WEBVTT 00:00:06.479 --> 00:00:10.660 Yo, what is up you guys welcome to brand new 00:00:10.660 --> 00:00:13.619 the Brandon podcast I'm Brandon Bennett, and 00:00:13.619 --> 00:00:16.140 I'm Brandon Jones and welcome to the podcast 00:00:16.140 --> 00:00:18.800 We've got some exciting stuff going on here in 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:21.719 the podcast studio It feels more like a studio 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:24.760 now, don't you think it does we got some munitions 00:00:24.760 --> 00:00:27.260 that come in actually that's not the right word 00:00:27.260 --> 00:00:30.960 Well, it feels it it feels like we're armed. 00:00:31.059 --> 00:00:33.740 It does feel like we're all got some new weaponry 00:00:33.740 --> 00:00:35.960 and we mean that metaphorically Of course, where's 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:40.000 the weaponry from? Chana that's exactly right. 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:42.219 We just got hit pretty hard with the tariffs 00:00:42.219 --> 00:00:44.079 now We got a new what do you call this Brandon 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:46.140 Brandon's a tech guy? Okay, he's from a different 00:00:46.140 --> 00:00:48.969 generation Because it's called an audio mixer 00:00:48.969 --> 00:00:51.670 apparently audio mixer. We've got an audio mixer 00:00:51.670 --> 00:00:55.030 now so we can We can we have soundboards. We 00:00:55.030 --> 00:00:57.909 have really fun noises. We can make at all times 00:00:57.909 --> 00:01:01.689 and I don't know we've we've upgraded a lot of 00:01:01.689 --> 00:01:05.530 stuff. We have got some new new mics. That's 00:01:05.530 --> 00:01:08.290 I think specifically made to actually do this. 00:01:08.750 --> 00:01:11.370 What's the point? Why did we get the new mixer? 00:01:11.829 --> 00:01:14.069 What was what was the whole reason we got it 00:01:14.069 --> 00:01:16.489 so we could talk to the fruit expert? The fruit 00:01:16.489 --> 00:01:18.769 expert. The pomologist for being extremely. The 00:01:18.769 --> 00:01:22.930 pomologist. And after y 'all have been asking 00:01:22.930 --> 00:01:25.129 for this pomologist to be on for a long time. 00:01:25.349 --> 00:01:26.689 Months on end. Months on end. People are just 00:01:26.689 --> 00:01:28.790 like, I can't go anywhere in public. People are 00:01:28.790 --> 00:01:31.349 just like, hey, who is this guy? You know, they're 00:01:31.349 --> 00:01:34.090 assuming it's a male. That's kind of misogynist. 00:01:34.370 --> 00:01:36.969 Yeah, but think of me. Fruit expert. Honestly, 00:01:37.030 --> 00:01:39.129 I would think of a female, but I don't know. 00:01:39.250 --> 00:01:40.769 I just, I just feel like a fruit expert would 00:01:40.769 --> 00:01:43.430 be a female, but anyways, he's not, it's not 00:01:43.430 --> 00:01:46.829 a female. Okay. Uh, so who is our, who is our 00:01:46.829 --> 00:01:48.989 special guest that we have on the podcast? We 00:01:48.989 --> 00:01:53.709 have today, we've got for you drum roll. The 00:01:53.709 --> 00:02:00.450 bishop of St. Lucia, the esteemed, the venerable 00:02:00.450 --> 00:02:04.170 cardinal, the cardinal Brewer Vaughn. And these 00:02:04.170 --> 00:02:09.389 titles are something else, aren't they? Yeah. 00:02:12.279 --> 00:02:15.620 And the crowd goes wild. All right, so we got 00:02:15.620 --> 00:02:18.560 Brewer. We've been talking on Brewer preached 00:02:18.560 --> 00:02:21.699 a sermon. When was that here at East Philly? 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:25.060 Oh November the 16th, I believe it was the day. 00:02:25.419 --> 00:02:27.919 Yeah, I only remember that so well because my 00:02:27.919 --> 00:02:30.400 birthday was like two days after that. So I thought 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:32.939 it was like in December. You got married in December. 00:02:33.080 --> 00:02:35.699 Yeah, I get these things. We thought about doing 00:02:35.699 --> 00:02:40.849 a podcast on the subject here on marriage. Yeah. 00:02:40.990 --> 00:02:43.310 Cause my two colleagues here, uh, they have, 00:02:43.469 --> 00:02:45.110 what do y 'all have about three months combined 00:02:45.110 --> 00:02:47.030 of marriage? Yeah, we're professionals. I've 00:02:47.030 --> 00:02:48.990 got two months and you've got at least a month. 00:02:49.090 --> 00:02:53.780 So that's okay. We're not going to do it on a, 00:02:53.780 --> 00:02:55.900 we're not going to do it on a arithmetic are 00:02:55.900 --> 00:02:57.740 we? We're not going to do it on mathematics. 00:02:58.139 --> 00:03:00.719 Brush up on your calculus. I don't know. I thought 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:02.500 I was, I thought we were farther along than that. 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:06.620 Sorry. Sorry. Brewer. What is the subject? Brewer's 00:03:06.620 --> 00:03:09.080 picked the subject to today, by the way. So what, 00:03:09.319 --> 00:03:11.479 what is the subject for today's podcast? We're 00:03:11.479 --> 00:03:14.360 talking about all things fruit, apples, oranges, 00:03:14.900 --> 00:03:17.199 tomatoes, which we can argue if that's actually 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:20.599 a fruit. When's the proper growing season for 00:03:20.599 --> 00:03:22.949 these kind of. fruits. Definitely in the springtime. 00:03:23.229 --> 00:03:25.669 Okay. There we go. Perfect. Is that all the expert? 00:03:26.129 --> 00:03:28.289 Well, if you don't cultivate, you know, and you 00:03:28.289 --> 00:03:31.050 got to make sure that all the colds gone. Cause 00:03:31.050 --> 00:03:33.830 if it's not zone you live in and there's a lot 00:03:33.830 --> 00:03:35.550 of variables there. If you're listening from 00:03:35.550 --> 00:03:39.469 Singapore, we see you. Sorry. So they're closer 00:03:39.469 --> 00:03:42.389 to maybe growing it already. I mean, they're, 00:03:42.389 --> 00:03:44.150 they're harvest season is probably already done. 00:03:44.509 --> 00:03:46.870 So This may not pertain to them. Okay. Okay. 00:03:46.889 --> 00:03:49.449 Okay. Got you. We'll keep it to the Western Hemisphere 00:03:49.449 --> 00:03:51.430 for this episode. We'll do an Eastern Hemisphere 00:03:51.430 --> 00:03:54.169 episode on a future one there. We will be ready 00:03:54.169 --> 00:03:56.150 for that. Just give us six months, guys. This 00:03:56.150 --> 00:03:59.610 is out of the prime meridian. The fruit of the 00:03:59.610 --> 00:04:03.430 spirit. Oh, you rattled into it. The fruit of 00:04:03.430 --> 00:04:06.930 the spirit. So, Brandon, he wasn't sure what 00:04:06.930 --> 00:04:09.250 book this was in or chapter anything. It's in 00:04:09.250 --> 00:04:12.189 Galatian chapter five, Brandon, if you want to 00:04:12.189 --> 00:04:15.099 turn your Bible to that. I'll open there, I'm 00:04:15.099 --> 00:04:20.560 sorry. So we're gonna look at the fruit of the 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:25.420 spirit. And before we do that, I think Brewer 00:04:25.420 --> 00:04:27.300 was gonna kind of hit, we'd like to give sort 00:04:27.300 --> 00:04:30.839 of the background, sort of paint a little picture, 00:04:31.180 --> 00:04:34.100 okay? We were talking about a specific painter 00:04:34.100 --> 00:04:36.639 right before we started the episode here, who 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:39.149 we're not gonna mention. I think he also, he 00:04:39.149 --> 00:04:41.110 was a mustache guy, like we are actually, we 00:04:41.110 --> 00:04:42.889 talk about the mustache podcast, but that's not 00:04:42.889 --> 00:04:46.050 what today's episode is about today. We're talking 00:04:46.050 --> 00:04:47.949 about again, Galatians chapter five. We're going 00:04:47.949 --> 00:04:49.930 to stay on subject here, not chase your habits. 00:04:50.110 --> 00:04:52.949 We're going to attempt to, um, so Brewer, you 00:04:52.949 --> 00:04:54.769 kind of want to give us kind of the background 00:04:54.769 --> 00:04:58.889 of Galatians. What was Paul doing here? Uh, he 00:04:58.889 --> 00:05:01.850 wrote this, I think you said from Macedonia on 00:05:01.850 --> 00:05:04.269 his third missionary journey, third and final 00:05:04.269 --> 00:05:07.240 missionary journey. So Brewer, take the floor, 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:09.379 tell us about Galatians. All right, as Brandon 00:05:09.379 --> 00:05:12.560 said, I'll just give a kind of quick background 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:16.480 of why Paul was writing to the church at Galatia. 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:23.019 So the whole goal of Galatians is to correct 00:05:23.019 --> 00:05:27.759 the false teachings by the... The Judaizers. 00:05:28.980 --> 00:05:31.240 There you go. These false Jewish teachers, Brandon 00:05:31.240 --> 00:05:33.100 and I talked a little bit about them in previous 00:05:33.100 --> 00:05:36.089 episodes. It happens, you know, it's a big word. 00:05:36.750 --> 00:05:38.930 When you put an A and an I next to each other, 00:05:39.009 --> 00:05:41.389 it kind of throws me off. I'm telling you, Asia. 00:05:42.550 --> 00:05:48.769 No, that's ASI. Oh, shoot. All right, we got 00:05:48.769 --> 00:05:51.230 two dumb moments in here now. And we're only 00:05:51.230 --> 00:05:56.529 five or six minutes in. Anyways, well, these 00:05:56.529 --> 00:05:59.889 false teachers claim that Gentile converts must 00:05:59.889 --> 00:06:04.199 follow the Mosaic Law. for example, circumcision 00:06:04.199 --> 00:06:07.639 or the food laws, no port, stuff of that nature, 00:06:07.720 --> 00:06:12.259 to be saved. Well, Paul was combating that, basically 00:06:12.259 --> 00:06:17.000 saying and being angry at them for that because 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:21.379 his whole thing was that salvation alone comes 00:06:21.379 --> 00:06:24.800 from Christ and not the additions of the Mosaic 00:06:24.800 --> 00:06:29.879 law into that scripture, into their teachings. 00:06:30.079 --> 00:06:34.949 That's good stuff. What like what was the point 00:06:34.949 --> 00:06:36.610 of the Judaizers, you know, I mean, that's just 00:06:36.610 --> 00:06:38.889 an open question for anybody It's like I don't 00:06:38.889 --> 00:06:40.329 know like what was their goal. Why would they 00:06:40.329 --> 00:06:45.009 go in behind Paul and Just teach this like garbage 00:06:45.009 --> 00:06:47.009 theology. I guess I don't know like how long 00:06:47.009 --> 00:06:55.230 you got Obviously they're trying to I think There's 00:06:55.230 --> 00:06:57.110 an argument about that in and of itself and we're 00:06:57.110 --> 00:06:59.430 not gonna make a we're not gonna go too deep 00:06:59.430 --> 00:07:03.359 into it But next week's episode my opinion I'm 00:07:03.359 --> 00:07:06.560 no expert. I want to preface it with that. I 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:08.740 think they were completely trying to subvert 00:07:08.740 --> 00:07:12.680 Christianity as a whole. That is my opinion. 00:07:14.459 --> 00:07:17.740 They're not confused teachers who just didn't 00:07:17.740 --> 00:07:20.160 quite understand what the soteriology is supposed 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:24.620 to be. I think they really were trying to completely 00:07:24.620 --> 00:07:26.379 subvert the message as a whole. I mean, what 00:07:26.379 --> 00:07:28.279 does Christ call them in the Sermon on the Mount? 00:07:28.360 --> 00:07:30.899 He says they're wolves in sheep's clothing, right? 00:07:32.180 --> 00:07:35.959 So there so that's my opinion is they weren't 00:07:35.959 --> 00:07:38.019 they're not really they're not in the vine to 00:07:38.019 --> 00:07:40.060 begin with they're not Christians they're outside 00:07:40.060 --> 00:07:43.000 of Christ isn't just some like Like I messed 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:45.740 up and just miss me. I missed read my Bible a 00:07:45.740 --> 00:07:47.920 little bit I didn't quite study enough and I 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:50.579 just I really kind of misunderstood the Old Testament 00:07:50.579 --> 00:07:52.759 a little bit or I misunderstood Christ teaching 00:07:52.759 --> 00:07:55.120 a little bit and so I'm not quite teaching at 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:57.930 the right way, you know, but it's it's uh just 00:07:57.930 --> 00:07:59.910 out of ignorance i don't think that's what it 00:07:59.910 --> 00:08:01.629 is at all i think they're completely trying to 00:08:01.629 --> 00:08:05.850 subvert the message and trying to uh stop you 00:08:05.850 --> 00:08:09.149 know christianity in its tracks okay as that's 00:08:09.149 --> 00:08:11.069 what the these teachers have been doing since 00:08:11.069 --> 00:08:13.569 the beginning anyway yeah just wanted to just 00:08:13.569 --> 00:08:15.709 wanted to get a like a little foundation of what's 00:08:15.709 --> 00:08:17.649 is what's your opinion i don't know i feel like 00:08:17.649 --> 00:08:19.930 it could have been just out of selfish you know 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:22.319 For example if you get in there and you start 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:25.439 you know, like people start becoming saved and 00:08:25.439 --> 00:08:27.220 all this kind of stuff like you see it in the 00:08:27.220 --> 00:08:29.879 modern church You see a lot of pastors who will 00:08:29.879 --> 00:08:33.360 become big get you know, you know Get all the 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:35.879 get the platform get get the book signing deals 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:37.600 get all this kind of stuff and and they'll just 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:39.580 like do it for the numbers I guess and maybe 00:08:39.580 --> 00:08:42.100 maybe they did it Just for the clout, you know 00:08:42.100 --> 00:08:44.080 what I mean? Trying to, you know, just say, Hey, 00:08:44.179 --> 00:08:45.940 I was the one who came in here and taught y 'all 00:08:45.940 --> 00:08:48.039 the right thing. And, but, you know, actually 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:50.340 it was for selfish motivations. We talked about 00:08:50.340 --> 00:08:52.299 that. I think in the Philippians three, the first 00:08:52.299 --> 00:08:54.139 one, the chapters, the subversive went through 00:08:54.139 --> 00:08:56.700 11, something like that. Uh, yeah. He talked, 00:08:56.860 --> 00:08:58.500 Paul talks about that in Philippians. I'm sure 00:08:58.500 --> 00:08:59.960 I think he talks about it in Galatians too. They're 00:08:59.960 --> 00:09:02.340 doing it for selfishly motivated reasons. Yeah. 00:09:03.220 --> 00:09:05.159 You see that a lot, whether it's financial gain 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:08.169 or Praise for a man status, whatever it may be. 00:09:08.169 --> 00:09:09.769 I'm sure they had a tithe, you know I'm sure 00:09:09.769 --> 00:09:12.669 they tie something and try to support the missionary 00:09:12.669 --> 00:09:14.690 that came in, you know So maybe it was for money 00:09:14.690 --> 00:09:17.330 or it could have been but for whatever reason 00:09:17.330 --> 00:09:19.509 it's not their heart was not in the right place 00:09:19.509 --> 00:09:21.470 I guess is there they weren't confused. Their 00:09:21.470 --> 00:09:23.409 heart was literally just not in the right place 00:09:23.409 --> 00:09:25.929 Okay, so this year these are non -christians 00:09:25.929 --> 00:09:28.809 Judaizers false teachers. That's what we talking 00:09:28.809 --> 00:09:33.549 about here as we get into Galatians chapter 5 00:09:33.549 --> 00:09:36.440 so Guess we're gonna read it or is that enough 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:37.759 of you got more background you got more background 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:42.759 keep going I mean all right if you just ask so 00:09:42.759 --> 00:09:46.799 All in all Paul was just distraught by this influence 00:09:46.799 --> 00:09:50.039 that these false teachers were trying to convey 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:53.580 to the new newly converted Gentiles right they 00:09:53.580 --> 00:09:56.759 they were trying to put their own spin on whatever 00:09:56.759 --> 00:10:00.000 they wanted just like you know Some of the stuff 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:02.279 that pops up nowadays. You know you have your 00:10:02.279 --> 00:10:05.269 own these cults that pop up. Yeah, we're getting 00:10:05.269 --> 00:10:09.389 there. You know, cults pop up all over the place, 00:10:09.470 --> 00:10:12.049 especially it was really profound in the 80s 00:10:12.049 --> 00:10:14.570 and 90s, you know, you have all these cults that 00:10:14.570 --> 00:10:16.950 pop up that they have their own teachings and 00:10:16.950 --> 00:10:20.009 what they believe that is correct. And well, 00:10:20.669 --> 00:10:22.769 I don't know if it's really that they believe 00:10:22.769 --> 00:10:25.450 it or if it's more they're just trying to gain. 00:10:25.490 --> 00:10:29.870 Yeah. Yeah. Trying to gain power and authority 00:10:29.870 --> 00:10:33.909 without Yeah, dude it under the eyes of really 00:10:33.909 --> 00:10:35.850 that there's something that pretended that there's 00:10:35.850 --> 00:10:38.350 something that they're not Exactly right power 00:10:38.350 --> 00:10:40.750 does crazy things to people though. That's all 00:10:40.750 --> 00:10:43.570 episode our corrupts and absolute power corrupts. 