We Don't Have To. We Get To.

[00:00:02] Speaker A: It's called deceiving. Oh yeah. [00:00:06] Speaker B: Ben's trying to slide by the inspections. [00:00:08] Speaker A: He's not like this. The SIP club. [00:00:10] Speaker C: Yeah. It passed the test. That's all I know. That's it? Yeah. I was saying I'm. [00:00:16] Speaker B: I'm gonna let the preacher and the head of the deacons follow the sword this week. [00:00:20] Speaker C: What else do we need to confess? [00:00:24] Speaker B: I'm confessing up on this show. [00:00:28] Speaker D: Listen, you too far gone about working for. [00:00:30] Speaker C: They're doing something wrong. [00:00:32] Speaker D: Just go with it, man. You already passed it. [00:00:34] Speaker C: No need to have conscious body now. [00:00:37] Speaker A: I mean I'm not doing that. [00:00:38] Speaker C: I do have some. Yeah and I would agree with. There is a difference between checking off. [00:00:43] Speaker D: Checking off or actually like you know, feeling that not just oh, you know, I want to do it instead of I have to do it type. [00:00:51] Speaker C: Yeah, I have to versus man. I get to. [00:00:56] Speaker A: A good way to remember. You've had a busy day today. [00:00:59] Speaker C: It's been a day. [00:01:00] Speaker A: Oh, I need to do a funeral. [00:01:01] Speaker C: Between I had a funeral. Daniel's got some issues with Fidelity bank that I had to take care of. He's in there moving money around on an account from Nicole's account to pay his credit card. He didn't mean it. He thought he was doing it from his account. And Nicole don't keep it. She's got a bank out in Nashville. So that ain't even that don't even have $10 in it. So he moved it and then it created a dadgum overdraft. And they called me this morning for the funeral. I said look, I'm about to go on a funeral, take it out of 11, blah blah blah. My account move that money. I'll take care of it when I get out. So. [00:01:39] Speaker B: And you wouldn't look just Venmo it. [00:01:41] Speaker C: Do like all the other do like all the other 30 year olds in under Venmo. [00:01:45] Speaker A: Well, I didn't mean for you to. [00:01:46] Speaker C: Download on us, but I'm dumping. But I digress. [00:01:51] Speaker A: Did you wear that? [00:01:53] Speaker C: Did I wear what? No, I went home and changed. [00:01:55] Speaker B: Okay. [00:01:55] Speaker C: It was great though. I went to Hardee's and. Cause the funeral was right there. The graveside was wake chapter. And so I said I'm about to starve. I went to Hardee's and got a got a five dollar bag does that, you know. Oh yeah man, that's a great deal. [00:02:09] Speaker B: That is a good deal. [00:02:10] Speaker C: And dude said man, what are you doing in a suit? And I said well, I just preached a funeral over there. He's like, well, we don't get many suits in here. [00:02:17] Speaker A: Really. [00:02:18] Speaker C: Not in Hardee's, No. [00:02:20] Speaker A: That's poor. [00:02:20] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:02:21] Speaker B: I mean, well, that made. [00:02:23] Speaker C: Do you ever wear a suit there, except on Sundays? [00:02:25] Speaker A: No, I don't even wear a suit on Sunday. [00:02:27] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:02:28] Speaker A: No, I get to the drive through. Get the two for five. [00:02:31] Speaker C: Yeah. The bag. [00:02:32] Speaker A: Yeah. No, the two for five. [00:02:33] Speaker C: What's the two for five? [00:02:34] Speaker A: Two sausage biscuit. [00:02:37] Speaker D: Breakfast. [00:02:37] Speaker C: Yeah. Yes, breakfast, though. [00:02:39] Speaker A: Yeah, but it's good breakfast. [00:02:40] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:02:40] Speaker A: A lot better than biscuit. [00:02:41] Speaker C: Listen. Oh. [00:02:43] Speaker D: Oh, I've cut that out now. [00:02:45] Speaker A: I don't blame you, man. You have to wait. I think everybody biscuit. [00:02:50] Speaker C: Bill's got good biscuits too, though, man. They do, but I think so. But I love Biscuitville. [00:02:57] Speaker A: I love Hardee's is the best to me, but I do. But Biscuitville is on Sunday mornings. That drive through is a wraparound. [00:03:05] Speaker C: Oh, it is? Oh, it's about every day. [00:03:08] Speaker B: I've only had Biscuville a few times for that reason. Every time I go, it's along the line so long. It's like it's not worth it. I can't. I mean, I like it because you. [00:03:15] Speaker D: Get the real egg. [00:03:16] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:03:16] Speaker D: I mean, it's. [00:03:17] Speaker B: Now Hardee's has like a. The super sausage biscuit or the super. Super bacon. Super bacon in a super. [00:03:24] Speaker C: It's amazing. [00:03:25] Speaker B: Is it like it load. It's like two or three. Oh, patties and bacon. [00:03:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:03:30] Speaker B: Bacon you can do you want. [00:03:31] Speaker C: Believe me. [00:03:31] Speaker B: And they've got. I think it's got the real egg. [00:03:33] Speaker D: What you get that. The bacon. [00:03:35] Speaker A: I get. Usually I'd go with the sausage. [00:03:39] Speaker C: Really? Yeah. [00:03:40] Speaker A: I'm telling you, they're getting it. They're starting to get it real thin now. Everybody is. [00:03:44] Speaker B: Now, my favorite thing at Hardee's, they've gotten bake. They've got a shrimp biscuit. That is everything they've gotten. [00:03:51] Speaker D: I've had that omelette. [00:03:54] Speaker B: Ham, eggs, sausage, cheese, bacon. [00:03:56] Speaker C: It's good. [00:03:57] Speaker B: It's. [00:03:58] Speaker C: Man, let me tell you something. I got a source for some sausage need to talk. That man right there. [00:04:02] Speaker B: Oh. [00:04:02] Speaker C: Some of the best sausage I ever ate in my life. [00:04:04] Speaker D: I got a bag for you and a bag for you, and I did not grab it. Lord have mercy. [00:04:08] Speaker C: Let me tell y' all something. [00:04:09] Speaker A: I've heard that I do. [00:04:10] Speaker C: Let me tell y' all something about it. That. That sausage, I don't know. [00:04:13] Speaker A: It's like. [00:04:14] Speaker C: I don't know where he gets. He checks in mail. That stuff is good. [00:04:17] Speaker A: Checks in the mail. [00:04:18] Speaker C: Brandon. Brandon's got a source and he'll bring me a bag every now and then. What kind? Is it homemade? So it's homemade. [00:04:27] Speaker D: It kills the hog, straps it. [00:04:28] Speaker C: Let me tell you, a little bit. [00:04:29] Speaker D: Of seasoning, it's nothing. [00:04:30] Speaker C: No, it's got great seasoning. [00:04:32] Speaker A: Is it ground or. [00:04:33] Speaker D: Or it's chopped. I mean, it's most. You make your own patties when it comes in a bag and you just freeze it. [00:04:39] Speaker C: And if you want to know, you want to know how to cook it, bring it up here in the kitchen and I'll cook it for you. And I'm telling you. [00:04:46] Speaker A: I guess you would. [00:04:47] Speaker C: No, no, I'm telling you, it's the best in the world. Listen, I cooked a five pound bag the other day in about 20 minutes, half of it. [00:04:54] Speaker D: Hey, wasn't they saying something out there the other day? People, someone's in there and cooking and not clean up by themselves. [00:04:58] Speaker C: No, that ain't what they said about me. Cause you don't even know I've been in there. [00:05:02] Speaker A: Somebody left the water on or something. [00:05:03] Speaker C: Oh, that was the folks cleaning the hood. [00:05:06] Speaker A: Oh, I don't even know what that. [00:05:07] Speaker C: What a. So anyway, but that five pounds, I cooked it up and if you put it in that convection oven, 10 minutes is all it takes. Well, convection and you ain't got to worry about grease and you getting really close. Dude. [00:05:19] Speaker D: Is it crispy now? Because I like it. [00:05:21] Speaker C: Oh, just do it. 11 minutes. You want crispy? [00:05:26] Speaker B: It can be. [00:05:27] Speaker A: This is personal kitchen up there. [00:05:30] Speaker C: Yeah. Hey, man, I tell you what, you pull it out and man. Golly, I did it Christmas morning too. What? [00:05:35] Speaker D: What is something you don't get into. All areas got color, man. I had to try that. [00:05:42] Speaker B: Made me hungry. [00:05:43] Speaker C: I was. Yeah. Listen, that sausage, we have a convection. [00:05:46] Speaker D: I've been eating on it, but I've never used. [00:05:47] Speaker C: Yeah. Really? Convection? Yes, sir. [00:05:53] Speaker D: It's a flat top stove, but it has inside the oven, it's got the fan, man. [00:05:57] Speaker C: You can do bacon, you can do sausage. [00:06:01] Speaker D: But you write it because I use. [00:06:02] Speaker C: Casserole and it don't make the bacon rile up. Oh, I was supposed to. I got some jars for you. [00:06:06] Speaker A: Tell me, tell me which one's strawberry. [00:06:09] Speaker B: This one. [00:06:10] Speaker A: This grape is strawberry. [00:06:12] Speaker C: I don't know. That looks more grapey and that looks more strawberry. [00:06:15] Speaker A: See if they're. They're bright red when you first do them strawberries. And that's clear. Over time, the natural, I guess, decay turns a different color. It's still good. I mean, you open this and it look, red. [00:06:33] Speaker C: Oh, I guarantee it's good. [00:06:34] Speaker A: But it gets darker as you leave it in the jar, so this was pretty clear. [00:06:40] Speaker C: I got grapes fixing to come in, baby. I mean, by the. [00:06:43] Speaker A: But that's for Renee. [00:06:44] Speaker C: Oh, man. Well, she has some jars for you. I meant to bring them today. [00:06:47] Speaker A: Well, that's the last one that I had for that size, but, I mean. [00:06:50] Speaker B: We got plenty of. [00:06:51] Speaker C: Well, she eats it like. I'm telling you. She eats a peanut butter and strawberry jam, jelly, whatever this is. [00:06:58] Speaker A: And since it's your birthday. Oh, come on, man. Now, this is. This is from this. Open it. All right. [00:07:08] Speaker C: All right. [00:07:08] Speaker A: Hold on. [00:07:10] Speaker C: Oh. [00:07:11] Speaker B: Whoosh. Air. [00:07:12] Speaker A: Yeah, they're conference. They're for you, but they're conference peanuts. [00:07:16] Speaker C: Those things are so good. You had them. You have them last time. Didn't we? Yes. That. That is Mackie Fairy's Peanut Peanuts, and they are delicious. Where are you getting from? And they're not just any Macy's here. [00:07:27] Speaker D: Where's that? [00:07:28] Speaker C: Down at the. [00:07:29] Speaker B: Out of Macy Ferry. It's in Janesville. [00:07:33] Speaker A: It was in Janesville, but Mackie Perry's five miles going south. [00:07:38] Speaker C: Don't want that. Be on that. [00:07:40] Speaker A: Not me. Going east. [00:07:42] Speaker C: Okay. [00:07:43] Speaker A: Just springs. [00:07:45] Speaker B: Once Kenny gets his hands in them, that'll be the least of the word on the audio. They're good, man. [00:07:53] Speaker C: They are. They're dynamite. Here you go. I'll give them around there to you and everybody. Y' all share. [00:07:59] Speaker B: It's good. [00:07:59] Speaker A: They are the whole body. [00:08:01] Speaker C: I just like the way it's got a different crunch to it. Just slide that gum over to the other side of your mouth. [00:08:09] Speaker B: Just put it in. [00:08:10] Speaker C: Just put it on the eraser. [00:08:15] Speaker D: These are good. [00:08:17] Speaker B: Where's his other gift at? [00:08:19] Speaker C: Right here. [00:08:20] Speaker B: There you go. [00:08:20] Speaker C: No, that's plenty. No, man, don't. [00:08:23] Speaker A: No, this is something we think you really need. [00:08:29] Speaker C: Is it a pullover? No. Oh. Oh. There you go. [00:08:43] Speaker A: I had to cover the picture. [00:08:45] Speaker C: No. Mmm. That's great. That is great. I will use that tomorrow. [00:08:54] Speaker D: You better take a picture while you use it. [00:08:58] Speaker B: Well, here's any picture of you using it. Here's another picture of it wrapped around Kenny's waist. [00:09:05] Speaker C: I might put that up there for game night tomorrow night. That's cute. I like that. That's. [00:09:17] Speaker A: You gotta do something back here that will match. [00:09:21] Speaker B: Is that the Shimmer? The swimmer shampoo? [00:09:22] Speaker C: I love this. Believe me, Tyr is one of the great names. Ultra Swim. I do like