1 00:00:11,120 --> 00:00:15,120 Happy Monday, we're back in. What was that? 2 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:16,800 I don't know. I'm freaking out already. 3 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:18,040 I'm. Kind of excited to be here. 4 00:00:18,240 --> 00:00:21,400 Sweet for. No apparent reason, I'm just 5 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:22,880 really excited about the podcast. 6 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:28,160 I don't know, man, I'm here. Excited to be a part of it. 7 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:32,640 I'm here. For it bud, come here. 8 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,320 You're hilarious. I I unintentionally so I 9 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:39,880 suspect. Pastor Matt here with Pastor 10 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:44,840 Chris, the ERC Leftovers podcast coming at your ear holes this 11 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:49,600 Monday, January 12th, 2026, the year of our Lord. 12 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:54,400 Yeah, Hey, we're we're going, we're talking about the Shema 13 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:55,800 today, man. We're talking about the old 14 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:56,960 school law. We're going. 15 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:00,840 We're going old school, I don't know high church piety a little 16 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:03,160 bit as we get. We should have worn. 17 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:06,480 We should have worn robes today. Wow, yeah, I don't even own a 18 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:07,880 robe. But here's the thing. 19 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:14,040 Not robes that have anything unnecessary, like fringe for 20 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:17,480 example. Getting right into You're having 21 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:18,880 a conversation. The icebreaker, right? 22 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:22,040 Now I'm just, we're jumping right in because I'm kind of, 23 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:26,520 maybe that's why I'm all amped up today is because we just got 24 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:29,320 done talking about something that, you know, just a random 25 00:01:29,320 --> 00:01:32,360 thing that you might despise. Well, the random thing that I 26 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:36,120 would despise maybe more than any other thing in the entire 27 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,480 fashion history of the world is fringe. 28 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:42,880 Or you might say tassels or whatever, whatever that looks 29 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:46,800 like wildly unnecessary on clothing serves no purpose. 30 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:50,680 And visually for me, it drives me a little insane. 31 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:54,240 I just, I can't handle it. Do you have anything with 32 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:55,520 Fringe? No. 33 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:57,880 Oh good. So that that was my next 34 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:00,280 question. Who are the do you have people 35 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:03,720 that you hang out with that wear fringe like, like what's your 36 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:07,800 fringe exposure right now? Fringe exposure currently is at 37 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:11,240 a bare minimum as far as I can tell, which is really great. 38 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:14,160 But I think there's a couple women I know who they may or may 39 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:17,080 not have like fringe on their purses or their handbags. 40 00:02:17,640 --> 00:02:19,760 And that's something that again, I'm just like, I look at him 41 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:22,320 like. So I feel like I just don't 42 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:25,840 encounter enough of it to have a distaste for it. 43 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:27,960 Like I'm not, I don't, I don't know. 44 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:31,280 And you, I don't know. Was that more of a you've got 10 45 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:34,600 years on me, but. Definitely a thing in the 80s. 46 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,440 I mean, big deal in the 80s. Lots of lots of fringe and just 47 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:42,040 unnecessary fabric flying all over the place in long strings 48 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:45,880 of just madness. And I'm just like I, I despise 49 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:47,440 this. So I don't know why it's so 50 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:49,400 specific. It's weird. 51 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:53,400 It's weird, but it's me. I don't know. 52 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:58,360 I'm just wondering where this is like an active daily struggle 53 00:02:58,360 --> 00:02:59,400 for you. Like no. 54 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:00,800 Certainly. Certainly not. 55 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:04,320 Daily. No, I mean, but then again, you 56 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:08,480 know, and I, I recognize that the fashion and clothing and all 57 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:12,600 that kind of stuff, it has it, it comes back like, so for 58 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:16,600 example, right now we're seeing kids wearing baggier stuff, 59 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:18,720 which we did in the 90s and all that kind of stuff. 60 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:23,400 And so things come back around and I'm always afraid, maybe not 61 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:27,280 actively so, but I'm definitely afraid that fringe is going to 62 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,800 make its way back into like, popular clothing. 63 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:33,840 I'm tired and it scares me weirdly. 64 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:38,160 I'm just really excited because I honestly don't have, I just 65 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:39,720 haven't been on the lookout I guess. 66 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:45,840 Like I have no idea if anyone at our church wears fringe semi 67 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:49,120 regular or or or anything. I'm very excited to see people 68 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:52,880 come out of the woodwork just to like come up and greet you and 69 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:56,600 see if your skin crawls. Like I know and and The thing is 70 00:03:56,600 --> 00:04:01,320 like I know I'm setting myself up to just be messed with now 71 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:04,400 but I'm just being honest. Fringe weirds me out. 72 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:06,840 I think it could happen. So that's our that's our 73 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:08,840 question of the day today, our our icebreaker. 74 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:13,240 What is what is something seemingly mundane that is just 75 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:17,320 it's widely accepted, but you just don't care for, for for 76 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:21,040 whatever reason. For me, fashion wise, I know we, 77 00:04:21,079 --> 00:04:22,640 I have, I have a different answer that we already talked 78 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:26,440 about, but fashion wise, I don't understand sequins really. 79 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:31,080 And maybe it's just the girl dad life stage that I'm in right 80 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:34,120 now, but seemingly anything that my girls have that have sequins 81 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:37,920 on it, like inevitably, how do you first, how do you wash it? 82 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:41,720 Like I feel like maybe I'm just doing it wrong, but I feel like 83 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:45,480 no matter what you you can't. And if it only part of it is 84 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:48,680 sequin, like how do you wash the rest of it when you do wash it? 85 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:51,720 I feel like some of them start coming off even just from 86 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:53,640 regular use. I feel like the sequins just are 87 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:57,600 not on there extremely securely. So now there's these little 88 00:04:58,280 --> 00:05:01,640 plastic glitter things all over my house and their shirt is 89 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:03,240 missing half of them and it just looks like. 90 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:06,280 So I just, I don't get the functionality other than on like 91 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:08,920 a show dress. Like that's the one. 92 00:05:09,280 --> 00:05:12,560 Whatever a, a, a, a show choir, a dance number or something like 93 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:13,680 that. OK, I whatever, wear that. 94 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,120 I, I see it more as a costume. I don't understand sequins on 95 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:21,880 like everyday regular wearing for just for like an outfit it. 96 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:24,440 Feels extra, doesn't it? Yeah, 'cause I think you nailed 97 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:26,120 it. Like, you know, maybe maybe on a 98 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:28,560 prom dress or something like that, Like you. 99 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:32,640 Very specific context, but like. Like on AT shirt. 100 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,840 Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well, 'cause I even like, I have a Christmas 101 00:05:35,840 --> 00:05:37,680 sweater and maybe that seems more specific, but I have a 102 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:40,480 Christmas sweater. Like there's parts of Santa that 103 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:44,200 are sequin on there so that they're like glitter. 104 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:47,760 Did I see that one this year? That's the black one, but you 105 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:49,360 can't really tell because most of them are missing. 106 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:52,080 Like they've fallen off. So like it's, that's what I'm 107 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:54,040 saying. They're not even present. 108 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:55,240 They're not even present anymore. 109 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:57,840 Like they were supposed to be there, but they've like over the 110 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:01,680 years they have come off. And so I don't know, maybe I'm 111 00:06:01,840 --> 00:06:03,720 maybe I'm getting cheap. Maybe someone out there can 112 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:07,040 inform me that maybe there's like high end sequins that don't 113 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:09,960 fall, that don't fall off or are better engineered. 