00:10:44.049 --> 00:10:47.269 Absolutely So what Lord Acton said that's pretty 00:10:47.269 --> 00:10:49.450 good. That's a great. That's a great quote. It's 00:10:49.450 --> 00:10:51.610 a great quote It's a great quote. So we're in 00:10:51.610 --> 00:10:53.990 Galatians chapter 5 the last thing I would say 00:10:53.990 --> 00:10:56.169 about Galatians Brandon just mentioned this a 00:10:56.169 --> 00:11:00.549 few minutes ago Was it's probably Paul's most? 00:11:00.759 --> 00:11:03.399 Fiery letter I was brand I just stole Brandon's 00:11:03.399 --> 00:11:06.100 that was exactly what he said. I mean he is He 00:11:06.100 --> 00:11:08.919 looks like he's visibly angry. I mean like they're 00:11:08.919 --> 00:11:11.539 just through the text at certain places You remember 00:11:11.539 --> 00:11:14.559 the foolish Galatians after three this we talked 00:11:14.559 --> 00:11:16.879 about Philippians being one of his most endearing 00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:18.940 letters. This is probably his least endearing 00:11:18.940 --> 00:11:22.080 letter And you know, he's doing it for good reason. 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:24.639 Obviously he loves these people but this church 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:27.320 is seriously flawed I mean this church is really 00:11:27.320 --> 00:11:29.980 kind of To some degree. I would say it's kind 00:11:29.980 --> 00:11:32.480 of rotten from the inside I mean that the doctrine 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:35.320 has become horrific and it's become evident through 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:38.340 it's obviously become evident through Their fruits 00:11:38.340 --> 00:11:43.000 to stick with that stick with the fruit What 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:47.039 would you I mean, do you? Stole Brandon's thought 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:48.860 there was my thought but that's okay. I'll get 00:11:48.860 --> 00:11:51.879 you back one day. We do I'll get you don't worry, 00:11:51.879 --> 00:11:54.879 but Anything else anything else to add or take 00:11:54.879 --> 00:11:57.000 away about the context? That's the case then 00:11:57.279 --> 00:11:59.100 Let's read the verse, let's see what it's talking 00:11:59.100 --> 00:12:05.019 about here. Okay, verse 20 and 21. 22 and 23. 00:12:05.340 --> 00:12:09.379 22 and 23, all right. Galatians 5, starting in 00:12:09.379 --> 00:12:24.399 verse 22. That's good stuff. So Mr. Fruit Expert 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:28.419 here. Mr. Brewer. Take it away. Take it away, 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:31.980 man. Let me start with just a question. Okay, 00:12:32.159 --> 00:12:34.679 I got for you guys Oh gosh, why do you think 00:12:34.679 --> 00:12:37.879 the apostle Paul wrote about the fruit of the 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:41.440 spirit? Like what was his? main goal in writing 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:54.220 that There's two verses We're trying not to get 00:12:54.220 --> 00:12:56.200 too carried away here on our new soundboard. 00:12:56.220 --> 00:12:58.559 We're really excited. We got some new toys, like 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:03.220 kids in a candy store, I guess. But, um, so he, 00:13:03.220 --> 00:13:08.379 in verses 20 and 21, he reads, you call it the 00:13:08.379 --> 00:13:10.139 fruit of the flesh. Really? Is that, does he 00:13:10.139 --> 00:13:11.860 ever should call it that? Or did we make that 00:13:11.860 --> 00:13:13.899 up? I think it's called the fruit of the flesh. 00:13:14.039 --> 00:13:16.039 I think it is called the fruit of the flesh. 00:13:17.059 --> 00:13:21.070 Um, It was just for heat well like this is this 00:13:21.070 --> 00:13:22.730 we'll go back to that in a little bit I think 00:13:22.730 --> 00:13:26.330 I think that that there was probably a problem 00:13:26.330 --> 00:13:30.870 with their behavior based off of I mean Again, 00:13:30.870 --> 00:13:32.370 we don't know if there was a problem if they 00:13:32.370 --> 00:13:34.149 were just getting false teachers But I feel like 00:13:34.149 --> 00:13:36.929 if you if if you're learning false doctrines 00:13:36.929 --> 00:13:39.210 and false things doctrine does this doctrine 00:13:39.210 --> 00:13:42.350 is what you'd believe about God and if your doctrine 00:13:42.350 --> 00:13:46.149 becomes too off I think it's going to start showing 00:13:46.149 --> 00:13:48.110 in your character. It manifested itself. I think 00:13:48.110 --> 00:13:50.169 it's going to start showing itself. And I think 00:13:50.169 --> 00:13:53.389 this wasn't just like, Hey, you know, some church 00:13:53.389 --> 00:13:57.129 members are, you know, you know, I'm just questioning 00:13:57.129 --> 00:13:59.950 about, I think about, about their Judy, I just 00:13:59.950 --> 00:14:02.490 think that I think they're starting to act things 00:14:02.490 --> 00:14:04.590 out. You know what I mean? I think that's inevitably 00:14:04.590 --> 00:14:06.070 what it leads to. I mean, I think they're starting 00:14:06.070 --> 00:14:08.490 to act on it. And I think that he's saying, Hey, 00:14:08.870 --> 00:14:11.399 we're going to not talk about 19 through 21 just 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:14.159 yet but 22 and 23 he says this is what we're 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:16.259 supposed to look like this is where you are and 00:14:16.259 --> 00:14:17.259 this is what you're supposed to look like not 00:14:17.259 --> 00:14:18.919 to like cut to what we're talking about later 00:14:18.919 --> 00:14:21.639 but personally that's what i think is going on 00:14:21.639 --> 00:14:24.379 but yeah great question yeah i think the false 00:14:24.379 --> 00:14:26.720 the false doctrine it leads to it leads to the 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:29.639 fruits of the flesh and i think that that obviously 00:14:29.639 --> 00:14:33.460 was evident with the church in galatia here It's 00:14:33.460 --> 00:14:36.639 evident we just talked about Paul's his his disappointment 00:14:36.639 --> 00:14:39.740 though how fiery this letter was and then to 00:14:39.740 --> 00:14:43.320 contrast that He gives the fruits the fruit of 00:14:43.320 --> 00:14:47.240 the Spirit. Yeah Yeah, so like you said Paul 00:14:47.240 --> 00:14:49.620 presents the nine attributes of a godly life 00:14:49.620 --> 00:14:51.980 right love joy peace patience kindness goodness 00:14:51.980 --> 00:14:54.159 faithfulness generalness self -control He lists 00:14:54.159 --> 00:15:00.019 those nine as a life led by the Holy Spirit To 00:15:00.019 --> 00:15:03.659 the contrast of what? We're about to talk about 00:15:03.659 --> 00:15:07.500 to the attributes of an ungodly life Right. He 00:15:07.500 --> 00:15:10.480 refers to the opposite of the fruit of the spirit 00:15:10.480 --> 00:15:14.019 as works of the flesh or or the fruit fruit of 00:15:14.019 --> 00:15:16.399 the flesh, right? And that's found literally 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:20.519 two verses Yeah right before yeah, yeah like 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:23.220 two verses before what we just read but I mean 00:15:23.220 --> 00:15:25.559 as part of this, you know kind of understanding 00:15:25.559 --> 00:15:28.679 why those non attributes are important we kind 00:15:28.679 --> 00:15:33.320 of kind of backtrack to the works of the flesh 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:39.179 right flesh yeah, but as noted an ungodly life 00:15:39.179 --> 00:15:43.259 is one controlled by the sinful nature That every 00:15:43.259 --> 00:15:47.019 human is born with right when we're you know 00:15:47.019 --> 00:15:49.980 born again and filled with the Holy Spirit We're 00:15:49.980 --> 00:15:52.720 supposed to exemplify those nine attributes that 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:57.279 are listed But as nature as humans in our you 00:15:57.279 --> 00:15:59.679 know natural instincts, we're gonna be we have 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:02.190 a sinful nature. It's You know, it's not rocket 00:16:02.190 --> 00:16:04.649 science. Yeah, that's that's just what it is. 00:16:05.490 --> 00:16:09.750 So he lists those nine attributes of a Filled 00:16:09.750 --> 00:16:11.370 with the Holy Spirit the fruit of the Spirit 00:16:11.370 --> 00:16:13.950 and then right before that like we mentioned 00:16:13.950 --> 00:16:17.970 he lists the Attributes of a sinful nature which 00:16:17.970 --> 00:16:20.149 Brandon's about to read. Oh, I'm going to read 00:16:20.149 --> 00:16:22.409 it. That's what that's what Bishop Brewer just 00:16:22.409 --> 00:16:24.509 told me he told me I was gonna read it verses 00:16:24.509 --> 00:16:27.330 19 through 21 is what I'm gonna read and it says 00:16:27.330 --> 00:16:30.309 now the works of the flesh are obvious sexual 00:16:30.309 --> 00:16:33.970 morality moral impurity promiscuity, idolatry, 00:16:34.230 --> 00:16:37.490 sorcery, hatreds, strife, jealousy, outbursts 00:16:37.490 --> 00:16:40.490 of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions, 00:16:41.009 --> 00:16:44.029 envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. 00:16:44.309 --> 00:16:47.149 I am warning you about these things, as I warned 00:16:47.149 --> 00:16:50.009 you before, that those who practice such things 00:16:50.009 --> 00:16:53.090 will not inherit the kingdom of God. That's deep, 00:16:53.289 --> 00:16:56.070 isn't it? That's some good stuff. A lot of big 00:16:56.070 --> 00:16:58.570 words. A lot of big words, and I got put on the 00:16:58.570 --> 00:17:02.970 spot with that one. Proud of you man. Thanks, 00:17:03.049 --> 00:17:09.410 man. Thanks but The the reason I guess Paul mentions, 00:17:09.410 --> 00:17:12.049 you know all those and then he counteracts it 00:17:12.049 --> 00:17:14.789 two verses later with the fruit of the spirit 00:17:14.789 --> 00:17:19.769 is I believe his point in that is to show us 00:17:19.769 --> 00:17:23.490 that we're we all grow fruit. Mm -hmm You know, 00:17:23.690 --> 00:17:26.069 we throughout our life. We cultivate some sort 00:17:26.069 --> 00:17:28.130 of fruit now. Is it the good fruit or is it the 00:17:28.130 --> 00:17:31.240 bad fruit? Is it the fruit of the flesh or is 00:17:31.240 --> 00:17:34.539 it the fruit of the spirit? Yeah, we can't fake 00:17:34.539 --> 00:17:38.720 or force the good fruit Ourselves, right? Yeah, 00:17:38.740 --> 00:17:42.539 I mean it's it's hard to show love. It's hard 00:17:42.539 --> 00:17:46.000 to show Joy all the time. It's hard to show peace 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:48.539 patience kindness goodness all those things. 00:17:48.539 --> 00:17:51.720 It's hard to show them consistently in and out 00:17:51.720 --> 00:17:56.480 every day, but It's a lot easier, you know, like 00:17:56.480 --> 00:17:59.619 I said the big words it's a lot easier to Cultivate 00:17:59.619 --> 00:18:02.099 the fruit of our flesh and it is the fruit of 00:18:02.099 --> 00:18:04.180 the Holy Spirit I don't I don't think the fruit 00:18:04.180 --> 00:18:06.599 of the flesh requires any work. I think again, 00:18:06.599 --> 00:18:08.720 it's just natural. It's just natural We don't 00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:10.259 have to cultivate anything. We just sit there 00:18:10.259 --> 00:18:12.460 and let it grow and it goes I just you just reminded 00:18:12.460 --> 00:18:13.920 me of a verse and I just want to read it for 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:19.160 you. It's Matthew 7 18 and says a good tree can't 00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:21.380 produce bad fruit Neither can a bad tree produce 00:18:21.380 --> 00:18:24.119 good fruit every tree that doesn't produce good 00:18:24.119 --> 00:18:27.470 fruit is cut down under the fire So I kind of 00:18:27.470 --> 00:18:29.369 just got reminded of that when you said this 00:18:29.369 --> 00:18:32.309 and it's just like man If you're if if you were 00:18:32.309 --> 00:18:34.829 a bad tree and you're gonna produce bad fruit 00:18:34.829 --> 00:18:38.730 if we're not cultivating Good fruit good trees. 00:18:38.730 --> 00:18:41.230 We're not gonna produce good fruit and it seems 00:18:41.230 --> 00:18:43.349 and I was telling the youth this Every time we 00:18:43.349 --> 00:18:45.609 have a podcast. I mentioned what I told the youth 00:18:45.609 --> 00:18:47.009 the night before but I mentioned that verse to 00:18:47.009 --> 00:18:51.349 him It is your job That's a great point. That's 00:18:51.349 --> 00:18:55.380 I don't know man. That was that was tough But 00:18:55.380 --> 00:18:56.900 I was telling them last night and I was like, 00:18:57.039 --> 00:18:58.680 man, like we're talking about dating and we're 00:18:58.680 --> 00:19:00.519 just saying like, Hey, y 'all look for bad people 00:19:00.519 --> 00:19:01.920 and expect good fruit. You know what I mean? 00:19:01.920 --> 00:19:03.759 I feel like it's the same way in our spiritual 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:07.000 life too. We don't do any work and, and we don't 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:10.119 put anything forward and we expect to get good 00:19:10.119 --> 00:19:12.000 fruit from it. And we have to put in good work 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:13.920 to get good fruit. And I think that's evident. 00:19:13.920 --> 00:19:16.259 If anyone's a farmer or has a garden or anything, 00:19:16.259 --> 00:19:18.539 it doesn't just plant a seed and it just pop 00:19:18.539 --> 00:19:20.480 up. You got to get the weeds out and you got 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:22.680 to do all that kind of stuff. So anyways, that's 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:29.690 a great point. Gosh, I love that button that 00:19:29.690 --> 00:19:33.750 was the that was my thought too about the first 00:19:33.750 --> 00:19:35.670 He was one of the first things you said there 00:19:35.670 --> 00:19:39.990 the it's the default setting it takes no effort 00:19:39.990 --> 00:19:44.250 the the works of the flesh it is our It's our 00:19:44.250 --> 00:19:46.670 default setting. It's just it is our nature. 