Glorifying God

[00:00:02] Speaker A: But that's where we're at. The most fulfilled is glorifying God. [00:00:06] Speaker B: Yep. Yep. And I mean, I think. And that goes into so many directions. I mean, you know, the old saying is God is most glorified when we are most satisfied in him. You know, when we find that he is our everything, that's when he's glorified in our lives. [00:00:28] Speaker C: Those peanuts didn't. Didn't stand a chance, did they? [00:00:30] Speaker B: I tell you what, they must have had a lot of meetings in here the last couple of days. [00:00:35] Speaker A: No, I haven't been here. [00:00:37] Speaker B: Ah, man, I don't know who's been eating them. [00:00:39] Speaker A: You haven't been on vacation, have you? [00:00:40] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Well, they have been good though. Go ahead and get all that salt out the bottom. I mean, just, ah. [00:00:47] Speaker A: I mean, they just really. They salted down. [00:00:49] Speaker B: Man. You ain't lying. That's one of the reasons they so good. But look at that. [00:00:52] Speaker A: That is. [00:00:52] Speaker B: That looks like snow. [00:00:55] Speaker A: That's crazy. [00:00:56] Speaker C: So you want me to turn you into a cartoon? [00:00:58] Speaker B: So what cartoon character would you be? Would you think you'd be? [00:01:01] Speaker C: Oh, it'd be. It'd be Kenny Cartoon. [00:01:03] Speaker B: Oh, but I'm just saying. [00:01:04] Speaker C: Yeah. Oh, if he was a cartoon. [00:01:05] Speaker B: Let's play that out. I'm just curious because I'm looking at him thinking, who do I see? [00:01:10] Speaker A: Johnny Quest. [00:01:14] Speaker B: Lord, nobody got that. Nobody listening. [00:01:17] Speaker A: Got it. [00:01:18] Speaker B: I'm the only one that even knows what Johnny Quest is. Because it was a great cartoon back. I used to watch it on Sunday morning before church. [00:01:25] Speaker A: I watched it every Saturday. [00:01:27] Speaker B: Oh, man, you going way back, man. I was thinking more Lang lunch. Shaggy. [00:01:38] Speaker A: That was one of my favorite scoops. [00:01:40] Speaker B: I used to love Scoobs. [00:01:42] Speaker A: Scooby dooby doo. [00:01:43] Speaker B: Where are you? Yes, sir. [00:01:44] Speaker A: Good job for you now. [00:01:45] Speaker B: Yeah, loved it. Loved it. And trying to think of some of my other favorite cartoons. Kong Kong Phooey. I had the lunchbox that was way down deep. You know, there's some spiritual lessons we could draw out of Hong Kong Phooey too. You know when he would jump into that file cabinet and it would open up and the cat would hit it and he would turn out as Hong Kong Phooey. He's just a mild manner. Well, all superheroes I guess you could be. He's just a mild mannered dog janitor. And now he's Hong Kong Phooey. I mean, it's just the transformation, the change, that's all. [00:02:22] Speaker A: But he never did anything right. [00:02:24] Speaker B: Hong Kong Fooey was always pretty. [00:02:26] Speaker A: I thought he just fell into it? Yeah. [00:02:29] Speaker B: Kind of like Inspector Gadget. I hated Inspector Gadget. [00:02:31] Speaker A: I didn't like it. Yeah, I didn't like that. [00:02:33] Speaker B: I thought that was lame. [00:02:34] Speaker C: You were a fan. I remember when I was lame. [00:02:38] Speaker B: He just fell into everything. If it weren't for Penny, he'd be terrible. [00:02:44] Speaker C: I've got the oldest 5 year old on the planet, Christian. At night, when it's just me and him, our TV show choice has been the Dukes of Hazzard. [00:02:53] Speaker B: He loves Dukes of Hazard. I love that. It's that car flying, man. [00:02:56] Speaker C: Yeah. I gotta admit, I had never watched it and I didn't know the premise of it. I kind of thought Bo and Luke were sort of. I sort of had them pegged as like Smokey and the Bandit type characters by the Bandit. Like they were kind of doing the bad stuff. They're the good guys for the most part. [00:03:12] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, there's a reason they don't put back. They have a bad way of. They have a legal motive. [00:03:17] Speaker C: They have a legal means of fulfilling morally sound motives. [00:03:22] Speaker B: Right. Cause there is a reason they're on probation. [00:03:25] Speaker C: There are. [00:03:25] Speaker B: There's a reason that. But just the good old boys meaning no harm. [00:03:30] Speaker A: They mean no harm, General Lien. You gotta believe it. [00:03:34] Speaker B: And then Daisy had the Jeep and Roscoe P. Coltrane and Cletus and. [00:03:40] Speaker C: Does she get the Jeep later? Because I've only seen the first season and she drives around a hot little yellow car. [00:03:44] Speaker B: Yeah, she gets the Jeep later. [00:03:46] Speaker C: She gets the Jeep later. Okay. She can drive better than the boys. [00:03:49] Speaker B: Can, but they could make that car jump. [00:03:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:03:53] Speaker B: And I always used to sit there and watch them. Watch those. The axles just explode when they land them and be like, I wonder how many cars they rebuilt. [00:04:00] Speaker C: I've heard the stat, like how many general leaves they went through. But it was. It was no smaller. [00:04:05] Speaker B: Dodge Charger I'd love to. Love to see. There's a couple of those. [00:04:08] Speaker A: The General Lee sold for over a million dollars. Did it really auction? Yeah. [00:04:12] Speaker B: Well, I mean, I got a friend that's got a couple replicas of it and even has a signature on it. [00:04:18] Speaker C: Oh, really? [00:04:19] Speaker B: Oh, ye. That's pretty cool. [00:04:20] Speaker A: I think. [00:04:21] Speaker B: Tom Wopad and Bo Schneider. What was John Snyder. [00:04:27] Speaker A: He's the one that owned it. He had some legal problems and he had to sell it. [00:04:31] Speaker C: Gotcha. [00:04:32] Speaker B: But no, I used to watch it every Friday night, man. That was the Incredible Hulk, Dukes of Hazzard. And then once in a while I'd get to stay up. Get to stay up and watch Dallas Which I didn't need to be watching that. I'm 10 or 11 years old. [00:04:45] Speaker C: But were you sneaking around or just. [00:04:48] Speaker B: Well, it just might be on. And my mom and dad were like, he don't know what they're talking about. And I didn't. Yeah. Then I go back years later, I was watching that. [00:04:56] Speaker C: Well, see, that's my problem. I ran into. I don't think they know what they're talking about. But they do know what they're talking about. [00:05:00] Speaker B: Yeah. They might do a whole lot more than you give them credit for. I think. [00:05:03] Speaker C: Especially nowadays. I think kids have access to that information a lot sooner than they used to. [00:05:08] Speaker B: All they gotta do is Google it. [00:05:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:05:09] Speaker B: What does that mean? Ooh, that. You know, I saw by the way my parents reacted to that word. It's gotta be bad. Let me look it up. [00:05:15] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:05:16] Speaker A: Yeah. It sold for $9.9 million on eBay. [00:05:20] Speaker B: I'll give you a million. And then Uncle Jesse was Denver Powell and Denver Powell. A bunch of. Bunch of things. He was on Andy Griffin way back. [00:05:28] Speaker A: Yeah. What was it? What was he called? [00:05:32] Speaker B: The Darlings. [00:05:33] Speaker A: The Darlings. Yeah. [00:05:34] Speaker C: Mr. [00:05:34] Speaker B: Darling. [00:05:35] Speaker A: And then his boys never said a word. [00:05:38] Speaker B: Then you had Charlie, Charlene. That's it. [00:05:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:05:41] Speaker B: I heard somebody talking about the colored episodes of Andy Griffin. How bad they were, and. They were. [00:05:48] Speaker C: They were terrible. [00:05:49] Speaker B: The ones. [00:05:50] Speaker A: Well, they were. It was a different style. [00:05:52] Speaker C: Maybe you've said that before, but I've heard that before. They only did one season in color, right? [00:05:55] Speaker B: No, they did several. Barney left. [00:05:58] Speaker A: Barney. Yeah. [00:05:59] Speaker B: And he was. The first five seasons black and white, and then the rest were color. [00:06:04] Speaker C: So was he never in the color episodes? [00:06:05] Speaker A: No. [00:06:06] Speaker C: Okay. Yeah, I could see that being the. [00:06:08] Speaker B: And they got. They got bad real quick. He had. [00:06:12] Speaker A: What happened was Andy had told him he wouldn't be there more than five years. And Barney. They never talked again about that. And when he. Andy, signed the new contract, Barney had already signed for a movie deal, so he couldn't get back out of it. [00:06:28] Speaker B: And he did well on the movie deal. [00:06:29] Speaker A: Did well. He made guest appearances. [00:06:32] Speaker