God is NOT BOUND by Our Rules

[00:00:02] Speaker A: The problem with it a lot of times is a lot of those things that we haven't cast onto him yet. We hadn't cast them for a reason. They're hard to let go of. They're too important for us to give to him. [00:00:12] Speaker B: I better take care of this. [00:00:13] Speaker C: Oh, I thought you were important. Seriously? [00:00:16] Speaker B: Yeah. God's saying, no, I'll take care of it for you. Which one would I rather have on the case? Me boys from Duncan or God Almighty? [00:00:24] Speaker A: If the consequence of it not going the way we want it to is dire enough, we can't trust God. [00:00:30] Speaker B: No, no. [00:00:31] Speaker A: Which is comically stupid. I mean, that's it. [00:00:33] Speaker B: That's what I'm getting at. Yeah, it's comically stupid. I like that. That's a better term than you're saying. I got. I like that. [00:00:41] Speaker C: Comically stupid. [00:00:46] Speaker A: If that shows up in a sermon. [00:00:49] Speaker B: I promise you this is comically stupid. To the state fair. [00:00:55] Speaker D: Yes. [00:00:56] Speaker B: That's nice. You ain't doing, like a contest or nothing, are you? [00:01:00] Speaker D: No. [00:01:01] Speaker B: Jams and jellies. It's time to enter and let the world in. [00:01:05] Speaker A: They do jams and jellies at the fair? If not. [00:01:07] Speaker C: If so. [00:01:07] Speaker A: Yeah, you got to be all over. [00:01:09] Speaker D: I was going to enter the contest. Well, all I had was fourth of a pint. They only. You can only enter if you have a half a pint or a pint. [00:01:17] Speaker A: We'll make another pint. [00:01:20] Speaker D: What now? [00:01:21] Speaker B: What are we going. [00:01:22] Speaker D: I was going to do the grape, BlackBerry and. And strawberry. [00:01:27] Speaker A: So you need a. You need a half a pint. You've got a fourth of a pint. [00:01:29] Speaker D: Yeah, that's how. That's how I make them. I do half pints here and there. [00:01:34] Speaker B: That wouldn't be that hard. [00:01:35] Speaker D: What? Milk? [00:01:36] Speaker A: You just double the recipe. [00:01:38] Speaker B: Just. Yeah, triple the recipe. [00:01:41] Speaker C: He needs more grapes. [00:01:42] Speaker D: No, it's not. [00:01:42] Speaker A: That's where you come in. Yeah. [00:01:44] Speaker D: It's the same recipe you used to have. I can get two jars versus one, then. That's why. Because. [00:01:49] Speaker B: Yeah, but that's contest. [00:01:51] Speaker D: I know, but I wasn't thinking about the contest. [00:01:53] Speaker B: This is for the fame and notoriety. [00:01:55] Speaker D: And that's going to be next year. [00:01:56] Speaker B: Okay. [00:01:57] Speaker C: This is for. [00:01:57] Speaker D: They look for color, taste, how presentation. [00:02:01] Speaker B: This is for all the marbles. I grew some sweet grapes for you. [00:02:05] Speaker D: You got them and I got them. I got them. [00:02:07] Speaker B: I'm telling you, man, those grapes were just right. [00:02:10] Speaker D: When I get my jars, I actually. I've gotten 10 cases, I think. 10 cases, right? Yeah, but they might have been for five years or so I was going. [00:02:20] Speaker B: To say, but I brought, I bring you some all the time. [00:02:23] Speaker D: Yeah, but they're empty. [00:02:26] Speaker B: I can put a dollar in nuts or something. Oh man. [00:02:33] Speaker C: You loan your master shirts here lately? You were master shirt last week. [00:02:36] Speaker B: Did I really? The light green? [00:02:38] Speaker C: Think so. [00:02:38] Speaker B: Okay. The dark green today. Yeah. Well, I'm going to play golf this weekend, so I'm excited. So I'm getting kind of loosened up. [00:02:46] Speaker D: What is, what is your score? What? Average? [00:02:49] Speaker B: No, I'm not. I'm 100 plus, man. I'm a six time of the year play golf guy. [00:02:55] Speaker D: Well, that's good. [00:02:56] Speaker B: I mean I enjoy it. [00:02:57] Speaker D: Plus it's getting better. [00:02:58] Speaker B: My, my, my son, my son plays and plays a lot and he's getting better. Yeah, he's. He, he's breaking 80, right? At 80 now. [00:03:06] Speaker A: So he's, he's liking the love. [00:03:09] Speaker B: Loves his job. Yeah, I mean it's a great gig, man, for, for a grant college graduate. [00:03:16] Speaker D: He might not even go back to school. [00:03:18] Speaker B: No, I can always ignore his writing on the wall, Jack. He ain't going. If he. And, and trooping on, this could be a job that eventually you could support yourself and you know, might not be, you know, 400000 a year. By no means. [00:03:33] Speaker D: Well, well, only pastors do that. [00:03:36] Speaker C: That's right. Yes. [00:03:37] Speaker B: 400000 a decade. [00:03:38] Speaker C: Not all pastors. Just, just the Southern Baptist prayer. Yeah. [00:03:42] Speaker D: I mean according to the budget, the only pastors get that I've never seen. [00:03:47] Speaker B: Lord, here we go. [00:03:49] Speaker C: Kenny's come back trying to renegotiate. [00:03:50] Speaker B: Let me tell you something. I caught so much grief with that from a couple of folks that knew they could get, you know, aggravate and pick and even, you know, you know, you know who I'm talking about. That's always somebody ain't got no money. But he's got more than he. [00:04:03] Speaker D: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:04:05] Speaker B: He's in a field that you make money. You just, you just buy a truck and you, you know, put, put it, put E L E C T R I C A L on it and you'll make money. [00:04:15] Speaker D: Eighty thousand, one hundred thousand dollar truck. Yeah. [00:04:18] Speaker B: And then come over and gave me grief. I was like, man, I ain't listening to you. [00:04:22] Speaker D: And then he tells me, Yeah, I got $15,000, but then I don't have any money, then I get 15, then I'm down, I'm in a hole. [00:04:30] Speaker B: Well, he needs to hire, he needs to hire an accountant. Needs to hire an accountant. [00:04:33] Speaker C: I can relate to half of that cycle. [00:04:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:04:38] Speaker B: For sure. [00:04:41] Speaker C: So I got a lot of stuff from Sunday. Welcome to 1, 6, 7. Yeah. [00:04:45] Speaker B: We share how to. How to walk through life outside of church. [00:04:49] Speaker C: That's right. And still keep your testimony Sunday was a. I enjoy. I had a lot of questions and a lot of comments from your sermon Sunday. That was. I didn't know where you were going to go with John too. Exactly. But that was one. [00:05:01] Speaker A: I never even thought of that verse. [00:05:03] Speaker C: In some of the ways that you presented it and some of the points that you made right in it. And I have a lot of. I got. I look down. So I'm running real low on notebook. So I got it. I'm already. Yeah, I'm already full. [00:05:14] Speaker A: And now I'm having to work back. [00:05:15] Speaker C: Through the backs and backs on it. So I dig it. Running out of space. And I thought, man, this one get you a new one, man, I didn't get a new one. I just think. Don't get. But I wrote down a couple of. Just little. Little thoughts that I had were. They were just garridisms. They were just random thoughts that I had. But then there were a couple other. [00:05:32] Speaker A: Things that you brought up. One thing that I never. It's always kind of seemed odd to. [00:05:39] Speaker C: Me, I guess, between verse four and verse five. [00:05:43] Speaker B: Okay. [00:05:44] Speaker A: There's just nothing there. There's no transition. She says, we're out of line. He says, what's that got to do with me? And she tells the servants, do what is. And I'm thinking there's got to be a lot more to that. The look he gave or something. Because, you know, if you watch the Chosen, there is one extra line in there that they say, you know, if not now, when. [00:06:01] Speaker C: Or something that Jesus or says something else. So I always kind of, you know, wondered what. What happened between verse four and verse five. Because she didn't react the way my mama would react if I told her, it ain't my problem. [00:06:11] Speaker B: Yeah, ma'. [00:06:12] Speaker D: Am. [00:06:12] Speaker C: And ain't no we. [00:06:13] Speaker B: Ain't no we here. [00:06:14] Speaker C: Right. But one of the points I think you were making Sunday is that she didn't get an answer from him, but she still turned and told them, whatever he says, do it. Just that. And I just kind of wrote down my notes. The. The answer is in that gap. He. [00:06:30] Speaker A: She didn't have an answer as to. [00:06:31] Speaker C: What his next step was going to be or his next, but she. [00:06:34] Speaker B: She did what she was supposed to do. She took the burden. Christ left it there. [00:06:38] Speaker A: She knew who he was. She knew who he was. [00:06:40] Speaker B: So that. [00:06:40] Speaker A: That was all she needed to know, right? The fact that she knew who he. [00:06:43] Speaker B: Was and she didn't know if he would or wouldn't. I mean, that's the thing. And you don't see her keep on pleading, come on, Jesus, please, please, please. Because I think in a way, she understood what Jesus was saying. Jesus wasn't just trying to be ugly to her. In fact, he wasn't. I think he was just wanting to make sure she understood that just because you gave birth to me, I got one higher than that, which is my heavenly Father. And just because you're my mama doesn't mean you tell me when to do miracles. And you don't have an inside track because you go a little bit later in John, you go a little bit. You'll see his brothers trying to do the same thing. Hey, it's the feast of the Lights and it's time for you to go and reveal yourself. If you're going to be the Messiah. And they're doing it mockingly, if you're going to be the Messiah, you got to make yourself known, man. And he's like, no, it'll be when the Lord wants me to reveal. And at the same time, you know, I. I like the fact that he doesn't draw everybody. I mean, he could have drawn everybody's attention. Ladies and gentlemen, let me have your attention, please. We're almost out of wine, but watch what I'm going to do. [00:07:50] Speaker C: Well, that's something else that I'd never noticed or thought about with that passage, is that it was only a miracle to a handful of people there. The rest of them, most people. And it's not recorded in the other Gospels. [00:07:59] Speaker A: Maybe for that reason, John was one. [00:08:01] Speaker C: Of the ones that were. [00:08:02] Speaker B: That saw it. [00:08:02] Speaker D: That saw it. [00:08:03] Speaker C: Because I don't guess where John was later. None of the others that would have been there wrote a Gospel Matthew there. [00:08:10] Speaker B: So Peter would have been. And Peter is Mark. Yeah. So Mark. Peter could have. And Mark could have, but Luke was not. So, yeah. Now Luke did. Luke interviewed Mary and many other witnesses. So, yeah, there would have been some who could have told him about it. Yeah. [00:08:28] Speaker C: And that was a. One of the things that you, you brought up that I just never. There were a few things that you. I just never really thought about from that passage. 