1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,520 All right, dude, you ready to do some rapid fire sermon illustrations? 2 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:13,760 I think so, but if I'm completely honest, like now I'm nervous. 3 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:16,600 It's like, it's my idea. 4 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:17,600 Yes it is. 5 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:27,920 And now I'm like, oh, I think I'm about as ready as I'm going to be. 6 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:29,000 Welcome. 7 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:43,000 This is the Men Church Stuff Podcast. 8 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:48,040 This is the show where brothers in law, DJ Culp and Brad Coleman talk about stuff from 9 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:50,560 our perspective as men. 10 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:54,560 It's a show for anyone who wants to hear how Christians interact with the world. 11 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:56,760 And don't worry, we're real. 12 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:00,760 We've grown up in church and we want to share our experiences with you. 13 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:06,800 We'll talk life stuff, church stuff, man stuff, and stuff stuff. 14 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:12,160 Here we go. 15 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:16,760 Greetings listeners here and there and everywhere, all across the land. 16 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:18,560 This is the Men Church Stuff Podcast. 17 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:25,680 I am one of your hosts, DJ Culp, as always here with my beloved brother in law, Brad Coleman. 18 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:27,520 Brad, what's up man? 19 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:33,080 I am calming my nerves to get ready for today's podcast. 20 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:35,360 Brad, you look really good today. 21 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:36,360 No pressure. 22 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:37,760 No, no thanks. 23 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:38,760 Very sharp. 24 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:43,200 I hear that once in a while. 25 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:44,200 Every now and then. 26 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:47,440 Yeah, not a lot. 27 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:49,280 So occasionally. 28 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:55,160 So listeners, if you are curious, webcams, when you buy them and you don't use the one 29 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:57,880 that are the ones that are integrated, they're really good. 30 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:01,040 They work really well. 31 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:02,040 Don't fall into it. 32 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:05,040 Don't fall into a lie of it's just another product that they want me to buy. 33 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:06,040 It's not worth it. 34 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:08,760 Yeah, it really is. 35 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:15,800 So today, listeners, we are actually going to do something that Brad has requested and 36 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:18,760 this is going to be a lot of fun. 37 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:26,640 Brad has, Brad had the idea to do rapid fire sermon illustrations. 38 00:02:26,640 --> 00:02:29,920 So just a bit of a background here. 39 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:36,480 And I think I've said this probably Brad on the show before, but my dad, Brad and me, 40 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:38,960 gosh, dude, for how long have we been doing this? 41 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,560 A couple of years? 42 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:43,680 The meme thing, the meme sharing. 43 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:44,680 Oh yeah. 44 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:46,680 I was like, you're going to be more specific. 45 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:50,360 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 46 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:55,680 We've had just a group, just with the three of us, text group for a while now. 47 00:02:55,680 --> 00:03:01,000 And what we'll do is anytime that we see something that we consider hysterical, we send it to 48 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:02,000 everybody else. 49 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:07,160 Sometimes, I don't know about you Brad, but like full disclosure, sometimes I send it 50 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:13,320 hoping that you guys find it funny because it's almost like a comedian testing a joke 51 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:15,960 out to an audience and be like, yeah, that one was crap. 52 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:16,960 That wasn't funny. 53 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:22,800 And just, and so I'll send some every now and then thinking, I wonder if this is in 54 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:27,000 fact as funny as I thought it was. 55 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:33,760 But yeah, so the last several years, dad, Brad and I have done meme sharing. 56 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:41,880 And Brad came up with the idea not too long ago about doing a podcast where unbeknownst 57 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:48,720 to him of the memes that I share, he's got to come up with a sermon illustration based 58 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:50,960 on that meme. 59 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:53,240 So I love this idea, Brad. 60 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:55,520 Like this is, I'm really excited about this. 61 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,360 I've got, you know me, I've got everything. 62 00:03:58,360 --> 00:03:59,600 I am, that's why I'm nervous. 63 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:02,680 I've got everything set up. 64 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:08,840 So listeners, just to let you know, I have, I picked out 25 memes and if you're thinking, 65 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:10,080 dang, DJ, that's a lot. 66 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:11,080 Don't worry. 67 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:16,400 I've got a random number generator to where it's going to generate eight list items with 68 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:17,760 no repeats. 69 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:25,040 And so Brad, I haven't gone through and I haven't, I haven't like, you know, I don't 70 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:27,120 know what to, yeah, I will say this. 71 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:30,240 We're going to start with a, we're going to start with a softball here in just a second. 72 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:36,320 But as a, just as kind of like a, as a, as a prelude to, to, to all of this, Brad, on 73 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:44,480 your end of things, how do you see, whether, whether it's for, for comical value or, or 74 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:51,160 like real life application, how do you, like, where do you see the values of sermon illustrations? 75 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:54,640 Like where do they fit as a pastor for you? 76 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:55,640 Okay. 77 00:04:55,640 --> 00:05:01,360 One of the reasons I love sermon illustrations is because oftentimes that illustration may 78 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:10,800 take something, an idea in the scripture, a teaching or something, and it will make 79 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:17,040 it more concrete, I think, for people, you know, help people understand. 80 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:21,000 Or maybe they've been looking at it here and then when you relate it to this other thing, 81 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,400 they go, oh, oh, that makes sense. 82 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:29,680 So for me, it's very important from an educational standpoint, from an ability for people to 83 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:34,720 understand, and one of the big things I think that's important about preaching and teaching 84 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:41,240 is, is that people understand, you know, that they're going to get, be able to understand 85 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:43,560 the message and that it's clear. 