October 20, 2025 • 25 mins
Episode 796:
In this episode, we look at the promises of God as outlined in the book of Hebrews. We emphasize the importance of understanding these promises, especially in a world where many Christians struggle with anxiety and uncertainty. We highlight Hebrews 13, where the author encourages believers to love one another, show hospitality, and remain faithful in marriage, all while reminding us of God's promise: "I will never fail you; I will never abandon you."
In this episode, we look at the promises of God as outlined in the book of Hebrews. We emphasize the importance of understanding these promises, especially in a world where many Christians struggle with anxiety and uncertainty. We highlight Hebrews 13, where the author encourages believers to love one another, show hospitality, and remain faithful in marriage, all while reminding us of God's promise: "I will never fail you; I will never abandon you."
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a
couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in
practical ways. Hey, good morning, everybody. Welcome to the Bible Guys.
We appreciate you tuning in for another episode.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
It's gonna be amazing today, it is.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
It's going to be very amazing.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
You brought your A game, I can tell I think.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
So I went home and turned around and got it.
I was I left the house with a b game
and I was like, I better turn around.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I'll have that in the closet, dusted it off right
right to go.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
So here it is today. I'm Chris, this is Jeff,
and we are the Bible Guys, and today we're launching
into a segment, or next not a segment, a series,
and it is called God's Presence and Nearness.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
How cool is that?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah, So the whole week we're talking about how God
is near us and God is promised to be with us,
but in different contexts of our lives. So it's uh,
and then next week can be a little different. But
it's this idea that that we're we're banking on the
promises that are given in different contexts. So we got
to come up with the name of it. What is
(01:11):
it called unshaken? Is that what you called it? Unshakable?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Well, I just think it's it's our fifty favorite promises
of God.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Okay, how about that fifty.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Favorites, fifty favorite promises of God.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
That kind of like that fifty favorite which means ten weeks.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Well, it's five weeks.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Oh, five weeks?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Is that five weeks? Is that what we're doing? Ten weeks?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
What depends on how many promises per day? Per day?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
That's true? Yeah, yeah, because it's about just our favorite
promises of God TVD TVD.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
All right, very cool. Okay, so so today before we
dive into that, we have a segment, and today is unusual.
We haven't done this too much. We've done it once
or twice before. But Desiree wants us to do Google
Translate karaoke. Okay, Jeff will run through excuse me, He'll
(02:04):
run lyrics through multiple Google Translate languages, then read or
sing or sing, Jeff, there's an option for you.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
No, I'm not singing.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
No. Look it says no, it says Then Jeff will
read or sing the garbled result to see if Chris
can figure out what the actual song is.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Oh well, yeah, I'm not singing it. I'll read it.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
She's throwing the option. She is for you to sing.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I hear the option.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
However, you know that all of our listeners want you
to sing.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I know they do. Yeah yeah, but see what we'll
do once you do it?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Happened right now? They will never get this feeling back
if I sing, if I sing well, and they never
get back the desire for it, saying it just goes away.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Sing a sentence or it just goes away. So no,
because they've heard you sing, they just want you to
sing more.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Okay, So you can't claim it.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
You can't claim that because they've heard you sing something.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
M hm.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
So sorry about this.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
This is never gonna work.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Okay, we'll try it again, or just try it. We'll
see how it goes, even if it's a failure. Let's
let's let our listeners in with the.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Phare we go ahead? Ready?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Ye?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Whoa oh oh mon do and font whoa oh oh mon?
Do a more?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Oh wait a minute, mom, do that's French.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
That's French?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Well more is love?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Whoa my love?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I know it's kind of a surprising one.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Is that what we're supposed to do, is that the assignment?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I read multiple languages. Yes, I ran through language. I
chose a song, I ran it through the language. Then
I just read the lyrics to you. But I don't
speak any of these languages. So yeah, so that's why
I chose that was a chorus.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Can you do it through Spanish? Because I know a
little Spanish?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Well, I will and minute, but not in this song.
It's multiple language.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Okay, all right, all right, all right? Whoa oh oh something.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Whoa oh oh mond do in font whoa oh oh
oh mon do a more. We've got people who go,
I know what that is? Really yeah, it's uh trying
to think of the whoa oh let me see.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I don't know too many like whoah oh?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Let me see what year this song was?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Crazy?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
The song was written, Man, I feel like a woman
nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Show h my something my love.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I don't want to bore the listeners anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Okay, what is it? It's a whoa oh oh, sweet
child of mine? Whoa oh oh oh, sweet love of mine?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Next time, pick a song I'm really familiarly.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
You don't know guns and roses, yes, but you you
were busy listening to I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I wouldn't, I wouldn't have. I don't know a single
lyric to that song other than sweet Child of Mind.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Well that's those were literally the lyric.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
That's literally the lyric I gave you. Literally, it's the
only thing I read.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It's alone and font that's okay, child of Mine.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Oh, I'm sure that all the French majors out there.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Okay, you appreciate it if they were freaking out. Okay,
So now I have to do another one. Yeah, yeah,
these are hard.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Do Spanish?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Do Spanish?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Take a song that you think i'd know?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Okay, a song that you know?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah, you know? The Guns N' Roses is a little
out of my although, you know, I mean I was
a nineteen eighties child and I definitely listened to those
kinds of songs.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yeah. Well, anyways, I don't know what to do with
you if you don't know a guns and Roses song?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Uh? Do guns and Roses have a lot of hits?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Did they?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Did? They have a lot of it?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Okay, here we go. I've got one coming up, and
it's gonna be amazing for you. Okay, hmm, let me
see if I can figure out what the course This.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Is gonna be fun that you're gonna actually read it
in Spanish. Yes, this is great. Make sure you try
to do an accent too.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
It's probably not going to do it. Okay, here we go,
and then we're gonna put it. I just copied and
paste it or copied it. Now I'm gonna paste it
here into this app translate.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Choosing the song.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, well, I mean you got to get the song
so and then you want it in Spanish. Spanish is
the preferred thing because that's what you're an expert at.
