Christianese; Decoding Christian Lingo and Ceremonies ၏ စာသားမှတ်တမ်းအပြည့်အစုံ

real quick before we really dive into it. 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:52.719 The episode you heard, first episode, we have kind of we kind of hinted at it, we said it, but we didn't really go into depth. 00:03:52.960 --> 00:04:01.680 We are going to do our best to not bring up the current church that we go to, um, or our family's names, our kids' names, our wife's names, right? 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:11.680 We are more than happy to be a part of this podcast, but unfortunately, the world is a dangerous place, dangerous people, and like we said last time, this is not a podcast that's being put out by a church. 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:14.159 This isn't a podcast being put out by a convention. 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:17.680 Our wives and children are too innocent, right, to bring into this podcast for this world. 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:24.639 Matter of fact, Sean's kids are even adopted, so protecting them from any potential hazards, yeah, misuse, right? 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:29.519 Um, so just last episode you heard some censorship beeps like this. 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:32.160 Or that was just us playing around. 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:33.439 Somebody slipped up, said a word. 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:35.040 We thought that was really funny to put that in there. 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:40.000 So I just want to put that out there so everybody understands there's no potty mouth, there's no bad language on the case. 00:04:40.319 --> 00:04:43.279 No bad foolishness, only you know, reverently foolishness. 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:44.639 Reverently foolishness. 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:45.279 Yes. 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:46.480 Drop the name. 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:47.199 Yes. 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:49.279 Yeah, PG Christian cuss words. 00:04:49.439 --> 00:04:54.079 That would that would be a funny podcast on itself, is cuss words that Christians can use. 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:54.959 Gosh darn it. 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:55.839 Yeah. 00:04:56.480 --> 00:04:58.879 So today, getting this mindset. 00:04:59.199 --> 00:05:04.079 Um, we did use Chat GPT, tried to have it pretend to be a person walking in. 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:08.480 I really wish we could have gotten more feedback, but no one's even heard our podcast yet to leave comments. 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:14.480 Um, so if you're listening to this and you're like, oh, you missed this word, you missed this phrase, whatever, leave a comment. 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:15.120 Let us know. 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:17.199 We'll come back to it if we get enough of them. 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:22.000 Um, one of the first things is an action that's very strange is communion. 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:23.680 I totally get that. 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:35.600 Communion for breaking that word down, right, is the ceremony or the symbolic um representation representation that we have of Jesus at the Last Supper. 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:47.279 He sat down with the disciples, told them that the bread was his body, and that the wine was his blood, two things representing him, and by them partaking in that, right, they were remembering him. 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:55.279 He asked them to continue to do this that way every time they did this ceremony, they would remember him and what he did on the cross. 00:05:55.519 --> 00:06:03.839 Um Yeah, that that I know when um thinking about it when I was a little kid, I used to get freaked out when they were like, This is my body. 00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:08.000 You know, that hearing that when he was reading out of um I think it was Matthew, right? 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:10.959 And um, and it was just super like creepy. 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:15.199 I was like, His body, like you're eating, like they cut up his body and they still have it. 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:16.639 How do they still have it? 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:17.519 Like, what the heck? 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:17.920 Yeah. 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:28.639 Like you said, and coming into the church too, if you're seeing that for the first time and then hearing just the scripture that we read when we're doing it, it's it's like, what are we what are we doing? 00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:30.959 Yeah, yeah, very yeah. 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:32.399 Like, what are we getting into right now? 00:06:33.120 --> 00:06:34.319 It can get really creepy, really funny. 00:06:34.399 --> 00:06:39.279 I also grew up very jealous of churches who like had legit good-looking bread. 00:06:39.519 --> 00:06:41.120 Boy, they they they they'd have that bread. 00:06:41.199 --> 00:06:43.120 It's like, man, you get full off that bread. 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:44.879 You got to choose how much you ripped off. 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:46.319 I'm like, man, I'm hungry, right? 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:50.800 Not the churches, but I went to the churches we went to had terrible bread. 00:06:51.199 --> 00:06:52.079 It wasn't even bread. 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:58.639 Our church where we go right now, um they're packaged, oh, they're packaged together now ever since COVID. 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:00.560 But it's this little piece of styro. 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:05.120 Yeah, it's this little circular cut of bread that I do not think is bread at all. 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:07.439 No, it is it is a hundred percent. 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:13.199 Somebody took a circle cutter and cut little circular pieces out of a styrofoam plate. 00:07:13.279 --> 00:07:14.720 Yep, yep, and then that's what we're eating. 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:16.399 100% that's what we're eating. 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:18.959 Um, and then it's it's cheaper that way. 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:21.759 Yeah, somebody is lying to us. 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:22.800 That is what we're consuming. 00:07:22.959 --> 00:07:25.360 We have microplastics all through on our body. 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:30.160 Um, I every time we eat that bad boy, I'm like, mmm, styrofoam plate all day long. 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:38.800 I know at uh the churches I used to go to um growing up, and the one that uh

me and my wife got married at, I used to help get the communion ready. 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:40.160 We used to use Welches. 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:40.959 That's what we use. 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:42.160 Welches? 00:07:42.399 --> 00:07:43.920 Welches, yes, grape juice. 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:46.560 And like that that actually tasted good, obviously, right? 00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:51.920 And whatever's in that cut we're using now at our local church, it's not necessarily. 00:07:52.240 --> 00:07:52.800 Not that good good. 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:53.839 No, good good. 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:54.560 It's not. 00:07:55.279 --> 00:07:56.480 Catholics, so they have the good good. 00:07:56.959 --> 00:07:57.680 Catholics have the good good. 00:07:57.920 --> 00:07:59.199 That's the one thing about the Catholics, boy. 00:07:59.279 --> 00:08:01.439 They'd be like, have a little four-year-old down there, boy. 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:03.759 I mean, sorry, sorry, Catholics. 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:06.639 I don't want to um but you do have that good good. 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:09.839 That Baptist The other thing is baptism. 00:08:10.079 --> 00:08:15.839 Baptism can definitely be strange from like coming in the first time at a church and watching somebody get WWE smacked down in that water. 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:24.800 Yeah, and Logic kind of hinted at it too, of how fast you see the pra the pastor up there, and then we pray, and all of a sudden the pastor appears, yeah. 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:26.639 Fully dry, fully clothed in his suit. 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:27.360 Hair dry. 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:29.199 Yeah, hair's not wet at all. 00:08:29.279 --> 00:08:32.240 It's just he's there, and you're like, Honestly, how did he get there? 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:33.360 His hair shouldn't be wet. 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:36.240 If his hair is wet, he he's sitting too hard. 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:44.480 Yeah, I still to this day wish that some little child would do a cannibal on that bad boy, like like Alright, we're gonna bring down so-and-so. 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:47.360 Little Johnny just mmm canniball just soaks the choir. 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:48.480 That would be fantastic. 00:08:48.720 --> 00:08:49.200 That'd be epic. 00:08:49.440 --> 00:08:49.919 Yes, it would. 00:08:50.480 --> 00:09:07.360 What's crazy, what's crazy and kind of sad about this being such an easy to relate to misconception or like confusing thing to see when you come into church is that it's like one of the two main ordin ordinances of the church that you know scripture calls us to like to have communion and to baptize. 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:07.759 Yes. 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:15.200 And um it's one thing that us, even us three growing up in the church, can remember growing up in the church saying, This is weird. 00:09:15.519 --> 00:09:24.720 But the roots of it in scripture is like one of the most it's two of the most beautiful things that we can do to really see what God does and what he did. 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:32.879 And but again, it's one of those things that we you don't really explain super well to people when they come in, and especially when you come in. 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:41.039 Sometimes if you're visiting a church for the first time, the first time you hear that's gonna be a communion is right before it's happening, and then you're like, Oh, it's happening now, and I'm I I'm here. 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:45.440 It's also really awkward because the pastor and everybody will tell you the Lord's Supper, right? 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:52.879 At the communion, they'll say, if you are not saved, then you cannot and should not partake. 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:55.120 Granted, no one knows if you're saved or not. 00:09:55.200 --> 00:09:58.559 You could be entering church for the first time, have no idea who Jesus is. 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:00.480 You are not a saved Christian. 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:04.080 I I see people look around like absolute panic. 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:06.000 If I do not grab this cup, people are gonna know. 00:10:06.240 --> 00:10:08.000 Or they're gonna judge, you're gonna judge. 00:10:08.159 --> 00:10:08.240 Yeah. 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:10.080 Nobody, nobody's looking around. 00:10:10.159 --> 00:10:11.279 No, no, nobody cares. 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:13.759 If they are, I don't know, maybe red flag. 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:14.080 I don't know. 00:10:14.159 --> 00:10:16.320 We'll that'll be a whole other episode of Church Red Flags. 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:17.360 We're gonna dive into that one. 00:10:17.679 --> 00:10:19.200 But no, no one cares. 00:10:19.279 --> 00:10:20.480 No one's looking around like that. 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:25.519 They're being reverent in that moment, they should be really focusing on that moment, getting their hearts right for that moment. 00:10:25.600 --> 00:10:28.000 So don't think there's judgment or nobody's gonna know. 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:31.360 If you are not saved, please don't partake in that ceremony. 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:36.960 Um if you have questions about it, that's the appropriate time to ask somebody whenever it's over. 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:41.519 Uh, but I, as a parent, along with all the other parents in the church, that is a good moment. 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:44.320 We normally are it's a conversation every time with our kids. 00:10:44.559 --> 00:10:46.320 Daddy, why can't I have that grape juice? 00:10:46.399 --> 00:10:47.279 Why can't I have that bread? 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:48.879 One, you're not missing out. 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:50.559 It is not crazy. 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:51.679 That is not great, right? 00:10:51.759 --> 00:10:52.559 You have your goldfish. 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:54.399 I wish I had a goldfish right now. 00:10:54.639 --> 00:11:00.000 Um, but it's a wonderful conversation we could have of this is why you can't have this. 00:11:00.159 --> 00:11:00.559 Yeah. 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:02.639 Um, yeah, that's that's that's a good point.

