Mondays w. The Monk: What You Tolerate, You Promote.

Reality might be louder with God than we’ve been trained to hear. We kick things off with a deceptively simple line from Acts 9:31 and treat it like a leadership model you can actually live: peace, strength, reverence, encouragement by the Holy Spirit, and then real increase. Not hype. Not burnout. A grounded way to lead your life, your relationships, and your work from a calmer center.

Then we widen the lens on the Book of Acts itself. Because Luke writes both Luke and Acts, we explore the idea that Acts reads like the “Gospel of the Holy Spirit” and why the post-Pentecost church looks like the volume is turned up on the supernatural. That opens a bigger conversation about hearing God, seeing God, and whether Jesus is inviting us into the same kind of attention he describes when he says he only does what he sees the Father doing and only says what he hears the Father saying.

From there, we get into a challenging framework for Bible study and spiritual formation: Scripture as Jewish meditation literature. We talk Merkaba “chariot” meditation, Paul’s road to Damascus, and the image of “scales falling” as a lived experience of metanoia and spiritual perception coming online. We also connect the dots to everyday life with a practical takeaway: meaning isn’t something you manufacture, it’s something you discover by finding Christ in the depth of the reality right in front of you, from a sunrise to a business decision to a walk in the woods.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:02

Welcome to the Buddy for Junior Show. My name is with the monk. I have Brian here. Brian Metzger, what's up, brother?

SPEAKER_00 0:08

Yeah, so good to be back, buddy. So good to be with you. Good to be with the audience.

SPEAKER_02 0:13

Love it.

Welcome And Weekly Greatness

SPEAKER_02 0:14

Greatness, bro. The greatness for me this week is the book of Acts. I just had no idea. Had no idea of the leadership model that it puts out in front of us. Like just right there. So um that's my excitement. That's my greatness. Book of Acts, chapter 9 and 11. I'm at right now. Like I'm just diving into 9 and 11. Ooh, 9-11. I don't know if I like that.

SPEAKER_01 0:43

Well, nothing has meaning but the meaning you give it. It's a great time to take the power back.

SPEAKER_02 0:48

I love it. Nothing has meaning but the meaning you give it. Another great one.

SPEAKER_01 0:53

So yeah, so uh let me let's let's go to nine and eleven. And is there a line in there that's been ringing for you of of chapters nine through eleven?

SPEAKER_02 1:07

Yeah, um, big time. Two of 'em.

Acts 9:31 As A Leadership Formula

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So chapter nine, uh, verse thirty one. Right? So I just learned a little, I think I got a little secret I learned here.

SPEAKER_02 1:23

I was talking to Jen about it. Then so obviously, just to give the audience you know the Bible, and I'm sure the audience does too, but just in case. Paul's on the road to Damascus, he gets blinded by Jesus, and Jesus asks him, Why are you pro persecuting me? So the biggest hunter of Christians is called out by Jesus, knocked off his horse, can't see, goes into the city, eventually he sees, and he becomes this. We all know now he's the number one author of the New Testament. And he didn't and he did not walk with Jesus. So that's that to me, that's inspiration. And understanding he's the murderer of Christians, the first Christians. That was one of the first things I learned going to church about 10 years ago. They're kind of like, wow, not I'm not a murderer, I'm a sinner. But man, if Paul could become something pretty amazing, maybe I can too. And that's what kind of led me to be open, like wide open for the word for transformation. And obviously, my transformation is nothing like Paul's. Anyhow, he becomes this advocate, and then they have to kind of go on a sabbatical. They gotta get out of here. A lot's happening, right? He talked and debate and debate with the Jews, and then they tried to kill him. So in 11, in chapter 931, then the church throughout Judea. Well, they went away, they they escaped. They went on a sabbatical for rest. And this is the result of it. Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria, enjoyed a time of peace and was strengthened, living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged. So they have fear, they have encouragement, encouraged by the Holy Spirit. So they're in peace, then they find strength, then they fear God, then they intercede to the Holy Spirit, and then they increase. It's just like, wait a minute, two plus two plus two equals ten here. I like that mathematic I like that mathematical formula. So if I can lead with peace, I'll find strength. And then obviously increase my relationship with God through fearing the understanding of his existence. Like, wait a minute. I don't want to and I don't want to I want to pivot the word fear because what I picked up on this, or I'm gonna pick it up on it right now and I'm talking. I'm fearful, missing out. FOMO. I have FOMO. Like, I don't I'm not fearing, and of course we should fear him like to traditional fearing of how we did our mother and father. Stop that. Your father's coming home in an hour. I'm gonna tell him that you didn't clean your room. All of a sudden we start cleaning, right? But it's what we're missing out on if we don't clean our room.

unknown 4:14

Right?

