Parable of the Sower (Timeless)

We look over the parable of the sower, looking at what it means to us as believers, evangelists, and servants.  

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Chad [00:00:03]:
Why is it that every one of these, I have to cut out a fist fight?

Greg [00:00:08]:
Yeah. It's so natural. Crap, maga. When it's go time, it's go time. Truth bomb. Run, man.

Dave [00:00:21]:
Run, man.

Greg [00:00:22]:
He thinks I'm right.

Chad [00:00:23]:
Nolan. Nope. That's wrong. Jeez. I I know

Dave [00:00:26]:
your buttons, dude.

Chad [00:00:27]:
I didn't even use the buttons.

Chad [00:00:28]:
The buttons.

Dave [00:00:29]:
I didn't even use the buttons. Alright.

Greg [00:00:30]:
There's only 3 of them, so this one better be right. Go. I

Chad [00:00:39]:
did that on purpose.

Dave [00:00:40]:
I know you did. I saw. If it's go time, it's go time. There we go.

Chad [00:00:43]:
There we go.

Greg [00:00:46]:
That was a mess. That was. That was a mess. I think we I

Chad [00:00:49]:
might leave it in. Okay.

Greg [00:00:51]:
It'd be good for an outro.

Chad [00:00:53]:
It might be or an

Greg [00:00:54]:
outro credits. Yeah. Yeah. Leave it for the outtakes.

Dave [00:00:57]:
Dave was a missionary kid in Japan.

Dave [00:01:00]:
Oh, really? Really, dude? Now we're gonna go there? Okay.

Chad [00:01:30]:
Yeah. We're we're in the reptile exhibit, and there was this one reptile. He was standing up on its back legs telling a joke. Mhmm. And my son's like, look at the reptile standing on its legs telling a joke. I said, son, that's a stand up chameleon.

Greg [00:01:49]:
Just bad. It is. I'm only laughing because of how bad it is. It I wasn't actually laughing because it was good. Show me those teeth, Greg. Man.

Dave [00:02:00]:
Brutal. Brutal. Oh.

Greg [00:02:03]:
Yeah. Have you guys noticed that I've caused the word brutal to be used in this group more and more? Show no to you. We're good to go with our buttery smooth voices. The Velveeta cheese that your ears bleed for. Cheese that your ears bleed for.

Dave [00:02:22]:
What? People say that, don't they?

Greg [00:02:25]:
I've never heard that before.

Dave [00:02:27]:
Oh, well Alright. You're from a different generation.

Greg [00:02:30]:
Yes. I did grow up in another country. Which country? Nope. And why? Nope. Nope. No bell today. Well, I mean, I don't have control of the bell. So Yeah.

Greg [00:02:43]:
You could choose to do it and then edit my voice.

Chad [00:02:46]:
He says it now, but it ends up happening. He can't help himself.

Greg [00:02:51]:
Yeah. I do it just for you. Sure. I do it just for you guys.

Chad [00:02:54]:
He'll he'll get there.

Greg [00:02:57]:
Are you okay, Greg? I'm doing great. It's gonna be this way all night.

Dave [00:03:01]:
It is. It is.

Greg [00:03:02]:
So get used to it.

Chad [00:03:03]:
That's okay.

Greg [00:03:04]:
Dig in, man. Dig in. Yes. Here we're gonna hear this a lot. Dave. Dave.

Chad [00:03:15]:
So I've got this really interesting thing. On Saturday, we opened a gallon of milk, and

Greg [00:03:21]:
Dave is True story.

Chad [00:03:22]:
True story. I'm not I'm not not everything's a joke, Dave.

Greg [00:03:26]:
Man. Jeez.

Dave [00:03:27]:
He's a real person, Dave.

Greg [00:03:29]:
Gosh. There's so many things I wanna say.