86 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:49,440 I think a lot of problems within the church and within Christianity come when we misunderstand 87 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:52,960 God's Word. 88 00:05:52,960 --> 00:06:00,120 So I think, and again, I love the parables where Jesus is using the parables and, hey, 89 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:01,120 it's like this. 90 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:04,800 It's like the sower who's sowing seeds. 91 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:11,000 Hey, it's like a man who bought a field and he, you know, this kind of stuff. 92 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:17,680 You know, so it's helping, you know, others to, one, to connect and understand. 93 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:21,320 And the other thing is I think it helps them to remember. 94 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:28,420 You know, if they can link it to the stories, because sometimes my hope is that, you know, 95 00:06:28,420 --> 00:06:35,320 as they're going down the road or as they're in Walmart or something, that God uses that 96 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:40,160 to like, they see something in Walmart and it just sparks that, and then they go to that 97 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:42,640 scripture, they go to that biblical truth. 98 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:45,820 So I think that's where their place is. 99 00:06:45,820 --> 00:06:55,600 Just to help, I want to say emphasize, but just kind of help people to better understand 100 00:06:55,600 --> 00:07:00,000 what this scripture is talking about or whatever. 101 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:07,360 Now full disclosure, there may be some times here in this episode here where I'm stretching 102 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:10,640 things a little bit more than I would on a Sunday morning. 103 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:12,480 Just to get a win in, right? 104 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:15,080 Yeah, just to try to do that. 105 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:16,280 So see, I can do it. 106 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:17,280 I can do it. 107 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:18,280 Yeah. 108 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:22,720 So if you don't, don't hold all of these, right. 109 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:27,640 You know, to, to that this we're, we're doing this more for fun. 110 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:32,020 I think sermon illustrations are, are very helpful. 111 00:07:32,020 --> 00:07:40,500 Do you consider, do you see sermon illustrations as our modern day parallel to a parable? 112 00:07:40,500 --> 00:07:43,280 On some level, I would say, yeah. 113 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:51,960 You have to realize that a lot of the parables Jesus is using are, are growing wheat and, 114 00:07:51,960 --> 00:08:01,040 and you know, the farmer, there, it was a very, what is the word, Aryan culture. 115 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:06,760 They raised livestock, they raised their food. 116 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:08,360 Most of us don't do that, right? 117 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:11,400 I don't have cows and goats. 118 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:15,800 I don't, you know, I've seen gardens, my granny raised a garden. 119 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:18,720 I don't raise wheat or corn or anything like that. 120 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:25,640 So I think used pictures of the day that the average person would understand. 121 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:30,800 So I think absolutely on, on some level, but, but those, the illustrations that I give aren't 122 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:31,800 scripture. 123 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:32,800 Right. 124 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:35,960 As Jesus's are. 125 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:41,640 Mine's really good at, at just the nth degree of the illustration. 126 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:46,880 You know, there are times when like the deeper you, you look and think about what you said 127 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:51,520 in parable, like the more meaning you can draw out of it. 128 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:57,800 Whereas mine's probably all short, you know, it's not going to go nearly as deep. 129 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:03,080 So when I say it's like this thing, it's to help you remember it and to think about it. 130 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:10,360 And Jesus says it's like this thing, it's probably a little deeper. 131 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:12,680 So you're saying Jesus wins is right. 132 00:09:12,680 --> 00:09:13,680 Yeah. 133 00:09:13,680 --> 00:09:20,480 I mean, God is definitely a lot better at giving illustrations and attention getters. 134 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:26,960 I love, you know, he uses the burning bush and there's so much there, but what's the 135 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:29,840 first thing was to get Moses's attention. 136 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:30,840 Right. 137 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:35,400 And it's so much more than that, but I'm like, wow, God really knows how to get somebody's 138 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:36,400 attention. 139 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:37,400 Sure. 140 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:38,400 Yeah. 141 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:39,400 All right. 142 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:41,000 So here's what we're going to listeners. 143 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:45,560 If you're listening to this, if you're listening to this on the podcast, then what I'm going 144 00:09:45,560 --> 00:09:49,740 to do is I'm going to describe what I'm seeing. 145 00:09:49,740 --> 00:09:53,960 But as promised, you know, Brad and I, we're going to, we're going to here soon start up 146 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:55,340 a YouTube channel. 147 00:09:55,340 --> 00:10:01,760 And so I'm actually going to pull these up on, on a screen share Brad, so that, so that, 148 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:04,400 so that you can see kind of the full, the full thing. 149 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:07,480 So again, like I, like I said, I'm going to start with a softball. 150 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:08,480 All right. 151 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:15,760 We're not going to do the random number generator yet, but here is our first one. 152 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:19,360 Let me get to screen share here. 153 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:24,760 All right. 154 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:25,760 So here we go. 155 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:28,120 Brad, do you see that? 156 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:29,120 Yeah. 157 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:30,520 Just speed up a bit. 158 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:31,520 Yep. 159 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:32,520 All right. 160 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:35,520 I mean, it is softball. 161 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:37,760 Philippians four 13 right there. 162 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:38,760 All right. 163 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:42,520 So what Brad is looking at, actually what Brad, why don't you do this? 164 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:45,720 Why don't you tell the listeners what you're seeing? 165 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:46,720 Okay. 166 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:48,060 Just a road sign. 167 00:10:48,060 --> 00:10:49,320 Just speed up a bit under that. 168 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:50,320 Another little sign. 169 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:51,320 You got this. 170 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:55,240 Under that Philippians four 13. 171 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:57,280 So I mean, that's almost cheating. 172 00:10:57,280 --> 00:10:58,280 Yeah. 173 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:00,240 But, but what else? 174 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:02,640 If I use Philippians four 13, yeah. 175 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:04,960 There's a, there's a major hole there. 