1 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:15,520 Happy Monday, we are back in with the ERC leftovers. 2 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:17,240 I'm Pastor Matt. Pastor Chris. 3 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:19,080 Is here as well. Here we go. 4 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:23,280 Bringing all his math problems. Get it? 5 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:26,680 It's a pun. Oh, Oh, well played. 6 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:29,240 Problems with math. Do I? 7 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:33,680 I mean, maybe, maybe you might want to explain what you mean by 8 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:36,000 that. Well, during the first service, 9 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,720 and I was, I was just here attending church yesterday 10 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:41,880 because I was supposed to be gone, supposed to be off, but I 11 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:44,480 was back a day early. So I just came with my family to 12 00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:47,640 church and wasn't working, wasn't doing, wasn't doing 13 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:51,000 songs, wasn't preaching. We just got to be a part of 14 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:51,960 church with y'all and it was great. 15 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:56,760 But during the first service, your batteries died in your 16 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:00,760 headset microphone. We'll get to that later. 17 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:02,280 That wasn't, that wasn't the math part of it. 18 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:06,520 We'll, we'll explain some of the jokes later why we're doing 19 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:10,800 that. But during the, the beginning, 20 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:13,200 you were kind of, you gave us your, your outline like you 21 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:14,520 usually do of where of where we're going. 22 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:16,200 But you only had two points this week. 23 00:01:16,320 --> 00:01:21,280 But part of your rationale was that last week you usually do 24 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:24,240 three points, like that's the classic format for a sermon. 25 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:29,640 And last week you said last week you did 5, so you did just two 26 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:33,960 this week to average it out? Did I say average or balance? 27 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,240 I don't know. I, I, I'm pretty sure you, you 28 00:01:36,320 --> 00:01:41,240 said average, average it out. And, and like, I don't know what 29 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:43,960 sort of new age math they got going in schools right now, but 30 00:01:43,960 --> 00:01:47,880 like when I was growing up, the average, the average of 2 31 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:51,240 numbers, like you got to, you got to get it to six. 32 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:53,760 If 2, the average of 2 numbers is going to be 3. 33 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:58,760 So you're, you're 5 + 2 seven and average 3 1/2 points a week. 34 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:01,200 I just, well, it got me a little distracted. 35 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:04,200 It's just like the American family, you know, the average 36 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:06,800 American family has 2 1/2 children and it's like, what? 37 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:07,920 How does that work? Perfect. 38 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:11,200 So, you know, I'm just doing American American average math. 39 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:15,240 So there you go. That's that's how I justify 40 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:17,040 that. It just, it got me distracted. 41 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:20,960 So, but that's usually what we what we do here on the Leftovers 42 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:23,160 podcast. We're just, yeah, highlighting 43 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:25,000 the distraction. So there we go. 44 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:31,200 Anyway, we got a couple segments on the show today, in addition 45 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:34,360 to reviewing the weekend message, you closed out our 46 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:37,720 maiden His Image series. We talked, we preached on 47 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:42,120 manhood and womanhood and now just being children of God, the 48 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:46,240 posture of childhood for all of us to our Heavenly Father. 49 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:48,600 So you wrapped us up real well yesterday. 50 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:50,600 Good work on that. Thank you for that. 51 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:54,720 And so we're going to get to we're going to get to that and 52 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:57,560 some more thoughts on oh, I left my notes. 53 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:00,560 Where did my Oh no, I left my question somewhere. 54 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:01,680 It's out there. I'll get it. 55 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:06,000 We have we have some listener submitted questions, follow-ups 56 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:12,400 to the message and we're going to do our top five top five 57 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:14,400 jokes. I'm going to say top five dad 58 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:18,040 jokes because they're going to be groaners, but because you 59 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:21,280 also later on in the message, in addition to your math snafu 60 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,800 later on in the message, your your batteries died in your 61 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:27,600 headset. And you said in the moment you 62 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:31,440 and I appreciated how you like you saw read a little bit. 63 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:35,440 You were like, oh, no, I need to like I need to pump the brakes. 64 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:39,720 I need to not do things while while this is being fixed. 65 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:44,320 But you said to everyone you're like I'm not just like a walking 66 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:46,240 stand up show. I don't I don't have any jokes. 67 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:48,720 I have nothing to fill this time as as JT is swapping out here. 68 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:55,360 You know, and that's the thing, part of me wanted to just like 69 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:57,920 honestly, I would, I would have been comfortable, although I 70 00:03:57,920 --> 00:03:59,280 know it wouldn't have been great. 71 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:02,200 I would have been comfortable just keep going and using using 72 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:06,080 what I call gym teacher voice which even like without trying I 73 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:08,320 think the people in the back of the room can hear me without a 74 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:09,440 microphone. You're pretty loud. 75 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:12,600 Yeah, so here we are. But then I quickly realized I 76 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:15,000 was like, Oh no, we probably shouldn't do that. 77 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:20,399 So then I just got to kill time while JT like, you know, kind of 78 00:04:20,399 --> 00:04:22,920 casually Saunders up to go get new batteries. 79 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:24,640 Yeah, yeah. It's fine. 80 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:27,080 You, you, you saved it and you saved the moment. 81 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:32,400 Well, also yesterday, just thanks for listening in and 82 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:35,720 supporting the show and just kind of, yeah, tune it in for 83 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:40,160 your goofy pastors on a Monday, decompressing after the weekend. 84 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:44,520 But it's funny to me how many of you are listening to and not not 85 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:46,040 only listening to and consuming the show. 86 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:50,280 I'm going to give a shout out to to John Owen because he stopped 87 00:04:50,280 --> 00:04:52,040 me. He stopped me at the door 88 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:54,280 yesterday. He was serving as a as a greeter 89 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:56,040 yesterday. And he stopped me at the door 90 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:58,800 after we had walked in with the kids from the van. 91 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:02,520 And he points back to the van and he says there's a socket 92 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:07,320 fill out of your van. Just like razzing me, razzing me 93 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:10,160 about our sock conversation last week and how I can't deal with 94 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:13,280 them not being in Paris. What he didn't realize, though, 95 00:05:13,280 --> 00:05:15,880 is like that's he he was he was poking fun and reference in the 96 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:19,200 podcast like John, that's AI wasn't surprised at all. 97 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:22,040 Like that's a pretty standard that could happen like that 98 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:24,560 could definitely be we get out of the van and one of the kids 99 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:26,680 just like there's a random sock on the ground. 