August 12, 2025 • 24 mins
Episode 747:
In this episode, Chris and Jeff dive into Matthew 7:7-11, where Jesus speaks about the importance of asking, seeking, and knocking in prayer. Chris expresses his frustration with the perceived simplicity of the scripture, questioning why God doesn't provide clearer guidelines about prayer and requests. Jeff counters this by explaining the context of Jesus' teachings, emphasizing that the verses are part of a larger message about the relationship between God and His followers.
In this episode, Chris and Jeff dive into Matthew 7:7-11, where Jesus speaks about the importance of asking, seeking, and knocking in prayer. Chris expresses his frustration with the perceived simplicity of the scripture, questioning why God doesn't provide clearer guidelines about prayer and requests. Jeff counters this by explaining the context of Jesus' teachings, emphasizing that the verses are part of a larger message about the relationship between God and His followers.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a
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net through. Good morning, Good morning to you and you
and you man. It's only Tuesday, I know, and I
(00:23):
did it last time on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I think is this a new Tuesday tradition?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Yeah, I don't know, I don't know. Maybe maybe, Jeff, whatever,
I feel like, fantabulous.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yes, today is a good morning, assuming that you're listening
in the morning. That's probably not the case for a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Good evening, good evening, oh wow, or you could do
good night.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yeah, well evening has two.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Solos afternoon, good afternoon.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Oh yeah, good afternoon, good afternoon. So yeah, hey, welcome
to the Bible Guys. I'm Chris, this is Jeff and
we are your hosts to this podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Oh boy, and I can only imagine how excited our
listeners are today. Oh yeah, because we have a very
special segment.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
They're on the edge of the sheet.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yes, this is one of those get to know Chris
and Jeff even better segments.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah, and it's called Who's most likely Yes, and it
usually gives us two. Really, well, no, no, this is choice.
This is not would you rather? This is this is fun.
This is just fun. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, just just get to know us better.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
It's a preference thing, is yeah. Yeah, okay, all right.
Well Number one says, who's most likely to eat cake
for breakfast and call it self care?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
That's could be you.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I don't really like cake.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I know you don't like cake, but you like self care.
I'll eat the cake and you call it self care.
That's because exactly answer, I will eat cake for breakfast.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, I won't eat cake most of the time for anything.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
You're right, you're not a cake person.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I'm not a cake person.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
You're not really a dessert person.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
And one of the most horrific things is you're not
really a chocolate person.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
So when you bring the chocolate, just bring it to me.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
So we had a staff meeting you you weren't here
and at the church and they were doing birthdays, and
so they brought in these really apparently these phenomenal cupcakes. Right, So,
so I think it was your wife probably that ordered him,
or somebody else, maybe Debbie. But but but they ordered
these incredible cupcakes and they're like, everybody, go get the cupcakes,
and everybody's oh man, they're in line. They just love it.
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I'm just like I didn't. I did. I did not
want to touch that with the ten football. I'm just
not that way.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yeah. Who's most likely to get mistaken for a celebrity?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Oh geez, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I don't know. I mean, what would either one of
us be likely to I don't think I've ever been
mistaken for celebrity, although when I was younger, I sort
of looked like Ralph Machio.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, yeah, you did, you did?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, So I I just played my wedding for everybody
under fifty rough.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Machio was a karate kid, right.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Right right, Well, hey now he's back with Cobra Coppy.
Yeah so even though our young listeners know who he is,
they just don't know his name.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah, but you don't look like him anymore, no.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
No, yeah, but but anyway, I just played their wedding
video on Sunday and it was me at twenty one.
Oh yeah, and it was my Ralf Machio look.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
So if I have a beard, people will sometimes say
I look like Ted Cruz, which is funny. And if
I'm forty pounds thinner, people will sometimes say I look
like if my hair is right, looked like Robin Williams.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Oh really yeah, those would be the two things.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
But he's dead.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
He's dead. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Hey, oh, by the way, I do. When I was
a little heavier, I did get mistaken a lot for
Mojo in the morning. Oh really, yeah for real?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
In fact, I was actually at.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
A place in Birmingham who's a radio guy. And there's
a radio guy in the area and has a recipe voice.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yes, And when I was in Birmingham, this lady swore
up and down. She's like, oh my goodness, it's you.
And I thought that maybe she was a Bible guy fan.
Oh and come to find out, I figured it out
like five minutes of the conversation. She thinks I'm Mojo.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
That's funny, Okay. Who's most likely to hike to a
volcano just to say they did that?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Definitely be you.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
That's me.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah, although I get to be honest, i'd love it too.
I would love it, but it says most likely, yeah, right,
and you edged me out.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
In that area, I would say, just to say they did.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, I mean you know no. So okay, number four.