C: Yeah, once in a while, but that's another one. We watched me and the kids watch the other night. Herbie Goes to Michael. It had Don Knotts in it. [00:06:40] Speaker B: Yes, man. [00:06:40] Speaker C: And then they thought that was hilarious. [00:06:44] Speaker A: And Renee said it reminded her of Fuqua when she was growing up. [00:06:51] Speaker B: Who was Ernesti Bass? [00:06:53] Speaker A: Well, she was just talking about in general. [00:06:54] Speaker B: Oh, just everybody knew. Everybody. Yeah. Now, I can't agree with that. [00:06:58] Speaker A: And it remind. I guess that's why I was attracted to it too because the Andy Griffith show reminded me of where I grew up, where you know everybody. Yeah. And you know more, it was the. It was the side themselves. [00:07:10] Speaker B: It was actually a pretty good little show of the side. [00:07:13] Speaker C: So I grew up in a. Probably a town smaller than Mayberry, but you know, one stop lot town. But I think the funniest story that kind of explains the town I grew up in is there. All the cops would hang out at this one gas station all the time. There's like a little restaurant or grill type area. And they would hang out in there. And you always knew, you drive by there and you'd see two or three cops sitting there. One day, honestly, somebody in the family, my aunt or somebody, called the police station for something. I don't know what it was. It wasn't a terrible emergency. But nobody answered. Or they said nobody's here. And they said, well, we've got a problem. What do we do? They said, have you called the quick pick yet? We had to call the gas station to get a hold of the cops. [00:07:55] Speaker B: I love it. [00:07:56] Speaker A: We only had one officer. [00:07:57] Speaker C: I think we had two or three maybe. [00:08:00] Speaker A: Yeah. If you couldn't. He was only down there for a couple years. [00:08:02] Speaker B: I mean now, my goodness, you can't drive 40 people without seeing. Yeah. I mean they're all over. [00:08:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:08:07] Speaker B: And that's. I mean, good thing. I wish we had less construction. Road construction. You about can't get in. It's crazy. Every road's under construction. [00:08:15] Speaker C: When I was leaving this morning, I was running right on the edge of late anyway. And then Christian forgot his book bag so I had to go back and he. [00:08:22] Speaker B: You're in Northwest Hornet, so you gotta go all the way through. [00:08:25] Speaker C: Well, I'm bringing him here and he rides the bus from here. But I've gotta have him here by 7:45 or I've gotta go to northwest Harnet, which is gonna get me back home at 9:15. [00:08:33] Speaker B: That's. [00:08:34] Speaker C: I'm scrambling around. But the line to turn left on 401 was backed up almost to where I come out at. It's like I'll be sitting at this lot for 10 minutes. But you sit there and you think, well, I wish they'd make this road wider. But then to do that you've got to sit through a year worth of construction, which makes it even worse. So I don't know. I don't have the answer. [00:08:52] Speaker B: Except that it really wasn't designed very well. [00:08:56] Speaker A: From the jump wide rows brings more. [00:08:59] Speaker B: People, easier access and it doesn't always mean faster. [00:09:03] Speaker A: No, no. There's like Wilmington was a nice place to go and to visit. [00:09:08] Speaker B: It was. [00:09:09] Speaker A: And it was hard to get to. But they wouldn't. They had that tourism or anything. You put. They put I40 down, man. That thing just exploded. People everywhere. [00:09:18] Speaker C: I'll tell you what. [00:09:20] Speaker A: Same way. Mountains. [00:09:21] Speaker C: We're gonna get around to some church related stuff in a minute, I think. But. Oh yeah, I think that they need to. They need to require you to take an additional advanced driving class before you're allowed to Drive on Highway 401. It is the most ridiculous. It scares the heck out of me. It's unreal. I've seen some of the dumbest driving. [00:09:39] Speaker B: People out there, man. [00:09:42] Speaker C: Of all of the sins that I have to repent for in a week, at least 40% are on that road. [00:09:48] Speaker B: I believe. [00:09:49] Speaker A: I believe it is for me too. I'm thinking because I come through a few qua. Pennsylvania. I see a lot of Texas. [00:09:57] Speaker C: Yeah, we've covered this before. He's very judgmental based on the license plate. [00:10:02] Speaker A: Why are they here? [00:10:05] Speaker C: You ever been cut off from somebody with a North Carolina tag? [00:10:08] Speaker B: I have. I know that. [00:10:14] Speaker A: It's just. I feel like I'm at the beach with all these out of state license. [00:10:18] Speaker C: I'm like. I'm at Talladega. [00:10:19] Speaker A: I'm seeing what you're doing. [00:10:20] Speaker B: It feels very much like. I mean just. Just passing in and out lanes. [00:10:26] Speaker A: And I'm seeing a lot from Florida. I've seen just places where I've never seen come from. Not Florida. [00:10:32] Speaker B: And you would think Florida should be where they're going. Cause that's low income tax. [00:10:37] Speaker C: Yeah, they should be just passing through here on their way there. [00:10:39] Speaker B: I mean that's why all the senior adults move down there, man. No income tax. It's. [00:10:44] Speaker A: Is that where you're gonna retire? [00:10:45] Speaker B: I don't know. There or Tennessee. [00:10:47] Speaker A: I'd go Tennessee. [00:10:50] Speaker B: I may just stay right where I'm at. [00:10:52] Speaker A: I would too. [00:10:54] Speaker C: I will say if I was ever going to live somewhere besides this area, I do think I would probably. Nashville would be an area that I could say. I love Nashville. [00:11:01] Speaker B: Nashville, yeah. So tourist that I'm like, yeah, I. [00:11:05] Speaker C: Think maybe not in. I think because Nashville's got a lot of sort of suburbs. Right. Can't you kind of get away from Nashville? [00:11:10] Speaker B: I'd want to do like Smyrna or one of the little small suburbs. Smyrna ain't no. Because this is a Nissan plant. [00:11:16] Speaker A: There's still a lot of Southern people there. [00:11:18] Speaker B: No, no, not Smyrna. [00:11:20] Speaker C: Kenny. Slowly deteriorating our potential audience north of Mason Dixon. One episode at a time. [00:11:29] Speaker B: Anyway. [00:11:29] Speaker C: Well, welcome back to the show. [00:11:30] Speaker B: Oh, man, that's good. [00:11:33] Speaker C: So I've got. I don't really know. I've got a hodgepodge's thing, so I don't know how I think it all kind of gets connected somewhere or another, but one of the things that I was. Well, let's start with this. So this is a leftover from last week. [00:11:46] Speaker B: Okay. [00:11:47] Speaker C: I struggle with this quite a bit. Is despite my pride, thinking that I'm amazing and do everything right, I also really struggle with a lot in Romans 8. I guess there's no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. This concept of God seeing me as righteous is counting me as righteous as Christ through salvation. Now I know God's no fool. He knows that that's not that I'm. He sees my sin. So I don't understand how he sees me as righteous when I'm so far from it. [00:12:23] Speaker B: Right. [00:12:24] Speaker C: And I understand we're getting there at some point. I mean, I love my kids, too, and I see the good in them, but I also see the bad in them. [00:12:31] Speaker B: Right. [00:12:31] Speaker C: So I kind of struggle with that concept of him seeing me. We talked about this a little bit last week of how I'm about scared of God now. I know on the first one of the first few podcasts, I always kind of talked about God being fe. Yeah. And I've kind of had this evolving view of God, I guess, from to begin with, not having enough fear and reverence for him and just kind of treating him like he was my buddy that, you know, I didn't have enough reverence for to then really seeing the loving side of him and having more of that fatherly type of view of him. And now I feel like I'm really starting to. I'm just scared of him. It really is what I said last week. It's this. I feel like every time I'm saying my prayers, like he's grading the transcript, like it's an end of school essay. I'm re saying the same things 12 different times, trying to get the wording right, like it makes a difference. You know, I catch myself doing it. I know when I hear it, it's. [00:13:31] Speaker B: Like, you're an idiot. [00:13:32] Speaker C: Quit. But it's. I feel like I've started to. To just have. I don't want to say a harsh view, but just feel like he's got it. He's got a really strict you know, set of rules that I need to be making sure that I don't stray too far from. [00:13:46] Speaker B: I think it's one of, you know, I don't want to