114 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:11,360 Or maybe I just need to learn to sew. 115 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:12,280 I don't. I don't know. 116 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:16,120 Yeah. But the other, So fashion wise, 117 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:18,120 that was it for me. The other just like seemingly 118 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:20,360 mundane thing that is really fine. 119 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:27,560 Just don't care for wallpaper. I just, I don't get it. 120 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:30,040 I don't know that I've ever lived in a house that was 121 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:32,960 wallpapered. I don't have a whole lot of 122 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:36,720 wallpaper around me really. I just don't get it. 123 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:40,280 I like I like paint, I guess. And it seems like Wallpapers 124 00:06:40,280 --> 00:06:42,040 more work both ways. Like it seems like it's more 125 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:44,760 work to put on, definitely more work to take off. 126 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:48,240 And I don't think I've ever really seen a wallpaper then I'm 127 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:51,640 like, you know what, that wall looks awesome because there's 128 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:53,680 wallpaper on it. I just, I don't know. 129 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:56,920 And maybe that I just no one's feeling judged because of their 130 00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:59,280 wallpaper in their houses, but I don't, I don't know. 131 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:02,680 I just don't get it. I think some wallpaper in in a 132 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:05,840 smaller space it can it can kind of look nice. 133 00:07:05,840 --> 00:07:08,080 Like an accent wall thing. Yeah, maybe. 134 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:10,160 I think it. Can I don't mind Like there's 135 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:13,480 people that I know people have like picture frames that like 136 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:15,960 the back of it is like wallpaper and there's some other like 137 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:17,760 picture on it. Like that doesn't bother me. 138 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:20,280 I I mean like wallpaper on a wall, sure. 139 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:24,400 Not as like craft material. Well, I think the other problem 140 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:27,240 that can happen with wallpaper is, you know, obviously it's 141 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:30,640 there because it has some kind of repeating design pattern, 142 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:33,200 whatever. How do you hang anything on that 143 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:36,520 wall that will work? Because if it has a frame, it 144 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:40,280 has whatever it it just feels like it's blocking what is 145 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:43,440 naturally a, you know, repeating pattern. 146 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:46,320 I don't know. I love how our critiques so far 147 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:49,760 are, are things in the area of of fashion and interior design 148 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:54,120 of which we are not like we are not, we are not noted 149 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:55,880 authorities on either of those things. 150 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:58,440 And we're just throwing, we're throwing shade at all these 151 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:00,000 things that we just don't understand. 152 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:01,640 We don't understand sequins and oh. 153 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:05,160 I understand fringe. I understand. 154 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:09,000 I understand that is evil. No, it's not evil. 155 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:11,480 It's not evil. It's just I'm weird. 156 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:14,720 Anything else seemingly mundane that you just you just don't 157 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:15,720 have. You know. 158 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:19,440 Distasteful for you? OK, so I find yield signs 159 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:21,560 distasteful. While. 160 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:24,960 You're driving. OK, so you're telling me maybe 161 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:29,240 go, maybe don't, I don't know. Just depends on the situation. 162 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:32,400 Just just decide for yourself. And I'm like, no, you, you need 163 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:34,280 to commit. Either I don't have to stop at 164 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:38,679 all or put something there that says no, you, you have to stop 165 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:40,559 no matter what. Like commit. 166 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:43,440 So I don't, I don't, I don't appreciate yield signs. 167 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:49,000 So I don't mind yield signs because I don't like stop signs 168 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:52,000 now. And I feel like at one point in 169 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:58,840 time it was just yield signs. And then we have we, we, we 170 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:05,120 escalated up to the stop signs because of stupid people. 171 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:11,000 Like we had yield signs, but then there were just more and 172 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,840 more people that were like, no, I can make it like I don't, I 173 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:15,560 don't, I don't have to yield. I can make it through. 174 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:18,000 And then we were relying on people to just have like common 175 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:21,040 sense of when they could go and when they couldn't, but they 176 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:22,560 didn't know. And there were too many 177 00:09:22,560 --> 00:09:23,880 accidents. And now it was, Nope. 178 00:09:24,680 --> 00:09:28,120 Now we just need you to stop even when, and that's my 179 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:30,560 frustration with stop signs. And I feel like most of the 180 00:09:30,560 --> 00:09:34,760 time, I would say a majority of the time I come to a stop sign, 181 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:40,280 it is unnecessary for me to stop the the flow of traffic would 182 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:45,560 not be impeded by me just continuing to go, right. 183 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:49,160 So that's my I, I don't know. I don't, I don't mind the yield 184 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:53,160 time, but but that would require a common sense among people that 185 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:56,240 isn't necessarily common. So but that's probably why we 186 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:59,320 have stop signs. So I get I get your middling 187 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:03,160 feel for the yield sign. This is why I'm I'm a huge 188 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:06,960 proponent for roundabouts. I love roundabouts. 189 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:10,120 I love roundabouts and I know there's a lot of you out there 190 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:12,840 that don't like them. You don't understand them. 191 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:15,800 You don't. And believe me, I've and, and 192 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:19,280 believe me, I've been last year we went to refuel conference and 193 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:22,200 the driver of the other car, like I, there were some other 194 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:24,880 circumstances happening in, but the dude is just like doing laps 195 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:30,640 in the roundabout and I just, I'm mischaracterizing the 196 00:10:30,680 --> 00:10:34,000 situation. But yeah, I if you don't like 197 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,080 roundabouts, I just feel like you haven't been properly 198 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:40,040 informed of how to use them because they are great. 199 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:42,560 They're wonderful. And I mean, The thing is like I 200 00:10:42,560 --> 00:10:45,360 have one job in a roundabout. It's to look to my left. 201 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:47,600 Yep. As long as there's no and to go, 202 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:49,400 really, you shouldn't stop. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 203 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:51,720 And that's a great thing. Like I don't ever actually have 204 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:53,440 to stop. Most of the time. 205 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:55,080 I think they put in a roundabout. 206 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:58,120 What is that? Veterans on Davenport, kind of 207 00:10:58,120 --> 00:10:59,800 that northeast. There's a couple of them. 208 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:01,960 Yeah, and they're great. I love them. 209 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:03,520 So great. Yeah, they're great. 210 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:05,560 Yeah. So I could do it. 211 00:11:05,560 --> 00:11:08,040 And and that's, I think that's my greater frustration with stop 212 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:10,240 signs. It would just be a greater 213 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:13,400 efficiency if we just had roundabouts like that Would just 214 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:15,640 that would just be better. I think Europe had that figured 215 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:19,280 out in general. Like we're kind of late to the 216 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:21,680 party in America, but I think Europe had that figured out. 217 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:23,520 Do you think that's why we don't do it? 218 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:27,440 Maybe we're like rebelling against the we don't need, we 219 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:30,000 don't need that European idea infiltrating our roadways. 220 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:32,840 Yeah, it's one of the infiltrate. 221 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:35,360 What? How do you think it starts? 222 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:45,160 Man, I'm sorry, we're way off the rails. 223 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:50,720 Well, but, but maybe maybe you're right, maybe we don't 224 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:53,600 have more of them because it's like, well, that wasn't our 225 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:55,720 idea. There are definitely times when 226 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:58,560 it's like you hesitate to do something that's good because it 227 00:11:58,560 --> 00:12:00,040 wasn't your idea. Sure. 228 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:03,400 So we have that air of like American superiority amongst 229 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:07,160 like the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is 230 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:09,920 just like, like we get it. But you know what? 231 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:12,320 We're, we're just going to wait a few years till we, till we 232 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:14,000 have a better idea than that. And then we're going to start 233 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,480 doing like we're going to start doing like equilateral 234 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:19,720 triangles. Well. 235 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:22,880 Roundabouts. Try this Pentagon to try. 236 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:30,800 Really. We've been putting the stop sign 237 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:32,920 the wrong way. It's a lay down. 238 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:36,200 The Octagon, the 8 sided intersection. 