Treasuring Christ

[00:00:02] Speaker A: This is the same man that says, humble yourselves before the Lord because God gives grace to the humble. He wrote that because he had seen what pride does. And so God broke him and that sin broke him. But then God built him back up and God used him. To where? This is the guy who's going to preach at Pentecost. If you had to go through that whole list of 11 disciples, Peter's going to be your man. He just denied you. That's a beautiful story of redemption. And I think that's what Easter is about. I think that's what the gospel is about. [00:00:37] Speaker B: I stopped doing my stock market podcast a couple months ago, so that's been [00:00:41] Speaker C: the only reason that I've had to [00:00:42] Speaker B: follow any of it. And I could care less about the [00:00:45] Speaker C: economy most of the time until I go to the gas pumps. And now. And I'm realizing it's like $4 a gallon. [00:00:52] Speaker D: Yeah, but gas is. Is not sticky. [00:00:54] Speaker B: No. [00:00:55] Speaker A: Like it's fluid. [00:00:56] Speaker C: I mean, I've seen, literally as an adult, I've seen it as low as 95 cents. When it was, I think in 08 when things just the bottom fell, there was like one week, it got down to 95 cents. [00:01:07] Speaker A: Well, I remember. Yeah, as an adult, I remember a whole lot less. Of course, that was, you know, 92, 88, 1988, when I was driving. I was a teenager. [00:01:17] Speaker D: Well, I remember it being 32 for regular. That's lead gas. And 40. I mean, 36 for unleaded gas. [00:01:29] Speaker A: You remember regular gas? [00:01:30] Speaker D: Yes, I had to pump it. We were in. We had a gas station called Phillips [00:01:36] Speaker A: 66 and it was 32 cent a gallon. [00:01:39] Speaker C: Yeah, well, we gotta rock and roll, boys, because. [00:01:41] Speaker A: All right, I'm with it. [00:01:42] Speaker C: I got a hard stop at 2:30. [00:01:44] Speaker A: I got some skits I got to write. Not skits, but scripts. Scripts for the minor. Majoring in the minor profits. I got to write my script for Habakkuk and for, let's see, Nahum, Habakkuk and Obadiah there. [00:01:58] Speaker C: Nice. [00:02:02] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:02:02] Speaker A: It comes on on Tuesday nights on our Facebook page and Instagram page. I'm there now majoring in the miners, looking at the minor prophets. I'd recommend it for anybody because it's great. Little survey and helps you to know what these minor prophets are about. Tells the story. [00:02:16] Speaker D: So Obadiah is not written to the Israelites. I don't know how they got in there. [00:02:22] Speaker A: I mean. [00:02:23] Speaker D: I mean, it's just like that's the only book that's written to. [00:02:27] Speaker A: Well, Nahum is Really? Well, Nahum is not necessarily a warning to the Ninevites as much as it is comforting the people of Judah that God's going to take care of the Ninevites. [00:02:37] Speaker D: But I don't know if Israel's mentioned Obadiah. It's the Edomites. [00:02:46] Speaker A: Yeah. It is against Edom, but it does talk about his children some, to some degree, that there'll be a return. [00:02:52] Speaker D: What's strange is because it's to the Edomites. Why is it in the Bible? I mean, I don't know. I mean, I'm not questioning it. That's the only book that I know that's written to somebody else, mainly. [00:03:04] Speaker A: I would think that it still talks about God's goodness and his justice, that he's going to look after his people. I mean, it's still there. The Edomites, if you know, the history were from, of course, Esau and how they always opposed Israel, wouldn't let them go through the land when they were coming through, through the Exodus and everything else, that they were always a thorn in the side. And God's going to eventually right all the wrongs, especially for his children. So I think that's a reason it's in there. [00:03:35] Speaker D: The Edomites come from Isaac. [00:03:38] Speaker A: Well, so do the Israelites. They both come from Abraham. [00:03:44] Speaker D: They all came from Noah. Right. [00:03:46] Speaker A: But they did not come from Jacob. They came from Esau. Yeah. [00:03:50] Speaker C: Well, meaning. [00:03:52] Speaker A: Meaning what? What does Edomite mean? Do you know [00:03:57] Speaker D: Edom? It was his son. [00:03:59] Speaker A: Red? [00:04:00] Speaker D: Yeah. Red hair. [00:04:00] Speaker A: Yep. So just throwing that at a little tidbit there. [00:04:07] Speaker D: David had red hair, too, I think, didn't he? [00:04:09] Speaker A: Well, ruddy complexion. Don't know. Redheaded. [00:04:13] Speaker D: I don't have a picture of him. [00:04:15] Speaker A: No offense. Redhead's on there. No, I'm just kidding. He could have been. I mean, Michelangelo did a sculpture. You can go see. [00:04:22] Speaker D: Did it have. Right here? [00:04:23] Speaker A: Yeah. No, it's gray. You saw marble? [00:04:28] Speaker D: No. Michelangelo, did he have red hair? [00:04:30] Speaker A: No, he did not. [00:04:32] Speaker D: You have a picture of him? [00:04:33] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:04:34] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:04:34] Speaker A: You know what Michelangelo looks like, right? [00:04:36] Speaker D: I know the only Michelangelo. [00:04:38] Speaker A: I think he wears the. I think he wears. I was gonna say. I think he wears the orange, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, red is Raphael. Okay. [00:04:45] Speaker B: Purple's Donatello. No, Purple's. Yeah. [00:04:47] Speaker A: Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael, Raphael, Michelangelo. Who's a blue Donatello? Mike and Leonardo. [00:04:56] Speaker B: Yeah, there you go. [00:04:57] Speaker D: And what's the name of the rat? [00:04:59] Speaker B: Sled Butter. [00:05:00] Speaker D: Okay. [00:05:00] Speaker A: There you go. And I didn't grow up watching that. [00:05:02] Speaker D: I didn't either. But I did. [00:05:03] Speaker A: I played the video game. I grew up. I grew up watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I like it. [00:05:08] Speaker D: Johnny Quest is the one. [00:05:10] Speaker A: I like Johnny Quest. Now, that's going way back. [00:05:13] Speaker D: I mean, that was a young, young child. [00:05:16] Speaker A: Scooby Doo was mine. Scooby Doo and the Laugh Olympics. [00:05:20] Speaker D: I like Scooby Doo. [00:05:21] Speaker A: And Justice League. Yeah. And Thundercats. I had Thundercats. [00:05:25] Speaker D: I like thundercats, too. [00:05:26] Speaker A: I loved he man as a little. [00:05:28] Speaker D: And he man. I loved he man too. [00:05:30] Speaker A: He man would have been a little. You've been a little older. [00:05:34] Speaker D: I didn't. I mature. [00:05:35] Speaker B: Like, I'm starting to think. [00:05:37] Speaker C: Me too. I'm starting to think. [00:05:39] Speaker A: I mean, yeah, I was in middle school, and I was only a middle school kid watching He. And I was like, I must be late developing or something. [00:05:47] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:05:48] Speaker C: Sorry to think you boys weren't listening when I said, we got a roll today. [00:05:54] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:05:56] Speaker A: We hadn't seen each other in two days. [00:05:57] Speaker C: Yeah, that's right. I love it when funny stuff like this happens. I opened my Bible last night to [00:06:05] Speaker B: do some study time. I'm not. I'll be honest. I haven't been the best on daily time with the Bible lately. It's. I got to get a little bit better at that. [00:06:14] Speaker C: But I had started Hebrews and then I kind of read the first