1 Also, and this is. You didn't preach on this. [00:08:37] Speaker A: It was just one of my random little thoughts here. [00:08:39] Speaker C: But the part about, you know, when the waiter comes out and you say it, says you saved the good wine to last. [00:08:47] Speaker A: Going into maybe to Sunday I was thinking through that passage a little bit and thinking how in a lot of scenarios, Jesus does give us. Hate to say it this way. It's not the right way to say it, but simplest way to say it. He does give us what we want sometimes, and then later he gives us what we need. Sometimes early in your walk, things may go because you have. You see both sides of the story, right? There are some people who. Their life's a mess. They come to Christ and snap. Everything starts to work out perfectly all. [00:09:15] Speaker C: Of a sudden sometimes. [00:09:16] Speaker A: And then you have some. That's not the way it goes. [00:09:18] Speaker B: And some wrestle with addiction or something else for the longest of times. Yeah, yeah. [00:09:22] Speaker C: And then there's others on the flip side of that that may come to Christ in a difficult time and it may stay difficult for a while. And then later on down the road, things start to. To come together a little bit more. [00:09:32] Speaker B: Right. [00:09:32] Speaker C: People may still fight their battles for some period of time. And you, you've kind of, kind of seen both of those. But I never really thought of in the case with. I don't know if this is symbolic at all of it, but in some way does the good wine represent Jesus? Because a lot of people ask the question, why do we ever have sin? Why do we ever have. Why did we, you know, struggles? Why didn't God just make the world perfect to start with? Why didn't he just do that? And I just thought about that passage and waiting to serve the good wine until later or waiting till the end. And I don't know if that has anything to do with Jesus or not necessarily, but I just think about that and how he came. Long time after they expected him, then he left and they. Everybody's been saying he's coming back for 2000 years. He ain't back yet. You know, sometimes he tests your patience a little bit too, maybe. So just wondering if there's any of that. [00:10:22] Speaker B: I think if you want to draw a parallel, I mean, you might could draw a parallel with that. I don't think there's anything. It's a good lesson that life teaches us. I think there also is. This is the pain that we struggle sometimes is going to be worth. Paul says this. These light, momentary afflictions, well, sometimes they don't feel very light, nor do they feel momentary. But compared to eternity and what awaits us, oh, it's going to be glorious. And so I think there is kind of that. Yeah, there's some struggle now here on earth, but then there's ultimately going to be the ultimate salvation, which Jesus is that that sign is towards that it's going to be one of joy and one of the best wine, you know. So I think there is some, some parallels you can take there. I did, I didn't, I chose not to go that way just because I knew I had a, you know, I had a seminary professor that taught us in seminary and the, what we had to do is we had to stand up in front of a class and preach. So you're preaching to preachers so they know it and you're not going to be able to just make stuff up and they're down there writing. And then at the end of your sermon you got to give a 10 minute sermon and it's timed. If it ain't exact, it's already a F. And then at the end of that 10 minutes all these pastors are going to critique you. Well, one guy got up there and he went to seed on, on basically a sub point to a sub point and he went to town on it and Fresher just raked him over the coals and said, is that the main point of that text? And he said, no sir, it's a sub point. He said, well, I beg to differ. I think it's a sub point to a sub point. And then he began to do that and then he said, I think the guy's name was Mr. Jones or something to that extent. The professor said, Mr. Jones, let me give you a word of advice. Just preach the main points of the Bible and when you do all them, then come back and preach the sub points. Then you can come back and preach the sub points to the sub points. And so for me that was one of those. Let me get the main points. And yeah, I did hit on some sub points Sunday, case in point. You know, I'm trying to think of a couple like, like, okay, Jesus was in the everyday of affairs of he went to a wedding. Well, I don't know that that necessarily tells me that he cares and he's in every. But it does show that, hey, he's in our everyday events. So that's important. But it's not the main point of the text. [00:12:46] Speaker C: I don't have an outline from Sunday, but I, I think one of them was Jesus is approachable. Yeah, Jesus is available. [00:12:53] Speaker B: He's available. He's able and he has authority. Available. [00:12:57] Speaker C: That's not approachable. He's available. Able and has authority. [00:13:01] Speaker B: Yep. And then current applications. [00:13:02] Speaker C: Yeah, that's maybe been the, the main point that I've ever taken from the whole story in John 2 was just that he was in one of the first miracles record, I guess in a timeline. This was the first miracle ever recorded. Happens to be at a big social. It basically a party, right? I mean, not for lack of a better word, it's at a big social. [00:13:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:23] Speaker C: It's not in a temple, it's not among the priests, it's not wherever. It's in a common everyday kind of place. But then to me there were a lot of sub points that I hadn't ever thought about. Just the faith, Gary in it. And she never asked a question. That was another thing that I'd never really taken inventory of. But there was never a question or a, or a request on her part. She said they ran out of wine. Yeah, that's it. She didn't ask. [00:13:49] Speaker B: She didn't do that. You got to do something. [00:13:50] Speaker C: Tell him what to do. She just said they're out of wine. He said, what's that got to do with me? [00:13:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:55] Speaker C: She said, do whatever he says. [00:13:56] Speaker B: What's. What's that between me and you? That's what I like. It says in the Greek. [00:13:59] Speaker C: Yeah, but there's a lot of simplicity, I guess. And this is somebody. Matt Abram gave me a little, a short little book about the crucifixion I was reading through. And it's spent an entire 20 page chapter talking about the darkness in the last three hours of Jesus on the cross. And a big point that it was making was that there's really not anything in scripture about that. And I never thought about that before, but there's really not. It says it went dark and then it fast forward three hours, but it found 20 pages worth of stuff to talk about around that. And then Sunday I kind of looked at that like, well, there's a big gap there too between her saying they're out of wine and telling them, you. [00:14:42] Speaker B: Know, what's he gonna do? [00:14:43] Speaker C: Sometimes there's a lot to be learned from what the Bible doesn't say also. And that's something I never really, really thought about. [00:14:51] Speaker B: That's exactly right. [00:14:52] Speaker C: It's hard to be careful. I can turn that into an awful lot of what? [00:14:56] Speaker B: Well, and that's where you don't read into the text. But, but case in point, the crucifixion is an excellent example of that. You read what the crucifixion, I think you've mentioned this Crucifixion maybe takes 15 verses and he was crucified. It might take one. There was so much more than that going on and you had. Imagine the sights and the sounds and the horror and the screaming and the. I mean just all that went on. He was crucified. Well, that's just three. Three words. And it doesn't capture the. And so a lot of times they don't tell us everything we. We'd like to know, but it tells us everything we need to know. [00:15:32] Speaker D: We need to know. Yeah. [00:15:33] Speaker C: Jenny, you gotten quiet since we started. Stop talking about. [00:15:36] Speaker D: No, I was, I was just reading here. I just think. And you probably hit on this. First of all, I'm amazed that you even got that far. John, you, you. You're cruising down. [00:15:52] Speaker B: One man. I mean all that theological stuff. I got to get past that stories. [00:15:59] Speaker A: For a whole story. [00:16:00] Speaker B: Get me to the story. I'm going for broke this Sunday. [00:16:04] Speaker C: What you got this Sunday, Nicodemus? [00:16:06] Speaker B: John 3. And I'm going 1 through 21. I'm going to do it. We're going to do it again kind of. I like the way I've like John 2 flowed, that is. I don't have to go deep. Just hit on the points, explain it, then go on to the next one. [00:16:20] Speaker C: I'll tell you what, if you're visiting church for the first time, you're hitting a. You're getting a true super bowl event. You've got eight baptisms in John 3. [00:16:28] Speaker A: I mean this is the. [00:16:29] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what I thought about. I said, man, what a. What a day. [00:16:34] Speaker D: John 1. We were in there for what, six months. [00:16:36] Speaker B: It was a miniseries. [00:16:38] Speaker C: It was. [00:16:38] Speaker B: It was a miniseries in the series. [00:16:40] Speaker D: I'm just really. [00:16:41] Speaker B: And I thought. I thought about making John 3 the next miniseries because I think I could. [00:16:45] Speaker D: There's a lot on that one. But. [00:16:47] Speaker B: And I might. I. I'm still reading through and thinking through and I may make it a two parter. [00:16:52] Speaker D: That's a. That's. You can do that one. [00:16:55] Speaker B: Yeah, very easily. I mean. I mean first six verses, I could easily do it. And then definitely eight through 14. Eight through 16, man. So. Yeah, that's a great verse. Old Nikki is someone who depends upon his ma'. [00:17:11] Speaker A: Am. [00:17:12] Speaker B: He's talking about a religious dude. [00:17:14] Speaker C: He's it. [00:17:15] Speaker D: You know what I like about the term the water and the wine? [00:17:18] Speaker B: What's that? [00:17:19] Speaker D: Because nobody's ever done. No, of course nobody's ever walked on the water. His miracles. Nobody's ever done. Nobody's ever seen it. Calm in the storm, raising the dead. I mean I never thought you did it, but. Through God, but not. But he did it by his. [00:17:34] Speaker B: But you're Right. And that especially the water to wine, things like that. [00:17:39] Speaker D: That it's just if you go through all the scriptures, it's pretty much. I wouldn't say all of them because I don't know all of them, but I would say a lot of nobody's ever done. [00:17:48] Speaker B: And I think that's what I was kind