SPEAKER_02 4:15

We're missing out on this incredible, neat room of order and just enjoyment. Imagine when you're a kid, the album covers hanging on the wall, the bed's made, your hampers put away, and you can navigate and move around. That's the fear that I don't want to miss out on. Like I don't want to miss out on that fear, that organization, that heavenly relationship with God that will increase my numbers, whether it's my business, financially, my friends that are real, my energy, like then what are the numbers, right? So when I unpack that, I just want everywhere at that scripture. And I'll pause because this is Monday with the month. Sorry, I get pumped up before we even go to uh chapter 11.

SPEAKER_01 4:58

Yeah, no, uh I love it, buddy. The so uh may I share with you where my imagination goes as soon as you say Acts of the Apostles? Please. So the it's

Acts As The Gospel Of The Spirit

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been said you have the four gospels, and one of the four gospels that's Luke, and Luke is the author of Acts. So sometimes, in in fact, in seminary when study this, we studied Luke Acts together. And it's been said that the the gospel of Luke, that's the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, and then the gospel then Acts of the Apostles has been called the the Gospel of the Holy Spirit. So of the four gospels we have, which are the gospels of Christ, isn't it cool that we have the Acts of the Apostles is a gospel of the Holy Spirit.

SPEAKER_02 5:48

Wow. Yeah, I'm receiving that.

SPEAKER_01 5:51

All right. Now that makes sense that that's fitting because it Acts of the Apostles opens up with the with the Pentecost. So Jesus ascends to the right hand of the Father. Speaking of leadership, that's the place of authority. All authority has been given to him. So he ascends to the right hand of the Father so that he can send the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit gets sent. And and now you see a completely different version of the church. So the uh the post the post-Pentecost version of Peter Peter, James, and John.

SPEAKER_03 6:35

Yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:37

So there's there's this something Yeah, the Gospels themselves are certain packed, supernaturally packed. There's a way though that the Acts of the Apostles is like the supernatural, it's the the volumes turned up to 11 on it. And so once upon a time, you and I did some conversations about reading the Bible as Jewish meditation literature. And I'm not sure if we spoke about Merkaba the chariot meditation. Does that ring a bell, Merkaba chariot meditation? No. So this so the so here's my proposal. We're reading the Bible wrong. There's lots of ways you can read the Bible. There's history in it, but it's not a history book. There's morality in it,

Reading Scripture As Meditation Literature

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but it's not a morality book. It's there's philosophy in it, but there's not a it's not a philosophy book. What is the Bible then? There's theology in it, but it's not a theology book. So what is the Bible? The Bible is Jewish meditation literature. Even the New Testament, which is about Christ, is for the is written as Jewish meditation literature. What's the purpose of Jewish meditation? To see the face of God. So one of the ways of doing that was what's what's called Merkaba. It's a chariot meditation. That's the Jewish word, the Hebrew word for chariot, Merkaba. So Jewish meditation, the Merkaba. The purpose of the Merkaba is to see the face of God. Now, you could say, okay, well, why didn't I ever hear about this? Well, it's once you know to look for it, you can see Merkaba, chariot meditations all through the scriptures. You see Merkaba meditations in Ezekiel, has there's a chariot in Ezekiel. There's Isaiah winds up in the throne in the throne room. How did he get there? He got there through this spiritual vehicle, this Merkaba. He he was taken into a throne. Elijah himself was picked picked up from the Jordan River by a fiery chariot. So there are chariots all the way through scripture.

SPEAKER_02 8:43

And who was who who that an apostle was taken by that's that's right, Philip.

SPEAKER_01 8:50

Very good. Come on, buddy. That's it, man. That's what I'm talking about. And that's in Acts of the Apostles.

SPEAKER_02 8:54

Oh, is it really?

SPEAKER_01 8:55

Yeah, I'm I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure that would be in the Acts of the Apostles. So we'll we get you fact check me on that one.