239 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:38,760 That's wow. That's going to go really well, 240 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:43,120 you know. But I, it makes me wonder on the 241 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:46,480 other side of the coin of this Europe, American kind of thing. 242 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:51,360 We didn't, I might be wrong, but I think I'm right. 243 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:55,880 Didn't we, like start driving automobiles first? 244 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:58,920 Like as like a main mode of transportation? 245 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:01,200 And we decided, hey, guess what, guys? 246 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:04,960 We're going to drive on the right side of the road, RIGHT, 247 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:08,320 Right. Well, yes and two fold meeting 248 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:11,080 right, right side of the right, left and also like the correct 249 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:12,000 side of the road. Right. 250 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:15,480 And then Europe is they kind of get automobiles and that's 251 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:17,240 becomes a regular form of transportation. 252 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:19,720 Like, you know what the Americans drive on the right. 253 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:23,200 I think we're going to drive on the left just because we're not 254 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:24,920 going to do it the way they do. No way. 255 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:28,000 Shack up these assembly lines. So that way when Americans come 256 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:31,640 over, they get in all sorts of accidents and it's very 257 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:33,840 difficult for them. I don't, I don't know, I wonder 258 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:40,920 who who started driving first. It looks like, oh man, it looks 259 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:45,880 like they originated in Europe, was perfected and like 260 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:50,840 economically implemented best in America. 261 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:58,240 But it looked like they started. So, I mean, Germany and France, 262 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:00,120 it looks like we're the first to start. 263 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:05,920 And unless they started on the right side of the road, yeah, I 264 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:08,960 think, I think that was probably it started on the right. 265 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:12,000 And then in America, why, Yeah. Why do we? 266 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,920 Why do I don't know? Why do we drive on the left side 267 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:18,960 of the road? Like for Europeans? 268 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:22,640 Or on the right side, we drive on, we drive on the left side of 269 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:23,960 the car. So yeah, sorry. 270 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:27,680 Left side of the car, right side of the road which is interesting 271 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:34,000 too. Driving large teams of oxen 272 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,360 horses best on the left for most right-handed people. 273 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:41,880 Oh, that's interesting. So in wagons it was easier for 274 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:45,840 the stronger right-handed side to draw the reins of the ox. 275 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:48,560 So if you have like 2 oxen in front of you, there's one 276 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:50,320 further to your right. So it makes sense to have more 277 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:53,440 strength and that's but that way they would have that same 278 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:56,920 problem in Europe. So why did why did they why did 279 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:58,480 they start driving on the right? I don't know. 280 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:01,320 That's very if you've never joined the Leftovers podcast 281 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:04,240 before, this is fairly par for the course. 282 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:06,800 We can wind up anywhere in our discussion before we jump into 283 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:08,280 the Bible. We always end up in the Bible. 284 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:12,440 But before we get there and review this weekend's sermon 285 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:17,200 text on the 1st 15 minutes or so or air game or anything. 286 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:20,960 Yeah. So let us know anything from 287 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:23,480 fringe to wallpaper to stop and yield signs. 288 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:26,040 What are what are the mundane things in your life that just 289 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:28,440 you don't understand or seem unnecessary? 290 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:34,960 This is a great start to a Monday. 291 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:41,720 Yes, really, really solid start. Anyway, we are turning to church 292 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:44,440 things. We're in the middle of our four 293 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:48,400 FS series of faith, family, fitness and finances. 294 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:52,120 You knocked out Week 2 for us yesterday with family in 295 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:55,880 Deuteronomy chapter 6. You covered 15 verses. 296 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:58,560 You, you focused in on a smaller section of that. 297 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:01,280 We're going to kind of expand the thought and delve into some 298 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:04,600 deeper details. Some things that, yeah, were 299 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:07,880 left unsaid yesterday just couldn't fit into 25 minutes of, 300 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:12,800 of teaching and and sermonizing, which is fine. 301 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:15,720 That's why we have this podcast to to talk about the leftovers. 302 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:21,280 So yeah, where would you like to begin? 303 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:24,880 Well, right out of the gate, you know, I didn't. 304 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:29,000 I didn't really take the time to talk about commands, 305 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:32,240 commandments and statutes. And so, you know, you have to, 306 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:36,000 if if you go back a little bit, you have to wonder like, OK, so 307 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:39,600 in Deuteronomy, we're not actually laying out what they 308 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:41,640 are. We're just God is just saying 309 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:45,560 follow them, do them. And so, you know, primarily, of 310 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:49,360 course, we're dealing with the law, the the Decalogue, you 311 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:53,400 might say the 10 commandments. And so you know, when the 312 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:56,480 Israelites come into the land that God has one for them, 313 00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:00,000 promised them, etcetera. Like this is the lifestyle with 314 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,760 which you are to live amongst your community, right? 315 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:07,920 And you have to be careful to do them because the Lord knows, as 316 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:11,960 we talked about before, the the commandments are not there to 317 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:15,119 pause or stop or withhold your freedom. 318 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:18,680 They're actually there to help you flourish as a community. 319 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,880 Because if we are all even just the 10 commandments, if we are 320 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:27,839 all abiding by these things, life is going to be pretty great 321 00:17:27,839 --> 00:17:30,600 for us inside of a community and even inside our individual 322 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:33,600 homes. So yeah, God is clearly leaning 323 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:36,960 out like, hey, we set these things in place for your 324 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:39,480 ultimate good and for your neighbors ultimate good. 325 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:42,280 So you have to be careful to do them. 326 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:45,800 Yeah, and I think that's the important part of this and 327 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:47,640 really commands in the Bible in general. 328 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:51,760 I found myself saying this to, to my kids more often now that 329 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:56,480 they can, they're getting old enough to like question things 330 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:59,120 or, or, or especially they're well, they've always been old 331 00:17:59,120 --> 00:18:02,480 enough to defy rules, but like now they're now they're starting 332 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:05,480 to like question the reasoning behind rules. 333 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:08,680 And I find myself more and more often saying I, I'm not telling 334 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:12,000 you this because I love rules. I'm, I'm not, I'm not telling 335 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:13,640 you this like just to have rules. 336 00:18:14,120 --> 00:18:17,440 I'm telling you this because I've made, I've made that 337 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:20,360 mistake. I, I did that thing wrong and 338 00:18:20,360 --> 00:18:24,200 I'm, I'm trying, I set this rule up so that you wouldn't repeat 339 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:25,840 my mistake. You can learn from my life 340 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:27,440 experience. And I'm not saying God. 341 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:29,520 That's not the same way God makes rules. 342 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:33,080 God didn't make rules because trial and error, he's screwed. 343 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:34,840 Hey, learn from, learn from my experience. 344 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:38,520 He just knows best, right? It's, it's the same in that line 345 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:42,160 of thinking. I just know it will go well with 346 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:46,560 you if you follow this way, if you follow my way, right? 