minimalize God by no means, but what I have found is relationships that are the most enjoyable and the ones that are the most real. You don't have to try hard. It's being real. I mean, we just sat in here and killed 25 minutes talking about Dowler Banks and Andy Griffith because, well, we can do that because we have that relationship. We have that closeness. And I think with God, I believe that's where he desires for his children to be, is to be that. That real and genuine and not so much concerned about the how we say it and the words we say. As, again, I think he goes back to the heart that really matters. And if you've got a heart that really wants to know the Lord, I think he. I don't want to say grades on the curve, but I know if you got a heart that really wants to know him and you seek him with your whole heart, I don't think he's concerned about. Okay, you didn't say that word right? Or, you know, you don't even know the Greek word for righteousness. You know, he's not concerned about that as much as he is. Is your heart right before him? And I think that's where. Okay, go back to the first part, which is that imparted and imputed, he credits to your account Christ's righteousness, even though I know I'm not, but he credits that to your account. So it's kind of like. I hate to say it, but, man, it's kind of like a million dollars been put into my account at the bank. I probably won't go out and spend it, or if I overspend it, no, can't. Or, you know, it's in there for you. And so when he looks at your account, man, I really botched it up. You had a million dollars in there. [00:15:31] Speaker C: And maybe I'm back to Romans 7 a little bit then, too, because this has been a theme really probably the last week. I feel like it's hit me upside the head about three different ways. But one of the things you said Sunday, God isn't here for us, we're here for him. And there's this. I was thinking about this this morning. There's a difference in. I have the knowledge of that. I know that God isn't here for me. I'm here for him. I'm aware of that. I Believe that. My heart sneaks in on me sometimes and says, no, he's supposed to be the other way around. He's supposed to be here for you, right? In my heart, I can get that backwards a lot. And I know I'm wrong. Like, I can sit here and say, like, y' all don't give me the judgy eyes. I know I'm wrong for this, right? But in my. But there's times that I am still very selfish and still want to understand, you know, why I'm waiting for. You know, I did a bunch of stupid stuff for a real long time, and I've behaved myself for a couple of years, and I'm waiting for God to give me the reward for my good behavior, right? Like, he didn't give me the full punishment for the bad behavior. So I don't want fear anyway, right? [00:16:41] Speaker B: So you hear justice. When you. [00:16:43] Speaker C: When you start to even catch yourself thinking that way, you think, lord, what's wrong with me? I know better than this. So how can I know that I'm feeling that way and then expect God to not be very bitter with me for that? [00:16:57] Speaker B: Because he has a right to it. [00:16:58] Speaker C: All I can do is say, lord, I'm sorry. I know I don't need to feel this way. And I don't like feeling this way. Please make me stop feeling this way. Because it's just that. And I was reading to Mark this morning when the disciples fall asleep. The spirit's willing, but the flesh is weak. It's that kind of thing. That's sort of where I'm. I'm aware that it's wrong. I'm aware that I need to change my thinking. I just. [00:17:22] Speaker B: And I think the best thing to do in those times is, lord, I'm so sorry, forgive me for that, and just move on to new territory. Because when you confess it and you make it real, it's time to move on to deeper ground. I mean, that's the beauty of it. But I do get it, that, yeah, we know. And I think that's the real key to this other 168. And what 167 is this? We know the principles, we know the promises. We know the truth. We know all these things, these concepts and these verses and everything else. But the key and where it comes down to, as far as the rubber meet in the road, is okay, are we going to surrender to it? And are we going to allow the Holy Spirit to apply those things in our lives? Are we going to die to self versus am I going to Live for self. And I think we kind of get into that mixture of. It's kind of a fleshly Christianity of, yeah, oh, yeah, I know the words. And, yeah, we've got a relationship with the Lord, but we try to carry it out in our flesh rather than walking by the Spirit. And we become finicky. Nice. We become about ourselves, but yet at the same time, we try to look like we're not about ourselves. And then we begin to operate with ulterior motives of, yeah, I may want to go out there and help Kenny do that, but I'm doing it so people can see me, or maybe I'm trying to earn some brownie points with somebody rather than just, no, just do it because the Spirit inside said, do it. And I want to be obedient. So, yeah, there is that fleshly Christianity. And then the. And maybe even we call it carnal Christian. I hate the word carnal, because that almost sounds like real bad. But we don't go that far. But we still walk in the flesh. [00:19:18] Speaker A: Maybe a casual Christian. [00:19:20] Speaker B: Yeah, you can do it that way. [00:19:22] Speaker A: You don't want to be a casual Christian anymore. [00:19:25] Speaker B: I hope not. But walking by the flesh and trying to carry out Christianity by the flesh. And that's what Galatians is all about. I mean, we talk about it quite a bit, but that's really what it is. So, yeah, there were several things I said Sunday that I was like. I wonder if somebody caught that, because that was one of. You know, when you look at Daniel's prayer, it's obvious he wasn't praying for himself. [00:19:51] Speaker C: Yeah. I think that towards the end of the sermon, I don't know if this is exactly verbatim, but there's a million things that we could say we needed, but they all kind of boil down to one thing. We need God. [00:20:03] Speaker B: And that the church needs her God. [00:20:06] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:20:06] Speaker B: And period. A child needs its mother, you could say A sick and poor child has many, many needs, but it can all be summed up in one thing. His mom can fulfill them all. And that was the picture Spurgeon planted, that that says no. What the church needs more than anything else. Not programs, not. It needs her God. [00:20:29] Speaker C: Well, and you mentioned this sermon. I think you might have even referenced in the last one, too, that Daniel. In fact, this might have even been when you were recapping last week. But Daniel confessed his own sin instead of complaining about the sin of others. And also, he didn't compare. He compared himself to God's standard. And I think that's where some of my, you know, struggling kind of comes from. Is that okay if I. And we've. Kenny's talked about this before. You start comparing yourself to God's standard. You see how far short you really are falling, and that don't feel real good. So then you start to maybe compare yourself to others so you can kind of grade on a curve a little bit more. [00:21:04] Speaker B: That's very humble when you compare. [00:21:06] Speaker C: Yeah, exactly. But I don't like that feeling. So let me compare to somebody else so I can feel a little bit better. [00:21:11] Speaker B: I can find somebody I'm better than. [00:21:12] Speaker C: And then I realize I've done that and that that's against God's standard. And now I feel even worse about my God standard because I fall even shorter and get through that cycling of times. And it's like, how does God even tolerate me, much less love me? I mean, seriously, like, you're so far off from off the mark that it's just. It's hard to. Sometimes I'm not. Sometimes I have reconciled it before, but sometimes it can be really hard to reconcile the level of wickedness in us and still understand that God, you can. It's almost like one or the other. I can realize that I'm evil, but I can't understand how God can still love me. Or I can understand how God loves me, but I forget how evil I am. Because God. If God loves me, I must be pretty righteous, right? It's being able to reconcile those two things can be really. [00:21:59] Speaker B: They don't go together. [00:22:00] Speaker C: You can't love somebody that's that wickedly against you. [00:22:03] Speaker B: Go for it, man. [00:22:05] Speaker A: No, I don't. [00:22:06] Speaker C: You've been too quiet for too long. We got off handy, Griffith. [00:22:09] Speaker A: I'm agreeing with everything you say. [00:22:12] Speaker B: You ain't got anything to, like, throw in there. [00:22:16] Speaker A: Not really. Not at this time. [00:22:20] Speaker