Welcome to the Gospel Truth Project podcast.
I'm your host, Jason, and I'm here with my co
-host. What's up, guys? It's me, Dylan. And,
you know, we're sticking to it and recording
a second episode of season three. It's good to
be back. I'm happy for more recording and more
episodes and more discussion. Yeah, look at that.
We actually didn't disappear for a year and a
half or so. Yeah, the goal is to post once a
week. Simple. I like a challenge. Okay. We'll
just, we'll be posting on a Sunday evenings,
probably around eight to 10 MST or California
time, I guess is a better way to say it for most
of our listeners. MST, you know, Arizona time.
Oh, you mean the smart people who don't change
their time? Yeah. Yeah. No, I, I fight it all
the time. It's true. My office clock, I didn't
change it. My mom went in my office. She's supposed
to be in my office. She's like, Dylan, this is
an hour off. I'm like, just give it a few months.
It's going to be right. It'll be right. I'm not
changing it. It was literally like three months
ago. I was like, just give it a month. But now
you're on my time zone. We're on the same time.
You mean we're in the correct time. Yeah, so
why don't you move your clock? You know, so it's
now accurate. Ben Franklin. He had the idea of
it and then we omitted it and then it's so stupid
because it was made for the farmers. Right, but
good thing we're not talking about that today.
No, we're not. Right, but I will say before we
get started. It could be, but we're not going
to do that. I will say, maybe you can be a guest
on another podcast and we'll work that out. So,
I will say before we get into the topic, how
are you doing? Tired. That's the life. I don't
mind it. Like I said, you know, before we actually
started, I said, you look how I feel. So, like,
you know, I'm good. Yeah. I'm ready to go back.
I'm ready to get back into it. So I'm just excited
to be recording again. And, uh, yeah, it was
cool to get into like, listen to it and showed
the boy. I'm like, look right here. I talked
about you. He's like, and then he's like, you
talk a lot, dad. I'm like, thank you. Yes. Sounds
like, um, That's cool. I'm glad that he's enjoying
it, and it sounds like you and me both need a
Sabbath day. Yes. It's a little hard with the
kids. I'm not going to lie. The other day, we
did a little bit of yard work, in quotes. We
dug up a couple rocks that were in the backyard,
and then that's it. Sabbath just means a day
of rest, worship, that kind of thing. I mean,
Mark 2, 27, Jesus said that the Sabbath was made
for man, not man for the Sabbath. So he made
it so that we can take a day of rest because
he knew you need a day of rest. And that's important
to take a day for yourself to rest. And rest
doesn't necessarily mean I'm not like going to
go drive somewhere or not going to do something.
Like for me, rest can mean I am going to spend
the day with. you know, my wife and go do stuff
throughout the day. And that can be restful because
I'm just like, Oh, we're just going to go shopping
or we'll go get food or we'll go see nature.
And it's, it's relaxing. And, um, that, that
kind of stuff is important to do. And it sounds
like we both need that. And like, like this,
honestly, recording and talking about Jesus for
me, like that is a form of. kind of relaxation
like sitting here and getting to be in the word
it's just like oh it's it's detoxing and it's
oh and also get to hang out with you know we
have one of your best buds it makes it yeah it's
you know and it's it is relaxing and it's like
especially recording now because this is like
a little section a little kind of almost like
a little Special time where I get to. You know.
The kids are sleeping. The wife is sleeping.
I get to be awake. Just me and the dog. Like
you know. And it is like. My God time. It is
my God time. I get during the day. You know.
Sure I'll be a little tired. But you know. It's
the same thing if I woke up. An hour earlier.
In the morning. Some people can do that. They
can wake up. You know they wake up an hour. You
know, somebody was talking about, oh, I wake
up at five o 'clock so I can have my hour with
God before my day starts. And then my head would
go like, oh, that's about the time I get up normally
so I can go to work on time. You know, that's
what I'm talking about. Like, you know, and whether,
you know, I'm a night owl. Or my wife, she'd
rather have her cup of coffee at, you know, five
in the morning and go sit out, you know, on the
patio and just enjoy God's wonderful creation
in her nature, you know. And for me, I'm like,
I'd rather stay up late and listen to the cop
sirens, go down the street and really start praying.
I was hot going like, dear God, please let it
not be close by. No, but. You know, no, it's
like, I'd rather be up at night where it's all
calm and everything's peaceful and, like, the
day is done. I can relax. This is it. This is
all that's on my plate right now is How I Come
Out Jesus with Jason. I love it. I'm with you
on that one, honestly. You know, yeah, it's,
and no, I don't have to worry, but there's no
more poopy diapers today. There's no more, Dad,
I'm hungry. Can I have a snack? there's no um
you know hey can he get the trash no i do have
to make coffee but that's okay that's two seconds
easy yeah two seconds easy easy yeah it is fun
it is fun in those little things though even
in your day those sabbath moments i'd say not
what we're talking about at all but no i mean
actually not but It's good even to take those
little nuggets when you can because there are
seasons where you're super busy. Like both of
us, you know. Your work is demanding. Very. And
I have two children. Very. At least you get paid.
You get paid in joy and the love that you get
from that. And tax returns. Perfect. If the IRS
ever figured out what they're doing. That's besides
the point. That is, you know, my video just wigged
out. Yeah, your video wigged out. Well, it's
like it was catching up to your voice. Yeah,
well, my whole computer just did this thing.
It's a Windows, so it opened up a little Windows
tab, and I was like, I need to get back to it.
And then open back up and I see myself going,
I was like, I was talking in tongues. That wasn't
catching up. Well, it gives back on track. I
can do this. Cool thing is today's episode. It's
called teach the word early church. How to super
easy. I like it. Kind of get us on track here.
Cause I, I did give you a little bit of like,
here's something, something. regarding it. Um,
but long story short, um, teachers of God's word
are held to a higher standard. We know this James
three, one actually says it pretty plainly. Not
many of you should become teachers specifically
serving an official teaching capacity. My brothers
and sisters, we know that we who are teachers
will be judged by a higher standard with great
strictness. Um, we actually did do an episode
before in season one callback. to an episode
talking about preaching and teaching the difference
between the two. Cause all are called. Right.
All are called to preach because we are right.
Because we are to declare the word of God is
part of the great commission. When it comes to
teaching, it had a more strict like this. You
have to live a certain standard and also reflect
a certain way as well as understand the Bible
to a certain degree. Well, scripture in general
to a certain degree, which is why James 3 .1
was so serious about it. So it's one of the most
powerful callings today in this podcast episode.