of. I didn't necessarily get that as clear as that. But when I talked about atypical man, this isn't something that normally happens. And then, you know, Jesus didn't go and make mud and put mud on the pot. I don't know. As far as far as we know, the text doesn't tell us a thing other than I not draw it out and go sir. [00:18:09] Speaker C: Yeah, that was another thing that you. I never thought about was the servants. I mean they got to be scratching their heads. Fill up the water pots and I'll go serve it. [00:18:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:18] Speaker C: And like I said, you can, you can get in a lot of trouble, I'm sure, for taking your boss water and saying, here you go, best wine of the night. [00:18:24] Speaker B: You know, where did it change? Was it did. Were they drawing wine out of the pot itself or was it on the way to the head waiter or was it when he took a swallow? I mean, I don't know. [00:18:36] Speaker D: Yeah, I guess at some point you just gotta trust that's it. That might be what he's trying to say. [00:18:41] Speaker B: Well, here's. And that's what they did. I mean they had to be obedient too. Mary says whatever he says do do. They had to be trusting of that. And they'd be like, man, I don't. [00:18:52] Speaker D: Know if you hit on that. But at some point in time you have to trust. There's nothing else you can do. [00:18:57] Speaker C: Interesting point on that. So Mary gets an exemption from this because she was at. Yes, at this point in time the only person on the planet who could possibly know beyond a shadow of a doubt who he was. [00:19:08] Speaker A: Because she's the only one who 100%. [00:19:10] Speaker C: Knew that he was born. Born a virgin. [00:19:13] Speaker A: Right. [00:19:14] Speaker B: Yeah, I'll give you that. She knows that Joseph had a good. [00:19:16] Speaker C: Joseph I think had would be number two. But he didn't know 100 by the time. [00:19:20] Speaker A: Well, he had the angle. [00:19:21] Speaker B: By the time we get to John 2. Joseph, Joseph fitting in the picture more. [00:19:26] Speaker A: You made that comment on Sunday that there's a. [00:19:28] Speaker C: More than likely he's passed at that point. [00:19:29] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:19:30] Speaker C: So at this point in time, you know, Mary knew who Jesus was, the servant certainly didn't. And nobody else there Certainly knew he was. Now, I say that to say this, what you just said, we just need to trust him. They had no reason to trust him. Yet we have all the reason in the world to trust him. [00:19:48] Speaker D: Yep. [00:19:49] Speaker C: How much do we still struggle with it? [00:19:51] Speaker B: Yeah, I get that. I mean, even his five disciples that had bought into, okay, this guy must have something going on. But yet there were. Verse 11 says that's when they really began to believe in him. Because they were. They were now seeing it for the first time live and in color. They were. They were beginning to see John 1:14. We beheld his glory. They're beginning to see his glory. [00:20:16] Speaker C: So in some of the. Because I kind of forget the end. [00:20:19] Speaker A: Of John 1, you didn't preach on that in six weeks. [00:20:22] Speaker C: You only preached on one thing. [00:20:24] Speaker A: But the first disciples accounted that at. [00:20:28] Speaker B: This time in John 2, you may have five or six. [00:20:31] Speaker C: Okay. [00:20:32] Speaker B: You'd have Peter and Andrew, Peter and Andrew, James and John and James. All right. Then you had Nathaniel, which he's in. [00:20:37] Speaker C: Who was one of John the Baptist originally. [00:20:40] Speaker B: Well, actually, you had the one who took. Took the person to Nathanael. So I'm trying to think which one it was. So you. Six is what you would put it at. It wasn't the other 12, because later it's going to come the calling of Matthew, and later's going to come the calling of those. [00:20:54] Speaker C: Right. [00:20:54] Speaker B: So you're looking at Most. At most 6. [00:20:57] Speaker C: But now in the other Gospels, I want to say, just off of memory that Peter and Andrew's beginning to follow. Jesus came after the fish, Right? Yeah. [00:21:08] Speaker B: Yep, Yep, yep. [00:21:09] Speaker C: Okay. So it's possible that they had already seen a miracle before this. [00:21:13] Speaker B: More likely. Andre was a disciple of John the Baptist. [00:21:17] Speaker C: Right. [00:21:18] Speaker B: And Andrew. And Andrew, in a way, brought. [00:21:20] Speaker C: Brought Peter. Right. [00:21:23] Speaker D: Did Andrew have a part with. What was it Nathaniel? I thought maybe. [00:21:28] Speaker B: Well, I'm gonna look and see. I can't remember which one it was. [00:21:31] Speaker C: But you see what I'm saying, though? In. In one of the Gospels. In one of the Gospels, they followed him immediately after. [00:21:39] Speaker D: Yeah, they. [00:21:40] Speaker C: The. They caught a bunch of fish. And then in this one, they're already following him. But I don't think John1 talks about the fish. So I'm just. We don't know. I don't think chronologically which happened first. [00:21:50] Speaker B: Right. So Nathaniel and Philip came together. [00:21:53] Speaker D: There was a Philip. [00:21:54] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:21:54] Speaker D: Okay. [00:21:54] Speaker B: Philip brought Jesus to Nathaniel, and Nathaniel was under the tree, and he said, behold, Israelite, in whom there is no guile. And that. That. That right there said, man, how do you know that? That's what I was thinking in my life. Or might. Might have been what he was pondering. Then he told if you think that's something, wait till you see what's going to happen, big man. [00:22:16] Speaker C: Right. [00:22:16] Speaker B: So. So yeah, if you want to give Philip. So yeah, we're not talking about the full 12, but they're novices. They are just starting. We're just in John 2. So that's what I was getting at. He's able to provide for those needs of those novice disciples. They all. All they know is there's something different about this guy. Yeah, maybe they've heard something. Maybe they've heard him teach. But man, now they're seeing. [00:22:40] Speaker C: Whoa. [00:22:41] Speaker B: He just turned, you know, 150 gallons of water into wine. [00:22:46] Speaker C: Do you have any idea how much wine they would have had to start with for the. I mean 150 gallons sounds like a lot. They might sound like a ton of. [00:22:54] Speaker B: Sounds like a lot. I don't have a party unless it's Bonnie Sue's family. [00:22:57] Speaker C: That was fun. That was more fun with that. [00:23:00] Speaker B: It's not really. This couple don't even have a name. It's Billy Joe and Bobby Sue. [00:23:05] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:23:05] Speaker B: And Bobby Sue's family is going to be drinking a lot more than they need to. I told you we only need invite that uncle yours. But. But no. As far as how much it would have been, I don't know. I mean, you stop and think if it's got a week long celebration. [00:23:20] Speaker D: Yeah, it's a lot. [00:23:22] Speaker B: And these folks. You know, I don't even know how much you'd have to have. [00:23:27] Speaker A: Well, because you mentioned. The reason I bring it up is that you talked about how when he provides, there's leftovers. [00:23:34] Speaker B: Copious, right? [00:23:35] Speaker A: Copious. You that one not make it up yet. [00:23:38] Speaker B: So many folks he gave me grief about that. [00:23:41] Speaker A: At least you learned a new word. [00:23:42] Speaker C: I didn't know what it was, but you know, I don't know. I mean 150 gallons of wine, that's an awful lot. And I went to ecu. [00:23:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:23:51] Speaker C: That's been a long way. [00:23:53] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:23:53] Speaker B: I don't know. That's. That's a. That's a Halloween night. [00:23:56] Speaker A: That'll keep the party going for a while. [00:23:58] Speaker C: But I don't know how much it. You know, how much was that relative to what their. [00:24:01] Speaker A: Their needs? [00:24:02] Speaker B: I'm sure that would have been a bunch. Yeah, I mean I. You got a few. Think it would be. [00:24:06] Speaker C: Yeah, because it doesn't really say how many you got to really do some digging into the, you know, study bomb or something like that to get into some of what these terms mean. You know, a pot or whatever. [00:24:15] Speaker B: Whatever it's called, a stone pot, ceremonial washing pot. [00:24:19] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:24:20] Speaker B: And most people would think It'd be about 30 to 50 gallons. So I. But if they, if they got lifting babies, I don't know that you want them more than about 30 gallons. [00:24:29] Speaker C: Because what's. [00:24:29] Speaker B: What's a gallon of waterway? 8 pounds 24 ounces. [00:24:34] Speaker D: 8 pounds 124 ounces. [00:24:36] Speaker B: Is that right? [00:24:37] Speaker C: Sounds rod. [00:24:38] Speaker B: All I know is five gallon buckets, about 40 pounds of water. I don't know about feathers and stuff. [00:24:48] Speaker C: Let's not confuse. [00:24:49] Speaker B: Yeah. Versus five pounds of brick. Might be as heavy. I still got your picture on my desk, man. Earth, shear and hurricanes. [00:25:04] Speaker A: Oh, you still got that? [00:25:05] Speaker B: Yes. I'm gonna frame it. [00:25:07] Speaker C: That was good. [00:25:09] Speaker D: Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, I did. [00:25:11] Speaker B: But go ahead. [00:25:13] Speaker A: One of the other things you said, this is not related to one of the other things that you kept saying Sunday that got me thinking or just laughing a lot was that this isn't a Sunday hobby. And I drove down. I don't know if you know this guy or not. If you watch golf on tv. You know Kevin Kisner. [00:25:28] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:25:28] Speaker A: Golf commentator. So you ever see. He's from South Carolina and he's about my age. [00:25:33] Speaker C: So when I was playing a lot of junior golf, he was about. [00:25:35] Speaker A: We never played with each other, but. [00:25:37] Speaker C: He always saw his name a lot. So I remember him way back. He's funny, though. [00:25:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:25:40] Speaker C: And he's got a bunch of stuff on YouTube where he's showing off for his friends. And one of his. I don't remember what it was, but he hits a ball like over his house into a swimming pool, blind or. [00:25:49] Speaker A: Something, and they're all doing an eye. [00:25:51] Speaker C: And he goes, this ain't no hobby, you know. [00:25:53] Speaker A: But I thought about that one a lot. [00:25:54] Speaker C: He kept saying, this ain't no Sunday hobby. Yeah. But I just. [00:25:57] Speaker B: And I think that's very important to remember is, look, Christ is more than just going to church on a Sunday. [00:26:03] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:26:03] Speaker