WWUTT 2265 Q&A Pleading Guilty, Obeying Traffic Laws, The Chosen's John the Baptist

If you are guilty of a crime, should you admit that you're guilty or make the state have to prove it? Does a Christian have to drive the speed limit? And what's with that scene between Jesus and John the Baptist in The Chosen?

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Here once again is Pastor Gabe.

Thank you, Becky, who is not in studio with me again this week. But this time, it's my fault. Last week, she wasn't on with me because she was just tired, weary, couldn't do it. I was even having to drag her out of bed to do the show if she was going to do the show.

So I said, don't worry about it. I got it this week. This time around, though, I had taken her microphone over to the church and was doing something with it there and never brought it back home. So there's not even a way for her to be on the program with me because the way that the room is set up, she can't even fit behind the desk where I'm sitting.

It's a one-person fit. So it was going to be like a really tight fit for us to do that for an hour and then go back and forth between the microphone, and we just knew it wasn't going to work. So this is my fault this time around that Becky is not on with me this week.

But we appreciate your prayers and your encouragement. We read emails together. So whatever email I'm going to read this week, she has seen it herself. We've listened to your voicemail messages. This being the Friday edition of the broadcast, you can submit a question to us.

We answer your questions here on the Friday episode. The best way to get questions to us is via email, whenweunderstandthetext at gmail .com, or you can send us a voicemail by going to www .utt .com, click on that voicemail tab in the top right corner of the page, and you can record it from your computer, from your phone.

It's supposed to just give you like 90 seconds, a minute and a half. That's how long you have to ask your question or give us a word of encouragement. We'll take that too, though we have had questions come from a few people that were like two and two and a half minutes.

So it is possible to get beyond that length, but I think it's supposed to cut you off at a minute and a half. Well, before we get to the questions, let's come back to our study at Proverbs. Proverbs 5, in fact, is where we are.

I'm going to pick up where we left off last week. Proverbs 5 .7, hear the word of the Lord. And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth. Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house, lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless.

Lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner. And at the end of your life, you groan when your flesh and body are consumed, and you say how I hated discipline and my heart despised reproof.

I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors. I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation. Now, to remind you once again of the context of what we're reading here, the warning that the king is giving to his son is to stay far away from the adulterous woman.

The lips of the forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil. It may be that what she says and the way she bats her eyes, all of that is very sweet, but the reality is that she is bitter as wormwood and sharp as a two-edged sword.

If you go after her, you go the way of Sheol. Now, what is directly being addressed here, of course, is a warning against adultery. It's a warning against sexual immorality. But you can also apply this to any sort of temptation of the flesh.

Beware of going after your carnal desires. And is there anything that more greatly exemplifies carnal desires than sexual immorality? So, of course, that one is going to be the one that is presented. But as you get here, as you get further down in verse 7, listen to me and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

Keep your way far from her and do not go near the door of her house, lest you give your honors to others and your years to the merciless. This can very well be applied as any kind of warning against falling into some kind of grievous sin.

That statement there in verse 8, keep your way far from her. Do not go near the door of your house. Keep your distance. Put some distance between you and her. Don't even go the way where you could put yourself in a position to even potentially be tempted.

Stay far away from those temptations. Now, sometimes when it comes to applying that, staying far away from those temptations, things can get a little legalistic. Like, say, for example, there are certain movies that we shouldn't watch.

There are things in films we should never put before our eyes. But a person might decide, well, in order to keep those things from my eyes, I'm just not going to watch movies altogether. And I'm going to tell other people they can't watch movies either.

If anybody is watching films, then they are sinning. I remember my dad talking about some of the fundamentalism that existed in the South when I was growing up. It wasn't part of my family, but there was some of that independent Baptist fundamentalism which was telling people that you can't go to the theater at all.

You can't watch movies at all because Hollywood is just all bad. So even if you're watching a film that has some good entertainment value to it, like it might seem fairly benign, neutral, nothing about it, seems overtly sinful, yet it's coming from a bunch of wicked, wicked people and all the awful stuff that they're doing in Hollywood, and you would be funding that if you go to that movie and pay for it, and so on and so forth.

