WEBVTT - How I read my Bible... 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:13.160 All right, what's up everybody? Welcome back to the podcast. 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:18.439 I need to say before we start that we're we 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:22.120 are pre recording this and we're a little bit ahead. 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:24.480 So if there if there has been a problem that 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:27.240 you guys have not liked with the latest format of 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:30.320 this podcast, I haven't heard your complaints because those are 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:35.000 future complaints that haven't happened yet. But I really like 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:38.319 what we're doing. A man has been a big part 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:40.400 of this. Parker has been a big part of this, 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:41.160 and so is Paul. 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:41.599 Yes. 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:44.600 So what we do here is we answer your questions 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:49.600 podcast at grangersmith dot com is the answer is how 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:51.919 you how you asked the question, and then hopefully I'll 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:57.480 give you the answer I'll ask it. I I think 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:00.200 it's important that we've been answering a bunch of questions 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:03.440 kind of bundled into one. Today is a big one. 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:07.160 I get asked this all the time. Personally, I get 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:10.560 asked this if I'm doing some kind of Q and 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:15.320 A at a conference. This is a major question. And 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:19.480 then on the podcast itself, the last one hundred episodes 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:21.880 or so, I've gotten this a bunch and the question 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:25.560 is how do you read your Bible? Speaking to me personally, 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:31.080 how do you, Granger read your Bible? And I think 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:35.000 that's a great question. And I kind of figured out 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:38.600 a system on my own through listening and watching other people, 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:42.240 and so this wasn't taught to me. So it's not 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:44.679 the right it's not necessarily the right way. In fact, 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:47.520 I don't think there is a right way to read 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:50.000 your Bible as long as you are reading it. I 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.720 think there are wrong ways. Maybe we should start with that, Okay, 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:57.320 a wrong way. In fact, I just heard this today. 0:01:57.480 --> 0:01:59.920 I heard this today from a friend friend of Amber, 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:07.120 and she said, my boyfriend just talked about a Bible 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:12.920 verse and it was Lamentations three and it was great 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:18.480 as your Faithfulness. And she was like, he screenshotted great 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:20.880 as your Faithful Faithfulness and sent it to me and says, 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:25.239 this hits differently. And the girlfriend said why, and she said, 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:30.320 because I'm realizing now that the Lord looks on our faithfulness, 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:36.239 not our works. And I was like, that verse is 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:38.680 not about the man. That's the faithfulness of God. 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:39.040 God. 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:42.200 Yeah, Jeremiah's writing that about God. And and in fact 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:46.360 lamentations are are It's a horrible, horrible story of how 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:53.000 the Babylonians were wrecking Jerusalem, and Jeremiah's watching it weeping 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:56.080 as the people are being drug away and the walls 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:59.200 of the temple are crumbling down. And he then looks 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.600 up at the Lord and as great as your faithfulness? 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:06.160 That that that is what happened, and what here's the deal, 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:07.680 and this is what this is where it was wrong. 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:10.840 He didn't get any of that because he got the 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.720 notification of the Bible app the quote of the day. 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:15.760 So he has no context. 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:16.920 There's no context. 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:19.360 That would be the wrong way to the wrong way 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:20.880 to read the Bible is out of context. 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.120 That's one verse at a time that pops up on 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:25.440 your phone from an app and you look at the 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:27.520 app and it says great is your faithfulness? And you're like, 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:29.600 I think the Lord's speaking to me saying great is 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:34.120 your faithless? Jeremi's talking about God. It's the opposite. Yeah, 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:37.320 I mean that is so far fetched that I didn't. 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:40.360 I didn't. That didn't even compute with me for a second, 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.960 because I've never I never could even imagine that that 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:45.560 would be talking about us and not talking about God. 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:49.840 Did you start thinking to yourself, where in the Bible 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.560 does he say that my faithfulness is great. 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:56.760 Yeah, and I couldn't understand that. I actually walked away 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.360 from the conversation later and I was like a light 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:01.920 bulb came on. I was like, oh, now I know 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:05.240 what happened. So that is a wrong way. A long 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:06.560 time ago, I did a couple of years ago, I 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:10.920 did a sermon about coffee munk versus. I wouldn't recommend 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:12.480 listening to it. Don't go listen to it because I 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:15.720 wasn't very good preacher. I'm still not. But whatever, But 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.559 that is a wrong way. We cannot read our Bible 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:21.719 that way. Here's another wrong way. And this came up 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:25.839 in a conversation at a recent conference I did in Illinois, 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:29.640 did a Q and A, and I was telling people 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.000 imploring them to read their Bibles, which is what I'm 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:36.599 doing on this episode right now. It's so important. Fact. 