1 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:15,280 Happy Monday, we're back in with the ERC Leftovers podcast. 2 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:17,720 I'm Pastor Matt. Pastor Chris. 3 00:00:18,080 --> 00:00:20,640 Yep, Yep, I'm here. Here with your pants problems. 4 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:27,720 I mean this sometimes, sometimes pants problems, sometimes 5 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:29,760 holiday pants problems, let's call it that. 6 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:31,320 Let's call it that. Cause most of the year it's 7 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:33,200 fine. Most of the year, it's most of 8 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:35,160 the year, it's fine. Although we were, we were 9 00:00:35,160 --> 00:00:39,320 talking a little bit today and I, I, I created a formula for 10 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:41,720 myself in my head a long time ago. 11 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:44,120 I do like this. OK, so created a formula for 12 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:48,960 myself where I never wanted my waist to be greater around than 13 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:53,160 the length of my pants. So I can wear reasonably up to 14 00:00:53,160 --> 00:00:57,720 34 inch length on pants. And I always thought to myself, 15 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:01,320 I don't ever want, yeah, I don't ever want to go over a 34 inch 16 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:04,560 waist. Well, you know, middle age and 17 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:06,840 sometimes laziness and all those kinds of things. 18 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:11,080 I have exceeded my proportional scale that I'd set for myself. 19 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:15,800 And so the pants problem is kind of like a real thing based on 20 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:17,920 that individual scale I set for myself. 21 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:24,040 So, OK, so greater a square like you, you can't be. 22 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:25,600 You don't want to be. Right. 23 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:29,960 A rectangle long ways you can be longer than you are right. 24 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:33,000 I'm more vertical, less horizontal, I think is the is 25 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:34,040 the main idea. Got it. 26 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:36,440 OK. And I can't and I cannot tell 27 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:41,160 you when or why I thought that that was going to be my goal in 28 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:43,720 terms of, you know, pants problems. 29 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:47,120 I don't know why I ever thought of that, but it's been years 30 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:50,280 I've thought that way. And for at least the last three 31 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:52,480 or four years I've had a pants problem. 32 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:57,120 Because I am, you know, my my the number on the waist is 33 00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:58,560 bigger than the number on the length. 34 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:00,960 Yikes. So I don't know, it's just a 35 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:02,720 thing I have. OK, I mean. 36 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:05,160 The struggle is real. Yeah, it's it's an interesting 37 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:09,400 rule. Like I did I? 38 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:13,120 OK, so I definitely mentioned a pants problem yesterday. 39 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:15,320 You were like, you were like old man somewhere yesterday. 40 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:19,560 It was the first thing you say. Is that like my favorite color 41 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:20,800 is red? Yeah. 42 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,680 Well, you know, And then I don't like presents. 43 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:26,960 That's what you said. That's what I heard you say. 44 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:30,760 OK, well, hopefully, hopefully that didn't come. 45 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:34,120 On I got pants problems. I like red, I don't like 46 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:36,040 presents and and I got pants problems. 47 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:38,400 That's those are the three points I got out of the. 48 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:41,200 Service. Dang it. 49 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:44,840 OK, well I'll, I'll work on that for this upcoming week. 50 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:49,600 To not name my favorite color, hate on Christmas presents, or 51 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:52,800 talk about my pants problems. I will cut all of those from the 52 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:53,720 sermon list. Oh man. 53 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:58,640 It was great. Thank you so much for being part 54 00:02:58,640 --> 00:03:02,520 of a great weekend. Christmas carnival happened. 55 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:05,240 Thank you to all of you who came in and served either in set up 56 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:07,000 or tear down or making the day happen. 57 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,800 Prizes and games and greeters and all money changers and 58 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:14,200 every, everything in between. It was a great morning. 59 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:16,800 Parade was fun, the best weather we've had for the parade in a 60 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:18,320 few years. It was still cold, but at least 61 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:20,960 it wasn't raining. That was that was nice. 62 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:23,760 And yeah, still had snow overnight. 63 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,080 We're trying not to get in the habit of going back to the one 64 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:29,120 service thing, but winter has been brutal the first two 65 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:33,160 Sundays in Advent so far. So we just had the 11045 service 66 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:34,840 yesterday. Hoping to get back into the 67 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:39,480 swing of split services. 9 and 10:45 this next week, but we'll 68 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:41,400 we'll see what the snow has in store. 69 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:44,480 Winter is letting us know that it is not playing this year. 70 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:47,240 The last couple last several years I think in Iowa they've 71 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:49,400 been pretty mild. And this year, it's like, you 72 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,160 know what, you guys have had a long enough vacation. 73 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:55,160 Yep, and there's not like melting temperatures coming up. 74 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:57,360 It, like the snow, is here to stay for a little bit. 75 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:00,600 So, but if you're into ice fishing, you're excited because 76 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:03,680 it's it's staying cold enough and getting really cold 77 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:05,800 overnight that it's creating some ice. 78 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:07,680 So if you're into that, you should be excited. 79 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:11,800 Are you into ice fishing? I've done it once and it was 80 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:13,840 actually pretty fun. Like you sit on a bucket, you 81 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:15,960 dress appropriately and it's great. 82 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:18,600 There's not there's none of the OK. 83 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:22,760 So with typical fishing, I end up, it's probably 'cause I have 84 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:27,200 no patience, I end up casting out like every like 40 seconds, 85 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:29,760 'cause I'm like, well, there's no fish here so I I have to try 86 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:32,240 and cast somewhere else. And, and with ice fishing, no, 87 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:35,320 you just drop it down there. No, you just drop it down in the 88 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:38,400 little hole and, and, and you wait and it's awesome. 89 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:41,480 I like it a lot. I don't, I don't do much fishing 90 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:44,120 one way or the other, but it's 'cause I don't have any patience 91 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:45,960 so. Well, I never have until 92 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:49,080 recently either, but you know, friends here at church. 93 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:51,560 Yeah. Yeah, they've just kind of 94 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:52,680 gotten me into that a little bit. 95 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:55,920 Sweet well ice fishing season this year. 96 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:58,040 Well, old man Chris is finding old man. 97 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:02,320 You mentioned, I didn't even say it. 98 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:04,800 You said it. I did it to myself again. 99 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:06,360 Here we go. Well now that's the thing. 100 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:09,640 Well, since it's the thing now old man Chris is finding new 101 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:12,720 hobbies like fishing. So there we are. 102 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:15,280 You've given up on cheering for your favorite football team. 103 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:16,360 Oh. Just. 104 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:19,560 You know. We had to bring that up, didn't 105 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:20,200 we? I did. 106 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:22,520 We, didn't. We And and I here. 107 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:24,880 Here's one of my arguments against the Green Bay Packers. 108 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:27,600 That would help me. Is I just think they have the 109 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:30,680 worst color combination. I don't love it in all of 110 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:33,760 sports. I mean I just the the. 111 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:35,360 All of sports. Wow. 112 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:39,400 I mean, can you think of? OK, so even as a Packers fan, 113 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:41,920 which you are, as I can tell from your sweatshirt and your 114 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:45,760 hat today, it's fine. I'm. 115 00:05:46,840 --> 00:05:49,280 Wearing something different than I was wearing yesterday. 116 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:53,280 Just so, you know, that's fair. But like, yeah, can you think of 117 00:05:53,280 --> 00:05:58,560 other teams who have just really just color schemes that you you 118 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:00,120 really don't like? The Vikings. 119 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:01,800 Oh. Sure. 120 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:03,880 Which isn't great to say, 'cause it's the same colors as our 121 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:05,880 Sabres. So that that don't hear me that 122 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:08,240 it's just, it's just the Vikings really. 123 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,040 It's different, different color scheme than the Sabres. 124 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:13,480 Yeah, yeah, totally. Different also the dolphins 125 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:16,760 though, like I feel like that's when you have to love or hate 126 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:20,440 that like bright teal and orange and white. 