chapter, [00:06:20] Speaker B: and then I didn't get to the [00:06:22] Speaker C: second one yet because I hadn't read the book summary, basically in the study Bible. I wanted to read that first before I got all the way into it. [00:06:32] Speaker A: Excellent. Excellent book. [00:06:33] Speaker B: So I'd done a little bit in John and I'd been in a few different things. But I came back to it yesterday [00:06:38] Speaker C: and I sat down and I read the beginning of chapter two. And I said, this sounds incredibly familiar. I'm pretty sure I just heard this yesterday. [00:06:47] Speaker B: I look back and make sure. I was like, oh, yeah, that's what. [00:06:48] Speaker A: Yeah, that was a sermon. Hebrews 2. [00:06:50] Speaker B: Whatever it is in Hebrews. [00:06:52] Speaker C: In Hebrews 2, that's hit me twice in two days, back to back. [00:06:56] Speaker A: So we're doing a study on Hebrews on Wednesday night. [00:07:01] Speaker C: And you're going through it like verse by verse. You've been doing that for a year. [00:07:05] Speaker A: Well, I only get 12 to 15 minutes on Wednesday night, so it takes a while. And we are in chapter. We're in Hebrews 11, the hall of fame of faith. And we're actually looking at each story and what they teach us. And that's been a blessing. The book of Hebrews, I would highly recommend it is kind of sort of repetitive. But the writer is wanting you to know the supremacy of Christ. He is superior over the angels, he's superior over Moses, he's superior over the law. And it's written to some Jews that had become saved and thinking about going back to Judaism because persecution was in. And that's why in Hebrews 10 he says, no, let's not be like that. Let's be the kind that are persevering. And then he says, like these in chapter 11. So excellent read. I'd recommend it. It's in the Bible though. [00:07:53] Speaker B: There's a topic that I wanted. [00:07:56] Speaker A: There's a time. [00:07:57] Speaker B: It's not related necessarily to Hebrews, I [00:07:59] Speaker C: don't think, but there was a topic I wanted to bring up and I really just realized that I didn't bring the detailed notes. So last Thursday in the Thursday morning Bible study. Okay, a little bit different. So we finished the David Jar Bible, [00:08:13] Speaker A: done with the study, and now we're [00:08:14] Speaker B: doing just a three week little, little mini series. [00:08:17] Speaker D: Was it a mini series that you're getting ready to talk about? [00:08:19] Speaker A: Yes. [00:08:19] Speaker C: You weren't there for that. Yeah, and I took a great long note on my handout that they gave me and apparently didn't bring it with me. So. But I do have a short summary of it here. So the Jonathan, I guess the guy's [00:08:34] Speaker B: name that [00:08:37] Speaker C: he was, he used an analogy that for. And I'll admit I got a little distracted after this analogy to my mind just started kind of wondering and letting this, you know, taking this a little bit further than maybe a minute. [00:08:47] Speaker B: He was talking about how we're called [00:08:50] Speaker C: to be a reflection of Jesus's light. Right. And that, you know, it's, you know, [00:08:55] Speaker B: with a lot of light. [00:08:55] Speaker A: He says, you are the light of the world. He says, I am. Then he says, you are. [00:08:58] Speaker C: Right. So he was explaining here that we're a reflection of that light. [00:09:02] Speaker B: And then my little add brain just started going on thinking about that analogy. And if you think about the reflection of the light, okay, it's not our light that's shining, it's his. [00:09:13] Speaker A: It's not the source. Kind of like the moon. [00:09:14] Speaker D: Yeah, exactly. [00:09:15] Speaker C: That's another analogy he used and I've [00:09:16] Speaker B: heard that one before too, that, you know, the moon doesn't give off light, but it reflects the sun. [00:09:21] Speaker A: Sure does look like it though. [00:09:22] Speaker B: Yeah. And he started talking a little bit about, you know, when you're in the shadows and the light can't reflect as much and when you get into like [00:09:28] Speaker C: an eclipse or something, you can't see it as much. [00:09:30] Speaker B: And there's a lot of ways you can take that analogy. One that I started thinking about is as a Christian, I don't mean to do this, I guess, but I never really thought about it. I always think of my relationship with God, needing to be closer to God, my prayer life, my Bible life, being at church regularly, all these things that we do, fellowship of believers that keep us close to God. I never really thought about it in this way but a lot of times I think I especially do that for, you know, self serving reasons. I feel better when I'm close to God. I'm happier when I'm closer to God. I have more peace when I'm close to God. There's a lot of benefits. [00:10:08] Speaker A: You have problems in life, sure, but. Yeah, but it gives you. [00:10:12] Speaker B: There's a lot of benefits to being, to having that, that fellowship and that closeness with God. And I'm not bringing up the rest of it to say that those aren't real benefits. But I think for me a lot of times I pursue God for those benefits and don't really think about the importance of being close to God so that that light reflects right. If I'm kind of in the shadows and not close to God, that light can't reflect on me and that stinks for me. But the main purpose, I think for God we are not the final destination of the light that he's shining on us. We are supposed to be get that light on us so we can reflect it to others. And as this plays out in my mind I'm just thinking about how self serving a lot of times my motives are, I guess with my, my seeking God because it's just I'm mainly doing it to feel closer to him for my own benefit without really even thinking about the fact that if I'm not, then how am I ever going to be able to be a reflection of that light to others? [00:11:11] Speaker A: Right. [00:11:11] Speaker B: When I'm. I never want to be a miss. I don't ever want to misrepresent Christ to others. [00:11:19] Speaker A: Right? For sure. [00:11:21] Speaker B: I joked with somebody actually at Bible study, I think I said the other day, you know, I was walking to my car for Bible study carrying coffee in one hand and my Bible in the other or something and I had too many things in my hand, I spilled my coffee on me and the Bible and everything and all I could think of in that moment was please do not cuss with the Bible because if somebody walks by and they see you carrying a Bible and cussing at the same time, that is going to be a really bad look on. On Jesus, you know, so I bit [00:11:48] Speaker C: my tongue and I got in the [00:11:49] Speaker B: car and, you know, didn't do it. [00:11:52] Speaker C: But. But a lot of times I don't [00:11:54] Speaker B: think about if I'm not walking close [00:11:56] Speaker C: with God, if I'm not studying the [00:11:58] Speaker B: Bible regularly, if I'm not. Yes, it has an effect on me, but it also has an effect on how I'm going to treat others, how I'm going to reflect on others. And I don't know, I had a lot more detailed notes on it than that. But I just started thinking about the real motivation that was the thing I [00:12:13] Speaker C: was getting from it all is what's the motivation? [00:12:15] Speaker A: I think therein lies what the key behind it is. And you want to share anything first, go ahead. No, I think it goes back. It's always the why. Why are you seeking the Lord? Well, I want to know Him. I want to know him in the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his suffering. Paul doesn't say, I