Matt Slick Bible Study Parables, #2

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Let's pray Lord jesus.

Thank you for your word and that you've given us lord.

We ask that you'd bless us As we study it.

I ask jesus that you would open up our minds open up our hearts to truth of your word as we look more

into parables that you would Just be with us.

I ask lord that you bring listeners viewers.

Who you ordain would hear and see and that they might be edified in your presence lord.

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All right now I'm going to ask you guys which ones you want to go to first we can do.

I got lots of notes the fig tree.

We can do the friend at midnight and the great banquet.

Fig tree fig tree.

That's a kind of figured it would be the fig tree.

And I don't know why because i'm a prophet.

No, it's because I think that's what it would be good.

So if you go to luke 13 Now these are lucan parables.

So luke was a very good historian as I said before Luke wrote most of the new testament.

Because the number of words written by one person that's luke.

He wrote the book of acts.

He wrote the book of luke.

Paul wrote more epistles, but luke more wrote more, uh words.

So what i'm going to do is just go through uh, verses one through nine one at a time instead of reading it

I'll just go through one verse at a time.

This is the parable of the fig tree, but there's a context Of this because the fig tree

parable comes out after jesus, uh.

Talks about some other stuff now verse one.

Now on the same occasion there were some present who reported to him about the galileans whose blood

Pilot had mingled with their sacrifices.

All right now.

So luke is writing this and he's mentioning this atrocious thing.

This is really Something we can't fathom in our culture and understanding to

mingle the blood.

Uh pilot is a pagan who had killed people and forced their blood to

be mingled with the sacrifices to god.

Uh, it's it's horrible one of the ways we might be able to relate to it would be to say we're in a church service

and uh, A gunman or comes in and just starts shooting people and it just there's blood everywhere.

There's mayhem children are killed.

You know, it's just reprehensible.

It's just evil that kind of of uh of idea.

And so, uh, so This is brought up and

You gotta understand the context because The jews were under the

oppression And dominance of the roman empire.

They did not like it now.

They were a united group the jews were for the most part.

But they did not want roman roman rule.

Now.

There's a theory that judas is scary at judas that he wanted

He was a zealot, which was a political milit semi -military quasi -military group.

And that he they wanted The messiah to free israel from the oppression of rome.

And so one of the theories incidentally is that the reason judas um

Turned jesus in was to force his hand And then deliver israel now.

We don't know if that's true, but it's just it's a it fits within Broad cultural things.

We don't know what he was really thinking but uh that kind of a thing.

So verse two and he answered and said to them.

Do you suppose that these galileans?

Were greater sinners than all other galileans because they suffered this fate.

So instead of jesus saying well, you're right.

That was really horrible.

I sympathize with you he says well, do you think they were greater sinners than the other.

Well, that's not what is the response is expected from christ because jesus is the blonde -haired blue

-eyed caucasian surfer guy.

And he's standing at the door of your heart and knocking and he's asking permission and he's you know.

It's about you and your comfort.

And so yeah, of course, it's so bad.

Oh, I feel empathy with you.

No, you think there were greater sinners than these guys?

That's not the the answer we would expect.

Uh, he says I tell you no.

Unless you repent you will always you will likewise perish.

That is not the kind of thing you would expect joel ostein to say.

Okay.

Now, I don't know uh, uly if you know who joel ostein is.

Yeah, he's bad.

Okay, he's horrible and so This is something joel ostein would never say yeah, you will likewise

perish if you don't repent.

Joel ostein wouldn't say that he'd say well, you know Jesus loves you so much and you just have to you know,

and the great I am and get my book on the I am so, um He doesn't comment on the

atrocity and it was an atrocity.

It really was and it was horrible yet He does not my god.

It's in my nose.

He does not address the atrocity.

He uses it and says look.

Because jesus is constantly the teacher.

So instead of sympathizing instead of offering therapeutic Theological advice

the seven steps to a better non -galilean massacre.

What he does is uses it.

And so He says do you think you're going to suffer the likewise fate now he brings up the

issue of sin we've got to make sure we understand that there's not a one -to -one correspondence here between Their

sin and the sin of those who were sacrificed earlier whose blood was shed a lot of times people think.

And this is a tough one to grow to go through.

It's a tough one.

About one -to -one correspondence of sin.

It's actually something I struggle with.

And the reason is because in two days.

It'll be 45 years.

Since I was involved in an accident a very bad car accident and if you get close to me You can see scars

and stuff like this june 19th 1976.

It took me two years to recover fully recover now the reason I bring it up is because

um about a year earlier, I was involved in a car race.

And I and it was a bad accident as a result of it and I left the scene.

And i've since dealt with that before god before people and things like that.

But when I was in the hospital, I got out of icu and I was in the hospital for a few days.

A pastor from the church.

I was attending came in and one of the few clear moments.

I had a severe brain concussion severe and um and

I said now we're even.

You know one for one and he says not how god works, but you know when you have guilt.

Sometimes you carry things with you and you say well I deserve this punishment.

And I've got other things that I think as I suspect are well you did this and you did that now david

king david he committed adultery.

Had uriah killed bathsheba's husband and then he lost his son and he had penalty.

Now there was a correspondence.

But jesus isn't addressing that and so the jews are going to be thinking this kind of a thing because they're

legalistic.

It's our natural tendency.

Now I believe that god will deal with us uh in certain ways to teach us.

And to help us not be rebellious and stuff like that.

We can get into more discussion some other time.

But anyway I remember john 9, uh John 9 is you

know, the man who's born blind the disciples asked rabbi who sinned this man or his parents that he should be born blind.

So they had this idea that that the consequences that were negative that were bad to you were the result of

your sin.

Now what movement do we have within christianity that teaches the same thing?

Prosperity the word of faith stuff.

Yeah, you're not healed because you don't have enough faith you sin.

That's why you're blind you sinned.

That's why you're deaf you're sinned.

That's why you have ringing in your ears you sin.

That's why my wife had to have open -heart surgery, you know, and this is false teaching.

But we have to learn to separate our feelings of guilt From the actuality of

our consequences because we sometimes think Legalistically that it's a one -to -one correspondence,

but god I don't believe god works that way.

I believe that he Very carefully allows things to occur to us to teach us and that if

all of our past is given to him That he will use that as well to teach us.

And because god is very merciful and very kind and so we could say that sin is forgiven.

But the effects of sin continue, but I don't believe there's a one -to -one correspondence necessarily.

First four or do you suppose that those 18 now jesus brings up another bad thing?

Those 18 on whom the tower of siloam fell and killed them were worse

culprits Than all the men who lived in jerusalem now the word culprit really is the word From I think it's a root

of philemon debtors.

And so They had a problem now sin is a legal debt because first john 3 4 Sin is

you know, sin is breaking the law of god.

Well Jesus says, you know our father who art in heaven.

Hallowed be thy name and in matthew 6 12 He says forgive us our debts in the parallel in

luke 11 4.

He says forgive us our sins.

So jesus equates sin with legal debt because sin is breaking the law of god.

And so you think they were the Uh worse culprits worse debtors Than others now a

a transgression of the law Is a purposeful usually a purposeful transgression,

but sin isn't always uh, purposeful.

We can sin accidentally but transgressions generally were understood to be those things.

I know this i'm going to go do this.

You go transgress that law Generally, but not always the case now so.

Because the transgression is the the breaking the law, okay now.

Okay so, uh Verse five I tell you but no unless you repent you will always

you will all likewise perish now.

Wait a minute.

Jesus wouldn't hurt anybody.

He would not uh, Say anything negative to anybody.

He's always very Comforting he's always there standing at the door of your heart asking for permission to get

to let Him in because it's up to your wisdom because he's so nice.

And kind and yet jesus saying and you're going to perish likewise if you don't repent he is very stern.

He's telling them the truth.

Now, who's he speaking to he's speaking to the religious people.

These are now it's not wrong to be religious.

But it's wrong to be religious to the point where it becomes your norm.

It becomes a thing that Governs you that you judge others by.

Now there's a weakness within some christian circles and In a lot of christian circles, but in the issue of you

can lose your salvation.

So what do you do to keep it?

You do certain things to keep your salvation and in some groups that has led to arrogance.

Well, I do these things.

I keep myself right with god, but you you believe you don't lose your salvation.

So you can sin all you want you're not going to heaven just like like patrick today.

You know the I think he's sda the investigative judgment because he's talking about that.

And so jesus he's not.

What a lot of people Want him to be.

I think you think about this in mormonism.

Jesus is ab is taken and adapted.

It's too cold for you.

Okay, okay.

You guys cold?

Okay, if it gets too cold, let me know because I got this fan on me.

Now I forgot what I was gonna say.

Dang it.

It's okay.

Mormons will take jesus.

I was just testing you.

Uh mormons will take jesus and turn him into what they want him to be.

The jehovah's witnesses will take jesus turn him into what they want him to be.

The muslims will do that and the secular world because jesus

Was he would never be what what the christians say he was.

And I have an article that i've written on karm.

Would jesus ever say anything mean to anybody?

Yes, he would you whitewash the sepulchers.

You're your father the devil you brood of vipers.

You know.

No, no, no, jesus is nice he wouldn't do that.

All right.

Now now comes the parable, but before we get into the parable i'm going to read out of leviticus

19 23 to 25 because this is the background of that parable.

And when you enter the land and plant all kinds of trees for food then you shall count

their fruit as forbidden.

Three years it shall be forbidden to you.

It shall not be eaten.

But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy an offering of praise to the lord.

And in the fifth year you are to eat of its fruit and its yield may increase for you that is okay.

So this is the background of this fig tree thing.