127 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:24,200 I'm just that's not something you like And and and similar to 128 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:28,200 I hear what you're saying about the Packer, like I can't I I 129 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:33,120 wouldn't really wear like green and gold out like that's not an 130 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:35,720 outfit I'm putting together probably right. 131 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:39,520 Same thing. Dolphins like teal and orange. 132 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:43,880 Yeah, you're not like wearing that to a party. 133 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:46,840 I think, I think I can kind of get the dolphin thing a little 134 00:06:46,840 --> 00:06:51,240 bit simply because OK, so let's go back to basic art principles 135 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:54,400 here, primary, secondary colors for a second. 136 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:57,600 So every all the three primary colors, they have a 137 00:06:57,600 --> 00:06:59,960 complementary secondary color, right? 138 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:03,440 And so blue and orange are complementary colors. 139 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:06,160 Well, if you alter each one slightly, they're still 140 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:09,160 complementary. But they're, you know, whereas I 141 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:11,680 think with the Packers, like, OK, you have the primary color 142 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:14,360 yellow, you have the secondary color green. 143 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:17,840 They're not complementary, but somehow they've been mashed 144 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:20,240 together, you know, in these uniforms. 145 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:23,600 And it's just it's not terribly pleasing to the eye, in my 146 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:25,960 opinion. So the Oregon Ducks, they have 147 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:28,280 they've gone crazy because they do all like the experimental 148 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:30,720 alternate jerseys, but they start like green and gold was 149 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:33,400 their starting point. NDSU bison. 150 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:35,600 I believe they're also green and gold. 151 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:38,680 So like you've you weren't that quote like you're in the state 152 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:39,600 which. Right. 153 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:41,960 Well, but I actively cheered against them because they're in 154 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:44,680 the same conference as my alumni, then Northern Iowa 155 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:47,040 Panthers. Also. 156 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:48,200 Purple. I know, right? 157 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:50,240 Yeah. I think it's the gold things 158 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:52,280 that throws it cause 'cause I was also thinking about the 159 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:56,840 golden Gophers like Minnesota maroon and gold like also not 160 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:59,080 awesome. Not great, not great. 161 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:01,000 No, no. So all the like purple, gold, 162 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,280 green, gold, maroon, gold. I don't love it. 163 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:08,280 And that's what Arizona has. Gold, golden, maroon. 164 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:11,760 Florida State, like Seminoles or USC even. 165 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:15,280 I don't know that's I'm doing colors, but I prefer the you're 166 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:17,600 right. Like I don't, I wear the colors 167 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:19,200 because it's my team. Yeah. 168 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:24,040 If I was picking A-Team based on colors I'd like to wear like, it 169 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:27,600 would be the Raiders like. Yeah, Oh yeah, that black and 170 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:29,360 white or black and. White Sox fan. 171 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:30,280 Yeah, I'm just. I'm not going to be. 172 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:33,520 It's really nice. My son recently was like, dad, 173 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:36,960 the Brooklyn Nets, they have great jerseys because it's just 174 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:38,520 black and white. It's awesome. 175 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:40,440 Very simple. Yeah. 176 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:46,720 So yeah, there we are. OK, super random banter. 177 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:50,640 We're gonna we have one more thing before we actually get 178 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:51,280 it's. Biblically. 179 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:54,240 Based it is biblically based, but we will be jumping into some 180 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:57,840 more review on Isaiah 55, which was the sermon text for 181 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:01,200 yesterday. We're working through this 182 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:04,080 series coming home for Christmas, Christmas in Isaiah, 183 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:08,000 looking at the prophecies and the the coming home we have in 184 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,240 in this savior Jesus Christ and just some of the some of the 185 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:14,520 things that Isaiah foretold and why we should find hope in that. 186 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:19,720 If you're following along with us on the Bible app, we're doing 187 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:23,840 an Advent devotional as well. We just started Week 2 of 188 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:25,400 Advent. It's peace this week. 189 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:28,560 There's a more thought out devotional for the start of that 190 00:09:28,560 --> 00:09:30,160 week. And then there's just some 191 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:33,240 scripture references to to read along with some daily readings 192 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:36,080 each day of that. You're welcome to follow along 193 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:38,720 with us in that. But we were in Isaiah 55 in the 194 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:40,600 message yesterday. We're going to jump into some 195 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:43,600 deeper thoughts on that. But first, we were having a 196 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:45,600 conversation this past week. I don't even know how it got 197 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:48,640 brought up, but we kind of, I don't remember how it got 198 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:52,440 brought up it. Yeah, we just kind of ran with 199 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:57,560 it a little bit and the idea of what would be like the most 200 00:09:57,560 --> 00:10:00,400 annoying character voice to read the Bible. 201 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:02,800 Like like if you listen to an audio Bible. 202 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:06,120 And then we we got into some, some good voices, like some 203 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:08,680 voices we'd like to hear read the Bible as well. 204 00:10:08,680 --> 00:10:12,680 So you're welcome to comment and we're we're going to go through 205 00:10:12,680 --> 00:10:15,680 some of the lists that we have. But if you want to drop comments 206 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:19,480 below the show or or on the Facebook post there, we'd love 207 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:24,960 to hear your best or worst of Bible narrators, I guess is what 208 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:27,080 they'd be. But the first one that came to 209 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:31,120 mind as like as like a bad one for me would be Elmo. 210 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:38,560 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 211 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:40,960 And he would have to giggle every once in a while because he 212 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:43,600 just, he just laughs out of nowhere, which is strange. 213 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:46,200 But you do a really nice Elmo voice. 214 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:48,680 Thanks. Yeah, it matches the deepness of 215 00:10:48,680 --> 00:10:49,760 my voice. Yeah, yeah. 216 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:52,680 Are you going to bust out the Elmo voice on any music? 217 00:10:52,680 --> 00:10:54,760 Definitely not. No, no, no. 218 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:56,240 And that's funny. Elmo does sing. 219 00:10:56,920 --> 00:10:59,560 Does he? He sings songs on Sesame Street. 220 00:10:59,560 --> 00:11:00,800 Oh. Man, it's been so long. 221 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:01,640 Man, I. Know. 222 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:05,800 It's been, I mean, it's like 30 years. 223 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:09,200 I mean 30 years. Hopefully it's 40 for you, but. 224 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:13,120 Well, probably not. Yeah, well, I'm not going to get 225 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:15,240 into my viewing habits with you, Sir. 226 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:19,680 Thank you. Yeah, to Elmo. 227 00:11:19,680 --> 00:11:21,960 I think that would get that would get really old after a 228 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:23,800 while real quick. Just couldn't do it. 229 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:28,480 Who do you have? For, for bad voices, I, I think, 230 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:31,480 you know, there's this actress, her name is Fran Drescher. 231 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:35,400 She's not super familiar probably anymore in modern 232 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:39,720 Hollywood, but her voice is incredibly nasally and she's got 233 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:43,840 this laugh like, and it's just, it's so bad. 234 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:46,920 It's, it's really difficult to listen to. 235 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:49,560 I thought, yeah, right out of the gate. 236 00:11:49,560 --> 00:11:53,240 I was like, I couldn't do it. Shoot, I could not do it, no. 237 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:55,200 That doesn't that doesn't sound good. 238 00:11:55,680 --> 00:11:58,520 Yeah, I can't. And I, I think anything with 239 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:03,080 like a, a thick regional accent, like either either a crazy 240 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:06,360 southern draw or like East Coast, like Boston, Brooklyn, 241 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:08,560 something, something that was that thick. 242 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:10,680 And, and there's lots of like there's lots of characters and 243 00:12:10,680 --> 00:12:15,240 actors that we could that we brought Marisa Tomei or yeah, 244 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:19,560 just some some of those East Coast, I think of Ben Affleck 245 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:20,440 or. Yeah. 246 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:23,680 Oh, yeah. If you've seen Goodwill Hunting, 247 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:27,400 the way they speak during that movie, yeah, the way they speak 248 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:30,880 during that movie, it would be atrocious to listen to 77 hours 249 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:33,680 of the Bible that way. That would be bad. 250 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:38,200 That would be a lot. So Yoda and that's that's like 251 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:44,480 iconic like Star Wars character, but that would be really hard. 252 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:49,040 I feel like how would because because he reverses everything, 253 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:49,440 right? It would. 