You're an expert a Spanish. Okay, go ahead, this one.
You should know Tango estacosa, donde and vecchio pero nukosoi
(07:04):
mas sabio last media, nochez sey convierten and miss tardes
kwondo me depression, trabaja n el torno de noce totis
lost personas a los k he ignorado, sequi don he
(07:25):
and les habitatio.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I have no idea. I caught like fifteen or twenty
words like like that. I sort of knew what it was.
There was the work.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Wait, okay, and there, there's uh that was there.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
There's where I caught that, don'te I caught I caught
uh tango tango ya I have yep.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Okay, so it starts that way. What most what's the
most famous song that starts off Yo tango estacosa I
have DoD and the heyo wait wait sabio. That's the sentence,
say it again, Yo tango esta coosa donde and the
hako pero nunka soy mas sabio so massabio. Uh huh.
(08:14):
See our listeners are freaking out. I have this thing
where I get older but just never wiser.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Is that what it says?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
It's I have this thing where I get older, but
just never wiser. Midnight's become afternoons. My depression works. The
graveyard chief, all the people have ghosted. Stand there in
the room. Well, I don't know this In English, it's
are you serious?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I said us a song that I know.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
You should have known it. It's Anti Hero by Taylor Swift.
It's her biggest selling song.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Oh yeah, listen, I.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
May like I may every Taylor Swift song.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
No, this is this is not even close. So this
is not this is not close to the truth. Okay,
I know about seven Taylor Swift songs.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Okay, so what I chosen? I like Lady Gaga. Chef
chosen Lady Gaga.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I like her, but but I only went to see
her in concert because she was.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Okay, Okay, so it's gonna have to be like Broadway. Now,
listen Broadway song. If you if you would have chosen.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Any Carrie Underwood song, if you'd have chosen any Mariah
Carey song of the early days, or if you would
have chosen classic you know.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Okay, Well, that's not me. That's not me trying to
think of I'm trying to think of time from the eighties.
You know, Whitney Houston songs. You don't know Guns and
Roses songs. I would have What is wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I would have? No, I I know.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Okay, I'm just thinking of female artists. Okay, because you
chose Taylor Swift. Okay, I see, I know every Sight
t Win song, Okay, every Shania twice. Well, they'll keep
that in my on my list next time. Okay, Hey,
we've killed that one, so let's move on. Yeah, yeah,
that was awful.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
We're gonna bury it. Move on.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah, we're gonna kill that when I move on. So
we are in this whole thing.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
By the way, speaking of speaking of kill, these promises
slay today.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Okay, there's your transition. So we are in the Book
of Hebrews and we're talking about the promises of God
and these are some of our favorite promises, right, And
I think it's really important for Christians because a lot
of Christians have a lot of anxiety and struggle with
their faith, mostly because they don't know what God's promised.
And God can't lie, right, Yeah, So when he gives
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you a promise, he's going to keep that promise. Most
of his promises are if then promises, but he makes
a promise, he'll keep his promise. And so we just thought, hey,
let's take some time to go through as many the
promises of God as we can. And this week, really
the promises of God that we're talking about kind of
cluster on the idea of his presence in our life.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Right, do you really think most are if then promises?
I know there are a lot of if then promises.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah, but they are. But I did the work, did you, Yeah, Yeah,
there's more that are if then, there's qualifiers to most
of God's promises. He doesn't just say, hey, I'm going
to make all your wildest dreams come true. It gets
you draw near to me, then I will draw near
to you.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I'm only asking about the quantity.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Yeah, like fifty Yeah, most joys, most of the promises
in the Bible are are connected to a an obedience component.
If you do this, then I'll.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Overwhelmingly overwhelmingly really yes, I would not have guessed that.
Huh yeah, wow, okay.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, they're always connected to a thing, right, So like
today is connected to a thing. Yeah, right, so they're
they're they're always connected to Hey, listen, I'm telling you
how the best way is to live. So live this
way and then I'll bless you like this. And that's
that's that's how he always always does it. So and
so yeah, let's just read this. We're going to read
in Hebrews chapter thirteen. This is the last chapter. So
(11:43):
this kind of closing out the book. These are the
concluding words. It says, keep on loving each other as
brothers and sisters. Don't forget the show hospitality to strangers,
for some have done this. Some who have done this
have entertained angels without realizing it. That's kind of a
neat idea. Remember in prison as if they were yourself,
if you were there yourself. Remember also those being mistreated,
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as if you felt their pain in your own bodies.
Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another
in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral
and those committed altery. Then he says, don't love money.
Be satisfied with what you have, for God has said,
I will never leave you, I will never abandon you,
I will never fail you. I will never abandon you.