We call this putting a hedge about the law, where the hedge then becomes the law. You're doing something to keep your distance from potential sin, keep yourself away from that temptation, and what you end up doing is applying something legalistic to everybody that scripture doesn't say.

It doesn't say stay away from all forms of entertainment, but that's what a person begins to do when they start applying these rules that would help you stay away from any of those potential pitfalls.

So here, the father gives a warning to his children, keep far away from her. Do not go near the door of her house. Don't even put yourself in a position where you could be tempted. Now, when it comes to the adulterous woman, certainly, but somebody could take that and start adding to it and then creating laws upon laws that God did not create, and then you have the rebuke that Jesus gives to the Pharisees in Mark 7, you leave the commandment of God for the traditions of men.

So beware of adding to the law that would be legalistic. Nonetheless, we do need to take precautions to keep ourselves far from any of those temptations that we would not fall into sin and thus into ruin.

Lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless, it says in verse 9. And this is just very simply to give up yourself to somebody else. You have a good name, you have a good reputation.

If you get known as somebody who is going around with adulterers, adulteresses, you become an adulterer yourself, and you have given up your honor. You no longer have it. You gave your honor away. That person doesn't get your honor.

They don't become honorable now. You're both just wallowing in your sin, and you give your years to the merciless. Good years of your life, opportunities that you have to learn and grow and experience life, and you have aspirations, and you can really make something of yourself, especially as a youth when you have a lot of strength and energy and vigor and ambition, and you give away those years, and then it's lost.

I did some of this when I was in my 20s. Gave away some good years of my life that I could have been ambitious and focused upon dreams that I had or goals that I had in mind. And, no, I was going around with girls.

Gave away my honor to others, my years to the merciless. Thankfully, the Lord kept me from doing anything really bad that I could still be facing the consequences of even to this day. But nonetheless, I wasted my time.

I went after the passions of my flesh. I fell into sin and lost some good opportunities as a result of that as well. Especially, you know, one thing that I definitely missed out on in those years, and I've talked about this before and shared this with other groups of young people that I've had the opportunity to teach.

I should have been praying and reading my Bible more in those years, and I was not. In fact, I was a little arrogant about it because I had been raised on it, and so I kind of had this attitude of like, man, I know most of it.

I know it better than all my friends do, so why do I need to keep studying? And again, instead of being in the Word, committed to God, drawing near to Christ, I was going after the passions of my flesh.

Could have been a lot worse than it was, but it was enough to make me regret those years and repent before God for the way that I wasted that time and went after myself instead of the Lord. Less strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, and at the end of your life you groan when your flesh and your body are consumed.

Have to wonder if that's a reference to facing some of the consequences of your actions there. Sexually transmitted diseases or something to that effect. In verse 12, and you say,. How I hated discipline and my heart despised reproof.

I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors. I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation. Now I am thankful for godly men who came alongside me in those years and convicted me of my sin and said to turn away from that and come back to the path of righteousness.

And we need to be doing that for one another, that we may build each other up in love, as talked about in Ephesians chapter 4. Growing into the head who is Christ. You're not meant to do that just by yourself, but we do that together as the body of Christ.

Protecting one another from sin, encouraging one another, building each other up in love. Let's continue to do that as the church of our Lord. So let's get to some questions here. And once again, the email address is whenweunderstandthetext at gmail .com.

This one is from Matt. Hey Gabe and Becky, I thank you for all that you guys do. I'm a regular Q &A listener, and I had a question pop into my head this morning and thought I'd toss it to you guys. If a Christian commits a crime, are they allowed to plead not guilty and force the state to make their case?

Or do they need to plead guilty and accept whatever punishment is due? I only ask this out of curiosity, I promise. Yeah, sure Matt, sure. Also, please keep praying for East Tennessee and Western North Carolina.

We're about 20 miles west of the damage here in Knoxville. So we were fine, but so many others are struggling mightily without food, power, etc. One of the Theocast guys is in Asheville, I believe. Love you guys, Matt.

Well, I appreciate your question, Matt. Yes, we are definitely praying for those folks that have been affected by these storms. I'm all the way out in Arizona. I'm far southwest United States. That's kind of my home turf.