Who's most likely to say I'm just resting my eyes
and fall asleep instantly? Hmm, Well you're an instant sleep guy.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, but I'm not. I'm not a fall asleep I'm
just resting my eyes.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
That probably be me.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I don't know do you take do you take like
quick naps or do you fall asleep in meetings?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Umm? Not?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
You just yawned.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
But I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what. When
I hit forty, something happened to me. I became my
mom because my mom can fall asleep anywhere, like in.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Church or whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And I when I hit forty, I started falling asleep
in movies. And I don't know what it is. But
if I go to my family knows. If I go
to a movie that's like after nine pm, there's a
really good chance, no matter what the movie is, I
will fall asleep.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Wow and chairs, yeah, popcorn.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, don't know what it is. So I'm gonna say
me on this one.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
But you need to go to the Dolby theaters, which
the whole theater shakes.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Listen to me when I tell you this. Captain America
Civil War. It was one of the most anticipated movies
for me in my household. In the heat of marvel.
We just were on the pinnacle of interest and we
were waiting for it, and we got there. It was
a nine something movie, and I'm in the theater thinking
to myself, this is one of the coolest things I've
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ever seen. And I missed the last ten minutes because
I fell asleep.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
You fell asleep, Okay, well.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah, and so I had to I had to wait
until like the next day. I had to go back
and see it because I'm just thinking, what does the
matter with me?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, so you had to go back and see it,
of course for the last ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Well, I probably saw it four times in the theater.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Okay, wow, okay, well that's ventsive nat buddy.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yes, Who's most likely to solve a Rubic's cube while blindfolded?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I mean, I suppose me.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Do you know? How can you do?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
You know how to solve I have seen videos where
all you have to do is this one pattern and
apparently it's that's all you have to know. It's just
a single pattern. And uh, and so I could I
think I could learn it.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I could learn it, but I don't know how to
do it. I've seen it too.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah. Yeah, so I'm gonna go with me because it
seems like trivial and silly, and I'm more likely to
do things like that, Okay, things that don't matter, things
that don't matter.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
That's that seems important.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah, you never know, you never know. Well, its way,
you know, you might be in like some kind of
a mission impossible moment and the only way to defuse
the bomb is to solve this rubics.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, maybe blindfolded.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Maybe I think that it'd be a silly skilled to master,
because nobody does. It's a silly skill to master.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You're just gonna rest your eyes next.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah, I'm just gonna risk my eyes for me. But
but but yeah, I think I would master a silly skill,
I think.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah, so I liked Rubik's Cube back when they were out,
you know popular.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Oh yeah, I didn't want to learn a pattern. I
wanted to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Oh did you? I used to take the stickers off
and then just like say look what.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I did, except everybody can see that they.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Were Yeah, they were peeled off, like the corners were
like all messed up. So yeah, you know that that
segment was given to us by Desiree. Yes, and you
know what Jesus said, what if you ask, he'll be
given to you. You said make them back?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Oh she asked, she asked us those questions.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
No, I'm saying she gave us that segment.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
She gave us the segment.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
And you know what it says, He'll give us stuff Jesus.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Oh, I see, because Jesus it's rough. Dude.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah, you should make it bad.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
So I was trying to.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Make it possible transition, Yes, and you nailed. You should
get a trophy.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Last week I made a good transition or Yesterdady.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
At the twenty twenty five Bible Guys Awards show.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Oh yeah, you're.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Probably gonna get the trophy for first.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Person possible transition. I don't know, dude, you had some
pretty bad one.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
That was a bad one.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Okay, Well, we are in Matthew chapter seven and we're
just reading only a few verses here today. Matthew chapter
seven versus seven through eleven. Wow, all right, we can
get a big gold.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
What did you say?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Seven eleven? Big gold?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Oh? Big hop. It's one of my favorite lines in
Dumb and dumber. Did you know that was improft? No,
he comes out of seven eleven and these two guys
were standing there that were not a part of the script.
They were literally just walking in the seven eleven and
Jim Carrey walks out and he goes, hey, big golf. Huh.
Well he just walks away and they and they loved
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it so much they kept it in Okay, and it's
one of my favorite lines. It is so funny.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Well, here we go, Jesus says, keep on asking and
you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking
and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door
will be open to you. For everyone who asks receives,
everyone who seeks finds, and to everyone who knocks, the
door will be opened. Your parents, if your children ask
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for a loave of bread, do you give them a
stone instead? If they ask for a fish, do you
give them a snake?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Of course not so.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
If you sinful people know how to give good gifts
to your children, how much more will your heavenly father
give good gifts to those who ask him?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Yeah? So did I ever tell you? Did I ever
tell you that sometimes I get angry that God isn't
more clear? Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
You've mentioned that before.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah, I mean, angry is nothing ang word.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
It'll put out, Yeah, they'll put out.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I I just so I love God, and I love
God's word, and I love the scripture, and I love,
you know, being a teacher and trying to make things,
you know, simple and clear, and sometimes I there's a
part of me I'm just being honest where I'm like, God,
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couldn't you have said that just a little more clear?
Because on the surface, it seems like what you're saying
is that I can pray God give me a million dollars,
and you're gonna give me a million dollars. Right on
the surface, it seems like it's like, hey, if you ask,
then I'm gonna give it to you. Right, And does
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he say, does he give any stipulation? Right there? You know,
let's let's read it again. Keep on asking and you'll
receive what you ask for. Oh, right, a ferrari actually
a maserati, right, like why not? Right? Keep on seeking
and you'll find it. Keep on knocking. The door be
opened for everyone who asks, it says everyone. Yeah, right,
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you're gonna you're gonna receive everyone who seeks. We'll find it.
Everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. And then
he goes on to talk about the comparison of parents
giving children good gifts and then or having the father
giving us good gifts. So there's a part of me
that says, I just wish that God would have said
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side note right or caveat or hey, don't forget right,
because because that's what we're about to say, right, Yeah,
we're about to say all those things. We're about to say,
side note, caveat, don't forget.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Yeah, well I would say he did, but it's a
little less evident to a Western thinker than it is
to an Eastern minded thinker.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Because because of all the words around.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
It, because of all the words around it. And Matthew five,
six and seven are what we call the Sermon on
the mounta. There are no verses, there are no chapters.
When Jesus is just giving, he doesn't say and then
verse twenty seven, I think you.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Should know, right, he doesn't do that.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
So he's just preaching a message exactly. And now for
chapter seven, as if we finished chapter six, now we're
moving on. But that's how we tend to think of
it is we think of it in chapters and verses,
and he's not. And so you have to remember that
that the the Middle Eastern and the Eastern mindset in
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the way that they will communicate sometimes is groupings of
ideas that go back and revisit a previous idea, right,
and and they're centered. What's in the center usually is
is the point, and then everything on the outsides of
the center are reinforcing or another angle for that. So
if you take this this triad here where he says
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keep on asking, keep on seeking, keep on knocking, what's
the center? What's the primary meaning? Keep seeking God?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah, seeking God.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
That that's the middle.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
That's the middle one, right, And so the asking and
the knocking are about persistence. The fact that this says
keep on in most translations it just says asking, you
will receive, seek, and you.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Will find knocking the door will be open unto you. Right.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
But New Living Translations is a little bit more specific
on this one. Keep on because it's a it's the
act of the continual act of asking and seeking and knocking.
So it's the relationship is the point, and what God's
wanting is so, hey, those of you that are are
adult parents or those of you that are are parents
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of teenagers. You just want your teenager to communicate with
you once. No, you want them communicate with you regularly
and often. You're young adults, you want them How come
you never call me anymore? And they're like, what do
you mean? I called you three weeks ago? And you're like,
I want you to call me every day, right, every
other day?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Right?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I want you to call me often.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
This is what God is trying to say, is he said,
it's the it's a continual relationship. Keep knocking, keep asking,
because I want you to keep seeking me.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
That that's the point.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
But then when you go to the others, He's already
talked about don't store up treasures on earth right where
mas and rust, moths and rust do corrupt, he said,
Instead store treasures in heaven. So he's already talking. He's
already talked about materialism. He's already taught us to pray
our father heart in heaven. How be your name, your kingdom, Come,
Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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So he's already kind of told us what it means
to have a relationship with him and what our priorities
should be. Our priority should be shifting from earthly selfish
priorities to godly kingdom priorities. Right, He's already done that,
and so I don't think that the listener would have
heard these verses out of context of what he said
in the first century, in the first century when he
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was preaching the message. But because we love to read
six verses or five verses at a time, then we go, Wow,
I just found this. I can ask for maserati, and
he's promised to give it to me, right, And that's
not what happened.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
My Maserati does one eighty five.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yeah, so does that make sense?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
So if you take the whole message as a whole,
he's already talked about materialism, he's already talked about selfishness,
he's already talked about the importance of God's kingdom. He's
already ended seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and
all the other things that we added to you. So
he's already set things in priority. And then this is
just kind of a callback to that because he's talking
in groupings of ideas. And now after he got done
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talking about fasting and prayer and he talks about worry,
he talks about then he pauses and in verse seven
one through six, he talks about not judging other people
or being judgmental. He pivots back to this, the real
goal is to keep seeking God. And so in that
context is this prayer thing. But we take it. If
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we ask anything, we can get whatever we want. Yeah, yeah,
because we're not taking in context.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah. And so the caveat that I was referring to
is one of the things that we always say, which
is the Bible is its own best commentary. So you know,
we have to ask for things according to God's will,
and so you know, it's it's not as if you know,
all of us don't have requests that are that are
in God's will. We all do, but we have a
lot of requests also that aren't in God's will. And
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so if it aligns with God's will and then you know,
and God is willing to allow it, then you know,
I do believe that God's will can be persuaded because
there are other parts of the Bible. You remember the
remember the illustration where Jesus says, this is how the
Kingdom of Heaven is. A man is lying there and
then the guy knocks on the door and he says, hey,
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give up, get up and give us give me a
piece of bread, because I have a neighbor coming and
I don't have enough bread. And he says, go away,
we're sleeping. But because he knocks and he's persistent, and
he says, because of his bold persistency, he said, he'll
get up and he'll give the man what he wants.
And then Jesus said, so pray that way. And so
it's like what And so that story tells us that
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God can be moved by prayer, right, which also supports
with Jane says, which is, prayer matters, it avails much,
it's effective, right, and that and that prayer, prayer makes
a difference, and so so we do know that and
so but we also have to realize praying according to
God's will and whatever God would all want.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Well, we know that there's times in the Bible God
changed his mind. Yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
In the story of Moses with the Israelites, God finally
he's so mad at the is They're just complaining all
the time, complaining. They begin rebelling against God and God says, Moses,
get out of my way. I'm going to wipe them
off the face of the earth. And then I'm going
to keep my promise to Abraham through you. I'm gonna
make your family be the family that fulfills the promised Abraham.