Chad [00:03:33]:
So on Saturday, we opened a gallon of milk, and on Sunday, that gallon of milk was still in the fridge. And on Monday, it was still in the fridge, and on Tuesday, it was still in the fridge. And on Wednesday night, we've finally emptied the last little bit and had to open a new gallon of milk.

Greg [00:03:51]:
So in other words, somebody moved out of your house.

Chad [00:03:53]:
Somebody moved out of my house.

Greg [00:03:55]:
I'm a milk drinker.

Chad [00:03:56]:
Milk drinker. My oldest son moved out on Saturday.

Greg [00:03:59]:
Wow. Nice.

Chad [00:04:00]:
Yes. I don't know if he listens to this. Yeah. If so, I miss you greatly so much.

Greg [00:04:06]:
Do you, though?

Chad [00:04:07]:
And if you're not listening, we're gonna save so much money on milk. Yeah. It's incredible. Indeed.

Greg [00:04:13]:
It's a good thing. Being empty nest is a good thing.

Dave [00:04:17]:
I'll bet it.

Greg [00:04:18]:
I Saves a lot of money.

Chad [00:04:19]:
I moved

Greg [00:04:19]:
I moved But then you end up spending it on them anyway. I moved

Chad [00:04:22]:
2 kids out this summer.

Greg [00:04:24]:
Sweet. I I'm trying to act like I feel sorry for you because I think you want

Chad [00:04:27]:
me to, but I don't Trying to figure out, like, how I saved money on the wedding. I didn't. No. Like, that's an investment that I guess I'll reap the rewards over. You know? It's like when you buy a new furnace and they tell you what your savings are gonna be and you're like, how is that gonna be a savings, yeah, calculated over the next 15 years. Yeah.

Greg [00:04:46]:
All the gifts you give to grandchildren and things like that when that comes around. But you, yeah. I'm not gonna ask. You you had a son so 2 guests. Yeah. No. No. But at the wedding, so I'm assuming it wasn't that expensive for you compared to it.

Greg [00:05:00]:
Expensive enough. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Rehearsal dinner.

Chad [00:05:04]:
There's a little bit more than that that we did, but

Dave [00:05:07]:
Well, and then the

Greg [00:05:07]:
dowry. Yeah. It's Caleb, if you're listening to this, I'm not serious, but

Dave [00:05:15]:
It wasn't

Greg [00:05:16]:
You had to pay a big dowry.

Chad [00:05:17]:
It wasn't that bad.

Greg [00:05:22]:
Jacob, there was a great, tacky movie from the seventies. It was, like, a pop psych movie, and it was it was based on this supposedly in this, like, Pacific Island where

Chad [00:05:37]:
When was this?

Greg [00:05:37]:
Or this this how? I don't know. I think it was probably made in the sixties, but we saw it

Chad [00:05:42]:
in the eighties.

Greg [00:05:42]:
It

Chad [00:05:42]:
was before me. But okay.

Greg [00:05:43]:
Yeah. Yeah. But it Just just

Dave [00:05:45]:
to clarify, the 1960? Yes. Okay.

Greg [00:05:47]:
Yeah. But it was supposedly based on this this, you know, it's it's supposed to be like how you treat people is really important. And that which is a true statement. But Right. It was like this this kind of disheveled girl that is, like, mistreated by her parents and talked down to buy her other family. And it comes time for for the guy to come and pay the dowry for the for the woman. Mhmm. And the guy goes, well, maybe we'll get lucky, and we'll get, like, a goat.

Greg [00:06:15]:
And the guy is like, oh maybe we'll get a pig. No, no, no. Maybe just maybe we'll get one cow as a dowry for this girl. Mhmm. And the guy comes in and he's like, I will pay 5 cows for your daughter. Right? Wow. And she and then all of a sudden, it's like she's a 5 cow wife. Right? And then they go away on their honeymoon and instead of right, when she comes when she leaves, she's this kind of disheveled dirty Mhmm.

