.
I'm talking to you as a human being to human being as someone who's creating the image
of God as much as I am.
Let's talk and be respectful and discuss because that's what we need to do as humans is discuss
so we can fully understand and help each other because we all want to help each other, maybe
more internally on some people than others.
But that should be should be the goal in the long run is to help each other grow, be better
people be better in the long run for any of this stuff.
So I just wanted to share that because you touched up on that in your in your pulpit and
then it was like, oh, you reminded me of three different verses.
Yeah.
What was that Greek word again?
For the for the strife, the erythia.
Yeah.
Erithia.
You want me to know what you said?
This is here.
I'll put it in the chat.
No, it's erythia.
It's erythia.
It sounds sounds like a like a flu, like a flu medicine, like a like a sinus relief.
Erithia.
Breathe.
Have a hard time breathing.
What have you had?
Do you struggle with seasonal allergies?
Try erythia.
It's true.
You're not taking erythia if you have a machinery pregnant or maybe pregnant.
Like that's what it sounds like.
OK, OK.
I know.
I can see that.
I see it.
It's better.
And then as soon as you get to the end of that catchphrase, please inhale in theory
if you're pregnant.
But it's like the do you operate heavy machinery?
That's too funny.
If you have any, if you have any, if any side effects, including the things that if you're
if it's allergy is worsen, please make all medical assistance.
And it's like, wait a minute, say if you ingested chocolate at any time, right?
Like, you know, I don't know.
I had a Hershey's bar right before this.
No, no.
This is I miss her.
She says to eat all the time.
Mm hmm.
I'm not anymore.
I had to make it all political.
I don't even know what you're talking about.
I just I just have Hershey's when it's around.
I don't I don't do that.
We'll discuss.
If it is a Hershey things.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, that was I remember.
I remember what you're talking about.
That was a play on words.
That was pretty good.
Jeremy's chocolate.
It was pretty pretty good.
I like it.
I was like, that's funny.
Oh, so.
I'm sorry.
Oh, that's good.
Get back on topic.
Jeremy's Jeremy's chocolate towards that.
I haven't tried that.
What about Mr. Beast chocolate?
I've heard that's pretty good.
It is.
Jeremy's chocolate.
They have a him bar and a she bar.
One has nuts.
Oh, my gosh.
If you don't know which one has nuts, then maybe you don't know.
Oh, OK.
So get back on topic.
It's the him.
Yes, I know.
I know where you're going with it.
What a great way to like, how can we market this?
Isn't that the whole point is being honorable and respectful to others?
That's the whole thing we're teaching on right now.
Yes.
And humility.
I respect.
I respect that candy bar.
That's great.
We're totally next next next topic when I'm teaching our being host.
I am 100 percent going to talk about not just humility, but because you already covered that
one, but positive, I made sure to get it so you could positive talking to anybody like
positive because there's a place to where we need to be talking like in a positive sense
because we have the love of God with us and we're doing that to share it with others.
If we don't share the positive nature of who God is because of who he's done for us, then
nobody will see us any different than anybody else.
And I see that as part of respect, too, because it's just part of the whole thing of like
respecting others, listening to what they say, discuss and ask why do you believe that
or why do you think that way?
Why are you talking in that sense?
Why do you why do you say that?
And then they generally are willing to discuss in a respectful way like, well, this is why.
Oh, OK.
And then why I believe this because of this, what do you think?
And you're asking the question because you don't want to just be like, well, this is
why.
It's like, well, what do you think about this?
And you can discuss.
But oh, yeah.
It's just making sure that I'll always do my best to, you know, always do your best
to be respectful and everything, you know, I joke around quite a bit and maybe, you know.
It's not always nice to make jokes are funny.
I don't, you know, and it's not meant to be hurtful ever.
I know some people can take it as that.
Yeah.
And I will I will say that I just say because, you know, it's just can get offended.
I mean, you go to like the idea of truth and truth.
You do.
Truth is very in your face a lot of the times.
And even for Christians, understanding that, like, I remember I was talking with Paul on
the apologetics chat I'm on on Facebook.
I was talking to this guy.
He's he's like, he's really cool.
He has a lot of good Bible verses.
He knows his stuff.
He studies a lot.
And I was talking to him because I saw he posted something on the chat.
I'm not going to say his name.
I'm going to say his post because you can go search it.
But long story short, he said something.
And I was like, you know, that contradicts a lot of Jesus's character and how you said
that.