So they were told in leviticus 19 23 to 25 That they would plant a tree and they

could not do anything with it for three years couldn't eat of it.

The fruit that was there three years don't do it.

And the next year the fourth year that fruit was for god.

And the fifth year you could eat the fruit.

The fifth year is when you could start eating the fruit.

So it took a while now.

Leviticus, uh, I mean, uh, luke 13 6 and he began telling this parable a certain man had a

fig tree.

Which he had planted in his vineyard and he came out looking for fruit on it and did not find any.

Now, wait a minute.

So he's looking for fruit.

Why is he looking for fruit.

Doesn't say exactly didn't find any fruit, right.

So the next verse gives us a clue of something and he said to the vine keep vineyard keeper behold for three years

I've come looking for fruit for this fig tree without finding any.

So that means it's about the fifth year.

This plant is five years old because three years is holy the fourth year to the lord.

Now the fifth year you can start looking for fruit.

But for three years now, that means the tree is now five six for the fifth year.

So it'd be the um fifth six and seven the tree is at least seven years old.

Seven years old.

Three years plus other numbers.

Seven years old.

Seven's a perfect number in the bible.

And he says there's no fruit.

Didn't find any all right.

So the the owner has a right to expect a fruit from the vineyard.

So what does the fruit?

Represent.

What does the tree represent?

Class.

Anybody take a guess.

What?

Believers.

You're close.

Most probably it represents israel.

Okay, israel is also called Uh the vine of god god's vine

now um.

And jesus says bring forth fruits in keeping with repentance.

Uh I I.

Years and years ago.

I came across a tract a little witnessing track.

I said no fruit cut it down.

You know that got me right away gonna read this one hope I have enough fruit don't get cut down.

And if we go to john 14 Jesus says if you don't abide in him and if you don't bear any fruit, you're you're prone

you're taken out.

So what he's talking about is alluding to the the stuff of leviticus.

That 19 23 to 25 you're obligated as a people particularly the people of

israel to bear fruit.

What is that fruit?

What were they called to do?

They were called by god to be a light to the world.

Because through them the messiah would come but the and jesus was sent only to israel, but the jews

Biblically should have known that through Uh, the messiah all nations shall be blessed

because that's galatians.

I mean, excuse me genesis 12 3.

So they're supposed to already know that.

That even the gentiles are going to be included but they became so legalistic That they became

entrenched in their own ability to keep their own law.

They became self -righteous and judgmental.

And this is a problem back.

I just thought about what if the jews thought they could lose their salvation probably because they were legalists.

I'm going to use that sometime.

Okay.

Um.

So what are some of the fruit that we're supposed to bear as christians?

Just matt to himself because no one's really listening.

I just all this keep talking because I mean, yeah.

So what are some of the fruit we're supposed to bear?

What repentance.

Evangelism evangelism the fruit of the spirit the fruit of the spirit

galatians 5 22 23.

Love joy, peace patience kindness to one fruit in greek.

What else presenting the gospel honesty integrity

faithfulness long suffering.

Love for one another loving god all the good things.

It's it's the fruit.

We're supposed to be bearing these things in our lives as christians now.

We don't do them perfectly.

That's for sure.

I certainly don't.

My wife would be sitting right there going.

Amen to that but and so The

He said to the vineyard keeper behold for three years i've come looking for fruit on this fig tree without finding any

cut it down.

Why does he even use up the ground?

So this thing is seven years old not bearing fruit.

Destroy it.

This is representative of israel.

And uh.

Said to the the vineyard keeper said Let it alone sir for this year too until I dig around it

and put in fertilizer.

And if it bears fruit next year fine, but if not Cut it down.

So there's a little bit of mercy given.

Okay, let's let's see that we'll take care of this this tree.

Now the idea of the parables we'll get to this explain this a little bit more.

This is not a super theologically deep one, but it's good israel is the one who's supposed to be

The bringer of the light of the truth of god's word not only to the jews but to others

as well.

And in the psalms aren't no exact verses it talks about the light to the of the world it talks about going forth.

They're not doing their job.

And this is a time bomb and I think about this parable.

You've heard this you're you're a jew.

You're a pharisee a sadducee you're just kind of legalistic a lawyer a scribe, whatever it is, and you're.

You're at home afterwards talking about it and after a while you go wait a minute.

He just insulted us.

It'd take a while to figure it out.

Maybe.

Because that fig tree is us.

He's saying we're not bearing the fruit.

Who is he?

To say such a thing.

Who is this?

Teacher to speak in such a way that he's judging israel the people of god.

You see how important this is.

He's speaking these things and he upsets people.

He upsets people a lot.

Now it's not that he's upsetting them on purpose, but he's upsetting them because the truth is what offends.

The truth is what offends.

This is something I struggle with on the radio sometimes.

Because I want to say the truth.

But I know that that in fact, you know, i'm reformed in my theology, you know, and people will say can you lose

your salvation?

I'll say no you can't look what jesus says right here, you know.

And when we started the radio on this network.

Four years ago or whatever it was.

We actually had a conversation where uh, the owner of the network told me says Uh, we know you're a calvinist.

He said i'm that too, but we don't really want to talk about that on the radio.

And I I said to him.

Well, I said I understand that I don't.

I don't need to bring it up unnecessarily.

But it's going to come up.

Because people know who I am they know what I say.

They're going to call me up and they're going to ask me and i'm going to tell them the truth.

He says well, you got to do what you got to do, you know, he's a very good guy.

And so now i'm known as the calvinist radio guy.

I'm not trying to be known.

But why is that an important thing?

Because christians seek division.

When they don't like something that they think god is supposed to be and when they find out he's not they get

upset.

And so i've had many people over the years tell me that the things that i've taught them have upset them a great deal

but i've also had people tell me the same people come back and say.

But I went and looked at the scriptures and what you taught was right there in scripture.

That's why I quote the references, you know go to romans 5 19 for original sin in the aorist.

Um, The aorist passive indicative and what it means when you cross -reference it with philippians 129

go here and check this out, you know and uh.

That's what I want people to do.

Check it out.

All right now.

The spiritual leaders of the household of the faith are planted in god's vineyard and are expected to produce fruit.

People produce fruit.

Now we as christians are supposed to be producing fruit.

Now there's different kinds of fruit that we can produce.

We can write books.

We can be on radio.

We can Witness to our neighbor next door and by mowing his lawn or her lawn.

We can go to the store and wear a shirt we can Uh support missionaries.

It doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter.

You don't compare yourself to others.

You you judge yourself by what god has for you in the position in the place you are so that

you can use your gifts for god and so Rachel here's uh

does sign language.

So we're going to try and implement sign language into the videos that i'll be doing.

We're going to work that out on how it's going to work out.

We're going to try that as another means to reach out and uh be blessed by uh to bless

people with skills.

But I don't speak.

I don't sign language and you know who else here does so that's a good thing.

She has so she's going to do that, but we're not responsible to do that.

Just like she's not responsible to be on the radio and not responsible to go to your job.

And and be a good witness at your job.

We have different callings for different reasons at different times.

But we are to bear fruit and we don't judge One another by each other

we judge one another each other by what jesus.

The standard of christ.

He's our standard not ourselves.

Not each other.

All right so uh.

Another lesson out of this parable is that god will not Deal or he'll he'll be patient with

you if you don't bear fruit but not always.

He'll deal with you.

He'll deal with you if you don't bear fruit.

That's why I remember once I said this to a guy I was working at a corporation in southern california.

And they knew I was a christian everybody always knows i'm a christian they find out because I don't Lie, I don't cheat.

I don't do bad bad jokes, you know, and they find out.

And so then they come to me and start asking me questions blah blah blah.

Okay, this one guy I still remember this he came to me and we got talking about christianity and

uh.

And I said it before I really kind of thought about it.

And uh, he said he was a christian and I said you are.

I said I couldn't tell and I realized what I just said and he went.

It's it shook him up because I couldn't tell that he was a christian at work.

Now that's not to say that you have to have you know, i'm a christian t -shirt or whatever.

But there should be something that distinguishes you from the unbelievers to some degree.

And if there's not.

That's not a good a good sign, but not always because sometimes in certain contexts.

It just doesn't come up and that's we understand that we're just talking about there's got to be fruit someplace sometime.

But not all people can produce fruit either.

People can die on their deathbed not really have any fruit.

You can also have bondage to various sinful habits and

I know i've known people who uh were were older who uh raised

during a depression.

And it left mark on them and had to go through world war ii and rationing.

And had some very tough things happen and became christians and yet some of those

scars are with them.

And they don't there's not that victory.

Does that mean they're not christian?

That doesn't mean they're not a christian.

So when we talk about fruit, we've got to be careful that we don't judge a person by their fruit.

But we're supposed to say normatively speaking, yeah, they have fruit they're supposed to manifest it somehow somewhere

and uh so, uh god Won't deal with this.

I mean he won't be patient with us forever if we don't have any fruit.

But he is patient nonetheless and the vineyard keeper

Interceded and said let's take a little bit longer.

It's okay.

Okay.

So intercession is something we can learn from here as well.

It does make a difference we can intercede and I believe that god should

Destroy america.

Because america has produced pornography is produced and promoted homosexuality

and abortion and secularism.

And transvestite is we got stupid shows on tv, you know pride month

it just.

Okay.

So why is god not destroying america because the christians are there saying lord?

Deliver us.

And god is patient.

And as israel was allowed to be destroyed in 70 a .d God's patience ran out.

I too believe that his patience will run out with america now some will say well.

It's going to happen after the rapture the pre -trib rapture.

We could talk about that that's just not going to happen.

I don't believe in that at all.