B: Well, I think that is the mystery of the gospel. I think it is the perplexity, if you will, of how can a holy, holy God love me as wicked as I am, as many times as I have failed, as many times I've fallen short. And that, again, goes back to his mercy, his grace, his steadfast love, his loving kindness. It goes to show just how well it should be amazing to us. And that is that amazing grace that we sing about. But it should be absolutely amazing that God would have anything to do with us. And then as twisted as we can be, you know, because we will, we get in our mind, okay, we're doing well with the Lord, when in actuality, no, we're just fooling ourselves or we're going through the motions or something like that. So it is absolutely astonishing to me that God would have anything to do with us. But at the same time, that's where you got to balance your ugliness and your sin with God's grace and God's mercy and truth. And that's where this week when we go to John, chapter one, the law came by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. Grace says, I love you and I'll forgive you. Truth says, I shouldn't even be here. [00:23:47] Speaker C: And we've talked about it before, that when you can't. When I can get that reconciled, it's a very powerful thing because the amount, whatever the gap is between my righteousness and Jesus righteousness, if that's an algebra equation, whatever that gap is, is filled by God's grace. So the more of that gap you see, the bigger God's grace is and the more you feel that love. It's just hard sometimes to. [00:24:13] Speaker B: That somebody could give that much grace. Yes. [00:24:16] Speaker C: Yeah. It literally is beyond our human comprehension. [00:24:23] Speaker B: But no human could love me that much. And no human can do that. There's examples, but no, we can't even begin to think about that. [00:24:32] Speaker C: I can understand how he tolerates. [00:24:35] Speaker B: The. [00:24:36] Speaker C: Outside show up on Sunday mornings and when I'm on the zoom call on Monday nights and I'm in here on Tuesdays. And that, that, that part looks pretty polished and pretty decent. I can see how he loves that version. [00:24:46] Speaker A: It's. [00:24:46] Speaker C: It's not very good, but it's not. [00:24:48] Speaker B: It's. [00:24:49] Speaker C: It's lovable maybe. [00:24:50] Speaker B: Right? [00:24:51] Speaker C: But deep down inside, the thoughts you're really having and the, the struggles that you're really having and how many times are you smiling when you're really not feeling it, but you just. You're going through the motions. And nobody heard what you said to that guy that cut you off on 401, but you still said it. [00:25:05] Speaker A: And. [00:25:06] Speaker C: Or even if you thought it, you know, those are the things that it's like and those are the ones I can't. I can kind of polish up the outside, you know, lipstick on a pig kind of thing, but you can't. It's harder to change those inside things. [00:25:19] Speaker B: And that may be where Psalm 51 talks about God desires. Truth in our innermost parts. Yeah. It's not just outside. Nice looking. It's truth in our hearts. Truth in the way we think, truth in the way we carry ourselves. Now, are we going to be perfect? Absolutely than not. But there needs to be that truth that I am genuine and genuinely saved, genuinely walking by the spirit. And I think that's the key. And that's where getting there, though, is not easy. Again, that's the true dying of self. Because I think the self doesn't always just show itself in, oh, I'm going to go out and I'm going to go out and kill somebody. I'm going to go out and do this. No ourself. And if we haven't crucified the flesh, shows up in those little small selfish desires, shows up in those little snipey comments that we might make because we think we're better than someone else, it comes up by that. And so that's where the reality comes in. And that's really where majority of Christians live their lives, is in that zone of, okay, I'm doing pretty well, but we've still got that little bit of flesh that we're holding on to, that little bit of pride, that little bit of it's about me and it shows itself. [00:26:36] Speaker C: Yeah, it's hard to get there, but I don't know if it's. I don't know if I'd say it's harder, but it's at least just as hard to stay there once you get there. It's not because I've reconciled it before and I've felt that before, but then sometimes you slip into the self righteousness a little bit once you've got there, and then it's harder to stay. So I don't know if it's harder to get there or to stay. [00:27:00] Speaker B: It comes and goes. Going to be times when, all right, we've crucified the flesh, but boy, that thing keeps coming back. It's like Frankenstein. [00:27:08] Speaker C: Yeah. Kenny's in deep thought. [00:27:11] Speaker B: I think my man worked hard on some budgets today. [00:27:13] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:14] Speaker B: And you looked at a whole lot of numbers. [00:27:16] Speaker A: I have looked at a few. [00:27:18] Speaker B: You'll be all right. [00:27:20] Speaker A: No, I'm just thinking about what y' all are saying and I think y' all are just dead on. [00:27:27] Speaker B: Well, thank you, man. [00:27:28] Speaker A: I'm impressed. [00:27:32] Speaker B: I'm just in shock. There you go. Wow. Hey, appreciate that. [00:27:38] Speaker A: I never thought I would be so impressed today. [00:27:41] Speaker B: There you go. [00:27:42] Speaker C: Well, I'm excited for the first John or for the John study that you're. [00:27:46] Speaker B: I'm looking forward to that. Yeah. Hanging in the Louvre. I'm. I'm gonna have a good time with that. [00:27:51] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:27:51] Speaker B: And we're gonna. I'm really right now torn on just how much am I going to do in John? I Could just do the first five verses and have enough for a sermon. But maybe I'll just do 15 and do 12 and 18. Well, 14 and 18 and do that. I don't know. I've got to really narrow that thing down because verse six talks about John the Baptist came and testified. Don't really need that as much as I need verse 14. The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. Verse 12. To as many as received him, to them he gave the right, the authority, the power to become sons of God. You get down to verse 18 and you talk about verse 14 and all that where I talk about grace and truth. So I think I'm going to hit on those highlights more than I am. [00:28:42] Speaker A: When do you start that? [00:28:43] Speaker B: This week. But now here's my plan. Since it is Labor Day and I don't know how many people are going to be in church on Labor Day, it might be 10 of us. [00:28:52] Speaker C: I was wondering about the. Is this Labor Day weekend? Cuz I knew it was the first Monday coming up, but I thought Labor Day weekend was always in September. Well, the first Monday is okay. That is the very first, the earliest. [00:29:03] Speaker A: Labor Day you'll ever see. [00:29:06] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:29:06] Speaker B: Oh man, I was going to steal your. I was going to steal that accent, cuz I thought you were going to say this is the earliest. I remember. I was going to say this is the earliest it can actually be. You know, when you talked about Thanksgiving, you gave us a lesson on Wasn't. [00:29:18] Speaker C: It just last year that when the. [00:29:20] Speaker B: Native Americans and the Pilgrims ate together. [00:29:24] Speaker C: Wasn'T this just last year that Thanksgiving was the latest it could be? [00:29:27] Speaker B: He said. That's what he said. [00:29:28] Speaker C: And then Labor Day is the earliest it can be this year. [00:29:31] Speaker B: Yeah, but it is absolutely the earliest it can be this year. [00:29:34] Speaker A: Yeah, but there's. The good thing is that there's no hurricane out there because Labor Day is iffy if you're in tourism. Yeah. Because Labor Day is a hit and miss holiday for usually the height's the 10th. [00:29:47] Speaker B: Right. Or it ends the 10th. [00:29:48] Speaker A: August 15th to September 15th. [00:29:50] Speaker B: Yep. [00:29:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:29:51] Speaker B: So we're right in the middle of it and we've already had a few, few scares but nothing major. And I hope it stays that way. [00:29:59] Speaker A: Well, what's been happening now is not really if they didn't have houses so close to the beach be no problem now. It's hard to. Well, this is. [00:30:11] Speaker B: Even highways close to the beach. But that's been that since day one. [00:30:15] Speaker A: This is, this is kind of. I guess Jesus gave us the Illustration about don't build a house on sand. [00:30:28] Speaker C: Then they went and built their house on sand. [00:30:30] Speaker A: Well, it's