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:38.239 Last time you and I were on a show together 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:42.560 two weeks ago, we talked about being around other believers, 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:48.000 preferably in the local church in the body and reading 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:50.280 your Bible are the two most important things you could 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:53.479 do in your walk with the Lord. So this guy 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:55.920 is I'm imploring these people. He raises his hand and 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:59.360 he says, I read my Bible and I still just 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.880 feel so distant from the Lord. And I said, okay, well, 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:04.320 if you don't mind, and I don't mean to put 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.280 you on the spot, but can you just tell us 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.440 a little bit about what does that reading look like? 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.480 And he said, well, I just pick it up and read. 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:15.280 And I was like, well, if you don't mind, what 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:18.719 does that mean? And he is, well, just whatever I 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:22.120 feel like reading that day. I was like, okay, I 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.559 just want to point out that you're basing your reading 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:29.040 on what you feel. You say, I feel like I'm 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:31.720 understanding more about suffering. I'm going to go read something 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:36.080 about suffering. I feel like reading something more about being patient, 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:38.720 so I go look for that. So you're just going 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:40.039 on the whim of your feelings. 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:44.320 Would you pick up, for lack of a better one 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:49.800 Moby Dick and read chapter twenty? Great point, like, well, 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:52.400 I didn't like this book? I what do you not 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:54.520 like about it? Well? I mean it just like I 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.600 don't know where this happened and that happened, And like, yeah, 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.640 where'd you hang on? Show me where you started after twenty? 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:02.640 Well that's not where you start in the book. 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:05.040 Yeah, that's maybe yes. 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:08.640 The Bible is not chronological in every single chapter. Yeah, 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.680 it's funny. I'm just now reading, like I'd already read 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:15.320 some about David and then now I am in I 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:18.920 don't know, I lost it, sorry, but it's coming back. 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:24.040 It's after Kings where am I I thought marked, I'll 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:25.599 think of it later. But it was bringing back up 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:27.760 about David, and it was it was really going through 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:29.960 all the stuff with David, and I'm like, oh, okay, 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.400 now we're back into the meat of David. 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.800 I like this, So just context, that's all we're asking 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:38.280 exactly here. Yeah, that's a great point about movie Dick. 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:42.200 So to this guy in the crowd, I say, have 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:44.760 you have you ever read the Book of Romans? And 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.599 he said no, And I said, do you know? The 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:51.520 Book of Romans has just rocked the world. In fact, 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:55.880 it is the it is the reason for the Protestant Reformation. 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:59.920 It was was Martin Luther struggling with Romans one p. Seventeen, 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:05.160 just struggling with that verse about righteousness, and he couldn't understand. 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.800 In fact, he hated the righteousness of man and the 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:11.040 righteousness of God. He just couldn't understand it. But he 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.080 didn't quite know what it meant, and he wrestled and 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:16.280 wrestled and wrestled with Romans one until it finally hit 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:19.000 him what that means. And it just rocked his world 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:22.920 as he understood finally in context what Paul was talking 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:26.360 about that were saved by faith. The righteousness is given 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:30.560 to us through faith, the righteousness of Jesus, not on 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.160 her own. It rocked his world. It caused the whole 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:37.440 world to split, and many people Parker is another one 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.320 that was saved by the Book of Romans. Ambers thinks 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:42.760 she can't remember exactly, but she thinks it was Romans. 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:45.240 So I just pointed out this guy and Romans is 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.000 just one example of sixty six books that I told 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.320 this guy said, this is what you're missing when you 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.720 just try to read emotionally on what you think you 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.680 should read. Another wrong way to read the Bible. 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:01.880 Yeah, that makes sense, Chronicles, That's where I was trying 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:02.160 to think of. 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:07.600 Yeah, yeah, so another wrong way to read the Bible 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:11.760 is to not read it all. So let's talk about 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:16.160 let's talk about what were you to say. 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:23.640 No, my my personal encounter with how I'm reading now 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:28.520 came from a conversation with you and it's but if 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:29.600 you want to jump into that, well. 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:31.760 I don't think we've ever talked about it. I've mentioned 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:33.960 in passing Machine plan this is what I do. I 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.960 don't think I've ever shown people what that actually looks like. 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:45.000 And the reading the Bible is it is. It is 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:49.679 life changing. It's life transforming, it is life giving, and 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:53.320 it is it is as close as we're going to 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:56.360 get to the presence of God outside of the local church, 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:02.040 outside of heaven. It's that that important. When we pray, 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.680 we're speaking to God. When he speaks back, it's through 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:08.440 his word in the Bible. There is nothing more important 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:11.400 to a believer outside of the local church than reading 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:14.960 your Bible. And if you're in ministry and you're listening 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.280 to this right now, it's not just reading your Bible 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:19.640 for your ministry work, or in my case, it's not 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:22.560 just working in seminary and reading what I need to 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.840 read for seminary or what I'm preparing for in a 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:28.600 sermon I have this week. It is your own devotional time, 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.880 separate from all of those things, Separate from a requirement, 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.600 Separate for what you're learning in your a small group 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:38.439 at church, or what your pastor's reading to you. Separate 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.440 from all of that your own personal devotional time. 