B: And he's more than just words on a page. [00:26:07] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:26:07] Speaker B: No, he's. He's the living son of God. He is the living word and he is our life. And I think that's, you know, it's always good to be reminded that the sitting. And just a Sunday hobby. I do, I go to church and check it off. Because if it is, man, you're missing the joy, you're missing the. The life that he came to give. [00:26:25] Speaker C: Well, and there's, you know, Sunday was a. More it. It probably hit me in personal ways more than I'd get into right here. But there's. It is easy to put God in a box and look at a situation or circumstance and say, this isn't happening the way it should. [00:26:41] Speaker A: This isn't happening. [00:26:42] Speaker B: You need to move, like this gun. I tell him what to do, come. [00:26:44] Speaker C: Up with a road map of what it's supposed to look like. And it's so, so easy to forget that he's not bound by our rules. I mean, that's the most obvious thing in the world to say. But God's not bound by our rules. [00:26:56] Speaker B: That's right. [00:26:56] Speaker A: You can't just snap your. [00:26:57] Speaker C: He didn't even snap his fingers to turn the water into water. [00:27:00] Speaker B: No, we don't know what he did. [00:27:01] Speaker C: Right when. The part that I was reading from the Resurrection, the book the Matt showed me or gave me. There's not a scientifically explainable way that the sun can disappear for three hours without disrupting the planet in a big, big way. But if God wants that to happen, that's exactly what he can do. [00:27:21] Speaker B: Or the sun stay. Or the sun to stay still. Stand still of Israel fight. [00:27:25] Speaker C: Yeah, whatever. If he wants it to happen, we could sit there and say, how could he do that? Well, to him, it's like, you can do it. That's right. [00:27:33] Speaker B: That's right. [00:27:34] Speaker C: But in our world and our, you know, through our lens, we can look at a situation and say, this is impossible. I don't see any way that this is going to work out, or, I don't see any way this is going to end well. Or I don't see any way he could be doing anything good in this situation. And to him, he's just thinking, you don't know me. Then, you know, because to him, he can do anything he wants to do. [00:27:55] Speaker A: It's just. [00:27:56] Speaker C: And a lot of times it's just as simple as believing that. And, you know, we can say we believe it and we believe in church, and we believe it, and we know we're supposed to say we believe in all that stuff, but when you get faced with a situation where you have to believe it, it might shake you up a little bit to find out that it's. It's easier to say you believe it than to believe it when it. When you have to. What you're saying is, I don't know what I'm saying. Hopefully you can decode it. [00:28:20] Speaker B: Kenny's got. Kenny's about to nail it. [00:28:23] Speaker D: What you're saying is you believe in God created heavens and the earth by his voice. You believe that Jesus Christ rose from the grave. But when it comes to something affecting you, very personal, that's when your faith wavers. [00:28:40] Speaker C: Yeah, I think so. I think that's when it gets tested. [00:28:42] Speaker D: That's when it gets tested. Yeah. [00:28:44] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:28:44] Speaker D: You believe all these things and. And the question is, if you believe all these things, why couldn't he help you with your little situation? [00:28:52] Speaker B: Well, if I got struggled. [00:28:53] Speaker D: Because it's personal. We're in it. And it's just. When you read the Bible, like the children of Israel, we see it. We see the beginning and the end, and we're thinking, man, y' all gotta be crazy. But they're living it. And so they're having. And we have this day in, day out. We tend to look down on the children of Israel coming out of Egypt because God can help you on that. But when you're living, it's completely different. I get what you're saying. [00:29:25] Speaker C: Well, and go ahead, you can finish it up. [00:29:27] Speaker B: Well, I kind of brought it out a little bit. You know, Mary instructs the servants. Whatever he says, do, do, don't, you know, have a promise of what he's going to do. But whatever he does, just go ahead and knock it out. Do what he says. Well, what is it he says that we should do when it comes time for a burden? That we have burdens, we have troubles, we have struggles. First we need to go to him. Matthew 11:28 says, Come to me, all you who are heavy burdened, and I'll give you rest. Then we need to cast our cares upon him. Go to him, but then cast your cares upon him. First. Peter 5, 7. But then comes the hard part. Then you trust that he's going to work all things together for good. Doesn't mean he works all things together perfectly. But he's going to work that stinky situation to the point of he gets glory somehow, some way. That's the hard part of trust. I can trust him for my sins and being forgiven. I don't know why that's so much easier that somehow eternal salvation is easier to believe somebody than. I don't know if I can let go of this problem right here. [00:30:32] Speaker D: Yeah, and I get that. That you. [00:30:34] Speaker A: You do. [00:30:35] Speaker B: I don't. My eternity. [00:30:37] Speaker D: No. Versus I get. We're worried about that. I understand what. Yeah, you're worried about that. I mean, I think all of us are. Is that current situation. And it might be how we this, our society, that we really don't really have to rely on God a whole lot. We should, but we have so many things at our disposal. You hungry? Let's go to McDonald's or you know, some countries, they had to completely rely on God, had to exercise that faith. We don't have to exercise our faith as much. And maybe that's one reason why we have problems. Because if you want light, just go get the switch on. Some people have to build a fire. You know, some people have to really rely on God for their day to day. And I think when you exercise your faith, as you exercise your faith more and more you build that muscle. And I'm just talking, I'm not talking about anybody else, I'm talking about myself. I don't exercise my faith as much as that type of trusting faith as much as I should because I'm not in a situation where I have to. I wish I was, I mean I should be. But just where I live and the country that I live in, everything's pretty much at your disposal. So we end up trusting ourselves. And I'm not saying that's a good thing, that's a bad thing spiritually, but if it's a good thing for us physically, if you're of the world, that's a great thing. You can go afford a car. But for living for God, that can be a bad thing. I don't know if I made that clear. [00:32:16] Speaker C: Well, if you don't exercise a muscle for some period of time, it's going to get weak. And when you are in a situation where, you know, you've been. I'm trying to keep the, the exercise analogy alive here. So I don't know how the, how, how to, how to tie this together, but when you've been blessed in your life to the point that you don't have to rely on faith, you really don't get as much of an opportunity to exercise it. And you've got to really challenge yourself spiritually to remember how dependent you are on every, I mean any, anything that starts to go right. And I've had this out a few times where something starts to go right and it can get taken back away really quickly. [00:32:57] Speaker D: As I haven't had many to go. [00:32:58] Speaker C: Right, but I, I've had some start to. And then about as soon as they start to mine, Lucky. Yeah, well, then mine, as soon as they start to go right, it gets taken back, right back away. And it's a real quick reminder that it's not you that's that's doing it. And, you know, I've tried real hard when I have had something going my way to not forget the blesser and that it's not anything that I did and that it can go away in, In a hurry. But if you, if things are going your way or following your way for a while, it can be real easy to. Because you're not praying for things now. You need to be remembering to pray gratitude and, and exercise the gratitude muscle. Maybe in the. Maybe it's one of the other. It's leg day or arm day. Right. You. You're either gonna get to exercise the faith muscle or the gratitude muscle sometimes. And sometimes. Yeah. [00:33:43] Speaker D: And I don't know. A lot of people say, well, I've been blessed. Never really talk about material things. I'm thinking, really, have you really been blessed? Have you really been able to trust God? I think a lot of people. I know this is going to sound kind of different, but I think the blessed people are the ones that had to rely on God. [00:34:03] Speaker C: True. [00:34:04] Speaker D: You know, rely. Those are the ones blessed. We have to exercise our faith as much as they did. And I think being blessed is when you can rely on your faith. And I, I've seen people from other countries that were just like, wow, you know, they don't have nothing, but yet they would. Yeah, God provides. But we think about having 20 cars, a trailer, you know. You know what, you know what I'm talking about that you. [00:34:32] Speaker A: I do that well. [00:34:34] Speaker D: Yeah, but a nice truck. [00:34:36] Speaker B: Humility is dependence. [00:34:37] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:34:38] Speaker B: I mean, that's really. If you want to. You want to measure your humility. Just take a look at how dependent upon you are you upon God? And not just lip service. It's easy to say, man. No, I'm talking about how dependent are you upon God? And that goes for your ministry. It goes for your personal blessings. It goes to say God, I know, hey, I get up and go to work every day, but God, you're the one who gave me the strength to get up out of bed. You give me the strength to be able to. You give me the ability to crunch numbers for millionaires, that I can get paid like a millionaire. [00:35:13] Speaker D: Okay, I get that. Let's bring it back home. [00:35:19] Speaker A: But, but you give me the, the ability to be such a great pastor that I can warrant a $400,000 a year salary. [00:35:26] Speaker D: I got that. [00:35:26] Speaker B: So. So it's one of, it's one of doing that that it's like you realize, but, but here's the thing. We can give that lip service, but Oftentimes we find ourselves going into autopilot, and that's where, to me, I think we find. And that's just as bad. That's a prideful autopilot. Yeah. I go and give it lip service. No. How dependent are you, truly? Because I think. I think I shared this. If I didn't, I'm sorry I shared it with somebody and it might have been right here. Did I share last Sunday, before I got up to preach, I mean, I had a feeling of that I had to just sit down and say, lord, I'm sorry, and just. That's. That was from the Enemy. And I'm not giving that a second