100 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:29,600 So like I thought he was dead serious because that's like very 101 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:32,480 easily just be my life. So anyway, that's. 102 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:35,920 Pretty legit, I like that. He also brought my son Oliver. 103 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:39,520 Are we getting is there purple crush in the pop machine? 104 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:43,080 Is that happening? I I will make sure that goes in 105 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:45,800 this week, but I have to take something else that's not quite 106 00:05:45,840 --> 00:05:48,240 empty out but. I will do it. 107 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:50,720 We got to sell that on and this wasn't like a pressure thing. 108 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:52,520 I'm just letting you. There are now two different 109 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:57,480 family units that have brought Oliver a 12 pack of crush. 110 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:00,760 So, and and this was also John dropped that off. 111 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:04,080 Wow. Well, good on him, yeah. 112 00:06:04,280 --> 00:06:08,840 So anyway, Oliver's purple crush in the pop machine campaign is 113 00:06:08,840 --> 00:06:10,800 is alive and well, going successful. 114 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:13,440 Yeah, thanks. He feels feels like he has power 115 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:17,360 and influence, so that's good. Apparently he does, so that 116 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:21,400 worked out. Yeah, so anyway, crazy good 117 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:22,600 Sunday. Thanks for being a part of the 118 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:25,680 community and jumping in on the the podcast The Leftovers. 119 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:30,120 Here we're going to jump into some dad jokes we each have, we 120 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:31,920 each have 5 that we're going to run down. 121 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:35,240 So we kept them, we kept them clean, kept them, kept them 122 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:37,480 appropriate as we do on the show, So. 123 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:41,200 And here's the thing, maybe maybe I can actually remember 124 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:43,400 some of these. So that way the next time 125 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:46,600 something goes sideways and I have to wait and fill time, I 126 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:50,360 can actually like, have some material available that will 127 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:54,240 just make people either really happy or just groan in their 128 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:56,120 seats, I'm not sure which. That's what we're going for. 129 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:58,360 We're trying to give you give you some material for the next 130 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:01,120 time the batteries die. So here we go. 131 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:02,760 All right, Why don't you? Why don't you start us off? 132 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:06,520 Sweet. Well, friend, I actually told my 133 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:08,520 doctor I broke my arm in two places. 134 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,240 What did he say? He said stop going to those 135 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:15,600 places, Of course. That's what he told me. 136 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:21,520 Of course, of course. All right, my, my #5 why did the 137 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:24,320 old man fall down the well? I don't, I don't know. 138 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:26,080 Because he couldn't see that well. 139 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:28,840 Really. You don't say? 140 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:33,120 All right, all right, touché. Here's my next one. 141 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:38,120 I made a belt out of watches recently, but it turned out to 142 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:41,760 be a waste of time. I love that one. 143 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:45,240 That one's so good. I love that one so much so bad. 144 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:50,720 All right, I'm reading a book on anti gravity. 145 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:54,080 It's impossible to put down. Oh, come on. 146 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:55,520 Come on, man. Come. 147 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:00,080 On OK these are so bad. I like that one a lot. 148 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:05,040 OK, well my wife told me to stop impersonating a Flamingo. 149 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:08,960 Did you? Did I stop? 150 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:12,920 Why are you? Impersonating I'm. 151 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:16,680 Sorry, ultimately I just ultimately I just had to put my 152 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:23,280 foot down. Yes, yes. 153 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:27,480 OK, well I have one about my wife too. 154 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:29,160 Not really my wife, but it's a wife joke. 155 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:32,760 I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. 156 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:36,400 She looked surprised. Yes. 157 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:41,960 OK, my wife does not draw. But that might win the day I 158 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:43,080 love. That that's your favorite? 159 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:46,040 I love that one of all the things we've said so far, I 160 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:47,680 actually love that one. All right, all. 161 00:08:47,680 --> 00:08:51,000 Right, we've got two more. OK, well, what's a skeleton's 162 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,520 least favorite room? I don't know. 163 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:58,280 The living room. I wanted to say the closet. 164 00:08:58,280 --> 00:08:59,920 Like what? Because you keep skeletons in 165 00:08:59,920 --> 00:09:01,760 the closet and they don't like it, but there's nothing. 166 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:04,320 It's not the living room. That makes a lot more sense. 167 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:06,320 They'd be very uncomfortable in the living room. 168 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:11,760 There we go. All right, why can't you hear a 169 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:15,080 pterodactyl go to the bathroom? What? 170 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:22,640 Because the P is silent. That's a you made a pee joke 171 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:23,760 you. Made a dinosaur joke. 172 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:26,360 You made a dinosaur pee joke. I didn't know that exactly. 173 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:28,160 All the five year old boys are very pleased right now. 174 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:31,600 There you go joke for them. I'm. 175 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:33,640 Pleased by that one. All right, so there you go. 176 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:36,320 OK, my last one is a biblical one. 177 00:09:36,560 --> 00:09:39,120 Oh, OK. Why couldn't Jonah trust the 178 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:40,200 ocean? Why? 179 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:42,800 Because he knew there was something fishy about. 180 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:50,400 It OK feel like you could know that without being eaten by a 181 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:52,280 whale, but that's fine. Probably. 182 00:09:52,680 --> 00:09:55,360 All right, last one. And I've heard this one so many 183 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:57,520 times in my life and it gets me every time. 184 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:01,960 But what's brown and sticky? Oh girl, what? 185 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:03,040 A stick. Duh. 186 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:11,400 Sticky OK, OK, you clearly had my brain going in a different 187 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:12,800 direction. On that one, that's what that 188 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:16,600 one does yeah, so good if you need any yeah, if you need any 189 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:20,240 little zinger one liner funny jokes, there's there's 10 for 190 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:22,800 you. There's a 10 pack only on the 191 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:26,520 ERC leftovers. We are creating high quality 192 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:28,600 content all of the time. So good. 193 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:35,280 Oh my goodness. We also have a listener 194 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:40,680 submitted set of questions directly in response to your 195 00:10:40,680 --> 00:10:42,040 message yesterday. Now it's not. 196 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:44,360 Oh, it's not about the part of the message that you might 197 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:46,560 think. OK, but where are we going? 198 00:10:46,560 --> 00:10:49,880 The questions are about your admission of of how much you 199 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:53,240 love your snooze alarm and how much you overslept yesterday. 200 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:54,880 The king of the snooze button line. 201 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:57,240 Yes, Yeah, yeah, yeah. 42 minutes I think. 202 00:10:57,240 --> 00:10:58,880 Yeah, it was. It was crazy. 