Greg [00:06:47]:
Right? But when she comes back, she's this glamorous looking beautiful beaming young woman who is changed because of how she's a 5 year old wife. So we saw this in college because somebody somebody in my class decided that for class chapel at Bible College that that we should show that film, and so from that point on when discussions about dating came up, of course, what do you say? I think she's a 5 cow wife.

Chad [00:07:17]:
So, Dave, now I have to ask, your wife, how many cows is she?

Greg [00:07:21]:
She was a 20 cow wife. Wow. She was worth it.

Chad [00:07:25]:
She's 20 cows. She's worth it. Okay. Come on, Dave. Come on. Come on. She's 20 cows. Okay.

Greg [00:07:33]:
I just I'm not I'm sure you're gonna find a way to try to twist that.

Chad [00:07:37]:
I from your from your mouth to readers

Dave [00:07:40]:
We don't need to find

Greg [00:07:41]:
a She was a lot.

Chad [00:07:42]:
She was a good

Greg [00:07:43]:
she was worth every piece of money I paid in that diary.

Chad [00:07:47]:
20 cows. 20 cow woman. I'm So yeah. Slap that bumper sticker on her car.

Greg [00:07:55]:
So I'm telling Kim that you told that story. Well

Dave [00:08:00]:
yeah. When when you hear this

Greg [00:08:01]:
Isn't that though isn't that hilarious? So aren't you, like, setting yourself up Oh, yeah. For yeah. This is Yes. Yes. Tuyen. Another true story. Okay. You get this will get me in trouble with Joanna.

Greg [00:08:11]:
Joanna was in a dorm called Barn Door.

Chad [00:08:14]:
This one will get you in trouble with Joanna?

Greg [00:08:15]:
Okay. The other

Chad [00:08:16]:
one's great.

Greg [00:08:17]:
I just thought she was a 5 gallon. She said she was a 20 cow wife.

Dave [00:08:20]:
I bet she could get one shovel in each hand. Alright.

Greg [00:08:23]:
Alright. Here we go. This is this one is a great one. So there's the God rest my alma mater, it's no longer, but there was a dorm there called Barn Dollar dorm. And Could you say that name again? Barn Dollar. That that was named after one of the historical theological professors there. His name was Barn Dollar. And guess what? It was a ladies dorm.

Chad [00:08:46]:
What's with the farm fetish?

Greg [00:08:48]:
Yeah. Hey. It is what it is. It's a pattern here. Yeah. So so we had these employees of the school called dorm parents.

Chad [00:08:57]:
Mhmm.

Greg [00:08:57]:
Right? So they were, like, traditional RAs, but they were actual married couple. Sometimes with kids who would live in the dorm, they had their whole apartment, and they would lead the dorm and the RAs would report to them and so that you had more of a family environment. Right? It's very common in Christian colleges. But anyway, so 1 year, god bless her, the lady who was in charge of the dorm thought it would be really cool to take soap paint, and on the glass doors going into the main floor of Barn Dollar, paint a cow saying, let's get moving to Barn Dollar. Right? Okay. And, of course, anybody who dated anybody outside of Barndalar would make fun of anybody that was from Barndalar. And they're like, let's get moving in. And I teased my wife really badly about that.

Greg [00:09:56]:
She was mad at me, but Mhmm. She's already come to grips with that. She's Okay. Because she's a 20 gal wife. Wow. That story is

Chad [00:10:07]:
just utterly awful.

Greg [00:10:11]:
Very nice. Very nice. I hope we somehow integrate this into the show.

Chad [00:10:20]:
Can I come to your house when Joanna hears this episode?

Greg [00:10:24]:
You guys assume she listens to this.

Dave [00:10:26]:
We're gonna have a listen party.

Greg [00:10:27]:
This is the safest place for me to we could give away secrets. Not that I have them.

Dave [00:10:31]:
We're we're gonna listen to we're gonna have a listen party for this episode.