347 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:50,520 Is is kind of the spirit of setting these rules out not to 348 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:55,600 not to rule with an iron fist, even, not even an exchange, sort 349 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:58,240 of legalism. So it like prove to me that you 350 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:03,040 can be right and righteous. It's just the best thing for us 351 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:07,200 that this is the way you should organize and and live out your 352 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:11,520 life, right? Well, and it's and it brings 353 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:15,760 about again, why do a four week sermon series on on these 354 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:19,400 topics? Because these topics, they're 355 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:22,520 not built just because we like them or because we want to talk 356 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:24,400 about them. These topics are built around 357 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:29,920 God's word and how he has designed us to live best, right? 358 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:34,200 So whether that's my individual faith, whether that's how I'm to 359 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:37,160 give that away to my family, whether that's, you know, my 360 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:40,200 body, a temple and all those things are, are my finances, 361 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:43,880 what I'm how I'm stewarding, all these things are all the things 362 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:46,280 that we're going to talk about and have talked about are things 363 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:49,240 that God has prescribed as this is best for you. 364 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:51,760 This is the best methodology possible. 365 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:56,320 And sure, you can try other ways, but it will not end well 366 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:58,760 for you, or at least not as well as it could have. 367 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:00,200 Sure. Yeah. 368 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:04,800 And that's not to say it. Well, it does kind of always. 369 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:08,800 It does end in death, right? If we, if we aren't covered by 370 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:11,720 the blood of Jesus in our in our misdeeds or in our rebellion. 371 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,480 It does end in death to not follow these things. 372 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:18,240 Jesus's blood of course, covers those things. 373 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:23,240 But again, if it's the hypothetical, if we could and 374 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:27,000 you and you hinted at it earlier, it it does kind of the 375 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,800 collective in it matters. If there's if there's a portion 376 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:33,120 of us following all these things and a portion of us not, we're 377 00:20:33,120 --> 00:20:35,880 still going to feel the the brokenness and destruction of 378 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:40,080 the portion that isn't. But in this, that's just about. 379 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:44,080 Oh no. I was just about to say 380 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:50,120 spiritual communism and I don't know, like I'm just I'm just 381 00:20:50,120 --> 00:20:54,240 like, if we could collectively all do good and follow the 10 382 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:58,920 commandments perfectly, right, all of us, everyone on earth, we 383 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:02,640 would like it would be heavenly in a sense, right, Like the 384 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:05,720 world, the world would be perfect. 385 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:11,480 Wild hypothetical. Obviously we're so far from 386 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:13,840 that, but that's that's only to reiterate. 387 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:19,880 The point of this is how God designed perfect life to be 388 00:21:20,120 --> 00:21:23,000 right. If we could if, if, if we could 389 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:26,280 follow through on it perfectly as only Jesus did. 390 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:30,040 That's our example. Yeah, I mean, just a few quick 391 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:34,640 thoughts, you know, or ideas that along those lines from the 392 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:38,800 10 Commandments, man, What would marriages look like if nobody 393 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:41,720 ever lusted after somebody that wasn't their spouse? 394 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:46,800 What would, what would our relationships be like if nobody 395 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:50,840 ever told a lie or gossiped? What would what would it look 396 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:54,800 like if when my neighbor pulled up in a new car, I wasn't 397 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:56,800 jealous, but I was excited for them. 398 00:21:57,040 --> 00:22:00,240 You know, I'm so happy that like, you have a job that has 399 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,080 provided this really cool thing for you. 400 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:05,000 Like, I'm so excited for you, you know, instead of being 401 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:06,360 jealous and kind of bitter about it. 402 00:22:06,360 --> 00:22:09,280 Like just those couple of examples. 403 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,560 The world would be wildly different, and it would be 404 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:15,240 infinitely better. Oh, yeah, Yep. 405 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:19,640 So that's where we're at in, in the commands of Deuteronomy 406 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:22,000 chapter 1, because it's it starts off, this is the 407 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,400 commandment, the statutes and rules that the Lord your God 408 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:26,960 commanded me to teach you that you may do them in the land to 409 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:29,000 which you're going over to possess it. 410 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:31,640 That you may fear the Lord your God, you and your Son, and your 411 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:34,000 son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, 412 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:37,400 which I command you all the days of your life, and that your days 413 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:39,880 may be long. Yeah, there's a promise 414 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:41,160 attached. There is. 415 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:44,560 And I, and I love that because it's not, again, it's not just 416 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:46,680 God trying to restrict your freedom. 417 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:52,360 It's that, hey, if you can strive to live the way that I've 418 00:22:52,360 --> 00:22:56,160 prescribed for you, life is going to go so well for you. 419 00:22:56,160 --> 00:23:00,240 And and I'm promising you a longer and a better life if you 420 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:03,600 will adhere to the methodology with which I prescribed. 421 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:05,080 Yeah, because you got the promise. 422 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:07,080 Even goes on in verse 3 of chapter 6. 423 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:10,160 We're in Deuteronomy here, therefore, O Israel, and be 424 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,160 careful to do them the commandments that it may go well 425 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:15,480 with you and that you may multiply greatly as the Lord the 426 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:18,400 God of your father's has promised you in a land flowing 427 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:22,720 with milk and honey that it may go well with you. 428 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:26,680 You can you can choose to live your life separate from these in 429 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:32,480 defiance of these gonna go less well, right I've I've I've found 430 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:34,640 myself coming back to this in the in the past couple weeks. 431 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,200 I'm not saying we have a perfectly figured out here at 432 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:44,320 church, you and I, even in in the ministry something gosh, as 433 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:47,000 far as church experience, elder, elder experience, staff 434 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,720 experience, close to 40 years between the two of us, which 435 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:54,120 sounds a little crazy to say, but that's, that's what it is. 436 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:57,800 And so we're still all that is we're still learning. 437 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:00,040 We're we don't have this figured out, but we've been doing it a 438 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:03,520 while too. As far as like the next steps 439 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:07,320 or, or, or finding community, doing community as a church 440 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:10,360 being being getting baptized and, and joining a life group 441 00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:14,320 and and then finding a spot to serve using the gifts that God 442 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,800 has given you to, to contribute to the community, to the church, 443 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:23,240 to the family here. I, I can't think of, I have an 444 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:27,440 experience, at least in my, in my time here at, at ERC almost 8 445 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,480 years. I can't think of someone who 446 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:34,720 has, who has dove deep and done those things, who has connected 447 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:38,240 in baptism, in in Bible study and in small groups and life 448 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:44,640 groups and who has also actively served who at some point later 449 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:48,720 on has been like, no, this, this ain't it. 450 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:52,920 No, that this, this is not, this is not the life of Christian 451 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:56,160 living that I've that I've come to understand in the Bible. 452 00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:58,560 So I'm not saying we have it perfectly figured out, but I, I, 453 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:03,240 I am, I am seeing a bit of a formulaic sort of equation in in 454 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,600 our actions here too of this is a life fulfilled. 455 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:10,040 This is a life in an in encouragement with God's people 456 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:15,160 in in submission to his word and his command and how to how to 457 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:19,840 know Jesus and make him known. That to me seems to result in 458 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:21,720 that it may go well with you. Right. 459 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:25,040 And that's just the thing like as you talk about that you're 460 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:30,840 100% spot on to and it's in it. It goes so far beyond even just 461 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:34,080 like, man, this was not what I thought Christianity was. 462 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:38,560 It goes further into I've never met somebody who's doing all 463 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:41,640 those things who's like my life just doesn't feel fulfilled. 