hard to build something permanent on something that's always shifting. [00:30:37] Speaker C: Right. [00:30:37] Speaker A: And I'll tell you how fast it shifts. I remember one time, this has been, I guess, 20 years ago, my mother went up the beach, road was clear, hit a sand dune. It was right on the road. So things are shifting so quickly that I don't know why you would build, not learn the lesson from what Jesus saw taught. Because sooner or later, I can't tell you how many houses I've seen fall in the ocean because they're not supposed to be built out there. Nothing permanent. Because it's changing all the time. Yeah, mostly. And I'll say that for North Carolina, for Hatteras island, for Dare county, that area. Because I grew up in that area and I know that how it's changed, I've seen. I know five or six inlets come and go. Yep. Oregon Inlet should have been filled up a long time ago. The only reason why it wasn't filled up, because they kept dredging it out and because Manny. And munchies. There was fishermen and many munchies. And that's how they would go up into the ocean. Ocracoke Inlet should have been filled up. And there's a. Several Hatter islands should be broken up in three places. But. So that's the story. Don't do it on the ocean. I will tell you this. I don't know. And being from there, we never built on there. I don't know anybody on Hatteras island that has an oceanfront property. Yeah, because there's always somebody from the outside paying for that nice view and then complain about it on the news. And. And by the way, they get insurance. You can't. You can't buy anything out there without flood insurance. And who covers that? We do. [00:32:29] Speaker B: How much does that. I mean, they're paying outrageous amounts of money for that too. [00:32:34] Speaker A: No. Flood insurance is cheaper than we. [00:32:36] Speaker B: You think out there, though? [00:32:38] Speaker A: Oh, yes. Because I. I would say. Let me. The last time I had flood insurance was $700 a year wind insurance. This is now. This is market value wind Insurance. It's $15,000 a year. Yeah. [00:32:56] Speaker B: I would think that's where your money is. [00:32:58] Speaker A: So who. But water is what does all the damage. [00:33:03] Speaker B: The wind does pretty good. [00:33:05] Speaker A: Yeah. But the wind don't cover anything. They've got, you know, exclusion. Exclusion. Tell me this. Because we had a canopy one time, we used to sell. We were in the gas business for 30, 40 years and it got twisted and you would think of the wind. That's what I thought. You know, the wind didn't cover it. They consider it as full on insurance. How in the world. Yeah. [00:33:34] Speaker B: Did the water get up that high? [00:33:36] Speaker A: I hope not. We'd all be gone. [00:33:38] Speaker B: Yeah. It don't matter what you build your house on. [00:33:42] Speaker A: No. Well, wind is run by the private industry. Flood is part of. I mean, you pay your taxes and the government insures property that are. That is flooded. [00:33:54] Speaker B: Right. [00:33:55] Speaker A: And so they always blame it on the flood insurance. [00:34:00] Speaker B: Wow. [00:34:00] Speaker A: You know, everything's blood now. I win. I win. But why in the world you have paying that kind of money for no coverage? [00:34:07] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:34:08] Speaker A: It's just crazy. [00:34:09] Speaker B: No, it's a racket. [00:34:10] Speaker A: It is. And the government is the one that's losing money. Really? Because there ain't no way the government to make money. Yeah. [00:34:21] Speaker B: Well, I tell you, they might get a bunch of it, but they waste it. [00:34:25] Speaker A: But I don't even know why. [00:34:26] Speaker B: What? [00:34:27] Speaker A: I don't know how this come up. I don't even know how that came up. [00:34:34] Speaker C: We rarely know what you're saying. [00:34:36] Speaker B: Yeah. Sink and sand. [00:34:38] Speaker A: One thing you said, there's a song about it. And that song too, probably a bunch of songs. [00:34:43] Speaker B: Christ. [00:34:43] Speaker A: Solid rock. I stand all over the ground Sinking sand. That's scripture. So why are they still doing it? [00:34:48] Speaker B: You're singing a different one. [00:34:49] Speaker C: Yeah. One of the things you said Sunday. It's a simple enough note here. The goal of prayer is to glorify God. But I want to ask you to expand on that just a touch. Because glorifying God is all through scripture. And I can generally understand what that's about. But specifically define glorifying God. [00:35:13] Speaker B: Well, I think it's one. What I really was trying to get at is the whole goal for our praying is to make sure that we're not. It's not just us asking. It's not just we want our wants and our needs and our demands met. No. It is for the glory of God to be seen. It is for his name to be known. It is for his fame to shine through our lives. I think a lot of times I would put it as that God's greatest glory is when his grace is demonstrated to a sinner. That is so if you want to see God glorified. It's when sinners come to righteousness. It is when the lost is found. It's when that son, instead of eating pig feed, gets up and goes home. And the father meets him in the road and puts a ring on his finger and puts a robe on him. And that is God's glory. And so the whole earth is filled with God's glory. We look around, it's kind of like Psalm 19 would say, God has revealed himself as glorious through his world, through his word and through his spirit. That's really. When we pray. It needs to be along the lines of, all right, what is it that would make God known here? What is it that God wants? And what is it that God. I pray that people would come to know who you are. Not just, you know, because it'd be easy to just say, lord, I just wish you'd help us to be a church that has 600 people or 6,000 people. You can pray that. But what about, Lord, we want your church to be a powerful disciple making soul winning a church that is sold out to you. A church that is. In other words, there's a big difference between we want this number and God. We want what you want. Now at the end, they may look the same. Six thousand, six thousand. But there's a big difference in the way Daniel asked. Because Daniel didn't necessarily say, oh, God, take us back home. No, all he did was say, God, look, listen, look on your city, your city, your people, your temple. Your temple is desolate. Make your face shine upon it. Daniel never says, God, I'm ready to go home. I'm ready to get back to Jerusalem. Man, I got a girl. I hope she's still alive. No, I mean, it would have been 70 some years. Daniel never would have said that because Daniel was not even concerned. As I said, I'm not sure Daniel ever went back to Jerusalem. Teenager. I mean, case in point is he's got nothing back home to go home to other than he wants to see God. And he knows, look, he knows the scriptures well enough that he knows there's a covenant there. He knows that when we get back God, you're going to begin to fulfill that promise. And that's what we want to see is the Messiah come. That's again God's glory. So, yeah, Daniel's prayer is nowhere near focused on Daniel. [00:38:19] Speaker A: And I think that's important because we are made to glorify God. [00:38:24] Speaker B: Just that's why we're here. [00:38:26] Speaker A: And that's. Yeah, and that's our, I don't want to say happy place, but that's where we're at the most fulfilled is glorifying God. Yeah. Yep. [00:38:36] Speaker B: And I mean, I think. And that goes into so many directions. I mean, you Know, the old saying is, God is most glorified when we are most satisfied in Him. You know, when we find that he is our everything, that's when he's glorified in our lives. [00:38:52] Speaker A: Well, you. When you glorify God, you're more satisfied than glorifying yourself. [00:38:57] Speaker B: Yep. [00:38:58] Speaker A: Your satisfaction's in youn satisfaction. Although you think, you know, glorifying yourself or being prideful or whatever, or getting. [00:39:06] Speaker B: A promotion or doing all that. [00:39:08] Speaker A: That doesn't actually. That really sounds bad. You know, when somebody's bragging about, you know, this and that, but. And you're not really. I don't think you're really happy. Pride does not make. And we all have it. Pride does not make someone. Anyone very happy. [00:39:28] Speaker B: No. [00:39:30] Speaker A: It might be a temporary fix. I don't know. [00:39:33] Speaker B: No, I think it's a terrible habit that we follow. [00:39:38] Speaker A: And it sounds bad. I mean, I've seen people on tv, you know, I would do this and that. Yeah, man, that sounds terrible. I hope I don't sound like that. Yep. Yeah. [00:39:50] Speaker B: Or just how much they. You know, if you. You get to talking to some