So we can say with confidence, the Lord is my helper,
(12:28):
so I will have no fear. What can mirror people
do to me? Remember your leaders who taught you the
word of God. Think of all the good that has
come from their lives, and follow the example of their faith.
Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today, and forever. So
do not be attracted by strange new ideas. Your strength
comes from God's grace, not from rules about food, which
don't help those who follow them. And then he goes on.
(12:49):
He closes out the chapter. But let's wrap up there,
and clearly the promise that we're looking at is don't
love money, be satisfied with what you have, because God
has said I will never fail you, I will never
abandon you.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
So the promise is I will never fail you and
I will never abandon you. And the context is, be
satisfied with what you have and don't love money.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
So it's this.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Idea that God is with us and God will never
abandon us. And that is true with every context of
our lives if we're a believer and follower of Jesus Christ,
if we're a Christian. But the context today is in
this area of our lives. Right, and then he also
before we get into that, he does he throws some
(13:32):
pretty pretty big bombs out there. Don't forget to show
hospitality to strangers, for some have done this and have
entertained angels without realizing it.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
What is that about?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Well, I mean, you know, I told you. I think
most of the people who know me know I have
an angel story that I believe God sent me an angel,
and I have very very little doubt. In fact, I
would say that there's probably nothing in this whole world
that could ever happen to convince the otherwise. Right, and
and and so anyway, I think that the idea that
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God Sends Angels is uh, you know you remember that
old show Heaven Can Wait? What's what's what's his name?
John Landon or something? Michael Oh, Michael Landon, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Heaven can What was it? Was it Heaven? I don't know, No,
Heaven Can Wait? Was Warren Baties movie.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Uh. We didn't have a TV back then, so I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
It was like a Highway to Heaven, Highoul to Heaven.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Anyway, he's walking on the road with the music. That
was every That was every episode with the guy with
the beard. Anyway, The point is is that, h have
you ever talked to somebody who has like an angel story?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Have you ever?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I mean, besides besides that, have you ever talked to
anybody like this?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I've had people who've wondered, uh yeah, but I haven't
had anybody as emphatic as you. So.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Uh. So there is a good friend of mine. He
he's at my previous church and I can say his
name because he's told this story publicly multiple times. So
Mark Nelson, you know Mark Nelson is sure? Okay, So
Mark has the story and I've heard it multiple times
where I'm gonna I'm gonna tell it, it's unbelievable, Okay.
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So he sees a wreck on the side of the
freeway and he stops, and he gets out of his
car and he runs over and there's a lady and
she's bleeding out of her throat right and and it's
just a horrific scene and and and the windows are
crashed and rolled over and things like this. So he
runs over and he says, can I help you? Can
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I help you? And then on the other side of
the car, somebody runs up and peeks in and says,
put your hand right here in her throat, and so
he did it, and he goes, no, no, move down,
and he moved down, and he goes, okay, right there,
and he goes, now, pushed as hard as you can.
And Mark's doing this, and of course, I mean we're
talking trauma like er kind of stuff here, right, So
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Mark stops this bleeding and and and he said, he goes,
that's right, he goes, just hold it right there. So
then Mark's holding it, and then Mar's asks a question
and then looks up and the person's gone. And within
one second there was a policeman in an ambulance that
had come up. They just both arrived at the same time.
And Mark looks this way and there's no cars and
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it's on the side of the road, you know, there's
like woods. And he looks over it this way and
there's an ambulance and police car behind him. And it
was one second ago, and and and he says to
the I don't know who was one of one of
the gentlemen. And he said, where's the other person, where's
the guy who was on the other side of the car.
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And both guys go, there's nobody on the side of
the car except for you. And he goes, he was
on the other side of the car. He was on
that side of the window. And he goes, no, there
was nobody there. He goes, we pulled up behind you.
He was there like two seconds ago. And he goes,
we were behind you like for a full minute and
there were's nobody there. And that's his story. And so
you you hear that. And again I'm a skeptic, right,
(17:07):
So I'm like, I'm like, Okay, what's the explanation for that.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
There's a homeless guy camping in the woods?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I'm joking, right, but I mean, you know, I mean
it's it's it's just interesting. So Mark, Mark thinks, Oh,
there's no doubt in my mind God sent an angel
to save this woman.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah, you know, I wish the story God also sent Mark.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
So yeah, the context here's hospitality.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yes, of course. Yeah, we were just getting past the
first one. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, So the context is in that one is is
a hospitality thing. And and he says that, you know, take.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Care of strangersality with angels.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah, yeah, take care of strangers. And some people have
have you know, hosted angels unaware and you know, the
Bible mentions Abraham met with angels and at the beginning
didn't realize that Gideon didn't realize who he was talking
to at the beginning. You know, there's Manoah, there's people
in the Bible who met angels or served angels and
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then later on discovered you know, who they were. So
there's that, and you know, I just think about it's
just kind of encouragement. What he's trying to do is say, one,
think about your brothers and sisters who are in prison.
Care about them. Then he says, take care of people,
be hospitable if they need a place to stay, even
if all you have as a table in the chair, man,
somebody's gonna be happy to spend time with you and
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have a table in the chair, So take care of them.
So he's kind of as he's buttoning up this book,
he's just kind of giving them one off statements about
things that they should be doing. As a Christian, you
should care about people who are suffering, and you should
think of it as if you were suffering or people
that you love suffer, and then be hospitable and take
care of people. And by the way, hey, sometimes people
take care of angels not knowing it. Right then he
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moves on down. He just keeps moving along. Give honor
to marriage. That's kind of out of place unless you
just realize he's giving you these one off statements. Oh,
I wanted the comment on this. I wanted the comment
on this. I wanted the that's what he's doing, right.