Me and Dylan are breaking down how to teach scripture
faithfully. So the key question to this whole
episode is what does the Bible say about teaching
and how did the early church model it? That is
what I texted you, right? Yeah. My phone's my
camera, so I can't really check it right now,
but I'm pretty positive. It's funny you bring
up that verse, because that was a verse that
I was constantly told growing up. Because at
the age of 12, 12, 13, I'm like, I'm going to
be a pastor. That's what God's called me to do.
And people always, you know, they tell me that
verse. Some people would tell me that verse like,
I don't know, like they're trying to scare me
away almost. Like, oh, no, listen here, Dylan,
you don't want to do that because you're going
to get judged harder. Okay. In my little, you
know, like I remember in high school, like, you
know, they're doing your, okay, we have to have
your graduation plan here. What's your plan for
your future? I'm going to be a pastor. Okay,
but how? I don't know. God will decide that.
That's not up to me. We can't put that on paper,
though. We need an actual answer. And they went
on for that for like months and months until
it was like a month before. Like, Dylan, we don't
have an answer for your dang paper. Just give
us something, please. I'm like, okay, put computer
science. Like, okay, sounds good. Leave me alone.
I'm like, thanks. Like, not saying you can't
do it, but like, that's not an option for our
paper. So I'm like, make it an option. What if
I said I wanted to be a clown? You know? Well,
there's green school. There's seminary. Like,
I'm like, it was... They're like... yeah, but
you said you don't know if you're going to do
that. I'm like, no, I don't know what I'm going
to do. I didn't know I was going to be a gymnastics
instructor and be a youth pastor for almost a
decade. You know? Right, yeah, true. Thank you
for teaching all the computer science. I will
summarize that episode just so listeners here
can kind of get it. No, don't summarize. Go back
and listen to it. Yeah, go back and listen to
it. Preaching, which is kieriso in Greek, was
to proclaim the gospel, which you see in Mark
1 .14. It focused on salvation, repentance, and
the kingdom of God at hand. You can see that
Matthew 4 .17, Romans 10 .14 .15. Go listen to
the episode. It's often public and evangelic
in the sense of outreach, talking. Urgency, but
loving. Teaching, which was the word Didiasku,
which Didiasku explained the gospel, which was
Acts 18 .11. It talks about this. It focused
on doctrine, obedience, and discipleship. Matthew
28 .20, 2 Timothy 2 .2. You can go look those
up. Both, they're very similar. Both are commanded.
Both require clarity and boldness. Both are gifts
of the Spirit. If you go back to early church
writings like the Didache, which was written
50 to 120 AD, it shows preaching was for converts,
people to see the light and to come to Christ.
And teaching was for baptized believers specifically.
So preaching is calling people to Christ. Teaching
is training people in Christ. Summarized. Yeah.
Took two minutes, but yeah, summarized it all.
I mean, it's pretty good. Go listen to that episode.
Yeah, I'm going to actually have to listen to
that before or after we do this. Not before.
I think I think we should do a part two before
it, because I think there was more to touch up
on now that you've grown. I've grown and read
more and study more and have a little bit more.
Yeah. There's a couple of those. I mean, we had
a couple of those early episodes too. We're like,
like, Oh, we have to try to fit this all in this
amount of time, but we can even do a couple of
those part two. I mean, we're season three now.
So, I mean, you can go back to season one, you
know, reference stuff now. Seven seasons in a
movie. Yeah. Yeah, so I'll say first off, Jesus'
command, right? Matthew 28, 19 through 20, I
mentioned a little bit. It just says, Jesus commanded
disciples, go therefore make disciples of the
nation, help the people learn of me, believe
in me and obey my words, teaching them to observe
everything that I have commanded you, right?
So we know that this is teaching, discipleship
equals teaching obedience to Christ. Paul's charge,
2 Timothy 4 .2, right? Preach the word as an
official messenger, but be ready when the time
is right. And even when it is not, keep your
sense of urgency, whether the opportunity seems
favorable or unfavorable, whether convenient
or inconvenient, whether welcoming, welcomed
or unwelcomed, correct those who err in doctrine
or behavior, rebuke those who sin, exhort and
encourage those who are grown towards spiritual
maturity with inexhaustible patience. Faithful
teaching. Preach the truth. Not opinions. It
doesn't say give your take. It's preach truth.
Be ready. Whether it's convenient or not. You
might be late for work, getting gas in the car,
and someone's like, I need help with this. You
start talking with them and all of a sudden they're
like, why are you so nice? And you're like, it's
Christ within me, loving you through me. And
because he's called me to love you, I'll show
you love. I'll love on you. It might not be convenient
timing, but that's the point. We're always open
to it. That never happens to me because I'm up
too early. On the way home, maybe. It just reminds
me, too, of Mark 10. Jesus teaches the disciples
so much on the authority and how to act. It's
like he says with Mark 10, 42, Jesus calls them
together and says, you know, these who are regarded
as the rulers of the Gentiles, Lord, you know,
lord it over them. And the high officials exercise
authority over them. Not so with you. Instead,
whoever wants to become great among you must
be your servant. Those who, you know, want to
first must be a slave to all. you know, for even
the son of man came to serve and to, you know,
be in service, you know, and then he played it,
paid his ransom. He says that to, you know, and
it talks about, I think that's a big thing is
like, you're saying like, you can be focused
on what you need to do. And if somebody needs
you to serve them in a sense with either, you
just actions or words or something that you need,
you're called to have that to be a servant. No.
And I think that's a big thing, too, is the humility
of it all. And kind of, you know, that's another
thing, too, that's very hard, I think, that we
talked about last week's episode, being a guy.
You know, it's like, oh, humble yourself. And
I've been humble to be able to serve because
a lot of men, a lot of people in general, actually,
have that. pridefulness that we're like, well,
no, you know, there's a classic, if you don't
pull yourself out of your bootstraps, I mean,
some level, yes, you know, you need to be able
to try to take care of yourself, but when you
see somebody in need, they're struggling, you
know, you know, yeah, you're supposed to, like,
I think of Benji, a friend of ours, He'd be out
with his truck at, you know, at the dunes. And
he would just, he didn't charge nobody or whatever.