I don't want to call it my home turf. This is my home. And I lived more years in Kansas than I did in the southeast. But I was born there. I was born in South Carolina. And so seeing a lot of the devastation there really was heartbreaking.

My parents live in Georgia. They're just south of Atlanta. When I asked my dad how he was affected by the storm, he said, Oh, we lost a tree. So apparently it didn't hit them as bad in that part of Georgia.

But yeah, up there in North Georgia and in the Carolinas and in East Tennessee, it has been heartbreaking watching the devastation. I just saw something the other day. I don't have this figure up in front of me.

But the number of suicides has doubled already in western North Carolina. And that is, again, just heart-wrenching to hear about those things. People who are they've lost everything. And they don't have any communication with the outside world.

There's no power. They're lacking food and water. And so some are and they've even lost family members. So some are taking that way out. And they are choosing to commit suicide. Lord God, please convict the hearts of that people.

Bring the gospel to them especially. Some of the people that come and will provide aid and assistance in those regions will also come with the gospel of Jesus Christ. I've heard stories from people who are out there.

Like I've talked with folks who have been there in the disaster relief, and they have said that the government, at least in the places where they have been, the government comes in and they create more of a problem.

They're not helping. They're exacerbating the issue. And some of the volunteers are like, we'd just rather not see the government come in. We don't want to see them here because it makes our job harder.

So something else to be praying about, that there would be godly people, godly advisors around these leaders so that they're making decisions for the the best decisions for the people, not sticking with their rules and regulations and trying to do things by some sort of code, whatever it is that they're following.

But what do we need to do to get assistance to the people? And pray that all of those efforts come through. I know Samaritan's Purse is still doing an immense amount of work. I heard on the Daily Wire the other day.

Them give great congratulations to Samaritan's Purse for the work that they are doing. And then also the Southern Baptist Disaster Relief Group. This is kind of their specialty. It's what they do, and they're extremely good at it.

There's a couple of things that you can support. One of the things that I mentioned I think I said this last week. Could have been the week before. But look for local churches in those areas. Just do a Google search of some kind.

Maybe not churches that are in the areas affected by the storm because they're going to still need supplies, but other churches around North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee that are going into those regions and look for where they have, like, collecting money or collecting goods or food or something like that, and then get it to those churches, which will get it to those needed regions.

That's another way that you can help out with some of the disaster relief. Of course, Hurricane Milton just crossed the peninsula of Florida, and so we've just started seeing reports of devastation there.

I'm recording this on a Thursday, so I've still been watching video of the devastation that's been there in Florida. My brother lives in Southern Florida. I have two friends of mine, my mentor Dave, his wife Vicki, that live in the Tampa Bay area.

His kids, his grandkids talked to him a few days ago before the storm hit, and he said they're staying, that they were going to ride it out. You probably saw the video footage of people trying to leave the area and not being able to get out.

It was just crammed traffic. You couldn't go anywhere. Then I think there was gas shortages for 100 miles or something to that effect. That would have been even worse, to get stuck out on the interstate and not be able to go anywhere, and then that storm hits, and that's where you are.

So I understand the people who just made the decision, well, we're just going to stay at home and ride it out. So praying for all those who have been affected by these storms, look for ways that you can help if you can, and, of course, be praying for those folks as they are assessing the damage, trying to pick up, clean up their lives.

Again, praying that the gospel shines forth. We read in Psalm 107 that God will cause storms to draw people to him. In Psalm 107, verse 28, they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.

He made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed. Then they were glad when the waters were quiet, and he brought them to their desired haven. Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man.

Let them extol him in the congregation of the people and praise him in the assembly of the elders. Things like this happen in our world because of sin, because Adam sinned against God, because all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

He subjected this world to a curse. It is subjected to futility, as said in Romans 8, and we see evidence of that through these storms. This is part of the judgment that has come upon creation because of man's sin against God.

So when we face trials like this in this life, may it cause us to draw near to God and turn to him and call out to him, and he will deliver us. But of course, we need to bring that good news of the gospel into these regions and share with them that the saving power of the gospel of Jesus Christ is for those who have faith in him.