Have you ever written a letter? Remember back?
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I have several times I've written the actual life.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah. Have you ever back in the day when we
used to have to handwrite letters, You'd write and write
and write and write and write, and then towards the
end you're just like, jeez, this just get so long,
and the sentences get shorter. Did you do that? I
did it because my handwriting's not well or not very good,
and then I get tired writing, And so I think
that's what's happening here is this is a pretty intense book.
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For twelve chapters. I'm very thorough and then suddenly you
got this last chapter. He's got Listen, man, there's a
million things I want to say. I'm not going to
unpack them. So he says, be hospitable, be concerned about
people who are suffering, honor marriage. Right, none of those
are connected, but it's just there. And then he's encouraging
to be a good Christian. Right, he's saying live. Well, yeah, yeah,
(19:51):
that's what I'm saying. Is I have all these other
things I want to write about, but I'm not going
to write whole chapters on each of these topics, and
so he's just kind of highlighting it. But then he
gets to this, don't love money. Be satisfied with what
you have, for God has said I will never fail you,
I will never abandon you. And then he says, because
of that promise, we can say with confidence the Lord
is my helper, so I will have no fear. What
can here people do to me? And I think that
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this is a big issue. I think a lot of
people spend their life. You know, it used to be
everybody spend all of their time planting food, harvesting food,
processing food, prepping food, cooking food, eating food, make babies
go to sleep, wake up in the morning, plant food,
harvest food, process food. You know, prep food, cook food,
(20:38):
eat food. That was you just lived your whole life.
It was just survival and it's all you could think
about is preparing and taking care of yourself and your family. Well,
now most of us aren't suffering and struggling over food,
and yet we still live in a very similar grind
of just more, more, more, more more, and believe it
(20:58):
or not, that turns into this consumerism turns into for
a lot of people worry. It's because we get overextended.
Sometimes we start to worry about it. And so he's saying, man,
when you love money, you're going to struggle with worry.
But if you are content with what you have, if
you're satisfied with what you have, you're going to feel
God's presence. If you're satisfied, you'll feel God's presence because
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he promised He'll never leave you, no for sake.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, I think it's a really powerful thing to attach
the promise I will never fail you, I will never
abandon you to money and provision, right and back then,
of course, you know, just sort of what you said.
Everybody spends all day worrying about the next meal, processing
food and getting water, collecting water. And today we don't
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necessarily have that kind of worry, but we worry about
future things. And you know, by the way, I'm only
talking about my bubble and my world.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yeah, right, you worry about the future financially.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Well, I'm talking about like I just realize what I said.
I just spoke like a spoiled American, right, saying, Oh,
we don't have that kind of worry, But most of
our audience probably don't have that kind of worry. They
turn on the faucet and water.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Comes out right in the west, in the for the West.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
And yeah, so I know that a lot of the
world is still there, right, But the idea that God
will never fail you, so I just think that I
don't think that that always means you're always going to
have enough money for everything you want, right, right, And
and sometimes we do go without, and sometimes we are,
you know, challenged, and sometimes we question, and sometimes we
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wonder and we thank God. I'm you know, there's so
many people friends of mine who say, I'm not where.
I where all my friends are in life. I should
be here, and now I'm not there, and something's happened
and I lost my job and then I couldn't get one,
and this is this is not you know, this is
not great. But I think that regardless of how our
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finances play out, in terms of our future and our
you know, grain that we have stores in our barns,
I think that it's important to understand that God is
always going to be with us. There's not a single
need that God is not aware of. And God will
never fail on his promises. He will always be there
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to take care of us, even if sometimes we question
when and how.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, that verse is a quote, I will never fail you,
I will never abandon you. The author of Hebrews is
quoting the Book of Deuteronomy there right, you.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Know, I was looking for a note in my study
Bible and it quotes the next verse. It says the
next verse comes from Solvient, but I couldn't find Deuteronomy.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Here yes, Deuteronomy thirty one to five.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Huh, yeah, my Bible doesn't say it.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yeah. So in the In the King James, he says,
I will never I will never leave you. Right, Yeah,
I will never forsake you, is what he says. And
then because of this promise, I will never leave you,
I will never forsake you, I will never fail you,
I'll never abandon you. Because of that promise, then the
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author of Hebrews connects us to Psalm one eighteen, where
he says, the Lord is my helper. Not only is
God hanging around you, God's presence is near you. God
is also willing to intervene for you. Right, And the
author of Hebrews is connecting those two ideas. He's present
and he'll intervene. He's not just present and watching. Gee,
I wonder what's going to happen next, But he'll step
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in and he'll be your helper. And so because God
will never abandon me, and because God will be my helper,
then I don't have to have any fear. And then
he says, what can mere people do to me? That's
similar to the Book of Romans. You know, who can
be against me? If God's for me who can be
against me? And that should give us a tremendous amount
of confidence. So, hey, if you're struggling financially, listen, God's
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not going to fail you. It's never going to be you,
and he will help you. But you have to decide
you're going to be satisfied with what you do have
and stop putting all of your focus on what money
can do for you and instead put your focus on
what God promises to do for you. And then at
that point there's a certain amount of satisfaction that comes
with that decision. And when you come to that place
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where you're satisfied with what God has promised, then he says,
I'll be your helper.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
And on the negative side, don't love money to such
a degree to where you spend wasted energy and time
and everything else because you're pursuing the wrong thing. Well,
that's great, that's a good place to end. And so
we will see you tomorrow for another promise on the Bible.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Guys,
You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a
couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in
practical ways. Hey, good morning, everybody. Welcome to the Bible Guys.