Chad [00:10:36]:
I'm texting her right now. Oh,

Greg [00:10:38]:
yeah. It's fine. I I think she'd probably remember both of those stories, though, pretty well, especially the especially the let's get moving into Barnali. She was so mad because she was an RA. Oh. So she had to work with the dorm mom. It was like, really? No discernment here? Let's get moving in, people. Yes.

Greg [00:11:04]:
That's just Just not smart. Right? I yeah. It's just what you call a naivete on a, like, very naive person.

Chad [00:11:18]:
That that's a that's a generous word.

Greg [00:11:23]:
It's funny. All these stories of my alma mater are coming up into my head because of the the recent, you know, demise of the my alma mater. I have no alma mater. I have no sweet mother. That's what alma mater means.

Chad [00:11:38]:
Yeah. Well, you'll always have the memories.

Greg [00:11:42]:
Right. That's all I have. That's all I have.

Dave [00:11:44]:
Yeah. Yeah. Eventually, those will fade too.

Greg [00:11:47]:
They're fading as we speak. Great memories. Yeah. Awkward silence. Yeah.

Chad [00:11:54]:
Well, we

Greg [00:11:55]:
How do you transition from that though? Yeah. I don't

Chad [00:11:57]:
know. How do you steer away from that?

Greg [00:11:59]:
Yeah. Nice. Nice. Damn. Mhmm.

Dave [00:12:04]:
So what else what's everyone else been up to? Greg, anything exciting going on?

Chad [00:12:10]:
You know, moving the kid out, that was exciting. No.

Dave [00:12:12]:
That was that was the excitement.

Chad [00:12:13]:
That was the

Greg [00:12:14]:
excitement. Yeah. I don't care. Sure.

Dave [00:12:16]:
What's my excitement? Cybersecurity is the perimeter is secure and Perimeter is secure. Yeah.

Chad [00:12:25]:
Is that the only story you wanna tell?

Dave [00:12:28]:
Probably. I don't know. What story should I wanna tell?

Greg [00:12:32]:
That was a really loud swallow. Is it? For the record. Oh, that was a good slurp. Oh, are we sponsored by a coffee company or something? It's just, hey. If there's a coffee company out there that wants to sponsor us for our 12 listeners

Dave [00:12:49]:
Yeah.

Greg [00:12:50]:
Then, please, we will slurp the coffee.

Chad [00:12:52]:
The weather turned. We all felt like coffee.

Dave [00:12:54]:
Yeah. It's true.

Greg [00:12:56]:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm in the middle of a fun season, 10 and 3. Sweet. Setting a 10 and 3. 2 loss. Our 2 of our 3 losses were 2 nationally ranked teams.

Greg [00:13:07]:
1, we had a 4 set loss. Not without a controversial call that kept us from winning the 4 set, but, that's pretty good. That's awesome. We're pretty pleased, having fun, and the team's having fun. And team's got a great attitude, and that's the best part because it's never fun when even if you win, if they had a dude, they're good. So Yeah. Yeah. They get along well.

Greg [00:13:29]:
They're fighting for each other. They're playing with with zeal for each other. It's really great.

Dave [00:13:35]:
Very cool. Yeah. That's good.

Greg [00:13:37]:
Good times. Indeed. Yeah.

Chad [00:13:43]:
Playing did we say volleyball?

Greg [00:13:46]:
Yeah. We did. Well The volleyball team. Yeah. From

Dave [00:13:48]:
our last episode, everyone that listens now knows

Chad [00:13:51]:
who he is. Who he is.

Greg [00:13:52]:
Yeah. Stop. You guys you guys are so pathetic.

Dave [00:13:56]:
How many volleyball coaches can there be in America? 5, we've decided. Right. And with us. Right?

Chad [00:14:02]:
With the winning coat and with the winning record like that. Yeah.

Greg [00:14:08]:
But, I'm really enjoying this.