203 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:02,600 I mean, on a Sunday, on other days of the week that might be 204 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:05,400 normal ish for me, but on a Sunday that's pretty rare. 205 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:08,760 So I really missed it. But it was all fine. 206 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:10,400 It was OK. This is kind of going to be a 207 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:12,880 combination of listeners, submitted questions and and 208 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:14,560 adulting with Pastor Matt. We're not going to play the 209 00:11:14,560 --> 00:11:19,200 music, but like I have thoughts about your snooze alarm habits 210 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:20,240 so. We're not going to play the 211 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:23,160 music. I love the adulting with Pastor 212 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:24,720 Matt. It's like not a full-fledged 213 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:26,440 adulting though. I don't, I don't have a huge 214 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:28,360 rant. I just, it's more of a personal, 215 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:30,520 I just need you to get your life together sort of thing. 216 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:36,200 Believe me, you won't be the first person who's tried and 217 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:41,360 failed. So in response to your setting 218 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:45,560 42 minutes worth of snooze alarms, this this listener 219 00:11:45,560 --> 00:11:49,000 asked, Do you set an alarm? Indeed I do. 220 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,840 OK, so like walk me through that on a Sunday morning you're 221 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:53,760 preaching. Do you have a routine? 222 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:56,200 What is when do you get to church? 223 00:11:56,200 --> 00:12:00,560 So what time is the alarm set? OK, so getting to church varies 224 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:04,960 between anywhere from 6:00 AM all the way up to 7:00 AM? 225 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:07,360 Even on a preaching Sunday. Even on a preaching Sunday. 226 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:10,720 Now, if I show up at 7:00 AM on a preaching Sunday, it means I 227 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:14,840 did in fact do something wrong prior to arrival. 228 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:16,960 Because ideally. Something went wrong. 229 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:19,600 Something went wrong, like hitting the snooze button a 230 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:22,520 bunch of times and over sleeping by 42 minutes. 231 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:25,600 That's what went wrong yesterday and I think I did arrive at like 232 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:29,280 I don't know if it's 659 or 7 on the dot yesterday. 233 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:32,280 So that's a little late for me on a preaching Sunday. 234 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:34,920 On a normal Sunday that's perfectly or on a non preaching 235 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:38,360 Sunday that's perfectly fine. But preaching Sundays, I like to 236 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:39,720 have a little bit more prep time. 237 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:43,400 So you were on, you were on track relative to when your 238 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:45,000 alarm was set. You were on track for about a 239 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:49,040 6:18 arrival yesterday morning. What time is the alarm set then? 240 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:53,280 Typically, like on Sundays, it's more like, I don't know, I, I 241 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:57,200 kind of feel that out between 5:30 and 5:45 somewhere in 242 00:12:57,200 --> 00:12:59,320 there. Again, I'm really working this 243 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:01,440 down to the absolute last moment. 244 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:04,200 All right, further question because I have more questions 245 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:07,720 actually on this. Just knowing your non morning 246 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:12,000 person proclivities, do you set an alarm? 247 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:14,960 What days of the week do you set an alarm? 248 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:19,840 Only the days I have to it's a. Very diplomatic answer. 249 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:21,680 Sir. Excuse me. 250 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:25,800 So I'll name the days that I absolutely have to Sundays, 251 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:28,160 obviously. Mondays we have staff meeting. 252 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:31,360 Elder board meetings on Saturdays. 253 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:33,720 Oh my God. Once a month, that's your worst 254 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:35,240 day, right? 7:00 AM. 255 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:40,840 That hurts my soul so badly to set that early of an alarm on a 256 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:42,000 Saturday. Like it. 257 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,960 It breaks me every time. There's at least half the people 258 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:46,720 listening there. Like that's, that's not early. 259 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:50,040 I know, I know. Well, the two kinds of people 260 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:52,720 thing right and well, but here's the thing. 261 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:54,240 Maybe it's easier if I say it this way. 262 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:58,400 Like on Wednesdays, I basically work what I would call like a 263 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:01,720 second shift. So I'll come in around noon 264 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,920 knowing that I'm going to be in the building till closer to 9:00 265 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:06,800 PM Sure, right. OK, great. 266 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:09,640 I don't set an alarm on Wednesdays. 267 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:11,000 Sure. Because I. 268 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:13,720 Will wake up. Yeah, I'm not sleeping till 269 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:15,880 noon. Come on, friends, that's not 270 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:17,680 happening. So, you know. 271 00:14:17,680 --> 00:14:20,760 But yeah, typically Saturdays, Wednesdays, there's no alarm. 272 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:26,120 Why would there be an alarm? An alarm is to rouse me to a 273 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:29,920 waking state, which I don't want to be if I don't have to be. 274 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:32,280 OK. There we are. 275 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:36,000 So OK, you do set an alarm. That was the answer to the 276 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:39,320 three-part question. So you do you do set an alarm on 277 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:44,840 select days when you need to? OK, so if so, if the answer is 278 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:48,480 yes, should an adult use this news? 279 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:50,840 Very pointed. I'm reading this verbatim. 280 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:53,560 I didn't edit this. Oh my God. 281 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:56,080 The question is, should an adult use this news? 282 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:57,680 And I do have a bit of a follow up on that. 283 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:00,440 I I feel like the adult part is interesting. 284 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:04,680 Is a child, I guess children use alarms sometimes. 285 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:06,840 Like what? I mean teenage phase. 286 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:09,520 Do they, they're acting like an adult, but they're still a 287 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:10,960 child. So I yeah, OK. 288 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,040 Should a person? I feel like it should be Should 289 00:15:13,040 --> 00:15:15,600 someone use this news? Let me push back on this a 290 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:18,240 little bit. Like the snooze button and 291 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:22,120 shouldn't even be used at all. I mean, come on, man. 292 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:26,240 Sometimes I'm just, I'm just being very honest here. 293 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:31,880 Sometimes that thing hits and I'm like, if I attempt to become 294 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:35,480 a human and awake human right now, it is going to go very 295 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:37,320 badly for me and for everybody else. 296 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:42,120 I need like a few more minutes, like I need to wake up to the 297 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:44,760 idea of waking up. Do you know what I mean? 298 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:47,520 I don't know if that makes any sense to you, but that's how I 299 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:49,560 operate and how I work that through. 300 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:51,960 I hear what you're saying. I would push back with a little 301 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:55,760 bit of like what I would say is reality. 