We appreciate you tuning in for another episode.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
It's gonna be amazing today, it is.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
It's going to be very amazing.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
You brought your A game, I can tell I think.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
So I went home and turned around and got it.
I was I left the house with a b game
and I was like, I better turn around.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I'll have that in the closet, dusted it off right
right to go.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
So here it is today. I'm Chris, this is Jeff,
and we are the Bible Guys, and today we're launching
into a segment, or next not a segment, a series,
and it is called God's Presence and Nearness.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
How cool is that?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah, So the whole week we're talking about how God
is near us and God is promised to be with us,
but in different contexts of our lives. So it's uh,
and then next week can be a little different. But
it's this idea that that we're we're banking on the
promises that are given in different contexts. So we got
to come up with the name of it. What is
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it called unshaken? Is that what you called it? Unshakable?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Well, I just think it's it's our fifty favorite promises
of God.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Okay, how about that fifty.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Favorites, fifty favorite promises of God.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
That kind of like that fifty favorite which means ten weeks.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Well, it's five weeks.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Oh, five weeks?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Is that five weeks? Is that what we're doing? Ten weeks?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
What depends on how many promises per day? Per day?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
That's true? Yeah, yeah, because it's about just our favorite
promises of God TVD TVD.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
All right, very cool. Okay, so so today before we
dive into that, we have a segment, and today is unusual.
We haven't done this too much. We've done it once
or twice before. But Desiree wants us to do Google
Translate karaoke. Okay, Jeff will run through excuse me, He'll
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run lyrics through multiple Google Translate languages, then read or
sing or sing, Jeff, there's an option for you.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
No, I'm not singing.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
No. Look it says no, it says Then Jeff will
read or sing the garbled result to see if Chris
can figure out what the actual song is.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Oh well, yeah, I'm not singing it. I'll read it.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
She's throwing the option. She is for you to sing.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I hear the option.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
However, you know that all of our listeners want you
to sing.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I know they do. Yeah yeah, but see what we'll
do once you do it?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Happened right now? They will never get this feeling back
if I sing, if I sing well, and they never
get back the desire for it, saying it just goes away.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Sing a sentence or it just goes away. So no,
because they've heard you sing, they just want you to
sing more.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Okay, So you can't claim it.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
You can't claim that because they've heard you sing something.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
M hm.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
So sorry about this.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
This is never gonna work.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Okay, we'll try it again, or just try it. We'll
see how it goes, even if it's a failure. Let's
let's let our listeners in with the.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Phare we go ahead? Ready?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Ye?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Whoa oh oh mon do and font whoa oh oh mon?
Do a more?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Oh wait a minute, mom, do that's French.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
That's French?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Well more is love?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Whoa my love?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I know it's kind of a surprising one.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Is that what we're supposed to do, is that the assignment?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I read multiple languages. Yes, I ran through language. I
chose a song, I ran it through the language. Then
I just read the lyrics to you. But I don't
speak any of these languages. So yeah, so that's why
I chose that was a chorus.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Can you do it through Spanish? Because I know a
little Spanish?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Well, I will and minute, but not in this song.
It's multiple language.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Okay, all right, all right, all right? Whoa oh oh something.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Whoa oh oh mond do in font whoa oh oh
oh mon do a more. We've got people who go,
I know what that is? Really yeah, it's uh trying
to think of the whoa oh let me see.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I don't know too many like whoah oh?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Let me see what year this song was?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Crazy?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
The song was written, Man, I feel like a woman
nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Show h my something my love.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I don't want to bore the listeners anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Okay, what is it? It's a whoa oh oh, sweet
child of mine? Whoa oh oh oh, sweet love of mine?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Next time, pick a song I'm really familiarly.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
You don't know guns and roses, yes, but you you
were busy listening to I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I wouldn't, I wouldn't have. I don't know a single
lyric to that song other than sweet Child of Mind.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Well that's those were literally the lyric.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
That's literally the lyric I gave you. Literally, it's the
only thing I read.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It's alone and font that's okay, child of Mine.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Oh, I'm sure that all the French majors out there.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Okay, you appreciate it if they were freaking out. Okay,
So now I have to do another one. Yeah, yeah,
these are hard.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Do Spanish?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Do Spanish?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Take a song that you think i'd know?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Okay, a song that you know?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah, you know? The Guns N' Roses is a little
out of my although, you know, I mean I was
a nineteen eighties child and I definitely listened to those
kinds of songs.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yeah. Well, anyways, I don't know what to do with
you if you don't know a guns and Roses song?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Uh? Do guns and Roses have a lot of hits?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Did they?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Did? They have a lot of it?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Okay, here we go. I've got one coming up, and
it's gonna be amazing for you. Okay, hmm, let me
see if I can figure out what the course This.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Is gonna be fun that you're gonna actually read it
in Spanish. Yes, this is great. Make sure you try
to do an accent too.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
It's probably not going to do it. Okay, here we go,
and then we're gonna put it. I just copied and
paste it or copied it. Now I'm gonna paste it
here into this app translate.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Choosing the song.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, well, I mean you got to get the song
so and then you want it in Spanish. Spanish is
the preferred thing because that's what you're an expert at.