folks, man, all they're going to talk about is what they got, who they are, what they. You know, and it's like, good night. What a blowhard. [00:40:01] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, it just doesn't even sound good. You gotta fly there. [00:40:05] Speaker B: Yeah. Where he's coming from. [00:40:08] Speaker A: He's been on your hair back. [00:40:10] Speaker B: He's been all over him. But. But you stop and think about. It's the chlorine. It is the chlorine. No, it's working. You just gotta use a lot of it. [00:40:22] Speaker C: We made it 54 minutes and 46 seconds. [00:40:27] Speaker B: Bring that up. But I did not get to swim. I swam yesterday. Did not get swim today. I went biking. I went biking yesterday. This morning, and the TV didn't even work, so I had to do yoga. But it was good. I needed to stretch in my car. [00:40:46] Speaker A: In your car. So anywhere you're at. [00:40:47] Speaker B: I've got one in my car. I got one in my Honda. I got them all over in case I go to the gym and. Oh, I can't do nothing but stretch. Okay, I'll stretch. [00:40:56] Speaker A: And you have to take a mat. [00:40:58] Speaker B: Well, your feet might slip if you don't. [00:41:02] Speaker A: Okay, I'm just. You don't get your own personal match. You can just break it out anywhere. [00:41:08] Speaker B: When you're a pro. [00:41:14] Speaker C: All right, brain teaser question. I'll save this for the end because I don't like to get into wormholes, but rabbit holes. Easy with this one. This is just almost for fun. Well, not really for fun, but just curiosity. I read something in the commentary this morning. Let me find it here real quick. Yeah, here we go. All right. So in the commentary, this is in Mark, where this is the Last Supper when he's. And then into his arrest, he's talking about Judas. And I just read this and highlighted it. And I'm not disagreeing with it, I'm just asking. It says, it is clear that Judas never had any spiritual interest in Jesus. He was attracted to him because he expected Judas to become a powerful. Or he expected Jesus to become a powerful religious and political leader. Clearly, Judas is the antagonist of all time. We get that. But is it scripturally clear that he never had a spiritual interest in Jesus? [00:42:16] Speaker B: Well, Jesus refers to him as the son of perdition. Jesus refers to him as saying, it would have been better had he never been born. I don't think Jesus ever had anything. I don't think there was any kind of. I would tend to agree with your statement there in your study Bible, because. [00:42:37] Speaker C: That'S kind of the ultimate can we fall away? Type question. [00:42:40] Speaker A: Right. [00:42:41] Speaker C: We've talked a little bit. Can you lose your salvation? Can you fall away? [00:42:43] Speaker B: See, I don't know that he ever had. I think I really do believe that Judas came from a background of. I'm wanting to see, okay, this guy is the king. He's going to overthrow Rome. Be right here. I'm in on the ground floor. Yeah, I'll be a general or I'll be a, you know, cabinet member or something. When he. When he sets up his kingdom. [00:43:05] Speaker A: Politically motivated. [00:43:06] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, it was getting Rome self interest. There you are again. That selfishness shows itself again. So, yeah, I don't know that I would even now, granted, he saw a lot of things. He even. I mean, hey, if you read it, he was part of those disciples that were sent out and cast out demons. [00:43:27] Speaker A: Sinner. Baloney. [00:43:28] Speaker B: So there you are. You have someone who has gone and done all these things. I think it just goes to show Matthew 7 is true, that, you know, there's going to be some in the last days that say, well, didn't we cast out demons? Didn't we do all these great things and the Lord's going to say, depart. I never knew you. [00:43:47] Speaker A: Well, I don't quite understand that. [00:43:49] Speaker B: You don't? Why not? [00:43:50] Speaker A: Because I'm not sure what it's actually talking about. I think it's saying people are talking about. I just don't understand the person he's talking about? No, because I might get confused. Is that a Christian person or is that not a Christian? [00:44:05] Speaker B: No, I don't think it is a Christian. [00:44:07] Speaker A: Okay. [00:44:07] Speaker B: Because he wouldn't say depart from me. [00:44:09] Speaker A: I never knew you. [00:44:10] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean I just don't think that would be a Christian because depart from me I never knew you. Doesn't sound like anybody who's been born again. [00:44:18] Speaker C: Well then how did they have that power without. I think that's maybe the other God's. [00:44:25] Speaker A: Used many a secular people over the. [00:44:30] Speaker C: Years Balaam. [00:44:33] Speaker A: Donkey talk. [00:44:35] Speaker B: God can do some things even through. [00:44:38] Speaker A: You don't have to be a Christian for God, you know God's word will not return void there's many evangelists, prosperity gospel people that are not speaking the truth but their words but what they say their words. The Bible does affect people. Some of them come salvation under that. I mean I'm not saying that they're in the right, they're preaching. Right. But you can't change John 3:16. [00:45:13] Speaker B: Right. Well and it's one of those things where. Look man and again I'm gonna be careful with this but a broke clock is right twice a day. Right twice a day. AM, PM and as long as it ain't a digital well even then 12 o' clock it's got. It's flashing 12 I'm write that down But I mean when you stop and think about it and look, I mean that's the power of God's truth. That yeah, that's the thing the enemy's going to do to deceive you is he's going to put enough truth in it but it's still a lie. But it looks good. Well if there's enough truth I believe it's like he said, people can respond to that and God's used wicked people all throughout the scriptures. It's sad and it's scary to think that someone could go through and do those things and think okay I'm alright with God then get to the end and be like didn't know you depart from me. [00:46:10] Speaker A: But everything else was probably evil about them. No, no, I mean they just happen to have a weak moment of. [00:46:19] Speaker B: Or somehow or another they're used But I mean I would go back to so for Judas. I mean he did some of those things. Yeah and who knows maybe he was talking right at Judas. We cast out demons in your name. We did all these things so depart from me. I never KN Mean, you're saved, right? Yeah, yeah you might be able to. I mean look, I hate to say it. I've seen some. Seen some pastors that I've questioned, are they truly saved? But yet they get, you know, big church, big stuff. I mean, doesn't always mean. And there have been some times that you wonder, my goodness, man. So it just goes to show we're all falling, but at the same time, that's true. You know, it is possible, I believe, for folks to do some things spiritually and for the church and then still not be 100% born again. [00:47:19] Speaker A: But then I can go back to what you were talking about. How did Judas miss that? How did he get so off track? Judas is. Isn't that Greek for Joshua or Joseph? [00:47:35] Speaker B: What is Jesus is Joshua? Yahshua. [00:47:38] Speaker A: Well, then what's Judas? What's. [00:47:41] Speaker B: I had to go and look, I've never really did a deep dive on Judas. [00:47:45] Speaker A: Because they're Jude. Yes. Yeah. So, I mean, it was a common name. [00:47:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:47:52] Speaker A: Now you name your dog after. [00:47:54] Speaker B: I wonder if it's a Judah. Judas. [00:47:57] Speaker A: That's what it is. It's Judea. [00:47:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:48:00] Speaker A: Yes. That's. [00:48:00] Speaker B: You're after the. One of the tribes. [00:48:03] Speaker A: And he was. So he was probably from Judah, right? [00:48:06] Speaker B: More than likely. [00:48:07] Speaker A: But if you. If you think about it, on the cross, you see Jesus being crucified and these two criminals or whatever they were, they're guilty of one on the left and one on the right. I don't know which side. And they see the same thing, yet they both come at different conclusions. [00:48:34] Speaker B: Yep. [00:48:36] Speaker A: So how can that be? And I'm thinking, how can that be? And I guess if you don't know you're a sinner, then you don't know God. You can't know God's forgiveness. [00:48:50] Speaker B: Well, if you don't know you're a sinner, you don't know that you need a savior. [00:48:53] Speaker A: That's right. You can't know God's forgiveness. Right. And sin will blind you. [00:49:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:49:01] Speaker