254 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:52,880 There would even be some stuff lost in translation like. 255 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:54,720 Trying to think of a funny verse that would. 256 00:12:56,080 --> 00:13:00,480 So Romans 623 for the wages of sin is death, but the gift of 257 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:06,800 God and eternal life. So Howard Yoda would say for for 258 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:10,400 death, the wages of sin, yes. Oh yeah, sure. 259 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:14,240 But gift from God is eternal. Yeah, it would be. 260 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:16,200 No, he would do it. But actually, what's kind of 261 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:20,040 interesting about Yoda is in some of these languages that are 262 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:24,680 not English, the verb does come. 1st and it is reversed 263 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:26,120 grammatically. Yeah. 264 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:29,840 And so I mean, like, actually he would be right on point in some 265 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:32,360 ways, which is kind of a strange thing to think about. 266 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:36,080 No, that would be great. So what about? 267 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:38,360 Would there be good ones? Would there be like? 268 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:43,160 Well James Earl Jones has read the Bible but he did the King 269 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:47,720 James Version so but I mean but if James Earl Jones did the 270 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:51,720 Bible in his Darth Vader voice that would be weird. 271 00:13:52,680 --> 00:13:58,360 With like the breaths in there, like he does just have like 272 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:03,600 Darth Vader breaths aside, he he has a commanding voice. 273 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:05,640 I don't know if I can even do any James Earl. 274 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:07,760 Jones I don't think I could. It's spectacular. 275 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:10,360 If I could, I would, because it's spectacular. 276 00:14:12,680 --> 00:14:14,480 Let's see what, what else did we talk about? 277 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:16,640 So we actually, we brought up James Earl Jones too. 278 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:19,680 We, we imagined in this conversation, we of course, our 279 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:22,720 brains went like wild and crazy, but we thought who, who would be 280 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:25,520 like the voice of God, who, whose voice on earth is, is most 281 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:26,960 like? And James Earl Jones was in that 282 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:29,400 conversation. I I thought Liam Neeson. 283 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:32,280 If. You ever watched the Chronicles 284 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:35,520 of Narnia movies? Liam Neeson is the voice of of 285 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:38,760 Aslan of course, has done a lot of different things, but I think 286 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:40,520 both of them. Morgan Freeman. 287 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:43,520 Oh my God that guy could narrate anything. 288 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:47,080 Smooth, sultry voice, I think. And he is. 289 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:50,400 Is it the Bruce Almighty movie? Is he the voice of God in He? 290 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:56,120 Is he acts as the God character in Bruce Almighty, which I think 291 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:58,360 he does. Despite the bad theology of the 292 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:00,760 movie, I think he does a really good job. 293 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:04,440 I mean, the movie has terrible theology, but it's entertaining, 294 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:10,240 you know? Other other funny ones that just 295 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:14,040 yeah would be in jar jar would would be a bad one if you know 296 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:17,120 Star Wars jar Jar Binks. You, I, you wouldn't make it 297 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:19,080 through a chapter. There's no way. 298 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:23,400 Well, in, you know, Speaking of Star Wars characters, you know, 299 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:27,560 I, I guess Chewbacca, if you were going to translate the 300 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:32,320 Bible into like his his Chewbacca speak for his people, 301 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:36,600 but you would I don't know. I can't even do the weird, the 302 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:40,000 growling, yelling, and. My voice is my voice is dead 303 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:41,600 today. Maybe if I wasn't fighting a 304 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:44,520 tickle, but. But Chewbacca would be terrible. 305 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:50,840 So Arnold Schwarzenegger. Yes, go to the chopper, go to 306 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:52,680 the heaven, go to the heaven. Like what? 307 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:56,880 That would be great. It would be great. 308 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:00,440 And then he's got the weird, like non verbal noises he makes, 309 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:06,640 just like, just weird noises that he makes, you know? 310 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:10,480 So I mean, Arnold Schwarzenegger would be a great hilarious 311 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:13,240 choice if you were like, you know what, here's how I want to 312 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:16,200 spend 77 hours of my life listening to Arnold 313 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:18,800 Schwarzenegger do the Bible. That'd be awesome. 314 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,600 Oh man. I thought of so Steve Carell 315 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:25,640 voices grew in the Despicable Me movies. 316 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:28,480 I I think I could actually listen to that, but that like 317 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:30,760 Transylvania accent that would be. 318 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:35,080 Well, and every time the word girl or whatever is said in the 319 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:38,280 Bible, girls, girls, I don't know how. 320 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:40,160 I don't know how he does it. It's amazing. 321 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:44,520 It's like the R on like both sides of the letter. 322 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:48,040 It's like, if you were going to spell it, it'd be how would you? 323 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:50,760 Love the world, world, world. That's just. 324 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:56,080 So bad it'd be. It'd be entertaining, though. 325 00:16:56,080 --> 00:17:00,320 It'd be entertaining. I really like then again not a 326 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:02,920 movie recommendation. I really like the The New age, 327 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:09,640 the Christopher Nolan Batman movies and Dark Knight Rises. 328 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:13,960 Tom Hardy plays the character of Bane and I, I thought, I just 329 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:16,119 like his voice. It's an insane character. 330 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:20,560 But like his, his, his voice, that's just judgment. 331 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:23,440 The light has come into the world, and the people love the 332 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:26,839 darkness rather than the light. That was. 333 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:28,880 Pretty good listen to that. Pretty good. 334 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:33,640 I always felt like Bane kind of came off a little Sean Connery, 335 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:36,880 a little Sean Connery. They both have that like it's, 336 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:38,640 it's that. Is that Scottish? 337 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:42,200 Yeah, I think yeah, yeah. Sean Connery reads the Bible. 338 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:47,240 As James Bond. As James Bond, absolutely sure, 339 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:49,720 I'll sign up for that. I'll sign up for that. 340 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:51,240 Yeah, I could. I could see that. 341 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:56,520 Yeah, that's, I think we brought up just like crazy sitcom Get 342 00:17:56,520 --> 00:18:01,760 Pee Wee Herman and Steve Urkel. Those would be ridiculous 343 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:03,800 characters. So if anyone has a Herman or an 344 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:06,680 Urkel impression, yeah. The Urkel one would be tough. 345 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:08,480 I don't know if I could get through it. 346 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:11,040 Just iconic voice, but I don't, I don't know that I can mimic 347 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:13,320 it. Yeah, yeah, I I got nothing on 348 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:17,400 that one. So anyway, yeah, we just 349 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:23,040 imagined man in our silliness, characters or or voices that 350 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:25,600 could narrate the Bible. Let us know if you have other 351 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:29,080 ideas or impressions that you have, or impressions that you 352 00:18:29,120 --> 00:18:33,040 need Chris to try. Hey, we have already established 353 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:39,080 on this show multiple times that I am not good at mimicking 354 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:40,520 accents. Not the accents. 355 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:43,960 Guys, I'm not, I can't. Gosh, something, something gets 356 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:48,360 lost in translation for me. Like I just, I can't do it well. 357 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:50,200 All right. Most of the time I feel like you 358 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:53,960 just if you have an entry phrase like if if you have a catch 359 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:56,680 phrase that like get to the choppa. 360 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,440 Yeah, like I can. And then you can just you're in 361 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:02,520 the Arnold mode then. You can mimic if it's something 362 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:06,920 highly specific, but to actually like continuously do that on my 363 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:08,440 own? Not possible for me. 364 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:10,880 All right? My brain does not work that way. 365 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:13,840 All right, if you're still hanging out, we are going to 366 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:16,480 jump into the Bible at this point if you made it through the 367 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:19,760 silliness, but that's our that's our cold open on the you have a 368 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:24,360 cold open for the sermon we. I don't know why I just you get 369 00:19:24,360 --> 00:19:26,800 in front of an audience and I'm like, I can't just start the 370 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:28,880 thing. I don't know why I'm like that. 371 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:32,800 I'm not I'm I would need like a high level psychologist. 372 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:36,640 Maybe it's nerves or something, but I just, I have a difficult 373 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:38,640 time just. Easing into the moment. 374 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:41,400 Yeah, that's all right. So and it's. 375 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:43,280 So and everybody got to learn yesterday. 