You will be forgiven your sins and you will have everlasting life with God. And though this whole world will be destroyed, we will have everlasting life forever with God in glory where all of these things will be no more.

Well, back to Matt's question here, where he said, if a Christian commits a crime, are they allowed to plead not guilty and force the state to make their case, or do they need to plead guilty and accept whatever punishment is due?

Well, what does the scripture say? James 5 .16, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours and he prayed fervently that it might not rain.

And for three years and six months, it did not rain on the earth. Then he prayed again and heaven gave rain and the earth bore its fruit. My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

The scriptures tell us to confess our sins. And so if you are guilty and you know you are guilty, then you need to plead guilty. Yes, your honor, I did that. This is what I am guilty of. And so I am going to confess it before you and throw yourself at the mercy of the court.

I once got a ticket for speeding and it was the first ticket. I take it back. It was not the first ticket I ever got for speeding. It was the first ticket I ever got that was a legitimate ticket. There were other times I got ticketed for speeding that were not legitimate.

Long stories. You're all going, yeah, right, sure, gay, whatever. Okay. So this was my first legitimate ticket for speeding. And I showed up on the court date and the judge asked me, do you plead guilty or not guilty?

And I said, well, I'm guilty. And the judge was kind of like, okay, well, then why are you here? And I said, well, I can't pay the ticket. I was in college at the time. I'm struggling to pay this ticket.

So I'm asking, is there mercy that the court can give me? I mean, can you change this to a warning? It was kind of what I was asking. Well, he actually ended up canceling the ticket and just made me pay the court costs and that ended up working out okay.

But yeah, when the judge came to asking me about the ticket, that's the first thing he asked me. I didn't get the chance to make an excuse first. It was just the judge saying, are you guilty or not guilty?

No, I'm guilty. I was speeding. That's why I'm here. So you do need to confess your sins even before the court, even before the court of law. But who is more important to confess your sins before is God himself.

First John one nine. If we ask forgiveness for our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. And Psalm 66 18 tells us if I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened to my prayer.

So when we don't confess our sins, when we hide that, we kind of keep it within ourselves. And even we kind of like the sin. I don't really want to confess it. I don't want to repent of it. I want to be able to come back to it again, or I'm going to wait until I'm going to see if somebody else can discover it first.

Well, then we don't really fear God. We fear man, something that I talked about yesterday. When we were going through Hosea chapter 12, if there are sins that you're just worried about somebody else finding out about and, and not God, you're not concerned if God knows it or not, you're just concerned if other people are going to find out, well, then your fear is of man and not of God.

If you're guilty, confess, confess that you are guilty, especially before God, that you may be forgiven your sins before the court, accept your consequences and just do what needs to be done, Matt, for whatever it is you're guilty of just teasing a man.

But I appreciate you sending this question in. This next question comes from Gerald in Nebraska. This is kind of right along the same lines. Hello. That's a good one. I'm going to pass that on to her.

I heard this question asked on another podcast, and I don't think I was satisfied with the answer. Is a Christian allowed to speed and is speeding a sin? There's nothing in the Bible that says we are not allowed to speed, but the Bible does say that we are to obey the governing authorities.

So is that where we would come to our understanding that Christians must obey all traffic laws? This maybe doesn't need a long answer. Perhaps you can do a short video about it. You're in the car with me every day.

So when you answer this question, it's going to feel like Gabe and Becky are my passengers watching my speedometer. God bless. That's a little intimidating. I don't know that. I mean, how good a driver are you, Gerald?

But yeah, when it comes to obeying the laws of man, even if it's not in God's word, we still need to be submitting to the governing authorities. That is in God's word. So Romans 13 one, let every person be subject to the governing authorities.

Every person. There's no caveat. There's no loophole here. Everyone must be subject to governing authorities for there is no authority except from God. And those that exist have been instituted by God.

Therefore, whoever resists the authorities, resists what God has appointed and those who resist will incur judgment for rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority?

Then do what is good and you will receive his approval for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain, or in this case, the pad and pen to write you a ticket for he is the servant of God, an Avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.