want to know him because then I'll have peace, joy. That's just a side that just comes as a benefit. That's not why I'm seeking. To seek him is because he's God and to seek him because he's awesome and I want to be with Him. The only thing I can equate that to. And I don't. That the example is going to hold up is, okay, so I'm gonna. I'm gonna go and I'm gonna. I, you know, I'm gonna make this up. So let's just say Renee is an excellent cook. [00:13:06] Speaker D: I don't know if you can make that up. That's true. [00:13:09] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay. Let's just say Renee is an excellent cook. [00:13:11] Speaker B: Do we want to pause this right now so I don't have to edit it? [00:13:14] Speaker A: She knows, okay? She knows. She'll admit she don't like it. She's a good cook. She just don't like. Okay, so let's just say I go up and I start wanting to spend more time with her. And, you know, I want to just grow that relationship because, well, hey, I just can't wait. She's going to make me a meatloaf. The meatloaf is not the reason I'm doing that. I would hope that. I want to be around her because of the person she is and because I just enjoy her company and I enjoy just being with her. That's what it should be for us, is I just want to be with My Lord, don't care about all the other benefits. And Lord, whether you bless me or don't bless me or whether this works out or doesn't work out or whatever we go to him with. No, I want to be in his presence because in his presence is the fullness of joy. Yes. But I'm not going for the fullness of joy. I'm going because I get to be with the God who loved me and saved me by sending his son, Jesus Christ. And so it really does go back to that motivation of is it the person you're seeking or the privileges? And if it's the privileges, it's the wrong motivation. And I don't know that it's necessarily wrong and bad. I just don't know that you're going to have the same drive or the same heart. [00:14:33] Speaker D: And I think. Or the fullness. And I also think we are made to serve God. So I think it's an inner longing for everybody, whether they're aware of it or not, to serve God. He made us that way. [00:14:54] Speaker A: That's right. That's where you find your fulfillment, your purpose of life and everything else is in that relationship where you are serving the Lord and bringing glory to him. And that's where that reflection that he's talking about, we started with comes in is. As God's working in us, we should be shining the light bright for others to see. Unfortunately, oftentimes we tend to think that we're the star in the show. [00:15:19] Speaker D: Sometimes we get off track. [00:15:20] Speaker A: Yeah. And it's almost like if I have a little small part in the movie, I expect to see my name up on the screen even though I was in a cameo, you know, case in point. Used to be Wilmington was a filming mecca. You remember that? [00:15:34] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:15:34] Speaker A: And they actually did some movies here in Durham and they had calls for, we need crowds. It was at a ball game or something like that. And so people went and filled the stadium and, oh, they might have a 2 second part in the movie. They catch their face and they're, they're somehow thinking, well, I'm the star of the movie now. You had two seconds when it went past the crowd. [00:15:53] Speaker D: You were paid for it. [00:15:54] Speaker A: Well, paid. No, I don't even know that you were paid for it. Really? Oh, yeah. [00:15:57] Speaker D: I think they pay you. [00:15:59] Speaker A: Pay you no mind. [00:16:01] Speaker D: A hundred dollars. [00:16:02] Speaker A: Oh, no, they ain't gonna give you a hundred dollars. [00:16:04] Speaker D: I know we. [00:16:05] Speaker A: You must have been in a Higher Realm movie. [00:16:08] Speaker D: Well, I know. I believe the cottage gets paid because they have a lot of movies down There. [00:16:14] Speaker A: The college gets paid. Yes, but the extras don't. [00:16:17] Speaker D: Yeah, but. [00:16:18] Speaker A: Yeah, the extras just. [00:16:19] Speaker D: They're there. [00:16:20] Speaker A: They get the thrill of telling people. By the way, if you watch Melrose Place Season 6, Episode 3, 30 seconds to 33 seconds, I'm walking by and then somehow think you deserve to be on a star on the billing. That's where we fool ourselves, because. No, it's his light that we're reflecting, not us. [00:16:40] Speaker D: I think the beach cottage gets paid, too. They have a lot of movies down there. Yep. I think they pay them to use a parking space. [00:16:46] Speaker A: Which beach cottage? [00:16:48] Speaker D: Carolina Beach. [00:16:49] Speaker B: Yours. [00:16:50] Speaker D: There's a new one coming out that was just filmed right beside it. Let's get up with Renee. I think it might be out by now. [00:17:00] Speaker A: For real? [00:17:01] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:17:02] Speaker A: Find out. I want to see it. [00:17:04] Speaker D: Okay. And I think the biggest beach cottage is in it. [00:17:08] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I want to see it. I hope it ain't no sorry movie. Just tell me what, like again, tell me. You go about 33 minutes into the movie. There we are. [00:17:19] Speaker D: Yeah. It was down in June, sometime the last June. [00:17:24] Speaker A: Really? [00:17:24] Speaker D: People are staying there? I'm not sure. [00:17:26] Speaker A: Yeah. What. What were they driving? [00:17:28] Speaker D: I don't know. [00:17:28] Speaker A: Red Honda in a white Hyundai. [00:17:31] Speaker D: Well, I haven't seen a clip. [00:17:33] Speaker A: Yeah. Find out what movie that's in. But. But the point is, it's his light that we're shining, not necessarily putting the emphasis on us. And I think sometimes we. We get that backwards. But it really goes back to, do you really want to know him or do you just want to know about what he can do for you? [00:17:49] Speaker D: What about eternal life? [00:17:51] Speaker A: That's a. That's a side benefit. [00:17:53] Speaker D: But are we really serving him for eternal life? [00:17:56] Speaker A: Right. For it or. [00:17:59] Speaker D: Because we get it. [00:18:00] Speaker A: Yes. There you are. I mean, that's a motivating factor. I don't think there's. Look, the hope that I have and everything that I have and because of the price that was paid for me. Yeah. I want to live for him and know him and serve him. I mean, there's a motivating factor for that. In fact, I submit for your consideration. That should be our drive for all of our ethics as far as what do I do as I make decisions in my life? What's going to bring him the most glory? Therefore, glorify God in your. Because you were bought with a price. That's what makes my decisions of. Okay, I'll just throw it. And again, this is not. If you have one. I'm not judging. But for me, if somebody said, hey, man, you want to go get a tattoo? Number one, too much pain. Number. Number two is. Nah, I'm on. As far as what I'm going to interpret. First Corinthians 6, 19. Again, not a sin. I don't think it is. It's up to you. It's just I know where I am. I'm not going to get one because I'll be honest with you, I've said it before, I'm not attached to anything on this earth worth me going through that amount of pain. [00:19:06] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:19:06] Speaker A: I'm a wimp. [00:19:08] Speaker D: I'm talking about. And I don't know if you clear on what I was asking. Do we serve God to have eternal life, just to live forever? Not to be with him, but just to live forever? [00:19:21] Speaker A: I don't think so. [00:19:22] Speaker