376 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:45,880 I really love the color red. So there you go, it's. 377 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:49,000 Become part of your charm. Sure. 378 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:51,000 That's what it is. Yeah. 379 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:52,880 That's, that's what we'll call it charm. 380 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:56,760 Yeah. All right we are in Isaiah 55 381 00:19:57,360 --> 00:20:00,520 verse one reads, Come everyone who thirsts come to the waters. 382 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:03,440 He who has no money come buy and eat. 383 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:05,280 Come buy wine and milk without money. 384 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:08,320 And without price, why do you spend your money for that which 385 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:10,960 is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? 386 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:13,920 Listen diligently to me and eat what is good. 387 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:17,640 Delight yourselves in rich food. Incline your ear and come to me. 388 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:19,400 Hear that your soul may live. And I will make with you an 389 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,440 everlasting covenant my steadfast, sure love for David. 390 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:24,720 Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and a 391 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:27,600 commander for the peoples. Behold, you shall call a nation 392 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:29,440 that you do not know. In a nation that did not know 393 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:32,480 you shall run to you because of the Lord your God and of the 394 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:36,160 holy one of Israel, for he has glorified you. 395 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:38,760 That was the text from yesterday. 396 00:20:40,120 --> 00:20:43,240 The the title of this section is called the compassion of the 397 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:44,560 Lord. Again, that's not necessarily 398 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:48,480 Isaiah didn't put that in there. It's just editorial description 399 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:50,760 of of of what's happening. But I think that's a good 400 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:54,720 framing. There's a, there's a Greek word 401 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:56,360 in the new. Obviously this is this Hebrew in 402 00:20:56,360 --> 00:20:58,560 the Old Testament. But in the New Testament, the 403 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:02,960 Greek word for compassion is aleo, or it's alejo. 404 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:06,240 It's the little extra syllables in there. 405 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:09,440 But that's a word for compassion that means mercy for the 406 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:11,840 afflicted. It's it's compassion that Jesus 407 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:16,480 had for it's the emotion when when you heal a blind man or 408 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,680 when the the lady touched his cloak like just to receive his 409 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:21,960 his healing power. Those those things, his heart 410 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:25,040 was moved with mercy for the afflicted. 411 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:28,640 And what's interesting to me, even in the the framing of this 412 00:21:29,120 --> 00:21:32,320 passage, I think we often we often talk about who moved 413 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:36,240 first, right, like for for God so loved the world that he gave 414 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:40,120 right, like it was his, his action 1st and our response 415 00:21:40,120 --> 00:21:43,280 comes after. So because of that compassion, 416 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:47,520 that mercy for the afflicted. All of this is this is in place 417 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:51,080 already the holy one of Israel because of the Lord your God. 418 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:53,360 And and that's pretty cool. So seek the Lord while he may be 419 00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:54,320 found right? That's what that's. 420 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:57,360 What he? Landed on and what didn't you 421 00:21:57,360 --> 00:21:59,320 have time for yesterday? What are we jumping into here? 422 00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:01,400 Some extra thoughts from the first part of 55. 423 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:04,960 South, one of the things for sure is, you know, and again, we 424 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:08,000 didn't dive deep into this, but you know, when we're talking 425 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:11,720 about thirst and water and and food and all that kind of stuff, 426 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:14,200 yeah, there's the physical nature of that. 427 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:17,600 Because if, again, putting us back in context, what we see is 428 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:21,880 that we're probably dealing with the time where Israel is 429 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:26,080 actually on their way out. So scholars will tell us that 430 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:28,080 like we're, you know, we're getting to the point where 431 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:32,280 they've been exiled and, and now God is about to call them back 432 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:34,680 into the land that he has given them and promised them, 433 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:38,640 especially as they come back to him and, and get that right 434 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,400 relationship with him, he's going to restore them to the 435 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:45,040 promise that he gave. So like one of the things that 436 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:49,560 people that scholars do report is that after a certain amount 437 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:53,280 of time in exile in in Babylon, like they actually got pretty 438 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:58,280 comfy and there was food and and different drinking and options 439 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:01,000 and stuff there that they would not have necessarily had in 440 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,440 their native land. And so there's almost this 441 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:09,160 hesitancy to go back in some ways because well, going like 442 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,320 the Egypt thing, well, in Egypt we had, we had. 443 00:23:11,360 --> 00:23:14,600 Meat. Pots, I shouldn't have brought 444 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:17,600 up Egypt, that's the worst. I was already there whether you 445 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:18,920 were going there or not. OK. 446 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:20,440 Because it is. It's the same. 447 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:22,040 Why? Why would you drag us out of the 448 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:23,160 desert to die? We could have. 449 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:25,040 We were comfortable in captivity, right? 450 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:26,920 Yeah. And so there is a, you know, 451 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:29,880 after X number of years, you know, we're we're decades into 452 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:33,720 this, this, this exile now. So there is the sense that like, 453 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:36,520 man, maybe they got really comfy and they don't. 454 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,240 They have a government that Lords things over over them. 455 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:42,080 But at the same time, there's a level of comfort there for them 456 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:45,040 now. And so God is God is asking them 457 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:48,520 to choose the better thing. It's more difficult on the 458 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:52,080 surface, but it is by far and away the better thing for them. 459 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:58,360 And one of the things too, we get this list, we get water and 460 00:23:58,360 --> 00:24:01,560 milk and wine. And I read 1 commentator who 461 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:05,040 talked about the fact that water is, is this, it's a source of 462 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:07,280 life. It's a half to right. 463 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:11,560 And then we get wine, which is the sort a source of joy, and 464 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:13,600 then we get milk, which is a source of nutrition. 465 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:18,720 So even as we look at this list of of 3/3 drinks, right? 466 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:21,480 And and we can kind of write that off as whatever, like, no, 467 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:25,480 this is the wholeness, this is the completion that God is going 468 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:31,000 to give to you without price. He's just asking for your heart. 469 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,240 He's asking for you to come be in a relationship with him. 470 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:38,960 But we have this total view just with these three drinks that if 471 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,360 you didn't stop and think about, it feels almost kind of like a 472 00:24:41,360 --> 00:24:43,760 throwaway. Yeah, I don't know if you read 473 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:46,560 David Guzik's study thoughts on this, but the enduring word 474 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:50,080 commentary, he says waters, wine, milk, it's all free. 475 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:53,560 It isn't that the entrance into Christian life is free. 476 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,920 And then we must be charged to advance in the Christian life to 477 00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,360 get the, the, the richness of the wine and the fat, the 478 00:24:59,360 --> 00:25:01,040 fatness, the fullness of the milk, right? 479 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,000 He, he, he then says it's all free. 480 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:08,280 Our growth is just as much a gift of grace as our salvation. 481 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,200 That's really good, I. Thought that was really good, he 482 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:11,360 goes on. That was really good. 483 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:15,160 He then tacks on a thought from Charles Spurgeon, which is also 484 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,240 really good. You are not permitted to drink 485 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,600 freely of water and then to purchase wine. 486 00:25:20,120 --> 00:25:22,400 You're not invited to come and eat freely that which is good, 487 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,680 and then to spend your labor for that which is fat. 488 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:28,000 You know the richest dainties of God's house are as free as the 489 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:32,320 bread he gives to hungry souls. Absolutely, absolutely. 490 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:33,600 Well said. Good stuff. 491 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:36,480 Well, said Spurgeon and Guzik, just on point there. 492 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,920 Yeah, so why do you spend money for what is not bred, your wages 493 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:43,200 for what does not satisfy? God asks his people to ask 494 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,200 themselves, why do I spend money for what can't satisfy? 495 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:47,320 This is a remarkably relevant question in light of all the 496 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:50,080 things we can pour our time and money and effort into, things 497 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:52,160 that will never satisfy the way the Lord can satisfy. 498 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:54,080 That was you. You spent. 