You're an expert a Spanish. Okay, go ahead, this one.
You should know Tango estacosa, donde and vecchio pero nukosoi
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mas sabio last media, nochez sey convierten and miss tardes
kwondo me depression, trabaja n el torno de noce totis
lost personas a los k he ignorado, sequi don he
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and les habitatio.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I have no idea. I caught like fifteen or twenty
words like like that. I sort of knew what it was.
There was the work.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Wait, okay, and there, there's uh that was there.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
There's where I caught that, don'te I caught I caught
uh tango tango ya I have yep.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Okay, so it starts that way. What most what's the
most famous song that starts off Yo tango estacosa I
have DoD and the heyo wait wait sabio. That's the sentence,
say it again, Yo tango esta coosa donde and the
hako pero nunka soy mas sabio so massabio. Uh huh.
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See our listeners are freaking out. I have this thing
where I get older but just never wiser.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Is that what it says?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
It's I have this thing where I get older, but
just never wiser. Midnight's become afternoons. My depression works. The
graveyard chief, all the people have ghosted. Stand there in
the room. Well, I don't know this In English, it's
are you serious?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I said us a song that I know.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
You should have known it. It's Anti Hero by Taylor Swift.
It's her biggest selling song.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Oh yeah, listen, I.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
May like I may every Taylor Swift song.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
No, this is this is not even close. So this
is not this is not close to the truth. Okay,
I know about seven Taylor Swift songs.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Okay, so what I chosen? I like Lady Gaga. Chef
chosen Lady Gaga.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I like her, but but I only went to see
her in concert because she was.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Okay, Okay, so it's gonna have to be like Broadway. Now,
listen Broadway song. If you if you would have chosen.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Any Carrie Underwood song, if you'd have chosen any Mariah
Carey song of the early days, or if you would
have chosen classic you know.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Okay, Well, that's not me. That's not me trying to
think of I'm trying to think of time from the eighties.
You know, Whitney Houston songs. You don't know Guns and
Roses songs. I would have What is wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I would have? No, I I know.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Okay, I'm just thinking of female artists. Okay, because you
chose Taylor Swift. Okay, I see, I know every Sight
t Win song, Okay, every Shania twice. Well, they'll keep
that in my on my list next time. Okay, Hey,
we've killed that one, so let's move on. Yeah, yeah,
that was awful.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
We're gonna bury it. Move on.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah, we're gonna kill that when I move on. So
we are in this whole thing.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
By the way, speaking of speaking of kill, these promises
slay today.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Okay, there's your transition. So we are in the Book
of Hebrews and we're talking about the promises of God
and these are some of our favorite promises, right, And
I think it's really important for Christians because a lot
of Christians have a lot of anxiety and struggle with
their faith, mostly because they don't know what God's promised.
And God can't lie, right, Yeah, So when he gives
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you a promise, he's going to keep that promise. Most
of his promises are if then promises, but he makes
a promise, he'll keep his promise. And so we just thought, hey,
let's take some time to go through as many the
promises of God as we can. And this week, really
the promises of God that we're talking about kind of
cluster on the idea of his presence in our life.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Right, do you really think most are if then promises?
I know there are a lot of if then promises.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah, but they are. But I did the work, did you, Yeah, Yeah,
there's more that are if then, there's qualifiers to most
of God's promises. He doesn't just say, hey, I'm going
to make all your wildest dreams come true. It gets
you draw near to me, then I will draw near
to you.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I'm only asking about the quantity.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Yeah, like fifty Yeah, most joys, most of the promises
in the Bible are are connected to a an obedience component.
If you do this, then I'll.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Overwhelmingly overwhelmingly really yes, I would not have guessed that.
Huh yeah, wow, okay.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, they're always connected to a thing, right, So like
today is connected to a thing. Yeah, right, so they're
they're they're always connected to Hey, listen, I'm telling you
how the best way is to live. So live this
way and then I'll bless you like this. And that's
that's that's how he always always does it. So and
so yeah, let's just read this. We're going to read
in Hebrews chapter thirteen. This is the last chapter. So
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this kind of closing out the book. These are the
concluding words. It says, keep on loving each other as
brothers and sisters. Don't forget the show hospitality to strangers,
for some have done this. Some who have done this
have entertained angels without realizing it. That's kind of a
neat idea. Remember in prison as if they were yourself,
if you were there yourself. Remember also those being mistreated,
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as if you felt their pain in your own bodies.
Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another
in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral
and those committed altery. Then he says, don't love money.
Be satisfied with what you have, for God has said,
I will never leave you, I will never abandon you,
I will never fail you. I will never abandon you.
So we can say with confidence, the Lord is my helper,
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so I will have no fear. What can mirror people
do to me? Remember your leaders who taught you the
word of God. Think of all the good that has
come from their lives, and follow the example of their faith.
Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today, and forever. So
do not be attracted by strange new ideas. Your strength
comes from God's grace, not from rules about food, which
don't help those who follow them. And then he goes on.