And so, uh, we're going to go through persecution.

Maybe I can present some information to you.

I've been studying for a while and and I really make you depressed.

All right.

Now, how about this one?

Let's do the great banquet next.

All right.

Luke 14.

And then we're going to get to a friend at midnight, which is going to be interesting.

These are not some of the most studied, uh.

Parables i'm gonna turn that air co it's getting a little cool in here now, isn't it?

Okay, so Put this here and then i'll go over here, excuse me.

Okay.

Now we go to luke 14 the great banquet.

And the old testament bank background is in isaiah 25 6 through 9.

A lot of times the parables have references to the old testament and allude to it.

And this is what it says there Isaiah 25 6 through 9 and the lord of hosts will

prepare a lavish banquet for all people on his mountain.

A banquet of aged wine choice pieces with marrow and refined aged wine and on this

mountain.

He will swallow up the covering which is over all peoples even the veil which is stretched over

all nations.

He will swallow up death for all time and the lord god will wipe tears away from all

faces.

Oh, I just thought of something else.

Okay, sorry.

And he will remove the reproach of his people from all the earth for the lord has spoken.

And it will be said in that day behold.

This is our god for whom we have waited.

That he might save us.

This is the lord for whom we have waited.

Let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation.

Now notice what it says.

He'll prepare a lavish banquet for all peoples on this mountain a banquet of aged wine

because aged wine is really good back then.

Choice pieces of marrow bone marrow.

That's that's the good part and refined aged wine.

So the wine is really good now what people sometimes people say jesus did not make wine real wine

alcoholic wine.

On in john chapter 2, but yes, he did.

Yes, he did.

And that's another topic we can go to that sometime now, let's go to luke 14 verse 15 and let's start.

And when one of those who were reclining at the table with him heard this he said to them blessed is everyone who shall eat bread

in the kingdom of god.

So that's another way to say eat a meal.

I remember we talked about I think last week when you when they ate in that culture, they didn't do it

like we do with the table and chairs and.

And silverware stuff like that, but they were on their left arm.

And their feet were away from the table.

They took a piece of bread tore it put it into.

The sop.

I made a sop, uh the the stew kind of a thing and they would use it as a fork.

They would use it as a spoon and put stuff into it and eat it.

We kind of do that to make a sandwich, you know.

Uh, we just kind of combine bread and and stuff, but we just do it a little bit differently.

Okay.

So, uh verse 16 he said to them a certain man was giving a big dinner and he invited many.

Now let's we got to remember the culture here so.

When you would give a big dinner you would invite people, right?

So if I want to have a dinner here at the house and i'm going to Say i'm going

to go out and buy two chickens two rotisserie chickens and order a large pizza.

Am I going to be feeding 200 people?

No, I might be feeding Five to ten depending on who how they are.

Okay, how big they are that's just you know, girls eat more whatever, you know guys don't or whatever.

Okay, so he was giving a big dinner and he invited many people so he's planning this.

Okay, he's planning this.

And a meal was prepared in advance according to the number of people.

That's how it would be.

This was we couldn't just go down like five extra people showed up which our house if that happened.

Okay, great.

No problem.

Come on in.

We'll just drive down and get another chicken.

And we'll you know, no sweat give us you know, 20 minutes.

I don't care.

But we couldn't do that back then.

All right now a chicken for example.

Would be for two to four guests, right?

A duck, maybe five to eight a lamb, maybe 10 to 15, you know sheet maybe 15 to 35 and

a calf 35 to 75 people depending but you get the idea different animals would be for

different, uh, you know things.

So the amount and type of meat would depend on the number of people who accepted the invitation.

If I invite 10 people and four say they're going to show up.

We're going to prepare for four people and my wife and I you know, that'd be six people total.

That's what we all do right.

Rsvp, you know respond jibu play right.

Okay now.

That means that people who are Have been invited are going to say yes, i'll be there

that's why you're preparing it because It says is giving a big dinner and he invited many people.

And at the dinner hour, he sent his slave to say to those who had been invited come for everything is ready

now.

So there's people who've been invited.

And the culture remember this is important the number of people had to be known.

And the amount of food had to be prepared in advance and the wine had to be prepared in

advance.

Because you didn't just have a refrigerator I'll get another bottle of wine go down to the store get another bottle of wine.

Wine took some time to prepare the food took some time to prepare.

This is a big deal.

This is a big deal.

So if you say you're coming and you don't come there's got to be a good reason.

You know.

Why didn't you come my wife broke her arm?

I had to tender.

All right good enough.

Okay.

Well, why didn't you come?

Well you an alien abducted me.

I was on venus for a couple of days.

All right that that works, too.

So if you've got a good reason why you couldn't make it what you think that doesn't happen.

It happened to me last week.

It was rough.

It was bad the air pressure there anyway so

He says come everything's ready come on in right now, this is what's interesting.

But they all oh and the greek word is a participial form keep coming.

Okay, tell them to come in because it's like you've already been invited.

It's the whole process of going there the whole process they're preparing to oh.

Another thing is they had to prepare to travel now if we're gonna.

You know, like you guys drove in the car, you know to get here if we're gonna have a dinner sometime.

You gotta get in the car.

You gotta travel right?

Even if you're next door you gotta travel but not everybody lived next door.

Sometimes, you know, you'd marry this family over there this family over there.

So it took time.

So this is a big deal.

Okay, it's a big deal.

And they all alike began to make excuses.

What?

But everybody's are making excuses what you've already accepted.

We've already made plans.

You're supposed to have already known about this.

The first one said to him I bought a piece of land that I need to go out and take a look at it.

Please consider me excused.

Well, uh, oh, okay, so I just bought some land and now I gotta go look at it.

How many of you buy land without first looking at it?

Yeah.

Right, I just bought a house.

I haven't seen it.

I don't know what it looks like.

I gotta go check it out.

Excuse me.

You know, that was a lame excuse right.

It's lame and we how many if you had done this.

And uh, and you know, you invite someone they go.

Well, I just bought a house.

And I haven't seen it yet.

I can't make the big dinner plan.

We've had for two months.

I'll see you later.

I'm not inviting him again or her again.

This is bad news.

That's lame excuse lame right.

All right so When you buy a field in the middle east.

You have to know what kind of rocks are on it if there's water on it if there's a wadi a

wadi is a temporary.

Water supply like a stream a stream is constant a river is constant, but a wadi

is.

During this season there's water in it the next season, you know, like say in the spring there's there's water but in the fall

There's no water.

It's called a wadi w -a -d -i.

All right, and so there'll be a temporary source of water.

That's what wadi is.

I learned that in seminary.

Okay.

And uh.

So you have to to look at all the quality and everything about it before you even begin to discuss the price to purchase it.

This takes a while to do this.

And you know, we have a realtor here how many it might happen in this market here?

How many realtor.

I mean people say I don't care what it looks like just buy it.

Is it happening?

Not like that, okay good I'm trying to make my my point make it a stand.

Otherwise i'd be in trouble.

It wouldn't look good bad illustration.

All right.

Another one verse 19.

Another one said I bought five yoke of oxen and i'm going to try them out.

Please consider me excused.

You can see this is another lame excuse.

I mean come on you try a team of oxen you try a team of horses.

You want there for plowing the field?

Uh, I bought them, but I don't know what they look like.

I don't know how big they are.

I don't know if they have any broken bone.

I don't know if they're healthy.

I don't know how well they work together as a team because believe it or not I've learned this over the years and i'm not a farmer.

I don't know this stuff.

I'm a computer tech wacko, dude.

But i've learned that the yoke you put them on on oxen if some oxen were good and they would work

together and some did not because you might get on there and go like this and It won't be gonna stay over here.

So you don't buy oxen.

Without checking them out first and there's a way to do it.

If there was a team that was being sold it was public they were publicly Portrayed as being uh

sold and they were taken to a field where they could be demonstrated they could do this.

When I go buy a car, we bought a car for my wife.

We test drove it before we bought it.

Okay so uh.

It's like, you know, I could say this.

Uh.

Hey, honey, uh, you know, I know you've been planning this dinner with all the neighborhood friends all the friends from your childhood.

And everything and and we've been known about it for weeks.

But uh, I I just bought another computer.

I gotta go check it out.

Bye uh I'd be sleeping out in the backyard in the shed out there for a couple of

days.

And then get something thrown at me afterwards.

Pan or something and I deserve it.

But I could see that'd be worth it for a computer.

I could I could see that but anyway, that's just me.

You know, I don't know about you guys.

Particularly if it's got ddr4 i'm at 32 gigs, uh of ddr4 ram for the video thing you got for

I could see that verse 20 and another one said I have married a wife and for this reason I cannot come

uh okay so.

Uh when you married someone there was a celebration and it was planned out and they wouldn't say

yes I'll accept the dinner invitation.

Oh, by the way, i'm getting married the same day, but i've accepted your Another lame excuse right?

So like you want me to perform your wedding ceremony on on the third, right?

Okay.

So what if I were to come to you a week beforehand and say oh I have to go fishing with some people.

I can't make it.

You know, she she'd like.

Right where you live, right?

She'd be like, uh -huh.

She would get with my wife and say when he comes in the door you throw this at him.

And uh, i'm gonna hit him with the pan, you know.

So, you know, it's just like that right?

You don't do that kind of it.

These are lame excuses.

Lame excuses.

They're not they're no good.

So, all right, I can't come.

I got a wife what you know, maybe it was a shotgun wedding uh.

Another topic and the slave came back and reported this to his master.

Then he the head of the household became angry.

Said to the slave go out into the streets and the lanes of the city and bring here the poor the crippled the blind and the lame.

The city is the community that they're in.

