August 22, 2025 • 25 mins
Episode 755:
In this episode, we dive into a lively discussion about the nature of worry and the importance of seeking the kingdom of God. We explore a passage from Luke 12:22-34, where Jesus addresses the issue of worry. We discuss how Jesus encourages us not to be consumed by our daily concerns, such as food and clothing, reminding us that life is more than these material needs. He uses the examples of ravens and lilies to illustrate God's provision and care for creation, emphasizing that if God cares for these, He will certainly care for us.
In this episode, we dive into a lively discussion about the nature of worry and the importance of seeking the kingdom of God. We explore a passage from Luke 12:22-34, where Jesus addresses the issue of worry. We discuss how Jesus encourages us not to be consumed by our daily concerns, such as food and clothing, reminding us that life is more than these material needs. He uses the examples of ravens and lilies to illustrate God's provision and care for creation, emphasizing that if God cares for these, He will certainly care for us.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Hey, everybody, welcome, Welcome, Welcome, welcome for welcome for Welcome
to the Bible guys.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Well, Chris, yes, this better be fun and practical. We
just we just made that declaration.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm already having fun and it's always proud.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Okay. Well, so one of the most important segments in
all of the no humanity in the Bible, guys, universe, no,
in all universes in the what is it? The cannon
in the Bible guys? Cannon?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
All right?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Is what made Chris mad this week?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yes, and today is Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
You've allready just made our wildest dreams come true by
singing whatever good morning twice this week, Wow, Tuesday and Thursday.
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Assuming people listened all.
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Tuesday and Thursday. People, you gotta go back and listen.
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Because there may be people just tuning in for the
first time.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
That's right. So we are today recording our seven hundred
and fifty fifth episode zoinks. Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
It's crazy?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And so we do these five days a week, and.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And I'm not sure I've ever wanted to do seven
hundred and fifty five things with you.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
At all, evereven and fifty five anythings with you? What
was I thinking? So anyways, you've already delighted people beyond
our wildest dreams by singing two times this week to us.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
But the by far favorite segment that we do is
what made Chris mad this week.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
And that's a heck of an introduction.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Joe, listener, you're going to discover Chris it's not mad
for himself. No, he's this is true, on behalf of
all of you. I don't know if it's true. It's
what he wants you to believe. No, no, no, no, actually
is actually on behalf of all of humanity. He's angry
for you.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Hate. By the way, this is true.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
He bears this burden.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I'm she bears this Verden, Hey, this is true. I
actually didn't discover this about myself until this segment. I
promise you this is true because because what I what
I realized is.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
You give purpose to your rage, your outrage outrage sort
of but like like when I'm with my family, so noble,
when I'm with my listen, when I'm with.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
My family, and let's just say, like, I'll take a
classic one, right, like poor customer service or something or whatever,
and and and uh and so, yeah, that happens to me,
But my family will attest by far that I don't
ever think about me in.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
That moment ever.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Listen, I'm not I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding. I'll
get mad, and then I'll always immediately go to like
that manager needs to know that that waitress is being
this way and I can't believe that that she's going
to mess up this entire business, and like and I'm like,
I'm like, so it happened to me, and yet I
immediately go toward like the injustice of like, you know whatever,
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and and my family will attest to humanity. Look, you've met.
So I'm going to go really obscure in this one.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
And before I give my reasoning, I'm just going on
a limb and telling you that this is not going
to be a common thing that people think of, okay,
because people always think of not returning your life.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I'm shining a light in the darkness. At this point.
You're letting us, yes, which should be outraged, Okay, but
you are on our behalf here's.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
What people can relate to. Everybody can relate to going
into a public place and you go into like a
public restroom or something, especially when there's multiple sinks lined
up right, like an airport or something like this, right,
And have you ever seen there's water everywhere? Yes, everywhere.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I'm with you on this one. So far, okay, go go,
So do you want to know get.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
The majority of the reason why there's water everywhere?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Because people don't wipe up after themselves.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
You would think that, But now I'm going to enlighten you.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I want you to pay attention to this, and I
promise you this is true. If you start paying attention
to this every time you see a bunch of water everywhere,
you will start to realize it's actually not the people's fault.
It's the people who choose. Well two reasons. The sinks
aren't built correctly. So you have this big bowl and
then a faucet that leans like it's three inches off
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of one side. Why doesn't the faucet left the water
down in the middle of the bowl. If you had
a good sink, then the faucet would actually be in
the middle of the bowl. And no matter how much
you splash, the water stays in the bowl of the sink.
Mind blowing. Okay, And so here's what happens. You have
a big, huge sink and then you have a tiny
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little faucet and it's actually like right near the edge,
and so when you're sitting there, washing water gets everywhere, right,
And it's because two reasons. Number one, people don't know
how to actually design sinks correctly. And by the way,
come on sing, what the heck is that? All right,
let's start protesting these sink designers. It's all about money. Yeah, right,
it's not about it's not about it's about I'm gonna
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build a smaller faucet because do people want to get
it with the bare minimum? And this is what people
are going to buy. And if I build a smaller faucet,
they're gonna buy mine.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
And so it's a conspiracy. It's a faucet conspiracy people,
And you know who you are.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
You already know this to be true. A faucet shouldn't
come out three or four inches on this massive bowl.