SPEAKER_02 9:01

Okay, interesting.

SPEAKER_01 9:02

But but it's been said that Paul on his road to Damascus experience that he was doing a chariot meditation. Okay, what was the purpose of the chariot meditation? It was in order to see the face of God. So Paul's doing a chariot meditation. This is a traditional Jewish practice. This is why they read scripture, this is how they read scripture, this is what they do. This was normal.

SPEAKER_02 9:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 9:27

So he was he was doing his Merkaba meditation in order to see the face of the Lord, and then it happened. He saw the face of the Lord.

unknown 9:35

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 9:36

And for and it was Jesus. So this is while he was persecuting Christians. So imagine he was he's out, you know. Paul doesn't know he's a bad guy here. He doesn't know he's a murderer, he thinks he's doing righteousness, he thinks what he's doing is righteous. Boy, it sounds familiar today, doesn't it? Yeah, sounds familiar in my own life. This is the way all of us live. Like this is why we need the the metanoia, the repentance. Like, God, show me how you see things. Forget about my good ideas, God. Show me how you see things, show me how you think about things, show me how you feel things. Because all of us get, you know, deluded and confused and our own ideas. Like Christ is the only, the the the only way out of our own imaginations. So Christ, so so Paul, he's on the road to Damascus, he's persecuting Christians, he does his chariot meditation in order to see the face of the Lord. He sees the face of the Lord, and oh my gosh, it's Jesus. And you know, wrong side. He's on the wrong side. Then, then I also love the the fact that this is you have the the three days, and then and I think it's Ananias is sent to pray with them, and then something like scales fall from his eyes. This is what you and I've been talking about. The John, what if it's possible for us to live just like Jesus did? What if what Jesus is open? What if Jesus demonstrated he's inviting us to?

Scales Falling And Seeing God

SPEAKER_01 11:12

Jesus demonstrated for us uh a way of following the Father. He says, I only do in in John 5, he says, I only do what I see the Father doing. And in John 12, he says, I only say what I hear the Father saying. Honor pose, he's inviting us to follow in his footsteps to be able to see the father and hear the father. We do it through him. We can't do it without him, has to be through him. This is why he says, When you see me, you see the father. So when when you and I talk about catching ourselves in the act of being generated, that's us seeing and hearing the Father. So Paul he says here, something like scales fell from his eyes, so that he now could see the Lord. He could see Christ is who Christ says he is, and we are who he says we are. And you know, you talk about leadership, you know, that is Jesus was the greatest leader because he was first the greatest follower. He only did what he saw the Father doing and said what he heard the father saying. But can we really see God? Can we really hear God? Paul talks about something like scales falling from his eyes so that he could see. If you look at 2 Corinthians chapter 3, Paul says, whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil will be removed. What I love about that. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_02 12:35

What is turning to the Lord then? We we like we go over this, like turning to the Lord. Like whoever turns to the Lord, the veil will be removed. What does turning look like?

SPEAKER_01 12:47

Attention.

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What's your focus? Okay. Where are you where are you attention?

SPEAKER_02 12:54

Over a long period of time. So this is a meditative focus, like winning the NBA championships, right? So it just doesn't happen in a game. Right? It's a focus over a period of time.

SPEAKER_01 13:07

Well, okay. So the gospel the gospel of grace and the finished work of the cross, religion's not about what we're gonna do for God. It's about what he's already done for us. So by a sovereign act of God, you and I, and everyone who's listening, we have moments where we bump into God. Those are those moments when we catch ourselves in the act of being generated, which means something strikes you as something beautiful, something meaningful, something moving, something that matters. I mean, without Christ, nothing has meaning. We talked about nothing has meaning but the meaning that we give it. But the way you give something meaning is you find Christ in it. Wow. Wow. So everybody, even the atheist, even the person who's angry at God, even the person who's running away from God, they still have moments where beauty breaks in. You know, a child reaches up and takes their hand, or the uh uh see a beautiful sunrise, or something in oftentimes it's something in nature.

SPEAKER_02 14:20

Listen, I just don't want to overstep or overpass over what you just said. You said the way you find meaning in something is to find Jesus in it.