So the people who are specifically invited lame excuse.

They're not interested in the real truth the fellowship with the banquet giver.

This is the lord god represented here.

The people are the jews.

They're not doing what's right the religious leaders.

They're not doing what's right covenantally.

They're not doing what they got to do.

And so okay.

Then if these pharisees the sadducees the scribes all these guys and girls who know all

the truth and they're uppity about it.

Well, they don't do it.

We're going to go out to the average joe Jew, we go to the average jew and just invite

them the crippled ones the lame the ones who are not Ceremonially clean who

weren't really accepted into the jewish fold in the official level.

We'll take care of them now, this is an insult to them.

Because they're breaking One of the commands of god leviticus 1918.

God says love your neighbor as yourself.

They're not doing it.

They're not being loving they're not being giving they're being self -righteous.

Now this is a very difficult thing for for me to deal with.

And uh, and maybe others as well.

But I don't like to love people that I don't want to love.

I don't like, uh to love everybody because they're not as nice as me.

Uh as good looking and as humble as me.

They are not they don't dress as well.

They dress better than me.

That makes me jealous and so People bother me and I don't want to have to love them

because they're not like me and um.

We judge people by our own selves on our own standards sometimes but you can say i've lowered my standard with at least a couple Of guys here.

But that's okay.

And so god tells us To love people and he's telling the jews to love your neighbors

yourself.

And how many are doing that?

It's it's easy to sit And talk and teach it's easy.

It's not so easy to do it.

It's easier to say what needs to be done than do it.

So i've been teaching for a great Many years, but i've done nine years of prison ministry.

Okay, and did another year out here.

And used to go to the beach in southern california not bragging.

You should do things go door to door do a swap meet ministry trying to reach out and

uh the idea Is um Is to go out there.

And to love your neighbor.

Some way somehow now sometimes that might mean that a wife for example his wives as an example staying

home taking care of their children.

They can't go out.

And do some of the other things that other people might be able to do.

That's okay because they're raising children for the glory of god.

It's a very important very valid Ministry as I said before different fruit different ways

different times but um.

The pharisees the religious leaders were not loving their neighbors like they're supposed to.

See love was sacrificed to legalism.

Legalism deals with the hand.

But love deals with the heart.

And god wants us to love so then If we're loving god and loving our neighbor, we will

accidentally fulfill the entire law.

So if i'm loving all of you, i'm never going to lie to you.

Okay, i'm never going to um deceive you.

I might make mistakes with you and mess up.

Okay.

But i'm not going to do anything intentionally to injure to harm to do anything like that because I can't if i'm

going to love you right.

All right.

And the slave verse 22 the slave said master what you have commanded has been done and still there's

room.

See there have been people who've been saved.

But there's room for more.

Master said go out into the highways along the hedges and compel them to come in that my house.

Month might be fulfilled or filled.

Wait a minute now.

It's not the local now.

It's not your local neighbors with the jews would understood we their fellow jews.

Now go out to the highways that means different places different nations different groups go out there you

take them in.

Now imagine that a pharisee sad to see religious leader.

Thinking about this parable.

You know, we've got to stop this jesus guy.

Because He is obviously not following how we're supposed to be teaching people.

We're supposed to be teaching them.

They got to obey the sabbath.

They have to do what's right and those people who don't do it cannot be considered true believers like us.

Loving them.

No, we don't do that good samaritan.

We talked about last week.

No, that's not what it means.

They're so blinded that they can't even see the lack of love that they have for others.

I remember first john 4 8 god is love.

God wants us to love because that's a manifestation of his essence of his character.

And we have to be able to manifest that.

And love on people and one of the ways I love on people believe it or not is to insult them and I tease

people and uh, because it's just what I do sometimes and I tease people and they feel.

Somehow people say yeah, man.

I can tell you love me because you insult me.

And uh, because if I like you i'm gonna insult you but I care for the ladies though.

Because they're delicate flowers and you're gonna be careful of delicate flowers, you know.

But I will insult my wife by saying something like I would have more respect for her if it wasn't for her taste in

men.

You know.

Because she married me so I can't trust her judgment.

That's how I insult her, right?

But with the guys and so it's just you know guys have different ways of showing love, you know.

And um, like when guys have you ever thought about how a guy hugs each another guy you ever thought about it a hug.

I'm loving you, but i'm hitting you.

Okay, that's how guys are girls.

It's so nice.

Look at your hair.

I told you you love each other.

I can't I don't get that if I went to a guy your hair looks so good.

What.

Oh.

And the matches that go out into the highways could take everybody right go go to get everybody.

That's what the gentiles are that's everybody.

And now this is what's really interesting.

We don't know if it's the command is filled.

Because it ends at that point go do this.

It's open -ended.

Israel's time has passed.

Now the time of the gentiles is there.

He says, uh, if I tell you none of those who were invited she'll taste of my dinner.

Okay so.

The leaders of israel were the original guests.

And they rejected the outsiders.

Were within the house of israel and the guests the highways and the hedges and stuff.

Those are the gentiles and One of the things the

parable teaches is that you cannot enter into the kingdom of god unless you've been invited.

The banquet is by invitation.

You have to be invited in order to become to come in and we're going to do that in our time, but

that's.

That's that.

All right.

Oh, I was going to jump into some stuff like that, uh, but we do choose because we're unable to choose but um

God invites he calls.

And that's why so he calls us and um the word for to call in greek is

kaleo.

Kaleo in greek when you make something past tense or in the aorist you put an epsilon

an e on the front.

So we put ed on the end, you know walked talked.

But in greek, it's reversed the e Goes on the beginning so

and then verbs change so kaleo builds eclair the called

all right, and we also have Three main greek words for calling and choosing

ecla ga ecla gamai and eclectos.

And the word for church is ecclesia.

So we are the called out ones were the ones chosen the ones called the ones invited by word to come in.

But god had covenantally called israel because the messiah was sent to israel and the

covenant requirement of that.

One of the stipulations of the covenant was that the people of israel Were to receive the messiah and believe and trust in the messiah and proclaim the

messiah to the world.

And they failed to do that.

They didn't recognize him.

So they failed covenantally.

All right, let's go to a friend at midnight.

Luke 11 1 through 13.

Is this interesting?

Yes.

All right.

How many people are in the chat or in the room.

40 just went to 40 was 39.

Now I just had to 40 now 41 there's 41 i'm counting there you go.

I can see the numbers in there.

All right.

Luke 11 1 through 13.

The friend at midnight.

This one's interesting.

There's a little bit of a textual issue.

We're going to look at.

And it came about while he was praying in a certain place after he had finished one of his disciples said to him lord

Teach us to pray just as john also taught his disciples.

And he said to them when you pray say father How holy is your name your kingdom come

give us each day our daily bread.

This is a shorter version of the prayer in luke 11 and forgive us our sins.

For we ourselves also forgive everyone who was indebted to us.

That's a word of family monitors sin and debt are equated.

But anyway, and lead us not into temptation.

Okay, that's a bait.

That's a short version of the uh, The the prayer, okay.

In verse five and he said to some to them.

Suppose one of you shall have a friend and she'll go to him at midnight and say to him friend.

Lend me three loaves.

So he wait me.

He's just to pray so he does he goes now jumps right in.

You get a friend.

He comes at midnight and says friend.

Give me uh, three loaves lend me three loaves.

It means he doesn't have three to lend means i'll pay you back.

Okay.

Uh, suppose one of you has a friend and she'll go to him at midnight and say give me lunch.

So you're asking for a favor now bread is something that sustains life.

Bread is.

Is let me get this right here.

I think.

There we go.

So bread is a very important sustenance of life.

Give me some bread, please and remember Jesus had just given the prayer give us our

daily bread.

So now wait a minute.

So, how does this work.

God will do this, but how are you because you say god give us our daily bread.

And forgive us our sins, but is is it just that in this prayer what we're to do is only

receive.

Because the working out of of the forgiveness is also from us outward

and um.

Now remember last week we talked about how a A community was very important and how a

home in the community was important.

Because of a stranger from some land or a visitor came in and it was in your particular house.

You then represented the community if you treated that person badly.

Then the community looked bad.

So it was very very important.

All right, so we got a visitor coming in late at night.

The guy is out of bread.

He wants bread for his friend.

He's obligated to take care of him and he's going to go get help now believe it or not in the middle east.

This kind of thing is in islam.

Now islam is a false religion, but in the culture i've been told this many times

that uh, if a muslim invites you into his home.

He's responsible for your safety and comfort.

And and some of the aspects of some of the the area the muslims they will defend your life at the cost

of their own.

It's actually something that hang on and remember the the movie with um Mark

wahlberg wahlberg and he uh lone survivor.

Based on if you guys saw it.

There were some guys in afghanistan and uh, they went in to go do something and it fell apart.

And everybody got killed except for him and he ended up he was shot wounded beat up whatever it was and ended up going

into a a muslim village.

And uh, they had this practice there of this.

There's a word for it where a stranger comes in and you take care of it.

You're obligated you're obligated By your life to take care of them and the movie

part of the movie is about that very thing.

True story.

And the muslim leader defended this american.

Against the taliban.

And it's worth saying okay just for that.

There's a pashtuni.

I think it's something remember the word is.

So that culture is still alive.

And so the reputation is very important.

You take a stranger.

You've got to take care of them.

So you go to your neighbor.

I need I need some bread.

The the neighbor would should know right away.

This is very serious.

It's a serious thing.

Yes, i'll give you bread and doesn't say this in the parable.

But let's just say this kind of thing happened.

It would not if say the neighbor didn't have bread it would not be unreasonable for the neighbor to go back with this the

The friend and go back and say I don't have any bread.