Then why have the bowl? Why not make why not
make you know, the bowl just this big, because that's
where you're doing so everything. Water gets everywhere. So my
point is the manufacturers, it's their fault and it's and
it's also the people who don't want, all right to
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spend the money on proper sinks.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
All right. And uh so it has nothing to do
with the fact that people have wet hands and when
they take their hands out from underneath there, it drops still,
believe it or not. It don't wipe up afterwards, believe
it or not.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I think it has way less to do with that
than it has to do with the fact.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Because it must be washing your hands vigorously. Uh vigorous washing.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
No, no, no, no, I'm telling you right now. It's
it's the reason why you see water everywhere. Alls I
know is majority of the time you'll discover it's actually
the fop at our Scaling Heights campus. Yes, we have
like this. It used to be a movie theater. Yes.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
One of the benefits of buying a movie theater is
the restrooms are huge. Yes, it's like a fourteenth theater yep, yep.
And so we have what eight nine.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, a sink sinks yep.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
And what I know is that the sink countertop gets
wet yep, But so does the wall where the paper is.
The paper towels, yeah are whatever.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
It's wet, everything's going to get wet. But what I'm
saying is.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
And the space between the sink and the paper towel.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
When I travel on the Interstate and I travel from
here to Youngston, Ohio, which is where I grew up,
I'm on eighty ninety at the turnpike and I get off,
and they have the worst example of this. They actually
have the smallest faucets with the biggest sinks, and all
the water runs where the fossils are across. It's right
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across the right and everybody you know doing this, and
of course you know you have the soap and all that.
As you're doing it, water is getting everywhere, and it's
because people don't buy people.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
So so then you know, we can lament the fact
that the big faucet yep isn't engineering for our benefit.
That we could lament that, or we could also just
look out for each other and wipe off the counter
when we're done, and then the next words come and
do the next thing there too. That listen, we are
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bringing the finest outrage to our customers. Yes, and the
fact that you are thinking about things most everybody else
is not. Well. I will bet you helps us. I
bet you you make us better complete. I'm gonna make this.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Claif you complete that, I will, I will. I will
go ahead and go on a limb and say, I
bet you that you personally, you will pay attention to
this more because now I don't think that every he
thinks that way. And when you walk into a public
setting and you're going to see water everywhere, just pay
attention to the faucet, and I think you're going to
walk away. Go dude. For the last five years, I've
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looked at this and I'm telling you, ninety percent of
the time the water exists because of the poor faces.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yeah yeah, yeah. And and so the fact that you
worry about this for us.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Well I'm outraged. I'm not worried about it.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yeah, but I'm just you're worried for us that our
life is going to be more difficult and uninformed if
you don't show it to usted. And Jesus warns us
about worry.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I see, I see.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
He lets us know.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Okay, you worry on me for no reason. I'm like,
I'm not worried, but but you're anxiety over this this issue.
All right, I'll buy it. I'll buy it.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Wow, Chris, Well, thank you, thank you on behalf of
all the rest of humanity. Yeah, you can't. We can't
thank you enough. Ye, you're just There're like you're like
the other superhero that didn't make it into them, into the.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I'm like one of the thunderbolts.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, here we go. Well, anyways, it's us here. In Luke,
chapter twelve, verse twenty two, Jesus is talking about worry,
and he says, then turning to his disciples, Jesus said,
this is why I tell you not to worry about
everything her everyday life, whether you have enough food to
eat or enough clothes to wear, for life is more
than food in your body, more than clothing. Look at
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the ravens. They don't plant or harvest or store food
and barns, for God feeds them, and you are far
more valuable to Him than any birds can all your
worries at a single moment to your life. And if
worry can' accomplish a little thing like that, what's the
use of worrying about bigger things? Look at the lilies
and how they grow. They don't work or make their
clothing Yet Solomon and all his glory was not dressed
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as beautifully as they are. And if God cares so
wonderfully for flowers that are here today and thrown into
the fire tomorrow, he will certainly care for you. Why
do you have so little faith? Is that it? Nope,
we go and don't be concerned about what to eat
and what to drink. Don't worry about such things. These
things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers all over the world.
But your father already knows your needs. Seek the Kingdom
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of God above all else, and he will give you
everything you need. So don't be afraid. Little flock gives
your father great happiness to give you the kingdom. Sell
your possessions, and give those in need. This will store
up treasures for you in heaven, and the purses of
heaven never get old or develop holes. Your treasure will
be safe. No thief can steal it, no money can
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no moth can destroy it. Wherever your treasure is, they're
the desires of your heart will be also.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Boom, bang, there you go, boom. You know it's so
great about the Bible, a lot of things, But let
me tell you. Let me tell you what I well,
best things the resurrection, Yeah, are salvation. One of the
great things about the Bible from a skeptics point of view,
how about that is that even though these stories are
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written down and some of them are so ancient, you know,
thousands and thousands of years old, that and they're so outrageous, right,
I mean, you know, Elijah on top of the mountain
with fire coming down. I mean, just just crazy stories.
What's so interesting is that every single time that in
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this case Jesus talking about human nature, but even the
Bible talking about human nature, our human nature has not changed. No, Yeah,
isn't that crazy? So everyone it talks about thoughts and
intents of the heart or human tendencies to lean a
certain way or do a certain thing, or or you know,
or struggling you know, commandment to not uh uh you know,
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do this, but do this. And I mean every time
it talks about the desires, the intentions, the human hearts,
the sinful nature, everything it is. It is dead on.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
And so here's Jesus talking about where your treasure is,
the desires of your heart will also be And holy cow,
is that true? That is one of the most prominent
truths that supersedes every race, every culture, every generation. It's
just like, think about it, everybody wherever they You know,
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if a person loves money, right, and if a person
loves stuff, then that's where their heart's going to be.