00:19:46.769 --> 00:19:49.589 It is our fleshly nature Is that what we're children 00:19:49.589 --> 00:19:53.009 by wrath of wrath by nature and Ephesians 2 I 00:19:53.009 --> 00:19:55.750 mean, that's just what we do. It's what we do. 00:19:55.750 --> 00:19:58.009 It's natural Natural instincts of just being 00:19:58.009 --> 00:20:01.789 a human. Yeah, so but I kind of like that. I 00:20:01.789 --> 00:20:04.809 was driving today, right? You drive a lot. Well, 00:20:05.009 --> 00:20:08.410 this was yes a spot I normally don't come from 00:20:08.410 --> 00:20:12.410 you know going from doctor's office to back to 00:20:12.410 --> 00:20:17.150 work anyways pass the dollar general and this 00:20:17.150 --> 00:20:22.509 is a This is it sounds far -fetched. I know but 00:20:22.509 --> 00:20:24.890 I got a point I'm getting to know there's dollar 00:20:24.890 --> 00:20:29.569 generals everywhere Exactly. No the point I'm 00:20:29.569 --> 00:20:34.829 getting to is We seed these either the works 00:20:34.829 --> 00:20:40.130 of the flesh or we seed The fruit of the spirit, 00:20:40.130 --> 00:20:43.690 right? It's one of those things Just like a dollar 00:20:43.690 --> 00:20:45.990 general is popping up everywhere. You look around 00:20:45.990 --> 00:20:47.750 every corner. We got dollar generals popping 00:20:47.750 --> 00:20:50.369 up That's how kind of we are with throwing our 00:20:50.369 --> 00:20:52.869 seeds out now Are we throwing out the seeds of 00:20:52.869 --> 00:20:54.789 the fruit of the spirit or we see throwing out 00:20:54.789 --> 00:20:58.710 the works of the flesh? It's kind of they just 00:20:58.710 --> 00:21:01.990 reminded me of I got that idea when I was passing 00:21:01.990 --> 00:21:04.890 dollar general dollar general That's a good illustration, 00:21:04.910 --> 00:21:10.309 man. I'd keep that I'm for DG theology So about 00:21:10.309 --> 00:21:16.369 dollar geology or either one's fine So Brandon 00:21:17.730 --> 00:21:20.450 Theologian almost oh gosh broadcaster. So if 00:21:20.450 --> 00:21:23.349 or either one of y 'all so just So if if the 00:21:23.349 --> 00:21:25.509 if the fruit of the flesh or the works of the 00:21:25.509 --> 00:21:27.829 flesh is effortless, it's just natural It's our 00:21:27.829 --> 00:21:29.789 human inclination our default setting whatever 00:21:29.789 --> 00:21:32.109 you want to call it Is the fruit of the spirit? 00:21:32.109 --> 00:21:34.690 Is that does it is it the opposite of as in terms 00:21:34.690 --> 00:21:37.509 of is it a lot of work? Like in terms of is it 00:21:37.509 --> 00:21:39.230 does it take a lot of effort? It depends on the 00:21:39.230 --> 00:21:41.029 fruit. Which one are we talking about? You know, 00:21:41.109 --> 00:21:43.869 I mean, I think it's different for everybody 00:21:43.869 --> 00:21:46.890 There are some people that come natural. Yeah 00:21:46.920 --> 00:21:49.140 Yeah, I think there are some people that love 00:21:49.140 --> 00:21:51.680 very easily, you know what I mean? They're really 00:21:51.680 --> 00:21:54.220 good at loving or they're very joyful people 00:21:54.220 --> 00:21:56.880 and You know like and sometimes like you can 00:21:56.880 --> 00:21:58.539 be a non -christian and be joyful, too You know, 00:21:58.539 --> 00:22:00.700 I mean like I believe that ultimately you get 00:22:00.700 --> 00:22:03.079 joy from the Lord But some people are just really 00:22:03.079 --> 00:22:05.660 joyful and you know, I think some of it is not 00:22:05.660 --> 00:22:07.759 saying it comes naturally but you know, maybe 00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:11.119 whatever they do they they're joyful and And 00:22:11.119 --> 00:22:13.000 I don't know some people self -control is super 00:22:13.000 --> 00:22:15.549 difficult patience Super difficult if they're 00:22:15.549 --> 00:22:17.109 angry, you know what I mean? There's a lot of 00:22:17.109 --> 00:22:18.730 these that that people really really struggle 00:22:18.730 --> 00:22:20.670 with and I think There are some that people do 00:22:20.670 --> 00:22:22.589 really good and I forgot what your question was. 00:22:22.589 --> 00:22:24.970 What was your question? I was like because we 00:22:24.970 --> 00:22:27.410 established okay, let's stay is easy. Oh, yeah 00:22:27.410 --> 00:22:30.609 You know, it's a not and again, we talked about 00:22:30.609 --> 00:22:33.450 this and I don't think this We have to really 00:22:33.450 --> 00:22:35.960 line this out very much, I think this goes without 00:22:35.960 --> 00:22:38.460 saying, like, obviously, every person, every 00:22:38.460 --> 00:22:40.720 we're talking about unregenerate people, they're 00:22:40.720 --> 00:22:43.440 not all participating in all these things. Right? 00:22:43.519 --> 00:22:45.619 I mean, it is not an exhaustive list either. 00:22:45.799 --> 00:22:48.480 Paul says at the end, he says, in my translation, 00:22:48.539 --> 00:22:51.619 he said, and things like these, it's not an exhaustive 00:22:51.619 --> 00:22:54.539 list. So he's just given, he does the same same 00:22:54.539 --> 00:22:56.660 thing. And I think it's First Corinthians 219. 00:22:56.660 --> 00:22:59.000 He does this in several different places. So 00:22:59.000 --> 00:23:01.039 he's not just saying this is the these are the 00:23:01.039 --> 00:23:04.950 only things that are Fruits of the flesh so to 00:23:04.950 --> 00:23:08.509 speak, but they are easy generally speaking. 00:23:08.609 --> 00:23:11.109 They're effortless actually but I was asking 00:23:11.109 --> 00:23:14.329 you think the fruit of the Spirit is it or those 00:23:14.329 --> 00:23:19.009 attributes easy to Manifest in our life. I guess 00:23:19.009 --> 00:23:20.930 it could because the question kind of is this 00:23:20.930 --> 00:23:23.170 sort of a deeper question I think does it come 00:23:23.170 --> 00:23:25.809 from it doesn't come from us. Anyway, that's 00:23:25.809 --> 00:23:28.049 what I think when you were asking that it kind 00:23:28.049 --> 00:23:30.930 of registered to me The whole idea behind it 00:23:30.930 --> 00:23:34.460 is the work Are the the fruit of the Spirit right 00:23:34.460 --> 00:23:37.559 of coming from of the Spirit right now? It's 00:23:37.559 --> 00:23:40.180 in the nails Yeah, exactly when the opposite 00:23:40.180 --> 00:23:43.279 is works of the flesh which we all have our own 00:23:43.279 --> 00:23:46.420 flesh, but without being saved and Repenting 00:23:46.420 --> 00:23:49.160 and truly being you know born -again Christian. 00:23:49.180 --> 00:23:52.859 You're not gonna have the Holy Spirit So I would 00:23:52.859 --> 00:23:56.119 say no that these do not come nat most likely 00:23:56.119 --> 00:23:59.339 do not come natural or easier to attain. If it 00:23:59.339 --> 00:24:01.339 was, then everybody would be doing it, not just 00:24:01.339 --> 00:24:03.400 Christians. That's a good point. Yeah, that was 00:24:03.400 --> 00:24:08.220 actually what I was thinking, too, because it's 00:24:08.220 --> 00:24:10.539 the fruits of the Spirit. So the Spirit is within 00:24:10.539 --> 00:24:15.579 you if you're regenerate, but it's not... What's 00:24:15.579 --> 00:24:17.920 the right way to put that Brandon? It's it's 00:24:17.920 --> 00:24:21.079 the spirit. So the fruit is the fruit of the 00:24:21.079 --> 00:24:24.559 spirit So it's from God. Yes, it is from God's 00:24:24.559 --> 00:24:27.019 tree. Not your own. Yes That's kind of my point. 00:24:27.019 --> 00:24:29.099 I think yeah, there we go. That's that's that's 00:24:29.099 --> 00:24:31.180 how I describe it is from God's tree Not your 00:24:31.180 --> 00:24:34.240 own gets again. I'd say that's I'd say ultimately 00:24:34.240 --> 00:24:36.799 like I was I was thinking about this the other 00:24:36.799 --> 00:24:40.700 day I'd say ultimately like your gift as a Christian 00:24:40.940 --> 00:24:43.480 Like obviously like a lot of times we focus on 00:24:43.480 --> 00:24:45.339 hey that eternal life like forever in heaven 00:24:45.339 --> 00:24:48.200 with jesus But I think we also get gifts here 00:24:48.200 --> 00:24:51.859 on earth and ultimately like I think The change 00:24:51.859 --> 00:24:54.700 of our character from these first attributes 00:24:54.700 --> 00:24:57.339 of drunkenness and sexual idolatry and and all 00:24:57.339 --> 00:24:59.900 these different things I think that the fruit 00:24:59.900 --> 00:25:02.599 that we get here on earth is the changing of 00:25:02.599 --> 00:25:04.859 our spirit and our character because the holy 00:25:04.859 --> 00:25:06.759 spirit has changed us, you know what I mean, 00:25:06.759 --> 00:25:09.420 and and we still like Like there are there are 00:25:09.420 --> 00:25:11.180 things that you know, like we were talking before 00:25:11.180 --> 00:25:12.700 the podcast i'm gonna steal this because brewer 00:25:12.700 --> 00:25:15.339 said it and Brandon already stole one of my sayings 00:25:15.339 --> 00:25:17.579 i'm gonna stay still something brewer said but 00:25:17.579 --> 00:25:20.380 we were talking about if If you could have all 00:25:20.380 --> 00:25:23.119 of these attributes and the answer is Is no if 00:25:23.119 --> 00:25:25.440 you if you practice all these attributes perfectly, 00:25:25.440 --> 00:25:27.440 you'd be you'd be perfect You'd be like jesus 00:25:27.440 --> 00:25:29.799 christ and and ultimately we'll never become 00:25:29.799 --> 00:25:32.440 perfect Like that on this earth, but we can work 00:25:32.440 --> 00:25:34.720 on those things and the the spirit will ultimately 00:25:34.720 --> 00:25:35.960 Let me go back to what y 'all are just saying 00:25:35.960 --> 00:25:39.089 the spirit can change us Be more and more like 00:25:39.089 --> 00:25:41.109 this and it's just a gift from the spirit is 00:25:41.109 --> 00:25:43.289 what I'd say just like well this we're talking 00:25:43.289 --> 00:25:46.069 about sanctification here You agree. I agree. 00:25:46.089 --> 00:25:50.190 So this is work. We're moving past Glorification, 00:25:50.190 --> 00:25:55.450 right? so Is that the right word glorification? 00:25:57.069 --> 00:26:01.150 sanctification What are those the occasions occasion 00:26:01.150 --> 00:26:04.279 Romans chapter 8? Yeah, sanctification. I just 00:26:04.279 --> 00:26:06.259 went blank. I just lost them all. Justification. 00:26:06.720 --> 00:26:08.859 Justification. I am retarded. I'm going to use 00:26:08.859 --> 00:26:12.839 the R one. Oh, wrong button. Yeah, Piers Morgan 00:26:12.839 --> 00:26:15.039 says you're not allowed to say that, but... We 00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:17.619 can bleep it. So, yeah, so you're going past 00:26:17.619 --> 00:26:20.819 justification, but you know, it's the same sanctification. 00:26:21.079 --> 00:26:23.420 It really, it has the same source as justification. 00:26:23.799 --> 00:26:27.099 It's not within yourself at all, in my opinion. 00:26:27.259 --> 00:26:28.680 Just, and I think this is what scriptures teach, 00:26:28.920 --> 00:26:30.880 justification. We've talked about this before. 00:26:31.869 --> 00:26:34.430 It's zero percent of your own works, it's 100 00:26:34.430 --> 00:26:39.329 % a gift. It's 100 % unadulterated grace. And 00:26:39.329 --> 00:26:42.430 I would say sanctification really is the same 00:26:42.430 --> 00:26:45.150 thing. What he's talking about here, which the 00:26:45.150 --> 00:26:49.029 fruit of the spirit falls under. I agree. I don't 00:26:49.029 --> 00:26:50.609 know, I'm kind of thinking this. I'm looking 00:26:50.609 --> 00:26:52.849 at the nine here, you know what I mean? I guess 00:26:52.849 --> 00:26:54.509 we've been talking about the fruit of the spirits 00:26:54.509 --> 00:26:58.049 as a whole, but I don't know, I'm not going to 00:26:58.049 --> 00:27:00.880 ask like, hey, Which one do you stink at you 00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:02.900 know that's what I'm gonna ask but like I'm just 00:27:02.900 --> 00:27:04.559 like thinking looking at this list I feel like 00:27:04.559 --> 00:27:06.480 some of these are just different than others 00:27:06.480 --> 00:27:09.460 the which they are yeah, and I mean I've got 00:27:09.460 --> 00:27:12.160 you know we can talk about each one separately 00:27:12.160 --> 00:27:15.839 and Explain you know cuz some of them you see 00:27:15.839 --> 00:27:17.599 the word you think something, but it totally 00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:19.660 means something else man Which one are you thinking 00:27:19.660 --> 00:27:22.420 about when you said that I he was he was chomping 00:27:22.420 --> 00:27:25.000 at the bit to say something about Go ahead, man. 00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:27.900 Hit it. I mean I'm gonna go in order cuz just 00:27:27.900 --> 00:27:32.359 the way I mean, we'll go in the order Paul wrote 00:27:32.359 --> 00:27:35.039 him down. How about that? But I'd like to first 00:27:35.039 --> 00:27:41.299 start off by saying that The whole idea of Galatians 00:27:41.299 --> 00:27:44.880 5 and in a whole the whole chapter is to encourage 00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:48.180 Paul's readers that those who belong to Christ 00:27:48.180 --> 00:27:50.440 Which is shown in verse 4 if you continue to 00:27:50.440 --> 00:27:52.839 read on a little bit longer are no longer slaves 00:27:52.839 --> 00:27:55.519 to their sin nature That's because when a person 00:27:55.519 --> 00:27:57.420 turns to Christ, they receive the power of the 00:27:57.420 --> 00:28:00.319 Holy Spirit to overcome the sin nature and develop 00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:02.920 the character of Christ. And the character of 00:28:02.920 --> 00:28:05.019 Christ is marked by the fruit of His Spirit, 00:28:05.019 --> 00:28:08.819 right? It shouldn't be noted that Paul writes 00:28:08.819 --> 00:28:13.039 the fruit of the Spirit, not the fruits of the 00:28:13.039 --> 00:28:15.240 Spirit. And why do you think that is? Why do 00:28:15.240 --> 00:28:19.319 you think Paul writes fruit and not fruits? Well, 00:28:19.519 --> 00:28:21.940 to contrast with the first set, the works of 00:28:21.940 --> 00:28:24.619 the flesh, we said that that's not You can kind 00:28:24.619 --> 00:28:26.700 of pick and choose those, right? Exactly. When 00:28:26.700 --> 00:28:29.240 you want to choose a nose. The fruit of the spirit 00:28:29.240 --> 00:28:32.720 is all -inclusive, right? It is one package. 00:28:32.859 --> 00:28:35.819 You cannot pick and choose. Yeah, I like to think 00:28:35.819 --> 00:28:40.359 about it. Think of a human body. It's one body, 00:28:40.619 --> 00:28:44.460 but it's comprised of many, many parts. It's 00:28:44.460 --> 00:28:49.220 good stuff. You don't say, my bodies, right? 00:28:49.220 --> 00:28:51.420 You say my body, but you have an arm, you have 00:28:51.420 --> 00:28:53.910 a leg. You have a gallbladder? Well, some of 00:28:53.910 --> 00:28:59.329 us do. You had to lose it. Gosh. It was in my 00:28:59.329 --> 00:29:00.769 mind when I said that. Can we just quickly shout 00:29:00.769 --> 00:29:02.490 out that this man is getting his gallbladder 00:29:02.490 --> 00:29:04.509 removed tomorrow and he's just like a trooper 00:29:04.509 --> 00:29:06.529 and is like, I'm just going to come on the podcast 00:29:06.529 --> 00:29:07.990 still. Like we should have said that. We should 00:29:07.990 --> 00:29:09.710 have said that right from the start in the intro, 00:29:09.829 --> 00:29:11.589 but. Well, I think that's a HIPAA violation you 00:29:11.589 --> 00:29:13.549 just committed there, but. Well, he's not my 00:29:13.549 --> 00:29:18.769 doctor. He did share it. I mean. But the whole, 00:29:18.769 --> 00:29:22.660 the whole idea is that. Christians we're supposed 00:29:22.660 --> 00:29:26.359 to exemplify this whole body of fruit, right? 00:29:26.359 --> 00:29:31.019 Just like we have that one body. But it's to 00:29:31.019 --> 00:29:33.619 note that the scripture refers to them as a unified 00:29:33.619 --> 00:29:37.200 singular fruit, meaning we should be exemplifying 00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:41.099 all of these as Christians. They come together, 00:29:41.099 --> 00:29:43.240 you know, in a Christian's life to reflect a 00:29:43.240 --> 00:29:45.339 complete picture of the character of Christ. 