176 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:08,280 Actually, I didn't even see that until you just said that. 177 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:12,600 There's a major hole in the road up ahead. 178 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:15,400 I guess you got to gun it. 179 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:18,520 There's a pothole that's so large, you can't drive across it. 180 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:23,800 I think the road is gone. 181 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:30,520 I think I would go, I'd probably go with this and kind of turn the curve of, you know, 182 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:33,640 test the spirits to make sure it's from the Lord. 183 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:38,040 Be like the Bereans and go and check the scripture with all speed. 184 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:42,400 Make sure that that is what God's saying. 185 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:48,920 Because when, when the sign is saying to gun it and the road is not there, you know, sometimes 186 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:53,160 Satan uses scripture and misuses scripture. 187 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:54,160 Yeah. 188 00:11:54,160 --> 00:11:55,440 That's just gun it. 189 00:11:55,440 --> 00:12:01,080 Just like Philippians four 13 says, because, you know, I can do all things through Christ. 190 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:07,960 I was going to say bonus points for, you know, they know that and, and, and DJ probably knows 191 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:08,960 his bro. 192 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:11,560 We've probably talked about this on the, on the show. 193 00:12:11,560 --> 00:12:14,480 That's one of my kind of like, yeah, okay. 194 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:20,400 You can't just throw Philippians four 13 on whatever. 195 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:24,160 Like I'm going to be able to bench press a thousand pounds because I can do all things 196 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:27,560 through Christ who strengthens me. 197 00:12:27,560 --> 00:12:29,520 That's not really the context of that verse. 198 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:34,760 I'm going to try to stay in context, but I will, I will in fairness, let you know if 199 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:36,920 I feel like I'm going out of context. 200 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:38,160 Just to try to. 201 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:41,160 That's awesome. 202 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:42,160 All right. 203 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:43,160 Let me come back. 204 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:44,160 Stop share. 205 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:46,440 All right, Brad, that was your softball. 206 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:47,800 Yeah, it is. 207 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:49,280 It is go time. 208 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:50,640 All right. 209 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:54,920 Our first one is number 19. 210 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:55,920 This is a good one. 211 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:58,040 All right, here we go. 212 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:02,040 Uh, I've got a, I gotta get back here. 213 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:04,200 We're going to screen share. 214 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:05,200 There we go. 215 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:06,200 All right. 216 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:07,200 Can you see it? 217 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:11,480 Yeah, now I can. 218 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:12,480 Okay. 219 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:13,480 All right. 220 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:22,640 Um, in a span of 17 years, 114 people died in weightlifting accidents while at the gym. 221 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:26,760 It's the same 17 year timeframe. 222 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:30,240 Only one man died while eating a donut. 223 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:32,120 Life is about the choices you make. 224 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:35,120 Educate yourself. 225 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:44,560 I think Paul said bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness profits to all things. 226 00:13:44,560 --> 00:13:52,760 Now, I will say this, that he doesn't say that bodily exercise is not profitable. 227 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:53,760 Right. 228 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:54,760 That's right. 229 00:13:54,760 --> 00:14:03,680 You've probably pulled something out of Proverbs about the fool and, you know, wisdom and, 230 00:14:03,680 --> 00:14:09,080 you know, um, yeah. 231 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:11,120 And don't weightlift by yourself. 232 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:13,120 Don't weightlift by yourself. 233 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:15,120 Have a spotter. 234 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:21,440 And, uh, you know, hey, and, you know, somebody did choke to death on the donut. 235 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:24,800 So or at least died while eating a donut. 236 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:27,240 I mean, can you add a hard, I mean, was he driving down the road? 237 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:28,240 It doesn't even tell us that. 238 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:29,240 I don't know. 239 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:30,240 It may not have been the donut. 240 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:33,320 Like, he was eating a donut and he got sideswiped by a train. 241 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:37,160 I mean, it's not really the donut's fault. 242 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:42,760 Well we could, if you want to get supremely controversial here, Brad, I had cancer. 243 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:48,000 I was in, I was in stage four and had been there for seven months, but I got COVID on 244 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:49,320 the last day of my life. 245 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:51,240 It was cancer that killed me. 246 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:52,240 It was the donut. 247 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:53,240 It was the donut. 248 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:54,240 Yeah, it wasn't the train. 249 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:55,240 Probably blaming the donut. 250 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:56,240 Everybody always blames the donut. 251 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:57,240 Everybody always blames the donut. 252 00:14:57,240 --> 00:14:58,240 Oh, I'm sorry. 253 00:14:58,240 --> 00:14:59,240 I'm sorry. 254 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:04,240 I'm sorry, Brad. 255 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:08,880 Brad, number nine. 256 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:13,720 Here we go. 257 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:18,320 If you can't think of a word, say, I forget the English word for it. 258 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:25,480 That way people will think you're bilingual instead of an idiot. 259 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:31,760 So there's a proverb that says, even a fool, if he keeps his mouth shut, some people will 260 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:33,320 esteem him as wise. 261 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:35,880 It's a biblical proverb. 262 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:41,240 So I probably like, maybe in a stretch, go there. 263 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:44,240 I forget the English word for it. 264 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:48,440 I can't remember the English word. 265 00:15:48,440 --> 00:16:02,320 I mean, the Bible was written in Greek and Hebrew, what's that English word for it? 266 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:13,200 I could also maybe use this as an illustration of going with, thou shalt not deceive thy 267 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:14,200 neighbor. 