D: Okay. [00:19:23] Speaker A: I mean, again, I think that's. [00:19:25] Speaker D: I mean, do some. Do some Christians. [00:19:27] Speaker A: Well, I'm sure, look, there's numerous salvations that happen because they want fire insurance. [00:19:32] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:19:33] Speaker A: I mean, look, I'll be honest. I was 8, 9 years old and the. The mere thought of me spending eternity in flames. Oh, no, I ain't doing that. I'll take the insurance policy. [00:19:45] Speaker D: That's what drove me to Christ. Yes. [00:19:47] Speaker A: Yeah. Fear is a motivating factor. It shouldn't be the main factor, but it can be. And it can be for a lot of people, especially, you know, what you grew up in. And myself. [00:19:59] Speaker D: Yeah. I. At that time there was more hell, fire, brimstone. [00:20:05] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:20:07] Speaker D: Then we found. Found out later that love works even better. Yep. [00:20:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:11] Speaker D: Or if you preach in love and [00:20:13] Speaker A: Christ, Christ spoke on both, if you look at it. [00:20:16] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:20:16] Speaker A: Depends on the crowd turn void. [00:20:18] Speaker D: I mean, there's no. No matter how you do it right. It's going to be, you know, it doesn't change. [00:20:24] Speaker A: So does that help? [00:20:26] Speaker C: Yeah. And I think one of the things that I would respond to that is that I think you kind of hit the nail on the head in a way there with going to the. I think with your analogy in the meatloaf, I think that's probably the first degree of it that I struggle with or learned or whatever, you know, a few years ago was that I had been going to God for the meatloaf, for the things he could do for me, that kind of stuff, and that that wasn't the purpose of the relationship. I think maybe the second degree of it that I'm talking about now is I've learned, I guess, that you don't go to God for The things he [00:21:01] Speaker B: can do for you. [00:21:02] Speaker C: You go to God for that fellowship and that relationship. But I've experienced that peace, that joy, those fruits of the relationship, to the point that I think, without really thinking there was anything wrong with it, I've made that the end goal of my. My seeking God is that peace. I want that peace, that joy, that fellowship, that feeling. [00:21:24] Speaker A: Right. [00:21:24] Speaker C: Because I know it's a good feeling. I think it's. That's why I say it's the second degree of it. I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing. I think it's a. It's a step up from just going to him for the things you can give you. But I think the thing that I missed that started to come. Come through last week a little bit was that that's not the final purpose of it either. It's not just so that I feel the warm and fuzzies of being close with God. It's so that from those warm and fuzzies and that. That feeling that you get from that peace with God, you then reflect that to others. And I think sometimes it's like I've [00:21:54] Speaker B: almost been trying to. Again, I'm like almost trying to explain this as I go here and making it up on the fly, but it's almost like they were mutually exclusive. I went to God so that I could feel good, be happy, and be joyful. And then I also, independent of that, tried to be nice to others and tried to be what God was calling us to be. Maybe without realizing that it was, you needed that reflection of him to have the power to do those things. So it's not just a matter of, okay, I want to feel close to God and also be nice to other people. It's. I need to feel close with God so that I will reflect that and [00:22:31] Speaker C: not thinking you can do it on your own. [00:22:33] Speaker A: And I think that's what the psalmist captures in Psalm 103. And he says, bless the Lord, O my soul. So there's worship there. I want to bless the Lord. I want to praise the Lord, I want to sing his praises and all that is within me, bless his holy name. So it comes worshiping. But then he says in verse two, bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget none of his benefits. So when you're telling God, God, I'm so thankful that with you you have blessed me in so many ways. You have blessed me with a hope. Lord, I thank you that in you there is joy. And that is different than seeking him for the benefits. As much as it is praising him for his goodness and who he is. There's a big difference in there. One is what I can get. The other is just being grateful and thankful for what he has done. And I think that's. The psalmist is capturing that. And he goes on in 103, who redeems us from the pit. He crowns us with loving kindness and compassion. And it says, who pardons our iniquity? I mean, there it is. I mean, your sins have been forgiven. You have been made right. And so therefore, bless the Lord. Give him all the praise he's due. And that's where, again, the more that you worship. And again, the more that you worship, the more that you're going to reflect that light as well, especially if you're doing it in spirit and truth. [00:23:54] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:23:56] Speaker A: And I think that's where, again, what I was trying to get at Sunday is having that awe and that reverence and that treasure of who Christ is, not necessarily what Christ has done for you. That's great, man. I praise the Lord for eternity for that, but treasuring Christ for the holiness and the beauty and the glory and the majesty that he is. Yeah. [00:24:22] Speaker B: I think some of the one thing I was going to bring up on is in my notes from the podcast before is from a couple of sermons ago, I believe you were talking. It was when you were talking about the foot washing. [00:24:33] Speaker A: Okay. That I thought John 13. [00:24:35] Speaker B: Yeah. And I was thinking about the. [00:24:38] Speaker C: I was. [00:24:39] Speaker B: I had a conversation with somebody a while back that. And I'm not sure exactly where we're gonna go with this, but he was basically talking about, you know, heaven and saying, you know, frankly, heaven sounds kind of boring to me. Just one long worship service and whatever. And that's something I've heard from different people before, you know, that, you know, and I do think we'll worship for eternity in heaven. But it was something that you preached on the sermon. I thought, okay, God never changes. Jesus is the same today, yesterday, and always. And when he was here, he was a humble servant. And I guess I'm kind of. It's not that one cancels out the other or anything like that, but I'm sitting there thinking, okay, it might be just different times, you know, then he was here for a mission. He wasn't here to be the king. He comes back. He will be that. [00:25:30] Speaker A: Right. [00:25:30] Speaker B: But I'm kind of sitting there thinking it's reconciling these two thoughts. Okay, when. When we get our crowns of righteousness or whatever that we put at his feet, I'M also picturing that when he was here, he didn't want the crowns. It's not about the crowns. I don't think it ends up being about the crowns in the end. And who gets the. We know he gets the credit for it, but at the same time, I don't know that in his next return or when we see him in heaven, is he going to change his stripes and suddenly not be the humble servant that's all about praise me, praise me, praise me. I mean, he wants praise and he deserves praise, and we should give that praise. But when. [00:26:08] Speaker A: Well, I think we've got a lot of things going on