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And Moses begs God, please don't do it. He says,
you know you didn't bring him out here just to
wipe them out. What are you gonna How are we
going to answer all of the enemies who hate you
and hate God's people when they say that was your
purpose was to bring him in the desert to kill them.
It's going to be bad for your reputation all these things.
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Please don't do any And he begs God not to
wipe out Israel. He pleads for them, and the Bible
says that God changed his mind. A matter of fact,
King James says, and God repented of the evil he
thought to do against the people of Israel. Isn't that amazing?
Repent just means change your mind. But still he literally
changed his mind and changed his direction. So change repent
means change your mind and change your direction. So he
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intended to wipe them out, then decided not to, And
it was because of what Moses pray. James tells us
the prayer of a righteous person accomplishes much and if
that if accomplished means it affects the outcome. That's what
accomplished means means it affects the outcome, which means your
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prayer affects the outcome of what God is going to do.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
That's very significant.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Well, think about Sodom and Gomorrah. Remember where Abraham was praying.
And now even though that God did wipe out the city,
he demonstrated that he was willing to change his mind. Right,
and he says, hey, if I find what he's fifty
fifty and then they kept on going down.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Right, stopped at ten. Yeah, he stopped at four.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Right. But the point is is that like he says,
would you change your mind? And God said yes, I would.
So God God definitely demonstrates in the Bible that that, yeah,
his mind has been changed, it could be changed, and
he's willing to change it. So anyway, all that to say,
we know that the going to God, the asking of
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things can persuade God to give and provide and to
change and to you know, heal, and all these different
kinds of things.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
So this is difficult for some people because you know,
the book Revelation says Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today,
and forever. Yep, there's another place where God says that
I I am God and I do not change. Right,
So those two things can be very confusing for the
idea that God can change his mind. So when it
says Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever, or
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either Lord of God, I do not change, he's talking
about his character in the essence of who he is.
But he's completely autonomous, right, So he's not bound by
his own predetermined will. He can do whatever he wants
to do. And in that situation, he can choose to
change his mind and he can cause all things to
work together for good. So then if he changes his mind,
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that doesn't make him less perfect. It just means he
had two perfect ways of doing things and he decided
to do the other one. It's possible to have two
perfectly viable solutions and just be choosing one and he go, no,
you know what, You're right, I'm going.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
To do this other perfectly viable solution. That's all. It
doesn't make God any less.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
So when it says Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today,
and forever, theologically that is true. The essence of who
he is his character. His teaching will never change, it
will never change, but he can change his mind on
things that don't go against his own word. And that's
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what he did there. So it can be a confusing
thing for people who feel like God is stuck in
some kind of linear rut that must play out exactly
the way that was predetermined for the foundation of the world.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, And then I love how God ends this idea
of you know, parenting. So God creates parenting, He creates
marriage to be a direct reflection of our relationship with him.
The idea of parenting is also a reflection. He constantly
talks about him being the father, us being the child,
us being in the family of God, so the family unit, right,
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we're able to relate on that level. We're creating his image.
All these are just sort of coupled together and mashed
together all the time. And so I love how he
uses the parental you know sort of thing where it says, hey,
you're you're imperfect, you're evil, right, and you take care
of your kids and you give them great things, you
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take care of them, you provide for them, and you're
not as perfect as me. So so imagine I'm for you,
not against you. Yes, I'm for you, and imagine how
much more good I can do for you and want
to do for you because I want to provide for
you and give you good things. So I love that
comparison because it's like, yeah, we know what it's like
for a loving parent to provide and take care of
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their kids.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Well, this is another one of those indicators that this
isn't only about I promise.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
To make all your wildest dreams come true.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Right, it's about the seeking him right right, because he
uses the parental thing. It's relationship. We read it because
we still think that God is sort of our lucky rabbits,
foot in our pocket. He's the genie in the bottle.
He's the one who's supposed to make all our wildest
dreams come true. And God's like I can. But that's
(23:00):
not the point, right, So the relationship is seek me
and I'll take care of everything. Six twenty three, which are
six thirty three, which is literally what So this is
verse seven we go back six seven, we go seven
verses eight verses back, and he says, seek the Kingdom
of God above all else, and live righteously, and he
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will give you everything you need. He just literally seven
sentences earlier, that's what he says. So you know that
this is not about what you can get from God.
It's all about the relationship, because that's why he pivots
in and uses a parental parent and kid thing is.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
It's about the relationship. Of course, I can provide for you.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I've been providing for you the water you drink, the
air you breed, the sunshine that grows, the food that
you're everything I provide for you all the time, and
so of course I can provide everything that you need.