00:29:45.559 --> 00:29:49.140 Just like we talked about, if we Exemplified 00:29:49.140 --> 00:29:51.900 all of them all the time. We would be perfect 00:29:51.900 --> 00:29:56.400 right we would be of Of the nature of Jesus, 00:29:56.420 --> 00:29:59.119 but we we can't we're humans right we struggle 00:29:59.119 --> 00:30:02.119 with some It's some come a lot easier and some 00:30:02.119 --> 00:30:05.859 are more difficult to attain for us, but we need 00:30:05.859 --> 00:30:09.579 to know that we can't just pick and choose which 00:30:09.579 --> 00:30:12.220 fruit we want to show which ones we want to exemplify 00:30:12.220 --> 00:30:15.099 which they like as Brandon said earlier. You 00:30:15.099 --> 00:30:18.619 know you can't be saying Tuesday I want to show 00:30:18.619 --> 00:30:21.619 love Wednesday. I want to choose joy, you know, 00:30:21.619 --> 00:30:23.920 you can't go through the list each and every 00:30:23.920 --> 00:30:27.200 day The whole list should be you should strive 00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:30.539 to obtain and exemplify each of those fruit throughout 00:30:30.539 --> 00:30:32.700 your entire day, you know on your day -to -day 00:30:32.700 --> 00:30:36.920 basis and It's also we need to note that you 00:30:36.920 --> 00:30:40.819 know Yes, the they can be easily be faked. You 00:30:40.819 --> 00:30:44.359 know, you can you can act like you love someone 00:30:44.359 --> 00:30:47.150 you can act like you have joy but in when you 00:30:47.150 --> 00:30:51.130 go home at night, you're by yourself. What are 00:30:51.130 --> 00:30:53.609 you truly feeling at the moment? Are you truly 00:30:53.609 --> 00:30:57.089 feeling joy or peace? What are you struggling 00:30:57.089 --> 00:30:58.910 with? And that's kind of what we're gonna get 00:30:58.910 --> 00:31:03.849 into in what each of these fruit mean, the behind 00:31:03.849 --> 00:31:07.589 the scenes of them. We're looking at the one 00:31:07.589 --> 00:31:12.630 word fruit for each one, but each one can really 00:31:12.630 --> 00:31:18.859 get deep into the meaning. The understanding 00:31:18.859 --> 00:31:22.420 of what Paul is trying to write. Yeah, so it's 00:31:22.420 --> 00:31:25.059 good stuff. Let's start off Do y 'all think that 00:31:25.059 --> 00:31:28.900 there's any? Do you think that there's any significance 00:31:28.900 --> 00:31:31.180 like into the to like the ordering of the light? 00:31:31.400 --> 00:31:34.339 I do. Yes I think he starts off free. He starts 00:31:34.339 --> 00:31:38.119 he starting love is kind of coincidence that 00:31:38.119 --> 00:31:40.599 he started with love Yeah, love fulfills the 00:31:40.599 --> 00:31:42.480 whole law. That's the first thing I think about. 00:31:42.480 --> 00:31:44.440 Yeah. Yeah, I definitely think there's a reason 00:31:44.440 --> 00:31:47.299 for the order like yeah Well, I mean we'll jump 00:31:47.299 --> 00:31:50.200 right into let's love let's do it so it's no 00:31:50.200 --> 00:31:53.500 coincidence that Paul puts love first in the 00:31:53.500 --> 00:31:56.839 fruit of the spirit I'd agree completely and 00:31:56.839 --> 00:31:59.039 I would I would like to preface with this is 00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:02.079 probably love is one of the most misunderstood 00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:08.000 Words In our English language in the entire Bible. 00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:11.799 I'd say just as a like modern culture today Yeah, 00:32:11.799 --> 00:32:15.500 I think we've completely lost what love means 00:32:15.660 --> 00:32:18.180 Just if you talking about love it may be the 00:32:18.180 --> 00:32:20.000 most abused word in the English language. Oh, 00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:22.180 yeah Yeah, exactly because it at least like in 00:32:22.180 --> 00:32:24.059 the Greek. There's at least three Yeah, like 00:32:24.059 --> 00:32:27.539 there's like the the got a filet. Oh, and what's 00:32:27.539 --> 00:32:29.059 the third one Brandon? You're the one that was 00:32:29.059 --> 00:32:32.920 Eros or Eros. Thank you. Hello Brandon. I should 00:32:32.920 --> 00:32:35.460 have I should have asked you it's fine. He's 00:32:35.460 --> 00:32:41.380 got it wrote down I've got them all down so I 00:32:41.380 --> 00:32:43.400 Guess, you know what? Let me ask you this. What 00:32:43.400 --> 00:32:45.839 love are we talking about right here guys? I'd 00:32:45.839 --> 00:32:48.559 say probably a copy. Yeah, you would be correct. 00:32:48.559 --> 00:32:50.599 Where's that? Where's that buzzer ding ding ding? 00:32:54.579 --> 00:32:57.539 So got pays like godly love exactly It's the 00:32:57.539 --> 00:33:00.680 highest form of the different kind of loves expressed 00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:04.140 by distinct Greek words. Like we said The English 00:33:04.140 --> 00:33:07.400 language has one word for love, you know, I love 00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:10.180 my wife But I love my wife differently than I 00:33:10.180 --> 00:33:14.240 love my mom. I love college football But I love 00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:16.759 it a lot different than I love my wife. I hope 00:33:16.759 --> 00:33:22.440 so He loved smash burger, yeah From Sonic our 00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:26.660 next sponsor, right our only sponsor This episode 00:33:26.660 --> 00:33:29.480 is brought to you by Sonic drive in 231 West 00:33:29.480 --> 00:33:34.779 Beacon Street so back to the episode So yeah 00:33:34.779 --> 00:33:37.509 our We have one word for love that's that's where 00:33:37.509 --> 00:33:39.910 it's kind of lost like you find all those three 00:33:39.910 --> 00:33:41.809 different types of love all throughout the Bible, 00:33:41.849 --> 00:33:43.750 but they mean completely different things like 00:33:43.750 --> 00:33:48.329 agape is the The love we're talking about it's 00:33:48.329 --> 00:33:50.849 the kind of love that God has for his creation. 00:33:51.210 --> 00:33:54.650 It's pure selfless and self -sacrificing right 00:33:54.650 --> 00:33:57.640 just like Romans 5, 8 says, but God commanded 00:33:57.640 --> 00:34:00.200 his love toward us, and in that, while we are 00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:02.599 yet sinners, Christ died for us, right? That's 00:34:02.599 --> 00:34:06.819 the best example of love I know of, is that God 00:34:06.819 --> 00:34:09.159 sent his son to die on the cross for us. That's 00:34:09.159 --> 00:34:15.820 the form of sacrificial love that Paul is talking 00:34:15.820 --> 00:34:20.699 about when he uses agape. The other type of loves, 00:34:20.739 --> 00:34:23.739 you know, is Eros, I'm not really sure how to 00:34:23.739 --> 00:34:27.579 say that word, but it's a romantic type of love. 00:34:27.760 --> 00:34:29.559 Just like that'd be the love I show my wife. 00:34:30.780 --> 00:34:33.260 Brandon was supposed to be showing us Filet -O, 00:34:33.420 --> 00:34:38.340 but he's just been kind of tough on us. I'm sorry, 00:34:38.539 --> 00:34:41.460 Brewer. No, you're good. That's friendship love 00:34:41.460 --> 00:34:44.619 for anyone out there who didn't know. I've been 00:34:44.619 --> 00:34:47.519 a good friend today. Because you often hear Philadelphia 00:34:47.519 --> 00:34:50.119 is the city of Filet -O. Exactly, the brotherly 00:34:50.119 --> 00:34:52.940 love. You hear that they say they say that they 00:34:52.940 --> 00:34:56.360 do say that and then I guess Like I said don't 00:34:56.360 --> 00:34:59.199 know how to say this word store gay store storage. 00:34:59.559 --> 00:35:05.980 That's exactly right This is this is this is 00:35:05.980 --> 00:35:08.659 the rule when it comes to speaking Greek you 00:35:08.659 --> 00:35:10.980 say it loud you say it fast you say it confident 00:35:10.980 --> 00:35:12.800 and no one's gonna question it yeah, I should 00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:14.519 have brushed up on my Greek before I came in 00:35:14.519 --> 00:35:18.289 a man, but Like I said the the word love that 00:35:18.289 --> 00:35:24.849 Paul's meant are using is that agape? and that's 00:35:24.849 --> 00:35:29.650 like said it's It's his love that showed that 00:35:29.650 --> 00:35:32.530 showed for us by sacrificing his only son to 00:35:32.530 --> 00:35:35.210 save us from our sinful nature the reason we 00:35:35.210 --> 00:35:37.190 can have the Holy Spirit the reason we can have 00:35:37.190 --> 00:35:39.269 this fruit is all because of love and that's 00:35:39.269 --> 00:35:42.750 why I believe Paul actually started with Love 00:35:42.750 --> 00:35:45.960 first meaning because of his love We're able 00:35:45.960 --> 00:35:48.539 to have the rest of the eight. That's so would 00:35:48.539 --> 00:35:51.099 you say the love is the most important one? I 00:35:51.099 --> 00:35:53.880 would I would say yeah, I mean he says it hits 00:35:53.880 --> 00:35:56.559 a lot It's the Bible the Bible says God is love 00:35:56.559 --> 00:35:59.460 right and it also says it's John Yeah, the word 00:35:59.460 --> 00:36:01.760 God is the word and the word is like something 00:36:01.760 --> 00:36:05.320 it said in first Corinthians 13 the love chapter 00:36:05.320 --> 00:36:07.880 as it's called, you know And the greatest of 00:36:07.880 --> 00:36:11.099 these is love. It's erroneously read at all. 00:36:11.380 --> 00:36:13.820 They're all the way it was not read at mine. 00:36:14.219 --> 00:36:17.690 Okay Norman I don't think there we go. It probably 00:36:17.690 --> 00:36:20.469 was read at yours though It could have been I 00:36:20.469 --> 00:36:23.369 it may have been okay, then and get off us, okay? 00:36:23.670 --> 00:36:28.610 I'd had a couple drinks by the time I got Non 00:36:28.610 --> 00:36:32.829 -alcoholic non -alcoholic of course, that's that 00:36:32.829 --> 00:36:39.250 is sad, man Button I'm sorry Yell to the mic 00:36:39.250 --> 00:36:40.889 hope it and blow your drums out. So I thought 00:36:40.889 --> 00:36:43.349 that was really good actually while we were yet 00:36:43.349 --> 00:36:44.849 sinners Christ died for us I think that's like 00:36:44.849 --> 00:36:47.510 the perfect to kind of encapsulate the exact 00:36:47.510 --> 00:36:50.869 type of Love agape that we're talking about the 00:36:50.869 --> 00:36:53.030 whole all is filled in this that we love one 00:36:53.030 --> 00:36:55.230 another what right basically if you were gonna 00:36:55.230 --> 00:36:57.969 describe love like you wouldn't just say like 00:36:57.969 --> 00:37:01.000 I just this We gooey feeling you get or anything 00:37:01.000 --> 00:37:02.860 like that. Are you talking about this type of 00:37:02.860 --> 00:37:05.900 love or like yeah, this time? No, this is just 00:37:05.900 --> 00:37:10.480 you're sacrificing your time your Abilities your 00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:14.260 gifts from God you're sacrificing that to help 00:37:14.260 --> 00:37:17.559 somebody out, you know, I got you Yeah saying 00:37:17.559 --> 00:37:21.530 love is sacrifice In this case. Well, yeah, I 00:37:21.530 --> 00:37:23.869 guess in I think a lot of cases. I think a lot 00:37:23.869 --> 00:37:26.409 of cases love example You just gave christ the 00:37:26.409 --> 00:37:28.989 ultimate sacrifice right christ died for us. 00:37:28.989 --> 00:37:31.750 That's the ultimate example of love and sacrifice 00:37:31.750 --> 00:37:34.909 I don't know. I think that I think love is sacrifice 00:37:34.909 --> 00:37:37.550 sometimes and love is not just a new gooey feeling 00:37:37.550 --> 00:37:40.389 that we talk about exactly So I wish we had different 00:37:40.389 --> 00:37:42.769 words for what these feelings you get, you know, 00:37:42.769 --> 00:37:46.630 because this type of love is not a feeling The 00:37:46.630 --> 00:37:49.070 love that god's talking about is not a feeling 00:37:49.710 --> 00:37:54.349 It's good stuff. So it's more of it's just your 00:37:54.349 --> 00:37:59.150 love for others your sacrificial, you know because 00:37:59.150 --> 00:38:02.130 People as nature are people as humans, right? 00:38:02.250 --> 00:38:05.449 We have a nature of being selfish And this is 00:38:05.449 --> 00:38:09.409 a selfless love. Yes is doing for others not 00:38:09.409 --> 00:38:12.530 expecting them to do it unto you, you know Gotcha. 00:38:12.670 --> 00:38:14.929 That's anybody else got anything to add on that? 00:38:15.150 --> 00:38:17.670 I think love is hit we could probably have a 00:38:17.670 --> 00:38:20.000 podcast on yeah Honestly, I think we can have 00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:24.280 a whole podcast on each one of the nine Characteristics 00:38:24.280 --> 00:38:27.300 here or characteristics, I guess or attributes 00:38:27.300 --> 00:38:28.920 of the spiritual spirit. There we go I think 00:38:28.920 --> 00:38:30.420 we have a whole episode on that. So we're each 00:38:30.420 --> 00:38:32.619 fruit. Yeah each fruit. Oh, no, there's only 00:38:32.619 --> 00:38:34.440 one fruit Remember, there's only one fruit. That's 00:38:34.440 --> 00:38:36.960 what we just determined true, but I can think 00:38:36.960 --> 00:38:38.980 of it kind of like the godhead There's only one 00:38:38.980 --> 00:38:41.400 god, but there's three. Yeah, so we can say there's 00:38:41.400 --> 00:38:45.239 only one fruit of the spirit It's one bundle 00:38:45.239 --> 00:38:47.849 of grapes with nine grapes in it. Yeah we're 00:38:47.849 --> 00:38:49.949 getting a little semantic about it but there 00:38:49.949 --> 00:38:51.889 we go i think that was a good what's the next 00:38:51.889 --> 00:38:57.730 one that would be joy oh man count it all joy 00:38:57.730 --> 00:39:01.730 my dear brothers which is kind of that's a paradoxical 00:39:01.730 --> 00:39:03.630 in there because he's talking about when you're 00:39:03.630 --> 00:39:06.170 persecuted that was a direct context james says 00:39:06.170 --> 00:39:08.530 right the church is being persecuted and he says 00:39:08.530 --> 00:39:12.289 count it all joy which i think is really good 00:39:12.289 --> 00:39:15.420 actually uh i think that's Because it's easy 00:39:15.420 --> 00:39:17.460 to be we talk about it's easy to have and we 00:39:17.460 --> 00:39:19.659 confuse joy and happiness But it's easy to be 00:39:19.659 --> 00:39:21.800 joyful or whatever when times are good and you're 00:39:21.800 --> 00:39:24.880 on the mountaintop But that's not really what 00:39:24.880 --> 00:39:26.539 you hear talked about in the scriptures that 00:39:26.539 --> 00:39:30.039 much. It's usually when things are pretty horrific 00:39:30.039 --> 00:39:34.860 I was gonna say joy joy joy joy down That's what 00:39:34.860 --> 00:39:38.579 I was thinking of now. I agree like I think like 00:39:38.579 --> 00:39:42.829 most of the time You see the word joy is it's 00:39:42.829 --> 00:39:45.369 right around some sufferings like for example 00:39:45.369 --> 00:39:49.809 in in in John 15 It is you know, the you know, 00:39:50.090 --> 00:39:54.070 I'm the vine abide me chapter in John 15 10 It 00:39:54.070 --> 00:39:57.909 says my joy will be in you and your joy will 00:39:57.909 --> 00:40:00.630 be full and that is right before Jesus goes to 00:40:00.630 --> 00:40:03.949 the cross And he's talking about joy being in 00:40:03.949 --> 00:40:06.809 you, you know, like obviously this joy he's talking 00:40:06.809 --> 00:40:10.349 about is it's unconditional. Yeah It's unconditional 00:40:10.349 --> 00:40:13.030 on what's going on. Yeah, exactly. It's not based 00:40:13.030 --> 00:40:17.110 on good days or your circumstance. It's an eternal 00:40:17.110 --> 00:40:21.289 joy. It stays in the hard times, the pain that 00:40:21.289 --> 00:40:23.349 we go through life. You're still coming home, 00:40:23.389 --> 00:40:28.570 you're having joy. That joy comes from Jesus 00:40:28.570 --> 00:40:32.289 and what he did on the cross. And Christians 00:40:32.289 --> 00:40:36.949 should be the most joyful people because we get 00:40:36.949 --> 00:40:39.210 to experience Yeah, we get to experience some 00:40:39.210 --> 00:40:41.230 things on life But the things we look forward 00:40:41.230 --> 00:40:43.730 to in heaven should just fill you with joy because 00:40:43.730 --> 00:40:45.869 you know, there's something better at the end 00:40:45.869 --> 00:40:47.849 There's something better that's gonna happen 00:40:47.849 --> 00:40:50.130 once you leave this earth And that should bring 00:40:50.130 --> 00:40:52.969 the ultimate joy to your to you and the ultimate 00:40:52.969 --> 00:40:56.630 comfort to you Life is more than just what's 00:40:56.630 --> 00:40:58.750 here in front of us Basically is what we we have 00:40:58.750 --> 00:41:01.170 an old we have an eternal mindset. I guess is 00:41:01.170 --> 00:41:03.429 the word Can I just read something super fast? 00:41:03.449 --> 00:41:05.650 This was in my this is in my my study Bible. 