268 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:18,160 What's that three-letter English word? 269 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:21,160 I forget the English word for it. 270 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:22,160 Lie. 271 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:25,160 Oh yeah. 272 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:36,480 Again, someone who, I'm personally who loves those technicalities. 273 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:38,800 So did you forget the English word for it? 274 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:39,800 Did you really? 275 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:42,840 Maybe phrase it more like, what's the English word for that again? 276 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:44,520 See, there's plausible. 277 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:45,520 That's more plausible. 278 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:48,440 I didn't actually say I forgot it. 279 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:52,200 I want to encourage you to lie. 280 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:53,200 That's right. 281 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:55,200 All right, number 16. 282 00:16:55,200 --> 00:17:02,080 Well, I see right now is DJ. 283 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:05,360 Yep, here we go. 284 00:17:05,360 --> 00:17:08,520 People in the Bible struggled with the same challenges we face today. 285 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:14,880 And it's a picture of, I guess, Samson fighting a lion. 286 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:21,320 Here we see Samson trying to give his cat a pill. 287 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:25,480 And I would use this as an illustration for making sure that we're reading the Bible in 288 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:29,280 context. 289 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:30,280 Context is important. 290 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:37,240 We can make the Bible say whatever we want. 291 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:42,200 So we got to be careful of that. 292 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:46,440 And I'm always leery of saying this, because I'm like, it's going to go out on sound bite 293 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:51,800 and it's going to bite me one day, but the truth will set you free. 294 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:56,760 The Bible says there is no God out of context. 295 00:17:56,760 --> 00:18:03,440 Now in context, it says the fool says in his heart, there is no God. 296 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:05,960 But so yeah, I can take that out of context. 297 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:10,640 So yeah, I don't think it worked so well for that lion. 298 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:15,480 No, it did not. 299 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:17,040 I've put that one on my door before. 300 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:18,200 I love that one. 301 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:21,200 It's so good. 302 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:25,320 All right. 303 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:26,320 What was that 16? 304 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:27,320 All right. 305 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:28,320 Number 10. 306 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:29,320 Where are we? 307 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:31,320 There we are. 308 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:33,240 Oh, yes. 309 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:36,440 This one, this one was on my door last semester. 310 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:38,560 DJ loves all of these, by the way. 311 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:43,800 I love these things. 312 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:48,840 If you can't look back at your younger self and realize that you were an idiot, you are 313 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:51,440 probably still an idiot. 314 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:55,800 We can go a lot of places with that. 315 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:56,800 Come on, Brad. 316 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:58,760 So many illustrations, Todd, baby. 317 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:02,720 The easy one would be like proverbs, you know, because there's like the fool and his folly 318 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:03,720 and stuff. 319 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:04,720 Yeah, right. 320 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:06,440 I'd probably go with Paul. 321 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:13,680 You know, Paul is kind of looking back and he's going, you know, God gave me grace even 322 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:18,640 though I was persecuting the church and all this, but I did it in the ignorance of unbelief. 323 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:22,840 He didn't believe Jesus was the Messiah. 324 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:29,720 So in a sense, I think he's saying like that old Paul was stupid. 325 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:32,400 Everybody thought he was great. 326 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:36,160 You know, like he had all these because, again, you go into this. 327 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:45,240 Also, like in the tribe of Benjamin, a Pharisee was basically saying like from the outside, 328 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:49,800 I look like an awesome example of what a Jewish man should be. 329 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:52,400 It's just like a super Jew almost. 330 00:19:52,400 --> 00:20:01,600 But he said, but I count all that as scubula or rubbish or refuse or poop, you know, compared 331 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:02,600 to knowing Christ. 332 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:07,560 So I think, you know, Paul would be a really good example of, you know, I used to be that 333 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:09,560 idiot, but now I'm not. 334 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:15,680 And again, there's plenty of scripture that says stuff like if a man thinks he's staying, 335 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:17,560 you know, he needs to be careful lest he fall. 336 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:18,560 Yeah. 337 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:23,280 I think one of the most dangerous things that we can do as Christians is believe, oh, that 338 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:26,440 won't happen to me or I won't fall into that. 339 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:33,720 And God tells us even when we are correcting a brother or sister, even when we're correcting 340 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:41,240 someone that we should pray that we don't fall into that temptation or similar temptation. 341 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:45,720 Would you consider it then a stretch for, because like when you were... 342 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:50,680 Don't worry, Brad, this is a rubber band. 343 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:51,680 This isn't a joke. 344 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:52,920 Very stretchy. 345 00:20:52,920 --> 00:21:01,320 Would you consider it a stretch then, my first thought when you were talking about like when 346 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:06,800 Paul was mentioning, you know, looking back on that, you know, I looked like the Jews 347 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:13,400 Jew, but would you consider it a stretch for you can't look back at your younger self and 348 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:17,360 realize that you were an idiot, you're probably still an idiot, when like in applying that 349 00:21:17,360 --> 00:21:24,240 to when Jesus said, I did not come for the people who are healthy or who are well, but 350 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:30,100 who are sick, meaning the way that I thought, the way I can visualize that in my head is 351 00:21:30,100 --> 00:21:31,200 one of two ways. 352 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:38,640 So either A, they already have a relationship with me or B, they consider themselves well 353 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:45,680 and want to have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with me, with my love, with my grace, 354 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:46,680 with my mercy. 355 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:50,320 So like the rich young ruler being prime example for that one. 356 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:52,040 And I think about the Pharisees, right? 