He would just go out there on a Friday night
and, oh, somebody's stuck. And that's just the
way he served. You know, and that family has
a good servant's heart. You know, they always
want to help. And that's, you know, like, that's
something cool we can say that is you can see
it where people have that servant's heart and
having that. And that's a great way you can lead
and teach. True. And I think that's a big key
of serving. It's a good church and a great church
in a sense. True. No, no, that's true. And we
were talking about, you know, understanding that
we are to lean on each other to strengthen each
other, to grow with each other. That's actually
part of the idea behind rebuke in the Bible when
it talks about that, what we just read. Um, the
Greek word is LHU. LHU is to convict, expose
error, correct sin with authority. But the goal
to it is restoration, not shame. Um, you can
see that second Timothy three 16 Galatians six
one, the tone, the tone of that correction is
the be bold, but loving. Um, you can see that
revelations three 19 problems. 27 talks about
that pretty decently. Um, when we look at like
early fathers, church fathers, like polycarp
or the didache, um polycarp would say to turn
turning the airing back with gentleness and so
it was in a gentle way uh the dachi says to rebuke
with was like a communal thing done before witnesses
like and not in the sense of like you're calling
someone out in public square hey you it was it
was to hey i have my like let's say i get another
friend of ours, you and me, and we come up to
you and say, Hey, Dylan, let's talk about this.
Like you're following, like you're doing these
things. You're a leader. You're a teacher. You're,
you are sinning constantly and you're okay with
it. This is as someone who believes in Christ,
that is not okay. And we lovingly restore gently
show correction using scripture, acting fast
in the sense of like, we know who you are. We
work with you. We're friends. We love you. And
there's a leave room for repentance in 2 Chronicles
2, 6 -8 talks about that. The danger that we
see a lot with this kind of mentality is that
harsh rebuke without the love side breeds rebellion.
Colossians 3 .20, the 21 actually talks about
that. So it's like there's a really easy way
to step outside of what the Bible's talking about
in this instance. And unfortunately, we see a
lot of Christians nowadays. who think i'm going
to do that to anybody and everybody outside of
the christian faith when that is not what we're
called to do teaching is within the christian
faith preaching is is sharing to bring people
to christ so they can have the holy spirit receive
the holy spirit and then the holy spirit starts
to work yeah and that also reminds me you have
the next step in the step is after that I mean,
do you recall or do you know? If you go and confront,
not confront, but you go and say, you know, like
we used an example, like, hey, Dylan, you know,
me and Alex, you know, you come to me, you go,
hey, we noticed this is something you're struggling
with, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah. You talk
to me about it. The next step, I believe it says,
I can't remember where, I believe it's something
you bring it. to the pastor, or the leader of
the church. Then the leader of the church is
the one that handles it next, and then it becomes,
you know, the church is to, the whole church
is supposed to help. And then after that, if
that doesn't work, I believe it says, then you're
to give it to the Lord. The Lord will deal with
it accordingly. Something like that. I can't
remember where that's at. I'm pretty sure. It's
not paraphrase. I mean, I'm paraphrasing here,
of course. Right. Cause I know, I know James
five 16, I brought in James. Yeah. It's a brought
it upon yourself. Well, because like James five
16 talks, encourages believers to confess their
sins to one another, pray with one another. So
they'd be healed. Um, Tim, second Timothy four,
two. says, preach the word, be ready in season,
out of season, reprove, rebuke, and exhort with
complete patience and teaching, which we can
see that's Paul's charge. Preach truth, not opinions,
be ready, correct errors, rebuke sin, in the
same way that we just described rebuke, that
the Bible describes it, and encourage growth.
And then four, do it with patience and clarity.
The early church, you can see, If you ever read
it, the didachi is really good to read. It's
not authority in the sense of scripture, but
it's good to read because it's the first century
manual for training new believers in doctrine.
And it does that really clearly saying, this
is how you make sure you're doing a loving job
because it's the Holy Spirit's job to convict
once they start believing, once they have faith,
the Holy Spirit's given. And at that point, that's
when teaching becomes the main objective there
is with each other, the teach, grow and correct
based upon scripture and what we are called to
live life. Like, yeah, it's so crazy. It, I mean,
the thing is too, it's interesting about like
the early church and do it in this, you know,
this is all new. It's so new, but I mean, but
if you're someone who's new to the faith, like
nowadays, It's all still so relevant. And I think
it's the relevancy that makes it all so interesting.
Even though we're talking 2 ,000 years ago, still,
you know, the way you learn from that and what's
going on, you know, it's the same thing. There's
new challenges, of course, with modern day. But,
like, I think, yeah. It's very interesting. But
what you're saying, too, I think the biggest
thing that's always missed with that while correcting
someone is the clarity. You know, there's people,
you know, because if you're not, if you don't
have the clarity of when you're saying it, you
know, I remember being a youth group and somebody
kind of had, make it funny, a God complex, like
a superiority complex. Right. I think they were
a couple of years older than me. I think they're
like about your age. And I forget. Maybe I'm
like seventh grade. They're like a freshman in
high school or whatever they were. And they came
up to me and were like, hey, guys, you know,
you shouldn't be doing that. And me being me,
I was like, first off, you're not in charge.
Second off, like, you have no authority here.
So back off. i don't care what you're saying
i'm like you're not the pastor you're not the
youth pastor you're not a leader you're a kid
like me and you know but it was the way he you
know it came off and there's adults who are like
that too that i feel like you know or even maybe
it's been handled the correct way and that goes
where sort of clarity is and also your pride
If you are a believer in your walk, you have
to be able to have set your pride aside and humble
yourself, like I said earlier, to receive correction.
Because if you put your walls up and you say,
no, no, I, you know, no, I don't, don't tell
me that what I'm doing is not okay. I'm walking
with God. Everything's okay because I'm walking
with God. It's like, no, sorry, dude. everything's
not okay just because you're walking with God
doesn't change your issues. Right. God changes
your issues. But if you're being called out,
you know, because you're being a piece of crap
or you're, you know, you're like, hey, dude,
you're lying, dude. We've caught you lying. We've
caught you doing this. You know, and you've got
leaders coming to you. Like, I've had that where
I've talked to, you know, talking to teenagers
is a little different, too. But, you know. You
talk to them, the teacher's like, hey, dude,
you know, you're just in the bathroom for a while,
and now it smells like the wacky tobacco. Okay.
Okay. You're a kid, you know. You know, I can't
be doing that here. You know, when you're 18
or whatever the law says now on it, you know,
then you can make your own adult decision. But
as long as you're a kid and you're here and,
you know, I don't care what your parents say
yes or no about it. There's enough. Yeah. And,
you know, and he was actually super, he was chill
about it. I guess he was a little too, you know.
Maybe he was a little too wacky to eat out of
his tobacco. But, you know, then I've had kids
where I've been like, hey, dude, you know, I
see it a lot more with anger. I've seen it more
like when the kid has anger. So I'm like, hey,
you've got to be slow to anger. Oh, you know,
I am. I am. I just, I've had enough of it today.
I'm like, do you have enough of it every week?