499 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:56,520 A. Lot of time on that point on 500 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,400 that thrust yesterday. And I don't mean to like beat 501 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,600 up. In no way, shape or form am I 502 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,360 beating up Christmas. And hopefully I said that clear 503 00:26:04,360 --> 00:26:06,080 enough. I'm not trying to beat up gift 504 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:09,120 giving or Christmas. But there is this greater sense 505 00:26:09,120 --> 00:26:13,360 of like modern consumerism, which clearly goes even back 506 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:15,480 thousands of years. Like this has always been a 507 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:21,520 problem for humanity. And you know, gosh, we, we put 508 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,520 forth so much effort, so much time. 509 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:29,800 You know, I think it's been said like we work really hard to buy 510 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,520 things that impress other people that we don't even like. 511 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:36,080 And in, in some ways there's, there's some real truth to that. 512 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,840 And and it's a terrible cycle to get on. 513 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,000 If if not the treadmill I could have used a hamster wheel is 514 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,480 maybe another illustration. Like it's just unending. 515 00:26:45,360 --> 00:26:49,040 So. Yeah, I I think something else 516 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,840 that's interesting in the opening of this, you even just 517 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:55,360 versed one everyone who thirsts come to the waters there. 518 00:26:55,360 --> 00:26:59,480 It's it's it's a little conditional because you've got 519 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,400 to be thirsting, right? You've got to be looking for 520 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:03,880 more. There's there's maybe some that 521 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,680 are walking in ignorance that just are on the treadmill or the 522 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:11,960 hamster wheel or what it like and just think that's it that 523 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:14,600 lost in darkness and blindness, whatever, whatever you want to 524 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:18,480 call it, everyone who thirsts come to the waters. 525 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:20,400 Only those who will thirst will actually come. 526 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:25,800 If we're not thirsty for things above for for the things of God 527 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,120 we're we're going to we're going to kind of miss that that 528 00:27:29,120 --> 00:27:31,920 invitation, which is all comes back to us. 529 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:38,240 I mean, go and make disciples is almost pointing out a need right 530 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:42,880 for this is yeah, maybe you have friends or family or Co workers 531 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:47,320 that are seemingly seeking the things that won't satisfy and 532 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,040 just keep coming to the same dead end. 533 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:51,600 And it's because they're, they're thirsting for the wrong 534 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,040 things, right? Yeah, you have to admit that 535 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:57,600 there's a need there. And so like, for example, the 536 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:01,760 entire book of Ecclesiastes, it's just this coming to grips 537 00:28:02,120 --> 00:28:05,480 with this, gosh, I've tried everything under the sun. 538 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:09,800 And for King Solomon, who had every resource available to him 539 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,400 and everything that his heart could ever desire on this 540 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:17,760 planet, he got a piece of it. And it's still at the end of the 541 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:21,000 day, jeez, everything is in vain. 542 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,480 Everything is meaningless. And so like reading that, if, 543 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:29,760 you know, maybe maybe that that little writing that he did, 544 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:35,920 maybe that would maybe snap part of society out of out of this 545 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:39,400 just ridiculous consumerism of I have to have, I have to have 546 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,320 more and more and more, you know, if you could actually stop 547 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:46,240 and read that and again, realize that he had everything available 548 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:50,280 to him in it and it still didn't work out, I think that's that 549 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:52,560 would be a great a great place to to land too. 550 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:55,440 Yeah. I mean, I mean, going back to 551 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:58,320 the Bible and having all that, but we hear so many things 552 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,680 either about lottery winners or even I think I think it's 553 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,840 actually the creator of Minecraft, like, oh wow, had 554 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,520 hundreds of millions of dollars and bought his own private 555 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:10,960 island and did all these and could literally do anything that 556 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,640 he want to do with any of his money and also reached a place 557 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:17,520 of Solomon was like, what's what's the point of of all of 558 00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:19,360 this? It's, it's not. 559 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:20,680 I don't. I don't, Yeah. 560 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,960 What a crazy thing. Like you buy an island somewhere 561 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:27,800 where the weather is pretty much always perfect and you get there 562 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,720 and after a couple weeks or a couple months, you're like, I'm 563 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,640 bored with this. This is this is just not what I 564 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,280 thought it would be. And I got a you know, the, the 565 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:42,200 Lamborghini effect, right? The Lamborghini effect is this 566 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:46,360 is that, you know, you, you finally get the car that 567 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:50,920 everybody wants supposedly, and you actually find more trouble 568 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:55,080 with the gift than you find joy because, well, gosh, it's, it's 569 00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:58,280 3 inches off the ground. I can't drive it anywhere and I 570 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:00,400 can't park it anywhere because I'm always worried about it. 571 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:02,200 And now I'm paranoid and this and this and this. 572 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,000 And, you know, the Lamborghini effect I think is real. 573 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,080 Sometimes the thing that we want the most ends up being more 574 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:11,320 trouble than it what it's worth. This is, this is. 575 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,880 I think you're absolutely right. That's, yeah, an excellent 576 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:15,640 point. Well said. 577 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,560 Psychology. I think I read about the 578 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:20,480 Lamborghini effect on Psychology Today. 579 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:22,880 I did want to go a little bit on a side trail. 580 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,680 One of the words that you said the the best car you could want. 581 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:30,200 What was the word after that? Like the best car that you want, 582 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:33,320 supposedly. Supposedly, yeah. 583 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:37,400 Like the thing that everybody chases after supposed. 584 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,880 Oh, Oh my gosh. How do you spell that? 585 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:44,160 There it is. There's no Nope. 586 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:46,720 Yep, I don't think. Sorry. 587 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:48,400 That was that was just one of those. 588 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:51,080 So we could do a whole segment on that too. 589 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:54,880 I think there's a bunch of words that people that people say like 590 00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:59,880 spell espresso like or say or like do you say espresso 591 00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:01,800 espresso? Some people do right? 592 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,960 Like it's. That espresso I like so much. 593 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,880 Sorry, you said supposedly and I was like that's. 594 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:09,520 That's not it. That's not it. 595 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,200 Oh man, here we go. We'll stash that for. 596 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,280 It's fine, I talk for a little. Words that words that people say 597 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:20,720 in both ways. Sorry, I just thought that was 598 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:21,520 funny. Bagel. 599 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:24,600 That's just. Bagel. 600 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,240 Hey, I had a bagel for breakfast. 601 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,000 Oh my goodness. Sorry, I'll stop. 602 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,160 That at least that at least has the same letters in it. 603 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,480 You're just saying them weird. That's like supposedly there's 604 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:35,440 there's no B in there. I. 605 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:44,400 Know, I know, Dang it. Sorry, I digress, we are back 606 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:49,080 into well we read 3 through 5 here the incline your ear and 607 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:51,040 come to me here and your soul shall live. 608 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:54,480 Oh boy. OK, OK, that was light bulb. 609 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,560 Well, I, I think The thing is like, you know, when, OK, so 610 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:01,320 the, the heart of the text, or at least the the jumping off 611 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:04,600 point of the text for me is, is absolutely verse 2 because it 612 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:07,920 asks the question and it's the only question in the entire 613 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:09,840 chapter. But the question forms 614 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:14,640 everything else around it. And so I would I it's just. 615 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,440 The application. It's shocking to hear the answer 616 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:21,800 to the question, listen here, you know, like that's the 617 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,160 answer. I, I need to listen better. 618 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:28,680 The answer to my, my insane sense of having to get more and 619 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:30,200 more and more and never being satisfied. 620 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:33,160 The answer is listen. What? 621 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:35,560 So I found that really remarkable. 