there. And I think one is, he's always been the king. He was the Son of God. And what makes the gospel so good is he limited himself, made himself nothing, became a servant, went to the cross and was a servant extraordinaire. And yes, he came one to pay the price for our sins. He is then raised and declared the Son of God. Romans 1:4, declared the Son of God by the resurrection. And he's seated at the right hand of the throne of the Father. And so, yes, now he has earned that. Not that he didn't deserve it before, but he has accomplished that, earned that, achieved that to where now? Yeah, I'm sorry. Every knee will bow, every tongue will confess crowns laid at his feet. And there is none higher, none close to. So I don't know that is necessarily. Has he changed his stripes as much as he's just getting what he deserves, the flowers he deserves, so to speak, to use a slang term now. And so I think it's that. I think it's also one of. Just because he came as a humble, meek and mild servant doesn't mean, you know, because he's still holy and righteous and just, he's going to come back in his holiness and judge because he's a good and righteous judge, too. And so I don't know that I'd say he changed as much as it is. No, it's just how he revealed himself. [00:27:35] Speaker B: And I think maybe some of what I'm getting at with it isn't, he's certainly worthy of all praise, right? And I think that if heaven. I think when we're in heaven, we will worship him. [00:27:51] Speaker A: There's some great worship scenes in Revelation 4 and 5. [00:27:53] Speaker B: And I also don't think it's gonna. I think that might be. Maybe part of the disconnect with the world's view of this is that it's going to be this, like, we got [00:28:01] Speaker A: to Go to church on Sunday 247 sitting there watching this. [00:28:06] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't think so. Where I think it's going to be something that we're going to want to worship. [00:28:10] Speaker D: That's. [00:28:11] Speaker B: It's not going to be something we feel forced or compelled to do. [00:28:13] Speaker A: I think so. I'm going to be honest with you. I could be totally wrong here, but I believe heaven is not going to be too. It's going to be a totally different world. Yes. It's going to be a perfect world. It's going to be unbelievable. But I don't believe we're not going to have daily stuff that we have to do. I don't believe. I believe there's going to be things to do. I really do. I think we will serve even in heaven. Maybe not. You know, sure won't be as hard as the ground bearing thorns and thistles because we won't be under that curse. But I do believe there's going to be almost a different. A different world. Yes. But I don't know that it's going to be so much different than here. [00:28:58] Speaker B: I kind of feel the same way as I've. As I've. [00:29:00] Speaker A: I mean different in the fact of there is no sin. Different in the fact of. You know what I'm saying, Streets of gold and all that. But I really do believe we will have things we will do and things that. I just don't think we're going to be in a church 24 7. [00:29:14] Speaker C: That's it. It's not an eternal church service. [00:29:16] Speaker D: I think sometimes we compare. [00:29:19] Speaker A: We try to make it like earthly [00:29:21] Speaker D: attitudes comparing or experience on earth to heaven. It's like comparing apples to oranges. I don't know if you can make a comparison. I don't think you can. [00:29:31] Speaker C: I'm picturing things like, okay, like a year ago, fishing or something like that. [00:29:35] Speaker D: I just don't know about that. [00:29:37] Speaker A: Maybe you never know. [00:29:38] Speaker D: Never know. [00:29:39] Speaker C: And I guess I'm picturing something like about a year ago I played golf with a guy. I talked about this on the podcast where we pretty quickly kind of hit it off and started talking about Jesus and talking about faith. About the whole day was a lot of just talking about talking about that as we were playing golf. And I'm picturing it being a much more nat. That being more of what you experience day in and day out. Yes, you're doing day to day activities, but there's not that. [00:30:02] Speaker A: And I don't know what activities are going to be. [00:30:04] Speaker C: Right. Yeah. I don't know what they are either. [00:30:05] Speaker A: But I think that he says he goes and prepares a place for us and the Greek. There is really should be a home or a. So I believe we're going to have places that we live. If we have places that we live then there probably is going to be some other things going on. It's all. I, I'm not saying that. Oh yeah, we're going to be able to do this, this and this. It's going to be racist. [00:30:24] Speaker D: I just don't know. There's just not enough information, you know. [00:30:26] Speaker A: Yeah, we got, we all go to the track on Sunday afternoon after worship, stuff like that. No, I don't know. Oh, it'll be nascar. It ain't going to be Formula one [00:30:36] Speaker B: and hopefully not too many road courses. [00:30:38] Speaker A: One or two, None. And who knows. I think that's the thing is. And I think that's why God never really gives us too much of a. He describes it, he tells us what it's going to look like. But as far as a day in, day out activity, no, but I know we're not going to be on clouds playing harps. I know we're not going to be angels. We're going to be like, like him and so we'll have perfect bodies again. What will we be able to do? I hope we're able to do some fun things. [00:31:07] Speaker D: I think that's part. I think probably but I think that when we look upon his face it'll be so mind blowing that we might be able. Probably won't be able to take our eyes off of Him. [00:31:26] Speaker A: And the awe of eternity would be. But I do know that hey, there's [00:31:30] Speaker D: homes and there's things but loan time. I guess that's what we're talking about having alone time alone time by going playing golf. But I think having Christ with you makes a big difference when playing golf versus being down here. [00:31:48] Speaker A: Right? Well and I would say not saying [00:31:50] Speaker D: that there's not golf. I'm just saying you're going to see a big difference. [00:31:54] Speaker B: That's what I was saying. It's not about what the activities are. I'm just saying whatever those other activities are that we're doing, whether it's work that we're doing for the kingdom, whether it's fellowship with one another, whatever it is, it's still going to be Christ focused as opposed to something that yeah, once in a while it might come up in your day to day activities, but mostly that's just at church when it's all about Jesus. I think everything you do is going to be all about Jesus. [00:32:15] Speaker A: That's right. [00:32:16] Speaker D: Jesus said that. [00:32:17] Speaker A: Right. [00:32:19] Speaker D: You're going to be with me in paradise. I mean, he's already said that. [00:32:24] Speaker A: He talks about feasts that are going to be up there, the marriage supper of the lamb, things like that. Right. And so my question is, do they have that catered or is somebody cooking it? So there's got to be some. [00:32:36] Speaker D: I'll bring the seafood. [00:32:37] Speaker A: There is some work that people are doing. And so I think there is some [00:32:41] Speaker D: seafood, but it's not the sweat and brow. [00:32:44] Speaker A: I think it's gonna be glorious. It's activities and I think it'll be something of. You won't wear out either. [00:32:50] Speaker D: No, it's just. It's different and it's different and we can't even comprehend