464 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:43,680 It doesn't feel happy. It doesn't feel connected. 465 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:47,840 It doesn't like no, every single person you meet who is doing 466 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:52,680 those things, who their faith, their life really it, it 467 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:55,920 revolves around their faith and, and, and how that plays itself 468 00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:57,480 out. I've never met anybody who's 469 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:01,040 like, yeah, well, I'm just, I'm just not happy really. 470 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:04,120 Like and I understand we all have struggles and stress and 471 00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:06,480 all those things that come with living in a broken world, but 472 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:11,800 like through and through at like 100% clip those people who are 473 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:15,400 involved in in living life that way man, there's a level of 474 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:18,800 peace and fulfillment that comes that you just don't see in other 475 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:20,760 people who are doing Christian ish. 476 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,640 Right. And don't, don't hear what we're 477 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:26,840 not saying. I don't, I don't think I'm not, 478 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,840 I'm not saying that this is this is the solution to all your 479 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:35,360 problems and you will have a perfect oppressed free life. 480 00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:37,560 No, there's, there's still going to be struggle. 481 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:39,920 There's there's still going to be problems. 482 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:44,240 But within this, I think we've, we've found a better way to live 483 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:46,720 in encouragement through it. It's what it's what we started 484 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:49,200 talking about or I started talking about a little bit 485 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,760 yesterday with the the bearing the burden sort of thing that 486 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,360 the Bible doesn't promise us that bring them to God and just 487 00:26:54,360 --> 00:26:58,640 poof, they they vanish. No promises that he walks along 488 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:02,720 and bears it with you leaning on his strength. 489 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,040 And I think that's that's sort of the same thing here when 490 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:09,080 we're leaning on God's commands for direction. 491 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:13,800 Of course we have to, we have to lean on his strength to even try 492 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:17,160 to endeavor to keep them right to, to, to keep them well. 493 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:20,040 And certainly I think we again, not in an earning way, but we 494 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:24,800 should certainly strive to keep them though, though we know we, 495 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,880 we fail, of course we have to rely on his strength to even 496 00:27:28,120 --> 00:27:34,120 even try to keep them correctly. So I I think, yeah, I think 497 00:27:34,120 --> 00:27:37,880 that's in there. But there's just there's a 498 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:43,320 fuller picture of a life fulfilled, a life that it may go 499 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:44,880 well with you. When we have, we have this 500 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:49,400 blueprint, this layout, this outline really from God of this 501 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:51,120 is what it looks like and it can be that simple. 502 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:54,920 And I kind of, I, I maybe briefly talked about it 503 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:58,280 yesterday, but you know, it's not inherently bad to have a 504 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:03,080 very full life. So for example, there are few 505 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:09,000 days that happen in the course of a year where I'm not doing 20 506 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:10,360 different things in the same day. 507 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:14,680 But all those things are, I mean, the vast, vast majority of 508 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,520 those things are incredibly life giving and they're fulfilling 509 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:22,480 and they bring a lot of peace and a lot of joy to in 510 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:27,240 otherwise, you know, perhaps mundane, rudimentary kind of 511 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:29,720 existence where you're just punching the clock and you're 512 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,520 doing A to B to C and it's, you know, you're, you're checking 513 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,880 the boxes, but it's not bringing you a lot of joy. 514 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:38,800 It's not bringing you new peace, you know, but so I mean, like, 515 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:42,680 yeah, the fullness of a life lived in and through the way 516 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:46,480 that God prescribes it. It's, it's not perfect, but 517 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:50,800 it's, it's, it's a lot of fun and it's incredibly enjoyable 518 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:52,720 from from my point of view. Yeah. 519 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:58,040 Then we come to verse 5 and chapter 6 and this is this is 520 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:02,760 the answer to a question that Jesus answered right? 521 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:04,840 What it what is the greatest commandment? 522 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:07,080 You should love the Lord your God with all your heart, all 523 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:08,600 your soul and all your might, right? 524 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:12,560 That's that's the answer he's he's alluding back to we, we 525 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,680 talk about how God's faithful and constant and his word 526 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,440 doesn't change. Well, Jesus is saying the same 527 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:22,240 thing few thousand years later that Moses is saying, Hey, this 528 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:26,640 is this is the commandment. This is the thing and at this 529 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:31,200 passage even is kind of the backbone of this whole series as 530 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,280 far as orienting our priorities correctly. 531 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,840 How do we love the Lord your God with all with all our heart, 532 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:41,960 soul, mind and strength or might heart, soul and might well align 533 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:43,920 these that your personal relationship, your personal 534 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:48,400 faith in God ordered correctly. That's the first thing. 535 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,760 Do you do that as an individual? So you can therefore do that in 536 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:55,360 your family again, either blood relatives or as, as you Jesus 537 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:58,480 teaches in the New Testament, anyone who knows the Lord and 538 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:03,040 anyone who calls him Christ as Savior is your mother and 539 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:06,000 brother and sister, right. And in in that way. 540 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,480 So that's family. We're speaking in the in the 541 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:12,040 broader sense. And then of course, your how, 542 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:13,880 how you order your, your fitness. 543 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:17,000 And then that's, that's physical, emotional and, and, 544 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:21,800 and mental really just our how, how we ordered those things. 545 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:26,280 Well, are are we a worker it for the the Kingdom of God? 546 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:30,160 Are we aligning those things in obedience to to how God's 547 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,960 created us? That's how we do our our fitness 548 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,680 correctly and in those ways and that of course, finances 549 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:38,520 earthly, earthly resources. That all starts, though, from 550 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:40,480 this one thing. Love the Lord your God with all 551 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:43,080 your heart, soul and mind. We actually talked about it in 552 00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:44,600 my life Group A little bit last night. 553 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:51,760 Just the idea of would I be a better husband if I I could 554 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:54,960 wholeheartedly love the Lord with all my heart, with all my 555 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,800 soul and all my might. I would be an infinitely better 556 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:02,360 husband if I if and when I pursue that with excellence. 557 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,600 Yeah, I, I love my kids better when I do that. 558 00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:07,280 I love my wife better when I do that. 559 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:11,280 I'm better for a bigger community when I'm seeking God 560 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:14,600 at every turn because it it reorients my heart. 561 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:19,240 It reorients my priorities. It reorients my attitude towards 562 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,160 other people. Because all of a sudden if, if 563 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:26,720 I'm seeking God with, with my whole being, all of a sudden I'm 564 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:31,760 not seeing another individual who maybe is causing some drama 565 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,000 or some problems, whether it's in my life or somebody else's. 566 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,800 I'm not, excuse me, I'm not seeing them as a bother. 567 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:41,920 I'm seeing that person as an image bearer of God who is going 568 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:45,320 through some stuff that I may or may not be able to help them 569 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,720 navigate. And so all of a sudden it's not 570 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:50,560 just another like, oh gosh, now I got to deal with this person. 571 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:54,000 No, it's how can I help you better navigate this too? 572 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,800 Because as an image bearer of God, as a brother and sister in 573 00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:01,440 Christ, whatever that looks like now, you've gained my sympathy, 574 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,160 you've gained my empathy and, and I just want to help. 575 00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:08,200 Yeah, that's so good. These first couple of verses, 576 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:11,800 verses four and five are kind of the intro, the beginning of the 577 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:13,440 Shema that I think you want to talk about. 