thought. [00:36:13] Speaker C: I remember, though. [00:36:14] Speaker A: What were you. [00:36:15] Speaker D: What were you. [00:36:16] Speaker B: Well, it was two weeks ago. We had a. Had a pretty large crowd in here. It was about 323, 16, 6, 7. But anyway, it was. We had a good crowd. And it was during the time of greeting. And I don't know if it was the enemy that. Oh, man, look how many people are here. And I don't know that my mind went to, they're here to hear me. And that's when I said, they're not here to hear you, son. And I had to really get down on myself and say, lord, that is not from me. I don't know if that came from the enemy or that was a temptation, but I can go ahead and say, lord, that is not my heart, because I got nothing to share that's going to be worth hearing versus the Lord does. And the Lord, thankfully uses us. But, man, it is. It's not you to come in here, Jack. [00:37:07] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:37:07] Speaker B: And I had to remind myself that because. No, no, no, I'm. I'm an average guy with an average pastor that can't hardly string two sentences together without there being some grammatical error. [00:37:21] Speaker D: Well, I get. I mean, I really get your profession. It's hard for you to stay humble. [00:37:27] Speaker B: You don't know how people come and tell you, man, that was a great message. All you. They come to the church and we're ready to join because, man, you preach the truth. And I'm like, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. [00:37:38] Speaker D: And I tried to keep you humble the best I can. [00:37:41] Speaker B: I'm trying myself to. No, just stay married. That. That does a good job. [00:37:47] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. [00:37:48] Speaker B: Does a real good job. [00:37:50] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:37:51] Speaker B: Yeah. I. Renee is one of the best. [00:37:53] Speaker D: I know my wife's getting on me about a haircut. [00:37:57] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:58] Speaker D: I just paid for two. [00:37:59] Speaker B: I thought, you know, I gotta get one myself. [00:38:00] Speaker D: Yeah, well, pay $40 and they give. [00:38:04] Speaker C: A group Discount because I need one too. [00:38:05] Speaker B: I can't swing your. [00:38:06] Speaker D: Yeah, but it gives you. You don't have to get one for six months. [00:38:11] Speaker B: Yeah, no, I can't go that low. I can't go that short. [00:38:14] Speaker D: Really. [00:38:15] Speaker B: No, I gotta keep up. Well, I mean, they don't cut mine. [00:38:19] Speaker C: Twice a year, but I cut it really short. [00:38:21] Speaker B: Yeah, I gotta keep mine to you. [00:38:24] Speaker D: I paid the first one before was $25. But the next haircut that I got from the same person, I paid $40 that got mixed in tip. But she told me that. Oh, I suppose. [00:38:34] Speaker B: Thanks. [00:38:34] Speaker D: Yeah, the more you pay, the slower your hair grows. [00:38:39] Speaker B: Oh, really? [00:38:40] Speaker D: Yeah. Yeah, I believe it. [00:38:42] Speaker B: I ain't going. [00:38:44] Speaker D: I think I can get behind me. [00:38:46] Speaker B: But if you watch. I was messing with my earphones. Cause I think I got too much hair around my ears that it doesn't fit my. My microphone. Don't talk anymore. But. But the. But the. But one of the points is, man, it is so. And it doesn't have to be a pastor. It can be anything that we can. We can begin to get pride in our lives very, very easy. Pride is a subtle creeper. It just sneaks its way in. And it may not be, oh, I'm. He's a pompous, arrogant jerk. No, it can be just the little things of. I think some of the ways to measure. Okay. Are you truly prideful or not? Is. Are you finding yourself always having to defend yourself? If so, that's probably a measure of pride. Do you have a hard time saying you're sorry? If so, then that's a measure of pride. [00:39:36] Speaker D: I have enough pride, you know, I have to keep going. I mean, yeah, that's. [00:39:46] Speaker A: He's two for two. [00:39:47] Speaker C: And we're good. We don't need to keep going. [00:39:49] Speaker D: But I. I understand you want to be complimented. Yeah, but that I'm doing. And I'm doing the right thing. [00:39:57] Speaker B: It's always nice to encourage somebody. I want to encourage you. [00:40:00] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:40:01] Speaker B: At the same time, don't let that encouragement become so much so that you're looking for. And. And I think it goes back. There's something else to being okay. I want to be the best that I can be without being confident in myself. I want to be the best that I can be by being confident in Christ. And there's a. There's a big difference between the two. [00:40:20] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:40:21] Speaker B: Because I can be the best I can be. And if I think I did it, then, holy cow, what a big head. [00:40:27] Speaker D: Now you probably. You probably. In your profession, you probably do have to fight pride more than. [00:40:32] Speaker B: Well, I think just about everywhere. But the pastors do. Well, human nature, anybody? [00:40:38] Speaker A: Human nature is going to make it no matter what you do or even how good you are at it. We're going to find a way to find pride. [00:40:44] Speaker C: Sure. [00:40:44] Speaker A: If we want to or not. If we want to or not. [00:40:46] Speaker C: It's going to happen. [00:40:47] Speaker B: We're self centered. [00:40:48] Speaker A: Right. [00:40:48] Speaker B: And we don't clothe ourselves with humility, which first Peter tells us to do. And I think that's one of the keys. [00:40:55] Speaker C: And the answer to that one goes. [00:40:56] Speaker A: Back to what we talked about last week. [00:40:59] Speaker B: No, I thought you were going to say something. You face that like you had a good joke. I was like, wow. [00:41:07] Speaker D: Because I'm guilty of it. Oh, two. [00:41:09] Speaker C: Two things. [00:41:10] Speaker B: That's enough. [00:41:12] Speaker D: The thing that. We get it. [00:41:16] Speaker A: He had a whole bullet list, I think. I think we only got two injured. You can check for pride. [00:41:20] Speaker B: He don't shut me down. [00:41:21] Speaker A: Yeah, he shot you down after two. [00:41:23] Speaker C: Do you need to leave the room for him to finish for anybody else or. [00:41:26] Speaker D: Well, no, he got. He got me. [00:41:29] Speaker B: Well, there's several places. [00:41:31] Speaker D: I mean, everything you said. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:41:33] Speaker C: Getting down on yourself can be a. [00:41:35] Speaker A: Form of pride finding. [00:41:36] Speaker B: I mean, there's. [00:41:37] Speaker A: There's a lot of different ways you can. [00:41:38] Speaker B: You know, there's false pride. There's. I mean, we are such a twisted, sick heart. The heart is deceptively wicked above all things. And I don't know that we've ever plummeted the depths of the darkness in our heart because of how we can twist pride and twist even. We try to be false, modest, and that's a form of pride or fault, even finicky, nice. We try to be. And that's a false love. I mean we. We can. Man, we can fool ourselves and fool others, but we don't fool gone. And I think it's one of being real before him. [00:42:10] Speaker D: Good to see you. No, it's not. [00:42:13] Speaker B: How you doing? [00:42:14] Speaker D: Yeah, that's just people. [00:42:15] Speaker B: I really don't care how you're doing. I'm just saying. [00:42:18] Speaker D: That's right. Yeah. [00:42:19] Speaker B: You really gonna tell me? [00:42:20] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:42:21] Speaker B: Would you, man? [00:42:21] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm real bad. People ask me how I'm doing. Especially like at a gas station. I'm real bad. To film the truth. If it's a bad day, both of. [00:42:28] Speaker D: You are just a lie. And just as. Yeah. [00:42:33] Speaker A: No, I've had people ask me at the gas station, how you doing today? I said I'll be honest with you. [00:42:36] Speaker C: Terrible. [00:42:36] Speaker A: But thanks for asking. Yeah, I Appreciate it because I like that part. I don't do it often, but occasionally, if I'm just having that kind of day, just go ahead and tell you. [00:42:45] Speaker B: I ain't gonna lie, it stinks. [00:42:46] Speaker D: Well, you can. Gas station, somebody wants to come up and need $5 because they're out of gas. [00:42:51] Speaker B: $5? Yep. [00:42:52] Speaker D: Yeah, every time I turn those, just. [00:42:56] Speaker B: Speaking of gas, I share that up here at Fuqua. The guy hit me up for $5. [00:43:01] Speaker D: Is it sheets I get hit on? [00:43:03] Speaker B: No, it wasn't sheets. It was the Exxon up here. And he tickled me. He hit me up. He said, man, you got $5? And I was like, man, I really ain't got. I really didn't have much. [00:43:13] Speaker D: I don't have cash anyway. [00:43:14] Speaker B: I'm not. He said, I ain't going to lie to you. He said, my mother in law is a blankety blank and I need something to drink. And all I could do was I busted out laughing like, man, that's the best excuse I've ever heard in my life. [00:43:28] Speaker C: My mother in law is something. [00:43:30] Speaker B: And that got me. I was like, man, that's, that's, that's a way to go about it. I reckon my mother in law is something. [00:43:41] Speaker C: All right, I'm sidetracked now, so I've got time. No, you're good. [00:43:45] Speaker B: Yeah, we, we have been, we've been around this today, man. [00:43:48] Speaker C: We're on the road. It was. While I get revved up. Once we got going, man, two things. [00:43:51] Speaker A: I want to button up. One thing from just now, we're talking about a lot of what we've been talking about, right? There is material needs. [00:43:58] Speaker C: And yeah, there are people who are. [00:44:00] Speaker A: Blessed in the material sense. [00:44:01] Speaker C: And you might look at it and say that that's. They don't. [00:44:05] Speaker A: It's harder for them to exercise the faith muscle. But it's not just Jesus doesn't say, cast all your material needs unto me, it's all your cares under me. [00:44:14] Speaker C: I know people that are plenty blessed. [00:44:17] Speaker A: On the material side, but they're struggling in other areas, a lot of different other areas. And they're asking professional doing their day. [00:44:24] Speaker C: It could be family members, it could. [00:44:25] Speaker A: Be relationships, it can be health, it can be. There's a lot of different things that are not necessarily material. So even if you are blessed in one area, that might be an opportunity for you to get pride in that area or an opportunity to forget about the Lord in one area. But nobody is exempt from cares. Everybody's got cares. Everybody's got something that is and whatever it is that's keeping you up and not whatever it is that's worrying you. Whatever it is that, you know