But it's about the relationship, and I think we miss
it every time when we just say I can get
my mans around.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Hey, did you ever sing this verse K first? Yeah? Yeah,
K first the Kingdom of God. Yeah, that's great. Yeah,
that's how I remember it. And I always sing that
and hum that all the time. I mean, I mean
for thirty years, I've sang this verse and hummed it
from time to time, you know, which is great. Well, Hey,
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I think that that is our time. So what a
great passage scripture. That's a lot to unpack there, So
hopefully we'll see you next time on the Bible.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Guys,
You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a
couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in
practical ways. Good morning, good morning. We talked the whole
net through. Good morning, Good morning to you and you
and you man. It's only Tuesday, I know, and I
(00:23):
did it last time on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I think is this a new Tuesday tradition?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Yeah, I don't know, I don't know. Maybe maybe, Jeff, whatever,
I feel like, fantabulous.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yes, today is a good morning, assuming that you're listening
in the morning. That's probably not the case for a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Good evening, good evening, oh wow, or you could do
good night.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yeah, well evening has two.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Solos afternoon, good afternoon.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Oh yeah, good afternoon, good afternoon. So yeah, hey, welcome
to the Bible Guys. I'm Chris, this is Jeff and
we are your hosts to this podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Oh boy, and I can only imagine how excited our
listeners are today. Oh yeah, because we have a very
special segment.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
They're on the edge of the sheet.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yes, this is one of those get to know Chris
and Jeff even better segments.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah, and it's called Who's most likely Yes, and it
usually gives us two. Really, well, no, no, this is choice.
This is not would you rather? This is this is fun.
This is just fun. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, just just get to know us better.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
It's a preference thing, is yeah. Yeah, okay, all right.
Well Number one says, who's most likely to eat cake
for breakfast and call it self care?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
That's could be you.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I don't really like cake.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I know you don't like cake, but you like self care.
I'll eat the cake and you call it self care.
That's because exactly answer, I will eat cake for breakfast.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, I won't eat cake most of the time for anything.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
You're right, you're not a cake person.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I'm not a cake person.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
You're not really a dessert person.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
And one of the most horrific things is you're not
really a chocolate person.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
So when you bring the chocolate, just bring it to me.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
So we had a staff meeting you you weren't here
and at the church and they were doing birthdays, and
so they brought in these really apparently these phenomenal cupcakes. Right, So,
so I think it was your wife probably that ordered him,
or somebody else, maybe Debbie. But but but they ordered
these incredible cupcakes and they're like, everybody, go get the cupcakes,
and everybody's oh man, they're in line. They just love it.
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I'm just like I didn't. I did. I did not
want to touch that with the ten football. I'm just
not that way.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yeah. Who's most likely to get mistaken for a celebrity?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Oh geez, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I don't know. I mean, what would either one of
us be likely to I don't think I've ever been
mistaken for celebrity, although when I was younger, I sort
of looked like Ralph Machio.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, yeah, you did, you did?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, So I I just played my wedding for everybody
under fifty rough.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Machio was a karate kid, right.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Right right, Well, hey now he's back with Cobra Coppy.
Yeah so even though our young listeners know who he is,
they just don't know his name.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah, but you don't look like him anymore, no.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
No, yeah, but but anyway, I just played their wedding
video on Sunday and it was me at twenty one.
Oh yeah, and it was my Ralf Machio look.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
So if I have a beard, people will sometimes say
I look like Ted Cruz, which is funny. And if
I'm forty pounds thinner, people will sometimes say I look
like if my hair is right, looked like Robin Williams.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Oh really yeah, those would be the two things.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
But he's dead.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
He's dead. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Hey, oh, by the way, I do. When I was
a little heavier, I did get mistaken a lot for
Mojo in the morning. Oh really, yeah for real?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
In fact, I was actually at.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
A place in Birmingham who's a radio guy. And there's
a radio guy in the area and has a recipe voice.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yes, And when I was in Birmingham, this lady swore
up and down. She's like, oh my goodness, it's you.
And I thought that maybe she was a Bible guy fan.
Oh and come to find out, I figured it out
like five minutes of the conversation. She thinks I'm Mojo.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
That's funny, Okay. Who's most likely to hike to a
volcano just to say they did that?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Definitely be you.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
That's me.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah, although I get to be honest, i'd love it too.
I would love it, but it says most likely, yeah, right,
and you edged me out.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
In that area, I would say, just to say they did.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, I mean you know no. So okay, number four.
Who's most likely to say I'm just resting my eyes
and fall asleep instantly? Hmm, Well you're an instant sleep guy.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, but I'm not. I'm not a fall asleep I'm
just resting my eyes.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
That probably be me.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I don't know do you take do you take like
quick naps or do you fall asleep in meetings?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Umm? Not?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
You just yawned.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
But I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what. When
I hit forty, something happened to me. I became my
mom because my mom can fall asleep anywhere, like in.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Church or whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And I when I hit forty, I started falling asleep
in movies. And I don't know what it is. But
if I go to my family knows. If I go
to a movie that's like after nine pm, there's a
really good chance, no matter what the movie is, I
will fall asleep.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Wow and chairs, yeah, popcorn.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, don't know what it is. So I'm gonna say
me on this one.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
But you need to go to the Dolby theaters, which
the whole theater shakes.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Listen to me when I tell you this. Captain America
Civil War. It was one of the most anticipated movies
for me in my household. In the heat of marvel.