Their heart's going to be there. It's not going to
be anywhere else. Which is we see that in you know,
people who come to their senses and they say, man,
I've sacrificed my family for the pursuit of more money. Yeah,
you know, I got divorced because I'm always at work
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and I'm searching for that next promotion. And it's just
like money is the first priority, and then you lose
everything else, or if you don't lose it, it suffers. Right.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I was in Naples, Florida and working with or meeting
with a couple of guys who give pretty significant resources
to the Timothy Initiative to help start discycle making movements
in church planting movements in the least reached countries in
the world. And the one gentleman was wealthy. The other
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gentleman was insanely wealthy, insanely with He's an old guy,
quite old gentleman, and he made his money a number
of years ago. Hundreds of millions of dollars, and he
has a huge car collection. He owns a bunch of
houses all around the country, all these things. But about
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a decade or two ago he set up a family
foundation and began realizing, I want to give it all away.
And so when we were sitting there in the restaurant,
it was just a diner, literally, like a diner with
some lady named Flow who came up to a bubblegum,
want to know what you want today?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
All right?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I think it's his favorite place to eat, which is hysterical,
and it looks like that old diner, you know, the
old kind of diners with the like the stainless steel
building and the neon signs and stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Trivia. Do you remember the name of that series.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Of what series?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
The Flow or wait?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I was talking about some lady named Flow, I.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Know, But did you get that quote from Dumb and Dumber?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
No Flow?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
No oh, because that she was made popular as a
diner worker. She her name was Flow. Her cats phrase
was kiss my grits okay, and it was from Alice okay,
and it was Mel's Dinner. Oh well yeah, from the seventies.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
So anyways, it's kind of that idea, you know, that place.
So it was just kind of a low key restaurant.
Really cool to hang out with him there, and I
asked him about it. I said, you know, he's a
really grumpy old guy all this stuff, so you just
never know if you're gonna offend him. But I asked him,
I said, hey, can I ask you? You know you
mentioned because he was measuring what kind of investment was
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he making and what kind of results is he getting?
So he wanted all these details. Typical rich guy making
investments and now he's trying to give his money away.
And I asked him, I said, you know, you take
these things really seriously, and you're reacting like this is
your job. He said, it is my job. That's what
I mean. He said, when I was trying to build
my career, he said, I was building buildings, building apartments,
building all these things. And he said I was in
detailed down to like the penny and he said, every
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minute mattter to me, and everything made money. He said,
Now I'm trying to figure out how to give it away.
And he said, it matters, it matters where it goes,
it matters what kind of results is going to get
Am I going to get a good return on my investment.
I'm still investing. And I said, what made you decide
you want to give your money away? And he said,
I've lived a really great life, and I've got a
lot of good things here. And he said, I've got
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cars that you can't imagine. I've got homes and estates
that you can't fathom. I just chase the sun. I
just live wherever the sun is. You know, sunny, good weather.
So we're in Naples in the middle of winter, he said,
But when my wife died, I realized I loved this
place more than that place. And he said, Jesus is
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right where my treasure is. That's where I want to be.
And he said, at first, I started giving all my
money away so I would fall in love with the
idea that heaven is great and I want to lay
up treasures in heaven because I want to see my wife.
And he said, the longer I've been doing this, the
more I'm in love with the idea that I get
to spend eternity with Jesus. He said, So it started
off with my wife, Now it's Jesus. And he said,
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I love this idea heaven. He said, before I was
afraid of dying. Now I can't wait to go to heaven.
He said all these things, and he said, come laying
up treasure in heaven. He said, it's true. Where your
treasure is, that's where your heart is. And he said,
my treasure was in cars and barns. And now I'm
trying to figure out how do I sell my barns
and my cars because I want more treasure in heaven.
And he said, I long for it. I look for it.
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I'm so excited for it. And I've never had anybody one.
I never had a guy who with one hundreds of
millions of dollars tell me I'm trying figure how to
give it all away. The other one is I never
had anybody that was just that crystal clear on why
this was so important to him. Yeah, right, you have
it away.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I love it. And that's what Jesus is saying. Where
your treasure is, that's where your heart's going to be.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
And so for most of us, our heart is on
our house, it's in our vacations, it's in our bank account,
it's in our retirement, it's in our camper, it's in
our place up north. That's where it because that's where
our treasure is. We're working, we're spending our minutes, in
our hours in order to have money in order to
be able to fund those things. Yeah, so that's where
that's where our hearts are.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah. And by the way, the Bible never says that
having money or having wealth is a bad thing.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
No.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
No, In fact, the scripture even says we're supposed to
leave inheritance for our children's children.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Right, plan for your future future and spends everything you get.
Somebodyle says, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
And so and so the idea that we you know,
are blessed with means isn't designed to make us feel guilty.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Right, well, Paul told Timothy, God has given you all
these things to enjoy. That's right, right, just make sure
you don't put your trust in them, that's right, right.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
That's right. So when you read like verse number thirty three,
where it says sell your possessions and give to those
in need. This will store our treasures in heaven, you
know that is true. Whenever we decide to invest in heaven.
You know, if we're if we're helping the poor, of
course we're reading your treasures in heaven. But that should
not be taken as a commandment of like, if you
have prized possessions, you must sell them. That's not what
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that's saying, right, right, it's saying that if you have
an attitude of of.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
You know, give saying start letting go. Yeah, that's right,
that's hanging on so tight, start letting that.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
That's right. It's the principle of this. This is what
this means, and this is what this means. Right.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Well, so we always say that the Bible is its
own best commentary. That's right, so he says, so in
my mind, Jesus doesn't waste words. So in verse thirty one,
he says, seek the Kingdom above all else. So I
can tell you this, there's almost nothing else in this
passage that's more important than that statement.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
He literally says above all else. If you ever wonder
what's important to Jesus, well, there's nothing more important than
you seeking the Kingdom of Heaven above all else, and
he will give you everything you need. So don't be afraid,
little flock. It gives your father great happiness to give
you the kingdom. So if you seek the kingdom, that
means seeking Jesus to be the king of your life.