302 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:01,240 Chris, you are not living in. Reality you're not snoozing is 303 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:04,280 like one of the most unhealthy things you can do for your 304 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:08,320 psychological and biological rhythms throughout the day. 305 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:12,600 Once you're but what, because you don't really go back to 306 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:15,320 sleep like you don't really fully go back to sleep and you 307 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:19,160 start immediately messing with circadian rhythms and and things 308 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:21,480 like that. So I'm just saying what's what's 309 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:24,320 healthier? And yes, you might justify it 310 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:27,440 with AI need to wake up to the idea of waking up. 311 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:31,400 But what would be better is say you say you set your alarm at 312 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:36,080 5:30 and you didn't actually get up until 615. 313 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:41,480 Biologically, psychologically it it would have been better for 314 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:43,960 you to just set one alarm at 6:15 and actually get up. 315 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:46,760 Oh wow. Like that's significantly 316 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:51,000 measurable that yes. I had no idea, I just learned 317 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,320 something new. To using is not a healthy habit 318 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:56,800 so that would like I hear your rebuttal that it helps you ease 319 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:59,880 into waking up, but you've clearly established is not 320 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:03,520 something that you want to do or be be a part of doing. 321 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:10,000 But that would be that would be my critique of I would say no, 322 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:13,560 an adult should not use the snooze to to this question. 323 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:17,599 You should it would be better to plan your absolute worst case 324 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:20,920 like if that that would be what I do push if you are planning 325 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:25,280 when you're setting your alarm based on yeah, but I'm going to 326 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:30,480 snooze and be in a relatively comatose state for 45 minutes. 327 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:34,920 No, you should just, you should just skip that and put your 328 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:37,920 alarm for your drop dead moment because would you bolt awake at 329 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:40,000 6:15 like? I mean, yeah, and. 330 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,920 That's something like so. So that's the thing when, when, 331 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:46,760 when I realized what I had done, I was like, I got to go. 332 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:50,080 And so then, then like we're, we're moving quick now. 333 00:17:50,360 --> 00:17:52,240 Right. So that's what I would encourage 334 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:56,840 you just for your for set the alarm for your last minute 335 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,680 moment that will get you up and start getting some healthier 336 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:02,560 habits there. So yeah, you're well, actually. 337 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:05,840 That's actually great. I I like that I learned 338 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:07,520 something today. That that was why we didn't play 339 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:09,160 the full music. It was just the little the 340 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:10,680 little adulting nugget there for you. 341 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:14,160 So OK, follow up question about the snooze. 342 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:16,720 Oh here we go. This feels like it got personal. 343 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:23,280 Follow up question, Is hitting the snooze button considerate of 344 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:28,160 your sleeping spouse? It feels very pointed. 345 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:31,120 And again, I'm reading this. I'm reading this verbatim. 346 00:18:31,360 --> 00:18:33,440 Oh my gosh. Well, that's. 347 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:35,960 A red that's. So harsh. 348 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:38,680 That's so harsh. OK, that's fine. 349 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:40,600 Someone's looking out for your wife. 350 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:43,280 Apparently. But here's the thing. 351 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:47,240 And, and maybe she would push back on this, but she has never 352 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:52,520 once brought it up to me in our very long lives together that 353 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:55,600 that is bothersome to her. Now maybe she's just an 354 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:59,800 incredibly patient and kind person, but she has never once 355 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:03,040 brought it to my attention that hey, you know, your alarm going 356 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:06,560 off like 4 times before you actually, you know, fall out of 357 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:09,760 bed. That's not good for me. 358 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:11,880 She has never said that to me and. 359 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:13,440 And you've always been this way, so it's. 360 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:15,560 Always. Oh my gosh, I yes. 361 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:18,240 It's always been something she could have said was a problem. 362 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:21,320 Yes, well, maybe now after hearing this, she will. 363 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:23,560 She'll be like, you know what? I've been waiting to say this to 364 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:28,560 you for 25 years. Oh my gosh. 365 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:31,280 Can you admit did this and submit these questions? 366 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:37,520 That would be funny that actually I don't think she did. 367 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:39,480 You said it's not her handwriting, so we know that 368 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:41,960 it's not, but that's. But that would be really funny 369 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:44,680 if she had like. This is her roundabout way. 370 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:47,040 Someone else to write the question so you wouldn't 371 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:50,600 recognize her handwriting. She is at the connections desk. 372 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:52,520 She's right there. I wonder. 373 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:55,320 Oh my gosh, now I've got a conspiracy theory. 374 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:58,560 Wow. Yeah, so there we go. 375 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:01,760 Little Yikes. We got to turn to the word of 376 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:03,280 God here. We're just we're poking fun of 377 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:04,680 Pastor Chris this morning, I feel like. 378 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:13,400 It's OK, I don't mind. You had us in John chapter 8 and 379 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:19,240 one for there's plenty of passages on childhood and 380 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:22,040 children of God. These are the these are the two 381 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:28,360 that you focused on and you came right out of the gate with the 382 00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:32,720 passage from John 8 and your your, one of your first points 383 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:36,760 was that Jesus says there are only two spiritual families. 384 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:40,040 You are either children of God or children of the devil. 385 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:44,760 Yeah, and if you think about this logically, find elsewhere 386 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:47,160 where Jesus says I am, the way, the truth and the life. 387 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:49,200 No one comes to the Father except through me. 388 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:53,240 Therefore there is no middle ground between heaven and hell. 389 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:56,760 Again, I think I maybe mentioned it yesterday. 390 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:01,400 It's not as though if we die and where we weren't quote UN quote 391 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:04,360 bad people, but we also weren't believers in Jesus, that we just 392 00:21:04,360 --> 00:21:07,280 kind of float in this weird middle ground. 393 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:09,120 That's that's not a thing that happens. 394 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:12,560 And so therefore there are only two spiritual families. 395 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:17,280 And it's interesting in this text that in the midst of people 396 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:21,240 who had been kind of following him or believing in him, the 397 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:23,720 conversation goes in this direction. 398 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:26,520 And he just, he just names their heart. 