I'm, sorry.

The apologies would be necessary.

It would not be beyond comprehension to say that.

All right.

Because he says for you know verse six for a friend of mine has come to me a journey.

And I have nothing to set before him.

Now.

And from inside he shall answer and say do not bother me.

The door has already been shut and my children I are in bed.

I cannot get up and give you anything.

Wait a minute.

Here goes.

Jesus again.

Saying something in a parable that doesn't sit.

Well, remember.

The samaritan turned out to be the good guy.

Uh, the the prodigal son is the one who wastes his father's goods.

These are things like what no the jesus you don't understand how to tell a story you don't tell it like that.

Of course you're gonna take care of the neighbors.

What do you Jesus you don't know what you're doing.

People who are listening going.

What is he doing again?

And I would just bet you that in that culture when he starts talking to people going what's he gonna say this time?

What's he gonna do?

What's he gonna say?

Don't bother me.

You don't say that.

Bad people said don't bother me.

I don't want to talk to you.

All right.

Um.

You know, it reminds me, uh, nathan.

You know his friend committed suicide, right?

So i'm going out there, uh saturday and and uh camera's gonna go we're gonna drive two and a half hours out

two hours out.

Are you going you guys going not going whatever?

But we're going and I told nathan because nathan we're friends and I trust nathan with my life.

I trust nathan with my wife's life.

Okay, I would and vice versa so If nathan were to come to me.

And say I need your help.

And I said, I don't want to help you.

It would be a big insult a big insult.

And I you know, I told nathan I said you name it and i'll i'm there.

I will be there for you.

That's how it's supposed to be.

That's how it's supposed to be in this culture.

You name it i'll help you what do you need?

Okay.

Don't bother me.

The door's already been shut and my children and I are in bed.

I cannot get up and give you anything.

I tell you even though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend

yet because of his Persistence, that's the word we're going to look at he will get up and give him as much as

he needs now.

The word in greek is an idea.

And there's a way of looking at the word in greek.

That it can mean two things.

Slight textual variant.

There's a slight variation in the word.

Let me give an example of something in greek mano only ganao

to beget Mano ganao.

In greek mano ganao only and beget only begotten mano ganace.

Mano ganace is only begotten mano Ganao, but in past tense you put the

e on front mano eganat.

Right at the end of the form.

But because you have an e and an o that come together.

They form what's called a diphthong.

And there's rules which i've long since forgot and that the the two vowels come together they form another vowel they

do this they do that.

Like you want you're just listening to greek.

Oh.

And so the word mano and ganao begotten past

tense becomes Mano ganace only begotten but mano ganace is also the

word for unique.

It's the same word for unique spelled the same but the word unique is not a diphthong contraction.

It's just the word.

But mano ganace only begotten is and if you were in a culture, you'd you'd know that.

Well, we don't know it.

Let's explain it.

All right, so words can have meanings right?

They can be changed slightly.

So the same thing goes with uh, an adion.

Because it can mean persistence it can also mean

Shame okay.

Now oh, this is interesting so.

If it's persistence then it's the persistence of the borrower that will get the result

uh because I tell you even though he will not get up and give anything because he is his friend yet because of his

Persistence he will get up and give him as much as he needs.

That's a legitimate translation.

Because you're so persistent then uh god will or uh, the guy will get up and do it, you know.

Keep knocking until you do this, right?

And that makes makes sense.

But then the Antecedent of the persistence refers to the borrower.

The borrower is the one who's persistent but the petitioner changing the mind

of the father.

Now this represents god obviously in the prayer because it comes up later.

We'll get into the seek and find and stuff.

And so this is what's going on here but a lot of people aren't going to know this but You we don't you know, we don't

change god's mind.

Okay, we don't change his mind as we pray for something because god works all things after the counsel of his will ephesians 1 11 and His

decisions are always eternal.

But from the human perspective we see this.

All right, if it is translated as shame or shamelessness.

Then the parable takes on a slightly different meaning.

Then it would be dealing with the one who's doing the lending.

Then the reference would be it because of his shame because of the shame of the man inside that door.

Because of his shamelessness because he will be shamed because he has honor to keep he's going to get up and do what's necessary.

Or if his persistence is because the man who is persisting is going to get what he wants.

So the parable then depending on how we're going to look at it.

Could mean the persistence of the individual or the honor of the other person and either way.

Works because god is honorable, but yet we're also to be persistent.

Now this i've never heard anybody talk about this.

I got this out of the book.

I told you about last week.

Okay a poet and peasant and through peasant eyes.

By kenneth bailey, which I recommend everybody get.

It's fantastic.

And I didn't know this till I read that one.

Oh very very interesting.

Okay.

So because he'd be shamed in the state of the community now remember this is.

This idea is consistent with the unrighteous steward.

We were over that last week the unrighteous steward Was able to count on the goodness

and the honor of the landowner.

Even though the unrighteous steward said how much do you owe fifty dollars pay 25?

How much do you owe a hundred dollars pay 50 because the landowner's honor, you know, because he

represented a landowner.

Was going to say okay.

Well, this is the landowner that's doing this and the landowner is good and because of his honor he honored.

What the landowner what the steward did even though that what the steward did was wrong.

But because he's counting on the goodness.

So the idea of the honor of god and the goodness of god Is something very important a lot of people don't

realize this god is good.

He doesn't break his word.

He is always faithful.

He is always the one we can count on.

This is the reality of him these parables in a sense.

Show us a different side of god.

Now we're persistent to god.

God will bend.

It's rather Armenian -ish sending pelagian -ish, but if it's by the honor

of god.

As we go to him because of the honor of god, he's going to do what he says.

That's a different perspective.

And it has a different idea and different applications.

Then he goes on.

And he says and to you.

And I say to you ask and it shall be given to you seek and you shall find knock and it shall be open to you.

Now remember we talked about chiasm last week chiasm.

There's different kinds of chiastic structures.

They go like this on paper.

They go like this on paper.

They go like this on paper and i'm not being very clear about what all that means.

But that the chiastic I have them on my parables thing.

I've okay so.

And I went over this last, uh last time also.

Because jesus says for you ask receive see who seeks finds you.

To him who knocks it shall be open now.

Suppose one of your you fathers is asked by his son for a fish.

You will not give him a snake is in a set of a fish.

Will he we're asking god for something now.

I think that the the parable that he gave deals more with the honor of god than the persistence of the individual

because Jesus follows up with if you ask your father this he's going to give you what you need.

He's honorable.

If you ask for a fish, he's not going to give you a snake and this is because in the sea of galilee.

There's a skinny narrow fish.

And i've been in the ocean many times many places and and uh different trips and I love the ocean.

You know, let's scoop.

I mean snorkeling and stuff and there's these long little uh fish.

There's there's this big around and it is long.

It looks like a snake.

God's not going to give you something that looks like the real thing.

And yet you're faked out by god.

He doesn't do that okay, and He says, uh Won't

give him a snake or verse 12 or if he's asked for an egg, he won't give you a scorpion.

And the reason he says egg and scorpion is because there's a scorpion.

In the middle east that when you scare it do something it curls up and resembles the the shape of an egg.

Okay, and I don't think it's in this one.

Uh where it says the other version it says if you ask for a stone.

He will if after bray will give you a stone.

Why?

Because when they cook bread they would cook a flat.

They'd take a round thing.

They cook it on a plate.

It would just just round well a lot of stones there that took the same color and shape as the bread.

So he's not going to fake you out if you're asking for that, which is good from god.

He's going to give it to you because of who he is.

Not because of who you are.

That's why I think the parable deals with the honor of the the giver.

And not the persistence of the individual.

That's my opinion.

And so If we ask god for something good, he's going to give it to us.

This is important because back in seminary. I was having a real spiritual struggle.

And I was thinking things.

I should not think I was Angry when I shouldn't have been angry.

I was lusting when I should not have lusted.

I was being prideful when I should not have been prideful.

I'm i'm reading great presbyterian divines and i'm in class with great men

of god.

And they don't know my struggle.

And i'm not as good as I need to be in order to be a minister of the gospel.

This is a real struggle I was having.

I wasn't out killing and shooting and raping and pillaging but.

And I was starting to doubt my salvation.

And I said Well, i've been praying.

And i've asked god to save me.

But am I really trusting him that he's saving me or am I thinking i'm trusting that he's saving me

and Am I trying to con god by my sincerity, but if i'm trying to be sincere to get him to do what I

want.

That's evil.

So i'm having this struggle.

There was a professor.

That a lot of students wouldn't trust that he was just that kind of a good professor could sit down and just talk to.

I mean, these are one of the guys that had more degrees than a thermometer, you know and uh, I said

I said I need to.

I need to talk to you.

And we went into the chapel.

There was nobody else there.

And I told the story recently before but I said I just dumped on him.

I said i'm having a struggle.

I said i'm doubting my salvation.

Because i'm not ready to be in my heart and my life and my this and my that seminary is very stressful.

Incidentally, and it causes a lot of pressure it really does unnecessarily so I think they they work it too much,

but very difficult time and my wife and I were having struggles and we just.

And I said to this guy I said I'm not sure if i'm really bearing the fruit.

I need to bear.

And it's making me doubt my salvation.

I've asked god many times.

I've confessed my sins so many times and yet I can't help but wonder if i'm really saved.

And he listened the whole time.

When I was done, he said.

And he gave me a lot of good stuff, but he went to This place if you ask god for a fish.

He won't give you a snake.

If you ask him for bread, he won't give you a stone.

If you ask for neck, he won't give you a scorpion.

And he said matt.

He says you've asked god for salvation and forgiveness.