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:43.760 So you have those in your life. You have your 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:45.960 own personal time of reading the Bible, and then you 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:49.319 have your seminary time or your preparation for a message. 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:53.800 Yeah, and I have like right now at church, we're 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.480 walking through Hebrews. Okay, Marshall is walking us through Hebrews 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:02.680 in our Wednesday night by study, we're going through Judges 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:07.600 in seminary, where right now we're going through First Corinthians. 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:14.160 In my message that I'm working on for this weekend 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.760 is Daniel. And my devotional time is different than all 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:21.840 of those things that just said, And these are critical things. 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:28.400 Let's go to the Bible quickly and talk about the 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:31.559 importance of the Bible. Now, there's a lot of places 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:36.160 that we can go. I think maybe Psalm one nineteen 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:45.440 is a decent place to start. Psalm one nineteen, verse 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:51.640 nine says, how can a young man keep his way 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:57.320 pure by guarding it according to your word? With my 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:00.400 whole heart, I seek you, Let me not under from 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.320 your commandments. I have stored up your word in my 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:05.960 heart that it might not sin against you. Blessed or you, 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.640 Oh Lord, teach me your statutes with my lips. I 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.880 to clear all the rules of your mouth and the 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.959 way of your testimonies. I delight as much as in 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:20.000 all riches. I will meditate on your precepts and fix 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:22.240 my eyes and your ways. I will delight in your statutes. 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:25.480 I will not forget your word. So we could use 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:30.640 that word, that word word for statutes and testimonies and precepts. 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:35.080 We could interchange all of those things. I think David 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:38.080 makes it clear. The Psalmist makes it very clear what 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:43.720 he's talking about here. John fourteen. This is the verse, 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:50.199 the section of scripture that saved me. But fourteen twenty 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:54.920 ish we can start around there. Jesus is talking to 0:11:54.960 --> 0:12:01.440 his disciples and talking to him about, hey, Lord, why 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.760 why is it that you love us? Why are you 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:07.480 with us? Why do you manifest yourself to us? And 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:11.400 he says in verse twenty two, or excuse me? First 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:15.040 twenty three he says, Jesus answers him if anyone loves me, 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:20.960 he will keep my word, And then twenty four says, 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:24.360 whoever does not love me does not keep my word. 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:29.920 So the natural implication there is, if how could you 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:30.960 keep a word, you don't. 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:33.720 Know, so you have to know. 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:39.840 You have to know it. Let's go to second Timothy, 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:45.320 second Timothy three sixteen. This, this one is incredible. This 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:48.040 one just it blows me away. Every time I see it. 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:51.439 I'm getting there way faster because I'm using an iPad. 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:53.160 I'm an old school analog over here. 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:55.360 Yeah, I do this sometimes when I'm in a Q 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:57.760 and A. I just have this iPad. It's just so, 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:02.400 that's great. Second Timothy second Timothy three sixteen is one 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:06.080 of the most incredible verses in the Bible. Sixteen and seventeen. 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:07.560 I have it all highlighted already. 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:14.320 All scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:19.800 for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:24.319 the Man of God may be complete equipped for every 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:27.080 good work. Are you kidding me? 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:30.959 I have a new living translation, and it's translation there is. 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:33.880 All scripture is inspired by God and is useful to 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:37.560 teach us what is true and to make us realize 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:39.400 what is wrong in our lives. 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:43.880 Wow, if that's not I mean tewod Timothy three sixteen 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:46.800 is just very clear. All scriptures breathed out by God, 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:52.000 profitable for teaching reproof correction. So one more here and 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:57.040 then I'll kind of lay off on this Hebrews four. 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:03.640 Another famous one, Hebrews four twelve. This is another, another 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:07.440 very obvious one that says, for the Word of God 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:12.560 as living and active, sharper than any two edged sword, 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:16.160 piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:19.560 joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:24.080 of the heart. Right after that, verse thirteen says, and 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.320 no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:29.120 naked and exposed to the eye of Him, to whom 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:33.800 we must give an account. So I think it's very 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:37.560 clear that not only not only should we should we 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.520 be reading, should we love it like the Psalma says, 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.600 And that should be a prayer for us, that we 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:48.800 we genuinely love the Word, we crave it like the 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:55.360 Psalma says. Let me go one more here. This is 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:57.400 one of my favorite Psalm forty two to one. As 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:01.080 a deer pants for flowing streams, So pants my soul 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:04.640 for you, Oh God, my soul thirst for God, for 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:07.880 the living God. So not only should should that be 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:11.080 our heart position? And if it's not, pray for it 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:14.160 that's a great prayer. Lord, I read this Psalm forty 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:16.200 two one, and I don't feel that way. I don't 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:20.080 feel that way. Please give me that. That's a good gift. 