you're having a hard time giving to him, that's what you have, that everybody has an opportunity to exercise that faith muscle somewhere. The problem with it a lot of times is a lot of those things that we haven't cast on to him yet, we hadn't cast them for a reason. They're hard to let go of there. It's, we're, we're holding on to them because they're too important for us to give to him, you know, or it's something that we just, we think is. [00:45:13] Speaker C: Too big for him or whatever. [00:45:15] Speaker B: So I better handle this. Go ahead. Silliest thing. I mean, think about that logic. I better take care of this. [00:45:23] Speaker C: I thought you were the more important. [00:45:24] Speaker B: You don't have. [00:45:25] Speaker A: Seriously? [00:45:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:45:26] Speaker D: I thought you were going to say, I'll handle this. [00:45:28] Speaker C: I didn't. [00:45:29] Speaker A: That's what I thought to start with too. [00:45:30] Speaker B: I'm just talking about, Think about the irrationality of, I could take care of this, God, let me handle this one versus God saying, no, I'll take care of it for you if you'll just give it to me. And which one would I rather have on the case? Me boys from Duncan or God Almighty? [00:45:50] Speaker A: Well, and that's the thing. [00:45:51] Speaker C: My experience with this has been the. [00:45:53] Speaker A: More important it is, the harder it is to give to it. [00:45:55] Speaker B: Exactly. [00:45:56] Speaker A: Because, yeah, sure, I can handle praying for my neighbor. Yeah, I can. Yeah. But when it comes to something that's really important. [00:46:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:46:03] Speaker A: Or more personal. [00:46:04] Speaker D: More personal, yes. [00:46:05] Speaker A: If the consequence of it not going the way we want it to is dire enough, then we can't trust God. [00:46:11] Speaker B: No, no, that's. [00:46:12] Speaker A: Which is comically stupid. I mean, that's it. [00:46:14] Speaker B: That's what I'm getting at. That's comically stupid. I like that. That's a better. [00:46:19] Speaker A: This is too big. [00:46:20] Speaker B: Irrationality of it. Yeah. [00:46:22] Speaker C: It's just too important to let God handle Irrationally stupid. [00:46:25] Speaker B: Yeah, but comically stupid. [00:46:27] Speaker C: Comically stupid. [00:46:28] Speaker B: I like that. [00:46:29] Speaker C: There you go. [00:46:31] Speaker B: Saying, I got. I like that. [00:46:32] Speaker C: Comically stupid. [00:46:37] Speaker A: If that shows up in a sermon. [00:46:41] Speaker B: I promise you this is comically stupid. [00:46:44] Speaker A: I want to talk something. You're talking about being real, going to the Lord and being genuine in your prayers. And that's something that, you know, I, I tend to be pretty honest with the Lord as much as I can be. [00:46:55] Speaker B: There are times I admire that because I, I, I know you do. [00:46:59] Speaker A: There are times that I'M well, there are times that I even have caught myself lying to him and not realized it. You know what I mean? Like you might say something and then. [00:47:07] Speaker C: You think, I don't. [00:47:09] Speaker A: I think that was lip service. And, and I think a lot of that's him calling you out on it as you're doing it. But I've noticed something. [00:47:14] Speaker C: I mentioned this on Zoom Bible Slay the other night with those guys. [00:47:18] Speaker A: I've started to notice there's some things I've been praying for for dagger long. I've ran out of different ways to say them. You know what I mean? It's like I try to spice it up, not say the same thing over and over and over again, but running out of different ways to say it. But I do catch myself sometimes that I'll say something and I realize either that wasn't the right thing to say or I didn't say it with the right amount of reverence, or I didn't say it with the right amount of humility or I didn't even mean what. [00:47:44] Speaker B: I said or whatever. [00:47:46] Speaker C: There's a. There's really mean it. Yeah. [00:47:47] Speaker A: Did I really mean. There's so many different ways that I'll catch myself in that. And I can't help but think and notice that that's a little bit of God reshaping your prayer life and that. Say what you mean. He'll tell you if what you meant was not the right thing to say. You know what I mean? [00:48:02] Speaker C: Because sometimes we're not going to get every. Every prayer spot on. Right. We're not always going to say it exactly what we should. [00:48:08] Speaker B: And it's not always about the words. [00:48:10] Speaker C: Right. [00:48:11] Speaker B: It's about the heart. [00:48:12] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:48:12] Speaker B: And you know, some. Some of the best prayers I prayed is not necessarily me talking. It is my mind just thinking about, Lord, your will be done, Lord, I don't even know what to do here, Lord. And I think it goes back to one, that dependence we talked about. But. But I think it also goes back to, you know, how. And I'll just say this. How many ways can you say, give us this day our daily bread? Lord, I need you to take care of my. Take care of my meals. Lord, I need you to provide. Okay. There aren't so many ways you're going to be able to say that. So that when he talks about vain repetition words, it's not necessarily words that are. Say the same thing. It's words without no heart behind it that you don't even. [00:48:58] Speaker C: You're just autopilot. [00:49:00] Speaker B: I Think about, man, I can't tell you how many ball teams I've played on or been a chaplain for. And they do the Lord's Prayer and it is so fast. And so. And I'm like, y' all aren't even thinking about the words. Yeah, you know, this, this is not doing us much good here. But think about what you're saying. Think about what it means and are you really meaning it? And I think that's what God's looking at when it comes to the ba, ba, ba, ba, ba. I mean, we can babble. I don't think he won't slap. [00:49:30] Speaker C: I don't know. I have this written down in my notes from a couple of weeks ago and I never got to it. And maybe this is as good a place as any to bring it up. But Gabe has been doing something here lately that I think is kind of cute in a way, but it's, it's also terribly, like, misguided. But there's something that he wants that he's probably not going to get. It's a game he wants. [00:49:48] Speaker B: Oh, I thought this might be a date with the girl. [00:49:50] Speaker C: That too. That's a separate. He single handedly derailed 40 or about 30 minutes novel study last week. [00:49:58] Speaker B: Right. [00:49:58] Speaker C: Because as I'm getting ready, okay, sorry, Gabe, if you hear this, I'm gonna talk about you again. [00:50:03] Speaker A: But we're getting ready Tuesday night, last week for Bible studying. [00:50:06] Speaker C: Gabe says he wants to go on a walk. I was like, okay. [00:50:09] Speaker A: He said, do you mind if I. [00:50:10] Speaker C: Go on a walk? [00:50:10] Speaker A: I said, okay, just take your phone with you. So he leaves for a while. [00:50:13] Speaker C: He's gone for like an hour. [00:50:14] Speaker A: He comes back and he said, do you know why I was gone for so long? [00:50:17] Speaker C: I said, no. [00:50:18] Speaker A: And he said, I wanted to go pray. [00:50:19] Speaker C: I was like, okay, I mean, that's cool. [00:50:21] Speaker A: You know, he said, you know what I was praying about? I said, I can guess. I think I have an idea. But anyway, he says that he's been dreaming. Yeah, exactly. He said, I have. I've had a dream about her several times. Do you think that that's God, like, showing me a sign that, you know, we're meant to be together? I said, I think it's a sign that you're thinking about her too much. [00:50:39] Speaker C: And. [00:50:39] Speaker B: Yeah, you know, I was gonna say. [00:50:41] Speaker C: I think it's he like when you. [00:50:42] Speaker A: Said the other day that you fell asleep watching football or dreamed about football. [00:50:46] Speaker C: Or something, and, and that, you know, you realize maybe you've been watching too much football. [00:50:50] Speaker A: But anyway, so he asked. I said, I don't know the answer to that. I said, but I will ask. I said, I'm getting ready to hop on Bible study. I'll ask all the men on there what they think. [00:50:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:50:57] Speaker A: Well into like a 30 minute conversation. [00:50:59] Speaker C: On the Bible study that I did not mean to get those. We wound up. [00:51:02] Speaker B: No, it don't take much with that. [00:51:04] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:51:04] Speaker B: But yeah, that group will go and go and go and go. [00:51:07] Speaker C: We didn't get to the, the scripture we were working on till like seven o'. Clock. [00:51:11] Speaker B: Golly. [00:51:11] Speaker C: So my bad there. But, but a different thing that he won't. And he's not going to get this. Gabe, if you listen, here's your secret. I'm going to tell you right now. The secret is you're not going to get it, but you can keep trying because it's a game that he wants to play and it's a game you don't need to play. It's bad. It's got a bad rating. There's a bunch of bad stuff in it. Everybody's told me, you don't need to play this. [00:51:30] Speaker D: Oh, okay. [00:51:31] Speaker C: And he's trying to talk me and his mom into letting him have it. Well, his mom's already told him no. He's come to me and said, can you talk her into it? I said, I don't think I disagree with her, much less, you know, she's. [00:51:45] Speaker B: Right on this one. [00:51:46] Speaker C: Right. And he says, but, but let me back up actually, I forgot this part. The way I figured it out is one day he comes to me, he says, like, where's the toilet brush at? To clean the toilet. I'm like, why are you cleaning the toilet? [00:51:59] Speaker B: Yeah, that's kind of. [00:52:00] Speaker C: And then he starts putting away laundry and starts doing all this stuff. And I finally said, gabe, I appreciate all the help, I really do. [00:52:04] Speaker B: Yeah, what's your. What's going on? [00:52:07] Speaker C: Yeah. And he said, well, I'm trying to show that I'm mature. And I said, okay, why? He said, I just want to show you that I'm mature because the game. I said, I know. Because the game he's playing is very mature for mature. And he's trying to prove. And he said that he's watched, he's looked it up on YouTube and everything on YouTube says that it's okay to play it when you're 13, as long as you're mature enough to know that the stuff in the game, some of it's not appropriate. [00:52:29] Speaker B: Gta. [00:52:30] Speaker C: Yeah, that's it. Yeah, there you go. Gabe, see, Pastor Ben even knows without me telling you that you can't play this game. Okay. [00:52:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:37] Speaker C: And I did hit him with this one time. He said, because he kept