Like, it's just it looks like it's full of like you are attacking or being demeaning
to someone and just because they believe different.
And I messaged him privately because I'm not going to freaking blow him out in the water
in public.
Like, he's a brother in Christ.
I'm going to at least give him the benefit doubt to discuss.
And we talked for a bit, probably like 15, 20 minutes.
And he was like, no, no, you're you're right.
It was dealing with stuff.
And it it it just got to me and I had to post it somewhere and I thought it would be OK
there.
But you're right.
I shouldn't have posted it and he deleted it, which is cool.
But it was just like, you know, as as a Christian and in the sense of like trying to represent
the kingdom of God in all aspects, no matter where we're at, where we're talking, what
we're saying, where we're saying it, there's even between like friends were supposed to
be in a loving sense, like even with you, I'm supposed to be very lift you up.
I should be lifting you up all the time because you're a brother in Christ.
You struggle.
I struggle.
I should be there to be like, hey, like you're doing awesome, man.
Like things are hard.
I hear you, but keep at it.
Trust God, rely on God, lean on God and like encouraging.
Right.
And that's what you see the disciples do to each other and what Jesus talked about, like
encourage one another, let each other up.
And it's hard because we're human and we fail and we fall short.
And I think it just comes right.
Now we get the verse.
Oh, my gosh.
There he goes.
You said you almost said it word for word, though.
It's almost like you know it.
You know which verse I'm talking about.
Oh, no.
First, first, first, John one eight.
One eight through 10.
If we say we have no sin, we're deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.
And what the truth is in the Bible, right?
The truth is the way the truth is Aletheia, which is what the Greek word is.
And Aletheia Aletheia.
And in the sense that this is talking about, it's just what is true in a thing appertaining
to God and the duties of man, moral and religious truths.
And the truth is taught in the Christian religion, respecting God and the execution of his purpose
through Christ, respecting the duties of what we're supposed to do as followers of Christ.
So when it says that specifically, obviously, you didn't mean it.
You're joking.
But I was just like, you almost said it word for word.
I had to bring it up.
I know it's nerdy.
I'm like, oh, wait, I know this.
He's that nerd in the front row with the, you know, with the glasses on a teacher, teacher.
I know the answer to see for him.
He was homeschooled.
So it was just his parents going like, oh, Jason, you're the only one in the class.
Listen, I wasn't homeschooled the whole time.
Most of the time.
Yes.
Okay.
I feel disrespected.
The best one is debate class.
Oh no, I failed hardcore.
That's why I'm good at it now.
Oh my God.
It brings lessons.
I always lost though.
I kept looking in the mirror and talking to myself and it just wasn't worthy.
Now I kept losing.
The mirror was better than I was.
So bad.
Oh gosh.
That's so funny.
I wonder why you are the way you are.
No, I was born in Bakersfield.
I mean, don't you look at it.
I forgive the sins of your mother and father.
Okay.
They could have went to town over.
It's not, I, you know, you still be in the valley.
It's still terrible.
They just go to San Jose.
I'm sorry.
If anybody, if they live in the valley, central Valley, shut up.
If you were Jason's family, I'm so sorry that you're stuck there.
Nothing against Bakersfield or Fresno or anything like that.
But no, a lot actually.
I, I respect you guys.
I don't, you know, I'll pray about that.
I can't say that.
I can't lie to myself right now.
No.
Oh, why would you choose to live there?
I just, okay.
It doesn't matter.
California and like the heat.
Okay.
You come and ruin our beach.
Except for Hanford Hanford, y'all homies, because you guys make a really bomb neck and
I stand by that statement.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, this has been respect and I got all the sounds, um, unnecessary, um, add about
a Greek word that I have already forgotten.
It's okay.
Even though it's there in the narrative.
Um, so, so respect one another.
Respect people just would want us to respect and just, yeah, be kind, respect.
And uh, yeah, I guess, uh, I'll pray.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Yeah.
Do you have any father?
Uh, thank you for all that you provide for us.
Uh, thank you for the opportunity.
We had the recording in Lord.
I pray that you would just, um, give us, um, the patience Lord to be respectful and to
love one another as you've called us to do.
As you did is by setting an example for us.
I pray and thank you for all of our less listeners, Lord.
And for Jason and I that we continue to do this and that learned that this would reach
people who need to hear it.
Pray this in your glorious name.
Amen.
Okay.
Well, I'll see you all in the third floor.
Bye.
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