00:11:02.720 --> 00:11:06.639 With my daughter going to fourth grade, you know, I I that is huge for us, right? 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:11.440 You know, she's starting to ask more questions, and then she's like, Well, I want the grape juice. 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:12.320 Like, I want some of that. 00:11:12.480 --> 00:11:14.240 I'm like, well, this is this is what it's about. 00:11:14.399 --> 00:11:21.919 And she's starting to learn more of like what this is and what like why we are why we are partaking in this communion, right? 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:24.159 I think I think that's a big point. 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:34.879 Where as parents, we should be normalizing this and and and teaching our children, like, this is not weird, this isn't this is normal, this is not like the misconceptions that we see now. 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:39.360 Yeah, we should be kind of like stomping those down and be like, no, this is this is reverent. 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:39.679 Yeah. 00:11:39.919 --> 00:11:42.720 We we we should be looking at this in in this this way. 00:11:42.960 --> 00:11:43.840 Yeah, well, it really is. 00:11:43.919 --> 00:12:08.559 It's funny too that you say that with in the view of like our own children, is because communion and baptism are two perfect situations for us to like what we talked about in the last episode was to not like want your kid to be able to have communion because it means that they're saved, or want a kid to get baptized because it means they got saved, but it's a perfect situation for us as parents to look at our children and say, hey, this is why you can't yet. 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:14.480 And it's not because of anything wrong, it's because this is for people who know him and have come to accept him. 00:12:14.639 --> 00:12:22.320 And jumping in the pool up there ain't just jumping into a pool, it's a symbolic thing that is what what representing you going from death to life. 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:26.799 And if you don't have that, it's okay because that's that's what those that's for. 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:32.240 So it's again, it's in two situations where we can say we're not just like wrangling our kids and say, get saved right now. 00:12:32.399 --> 00:12:34.639 You have to get up there and get baptized, you had to do the communion. 00:12:34.799 --> 00:12:37.200 But we can say, Hey, this is why this isn't for you. 00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:38.879 It's a perfect time to explain it. 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:42.000 Yeah, especially, I mean, think thinking about it, right? 00:12:42.159 --> 00:12:48.240 No wonder why Jesus calls us to do both of these ceremonies because they're visual, yeah, right. 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:53.039 Um we j we just said by doing this, it's at least caught the attention of our children. 00:12:53.200 --> 00:12:58.799 So therefore, it's got to be catching the attention of adults or somebody else, of like, why the heck is this going on? 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:03.519 So the same same as they're asking

questions about the snack and juice that daddy's getting, yeah, right? 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:04.320 The same thing. 00:13:04.399 --> 00:13:06.320 They're like, why are they up there in the pool? 00:13:06.399 --> 00:13:06.639 Right? 00:13:06.720 --> 00:13:08.080 Well, well, it's not a pool, right? 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:10.399 More like a hot tub that's hardly ever hot. 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:14.559 And I don't know, we we got a new heater, another heater in our baptismal. 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:16.000 Yeah, but we also paid off the buildings. 00:13:16.159 --> 00:13:18.159 It's like paying off your car every time we paid off some breaks. 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:26.559 But I will say, baptism, especially for some reason, I've had this conversation with people, um, Catholics, they do the sprinklings, right? 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:30.399 They believe that you just sprinkle uh and sprinkle a child, right? 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:31.600 Before they're saved. 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:33.600 We do not agree with that as Baptists. 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:37.440 I do want to say that as a Baptist, we believe in full submersion. 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:40.240 So, like somebody comes in, that's why I say WW smack down on the water. 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:49.919 Like, you watch them cover their nose, that pastor takes them, dunks them under that water, they're probably down there for a good few seconds, yeah, a few seconds, and then they bring them back up. 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:53.120 It is a visual representation, that's all it is. 00:13:53.200 --> 00:13:56.080 But at the same time, coming into it is like, why do they just dunk that dude? 00:13:56.159 --> 00:13:57.600 Yeah, did he smell? 00:13:57.759 --> 00:13:58.240 You know what I mean? 00:13:58.399 --> 00:13:59.120 Like, yeah, yeah. 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:12.399 I know with uh when I got baptized uh back in 2017, it was not heated, it was a spring-fed uh well that we were using, and they they filled up the baptismal directly from the water house. 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:19.360 Dude, that was one of the coldest things I've been it's colder than Nana Halo. 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:20.399 I feel like almost. 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:20.720 Yeah. 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:21.440 Golly. 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:27.519 I will say it's hard for me right now as a very big Nacho Libre fan to be saying the word baptized. 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:28.639 Not baptized. 00:14:29.759 --> 00:14:36.639 Um the next one is uh offering that can definitely be odd at times. 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:38.639 People sitting here passing the plate. 00:14:38.879 --> 00:14:44.799 Um I I I understand how from an outside point that can look like trying to money grab, you know what I mean? 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:51.200 Trying to our pastor does a very good job of we we talk about giving tithing, maybe once a year. 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:54.879 Um, but other than that, we pass around the plate every Sunday. 00:14:55.039 --> 00:14:56.240 And you'll honestly see it. 00:14:56.320 --> 00:14:58.559 Not a lot of people put stuff in the bucket or plate anymore. 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:00.000 We we it's all electronic now. 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:01.600 That's how I do it. 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:05.919 We we have it electronic, and uh, if you want to give in person, you can. 00:15:06.159 --> 00:15:09.120 And uh, but it's super easy when it's electronic. 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:11.840 I I have it set up monthly and it comes out automatically. 00:15:12.080 --> 00:15:17.679 I don't blame the pastor for just for still doing the bucket, uh, because his reasoning behind it is it's another visual thing. 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:19.840 Our children get to see our generosity. 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:25.840 My child has no idea what I'm doing when I'm doing it on my phone, but visually they can see oh, we've given. 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:29.279 And we and we do um we we don't use plates anymore. 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:32.000 We use buckets, buckets buckets at our church. 00:15:32.240 --> 00:15:34.159 Uh so I feel like that also kind of helps. 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:35.519 It gives a different feeling. 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:38.879 Not a ceremonial vibe, it's deeper, so that way people give more money. 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:39.840 It looks more empty. 00:15:41.039 --> 00:15:42.159 Please fill the buckets. 00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:42.720 Yeah, yeah. 00:15:42.879 --> 00:15:44.159 Look how empty this bucket looked. 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:45.440 The plate looked too full too fast. 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:46.480 Yeah. 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:48.960 You get one envelope in there, it's already full. 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:51.120 Oh, this plate doesn't even need my time. 00:15:51.679 --> 00:15:52.879 Well, it's full already. 00:15:53.120 --> 00:15:57.200 I do love, I've seen that in a movie once or twice where somebody passes a plate, somebody's in church for the first time. 00:15:57.279 --> 00:15:58.480 It's like, man, these people are giving out money. 00:15:59.360 --> 00:16:02.240 It was a cra it was the the wasn't it the Christmas story, I think. 00:16:02.559 --> 00:16:03.519 Maybe I have no idea. 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:13.840 It was one of those uh holiday uh movies that they that the kids were in the back pew just shuffling money just into their pocket out of the uh out of the plate. 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:18.399 To be fair, if that ever happened and somebody was taking money, I'm not even quite sure what happened. 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:22.399 Because like if they're not a normal church goer, it's like you know, they probably need it. 00:16:22.480 --> 00:16:23.279 That's that's what I'm saying. 00:16:23.519 --> 00:16:24.960 I mean, doubt the church would do anything. 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:27.200 Um gotta have good usher, something sunny. 00:16:27.360 --> 00:16:28.080 Yeah, yeah. 00:16:28.399 --> 00:16:29.039 Dangerous. 00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:32.080 Oh my. 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:33.519 You know, that static shock.