on me. And I said, do you think Jesus wants you playing it? [00:52:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:43] Speaker C: I said, do you think Pastor Ben would tell you to play it? [00:52:46] Speaker B: I said, would you. Would you play it with him in the room? [00:52:48] Speaker C: That's right. That's right. But anyway, he's. But he just keeps trying to earn mature points. And he finally said, how many mature points do I need to Prove? [00:52:58] Speaker B: I said, 758. [00:52:59] Speaker C: I said, 17 million. I just picked a number. He said, how many mature points did I get for putting Logger away? I said, five. [00:53:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:53:05] Speaker C: How many do I need to get the game? I said, 17 million. He said, I'm never gonna get that. I said, well, that's the point. [00:53:11] Speaker A: And finally he just keeps at it. [00:53:13] Speaker C: And keeps at it. And I finally told him the other. [00:53:15] Speaker A: Day, I said, here's the deal, Gabe. I said, I don't know if you're gonna get the game or not. At that. [00:53:18] Speaker C: I still, you know, I hadn't. [00:53:20] Speaker A: I'm not thinking too much about the game. Don't even come out till next May, right? I said, you just keep doing what you're doing for right now, and we'll see what happens. I said, but I'll go ahead and tell you right now there's a good chance you're not gon to play it. And second of all, I said, I want you to understand, you keep doing all these things that you're doing, I want you to do those things. But at the end of the day, whether or not you get the game or not is up to me. It ain't up to you because you're not earning 17 million. Unless I decide to change the scoring system somehow, you know you're not going to get that. [00:53:46] Speaker C: That's. [00:53:46] Speaker A: So quit trying to think you're going to do something that's going to. Now, that's a terrible example of grace, I suppose, but I think a lot of times we look at the things that we want from God and we try to find ways to earn enough brownie points and earn enough prayer points and earn enough things that we finally earn his grace. At the end of the day, he decides to give it to you or. [00:54:03] Speaker B: He doesn't and you're not earning it. [00:54:04] Speaker A: And he's going to decide, just like me with gta, he's going to make that decision based on what's best for you, not based on how bad you want it. [00:54:10] Speaker B: That's right. [00:54:11] Speaker A: So as. As misguided as his little game is, it was a nice little lesson because I probably try to earn a lot of gta. [00:54:18] Speaker C: We do. [00:54:19] Speaker D: We do. [00:54:19] Speaker C: God. [00:54:20] Speaker A: Because I want them. [00:54:21] Speaker C: Why wouldn't he want me to be happy? And GTA. Yeah. I'm trying to earn my 17 million GTA points. But anyway, it's. I. I love the way the kids show me my flaw. [00:54:32] Speaker B: It's a video game. [00:54:37] Speaker A: I didn't realize because it was out when I was a kid, but it wasn't so bad then. Somebody was telling me about all the stuff that's in the hell. [00:54:44] Speaker B: No, I don't shoot video games. I got one game I play. It's Retro football. Retro. Retro. [00:54:51] Speaker A: Retro Bowl. [00:54:51] Speaker B: Retro Bowl. [00:54:52] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:54:53] Speaker B: So that was like 60s. [00:54:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:54:55] Speaker D: 64 NES, Nintendo. [00:54:58] Speaker B: No, it's on my iPad. [00:55:01] Speaker D: Okay. [00:55:02] Speaker B: But it's pretty cool. I get to be. Right now I'm. I'm ecu. I was App State and won the national title several times. [00:55:10] Speaker A: Now. Is it actually licensed to use the real teams or is it. [00:55:13] Speaker B: No, it's real teams. [00:55:14] Speaker C: Okay. [00:55:14] Speaker B: Colors and everything. [00:55:15] Speaker C: Okay. [00:55:16] Speaker B: Now you draft players, but they're not. Not real players. They just make up things. [00:55:20] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:55:20] Speaker D: And you. [00:55:21] Speaker B: Every four years your team resets or every three years because if a kid, junior and transfers or. [00:55:26] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:55:26] Speaker B: Goes to the pros. It's cool. It's cool. [00:55:28] Speaker C: I love it. That was when I used to play the heck out of some college football when I was in college. [00:55:33] Speaker B: Madden. [00:55:34] Speaker C: Yeah, like Madden or the ncaa. [00:55:36] Speaker B: Cfp. Yeah, I was. I remember that. [00:55:38] Speaker C: I was good at that stuff. [00:55:39] Speaker B: No, I wasn't good at that one, but I could play Technoball, but then again, that was just basically hand the ball to the man. [00:55:44] Speaker C: Yeah. I don't do a whole lot of games on my phone and mainly because the kids are on their phone so much. I don't want to be sitting there telling them to get off their phones while I'm playing on mine. [00:55:55] Speaker B: Yes, that's it. I've had to give so much grief and you know, the thing of it is, is there is a select group of teenagers. More and more teenagers are realizing. And I know you're probably saying it ain't my kids, but there, there is a, A, A little under. Swelling of kids that are kind of getting tired of the. They're starting to see the, the ugliness of. Of all the apps and all the. That they're beginning to say, I don't need it as much in my life. Some of them are even saying, give me a flip phone. I don't know. I hadn't seen any of them in Fuqua, but I've heard heard there's some, some kids that are beginning to realize, man, I don't need that thing in my life so much. [00:56:34] Speaker C: Well, no joke. I seriously have. I've changed my notification settings on my phone so that from like 8:00am to 10:00pm There you go. Almost very few things will actually alert me. [00:56:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:56:46] Speaker C: And I've intentionally put certain apps as far back in the back so that I can't. If I can't delete them. They're apps that I have to use occasionally. Facebook and Instagram, I have to do them some for work, but. And I'm not going to delete them all together because once in a while that's the only way people can reach you and think like, sure, especially that's supposed to business. But at the same time, as much as I hate it, I'll still catch myself sometimes going to it and spending 20 minutes and all it does is make scrolling. Yeah. So I've got to a point now where somebody made a comment to me the other day. They saw I sent them a screenshot of something and they said, yeah, it looks like you spend a lot of time on YouTube. I said, well, that's mostly work. I spent a lot of time. Yeah, you do. But outside of that, Facebook and Instagram and all the other. That's the only two that I ever really use. But I just. There's so many things that I catch myself doing on my phone that I think what in the world are just doing for anything? [00:57:31] Speaker B: You know, just sitting there, just. [00:57:33] Speaker C: I tell you, you want to really see how much you're spending time on your phone. Let a five year old tell you you need to get off of it. Because Christian, a lot of times I'll be sitting there watching TV and I'll have my phone out and he'll say, dad, can you please put your phone away for a few minutes? And it's like, oh geez, there you go. A bad son. [00:57:48] Speaker B: If I have the little one in my life, my nephew, if he ever tells me I'm too much on my phone, I know I must be. I must be buried in it because that was on a pad all the time. [00:57:58] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:57:59] Speaker B: Nate got him a set of golf clubs because Nate works with swing pals so they get all kinds of clubs and he's always having to resize or. [00:58:07] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:58:07] Speaker B: And he found a like a kid starter set, gave it to him So I took him outside. So, man, let's go outside. Get away from that phone. Get away from that iPad. [00:58:15] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:58:15] Speaker B: And it was fun trying to teach him how to swing because that boy was putting them all. He thought he was a samurai. And I was like, be patient. [00:58:24] Speaker C: You know, the funny thing about it is when I tell the kids, any of the three of them, if they're sitting around the house, they're going to be on their iPads or doing something. Now, Reese is real good to try to find instructional video. She's constantly finding how to videos and then going and doing the things. [00:58:39] Speaker A: See, that's. [00:58:40] Speaker C: I think that's cool. But one of the things that if. [00:58:43] Speaker A: I just look around the house and I see three kids sitting on a phone and me sitting there on the phone, a lot of times I'll just put them down. So let's go outside for work. Anytime I say, let's go do something like that, usually they're excited to go do it. [00:58:53] Speaker C: They're. [00:58:53] Speaker A: It's not that they're not interested in doing things outside. It's just we've all kind of started using them as a crutch to kill time. [00:59:00] Speaker B: To kill time to television for our. My generation. [00:59:03] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:59:05] Speaker B: And now it's the phone for this next generation, at least, because I still still find myself. Television. Let me scroll, see what's on. Scroll through all the channels. Nothing's on. Just finds out my game. [00:59:18] Speaker D: Get to the doctor's office. And everybody's. [00:59:20] Speaker B: That's it. That's it. Oil change, wherever you go. And there's a group of people. [00:59:25] Speaker D: Yeah. And. And it's. It's. I took. I took my Amber Alert off my phone. [00:59:31] Speaker C: You can do that. [00:59:32] Speaker D: So I don't get the notifications. [00:59:34] Speaker B: I didn't think you could do that. [00:59:36] Speaker D: Well, I had. I don't know how I did it, but I did. But it's been a long time. [00:59:40] Speaker A: I didn't know how I did it. [00:59:42] Speaker D: A couple of years ago, maybe three years ago, when David was alive, because I was sitting beside David Manga them. Amber Lark came on. [00:59:50] Speaker C: Yeah. Everybody's in the home and everybody was doing. [00:59:52] Speaker D: I'm just sitting there. I'll just. Everybody's just. Yeah. Looking at their phone. I thought that was so funny. [00:59:56] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:59:56] Speaker D: Yeah. I'm just sitting here. I had no idea. But everybody else was scrambling for their phone. [01:00:00] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Why's it going off? And it's in church. Yep. Yep. [01:00:04] Speaker D: To me, it's funny because I was watching everybody scrambling. [01:00:07] Speaker B: I sure didn't know you could turn it off, though. I'm