He knows how to give good gifts to you he won't fake you out.

And he said it better than what I just said.

And it was what I needed to hear.

Instead of me what he had to do is correct something.

I was looking at me.

Instead of christ I was looking at my fruit instead of christ faithfulness.

If I look at my fruit, i'm always going to fall short.

That's a fact.

Now, yes, i've got fruit.

Yes, I do, you know struggle, okay.

But it was becoming from this it was becoming this.

Well, look at me look at me.

Look i'm not this i'm not that and god let that happen to teach me a lesson.

When you look to yourself and your own ability you're going to have doubts.

But if you put your eyes on christ.

You're going to be okay.

And I needed to hear that needed to hear it and so he taught me and it took a day or two or

three to.

That's right.

I am saved because of what jesus has done.

The struggle I have and the awareness of my sin and failure that I have is because of his

redemptive work in me.

And I said I can't look to me as a standard of me being saved.

Jesus is a standard of perfection, which I will never attain to.

But i'm justified by faith and though I might I wonder so not do I have real faith or.

Mostly real faith is in the princess bright just mostly dead.

I just mostly believe.

You know I and I have this phrase.

I say, you know, my heart betrays me.

Because I don't even know what depth of betrayal I have in my own heart.

So I look to god and I say lord.

What faith I do have you've granted to me.

Philippians 129.

So I trust in what you've given.

And I put all my hope.

All my security all my everything in your hands.

Even my insecurity even my manipulative heart even while i'm confessing this

I lay before you hoping that those words will convince you to believe, you know.

My heart betrays me and I stop lord.

I'm in your hands.

And this is you know, this is one of the things of redemption.

And once you go through these struggles and you realize okay.

You know what the fig tree is bearing fruit.

And the banquet i've been invited to.

I'm the gentile out in the hedge.

And if I ask the father he's going to give it to me.

And I have to trust in his goodness and not my own evil not my own wickedness and not let that

Become the deciding factor in my life in my heart and from then on I had

peace peace with god.

I'm peaceful with him because I know i'm going to heaven because jesus

Is the one who when you knock on that door?

Because of his goodness will answer and provide and he won't give you something.

That's fake and that's.

And that's good and these parables and all this that he taught.

It's right there.

Amen.

Amen.

All right now.

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It's a new record because we've only gone 10 minutes over instead of another hour.

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We're going to answer questions.

So if you have questions just go ahead and type them out and i'll see them and if you guys.

If you guys want comments or questions that you guys have, uh, i'm open to

laura's there.

And melissa owens melissa's been faithful.

Laura's been faithful.

Uh, charlie spine.

Yeah, he's okay.

Uh charlie shirley j new and uh, jill baxter.

So good tagging for a great bible study.

You're welcome.

So if you've got any comments or questions.

Let me know you could ask anything you want doctrine questions.

You can ask about if you have anything quickly about albania.

We have someone right here.

From albania right now and can ask you or answer yourself on albania.

Can I just put the cam?

What's that?

Have a comment.

Comment and a question.

Can I put you on the camera?

Can I show the camera?

It's okay, you're there just say hi, this is yulia from albania yulia yuli.

Okay, there she is.

Well, she's albania they're engaged.

Uh -huh.

Yeah.

There we go.

All right.

There you go.

Okay so This last parable it's about god

giving good things.

It's not about Uh.

It's not related with first john five.

When it says that if you ask something according to that will he will give it to you.

So this parable it's about god giving good things on that thing that god gives good things.

Yes, and this one.

It's only related to God will give once according to his yes.

These are not related with each other.

They are ultimately related because the same lord will teach one thing here one thing there one thing there.

We put them all together to learn the totality of what he teaches.

How they what.

Okay, when we ask god for good things he gives us good things but ultimately it's

according to his will.

So what I think is good lord, I need that new car.

It may not be good.

And so ultimately god is the one who's sovereign.

Who's sovereign over what it is we do but the point that he's saying here is that god gives good fix.

He's not going to fake you out.

He gives you really good things.

That's the point.

He's not a deceiver.

He's a good a good lord.

And that's the point there.

But the other point is there you can ask stuff but it's gotta be according to his will but he's still good in that.

And that's what's going on.

So they harmonize together.

Good.

What's that?

That's good.

Oh.

And you would say salutum salutum salutum.

Salutum.

Tell oh tell I can't know here's s is very well that my hearing's not too good.

Salutum.

No tolutum.

Salutum.

Salutum, okay, what's that mean?

You're welcome.

That means yeah, you're welcome.

Okay, you're welcome.

I say you're welcome in.

Yeah.

You're welcome.

You're welcome.

So like your your index finger touches your chin and then it goes.

Oh your next thing is like that.

Okay.

You pronounce that very well better.

There you go.

All right.

Let's see, uh big amen.

Let's see.

So good.

Uh, I need to change my scooby -doo avatar.

That's good.

Uh, gary charlie suggests do we choose god or does god choose us.

God chooses us and enables us to choose him once you regenerate because regeneration precedes faith tell

dave.

She's beautiful.

Yeah.

Yes, and when you see him sitting there's quite a contrast.

Like like my wife because there's a picture of my wife out there.

She's pretty and people look at me.

Which is yes.

The same kind of thing poor women they have to pick guys we look like we've been mauled by dogs

but uh.

Yeah, we do, you know like a pack of dogs, you know got a whole like.

And you know, then the girls gotta marry us, you know, because there's nothing else they're gonna pick from.

But girls look good, you know, they just kind of look good like yeah, look at that everywhere poor

women.

No question.

Okay.

The passage we just went through Luke 11 5 through 9 or 5

through 8 is About the man who won't give his friend when yes.

And then 9 through 13 units.

So the point is to contrast man versus god.

Again, see the.

I think it's important to understand that that word can mean persistence or shame.

I think I think what jesus is getting at is.

It's an issue of god will give you god will provide.

That's what I think is.

I think that's where they're connected that way.

So I don't know if that answers your question, but there is.

I guess i'm missing it like the.

Structure.

Now this man won't give his friend what he's asking for but god will give what You ask for.

Yes, if it's according to as well.

Yeah, so god is ultimately better than man.

God won't.

Oh.

Yeah, then man will.

Yeah.

Yeah, because you know, you know being a father know how to give good gifts to your children.

How much more will god give right?

So someone in here, uh said, uh.

Women have a much lower bar than men.

That's why they they marry us.

I think it's because they want to have babies and they need us and they're stuck.

And I think it's because it's the mothering instinct gene that kicks in and I know how to make that mothering instinct gene

activate.

Uh, what you do is you have them over your place and you take a bunch of laundry.

That's different colors and you walk towards the washing machine and they go.

And uh, so that activates the mother again, it's gonna take care of you and uh that with a bewilder

filter they start liking you and.

Yeah, and then and then what you do is you start making a bad sandwich they got to get in and fix it.

And so that's what I think.

She might be watching.

Probably is not and uh, because she's with her brother they're catching up.

No right now I can tell you right now my wife's going something's wrong.

Sensing what's matt doing?

I can see her texting me.

Are you saying something stupid again?

Uh could happen it could happen.

All right.

Did jesus pay for future sins, too?

Yes, he did.

Colossians 2 14.

He canceled a sin debt and the sin debt was done on the cross cost of 214.

The chirographon and that chirographon the sin debt is what was all our sin that was always future to

him.

So it has to be future sins.

Okay.

It's also retroactive because the sins of the people in the old testament.

I think it's because people oppose propose in a letter so romantic.

I proposed to anik by writing her a letter.

I did.

I proposed by writing a letter to her and she accepted by sending me a telegram.

And the story was I was in college and before the internet back in the and the 80s

and She was she went to do a mission in france.

And I just realized I loved her need to marry her and didn't have any way to get a hold of her.

No phone nothing because I didn't know where she was because she'd be here there because her french relatives.

And so I knew she'd be at a certain place.

So I wrote a letter to that person with an envelope inside of that letter and that person speaks english

and I said Hey, give this to her and I proposed in the letter because it's the only way I could function.

I couldn't write.

I couldn't study.

I was in college, you know, and I needed to you know.

To get this over with I couldn't deal with and so I I did and then uh, anik, uh told me

that she went to that house.

She spent the night there and got up for uh for breakfast and the mail was delivered.

And she put the envelope right there and that's how it happened and she read it.

She took a couple of days and then she telegrammed me back.

Yes.

No, she had to think about it because I was a doofus and uh.

Because because we had we got oh, it's a long story.

But she you know, she knew and then she she would prayed about it just to make sure and then um.

So I was in college and I got this, you know coming to the office.

And I get this telegram.

And I could take you down to irvine california to take you to the campus.

I could say see this sidewalk.

I was like I was on this one right here.

This is the block of cement.

I was walking on when I went stopped walking and went.

Because in french Je t 'aime is I love you.

And so what we say to each other we've been saying it for decades.

Just just tem, you know, we'll sign it.

We don't email tem, you know, just love you.

It's all just tem.

T -e -m.

That's what we do and so all I saw was all this these letters and all this stuff and and

What was that?

Y -e -s -t -e -m -n -e -e -k.

All one thing.

Yes, tem.

Neek.

I went.

And i'm engaged and that's how we got engaged.

Now some people think it's really romantic and my wife goes.

Yeah.

A letter.

And I and just to make it even more romantic.

I uh drafted the letter on a macintosh computer.

And printed up on a nine pin dot matrix.

I went all out.

And that way I could really do it and then do that and I had to tell you this that I was I didn't know computers and it became the

computer, uh geek guy in the computers and uh.

We had these rows of computers in college.