00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:34.159 Oh yeah. 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:36.320 The the other thing is Christianese, right? 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:46.000 The the weird words and phrases that are just so common among the church and church goers that uh we've we forget that we're even saying it, especially when you grow up uh in the church. 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:51.360 A word that is super simple to us, but might not be to somebody whose end is saved. 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:53.600 Yeah, just simply saved. 00:16:53.919 --> 00:16:55.039 Saved from what? 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:55.759 Yeah. 00:16:56.480 --> 00:16:58.240 Like who is coming after you? 00:16:58.799 --> 00:16:58.960 Yeah. 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:02.879 Oh, I'm gonna be a need coming from. 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:03.360 Yeah, yeah. 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:10.400 I wouldn't be king of the sidebars here, but that just reminded me of who's coming after you with uh one of the hymns, uh Shirley Goodness and Mercy. 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:14.160 My brother grew up thinking, like, who is Shirley Goodness and Mercy? 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:16.319 And why are they following me all the day? 00:17:16.960 --> 00:17:17.440 All the days. 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:21.440 What is this guy David talking about? 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:23.680 Whatever that is, I don't want it. 00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:25.519 Yeah, sorry. 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:28.960 That was no, no, it is saved though. 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:32.160 Um honestly we're saved from ourselves, right? 00:17:32.319 --> 00:17:37.599 Saved is when somebody's accepted God's grace um given by Jesus' death and resurrection, right? 00:17:37.839 --> 00:17:41.920 Um when you proclaim Jesus, proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord of your life, right? 00:17:42.160 --> 00:17:49.279 You have accepted that his death and resurrection has paid the ultimate atonement for your sin. 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:56.240 And so you have now been saved from the penalty of that which was death, and you now have eternal life with him in heaven. 00:17:56.319 --> 00:17:57.519 So you we're saved from that. 00:17:57.680 --> 00:18:01.680 We throw out that word all the time, yeah, and we totally forget that that's not a normal word. 00:18:01.920 --> 00:18:13.279 Yeah, I know at uh at at work, and I don't work around too many Christian folk, and um I'm like, yeah, I'm I'm saved, I'm a saved person, I'm a Christian, and they're like, What are you saved from? 00:18:13.359 --> 00:18:14.319 Like, what what do you mean? 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:20.799 Like it's very like we understand it as a Christian community, you know, that that's who we you know, Christianese, right? 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:27.119 We we see that a lot, and uh when you go into the into the world, people don't really understand what saved means. 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:31.519 And they always say, you know, I have this uh one coworker, he's like, saved. 00:18:31.599 --> 00:18:32.799 What what's what's getting you? 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:34.079 What like you're gonna die? 00:18:34.240 --> 00:18:37.200 Like my well, technically, technically, yes. 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:38.880 But yeah, you know. 00:18:39.119 --> 00:18:44.640 Well that's what that's why saved is what saved and lost is I think lost could maybe even go a little bit harder. 00:18:44.720 --> 00:19:02.880 But saved, I think, is yeah, no, but saved is it's such a it is such a like a drastic terminology that's like what like you just said, like you're saved from something that's what gonna kill you, and it's why it is such a good term is because it absolutely. 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:09.920 I mean the we are saved from eternal death and separation from the Lord, and we need salvation. 00:19:10.079 --> 00:19:13.039 We need to be saved, and that's how that's how we come into the world. 00:19:13.119 --> 00:19:27.759 That's when we we're born with a sin nature, and as soon as we are able to understand why taking a cookie out of the cookie jar when you're told not to, you are sinning and you have earned death that you can't a price you can't pay, a debt you can't pay. 00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:48.160 Um, but again, the common theme I'm already seeing with these words that are like lost in translation by us and then pretended to understand by the world because it's said so much is because we do not do a good job of one for us as Christians keeping it like real to us, like I'm saved, and I label myself that with like almost like saying I'm hungry. 00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:50.880 Yep, but I'm saved from death and hell. 00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:55.599 And if that's real every day, then that's that's going to sting whenever you say I'm saved. 00:19:55.680 --> 00:20:00.000 I'm not, I'm not just like put it on my name tag, I'm saved from death and hell. 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:03.359 Um, and then for the for the world, like ask Christians. 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:12.160 This all these things that we're talking about is when you hear these Christian lingos that just don't make sense, do what we're do what we're saying here is like ask somebody like you gotta tell me what you mean by that. 00:20:12.319 --> 00:20:12.880 Yeah, yeah. 00:20:13.039 --> 00:20:18.400 And like you're saying, we we don't we don't explain it well enough, and we just assume everybody knows us. 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:29.440 Yeah, I would I would encourage Christians who are in church, actually in church, who believe they have a strong faith, all the words that we're bringing up right now, go and look up scripture that they're involved in. 00:20:29.599 --> 00:20:46.960 Because I got humbled this week studying for this, and I was because I pulled out scripture with each one of these phrases or words, and I was thinking, you know, I don't want to come to this empty-handed, but looking at it and looking at these verses, I was like, man, why are this why is this such we just throw this word around when it's so impactful, it's such a big word, like lost. 00:20:47.119 --> 00:20:47.759 Lost is a

hundred. 00:20:47.920 --> 00:20:50.160 I don't even have that written down, but that is such a big word. 00:20:50.400 --> 00:20:50.720 Yeah. 00:20:50.960 --> 00:20:52.400 Um, yeah, lost where. 00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:59.680 So, like for saved, I have if you declare with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 00:21:00.079 --> 00:21:01.839 Okay, that is Romans 10 9. 00:21:02.079 --> 00:21:11.200 I also have for it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and it is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works that no one can boast. 00:21:11.440 --> 00:21:13.599 Ephesians 2, 8 through 9. 00:21:14.079 --> 00:21:16.000 So that right there is powerful. 00:21:16.319 --> 00:21:16.960 A hundred percent. 00:21:17.039 --> 00:21:20.400 You should read that and be like, dang, okay, saved, that's a big deal. 00:21:20.559 --> 00:21:21.920 Now I understand why I'm saved. 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:23.440 Yeah, that's like in the last episode. 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:28.400 We talked about it in um like how the representation of like in in a courtroom, I think I mentioned it. 00:21:28.559 --> 00:21:28.720 Yeah. 00:21:29.119 --> 00:21:34.559 Of Jesus coming in and taking that penalty, taking that that the weight of sin off you, right? 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:36.400 That that's the representation. 00:21:36.480 --> 00:21:40.960 Yeah, you you were saved from the from the uh the the verdict, right? 00:21:41.039 --> 00:21:42.319 The the guilty verdict. 