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And then your will be done, not my will, be done.
When your will and your values begin to align with his,
he says, then I'll give you everything you need. Right,
My father's gonna give everything you need. And it's in
that context that he says, sell your possessions and give
to the poor. He's saying, release your grip. If you're
seeking his kingdom above everything else, you're going to release
your grip on your kingdom. And when you release your
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grip on your kingdom, what's going to happen is all
of your work and all of your efforts are going
to start laying up treasures in heaven rather than just
accumulating treasures here. There's nothing wrong with having things here,
it's just where's your grip? What's because what you're gripping
onto probably has a hard grip on you. Right.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
And he also made us a very similar statement in
Matthew chapter six, where he says, seek you first the
Kingdom of God and his righteousness. That's right, and all
these things shall be added to you. God will take
care of you, you know, that's all. Yes, seek first
the Kingdom of God. Okay, And it is righteous. Okay,
So anyway, the point is is that when God tells
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us to seek him first, he promises then provision, right right.
And so when he's talking about money, he's talking about
the ravens. He's talking about the flowers. And and I
love the deep thinking here, right who looks at the
flowers and says, man, God has clothed them so well
with their with their garments, you know. But Jesus looks
at the flowers and says, they're dressed so beautifully, the purples,
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the yellows, the greens or whatever. And he's talking about
just and he says, you know, not not even Solivan
and all this splendor was dressed more beautifully than these God.
And God does that. And God cares for the flowers
just by the way, so you know God cares for ravens.
God cares for flowers, And how much more does he
care for you? Because God provides? And so he's telling us,
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you know, rely on God because you know it's all
around you. You know, the idea that you know, ravens
don't worry is a hilarious thought, right right. And he's saying,
look around you, the flowers aren't worried. The ravens aren't worried.
Not worrying is something that's all around you, right, And
they were completely dependent upon God.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
He says in verse twenty five. Can all your worries
a single moment to your life?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
That's hilarious, right, really, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
What is your worrying accomplishing? It doesn't acomplish anything. And
he says, and if worry can't accomplish a little thing
like that, right, adding more minutes to your life, Jesus
views that as a little thing, right, Right, what's the
use of worrying over bigger things if you can't add
any more time to your life? And that's just a
little thing for God. Right, If you if you're not
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in control of that, then why are you worrying about
the big stuff? Right? Instead? Seek God and his kingdom
and all these other things that we added to you.
That's great, Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
You know when it talks about worry, you know that
whenever I start preaching on worry or you know, teach
on worry, you can get through the negative consequences of
worry so much, I mean so quickly. And and there's
I don't think there's a single upside to worry no,
it's one of it's one of those. It's one of
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those topics where like I remember arguing with my mother
about smoking one time, and I said, name me a
single benefit of smoking, right, and now she has she has,
she has hard I'm breathing at eighty five. What is
that called? Nod? Yeah? And so. But but I used
to say to her, name me a single thing. And
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you know it smells it, you know, second and smoke,
it's cost you money, all these different things and uh.
And so finally she goes, oh, I have it. I
said what and she goes, it makes me want to
eat less, and therefore I'm thinner when I smoke. And
I said, okay, fine, you came up with one thing, okay,
out of the out of a million negatives. But I
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don't think there's a single good thing about worry. Now,
if you try to come up with one single thing,
I don't think you really can.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I think warriors would try to tell you they're just
trying to be diligent. Yeah, they're trying to focus on
the thing that you're not focusing on, right. Uh, and
so your your personal responsibility and your diligence, those things
are are no but there's almost always an equal and
opposite corresponding negative, and if it's unchecked to every every
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noble thing that you can think to do. Telling the
truth is incredibly noble. But I can use the truth
as a club and beat you with it too. So
there's almost an opposite, equal and opposite corresponding negative to
all the positives. So if you're a worrier and you're
justifying it by saying, well, I'm just trying to be diligent,
I'm just trying to be you know, responsible, then just
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understand every sin can be justified by some noble side
of it. Right your your outrage on our behalf. For instance,
I'm joking, bro.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I was gonna say, are you about sure?
Speaker 1 (23:43):
You?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Are you about to classify that a sin?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I'm joking. I'm joking, but I mock it. I think
it's a funny idea. And so be careful about justifying
your worry as if it's some because Jesus doesn't give
any of those caveats. He goes listen, if your hat
and it's because of this, how tightly you're hanging on
to a thing. If you're hanging on to a thing,
the one of the ways you know that it's beginning
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to hang on to you and grip you too tight.
Is the fact that it's dominating your thinking. Yeah, And
Jesus said, these kinds of things dominate the way pagans
think what they're going to eat next, and all these things.
He said, Listen, God delights in giving you the kingdom,
but you got to let it go. If to let
go of these things and trust that God's can do it,
it doesn't mean you stop being diligent. It doesn't mean
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you stop being responsible. It means that you trust the
outcome to God. And when you trust the outcome to God,
then there's a lot more peace. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
And somebody might also say, well, being a worrier causes
me to think through things more and plan more because
I worry about you know, inevitable or probable you know, outcomes.
And I would just say, guess what, it's possible to
still plan and think that way without worrying. That's right, right,
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So the worrying is the negative part of things, right.