So the butt of each of those big big computer big screens, you know and uh one day.

Uh, some girls would always come into this one computer and i'm sitting there, you know I'm the computer, uh guy you'd come to ask a

part of a part -time job I had on campus.

So I took the monitor plug from theirs and mine and switched them.

So that what I typed is what they would see.

And so i'm sitting here and they come in they log in and I hit some, you know I could tell by the ski ski strokes.

I did this that so the screen came up.

And they you know said okay type in.

I could hear him talking.

Okay, and then I wrote in why do you want me to say?

That and They both went quiet.

And they're staring right and i'm going.

Don't laugh and uh.

Did you see that?

Did you I could hear whispering?

What the heck and I wrote like what question mark, you know, just very quietly and they go so.

And I had them going for like a full minute.

They you know, they typed something in and I was responding like what the heck and then I'm laughing by then

and then I see this head come around i'm going.

You you did this.

That's how you get women if you're annoying they're gonna love you.

Any other questions comments you can do any theological thing you want to talk about predestination and elections

coming up.

Is that next week?

No.

Charlie's putting in links for predestination.

I mean someone's uh doing that john.

And share your thoughts on sovereign grace ephesians 1 5 through 6.

Okay, let me do that.

Ephesians 1.

Hey, come on.

Let me get this.

Ephesians 1 5 through 6.

Let's see.

What if he's 1 4?

He chose us in him before the foundation of the world that we'd be holy and blameless for.

Uh in love he predestined us according to the kind intention of his will that's verse 5.

I'm, not sure what verse 6 is.

So let's see ephesians 1 5.

Uh kind of his will to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the beloved.

So he predestined us predestination is the action of god by which he brings into the faith and causes certain things to

occur by his sovereign decree and in the context here, it's uh He

chose us.

I don't want to go.

I can go into this quite a bit these two verses but uh.

Has to do with election federal headship.

Predestination and necessitation limited atonement.

I mean it depends how much you want me to get into it, but that's what's going on there um.

Any other questions comments?

Joanne hayes.

Do you guys enjoy the study 49 people until we get to 50.

I have uh norman i've been talking to okay.

Um.

Who said that the Their temples are not ironic temples, but melchizedek temples, so I went to

hebrews 9 11 and that's where i'm talking with.

And where would you go to elsewhere to talk about?

The proper temple.

Let's say show me what I would do is ask them because they're going to have to go to the old testament.

Show me the temple.

If you say it's a melchizedek temple show me a melchizedek temple.

There is one it's jesus.

He's the temple and we are in him and he's the high priest.

No, we have a high priesthood.

We have a priesthood but on high priesthood.

So i'd say to them show me the priesthood or show me the temple the melchizedek temple in scripture.

They can't do it because it's not there.

Good.

Good good, and then you go to matthew 27 51.

I think it says there.

I think that's where the temple veil was torn.

And what i'll ask them is if you have the true temple veil.

And if the melchizedek it's a melchizedek temple.

I say if this is what you say it is.

Then there's a veil in the temple show me in the bible where the veil in the temple occurs.

It's only and they're going to say it's ironic.

But it's not it's just the temple because the ironic and the levitical priesthoods were inside the service of the temple.

And i'd say why is it that god destroyed that veil?

I'd ask him that question first.

Why did god destroy the veil because it separated the holy place from the holy of holies?

And as the veil ripped because it was about this thick.

Okay, it was this thick was like nine feet tall or eight feet tall.

Whatever it was and What?

40 40 feet tall.

In the temple, but not in the tabernacle.

I was thinking of the tabernacle because it was 10 by 10 cubits.

When they rebuilt it, it was originally 30, but then they made it 40.

Okay.

Yeah Good.

And so that was torn so that symbolizes the There's no longer separation

between god and his people because the blood of christ has been dead.

So I asked mormons, why do you put back with the temple veil what god destroyed?

That's right.

You know matthew 27 51.

I or 57 51.

I think that's what.

Okay, good so that's what i'll ask them and and stuff like that ask them show me the melchizedek temple.

Uh scriptures which they can't do and then i'm gonna ask them by the way, why do you put back with god

destroyed?

I've been asking mormons that in fact when we go to pocatello Temple opening we got the official date.

Yeah.

Oh, what is it?

Okay.

Okay.

Well, then eric johnson will probably want to go i'm gonna go we'll probably have some others here go.

We'll go get a hotel.

We'll do.

Or an airbnb.

And we'll go out and one of the things i'll do is i'll ask them i'll yell why did god

destroy the veil and they're looking.

I haven't done anything anti -mormon yet.

He destroyed the veil teach them.

Why do you put it back?

Why do you put back what god destroyed and the heads turn away and they could now they get the point.

And they look away because they're no longer interested in talking.

That's what I do sometimes cause problems.

Praise god praise god.

That's right.

In fact when you said that harvest church was no harvest church.

Yeah, one of the first thoughts I had was go out there with a sign why do you have women pastors but

the scripture.

Pretty what?

Yeah, probably I.

I went oh harvest off meridian.

I I know about that church.

Sorry.

I know about it.

It is cultic i've had dealings with some stuff.

It's yeah, you got to stay away from that.

It's a bad news church.

Yeah, I know it's what you're talking about.

I've uh went there with one of my co -workers with them to check it out and uh,.

Um, it's yeah, it's it's bad news.

Yeah, it is.

Right across the street is a good cafe.

Sunrise good, right.

So.

She was uh, Tom when my she's trying to witness of one of my co -workers who was a non -believer and

she said uh if my friend would say Like a certain prayer I get baptized that

she had the power to uh Uh cure this person of her diabetes and uh, and

everything else.

Do you personally have the power?

That's what she said and uh.

My like my friend asked her like are you a disciple and she goes well, yeah, I I guess I am.

And when they share the story with me, I asked her and I said and if god doesn't answer Then what

and I said, what what are you going to say then?

And uh.

Why do you think so deep.

Yeah.

Ask a basic question.

Yeah.

Well, god said let us reason together.

You know, you see isaac.

So one of the things so you can cure you have the power to cure Diabetes.

Yeah.

Do you also have the power to to to cure mental issues?

Yes.

How about stupidity?

Yeah.

Go look in the mirror and then.

So I don't I don't know if that's uh, like it's like a new episode, you know reformation or.

But yeah, they're they're all over the map.

Yeah, they're bad.

For you.

Are you uh, are you joining the church?

I said no.

Are you what in church?

She was asking she goes are you joining, you know, uh, joining the church joining?

Are you joining our church with that?

I said no.

And then she said what you know, what.

What would you do if uh, if I got up to one of the other.

Uh women got up there and uh and preached and I said run.

And I said Step outside get my boards come back and I said demand that you step down to leadership.

Step down if they're not going to repent.

And uh, then they always go to like, uh, oh, you're just a chauvinist, I said.

That's when you got to quote the scriptures or references.

Okay, someone says uh, surely says do you judge people on whether you think they are saved or not?

Well.

If someone were to say jesus is not god in flesh.

Then you can talk to them and say well he is let me show you in scriptures.

If they continue to deny that then you can say well.

You're probably a false convert like I did with patrick today in the radio.

In the after show because he was uh, clearly teaching works righteousness.

And you know, I said, sorry, you know, you can't be can't call you a brother and then there's the moral issue.

And there's certain doctrinal ones you can you know, I haven't gone into it too deeply.

Just use one of them that are several that if they deny you're not christian.

You can't be a christian, but you always have to ask them and teach them if they continue to deny the essentials.

Then you say i'm sorry, you're you know false convert, but then there's the moral issues, too.

So if someone says they're a christian and is committing adultery.

And you say look you can't do that and they say I don't care what you say I'm going to continue to do this then you have to

assume they're not really regenerate.

You know, and that's why I say you assume they're not regenerate.

Because there's no conviction.

There's no spiritual whatever.

And uh, i've had people tell me well god understands me.

So yeah, he does understand you and if you claim to be a christian and you're and you're doing fornication.

You know, he understands my problem my issue.

I said well, yeah, he may kill you.

He may kill you and you go to first Corinthians five a man having sex with his father's new wife.

Uh deliver him over to satan for the destruction of his flesh.

So a soul be saved and I say you don't hear that taught in church very often.

But I said i've told people you're lucky you're still alive.

Because god may kill you soon.

Just five just start reading.

Yeah in the first few verses that have been.

It i've heard that they're a great something among you that not even the pagans or the unbelievers.

The gentiles will do or something like that and he goes on.

Okay, you have any questions comments?

Come on, make some good ones.

Maybe just everybody.

I don't know.

Maybe it's enough.

What are questions?

What kind of stuff in albania?

Is there anything different albanian theology or christian stuff like that?

Anything that I don't know.

I'm just not nothing the same stuff.

I was hoping it'd be something really, you know.

Different thing I wouldn't think of.

We have different questions because we have muslims.

You have muslims.

Yeah, I can teach on islam too.

Islam's bad bad bad bad evil.

And uh, it is.

Islam is evil, but most muslims don't follow true islam.

And so most muslims don't know how bad islam is.

Yeah.

If they believe the quran.

Will read the quran all the quran and they follow it.

And they do what it says.

Those are the bad ones that that the quran is evil.

Only 18 percent of muslims in the world can read arabic.

And so most muslims don't know what it really teaches but in the arabic, uh, the quran teaches some pretty bad stuff.

And the hadith the deeds and the sayings of muhammad.

A lot of bad stuff in there.

So, uh, the real teachings of islam are evil but it's not to say that all muslims are bad.

Most muslims don't know.

Just and so that most muslims want to be nice people, but they're still on their way to hell.

Unfortunately, because they have a false god.