00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:46.160 That that's what it is, is being saved from that. 00:21:46.400 --> 00:21:52.319 And I think we like you're saying, uh Blake, we're we're just losing the um the misconception, I guess, of it. 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:52.960 Yeah. 00:21:53.359 --> 00:21:55.359 Now, next one, you ready for this? 00:21:55.759 --> 00:21:56.640 The gospel. 00:21:57.839 --> 00:21:58.400 The gospel. 00:21:58.720 --> 00:21:59.119 The gospel. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:00.799 Good news, right? 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:03.440 That's what it's translated into is the good news. 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:06.720 That bad boy should be thrown around at whatever church you're visiting. 00:22:06.799 --> 00:22:10.880 If it's not, we're getting ahead of ourselves here, but red flag, right? 00:22:11.119 --> 00:22:16.480 Um, if they're not using the exact words the gospel, they should at least be telling the gospel. 00:22:16.720 --> 00:22:21.599 Um, the gospel is a story of Jesus Christ and what he has accomplished for you through his life here on earth. 00:22:21.839 --> 00:22:26.799 Um, the common books for that in the Bible is gonna be Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, I would even say probably Acts. 00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:28.960 I throw Acts, and never sure I love Acts. 00:22:29.200 --> 00:22:32.400 Um, but growing up in Sunday school, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, right? 00:22:32.480 --> 00:22:37.279 That's that's your that's your gospel, but I would definitely um use Acts as well. 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:44.160 If you are at a church and the gospel is being proclaimed, then they're doing what they're supposed to be. 00:22:44.480 --> 00:22:44.960 100%. 00:22:45.759 --> 00:22:46.480 Yeah, yeah. 00:22:46.559 --> 00:22:55.279 Well, I think too, like, again, we like what you're just saying is a good thing to to know about what the gospel is, is it's the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. 00:22:55.359 --> 00:22:58.559 And that's what we'll say, the gospel is the books that cover that. 00:22:59.200 --> 00:23:04.000 But um, but you didn't mess me up, man. 00:23:04.160 --> 00:23:06.799 We're getting on to Elijah for not putting the mic in his mouth, sorry. 00:23:08.240 --> 00:23:10.240 But again, that's a good focus. 00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:23.599 Again, a a gospel preaching church is gonna is going to preach the entire Bible and hold true that the entire book is inspired word of God, God, God breathed because the entire book points to Jesus and the life of Jesus. 00:23:23.680 --> 00:23:27.759 So the gospel is proclaimed Old Testament all the way to the end in Revelation. 00:23:27.839 --> 00:23:32.400 It's it's gospel-centered book because the book is pointing to Jesus and our need for him. 00:23:32.799 --> 00:23:40.160 So, yeah, just to just to throw gospel and not really understand, like it's the entire book, and it's the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. 00:23:40.400 --> 00:23:43.359 It is we water it down by just saying, that's God. 00:23:43.839 --> 00:23:44.799 We'll say that on anything. 00:23:44.960 --> 00:23:46.960 Like uh it's slang almost at this point. 00:23:47.039 --> 00:23:50.799 It's like if anything that's taken is true, that's gospel right there. 00:23:54.799 --> 00:24:03.039 Yeah, now I will say it all of the Bible is very important, or else they wouldn't have wrote the whole Bible, right? 00:24:03.119 --> 00:24:04.960 The Bible wouldn't be what it is. 00:24:05.839 --> 00:24:15.599 But we were literally told at the Great Commission that is where Jesus had told the disciples right before he went back to heaven, he said, Go and proclaim the gospel, go spread the good news. 00:24:16.240 --> 00:24:19.200 That right there, right, is what's gonna lead people to him. 00:24:19.680 --> 00:24:27.599 Now, as a Christian, it is very important to learn from the Old Testament, but to somebody who needs salvation, that's the gospel all day long. 00:24:27.680 --> 00:24:27.920 Yeah. 00:24:28.079 --> 00:24:31.519 So that's great that your church is doing a study through something in Old Testament. 00:24:31.599 --> 00:24:35.200 It is vital, but at some point the gospel does need to be presented. 00:24:35.440 --> 00:24:37.680 Well, the the old testament points to the gospel, right? 00:24:38.000 --> 00:24:38.480 Yes, it does. 00:24:38.799 --> 00:24:40.880 It shows it shows the life of Jesus. 00:24:41.039 --> 00:24:48.000 Um it's the h the Old Testament is the Hobbit, and then you have New Testament, Lord of the

Rings, right? 00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:49.680 And all it's all intertwining. 00:24:49.759 --> 00:24:52.640 You know, you have 40 people who wrote the Bible, right? 00:24:52.880 --> 00:24:57.440 Among 66 books, and they all will intertwine and intermingle. 00:24:57.599 --> 00:24:58.559 That's kind of nuts. 00:24:58.640 --> 00:24:59.200 Like it's wild. 00:24:59.440 --> 00:25:01.200 Well, it's it's it's only a it's a God thing. 00:25:01.279 --> 00:25:05.839 That doesn't happen again in history, past, present, or future, where it's because it's God's word. 00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:08.799 Yeah, I believe Jesus fulfilled like over 300 prophecies as well. 00:25:08.960 --> 00:25:10.160 So that's pretty cool. 00:25:10.319 --> 00:25:10.720 Yeah, yeah. 00:25:11.039 --> 00:25:12.400 You know, who else can do that? 00:25:12.640 --> 00:25:18.480 And um, you know, you have Isaiah, uh Isaiah's writing, you know, about his crucifixion. 00:25:18.640 --> 00:25:21.279 I don't know if it's a what did 900 years? 00:25:21.519 --> 00:25:30.880 Or maybe I'm off way off, but and uh that that's insane that he literally wrote exactly what and how Jesus will die on the cross. 00:25:31.440 --> 00:25:31.599 Yeah. 00:25:31.759 --> 00:25:37.039 Well, I think I I mean I was listening to just with you know, um, it's pointing like what you said, Blake. 00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:42.799 It's the gospel is a good jumping into point, jumping in point if you're gonna be studying the Bible. 00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:54.640 And I think Brody said it on one episode of No Sadie Required recently was if you're gonna pick up the Bible and try to get into studying it, pick up one of the gospels of you know, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and start there. 00:25:54.720 --> 00:25:58.160 Don't all right, I'm gonna f growing up it's crazy. 00:25:58.319 --> 00:26:01.359 This is one that I didn't make my dad proud of being a pastor's kid. 00:26:01.599 --> 00:26:03.599 Um go ahead, get it out there, let us know. 00:26:04.799 --> 00:26:13.200 One, Brody said, you know, don't start out in Habakkuk and be like, okay, well, this was a tough study for me to open up and I really stay hungry for the word when I'm reading this book. 00:26:13.359 --> 00:26:18.480 And he's that's why he was saying, like, get into the gospel, because that's like if you want to start somewhere, start there. 00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:26.799 But man, I grew up flipping and stopping on a page and just trusting that trusting that the Lord would stop me on the page he wanted me to. 00:26:27.039 --> 00:26:28.960 And man, that doesn't always work at all. 00:26:29.279 --> 00:26:30.319 No, no, it doesn't. 00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:31.599 So don't do that. 00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:34.079 Thinking with those words of wisdom, right? 00:26:34.240 --> 00:26:34.960 I'm here for the people. 00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:37.839 That's like uh for that sixth grader who's gonna listen to this. 00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:38.400 Don't do that. 00:26:38.640 --> 00:26:39.440 You're