Is that why you always come here so, you know,
bitter and stuff? But, you know, and I think
that's a part of it. Yeah. But, I mean, and you
have to know how to navigate that, too. And that's
a huge thing with teaching, too, is navigating.
Because, like I said before, I want to say it's
an ax or whatever it is. What are we talking
about? Being a sheep. Oh. And how, you know,
sheep will be led astray. And we have to have,
you know, like I said before, sheep are stupid,
very stupid. And we have to have patience because
it's hard when you're dealing with a stubborn
animal, stubborn person. You've got the stubbornness,
you know, it's like as a mule and you go like,
okay, I've got, I've had to help them though.
Especially if, say, there's, you've got new believers
who are, you're trying to teach, you said new
believers, and they're stubborn. Like, no, I
still like doing what I used to do. Don't tell
me what I'm doing is wrong. It's like, okay,
dude, but you need to learn. We're trying to
help. No, you cannot go walk by this cliff. The
cliff equals death. Stay away from the cliff.
But I really like the view. Okay. Like, you know,
at some points, I mean... I've been there with
kids. You're just like, okay, you know, whatever,
man. You make it really hard to want to help
you when you don't want to listen. It's the same
with adults. These kids are a little easier.
True. But I feel adults are the hardest. That's
why I don't do youth ministry. Yeah. I get that.
I deal with a lot of adults and I don't deal
with any youth at all. Yeah, I don't deal with
youth at all. Not in that sense, not in that
capacity. I think it's an important turn to then
switch over to how to teach rightly. There's
three main points that scripture makes as well
as early foundational fathers and apostles were
making. And those three points are simple. Simply
put, study first, live it out, community focus.
So to hit those points, study first. 2 Timothy
2 .15, if you don't know, the context is 14 to
26, that whole section. It contains Paul's instructions
to Timothy about leading other believers. And
two important themes here are avoiding pointless
bickering and holding to sound biblical teachings
instead. Arguments over non -essential issues
quickly turn into feuds, poisoning the body of
Christ, just as gangrene attacks on the physical
body. Paul names specific false teachers, but
brings a note of compassion. And so in verse
15, he reminds Timothy that gentleness and patience
are key, especially throughout the whole context,
if you read it. And after all, those who do not
believe are not our enemies. They're those who
are trying to rescue from the control of the
devil from sin. Sin feels free until you try
to get away from it. 2 Timothy 2 .15. Just to
read that. That is... What you just said there.
That's a t -shirt right there. Yeah, no kidding.
Sin doesn't seem that bad until you try to get
away. You know, sin seems free until you try
to get away. I think that's the enemies. The
biggest thing they have is that it sends me to
seem so appealing. And so like, oh, what's the
harm in that? What's the harm in a simple little
white lie? What's the harm in just looking a
little bit? Yeah. Because what happens is, you
know, you give the enemy an inch, they're going
to take a mile. Yeah, you don't even know it.
And the next thing you know, you're like, oh,
I just lied a bunch. I just lied to get out of
that. I just made up a lie that I just hit a
dog to get out of trouble. True story, but that
was... that was terrible. And that was in high
school, but sorry. Oh, while you're choking.
No, thank you. Thank you. Yes. Second, Timothy
two 15. The verse itself says, do your best to
present yourself to God as one approved, a worker
who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly
handles the word of truth. Um, it's, it's important
to know, what that means. And this is second
Timothy. You can go a little bit further into
second Timothy, where it gets to three chapter
three, 16 to 17, where it says all scriptures
breathed out by God profitable for teaching or
reproof correction for train righteousness. And
this right here. So study first is so that we
can accurately handle scripture. And it's very
well noted and duly noted to use tools like lexicon,
strong concordance, stuff like that, so that
you're not just reading English, you're going
back reading Hebrew, you're reading Greek, you're
reading Aramaic, you're reading these translations
in the words, like we've already been doing this
episode, because a lot of times we say a word,
like for example, I think we said this so many
times on this podcast, like if I say, oh, I love
mac and cheese, and then I go home and I say,
oh, I love my wife, it's the same word, but it's
definitely different. Right. The Bible, when
it says love, it had specific definitions of
those words for love because it had multiple
ways to say it and it had different definitions
within those words. So it's always important
to have a study, a lexicon or something with
your reading and with your studying. Yeah, that
was a good verse. I like that verse. Can you
read it one more time? Which one? 2 Timothy,
the one you just read. 2 Timothy 2, do your best
to present yourself, or the Bible one? The 3
.16. So, 2 Timothy 2 .15 was, do your best to
present yourself to God as one approved, a worker
who does not need to be ashamed, and who correctly
handles the word of truth. Yeah. And then read
the second one, too. The other one is 2 Timothy
3 .16 -17. I've quoted this a lot, too. All scriptures
are breathed out by God. Profitable for teaching.
That's what it was. That's what it was. Yeah,
the teaching. I got the word in there. You know
what? No, no, no, no. No, but listen to that.
Listen to that. Does it say some? Does it say
a little bit? No. All. It says all, right? And
what does all mean? Profitable for teaching.
Yeah. And what does all mean? You know what all
means? All. All means all. And that's all it
means. True. That's all of it. That means every
single piece of Scripture, it's in your Bible,
or it's not in your Bible, was breathed by God
Himself. It was made. It is from God. People
are like, oh, where does it ever say that this
is all written by God? Who says? They question
that all the time. I've had people question that.
And say, well, how do you know it's the word
of God? Because it says it's the word of God.
And because as God spoke, this is God's word.
People were just used as vessels to have it written.
Yeah. You know, you look at it. Right. I think
the next episode, just a suggestion while we're
here, is going to be about the Bible as a whole.
Because scripture is all. Sneak peek. You guys
are hearing it here first. No. Yeah. I like that.
It probably will be now. Or we might get somewhere
in the last second. We don't know. Whatever God's
going to call us. But I love that part. Because
you know what? From a teaching perspective, if
I were to read that verse, that's one of those
verses you can read a few times. You're going
to get something out of it every time. That's
another thing I encourage you guys. If you are
reading, you're teaching, read the verse about
I don't know, a hundred times. It's going to
speak to you differently every single time. And
that's, I love that verse right now. Yeah, that's
where study Bibles come in play. That's where
you need to have backing to help you read and
study and understand. Because again, we've talked
about this where English is kind of, dumb down
to agree where you can say the same word. It
means all these different stuff. English is dumb.
It's stupid. I'm done with helping out with English
homework too. I can't handle it. There's three
different types of theirs. Mercedes got three
E's, all different sounds. That keeps me up at
night. I wake up going, Mercedes. A and D's.