357 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:57,800 Because Jesus talks about, you know, he'll give an illustration or like, you know, and 358 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:01,200 then he'll say like those who are, you know, they're blind and all this, and the Pharisees 359 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:03,080 are going, are we blind? 360 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:06,080 Are you accusing us basically like, are you accusing us of being blind? 361 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:07,080 Yeah. 362 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:10,200 I mean, because they're smart, right? 363 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:13,120 They're smart in the sense of like they get it. 364 00:22:13,120 --> 00:22:14,120 Yeah. 365 00:22:14,120 --> 00:22:18,320 They get it when Jesus is, you know, I think they get when Jesus is telling the story of 366 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:24,040 the loving father, or we know it as the prodigal son, you know, and you have the other brother. 367 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:30,280 I think they get that they are the other brother and they get that he's missing the point. 368 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:33,840 I just want to, I want to interrupt you and say thank you for saying that the Pharisees 369 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:38,340 were smart because I like, they are, they were really brilliant. 370 00:22:38,340 --> 00:22:44,720 I mean, to be able to be able to hold the positions that they held and I mean, get through, 371 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:52,320 get through the training, get through the training that they held, get through the, 372 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:55,040 and you know, get to get and hold the positions that they held. 373 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:58,520 Like you can't just be, you can't just be a haphazard nobody. 374 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:02,040 I mean, like, but you can be brilliant and still be an idiot. 375 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:03,240 You are exactly right. 376 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:04,240 Yes. 377 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:08,280 Which reminds me, you know, my dad would say kind of the opposite of that was I might be 378 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:10,520 dumb but I ain't stupid. 379 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:12,560 That's right. 380 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:13,560 Yeah. 381 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:14,560 All right. 382 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:16,640 So that one was, let's see, that one was number 10. 383 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:20,640 All right, Brad, number seven. 384 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:26,680 This is, this is a, this is a pretty, a pretty common meme that, you know, that's been around 385 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:27,680 for a while. 386 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:30,200 Oh, do I need to blow it up? 387 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:32,720 I was like, it's a little small for me there. 388 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:34,920 There we go. 389 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:41,040 So first window is a plane that says my email that is well written, reviewed and ready to 390 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:42,040 be sent. 391 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:46,200 The second one is the plane taking off and it says email sent. 392 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:51,400 And the bottom frame says all of the people that are supposed to be on the plane standing 393 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:55,400 on the ladder without the plane, my attached files. 394 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:59,960 I feel attacked by that. 395 00:23:59,960 --> 00:24:01,240 Do you resemble that remark, Brad? 396 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:06,680 I tell you what, I love when Gmail started, like when, like, like kind of little, like 397 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:12,360 if you say something is attached in the email, it'll pop up a little message if you haven't 398 00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:15,960 attached it's like, did you mean to attach a file? 399 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:16,960 Oh, wow. 400 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:17,960 Yeah. 401 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:20,040 That, that, that feature went away a long time ago. 402 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:21,640 That was really good. 403 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:22,640 Yes, it was. 404 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:23,640 This should bring that back. 405 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:28,680 Cause I was like, I don't know how many times I went, hey, I'm sending you this or hey, 406 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:33,360 attach this and then it would be like, boom, oh, you, you didn't, did you mean to attach 407 00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:34,600 a file first? 408 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:37,240 Yes, I did. 409 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:44,120 I think I would go with this and look at kind of first Corinthians chapter 13, the love 410 00:24:44,120 --> 00:24:49,120 chapter where you can do all of the right things. 411 00:24:49,120 --> 00:24:52,000 But if you do it without love, it doesn't profit anything. 412 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:53,840 You leave the passengers behind. 413 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:57,520 That pilot went through all of the checks. 414 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:03,920 I mean, the plane is obviously flying and it's fantastic, but it's, it's, it's going 415 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:08,680 to its destination, but it's useless because they're going to have to refund all of the 416 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:10,880 people who are supposed to be on that plane. 417 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:14,760 It's actually losing money instead of making money. 418 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:15,760 So right. 419 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:16,760 Yeah. 420 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:18,560 Ooh, that was a good one. 421 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:20,120 That was a good one. 422 00:25:20,120 --> 00:25:21,720 Yeah, it is a good meme. 423 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:22,720 All right. 424 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:23,720 Number 14. 425 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:24,720 Let's see. 426 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:28,760 I don't know if I, I don't know. 427 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:32,840 I don't remember if I ever sent this one to you guys. 428 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:39,000 You'll enjoy this breath. 429 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:44,000 Why is everyone at the gym asking me why I'm sitting still on a stationary bike? 430 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:45,960 I'm going downhill, dude. 431 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,960 Mind your business. 432 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:52,960 Yeah. 433 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:54,960 It's called a stationary bike. 434 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:55,960 Exactly. 435 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:56,960 Right. 436 00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:01,760 What do you mean sitting still on a stationary bike? 437 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,520 You must be the moron to not know what this means. 438 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,640 I'm sitting here with my sticky notes. 439 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:08,640 All right. 440 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:09,640 And my pen. 441 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:13,680 Filling out my stationary. 442 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,440 Writing some cards to people on the stationary bike. 443 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,960 It's kind of weird that it's in bike form. 444 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:19,960 All right. 