Dave [00:14:10]:
He's just doxed himself. Didn't even know.

Greg [00:14:13]:
No. Right. No. And and with the with the with AI and everything and that Oh. Pictures that we put on our website. Yeah. Even if they're slightly doctored.

Dave [00:14:23]:
Yeah.

Greg [00:14:24]:
To make us look a little less attractive than we really are. I know.

Chad [00:14:28]:
And, we're gonna we're staying on a bible topic tonight. Even though the world is out of control, on fire,

Greg [00:14:36]:
we can't keep up with the truth. Yeah. I mean, that's a figure of speech every last time.

Chad [00:14:41]:
Well,

Dave [00:14:41]:
I would say it's more apparent than ever that it's not under human control. Yeah.

Chad [00:14:45]:
That that's what I mean. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's,

Dave [00:14:48]:
we got ballistic missile strikes. We got people going on strike. We got nobody running the country, everybody running the country. We got a presidential campaign that's just downright toxic. It's things are spinning out of control

Chad [00:15:04]:
Yep. From man's perspective.

Greg [00:15:06]:
I agree. I do agree with that. Yeah. That way of describing it. Yeah.

Dave [00:15:11]:
So

Chad [00:15:12]:
Yeah. And and and the world is literally on fire. Yeah. It is. Because of global warming, obviously. Of course. Yeah. Yeah.

Chad [00:15:21]:
It's climate change. Well, it's just getting hotter and hotter because of your fossil fuels.

Greg [00:15:28]:
Global greening, I say. Yeah. I know. We we had that conversation. We won't repeat it here, but Yeah. A Neo Malthusian fallacy. Indeed.

Dave [00:15:41]:
So the topic tonight, getting back to bible stuff in this wonderful timeless episode, is actually the parable of the sower. The real parable? The real parable of the sower, which some of our listeners will realize that I thought we were doing the parable of the sower when we were really doing the parable of, the good Samaritan. Mhmm.

Chad [00:16:03]:
Yeah. That was that was a good surprise

Greg [00:16:06]:
to you. We did good Sams instead of Good Samaritan. Parable and sober.

Chad [00:16:09]:
Yeah. Good Sam.

Greg [00:16:10]:
Yeah. Yeah. And that's when those showed up. So Kick.

Chad [00:16:13]:
Today's episode is sponsored by Singer. Yes. Yep. Singer is a sewing machine. Yeah.

Greg [00:16:23]:
I just didn't think it was funny.

Chad [00:16:27]:
Oh, Dave.

Greg [00:16:30]:
If it was spelled s e w e r, then it'd be funny. Oh, jeez. I just love that blank stare I gave you. I don't understand. Oh, no. It wasn't it wasn't an I don't understand. It was I just don't think that's funny. Greg, we're gonna have a fun night.

Greg [00:16:55]:
I can tell. So we're the seed. Sower the seed. Alright.

Dave [00:16:59]:
Found in 3 different gospels.

Greg [00:17:01]:
Yeah.

Dave [00:17:01]:
And they're all pretty much identical.

Greg [00:17:06]:
Very close. Yeah. Yeah.

Dave [00:17:07]:
What's the Greek say? A bunch of words.

Greg [00:17:10]:
Very, very close. It's very, very close in the Greek as well.

Dave [00:17:13]:
From our resident Greekologist. Greekologist.

Greg [00:17:16]:
I studied Greekology. I studied the study of Greek. Yeah. No. It's it's pretty close too. But yeah.

Dave [00:17:25]:
Found in Matthew 13, Mark 4, and Luke 8. So the parable so are someone wanna summarize it? Someone wanna read it?

Greg [00:17:33]:
Why don't you read, Craig? Sure. What version what version are you gonna use?

Chad [00:17:39]:
So I'm going to use the, English The esque. Sanctified version.

Greg [00:17:44]:
K. The ELEC standard Bible.