It's so stupid. It's just like, you know, it's
just, oh. I know I'm with you on that one. That's
why I say it's always important to use tools.
Yeah. Use tools. So I can't be like Spanish.
Spanish easy. Sorry. Yes. To a degree. What does
it look like? Oh, okay. That's how it sounds.
Unless if you get a J, it's an H. True. Two L's
make a Y. Okay. Yeah. Got it. Tortilla. Not tortilla.
Okay. I don't know what it gets me. So yeah,
the second part to that. Yeah, because the second
part of that is always live it out, right? A
good example of this is Titus 2, 7 through 8.
If you don't know the context, it's actually
verse 1 through 10. Titus 2, 1 -10 is the whole
context. It's actually Paul's instruction to
Titus regarding the way various groups within
the church should be coached. It includes specific
instructions for older men, women, younger men,
and women and servants and other people within
that community. And Titus is to encourage traits
such as faithfulness, respectfulness, dignity,
and self -control and living the way. Not only
that draws others to Christ, but it leaves critics
with no room to attack our faith. So, for example,
in verse two, sorry, verse seven to eight, it
says, in all things, show yourself to be an example
of good deeds with purity and doctrine, dignified
sound and speech, which is beyond reproach so
that the opponent will be put to shame, having
nothing to say about this. and this is this is
good example of where you can see it in a lot
of proverbs and um uh there's a lot of wisdom
to say like you keep your mouth shut you think
and then you speak it is not something where
you flash flash shots i am coming at you no that's
wrong it's wrong wrong you're an idiot stupid
whatever like you you don't do that stuff it
is Someone saying something and let's say they're
not Christian or they are at this point, it's
just someone who has an alternative viewpoint
or an alternative understanding. Listen, not
listening to to come back or fight back, but
listening to understand what their perspective
is and why they have that perspective. So then
you can discuss it. For example, on Facebook,
one of our TikTok videos, actually, I don't know
if you saw. On sorry, Instagram reels, this Facebook
side. Instagram reels one of our videos actually
had someone comment very very strongly a very
thick comment like four paragraphs thick and
Yeah, it was disagreeing with the premise of
the video and so I responded no interesting point
and then I responded to his took two paragraphs
just to calmly be like, okay, so you say this
and, and he did, you can tell he did believe
in the Bible and scripture, but he had a very
strong viewpoint, um, about using the term religion
or the word religion. And, um, so we, I went
back and forth and after, after the fourth back
and forth the fourth time, he's like, he's like,
usually I'm banned by now. I appreciate you not
banning me and kicking me and blocking me. He's
like, He's like, thank you for like, let's, let's
keep talking. And so we did, we, it was like
12 comments back and forth of just us discussing
and very civil, very calm. It was really cool
to see that after a while, there was some points
that we both agreed on. And I think some of the
stuff that he was going into was. going into
definitions that were not biblical definitions
and not using tools like lexicons or strong concordance.
I'm like, well, this is the original Greek word
for this is this, and that's what the standpoint
you can look this up. And so it was just kind
of going into a little bit more depth and it
wasn't something like, Oh, forget you get off
my videos. Like if you don't like it, don't comment.
Like I didn't do that. I didn't say block. No,
that's what we've listened to. Right. It's the
integrity. If you don't like what we have to
say, then that's fine. We're not perfect. We're
here to have a discord. We're not here to shut
down. If you don't agree with us, you think whatever,
we will listen to you. Whatever your belief system
is, we will listen to you and we'll have a discussion.
when you stop talking is when that's when nothing
changes and everybody gets in their echo chambers
and nobody, you don't grow, you know, before
we jump ahead or jump back into that, I wanted
to mention, uh, we, we, I think I brought it
up at work one time when we were kind of AT &T,
um, not a sponsor. Um, Unless you want to, let
us know. I see his feet for the win. Anyways,
so Proverbs 17, 28. Even the fool is considered
wise when he keeps silence. When he closes his
lips, he is an esteemed man of understanding.
Basically, my father always, my dad always summarized
it. more in his way of saying it, it's better
to be thought a fool than to speak and erase
all doubt. So that's what, you know, in a sense,
too, you have to know when to be quiet. Because
there's going to be times where it's not going
to be necessarily, in teaching, where you're
going to have people who aren't trying to be
conducive and trying to make conversation. They're
just wanting to rile you up. They're not going
to be helpful. And that's when it's better just
to be quiet and let them make the fool of themselves.
Not saying that, you know, if you disagree with
us, you're a fool. But I mean, yeah. The saying
is from the verse, it's better to remain silent
than to be thought a fool, and the speaking race
all doubt. Which is actually, I think, And Abraham
Lincoln famously said that. Or it was Mark Twain.
It was one of the two. But I think it was based
off of the, you know, I did a whole study on
this because those two old guys came in there.
And he was like, oh, you sound like a fool. I'm
like, well, you know what they say. It's better
to, you know, be quiet than be thought a fool.
I'm like, I think that's what they said. You're
quoting Abraham Lincoln. They're like, no, I
think it's Mark Twain. I'm like, actually, I'm
pretty sure it's the Bible. But yeah, I mean,
you see Proverbs 21, 23, just say whoever keeps
his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of
the trouble. Um, you see Proverbs 15, one though,
go back and say a soft answer turns away wrath,
but a harsh word stirs up anger. Um, you see
James one, ha ha. Got you again. 26, where it
says, if anyone thinks he is religious and does
not bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart.
This person's religion is worthless. David in
Psalms 141 said, Set a guard, O Lord, over my
mouth. Keep watch over the door of my lips. Because
our words can corrupt very quickly. Ephesians
4 .29, just to kind of prove your point, let
no corruption talk come out of your mouth, but
only such as good for building up, as fits the
occasion, that it may give grace to those who
hear. So these are things that you can see fall
into the line of studying first, accurately handle
scripture, living it out, including how we speak,
how we talk, how we interact with people. And
then the last thing I said on that list is community
focus. And to bring that conversation in for
us to discuss, Colossians 3 .16. Okay. Colossians
3 .16, 12 to 17 is the context there. And it
says, let the word of Christ dwell in you richly,
teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom,
singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with
thankfulness in your hearts to God. This correlates
to, if you don't know, it's within reference
of 1 Corinthians 12, 28. And in this sense, in
Colossians 3, 16, it's talking about as a group,
right? in all your hearts. And he's talking to
the collective people who are believers here.