399 00:21:27,120 --> 00:21:30,040 Because, you know, as we learned throughout the New Testament, 400 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:33,440 some people were following Jesus just because, for lack of a 401 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:35,040 better phrase, they wanted to see the show. 402 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:38,400 They wanted to see the next miracle or they wanted to be fed 403 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:40,480 or whatever, you know, physically fed. 404 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:44,680 And so, you know, Jesus, he has certain breaking points with 405 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:47,680 groups of people where he's just, he's going to name their 406 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:52,000 heart position. And, you know, some people hear 407 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:56,720 that kind of law and they'll repent and they they can, they 408 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:59,200 can still have that relationship with Jesus. 409 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:01,360 Other people, they get highly defensive. 410 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:05,080 And you know, Jesus has clearly pushed a button on where they're 411 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:09,360 placing their identity. And certainly this is one of 412 00:22:09,360 --> 00:22:11,160 those things. And so it was just a really 413 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:13,800 interesting moment to to dive into. 414 00:22:14,360 --> 00:22:19,360 Yeah, there's not really an allowable like I'll get around 415 00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:22,440 to it. When it comes to knowing the 416 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:27,080 truth about Jesus, like you, you either you either know and have 417 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:31,280 heard what Jesus has done for you and you've and you've 418 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:34,920 accepted it and living your life in such a way that is a response 419 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:40,000 to that, or you've heard this truth and you've rejected it. 420 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:41,880 There there isn't. And it can be. 421 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:46,040 So it can also be that instantaneous that there there 422 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:50,440 isn't this waiting period. It's not, it's not like you're 423 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,160 sending in your Christian application and we'll get back 424 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:57,920 to you in three to five business days on whether like no, you can 425 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:02,280 respond to the good news of, of what Jesus has done for you in 426 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:07,520 that instant and be on team Jesus, be child of God in that 427 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:11,280 moment. But up to and until the point 428 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:15,720 that you are, you're not you're you're, you're on, you're on the 429 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:19,280 other team. You're, you're child, that child 430 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:22,360 of the devil, child of the father of, of lies. 431 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:27,560 And you, you said it, you said it less harshly than I would 432 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:31,920 have yesterday, But but but like it was, it was still, it was 433 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:34,240 still pointed. And I think the more, the more I 434 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,680 thought about it, it actually made me think about Matthew 5 435 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:40,600 where Jesus talks about love your enemies and pray for those 436 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:44,960 who persecute you, those of us who are children of God. 437 00:23:45,120 --> 00:23:49,880 I'm not saying that we should look upon with hostility those 438 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:54,960 that are not children of God. But when it comes, if we're 439 00:23:54,960 --> 00:24:00,960 following this line of logic, they are an enemy like the the 440 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,320 Father God and the devil are enemies. 441 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:07,160 So thereby their, their children, like again, there's, 442 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:11,920 there's not this like they're, they're fine that like they're, 443 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:16,440 they're OK. No, like we want, we want them 444 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:18,160 to be on team Jesus. So what? 445 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,040 So where does that, that that should give us a sense of 446 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:25,640 urgency of like, OK, if, if God isn't their father, Well, we, I 447 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:28,320 want you to know God is your father, like, and, and I and I 448 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:31,880 want that to happen today because right now the devil is 449 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:35,280 your father and we and we want to fix that, but it should also, 450 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:41,000 I think, give us I, I also don't think we take it that seriously. 451 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:46,080 The influence is either on ourselves or may or maybe on our 452 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:50,200 children or our family or our friends that aren't of God. 453 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:53,440 Because the other part of this passage is it's, it's either 454 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:58,840 from God or it's from the devil. There's not this middle neutral 455 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:03,600 ground that you're not being pulled one way or the other. 456 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:07,160 And that goes for the everything we can encounter in this life. 457 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,720 It's either pulling you closer to God or pulling you away from 458 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:13,120 God. There's not just like you're in 459 00:25:13,120 --> 00:25:17,200 in a holding pattern here. So I, I, it made me think about 460 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:20,360 just like with the urgency again, not that not that we 461 00:25:20,360 --> 00:25:23,360 should be hostile of people, but maybe the guardedness that we 462 00:25:23,360 --> 00:25:27,640 should have of the influence of people on our lives, people who 463 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:32,360 are not children of God. Again, I'm not saying we treat 464 00:25:32,360 --> 00:25:38,160 them as less than or that that we openly fight against them or 465 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:42,480 treat them as enemies, but I do think we should, I mean, have, 466 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:45,120 yeah, have a little more guardedness about that and, and 467 00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:48,280 prioritize kind of like you talked about last week. 468 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:49,960 Well, who is my mother and brother and my sister? 469 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,440 Well, it's, it's those that it's those that have faith in God 470 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,640 that that Jesus talked about. This is this is our family first 471 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:58,560 based on relationship with God. So. 472 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:04,840 Well, you're correct. In response to some of that, I 473 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:08,040 would have to say, you know, the Sermon on the Mount, for 474 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,720 example. What does Jesus say to do to 475 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,240 your enemies? So that's. 476 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:17,080 True love your enemies. Pray for those who persecute. 477 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:18,720 You, yeah, love your enemies. Pray for those. 478 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:23,440 So in the sense that, yes, is the devil, is Satan an enemy to 479 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:24,480 God? Absolutely. 480 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:28,120 Because he's trying to tear down what he's created, primarily US, 481 00:26:28,120 --> 00:26:30,840 made in his image. He is trying to tear us down and 482 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:35,000 to draw us into or rather away from a relationship with God. 483 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:40,960 Now, as we talk about that, then how then do we treat our quote 484 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:44,160 UN quote enemies? Well, we're to love them, pray 485 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:47,440 for them. And so it's not so much an US 486 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:51,400 versus them. It's us and let's bring them in 487 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:55,040 US and bring them in. And so as we've even talked 488 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,800 about around this building now for almost a year, who's your 489 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:01,200 one more? Well, you can't have your one 490 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:03,400 more isn't somebody who's already a Christian. 491 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,520 You're one more is somebody who doesn't yet know Christ. 492 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:10,120 Who can you bring into the fold? Who can you be disciple and who 493 00:27:10,120 --> 00:27:14,320 can you be drawing to that relationship with the Father? 494 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:20,800 Now all this to say too, I understand because I have been 495 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,840 in this world 45 years and for 25 of those I wasn't a 496 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:27,080 Christian. So I understand that to a high 497 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:33,120 degree how grading this is. I do like how seemingly 498 00:27:33,120 --> 00:27:37,240 unnuanced it seems because again, that kind of leading out 499 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:38,840 with the there's two kinds of people. 500 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,240 Again, some of that just doesn't work. 501 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,520 But Jesus says, I don't care if you think this works. 