445 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:24,600 Why is everyone at the gym asking me why I'm sitting still on a stationary bike? 446 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:25,600 Going downhill, dude. 447 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:26,600 Mind your own business. 448 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:34,720 I didn't say he's going to be easy, Brad. 449 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:37,760 So there's the scripture. 450 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:38,760 There's the scripture. 451 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,880 Well, one, let me give you the easy one. 452 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:45,480 The easy one will be John 21, 22. 453 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:46,480 Okay. 454 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:50,800 And Jesus looks at Peter and says, what is that to you? 455 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:51,800 What is that? 456 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:52,800 Oh, yes. 457 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:53,800 Yes. 458 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:55,800 The conversation with him and John and who is it? 459 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:56,800 Right, right. 460 00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:57,800 Because Peter and John. 461 00:26:57,800 --> 00:26:58,800 That's right. 462 00:26:58,800 --> 00:26:59,800 Yeah. 463 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:00,800 Yeah. 464 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:04,560 Peter is just, Jesus has just told Peter kind of what's going to happen to him. 465 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:05,560 That's right. 466 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:07,600 And so he looks at John and goes, well, what about him? 467 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:11,280 And Jesus's response is, what is that to you? 468 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:12,280 You follow me. 469 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:13,280 Why do you care? 470 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:14,280 It's not your business. 471 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:18,200 So kind of the easy one to go there. 472 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:27,680 The other one would be, so there's a scripture where it talks about all of these negative 473 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:34,720 things like murder and slander and stuff. 474 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:36,440 And I may be mixing this a little bit. 475 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:38,840 But then it's like, or a troublesome meddler. 476 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,920 Don't let any of you who are Christians be guilty of these things. 477 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:48,400 Murder, sexual immorality, and then like, or troublesome meddler. 478 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:52,400 And it's like, okay, I didn't really expect that one to be in there. 479 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,720 In that list, yeah, that's right. 480 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:56,560 Right there in that list. 481 00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:58,960 But God, again, considers that. 482 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,800 They're getting out of their lane. 483 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:08,160 One of my favorite Proverbs in the Old Testament is, it's like a man who grabs a dog by the 484 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:09,700 ears. 485 00:28:09,700 --> 00:28:16,240 So is a man who, sorry, my phone started ringing. 486 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:21,080 It's a spam call and it just, it was a buzzing one. 487 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:22,080 I had one earlier. 488 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,160 It messed my brain out of focus. 489 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,040 Like a man who takes a dog by the ears. 490 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:32,320 So is a man who meddles in strife that doesn't belong to him. 491 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:34,640 So there's my stretch. 492 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,840 Like, hey guys, look, I'm not hurting you. 493 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:39,360 It's not really your business. 494 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:42,440 That's right, yeah. 495 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:43,440 What's that to you? 496 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:46,440 What's it to you? 497 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:53,880 I think of this meme too, where there's this guy who's talking to his pastor and he goes, 498 00:28:53,880 --> 00:29:00,440 sometimes when I'm in the shower, I like to lay down in the tub and pretend I'm a sloth 499 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:04,720 that is holding onto a branch in a rainstorm. 500 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:20,600 And the pastor goes, again, that's weird, but not a sin. 501 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:24,720 And I love it so much though, because the implication is he's been listing off these 502 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:26,960 things like, is that a sin? 503 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,160 No, it's weird. 504 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:34,640 But it's not a sin. 505 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:38,560 Can we please end our session right now? 506 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:44,400 All right, Brad, number 17. 507 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:48,280 I think I did share this with you a while back. 508 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:55,240 All right, so it's a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton in a museum. 509 00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:59,000 Visitor, how old is that Tyrannosaurus skeleton? 510 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:00,000 Guide. 511 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,520 70 million and six years. 512 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:08,240 Visitor, wow, how can you be so precise? 513 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:17,160 Guide, they told me it was 70 million years old when I started working here. 514 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:30,760 I'll probably use this as an illustration of, again, perception versus reality, and 515 00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:36,160 making the point, again, of what does the Bible actually say, not what do you think 516 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:39,920 it says or what did you interpret that when you were told that? 517 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,880 And again, that's why context is important. 518 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:47,680 I find there's a lot of times when there was a preacher or Sunday school teacher or 519 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:52,560 something that said something, and maybe even what they said wasn't wrong, but the way 520 00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:56,520 the person interpreted it, and they've carried it all these years. 521 00:30:56,520 --> 00:31:01,360 I see a lot of that with hurt with people, right, they're carrying this because they're 522 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:09,680 struggling with something that God never said that they needed to struggle with. 523 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:18,320 But they, no, no, no, Pastor Billy said this. 524 00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:22,120 My first question is, what did Pastor Billy actually say? 525 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:23,400 What were his words? 526 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:28,240 Because maybe it's just your interpretation. 527 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:33,560 And usually I can figure out the scripture from there and I go, okay, let's go look 528 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:35,280 and let's read this. 529 00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:38,960 Let's read the context around it and let's go, okay. 530 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:47,400 Now after we've done that, does that sound like they were saying it was exactly 70 million 531 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:48,400 years old? 532 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,800 Now it's 70 million and six. 533 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:53,600 Six years old. 534 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:57,600 Crazy how, like when I got here it was exactly 70 million years old. 535 00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:59,640 What are the odds of that? 536 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:01,200 I know, right? 