And in 1 Corinthians 12, 28, which the context
is verse 12 to 31, you can see it says, and God
has appointed to the church, first apostles,
second prophets, third teachers, the miracles,
the gift of healing, helping, administrating
various kinds of tongues. Actually, if you look
into a little bit further, it spells it out a
little bit better in Greek, where it says second
are prophets. Third are teachers, those who do
miracles, those who have the gift of healing,
those who can help others, those who have the
gift of leadership, those who can speak in unknown
languages. It spells it out to understand that
the Holy Spirit has many gifts upon believers,
and we are all the body of Christ, and we have
different roles within God's command to go out
and speak and teach and be a part of His kingdom.
Exactly. Like, you know, what's the saying? We're
all different, you know, parts of the body, basically.
Yeah. But teaching in the body. Exactly. That
is so true. That is, um, yeah. Cause like, you
know, where I can go there and I could teach,
I could teach to the, you know, for a group of
people. And I think we've even done this, like
where we've had like youth events, uh, over at,
uh, cornerstone where, you know, I think, I don't
know if I taught Spencer taught somebody taught,
but then you did worship during one of those
things, you know, cause you have that ability
to go there and, and, and shred it on the guitar.
Or one of the other, you know, you know, play
one of those 30 something instruments you can
play, you know, a little flex. I mean, I'll flex
for you. You don't have to, you know what I mean?
Like you have that ability. And then, you know,
in, I tell you guys right now, this guy in small
group discussion, you're like, oh, well, this,
this, this, and that. If they're like five different
verses, it's like, we're just disgusting this
one. Disgusting. Disgusting this one. And it's
disgusting how much you can spit out on one verse.
It's amazing, though. That builds you up a little
bit. I don't feel like I was supposed to do that.
Appreciate it. We build each other up. That's
good. Another thing that men don't have a hard
time doing. It's comedy one another and building
each other up. Also the opposite though. So like,
like in the sense of, we have a tendency to mess
with each other in a negative way. That's very
impacting in a derogatory negative sense. And
that's really easy to get into. You play call
of duty a couple of times and now you're yelling
at each other. you know it's really easy to go
both ways in that sense but yeah yeah yeah but
i your point being you know it's good yeah it's
good to encourage each other it's good to lift
each other up exactly what we're called to do
is brothers and sisters in christ and that takes
me that you know totally reminds me of john 21
when jesus shows back up to the you know them
you know he talks about you know you know they'd
finish eating and jesus says you know, Peter,
son of John, who loved me more, you know, than
these. Yes, Lord, I, you know, I love you. He's
like, then feed my, feed my sheep, you know.
Again, you know, he says, do you, do you love
me? He's like, yes, I love you. Like, take care
of my sheep. And then he says it a third time,
you know, it's like Peter was hurt, you know,
and he said a third time, do you love me? He's
like, yeah, why do you keep, you know, why do
you do that? Then, you know, you need to, Take
care of my sheep. You know, Peter turned and
saw the disciple who he loved. You know, it was
Jesus that was with them. John. Man, what an
arrogant guy. You know, sorry. Someone who loved.
You know, he talks about that. Feed my sheep.
Take care of each other. That's like the biggest
thing to do with that. Like, I was just thinking
about that versus, you know. I was thinking about
that when I was talking about that because it
is very true. It's taking care of one another.
If we're talking about accountability and all
that, it's taking care of the group of people
too. If we're all believers and we're teaching,
feed them. You need to feed the flock. You need
to take care of the flock. Go after the one.
Give the 99. Yeah, it's good stuff. Just follow
him. Just follow me? That's what it says in 19.
You know? You know? He followed me. Follow me.
Follow me. Follow me. This all leads back to
Jesus. It's crazy. Can I share a Bible input
fact that you might enjoy? No. Okay. So, who
denied Christ three times? Peter. And then he
swore. Sure. And then, so in the chapter you
brought up, John 21, right? Yeah. Jesus asked
who? He says, he, Jesus asked Simon Peter, do
you love me more than these? How many times does
he ask him? Oh, we don't have viewers yet. So
three fingers, three times. I was saying in a
sense that, you know, this is like the redemption
part where he denied Christ three times. And
then Jesus asks Simon Peter, do you love me?
Yes. Feed my lambs. Simon, do you love me? Yes.
Then shepherd my sheep. Hey, Simon, do you love
me? Yes. You know that I love you. Okay. Feed
my sheep. And it's like the three times he asked
back. I just love the, the, the, the beauty of
that and our artistic way of how that lines up.
You know, the three times denied the three times
loved. Yeah. I think I was just, I was, uh, it
was a pastor's perspective or whatever it was,
but they were breaking down the Greek. I think
the Greek of it with when Peter does nice three
times. And then everyone, he says he swears.
I did not know him, but the translation would
have been, he actually would have swore, like
let out a swear word and like said something
like that. I didn't know him. And talks about
how, you know, how that even changed, like the
way his mentality was after the third time denying
God. You know, we're swearing and we're talking
with foul language. Some earlier understandings
of it was a curse on me if I'm lying. It was
a harsh thing to say. It's like saying F me if
I'm wrong. If I'm lying or something. yeah yeah
it was swearing without you know like with that
and so it was talking like you know like i was
talking about like you know it was the accountability
thing where i'm like you know how do you feel
about swearing if you're a believer like oh you
know it is what it is and this was going like
well what about that with peter it's like oh
no I didn't realize that I'm like some, you know,
and it's things to think about too, with your
walk and accountability. I feel like I need to
share that. Maybe somebody needs to hear that.
It was listening. I don't know. Yeah. So I don't
really give it. I will say with this. Okay. So
that's how, how to teach rightly in the sense
of going through the word and how the Bible says
and what they were teaching others to teach and
how they were to teach. So to kind of go into
this quickly and briefly, the next section I
was going to talk about was dangers to avoid,
right? Because these are things that are really
easy to get into and scary and not good. So,
for example, false teaching, very upfront and
brunt. Verse 34, 16 is a good example of this.
If you don't know, context is actually verse
11 to 16. It actually focuses on Timothy's own
personal conduct as the leader of a Christian
church. And Paul emphasizes ideas such as persistence,
confidence, and diligence. Of particular importance
is that Timothy live out an example for other
believers. Among the most powerful counters to
false teaching are the positive results of spiritual
truth can bring. Along with teaching the truth,
Timothy must live it by devoting himself to these
principles. And so Paul reassures Timothy. That
he can be a powerful positive influence. For
Christ. So 1 Timothy 4 .16. It says keep a close
watch on yourself. And on the teaching. Persist
in this. For by so doing so. You will save both
yourself. And your hearers. So Paul's concluding
verse in this passage. Offers a lot of wisdom
obviously. He evaluates himself. And tells him
to evaluate himself. Perhaps again building on
the. Athletic analogy to use. If you read earlier
in verse 8 and 15. And the ability to understand,
teach, and live out the truths of the gospel
are central to the work of a Christian church
leader. And these have been the themes of Paul's
messages. With this, you can see it's detrimental
because doctrine impacts eternity. In that sense.