SPEAKER_01 14:31

Yeah, that's it. Christ hidden in the depths of the reality. This is where we this is where we look of all the places that we look to see God and to hear God. So Jesus only did what he saw the Father doing, only said what he heard the Father saying. Where did he look to see? Where did he listen to hear? And there's lots of good answers. You know, look in your heart, look in prayer, look in the scriptures, look up to heaven. And buddy, I love all those answers. I love them all. Please do not delete them. However, there's one that's more important than all the others, and that's the depth of the reality that's in front of me. When Jesus said, I am the truth, he was self-identifying with reality. Christ is reality. If you know Christ, you know reality. If you don't know Christ, you don't know reality, you're disconnected from reality, which is the definition of insanity.

SPEAKER_02 15:23

Doing the same thing over and over.

SPEAKER_01 15:27

Yeah, and and why are you doing the same thing over and over? Not picking up on the yeah, that's I am the definition of the like where is this where is this true in my life? Yes. So yeah, but but once you see the pattern, you see the reality, I want to say there's an aha moment, there's a spark, there's a moment of being generated. Jesus, is that you? Are you the one that just came to break me free from this pattern that had enslaved me? Is this the way that you liberate me?

SPEAKER_02 15:55

Okay, so that all sounds awesome. I love it. But here's what screws me up.

SPEAKER_00 16:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 16:00

I go to I go to Noah, right? And the Lord found favor in Noah. Thank God, praise Jesus for Noah. And how old was he?

SPEAKER_01 16:09

When that

Turning To The Lord Through Attention

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happened, I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_02 16:12

Like a couple hundred years old. Verify, look at it in Genesis. Yeah, yeah. Don't believe me. All right, so yeah, God finds favor in Noah, and he had he was he was a lot older than we live. So when you talk about all this, okay, when we talk about the way to find meaning is to find Jesus in it, the depth of the reality of what's in front of me, the depth of what's the depth of the real the depth of reality?

SPEAKER_01 16:41

Yeah. So where do we look to see? Where do we listen to here? When we're talking about our focus, like how do you turn to the Lord? Whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil will be removed. Something like scales will fall from your eyes. Whenever we and so you asked me, how do you turn to the Lord? And I said, It's your attention, it's your focus. So where do you put your attention? Where do you put your focus on the presence of Christ in the reality?

SPEAKER_02 17:08

So did Noah did Noah take 150 years to turn his focus to Jesus or to God, I'm sorry, to God, which is the same thing. Well, or was he there for 150 years? Let's back up. Did so I do this thing take like 100 times?

SPEAKER_01 17:25

I I want to own what you were saying there first. That uh that Noah knew Jesus.

SPEAKER_02 17:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:32

No one knew Jesus. When when the fathers of the church would say this about Moses when Moses was at the burning bush, that the burning bush was the divine logos, that's the second person, the blessed trinity. That's Christ. That's the pre uh that's the the pre-existent Christ. I love that. Before meaning, I knew you were gonna before the incarnation.

SPEAKER_02 17:54

When you're talking to people that are biblical, like living in the word, yeah. You're gonna catch yourself saying something and go, oh my god, he's gonna pick up on that. I knew as soon as I said Noah encountered Jesus, then wait a minute, Noah's God. You're gonna be like, No, no, no, let's go back to that. Jesus.

SPEAKER_01 18:10

Yeah, because Jesus was in the beginning, and by the way, buddy, that that Jesus, okay, so where are some of the places that we see Jesus in the life of Noah? For one of them, it's the ark itself. The ark is the tree of life, the ark isn't just a boat that Noah built. The oh the ark is the mind

Finding Jesus In Noah And The Ark

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of God. So, so it's in in Isaiah 11, it talks about uh a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse. So that that shoot is Christ. That's a prophecy of Christ. That's Christ the branch. Christ is the tree of life. So when Noah is in the ark, he is in the tree of life, who is not the tree of life, isn't just something, it's someone. Noah is in Christ.

SPEAKER_03 19:07

Wow. Love that.

SPEAKER_01 19:10

And this is what this is what Jesus did on the road to Emmaus. We we got Paul's experience on the road to Damascus. We got Jesus' the the the experience of I think it's uh Cloopus and and and the other disciple. Jesus is walking with them after the after the death and resurrection, and they don't recognize him.

SPEAKER_02 19:31

Oh yeah, the husband, husband and wife, right?