502 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:49,520 This is the way it is. And again, I understand how 503 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:54,200 grading that is. And in a, in a former, you know, 504 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:58,920 in a, in a previous life before I was in a Christian, I would 505 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:03,440 have felt extremely like that would have, that would have 506 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:07,480 really hit me in the face. And I would have had one of two 507 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,040 options. I would have either had to have 508 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:12,880 struggled through thinking about that as a potential truth, or I 509 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:15,520 would have just outright rejected it and said, this is, 510 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:20,360 this is baloney there. There has to be if, if God is 511 00:28:20,360 --> 00:28:24,040 all loving again, not knowing him, if God is perfectly loving, 512 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,760 he'll know that I'm a pretty decent person and that will be 513 00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:28,880 fine, right? I've tried. 514 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,800 I'm a pretty decent person. It's going to be fine because I 515 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:33,920 tried and I'm not as bad as so and so. 516 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:38,320 So I can absolutely see from a non Christian perspective how 517 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:42,880 Jesus's words here, how his, I said it, capital T truth, man, 518 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:46,360 that that's going to hit hard. And you can either accept that 519 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:48,840 or reject that at any given point. 520 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:53,480 Yeah. So let's jump into the Scripture 521 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:54,440 here. John 8. 522 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:57,280 They answered him. I was starting at verse 39. 523 00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:59,040 They answered him, Abraham is our father. 524 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,520 And Jesus said to them, if you were Abraham's children, you 525 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:03,160 would be doing the works Abraham did. 526 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,000 But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth 527 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:09,160 that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did. 528 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:11,960 You are doing the works your father did. 529 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:16,120 They said to him, we are not born of sexual immorality with 530 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:19,280 one father, even God. Then Jesus said to them, if God 531 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:23,520 were your Father, you would love me for I came from God and I am 532 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:25,520 here. I came out of my own accord, but 533 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:29,920 he sent me this one. One of one of your early points 534 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:36,520 to that the loving Jesus as the first Test that also struck me 535 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:39,000 in the moment and thinking about it yesterday morning and and 536 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:43,400 since then today like that is our biggest downfall. 537 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:48,840 The things we choose to love more than Jesus or the things 538 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:54,360 that we choose or decide that we think we can bear better than 539 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:58,200 Jesus can. We don't have the humility to 540 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:02,880 express our need or even accept the gift right? 541 00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:07,080 And and that, and that's what he that's what he's at whatever 542 00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:09,920 point here, you've put something before God. 543 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,720 You're not submitting to the words that I'm saying. 544 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:16,720 You're saying you love God, but you can't do both those things. 545 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:20,400 I think it's so funny how often in Scripture, Jesus, just like 546 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,600 he points out how they've answered their with their own 547 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,480 logic. Well, like you said, you say you 548 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:31,760 love God, but God standing right in front of you and you don't 549 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,160 love him. You're not you're not loving 550 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:36,320 him. So what are you doing? 551 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:39,560 And that's so sad. I, I think about that those 552 00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:44,360 people who got to meet Jesus in person, who saw miracles, who 553 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,600 heard him teach and they just look at him dead in the face and 554 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:51,520 say, Nope, not you. And that's, I don't know, I 555 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:54,760 don't know how, I don't know how you deal with that, you know, 556 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,080 and, and I think that's, that's pretty rough. 557 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,360 You would like to think, and I think most modern people would 558 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:03,160 like to think, and we talked about this. 559 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,720 Well, I would believe if God just showed up and told me who 560 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:07,880 he was. Well, he did do that. 561 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:12,600 And there's still hundreds, if not maybe thousands of people 562 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:16,360 who heard him, saw him and just said, Nope, not me, not for me. 563 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:18,120 I've got a different path I want to go. 564 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:21,040 And he doesn't sound like he's preaching the path that I want 565 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:24,440 to walk down. And that's wildly unfortunate, 566 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:26,240 but that's where that that truth. 567 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:29,840 Can we bear his word? Do I? 568 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,440 And I think I I don't know if I said it during both services, 569 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:36,920 but the Bible reads us. The Bible reads us. 570 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:37,920 Yeah. We think we're reading the 571 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:39,840 Bible, but God is reading us when? 572 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,320 When we're in his word. And are we allowing the Bible to 573 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:47,440 read us and to examine us and to ask us questions about our lives 574 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,680 and our priorities? Because as much as we want to 575 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,120 learn and all that kind of stuff, are you letting the Bible 576 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:53,600 read you? Yeah. 577 00:31:55,200 --> 00:32:01,760 That's really good in that you talked about bearing God's word. 578 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,920 Where do you find it hardest to let Scripture confront you? 579 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:08,320 Was one of your one of your discussion questions? 580 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:15,960 I think that's a really good thing to to reflect and and just 581 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,880 consider, especially in our in our in our own lives. 582 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:25,400 We don't like being confronted by truth that exposes our 583 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:30,240 weakness, right? Nobody does, even even the play 584 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:35,720 the playful jab about your rounding error of averages like 585 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:37,920 or. Hitting the snooze button or. 586 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,440 Right. It's that's we we don't we don't 587 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:45,720 like that we don't we don't like the truth exposing weakness, but 588 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:50,040 it is an important part of the Christian walk to to bear God's 589 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:54,000 word as Jesus talks about here. But ultimately understanding 590 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:58,760 that it's that he's the perfect fulfillment of the law. 591 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:02,720 The things that point out our weakness is is why he came to 592 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:07,800 save why he came to fulfill those things in our lives. 593 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:14,240 So, yeah, just want to encourage you all in that, that being 594 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:18,880 confronted by truth, by guilt, whether it's in your reading of 595 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:23,880 God's Word or from a message on Sunday morning, that's not, and 596 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,560 it shouldn't be an immediate turn. 597 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:28,800 I know it doesn't feel good, but it shouldn't be like an 598 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:33,120 immediate closed door to things. God's Word is there to convict 599 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:34,640 and teach and train up in righteousness. 