doing it wrong, yeah. 00:26:39.839 --> 00:26:40.400 Don't do that. 00:26:40.640 --> 00:26:43.119 Yeah, I was listening to I was actually on that. 00:26:43.440 --> 00:26:47.920 Uh unfortunately, I watch YouTube Shorts and um I'm plagued by that. 00:26:48.079 --> 00:26:51.519 And um a Tim old, old Tim Hawkins video showed up. 00:26:51.759 --> 00:26:52.400 He is the goat. 00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:53.519 Dude, he's amazing. 00:26:54.640 --> 00:26:55.279 Let's interview him. 00:26:55.359 --> 00:26:56.559 He's gonna be on the podcast. 00:26:56.960 --> 00:27:08.880 And um what's funny is is that when he was talking about the verses, when he uh forgot the verse that he was supposed to like he remembered his uh Psalms 34-7, and um and he accidentally wrote Psalms 38-4. 00:27:09.279 --> 00:27:12.640 Oh, in that lady's Bible or whatever was a hundred people's Bible. 00:27:12.799 --> 00:27:16.640 Oh wow and it was it was talking about how he has a disease in his loins. 00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:19.359 Dird your loins. 00:27:23.920 --> 00:27:28.240 And just imagine flipping to like let me let me flip it. 00:27:29.759 --> 00:27:30.000 Yeah, yeah. 00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:33.839 If you're flipping to the Bible and you just land on Psalm 38, good luck. 00:27:33.920 --> 00:27:35.440 You know, like you're just trying to get something that you don't want. 00:27:36.640 --> 00:27:38.400 I would take that as he did it on purpose. 00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:42.160 That's the perfect verse for a comedian to write in your write in your Bible. 00:27:42.480 --> 00:27:58.319 Uh, one that I wanted to talk about on this episode was uh when Christians say, or even not Christians, because I think this is one that a lot of people who don't really have a personal relationship with the Lord, but know a lot about Christianity, or just know I'm trying to live a good life. 00:27:58.400 --> 00:28:00.240 I'm a I'm I believe in God. 00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:08.079 A lot of people will use this to blanket cover any decision in their life or think something that they're leaning towards and they're trying to justify it. 00:28:08.319 --> 00:28:12.240 They'll say, God is to open this door and I walk through it. 00:28:12.400 --> 00:28:15.200 Or, Well, God closed that, so it must be done. 00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:23.279 And one thing I wrote I wrote here that is um to preface this, this is not saying that God doesn't open doors for us and he doesn't close them. 00:28:23.440 --> 00:28:33.200 That's definitely it's a great picture for us to see that God should be the one opening every door we go through and he should be closing the ones that we shouldn't be closing doors on what God's doing. 00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:34.160 He should be the one closing. 00:28:34.400 --> 00:28:56.559 So again, it's a good picture, but when we cover everything with it, um, what I what this can lead to when I when I was looking at this and kind of like the repercussions of overusing this, um, this can lead us to have uh to not actually seek God and his will for us, but to look for what door matches what we already think God is doing, or just what we want to stamp God's name on. 00:28:56.720 --> 00:29:07.440 And then in with that, it leads us to blame God when the open door doesn't work out for us in the way we hoped, or if we just deem this God failed me and he opened the door for me. 00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:16.880 And again, that can lead to a lot of not just church hurt, but that can lead to a lot of just like I'm mad at God because he opened a door that hurt me badly. 00:29:17.039 --> 00:29:21.039 And it and in all honesty, in those situations, God never opened that door. 00:29:21.279 --> 00:29:24.240 So I that's one that I think is a really tough one. 00:29:24.480 --> 00:29:27.119 Yeah, it's it's a huge easily blanket statement. 00:29:27.440 --> 00:29:29.279 You can you can easily just throw that anywhere. 00:29:29.359 --> 00:29:33.359 And it's hard to say, especially when you're doing it, did you prepare? 00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:34.160 Did you pray? 00:29:34.319 --> 00:29:34.880 Did you fast? 00:29:35.359 --> 00:29:36.000 Did you do these things? 00:29:36.079 --> 00:29:40.480 Did you get your heart right for a decision to let God open a door or close a door? 00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:44.559 Or were you just like, man, I hope I I hope this job comes available. 00:29:44.720 --> 00:29:48.480 And then if it doesn't, you're like, man, you know, God is he does, you know, he's closing doors for me. 00:29:48.559 --> 00:29:52.880 But it's like, did do you did you do your due diligence and and really prepare for it? 00:29:53.039 --> 00:29:53.359 Yeah. 00:29:53.519 --> 00:29:54.799 And and give it to God. 00:29:56.319 --> 00:30:02.720 With the blanket statement of doing that, it doesn't seem like that person or people who actually actually did it or not. 00:30:03.039 --> 00:30:03.359 Yeah. 00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:12.480 I would say, as a Christian, um, because obviously if you're not a Christian and you're not branding to the Lord and you don't have any interest there, then this doesn't affect you. 00:30:12.559 --> 00:30:16.799 But I I would say definitely be careful blanket stating your prayers, right? 00:30:17.359 --> 00:30:24.799 If you just put general things out there, then if anything and everything happens in your life, you're like, this is it, this is my son. 00:30:24.960 --> 00:30:27.759 It's like, no, it's not, it's the sound of a hybrid car passing by. 00:30:28.079 --> 00:30:28.240 Right? 00:30:28.319 --> 00:30:30.079 Like, no, that's that's not your moment, right? 00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:33.599 Uh another one that I have is the Lord told me. 00:30:34.720 --> 00:30:39.519 Yeah, if somebody tells you the Lord told them, you'd probably run away. 00:30:39.680 --> 00:30:40.799 I uh I would say. 00:30:40.960 --> 00:30:43.599 Um the Lord obviously has spoken to people. 00:30:44.079 --> 00:30:45.440 Read the Bible, right? 00:30:45.759 --> 00:30:47.440 The Lord has used people,

yes. 00:30:47.759 --> 00:30:52.720 Does the Lord place his um will on your life? 00:30:52.880 --> 00:30:53.200 Yes. 00:30:53.359 --> 00:30:57.759 I do believe you can 100% feel the Lord moving you in a certain direction. 00:30:58.079 --> 00:31:03.440 But it takes a lot of discernment to sit here and say, Oh, 100% God told me. 00:31:03.759 --> 00:31:06.160 God has given me a vision, God has told me this. 00:31:06.319 --> 00:31:07.839 I know that this is what God wants. 00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:13.839 I take that with a grain of salt because I even went to my pastor one time about, listen, I'm I'm I'm out of my mind. 00:31:14.160 --> 00:31:16.559 I've been praying over and over and over and over. 00:31:16.880 --> 00:31:19.759 God, I need to know what do you want from me? 00:31:19.920 --> 00:31:20.079 Yeah. 00:31:20.240 --> 00:31:21.200 And he had to sit me down. 00:31:21.279 --> 00:31:24.880 He was like, Blake, like both of these options you're praying for are good. 00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:28.000 It doesn't sound like either one's gonna hurt your family. 00:31:28.400 --> 00:31:34.960 So you just need to realize that you give it, you've given it to the Lord, and he might not just give you a clear one. 00:31:35.039 --> 00:31:39.039 He's probably okay with both because both aren't gonna impact your family in a bad way. 00:31:39.359 --> 00:31:40.880 So from there you kind of have the freedom of choose. 00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:50.720 He even said, like, don't over-spiritualize a decision whenever the Lord can use anything that you do, as long as it's something that's not gonna affect you and your family poorly. 00:31:51.119 --> 00:31:54.240 Um so the other thing is you have a servant's heart. 00:31:55.279 --> 00:31:56.079 Have y'all been told that? 00:31:56.240 --> 00:31:58.240 Have y'all ever been told you have a servant's heart? 00:31:58.480 --> 00:31:58.880 Yep. 00:31:59.359 --> 00:32:12.480 Anytime like when we uh helping anybody out, especially the um no no shade thrown at the elderly, but when you when you're helping out some older people, especially in the church, like man, you have a servant's heart. 00:32:12.559 --> 00:32:14.079 It's like why'd you whisper that? 00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:14.400 I don't know. 00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:17.519 Those little people whispered. 