Therefore, now this is, this is important. Verse five, Romans 13 five, this one, this verse doesn't get referenced as often whenever we talk about this from Romans 13, therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath, but also for the sake of conscience.

Tell me if you're ever out there speeding, when you get beyond the speed limit, don't you start having a guilty conscience? You're hitting 80 and a 65 and you're thinking to yourself, man, I sure hope there's not a cop around because I'm going to get in trouble, but you still like going fast.

You still want to get there quicker or you just like the speed, whatever it is. But if your conscience is guilty, you're sending James 14 seven, or sorry, I'm adding way more chapters to James, James four 17.

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it for him, it is sin. Now we were talking about legalism just a moment ago. There are ways that we can get legalistic about traffic laws. Like if I didn't come to a full stop before the white line at an intersection and I just rolled over it a little bit, have I now sinned?

I don't think you necessarily need to take it that far, but you need to have a heart that desires to keep the law, obey the traffic laws so that your conscience will not be guilty. And then you fall into sin or even incur those fines.

What kind of reputation are you going to have around other people? If you're somebody that is constantly disobeying traffic laws and getting ticketed for that, how is that going to affect your witness in the gospel?

When people are going to look at you going, you just do whatever it is that you want to do. So you're telling me I'm a sinner and I need a savior and you just go out and do whatever you want to do. You also have to consider your witness in those circumstances as well.

So may we be subject to these governing authorities? You have any other thoughts about that? Maybe that I haven't thought through here. I would appreciate hearing from you. My email address is when we understand the text at gmail .com.

And don't forget you can go to www .utt .com and click on the voicemail tab there on the top right corner of the page. That is the end of this first segment. For those who are listening on the radio, thank you for tuning in.

For those listening to the podcast, hang on. We've got another half hour. You can hear the full podcast by going to www .utt .com. God bless. Using glitter and fog machines, Bethel Church and Jesus Culture make these glory clouds during their worship services, which they claim is the Holy Spirit.

I wondered if it's okay for us to run to a corner of a room and stand and watch and take pictures.

I think he rather enjoys it. Someone might say, well, do you know for certain they're using a fog machine? What's your proof that these are man-made tricks? And the answer is the Bible. If the glory of God was appearing in their church, no one would be cheering and pointing.

They would be dead. When God spoke to the people of Israel from Mount Sinai, they were terrified. When the glory of God passed in front of Moses, God put him in the cleft of a rock and covered him, because had he seen God in all his glory, it would have killed him.

After Moses had been in God's presence, even in this way, his face was so bright people were too afraid to come near him. Hebrews 1 says, There was a time when God spoke to us in many ways by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son.

Jesus is the radiance of the glory of God. Paul said that the light of the knowledge of the glory of God is in the face of Jesus Christ. We know God's glory when the word of Christ is spoken, not by manufacturing his presence with cheap tricks.

God said, This is to whom I will look, he who is repentant and who trembles at my word. The Holy Spirit is to Bethel Church and Jesus culture what Jesus Christ is to the Mormons and the Jehovah's Witnesses.

They believe in a Holy Spirit of their own making, not the Holy Spirit of God whom we see and hear from in the pages of Scripture when we understand the text. All right, back to the questions here. This one comes from Alex, who says, Hey, Gabe, I have two questions.

The first is about what? And the second question is a little personal. So if you don't want to answer it, I understand. I like the sermon clips that you have been posting. The shorts are a great addition to the what YouTube channel.

But when are you going to get back to doing the usual what videos? Great question, Alex. I'm actually going to answer your second question first. So here's the here's the second one. My second question has to do with something I noticed in the preaching clips.

You appear to have a mark on your face, and I'm not sure that I'd ever noticed it before. So I looked back at some older videos of you preaching and it appears to change size and shape. I hope you don't mind me saying so, but it has me concerned.

Is it something serious? And if so, are you able to have it removed? Sorry for prying. I appreciate the ministry. It has meant a lot to me. Thank you for your commitment to the word. Well, Alex, you're not prying.