622 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,520 But then as you, if you take the time and sit down and think 623 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:40,920 about it, Yep, that is the right answer. 624 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:45,080 Big surprise, God was right. Yep, listen, listen to what he 625 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:46,600 says is good. Listen to his word. 626 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:50,840 Listen to how he is going to fulfill these things in, in you, 627 00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:54,320 if you if you're just willing. Well, kind of a theme that we've 628 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:57,400 been working on for a while now, like seek first the Kingdom of 629 00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:58,160 God. Sure. 630 00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,560 Seek, seek that first and all these other things will be added 631 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:03,760 to you. And but it starts with 632 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:05,760 listening. It starts with having an open 633 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:08,240 ear and an open heart to what God says. 634 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:13,480 Well, I think it's even more so modern modern psychology and I 635 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:17,280 don't know what era, but like there's something to the words 636 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,400 that you feel that words that you speak to yourself, right? 637 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,200 And I'm not, I'm not saying like prosperity gospel sort of like 638 00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:26,520 speaking into existence sort of things, but just literally the 639 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:30,080 words you encourage yourself with or discourage yourself 640 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:31,600 with. Honestly, if you, if you keep 641 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:37,120 telling yourself that whatever you're not good at this thing or 642 00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:39,880 you're never going to be good at this thing or you're never going 643 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,880 to be like this, yeah, yeah, you're probably not. 644 00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:45,800 That's not the way to get that done by telling yourself you 645 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:46,640 can't do it. Right. 646 00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:52,880 So it would make sense that if, if the goal is seeking first the 647 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:57,440 Kingdom, if the goal is, is is godliness or in the way that 648 00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,640 you're being a disciple of Jesus, if that's what you're 649 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:04,080 pursuing, well, you should probably be listening to to 650 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:07,240 instruction that to the word, filling yourself with his words, 651 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:09,440 right? That's so it makes sense. 652 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:14,360 Like I it's, it's crazy that we hear the the question, why do 653 00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:17,040 you spend your money for the things that are not bred or the 654 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,520 labor that does not satisfy? What should you be doing 655 00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:21,239 instead? Listen, listen. 656 00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:22,760 Take it in. Follow instruction. 657 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:24,360 Right. Well, I think there, you know, 658 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,040 actually an illustration that just kind of popped into my head 659 00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:32,120 is you can have a fantastic athlete, but they will be all 660 00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:35,360 the better with the coach that they listen to because the coach 661 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:39,600 is going to see things from an angle without the emotional 662 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:41,840 thing of being quote UN quote in the game. 663 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,600 The coach is going to see those things from a clear perspective, 664 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:47,360 whereas the player is so emotionally entrenched in their 665 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:51,000 pride or their whatever that they cannot do that well. 666 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:55,199 So the player who listens to the wise coach is going to be an 667 00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:58,040 infinitely better player than they could have ever been. 668 00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:01,640 You know, I think if I think Michael Jordan isn't Michael 669 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:05,720 Jordan without Phil Jackson, you know, and you know, and so I 670 00:35:05,720 --> 00:35:07,040 mean. Brady and Belichick. 671 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:09,760 Yeah, yeah, that's that's a development thing. 672 00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:13,120 And so like if I can pull that illustration and stretch it a 673 00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:17,160 little bit, listening to God, his word, all those things like 674 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:20,800 it's going to take this raw material that is us and it's 675 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,600 going to make us infinitely better at everything that we're 676 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,600 trying to pursue. But it takes listening and 677 00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:30,800 responding and it, and it takes a willingness to trust because 678 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:34,280 again, going backwards in that illustration, man, I got, I, if 679 00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:37,200 I'm going to be a good player, I got to trust my coach that he 680 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,000 knows better. He's drawn up the play, he 681 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,840 understands the defense, whatever that is. 682 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:43,880 Man, I, I have to do the same thing with God. 683 00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,600 I have to say, man, he's drawn up the play because he knows he 684 00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:50,760 knows what the other side wants to do to me and he knows how to 685 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,280 beat it. And so let me listen to my 686 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:54,600 coach. Let me listen to my God. 687 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:57,200 Let me hear what he has to say and put it into action. 688 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,360 Yeah, I think that's. That that there he's. 689 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:04,280 If he's the great shepherd, if he's the great, the great 690 00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,760 caretaker, the great coach, the great guy, like, yeah, that's 691 00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:07,600 he. Knows where. 692 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:09,120 We should be listening, right? He does know. 693 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:12,480 Yeah. Jumping ahead a little bit, 694 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,240 verse 6, seek the Lord while he may be found. 695 00:36:15,240 --> 00:36:18,400 Call upon him while he is near. You brought up some of the 696 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,240 interesting nuances. There's a there's a window, 697 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,360 right? Like there's a there's a too 698 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:28,400 late potentially, right? Yeah, that's scary in some ways. 699 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:32,880 Yeah, but real and and you you mostly framed it yesterday like 700 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:35,280 tomorrow is not tomorrow's not guaranteed. 701 00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:41,600 And that's the yes we we are of the opinion that not even the 702 00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:46,080 opinion just the theology of I mean the thief on the cross on 703 00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:50,840 the last day. Yep, experience salvation in the 704 00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:56,320 the same way that brand new brand new baby baptized children 705 00:36:56,320 --> 00:37:00,960 come to me sort of thing. Like yes, both entered into the 706 00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:06,200 the paradise of the eternal Kingdom of heaven, but that we 707 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:11,520 should never take that in a way of yeah, I'll just keep on 708 00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:14,760 sinning today. I'll I'll, I can always come 709 00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:16,760 back to Jesus, take the wheel tomorrow like. 710 00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,920 I think that's actually pretty the prevalent thing in our 711 00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,040 culture. You know, maybe maybe you grew 712 00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:24,240 up in the church, maybe you didn't. 713 00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:29,040 But you know, you get into your late teens, early 20s, and so 714 00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:30,720 you're like, oh, I'm going to go live my life. 715 00:37:30,720 --> 00:37:34,160 I'm going to experience all these things that the world 716 00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:37,240 tells me I have to experience in order to, you know, have a full 717 00:37:37,240 --> 00:37:40,520 life. I'll come back to God later, You 718 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,240 know, he'll he'll be there when I'm 30 and I want to start a 719 00:37:43,240 --> 00:37:45,120 family and I want to settle down. 720 00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:48,000 But until then, like I'm just going to, I'm going to go nuts 721 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:49,960 here. And and I just don't think 722 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:53,480 that's helpful. It, it, it gives, do you think 723 00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,400 you're bulletproof? Do you think you're death proof? 724 00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:59,200 Well, no, we're not like this. Life is not going to last 725 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:02,680 forever in its current state. And so, as the Bible would say, 726 00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:05,480 don't quench the Spirit as he, you know, as he calls today, 727 00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:09,720 like let's respond today to what he's doing so. 728 00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:14,000 Call upon him while he is near. Verse 7. 729 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,160 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his 730 00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:18,400 thoughts. Let him return to the Lord, that 731 00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:21,400 he may have compassion on him and to our God, for he will 732 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:25,040 abundantly pardon. That struck me as interesting 733 00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,440 the the return. Yeah. 734 00:38:27,720 --> 00:38:31,000 Because did the wicked? Does that imply that the wicked 735 00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:35,560 started with God and strayed and then came back? 736 00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:38,000 Like why? Why return to the Lord? 737 00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:39,920 Oh my. Well, think about this. 738 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,920 Here's a here's a great New Testament example. 