00:41:05.650 --> 00:41:08.579 This is from The charles spurgeon we've talked 00:41:08.579 --> 00:41:10.579 about him several times. Shout out charles spurgeon. 00:41:10.579 --> 00:41:13.400 I love that man, but it says this at the bottom 00:41:13.400 --> 00:41:16.820 of my page Believers are not dependent. This 00:41:16.820 --> 00:41:20.400 is spurgeon's Words are not dependent on circumstances 00:41:20.400 --> 00:41:23.239 their joy comes from not what they have But from 00:41:23.239 --> 00:41:26.360 what they are not from where they are but from 00:41:26.360 --> 00:41:29.559 those they whose they are not from where what 00:41:29.559 --> 00:41:33.199 they enjoy but from what was suffered for them 00:41:33.199 --> 00:41:37.039 by their lord jesus christ, so our joy comes 00:41:37.039 --> 00:41:41.940 from Jesus and no one else and that it's hard 00:41:41.940 --> 00:41:45.980 to be iffy if your joy is good today or not if 00:41:45.980 --> 00:41:50.420 your joy is Coming from Jesus Christ. It's it's 00:41:50.420 --> 00:41:52.579 constant. It's not going anywhere. The ultimate 00:41:52.579 --> 00:41:56.039 human example would be the author of this letter 00:41:56.039 --> 00:41:58.719 that we're reading Because that dude lived a 00:41:58.719 --> 00:42:01.559 pretty tough life man at post -conversion. He 00:42:01.559 --> 00:42:06.530 lived a tough one. We talked about And I mean, 00:42:06.610 --> 00:42:09.269 he's writing is this is not a prison epistle, 00:42:09.429 --> 00:42:11.769 right? But a lot of it. So I don't know the numbers 00:42:11.769 --> 00:42:14.329 about half his letters, at least it seems like 00:42:14.329 --> 00:42:16.190 we're written from prison. And this wasn't like 00:42:16.190 --> 00:42:18.750 the still Doug brooms line from the other day 00:42:18.750 --> 00:42:20.530 in church. That was this was not three hots in 00:42:20.530 --> 00:42:23.329 a cop prison either. Like this was like horrific, 00:42:24.050 --> 00:42:26.949 archaic. Doug said that. Did you not hear that? 00:42:26.989 --> 00:42:29.150 When you say that, he said that I don't know. 00:42:29.150 --> 00:42:32.110 And he was talking about Paul's prison experience. 00:42:32.269 --> 00:42:34.550 I mean, they said these were like horrific, barbaric. 00:42:34.760 --> 00:42:38.159 you know ancient prisons horrible living conditions 00:42:38.159 --> 00:42:40.239 and this dude is just like what is he doing when 00:42:40.239 --> 00:42:42.400 he's strapped down next to somebody he's like 00:42:42.400 --> 00:42:44.460 preaching the gospel to the Philippian jailer 00:42:44.460 --> 00:42:49.300 gosh that's his mindset it's a profound delight 00:42:49.300 --> 00:42:51.420 and rejoicing that comes from knowing and serving 00:42:51.420 --> 00:42:55.539 god that's what this joy is um it's supernatural 00:42:55.539 --> 00:42:57.820 yeah i do got a bible verse i'd like to read 00:42:57.820 --> 00:43:02.059 nehemiah 8 10 says then he said unto them go 00:43:02.059 --> 00:43:05.219 your way eat the fat and drink the sweet Send 00:43:05.219 --> 00:43:08.199 the portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared 00:43:08.199 --> 00:43:11.460 for this day is holy unto our Lord Neither you 00:43:11.460 --> 00:43:13.860 be sorry for the joy of the Lord is your strength 00:43:13.860 --> 00:43:20.699 So I Did like we said the joy is not circumstantial 00:43:20.699 --> 00:43:22.800 right when we're walking through the valley of 00:43:22.800 --> 00:43:26.079 the shadow of death We should be having joy when 00:43:26.079 --> 00:43:29.579 we're at our lowest lows as Christians. We should 00:43:29.579 --> 00:43:31.719 be having that joy, right? It's not based on 00:43:31.719 --> 00:43:34.030 our circumstances or what we going through We 00:43:34.030 --> 00:43:35.730 know where our joy comes from. It comes from 00:43:35.730 --> 00:43:38.630 God and what he did for us by sending his son, 00:43:38.789 --> 00:43:40.809 Jesus Christ to die on the cross, right? That's 00:43:40.809 --> 00:43:43.730 great. Y 'all should be preachers, dude. This 00:43:43.730 --> 00:43:46.210 guy should try preaching, man. Dude, the guy's 00:43:46.210 --> 00:43:48.510 tearing it up. I'm just sitting here like, man, 00:43:49.090 --> 00:43:53.030 I've got to replace some 23 in there. I didn't 00:43:53.030 --> 00:43:56.150 see that coming. Dude, he is fantastic. He is 00:43:56.150 --> 00:44:00.239 a M and M quote. If you could fit that in, you'd 00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:02.360 take the cake. Oh my gosh. You win the internet 00:44:02.360 --> 00:44:06.260 for today. I don't know if I have anything else 00:44:06.260 --> 00:44:09.340 to add on joy, but I don't know. I tell our students 00:44:09.340 --> 00:44:14.639 this a lot. Joy is just prolonged, like something 00:44:14.639 --> 00:44:18.139 deep down that you can't really explain and why 00:44:18.139 --> 00:44:20.780 you're joyful in this situation. When when you're 00:44:20.780 --> 00:44:22.699 going through these tough times, why you're why 00:44:22.699 --> 00:44:25.159 you got a smile? Why are you you'd say it's not 00:44:25.159 --> 00:44:28.019 an emotion It's deeper than an emotion. It's 00:44:28.019 --> 00:44:30.539 much deeper than a happiness is an emotion happy 00:44:30.539 --> 00:44:33.940 you can show happiness like While being joyful, 00:44:33.940 --> 00:44:35.559 obviously most people show happiness when their 00:44:35.559 --> 00:44:38.519 joy happiness is fleeting Yeah, happiness is 00:44:38.519 --> 00:44:41.099 it it's very unstable. It could be here one second 00:44:41.099 --> 00:44:44.659 and you can have circumstantial. Yes And this 00:44:44.659 --> 00:44:47.739 is and this is what what? Spurgeon just said 00:44:47.739 --> 00:44:49.300 a second ago. Well, he didn't say it I said it 00:44:49.300 --> 00:44:51.440 but I read what he said and and he's talking 00:44:51.440 --> 00:44:54.159 about like ours It does not depend on our circumstances 00:44:54.159 --> 00:44:56.340 Joy does not depend on your circumstances the 00:44:56.340 --> 00:44:58.460 circumstances are Jesus Christ died 2 ,000 years 00:44:58.460 --> 00:45:00.880 ago for your sin and if did and if that is a 00:45:00.880 --> 00:45:03.380 true statement you can have this joy Because 00:45:03.380 --> 00:45:05.420 it's already happened and it's free to take it 00:45:05.420 --> 00:45:07.800 is yours to take if you just say I accept Jesus 00:45:07.800 --> 00:45:10.420 Christ as Lord and Savior And I want that I want 00:45:10.420 --> 00:45:13.480 that so I don't know. I mean, that's what I got 00:45:13.480 --> 00:45:16.130 on that Beautiful I got one more thing to add 00:45:16.130 --> 00:45:20.750 and then we can go on but we should be so joyful 00:45:20.750 --> 00:45:27.369 that other people notice and Our joy alone leads 00:45:27.369 --> 00:45:30.349 people to start asking questions of who are they? 00:45:30.469 --> 00:45:33.230 Why are they so joyful? How can I get that right? 00:45:33.289 --> 00:45:36.289 It opens door. It opens the door to share faith 00:45:36.289 --> 00:45:39.329 That's so we shouldn't put a bushel over our 00:45:39.329 --> 00:45:42.239 light. We should let our Lamp shine. Yeah, our 00:45:42.239 --> 00:45:45.360 illuminate. Very good Matthew five. Very good 00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:48.099 Matthew five quote there. Good job. Good job. 00:45:48.239 --> 00:45:51.300 Very proud of you. But yeah, I mean, I'm good 00:45:51.300 --> 00:45:53.940 with joy. Y 'all know that. Let's go joy. Let's 00:45:53.940 --> 00:45:57.420 go. What's next? Sorry. Peace, peace, peace, 00:45:57.659 --> 00:46:00.719 peace, brother in the war. So what is peace? 00:46:01.159 --> 00:46:05.579 Peace is an unshakable inner calm. That can be 00:46:05.579 --> 00:46:08.739 a rare quality in turbulent times. You know, 00:46:08.889 --> 00:46:11.909 the greatest example I can potentially think 00:46:11.909 --> 00:46:14.889 of and y 'all can come up with something else. 00:46:15.289 --> 00:46:18.510 If I don't, I can't top that. Well, that's, that's, 00:46:18.510 --> 00:46:22.469 I haven't even said nothing yet. Your definition 00:46:22.469 --> 00:46:24.650 was like beautiful. I don't know what it meant, 00:46:24.789 --> 00:46:28.550 but it had to be unspeakable, unshakable, unshakable. 00:46:28.809 --> 00:46:31.309 That means you're calm. Nothing, nothing can 00:46:31.309 --> 00:46:35.550 deter you. So I was trying to mention the The 00:46:35.550 --> 00:46:38.730 absolute best story in the Bible I could potentially 00:46:38.730 --> 00:46:42.929 think of to kind of show what this piece is talking 00:46:42.929 --> 00:46:46.510 about is when Jesus is sleeping in the middle 00:46:46.510 --> 00:46:50.309 of the storm. That's that's that's a good one. 00:46:50.469 --> 00:46:53.230 That's I can't think of a better example. I mean, 00:46:53.489 --> 00:46:56.110 all the disciples were scared to death, you know, 00:46:56.110 --> 00:46:58.829 they were trying to wake Jesus up. And what is 00:46:58.829 --> 00:47:01.510 he doing? He's sleeping the entire time. Not 00:47:01.510 --> 00:47:03.449 no worry at all, because he knows everything's 00:47:03.449 --> 00:47:07.059 going to be fine. that's the kind of piece that 00:47:07.059 --> 00:47:10.960 we need we we should have as Christians with 00:47:10.960 --> 00:47:13.380 the Holy Spirit right that's the Saturday morning 00:47:13.380 --> 00:47:17.400 I want to have irritated when they woke him up 00:47:17.400 --> 00:47:20.000 he was he's like what are you doing you have 00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:22.019 no faith I mean what are you I'm trying to have 00:47:22.019 --> 00:47:25.070 a good nap here exactly so As Christians, we 00:47:25.070 --> 00:47:27.590 can call on God's Holy Spirit to impart a sense 00:47:27.590 --> 00:47:29.769 of peace on us, right? Especially when things 00:47:29.769 --> 00:47:31.949 seem to be spinning out of control, when things 00:47:31.949 --> 00:47:36.369 are getting turbulent, when we feel like us as 00:47:36.369 --> 00:47:39.250 humans are losing control, we can call on the 00:47:39.250 --> 00:47:44.610 Holy Spirit to give us that peace. That deserved 00:47:44.610 --> 00:47:46.989 a button. And that piece that comes from the 00:47:46.989 --> 00:47:49.210 spirit. It's not just a small comfort, right? 00:47:49.489 --> 00:47:51.650 It's a piece that surpasses all understanding. 00:47:51.989 --> 00:47:53.730 Exactly. Someone once said that, man, I had that, 00:47:53.849 --> 00:47:56.989 that was my next note. Good job. Next. No, you 00:47:56.989 --> 00:48:00.550 ready to steal it from him. He, he looked over 00:48:00.550 --> 00:48:03.170 my iPad, saw what I had written down. No, that 00:48:03.170 --> 00:48:06.869 was good. I was chicken scratch. Probably it's, 00:48:07.110 --> 00:48:10.030 Oh, nevermind. Yes. Typewriter man. I'm back 00:48:10.030 --> 00:48:13.949 in the old times. No, but the spirit, you know, 00:48:13.980 --> 00:48:16.860 We can, we have those people in our life that 00:48:16.860 --> 00:48:19.360 we can call upon for comfort. You know, we need 00:48:19.360 --> 00:48:22.460 to hear an encouraging word or somebody to calm 00:48:22.460 --> 00:48:25.340 us down. Like, I know I keep bringing her up, 00:48:25.340 --> 00:48:27.159 but my wife's a good example. She's always there 00:48:27.159 --> 00:48:29.480 for me. If I need somebody to calm me down, or 00:48:29.480 --> 00:48:31.639 if I need to call somebody to give me some, some 00:48:31.639 --> 00:48:34.679 encouragement, right? Yeah. But this isn't the 00:48:34.679 --> 00:48:36.760 piece that - 45 days running, right? Yeah, exactly. 00:48:36.840 --> 00:48:43.639 I mean, we're starting off straight. No, but 00:48:43.639 --> 00:48:46.579 I mean The piece that he's talking about. It's 00:48:46.579 --> 00:48:49.079 not just a small comfort. It's not just to fulfill 00:48:49.079 --> 00:48:52.460 you for a few minutes, right? It's overwhelming 00:48:52.460 --> 00:48:56.000 peace Right, especially in this world. We have 00:48:56.000 --> 00:48:59.739 is so chaotic, right? Real peace is rare nowadays 00:48:59.739 --> 00:49:01.760 I would say I don't know if y 'all would agree 00:49:01.760 --> 00:49:04.340 or not, but real peace is rare. It's hard to 00:49:04.340 --> 00:49:09.940 find so We need to understand That yes in the 00:49:09.940 --> 00:49:12.719 middle of the storm we may we may face some trials 00:49:12.719 --> 00:49:15.440 some tribulations We may face some stuff that 00:49:15.440 --> 00:49:17.860 are really hard to face But we need to understand 00:49:17.860 --> 00:49:20.380 that our peace comes from god who is bigger than 00:49:20.380 --> 00:49:24.920 any problem we could ever face I Nail on the 00:49:24.920 --> 00:49:27.059 head moment I don't have a lot I I don't have 00:49:27.059 --> 00:49:29.219 a lot to add to that either bigger than any storm 00:49:29.219 --> 00:49:31.340 that may come I mean We're we're having going 00:49:31.340 --> 00:49:35.480 man ice age coming up in two days, right? People 00:49:35.480 --> 00:49:37.760 are buying all the bread out the store all the 00:49:37.760 --> 00:49:40.739 milk all the eggs I need to go to the store Yeah, 00:49:40.880 --> 00:49:43.739 you might want to but the point is God is bigger 00:49:43.739 --> 00:49:46.940 than any storm That you'll ever face, right? 00:49:47.019 --> 00:49:49.539 We need to be asking for peace to come from the 00:49:49.539 --> 00:49:52.059 one who's bigger than all that That's good stuff. 00:49:52.079 --> 00:49:55.260 So we should be looking for peace from without, 00:49:56.079 --> 00:49:58.639 from outside of ourselves, not within, right? 00:49:58.800 --> 00:50:01.179 It's kind of the world looks inwardly, right? 