537 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:10,040 Again, the thing too is if it sounds wrong to you, at least look into it. 538 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:11,040 At least look into it. 539 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:17,600 Well, and I mean that right there, I think that was the center of the argument that Paul 540 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,040 made to, was it the Corinthians? 541 00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:26,400 Like you say Paul said this and Apollo said this, but like one planted the seed, the other 542 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:30,640 watered, but it was Christ who, I'm trying to remember exactly. 543 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:31,640 Gives the increase. 544 00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:32,640 Gives the increase, right. 545 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,040 God makes it grow. 546 00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:37,600 The message isn't about us, the message is about Christ. 547 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:47,520 So like, yeah, the dinosaurs, 70 million years old, I mean, give or take, that doesn't matter. 548 00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:49,800 You know, who cares about that? 549 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:56,360 All right, Brad, last one for this app. 550 00:32:56,360 --> 00:33:01,400 I think this is fun, Brad, so we're going to have to bring this one back. 551 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:11,920 Number 25, I wish you the best of luck. 552 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:19,480 So this is words, problems that were overblown, quicksand, people offering me drugs, getting 553 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:26,640 lost in the Bermuda triangle, problems I was not sufficiently warned about, arguing with 554 00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:33,920 robots about unexpected items in baggage areas, remembering all my passwords, existential 555 00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:37,760 dread. 556 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:53,520 I'm going to blow into Revelation, just the book of Revelation, because I think there's 557 00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:59,600 a lot of times when people are afraid, and as a Christian, Revelation is not meant for 558 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:02,000 us to be afraid. 559 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:08,640 So like the Antichrist and the beast and the Mark of the beast and all of these things 560 00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:16,280 that I think tend to get overblown when it's about Jesus, right? 561 00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:24,160 And so, and there, let me, again, maybe argue within the church that the things like gossip 562 00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:33,720 and meddling and slander, which are more important, that God puts in these lists of things that 563 00:34:33,720 --> 00:34:37,240 you shouldn't be doing this. 564 00:34:37,240 --> 00:34:45,400 I mean, don't be deceiving your neighbor, don't be lying to your neighbor is on the 565 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:46,400 Ten Commandments. 566 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:52,880 I shall not lie, but it's like, well, but some lying is okay, right? 567 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:53,880 No? 568 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:54,880 It's not? 569 00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:58,000 So I think like that. 570 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:02,800 I mean, like the emphasis is sometimes is overblown, not that Revelation, but the way that people 571 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:10,520 just look at that and kind of make some of these things bigger, because Revelation is 572 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:14,640 not about the Antichrist, it's about Jesus. 573 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:19,360 And don't take my word for it, go back and read Revelation chapter one, verse one. 574 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:23,120 And that, I'll tell you right there, it sets up, this is what the book's about. 575 00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:28,200 It tells us right in the beginning, this is why it's the Revelation of Jesus Christ. 576 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:43,400 Well, and also, so to just kind of like, to put, if you will, the sociological, the interpersonal 577 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:50,160 into this argument, does it really, I mean, honestly, does it matter if we have hymnals 578 00:35:50,160 --> 00:36:00,520 or carpet or tile or pews or seats or the walls are gray or white? 579 00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:07,160 You know, I mean, like, and this is, you know, the dissensions, be careful about people that 580 00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:10,960 are gonna, that cause dissensions, right? 581 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:16,320 Because to me, those problems are definitely overblown, for sure. 582 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:24,240 Or, and I'm gonna, this might cause controversy to all the tens and tens of listeners that 583 00:36:24,240 --> 00:36:25,720 tune into our show. 584 00:36:25,720 --> 00:36:28,720 That's for this episode. 585 00:36:28,720 --> 00:36:36,120 Yeah, but like, predestination, and like, go back and listen to our Women in Church 586 00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:37,840 Leadership show, you know? 587 00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:43,640 Like, I think those problems, or those, not problems, I think those conversations are 588 00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:50,920 really good to have, but they have to be had in a very healthy and very safe way that don't 589 00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:55,720 distract from the message of Jesus. 590 00:36:55,720 --> 00:37:02,600 And I think that, I think the message of Jesus and His salvation through faith because of 591 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:09,680 His perfection, death and resurrection from the cross and death, like, I mean, that's 592 00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,920 the message of Christ. 593 00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:18,000 The rest of it, I mean, really? 594 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:23,040 I think about Peter, right, who says, now listen, there's some people who skew some 595 00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:27,280 of the things that, and I'll give you this, some of the things that Paul says are hard 596 00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:28,280 to understand. 597 00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:29,280 Yeah, right. 598 00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:33,880 But you can't skew what he's saying. 599 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:39,760 Or any other gospel, because it's not for man's interpretation, it is what God said. 600 00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:47,360 Yeah, so again, when you look at the Bible, we need to do so contextually. 601 00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:53,960 We need to do so by focusing on God's truth, not our opinion. 602 00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:58,720 So we need to do so, and Tabby sometimes rolls her eyes at me with this, because I love these 603 00:37:58,720 --> 00:38:02,120 two words, these two Greek words, exegesis and isogesis. 604 00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,460 You know, we need to look so exegetically. 605 00:38:04,460 --> 00:38:10,600 We need to look at what is pulling out what the Bible has in it, not isogegetically, which 606 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:17,960 is putting it in and going in and trying to make it say what we want it to say, which 607 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:25,080 was afraid, when I was slightly afraid I was going to be guilty of some of these memes. 608 00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:37,440 Because you don't want to necessarily start with a meme and work your sermon from that. 609 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,080 God's Word and go that way. 610 00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:45,560 Yeah, I think that Satan wants to divide us. 611 00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:49,840 And if he can get us to be at war with one another. 