739 00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:48,400 Peter, of course, before Jesus is about to die, he, he pleads 740 00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:52,000 with me, says all these might fall away, but I will never fall 741 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,480 away. I will I will die with and for 742 00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:57,560 you. And Jesus says something that's 743 00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:03,160 really biting when you come back, when you return to me, you 744 00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:06,240 know, because Satan, of course, working hard at sifting Peter 745 00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:10,280 out as like what's going to be the the leader of of the New 746 00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:13,800 Testament church. And you know, when you when you 747 00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:15,680 return, when you turn back to me. 748 00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:21,120 And if you read that, you're like, my goodness, he's still 749 00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:24,120 going to take him back. He's still going to take him 750 00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:26,360 back. And so that it does point right 751 00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:30,640 at the fact that you may have failed, you may have messed up 752 00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:34,120 very, very badly there. You might even be living through 753 00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:36,440 the, the normal consequences of that. 754 00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:39,160 But God, God doesn't. He's not mad at you. 755 00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,760 He, he's not going, he wants you back. 756 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,520 You know, he, he is the dad who when he sees you on the horizon, 757 00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,720 he starts sprinting after you. He wants you back. 758 00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:52,680 And in that light, and that's a great I popped that question on 759 00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:54,360 you. But like that's a great answer. 760 00:39:55,480 --> 00:40:00,880 Awesome response to it and until I know the freshness of 761 00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:03,440 Scripture always washes over pretty much every time we return 762 00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:04,880 to it. But in reading this passage, 763 00:40:05,240 --> 00:40:07,800 verses 8:00 and 9:00 for my thoughts are not your thoughts. 764 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:11,040 Neither are my ways your ways declares the Lord for as the 765 00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:12,920 heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher 766 00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:14,840 than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. 767 00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:23,040 I got down this whole lengthy godliness isn't even like. 768 00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:28,200 Being tempted and not sinning, God's not even tempted, right? 769 00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:31,640 Like, like his, his ways are such that that that's not even a 770 00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:34,800 thing. So this idea of, of repentance 771 00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:39,520 and returning, I, I think, I think we beat ourselves up a 772 00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:44,160 little bit too much even in the Oh man, like I, I, I feel like 773 00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:46,200 I've talked, I've talked to people who are like, oh man, I 774 00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:47,800 can't believe like I even thought about doing that. 775 00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:52,320 Well, you're not got like, and, and this isn't an excusing or, 776 00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:58,560 or cheap grace sort of way, but it's a little unfair to compare 777 00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:04,520 ourselves to that right, 'cause, 'cause yes, Jesus was tempted 778 00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:06,680 and I put it in, it says tempted. 779 00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:11,480 He was, but like, really, Was he really close to crumbling and 780 00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:14,160 chattering with the devil in the desert Like. 781 00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:15,960 I mean, he's given opportunities. 782 00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:19,880 And that's what I feel like it more is like he was he was given 783 00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:25,600 a chance to disown and discredit his faith, but was he really 784 00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:27,640 wrestling? I I I doubt it right? 785 00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:29,240 Like I. Well, and why not? 786 00:41:29,240 --> 00:41:30,640 Why not? Is it it? 787 00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:36,040 Here's here's the easy answer. Because he has such a perfect 788 00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:40,280 relationship with the father that it would be impossible for 789 00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:44,880 him to imagine anything better. I mean, you know, if you love 790 00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:47,960 your spouse the way you're supposed to, it will be 791 00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:52,480 impossible for you imagine to for you to imagine having an 792 00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:56,080 affair because you're like, I've already got the best thing ever. 793 00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:58,840 Why would I settle for, you know, 100th best? 794 00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:01,040 I've already got the best thing. There's no way. 795 00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:03,480 And that, and that's the way this passage just hit me 796 00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:05,200 differently. This like God's thoughts are so 797 00:42:05,240 --> 00:42:09,040 it's not even it's not even that comparison game right here. 798 00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:11,120 He already Jesus already had the best thing. 799 00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:12,360 He already understood the best thing. 800 00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:14,120 He's not even our hearts are fleeting. 801 00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:17,080 Our hearts are are tempted. We don't think about things that 802 00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:19,560 we encounter even in the same way that God does. 803 00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:23,000 So that's that was comforting to me in that and just the 804 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:28,640 realization of man even even as I think about following and and 805 00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:30,480 being a disciple. Well, and these things, it's, 806 00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:34,960 it's, it's not even quite the same, but because my thoughts 807 00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:37,920 are not his thoughts. It's interesting that you use 808 00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:41,960 the words comforting for those verses because I think, I think 809 00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:46,680 in a prideful, egotistical way, I can hear those verses and go, 810 00:42:46,720 --> 00:42:50,960 oh, so I'm just stupid because like, you know, and again, 811 00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:57,480 coming to Christianity in my mid 20s, there's, you know, I, I 812 00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:01,240 feel like I'm almost positive I'd heard these verses before I 813 00:43:01,240 --> 00:43:03,400 was a Christian because these are pretty famous verses. 814 00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:06,160 And so even if you don't read the Bible, like you've, you've 815 00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:09,600 probably heard these. And so like for me from a 816 00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:14,040 secular point of view, I'm like, oh, so I'm just this dumb, 817 00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:17,440 stupid creation that just doesn't get it. 818 00:43:17,720 --> 00:43:20,840 And, and it's like that's, you know, I, I can see how those 819 00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:22,960 verses would either be challenging or downright 820 00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:26,600 offensive almost to a secular person who's like, oh, so I'm 821 00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:30,200 just never going to get it. And, and I don't think that way 822 00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:34,600 now, but I just, it's interesting to hear you say that 823 00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:37,520 they're comforting. And, and I think that is that 824 00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:41,400 that's a perspective that we all ought to have, especially when 825 00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:44,120 dealing with hardship and, and things that there's just no way 826 00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:45,920 we're going to understand him on this side of heaven. 827 00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:50,360 But we can have comfort. We can have that peace kind of 828 00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:54,680 knowing that, OK, if what God said is true, that he's always 829 00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:58,880 seeking out our best, our good, then this is actually a great 830 00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:01,160 thing that He understands things better than I do. 831 00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:04,880 And I think that comfort and peace will finish up the chapter 832 00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:07,320 here. I think the comfort that I can 833 00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:10,680 glean from these verses is informed by these closing 4 834 00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:13,920 verses 10 and 11. For as the rain and the snow 835 00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:16,440 come down from heaven, and do not return there, but water the 836 00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:19,000 earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the 837 00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:22,600 sower, and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes 838 00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:24,560 out from my mouth. It shall not return to me empty, 839 00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:27,000 but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall 840 00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:31,360 succeed in the thing for which I sent it there. 841 00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:36,520 There's not anything that God does without purpose, right? 842 00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:41,320 And and we can quote the cliche worked everything for the the 843 00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:44,480 Joseph what what my brothers intended for evil God intended 844 00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:48,000 for for good Romans. He he works everything together 845 00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,440 for good for those who love him right. 846 00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:53,280 But this is what informs those things. 847 00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:57,000 He doesn't, he's not just up there and we we see it sometimes 848 00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:04,600 in whatever movies that portray God like attributes the the 849 00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:10,280 second guardians of the Galaxy movie where he's just making 850 00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:13,040 random worlds and trying to make the perfect sun. 851 00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:16,040 And when he it's not the sun he wanted, he just casts it aside 852 00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:18,360 and makes a new one, right? Like God isn't up there just 853 00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:21,680 like experimenting with stuff, right? 854 00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:24,480 It's it all has it all has purpose. 855 00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:28,080 And he's certainly not like Zeus, just like fire and 856 00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:32,600 lightning bolts into our lives to to disrupt and make terrible 857 00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:36,440 everything right. So that's that's where I see the 858 00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:40,760 comfort from the if the rain and the snow have purpose, his word 859 00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:43,960 goes out from his mouth, not returning empty, but it shall 860 00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:46,440 accomplish that which I purpose and shall succeed. 