00:50:01.260 --> 00:50:04.179 That's a good point. There's no way, as humans, 00:50:04.480 --> 00:50:09.579 we'd be able to get that peace from within us, 00:50:09.599 --> 00:50:14.360 right? Well, that's the same kind of idea of 00:50:14.360 --> 00:50:16.000 everything we've looked at. I mean, there's really 00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:18.739 nothing good comes from within, naturally, from 00:50:18.739 --> 00:50:21.820 within our own. Human inclination or intuition 00:50:21.820 --> 00:50:26.659 at all. It all comes from outside, right? Luther 00:50:26.659 --> 00:50:29.099 said most of your Christian life comes from outside 00:50:29.099 --> 00:50:33.239 of you, right? Gosh, man in a room of theologians 00:50:33.239 --> 00:50:35.800 right now, man. I heard Alistair bag say that 00:50:35.800 --> 00:50:37.780 in a sermon. It just come to me. That's pretty 00:50:37.780 --> 00:50:39.460 good. That's pretty good. What's the next one? 00:50:39.500 --> 00:50:41.719 Are we dealing with peace or sorry? I might have 00:50:41.719 --> 00:50:43.880 jumped again a little bit. No, I mean, I'm I 00:50:43.880 --> 00:50:45.619 think that's all I got to say. Okay, well, it's 00:50:45.619 --> 00:50:48.139 just Have that piece like Jesus don't know how 00:50:48.139 --> 00:50:50.980 to add anything bruises keeps like really just 00:50:50.980 --> 00:50:52.760 hitting it right on the head And we're just like 00:50:52.760 --> 00:50:54.940 I don't what else can I there was a group of 00:50:54.940 --> 00:50:58.320 people tried to get it to a pipe one time? the 00:50:58.320 --> 00:51:02.780 peace pipe Yeah, I thought it was relevant based 00:51:02.780 --> 00:51:06.599 on our geography, but y 'all go ahead But I will 00:51:06.599 --> 00:51:10.130 like to add sorry I just know One scripture which 00:51:10.130 --> 00:51:12.469 Brandon talked about but comes from Philippians 00:51:12.469 --> 00:51:15.329 4, 6, or 7. It says, be careful for nothing but 00:51:15.329 --> 00:51:17.949 in everything by prayer and supplication with 00:51:17.949 --> 00:51:19.889 thanksgiving let your requests be made known 00:51:19.889 --> 00:51:23.769 unto God. And the peace of God which passeth 00:51:23.769 --> 00:51:26.550 all understanding shall keep your hearts and 00:51:26.550 --> 00:51:29.869 minds through Christ Jesus. That's what I got 00:51:29.869 --> 00:51:32.170 for peace. That was the verse that came to my 00:51:32.170 --> 00:51:35.179 mind as well. Let's talk a little bit about patience 00:51:35.179 --> 00:51:37.420 because sometimes I walk in here to the podcast 00:51:37.420 --> 00:51:40.519 room and I see Brandon and I just I just lose 00:51:40.519 --> 00:51:43.199 my patience and we're 51 minutes into this and 00:51:43.199 --> 00:51:44.699 we hope y 'all aren't losing y 'all's patience 00:51:44.699 --> 00:51:47.300 with us right? Keep listening guys. You know 00:51:47.300 --> 00:51:49.960 another word for patience? Long -suffering. Hopefully 00:51:49.960 --> 00:51:53.539 they won't be suffering long. They'll be suffering 00:51:53.539 --> 00:51:57.260 for 52 minutes. That's a biblical term to boot 00:51:57.260 --> 00:52:00.840 by the way. But it's also a piece is also called 00:52:00.840 --> 00:52:04.960 forbearance. So when we think of P are patient 00:52:04.960 --> 00:52:09.300 yeah, yeah Yeah, we've long gone peace Patience 00:52:09.300 --> 00:52:12.820 is also called forbearance. So I'm the kind of 00:52:12.820 --> 00:52:15.840 person I have terrible road rage Like I'll lose 00:52:15.840 --> 00:52:17.860 my patience with somebody in front of me real 00:52:17.860 --> 00:52:22.940 quick But luckily for me luckily for y 'all if 00:52:22.940 --> 00:52:24.960 you lose your patience quick, that's not the 00:52:24.960 --> 00:52:28.380 patience That Paul's talking about right here 00:52:28.380 --> 00:52:30.380 That's what you remember when I mentioned earlier 00:52:30.380 --> 00:52:33.610 that some of these you think one word art it 00:52:33.610 --> 00:52:36.469 means this but it's totally different yeah is 00:52:36.469 --> 00:52:38.610 this one of them this is one of them okay the 00:52:38.610 --> 00:52:42.170 road rage part i'm gonna say broom to another 00:52:42.170 --> 00:52:44.949 dr broom quote he said the other day he was talking 00:52:44.949 --> 00:52:46.309 preaching about anger the other night were you 00:52:46.309 --> 00:52:48.170 in there i think it was a wednesday night and 00:52:48.170 --> 00:52:50.409 he said sometimes you know somebody may wave 00:52:50.409 --> 00:52:52.210 at you and they don't have all their fingers 00:52:52.210 --> 00:52:55.039 up or something Don't know what he meant by that 00:52:55.039 --> 00:52:58.500 somebody will have to explain that But patience 00:52:58.500 --> 00:53:02.519 long -suffering it means slow to anger endures 00:53:02.519 --> 00:53:06.940 wrong So endures wrong and do I'm interested 00:53:06.940 --> 00:53:08.659 in yeah, do you want you want to know more about 00:53:08.659 --> 00:53:11.460 I want to know more about it I'm interested Paul 00:53:11.460 --> 00:53:13.940 is saying we should have patience with people 00:53:13.940 --> 00:53:18.619 who've done us wrong who've hurt us Who have 00:53:18.619 --> 00:53:21.500 done stuff against us just like we continually 00:53:21.500 --> 00:53:26.329 sin every day God has patience with us. He's 00:53:26.329 --> 00:53:29.510 got a lot with me. It's kind of that same idea 00:53:29.510 --> 00:53:31.650 that another teacher before him, an even greater 00:53:31.650 --> 00:53:33.630 teacher, talked about turning the other cheek. 00:53:35.309 --> 00:53:39.409 Long -suffering. Long -suffering, man. So, I 00:53:39.409 --> 00:53:44.849 mean, currently we live in a world that's plagued 00:53:44.849 --> 00:53:47.550 by quick fixes. You know, you can door -dash 00:53:47.550 --> 00:53:51.119 whatever you want. You can sit at home have your 00:53:51.119 --> 00:53:54.380 groceries delivered with Walmart Plus, you know, 00:53:54.579 --> 00:54:00.679 you can have your medications delivered from 00:54:00.679 --> 00:54:03.940 the pharmacy, right? Amazon Prime, you know, 00:54:04.119 --> 00:54:06.639 two day shipping, one day if you are overnight 00:54:06.639 --> 00:54:08.260 shipping, if you catch it fast enough, right? 00:54:08.519 --> 00:54:12.159 We live in a world that's, we get our quick fixes, 00:54:12.559 --> 00:54:14.940 but with long suffering, with patience, right? 00:54:15.179 --> 00:54:20.929 God is telling us that patience, Paul, in this 00:54:20.929 --> 00:54:23.469 case, is telling us that patience has to do with 00:54:23.469 --> 00:54:25.710 sin and how we need to be patient with people. 00:54:29.269 --> 00:54:32.969 When we think of patience, we're thinking of, 00:54:33.349 --> 00:54:36.210 man, I'm losing my patience with that guy. Man, 00:54:36.469 --> 00:54:39.510 I'm getting very impatient. I need this now. 00:54:40.070 --> 00:54:43.000 I need it now. That's not what Paul's talking 00:54:43.000 --> 00:54:44.880 about Paul's talking about we should be patient 00:54:44.880 --> 00:54:47.260 with other people who've done wrong to us Just 00:54:47.260 --> 00:54:50.000 like God is patient with us who we've done wrong 00:54:50.000 --> 00:54:54.880 to That's good stuff I've said that a lot today. 00:54:55.340 --> 00:54:57.199 I don't know anything else to add because I mean 00:54:57.199 --> 00:55:00.340 we that's good We need to give others some grace 00:55:00.340 --> 00:55:03.599 just like God gives us grace We got to give others 00:55:03.599 --> 00:55:06.880 grace right the world needs more patient people. 00:55:07.440 --> 00:55:10.159 I mean we live in a cancel culture world you 00:55:10.159 --> 00:55:12.099 do one wrong thing, you're getting canceled. 00:55:12.539 --> 00:55:15.039 After this episode goes out, we may be victims 00:55:15.039 --> 00:55:19.860 of that. So be patient with us guys, okay? That's 00:55:19.860 --> 00:55:23.980 the whole point of this, right? We gotta learn 00:55:23.980 --> 00:55:26.239 to be patient with people and not be quick to 00:55:26.239 --> 00:55:29.659 condemn, right? You know what's that popular 00:55:29.659 --> 00:55:32.659 saying, only God can judge, right? We have no, 00:55:33.099 --> 00:55:35.420 we can't judge people. We gotta be patient with 00:55:35.420 --> 00:55:38.760 what they're... With what they do just like God 00:55:38.760 --> 00:55:42.599 is patient with us That's think about the parable 00:55:42.599 --> 00:55:47.659 of the The man owes 10 ,000 talents. Yeah. Did 00:55:47.659 --> 00:55:50.719 you have that one in there too? Okay. Yeah Brandon 00:55:50.719 --> 00:55:53.119 tell the story real quick. You got it, man You're 00:55:53.119 --> 00:55:55.280 the one who's talking about it the guy who's 00:55:55.280 --> 00:55:57.860 10 ,000 talents He forgives him and then he goes 00:55:57.860 --> 00:55:59.780 out is like his servant and then he goes out 00:55:59.780 --> 00:56:02.539 and he beats the crap out of his buddy hose him 00:56:02.539 --> 00:56:07.639 like what like Five bucks. Yeah. Yeah. Five, 00:56:07.820 --> 00:56:10.139 like a couple of days worth of wages and he owes 00:56:10.139 --> 00:56:12.880 an insurmountable amount of money. He beats the 00:56:12.880 --> 00:56:15.559 crap out of him and demands it now. And then 00:56:15.559 --> 00:56:18.079 if, you know, he ends up being like condemned 00:56:18.079 --> 00:56:21.159 to spiritual death, basically, I think that's 00:56:21.159 --> 00:56:23.340 kind of the, yeah, the idea there, but that's, 00:56:23.400 --> 00:56:24.820 yeah, that's what I thought about. Yeah, that's, 00:56:24.820 --> 00:56:28.059 that's basically what the patience is. It's not 00:56:28.059 --> 00:56:29.840 talking about that getting that quick fix. We 00:56:29.840 --> 00:56:32.300 need to learn to be patient. It's we need to 00:56:32.219 --> 00:56:34.659 Or with things we need to learn to be patient 00:56:34.659 --> 00:56:37.599 with others just like god is patient with us 00:56:37.599 --> 00:56:40.119 That's good. That's good. I think we hit patients. 00:56:40.119 --> 00:56:42.119 That's completely counterintuitive to our flesh. 00:56:42.119 --> 00:56:44.980 Oh, yeah We want to we want to just fall off 00:56:44.980 --> 00:56:46.539 the handle I don't know We want to like just 00:56:46.539 --> 00:56:48.659 go crazy on people sometimes and just like man 00:56:48.659 --> 00:56:52.099 your fault. Well, we just have no patience in 00:56:52.099 --> 00:56:54.679 forgiveness or just I don't know. I don't know. 00:56:54.739 --> 00:56:57.699 I you just hit that I'm not gonna keep beating 00:56:57.699 --> 00:57:01.019 the dead horse, but I don't know I I think what 00:57:01.019 --> 00:57:03.639 would be probably a good antidote to that is 00:57:03.639 --> 00:57:06.780 if we could offer some kindness. Ooh, gentleness. 00:57:08.139 --> 00:57:10.320 I like it. And some of that type stuff. You know 00:57:10.320 --> 00:57:14.719 how we mentioned earlier that because of love 00:57:14.719 --> 00:57:17.699 we have all these other fruit? Yeah. Right? We 00:57:17.699 --> 00:57:20.000 talked about that. So love is the impetus for 00:57:20.000 --> 00:57:22.559 all of this. I would say so, you know, especially 00:57:22.559 --> 00:57:24.500 gentleness or kindness, right? The fruit of the 00:57:24.500 --> 00:57:27.869 Spirit is a natural result of love. Right. The 00:57:27.869 --> 00:57:31.329 rest love is the main top priority and then everything 00:57:31.329 --> 00:57:33.630 else kind of falls under just like your heart 00:57:33.630 --> 00:57:37.929 or your brain in your body is probably your most... 00:57:37.929 --> 00:57:40.769 It's above your gallbladder. Yeah, the gallbladder. 00:57:40.949 --> 00:57:45.569 Why do we even have that? That's useless. But 00:57:45.569 --> 00:57:47.429 when you go to eat some fried chicken, you're 00:57:47.429 --> 00:57:48.849 probably going, you might find out from what 00:57:48.849 --> 00:57:54.110 I've heard. I will see. I wish you the best, 00:57:54.210 --> 00:57:56.429 man. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. No, but 00:57:56.429 --> 00:57:58.030 just like our brain and our hearts, probably 00:57:58.030 --> 00:58:01.329 our most important part of our body. Would y 00:58:01.329 --> 00:58:03.130 'all agree? It's the thing that without our brain, 00:58:03.130 --> 00:58:05.269 our heart, we're not living, right? We're dead. 00:58:05.449 --> 00:58:09.969 We're gone. We're out of this world. You know, 00:58:11.110 --> 00:58:18.289 wait, wait, wait, which one is it? But no, that's 00:58:18.289 --> 00:58:20.329 that's kind of how love is and just wrinkles 00:58:20.329 --> 00:58:23.869 down but anyway, I got off target we're on kindness 00:58:23.869 --> 00:58:27.090 now Yeah, there we are. We're on kindness To 00:58:27.090 --> 00:58:29.610 note when God's Spirit begins to develop love 00:58:29.610 --> 00:58:32.289 in the Christians heart treating others with 00:58:32.289 --> 00:58:35.610 kindness compassion and forgiveness follows Right. 00:58:35.610 --> 00:58:37.849 You can't you can't you won't have a sense of 00:58:37.849 --> 00:58:39.510 kindness compassion forgiveness if you don't 00:58:39.510 --> 00:58:42.980 have love If you don't have a selfless, sacrificial 00:58:42.980 --> 00:58:47.019 love, you can't show someone compassion, kindness, 00:58:47.400 --> 00:58:50.039 or forgiveness, because chances are you're doing 00:58:50.039 --> 00:58:54.079 it selfishly for a gain in your life, or to gain 00:58:54.079 --> 00:58:59.360 something. Preach. It sounds like these false 00:58:59.360 --> 00:59:03.840 teachers commonly referred to as the... Judaizers. 00:59:04.239 --> 00:59:06.639 That Paul was just talking about. I don't know. 00:59:06.940 --> 00:59:09.610 It all just weaves together. Yeah, and I think 00:59:09.610 --> 00:59:11.789 I don't think you can fully understand kindness 00:59:11.789 --> 00:59:15.369 until you fully understand the cross And that's 00:59:15.369 --> 00:59:16.949 kind of what this whole thing is going back to 00:59:16.949 --> 00:59:21.250 you can't fully display kindness Until you've 00:59:21.250 --> 00:59:23.190 seen the kindness that God has shown towards 00:59:23.190 --> 00:59:25.989 us on a daily basis a weekly basis a monthly 00:59:25.989 --> 00:59:28.469 basis Throughout your entire life. You're receiving 00:59:28.469 --> 00:59:31.920 so much kindness from God And, you know, we just, 00:59:31.980 --> 00:59:33.300 I don't know, I just think we just don't fully 00:59:33.300 --> 00:59:35.079 understand kindness because we don't fully understand 00:59:35.079 --> 00:59:37.139 the cross of Jesus Christ. Hey, speaking of cross, 00:59:37.199 --> 00:59:39.280 we had a good sermon on that Sunday night. Hey, 00:59:39.280 --> 00:59:40.820 shout out Seth Harris. Want to get him on the 00:59:40.820 --> 00:59:44.400 podcast. Two people in the room heard it. One 00:59:44.400 --> 00:59:50.599 did not. No, I'm going to get into the video 00:59:50.599 --> 00:59:52.239 of it so he can listen to it. Sorry, Seth. Hope 00:59:52.239 --> 00:59:56.170 you listen. No, but... So kindness right it's 00:59:56.170 --> 00:59:57.929 the opposite of being harsh. It's the opposite 00:59:57.929 --> 00:59:59.510 of being mean. It's the opposite of bullying 00:59:59.510 --> 01:00:03.429 right? You know what's really easy? keyboard 01:00:03.429 --> 01:00:06.510 warriors Sitting behind a screen typing away 01:00:06.510 --> 01:00:09.170 on Twitter or ex formerly known as Twitter You 01:00:09.170 --> 01:00:11.650 know where they can hide behind a fake profile 01:00:11.650 --> 01:00:15.190 picture fake name, right? It's so easy to talk 01:00:15.190 --> 01:00:18.289 to be rude to be bully somebody over the internet 01:00:18.289 --> 01:00:22.130 because you don't have to face them in person 01:00:22.329 --> 01:00:24.949 Y 'all agree with that? Yeah, Mike Tyson said 01:00:24.949 --> 01:00:27.190 the Internet's what do you say you can get y 01:00:27.190 --> 01:00:29.210 'all to used to being able to Oh, yeah smart 01:00:29.210 --> 01:00:31.969 with people without getting punched in the face 01:00:31.969 --> 01:00:36.429 Kindness man kindness kindness kindness right 01:00:36.429 --> 01:00:40.190 don't weaponize people or don't love people in 01:00:40.190 --> 01:00:44.530 truth do not weaponize The truth. Whoa, that's 01:00:44.530 --> 01:00:48.150 good. Jesus could have condemned all of us You 01:00:48.150 --> 01:00:50.989 know, we could all end up in the same place if 01:00:50.989 --> 01:00:53.090 it wasn't for Jesus, correct? We would all be 01:00:53.090 --> 01:00:56.389 in the same place if it wasn't for Jesus. Jesus 01:00:56.389 --> 01:00:59.130 showed kindness throughout his entire life, through 01:00:59.130 --> 01:01:01.610 all the miracles he did, throughout all his teachings. 