A: To a point that you can't. You can't. You don't know right or wrong. [00:49:05] Speaker B: Every day the God of this age has blinded them. Yep. [00:49:09] Speaker A: And that guy. And both those guys are almost. They're going to be. They're going to be dead soon. [00:49:17] Speaker B: Yeah, you would think. [00:49:17] Speaker A: I mean, you would think, man. One of them recognized he needed help. All the other guys recognized was perform a miracle, get me off this cross so I can go live another, you. [00:49:30] Speaker B: Know, who you say you are. [00:49:31] Speaker A: So how. How in the world can you see the same thing and come at different conclusions? And I assume it's sin. Sin will Bond. [00:49:40] Speaker B: You sin. But also remember what. What Jesus says as far as unless the Spirit draws a man, it requires the Holy Spirit to be able to even open your eyes to see because you're blind. [00:49:54] Speaker A: But if you. And I agree with you 100%. But in order for. The Spirit's not going to just take over you, you have to have an open heart at some point in time. And so that's why I'm saying sin blocks that. Or pride, which is. Go ahead. [00:50:15] Speaker B: I would do. I would do. I'm sorry, I'm bored. No, man, it's been long nights. It's been long nights. I would dare say pride is the biggest one. I didn't yawn that. [00:50:23] Speaker A: You were right. You were holding. [00:50:24] Speaker B: I fight it back, man. Then I tear up. It was. But pride is the biggest one. Kenny. [00:50:30] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:50:31] Speaker B: Really stop thinking. [00:50:32] Speaker A: But that is sin. [00:50:32] Speaker B: Yeah, but I mean that. And that's the granddaddy of all sin. [00:50:37] Speaker A: So I don't get it, but I guess I can get it. You can talk so much about or do a certain sin so long that it becomes second nature. There's no conscience. [00:50:51] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. You see that you start believing your own lie. Or you can even start believing your own lie that you're pretty good. I'm good enough. I've done good works. [00:51:01] Speaker A: I had to take up because he was getting kind of tired. [00:51:03] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's that late night study, early morning exercise. Catches up with me. Man. I know the afternoons are rough around here. [00:51:14] Speaker A: I took care of you. [00:51:15] Speaker B: I appreciate that. [00:51:16] Speaker A: I can't do. [00:51:16] Speaker B: You know, I took the first half. You took the second half in the. [00:51:21] Speaker A: I actually was kind of tired that first half. [00:51:23] Speaker B: I know you were. I. I could tell you had. You've been crunching numbers all day. Yeah. [00:51:27] Speaker A: My eyes just got cold. But it might have been the, you know, talking about Andy Griffin. Everything just wore me out. [00:51:36] Speaker B: Yeah, you got too excited. [00:51:39] Speaker A: Oh, man, I got too emotional too fast. [00:51:43] Speaker B: Yeah. Gotta. I get it. [00:51:47] Speaker A: I needed a Snickers bar pick me up. [00:51:50] Speaker B: I get that. Yeah. I can relate that to something in swimming, but I won't. [00:51:55] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [00:51:56] Speaker B: Well, how's the. [00:51:57] Speaker A: How's the rubber ducky doing? You're taking it with you, huh? [00:52:03] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm gonna leave it in my office for a while, let people see the. [00:52:07] Speaker A: No, this is supposed to be on top of your van or whatever. [00:52:11] Speaker B: You take that with you. I don't know. I can get it in the gym. It's so big. [00:52:17] Speaker A: It had double doors. [00:52:18] Speaker B: I think it's huge. I think it's gargantuan. [00:52:21] Speaker C: Took up about the whole. Whole room. [00:52:23] Speaker A: It'll save your life if you get tired. [00:52:25] Speaker B: I bet it will. I wouldn't mind having it in the ocean or anywhere else where I'm about to give out. Same thing with it. It's full air now. It's huge. [00:52:34] Speaker C: You decide to do your wouldn't try. [00:52:36] Speaker B: Biathlon if you decided to do well, I promised myself. I said, I've been talking about it too much. Is that you're swimming. Yeah. No, it don't bother me. [00:52:48] Speaker A: I just like kidding you about it. [00:52:50] Speaker C: No, can't be disappointed if you don't. [00:52:51] Speaker B: There was a guy this morning that he saw I'd been doing something else. I went into the sauna. He said, y' all join me and start swimming. And I said, well, I've been swimming. I said, I just like to bike and do this on these days and kind of mix it up. And I could tell he was a lot faster and a lot more advanced. And I was kind of like, all right, I'm gonna back out right here before I embarrass myself. [00:53:14] Speaker C: You had a devotion from this morning? [00:53:22] Speaker A: Well, a tenure believer follower. [00:53:26] Speaker B: No, that's something. That was three weeks ago, man. [00:53:28] Speaker A: Oh, okay. [00:53:29] Speaker B: I need to write more. I didn't write anything today except on my. [00:53:32] Speaker C: He's doing long division over there. [00:53:34] Speaker B: That was me. [00:53:35] Speaker A: He does that all the time. [00:53:39] Speaker C: You got everything on that board. [00:53:40] Speaker B: You got his path. [00:53:41] Speaker A: He's done. [00:53:41] Speaker B: It's my own personal scratch path. If I'm sitting in a meeting. Oh, wait a minute now. Let's figure this out. No, I was going to share with. I did a devotion with my staff this morning from First Samuel, Chapter 30. And this is actually a devotion from sitting down with a family this past week. And the husband's in hospice and just sitting down with them. And you can tell we're getting close to the end at the same time. We don't know how long. And. And we just talked about. And I told them that one of the things that you got to learn to do during this time is how to strengthen yourself in the Lord. And I said, that term comes from 1st Samuel, chapter 30, verse 6. 1st Samuel, chapter 30. David is in the worst predicament, one of the worst predicaments he could ever find himself in. He was about to go to war with the Philistines, and so he's fighting, and the Amalekites come in while he's gone, burn his camp, steal all their goods, kidnaps his two wives and his Children. Not only that, all his army and those guys that had followed him loved him. His hundred men that were around him all the time, they get back and they start saying, david, this is your fault. In fact, they pick up stones and they're about ready to start throwing them at their fearless leader, at their friend. They're about to stone him. And you can imagine you've lost everything. Now your friends want to kill you. David was at the lowest he could be, but it says in verse six, yet he strengthened himself in the Lord. And so I just want to challenge you. And maybe that's a good place to leave it off as. Or maybe I should tell the answer, since this is the other 167. Or maybe we can pick up there next week of how do I strengthen myself in the Lord? And I'll give you a hint. If you really want to know the answers, go to the Psalms where David is struggling. And so deep dive on that and you'll get the answer. Maybe we'll come back next week and share that. [00:55:52] Speaker A: No, actually, when you thinking talking about that, you know, David was not in a very good place at that time. [00:56:00] Speaker B: The worst. [00:56:02] Speaker A: No, I'm talking about his lifestyle. [00:56:04] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. He had just left Ziglag, and he had just acted crazy in front of the Philistine king. I mean, it was. He was. He was not in a good place. He had deceived some folks. He had done several things that. [00:56:17] Speaker A: You kind of like killing people. [00:56:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:56:19] Speaker A: Women, children. Innocent women. Children. [00:56:23] Speaker B: That's why. That's why God didn't let him build the temple. You know, you got blood on your hand, David. You have been a bloodshed. [00:56:31] Speaker A: He wasn't just killing men. He was wiping out a whole village to save his own skin because he got tired of running from Saul. So that's a very dark time in his life. [00:56:44] Speaker B: And then that happens. [00:56:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:56:47] Speaker B: So. [00:56:47] Speaker A: And God was with him, and God helped him out. So I think you could take that as a. You know, even though sometimes we catch ourselves in sin, there's always deliverance and God will always hear us. [00:57:03] Speaker B: That's right. [00:57:03] Speaker C: Well, I'm back to what we were kind of