00:32:21.119 --> 00:32:31.759 But like uh we we went and uh I was a part of our deacon team, and on Saturdays we used to go around to different uh folks who needed ramps built um for wheelchair access. 00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:47.599 And uh at the end of the day, you know, we're all like gulping water down because it's a hundred degrees and a hundred percent humidity here in Florida, and um and uh we are we we go and uh it we hear these things, and um you just like, oh, you have a servant's heart for doing this. 00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:51.920 I'm like, yeah, I I guess like I'll never forget Tim Hawkins. 00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:55.359 He's like, you have a people say you have a servant's heart, you know what that means? 00:32:55.440 --> 00:32:56.079 You're a pushover. 00:32:56.160 --> 00:32:56.880 That's what that means. 00:32:57.279 --> 00:33:00.240 They have used and abused you, and they're so happy that they did. 00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:02.720 Thank you for not saying no. 00:33:03.680 --> 00:33:05.039 You have a servant's heart. 00:33:05.119 --> 00:33:09.200 Thank you for putting away those thousand chairs that we just had out here while I sat and watched. 00:33:09.440 --> 00:33:10.559 Thank you so much. 00:33:10.799 --> 00:33:11.279 Yeah. 00:33:11.519 --> 00:33:32.000 Well, the idea of you have a servant's heart being like a superlative somebody gives you for doing something nice, and again, stamping it Christianity's stamp on it, but it it begs the question of like who in who what Christian has the excuse to say, well, I don't have to help you because I don't have a servant's heart. 00:33:32.559 --> 00:33:33.680 I just don't have one. 00:33:33.839 --> 00:33:36.000 Yeah, I've reflected on my spiritual truth. 00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:39.039 I it's just not in me. 00:33:40.079 --> 00:33:41.200 Sisters to me. 00:33:41.519 --> 00:33:43.119 Yeah, I'm just not gonna help you. 00:33:44.720 --> 00:33:52.880 Like it's saying that we should all have a servant's heart to a degree, like you said, but if it's uh if it's just thrown away by the way, it's a freaking chair. 00:33:53.039 --> 00:33:54.240 Sure, but on a chair. 00:33:54.480 --> 00:33:59.599 Yeah, we we sh yeah serving is like an inherent part of being a Christian. 00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:09.360 It's just I think that's something that it's gonna come through by when he but like when he indwells us and we become a new creation, it's gonna come out in acts of service a lot of times. 00:34:09.519 --> 00:34:14.079 So just to classify, well, you you fixed you fixed my ramp, you have a servant's heart now. 00:34:14.239 --> 00:34:15.519 Like, well, dang, look at me. 00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:18.960 Well, I do agree, I do agree that I came into this with full shade. 00:34:19.039 --> 00:34:24.000 Like I was I was prepping this saying, I was ready to throw nothing but shade at it because that is how it feels. 00:34:24.079 --> 00:34:25.440 It's like you're a pushover. 00:34:25.519 --> 00:34:29.920 Because the only time that you get told this was after you do something you've done something or somebody else. 00:34:30.159 --> 00:34:30.480 Very hard. 00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:32.239 Which granted, that's what being a servant is. 00:34:32.320 --> 00:34:36.800 So here I am kind of a full shade, but yeah, whenever I'm looking up and doing study in the Bible, it's like, oh no. 00:34:37.039 --> 00:34:37.840 We're called to do that. 00:34:39.920 --> 00:34:44.400 So here I am doing my best to hurry up and dip out because the lunch line is getting full. 00:34:44.480 --> 00:34:46.719 I'm not gonna get a seat at my restaurant that I'm trying to get out to it too. 00:34:46.800 --> 00:34:48.400 Did there's

Methodists who will be used to it? 00:34:48.800 --> 00:34:49.599 Become Methodist, yeah. 00:34:49.760 --> 00:34:50.960 Sorry, no shaded Methodist. 00:34:51.199 --> 00:34:52.960 You just you fill up all the restaurants. 00:34:53.199 --> 00:35:00.559 So I think they honestly probably live stream our services, the Baptist churches, and like, all right, they're out quick, cut it short, run, everybody run. 00:35:01.599 --> 00:35:03.599 Uh the pastor was short today. 00:35:03.840 --> 00:35:06.079 So uh but no, like right here. 00:35:06.239 --> 00:35:12.559 Um, for even the son of man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many. 00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:13.840 Mark 10, 45. 00:35:13.920 --> 00:35:15.920 That is Jesus on the disciples, right? 00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:20.480 God Himself, for even the Son of Man, did not come to be served, but to serve. 00:35:20.639 --> 00:35:20.880 Yeah. 00:35:21.039 --> 00:35:22.800 So here we are supposed to be reflecting him. 00:35:23.119 --> 00:35:27.840 That means we're stacking 1,000 chairs when asked. 00:35:28.159 --> 00:35:31.840 And you know, these teenage boys better, you know, step up their game when they're moving these chairs. 00:35:32.239 --> 00:35:35.679 If you're not carrying at least six chairs at a time, the ladies will not look your way. 00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:43.280 Yeah, through each arm, yeah, impress the ladies on three in a three in an arm, and then also I want you to put some between your chairs, like between your legs, and just waddle. 00:35:43.440 --> 00:35:43.599 Right? 00:35:43.760 --> 00:35:43.920 Yeah. 00:35:44.239 --> 00:35:46.960 You should be packing at least what eight chairs right there. 00:35:47.039 --> 00:35:47.760 Let's just go to town. 00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:48.320 All right, no. 00:35:48.400 --> 00:35:49.519 We've got to guard some hearts here. 00:35:49.840 --> 00:35:52.960 Too many chairs, cause it cause a sister to stumble. 00:35:54.159 --> 00:35:54.719 That's fine. 00:35:54.960 --> 00:35:55.840 Cause to stumble. 00:35:56.079 --> 00:35:56.239 True. 00:35:56.480 --> 00:35:57.679 That's literal stumble. 00:35:58.000 --> 00:35:58.960 Too prideful, too prideful. 00:35:59.119 --> 00:35:59.280 Yeah. 00:35:59.360 --> 00:36:06.079 No, I will say with the a servant's heart, it is uh it's one that I if we just look at it through the real application of it. 00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:10.880 We all know people who we can actually say, not just like the oh, you have a servant's heart. 00:36:11.760 --> 00:36:24.480 Someone who actually like you can see their heart is to serve people and not just for so they can get the the pat on the back, but to say, I you can see the Lord working through that person in how they serve. 00:36:24.639 --> 00:36:40.320 Yeah, it should push all of us to say, I may not, I'm gonna have days, I'm not may I'm gonna have days where I don't have a heart to serve, I don't want to serve, and my flesh is telling me every morning, like, you I do

not want to do this for this person, or I don't want to extend myself in this way. 00:36:40.400 --> 00:36:43.280 I'm already backed up with things I need to be doing. 00:36:43.519 --> 00:36:56.880 But when we interact with those people, and I'll I'll say this, I don't know he's listening, it's gonna sound bad because it's my father-in-law, but I uh he's one of the guys that I he's got one of the most real servants' hearts I've ever seen. 00:36:57.760 --> 00:37:02.079 It's almost like his love language is serving and doing and helping. 00:37:02.239 --> 00:37:06.400 And what makes me mad about it is all and I'm speaking to him right now. 00:37:06.480 --> 00:37:13.679 Yeah, um, he makes me so mad when he'll do something, and it's like obviously you can see the Lord working through him. 00:37:13.840 --> 00:37:17.360 He is like, it's it's the right heart in how he serves. 00:37:17.519 --> 00:37:26.639 And then you try to thank him, and he will not accept it because even in how he's doing it, he's like, it's not, I'm not doing it for the thanks, I'm not doing it for the pat on the back. 00:37:26.800 --> 00:37:27.760 It's literally him. 00:37:28.079 --> 00:37:32.159 And it for me in that situation, I'm like, man, just let me thank you. 00:37:32.320 --> 00:37:33.519 Just let me buy your meal. 00:37:33.840 --> 00:37:41.039 But again, that's just coming from the mindset of someone who actually is a servant's heart, is literally one that's like, don't tell me I got a servant's heart. 