01:01:03.170 --> 01:01:08.650 Jesus is the best example of kindness. He's the 01:01:08.650 --> 01:01:11.050 best example of literally all nine of these attributes, 01:01:11.090 --> 01:01:13.769 in my opinion. There's no doubt about it. But 01:01:13.769 --> 01:01:16.889 does anybody have any Bible story that comes 01:01:16.889 --> 01:01:19.829 to mind or anything with kindness? I felt like 01:01:19.829 --> 01:01:23.210 I was in a class. Does anyone have a story to 01:01:23.210 --> 01:01:26.750 tell? I was like, teacher, call on me, you know? 01:01:26.750 --> 01:01:28.409 All right, Brandon. I don't have one. I was just 01:01:28.409 --> 01:01:30.269 - Yeah, you're ducking the question by doing 01:01:30.269 --> 01:01:33.170 all that. I'm not ducking the question. What 01:01:33.170 --> 01:01:34.269 are you talking about? I'm thinking of - I'm 01:01:34.269 --> 01:01:35.630 trying to think of a good - Which one do you 01:01:35.630 --> 01:01:38.730 got one in mind, Brewer? I'm trying to think 01:01:38.730 --> 01:01:41.429 of one. Like, I mean, I just think - The Good 01:01:41.429 --> 01:01:43.530 Samaritan. Yeah, the Good Samaritan. That's a 01:01:43.530 --> 01:01:46.949 great parable. I mean, I think any time he - 01:01:46.989 --> 01:01:50.110 does a miracle and heal somebody he shows kindness 01:01:50.110 --> 01:01:52.550 or just today I read about him feeding the 5 01:01:52.550 --> 01:01:55.949 ,000 he had compassion on the people and he didn't 01:01:55.949 --> 01:01:57.949 have to feed them it wasn't necessary for him 01:01:57.949 --> 01:02:00.110 to feed them they could have gone to a town and 01:02:00.110 --> 01:02:02.969 bought food somewhere but five loaves and two 01:02:02.969 --> 01:02:04.789 fishes and he turned it into enough food for 01:02:04.789 --> 01:02:07.829 5 ,000 men and women and children included and 01:02:07.829 --> 01:02:10.110 I mean that just shows kindness because he thought 01:02:10.110 --> 01:02:12.579 of the people's needs over you know what People 01:02:12.579 --> 01:02:13.900 would have just normally said, go buy your own 01:02:13.900 --> 01:02:17.199 food. Get out of here. Ephesians 4 .32 says, 01:02:17.480 --> 01:02:19.739 and be kind one to another, tender -hearted, 01:02:20.219 --> 01:02:22.719 forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's 01:02:22.719 --> 01:02:27.239 sake, hath forgiven you. We can get hate from 01:02:27.239 --> 01:02:29.900 all over the world, but as Christians, we should 01:02:29.900 --> 01:02:34.440 be the light, the light of kindness. Just like 01:02:34.440 --> 01:02:36.880 we talked about with the joyfulness, we should 01:02:36.880 --> 01:02:39.639 show that kindness, and that can be a chance 01:02:39.639 --> 01:02:43.300 to bring in Bring in somebody into the faith 01:02:43.300 --> 01:02:45.880 knowing just showing them kindness, you know, 01:02:46.280 --> 01:02:47.800 you don't you don't know what people are going 01:02:47.800 --> 01:02:49.619 through You don't know what your one thing that 01:02:49.619 --> 01:02:52.059 you say to them how it can change their life 01:02:52.059 --> 01:02:55.739 We don't know people's story what they face their 01:02:55.739 --> 01:02:58.900 backstory All we know is what we can affect by 01:02:58.900 --> 01:03:02.079 what we say, you know, you can alter drastically 01:03:02.079 --> 01:03:05.599 alter somebody's life by just saying one thing 01:03:05.599 --> 01:03:08.400 to them one kind thing, you know, you don't know 01:03:08.400 --> 01:03:12.199 if they're gonna go home and Try to kill themselves, 01:03:12.199 --> 01:03:13.860 you know, try to put themselves out of their 01:03:13.860 --> 01:03:15.639 misery But you said one thing to them in the 01:03:15.639 --> 01:03:17.860 grocery store That was kind and that changed 01:03:17.860 --> 01:03:20.699 their whole outcome and you don't know What their 01:03:20.699 --> 01:03:22.940 future is gonna look like or what God used you 01:03:22.940 --> 01:03:27.099 in that before in that certain situation So we 01:03:27.099 --> 01:03:30.940 should show kindness Every day to people regardless 01:03:30.940 --> 01:03:34.579 if we you know, we innerly dislike them or we 01:03:34.579 --> 01:03:37.380 really can't stand them You know, or if they're 01:03:37.380 --> 01:03:41.880 not kind to us exactly Right, we should fight 01:03:41.880 --> 01:03:46.280 fire with Love exactly not fire. It's not fire. 01:03:46.280 --> 01:03:51.719 Yeah, that's good stuff. But Next many more kindness. 01:03:51.719 --> 01:03:54.699 We're going to goodness now. I like goodness. 01:03:54.780 --> 01:03:59.300 What a broad It could be a lot of things The 01:03:59.300 --> 01:04:02.840 most broad attribute in this list. What is goodness 01:04:02.840 --> 01:04:05.639 man? Like just do good. Is that is that what 01:04:05.639 --> 01:04:08.960 this is? It's the opposite of badness Yeah, I 01:04:08.960 --> 01:04:12.980 have a dog who's full badness 100 % bad. It's 01:04:12.980 --> 01:04:17.519 all he is so One thing about this fruit is the 01:04:17.519 --> 01:04:19.920 fruit of the spirit this fruit is an attribute 01:04:19.920 --> 01:04:23.800 of action An attribute of action. Can you explain 01:04:23.800 --> 01:04:27.440 that? Yes, so it means living one's life with 01:04:27.440 --> 01:04:30.619 good morals and Motives as well as doing good 01:04:30.619 --> 01:04:34.320 things for others, right? It's a action action 01:04:34.320 --> 01:04:37.670 act is an ing You have to show goodness. You 01:04:37.670 --> 01:04:40.829 have to do something to be good. You have to 01:04:40.829 --> 01:04:42.510 live your life with good morals. You have to 01:04:42.510 --> 01:04:46.550 treat people with goodness. Kindness and goodness 01:04:46.550 --> 01:04:48.670 kind of correlate with one another. You really 01:04:48.670 --> 01:04:54.809 can't have one and not the other. It's kind of 01:04:54.809 --> 01:04:58.650 like a chain -link fence. It's kind of the picture 01:04:58.650 --> 01:05:02.230 I'm getting. They're all interlocked. It's this 01:05:02.230 --> 01:05:05.550 theological lattice work. It's kind of it's a 01:05:05.550 --> 01:05:08.349 beautiful elegant way of saying that right it 01:05:08.349 --> 01:05:11.010 Producing the fruit of goodness is a true mark 01:05:11.010 --> 01:05:14.710 of godliness It also has an attractive power 01:05:14.710 --> 01:05:17.849 and draws people to Jesus through Christian actions, 01:05:17.849 --> 01:05:20.429 you know, just like we talked about with kindness 01:05:20.429 --> 01:05:24.750 It all kind of correlates with one another on 01:05:24.750 --> 01:05:33.699 those two there They're They're they're one in 01:05:33.699 --> 01:05:36.119 the one in the same basically they just different 01:05:36.119 --> 01:05:39.260 different forms of one's kindness one's more 01:05:39.260 --> 01:05:42.039 of an emotion Like you're giving somebody emotion 01:05:42.039 --> 01:05:43.940 and one's actually an action. That's good. I 01:05:43.940 --> 01:05:46.320 guess that's the best way I can say it I've been 01:05:46.320 --> 01:05:47.760 saying that's good this whole time and we're 01:05:47.760 --> 01:05:49.800 talking about that's good now, but I'm a goodness. 01:05:49.800 --> 01:05:53.780 That's good What about faithfulness? Man, and 01:05:53.780 --> 01:05:56.139 how do we exercise faithfulness? You know what 01:05:56.139 --> 01:05:58.840 I mean? Like what is how is that like a why why 01:05:58.840 --> 01:06:00.480 is that a fruit of the spirit? I guess you know 01:06:00.480 --> 01:06:02.739 like What's up with that? It's kind of an action 01:06:02.739 --> 01:06:05.659 one too, isn't it? I mean, is it? I mean, exercising 01:06:05.659 --> 01:06:07.699 or is this one of those that means something 01:06:07.699 --> 01:06:09.340 completely different than what you think when 01:06:09.340 --> 01:06:11.380 you read the word guys? I just want you to understand 01:06:11.380 --> 01:06:13.420 on the podcast who's listening to this. This 01:06:13.420 --> 01:06:15.579 man is sitting like a professor right now. He's 01:06:15.579 --> 01:06:18.500 looking at us up and down. Like we're like terrible 01:06:18.500 --> 01:06:21.039 students and I feel horrible. He is making us 01:06:21.039 --> 01:06:24.179 feel so bad right now, but tell us, tell us what, 01:06:24.340 --> 01:06:26.900 what does faithfulness mean, man? All right. 01:06:27.719 --> 01:06:32.900 Think of it as in the word, uh, unwavering Not 01:06:32.900 --> 01:06:36.900 as I have faith the size our faith size of mustardy 01:06:36.900 --> 01:06:38.860 Camus mountains Don't think of it it that way 01:06:38.860 --> 01:06:42.300 think of it. You're being faithful You're being 01:06:42.300 --> 01:06:44.480 faith like you would be faithful to your wife, 01:06:44.880 --> 01:06:46.420 you know, you wouldn't cheat on your wife You 01:06:46.420 --> 01:06:49.480 would be loyal think of it as loyal being loyal. 01:06:49.900 --> 01:06:52.360 That's a good one. So is that an action one or 01:06:52.360 --> 01:06:56.260 well In a sense, I would I would say yes cuz 01:06:56.260 --> 01:06:59.809 in a sense. Yes It could be both mental and physical, 01:06:59.809 --> 01:07:02.630 I would say. It's a little mixture of both, right? 01:07:02.889 --> 01:07:05.230 Faithfulness is sticking to what's true even 01:07:05.230 --> 01:07:09.269 when life is hard. Being faithful to the Word, 01:07:09.929 --> 01:07:15.090 trying to live it out every day and not drifting 01:07:15.090 --> 01:07:18.210 away. Being faithful to what the Word says, not 01:07:18.210 --> 01:07:20.010 picking and choosing what you want to follow 01:07:20.010 --> 01:07:22.190 and what you want to set aside and be like, oh, 01:07:22.289 --> 01:07:25.289 that's for another... Denomination or that's 01:07:25.289 --> 01:07:31.510 for another another denomination But we love 01:07:31.510 --> 01:07:34.090 y 'all if you listening its faithfulness is trusting 01:07:34.090 --> 01:07:37.429 God when we don't understand when we when we 01:07:37.429 --> 01:07:41.550 have something absolutely Something in our something 01:07:41.550 --> 01:07:44.610 in our life that we don't understand why it's 01:07:44.610 --> 01:07:48.590 happening or why it's happening into us Faithfulness 01:07:48.590 --> 01:07:52.230 is trusting God throughout that entire thing 01:07:52.380 --> 01:07:56.219 Not knowing the outcome not knowing what's going 01:07:56.219 --> 01:07:57.980 to happen what tomorrow is gonna look like but 01:07:57.980 --> 01:07:59.800 it's trusting God that he's gonna get you to 01:07:59.800 --> 01:08:03.840 tomorrow It's good I'm sorry. I don't know what 01:08:03.840 --> 01:08:07.099 else I had. I just this man came very prepared 01:08:07.099 --> 01:08:10.679 You know, you know a great great great example 01:08:10.679 --> 01:08:14.070 of it in the Bible There's a lot of faithfulness 01:08:14.070 --> 01:08:16.270 in the Bible. I bet you can guess who I'm about 01:08:16.270 --> 01:08:19.430 to talk about. Father Abraham. Had many sons. 01:08:19.729 --> 01:08:23.029 Is that, is that, is that? No, no, no. That is, 01:08:23.029 --> 01:08:25.630 that is a, that's a good one. That's, that's 01:08:25.630 --> 01:08:28.609 great. Um, no, I'm actually, I'm talking about 01:08:28.609 --> 01:08:31.510 Jesus, right? But I'm guessing, I'm guessing 01:08:31.510 --> 01:08:34.029 you were getting with the whole Isaac situation. 01:08:34.250 --> 01:08:37.430 The low hanging fruit, the Jesus card. He was 01:08:37.430 --> 01:08:40.109 saying Abraham was being faithful to God by going 01:08:40.109 --> 01:08:42.770 to sacrifice his only son. Yeah. Right. That's 01:08:42.770 --> 01:08:44.750 how I was going. Yeah. No, I'm talking about 01:08:44.750 --> 01:08:49.430 Jesus being staying faithful to the cross. You 01:08:49.430 --> 01:08:51.869 know, can you imagine the emotion Jesus went 01:08:51.869 --> 01:08:53.590 through? Yeah, I think about the Garden of Gethsemane, 01:08:53.789 --> 01:08:56.350 the prayer. Yeah, sweat and blood. That's capularies 01:08:56.350 --> 01:09:00.109 burst and, and he let the spice cut past from 01:09:00.109 --> 01:09:02.489 him. Are you a doctor? What are you? I heard 01:09:02.489 --> 01:09:05.130 that in a sermon somewhere too. Big words. Big 01:09:05.130 --> 01:09:07.130 words. I'm not sure what it means, but. Sweating 01:09:07.130 --> 01:09:09.909 blood. But Jesus staying faithful to the cross, 01:09:09.909 --> 01:09:12.819 meaning He could have walked away. He didn't 01:09:12.819 --> 01:09:15.159 have to do that, right? He had all the power 01:09:15.159 --> 01:09:19.439 in the world. But what did he do? He stayed faithful 01:09:19.439 --> 01:09:21.939 to God's plan. He said, not my will, but yours. 01:09:22.140 --> 01:09:27.380 Exactly. Right? And because of that Jesus ripple 01:09:27.380 --> 01:09:29.819 effect, after ripple effect, we all know what 01:09:29.819 --> 01:09:32.180 a ripple effect is. Next time I preach, that's 01:09:32.180 --> 01:09:34.300 going to be my sermon title. Ripple effect? The 01:09:34.300 --> 01:09:36.439 ripple effect. I'm down. You don't know what 01:09:36.439 --> 01:09:40.159 your yes, saying yes to God's, you know? Yeah. 01:09:40.250 --> 01:09:43.050 going to do or who it's going to affect but because 01:09:43.050 --> 01:09:45.750 Jesus stayed faithful to God's plan to put them 01:09:45.750 --> 01:09:48.029 on the cross stayed faithful to the cross we 01:09:48.029 --> 01:09:50.810 now you know that book the book we're holding 01:09:50.810 --> 01:09:55.670 would be a lot lighter if Jesus walked away we 01:09:55.670 --> 01:09:57.890 would know I don't think I'd have one if Jesus 01:09:57.890 --> 01:09:59.630 walked away I mean we wouldn't be here sitting 01:09:59.630 --> 01:10:02.869 talking right now I guarantee that yeah you know 01:10:02.869 --> 01:10:09.199 pretty good so Jesus staying faithful to the 01:10:09.199 --> 01:10:12.340 cross just like Paul staying faithful you know 01:10:12.340 --> 01:10:15.319 when Paul and Damascus right we wouldn't have 01:10:15.319 --> 01:10:16.819 we wouldn't be talking about the further spirit 01:10:16.819 --> 01:10:18.720 because it wouldn't be written if Paul didn't 01:10:18.720 --> 01:10:20.479 stay faithful to God's plan in his life when 01:10:20.479 --> 01:10:23.640 he blinded him you know all these things people 01:10:23.640 --> 01:10:25.579 are staying faithful to the plan has caused that 01:10:25.579 --> 01:10:27.399 ripple effect of where we ended up right now 01:10:27.399 --> 01:10:31.840 talking about this so 2000 years downstream no 01:10:31.840 --> 01:10:36.039 pun intended Exactly, and we we got to know that 01:10:36.039 --> 01:10:39.859 God grows our faithfulness so that we don't quit 01:10:39.859 --> 01:10:43.460 in tough seasons You know if you're like recently 01:10:43.460 --> 01:10:46.100 born -again Christian you're recently You're 01:10:46.100 --> 01:10:48.739 recently indulging in the word right it's a lot 01:10:48.739 --> 01:10:51.020 easier for you to turn away from it if something 01:10:51.020 --> 01:10:53.380 happens to you That's why faithfulness is real. 01:10:53.380 --> 01:10:58.119 It's really hard to achieve But God continually 01:10:58.119 --> 01:11:01.020 grows it just like it's like an element of perseverance 01:11:01.020 --> 01:11:05.100 there Yeah, exactly. Just like I talked about 01:11:05.100 --> 01:11:07.739 a dollar general. I feel like that's what God's 01:11:07.739 --> 01:11:09.560 continually doing throwing seeds of faithfulness 01:11:09.560 --> 01:11:12.399 out to us. We get faithfulness popping up everywhere 01:11:12.399 --> 01:11:14.359 just like the dollar generals. I knew I knew 01:11:14.359 --> 01:11:15.699 there was something that was going to connect 01:11:15.699 --> 01:11:17.600 that common or that didn't really make sense. 01:11:17.819 --> 01:11:20.579 But now here it is exactly connected to doing 01:11:20.579 --> 01:11:24.560 the weave the weave. It's a Donald Trump quote. 01:11:25.539 --> 01:11:29.119 But like I said that this faithfulness that Paul's 01:11:29.119 --> 01:11:31.600 talking about is not the faithfulness. that we 01:11:31.600 --> 01:11:34.020 think of just having faith be like, I'm going 01:11:34.020 --> 01:11:37.779 to have faith that that candle on the table is 01:11:37.779 --> 01:11:41.140 going to move when I look at it. No, that's we're 01:11:41.140 --> 01:11:42.899 talking about faithfulness, having faithfulness 01:11:42.899 --> 01:11:45.520 to God's plan in your life and being able to 01:11:45.520 --> 01:11:48.840 understand and discern what he's telling you 01:11:48.840 --> 01:11:53.520 to do. That's I'm not going to say it, but you 01:11:53.520 --> 01:11:55.279 know what I'm about to say? That is fantastic. 01:11:55.420 --> 01:11:57.680 That is fantastic. Just like you said, a superb. 