that. That's good stuff. You need it. [00:09:31] Speaker A: You definitely need it. [00:09:36] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:09:37] Speaker D: Whatever you do, don't use that tonight, make sure you. You know, we hate for you to turn your hair. [00:09:42] Speaker C: Well, no, I do. Thank you for the swim cap. That's bright yellow. Now the one I got is black. [00:09:52] Speaker A: We gotta have a picture of you. You gotta be inside it. [00:09:54] Speaker C: Now. [00:09:57] Speaker B: We gotta let me go. [00:10:00] Speaker A: Oh, my grace. When you get tired. [00:10:06] Speaker C: Yes. This is when I can do my price and my kicks. I can't believe y'. [00:10:13] Speaker A: All. [00:10:14] Speaker C: That's just too much. [00:10:15] Speaker B: Yeah, well, okay. [00:10:18] Speaker A: With all this, y' all get. [00:10:20] Speaker C: Y' all get together, we'll take a picture. [00:10:22] Speaker A: I think you'll be a good competitor. [00:10:23] Speaker D: Hey, you got the perfect size. That's an extra large. [00:10:29] Speaker C: I'll tell you what. You know, just funny. [00:10:32] Speaker B: That was awesome. [00:10:34] Speaker C: I appreciate that, Ken. Y'. All. Y' all too much, but I am gonna use that. [00:10:40] Speaker A: Yeah, I hope you use that. [00:10:42] Speaker C: I am. [00:10:43] Speaker A: I think that will help. [00:10:44] Speaker D: You should took it out of the package, put a Sharpie on and put his name. [00:10:47] Speaker C: I do have a swimming tip for those. Those fans that are listening now for my swimming, they're following because of that. With my swim cap. You gotta wet your hair first, then put that swim cap on because your hair can only get so wet. And if it's with clean water, it won't get the chlorine in it. [00:11:08] Speaker D: So you mean the cap will seal it and you don't have to worry about it. [00:11:11] Speaker C: See, that's the misconception. Everybody thinks it seals it. It does not seal. [00:11:15] Speaker D: So you get. [00:11:16] Speaker C: When you're done, yeah, your hair will be wet. It just won't be as wet. [00:11:19] Speaker D: Okay, I thought. [00:11:19] Speaker C: But what it does is it keeps the chlorine out, especially if it's already wet with regular water. But I still have to use, though. I've got a water filter at home. It's a solvent. It softens the water. And I got a shower there. [00:11:35] Speaker B: I bet you spend more money on pool supplies than on water on groceries, believe me. [00:11:39] Speaker C: Not getting any birthday money. I'm buying some. I got. I got some hand fins I want to buy. [00:11:45] Speaker D: All right, now, this right here. [00:11:46] Speaker C: Look at you, Brenda. Look at y'. [00:11:49] Speaker A: All. We want you to be competitive now. [00:11:51] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:11:51] Speaker B: When you swim. [00:11:52] Speaker D: So, look, there's a. There's a story behind this before I. [00:11:54] Speaker C: Give it to you. [00:11:56] Speaker D: So, you know, in Cary, they had the. How you say, Aquatic center. [00:12:01] Speaker C: Yeah, I know. I know. [00:12:02] Speaker D: That's backed by the Olympians. [00:12:04] Speaker C: They called. [00:12:05] Speaker D: Did they? Okay, well, I called them. [00:12:08] Speaker A: And Flipper being. [00:12:13] Speaker C: Well, let's just say. [00:12:16] Speaker D: I called him and I was telling him, listen, I got A great friend of mine who's really into swimming. He goes every other day, pretty much. And what is the track that he needs to get down to with his swimming to figure out, maybe get his dream of Olympic swimming and all that. [00:12:30] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:12:31] Speaker C: Okay. [00:12:31] Speaker D: And then after a sudden two seconds later, just. They hung up on me. So I saw this, and I thought, you know what? This is for, Ben? This is from all of us for you. And you're swimming, so I'll give you this. [00:12:44] Speaker A: Let me see. [00:12:45] Speaker C: Oh, look in the. [00:12:49] Speaker B: Certificate of support. [00:12:50] Speaker C: I'm supporting them. [00:12:51] Speaker D: That's exactly right. [00:12:54] Speaker C: And what I may do is go home and change that for being on the team. [00:12:58] Speaker B: Certificate of support. [00:12:59] Speaker C: Yeah. They had a certificate of participation. [00:13:01] Speaker D: I couldn't find. All that stuff was locked. You couldn't change it or nothing. That was the only one I could find where you could check to change the pond. [00:13:06] Speaker C: I'll put it up. I'm gonna put that in my office. Man, I like that. [00:13:10] Speaker D: It's just the cac. Gift just to give it to you. [00:13:12] Speaker C: That's a whole lot. But I love it. So do you. Do you know Peter? [00:13:18] Speaker D: No, I don't know who he is. No, I just. I took that off. [00:13:21] Speaker A: We think you'd probably be mad. [00:13:22] Speaker C: No. Yeah, we had lunch the other day. [00:13:25] Speaker A: You've been swimming a while. [00:13:27] Speaker C: I was gonna put. [00:13:28] Speaker D: I was trying to take his name out, whoever he is, and put all three of us in there. [00:13:31] Speaker C: Now. [00:13:32] Speaker D: That's why I was running late. [00:13:33] Speaker C: I. [00:13:33] Speaker D: This. I came up with this while I was driving from Bear Creek this morning. And I try to run what your. [00:13:38] Speaker C: Mind can come up with when they driving. [00:13:40] Speaker B: Yes. [00:13:40] Speaker D: I was like, oh, man. This big good guy gift. I said, let me just. [00:13:43] Speaker C: I love it. Well, it's going in my office as a real McCoy. [00:13:46] Speaker D: Don't open that one until whenever you want. [00:13:48] Speaker C: It's in my Bible. I won't. [00:13:49] Speaker A: You can hang that up on your. On your office wall. [00:13:53] Speaker C: I can hang what, the duck? [00:13:55] Speaker A: Yeah. On your office wall? [00:13:56] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:13:57] Speaker D: Right beside the plaque. [00:13:59] Speaker C: I'm gonna open 8:20. Y, man. Y'. All. Y' all are too kind. Thank y'. [00:14:02] Speaker B: All. [00:14:03] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:14:04] Speaker B: Hopefully invest in his birthday this year. [00:14:06] Speaker C: Yeah, man, y' all are really going all out. Y' all want me to. I appreciate you supporting my dream. [00:14:11] Speaker D: We didn't want to embarrass you. We didn't want to embarrass you tomorrow. [00:14:15] Speaker B: So we thought this would be. [00:14:16] Speaker C: At least. That would have been great. Tomorrow in front of everybody. I'd been like, oh, my goodness. [00:14:21] Speaker B: That'll be cute during family game night tomorrow night. [00:14:23] Speaker C: Yes. [00:14:23] Speaker B: They put that with the swimmers. [00:14:24] Speaker C: Cat. [00:14:24] Speaker A: We'll send the pictures. [00:14:26] Speaker C: Yeah. Oh, believe me, Sharon, that's already on Facebook. I guarantee you it'll be there. They'll send that to the folks. [00:14:34] Speaker B: That picture that we just took. Yeah. [00:14:39] Speaker C: It's all right. I appreciate it. Oh, you can't do nothing around here that you don't. But that's legit, though. That's a legit gift. I bought all more or they are, but this one especially. [00:14:52] Speaker B: I think all of them will help you. [00:14:54] Speaker C: Ultra hydration. The lady cut my hair yesterday, said it wasn't too bad. [00:14:59] Speaker A: I think they all will help you. [00:15:01] Speaker C: And I combed it. It feels a little dry. Does it look. Does it look like I got paste in it? Brandon, you know these things. [00:15:07] Speaker D: I'm in church. [00:15:10] Speaker C: Lie to you, man. I tell you what. [00:15:21] Speaker D: No, it's all right. [00:15:23] Speaker B: I thought it looked all right. Yeah, Good. [00:15:26] Speaker C: Doesn't pop itself down. All right. [00:15:29] Speaker B: Welcome, guys. Brandon, thanks for being here, man. It's always fun when you can make an appearance. [00:15:34] Speaker C: It is. [00:15:36] Speaker D: I didn't want to miss. I didn't want to miss this one. [00:15:38] Speaker B: Don't miss anything because his birthday tomorrow. [00:15:41] Speaker C: And gifts and stuff. [00:15:42] Speaker B: Happy birthday to Ben. We're having a real good time here. Thank you for Ben's birthday. So happy. What? 55? [00:15:48] Speaker C: You said 55. [00:15:49] Speaker B: So excited to celebrate it. Last year was cool. We got to celebrate on your birthday. We got to do a show on your birthday. [00:15:58] Speaker C: Yeah, we did. [00:15:58] Speaker A: He went swimming. [00:15:59] Speaker B: Don't you remember? [00:16:00] Speaker C: No, it wasn't really cake. We had some cake. [00:16:02] Speaker D: Cupcakes might bring cake or some snacks. [00:16:05] Speaker B: Yeah, we had. [00:16:05] Speaker C: But it was right on it. And no, I was biking then and I'm still ain't. [00:16:09] Speaker A: That's right. Yeah, biking. [00:16:11] Speaker D: Wait, let's see here. [00:16:11] Speaker B: What's the next year? [00:16:13] Speaker D: What's it going to be next year? [00:16:14] Speaker C: Well, you know, I do a little. [00:16:15] Speaker D: Bit of swimming now. [00:16:16] Speaker B: I don't do much. Listen, I was telling mountain climbing. I was telling rock climbing. [00:16:20] Speaker C: Brandon was asking me about my. About. About my biking and do they have the names up on the board and. They used to, but they quit because. Well, I think some folks got a little upset. They never win and. But I always. But I would always put my name is like Hope Crusher because I'm crushing everybody's hopes of even getting close to the top in there. I love it. [00:16:41] Speaker D: He's preaching off. [00:16:44] Speaker A: That just don't fit. [00:16:46] Speaker C: Well, the bike's a different story. Yeah, that's Competitive. You can be competitive. [00:16:51] Speaker D: Did you run a bike this week so far? [00:16:52] Speaker C: I did. I did yesterday. [00:16:54] Speaker D: Tuesday. [00:16:54] Speaker C: Yeah. Bite yesterday. I swam today. And good swim. Good swim. [00:17:00] Speaker B: Yeah. Last week you were disappointed. You said last week your swim wasn't very. [00:17:03] Speaker C: No, it was one off. [00:17:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:05] Speaker C: Today's was a good one. Yeah, I know. And honestly, there are times when I get that it's like, clear, and then. [00:17:11] Speaker A: You got to force on top of your band. [00:17:14] Speaker C: I started doing. [00:17:17] Speaker A: Go to the pool. That's great. [00:17:19] Speaker C: I started doing more kick kickboarding, where I just hold the board and do the kicks. And I'm trying to get my feet where that's propelling me just as much as my arms. But I digress. It's all about the arms. [00:17:31] Speaker B: I just realized. I just realized the poetic irony of this. Because Sunday I didn't get to hear your sermon right. Because I had children's church. So afterwards I went back home. And especially this time of year, I've been doing a lot of work out by the pool. I'll go out to the pool and just kind of hang out a little bit. So I enjoyed your sermon from the pool. [00:17:49] Speaker C: Oh, nice. [00:17:50] Speaker B: Looking back at it, did you feel that from a distance that I was watching you preach from a pool? I mean, I was standing in there. I had my AirPods in. I was standing in the five nights. [00:18:01] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:18:02] Speaker B: Listening to you preach. [00:18:02] Speaker C: And Sunday was a beautiful day to be in the pool. It was a great, nice day. [00:18:05] Speaker B: It was nice. Weather's been good. We had so much rain there for a while. It was kind of getting some sun the last few days. [00:18:10] Speaker D: And just a heads up, too, me and Garrett had to tell Kenny to put that thing away because he kept sending pictures of him playing with it at home. [00:18:16] Speaker B: That's not a joke. We're. Yeah, we had to tell him was like, you gonna pop that, man? That was a present. [00:18:23] Speaker C: Don't be playing with it. Yeah, don't be messing with it. Oh, man. So good. [00:18:29] Speaker B: I have a story from Gabe this week that it starts serious, but there's a funny back end to it. So I've told y' all before. He's bugging the heck out of