SPEAKER_01 19:34

Yeah, I think it's I think it's cloopus and Mary. I think it's husband and wife. I think it's husband and wife.

SPEAKER_02 19:39

Yeah, they don't then he sleep, he's he stays with them.

SPEAKER_01 19:42

It says something prevented their eyes from recognizing him.

SPEAKER_02 19:46

The resurrected Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_01 19:49

The resurrected Jesus is walking with them, but they don't recognize him. I want to say that's happening for us all the time. Yeah, amen. The resurrected Jesus is here. Where is he? Hidden in the depths of the reality, and there are moments when it touches our spirit. Those are the moments that we call this is a beautiful day.

SPEAKER_02 20:09

Love that. Now, why is he hidden? Why isn't he just in reality? Why is he in the depths of reality?

SPEAKER_01 20:15

Depths deep. His his hide okay, good question. Good question. Here's my take on it. He's not trying to hide. We're just dull of our senses. We've got hard hearts and desensitized spirits, and we we've been trained not to see. Part of us doesn't want to see because part of us doesn't want to change. We want our way, we want to be in control, we want to be in charge.

SPEAKER_02 20:40

There's a great book out there about this. I'm looking right now. The unseen realm.

SPEAKER_01 20:45

Oh, come on. I love this guy. I love Michael Michael Heiser.

SPEAKER_02 20:51

Heiser. The Unseen Realm. So what you just unpacked, the reason why he's hidden in the depths of reality isn't because of Jesus, it's because of us.

SPEAKER_01 21:01

That's right. Come on.

SPEAKER_02 21:03

And our conditioning in audience. Here's what I'm going to tell you. The Unseen Realm. I'll put it in the show notes. Hopefully the audio transcript picks it up. The Unseen Realm by Michael Heiser. H-E-I-S-E-R. I love how he starts it off. Hey, welcome to the first time you're ever going to read the Bible. Because he shows us how we stick Jesus in the depths because of our cultural conditioning of when we read words and what they mean. It's amazing. It's an amazing thing.

SPEAKER_01 21:34

I was actually thinking about him when we were talking about the Acts of the Apostles that you opened up with. No kidding. Yes, because he he talks about the characters in the pages of the scriptures have a fully supernaturalized view of reality. And we resist that. We accept some supernatural. We believe Jesus walked on the water, Jesus performed some miracles, but we don't have a fully supernaturalized way of looking at reality. So I want to say, I want to buy into that. So Holy Spirit, if anybody's interested, you can say have a yes and amen for this prayer. Holy Spirit, we give you permission to give us, we say, we say yes to the gift of a fully supernaturalized way of looking at reality. So that

A Fully Supernatural View Of Reality

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means the sun, the moon, the stars, the blade of grass, the grain of sand, the business transaction, our our our marriages, our family life, our friendships, the the basketball game, whatever we watch, fully supernaturalized real heaven, the visible world was created by God to reveal the invisible realm. So everything you're looking at needs to be translated.

SPEAKER_02 22:58

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 23:04

There's your hammer. There's your hammer. I have to hammer it home.

SPEAKER_03 23:08

So we gotta focus.

SPEAKER_02 23:12

We started this whole thing through the Maricaba, the chariot meditation, Paul. We brought in Acts chapter 9, 31 around finding peace, then strength, fear of the Lord, which I call FOMO, then the Holy Spirit intercession, and then increasing in numbers. Focusing. Jesus invites us to follow him in his footsteps, and whatever he only says what the Father is saying, and here's what the Father says. Corinthians chapter 2, 3, turning to the Lord.

SPEAKER_03 23:55

Right?

SPEAKER_02 23:56

And religion is what we it's what God has done for us, not what we do to God.

SPEAKER_00 24:04

Yeah, do for God, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:06

And why we find uh and how do we find meaning in front of us? And that's looking at the depths of the reality of Jesus. And we do this through how just give me three practices this week that I can work on to go full circle on this focus. And really what we're focusing on is finding Jesus and everything, the Bernie Bush.

SPEAKER_01 24:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:29

And you and I have talked about that last week.

SPEAKER_01 24:31

Yeah. So, buddy, first of all, fantastic synthesis of everything that we hit there. Um that's Jesus. Before Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. That's he is the logos, he is the logic, he's the thread that goes through. Um there's something you said though that before we so I will I will answer that, but before we do it, I just want to make some space where the Holy Spirit was showing me something.