01:12:00.190 --> 01:12:02.970 I've got to say and we got a hats off to Brewery 01:12:02.970 --> 01:12:05.989 this guy comes so prepared. Alright next second 01:12:05.989 --> 01:12:07.850 to last we're gonna move through these last two 01:12:07.850 --> 01:12:11.250 pretty quick here gentleness. I did have a Bible 01:12:11.250 --> 01:12:13.689 story for that one. Alright I'll ask you in a 01:12:13.689 --> 01:12:16.529 sec. I was hoping you would give me a minute 01:12:16.529 --> 01:12:21.029 because I forgot what it was. Alright so the 01:12:21.029 --> 01:12:23.569 way a Christian engages with others is what the 01:12:23.569 --> 01:12:26.909 fruit of gentleness is all about. Right the way 01:12:26.909 --> 01:12:31.710 the way we interact with people is the whole 01:12:31.710 --> 01:12:34.930 term of what gentleness means the ability to 01:12:34.930 --> 01:12:38.470 discern when to use a gentle word or a touch 01:12:38.470 --> 01:12:42.350 is a valuable gift of the spirit, right if we 01:12:42.350 --> 01:12:44.829 Came in yelling to everybody, you know, you may 01:12:44.829 --> 01:12:49.029 be just like a dog you think of a dog You can 01:12:49.029 --> 01:12:51.069 yell you can yell as loud as you want to the 01:12:51.069 --> 01:12:54.020 dog saying I love you You know, you're the best 01:12:54.020 --> 01:12:55.439 dog ever, but you're yelling. They're going to 01:12:55.439 --> 01:12:56.760 be scared because they don't understand what 01:12:56.760 --> 01:12:58.500 you're saying, but your tone of voice and the 01:12:58.500 --> 01:13:01.220 way your facial expressions are being illustrated, 01:13:01.680 --> 01:13:05.180 that kind of that would deter them. But you could 01:13:05.180 --> 01:13:10.420 also be like, I hate you so much, dog. You suck, 01:13:10.420 --> 01:13:12.739 you know, but they'll be all wagging their tail, 01:13:12.819 --> 01:13:16.119 all happy and excited. Because it's the way you 01:13:16.119 --> 01:13:17.960 you come at them, right? It's the tone that you 01:13:17.960 --> 01:13:20.460 come with and that's as Christians we're supposed 01:13:20.460 --> 01:13:23.060 to be gentle with the way that we come with people 01:13:23.060 --> 01:13:26.920 come to people and It's also like I said, it's 01:13:26.920 --> 01:13:28.920 the ability to discern when to use a gentle word 01:13:28.920 --> 01:13:32.180 or touch It's a valuable gift of the spirit especially 01:13:32.180 --> 01:13:35.079 in tense moments, right? When unkind words or 01:13:35.079 --> 01:13:38.079 manners are the typical first response that we 01:13:38.079 --> 01:13:41.359 have as in our human nature is to be unkind or 01:13:41.359 --> 01:13:44.750 to respond angrily A Christian responds with 01:13:44.750 --> 01:13:47.909 gentleness and meekness. That is a true reflection 01:13:47.909 --> 01:13:51.310 of Jesus and the kingdom of God. We can't claim 01:13:51.310 --> 01:13:54.989 we're Christians if we come at people with hatred, 01:13:56.210 --> 01:14:00.329 with wickedness, when we're being non -gentle. 01:14:00.529 --> 01:14:02.729 If we come at people that way, we can't claim 01:14:02.729 --> 01:14:04.489 to be Christians because we're not showing gentleness. 01:14:04.510 --> 01:14:06.649 That's exactly what Paul just said two verses 01:14:06.649 --> 01:14:11.840 prior. He just angered. In MIDI strife, I mean 01:14:11.840 --> 01:14:13.640 you just named several of those you just said 01:14:13.640 --> 01:14:17.520 so yeah, I mean look at Proverbs 15 verse 1 says 01:14:17.520 --> 01:14:20.960 a soft answer turn at the way wrath a grievous 01:14:20.960 --> 01:14:27.899 word stir up anger He's got all the references 01:14:27.899 --> 01:14:33.279 today right we I mean Gentleness is using our 01:14:33.279 --> 01:14:36.939 strength that we have the strength we have given 01:14:36.939 --> 01:14:41.590 to us by the Spirit To help others not dominate 01:14:41.590 --> 01:14:45.829 them not To look down on them not to hurt them 01:14:45.829 --> 01:14:49.550 right, but to lift them up. God is gentle with 01:14:49.550 --> 01:14:53.390 us Right. He could easily destroyed us when he 01:14:53.390 --> 01:14:57.329 sent the flood. He didn't have to save Noah and 01:14:57.329 --> 01:14:59.369 His family members, right? He could easily wiped 01:14:59.369 --> 01:15:02.649 out the population No, but because God being 01:15:02.649 --> 01:15:06.970 gentle with us showing mercy on us Is the reason 01:15:06.970 --> 01:15:10.380 we're all here? And that gentleness that God 01:15:10.380 --> 01:15:12.220 shows us and the gentleness that we get from 01:15:12.220 --> 01:15:16.579 the Holy Spirit draws us closer to him. That's 01:15:16.579 --> 01:15:21.960 good. I'm sorry, that's fantastic. I really thought 01:15:21.960 --> 01:15:23.859 about right there when you're talking about the 01:15:23.859 --> 01:15:26.680 way we deal with others and not putting them 01:15:26.680 --> 01:15:28.140 down. I was thinking about because I've been 01:15:28.140 --> 01:15:30.220 reading through First Corinthians. You always 01:15:30.220 --> 01:15:33.020 put me down. I was thinking about that to be 01:15:33.020 --> 01:15:36.020 honest. No, I was thinking about so at 1st Corinthians 01:15:36.020 --> 01:15:38.319 and Paul's talking about the food laws and you're 01:15:38.319 --> 01:15:40.239 like what where are you going with this be some 01:15:40.239 --> 01:15:42.060 of the food laws and he says because some of 01:15:42.060 --> 01:15:45.680 the more mature believers in Corinth were like 01:15:45.680 --> 01:15:47.899 we can eat anything right and Paul's like well 01:15:47.899 --> 01:15:50.760 you know what you're exactly right he said but 01:15:50.760 --> 01:15:53.260 those who are weaker in the faith are those who 01:15:53.260 --> 01:15:55.850 are less mature they're offended by it. and he 01:15:55.850 --> 01:15:58.489 said so don't put them down he said become that's 01:15:58.489 --> 01:16:00.590 what paul literally said i become all things 01:16:00.590 --> 01:16:03.770 to all people remember that he says those let 01:16:03.770 --> 01:16:05.590 those in us i mean another place but i think 01:16:05.590 --> 01:16:07.569 it works he says let those of us who are mature 01:16:07.569 --> 01:16:11.869 think this way so yeah i think it's it's putting 01:16:11.869 --> 01:16:15.810 putting others needs in front of our wants i 01:16:15.810 --> 01:16:19.229 think uh i think that's excellent description 01:16:19.229 --> 01:16:22.239 of journalists You know what you just said and 01:16:22.239 --> 01:16:24.000 what what brewers been talking about just come 01:16:24.000 --> 01:16:26.920 just come to people with the small or discerning, 01:16:27.000 --> 01:16:29.680 you know, we have the power to discern discern 01:16:29.680 --> 01:16:33.180 when to come to people and with what Voice we 01:16:33.180 --> 01:16:35.880 need to come to them with I like it. I like it 01:16:35.880 --> 01:16:38.300 and our final one last but not least last but 01:16:38.300 --> 01:16:41.500 not least Honestly, this this one's a tough one. 01:16:41.500 --> 01:16:44.340 I think a lot of people like struggle If we're 01:16:44.340 --> 01:16:46.279 gonna break down the fruit of the spirit into 01:16:46.279 --> 01:16:48.239 nine categories, I think a lot of people will 01:16:48.239 --> 01:16:50.939 struggle with this one Especially in our current 01:16:50.939 --> 01:16:54.000 day self -control. I think people especially 01:16:54.000 --> 01:16:56.020 like my generation like we talked earlier with 01:16:56.020 --> 01:16:57.579 patients that people wanting something right 01:16:57.579 --> 01:16:59.779 now and land of instant gratification instant 01:16:59.779 --> 01:17:03.420 gratification like When we don't get instantly 01:17:03.420 --> 01:17:07.060 gratified for something we It's just not good. 01:17:07.060 --> 01:17:09.880 I don't know other word to describe it But and 01:17:09.880 --> 01:17:11.600 I don't know I think self -control is one of 01:17:11.600 --> 01:17:13.720 those ones that we often overlook and it's not 01:17:13.720 --> 01:17:16.720 that big of a deal and But in the reality though, 01:17:16.920 --> 01:17:20.880 I think it's the toughest fruit to have mastered 01:17:20.880 --> 01:17:23.399 I guess I would I would agree with that right 01:17:23.399 --> 01:17:28.819 I wonder if it's coincidence that Paul ended 01:17:28.819 --> 01:17:34.119 with one of the hardest that's that's a great 01:17:34.119 --> 01:17:36.119 thought I haven't ever thought of that one I 01:17:36.119 --> 01:17:40.060 don't know I've I don't know well you know I 01:17:40.060 --> 01:17:42.399 don't know if it's any there are any really coincidences 01:17:42.399 --> 01:17:45.039 in the Bible are there I mean it's inherent so 01:17:45.039 --> 01:17:48.890 every word in the Bible is meant It's completely 01:17:48.890 --> 01:17:51.770 inerrant, right? So if we hold to that doctrine, 01:17:52.149 --> 01:17:54.289 then I guess the answer is no, it's not a coincidence. 01:17:54.689 --> 01:17:56.409 But really, it kind of encapsulates the rest 01:17:56.409 --> 01:17:58.869 of them, doesn't it? You can't have gentleness, 01:17:59.090 --> 01:18:00.630 faithfulness, goodness, any of those things if 01:18:00.630 --> 01:18:02.909 you have no self -control. You can't have love. 01:18:03.949 --> 01:18:06.890 You're not going to have peace or patience. So 01:18:06.890 --> 01:18:10.640 yeah, I think it kind of... It's like everything 01:18:10.640 --> 01:18:13.020 we said at the beginning at OutPorsche, like 01:18:13.020 --> 01:18:15.680 love is like the impetus for the rest of them, 01:18:15.680 --> 01:18:18.520 but you could, in some ways you could say that's 01:18:18.520 --> 01:18:20.079 an element of truth to that about self control 01:18:20.079 --> 01:18:23.819 as well. Completely counterintuitive too, by 01:18:23.819 --> 01:18:26.739 the way. Our default setting is just to give 01:18:26.739 --> 01:18:29.920 to every whim and emotion. Instant gratification. 01:18:30.260 --> 01:18:33.000 Yeah, instant gratification. Because of the human 01:18:33.000 --> 01:18:35.920 sin nature, everyone's personality has negative 01:18:35.920 --> 01:18:41.300 impulses and qualities. Right? Yeah. Over the 01:18:41.300 --> 01:18:44.619 over overcoming those can be a constant tug -of 01:18:44.619 --> 01:18:48.100 -war with yourself. I would say you know Trying 01:18:48.100 --> 01:18:51.760 to pull one side trying to overcome it while 01:18:51.760 --> 01:18:54.079 it's pulling you back. Yeah, right. It's constant 01:18:54.079 --> 01:18:57.239 internal tug -of -war with yourself But the good 01:18:57.239 --> 01:19:00.619 news is right self -control means having control 01:19:00.619 --> 01:19:05.359 over our body our mind and our desires and Also 01:19:05.359 --> 01:19:08.859 another good thing we have freedom You do have 01:19:08.859 --> 01:19:13.380 freedom, right? We have the freedom to do whatever 01:19:13.380 --> 01:19:19.020 we want, right? Should we do? No, but should 01:19:19.020 --> 01:19:22.680 we? No, but we have the freedom to do that. But 01:19:22.680 --> 01:19:25.439 if you live with the attitude with I have the 01:19:25.439 --> 01:19:29.439 freedom to do whatever I want to do and not whatever 01:19:29.439 --> 01:19:32.500 God tells me to do or following the scripture. 01:19:32.619 --> 01:19:36.399 If you live that life of freedom, I have freedom. 01:19:36.399 --> 01:19:38.319 I can do whatever I want to do. You're leading 01:19:38.319 --> 01:19:41.399 into a path that leads to addiction, leads to 01:19:41.399 --> 01:19:42.939 slavery to your sin, where you're going to commit 01:19:42.939 --> 01:19:44.960 the same sin over and over and over again. And 01:19:44.960 --> 01:19:47.340 you're going to get to the point where you don't 01:19:47.340 --> 01:19:49.319 even, number one, you might not even realize 01:19:49.319 --> 01:19:51.619 it's a sin. Or number two, if you do realize 01:19:51.619 --> 01:19:55.260 it's a sin, you're not going to have God in your 01:19:55.260 --> 01:19:58.619 mind, you know, your conscious telling you, hey, 01:19:58.680 --> 01:20:02.319 you need to stop that. Hey, the Holy Spirit will 01:20:02.319 --> 01:20:05.020 stop communicating with you if you consistently 01:20:06.040 --> 01:20:08.260 Do the same sin over and over again, right? The 01:20:08.260 --> 01:20:10.560 Bible tells us to repent and turn from our wicked 01:20:10.560 --> 01:20:13.079 ways How are we gonna say we're true Christians 01:20:13.079 --> 01:20:15.800 if we repent and then two days later? We're back 01:20:15.800 --> 01:20:18.460 to doing the same thing We repented from do we 01:20:18.460 --> 01:20:20.939 really repent if we exactly going right back 01:20:20.939 --> 01:20:23.500 to the same thing, right? That's the premise 01:20:23.500 --> 01:20:27.020 of it. But the the the definition of true freedom 01:20:27.020 --> 01:20:31.180 is Mastering your desires having self -control 01:20:31.180 --> 01:20:34.060 exactly right that is actually true freedom because 01:20:34.060 --> 01:20:37.960 if you cannot control some things. If you do 01:20:37.960 --> 01:20:41.359 not have that self control in you, you truly 01:20:41.359 --> 01:20:44.840 do not have freedom because you're a slave to 01:20:44.840 --> 01:20:47.619 whatever you cannot control. This is so evident 01:20:47.619 --> 01:20:50.359 in culture today and it always has been. I think 01:20:50.359 --> 01:20:53.279 the only We talk about culture declining and 01:20:53.279 --> 01:20:55.260 all that today. I really think human nature is 01:20:55.260 --> 01:20:57.119 just, it has always been the same. I think it's 01:20:57.119 --> 01:20:59.199 just with the internet, you can see it with social 01:20:59.199 --> 01:21:01.180 media and everything in your face. But that's 01:21:01.180 --> 01:21:03.479 like the opposite of what culture teaches you. 01:21:03.699 --> 01:21:07.359 Right? I mean, like culture is pushing that. 01:21:07.859 --> 01:21:09.680 Do what you want girlfriend, like all that kind 01:21:09.680 --> 01:21:12.920 of stuff. Free to sin is freedom, right? Like 01:21:12.920 --> 01:21:15.220 every indulgence you should be able to engage 01:21:15.220 --> 01:21:17.439 and that's freedom. But it is, but I say it's 01:21:17.439 --> 01:21:20.199 evident because You don't have to look very far 01:21:20.199 --> 01:21:23.180 downstream in anybody's life that's engaging 01:21:23.180 --> 01:21:25.979 in that, and it's total disaster. Every single 01:21:25.979 --> 01:21:29.020 time, it's total disaster. They're miserable. 01:21:30.560 --> 01:21:33.000 Oftentimes it ends up, literally kills them, 01:21:33.000 --> 01:21:35.380 you know, if you go down the road far enough. 01:21:36.119 --> 01:21:38.239 But yeah, it's completely, but again, that's 01:21:38.239 --> 01:21:42.319 kind of, I think if you go to the extreme kind 01:21:42.319 --> 01:21:44.399 of in that list A, our default setting, that's 01:21:44.399 --> 01:21:47.779 where you end up. Let me ask this question, and 01:21:47.779 --> 01:21:50.920 I don't want any response, but to you guys in 01:21:50.920 --> 01:21:54.680 here and the people listening You all when we've 01:21:54.680 --> 01:21:56.800 been talking about self -control You've we all 01:21:56.800 --> 01:21:58.279 have that one thing in the back of their mind 01:21:58.279 --> 01:22:02.720 in our mind that we know we struggle with so 01:22:02.720 --> 01:22:07.239 Try to I would say over the next week or months 01:22:07.239 --> 01:22:10.899 try to if you don't know Try to figure you may 01:22:10.899 --> 01:22:13.479 not be struggling you may be oh, I'm good, but 01:22:13.479 --> 01:22:19.399 if you do Try to cultivate that self -control 01:22:19.399 --> 01:22:21.340 in that because you're true. Like we said, you're 01:22:21.340 --> 01:22:26.260 truly not free Until you actually are able to 01:22:26.260 --> 01:22:29.399 break that If you got an addiction if you're 01:22:29.399 --> 01:22:32.180 not if you you're not truly free until you break 01:22:32.180 --> 01:22:34.220 that because you're a slave to whatever You're 01:22:34.220 --> 01:22:36.600 addicted to or whatever saying you keep committing, 01:22:36.760 --> 01:22:39.640 right? We need to rely we need to learn to depend 01:22:39.640 --> 01:22:43.039 only on God and not habits or things in our life 01:22:43.039 --> 01:22:47.829 so That's a great That's what I got for self 01:22:47.829 --> 01:22:49.810 -control. That's good. I honestly I'm just gonna 01:22:49.810 --> 01:22:51.810 say this I feel like that's just a great way 01:22:51.810 --> 01:22:53.970 to end it right there as asking that question 01:22:53.970 --> 01:22:58.270 of if or saying the statement if If there's something 01:22:58.270 --> 01:23:02.810 keeping you captive, you're not truly free And 01:23:02.810 --> 01:23:04.970 ultimately the fruit of the spirit you might 01:23:04.970 --> 01:23:07.229 think they're they're not to set you free in 01:23:07.229 --> 01:23:09.670 this Rules with the Bible and all that kind of 01:23:09.670 --> 01:23:12.539 stuff this book The Bible will truly set you 01:23:12.539 --> 01:23:14.640 free not necessarily the Bible but Jesus Christ 01:23:14.640 --> 01:23:16.640 who's in the Bible will truly set you free if 01:23:16.640 --> 01:23:19.079 you truly commit to him and these attributes 01:23:19.079 --> 01:23:21.880 will be in your life these nine attributes that 01:23:21.880 --> 01:23:24.279 we have been talking about for a long time and 01:23:24.279 --> 01:23:26.680 so I think with that I think it's a great way 01:23:26.680 --> 01:23:28.560 to end it and so I'm just gonna we're just gonna 01:23:28.560 --> 01:23:31.840 sign off I'm Brandon and I'm Brandon and I'm 01:23:31.840 --> 01:23:34.520 Brewer hey and we hope you all enjoyed this episode 01:23:34.520 --> 01:23:36.260 and we will see y 'all on the next one