talking about. [00:57:05] Speaker A: This is the second show. [00:57:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:57:08] Speaker C: I'm gonna chime this in before we go. It's almost funny to me in a way, when I start to compare myself to the New Testament apostles. Boy, you really don't have anything to compare yourself to in a good way. Right. Like, they went through so much more pain and struggles than we could ever even imagine. So what we're Going through is nothing compared to that. At the same time, I look at the Old Testament kings who were righteous to God or some of the heroes of the Bible and look at some of the things they did, and it's like, well, I'm not that bad. I find myself. I was doing a joke about this last night. Anybody else struggle with judging people that are saints in the Bible? Because I look back at the Old Testament sometimes I'm like, think about how. [00:57:54] Speaker B: Hard a time we get give those disciples. Absolutely. Well, that's. [00:57:57] Speaker C: I actually was. I'm glad you brought that up, because that was the last note that I didn't get to when they. When he's arrested. The very last. I put my Bible. Well, no, I don't. Hang on, hang tight. I have this highlighted. This tiny little line was something I highlighted this morning. Mark 14, verse 50. And they all left him and fled. And it was just. The commentary says that their faith collapsed in him as they realized he would not resist arrest. That. And they also might be captured. Every one of these had just said, not I, not I, not I, not I. Three times. [00:58:31] Speaker B: I will know. [00:58:31] Speaker C: I will never. [00:58:32] Speaker B: Peter said, oh, man. [00:58:34] Speaker C: And then as soon as things get hard, they all flee, you know, and it's so easy for me to sit there and judge that. Right. Like, y' all abandoned the Lord. [00:58:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:58:44] Speaker C: What would you do in that situation? I'm telling you, I'd have fled, too. You know what I mean? So you would like to think. You would like to think. You wouldn't, but absolutely not. [00:58:56] Speaker A: That's real time. We can judge that because we see the beginning and the end, so it's easier for us to say. I mean, I wouldn't have done that. [00:59:05] Speaker C: Well, when you think about what they were fearing, I mean, that's a pretty harsh death that they were fearing, too. It wasn't just death. It was a pretty rough one. [00:59:12] Speaker B: And we do it with the Israelites, too. Yeah. They're the easiest ones. Oh, yeah, look at them. If I was hungry and starving, obviously, with the usual. [00:59:20] Speaker C: Lots of sweet. [00:59:20] Speaker B: That's the worst place I am. I'm telling you. That's usually where I'm going to mess up the most, is when I'm hungry, starving, or just don't know the answer or get frustrated. [00:59:31] Speaker C: 40 years, too. I can't make it 40 days without getting impatient. [00:59:34] Speaker B: Exactly. [00:59:38] Speaker A: I'm not so sure that the Israel, the kingdom of Israel, is any worse than we are today. [00:59:47] Speaker B: In fact, I dare say they probably look at us and say, look at them idiots because at least y' all know the rest of the story. At least you know the Holy Spirit, you got it in you. We have to fight for our own. So I mean, I could almost say they could laugh at us more than we can laugh at them. [01:00:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:00:05] Speaker B: I mean, but we. And the disciples too because they would also say you got the risen Savior. We didn't. And look at what, look at our lives when we did. [01:00:15] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:00:17] Speaker B: Night and day. [01:00:18] Speaker A: And we read the Bible. At least I have in the past. What is with you guys? You go from Joshua all the way to Chronicles or Judges and I'm saying, man, don't y' all know? And they didn't know. [01:00:35] Speaker B: No. [01:00:35] Speaker A: And we're not talking about, we're talking about time periods that this has happened. You know, it wasn't like there were a lot of, there were a lot of Christian people and I'm going to. [01:00:48] Speaker B: Say Christian or Jewish people or God. [01:00:51] Speaker A: Fearing, God fearing people. Even during the worst times of Israel. [01:00:57] Speaker B: I told Daniel, Jeremiah, Isaiah, all those were God fearing people during the, some. [01:01:04] Speaker A: Of the darkest times they suffered because of the sins of the people. So you know, the, not just your sins that you're suffering from, but they were suffering from other people's sins and they got taken away and they had nothing to do with it. Why didn't you just take the. You know, I'm surprised, Daniel. Why Daniel? How he didn't get bitter because he was following the Lord the whole time. Why am I being punished for these guys over here? [01:01:37] Speaker B: Caleb, you know as we talked about last week. Caleb. [01:01:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:01:42] Speaker B: Caleb, 38 years, I believe I'd be some kind of man. Every time I wake up in that desert I'd look at them jokers like it's Yalls fault. [01:01:49] Speaker A: Right? [01:01:49] Speaker B: You never see it, man. [01:01:51] Speaker A: I believe the whole time. Why do I have to stay another 40 years? [01:01:56] Speaker B: Because you are idiots. [01:01:58] Speaker A: Well, it just goes. Yeah, it just goes to, you know, what about Adam? He was told that he, he sinned, he would die. Well I, I'm suffering from that. So you know, sin has more effect than just generation after generation. Yeah, well that's one thing it says, it does say that sins go on through generations. So that said is we all suffer from other people's sins as well as ours. [01:02:30] Speaker B: And to some degree we're a result of other people's. I mean, but we still have to take responsibility for ourselves. [01:02:38] Speaker A: But the ultimate judgment is you, is you're suffering for your own sin. [01:02:44] Speaker B: That's right. [01:02:45] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:02:46] Speaker A: But here on this world we're suffering for everybody. That's right. [01:02:50] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:02:51] Speaker B: All right, so we'll come back next week. Maybe if we remember it. [01:02:57] Speaker C: I can make sure we remember. [01:03:00] Speaker B: How do I strengthen myself in the Lord? Look at those psalms. [01:03:05] Speaker C: Which psalms are those? [01:03:07] Speaker B: I would give it. You can look at Psalm 63, Psalm 57, and Psalm 59 would be the three. And there's plenty more. Those are three that I would recommend. Okay. And there's several others that. I mean. Good night. When. When wasn't he. I'm sorry. 56, not 57. When wasn't he in a mess? In a jam, in a pickle? [01:03:32] Speaker A: Pickle. [01:03:32] Speaker B: Pickle. [01:03:33] Speaker A: David. [01:03:34] Speaker B: David. All right. [01:03:38] Speaker A: Probably. Probably before you. Let's hang. [01:03:46] Speaker B: But that's not a. That's not a newer shirt you got on today, is it? That's kind of. Kind of the older one, but. Older style, but I like it. [01:03:52] Speaker C: Got a little peanut on it right now at the moment. [01:03:56] Speaker B: I don't know where all these peanuts. [01:03:59] Speaker C: Got salt all over my phone here. [01:04:04] Speaker B: Well, you know, that's. That's kind of like. There's a. There's a lesson of that, that no matter how. How long you've been walking with the Lord, you still got to go and be. Have that quiet time. [01:04:15] Speaker A: I mean, you. [01:04:15] Speaker B: You don't get. Don't go on autopilot, because if you do, it'll pass you. [01:04:19] Speaker A: I never got that. I never thought about that. I never crossed my mind. What. [01:04:24] Speaker B: That correlation or. I mean, it's just. I mean, just. Hey, how to relate it back to what we're talking about the other 167. I tell you what, you actually know the color ones pretty well. [01:04:36] Speaker C: I was gonna say, if we had had Andy Griffith trivia on game night. [01:04:39] Speaker B: Last week, that's what I should have done last week. [01:04:40] Speaker A: Yeah, I did live by Andy Griffin, y'. [01:04:43] Speaker B: All. [01:04:43] Speaker A: Yeah. About a mile away. [01:04:45] Speaker B: No kidding. So now let me ask you this. And again, we'll get into the show. Sorry, but since you lived out on the. Near the lost colony, what do you think happened to them? [01:04:58] Speaker C: I feel like I'm back in, like. I think it was fourth grade that our theme was North Carolina history. Yeah. We had to do a big project and Y. Hold on. I fucking just relived that entire day. [01:05:08] Speaker B: All right, we're good. That's your historical lesson on the Outer Banks.