600 00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:38,920 And Proverbs talks often about, you know, this wisdom literature 601 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:42,120 talks often about being able to receive critique. 602 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,880 You know, the the wisest people in the world's are the constant 603 00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:49,120 learners who don't become immediately defensive when 604 00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:53,040 confronted about something. Because quite frankly, if there 605 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:58,240 is in fact good solid biblical reason to be doing XYZ thing or 606 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:01,600 not doing XYZ thing, well, then you'll be able to say that. 607 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,720 And then you can actually correct your brother or sister 608 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:10,639 who brought the criticism. And if you can't justify that in 609 00:34:10,639 --> 00:34:14,440 a meaningful way, well, man, now you have an opportunity to learn 610 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:17,600 and to grow. And, and I think that's we have 611 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:21,120 to be lifetime learners because if we're, if we're not, what 612 00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:24,679 are, what are we really doing? You know, I just, I, I've always 613 00:34:24,679 --> 00:34:26,800 felt that way. Even before I was a Christian 614 00:34:27,199 --> 00:34:31,320 and I was in public education, I always believed that there were 615 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:35,800 ways and possibilities for me to get better at what I was doing 616 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,840 every single day. And, and part of that certainly 617 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:42,000 was receiving critique from trusted people. 618 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:45,880 So when my principal came in and I thought it was a big deal and 619 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:49,520 the first time he came into my classroom to observe, I went 620 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,120 back to his office thinking, man, I crushed that thing. 621 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:54,560 This guy is going to be so happy. 622 00:34:54,560 --> 00:35:02,000 He hired me and he had five pages of notes 5 and he just 623 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,880 rattled it off and I was just, I was blown away. 624 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:08,320 It actually like again, it, it hit me hard. 625 00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:10,760 I was like, maybe I shouldn't be a teacher. 626 00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:13,120 That was the first thing I went to because I knew everything he 627 00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:16,120 was saying was true. Everything, every critique he 628 00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:18,600 had about how I was running my classroom, it was true. 629 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,120 And I thought, man, maybe I shouldn't be a teacher. 630 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,400 But that's not what he was trying to get to. 631 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:26,840 He was trying to make a version of Chris Hartley as a public 632 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:30,440 educator that he could see. In other words, think about an 633 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,360 artist who sees a rough block of stone. 634 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,440 They can see something special inside, but it's going to have 635 00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:37,600 to be shaped. It's going to have to be 636 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:40,280 chiseled down. Or as Jesus would talk about 637 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:43,840 sometimes we've got a, oh, what's the word I'm thinking of? 638 00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:46,640 We've got to cut back the Bush a little bit so it can actually 639 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:47,800 grow better. Right. 640 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:48,520 Trim. Prune. 641 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:51,960 Yeah, we've got a prune and that principle, he was critiquing me. 642 00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:55,160 He was pruning me so that I could become what he knew I 643 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,440 could be. And in the same way, as we 644 00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,480 interact with other Christians, as we interact with God's Word, 645 00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:03,760 God's word, and those well meaning Christians, when they 646 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:08,720 give us something, criticism or whatever, I believe that is an 647 00:36:08,720 --> 00:36:12,080 opportunity to be pruned and to grow better than what you were 648 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:14,960 before. Now every person who critiques 649 00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:16,920 you, is that something you have to take on? 650 00:36:17,240 --> 00:36:20,240 No, because not every person who critiques you has the right end 651 00:36:20,240 --> 00:36:23,360 in mind. So then there's some wisdom in 652 00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:28,120 weighing out, do I receive this critique or do I reject it? 653 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:33,000 And so any sense of rejection ought not to come from our 654 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,320 pride. It ought to come from. 655 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:37,840 Does this line up with where God is taking me? 656 00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:39,480 Right. And that's why it's important 657 00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:42,320 that we go through this process that you just described. 658 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:46,120 It's a great metaphor analogy for how it worked in your, in 659 00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:49,240 your professional life. But that principle had this 660 00:36:49,240 --> 00:36:53,760 standard of like, if, if you did this, if you corrected this, if 661 00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:57,960 you refined this, this is how it's going to go better for you. 662 00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:00,760 That's God's word in, in our lives. 663 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,840 And your posture, what I love about that story is you had a 664 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:07,280 posture of humility. You you had a you had a posture 665 00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,480 of openness to correction in that. 666 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:13,760 And that's essentially you talked about Keller's quote. 667 00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:15,680 The gospel is not primarily something you do. 668 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,640 It's something you receive paired with Augustine's 669 00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:21,080 reflection of Christ is received by the humble. 670 00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:27,880 We have to have that posture. We have to hold to that I am, I 671 00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:32,720 am not enough and it's OK and that that hits some of you. 672 00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:36,240 You don't like you don't like saying those words either that I 673 00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:37,760 am not enough. You like to think that you're 674 00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:39,360 enough. I like to think that I'm enough. 675 00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:45,400 There's a lot of freedom in the realization that I am not 676 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:48,000 enough. But Christ has done it all that 677 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:51,720 there. There's a lot of relief in that 678 00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:53,680 so. You know, I think it's 679 00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:57,280 interesting that you and I, we, we have these careers called 680 00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:59,800 ministry. You know, I think somebody else 681 00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:02,080 has once said you're a professional Christian, which I 682 00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,480 actually kind of find amusing, but OK. 683 00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:09,880 But anyway, you know, yes, I get, we get to teach and 684 00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:14,440 proclaim a lot, but man, if I ever think I'm the teacher and 685 00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:18,640 the Bible is not the teacher, I'm the one receiving from God's 686 00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:21,680 Word and then just kind of disseminating this information 687 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:24,200 out. But I'm being taught by God's 688 00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:27,560 word every single day. I am not the teacher. 689 00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:31,440 I am the one who just parses out and gives the relevant 690 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:34,480 information. But the Bible, God is the 691 00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:37,120 teacher, not me. So I need to be able to receive 692 00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,160 that critique all the time. Yeah. 693 00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:43,640 And it's ironic that we need to as preachers, teachers, we need 694 00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:48,200 to faithfully hold to that humble posture that I'm not, I'm 695 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:51,240 not adding to God's word. God's word isn't all of a sudden 696 00:38:51,240 --> 00:38:56,960 made powerful because of my interpretation or my application 697 00:38:56,960 --> 00:39:01,800 to your life or this real life story analogy that I worked at. 698 00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:06,280 No, like God's word and truth is enough to work in and through 699 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:09,160 you to work redemption and reconciliation in the in the 700 00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:14,280 darkest fissures of your life and and to do that on its own. 701 00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,600 But we all need we need to constantly be in a submission to 702 00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:21,240 that, that that's if that's what that capital T truth says. 703 00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:26,120 If it says jump, I say how hot, like that's awesome. 