861 00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:51,520 That's that's all like what's I think it's a verse in Jeremiah 862 00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:56,480 where it says God for oh man, who is like the Lord for he does 863 00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:58,600 what he like. He just does what pleases it, 864 00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:01,760 which if you were God, why would you wouldn't do anything that 865 00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:03,600 upset you, right? Like you would just do what you 866 00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:06,760 wanted to do. So that's that's where I get the 867 00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:10,440 comfort of those things that he has intentionality and purpose. 868 00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:13,840 And more than that, he has success like it's, it's, it's 869 00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:18,760 the way that he wanted it to be and accomplish his purposes 870 00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:19,480 right like that. Am I? 871 00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:23,080 No, I think you're spot on. You know, I, I've heard it said 872 00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:25,840 before and I think maybe we've talked about it briefly, which 873 00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:30,800 is, you know, especially as this is true and it's echoed 874 00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:35,400 throughout all of Scripture, God has already factored our sin 875 00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:39,200 into what he's going to do. So I think another way of 876 00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:40,320 saying. That already factored in your 877 00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:41,640 sin, already factored in your. Stupidity. 878 00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:44,920 Yeah, he knows, Like he, you know, he knows who he tagged 879 00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:48,440 into the game when when he picked you as, as somebody who 880 00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:50,920 would believe and as somebody who would have faith and then go 881 00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:53,760 out and and and have conversations with people like 882 00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:56,080 he knows. He knows all those things ahead 883 00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:58,600 of time. So as we are faithful to the 884 00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:03,120 degree that he's allowed us to be, his word will not return 885 00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:04,680 void. And and we don't always feel 886 00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:08,640 that because we, we tend to turn ourselves into, you know, 887 00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:10,720 Christian salesman and saleswoman. 888 00:47:10,720 --> 00:47:13,600 And we say, Oh my gosh, I had this conversation with this 889 00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:16,080 person and they didn't immediately fall on their knees 890 00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:18,360 and proclaim Jesus as their Lord and their king. 891 00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:20,440 And so I must have failed. Sorry, God. 892 00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:24,880 And it's like, no, like God is so aware of all these things, 893 00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:27,920 and as His word is put out into the world and as it's spoken, 894 00:47:28,240 --> 00:47:31,720 it's going to do exactly what He wants it to do in his timing. 895 00:47:31,720 --> 00:47:34,920 And that's the thing, in His timing, we want it right now. 896 00:47:35,240 --> 00:47:38,880 We're not terribly patient people, but in his timing, it's 897 00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:43,440 going to work out just fine. Verses 12 and 13. 898 00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:46,560 For you shall go out in joy, and be LED forth in peace. 899 00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,080 The mountains and the hills, before you shall break forth 900 00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:50,480 into singing. All the trees of the fields 901 00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:54,080 shall clap their hands instead of the thorn shall come up the 902 00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:57,200 Cypress instead of the briar shall come up the Myrtle, and 903 00:47:57,200 --> 00:47:59,840 shall make a name for the Lord, an everlasting sign that shall 904 00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:04,000 not be cut off. Just a continuation of just I 905 00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:06,080 got you. I used the word comfort and you 906 00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:08,240 highlighted that because that's the word I said. 907 00:48:08,240 --> 00:48:11,840 But all all of these things going out enjoy being LED forth 908 00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:16,120 in peace him turning thorn to the Cypress briar to the Myrtle, 909 00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:21,200 turning these images of of of hardship and and oppression into 910 00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:23,800 into things of thriving and beauty. 911 00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:27,120 It's it's graves in the gardens language there like. 912 00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:30,480 That. Yeah, so that that's where I 913 00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:32,960 find the the comfort in this passage. 914 00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:36,760 And of course we have the where we're two weeks into Advent, joy 915 00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:40,200 and joy and peace. And like those are we've hope, 916 00:48:40,240 --> 00:48:44,520 hope and love are the other themes that we focus on 917 00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:48,120 specifically in Advent. But it's, it's all here, even 918 00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:52,800 back to Isaiah, these things, Jesus bringing joy, being joy, 919 00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:55,520 bringing peace, being peace for his people. 920 00:48:57,080 --> 00:48:59,560 Yeah, it's beautiful to see it all woven together, even back to 921 00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:01,440 Isaiah. And the cool thing about these 922 00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:06,040 last couple verses is that if you you can go to the beginning 923 00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:07,600 of the Bible, you can go to the end of the Bible. 924 00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:09,720 And here we're kind of sitting somewhere in the middle. 925 00:49:09,720 --> 00:49:12,320 And even in the middle, the message is clear. 926 00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:18,520 And it is, it is consistent. So we had perfection in Eden. 927 00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:21,240 God had not created thorns and thistles and these painful 928 00:49:21,240 --> 00:49:23,960 things and labor that was unsatisfying. 929 00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:28,360 And, and in the end, he's going to restructure everything. 930 00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:32,240 He's going to make all the wrong right once again on the earth 931 00:49:32,240 --> 00:49:35,200 and otherwise. And so like this again, is, is 932 00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:37,920 it's a nice preview. It's a, it's a nice reminder 933 00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:40,160 that God will complete his purposes. 934 00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:43,040 He will bring everything back the way that he originally 935 00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:46,000 wanted it in the first place. The other thing I thought about 936 00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:49,280 when I thought about these verses, I love the fact that 937 00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:54,200 what we would call nature, nature itself cries out, sings 938 00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:58,160 forth, and Jesus does something really cool as he's ascending up 939 00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:00,720 to Jerusalem before he's about to be crucified. 940 00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:03,920 All these Pharisees, they're all angry at him because everybody's 941 00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:06,000 going wild. Oh, Jesus is coming to town and 942 00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:08,800 all this stuff. And the Pharisees, they're angry 943 00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:11,800 and they're like, tell, well, my language, tell these people to 944 00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:14,800 shut up. And, and Jesus responds with 945 00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:17,520 this really cool thing. And he's like, well, even if 946 00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:20,480 they stopped shouting and rejoicing, the rocks would cry 947 00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:23,360 out. And, and here we see again, 948 00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:27,040 creation, nature itself, God says, crying out. 949 00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:30,760 So like you get this terribly consistent message from, from 950 00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:33,280 God the Father, from, from Jesus, from the Holy Spirit. 951 00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:35,400 And it just, it's throughout the entire Bible. 952 00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:37,840 And I love, I love the consistency with which God 953 00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:39,760 speaks. Very cool. 954 00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:44,400 We did it. That's the end of Isaiah 55. 955 00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:47,960 You're still with us at the end. And you have some some more 956 00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:50,640 ideas of, of characters you either would or would not like 957 00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:52,120 to hear. Read the Bible. 958 00:50:52,240 --> 00:50:54,320 Be sure to drop those in the comments. 959 00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:57,920 Share the show with someone that you think would enjoy it. 960 00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:02,160 And we'll be back on Sunday, week 3. 961 00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:06,320 We have a yeah, a couple weeks left in Advent Christmas Eve 962 00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:11,320 services at 3/30, 5:00 and 11:00 on December 24th. 963 00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:14,360 And yeah, it's kind of like a couple other things. 964 00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:17,320 If sign up for the e-mail if you need to message us if you're 965 00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:20,240 yeah, if you're not connected to all the all the ways. 966 00:51:20,240 --> 00:51:22,760 We've got a movie night and a game night coming up at church 967 00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:24,960 in the month of December and. There's so many fun options. 968 00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:26,480 Caroling night. Oh man, OK. 969 00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:27,920 So many fun options. There's still a lot. 970 00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:30,200 Are you a caroling person? I'm not trying to put you on the 971 00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:31,600 spot, I'm just curious all of a sudden. 972 00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:36,960 So I don't know that I've like actively done that in my adult 973 00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:38,600 life. When I was in high school, I did 974 00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:41,640 the madrigals like a cappella. Singers. 975 00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:45,000 Things and that yeah, December we usually, yeah, we got in the 976 00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:50,080 the velvety robes and went out to nursing homes and schools and 977 00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:52,320 stuff and did the so I've done it, yeah. 978 00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:53,720 That's cool. It brings joy to people. 979 00:51:53,720 --> 00:51:54,520 Yeah. Love it. 980 00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:57,600 Yeah. So all right, thanks for hanging 981 00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:01,720 with us and having more of a conversation about Isaiah 55. 982 00:52:01,720 --> 00:52:02,640 Have a blessed week, Church.