SPEAKER_03 25:12

This is space, people. Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_01 25:17

Well, so let me see if Holy Spirit brings it back. So the the question you were asking about three ways that we could do this.

SPEAKER_02 25:24

Yeah, what are three ways to practice?

SPEAKER_01 25:26

Oh, I I know what it was. I know we brought it back. Holy Spirit brought it back. You mentioned about fear of the Lord. So one of the reasons I was investing in a fully supernaturalized view of reality is that we understand natural fear, but we my experience is

Fear Of The Lord And One Practice

SPEAKER_01 25:44

we don't really get supernatural fear. And there is a relationship between natural fear and supernatural fear, but there's also a paradox. So remember, paradox is a seeming contradiction because perfect love casts out fear, and God's perfect love. So why is there fear in the presence of God? This fear, this supernatural fear, is different. There, I'm not saying there's no relationship to natural fear, but there's an essential difference with the supernatural fear, and that's why we're these chariot meditations, they happen both ways. Sometimes we we experience we're taken up in an ascension vehicle into a heavenly realm, like like Elijah was, like Isaiah was. However, sometimes the Lord comes down in a chariot. That's what happens to Ezekiel. The Lord comes down to Ezekiel, says, first there was yeah, the four winds, and then there was a whirlwind, and then there were giant wheels, and then there was these four living creatures, and then there was one standing in the midst of it who was burning like fire and gleaning like amber and had the form of man. That was Jesus. So Paul knew what Jesus' face looked like, but Ezekiel didn't. So, but that was that was his encounter there. So I'm just making the case you have these encounters, these theophanies on the earth, and you have them in heavenly realms. When the theophany happens, that's when the fear of the Lord touches your spirit. There is nothing more exhilarating to the human spirit than the fear of the Lord. So you talk about FOMO, the fear of missing out. That's perfect. I love it. Because I don't want to miss out on the fear of the Lord touching my spirit. That's I'm in the throne room. This, and you know, and by the way, with these uh chariot meditations, I don't think we realize that Jesus was teaching us chariot meditations when he taught us the our Father and how to pray. He's taught us to pray, Thy kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. Well, where there's a kingdom, there's a king, and where there's a king, there's a throne. And God's throne is a chariot throne. We're asking for the throne of God to be set up right here. And when our hearts are tenderized and our spirits are desensitized, when the scales fall from our eyes, then the fear of the Lord touches our spirit, and we realize just how supernaturalized all reality is. Wow.

SPEAKER_02 28:30

That's so good.

SPEAKER_01 28:32

All right. So, how can well, so what are three things that we could do?

SPEAKER_02 28:35

Well, I think it I think you just hit one right there. Okay. We got to focus on desensitizing ourselves.

SPEAKER_01 28:43

And and what if the way to desensitize is start to recognize those moments of being generated? That's God giving us a heart of flesh.

SPEAKER_02 28:56

Well, it's you know, I think a lot of people up where I come from in Lake George, Adirondack, Spault Landing, most people like to hike. And whether they're whether they know it or not, they're recognizing the Holy Spirit.

SPEAKER_01 29:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:11

And not hike.

SPEAKER_01 29:12

What what watch this, buddy? So, and Holy Spirit's always doing the same thing. Holy Spirit is always revealing Jesus. And Jesus is always revealing the Father. So that's the flow. All right, but check this out. So your friends that like to go for hiking, do we realize that's Christ calling them to hike? Like, why do they want to go hiking? I just want to go walking around the woods. Why? They're being called. The call, the the in to encounter Christ is to be invited by Christ. To encounter Christ is to be called by Christ. So good. So so the first thing is is to recognize the ways that he's already doing it. The buddy, I've got a hard stop at 11:30 today. So we're gonna have to uh we're gonna have to pick up here. So I apologize.

SPEAKER_02 30:02

What time is it? 11 30. Oh my god. So all right, let's try let's hard stop this bad boy.

SPEAKER_01 30:09

Yeah, so there's at least one thing they can do catch themselves in the act of being generated.

SPEAKER_02 30:13

Done. We'll pick up the others later. All right, brother.

SPEAKER_03 30:18

Yeah thank you. Yeah, thank you. Thank you all for joining us next time, Mondays with the monk. Call me when you're