They don't have a true they don't have a messiah and a sacrifice but uh.

Yeah, many people who are muslims are good people and a lot of times you can trust them and and stuff like that.

I had a guy sitting literally outside the back and um I don't know what country he went to but it

might have been albania.

It was one of those countries over there where he was teaching english.

I don't know what country it was but it was in that area and he told me a story about a

muslim and a christian man.

Two fathers he sat right out there and he told me this.

I'll never forget it.

He said they'd known each other for 25 years.

Their children would spend the night at each other's houses.

They had each other over for dinner when their children were born they would exchange Gifts, they would go

over to the hospital.

They would you know, they were close.

They were very close and uh, they trusted each other with their families.

They trusted you can come here keys to my house.

And the imam the minister of the muslim, uh mosque.

Told the muslim man kill that christian man for the years and he did.

They were friends.

Now asura 551 In the quran says do not take jews and christians as your friends.

Specifically says do not do it and asura 9 5 and 29 it talks in particular verse 29.

It says uh, when the sacred months are done and all this stuff.

Fight the word fight in arabic means fight to kill.

Now islam is islam is actually very very evil.

And it's it could be proven to be false.

That's another topic.

I could teach on islam sometime if you guys want but All right.

Let's see a lady at church works righteousness always reverts to you must believe.

I've told her that even faith is granted by god.

She she just doesn't get it.

That's randall.

That's a philippians 129.

Okay.

And it's what's called the aorist.

Uh passive.

Aorist means past tense.

Passive means it's the action received so God grants it to them.

So they it's they're caused to be believing.

That's what it's saying.

Okay, so it's granted to us.

All right.

Can an lds person be born again and still believe in the lds doctrine?

I think that's possible in a very limited sense.

I think.

A mormon could not understand mormonism very well.

And trust in christ be born again.

But it would be very evident very quickly that there's a problem.

And they could come out in ignorance and say well There's three gods and they even thinking that they go something's not right there and they could come

out.

And gradually, I think it's possible.

But normally speaking.

No, you could not be a you know a born again person and continue To believe in lds

doctrine just continue.

No, you cannot okay?

But i'm talking about I think it's possible for microseconds or seconds or a few hours or a few days.

Inner ignorance that kind of a thing.

All right.

Let's see.

Gary wright asked the elect did god choose?

Choose or no, he chose that's ephesians 1 4.

He chose us in him before the foundation of the world ephesians 1 4 he chose us.

So that he did the choosing he chose.

All right, that's what it means.

That's how to understand it.

He doesn't know it's you got to understand there's a problem with the idea.

He just knows who's going to believe him first of all.

It denies the doctrine of total depravity because total depravity says the unbeliever is a slave of sin.

Romans 6 14 to 20 I hate her a god who does no good doesn't do any good at all.

Romans 3 10 11 and 12 Is by nature a child of wrath.

Uh, ephesians 2 3.

Cannot receive spiritual things.

1 corinthians 2 14 and because of that no one is ever going to freely choose god

furthermore.

To say that god knows who will pick him is to adopt what's called palagianism or semi -palagianism.

A full palagianism or just palagianism says that when a person is born their their nature is not sinful.

And that they're innocent.

Semi -palagianism and there's views in that says well, you're mostly good.

But you have a little bit of bad in you.

And so that you're still able to believe in god of your own free will.

And then from that view semi -palagianism.

Which is what most christian churches teach and it's false doctrine.

They'll say that god knows who's going to pick him on his free will.

Well, then that means that god in one sense learns.

Because he'll look in the future to see who's going to pick him under different Circumstances and he'll pick them.

This also gets in the mulanistic counterfactuals, which we don't have time to get into our quid later

and um.

And so then that would mean that god's choice is based upon man's choice.

And that would mean that god is reactionary and not sovereign.

And that's another reason why it doesn't work.

Why do so many people hate calvinism because they're totally depraved.

Simple in fact when I debated ak richardson, uh last week on total depravity, uh, he

got he didn't do well.

We watched nine minutes.

We're like mad.

We're gonna turn it off.

Yeah.

And uh, so I said to him at the end.

I said the fact that you deny total depravity proves.

It's true and it was meant as a joke, but uh.

Yeah I do have a question.

Okay.

Psalm 2.

Are you able to understand everything i'm saying.

Julie julia.

Wow.

Good english, that's good.

Specifically 7 through 12.

Talks about the sun.

Just wondering what the original audience would have.

What the original audience.

Like what was their understanding of the sun?

I don't know what they originally would have thought the original audience now I get it but back then before christ.

What would they do?

I don't know.

Uh, but I can tell you that.

In seminary our hebrew professor who's our old testament professor also Said something very interesting.

He said that there were Theologians but way before christ who were jewish.

Who?

Were writing about the possibility of god existing in the plurality.

And it was a hint towards unitarianism because let us make man in our image, etc and so

there were that tells me that there were people who understood more than we might give them

credit to.

So I think within that if you had a zechariah 12 10 god is speaking they will look upon me whom they have pierced

you know.

And uh.

Yep.

Wouldn't that be what they would expect.

Maybe but i'm saying that some probably would have expected that some would have said I have no idea

and some might have said My son the the son of yahweh that would imply

he's divine and so I think there would be a A

scope of beliefs that they would have held to and so what would all of them

thought don't know.

I think there's a a theological Scope that they would have adhered to.

That's what I think.

Okay, let's see.

I told ak that he had a merciless view of a merciful god.

He just told him good.

He can come in here if he wants we can debate some more.

Um.

Let's see.

Okay.

Hey, they stand.

Okay.

So what do you guys saw the debate?

Okay.

Let me ask you.

Well, hurry wait man cannot judge whether someone is saved or not not even matt slick my savior Jesus christ will be the judge

you you know what surely let me ask you if someone says to you surely if someone says

That jesus is not god did not die on the cross and did not rise from the dead.

If someone says that surely would you say they were a christian or not a christian?

Would you say they were saved or not saved?

Remember 1 corinthians 2 15 says a spiritual person can make spiritual judgments.

So if someone were to say that to you would you be judging them and saying they're not saved.

Because if you say no, you can't even do that then you don't understand biblical theology,

okay.

Jesus is god.

Yes.

He is colossians 2 9 john 1 1 and verse 14.

But what if someone denies it because jesus says in john 8 24 unless you believe that I am you will die in

your sins.

So jesus says that in john 8 24 and then john 8 50 80 says before abraham was I am.

They want to kill him for saying that so jesus is saying unless you believe that I am you'll die in your sins.

So if someone denies he is the I am then we can say you're going to die in your sins.

You're not a christian.

So it's not me pronouncing.

It's me revealing.

It's disclosing the truth to them.

Okay.

Oh.

Surely as a mormon.

Is it as surely a mormon that would explain a lot of things no disrespect matt, but Mormons don't

have a very good deep theological understanding of issues.

And also for the mormons go to uh, first kings 860 Jehovah

is elohim.

Mormons will know what that is and why that's a problem.

Good article for surely according to charlie.

Do we have the right to make these judgments?

Yes, we do.

That's right.

Matt melissa says what's right melissa?

What's right that she's a mormon or that we have the right to make judgments?

So I because our complete sentences are not spoken.

So I don't know what the thing is the owner of our local bible store told that if god chose certain people

And didn't give everyone a chance that that would make him a monster.

I told him to be careful of what he said.

Very good randall.

Very good.

What?

Yeah, oh.

Oh, yeah, he'd be a monstrous god.

Yes.

Yeah well, you know what randall I would have said well, what does romans 9 say because

You know god is unjust.

Yeah.

That she's a mormon.

Shirley even said yeah.

Okay.

So she's a mormon.

Okay.

All right.

Well surely since uh The mormon church teaches in history of the church volume 4

page 461 That the book of mormon is the most correct book of any book on earth and a man could get closer to the priesthood Of god

by following it than by any other book.

That means the book of mormon is more correct in the bible.

Which means you put the bible underneath the book of mormon.

You don't trust the word of god.

And so therefore you're not going to believe that what i'm telling you is a truth.

I so you guys want to get going.

Okay I am just saved by grace by the works of jesus christ and i'll be forever grateful to god as

long as I live.

Amen, you guys gonna get going.

You're okay.

I can give you a really super packed concentrated coffee and Then for

three days you'll be.

I can.

You don't want to have coffee you want oh you want to sleep?

Okay, I can I can help you out I make good

coffee.

I make good coffee.

Yes.

I make good coffee.

You come over sometime.

I'll make good coffee.

I can make decaf so there's no caffeine in it.

Okay, and I can use this really neat cup.

I got.

From albania, but when you come bring the cup we'll make your turkish coffee man.

I really like it.

I'm serious.

I like the cup and my favorite cup coffee cup has a crack in it because I like things that are broken

because i'm broken.

And jesus loves me.

I'm broken.

And so my favorite coffee cup is broken.

But that's my new coffee cup.

Then the only way it could be better if it had a crack in it.

You're trying to look for the ones that you didn't have.

No, that's okay.

I would have loved it if it was cracked.

Oh, I would have just loved it.

Oh, this is perfect.

But I like it.

It's good and when I show my wife i'm serious.

I show my wife she goes.

That's beautiful.

And it goes look they got like this with coffee goes.

Oh, that's awesome.

She loved it.

That's what a girl does.

That's good.

I would yes nice.

That's what a guy does but a girl.

What's that.

She got me that's true, that's true.

I like it though.

Okay.

She's on to me.

She's got me figured out.

Okay.

What's that you showed us the cup last week?

Yes, I did.

Yeah, that's right.

I did.

Yeah.

Yeah, i'm not just saying it.