And he not only says yourself. He says yourself
and your hearers. He's making a point that He
could save his life and those of the church from
the errors of false teaching through his example
by teaching truth. And it's really important
that it's not about earning salvation in this
sense. That's not what he's saying. He's saying
that to save them from false doctrine that can
lead them astray to move them away. So that's
why it's like, hey, you'll save both yourself
and your hearers. Yeah. So it's doctrine impacts.
It's really easy to lead people astray. That's
why teaching teachers and people who are teaching
are held to a higher standard. Exactly. Yeah.
That's why anything the Bible says, you know,
like it says in the last chapter of Revelation,
anybody who takes their ads, you know, takes
away their ads to this book, you know. You will,
you'll be, I think you, I forget exactly the
context, but it basically says, you know, like,
you'll be damned. Like, don't do it. You don't
mess with the book. Revelations 22, 19. I've
used to quote this a lot. It says, anyone takes
the word away from the scroll of the prophecy,
God will take away from the person any share
in the tree of life and in the holy city, which
is described in the scroll. Yep. Which is, yeah.
Interesting. I mean, to say the least. I feel
bad for Martin Luther. No. Not Jr. Not Jr. In
the 94 Reformation of the Catholic Church. You
talk about Protestantism? Yep. Because he did
take away some books. But... Next episode, we're
going to get into that. Don't you worry. To kind
of lead us to the end here. The second danger
to avoid main danger is pride. And what are you
talking about? I'm not prideful. What are you
talking about? You're prideful. Did you hit that
at all? I can hit it real quick if you want to
finish with that one. Go to Philippians 2 .3
-4. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain.
Rather, in humility, value others and yourself.
Do not look to your own interests, but each other's
interests and others. You know what I mean? Because
that's a big thing in teaching. There's a lot
of that in today's church. Yeah. It's a lot where
it is either you have the selfish teacher who
it is. It is like, hi, welcome to my church.
This is my show. And this is all me. It's my
ministry. Glory to God, of course. But, you know,
I'm a personality, you know, people that are.
I, I mean, I mean, I mean. Tithing, tithing,
money, please. Not in a way, because I've been
to churches where it's like, hey, you know, giving
your tithe is important. Give to the church.
We're going to help the community. This is what
it goes to our community. That's what your money
goes toward. Yes. And it's looking to others.
And then I've been to a church where it was,
It's all about me and give me your money. And
that's like, it's like, and those are who that
are teachers. And those are some people that
even, you know, possibly have told me to, Hey,
you know, when you're, don't be wanting to be
a teacher, you know, you're going to be judged
harder. I've been told that by people who are
like that. I thought it was looking back on it.
Kind of ironic because it's like, wait, you are
a teacher. Why would you tell me? Oh, oh, but
look at Philippians 2 right here. Do nothing
out of selfish ambition, rather in the humility.
Don't do it for your own interest, but the interest
of others. It's, you know, and it's funny, you
know. Unfortunately, that is an issue that is
a little more common, and I wish it was. That's
one of my pet peeves of church, but. That's a
whole different thing. If you like to go to your
book of James. Well, it's the same verse we started
off with, James 3 .1, right? Do not become teachers
in large numbers, my brothers. Okay, so do not
become teachers in large numbers, my brothers,
since you know that we are teachers will incur
a strict judgment, right? James starts, however,
here in this chapter with a warning about taking
the title of teacher. Because not many Christians
should aspire to be labeled as teachers. James
writes, Those who claim the mantle of teacher
will face stricter judgment or will be judged
with greater strictness. The more one claims
to know, the more accountable they are held for
what they do with their knowledge. John 941,
for example, talks about that. I want to go on
the record and say I know nothing. Yeah, right.
Teaching is a stewardship, not a status, which
falls into what you were saying, right? Yes.
Danger to avoid, I would say in this instance,
so we can kind of wrap this up, is neglecting
the spirit. Neglecting the spirit. I jumped the
gun. I'm sorry. He's going to insert a drumroll.
If he didn't, you guys need to spam that one
reel he put on there and just put no drumroll.
No drumroll. I'll clip it. That's fine. I think,
so, for example, 1 Peter 4 .11. Context is verse
1 to 11, so read the whole context. Important.
It says, whoever speaks is to do so as one who
is speaking actual words of God. Whoever serves
is to do so as one who is serving by the strength
which God supplies, so that in all things God
may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom
belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever.
Amen. Speak God's words, not your own. because
it's really easy to start speaking your own.
I've seen way too many clips of pastors, way
too many clips on TikTok, way too many clips
on Reels and YouTube, and here and there, pastors
getting up there saying, you know what, this
is not what, I don't like this, or I'll say,
I don't know, so I'm going to say it this way
because this makes sense to me. It's like, that's
strictly against what the Bible teaches you to
do. Didn't you post something on, you had something
on your story the other day about that? Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I did. And I was like, I was thinking it
was some young guy who was talking. I was going
like, what? I'm like, no, no. I forget his name.
He's like cake something. But he's he he stands
to be. He says he's a teacher. He says he is
someone who is biblically trained and. Um, there's
just some of the stuff he says and some of the
stuff he does is really immature in a sense that
it's faith unfaithful to scripture. Um, I'm sure
there's some stuff that he's, yeah, that's good
stuff to say, but a lot of it, there's some really
raunchy immatureness that's really dangerous
for people to see and think, Oh, I should do
that too. Um, I mean, I get it. You're new in
the walk and you're trying to teach, but like,
You're not called to. He needs somebody who's
going to... He needs a mentor. It's hard to have
a youthful spirit. You can have that. I teach,
but I also have that youthfulness. That's why
I do youth ministry and stuff. It comes down
to it. I'm going to teach biblically. you know,
accurate to the point, you know, things. And
yeah, I'm sure my, my job is not the same as
like a head pastor where they're going to be
teaching to the masses where I'm going to, you
know, yeah, we're going to teach about this.
And then we're going to also shove cake in somebody's
face because that's part of, you know, getting
to do youth ministry and stuff. You know, but
like, but make it entertaining though for a younger
generation, because that's, I know what you have
to do. You put a spin on it, but not in a spin
where I'm changing the word of God. I'm just
making it more relevant for a younger audience,
making the connection for a younger audience.