me over this girl at school he's got this crush on. [00:18:38] Speaker C: No. [00:18:39] Speaker B: And just every day he's going, what should I do? What should I do? [00:18:41] Speaker C: Poor fella. [00:18:42] Speaker B: And I laugh at it. Cause I'm like, dude, you might as well ask me to make you a time machine. I don't know if I had to answer this. I mean, come on. What are you Asking me for. [00:18:49] Speaker C: Is he even talking to her physically? Okay, I'm curious. I know how that was. [00:18:53] Speaker B: His running question is, every single day, dad, do you think I should try to talk to her tomorrow? And I'm like, I think that'd be a good start. [00:18:59] Speaker C: Yeah, that's a great place to start. [00:19:01] Speaker B: But anyway, so he bugged me about this. Well, the other day, he brings home his yearbook. [00:19:05] Speaker C: I love this already. [00:19:07] Speaker B: Well, from last year. [00:19:08] Speaker C: Oh, okay. Okay. [00:19:08] Speaker B: So he brings home his yearbook, and they put Bible verses on each page of the yearbook. And we've talked about this verse a lot. It's probably my favorite verse right now, especially Proverbs 3, 5, and 6. I pull up her page, I'm looking at it, I look down at the bottom and I say, gabe, I said that verse, right? I said, that's. I think this is amazing that God put that verse on this page. I said, that's my favorite verse in the Bible. We've turned this into like a 30 minute thing. I'm like, let's break this down. And like, what does this mean to you? Stop leaning on your own understanding. And for that matter, stop leaning on mine. [00:19:38] Speaker C: Right? [00:19:38] Speaker B: Okay. Lean on God. He said, well, he said, I pray for every night. I pray to God that he'll help me. Well, no, I told him about that already. We've already had that talk. And he said, I pray every night, just if we're supposed to be together, help us to be together. And if we're not, then help us to find the people that you want us to be with. I said, okay, that's perfect. Now mean it. And his eyes got about the size of a full moon. He's like, wait, I gotta mean it too? I said, yeah, welcome to Christianity, kid. Saying it's one thing since it's different. [00:20:09] Speaker C: Yeah, well, that's one of the things, too. Just going along with. You know, we were talking about biblical confession Sunday, three S's. It's got to be sincere, and it needs to be sweeping and it needs to be a surrender. [00:20:23] Speaker B: Is that what's coming up this week? [00:20:25] Speaker C: No, no, I just didn't say it last week. [00:20:26] Speaker B: You didn't say it last week. [00:20:27] Speaker C: Okay, but it does. It has to be real and it has to be one of. A broken heart surrendered, and then it has to be sweeping. It doesn't need to just be part of it or one or two. No, that's what Daniel, man, he was sweeping. He didn't leave a stone unturned, man. Yeah. [00:20:43] Speaker B: So then the next morning, we had this Great talk that night. And the next morning, I'm out on the balcony doing Bible time with her, getting ready for school. And he comes out and he says, dad, do you think I should talk to her today? And I said, didn't we just talk. [00:20:56] Speaker C: About this last night? [00:20:57] Speaker B: I said, I don't know. I said, what did I tell you last night? He said, stop asking you to ask God. I said, exactly. So he stops in his tracks right there, and he looks up to the sky and he says, God, should I. [00:21:10] Speaker C: Talk to her today? [00:21:12] Speaker B: And he stands there and he looks for about five seconds. And after five seconds, he crosses his arms, he goes, well, I'm waiting. There's a second lesson. God answers your prayers and gives you answers on his time, not your words. So don't expect one right this second. [00:21:28] Speaker C: But tell him, look, man, if I could give him any advice, it'd be. Look, just go for it, man. Just go talk to her. And the best thing is, if it don't work out, that's when you know, okay, Lord, I trust that wherever you're going to take me. And again, you know, no offense, buddy. He was sixth, seventh grade. Yeah. It's rare that you marry that girl that. From sixth, seventh grade that you have the looks for. Yeah. I mean, no, it's. That's very rare. So just tell him, man. Go talk to her. [00:21:55] Speaker B: I even told him, I said, you know, really, if your ultimate goal in life is that you end up married to this girl one day, then you're better off hoping that it don't happen for a while. [00:22:03] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:22:04] Speaker B: Because you're right. The odds from seventh grade crushes working out are about zero. [00:22:09] Speaker C: Even that it's, you know. Golly, you. I don't know. I just think there's some. And again, just be smart with this. I need to be careful. There's some value with dating other people to find out that's the right one. You know, a couple of crazy ones for me made me realize, no, Renee is just right. [00:22:28] Speaker B: Do we leave that in or do we cut that out? [00:22:31] Speaker C: You leave it in. You want me to name names? No, I'm just kidding. [00:22:38] Speaker B: That would be fun. [00:22:39] Speaker C: No, but I mean. And I dated some nice ones, but it just wasn't until. And that's one thing, man, I hope he'll realize this. Don't put so much pressure on it, man. Trust. And hey, if the Lord makes it possible at 25, 27, it's okay. Just trust the process. [00:22:57] Speaker B: It's so hard at that age. Sure it is. It's Funny, because we ain't even better at it, really. I mean, I'm sitting here laughing at him. And I was talking to mom the other day. I said, you know, I'm not any better at it. I'm still sitting here worrying about all kinds of things that to me, are the biggest things in the world. But in the grand scheme of eternity, they mean nothing, right? It's Sunday morning. [00:23:15] Speaker C: It's absolutely amazing. [00:23:16] Speaker B: I asked the kids in children's church this week to name their favorite Christmas present from two Christmases ago. None of them could name them. It's like, you know, think about it. On Christmas Day, that seemed like the greatest thing ever. And then half of them could remember it. And I'll say, where is it now? I don't know. I lost it. I gave it away to somebody else. I left it at a friend's house. All these things that seem so important a year later mean nothing. And that we're the same way. The stuff that I look back at things I was worried about six weeks ago, six months ago, five years ago. I can't remember them now, but at. [00:23:49] Speaker C: The time, you wasted so much time and so much energy. And that's really. I mean, worry really is like a rocket chair. You're doing all that exercise, but you ain't going nowhere. And really worry is one of those things that it really gets. Gets at you, that it just eats your mind, it eats your time. You think about everything, and then. Then lo and behold, let's think. You think, okay, I've got that behind me. Then next thing you know, you got something else, or it's the same problem. I mean, I. I can't tell you. I'd wake up in the middle of the night dreaming about a Dialite part. Dialite was a company that never made. I mean, we sold it to Northern Tail by the thousands. And there was this one part you could never get. They never produced it. About maybe once a year. And man nor tail would aggravate the fire out of me. We gotta have them parts. And I used to just lose sleep. Now I can't eat mother. And I can tell you the part number 304, 1875. I can tell you what color it is. I can tell you what size it is. But, man, do I even worry about a 304. But back then, man, I lost sleep. That would make your health go crazy too, if you worry enough. Because worry will kill you and worry. [00:24:57] Speaker D: Will make you think. Think of things that you thought that was going on. I can attest to that. That was never going on. But your brain makes you think so negatively. [00:25:07] Speaker C: It makes you actually believe that's actually happening. [00:25:09] Speaker D: Even if the truth is right there, it won't even happen. [00:25:10] Speaker B: There's more to me. [00:25:12] Speaker C: It's funny. You don't ever worry and it go right, right. [00:25:15] Speaker D: That's right. [00:25:16] Speaker C: I mean, you never do. Worry is always going the wrong direction. It's a horror channel. [00:25:20] Speaker B: That happened to me this morning. I was riding the car and something. I just started thinking about a scenario of how this thing could go wrong and how this conversation go wrong and then how this. And none of it's happened. [00:25:33] Speaker C: Right. [00:25:34] Speaker B: It's just me anticipating what could possibly go wrong down the road and it's. What a waste of energy. And then you turn around and if it never plays out at all, then what was the point in even thinking about this, you know? [00:25:45] Speaker C: Well, we talk about it too, that it's like a TV channel. It's always a horror channel. The future is always a horror channel for us. We always are going to make it worse than it was. Worry about what it is. And, man, that's why I think the Lord says, don't worry about tomorrow. Today's got enough days, enough problems in itself. Be faithful in today and let tomorrow take care of itself. [00:26:08] Speaker A: Well, why do we worry about so much? Because we want to be in control. [00:26:13] Speaker C: I think that's part. I think at the very heart of it, Kenny, worry is a lack of trust. So we want to be in control. It's a lack of trust that God's not going to take care of it. Or even if the worst happens, Lord, I'm still going to trust you. [00:26:30] Speaker A: Boy, that's true. [00:26:32] Speaker C: That's what waiting on the Lord is. Trusting that, Lord, I'm going to wait on you and your promises, knowing that, hey, you're my good shepherd, you're going to lead me in still waters and besides still waters, all that. But doggone, we'll take it to the nth degree. It's going to be the worst thing ever. [00:26:47] Speaker A: I think the best thing is to be content like Paul. [00:26:52] Speaker C: I think that's a secret, though. Fighting worry. Yeah, it's got to be just to. [00:26:57] Speaker A: Be content with what's going on today, not what's going on tomorrow, not what you're going to think is going on in a couple weeks or whatever next year or trying to save for retirement, trying to have enough retirement. We all do that. You know, you get to that retirement age and it's not the. Those aren't your golden years. Those Are some bad years. They can't be. [00:27:22] Speaker C: I mean, it's a way to be uplifted. Yeah, yeah. [00:27:26] Speaker D: I mean, he is an accountant. [00:27:28] Speaker A: I'm just telling you that we're always looking for something better and never content with what we already have. [00:27:36] Speaker C: I want to along those same lines. Hold on one second. I got too many peanuts in my mouth. I shouldn't ate so many. [00:27:42] Speaker B: We're starting to treat this jar of peanuts like a hot potato. [00:27:45] Speaker C: Yeah, it's gonna be gone. [00:27:46] Speaker B: I pushed everybody cooking. [00:27:47] Speaker C: It's gonna be gone. Those things are, man, they're addictive. [00:27:50] Speaker B: No joke. I mean, we're about almost halfway through it. We just opened. [00:27:55] Speaker C: But one of the things that I talked about in the funeral this morning is some mornings we wake up and we say, good morning, Lord. Some mornings we wake up and we say, good Lord, it's morning. Depending on what your day is and when those days of Good Lord, it's morning. And those days feel like, man, I don't even know if I want to get out of bed or I'm tired or dragged. Dragged out or whatever. We need to be reminded of Psalm 23:6. And it says, surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life. That means if the day ends in y, his goodness and his mercy are pursuing you like a rabbit, like a dog chasing a hunting dog chasing a rabbit, they are after you. That's God's goodness. That's God's mercy. They're coming for you. So no matter what you're facing and no matter how draggy the day may be, just his goodness, his mercy are following me. How do I know that that's what he promised? And it all hinges on verse one. The Lord is my shepherd. When you have that