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He closes out the chapter. But let's wrap up there,
and clearly the promise that we're looking at is don't
love money, be satisfied with what you have, because God
has said I will never fail you, I will never
abandon you.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
So the promise is I will never fail you and
I will never abandon you. And the context is, be
satisfied with what you have and don't love money.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
So it's this.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Idea that God is with us and God will never
abandon us. And that is true with every context of
our lives if we're a believer and follower of Jesus Christ,
if we're a Christian. But the context today is in
this area of our lives. Right, and then he also
before we get into that, he does he throws some
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pretty pretty big bombs out there. Don't forget to show
hospitality to strangers, for some have done this and have
entertained angels without realizing it.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
What is that about?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Well, I mean, you know, I told you. I think
most of the people who know me know I have
an angel story that I believe God sent me an angel,
and I have very very little doubt. In fact, I
would say that there's probably nothing in this whole world
that could ever happen to convince the otherwise. Right, and
and and so anyway, I think that the idea that
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God Sends Angels is uh, you know you remember that
old show Heaven Can Wait? What's what's what's his name?
John Landon or something? Michael Oh, Michael Landon, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Heaven can What was it? Was it Heaven? I don't know, No,
Heaven Can Wait? Was Warren Baties movie.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Uh. We didn't have a TV back then, so I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
It was like a Highway to Heaven, Highoul to Heaven.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Anyway, he's walking on the road with the music. That
was every That was every episode with the guy with
the beard. Anyway, The point is is that, h have
you ever talked to somebody who has like an angel story?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Have you ever?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I mean, besides besides that, have you ever talked to
anybody like this?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I've had people who've wondered, uh yeah, but I haven't
had anybody as emphatic as you. So.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Uh. So there is a good friend of mine. He
he's at my previous church and I can say his
name because he's told this story publicly multiple times. So
Mark Nelson, you know Mark Nelson is sure? Okay, So
Mark has the story and I've heard it multiple times
where I'm gonna I'm gonna tell it, it's unbelievable, Okay.
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So he sees a wreck on the side of the
freeway and he stops, and he gets out of his
car and he runs over and there's a lady and
she's bleeding out of her throat right and and it's
just a horrific scene and and and the windows are
crashed and rolled over and things like this. So he
runs over and he says, can I help you? Can
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I help you? And then on the other side of
the car, somebody runs up and peeks in and says,
put your hand right here in her throat, and so
he did it, and he goes, no, no, move down,
and he moved down, and he goes, okay, right there,
and he goes, now, pushed as hard as you can.
And Mark's doing this, and of course, I mean we're
talking trauma like er kind of stuff here, right, So
(16:02):
Mark stops this bleeding and and and he said, he goes,
that's right, he goes, just hold it right there. So
then Mark's holding it, and then Mar's asks a question
and then looks up and the person's gone. And within
one second there was a policeman in an ambulance that
had come up. They just both arrived at the same time.
And Mark looks this way and there's no cars and
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it's on the side of the road, you know, there's
like woods. And he looks over it this way and
there's an ambulance and police car behind him. And it
was one second ago, and and and he says to
the I don't know who was one of one of
the gentlemen. And he said, where's the other person, where's
the guy who was on the other side of the car.
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And both guys go, there's nobody on the side of
the car except for you. And he goes, he was
on the other side of the car. He was on
that side of the window. And he goes, no, there
was nobody there. He goes, we pulled up behind you.
He was there like two seconds ago. And he goes,
we were behind you like for a full minute and
there were's nobody there. And that's his story. And so
you you hear that. And again I'm a skeptic, right,
(17:07):
So I'm like, I'm like, Okay, what's the explanation for that.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
There's a homeless guy camping in the woods?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I'm joking, right, but I mean, you know, I mean
it's it's it's just interesting. So Mark, Mark thinks, Oh,
there's no doubt in my mind God sent an angel
to save this woman.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah, you know, I wish the story God also sent Mark.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
So yeah, the context here's hospitality.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yes, of course. Yeah, we were just getting past the
first one. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, So the context is in that one is is
a hospitality thing. And and he says that, you know, take.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Care of strangersality with angels.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah, yeah, take care of strangers. And some people have
have you know, hosted angels unaware and you know, the
Bible mentions Abraham met with angels and at the beginning
didn't realize that Gideon didn't realize who he was talking
to at the beginning. You know, there's Manoah, there's people
in the Bible who met angels or served angels and
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then later on discovered you know, who they were. So
there's that, and you know, I just think about it's
just kind of encouragement. What he's trying to do is say, one,
think about your brothers and sisters who are in prison.
Care about them. Then he says, take care of people,
be hospitable if they need a place to stay, even
if all you have as a table in the chair, man,
somebody's gonna be happy to spend time with you and
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have a table in the chair, So take care of them.
So he's kind of as he's buttoning up this book,
he's just kind of giving them one off statements about
things that they should be doing. As a Christian, you
should care about people who are suffering, and you should
think of it as if you were suffering or people
that you love suffer, and then be hospitable and take
care of people. And by the way, hey, sometimes people
take care of angels not knowing it. Right then he
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moves on down. He just keeps moving along. Give honor
to marriage. That's kind of out of place unless you
just realize he's giving you these one off statements. Oh,
I wanted the comment on this. I wanted the comment
on this. I wanted the that's what he's doing, right.
Have you ever written a letter? Remember back?