Chad [00:17:46]:
The ELEC standard Bible. Yeah. Because it chose me. Okay.

Dave [00:17:52]:
As opposed to the chosen standard bible.

Chad [00:17:55]:
Right.

Greg [00:17:57]:
So many things I wanna say about that one. Okay. Let's read let's read the text, shall we?

Chad [00:18:03]:
And, so I've got Matthew 13. The same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea, and great crowds gathered I wanted to say cows.

Greg [00:18:14]:
You did. For some reason.

Chad [00:18:16]:
And great crowds gathered about him so that he got into a boat and sat down. And the whole crowd stood on the beach, and he told them many things in parables saying. A sower went out to sow, and he sowed some seed. And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on the rocky ground, where they did not have much soil. And immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil. But when the sun rose, they were scorched, and since they had no root, they withered away. Other seeds fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.

Chad [00:18:57]:
Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, and some 60, some 30. He who has ears, let him hear.

Greg [00:19:11]:
So did they so when the tractor went out Mhmm. That's what happened.

Chad [00:19:15]:
Right? Right. Yeah. No. Fired up as John Deere. Or international. It's a terrible sound.

Greg [00:19:23]:
Yeah. So the practice, of course, was they would have these big bags, right, like almost like book satchels. Right? And they would carry them out and they would just reach in and they would just throw the seed everywhere. Mhmm. And so naturally, you would have this uneven distribution, if you will. And so you have the different kinds of soils. Right? Where the, you know, the different kinds of soils where the seed will, land. And so that becomes the kind of the real key in the story here.

Greg [00:19:55]:
K. Is it's not we're gonna figure out and find out what the seed is, but it's really not about the seed. It's about the soil. It's about where it lands. Right? Yeah. So yeah. What's oh, you keep looking at me like I'm supposed to say some more.

Dave [00:20:13]:
No. I don't know. Do you

Chad [00:20:13]:
want me to keep reading?

Greg [00:20:14]:
Yeah. Okay. Alright. He's good though.

Chad [00:20:21]:
Where are we? Oh, yeah. 10. Then the disciples came and said to him, why do you speak to them in parables? And he said to them, to you it's been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. For to the one who has more or for to the one who has, more will be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. This is why I speak to them in parables. Because seeing they do not see, hearing do they do not hear, nor do they understand. Indeed, in their case, the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says, you will indeed hear but never understand.

Chad [00:21:05]:
You will indeed see but never perceive. For this people's heart has grown dull with their ears they can barely hear and their eyes have closed lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn and I would heal them. But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people have longed to see what you see and did not see, and to hear what you hear and did not hear. So now Jesus is going to explain the parable. Hear then the parable of the sower. When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path.

Chad [00:21:59]:
As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy, yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. And when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the world, immediately, he falls away. As for what was sown among the thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke out the word, and it proves unfruitful. As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields it or and yields, in one case, a hundredfold, in another, 60, and in another, 30.

Greg [00:22:52]:
Alright. So there's that really interesting middle section there. Right? Yeah. So do we wanna talk about that first, or do we wanna wait for the end for that one?

Dave [00:23:00]:
Would this classify as a Mathieu nese sandwich?

Greg [00:23:04]:
Or no. I don't think so because the story is related. I know. So yeah. Yeah. So if it was a Markan, it's saying, right, a a Methian. Okay. If you're gonna say it, say I'm Methian.

Greg [00:23:16]:
Sorry. No. Mattathian. If it was a Matthean sandwich, that would be a different story. Right. Yeah. For those of you who don't know what we're talking about, go back and listen to our episode on Mark 7 Yeah. And 8.

Greg [00:23:28]:
Anyway, yeah. Mark and Samus. No. This is this is a an interpretive section though that really gives context to why Jesus spoke in parables. Right? And most people talk about parables are there to reveal truth, and that's only half true. Right? Because parables are there to hide truth. Right? So it's very, very clear, especially in Mark too, Mark 4, excuse me, but Mark as well, that there is this thing, commentators have called it the Mark in secret, right, that Mark emphasizes the the way that Jesus seems to be hiding the truth from some people and revealing it to his disciples. And his disciples, not just the 12 apostles, but his disciples that have are truly followers of him.