personal relationship, his goodness, his mercy, it's not going to quit pursuing you. It's like Jason Voorhees in a scary movie. [00:29:02] Speaker B: So Freddy Krueger. Oh, okay. [00:29:07] Speaker C: So we're playing Michael Myers. [00:29:10] Speaker A: Well, we don't watch that. Those kind of movies. [00:29:12] Speaker C: Not even in your teenage years. [00:29:15] Speaker D: Don't let him fool you. [00:29:16] Speaker C: Yeah. So you don't know who Freddie is? [00:29:18] Speaker A: Well, I know who he is. [00:29:19] Speaker D: No, but when you say Jason who? [00:29:21] Speaker C: Voorhees. [00:29:22] Speaker D: That's his name. [00:29:23] Speaker C: Friday 13th. Okay. [00:29:25] Speaker D: I didn't know it was Voorhees. [00:29:26] Speaker C: No, y'. All. Y' all really did. [00:29:28] Speaker D: No, no, I'm saying I. I'm. [00:29:30] Speaker C: Well. And you know what? I don't even. [00:29:32] Speaker D: I've seen all those. But I didn't know they said for. [00:29:34] Speaker C: Say yeah, Voorhees. [00:29:35] Speaker D: Voorhees. [00:29:36] Speaker C: Yeah. And I. And I don't even like scary movies, but I know their names. [00:29:39] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean I'm not familiar with all that. He wasn't allowed to watch. [00:29:47] Speaker D: Yeah, he was reading numbers and all that. [00:29:51] Speaker C: What about Friday the 13th part 18? I know number 18. [00:29:54] Speaker A: I don't know anything about that one either. The older ones I was even reading that time. [00:30:01] Speaker C: But it ain't an axe murderer or a man with burnt up and got finger knives. No, it's God's goodness and mercy. And then there's another promise after that. And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Man, that whole chapter, man, I was just going off this morning on that. That was just good to me. [00:30:17] Speaker D: I will say too, when you're going through things, whatever it is going you're going through, just if you speak with the Lord and leave it at his feet, let him take care of boy. It's like a sense of peace. The problem didn't go away, but allows you to. He just hovers over to calm you down, relax. And then you can think things through and be. And trust in him that he will take care of it. And then boy, the rest of the day is golden. [00:30:42] Speaker C: Then that's Peter 5, 7. Cast all your cares on him because he cares for you. Why are you carrying all those burdens? [00:30:49] Speaker D: But I think as humans that's hard for us to do. [00:30:51] Speaker C: We want it. We want them. But you know the thing. God didn't design you to do it, but we sure enough want to and treat ourselves like a pack new. [00:30:59] Speaker A: And what's the verse before that? [00:31:02] Speaker C: First Peter 5:6. Hold on. Be five, five submitted. [00:31:08] Speaker A: Humble yourself unto money, unto God, that he may exalt you in due time, casting all your cares upon him, for he careth for you. [00:31:17] Speaker C: Yep. And it does show humility to cast all your cares. Because in our pride again, worry is pride. Worry is we've said all these things but. And our humility is. I'm trusting you, Lord. I can't handle them. That's humble. I'm giving them to you. [00:31:33] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm just kind of. When he said that, it kind of reminded me that humility is part of trusting God. [00:31:42] Speaker C: Humility is. [00:31:43] Speaker A: That's why I was saying that. [00:31:45] Speaker C: I mean, stop and think about it. It is the quintessential characteristic that has to be there if you're going to serve the Lord and walk with him. [00:31:52] Speaker A: Humble and submit to what God's says. Then you can cast your cares upon him and you don't have to worry about them. And, you know, he cares for you. [00:32:00] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I was talking to mom about this the other day. That one of the things that, you know, I talk about things I worry about. I'm worried to death now of making God mad. And it's not even necessarily in a healthy kind of way, because when you think about, oh, God fearing. When I. You know, I remember one of the first episodes I talked about, you know, not really understanding why you're supposed to be afraid of God when, you know, knowing how much you love. Well, that's completely opposite. Now I'm scared to death making him mad because I've seen the. I've seen how bad it goes when I don't do what he says. Now, I can't necessarily say if it's that he punishes you for not doing what he said or if he told you what he told you because he knew how bad it was gonna go if you didn't. I just know that my ways end up being really bad, and his ways are good. And I'm afraid of accidentally going my way. [00:32:49] Speaker C: Yeah, I think that goes back to your Proverbs 3, 5 and 6, that the Lord's really growing you in that regard. What it means to trust in the Lord, not your own understanding. [00:32:59] Speaker B: The problem with it is if you've seen the movie, which I'm sure probably we all have. I don't know about Kenny. Maybe not the movie Top Gun. [00:33:09] Speaker A: That was. That was still two Too violent. [00:33:18] Speaker C: He's seen Part two. [00:33:20] Speaker A: Yes, I have. [00:33:21] Speaker C: It was good. [00:33:22] Speaker B: It was good. It really was. But I feel sometimes a little bit like Maverick in the first one. After Goose dies, you know, at the beginning he's wild and crazy and he's got. Mr. [00:33:30] Speaker C: He's got guns. [00:33:32] Speaker B: But then after Goose dies, he gets a little gunshot. [00:33:34] Speaker A: He's afraid to do anything. [00:33:35] Speaker B: Well, that's kind of. Me, I'm kind of terrified of what to do next in any. Because I feel like Gabe just sitting across my arms while I'm waiting for an answer. And until you give me one, I'm doing this. [00:33:45] Speaker C: And we cripple ourselves. [00:33:46] Speaker D: That's it. [00:33:47] Speaker C: I mean, it is. It's a crippling fear. And I don't know that, you know, there's a. There's a verse you have to be careful with. It's first John. Perfect love casts out fear. And so there is that fear of, no, I don't want to sin against God because of what he's done for me. And all the mercy he's shown me at the same time, I don't know, that he has saved us just to walk on eggshells, to be scared, to do anything. And I think it's just one of. I always want to proceed with. I don't want to call it trepidation or caution. I just want to make sure that. Okay. And there's nothing wrong with making sure that confirming this is the Lord, this is what we should do. And at the same time, remember we talked about this a long, long time ago is it's the daily activities that we really need to focus on the big picture. Yes. Is an overarching macro goal. But then we just need to be concerned with the mic. Okay. Lord, may today all my thoughts, actions, sayings, everything I do, let it be pleasing to you. Because if it's pleasing to you, that's going to be part of what he wants. And that's where, again, knowing what it says, allowing it to take root in your heart, that'll then take place. So, yeah, don't let it get to a place of, oh, I'm scared I'm going to mess up. Versus, no, it's by walking by the spirit. I was going to save this for. And I'll probably use it later in a sermon. And again, I'm sorry to use a swimming illustration, boys, but we're used to it. [00:35:18] Speaker B: If you want me some more. [00:35:22] Speaker C: Let me just say this, all right? So when I first started, I'm swimming as hard as I can. I'm beating the water. I am just giving it all I got. And I get to the end of the pool and I am winded, you know, And I'm sitting there like, holy. Well, next to me is a man that I know. He's every bit of £300. He's a big old boy. He touches the wall about a little bit. I beat him down the first time he hits the wall, flips just like a professional. Boom. He goes to the other end and he's just back and forth, back and forth. And I'm like, wait a minute. I know I'm more fit than he is. In fact, why don't we go to the bike room right now? I know I'm more fit than he is, and I'm giving it all I got, but I'm still. I can't keep up with that because he's just consistent. Boom, boom. And I finally, I started talking to folks saying, look, I know I'm more fit than he is. Why can't. And they said, it's called Technique, you got to learn how to swim the right way, folks. That's really when you learn to walk by the spirit. It's gliding. But if you're trying in your own strength to do this thing, then you're going to be beating the water and you're going to wear yourself out before you even get to the end of the pool. So you can at least make one lap. And I think that's the, that key of Galatians 5, 16. Walk by the Spirit and thereby you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh. And it's learning how to walk by the spirit, where you're in touch with the spirit, you hear it, you're allowing him to guide you. That's the. And when that's in the moment by moment, that's where we start really making that progress to where we're gliding down the pool, not just swimming, but if we can. And that's the whole key. It's almost like rowing a boat versus putting a sail up and letting the wind take you on down. There's a big difference. And when you walk by the spirit, you learn how to listen to it and follow that. That's where it's at. [00:37:18] Speaker B: Well, since if you're going to use a swimming ioj, then I get to use a golf one. I got a great electricity. [00:37:24] Speaker C: And coming up, I got one of. [00:37:27] Speaker B: The best golf lessons I've gotten in a long time the other day and, and it was just a quick five minute thing. It wasn't a full lesson, but a guy was explaining to me the concept of your downswing. You coil on the backswing and then you just release. And to me, like, the downswing is where you're supposed to swing hard. [00:37:43] Speaker C: You coming through hard as you can. [00:37:45] Speaker B: He basically described it to me like a rubber band. He said when you pull the rubber band back, that's your backswing. He said the downswing is just letting go. [00:37:51] Speaker C: That's it. [00:37:51] Speaker B: Like, and I hit one. And he's like, no less like, even lit, like, yeah, like literally just like from the top. Just, just relax. [00:38:00] Speaker C: Yep. [00:38:01] Speaker B: And I did that. And the first couple times I did it, we didn't have like a monitor or anything. He's like, yeah, I like that. Well, that evening I went and hit golf balls, no joke. I picked up about 10, 12 yards. [00:38:11] Speaker C: It's unbelievable. [00:38:12] Speaker B: Which, that's a big, like, I hit the ball far enough. The 10 yards is a pretty hard to come by. I mean it was, that was a big deal. But it's just like taking the top and then it's just. [00:38:22] Speaker C: It's not about trying harder. [00:38:24] Speaker B: No, it's not. [00:38:24] Speaker C: It's not about putting more into it. [00:38:25] Speaker B: Well, it's funny too, because as I'm sitting there hitting golf balls, I'm thinking, this sounds like a sermon Ben could preach. It's not about trying harder. It's about dying more. And I'm like, that's what this golf swing thing is. [00:38:36] Speaker C: And it is golf swimming. Yeah. Probably electricity. [00:38:40] Speaker A: Okay, go ahead with your electricity analogy. I mean. [00:38:45] Speaker B: Now this don't work neither Ben, normally professional swimmers or golfers, if. [00:38:50] Speaker D: This story was here, I'm not even gonna put my, like, I'm gonna leave it like this. Have to let him have his glory with a swim. [00:38:55] Speaker B: It's gotta be a hobby for it to be an analogy. [00:38:56] Speaker C: We can use it. But it is amazing that when you. When you don't try so stinking hard and you die to self. That's the key. Take up your cross and follow me. I've been crucified with Christ, but yet I live. Not I, but Christ now lives in me. That's Christianity. It really is one of one, if you will. [00:39:15] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I texted you the other night. Boy, you got on a roll Sunday. [00:39:21] Speaker C: It felt like it was so heavy. [00:39:22] Speaker B: It was heavy and it was deep. But it was the only time I think I've ever listened to your sermon and then immediately replayed