It's of worrying is worrying about things you can't control,
that are out of your control, that may or may
not even happen. And therefore it's a negative feeling. It's
a negative thing all around. It actually takes moments from
your life. You know, worry can actually end your life early.
It does, it really does. So studies have been done.
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We hey, that is a great place to end. Thank
you for joining us in the Bible guys, and hopefully
we'll see you next time.
You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a
couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in
practical ways.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Hey, everybody, welcome, Welcome, Welcome, welcome for welcome for Welcome
to the Bible guys.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Well, Chris, yes, this better be fun and practical. We
just we just made that declaration.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm already having fun and it's always proud.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Okay. Well, so one of the most important segments in
all of the no humanity in the Bible, guys, universe, no,
in all universes in the what is it? The cannon
in the Bible guys? Cannon?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
All right?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Is what made Chris mad this week?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yes, and today is Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
You've allready just made our wildest dreams come true by
singing whatever good morning twice this week, Wow, Tuesday and Thursday.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Assuming people listened all.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Tuesday and Thursday. People, you gotta go back and listen.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Because there may be people just tuning in for the
first time.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
That's right. So we are today recording our seven hundred
and fifty fifth episode zoinks. Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
It's crazy?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And so we do these five days a week, and.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And I'm not sure I've ever wanted to do seven
hundred and fifty five things with you.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
At all, evereven and fifty five anythings with you? What
was I thinking? So anyways, you've already delighted people beyond
our wildest dreams by singing two times this week to us.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
But the by far favorite segment that we do is
what made Chris mad this week.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
And that's a heck of an introduction.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Joe, listener, you're going to discover Chris it's not mad
for himself. No, he's this is true, on behalf of
all of you. I don't know if it's true. It's
what he wants you to believe. No, no, no, no, actually
is actually on behalf of all of humanity. He's angry
for you.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Hate. By the way, this is true.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
He bears this burden.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I'm she bears this Verden, Hey, this is true. I
actually didn't discover this about myself until this segment. I
promise you this is true because because what I what
I realized is.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
You give purpose to your rage, your outrage outrage sort
of but like like when I'm with my family, so noble,
when I'm with my listen, when I'm with.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
My family, and let's just say, like, I'll take a
classic one, right, like poor customer service or something or whatever,
and and and uh and so, yeah, that happens to me,
But my family will attest by far that I don't
ever think about me in.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
That moment ever.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Listen, I'm not I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding. I'll
get mad, and then I'll always immediately go to like
that manager needs to know that that waitress is being
this way and I can't believe that that she's going
to mess up this entire business, and like and I'm like,
I'm like, so it happened to me, and yet I
immediately go toward like the injustice of like, you know whatever,
(02:57):
and and my family will attest to humanity. Look, you've met.
So I'm going to go really obscure in this one.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
And before I give my reasoning, I'm just going on
a limb and telling you that this is not going
to be a common thing that people think of, okay,
because people always think of not returning your life.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I'm shining a light in the darkness. At this point.
You're letting us, yes, which should be outraged, Okay, but
you are on our behalf here's.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
What people can relate to. Everybody can relate to going
into a public place and you go into like a
public restroom or something, especially when there's multiple sinks lined
up right, like an airport or something like this, right,
And have you ever seen there's water everywhere? Yes, everywhere.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I'm with you on this one. So far, okay, go go,
So do you want to know get.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
The majority of the reason why there's water everywhere?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Because people don't wipe up after themselves.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
You would think that, But now I'm going to enlighten you.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I want you to pay attention to this, and I
promise you this is true. If you start paying attention
to this every time you see a bunch of water everywhere,
you will start to realize it's actually not the people's fault.
It's the people who choose. Well two reasons. The sinks
aren't built correctly. So you have this big bowl and
then a faucet that leans like it's three inches off
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of one side. Why doesn't the faucet left the water
down in the middle of the bowl. If you had
a good sink, then the faucet would actually be in
the middle of the bowl. And no matter how much
you splash, the water stays in the bowl of the sink.
Mind blowing. Okay, And so here's what happens. You have
a big, huge sink and then you have a tiny
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little faucet and it's actually like right near the edge,
and so when you're sitting there, washing water gets everywhere, right,
And it's because two reasons. Number one, people don't know
how to actually design sinks correctly. And by the way,
come on sing, what the heck is that? All right,
let's start protesting these sink designers. It's all about money. Yeah, right,
it's not about it's not about it's about I'm gonna
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build a smaller faucet because do people want to get
it with the bare minimum? And this is what people
are going to buy. And if I build a smaller faucet,
they're gonna buy mine.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
And so it's a conspiracy. It's a faucet conspiracy people,
And you know who you are.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
You already know this to be true. A faucet shouldn't
come out three or four inches on this massive bowl.
Then why have the bowl? Why not make why not
make you know, the bowl just this big, because that's
where you're doing so everything. Water gets everywhere. So my
point is the manufacturers, it's their fault and it's and
it's also the people who don't want, all right to
(05:33):
spend the money on proper sinks.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
All right. And uh so it has nothing to do
with the fact that people have wet hands and when
they take their hands out from underneath there, it drops still,
believe it or not. It don't wipe up afterwards, believe
it or not.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I think it has way less to do with that
than it has to do with the fact.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Because it must be washing your hands vigorously. Uh vigorous washing.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
No, no, no, no, I'm telling you right now. It's
it's the reason why you see water everywhere. Alls I
know is majority of the time you'll discover it's actually
the fop at our Scaling Heights campus. Yes, we have
like this. It used to be a movie theater. Yes.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
One of the benefits of buying a movie theater is
the restrooms are huge. Yes, it's like a fourteenth theater yep, yep.