578 00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:16,120 We really didn't dive into that in the message too much 579 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:22,120 yesterday. The Shema is a, one of one of 580 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:25,560 two prayers specifically commanded in the Torah, right? 581 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,520 And there's actually, so it's, it's a fixed daily prayer in, in 582 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:31,400 Judaism. That's said, there's a few 583 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:35,440 different parts to it derived from different passages in 584 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,840 Deuteronomy. But this is Part 1 right here, 585 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:42,680 verses 4 through 9 in chapter 6. There's, there's a middle part 586 00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,520 that actually repeats some similar phrases in Deuteronomy 587 00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:50,440 11/13 through 21. And then it closes out in a 588 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:56,000 passage in in Numbers #1537 through 41 again. 589 00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:59,760 But do you want to get us into this, this kind of first part of 590 00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:01,840 the Shema here, Deuteronomy 6, four through 9? 591 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,960 Yeah, so I mean, I, I think it's, it's such a beautiful 592 00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:08,960 reminder. And maybe maybe in a similar 593 00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:12,320 fashion in the New Testament, you know, we have the disciples 594 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:14,560 saying Jesus teach us how to pray. 595 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:19,000 Other, other rabbis teach their, you know, their students, their 596 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:24,000 people, you know how to pray. This is maybe the original 597 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,400 thing, right? And, and think about it. 598 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:30,960 If I woke up any given morning and I and I started my day with 599 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:35,840 the Lord our God, the Lord is 1. And then, you know, and, and, 600 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,400 and I kind of lead my day off with that. 601 00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:41,160 And then as I and I'm and I'm appreciative. 602 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,440 And so now my heart is put back in the position, you know, 603 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:48,320 through these verses to say, OK, I know what my priorities are. 604 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:51,880 I know where my heart's at. I know what the things are that 605 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:54,720 I want to put out into my immediate family and I want to 606 00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,560 put out into the world. These are the things that I want 607 00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,760 to teach and and speak about and talk about no matter where I'm 608 00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:03,560 going. And then as I end my day with 609 00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:09,320 those same thoughts, the Lord our God is 1 amazing to look 610 00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,760 back at the day or even look forward into the next day going 611 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:15,320 Yep, I know God is present. I know he's here. 612 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:19,040 I know he has a plan and I know that those plans are good for 613 00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:21,280 me. Like his commandments are built 614 00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:24,840 for my flourishing. And so to start and end my day 615 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:26,960 that way. Incredibly powerful. 616 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:31,480 And so the the fact that Jewish people across the centuries have 617 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:36,920 been faithful to this and and we too can be faithful to a prayer 618 00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,040 of this sort. And think about this prayer too. 619 00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:41,520 What does it tell you? It tells you about the character 620 00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:45,600 and the nature of God. So the focus is very not me 621 00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:48,199 necessarily. And Jesus does the same thing as 622 00:34:48,199 --> 00:34:50,000 he teaches the disciples how to pray. 623 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:53,520 The very first, you know, thoughts in that prayer, they're 624 00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:56,040 not about us. It's about the gravity and the 625 00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:59,640 certainty and the beauty of God. And so in all of these different 626 00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:04,160 ways like it reorients our heart to be where it ought to be. 627 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:07,480 Yeah, and you actually have. So even if we think about this 628 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:11,360 prayer, the Shema and, and the Lord's Prayer, I was looking 629 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,680 forward to March 8th earlier and that's one of the notes you have 630 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:17,960 in there for the sermon on the 8th is that the Lord's Prayer 631 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:22,360 only only a 6th of that prayer is about us, right? 632 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:25,160 It's, it's about, it's about God's ways and what and what 633 00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,840 God's doing. And if you even run through the 634 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:31,080 1st the the the verses of this passage here, Deuteronomy 6 four 635 00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:34,160 through 9 love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and 636 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:37,560 might and then teach them diligently to your children. 637 00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,160 Talk of them when you sit in the house, when you walk by the way, 638 00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:43,880 when you lie down, bind them as a sign on your hand. 639 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:45,840 They shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 640 00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,320 Write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates 641 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:51,960 beautiful. I know some of this is older 642 00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,120 language frontlets, A frontlet. We'll talk about that in a 643 00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:59,160 minute. But the the the apparentness of 644 00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:02,560 God is what comes out in all this imagery, right? 645 00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:08,520 Like how readily are the ways of God shining through your life? 646 00:36:09,240 --> 00:36:14,440 Are they are are they the welcoming entrance to your home? 647 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:18,240 Are they fixed on your face? Really is what is what that 648 00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,400 frontlets between your eyes are like? 649 00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:23,480 Is it is it that readily apparent? 650 00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:28,400 Do you, do your kids know what's on your mind and heart? 651 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:31,320 Is it, is it the things they do? And I'll ask that question 652 00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,240 somewhat rhetorically, they do, but what is that? 653 00:36:34,240 --> 00:36:36,920 What, what do they think is on your mind and heart? 654 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:39,760 Is it the things of God to do those that make up your 655 00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,360 household? Do they know that it's, it's the 656 00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:44,480 things of God that are on your heart and mind that you're 657 00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:45,920 considering that you're talking about? 658 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:50,000 That's really, again the right ordering of things in in our 659 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,760 lives. That is, you know, as you were 660 00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,480 talking through that, I'm just kind of beside myself. 661 00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:58,200 I'm not, I'm just kind of thinking like what a beautiful 662 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:02,480 life lived with and with your family and your household and 663 00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:07,880 beyond where we are so tuned into God's heart that we are 664 00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,000 just reflecting that all the time. 665 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,720 What a what a fantastic and beautiful way to live. 666 00:37:13,720 --> 00:37:17,680 What a peace giving way to live. What a joy filled way to live. 667 00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:23,800 And again, were we able to exercise this all the time? 668 00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:26,400 Oh my gosh. The world would be a place that 669 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,800 you would never want to leave. It would be a place that, I 670 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:32,360 mean, it's just, it's an amazing thing. 671 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:35,720 And I'm just trying to kind of, I got kind of goosebumps. 672 00:37:35,720 --> 00:37:38,640 I'm trying to wrap my head around what that could actually 673 00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:41,840 be like. And The thing is, God, as he 674 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,960 prescribes this, he knows that these people are imperfect. 675 00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:47,920 He knows that they're going to fail, but he also knows that 676 00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:50,360 he's got grace and mercy that abounds. 677 00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:54,080 It's new every morning and he wants to reset our hearts on a 678 00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:58,600 daily or even moment by moment basis to rewind us right back to 679 00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:02,880 to what He knows his best. And as we have the strength to 680 00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:06,600 do that man, our families will thrive. 681 00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:10,680 Our communities will thrive. It is not, it is not an 682 00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:14,520 impossibility that we would actually live this out as best 683 00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:19,080 as we can to, to create, yeah, to create better families and 684 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:21,720 communities. And I just think that it's not a 685 00:38:21,720 --> 00:38:24,400 pipe dream. It's possible, but it has to 686 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:29,320 start in our house with us. Yeah, you're so right. 