it because it was a lot of. [00:39:31] Speaker C: That was one of those sermons. I go home and I'm gonna be honest with you. I beat myself up because I'm like, man, you know, I really do. I love the people here and I know, gosh, I'm almost too hard on them. I feel like I, you know, I try to hold back on one like that @ the same time. And Daniel didn't. [00:39:48] Speaker D: No. [00:39:49] Speaker C: And I think it's one just knowing the right pace and who's in the audience and all that. But at the same time, man, Daniel. Daniel was calling a spade a spade. He wasn't candy coating it. He was right on it. [00:40:02] Speaker B: Well, there were. I was in the pool listening to it, so I don't have notes. I'm going off of memory this time. But it was when you talked about the salt of. If you're complaining about the. You go into a room and it's dark. You don't blame that on the room. You don't blame it on. It's a lack of light. Where's the light? [00:40:21] Speaker C: Where's the light? [00:40:22] Speaker B: And the fish. If you talk about the fish or the salmon, if you leave it out for a weekend and it comes back stinking, it's not the fish fault. But I don't know, I mean, again, I'm not trying to call anybody out either. But just as at the macro American Christian level, most of what we do is complain about the, the consequences of the actions of the ungodly on us. And we're not taking our own part in that. [00:40:46] Speaker C: We don't, we don't allow the word of God to search us. [00:40:49] Speaker B: Right. [00:40:50] Speaker C: We might find out that we might not be all that. We might be like some stinky fish too, or a dark house. And that's really what it was was. It's time to do some soul searching and find out are we just like the people of Judah? Because the people of Judah, it was not the streets of Las Vegas, it was not Sodom and Gomorrah. It was, they were practicing religion, they were going to the temples, they were offering this. It's just that they were just going through the motions. Their hearts had checked out long time ago. [00:41:18] Speaker B: Yeah, well, and it's, you know, we hadn't talked about judging and self righteousness. [00:41:22] Speaker C: In a while, but. [00:41:22] Speaker B: So let's go back there. But if you think about it, when all we do is sit around and complain about all the ungodliness that we're seeing in other people, we kind of ignore the fact that we're being ungodly ourselves by judging others in the process. And now we're not making those people want to be more godly at all because they look at us and think we're the problem. And if you were really following Jesus teachings and showing kindness and helping those, even if they don't believe like you, or even if you don't agree with everything that they're doing, showing where that kindness, you might see some more of those find godliness in their life. But no, we don't. We exacerbate, we make the problem worse. [00:42:07] Speaker C: I think one is, I always want to challenge myself to listen to myself pray and really keep up with, okay, what are you asking for? I mean, look through that prayer in Daniel 9. I don't know that you're going to see Daniel making to me personal requests. This is all about God's glory. It's all about your people, God, your temple, your city, your holy hill. You don't see him referencing saying, oh, and I sure would love to have some comfort or I'd love to have this promotion or I love. Not that that's wrong. I ain't saying that I'M just saying that, man, when you look at a prayer that the prayers in the Old Testament we've been looking at, they've been focused on God and His glory, not so much about ourselves. Well, something else. I mean, look, Daniel didn't make a request for 16 verses. [00:42:52] Speaker B: Yeah, well, something else about prayer that I can't remember exactly. I don't know if it was something you said or where this came from, but something's occurred to me in the last week or two that I've never thought about in my prayers. But Jesus is the one who bought the right for us to even pray in the first place. Without Jesus and what he did, we can pray all we want to, but he ain't gonna hear us, right? So that's that ability to go to God, whatever we're going to say, whatever, whether it's to ask for things we want, things we need, pray for others, thank him for things, anything. Just the privilege of going before the Father, that wasn't just given to. It wasn't anything that we deserved. It was something that Jesus paid a healthy price for us to have that right, to even put our. To even make our request known to God. And I started thinking about it. I don't ever really thank him for that part. I thank him for dying for my sins, I thank him for salvation, but I don't ever really thank him for the fact that, hey, you know what? I wouldn't even have the right to pray now. [00:43:48] Speaker C: I have access to the throne room. [00:43:49] Speaker A: That's right. [00:43:50] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:43:51] Speaker B: And that's something. It's like, you know, we always say at the end, you know, in Jesus name, we pray. I sort of think I need to say that sooner. I need to say, hey, I'm here because of Jesus, first of all. Let's get that out of the way. [00:44:03] Speaker C: And in reality, if you stop and think about it, now that I think about it, and I may use that Sunday as Daniel is 500 years, 600 years before Christ, but he's praying, New Testament type prayer. And what he's saying there is it's because of your righteousness, not ours, that you need to do this. And so it is depending upon someone's righteousness. And you're right, that little tagline, in Jesus name, that's not a tagline. We just throw in because. Well, that's what I heard my mama say. No, in Jesus name is because apart from Jesus and his name and what he did, we can't even approach the throne of grace so well. [00:44:39] Speaker B: And I didn't understand that for a long time. Why do people say that at the end it's like obviously it's in Jesus name. Why are we saying that? But no, I guess it's because you can pray and I guess the name of anybody you want to. It's just not going to be a righteous prayer or a legitimate prayer. You say it's in Jesus name because it is kind of saying what I'm saying at the end. [00:44:56] Speaker C: Right. [00:44:57] Speaker B: Instead of at the beginning. But I'm just sitting here thinking, you know, not that God doesn't already know. [00:45:04] Speaker C: Right. [00:45:04] Speaker B: But if we wait until the very end to say it's in Jesus name then we're waiting to the very end to tell him that you even need to bother listening to this. Right? Because if we say I pray this in the name of myself, then he's going to disregard the whole prayer. I'm going to go ahead and start off with the Jesus name part. [00:45:20] Speaker C: I think it's fair to say Lord, we come today approaching you because of what Christ did and his righteousness. [00:45:27] Speaker B: Yeah, we're just thanking him for the. [00:45:28] Speaker C: Thank you for the opportunity. [00:45:29] Speaker B: Thank you for being able to come to you. Thank you for what you did to. [00:45:32] Speaker C: That's right. That was not given freely nor was it earned. I mean it was given through Christ and the price he paid. You're right. I know you're done man. [00:45:43] Speaker B: No, no, he used them all his on the float. [00:45:47] Speaker A: I thinking for my case I pray in Jesus name. I think it's out of habit but I guess I got started because Jesus said ask anything in my name, it shall be done. I guess that's why we say it. [00:46:02] Speaker C: I think the Lord's Prayer doesn't end like that. No, I was just go to Colossians 3. Paul lists out some of the prayers that he's praying but he doesn't say it in Jesus name. But I think we've added that as because like you said that passage you just quoted of ask anything in my name. But it's also because we realize man. I mean everybody says based on my. [00:46:27] Speaker A: I hear it all the time in church all the time and I don't think anything of it. I just think that's probably where it come from. I don't know why we say that other than what I just told you. [00:46:39] Speaker B: Well so I don't ever want to. [00:46:41] Speaker A: I mean other than asking thing in his name. [00:46:44] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean that's probably where it started. I would imagine. [00:46:46] Speaker B: I try really hard not to say anything without knowing why I'm saying it. Right. Like, even in Jesus name, I don't. When I started adding that to the end of the prayer, I wanted to make sure that I was really taking the time to understand why am I saying this and making sure that that's a. It wasn't just vain repetition or it wasn't just saying it because that's what everybody else. [00:47:04] Speaker C: Right. [00:47:05] Speaker B: And it certainly wasn't because, well, now he'll give it to me if I say it in Jesus name. You know, I didn't want it for that reason. But as I started to do that more and more, it started to, I don't know, just resonate with me a little bit more what exactly it means to say, I'm praying this in Jesus name. And it's like, well, without Jesus, I'm not praying to start with. And that's maybe where I've kind of over a couple of years gotten to this point where it's like, no, I need to be thinking him first. Like, when I come to you to start with, I'm gonna go ahead and just. And I'm still bad to forget that, you know, it's not. [00:47:36] Speaker C: And you think about you talking to your father, well, how in the world did I become adopted into his family again through Christ? [00:47:42] Speaker B: So, yeah, spending time there, you know, Sunday was. It was deep. [00:47:48] Speaker C: It was challenging, but it's a good challenge. [00:47:50] Speaker B: I agree with what Brandon said. Don't stop and don't hold back. I know that you run the risk. You know, some people are always gonna. There's always a risk of rubbing somebody the wrong way or whatever. [00:47:59] Speaker C: Well. And it's not one of I leave here feeling real good about myself. And I'm not into that either. [00:48:04] Speaker A: I'm not. [00:48:05] Speaker C: I'm not here to make you feel good about yourself. But at the same time, sometimes they're just hard. And this is one of. Yeah, this isn't your feel good message of wee. [00:48:16] Speaker B: I saw you at Panera after church. [00:48:17] Speaker A: You said it seems to be very happy. [00:48:21] Speaker D: I mean, or, you know, getting your free soda. [00:48:26] Speaker A: He was right there, too. [00:48:27] Speaker C: He was right there getting his sip clean. I think that joker ran right in, got it, and headed right out. [00:48:34] Speaker D: Listen, if Panera Bread knew exactly how you do that system, you wouldn't have that card number. [00:48:39] Speaker A: Like going there for one is what. [00:48:44] Speaker B: Don't lie. You're in church. [00:48:47] Speaker C: What do you do? Just show them me a card? [00:48:49] Speaker A: Yeah, there's a couple. They're waiting for me. [00:48:51] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, they know them now. [00:48:53] Speaker C: Like, you have the app? [00:48:55] Speaker A: No. [00:48:55] Speaker C: Oh. [00:48:56] Speaker B: Do you ever buy Anything besides the. [00:48:58] Speaker C: Free drink he's eaten in there before. Every now and then. Yeah, about every. Every two or three weeks he's in there. [00:49:04] Speaker A: All right, bring a cup and get a cup. Bring a cup, bring a cup, get a cup. Part of the zip club. [00:49:12] Speaker C: You bring the cup that you had. What I do wash it? No. [00:49:15] Speaker D: So then you get two cups when you leave out. [00:49:17] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:49:19] Speaker A: Is that where your money do they. [00:49:21] Speaker C: Look at your card? [00:49:23] Speaker A: They just have that cup right there, My name on it. I just pick it up. [00:49:26] Speaker D: Oh, wait, wait. Okay, so what you're saying is. [00:49:31] Speaker C: I'm kind of confused too. [00:49:32] Speaker D: What he's doing. Renee is using the app to order the drink. So his name's already there. So he brings his other one in, grabs the new one, fills them both up, and he's got two cups, right? [00:49:46] Speaker C: Yeah, I agree with you, Brandon. He