In fact, you're not the only person who has asked me this question. I get this question maybe once or twice a month, and I'll post clips of myself preaching or something like that on one of my channels.

I'll have like critics will say something to what is that on your face? And they'll make fun of me and whatever it is that I have on my face. I have seen a dermatologist over it. She told me what it was.

I don't remember now. It's not cancer. I did have it frozen off at one point, but they didn't get all of it, and some of it has grown back in. And so that's the situation that I got going on right now.

I'm waiting for the house in Texas to sell. I got some news about the house. I'll let you know at the end of this segment. I'm waiting until the house sells. We've got some dental things that need to be taken care of with the kids and Becky.

And then if this is just kind of a I don't know, is it a vanity thing? It's not entirely vanity because I shouldn't leave it, but I'm waiting until all of our other things are taken care of. My son, who's three years old, our youngest, needs a surgery.

It's actually a very sensitive kind of a surgery, and I'm not going to tell you where it is that he needs this surgery. We got to get that done first. So all of those things that need to be taken care of first, and then I'll get those things on me that need to be taken care of.

I'm the dad. I'm the head of the household. I'm going to make sure everybody else is taken care of first. But I do appreciate your concern and your prayers and support from you folks has always been absolutely wonderful.

Let's get to a little more relevant theological question here. Well, going back to Alex's first question, I guess. So he likes the sermon clips, and he wants to see more of the what videos. When am I going to do more of those?

Well, this month, here in the month of October, I'm trying to do all five solas. So five what videos on the five solas? Sola Scriptura, in Scripture alone. Sola Fide, by faith alone. Sola Gratia, by grace alone.

Solus Christus, in Christ alone. And Soli Deo Gloria, to the glory of God alone. Those five solas that we generally consider to be those basic doctrines of the Protestant Reformation. I mean, they're foundational doctrines to the Christian faith.

So I'm going to do videos on those five. Since we're here in the month of October, and we're coming up on the day that's generally considered to be the anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, October the 31st, when Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of All Saints Church in Wittenberg, Saxony, which is today Germany.

So that's what I'm going to do this month. I'm hoping to be able to have five videos done this month on the five solos. I'm currently preaching a series through all five solos. And the first message in that series, I did this past Sunday.

You'll hear it on the podcast this coming Sunday. Here's another question from, let's see, that was from Alex. Let me go to this one from Gary. Pastor Gabe, I appreciate some of the feedback that you've given on The Chosen.

You mentioned this past week in Luke 1 that maybe Mary and Elizabeth were not all that close as relatives before they were both pregnant. Okay, this would have been a couple of weeks ago that I had mentioned that.

And that John the Baptist and Jesus did not know each other growing up either. So I was curious as to how you came to that conclusion. Maybe you said so, but I don't remember. Also, did you ever do a critique of the scene in The Chosen where John the Baptist speaks to Jesus very disrespectfully?

I understand that it upset a lot of people, even fans of the show. Curious to know your thoughts and thank you for your time. I did watch that scene because it's in season two. And I was watching through season two to do a critique of it that would be on my blog, but I never finished the blog.

I did watch the season, but I didn't finish the review. I'll just have to go back to that and find those notes and get the blog written. I think that's all I got to do is just edit my notes and get it published.

But yeah, I remember this scene and it is so terrible. I hated everything about the way that they did John the Baptist in this show. And also come to find that the actor who played him is an atheist. He didn't even believe any of this stuff anyway.

How in the world does Dallas Jenkins cast these guys? It's just absurd anyway. So the guy that plays John the Baptist doesn't even believe the material that he's reading. But yeah, there's this scene between John the Baptist and Jesus before John is about to go off and confront Herod for his sin.

He has taken his brother's wife. He's committed adultery. It is against the law of God what Herod has done. And so just before he's about to go and do this thing, there's this conversation that he has with Jesus.

I've not been able to find the full conversation on YouTube. I didn't do a real deep search for it, but I did find this minute long clip. So let me play this and we'll critique the conversation here between Jesus and John the Baptist.

I'm not ready to get into the specifics. You appear to be not ready to get into the specifics of a lot of things. For instance, stay on topic. The romantic lives of rulers and kings will be addressed.