impressed. [01:00:09] Speaker C: I'd be impressed if you knew how to do it. [01:00:11] Speaker D: Yeah, I don't know how to do it. Let me see. I thought because I don't get Amber Alerts. You send the Amber Alert. [01:00:20] Speaker B: Amber Alert. Amber Alert. [01:00:22] Speaker D: I think I pretty sure. Or it might be under notifications. Amber. I'm not sure. [01:00:29] Speaker C: Yeah, they might have something you can do on it. [01:00:30] Speaker B: I'm not sure. [01:00:32] Speaker D: I don't think you can get an Amber Alert because you'll be getting Amber Alerts everywhere, you know, when we do. [01:00:37] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm talking about. I mean I'll get them for Guilford county or something. [01:00:40] Speaker B: Yeah, but you get them from the state of North Carolina. [01:00:42] Speaker D: That's what you do this. [01:00:44] Speaker A: Please. [01:00:45] Speaker C: I suppose I'm not a very responsible citizen for not reading them and trying to. But when I see Guilford county and it's like that's 100 miles away. I'm not going to remember the. The details of this, but. [01:00:56] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't see. Oh, there's AMBER alerts, government alerts. Amber alerts right there. So you can turn it off. Public safety alerts, test alerts. What's emergency alerts? [01:01:07] Speaker D: That's the one. I probably. [01:01:08] Speaker C: That's probably like tornado warnings and stuff like that. [01:01:10] Speaker D: I think it's emergency would be like. [01:01:14] Speaker B: Child or there's like an earthquake in area or a shooter loose. [01:01:20] Speaker D: Yeah. We have a lot of earthquakes. Keep that one on. You might need that. Don't take that one off. [01:01:28] Speaker C: I won't. I won't. [01:01:29] Speaker B: Because the ground starts moving. I know. Yeah. [01:01:33] Speaker C: I don't need my phone to tell me if we have an earthquake. I think. [01:01:35] Speaker B: I'm sure it's something like a shooter or something like that. [01:01:38] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:01:39] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:01:39] Speaker D: You don't want to take that. [01:01:40] Speaker B: All right. Yeah. So you're right. [01:01:41] Speaker D: You can. [01:01:42] Speaker B: I didn't know you could turn them off. I've got it. I'm expecting. Shaking, baby. We're good. [01:01:49] Speaker C: Yes. [01:01:49] Speaker B: My phone is going off. [01:01:51] Speaker C: Well, we're an hour and a half in. Else. Or we got. Are we good? [01:01:55] Speaker D: No, I was just going to cover everything, but I could do it next time. [01:01:58] Speaker B: I'm saying. [01:01:59] Speaker C: No, it's just. [01:02:00] Speaker D: I was just. [01:02:01] Speaker B: Or give us something to think about for next time. [01:02:03] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:02:03] Speaker C: Give us a teaser for next week. [01:02:05] Speaker B: Or a homework assignment. Kenny, listen. [01:02:09] Speaker A: Okay. For him to either not do or cheat on. [01:02:12] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:02:13] Speaker D: I was teaching Sunday and we're talking about Moses and Aaron. [01:02:19] Speaker B: Okay. The Levitical priest. [01:02:21] Speaker D: Okay. Before that the children of Israel. And this is a new generation this is not the old generation. No. [01:02:30] Speaker B: This is almost getting ready to go. [01:02:31] Speaker D: In plus in numbers. It's numbers 20 where between 1920 is a 38 year gap. Not just at Sammy man. We're just here in the desert. [01:02:40] Speaker B: We're ready to go in. We're ready to go in. That's right. [01:02:43] Speaker D: It goes from 2 years to 38 to 40 years. And less than a chapter. [01:02:49] Speaker B: Ain't nothing to report. [01:02:50] Speaker C: Right. [01:02:50] Speaker D: We're just hanging around for us die. [01:02:53] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm headed for you to die. [01:02:55] Speaker D: I hate to have to be the last one because everybody's just sitting there watching when you go to pass away. Yeah. [01:03:01] Speaker A: So what's the last one? Yeah, you know Caleb's got to be. [01:03:06] Speaker B: Thinking that do what? Yeah, Caleb and Joshua. [01:03:08] Speaker D: Yeah, can't wait for him to die. Yeah, we can go. [01:03:11] Speaker B: Can't be too anymore. [01:03:13] Speaker D: Anyway they were, they were complaining about not having any water again. You know I think that's what we a lot of us do. We blame. When we complain, then we blame. And that's what they always do. Yeah, we all do that. Adam did that complain blind blind deed. And the thing that I took out off from this and I read this as I was writing this that Moses and Aaron didn't know what to do, did not have any answers. So what did they do? They just fell on their face. They had no answers. And that's a good place to be in. And that's a place that I think we should be in a lot of times where we just get before the Lord and just tell the Lord we all know what we're going to do. That's not a bad place actually spiritually that is a good place. [01:04:12] Speaker B: It's the best place. [01:04:13] Speaker D: Yes. Yeah, I think I go three, five and six. That's when I'm really seeking God. Not when I have everything. It's when I'll have nothing to follow along. [01:04:23] Speaker B: But yeah they not on your own understanding. [01:04:26] Speaker A: Sometimes there's. That's a good one. [01:04:28] Speaker C: I love that one. [01:04:28] Speaker B: I mean that's Proverbs 3, 5 and 6 if you really think about it. [01:04:31] Speaker A: Yeah, I hear that with. I hear that one in my head almost non stop because I told you that's my pre shot routine. When I'm at solely I say that verse. So I hear it all the time. All the time. [01:04:42] Speaker C: I think some of the most powerful words I probably could ever say to God. When you get to those points where you say I can't. Once you get to that point where you know there have been situations and even things lately that I've been praying at. And it's like, I understand that I need to give this to you. I understand that. I don't know. Have a clue what you're going to do with this. And I have absolutely no idea how to even. How to even have faith, basically, at this point. Like, I don't know how to. There's. [01:05:10] Speaker D: Who is it? [01:05:10] Speaker B: That's it. [01:05:11] Speaker C: One of the gospels. Please help my faith. [01:05:13] Speaker D: No. [01:05:13] Speaker C: Somebody praise my unbelief. [01:05:15] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:05:16] Speaker C: Help my unbelief. [01:05:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:05:17] Speaker C: I believe. [01:05:17] Speaker D: But help my own belief. [01:05:18] Speaker C: My unbelief. Right. I mean, sometimes even getting to the point where you have to admit that even your faith is something that you have to rely on him for and just saying I don't know what to. [01:05:28] Speaker A: Do, I think is probably. [01:05:30] Speaker D: That's. That's where you're at. [01:05:31] Speaker C: That's where you. Where he can do something when you don't know what to do is when he can finally do something. [01:05:35] Speaker B: Make it full circle back in John, too, because that is John too. [01:05:39] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:05:40] Speaker B: That's John 2. That's Mary saying, I don't know what he's going to do or what, but y' all do whatever he's going to say. And when we get to the end of ourselves, oftentimes that's where we find Jesus taking over and doing something that we never thought possible. The atypical, amazing miracle that. Oh, wow. He did turn water to wine. [01:06:00] Speaker C: Oh, wow. [01:06:00] Speaker B: He turned my circumstances completely around. He changed my life. He changed this. He changed that. That's. That's. We. But we got to get to the end of ourselves to where I. I can't fix this. [01:06:12] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:06:13] Speaker B: And that's where Mary was. Mary knew. I can't go out and buy 400 more gallons of wine for this family. [01:06:18] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:06:19] Speaker B: Especially not Bonnie Sue's. [01:06:20] Speaker D: But then here's the question. And as we move on through. Why did God tell Moses to assemble the congregation and speak to the rock before their eyes? That's the question. You'll find it in the Bible. That's the hand. [01:06:40] Speaker B: I think I know. But no people need to do. To search it. [01:06:45] Speaker C: Why did God tell Moses to assemble the congregation and speak to the rock? Is that the correct question? I'll just homework on it. It's in the Bible. [01:06:54] Speaker D: He said it's in. Yeah, at the first 66 books. [01:06:58] Speaker A: One of the first 66 books. [01:06:59] Speaker D: It's probably. It should be easier to find. [01:07:02] Speaker B: Sure it's not the first 65. [01:07:06] Speaker C: As. As Ben says, I got a machine. [01:07:07] Speaker A: That can help me research that. [01:07:09] Speaker B: And there's something we can do. I got a little machine on there. I can look it up, but I. I do. I do invite you to look it up. [01:07:15] Speaker D: What's that answer? I have the answer. We don't. [01:07:22] Speaker A: Oh, you're talking to the rest of the room. [01:07:25] Speaker D: Talking to the loving audience I found in the Bible. [01:07:28] Speaker C: He's talking to Brandon. [01:07:29] Speaker B: Ye. Yeah. [01:07:34] Speaker A: Leave it there. See y'. [01:07:36] Speaker D: All. [01:07:36] Speaker B: All right, all right, let's get it. [01:07:37] Speaker D: Let's get. [01:07:40] Speaker C: A little penny in the shop this week. [01:07:41] Speaker A: Yes, you. [01:07:42] Speaker B: We need you in our life. [01:07:45] Speaker D: Before that, while thinking about it. I'll forget. [01:07:48] Speaker C: I'll start again on it. [01:07:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:07:50] Speaker C: So you don't get to just. [01:07:52] Speaker B: My boys bought me a ZZ Top. They bought me tickets for Father's Day, and they went. So I had Nate and Daniel with me, and we walked in and Daniel said, dad, this looks like senior adult day at the fair meets a motorcycle game. I've always been a closet parent. This music's great, man. [01:08:14] Speaker D: I love it. [01:08:15] Speaker A: Man's getting into a little pattern of habits here. [01:08:17] Speaker C: Chick Fil? [01:08:18] Speaker A: A Master Salad. [01:08:19] Speaker C: This. [01:08:20] Speaker B: This segment sponsored by Chick Fil? A. And it's Cobb salad. Hello. [01:08:23] Speaker D: When was the last time you watched wrestling? [01:08:25] Speaker C: Thursday. [01:08:26] Speaker B: Wednesday night. Wednesday night. I still think we need to take a. We need to take this show on the road and do a special, special podcast from. Standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona. Such a fine sight to see. [01:08:48] Speaker D: Sam.