We just were on the pinnacle of interest and we
were waiting for it, and we got there. It was
a nine something movie, and I'm in the theater thinking
to myself, this is one of the coolest things I've
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ever seen. And I missed the last ten minutes because
I fell asleep.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
You fell asleep, Okay, well.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah, and so I had to I had to wait
until like the next day. I had to go back
and see it because I'm just thinking, what does the
matter with me?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, so you had to go back and see it,
of course for the last ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Well, I probably saw it four times in the theater.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Okay, wow, okay, well that's ventsive nat buddy.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yes, Who's most likely to solve a Rubic's cube while blindfolded?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I mean, I suppose me.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Do you know? How can you do?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
You know how to solve I have seen videos where
all you have to do is this one pattern and
apparently it's that's all you have to know. It's just
a single pattern. And uh, and so I could I
think I could learn it.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I could learn it, but I don't know how to
do it. I've seen it too.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah. Yeah, so I'm gonna go with me because it
seems like trivial and silly, and I'm more likely to
do things like that, Okay, things that don't matter, things
that don't matter.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
That's that seems important.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah, you never know, you never know. Well, its way,
you know, you might be in like some kind of
a mission impossible moment and the only way to defuse
the bomb is to solve this rubics.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, maybe blindfolded.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Maybe I think that it'd be a silly skilled to master,
because nobody does. It's a silly skill to master.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You're just gonna rest your eyes next.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah, I'm just gonna risk my eyes for me. But
but but yeah, I think I would master a silly skill,
I think.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah, so I liked Rubik's Cube back when they were out,
you know popular.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Oh yeah, I didn't want to learn a pattern. I
wanted to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Oh did you? I used to take the stickers off
and then just like say look what.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I did, except everybody can see that they.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Were Yeah, they were peeled off, like the corners were
like all messed up. So yeah, you know that that
segment was given to us by Desiree. Yes, and you
know what Jesus said, what if you ask, he'll be
given to you. You said make them back?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Oh she asked, she asked us those questions.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
No, I'm saying she gave us that segment.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
She gave us the segment.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
And you know what it says, He'll give us stuff Jesus.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Oh, I see, because Jesus it's rough. Dude.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah, you should make it bad.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
So I was trying to.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Make it possible transition, Yes, and you nailed. You should
get a trophy.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Last week I made a good transition or Yesterdady.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
At the twenty twenty five Bible Guys Awards show.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Oh yeah, you're.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Probably gonna get the trophy for first.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Person possible transition. I don't know, dude, you had some
pretty bad one.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
That was a bad one.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Okay, Well, we are in Matthew chapter seven and we're
just reading only a few verses here today. Matthew chapter
seven versus seven through eleven. Wow, all right, we can
get a big gold.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
What did you say?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Seven eleven? Big gold?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Oh? Big hop. It's one of my favorite lines in
Dumb and dumber. Did you know that was improft? No,
he comes out of seven eleven and these two guys
were standing there that were not a part of the script.
They were literally just walking in the seven eleven and
Jim Carrey walks out and he goes, hey, big golf. Huh.
Well he just walks away and they and they loved
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it so much they kept it in Okay, and it's
one of my favorite lines. It is so funny.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Well, here we go, Jesus says, keep on asking and
you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking
and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door
will be open to you. For everyone who asks receives,
everyone who seeks finds, and to everyone who knocks, the
door will be opened. Your parents, if your children ask
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for a loave of bread, do you give them a
stone instead? If they ask for a fish, do you
give them a snake?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Of course not so.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
If you sinful people know how to give good gifts
to your children, how much more will your heavenly father
give good gifts to those who ask him?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Yeah? So did I ever tell you? Did I ever
tell you that sometimes I get angry that God isn't
more clear? Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
You've mentioned that before.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah, I mean, angry is nothing ang word.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
It'll put out, Yeah, they'll put out.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I I just so I love God, and I love
God's word, and I love the scripture, and I love,
you know, being a teacher and trying to make things,
you know, simple and clear, and sometimes I there's a
part of me I'm just being honest where I'm like, God,
(10:18):
couldn't you have said that just a little more clear?
Because on the surface, it seems like what you're saying
is that I can pray God give me a million dollars,
and you're gonna give me a million dollars. Right on
the surface, it seems like it's like, hey, if you ask,
then I'm gonna give it to you. Right, And does
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he say, does he give any stipulation? Right there? You know,
let's let's read it again. Keep on asking and you'll
receive what you ask for. Oh, right, a ferrari actually
a maserati, right, like why not? Right? Keep on seeking
and you'll find it. Keep on knocking. The door be
opened for everyone who asks, it says everyone. Yeah, right,
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you're gonna you're gonna receive everyone who seeks. We'll find it.
Everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. And then
he goes on to talk about the comparison of parents
giving children good gifts and then or having the father
giving us good gifts. So there's a part of me
that says, I just wish that God would have said
(11:25):
side note right or caveat or hey, don't forget right,
because because that's what we're about to say, right, Yeah,
we're about to say all those things. We're about to say,
side note, caveat, don't forget.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Yeah, well I would say he did, but it's a
little less evident to a Western thinker than it is
to an Eastern minded thinker.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Because because of all the words around.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
It, because of all the words around it. And Matthew five,
six and seven are what we call the Sermon on
the mounta. There are no verses, there are no chapters.
When Jesus is just giving, he doesn't say and then
verse twenty seven, I think you.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Should know, right, he doesn't do that.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
So he's just preaching a message exactly. And now for
chapter seven, as if we finished chapter six, now we're
moving on. But that's how we tend to think of
it is we think of it in chapters and verses,
and he's not. And so you have to remember that
that the the Middle Eastern and the Eastern mindset in
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the way that they will communicate sometimes is groupings of
ideas that go back and revisit a previous idea, right,
and and they're centered. What's in the center usually is
is the point, and then everything on the outsides of
the center are reinforcing or another angle for that. So
if you take this this triad here where he says
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keep on asking, keep on seeking, keep on knocking, what's
the center? What's the primary meaning? Keep seeking God?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah, seeking God.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
That that's the middle.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
That's the middle one, right, And so the asking and
the knocking are about persistence. The fact that this says
keep on in most translations it just says asking, you
will receive, seek, and you.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Will find knocking the door will be open unto you. Right.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
But New Living Translations is a little bit more specific
on this one. Keep on because it's a it's the
act of the continual act of asking and seeking and knocking.
So it's the relationship is the point, and what God's
wanting is so, hey, those of you that are are
adult parents or those of you that are are parents
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of teenagers. You just want your teenager to communicate with
you once. No, you want them communicate with you regularly
and often. You're young adults, you want them How come
you never call me anymore? And they're like, what do
you mean? I called you three weeks ago? And you're like,
I want you to call me every day, right, every
other day?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Right?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I want you to call me often.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
This is what God is trying to say, is he said,
it's the it's a continual relationship. Keep knocking, keep asking,
because I want you to keep seeking me.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
That that's the point.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
But then when you go to the others, He's already
talked about don't store up treasures on earth right where
mas and rust, moths and rust do corrupt, he said,
Instead store treasures in heaven. So he's already talking. He's
already talked about materialism. He's already taught us to pray
our father heart in heaven. How be your name, your kingdom, Come,
Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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So he's already kind of told us what it means
to have a relationship with him and what our priorities
should be. Our priority should be shifting from earthly selfish
priorities to godly kingdom priorities. Right, He's already done that,
and so I don't think that the listener would have
heard these verses out of context of what he said
in the first century, in the first century when he
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was preaching the message. But because we love to read
six verses or five verses at a time, then we go, Wow,
I just found this. I can ask for maserati, and
he's promised to give it to me, right, And that's
not what happened.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
My Maserati does one eighty five.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yeah, so does that make sense?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
So if you take the whole message as a whole,
he's already talked about materialism, he's already talked about selfishness,
he's already talked about the importance of God's kingdom. He's
already ended seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and
all the other things that we added to you. So
he's already set things in priority. And then this is
just kind of a callback to that because he's talking
in groupings of ideas. And now after he got done
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talking about fasting and prayer and he talks about worry,
he talks about then he pauses and in verse seven
one through six, he talks about not judging other people
or being judgmental. He pivots back to this, the real
goal is to keep seeking God. And so in that
context is this prayer thing. But we take it. If
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we ask anything, we can get whatever we want. Yeah, yeah,
because we're not taking in context.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah. And so the caveat that I was referring to
is one of the things that we always say, which
is the Bible is its own best commentary. So you know,
we have to ask for things according to God's will,
and so you know, it's it's not as if you know,
all of us don't have requests that are that are
in God's will. We all do, but we have a
lot of requests also that aren't in God's will. And
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so if it aligns with God's will and then you know,
and God is willing to allow it, then you know,
I do believe that God's will can be persuaded because
there are other parts of the Bible. You remember the
remember the illustration where Jesus says, this is how the
Kingdom of Heaven is. A man is lying there and
then the guy knocks on the door and he says, hey,
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give up, get up and give us give me a
piece of bread, because I have a neighbor coming and
I don't have enough bread. And he says, go away,
we're sleeping. But because he knocks and he's persistent, and
he says, because of his bold persistency, he said, he'll
get up and he'll give the man what he wants.
And then Jesus said, so pray that way. And so
it's like what And so that story tells us that
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God can be moved by prayer, right, which also supports
with Jane says, which is, prayer matters, it avails much,
it's effective, right, and that and that prayer, prayer makes
a difference, and so so we do know that and
so but we also have to realize praying according to
God's will and whatever God would all want.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Well, we know that there's times in the Bible God
changed his mind. Yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
In the story of Moses with the Israelites, God finally
he's so mad at the is They're just complaining all
the time, complaining. They begin rebelling against God and God says, Moses,
get out of my way. I'm going to wipe them
off the face of the earth. And then I'm going
to keep my promise to Abraham through you. I'm gonna
make your family be the family that fulfills the promised Abraham.