never finds out about that. [00:49:51] Speaker A: No, we didn't sign up for it to be every two hours. [00:49:55] Speaker C: No, no, no, but they don't. [00:49:56] Speaker D: But you're bringing in the old cup. I mean, when you're online, does it say, hey, I'm bringing a cup? [00:50:01] Speaker A: By the way, I haven't read the fine print. I don't really want to read that right now. [00:50:12] Speaker C: Yeah, no, I know, but I. Panera. [00:50:15] Speaker A: I love. [00:50:16] Speaker C: Did you eat? I know, yeah. [00:50:17] Speaker A: Yeah. There he was having a good time. [00:50:20] Speaker D: Oh, he got that turkey salad sandwich they've got. [00:50:23] Speaker C: No, I got the. The steak. No, it's a bacon parm. Bacon parm sandwich. [00:50:29] Speaker A: But the point is, he wasn't very sad when I was. [00:50:31] Speaker C: Salad was right after banging. And then Renee doesn't eat all her salad, so I ate that. She gets like a Greek grain salad. It's good. I only eat there about once. I'd say once a month. [00:50:43] Speaker A: I go in there once, once a day. [00:50:45] Speaker C: He really does that Sip club. You're taking good advantage of that. Yeah. [00:50:49] Speaker B: Sounds like he's abusing it. [00:50:51] Speaker C: No, no, no. [00:50:55] Speaker A: Sometimes you can't get one because they granite on top of the. So I'm just. I'm making up for it. [00:51:05] Speaker C: Okay, so they owe you. [00:51:06] Speaker D: So when you walk in doors, they're probably back there going, look at him again. [00:51:11] Speaker C: He's still in our cup. I know, I know. My son was a sip club member, but he lived right across the street from a Panera. Yeah. So every day on the way in, get a cup of coffee and had to. [00:51:20] Speaker D: You're out there, you know, I'm doing the same thing. [00:51:22] Speaker A: On my way in here, I stop and I'll stop again. On my way out. [00:51:27] Speaker D: I don't know what else to say to it. I don't. I don't. [00:51:30] Speaker C: He paid for it, though. You paid for the B in that club, right? How much is it like? [00:51:36] Speaker A: I think it's 90. They. Since we're such. [00:51:41] Speaker D: 90. [00:51:41] Speaker A: No, since we're such good customers, they decreased ours from 119 a year to 98. [00:51:50] Speaker B: Now you sound like a good customer. From the sound. [00:51:52] Speaker C: So. [00:51:52] Speaker A: See, because we've been using it. See, that's. [00:51:54] Speaker C: But now every time you go in to get a sandwich, you don't have to buy a drink. [00:51:58] Speaker A: No, no. [00:51:59] Speaker C: So. And they charge about 250 to 360 for a drink. Yeah. So just go in. [00:52:04] Speaker D: So I guess if you go there twice a week, I think if you. [00:52:08] Speaker C: Go in there twice a week, you pay for it. [00:52:09] Speaker D: $3 a drink. [00:52:10] Speaker C: All right. [00:52:10] Speaker A: Yeah, probably. [00:52:11] Speaker C: And you're allowed to get the teas, all that other stuff, right? [00:52:16] Speaker A: Yeah, anything I want to drink. [00:52:17] Speaker C: Wow. [00:52:18] Speaker D: Even the. The fruit drinks. [00:52:20] Speaker A: You got to go in there 39 times. 39 and a half times to get your money. [00:52:24] Speaker D: Well, you've already exceeded that. [00:52:26] Speaker C: And if you live, like I said, if you live close by three days. [00:52:28] Speaker A: I can do that. [00:52:29] Speaker C: That's a good way to do it because like I said, Daniel got his money. [00:52:32] Speaker D: Well, I agree with that. I just. It's just funny with Kenny, you know. [00:52:36] Speaker C: Oh, he's already. Yeah, he passed. [00:52:38] Speaker B: You got a whole year. That's in a year. 39 and a half in a year. [00:52:41] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:52:42] Speaker A: So half days a year to break even. [00:52:45] Speaker D: And I'm just new here. But how come since you had that. [00:52:48] Speaker C: Cup period. [00:52:50] Speaker D: Why haven't you brought drinks for them then and would use your card? [00:52:54] Speaker A: They haven't asked. [00:52:55] Speaker C: Okay. [00:52:56] Speaker B: They only got two cups. [00:53:00] Speaker A: I am telling you, somebody's going in there and I've seen that. And filled their. [00:53:05] Speaker C: Oh, picture up. Yes, I've seen that whole picture up. Oh, yeah. [00:53:08] Speaker A: I mean, that's pretty brazen. But I don't want it to. [00:53:11] Speaker C: Yeah, you would do that, you know. [00:53:14] Speaker D: Listen, you too far gone about working. [00:53:16] Speaker C: Something wrong. [00:53:18] Speaker D: Just go with it, man. You already passed it. [00:53:20] Speaker C: No need to have conscious body now. I do have some. [00:53:28] Speaker A: It's just a cop. [00:53:29] Speaker C: Yeah, that's like the man that. Listen, those old guy used to go to the barbershop where I was and he would run his mouth and he always. He came in there one day and he said that he got in, he was hunting and when he was a little boy and he said he shot the gun, shot A shotgun. And he killed 49 blackbirds with one shot. And of course, the barber said, man, you know, you ain't kill 49 blackbirds with one shot. Why don't you just go ahead and make it easy, even 50 if you're going to do that? And he said. He said, man, don't you know I got morals? I ain't gonna tell no lie for one blackbird. That's you. I ain't gonna tell no lie for no extra prey. I ain't gonna cheat him. [00:54:14] Speaker B: So is this week going to be. [00:54:15] Speaker C: The end of Daniel? Daniel 9. We will be out of Daniel 9. We might as well go ahead and finish out the month of August with it and then we'll jump in. Technically, I guess we got one more week in August, that it will be kind of Labor Day. I may do kind of a standalone, then we get into Book of John. So, yeah, we will finish. I'm excited because part three and part four are a lot more like part one. [00:54:38] Speaker B: So part three and four are all. You gonna be doing this. Are you gonna do this in one? [00:54:41] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. When I say part three, part three and four, I should say point three and four. I'm gonna do all that in one. [00:54:48] Speaker B: Setting because I wasn't sure. [00:54:49] Speaker C: At least I think so. [00:54:50] Speaker B: Your first week, you said it's gonna be two, maybe three. [00:54:53] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:54:53] Speaker B: And then I thought you said this past week it might be three, maybe four. We were joking about last night on the Monday night zoom call that. You know, I think you probably could do an entire series on. [00:55:04] Speaker C: Well, you know, I thought about. I hate to say it, and I know it wouldn't be a bestseller or nothing like that. Nobody want it, but I book on Daniel 9 and do like part one, part two, part three, part four, and be a chapter. Because that would be easy. Easy enough. I mean, it really would. But when you break down the different parts, from how he knew the scriptures to confessing his sin to now celebrating the steadfastness of God, he's been righteous through the years, and he even delivered the Israelites from the Egyptians. And how he's been faithful. And then when we get to the last is man, it's calling out for God's glory to shine. I mean, this is. All of this prayer has nothing to do with him. In fact, I don't know that Daniel. And nobody knows this for sure, I don't know that Daniel went back to the promised land. In fact, I'd probably be willing to bet he probably died in Babylon. And so this prayer he's praying has nothing to do with him going back. It has to do with God. I want your glory to be back at Israel. I want your temple. It's desolate now and I want to see it shine. So when we become consumed with that, not one of the things that hit me last night is Daniel's praying as a patriot, but it's not a patriot of Israel. Even though he's loyal to it, he wants to see it do well. He's praying as a patriot of the kingdom of God and that's. We're citizens of that. And that really is what should govern our prayer is, Lord, we want to see your kingdom come to fruition. We want to see your kingdom in our lives and in our friends lives and in this church. And so that's. That's the gist of man. I'm really trying to. Lord, help me to make my words few but powerful. And that's not my gift sometimes. [00:56:45] Speaker A: You don't think Daniel came back at all? [00:56:47] Speaker C: There's no evidence of it. [00:56:48] Speaker A: Maybe a weekend or something. [00:56:50] Speaker C: We can't get away. He flew in southwest. [00:56:56] Speaker A: It might have come just for a couple days. [00:56:58] Speaker C: Yeah, just for a quick. But he hung out with Ezra at the temple. We don't know. And. And you know, odds are he was 80 years old when he's praying this prayer. And so odds are he probably didn't make that journey back. [00:57:12] Speaker A: Ezra was alive. I wonder if he saw it. [00:57:16] Speaker C: I don't know. [00:57:17] Speaker A: He probably saw it. [00:57:18] Speaker C: He probably saw Cyrus and he probably saw the edict and all that, but I don't know that he went back. We don't have any records. [00:57:25] Speaker A: I mean, I wonder if he saw them going back. [00:57:28] Speaker C: He could have. Yeah, he could have. I mean, that very well could have been. I mean, I could give you that easily. [00:57:36] Speaker A: Not the weekend trip. [00:57:37] Speaker C: No, no, I'm probably not even. Bob, you travel that far, you better stay a week. It's like flying to India. You just don't do that in a day. I do. [00:57:49] Speaker D: Like how you said that picture of the Lord. [00:57:52] Speaker C: Yeah. Of the kingdom of heaven. [00:57:54] Speaker D: No, we all. Oh, we love the United States. Oh, yes, the United States. But man, if we had that same passion daily. And when someone said, we stand up and say, what are you talking about now hold on. Yeah, if we had that same passion. [00:58:06] Speaker C: For Christ, we want to see the kingdom of God made great, not just our country to be. And look, I want to see our country excel too. It's just. I want to see that first. [00:58:15] Speaker D: You know that word patriot and well. [00:58:17] Speaker B: I'll tell you what, especially around here, I think in the south in general, I think not to. I don't know if it's necessarily exclusive to the south, but patriotism is very celebrated around here. And if you. You can see some people getting really worked up and really mad when somebody says something that's against the flag or against the country or anything like that. But at the same time, we're also in the Bible Belt down here, and you would think that we would become more up in ours when something is spoken against God's kingdom. But we tend to kind of quieten down a little bit there because we don't want to offend anybody or we don't want to get in trouble, whatever. We're a lot more outspoken about, you know, when we see injustices against America than we do things that are going against God's kingdom. [00:59:03] Speaker C: Oh, yes. And I think too, another challenge on another foot is how big are the prayers you're praying and how big are the prayers are they kingdom prayers versus just me prayers? And I think that's a challenge that, that we're going to see Sunday. I think the other thing is, man, if you're not praying prayers that don't scare you, how big is your God then? [00:59:27] Speaker B: Because we do we praying prayers that don't scare you. Is this what you're going to be preaching on Sunday? [00:59:33] Speaker C: Well, it's just personal that, man, if you ain't praying, the earth shaking, moving. Lord, I want to see you move in this place. And I want to see revival. I want to see. Lord, I pray that you would bring more souls here. And we don't know than we know what to do with. If that don't kind of frighten you or you got all the answers to it. How big of a God do you have then? [00:59:51] Speaker B: So I didn't think I was going to get to this point because after I wrote it down, I didn't really think I knew how to bring it up. But now I think that kind of sets it up. Maybe I will say this. I don't know how exactly. I wrote it in my notes just as a quick little. Just something to remember. And I think I had something like real faith almost seems to defy reason sometimes. And as I started