704 00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:30,120 That's that's what the truth of God has to be. 705 00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:32,520 And it's so I really think that posture of humility was really 706 00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:35,440 what was on my mind this week too, because we just get, we get 707 00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:42,840 caught up in, in the things we make, we make excuse and we 708 00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:46,920 don't receive grace humbly. And that's and that makes it 709 00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:50,720 difficult, which is kind of your final point on belief that we 710 00:39:50,720 --> 00:39:52,760 tend to overcomplicate belief. Oh, big time. 711 00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,280 It drives me crazy. It's a it's a simple process in 712 00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:59,280 the Bible, he who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved, 713 00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:05,480 right? So why, why do we hold so 714 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:06,560 tightly to that? Why? 715 00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:09,160 Why do we, why do we overcomplicate? 716 00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:11,640 I think, I think sometimes we do think there is like. 717 00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:15,840 A a holding period, a waiting period, a review period of where 718 00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:20,200 we're good enough to have received the gift. 719 00:40:20,240 --> 00:40:22,760 And it's not it's, it's literally an instantaneous 720 00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:24,560 thing. Or can be right? 721 00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:28,120 Well, and here's the thing. We we teach our we teach our 722 00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:30,880 students, particularly in confirmation. 723 00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:34,320 I teach them and I hope they remember that justification. 724 00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:36,880 In other words, just as if I'd never sinned. 725 00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:39,480 So now I am righteous before the sight of God. 726 00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:44,640 That is a instantaneous and it's B either one or the other. 727 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:46,680 Again, getting down to that two things. 728 00:40:46,720 --> 00:40:50,400 I am either justified or I'm not. 729 00:40:50,720 --> 00:40:54,360 There's no like, well, I'm working towards no, you were 730 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:58,520 either justified by the blood of Jesus Christ because you believe 731 00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:02,320 or you are not. There's no in between. 732 00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:07,160 And and I love the instantaneous nature of it because we have 733 00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:11,640 again, we draw on him often, but this unnamed thief on the cross, 734 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:18,000 instantaneous salvation. He had moments to live, begged 735 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:21,280 Christ, believed in Christ for his salvation, done 736 00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:25,200 instantaneous and fully justified, no in between. 737 00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:29,120 And we don't have any account of the other person on the other 738 00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:34,520 side of the cross from Jesus receiving that also permanent, 739 00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:37,440 instantaneous, you know it. It's all there. 740 00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:40,400 And I just don't know why we make that so complicated. 741 00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:45,320 It drives me crazy. And that's, and that's why I 742 00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:47,680 know it feels like an unnatural posture sometimes a posture of 743 00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:50,080 dependence. But as children of God, that is 744 00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:53,520 our posture to him. We we sung the song the past 745 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,360 couple weeks. I'm the branch, you are the 746 00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:58,200 vine. Like that's our that's our 747 00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:02,280 source of strength. Our source of direction is is 748 00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:07,440 God is his word and and Jesus as our advocate in that so. 749 00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:10,200 By the way, I did not look at the setlist. 750 00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:12,840 I typically do, but I did not look at the setlist before I 751 00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:16,760 went up on stage yesterday. And I, I continuously am just 752 00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:21,520 blown away by the response worship that we get to do after 753 00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:25,520 hearing God's word. And that was just such a perfect 754 00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:28,600 way to really kind of wrap that up. 755 00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:33,000 And and it was so even even for me personally like to be able to 756 00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:36,080 sing to the Lord. I depend on you. 757 00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:42,400 That was that was amazing for me and I hope that moment and being 758 00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:45,600 able to share those words together with God's community 759 00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:47,440 was also powerful for other people. 760 00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:50,120 I suspect it was. Yeah, I think so and that so 761 00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:53,520 that song abide that we closed with I think has just yeah, has 762 00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:58,160 reflected the the season that we're in as a body of believers 763 00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:01,320 and is also a a declaration we can share in. 764 00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:05,720 I I just think yeah, our that song has our people and their 765 00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:08,880 and their testimony all over it. So happy to happy to share that 766 00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:10,680 with you all and share in worship with that. 767 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,960 OK, before we get out of here, do you have do you have a nice 768 00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:20,280 clean cut summation for not as a professional Christian, but as a 769 00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:22,240 as a mere mortal? Do you? 770 00:43:22,240 --> 00:43:26,400 Do you have a summary of the sermon for Mere Mortal Monday? 771 00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:31,600 Well, if we could do it anyway, let's do it this way. 772 00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:35,120 Jesus teaches that there are only two kinds of family, those 773 00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:37,320 who belong to the family of God and those who belong to the 774 00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:41,640 family of devil. That creates a spiritual DNA. 775 00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:45,360 And how do you test that? Well, do you love Jesus? 776 00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:48,720 Do you bear His word? Do you submit to God's desires? 777 00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:52,640 And do you stand in the truth? Now, as we receive and believe 778 00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:57,600 Jesus, God then comes in through the power of Jesus Christ 779 00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:00,600 rewrites our DNA as children of God. 780 00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:04,040 Boom. Awesome. 781 00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:06,800 That's it. Well, it is that simple. 782 00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:14,160 That's great, man, Well done. It was, it was a little more 783 00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:16,200 than the the average 3 1/2 points. 784 00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:17,640 You had four. So you're you're up in the 785 00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:19,720 you're up in the average of 3 1/2 on that. 786 00:44:19,720 --> 00:44:21,840 But it was good. You still, you still said it 787 00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:25,400 well. So this has been fun. 788 00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:29,280 Thanks for taking it a little more from God's Word with us on 789 00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:33,360 this fine day. Love you growing in community 790 00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:36,120 with you all church. Thanks for being a part of how 791 00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:39,560 God's working and moving into it and the surrounding communities. 792 00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:43,400 This has been the ERC leftovers. Until next time, have a blessed 793 00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:43,600 week.