it. Yep. [00:32:58] Speaker A: Can't even comprehend how good it's going. [00:33:00] Speaker D: I'm just glad that I'm chosen. I know there's predetermined. [00:33:06] Speaker A: No, I'm just glad Jesus saved me. [00:33:08] Speaker D: Well, I'm not in that predestination. [00:33:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:13] Speaker D: My thing is I chose and we are chosen, but I chose to be chosen. Right. Everybody's chosen, but you have to choose to be chosen. [00:33:22] Speaker B: Yeah, I think that's. That's a. That's it. [00:33:25] Speaker A: You can argue that one all day long and still not get to the bottom of it. [00:33:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:33:29] Speaker A: Depends on where you fall on that coin. [00:33:30] Speaker D: But I'm satisfied with it. [00:33:32] Speaker A: I'm satisfied with my answer. [00:33:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:33:34] Speaker D: My answer is my theology. I had to choose to be chosen. I mean, I'm chosen, but I had to choose it. [00:33:39] Speaker A: Right, but he was the one that chose you. Before the foundation of the earth, he chose everybody. But then he also says, whosoever will come. [00:33:45] Speaker D: Yes, I chose to come. [00:33:49] Speaker A: It's only by his grace. [00:33:51] Speaker D: I think you. You want to agree with me, but [00:33:55] Speaker A: I agree with you on some. I mean, like I said, I've always said I'm about a 2.5 Calvinist. About a 2.5. There are some things they got right. [00:34:05] Speaker D: There's some things that's with every denomination. [00:34:08] Speaker A: Well, not according to some around here there's some that would be five point and you don't have a choice. And I mean it is. I'm chosen and you know, it almost is. We've talked about it. That air of haughtiness. [00:34:21] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:34:22] Speaker A: Well, there's even, even some churches in the area that have that. That it's just arrogance. [00:34:26] Speaker D: Well, yeah, they're just wrong. [00:34:29] Speaker A: But don't tell them that. [00:34:31] Speaker D: You can't. [00:34:32] Speaker A: You Might have a. Donnie, [00:34:35] Speaker D: you cannot tell someone they're deceived when they're already deceived. Right. Yeah. [00:34:40] Speaker C: So we're just like, we're not, we don't like those arrogant other churches. They're just wrong. [00:34:49] Speaker A: There should be no haughtiness for a Christian. I'm sorry, I can't get. I don't see anywhere where there's any room for it at all. [00:34:55] Speaker D: Well, yeah, because. Yeah. Sometimes we forget we were sinners too. [00:35:02] Speaker A: Yep. [00:35:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:35:03] Speaker D: And I've seen that so often what we were doing, we can put. We talk about people doing the same thing that we were guilty of and [00:35:12] Speaker A: looking down on them. Yeah. [00:35:14] Speaker C: There was the point, I think too on the, you know, is Jesus still humble in, in heaven? I think that, and this is, I think a human nature of us that, you know, we think of. Okay. If we're going to worship and bow down to somebody else, there's a part of us that kind of thinks that that's stemming from their own desire for worship or their own ego or whatever you want to call it. And what I'm saying about that, I think is that yes, we will worship Jesus and I think Jesus knows he's worthy of worship and he's glad for the worship and he's that. But it's not a forced. You have to worship me because I'm an iron fisted dictator. [00:35:53] Speaker A: Egotistical text something. [00:35:55] Speaker C: We're going to. There's going to be a reconciliation of the two sides of it where we are going to want to worship 100% all the time in everything that we do in the purest way that we possibly could. And he's going to want to receive that worship. But it's because it's now a mutual. We all finally are on the same page and realizing how great he is really. And it's not. [00:36:22] Speaker A: I think there's nothing to compare to him. [00:36:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:25] Speaker C: But I think that's where the world kind of looks at as well. It's just one big worship and they don't want to worship him now. So why they're going to want to worship him then? Right. [00:36:33] Speaker A: I mean, I'll just be honest with you. I mean I'll be the first to tell you, just a 24 hour church service right now. That's not necessarily. I mean I, I'd like it, but I ain't. I want spend all of eternity doing it. [00:36:43] Speaker D: That's different down here. [00:36:44] Speaker B: But you have. [00:36:45] Speaker A: It is. [00:36:46] Speaker D: I mean. Yeah, I get tired of long church service too. [00:36:50] Speaker A: No, I know we don't have them. [00:36:51] Speaker D: I mean, you talking about somebody preaching for an hour, two hours. Come on, don't you eat? [00:36:57] Speaker C: There was one. I can't if it was, I can't remember if it was last week or the week before. [00:37:00] Speaker D: It's not going to be like that. [00:37:01] Speaker C: You didn't finish preaching to probably like 12 or 15, 1155. [00:37:07] Speaker B: 11. [00:37:08] Speaker C: Because I remember when you started the, the invitation at the end and I was like, we ain't gonna be done by 12 o'. [00:37:12] Speaker D: Clock. [00:37:12] Speaker C: Ben's gonna hear about this from Kenny because Kenny's got a stopwatch on him. [00:37:17] Speaker D: I think you're too sensitive on how long you preach. [00:37:20] Speaker A: Well, I want to be kind and thought. [00:37:22] Speaker D: I know. I mean, it doesn't matter to me. I'm used to. [00:37:25] Speaker A: I know you don't mind, but I, [00:37:26] Speaker D: I know there are people that mind. [00:37:28] Speaker A: Yes. It ain't necessarily them. It's a. [00:37:31] Speaker D: To me, you're hungry. It's your wife, she's hungry. [00:37:33] Speaker A: It's me, I'm starving. No, it's, it's a consideration of the children's workers. Yeah, it's a consideration of several things and we, you know, if we kind of talk about, hey, we start at 10:45, hopefully we're out by 12. That's, that's being mindful of people's time. [00:37:47] Speaker D: I guess so. [00:37:48] Speaker A: I mean, it really is. I don't want to, oh, 12, you come 10:45, we'll let you out at 1. That's a different story. [00:37:57] Speaker D: Yeah, you would, you, you would get some pushback. [00:38:00] Speaker A: But if that was what we promoted and said. Okay. About okay. [00:38:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:38:05] Speaker A: I can count on it. [00:38:06] Speaker C: Or even if you said it's open ended, we start when we, when we finish when we finish. At least that's something that I go into it knowing. [00:38:12] Speaker A: But I'll say it. When you got children in children's church and preschool and those babies are hungry and they're, those workers are tired, you know, and so I want to be mindful of their, their time too. [00:38:23] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:38:23] Speaker A: And plus, as I've said, your brain can only take in whatever your rear end can endure. And after about sitting down for about 45 minutes to 30 minutes to 45, you already begin to wonder, well, you [00:38:36] Speaker D: should let us get up and move around some. [00:38:38] Speaker A: Have a commercial. [00:38:39] Speaker B: There wouldn't have been no room for it this week. [00:38:42] Speaker C: We were jam packed this week. [00:38:45] Speaker D: Yeah, this week would be. I don't know if we used the overflow for Easter last year. [00:38:52] Speaker C: We did. [00:38:53] Speaker