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And Moses begs God, please don't do it. He says,
you know you didn't bring him out here just to
wipe them out. What are you gonna How are we
going to answer all of the enemies who hate you
and hate God's people when they say that was your
purpose was to bring him in the desert to kill them.
It's going to be bad for your reputation all these things.
(18:05):
Please don't do any And he begs God not to
wipe out Israel. He pleads for them, and the Bible
says that God changed his mind. A matter of fact,
King James says, and God repented of the evil he
thought to do against the people of Israel. Isn't that amazing?
Repent just means change your mind. But still he literally
changed his mind and changed his direction. So change repent
means change your mind and change your direction. So he
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intended to wipe them out, then decided not to, And
it was because of what Moses pray. James tells us
the prayer of a righteous person accomplishes much and if
that if accomplished means it affects the outcome. That's what
accomplished means means it affects the outcome, which means your
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prayer affects the outcome of what God is going to do.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
That's very significant.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Well, think about Sodom and Gomorrah. Remember where Abraham was praying.
And now even though that God did wipe out the city,
he demonstrated that he was willing to change his mind. Right,
and he says, hey, if I find what he's fifty
fifty and then they kept on going down.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Right, stopped at ten. Yeah, he stopped at four.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Right. But the point is is that like he says,
would you change your mind? And God said yes, I would.
So God God definitely demonstrates in the Bible that that, yeah,
his mind has been changed, it could be changed, and
he's willing to change it. So anyway, all that to say,
we know that the going to God, the asking of
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things can persuade God to give and provide and to
change and to you know, heal, and all these different
kinds of things.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
So this is difficult for some people because you know,
the book Revelation says Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today,
and forever. Yep, there's another place where God says that
I I am God and I do not change. Right,
So those two things can be very confusing for the
idea that God can change his mind. So when it
says Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever, or
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either Lord of God, I do not change, he's talking
about his character in the essence of who he is.
But he's completely autonomous, right, So he's not bound by
his own predetermined will. He can do whatever he wants
to do. And in that situation, he can choose to
change his mind and he can cause all things to
work together for good. So then if he changes his mind,
(20:33):
that doesn't make him less perfect. It just means he
had two perfect ways of doing things and he decided
to do the other one. It's possible to have two
perfectly viable solutions and just be choosing one and he go, no,
you know what, You're right, I'm going.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
To do this other perfectly viable solution. That's all. It
doesn't make God any less.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
So when it says Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today,
and forever, theologically that is true. The essence of who
he is his character. His teaching will never change, it
will never change, but he can change his mind on
things that don't go against his own word. And that's
(21:13):
what he did there. So it can be a confusing
thing for people who feel like God is stuck in
some kind of linear rut that must play out exactly
the way that was predetermined for the foundation of the world.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, And then I love how God ends this idea
of you know, parenting. So God creates parenting, He creates
marriage to be a direct reflection of our relationship with him.
The idea of parenting is also a reflection. He constantly
talks about him being the father, us being the child,
us being in the family of God, so the family unit, right,
(21:51):
we're able to relate on that level. We're creating his image.
All these are just sort of coupled together and mashed
together all the time. And so I love how he
uses the parental you know sort of thing where it says, hey,
you're you're imperfect, you're evil, right, and you take care
of your kids and you give them great things, you
(22:12):
take care of them, you provide for them, and you're
not as perfect as me. So so imagine I'm for you,
not against you. Yes, I'm for you, and imagine how
much more good I can do for you and want
to do for you because I want to provide for
you and give you good things. So I love that
comparison because it's like, yeah, we know what it's like
for a loving parent to provide and take care of
(22:33):
their kids.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Well, this is another one of those indicators that this
isn't only about I promise.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
To make all your wildest dreams come true.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Right, it's about the seeking him right right, because he
uses the parental thing. It's relationship. We read it because
we still think that God is sort of our lucky rabbits,
foot in our pocket. He's the genie in the bottle.
He's the one who's supposed to make all our wildest
dreams come true. And God's like I can. But that's
(23:00):
not the point, right, So the relationship is seek me
and I'll take care of everything. Six twenty three, which are
six thirty three, which is literally what So this is
verse seven we go back six seven, we go seven
verses eight verses back, and he says, seek the Kingdom
of God above all else, and live righteously, and he
(23:23):
will give you everything you need. He just literally seven
sentences earlier, that's what he says. So you know that
this is not about what you can get from God.
It's all about the relationship, because that's why he pivots
in and uses a parental parent and kid thing is.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
It's about the relationship. Of course, I can provide for you.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I've been providing for you the water you drink, the
air you breed, the sunshine that grows, the food that
you're everything I provide for you all the time, and
so of course I can provide everything that you need.
But it's about the relationship, and I think we miss
it every time when we just say I can get
my mans around.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Hey, did you ever sing this verse K first? Yeah? Yeah,
K first the Kingdom of God. Yeah, that's great. Yeah,
that's how I remember it. And I always sing that
and hum that all the time. I mean, I mean
for thirty years, I've sang this verse and hummed it
from time to time, you know, which is great. Well, Hey,
(24:20):
I think that that is our time. So what a
great passage scripture. That's a lot to unpack there, So
hopefully we'll see you next time on the Bible.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Guys,
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