687 00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:33,520 This frontlets language, this is a weird word. 688 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:39,120 Traditionally it it would have been this small box that had a 689 00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:42,320 scroll that that would usually either have the law of Moses, 690 00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:45,040 the law, the law of God on it rolled up in there. 691 00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:47,600 And you close the box and it's kind of, if you can picture a 692 00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:51,280 headband or or a headlamp really is, is what it would look like 693 00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:52,160 more. GoPro, right? 694 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:54,560 Kind of yeah, except you have you have a box strapped to your 695 00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:58,560 forehead instead of the, instead of the light, but just the the 696 00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:03,920 imagery of that in in the in the words of Deuteronomy here, the 697 00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:07,320 law of God quite quite literally being on your mind, right. 698 00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:12,160 Like strapped there, but also readily apparent to those that 699 00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:15,960 you would encounter the the Hebrew word for this means means 700 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,880 prayer case. So, so not only is it because 701 00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:21,120 sometimes there were, there were things in there too that were 702 00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:23,320 again, things that they would pray about, things that would be 703 00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,800 on your mind, but it's also this prayer, the idea that these 704 00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:29,600 words are a prayer and things that we want to meditate on and 705 00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:33,520 be spiritually forward about, I guess. 706 00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:37,400 So that's the idea of a front lit traditionally. 707 00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:41,280 What is that? Let it, but let's say, let it be 708 00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:44,360 as front. So like, how do we go about this 709 00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:47,520 in real time? I think I think an interesting 710 00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:51,800 thing that has been watered down that might be a modern day 711 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:55,160 equivalent. OK, So what about if you're 712 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,920 wearing a cross necklace outside of your clothing? 713 00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:02,920 Now, again, it's in some really strange way it's turned into 714 00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:05,960 kind of just a general fashion thing for a number of people. 715 00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:10,360 They have a cross on the a ring or a necklace or something like 716 00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:11,600 that. But if we. 717 00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:13,240 So much so that you don't know for sure. 718 00:40:13,240 --> 00:40:15,360 It's attached to anything spiritual, you know. 719 00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:17,880 And that's, that's kind of the sad portion of that. 720 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:21,240 But I mean, what if I took that really seriously? 721 00:40:21,240 --> 00:40:22,720 If I was going to wear jewelry like that? 722 00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:24,160 What if I took that really seriously? 723 00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:27,280 And what if the people around me took that really seriously too? 724 00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:31,080 So let's say I'm wearing a cross and somebody could look at me 725 00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:34,720 and go, wow, they understand the gospel of Jesus Christ. 726 00:40:34,720 --> 00:40:39,240 They get that they are a Sinner saved by grace alone, and so 727 00:40:39,240 --> 00:40:41,080 they're a safe person I can talk to. 728 00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,680 There's somebody who I could have a spiritual conversation 729 00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:46,880 with because they understand the grace of Jesus Christ in their 730 00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:49,440 life. And it's not just a jewelry 731 00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:51,240 piece. It's not just something to look 732 00:40:51,240 --> 00:40:52,760 at. It's actually, this is where 733 00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:56,200 this person's heart is AT. And so to the same extent, you 734 00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,840 know, whether it be the frontlets on the forehead or or 735 00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:00,680 the things wrapped around the hand. 736 00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,800 And in both cases like that would have been or should have 737 00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,000 been a person that you could approach and have a meaningful 738 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,240 conversation with. Yeah. 739 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:12,080 So that's and again, not in a not in a legalistic way, but I 740 00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:17,520 think it is real for us to consider how does how does our 741 00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:22,200 dress, how does our attitude, how does our just general 742 00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:23,720 approach. You talked about the headphones 743 00:41:23,720 --> 00:41:27,480 in yesterday. Are are are are we living eyes 744 00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:32,320 up and ears open aware to the world around us that needs of 745 00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:37,560 the world around us or even just how we can simply engage with 746 00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:41,040 it? We had, we had life group at our 747 00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:43,280 house last night and I, I told you and Kristen this already, 748 00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:46,240 but like, yeah, everyone got there and I had, you had emailed 749 00:41:46,240 --> 00:41:49,680 out life group questions. And a lot of the time I'll, I'll 750 00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:52,200 read my, I have physical Bibles in the house too, but a lot of 751 00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:55,280 the time I'll read on the Bible app and everyone got there and I 752 00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:57,200 could not find my phone. I had no idea where it was. 753 00:41:57,200 --> 00:41:59,520 I pinged it on my Apple Watch. I couldn't hear the ping. 754 00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:02,880 And in that moment, like I was kind of drawn back to your 755 00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:05,960 sermon a little bit of, of that being present. 756 00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:10,640 I I didn't need even even to be on the I just describe the Bible 757 00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,240 quick off the shelf. Like in that moment, it was. 758 00:42:13,240 --> 00:42:15,000 I didn't wrestle over it or anything. 759 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,840 I was like, I'll find it later. There's no part of this that 760 00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:21,320 enhances. There's no part of my phone that 761 00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:24,840 enhances this time with these these people in my house right 762 00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:27,520 now, going to leave that be. Yeah, what? 763 00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:30,360 And what an amazing thing. And, and I hope, man, one of 764 00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:33,920 them, one of my goals coming out of yesterday was that I hope it 765 00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:39,160 was like a moment of challenge, but also a moment of reset, an 766 00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:42,240 opportunity for us to maybe think a little bit more deeply 767 00:42:42,240 --> 00:42:45,800 about what are the things that are so distracting that are 768 00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:48,840 taking away from our limited time, especially those 769 00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:52,400 transitional mundane times like a car ride somewhere. 770 00:42:54,240 --> 00:42:58,640 Are we using that time well or are we just kind of, I don't 771 00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:04,040 know, blindly going about our day without any thought as to 772 00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:07,360 the importance of any given individual moment with our 773 00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:09,640 family, our kids, our spouse or whatever. 774 00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:14,640 And, and again, that I believe me, I feel that because in in my 775 00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:16,960 house, and I didn't bring it up yesterday, but in my house, if 776 00:43:17,240 --> 00:43:20,240 we've got a no phone rule at the table, so we'll read the verse 777 00:43:20,240 --> 00:43:22,280 of the day, we'll pray phones are gone. 778 00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:25,120 They're supposed to be gone. If there's anybody at my house 779 00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:29,840 who breaks that rule the most, it's me and I'm and I and God 780 00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:31,680 bless my wife. She's so good about calling me 781 00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:35,520 out on that. But like, man, I gosh, how much 782 00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:39,520 time do I have with my wife and my son on any given day? 783 00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:42,320 It might only be that 20 minutes around the table. 784 00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:48,160 And how dare I waste that by, you know, responding to 785 00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:50,400 meaningless text messages or whatever. 786 00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:54,240 Like it's not necessary. Put that junk away and be 787 00:43:54,240 --> 00:43:56,880 present. And let's actually, even if 788 00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:00,320 we're not specifically talking about the things of the Lord per 789 00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:03,800 SE, can I just know my wife's heart? 790 00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:07,680 Can I just know my son's heart just by spending that time with 791 00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:09,360 him? I probably can if I'm willing to 792 00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:13,120 engage in a meaningful way. And this is this is not in the 793 00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:15,480 text directly. I might be getting a little too 794 00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:17,720 metaphorical here. You can be my guardrails 795 00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:23,720 theology man, but but so as as you were talking about that and 796 00:44:23,720 --> 00:44:26,720 then the next sort of few verses here. 797 00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:29,280 When the Lord your God brings you into the land that he swore 798 00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:32,200 to your father's to give you with great and good cities that 799 00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:34,600 you did not build houses full of good things you did not fill 800 00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:39,560 cisterns you did not dig, lest you take care of that, you 801 00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:41,800 forget the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of 802 00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:45,280 the House of slavery. I wonder if we don't have, I'm 803 00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:47,240 going to use this phrase. I wonder if we don't have these 804 00:44:47,240 --> 00:44:50,760 promised land moments that you're kind of talking about 805 00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:54,120 around around the dinner table. Yes, maybe it's only maybe it's 806 00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:59,360 only 20 minutes a day, but what are the things in our lives that 807 00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:04,760 we don't maybe fully appreciate that we haven't even necessarily 808 00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:09,880 built or placed or even always stewarded perfectly? 