D: Or was it Mother's Day that we did not have it. [00:38:55] Speaker C: We. [00:38:56] Speaker A: We did it for Easter last year and Mother's Day. [00:39:00] Speaker D: We thought about it. [00:39:01] Speaker A: I think we may have put some chairs out there at JIC and. But I don't think it got. Because we. I think it was the last time we did a parent child dedication because we had so many and. But Easter, we definitely use it. [00:39:15] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. [00:39:16] Speaker A: And I imagine it's going to be every bit of it full this week. [00:39:19] Speaker B: When I got here. [00:39:20] Speaker D: Out here. Right. [00:39:22] Speaker A: Welcome Center. [00:39:23] Speaker C: Yeah. This past week when I got here, [00:39:25] Speaker B: it was just me. [00:39:25] Speaker C: I had the kids with me, so I was expecting. Shouldn't be that big of a deal. Even though I was coming Right at 10:45, I still thought I'll find somewhere. [00:39:32] Speaker B: But I got in there and I'm [00:39:33] Speaker C: looking all over the place and I finally just ended up during the welcome, basically kind of asking around like you [00:39:38] Speaker A: got a spot to slide in. [00:39:40] Speaker D: You got up. [00:39:41] Speaker A: I'm sorry. [00:39:42] Speaker C: I came real close to going upstairs, [00:39:43] Speaker B: but I knew it was communion. Did they do communion for upstairs? [00:39:45] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:39:46] Speaker A: Okay. [00:39:46] Speaker B: I didn't know if anybody went up there or not. I'd never been up there for a communion. [00:39:50] Speaker D: But you got people to put the chairs out. Yeah. [00:39:54] Speaker B: So what you got for Easter this week? What are you preaching at? [00:39:56] Speaker A: Oh, I'm glad you asked. It's a two, two word text. The two words of the text is Mark, chapter 16, verses 7 and 8, or actually 6 and 7. But in verse 7, the angel, verse 6, the angel says, come see where he was. He's risen, but then says something. That's two words that stuck out. So we're going to go off that. And then the angel says, now go and tell his disciples. And Peter. And it's those two words, and Peter, that's what the gospel is about. It's about the. And Peters that failed him miserably. It's about the and Peters that denied him, that, hey, there is grace, there is forgiveness. And so I don't know that I'm going to stick with this, but I wrote down a few things. And Peter means there is freedom and forgiveness not forsaken. And Peter means that our failures are not final. And Peter means that we are fit for the future. That's the thing I love about this text. If you think about who Peter is and you look at him in the Gospels, the man who denied Jesus three times, whether it was a servant girl that asked him or somebody else said, man, your accent, you were with him, you're Galilean. Those three times, he denied him is the same man that years later is going to write, always be ready to give an offense. He went from denying him to be ready for a defense. The man who wept bitterly and had his heart broken because he denied Jesus now writes in First Peter 1:3, now we have a living hope. So he has gone from wailing at the wall to a living hope. You see such a transformation in Peter that that's what Aunt Peter is about. Don't let him forget I still love him. Don't let him forget he's still part of the plan. And some matter if you have. And I've thought about starting the sermon out with, so glad to have everybody. If you have never failed the Lord, disappointed. The Lord made a promise to the Lord and then reneged on it. This message isn't for you. You can leave today. But if you've fallen short, this message is for everybody. And I think there's not a person in there that wouldn't, if you're honest. Yeah, I've failed him miserably numerous times. But with him, there's a. And Peter. And that's what I love about it, is we're going to highlight that and talk about the grace and the fact that Jesus restored him. I mean, we're going to kind of. It's kind of a review of Peter's life in a way, but it's also with the mixture of the resurrection. So I've never. I've used that as a devotion, kind of like what I just did, an explanation, but I've never expounded it to the point of what I'm doing now. So I've been having a good time looking through the text, especially in First Peter, Second Peter, and saying, this is the same man that, you know, Peter, who, when Jesus said, oh, by the way, Peter, you're going to deny me three times Peter had the guts or the stupidity, the audacity. That's even better word to say, I'll never leave you. These rest will. I'll die for you. This is the same man that says, humble yourselves before the Lord because God gives grace to the humble. He wrote that because he had seen what pride does. And so God broke him, that sin broke him. But then God built him back up and God used him to where? This is the guy who's going to preach at Pentecost. If you had to go through that whole list of 11 disciples, Peter's going to be your man. He just denied you. And he's going to preach and 3,000 people get saved through the power of The Holy Spirit, of course. But that's a beautiful story of redemption, and I think that's what Easter is about. I think that's what the Gospel is about. About. [00:43:47] Speaker B: Well, no pressure, but I'm pumped for that. That sounds really good. [00:43:49] Speaker A: Are we gonna have a good time? Mark, chapter 16. [00:43:53] Speaker D: Mark. [00:43:53] Speaker B: Okay. [00:43:54] Speaker D: I thought you said Matthew. [00:43:54] Speaker A: No, if you'll go to Mark, chapter 16. Yeah, well, Mark, chapter 16 ain't nowhere near being crucified there. He's still going strong. [00:44:03] Speaker D: I didn't know if you said what one. You said Mark or Matthew. [00:44:06] Speaker A: And I'll probably reference. You know, Peter is somebody we all ref. Or can relate to so, so many easy ways. But, yes, verse seven, go tell. But go tell his disciples. And I love that, too. I'm on the line of hand, Peter. So that's what we're going to be on. I'm looking forward to it. I just pray that it all comes together and that it all makes sense. I'm kind of struggling with. Do I start it out by telling Peter's story? Then going into it, how much do I bring in the Sea of Galilee? When Jesus asked him three times, do you love me? Then feed my sheep. You know, God's restoring him. Three denials, three restorations, and then he's ready. So how it all comes to be in telling the story is what I'm struggling with right now. And so we'll get there, though. It's percolating, so I'm praying it's going to be a good one. [00:45:07] Speaker B: I'll look forward to it. This will be my. This is my Sunday that I wear a suit. I don't ever do that, except. Oh, look out about Easter. [00:45:13] Speaker A: Makes me feel like breaking out the mop balls, baby. [00:45:15] Speaker B: Dust a couple off or dust one off. [00:45:17] Speaker A: And, yeah, at least a jacket. [00:45:20] Speaker B: I don't know if I wore a tie last year. I know I do. I think I do a tie. If I can still remember how to tie one right, But. And it's not to be. There's nothing about it that it's like. It's just something about Easter that I feel like if he can. If he can do that for me, then I can at least put on a tie for him. [00:45:35] Speaker A: Well, it's. I. I couldn't believe it. In the staff meeting today, everybody looked at me like, you said that. And I said, well, we need to make sure we got a selfie station somewhere. And they looked at me like, you've been working with the youth too long. And I said, well, no, I said, Think about