thinking, I don't know how that sounds. And this took probably too deep to try to get into. But there are certain times that I'll pray for something or I'll believe in something or I will think, you know, that, hey, it sounds insane to think that this could even happen. But I pray for it anyway and I believe in it. And when you have that belief, it sounds almost, it makes you feel almost insane to even have that belief. But that's how far out on the limb you've got to get sometimes to show that you truly do have that faith. Because we don't. We're not gonna sit here and tell each other that we doubt God can do anything. We know that he can do anything. But we don't necessarily pray for those types of things. We pray for the simple things, the easy things. Give them peace, give them comfort, give them, you know, send them, you know, show them your love. These are all easy layup drill prayers. But we don't. [01:01:00] Speaker C: Rather than praying for healing or praying for a miracle, praying for somebody, praying. [01:01:05] Speaker B: For again, you know, when you have somebody who's in a really life threatening situation, 1 in 100 chance to survive or whatever, we don't even bother praying for healing a lot of times. And I understand the odds aren't very good and you certainly don't want to let that shake your faith if it doesn't work. But why don't we pray? We talked about the movie the Girl who Believed in Miracles. So it's been a while ago, but it was a great movie because we don't pray for this miraculous stuff. We pray for the simple. It's almost like we're walking around with like a scorecard that we want to give God the highest percentage of answered prayers. [01:01:41] Speaker C: We want to make sure our prayers are answered. [01:01:43] Speaker B: That's right. We want to, we want to walk around with a 90% answered prayer rate. We don't want to accident, we don't want to jeopardize it. [01:01:50] Speaker C: And I think, I think too is, I mean look, we live in a modern society. We have technology galore and I think at times our society kind of frowns down upon miracles. Oh, we can explain everything. Not all the time. And at the same time I think we are semi conditioned of why are we not asking for miracles. I think it's because we're, I think we're scared. [01:02:15] Speaker A: Well, we live in God, that's for sure. I think, not sure how to say this, but I think a lot of times we are, we ask God that we kind of help him out. We don't ask what we should be asking instead of God sent a revival. God help us to have people to join the church, help our church to grow, not to send or better yet, help your church. Well, yeah, not to type C. Tens of thousands of people saved. So I think a lot of times we pray in our own intellect and not in his power. [01:02:59] Speaker C: Yeah. And that's. Maybe that's the scary part. [01:03:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:03:05] Speaker C: We think it's the safe part, but to me that sounds kind of scary. I'm praying in my own intellect and not his own. [01:03:10] Speaker A: Because we're asking him what we think he can do. [01:03:14] Speaker C: Yeah. Or he will do. [01:03:16] Speaker A: Our conception of God is. Is we. We only know how big God is. I mean, he's just. He's unbelievable. [01:03:24] Speaker C: Right. [01:03:24] Speaker A: You can't measure his love. You can't. You can't measure his love. [01:03:29] Speaker C: And he's great. [01:03:29] Speaker A: And we try to. Because we use all these analogies, you know, his love is deeper than the ocean, higher than the heavens. [01:03:38] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:03:39] Speaker A: And that's part of it, but that's. [01:03:40] Speaker C: Not all of it. Some. [01:03:41] Speaker A: That's some of it. It's. When the Bible, when Psalms says. I think it's in Psalms, where my thoughts over. You are like the sands of the sea all the time. I can't even imagine that. [01:04:00] Speaker C: How much sand is that the sea? [01:04:01] Speaker A: And how much is this in one handful? Yeah. Millions. [01:04:05] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:04:06] Speaker A: And so I can't. I can't. And we think about. God's going to be mad at us. I don't know about that. If we do the wrong thing, I think there's penalties, of course. [01:04:16] Speaker C: And I think the vastness of God. We do. We don't totally comprehend it, nor should we. At the same time do we pray. Thinking that that is my. And that's where I think Daniel gets it right. He knows this is a great and awesome God. And God, you've been faithful to us and we deserve to be in exile. But you're a kind and compassionate and merciful. [01:04:38] Speaker A: There's no English word to describe him. [01:04:40] Speaker C: No. [01:04:41] Speaker A: To be honest. [01:04:41] Speaker C: No. No. He's so far beyond the word that. [01:04:44] Speaker A: Anybody knows to describe God, you know, his power and love. We can just kind of righteousness, holiness, all tip of the iceberg. But as you get the iceberg, there's a whole big. [01:04:57] Speaker C: Well, as I've always said, how can the finite understand the infinite? It. And it just cannot. [01:05:04] Speaker A: And I don't know, when we get to heaven, if we have that, we'll be able to have that type of understanding because we. I don't know if we're going to know everything. We're going to know what we need to know. [01:05:15] Speaker C: We should be like him. That's all I know. [01:05:18] Speaker A: But I don't know. Whatever. That could be interpreted in a lot of ways. [01:05:23] Speaker C: Yeah. Sure. [01:05:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:05:24] Speaker D: And I think it's. [01:05:25] Speaker A: Is that just physically? [01:05:26] Speaker C: No, go ahead, man. Yeah, please, go ahead. Jump in, Brandon. Jump in. [01:05:29] Speaker D: I think somebody. The stuff is intended to not know. [01:05:32] Speaker C: That's right. You don't need. Because. [01:05:34] Speaker A: Because we can't. [01:05:35] Speaker C: As I said, if you can figure God out, He ain't much of a God. [01:05:38] Speaker D: Yeah, that. And I think that's what makes it so. Like you said, you can't find the words, but so powerful. And so what a glorious day going to heaven. We can't fathom in our head, no matter how much you think about it. [01:05:51] Speaker C: Standing, all of that. [01:05:52] Speaker A: All I know he loves me a lot more than I love him. [01:05:56] Speaker C: I would agree with that. [01:05:58] Speaker A: It's not even comparable. [01:05:59] Speaker D: I fight with the. My struggle is the discipline of the everyday life. That's. I see it every. All the time. If I get into the Word at night, like I supposed to, and pray during the day, it's like. It's like all. Everything just gets in line. And it's not all the way smooth, but it's. [01:06:20] Speaker A: You're in balance. [01:06:21] Speaker D: Yes. And then after a couple days, I'll say, like, right. Like this week. I haven't read my Bible this week, you know, And I feel. And inside of me goes, man, I just. [01:06:29] Speaker C: I'm missing that. [01:06:30] Speaker D: Yeah, I'm missing it. But then I get into bed and I'm going, okay, I'm gonna read the Bible. And then all of a sudden, I'll either fall asleep. So I do feel bad, but that's because of my love for him. And I do, like you said, with the fear. [01:06:42] Speaker C: Right. And that's also fear of the spirit. Yeah. [01:06:46] Speaker D: Letting him down, you know, or searching, you know, like, you did your thing for all of us, your son. And I'm supposed to have my duty to do you with my heart and the Word and to grow. Because I truly. [01:06:59] Speaker C: I want to grow. [01:07:00] Speaker D: I want to continue to grow. [01:07:01] Speaker C: Right. [01:07:01] Speaker D: And my own self gets in the way sometimes of. [01:07:05] Speaker C: Well, and that's the spirit inside of you crying out, feed me, man. Yeah, well, it's that. [01:07:10] Speaker B: And I'll give you, you know, this way. I called Mama Sunday afternoon. I hadn't talked to her. Me and mom are both real bad about this. We won't necessarily realize how long it's been since we've talked. We don't. We usually talk a couple times a week. We used to talk every day. And then, you know, she'll get busy, I'll get busy and whatever. And then we. [01:07:27] Speaker C: Look, you got three kids going to school? [01:07:29] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:07:30] Speaker B: So I called her Sunday afternoon. We talked for a little while. We had a good hour, hour and a half. But I didn't call her because I was feeling guilty or I was gonna get in trouble for not calling home. I called her because I missed her. I hadn't talked to her in a long time. I don't like going a week without talking to mom. But at the same time, let me flip this around the other side and say, you know, if my kids go to. They're looking at it now from God's perspective. When my kids are at their mom's or they go on vacation or whatever, they usually still call me every night. If they don't, it's. Maybe they might miss a day or two. But I've never gone a week without speaking to them. Well, then I do feel like crap for not calling mama for a week. It's like, man, I hadn't talked to her in a week. How did I let it go a week without. She didn't call me either, mom. [01:08:09] Speaker C: But life does get busy. [01:08:12] Speaker B: She called Christian. She didn't call me. But all that to say it's not about feeling guilty because, well, we had to check off our list like the Pharisees, and we had to do. I remember asking about checklists. It's not a checklist. But as you build that relationship, you feel that he's disappointed that he hasn't heard from you, and you also miss him also. And it is that. It's just like anybody else that you. That you're close with, and you go a month without talking to them. [01:08:39] Speaker C: And I think it is. I think that's a key prayer for both of that, is to pray, Lord, just start a fire in me, a desire that just. I can't breathe unless I want to get there. I mean, that's important to me as my heir. And so, Lord, I'm going to make sure to do this. And, Lord, would you help to ignite that flame in my heart that, man, I got to do this first and foremost or like, me at the end of the day, all right, I'm not going to bed until I sit down with this. [01:09:07] Speaker D: And I would agree with. [01:09:08] Speaker C: There is a difference between checking off. [01:09:10] Speaker D: Checking off or actually, like, you know, feeling that. Not just, oh, you know, I want to do it instead of I have to do it type thing. [01:09:18] Speaker C: I have to. Versus man, I get to. [01:09:20] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, that's a good right way. [01:09:22] Speaker C: And when you. When you get to that, I get to. And that's where, man. Cause it Is it's easy, even in your marriage, everything else, to just. Just check it off, you know? [01:09:31] Speaker B: Well, and I've had. I've had days that, you know, happens a lot. Probably on Sundays or. But it's not always on Sundays. But you'll have some days where it's like you can pray anytime, anywhere. I know that, but there's times that I. [01:09:45] Speaker A: There's no call waiting. [01:09:46] Speaker B: That's right. [01:09:47] Speaker C: Make sure it's charged. [01:09:50] Speaker B: There's current on that. Yeah. But there's banking, practicing how long he's been sitting on that one. [01:09:58] Speaker C: I'll be here all week. Yeah, he. [01:10:01] Speaker B: He's sitting here waiting for his drum roll. [01:10:02] Speaker C: Yes, but that's great. [01:10:05] Speaker B: But some of those days I really just can't wait to get in bed and have that quiet time that I can really concentrate and pray and just really have it. And there's other days it's like I'm so ready to go to sleep, you know, And I'm just like, let me say what I need to say so I can go to sleep. And there's a huge difference in the two of those. That's the difference in that fire versus the checklist. Right. I have been trying real hard to do. Have been told this for years. Try to do your Bible time in the morning. And I have always struggled with it because I'm not a morning person and I'm usually late and I'm usually in a hurry. But if I can try to find time to do it first thing instead of waiting till