00:37:41.119 --> 00:37:43.440 I'm doing this because the Lord working through me. 00:37:43.519 --> 00:37:45.199 Not I don't need a pat on the back. 00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:46.320 I don't want to go around telling people. 00:37:46.639 --> 00:37:47.360 I don't want your ribbon. 00:37:47.679 --> 00:37:48.880 Uh you know, I don't need a little button. 00:37:48.960 --> 00:37:49.199 Thank you. 00:37:49.440 --> 00:37:50.559 It's not gonna be on my bio. 00:37:52.079 --> 00:37:53.119 Servant's heart. 00:37:54.159 --> 00:37:56.239 Blank blank, servant heart. 00:37:57.039 --> 00:37:58.320 Um that was the first one. 00:37:58.400 --> 00:37:59.920 I was like, oh, we're doing so good. 00:38:00.159 --> 00:38:06.079 Um the other one I have is uh place a hedge of protection around them. 00:38:06.320 --> 00:38:06.960 Oh man. 00:38:07.199 --> 00:38:08.639 The hedge of protection. 00:38:09.119 --> 00:38:13.360 If anyone has been at a church and has heard that bad boy go out, immediately there's gonna be a pause. 00:38:13.679 --> 00:38:16.000 Listen, I I can I'm a culprit. 00:38:16.239 --> 00:38:22.000 I've said it before in praying, and um every time I do say it, I kind of cringe, but wait, what did I say? 00:38:22.079 --> 00:38:22.639 Why did I say that? 00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:27.519 That's because you your first church you went to, you just stepped like all the way into Independent Baptist Church. 00:38:27.760 --> 00:38:28.159 Yeah, yeah. 00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:29.760 Full IFB here. 00:38:29.840 --> 00:38:30.400 Uh yeah. 00:38:30.639 --> 00:38:35.679 That's where uh that's where I got saved and uh spent many years in uh my wife as well. 00:38:36.159 --> 00:38:38.320 Between the life between the hedges, yes. 00:38:38.639 --> 00:38:39.440 Between the hedges. 00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:42.000 I grew up here and placed a hedge protection around them. 00:38:42.159 --> 00:38:44.239 The imagery that my child mind goes to. 00:38:44.559 --> 00:38:49.440 It's like I mean, I literally is like, there's an imaginary bush surrounding me right with it. 00:38:49.519 --> 00:38:50.719 It's 20 foot tall. 00:38:50.960 --> 00:38:55.920 I again we you brought up Tim Hawkins, and all my stuff's just gonna go to Tim Hawkins now. 00:38:56.159 --> 00:38:57.360 Tim Hawkins has a video. 00:38:57.440 --> 00:39:01.039 If you do not know who Tim Hawkins is, please check him out. 00:39:01.280 --> 00:39:02.960 Um all his videos. 00:39:03.119 --> 00:39:05.760 I mean, I don't I don't I don't know of anything current. 00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:09.679 A lot of his gold that I can think of is like 2005, 2006. 00:39:09.840 --> 00:39:10.320 Yeah, yeah. 00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:14.480 Um anyway, he's talking about he talks about a hedge of protection. 00:39:14.639 --> 00:39:24.960 And um I as in like looking into hedge of protection, it's only mentioned two times in the Bible, one of which was Satan himself had said it. 00:39:25.119 --> 00:39:27.760 He was talking to God about Job. 00:39:27.920 --> 00:39:31.599 This book of Job, talking about how you know God's bragging on Job. 00:39:31.679 --> 00:39:33.360 He's like, Oh man, check out Job. 00:39:33.519 --> 00:39:35.599 He's so good, he's my number one guy. 00:39:35.760 --> 00:39:36.960 And Satan talks about him. 00:39:37.119 --> 00:39:38.159 He goes, The goat. 00:39:38.320 --> 00:39:40.079 Uh, yeah, the goat. 00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:45.920 So he goes, Um, have you not put a hedge of protection around him and his household and everything that he has? 00:39:46.159 --> 00:39:47.519 Job 110, right? 00:39:47.679 --> 00:39:49.840 Apparently there's a shrub around Job. 00:39:49.920 --> 00:39:50.079 Yeah. 00:39:50.239 --> 00:39:53.039 And Tim Hawkins goes in and he's like, devil walks up. 00:39:53.199 --> 00:39:54.719 What is the shrubbery? 00:39:55.360 --> 00:39:58.000 Apparently Satan is proper gentleman. 00:39:58.159 --> 00:39:59.519 What be a the shrubbery? 00:40:00.159 --> 00:40:01.280 No, it's KJV, though. 00:40:01.440 --> 00:40:03.360 Yeah, yeah, you can't get away from it. 00:40:03.519 --> 00:40:04.559 Uh just imagine that. 00:40:04.639 --> 00:40:06.880 Like Satan creeping up on somebody's like, all right, I got him, I got him. 00:40:06.960 --> 00:40:09.519 All of a sudden, hedge tag coming. 00:40:10.159 --> 00:40:11.519 This bush of Kemlar. 00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:15.920 So uh yeah, hedge of protection around them. 00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:20.239 I I will say I am guilty every now and then of saying it in a prayer. 00:40:20.400 -->

00:40:25.920 But once I I came across this, and I was like, Oh, I've got to put that in because that's gotta be the most crazy statement. 00:40:26.159 --> 00:40:28.000 A hedge for protection. 00:40:28.559 --> 00:40:28.800 Yeah. 00:40:29.039 --> 00:40:35.840 I think I think one of the other things that we um I think we might have uh skipped over was uh saying amen during preaching. 00:40:36.480 --> 00:40:46.880 Um I I know uh with me growing up or as a young believer when I uh I first got saved and uh IFB independent but independent fundamental Baptist Church, right? 00:40:47.119 --> 00:40:55.679 If you're not saying amen or you know, you're hooping and hollering during the service, like preach preacher, you know, something like that, you know, you get looked at like, oh, you're cult. 00:40:55.760 --> 00:40:59.599 You get the God, you you know, like you you don't have you don't have that certain part of the world. 00:41:00.719 --> 00:41:00.960 Yeah, yeah. 00:41:01.360 --> 00:41:03.679 He must not be filled in the spirit, right? 00:41:04.239 --> 00:41:09.039 I will say like you know, hearing that, like, well uh I first got saved. 00:41:09.280 --> 00:41:21.039 Unless you know the the spirit is fully moving in worship or um the uh the the pastor's really you know uh hitting home with what he's preaching on, you will not see my my hand go up. 00:41:21.280 --> 00:41:24.880 You you you won't hear me say, hey man, you know, screaming and shouting it. 00:41:25.119 --> 00:41:36.320 Unfortunately, it's because of the the the stereotype of of what I grew up with as a new new uh uh Christian and um when I was back in 2017, so you will unfortunately not see me do that. 00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:41.360 Uh I know there's I know I got some uh comments on that uh uh at some youth events that we've been at. 00:41:41.440 --> 00:41:43.920 Like, hey, why is everybody they told us to raise our hands? 00:41:44.000 --> 00:41:45.840 I'm like, yeah, I'm not I'm not doing that. 00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:46.400 I'm sorry. 00:41:46.559 --> 00:41:48.559 Like, love you, but I I I'm worshiping. 00:41:48.639 --> 00:41:49.679 Like, don't don't mind me. 00:41:49.760 --> 00:41:51.039 I'm singing, I don't sing great. 00:41:51.119 --> 00:41:51.760 I'm singing. 00:41:51.840 --> 00:41:53.360 Yeah, you know, I'm singing for the Lord, right? 00:41:53.519 --> 00:41:57.119 And uh people people see that a lot and like what are you doing? 00:41:57.280 --> 00:42:08.880 Yeah, say it say an amen and like raising your hands like in worship is I think it's a perfect one of what we're talking about, is because responding in worship or like even in a in a message is like good. 00:42:09.119 --> 00:42:15.360 If the if the spirit is actually moving and speaking to you if we he like you respond, that's like biblical. 00:42:15.519 --> 00:42:31.039 Yeah, but what's the bad part about that is like again, all of us grew up in churches where we looked around, we didn't look we looked around and saw people raising