it. You go out and you buy your child a brand new suit. You want to have a picture, have a place where they can take a picture and then have it say Fuquay Verina Baptist Church, so that people can say, hey, I went to Fuquay and there must be something. They've got some ladies working on it. Not me. [00:46:08] Speaker D: Now that you. When you said that. [00:46:09] Speaker C: I rem. [00:46:09] Speaker D: I do remember last year we did a church one time, it was Easter, and we all got. Always got new clothes. [00:46:17] Speaker A: Yes. I'm getting new clothes at Easter. [00:46:19] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:46:20] Speaker D: Sunday best. That's what Sunday best. [00:46:23] Speaker C: So let me close it. [00:46:24] Speaker D: But I will not be wearing my Sunday best. [00:46:26] Speaker A: Okay. [00:46:27] Speaker D: I'll be wearing what I normally wear. [00:46:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:46:29] Speaker C: As far as I know, I wear the same thing every Sunday. Except for this one. That one I did a couple years ago. I was like, you know, I think this is one that I will, you know, dress up for, but I will. I gotta share this one. While we're on the topic, we're walking in the other day when I had the kids last week, and I'm just chuckling as I'm walking in because I'm in my khakis and polo, right? And Reese is in great little dress. She's dolled up, right. She gets up and, you know, ready for church. Gabe is trying. You can tell he's trying. He's got like, khaki shorts on instead of gym shorts and he's got like a American eagle T shirt. So, like, he's. He's gone as far as he can go. But that's. [00:47:07] Speaker A: It's. [00:47:07] Speaker C: That's a big step for him. And then you got Christian in dirty blue jeans and rubber boots. [00:47:13] Speaker A: Yes. And he's ready to roll. [00:47:15] Speaker C: Now as I'm walking in, I. I make this observation to him and how funny it is. And Christian says, you couldn't. I couldn't have scripted this better. He said, it's okay. He said, we'll get some more clothes for me so that I have some nice clothes to wear to church, too. And I said, okay, that sounds good. He said, the next time we go to tractor store supply, I'll get some good clothes to wear for church. [00:47:35] Speaker A: Nice flannel. I'll bring it out. Flannel on this. [00:47:39] Speaker D: I do like flannel. I do buy. [00:47:42] Speaker A: We know you're flannel. You're a flannel fan. [00:47:44] Speaker D: Yeah. But today I'm the Wright brothers, man. [00:47:47] Speaker A: I see that first implied. [00:47:49] Speaker D: There you go. [00:47:50] Speaker A: That's when that was something [00:47:55] Speaker D: or 100 year anniversary. [00:47:57] Speaker A: Yep. [00:47:57] Speaker D: When was that? [00:47:59] Speaker A: 1903. [00:48:01] Speaker D: There's two. This is 2003 shirt. [00:48:03] Speaker A: Okay, [00:48:05] Speaker C: so what you got? [00:48:06] Speaker A: No, no. I was going to tell you about my. About my. Oh, shoot, shoot, shoot. My Flashpoint article, and I don't think this will air before Easter, but if it did, that'd be great. [00:48:18] Speaker C: It might. Because I think I might rearrange the order to get this one out. [00:48:21] Speaker A: What I was going to do is I told her, basically, I wrote about. It's the Super Bowl Sundays. It's the great Sunday when we want to make. Put forward a good foot on the Easter extravaganza. Then we want to put forward a good foot on Sunday. And what I did was we want to make everybody feel welcomed. And then I used that word welcome to spell out. Okay, here's some things we need to do. W. Walk part further away from the building. Allow our guests to have some closeness. E. Get there early and fill in from the inside out. Don't just sit on the end and then leave space. So get there early and sit on the inside and fill out the L is Love everybody you see. Go up and speak to everybody, even if you don't know them, introduce yourself. Let's say, what was the C? Let's get ready to celebrate. Celebrate. Easter is one of the times, man, we should celebrate more than anything else. And so each one of those O m es was A. But especially the walk and the celebrate and the get there early. The O is the overflow room. Hey, give up your seat in the worship center to allow guests to sit in the sanctuary. And I told him, I said, sitting in the overflow room, it's just like being in there. We're gonna have someone singing up there in front of them. I mean, it is just like being there, isn't it? I mean, it's not. [00:49:42] Speaker C: Yeah, I was in there last year, and it was. It was good. [00:49:44] Speaker D: I think I was. [00:49:45] Speaker A: Yep. [00:49:46] Speaker C: So. [00:49:46] Speaker A: So that's. I just. Each one of those letters I spelled out, just saying, hey, let's make everybody feel welcome. But. But Easter is a time for us to be servants, too, to say, yeah, hey, I'm gonna. I'm gonna give up. Give up my right to sit in the sanctuary even though I'm here 51 other Sundays. Yeah, I'll go sit wherever somebody. If it means making room for somebody else. [00:50:06] Speaker D: You know, I got a signed seatbelt there. [00:50:08] Speaker A: I know. I know. You can give it up one week. Ain't nobody. Ain't nobody gonna steal it. [00:50:14] Speaker B: Kenny, just so you know, I will [00:50:15] Speaker C: Be judging if I don't see you in the overflow room. [00:50:18] Speaker D: It's got my name on it. Renee. [00:50:20] Speaker A: See you there. Now, do you need a ride home, Kenny? [00:50:22] Speaker D: I mean, I think Renee can pick me up. [00:50:24] Speaker A: So take. Take me home, because I don't remember. That's what. That'll be our outro. [00:50:29] Speaker D: Happy Easter. [00:50:30] Speaker A: Everybody say happy Easter. Happy resurrection. [00:50:35] Speaker D: You know where the gas tank was? [00:50:37] Speaker A: Where's that? Underground? [00:50:38] Speaker D: No, where the gas tank was on the cars. [00:50:42] Speaker A: A lot of times it was. You had to drop the license plate [00:50:45] Speaker D: exactly where most of them were. [00:50:46] Speaker A: Yeah, drop that license plate down. Put it right in. [00:50:49] Speaker D: Where was the truck? Where was the truck? [00:50:52] Speaker A: Hold on now. [00:50:53] Speaker D: Das was always a truck. [00:50:56] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm telling him. Say, I always remember his being at the. On the. On the side where they are now. Almost. Maybe in the door or right there at the door. [00:51:05] Speaker B: Yeah, right. [00:51:05] Speaker D: You open the door, it's right there. [00:51:07] Speaker B: Y. [00:51:08] Speaker A: You know, vans are like that now. [00:51:10] Speaker D: Are they? [00:51:10] Speaker A: Some of the 15 pasture vans are light up. [00:51:13] Speaker D: And I remember pumping gas because I had to work at the gas station. I didn't get paid, and they didn't have that shit on the pal. [00:51:20] Speaker C: Oh, wow. [00:51:21] Speaker D: And if you don't watch it, that gas will come back. [00:51:24] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:51:25] Speaker D: I had. I had to wet my hair down, get down on my bridges. It burns, I tell you. Gasoline on the bridge, that burns. And if you sold $100 worth of gas and you're doing good. [00:51:36] Speaker A: Yeah. One of Those diesel trucks, 32 cent a gallon logging trucks. Takes a whole lot to make. $100 would be. A hundred dollars. [00:51:44] Speaker B: Did you get a commission for pumping it? [00:51:47] Speaker D: My father worked out a deal. All the logging trucks, when they left [00:51:51] Speaker A: the island, they would fill.