And so we have what eight nine.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah, a sink sinks yep.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
And what I know is that the sink countertop gets
wet yep, But so does the wall where the paper is.
The paper towels, yeah are whatever.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
It's wet, everything's going to get wet. But what I'm
saying is.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
And the space between the sink and the paper towel.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
When I travel on the Interstate and I travel from
here to Youngston, Ohio, which is where I grew up,
I'm on eighty ninety at the turnpike and I get off,
and they have the worst example of this. They actually
have the smallest faucets with the biggest sinks, and all
the water runs where the fossils are across. It's right
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across the right and everybody you know doing this, and
of course you know you have the soap and all that.
As you're doing it, water is getting everywhere, and it's
because people don't buy people.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
So so then you know, we can lament the fact
that the big faucet yep isn't engineering for our benefit.
That we could lament that, or we could also just
look out for each other and wipe off the counter
when we're done, and then the next words come and
do the next thing there too. That listen, we are
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bringing the finest outrage to our customers. Yes, and the
fact that you are thinking about things most everybody else
is not. Well. I will bet you helps us. I
bet you you make us better complete. I'm gonna make this.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Claif you complete that, I will, I will. I will
go ahead and go on a limb and say, I
bet you that you personally, you will pay attention to
this more because now I don't think that every he
thinks that way. And when you walk into a public
setting and you're going to see water everywhere, just pay
attention to the faucet, and I think you're going to
walk away. Go dude. For the last five years, I've
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looked at this and I'm telling you, ninety percent of
the time the water exists because of the poor faces.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Yeah yeah, yeah. And and so the fact that you
worry about this for us.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Well I'm outraged. I'm not worried about it.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yeah, but I'm just you're worried for us that our
life is going to be more difficult and uninformed if
you don't show it to usted. And Jesus warns us
about worry.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I see, I see.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
He lets us know.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Okay, you worry on me for no reason. I'm like,
I'm not worried, but but you're anxiety over this this issue.
All right, I'll buy it. I'll buy it.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Wow, Chris, Well, thank you, thank you on behalf of
all the rest of humanity. Yeah, you can't. We can't
thank you enough. Ye, you're just There're like you're like
the other superhero that didn't make it into them, into the.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I'm like one of the thunderbolts.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, here we go. Well, anyways, it's us here. In Luke,
chapter twelve, verse twenty two, Jesus is talking about worry,
and he says, then turning to his disciples, Jesus said,
this is why I tell you not to worry about
everything her everyday life, whether you have enough food to
eat or enough clothes to wear, for life is more
than food in your body, more than clothing. Look at
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the ravens. They don't plant or harvest or store food
and barns, for God feeds them, and you are far
more valuable to Him than any birds can all your
worries at a single moment to your life. And if
worry can' accomplish a little thing like that, what's the
use of worrying about bigger things? Look at the lilies
and how they grow. They don't work or make their
clothing Yet Solomon and all his glory was not dressed
(09:38):
as beautifully as they are. And if God cares so
wonderfully for flowers that are here today and thrown into
the fire tomorrow, he will certainly care for you. Why
do you have so little faith? Is that it? Nope,
we go and don't be concerned about what to eat
and what to drink. Don't worry about such things. These
things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers all over the world.
But your father already knows your needs. Seek the Kingdom
(10:00):
of God above all else, and he will give you
everything you need. So don't be afraid. Little flock gives
your father great happiness to give you the kingdom. Sell
your possessions, and give those in need. This will store
up treasures for you in heaven, and the purses of
heaven never get old or develop holes. Your treasure will
be safe. No thief can steal it, no money can
(10:21):
no moth can destroy it. Wherever your treasure is, they're
the desires of your heart will be also.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Boom, bang, there you go, boom. You know it's so
great about the Bible, a lot of things, But let
me tell you. Let me tell you what I well,
best things the resurrection, Yeah, are salvation. One of the
great things about the Bible from a skeptics point of view,
how about that is that even though these stories are
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written down and some of them are so ancient, you know,
thousands and thousands of years old, that and they're so outrageous, right,
I mean, you know, Elijah on top of the mountain
with fire coming down. I mean, just just crazy stories.
What's so interesting is that every single time that in
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this case Jesus talking about human nature, but even the
Bible talking about human nature, our human nature has not changed. No, Yeah,
isn't that crazy? So everyone it talks about thoughts and
intents of the heart or human tendencies to lean a
certain way or do a certain thing, or or you know,
or struggling you know, commandment to not uh uh you know,
(11:36):
do this, but do this. And I mean every time
it talks about the desires, the intentions, the human hearts,
the sinful nature, everything it is. It is dead on.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
And so here's Jesus talking about where your treasure is,
the desires of your heart will also be And holy cow,
is that true? That is one of the most prominent
truths that supersedes every race, every culture, every generation. It's
just like, think about it, everybody wherever they You know,
(12:10):
if a person loves money, right, and if a person
loves stuff, then that's where their heart's going to be.
Their heart's going to be there. It's not going to
be anywhere else. Which is we see that in you know,
people who come to their senses and they say, man,
I've sacrificed my family for the pursuit of more money. Yeah,
you know, I got divorced because I'm always at work
(12:31):
and I'm searching for that next promotion. And it's just
like money is the first priority, and then you lose
everything else, or if you don't lose it, it suffers. Right.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I was in Naples, Florida and working with or meeting
with a couple of guys who give pretty significant resources
to the Timothy Initiative to help start discycle making movements
in church planting movements in the least reached countries in
the world. And the one gentleman was wealthy. The other
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gentleman was insanely wealthy, insanely with He's an old guy,
quite old gentleman, and he made his money a number
of years ago. Hundreds of millions of dollars, and he
has a huge car collection. He owns a bunch of
houses all around the country, all these things. But about
(13:23):
a decade or two ago he set up a family
foundation and began realizing, I want to give it all away.