That's the only part that you need to do that
is not change it, but you need to put the, make
it more relevant for your audience. And that's
for teaching anything too. Like if you're going
to sit there and teach me about, you know, like
the guitar, you don't have to describe the guitar
the same way you would describe it to somebody
who, who has, you know, musical background, who,
you know, played the saxophone for five years
or whatever. Now, if you got me, who knows, like
I know some piano. And I can, you know, bang
on the drums a little bit, you know. So for me,
you know, you're like, okay, Dylan, thank you.
So you're going to move your hand like this.
And this is called the D chord. You're going
to hold your hand like this. You don't want to
do it flat. You want to do it like this. Or somebody
else, you're like, okay, this is this. This is
the four chords you need. Here, here, here. Little
hand position. It's, yeah. I think practical
steps overall. Just to kind of sum it up, if
you are looking at the teaching side of it, you
want to study, you want to learn, you want to
grow. Study first, live it out, be part of the
community. Teaching is a body effort. Start small,
family, small groups. You can see Deuteronomy
6, 6 -7 as an example of that. Use reliable tools.
BibleRef .com is nice. Good, helpful lexicon,
biblical lexicons, Strong's Concordance, stuff
like that that will help you study Bibles, especially
will help you see more into what these verses
are talking about, what they reference to. Don't
read verses out of context. Know the context,
like me and Dylan have been quoting this verse
to this verse. It's the context. Read it as a
whole. Pray for discernment. James 1 .5 says
to pray for discernment is it's very important
to understand that we, Jesus Christ is the center
of it. So we go to him when we need him, when
we want understanding, when we want clarity.
And to do so within groups to strengthen your
foundation, to make sure that it's not being
led astray or it's not being pushed somewhere
that doesn't line up biblically or scripturally.
Yeah, I think as a call to action, I think it's
really important to, like, for example, just
pick a verse on teaching, study it, and share
it with a friend or a family or somebody this
week just to be able to be like, if that's your
calling, if you feel led to do so, do it. Like,
just take Romans 116, for example. Take that
verse, read it, study it. Read the Greek version
and what each word in that means. Use Bible ref
to see what the context is. Use a study Bible
to see what's the notations for that verse and
what it's referencing. And really delve deep
into it and then share it with someone. Because
that's what's really important. That's why it's
really hard to say, oh, I'm a teacher. I want
to be in teaching because it's not just reading
a verse and then walking. What the Bible says,
it's reading verse, study, read, read, read,
study, study, study, and just basically pull
it apart. What's the context? What's this? What's
this word mean? What was this being said for?
Why did this matter? What is this referring to?
Because Bible is referring to itself over and
over again, reference on reference on reference.
So these are things that you start doing to start
to see clearly. So that you can speak clearly.
Go for it. Yeah. Hey. I don't know. I think like
you said. I'm just thinking a lot of too. The
meditating on the word. People who want to teach.
Know that it will be hard. But don't be discouraged
by that. Because if God is calling you. Follow
that. And know that he's not going to lead you
to fail. Like, I think that's a lot of what was
pushed on me. A lot of, well, you're going to,
you know, if you fail, you know, it means you
don't, you know, you'll go to hell. I'm like,
well, why would, like, I'm 13. I'm 12. Why are
you telling me this? Like, why? And there's,
you know, to me, I was like, looking back, I'm
like, that's so messed up. Like, hey, it's going
to be hard. You can do it. These are the things
that you need to be aware of. You need to be
informed. All the things that we talked about
today. I wish I would have told early to look
into Greek. Learning the Greek meanings of words
so it makes more sense. You can break down words
and even just do a whole thing like unashamed.
you know a significance uh signifies what is
a lack of shame a state of being without cause
for shame which gives you know and that's the
way you know stuff like that i just wish there
had been more of that for me and for anybody
listening to this who feels like they need to
be a teacher or feel their call to it for you
know proactively go after it Right. Don't be
intimidated by that, because if God is truly
calling you that, He's going to make it clear,
and He will put people in your lives to guide
you through that. And if it's not to be, He will
make it clear very soon. And sometimes you're
called into a season of teaching, and you're
going to teach, and then, you know, it's like
this time for people, you know, I've heard people,
oh, I was a pastor for five years. I'm like,
only five years? What happened? Are, you know,
are there a pastor for 40, 30 years, you know,
until the day they die? You know, like right
now, I'm kind of in the hiatus where I'm like,
I'm on baby leave. I haven't really been, you
know, because we have multiple youth on staff
and we're looking at different churches now too.
It's like, I'm not really in a... leadership
role. But I still call myself a teacher because
I still, you know, that's still where I've always
been. I take this almost as we do the podcast
as a form of teaching because people are hearing
the word and we are teaching. So we're not only
just talking about this just to say it, but we
also have to live it and have this to show us
a guideline because we need to understand that
Even this in itself is a form of teaching you,
the listener. So, and I think this is super important.
I just want to encourage anybody who feels like
they want to teach. Don't let anybody tell you,
you can't let God guide you and where you need
to be. That's my big thing. Cause you know, feed
my feed, my sheep. Yep. So with that, I think
is a good place to, End this episode. It's been,
I think one of the longer ones, but it's good.
It's good to study. Dylan and I both covered
this topic pretty well. And yeah, I think this
is a good place to end. I think because of you
coming from that background of dealing with what
you have and what you just explained, I think
it's good to you pray us out. Yeah. Yeah, go
for it. 100%. Thank you. I love to pray. It's
my favorite thing to do, man. Oh, dear Heavenly
Father, I just, I thank you for the opportunity
that we have to teach your word. The opportunity
to share with others you know, what we have learned,
our perspective on, you know, on what your word
has been, you know, what your word is, and just
that we, that you lead us, Lord, and that we
don't just do what we want to do, Lord, but we
feel called to do this, Lord, and that we're
going to listen and obey you. And I pray this
for anybody who's listening to this that feels
As if though they are the teach, Lord, give them
that clarity, Lord, that they are the teach,
Lord. Do not hide it from them. Do not, you know,
don't let them feel discouraged by others, but
make it clear for them. And if they feel they
are called to teach and they're not supposed
to, shut that door fast and hard. Let them know.
Don't let it linger. Don't let it be a question
for them, but let them know. I just thank you,
Lord, for all that you do and will provide for
us and for our listeners. And whether you answer
it with a yes or a no, I just thank you. I pray
this in your name, amen. Amen. All righty. Well,
I'm your host, Jason, and my co -host, Dylan.
Yep. Well, I'll see you on the Puppety Flop.
See you on the next one. Bye -bye.