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:21.160 That's a good prayer. 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:23.840 Yeah, he says it in one nineteen in it later 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:28.040 on in thirty six, it's a pleat, give me an 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:32.080 eagerness for your law, great prayer, give me an eagerness. 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:40.160 And that's different than being hungry. Yeah, And eagerness is 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:44.840 a lack of a better And this is very much 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:48.600 a guy thing. When you have to go to the bathroom. 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.800 I mean like I'm I'm gonna burst, I gotta go. 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:55.520 That's eagerness. Yeah, give me an eagerness for your laws. 0:15:55.720 --> 0:16:00.320 Yeah. Absolutely, I think I think it clear. 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:03.280 Sorry, just compared going to the bathroom. But that's it's 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:05.080 that feeling, that anxiousness. 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:06.120 You know, it's it's something you can't resist. 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:07.800 Yeah, yeah, exactly. That's so. 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:11.920 I think I think it's very clear that we need, 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:16.080 we need an ignorant eagerness. We need to crave it. 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:19.440 And not only do we need to want it, but 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:23.960 once we do want it, it is so paramount and 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:28.080 our and our growing and our and our and our 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:30.800 own correction of our own life, and our own faithfulness, 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:34.520 and our and our and us getting closer to God. 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:40.200 All of that, all of it hinges on us understanding, reading, meditating, 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:45.840 listening to, sitting, under wise, teaching, wrestling with the Bible, 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:49.480 the word, the precepts, the testimonies, the law, all of those. 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:53.040 All of those things are equate to what Jesus means 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:55.680 when he says, if anyone loves me, I'll keep my word. Now, 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:58.240 we're not capable of doing that on our own. So 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.000 it's important to say too, we're saved by grace through faith. 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:02.720 This is not our own doing. It is the gift 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:05.000 of God, not a result of works, So that no 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:08.560 man may boast Ephesian's two eight and nine. And it's 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:10.840 important to know that we were not capable of these 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:14.520 things on our own. We need to have need. We 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:16.199 need a new heart, We need to be given a 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:20.760 new desire, new once new and new eyes to see, 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:23.920 new ears to hear, so that we can crave this. 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:26.920 But once we do, and once your eyes are open 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:30.359 to it, then then I want you to tell me 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:32.000 the story that you I want you to tell everyone 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.520 the story that you told me today. What was that. 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:39.399 When we started changing the podcast. Here one of them 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:40.760 that were brought up, and it was the first one, 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:45.520 Should Christians stop cussing? Or you know, ken Christians cuss? 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:50.119 George Jenko who used to be on Logan Paul's podcasts 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:53.040 and they're best friends. He talks very highly of Logan 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:56.240 still to this day, but they now lead very different 0:17:56.240 --> 0:18:00.600 lives and George's is saved and is moving into the 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:03.080 you know, he's starting to recognize things in his life. 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:05.960 But he was on a recent podcast was talking about 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:09.600 his father is still alive and both of our fathers 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:15.359 have passed. But imagine right now if your father wrote 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:20.920 you something, Yeah, would you not read, Hey, I wrote 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:23.080 some letters to you and I put him in a book. 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:28.520 Would you not read single overd of it, every over 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:32.159 and over and over again. And it's not going to 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:35.680 be all just encouragement. It's going to say, be careful 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:39.640 with this, and stay away from this, do more of this, 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:44.879 try to cultivate more of this, stay steadfast in this. 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:46.280 This is what a dad would say to his son. 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:48.439 Well, and I think that some of the language is 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:51.560 that we use language in the church and it is 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:54.080 very much appropriates in the Bible too, is that he 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:58.760 is our father, but is he your dad? You have 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:04.159 that relationship. Do you climb up in his lap? Do 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:07.439 you talk to him about your day? Yeah? Do you 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:11.200 feel his arms around you? Yeah, that's the one we're 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:14.840 talking about. And that's who did all this. This wrote 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:16.439 you the letters, and it has them right here for 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:16.880 you to read. 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:19.000 This is going on right now with my ten year 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:23.280 old son, Lincoln. I get him sometimes and I say, buddy, 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:27.520 I don't want to punish you. Yeah, but I love 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:30.000 you and I want you to be the man that 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:34.080 I know you're going to be. Listen to me, do 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:39.119 what I say. 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