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I have several times I've written the actual life.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah. Have you ever back in the day when we
used to have to handwrite letters, You'd write and write
and write and write and write, and then towards the
end you're just like, jeez, this just get so long,
and the sentences get shorter. Did you do that? I
did it because my handwriting's not well or not very good,
and then I get tired writing, And so I think
that's what's happening here is this is a pretty intense book.
(19:29):
For twelve chapters. I'm very thorough and then suddenly you
got this last chapter. He's got Listen, man, there's a
million things I want to say. I'm not going to
unpack them. So he says, be hospitable, be concerned about
people who are suffering, honor marriage. Right, none of those
are connected, but it's just there. And then he's encouraging
to be a good Christian. Right, he's saying live. Well, yeah, yeah,
(19:51):
that's what I'm saying. Is I have all these other
things I want to write about, but I'm not going
to write whole chapters on each of these topics, and
so he's just kind of highlighting it. But then he
gets to this, don't love money. Be satisfied with what
you have, for God has said I will never fail you,
I will never abandon you. And then he says, because
of that promise, we can say with confidence the Lord
is my helper, so I will have no fear. What
can here people do to me? And I think that
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this is a big issue. I think a lot of
people spend their life. You know, it used to be
everybody spend all of their time planting food, harvesting food,
processing food, prepping food, cooking food, eating food, make babies
go to sleep, wake up in the morning, plant food,
harvest food, process food. You know, prep food, cook food,
(20:38):
eat food. That was you just lived your whole life.
It was just survival and it's all you could think
about is preparing and taking care of yourself and your family. Well,
now most of us aren't suffering and struggling over food,
and yet we still live in a very similar grind
of just more, more, more, more more, and believe it
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or not, that turns into this consumerism turns into for
a lot of people worry. It's because we get overextended.
Sometimes we start to worry about it. And so he's saying, man,
when you love money, you're going to struggle with worry.
But if you are content with what you have, if
you're satisfied with what you have, you're going to feel
God's presence. If you're satisfied, you'll feel God's presence because
(21:21):
he promised He'll never leave you, no for sake.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, I think it's a really powerful thing to attach
the promise I will never fail you, I will never
abandon you to money and provision, right and back then,
of course, you know, just sort of what you said.
Everybody spends all day worrying about the next meal, processing
food and getting water, collecting water. And today we don't
(21:44):
necessarily have that kind of worry, but we worry about
future things. And you know, by the way, I'm only
talking about my bubble and my world.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yeah, right, you worry about the future financially.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Well, I'm talking about like I just realize what I said.
I just spoke like a spoiled American, right, saying, Oh,
we don't have that kind of worry, But most of
our audience probably don't have that kind of worry. They
turn on the faucet and water.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Comes out right in the west, in the for the West.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
And yeah, so I know that a lot of the
world is still there, right, But the idea that God
will never fail you, so I just think that I
don't think that that always means you're always going to
have enough money for everything you want, right, right, And
and sometimes we do go without, and sometimes we are,
you know, challenged, and sometimes we question, and sometimes we
(22:40):
wonder and we thank God. I'm you know, there's so
many people friends of mine who say, I'm not where.
I where all my friends are in life. I should
be here, and now I'm not there, and something's happened
and I lost my job and then I couldn't get one,
and this is this is not you know, this is
not great. But I think that regardless of how our
(23:00):
finances play out, in terms of our future and our
you know, grain that we have stores in our barns,
I think that it's important to understand that God is
always going to be with us. There's not a single
need that God is not aware of. And God will
never fail on his promises. He will always be there
(23:24):
to take care of us, even if sometimes we question
when and how.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, that verse is a quote, I will never fail you,
I will never abandon you. The author of Hebrews is
quoting the Book of Deuteronomy there right, you.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Know, I was looking for a note in my study
Bible and it quotes the next verse. It says the
next verse comes from Solvient, but I couldn't find Deuteronomy.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Here yes, Deuteronomy thirty one to five.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Huh, yeah, my Bible doesn't say it.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yeah. So in the In the King James, he says,
I will never I will never leave you. Right, Yeah,
I will never forsake you, is what he says. And
then because of this promise, I will never leave you,
I will never forsake you, I will never fail you,
I'll never abandon you. Because of that promise, then the
(24:13):
author of Hebrews connects us to Psalm one eighteen, where
he says, the Lord is my helper. Not only is
God hanging around you, God's presence is near you. God
is also willing to intervene for you. Right, And the
author of Hebrews is connecting those two ideas. He's present
and he'll intervene. He's not just present and watching. Gee,
I wonder what's going to happen next, But he'll step
(24:34):
in and he'll be your helper. And so because God
will never abandon me, and because God will be my helper,
then I don't have to have any fear. And then
he says, what can mere people do to me? That's
similar to the Book of Romans. You know, who can
be against me? If God's for me who can be
against me? And that should give us a tremendous amount
of confidence. So, hey, if you're struggling financially, listen, God's
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not going to fail you. It's never going to be you,
and he will help you. But you have to decide
you're going to be satisfied with what you do have
and stop putting all of your focus on what money
can do for you and instead put your focus on
what God promises to do for you. And then at
that point there's a certain amount of satisfaction that comes
with that decision. And when you come to that place
(25:20):
where you're satisfied with what God has promised, then he says,
I'll be your helper.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
And on the negative side, don't love money to such
a degree to where you spend wasted energy and time
and everything else because you're pursuing the wrong thing. Well,
that's great, that's a good place to end. And so
we will see you tomorrow for another promise on the Bible.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
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