And so when we were sitting there in the restaurant,
it was just a diner, literally, like a diner with
some lady named Flow who came up to a bubblegum,
want to know what you want today?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
All right?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I think it's his favorite place to eat, which is hysterical,
and it looks like that old diner, you know, the
old kind of diners with the like the stainless steel
building and the neon signs and stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Trivia. Do you remember the name of that series.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Of what series?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
The Flow or wait?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I was talking about some lady named Flow, I.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Know, But did you get that quote from Dumb and Dumber?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
No Flow?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
No oh, because that she was made popular as a
diner worker. She her name was Flow. Her cats phrase
was kiss my grits okay, and it was from Alice okay,
and it was Mel's Dinner. Oh well yeah, from the seventies.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
So anyways, it's kind of that idea, you know, that place.
So it was just kind of a low key restaurant.
Really cool to hang out with him there, and I
asked him about it. I said, you know, he's a
really grumpy old guy all this stuff, so you just
never know if you're gonna offend him. But I asked him,
I said, hey, can I ask you? You know you
mentioned because he was measuring what kind of investment was
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he making and what kind of results is he getting?
So he wanted all these details. Typical rich guy making
investments and now he's trying to give his money away.
And I asked him, I said, you know, you take
these things really seriously, and you're reacting like this is
your job. He said, it is my job. That's what
I mean. He said, when I was trying to build
my career, he said, I was building buildings, building apartments,
building all these things. And he said I was in
detailed down to like the penny and he said, every
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minute mattter to me, and everything made money. He said,
Now I'm trying to figure out how to give it away.
And he said, it matters, it matters where it goes,
it matters what kind of results is going to get
Am I going to get a good return on my investment.
I'm still investing. And I said, what made you decide
you want to give your money away? And he said,
I've lived a really great life, and I've got a
lot of good things here. And he said, I've got
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cars that you can't imagine. I've got homes and estates
that you can't fathom. I just chase the sun. I
just live wherever the sun is. You know, sunny, good weather.
So we're in Naples in the middle of winter, he said,
But when my wife died, I realized I loved this
place more than that place. And he said, Jesus is
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right where my treasure is. That's where I want to be.
And he said, at first, I started giving all my
money away so I would fall in love with the
idea that heaven is great and I want to lay
up treasures in heaven because I want to see my wife.
And he said, the longer I've been doing this, the
more I'm in love with the idea that I get
to spend eternity with Jesus. He said, So it started
off with my wife, Now it's Jesus. And he said,
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I love this idea heaven. He said, before I was
afraid of dying. Now I can't wait to go to heaven.
He said all these things, and he said, come laying
up treasure in heaven. He said, it's true. Where your
treasure is, that's where your heart is. And he said,
my treasure was in cars and barns. And now I'm
trying to figure out how do I sell my barns
and my cars because I want more treasure in heaven.
And he said, I long for it. I look for it.
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I'm so excited for it. And I've never had anybody one.
I never had a guy who with one hundreds of
millions of dollars tell me I'm trying figure how to
give it all away. The other one is I never
had anybody that was just that crystal clear on why
this was so important to him. Yeah, right, you have
it away.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I love it. And that's what Jesus is saying. Where
your treasure is, that's where your heart's going to be.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
And so for most of us, our heart is on
our house, it's in our vacations, it's in our bank account,
it's in our retirement, it's in our camper, it's in
our place up north. That's where it because that's where
our treasure is. We're working, we're spending our minutes, in
our hours in order to have money in order to
be able to fund those things. Yeah, so that's where
that's where our hearts are.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah. And by the way, the Bible never says that
having money or having wealth is a bad thing.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
No.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
No, In fact, the scripture even says we're supposed to
leave inheritance for our children's children.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Right, plan for your future future and spends everything you get.
Somebodyle says, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
And so and so the idea that we you know,
are blessed with means isn't designed to make us feel guilty.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Right, well, Paul told Timothy, God has given you all
these things to enjoy. That's right, right, just make sure
you don't put your trust in them, that's right, right.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
That's right. So when you read like verse number thirty three,
where it says sell your possessions and give to those
in need. This will store our treasures in heaven, you
know that is true. Whenever we decide to invest in heaven.
You know, if we're if we're helping the poor, of
course we're reading your treasures in heaven. But that should
not be taken as a commandment of like, if you
have prized possessions, you must sell them. That's not what
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that's saying, right, right, it's saying that if you have
an attitude of of.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
You know, give saying start letting go. Yeah, that's right,
that's hanging on so tight, start letting that.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
That's right. It's the principle of this. This is what
this means, and this is what this means. Right.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Well, so we always say that the Bible is its
own best commentary. That's right, so he says, so in
my mind, Jesus doesn't waste words. So in verse thirty one,
he says, seek the Kingdom above all else. So I
can tell you this, there's almost nothing else in this
passage that's more important than that statement.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
He literally says above all else. If you ever wonder
what's important to Jesus, well, there's nothing more important than
you seeking the Kingdom of Heaven above all else, and
he will give you everything you need. So don't be afraid,
little flock. It gives your father great happiness to give
you the kingdom. So if you seek the kingdom, that
means seeking Jesus to be the king of your life.
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And then your will be done, not my will, be done.