the end of the. [01:10:38] Speaker C: Day and mixing it up during the day. Nothing says you can't do it at lunchtime. None says it's got to be morning and evening. [01:10:43] Speaker A: That's right. [01:10:44] Speaker C: Hey, man, if you go and stop at Hardee's, get a hot dog or a bang for 5.95, take your Bible in there and read a couple verses while you can. [01:10:52] Speaker B: Do it on your way in sick. [01:10:53] Speaker C: Club. [01:10:53] Speaker A: Club, yeah. Or maybe you should read through the drive through. [01:10:59] Speaker C: I don't go to the drive. I don't like to eat my car. I don't mess my car up. [01:11:02] Speaker A: Yeah, well, what's messing it up. [01:11:09] Speaker C: While. [01:11:10] Speaker B: He'S sitting in the Panera parking lot? [01:11:12] Speaker C: Are you riding down my Hyundai Elantra? [01:11:13] Speaker A: No. Well, I'm really thinking that van. [01:11:16] Speaker C: Oh, well, that's a three hundred and eight thousand mile. [01:11:19] Speaker D: Yeah, it's done. I mean, that thing's. [01:11:24] Speaker C: I can't get my turn signal right, man. I think I'm about to replace the socket because I've Replaced the bulb. And it'll work for a second. Then all of a sudden it quits. [01:11:32] Speaker D: You got short and wide. [01:11:33] Speaker C: I think that's what it is. Either that or I'm just going to replace the socket. I'm going to try that next. I can get a socket for like 30 miles. [01:11:39] Speaker A: Isn't it old enough that it don't have to be inspected? [01:11:42] Speaker C: Not yet. It's got a couple more years. [01:11:44] Speaker A: Really? [01:11:45] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:11:45] Speaker D: Oh, you mean for like, the end? [01:11:47] Speaker C: Yeah, man. Well, look, my truck just got to where I think it's gotta be 30 years old. [01:11:52] Speaker D: I think that's right. Yours 89, 90. [01:11:55] Speaker C: My truck is a 92 and it just passed where I can. Don't have to get it inspected anymore. I now own a classic. I was like, golly, my 2009 van ain't a classic. It's only 16 years. I think it's 20 years, maybe. [01:12:08] Speaker A: Well, that means maybe it's 30. So is your engine light still on? [01:12:14] Speaker C: It is. So I. But that's December. Oh, I've got a secret. [01:12:18] Speaker A: You paint over it? Oh. You clear your. Clear your coat out. [01:12:22] Speaker C: No, there's. There's something called. What is it called? Carboclean or something like that. I buy it in November, and if you hit it just right and get the guy to reset it, it'll burn it. And then if you drive enough miles running by there, you have to play it. I've missed it. But then I've also hit. It's like hitting the lottery. And listen, I've had it inspected on a Wednesday. It passed. Thursday morning, driving in church. Bam, check. Engine light came on. I said, well, I worry about you. Next season, next Christmas, I'll see you. Next thing. [01:12:52] Speaker D: The story is he learned his lesson. [01:12:55] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. I ain't changing that carburetor, I can tell you that. [01:12:58] Speaker A: It's called deceiving. [01:13:00] Speaker C: No. [01:13:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:13:02] Speaker B: Ben's trying to fly by the inspections. [01:13:04] Speaker A: He's not like this. The sip club. [01:13:06] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. It passed the test. That's all I know. [01:13:09] Speaker D: Connections that you got. [01:13:10] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:13:12] Speaker B: I'm gonna let the preacher and the head of the deacons follow the sword this week. I'm confessing up on this show. [01:13:22] Speaker C: I love it. No, it passes inspection legally. [01:13:28] Speaker A: I know. Yeah. I mean, there's nothing wrong with that. [01:13:31] Speaker C: I mean, I can't help the machine, only just test for that little bit. [01:13:34] Speaker A: Of time or that you have to go out of your way to get. Get your codes cleared out. [01:13:39] Speaker C: Yeah, well, yeah, there's a little bit of that. [01:13:41] Speaker D: Well, you know, so many people you don't like. You really don't like. [01:13:45] Speaker C: No, I wish I did, but I. No, I got to, got to be legal on that. [01:13:49] Speaker D: Take the battery off and then put it back on. [01:13:51] Speaker C: I've done some of that before, too. Look, I've tried everything. I just don't want to put a catalytic converter on a 16 year old car. That's like $800. [01:14:03] Speaker A: Anything's $800. Everything's $800. 10,000. I mean, everything's. [01:14:08] Speaker B: Well, we done anything else? [01:14:11] Speaker A: We've got to get swimming. [01:14:12] Speaker C: No, just real quick, have I gone through and I may have, because I've been trying to tell everybody this. Those the six P's of Bible study. Did I do that? I did five P's or. [01:14:23] Speaker B: I don't think so, no. Well, if you did, we weren't recording. [01:14:25] Speaker C: Let me just share this real quick. You know, it won't be but a second. But I've been having such a good time with the youth lately. And they came back from camp and we just. They wanted to grow in the Lord. And I said, look, boys, the only way you're going to grow in the Lord is you got to be a person of the Word. And so what we've been doing is taking a passage. So the other day we took Colossians 3, 14, 21. The week before that we took the Parable of the Good Samaritan. And I'm trying to teach them just how to do basic Bible study. And there is a model and it's called the five Ps, but I've added another P to it. It's called the six P's. And first you start with, what's the purpose of this text? What is it God's telling me, what is it he's saying to me? Then you look at the primary verse. Is there a verse in there that I need to memorize? Maybe there's something in there that has something that speaks to me. Then you begin to look for, are there some promises there? Is there something that God's promising you that you need to hold on to? Then what you begin to look at is problems. Maybe there's something in that text that I don't understand that or is like the parable of the Good Samaritan, Is Jesus teaching that I can earn salvation? Because if you read it, it almost looks like that, but of course he's not. And then practical application. All right, first you start with, what is God saying now? What does God want me to do? But then the last p Is this turn it into a prayer. And what I do is, I told them like Colossians 3, let the peace of. Or let the word of God richly dwell in your lives. So I told him, I said, turn that into a prayer, guys. Lord, change my heart to where I want the word of God to richly dwell in my life. Let the peace of Christ rule in my heart. So Lord, Lord, would you, would you allow me to get out of the way so I can let your peace rule in my heart and all that. Turn that, that big passage into a prayer to just pray back to him and say, lord, help me be conformed to your image. And I'm telling you, it's been exciting to watch a teenage boy that's in 9th or 10th grade go through a passage like that and then say, no, this is what God wants me to do. He wants me to live a life of compassion and kindness and gentleness and to watch them get it. I encourage you, take those six Ps, write them down, probably newsletter next week. I'm going to put it in there just so people can practice it because it is absolutely amazing the results that I've seen and the results I've seen in those kids lives. So don't make it complicated. Don't make it. You gotta dive into the Greek at times you might. And I want you to go deeper eventually. First you gotta learn how to, you know, just swim in the shallow end with your duck. Then you can move out to the deep end with me. [01:17:11] Speaker B: You knew he wasn't to going finish up with that at least one more swimming. [01:17:14] Speaker C: He couldn't hold it in either. [01:17:15] Speaker B: He couldn't have it. He had to get one more in there. Yeah, I like that you, I like the, the one you added there because that's something that has been really helpful to my prayer life is understanding that a lot of times you got to learn. I won't say you got to learn how to pray, but as you mature, you, you start to realize you weren't exactly praying as righteously as you should have been. [01:17:35] Speaker C: And one of the ways like Daniel. Yeah, it's effective. [01:17:40] Speaker B: Yeah. And I've been doing that too with Proverbs 3, 5 and 6. Is that rather than just reciting it, that's great for memorization, but you can pray it back too. There's a lot of times you can pray that back. [01:17:51] Speaker C: God absolutely loves when you pray his word back to him. I mean, what better thing to pray in than something that's inspired and narrative given by him. [01:17:59] Speaker B: Yeah, he gave us Plenty of tips on how to pray and plenty of. If you dive into the word enough, you see a lot of examples of the correct way to communicate. Oh, yeah, sure. [01:18:13] Speaker C: That's it. [01:18:14] Speaker B: All right. [01:18:15] Speaker C: You can know his heart. I promise. [01:18:16] Speaker B: You think we got enough for one more show? Maybe. [01:18:21] Speaker C: Yep. [01:18:21] Speaker A: Yep. [01:18:22] Speaker C: Put the lid on it, Brandon. [01:18:23] Speaker B: Thanks again. Always a pleasure. Join us, man. [01:18:26] Speaker C: Y' all. [01:18:30] Speaker A: Get closer together. [01:18:31] Speaker B: Brandon, come here, Brandon. [01:18:32] Speaker A: Like, y' all get on over there. [01:18:33] Speaker C: Hey, you getting in the. [01:18:34] Speaker B: I'm getting circle. [01:18:35] Speaker C: I got plenty of room. [01:18:37] Speaker A: There's not enough room for us. [01:18:40] Speaker C: One of the kids said you look sick. Oh, yeah? No. Who said I look sick? Casual. Did somebody say that? It must have been. I was having a bad hair day. [01:18:48] Speaker B: Yeah, it was all about the hair and stuff. Have you been. Have you been swimming up warnings? [01:18:52] Speaker C: Can't get out for it. I'll let you rent it. Look at that. [01:18:59] Speaker D: Since rent got a gift and then they put a price tag on. I know where my thighs are. This right here is from all three of us. [01:19:13] Speaker B: Right here. [01:19:14] Speaker D: But do not open it until after the show and all that. You open this on your personal time. [01:19:21] Speaker C: So, sundown, what chair did it take? What'd you blow that up with? [01:19:23] Speaker D: Is the vault compressor? [01:19:25] Speaker C: Cause that thing is huge. I know. [01:19:30] Speaker D: Everything in that old garage is the wall. [01:19:32] Speaker C: Oh, it's nice. It's nice. That's a garage. Garage. One day I'm gonna have a garage like that. You will. [01:19:38] Speaker D: Because I'd love to have a pool, too. [01:19:39] Speaker C: But I'd love to have one. Don't you get in? You just swim. [01:19:42] Speaker B: Kenny's driving. [01:19:42] Speaker C: Peanuts. [01:19:43] Speaker A: Well, I had a pool. That's no fun. [01:19:45] Speaker C: Cleaning them. No, that's. It's a lot of work. [01:19:47] Speaker A: Well, I mean, when I said pool, it was 110 gallons. [01:19:52] Speaker C: What? [01:19:52] Speaker A: 100. [01:19:53] Speaker C: 110. That's my bathtub. [01:19:55] Speaker A: No, I mean 100. 110,000. [01:19:58] Speaker C: I had to beat you. [01:19:59] Speaker A: You find. You find some crazy things in that filter. [01:20:02] Speaker C: Well, now, yours was with the campground, right? Well, I guarantee you, you found all kinds of crazy things. Money. [01:20:09] Speaker A: No money. [01:20:09] Speaker B: I don't know. [01:20:10] Speaker A: A lot of other things. [01:20:10] Speaker C: No, I bet probably can't be said on there. [01:20:13] Speaker B: Let's leave. Leave that off. [01:20:15] Speaker C: Let's keep it pg. Keep it G. At least. [01:20:18] Speaker B: Pg. Yeah. [01:20:19] Speaker A: When somebody comes up, comes out and pull. Spits water out of their mouth. [01:20:25] Speaker B: Oh. [01:20:26] Speaker A: Oh, my goodness. [01:20:27] Speaker C: I just. [01:20:28] Speaker A: Oh. [01:20:28] Speaker C: I'm telling you, that's why I wear the mask. Honestly. [01:20:31] Speaker B: Oh, boy. I mean, all that forward heels smell. [01:20:35] Speaker A: But no, tell them what's in that water. [01:20:51] Speaker C: Sam.