their hands and saying amen, but it was we were unable to see if it was real or if you were doing it because everybody else did it. 00:42:31.119 --> 00:42:31.199 Yep. 00:42:31.519 --> 00:42:36.159 And then it's not at that point, we're not responding, we are doing what everybody else is doing. 00:42:36.320 --> 00:42:36.559 Correct. 00:42:36.719 --> 00:42:48.719 And so when you're imagine the slap in the face to the Lord when the Holy Spirit is actually moving in a church and your response is for Brother Henry behind you that knows he's watching you to see. 00:42:49.039 --> 00:42:49.519 Brother Larry. 00:42:49.679 --> 00:42:53.840 Yeah, if you're raising your hands or saying amen, how much is God being like, you're missing the whole deal? 00:42:54.639 --> 00:42:58.079 If we have a brother Larry, if we have a brother Larry, I'm sorry, we didn't we didn't see you. 00:42:58.559 --> 00:42:59.760 Stop watching me and work. 00:43:01.920 --> 00:43:05.840 Shouting amen in a service, though, I've never I don't want to say I'm not on board. 00:43:06.079 --> 00:43:07.599 Like it's like I don't disagree with it. 00:43:07.679 --> 00:43:12.480 I've never felt moved to be like, amen, because my ADD, I'm barely tracking as it is, right? 00:43:12.559 --> 00:43:14.079 I'm struggling to write down the notes. 00:43:14.239 --> 00:43:17.280 I'm a good 10-second lag behind what that pastor just said. 00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:20.480 So by the time I say amen, it's probably gonna be somewhere really awkward. 00:43:20.719 --> 00:43:21.199 All right. 00:43:21.440 --> 00:43:34.960 But I will say that it's funny how Baptists are all passionate about shouting and amen during the service, but watching Baptists sing during worship is when you would think we're having a worship service during the funeral. 00:43:35.039 --> 00:43:35.360 Yep. 00:43:35.519 --> 00:43:35.840 Right? 00:43:36.079 --> 00:43:37.679 Granted, spirit's moving. 00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:38.960 These people are enjoying worship. 00:43:39.199 --> 00:43:42.159 We don't look that great, but you wouldn't know that they're enjoying that worship. 00:43:42.239 --> 00:43:44.480 Uh that's wonderful. 00:43:44.559 --> 00:43:45.679 I really enjoyed what you did. 00:43:45.920 --> 00:43:46.639 Okay, thank you. 00:43:46.880 --> 00:43:47.280 You didn't know. 00:43:47.679 --> 00:43:48.239 It didn't look like it. 00:43:48.559 --> 00:43:52.000 Yeah, well, I I've seen some crazy stuff, dude, in the IFP, dude. 00:43:52.079 --> 00:43:58.719 Um, people running on pews, like it felt like we were kind of hitting the Pentecostal side of things, and uh it was it getting nuts. 00:43:58.880 --> 00:43:59.840 Those in Pentecostals were there. 00:44:00.559 --> 00:44:03.199 Y'all get a little too wild for Badr's taste, but y'all y'all do. 00:44:03.440 --> 00:44:04.719 They've been hitting a tambourine. 00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:06.960 Listen, from a drummer standpoint. 00:44:07.199 --> 00:44:07.519 All right. 00:44:07.760 --> 00:44:10.639 Chasing a rabbit, and we're basically at the time. 00:44:10.800 --> 00:44:12.719 I will say we do have one lady. 00:44:12.880 --> 00:44:14.239 I love it when she visits. 00:44:14.400 --> 00:44:15.360 She comes every now and then. 00:44:15.440 --> 00:44:16.559 She is Pentecostal. 00:44:16.719 --> 00:44:18.320 She brings her own tambourine. 00:44:18.719 --> 00:44:19.599 She kills it though. 00:44:19.760 --> 00:44:20.639 I will say this. 00:44:20.800 --> 00:44:27.599 As a drummer and one of the drummers of our church, she's the only one that I want clapping or playing the tambourine while I'm playing. 00:44:28.320 --> 00:44:30.800 She's the only one with tempo, and she's a Pentecostal. 00:44:30.880 --> 00:44:31.679 Let her do her thing. 00:44:31.920 --> 00:44:33.760 All of y'all, yeah. 00:44:34.000 --> 00:44:35.280 Please stop clapping. 00:44:35.440 --> 00:44:36.239 Just let her go. 00:44:36.480 --> 00:44:39.199 I'm one of the ones who don't clap because I do you can ask my wife. 00:44:39.360 --> 00:44:40.480 I have no tempo. 00:44:41.119 --> 00:44:42.320 The natural rhythm is nothing. 00:44:42.960 --> 00:44:43.920 No rhythm. 00:44:45.199 --> 00:44:52.239 Our kids, uh, they they both play piano, and I'm so happy that my wife can teach them because she plays the piano as well. 00:44:52.480 --> 00:44:56.880 I can't, and she also sings um on stage and stuff like that as well. 00:44:57.039 --> 00:44:58.719 But I I can't do any of that. 00:44:58.880 --> 00:45:03.599 I I can't match pitch, can't match harmony, can't keep a beat to save my life. 00:45:03.840 --> 00:45:05.039 There's other other ways to serve. 00:45:05.199 --> 00:45:06.320 But serve is hard. 00:45:06.480 --> 00:45:08.000 Hey, I can I can haul some chairs. 00:45:08.239 --> 00:45:09.840 Hey, haul some chairs. 00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:10.639 That's what I can do. 00:45:10.800 --> 00:45:11.360 You already made it. 00:45:11.599 --> 00:45:12.320 You paint some walls. 00:45:12.639 --> 00:45:14.000 You picked up enough chairs. 00:45:15.599 --> 00:45:26.000 No, I will say this like as we're wrapping it up, it is the key to all of these things is most of all what we said, it's not bad terms or bad like anything. 00:45:26.159 --> 00:45:35.119 It's when these things cease to be real to us as Christians, and it's not it's not palpable to the outside world when they see it. 00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:37.119 They it doesn't feel real because it isn't real. 00:45:37.280 --> 00:45:37.760 It's lost. 00:45:37.920 --> 00:45:51.760 We've lost our first love in how we respond and how we describe what God's done and how we everything that's we've talked about here is when it's when it stopped being real, it becomes a problem not just for our own relationship with the world. 00:45:51.920 --> 00:45:53.119 It starts to become a show. 00:45:53.280 --> 00:45:53.440 Yes. 00:45:53.679 --> 00:45:56.400 Of like, oh, I'm gonna show this person that how holy I am. 00:45:56.559 --> 00:45:56.719 Yeah. 00:45:56.880 --> 00:45:59.199 We yeah,

we we you hit it on the head, yeah. 00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:00.559 That was really good. 00:46:00.800 --> 00:46:04.480 Yeah, it just it loses the savor that it's supposed to have when it stops. 00:46:05.039 --> 00:46:09.519 Christians, everybody, please make sure that you pay attention when you use these words. 00:46:09.679 --> 00:46:18.079 People don't know these words, and then also that's why I'm so happy that we have the pastor that we have, because he is this so smart. 00:46:18.400 --> 00:46:22.800 But when he preaches, when he uses those big words, he'll break down them big words. 00:46:23.039 --> 00:46:29.280 Because I have no idea, I had no idea what exegetical meant until that bad boy brought it here and then broke it down. 00:46:29.679 --> 00:46:34.639 Um, so if you're using those words, don't let it separate people as a holy or thou. 00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:38.800 Don't use it as something that's just nonchalant when it's super important. 00:46:38.960 --> 00:46:42.239 And if it's super important, then we should make sure that people understand that. 00:46:42.559 --> 00:46:45.039 So thank y'all so much for listening to another episode. 00:46:45.280 --> 00:46:45.760 Thank you guys. 00:46:46.320 --> 00:46:47.599 Uh y'all love you. 00:46:47.840 --> 00:46:48.960 I can't wait for the next one. 00:46:49.280 --> 00:46:49.679 Yes. 00:46:50.159 --> 00:46:54.000 Anyway, hey, like, comment, subscribe, tell your friends about this show. 00:46:54.320 --> 00:46:58.079 If not, our children they're gonna go hungry, just like last time. 00:46:58.159 --> 00:46:59.519 Again, the same mandate. 00:46:59.599 --> 00:47:01.360 Yeah, our children need to live and eat. 00:47:01.440 --> 00:47:02.880 So get on it. 00:47:03.199 --> 00:47:03.519 Yeah. 00:47:03.760 --> 00:47:04.800 All right, y'all. 00:47:05.119 --> 00:47:08.159 Thank you for listening to this week's episode of Reverently Ridiculous. 00:47:08.320 --> 00:47:10.239 Please leave us a like, subscribe. 00:47:13.360 --> 00:47:15.760 Thank you for listening to Reverently Ridiculous. 00:47:15.920 --> 00:47:19.679 Thank you for thank you for listening to Reverently Ridiculous. 00:47:19.760 --> 00:47:22.480 Please leave us a like, subscribe, review, a comment. 00:47:22.800 --> 00:47:23.679 It really helps. 00:47:24.960 --> 00:47:27.199 Thank you for listening to Reverently Ridiculous. 00:47:27.280 --> 00:47:29.760 Please leave us a like, subscribe, review. 00:47:29.920 --> 00:47:30.960 It will really help. 00:47:31.119 --> 00:47:32.880 Keep us up keep us afloat. 00:47:33.679 --> 00:47:34.320 You know what? 00:47:34.480 --> 00:47:35.440 Just run it. 00:47:42.239 --> 00:47:45.440 Thank you for listening to this episode of Reverently Ridiculous. 00:47:45.599 --> 00:47:50.320 Please give us a rating or leave a comment to help us know how this show has impacted you. 00:47:50.559 --> 00:47:56.800 Also, don't forget to subscribe to the channel so you don't miss out on our future episodes released bi weekly. 00:47:57.039 --> 00:47:59.280 This is Reverently Ridiculous.