When your will and your values begin to align with his,
he says, then I'll give you everything you need. Right,
My father's gonna give everything you need. And it's in
that context that he says, sell your possessions and give
to the poor. He's saying, release your grip. If you're
seeking his kingdom above everything else, you're going to release
your grip on your kingdom. And when you release your
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grip on your kingdom, what's going to happen is all
of your work and all of your efforts are going
to start laying up treasures in heaven rather than just
accumulating treasures here. There's nothing wrong with having things here,
it's just where's your grip? What's because what you're gripping
onto probably has a hard grip on you. Right.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
And he also made us a very similar statement in
Matthew chapter six, where he says, seek you first the
Kingdom of God and his righteousness. That's right, and all
these things shall be added to you. God will take
care of you, you know, that's all. Yes, seek first
the Kingdom of God. Okay, And it is righteous. Okay,
So anyway, the point is is that when God tells
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us to seek him first, he promises then provision, right right.
And so when he's talking about money, he's talking about
the ravens. He's talking about the flowers. And and I
love the deep thinking here, right who looks at the
flowers and says, man, God has clothed them so well
with their with their garments, you know. But Jesus looks
at the flowers and says, they're dressed so beautifully, the purples,
(20:14):
the yellows, the greens or whatever. And he's talking about
just and he says, you know, not not even Solivan
and all this splendor was dressed more beautifully than these God.
And God does that. And God cares for the flowers
just by the way, so you know God cares for ravens.
God cares for flowers, And how much more does he
care for you? Because God provides? And so he's telling us,
(20:37):
you know, rely on God because you know it's all
around you. You know, the idea that you know, ravens
don't worry is a hilarious thought, right right. And he's saying,
look around you, the flowers aren't worried. The ravens aren't worried.
Not worrying is something that's all around you, right, And
they were completely dependent upon God.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
He says in verse twenty five. Can all your worries
a single moment to your life?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
That's hilarious, right, really, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
What is your worrying accomplishing? It doesn't acomplish anything. And
he says, and if worry can't accomplish a little thing
like that, right, adding more minutes to your life, Jesus
views that as a little thing, right, Right, what's the
use of worrying over bigger things if you can't add
any more time to your life? And that's just a
little thing for God. Right, If you if you're not
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in control of that, then why are you worrying about
the big stuff? Right? Instead? Seek God and his kingdom
and all these other things that we added to you.
That's great, Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
You know when it talks about worry, you know that
whenever I start preaching on worry or you know, teach
on worry, you can get through the negative consequences of
worry so much, I mean so quickly. And and there's
I don't think there's a single upside to worry no,
it's one of it's one of those. It's one of
(21:57):
those topics where like I remember arguing with my mother
about smoking one time, and I said, name me a
single benefit of smoking, right, and now she has she has,
she has hard I'm breathing at eighty five. What is
that called? Nod? Yeah? And so. But but I used
to say to her, name me a single thing. And
(22:19):
you know it smells it, you know, second and smoke,
it's cost you money, all these different things and uh.
And so finally she goes, oh, I have it. I
said what and she goes, it makes me want to
eat less, and therefore I'm thinner when I smoke. And
I said, okay, fine, you came up with one thing, okay,
out of the out of a million negatives. But I
(22:39):
don't think there's a single good thing about worry. Now,
if you try to come up with one single thing,
I don't think you really can.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I think warriors would try to tell you they're just
trying to be diligent. Yeah, they're trying to focus on
the thing that you're not focusing on, right. Uh, and
so your your personal responsibility and your diligence, those things
are are no but there's almost always an equal and
opposite corresponding negative, and if it's unchecked to every every
(23:07):
noble thing that you can think to do. Telling the
truth is incredibly noble. But I can use the truth
as a club and beat you with it too. So
there's almost an opposite, equal and opposite corresponding negative to
all the positives. So if you're a worrier and you're
justifying it by saying, well, I'm just trying to be diligent,
I'm just trying to be you know, responsible, then just
(23:31):
understand every sin can be justified by some noble side
of it. Right your your outrage on our behalf. For instance,
I'm joking, bro.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I was gonna say, are you about sure?
Speaker 1 (23:43):
You?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Are you about to classify that a sin?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I'm joking. I'm joking, but I mock it. I think
it's a funny idea. And so be careful about justifying
your worry as if it's some because Jesus doesn't give
any of those caveats. He goes listen, if your hat
and it's because of this, how tightly you're hanging on
to a thing. If you're hanging on to a thing,
the one of the ways you know that it's beginning
(24:07):
to hang on to you and grip you too tight.
Is the fact that it's dominating your thinking. Yeah, And
Jesus said, these kinds of things dominate the way pagans
think what they're going to eat next, and all these things.
He said, Listen, God delights in giving you the kingdom,
but you got to let it go. If to let
go of these things and trust that God's can do it,
it doesn't mean you stop being diligent. It doesn't mean
(24:28):
you stop being responsible. It means that you trust the
outcome to God. And when you trust the outcome to God,
then there's a lot more peace. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
And somebody might also say, well, being a worrier causes
me to think through things more and plan more because
I worry about you know, inevitable or probable you know, outcomes.
And I would just say, guess what, it's possible to
still plan and think that way without worrying. That's right, right,
(24:55):
So the worrying is the negative part of things, right.
It's of worrying is worrying about things you can't control,
that are out of your control, that may or may
not even happen. And therefore it's a negative feeling. It's
a negative thing all around. It actually takes moments from
your life. You know, worry can actually end your life early.
It does, it really does. So studies have been done.
(25:17):
We hey, that is a great place to end. Thank
you for joining us in the Bible guys, and hopefully
we'll see you next time.
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