809 00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:13,600 Like in in thinking about whatever, just whatever failures 810 00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:16,440 we've had in in parenting, in in marriage, whatever. 811 00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:20,440 Like hasn't been perfect where where you've gotten to to this 812 00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:23,080 point with your wife. And I'm I'm talking to you, but 813 00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:25,040 I'm talking generally about us too. 814 00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:27,520 Like we haven't been the perfect husband. 815 00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:30,560 We haven't been the perfect father, but we have that 816 00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:34,160 promised land moment potentially every day at dinner. 817 00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:36,080 And that should not be squandered right there. 818 00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:40,560 There are good things there that we haven't even always built in 819 00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:45,520 that cherished time. So we shouldn't squander it face 820 00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:48,600 down on the screen, right? Or or even neglecting the time 821 00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:51,280 altogether, right. So I don't know if I don't know 822 00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:54,120 if that tracks, but that's that's what the the Promised 823 00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:56,880 land moments is, is what I'm getting out of this text right 824 00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:57,560 now. Yeah. 825 00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:01,560 And as you, as you talk about that, you know, it, it both it, 826 00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:04,880 gosh, if I'm being really transparent, it brings me some 827 00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:07,880 level of grief of missed opportunities, but it also 828 00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:10,880 brings me a lot of hope of we're not done yet. 829 00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:14,280 We still have possibilities. We still have time. 830 00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:15,840 While we have time, we still have time. 831 00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:19,680 So just because we've made mistakes in the past doesn't 832 00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:23,520 mean that we can't start to grab hold of those things, grab hold 833 00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:24,560 of those moments. Yeah. 834 00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:31,240 OK, so here's an illustration. What's the if you if you run off 835 00:46:31,240 --> 00:46:33,960 the course, what's the fastest way to get back on course? 836 00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:37,120 It's a straight line. It's a straight line back to the 837 00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:39,920 correct path. It's not well, I'm going to veer 838 00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:42,440 off here for a little while and come back and maybe this other 839 00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:44,520 Rd. will eventually bring me back to the right one. 840 00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:48,760 No, it's a straight line back. This is what we call repentance, 841 00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:51,320 right? It's a straight, it's a 180. 842 00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:53,440 It's a turning the opposite direction and running. 843 00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:58,160 So I mean, man, if if I can be of an encouragement of anyway, 844 00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:03,240 please, if you, if you're off the path with your family, run 845 00:47:03,240 --> 00:47:05,440 the straight line back and don't apologize for it. 846 00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:08,440 Don't apologize for being weird. Don't apologize for bringing in 847 00:47:08,720 --> 00:47:13,040 new things that maybe the first couple times it feels awkward or 848 00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:15,280 forced. Don't apologize for those things 849 00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:18,200 because we need to run a straight line back to get our 850 00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:22,960 families back into into run us in the race that God says this 851 00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:25,480 is what's going to grow you. This is what's going to be best 852 00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:29,120 for all of you. Yeah, and I, if I can build on 853 00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:33,520 that as we close out this passage in verse 15, be jealous 854 00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:37,280 for your family in the way that God is jealous for you. 855 00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:42,400 Like, like and and be obnoxious about it in, in a way that they 856 00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:46,640 know you want their hearts in the in the way that God wants 857 00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:48,800 your heart. Again, this, this, this verse 858 00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:51,480 for the Lord your God in your midst is a jealous God. 859 00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:54,160 Verse 15. It's not because you're so 860 00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:56,920 great, sorry, but like it's none of us are. 861 00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:58,640 It's it's not because we're so great. 862 00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:05,200 It's because he cares about you, his his created image bearer so 863 00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:06,600 much that he's jealous for your heart. 864 00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:10,720 He's, he's jealous for those promised land moments with you 865 00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:13,840 that, that you realize you're running back to him. 866 00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:17,200 That's what he's longing for. In the same way, that's how I 867 00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:19,320 think we should be engaging with, with our families. 868 00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:22,320 Let them know that you are jealous for them. 869 00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:26,040 The things that we take time to set aside. 870 00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:28,680 I even felt a little twinge of guilt. 871 00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:32,080 It was, it was with my wife and it was fine. 872 00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:34,920 But like we, it was a bit of an endeavour to go to the football 873 00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:38,760 game in Chicago on Saturday. And I felt a little guilty and 874 00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:42,480 my, when, when was the last time I took that amount of 875 00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:46,200 intentionality towards my kids? Like to, to, to let the, I was 876 00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:48,640 jealous for my wife and jealous for her time. 877 00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:51,280 And I wanted to do that with it. But like, when had I taken a 878 00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:55,520 momentous yeah, action towards towards my kids? 879 00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:58,720 I guess in that way, like I'm, I'm jealous for your time in 880 00:48:58,720 --> 00:49:00,400 this. I'm for doing this thing where 881 00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:02,920 we're spending this time. I think that's how we're 882 00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:05,480 supposed to rightly engage with family. 883 00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:08,680 Nothing wrong with little bit of forced family fun. 884 00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:10,520 You know, nothing wrong with that at all. 885 00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:13,440 And and maybe one more thing I'll say before we close out and 886 00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:17,560 I didn't, gosh, I feel kind of bad now, but I didn't think 887 00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:20,120 about it until this moment in verse 15. 888 00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:22,080 For the Lord your God is in your midst. 889 00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:25,600 He's here, He's here, He's right here. 890 00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:29,840 And so, I mean, we don't have to act like this is a distant 891 00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:34,400 father who is detached or not not present. 892 00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:38,240 He is here in our midst. And so man, what what greater 893 00:49:38,240 --> 00:49:41,280 thing as the Lord is in our midst, as we still have this 894 00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:45,720 time left to honor that, to be excited about that, to be joyful 895 00:49:45,720 --> 00:49:48,640 about that, and to know that even when the hard things come 896 00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:51,880 up, we're not doing that alone. He's always with us. 897 00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:54,200 Love it. That's where we're going to 898 00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:57,040 leave it for today. Good, good closing thought. 899 00:49:57,840 --> 00:50:00,040 We hope there's been an encouragement to you in 900 00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:03,480 continuing the conversation about how we're knowing Jesus 901 00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:06,320 and making him known well through our family, rightly 902 00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:09,280 structured in the way that God has designed it. 903 00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:13,400 We've got a couple more weeks in the the four FS series as we 904 00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:16,880 focus on reaching the one more here at a Maus Rd. church. 905 00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:19,600 So thanks for tuning in. Let us know in the comments 906 00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:23,360 below the Facebook feed or or on the On the Show comments section 907 00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:27,320 what are those seemingly mundane things that just annoy you or 908 00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:28,680 are distasteful or you just don't? 909 00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:32,800 You don't understand. We talked earlier about fringe 910 00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:39,520 and wallpaper and yield and stop signs and things and just, oh, 911 00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:40,840 we are silly. We are children. 912 00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:44,880 That's fine. But thanks for hanging for a bit 913 00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:46,920 deeper conversation with us today. 914 00:50:47,240 --> 00:50:48,680 Love you Church, have a blessed week.