612 00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:56,120 Now, we're not going to agree 100% because you know what, the Bible says if anybody thinks 613 00:38:56,120 --> 00:39:00,280 he knows anything, he does not yet know as he ought to know. 614 00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:01,280 What does that say to me? 615 00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:06,340 Well, it says to me that there's things that I believe that are probably wrong. 616 00:39:06,340 --> 00:39:10,200 So I need to make sure I get the majors right. 617 00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:13,240 Those things that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. 618 00:39:13,240 --> 00:39:15,600 There's no way to have it except through Jesus. 619 00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:20,200 There's no mediator between God and man except for Jesus Christ, the righteous. 620 00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:24,200 No one can separate me from the love of God. 621 00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:27,700 That is in Jesus Christ our Lord, which is the end of that. 622 00:39:27,700 --> 00:39:35,720 So we need to be looking at what are those major things that God has made so evident 623 00:39:35,720 --> 00:39:41,680 that there's really not room for even discussion about it. 624 00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:47,880 And I want to throw this in because oftentimes, Brad, in these conversations that I've had, 625 00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:53,200 I don't know, say in the last five years, the fact that Jesus was born of a virgin is 626 00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:55,440 usually not one that's brought up. 627 00:39:55,440 --> 00:40:04,960 Like in these kind of conversations, but like, yeah, another major part of the Jesus story 628 00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:10,880 is that the Holy Spirit is the one that if you want to use the word impregnated, I mean, 629 00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:17,400 like however you want to describe it, like gave life to Christ in Mary's womb. 630 00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,120 I mean, that's a major part of it. 631 00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:20,720 It's very interesting. 632 00:40:20,720 --> 00:40:24,660 Some people trying to just prove that the Bible says that she was a virgin will look 633 00:40:24,660 --> 00:40:27,160 at the word and go, oh, well, that word means maiden. 634 00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:30,600 But two, it doesn't necessarily always mean virgin. 635 00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:34,680 And I'm not saying they're wrong, but here's the important thing. 636 00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:39,640 Yeah, but the rest of the context of all of that. 637 00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:42,080 Does what? 638 00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:46,680 It tells us that in that context, that that word means virgin or virgin maiden. 639 00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:47,680 Yes. 640 00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:51,280 I mean, the rest of the context of the story. 641 00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:53,480 So yeah, sure. 642 00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:57,280 You can look at that and go, oh, well, it doesn't always mean virgin. 643 00:40:57,280 --> 00:40:59,040 Sometimes it just means young maiden. 644 00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:00,040 Yeah. 645 00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:03,240 Well, again, go back and read the rest of the story. 646 00:41:03,240 --> 00:41:08,120 That's not the only part that says that she knew not a man. 647 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:09,120 Yeah. 648 00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:10,120 That's right. 649 00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:11,120 In a biblical way. 650 00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:13,360 She didn't know any guys at all. 651 00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:14,360 That's right. 652 00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:15,360 Yeah. 653 00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:17,720 She had no males in her. 654 00:41:17,720 --> 00:41:20,280 Well, listeners, there it is. 655 00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:27,040 There is episode one of what will end up being a very, it'll be a recurring episode that 656 00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:31,080 Brad and I will throw in every now and then. 657 00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:34,800 I'm trying to figure out if we should call it rapid fire sermon illustrations or just 658 00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:36,800 sermon illustrations with Brad. 659 00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,400 But Brad, well done. 660 00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:40,520 Thank you. 661 00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:44,480 And because of the mean group, I'm always on the lookout for more things that I can 662 00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:47,040 throw your direction. 663 00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:51,320 So listeners, you know what to do if you're regulars of the show, rate and review us. 664 00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:52,320 Please review us. 665 00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:58,040 We'd love not just to be able to read your reviews, but also we want the public to be 666 00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:01,720 able to see what your thoughts and opinions are on the show. 667 00:42:01,720 --> 00:42:03,060 You can review on Spotify. 668 00:42:03,060 --> 00:42:05,440 You can review on iTunes. 669 00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:07,760 And you're feeding the algorithm. 670 00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:12,480 I mean, a lot of people have heard that, you know, there's the algorithms that these things 671 00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:13,480 have. 672 00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:17,920 So the more that you like, that you share, that you comment on these things, the more 673 00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:19,800 that it's going to pop up for other people. 674 00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:20,800 Yeah. 675 00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:25,520 Because the algorithm is going to go, oh, this is something people want to look at. 676 00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,040 So it's going to come to their face. 677 00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:31,260 And therefore the algorithm will want to share it with other people. 678 00:42:31,260 --> 00:42:34,120 So it's exactly right, Brad. 679 00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:40,000 But if you're new to the show, subscribe to the show and always be on the lookout for 680 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:45,360 when our next episode drops. 681 00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:54,560 And Brad, we didn't do this, but we will now that we would like to give a shout out to 682 00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:59,720 our partners, the Green Frog Coffee Company here in the West Tennessee areas, primarily 683 00:42:59,720 --> 00:43:00,720 Jackson. 684 00:43:00,720 --> 00:43:03,460 But think about a couple other locations. 685 00:43:03,460 --> 00:43:09,120 Beautiful people, excellent drinks, really, really good drinks, good food, great company. 686 00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:11,360 They're built on Christian values. 687 00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:16,480 Anytime that I've ever walked into a Green Frog, they're always playing Christian music. 688 00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:20,440 It's almost like a coffee house version of Chick-fil-A, right? 689 00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:23,520 Maybe without like the magic. 690 00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:27,760 Because Chick-fil-A and Disney feel like they have a lot in common when it comes to magic. 691 00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:31,200 I mean, when you invent a chicken sandwich. 692 00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:32,200 Yeah, right. 693 00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:34,240 There you go, Chick-fil-A. There's a free promo. 694 00:43:34,240 --> 00:43:37,160 If you're listening to this, we can strike a deal. 695 00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:41,540 But anyways, yeah, check out Green Frog Coffee Company. 696 00:43:41,540 --> 00:43:44,880 You can find their website in the show notes. 697 00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:47,720 But beyond that, Brad, this was fun, man. 698 00:43:47,720 --> 00:43:49,720 I love you, buddy. 699 00:43:49,720 --> 00:43:50,720 Love you too. 700 00:43:50,720 --> 00:43:51,720 Love you guys. 701 00:43:51,720 --> 00:43:55,720 Listener, we love you and we will catch you next time. 702 00:43:55,720 --> 00:44:02,200 Bye-bye.