Greg [00:24:20]:
Right? So there is a sense in which, right, there is a purposeful hiding of truth as much as revealing truth in the form of parable. So that's why he doesn't always publicly explain, and so those who are spiritually enlightened or spiritually alive Right. Or those who will be spiritually alive will understand them because they have the ears to hear and the eyes to see. Right. And that comes straight out of Isaiah. Excuse me.

Chad [00:24:55]:
True story.

Greg [00:24:56]:
Go high view of sovereignty. There you go. Anything else we wanna say about that one?

Chad [00:25:02]:
No. I think that's pretty straightforward that that there are some people who are that truth is hidden from. And we need to understand that in the world that there are people who are not going to get the truth of God. Yeah. They're not going to understand. They're not going to understand it no matter how clearly we present it, no matter how plainly we state it, and no matter how simple it seems to us, they're not going to get it and they're going to reject it because it is not for them. Yeah. In John, it says, Jesus says, my sheep hear my voice.

Chad [00:25:42]:
Yeah. It it's that plain. Those who belong to him will hear it and will know and will understand. Those who do not belong to him aren't gonna recognize his voice. Yep. And, and that's that's what he's getting at here. This this parable, those those who this is intended for are going to get it. Yeah.

Greg [00:26:03]:
Yep. Yeah. Yeah. And I I think there's I mean, that's the beginnings of some really interesting application. Perhaps we can save the application for the end when we talk more about this the different soils. But, Chad, I didn't mean to interrupt you. No.

Chad [00:26:16]:
You're fine.

Dave [00:26:17]:
What you're talking about about truth being hidden, or at least not revealed or not perceived or understood by those that don't believe, there was somebody that I had a long running back and forth with at the school that I used to work with. And we would, occasionally, we would do lunch together. We'd, you know, chitchat about God and stuff when we're waiting for stuff. And I shared with him so many times, and finally, I was just like, the guy's name was Greg. I'm finally like, hey, Greg. I got a question for you. He's like, what is it? And I said, of all the times I shared with you, you seem like you're persuadable. You seem like, you know, you're you're, like, thinking about this.

Greg [00:26:59]:
Mhmm.

Dave [00:26:59]:
Is there something keeping you from moving in making, you know, a commitment or a change in this area? And he said, you know what it is? I don't wanna change my life. He's like, I just flat out I hear this, and it sounds right, but it doesn't sound right enough for me to change my life. It doesn't sound like something I would wanna change

Greg [00:27:22]:
my life over. Yeah. Yeah. It's like It's okay. Yeah. His heart needed to be softened. Yeah. Yeah.

Greg [00:27:29]:
And in one sense, he was the wrong kind of soil. Right. Yeah. Right. So Yeah. Scary, sad. Yeah. But the cool part is you found out by sowing the seed.

Greg [00:27:42]:
Yeah. Yeah. That that's the ultimate test. Right. Yeah. Yeah. How do you know they're, quote, elect, unquote? Right. You don't until you sow the seed? Right.

Greg [00:27:53]:
There's a scrape on her back. A patch that says C on it. Chose. Right. Before the foundations of the world. Amen. Alright. So, yeah, so what are the soils?

Dave [00:28:09]:
What are the soils?

Greg [00:28:11]:
What are the kinds of soils? There's the packed soil of the roadway. Right. The path. I mean, just a natural one, and that's that's the simple one. Right? Because that's the one where the birds come and just chop it up. I had to do that song. I just I'm looking forward to making that. I just see that imagery now.

Greg [00:28:34]:
Acme Acme anvil. The seat underneath it. Alright. I I hope people are old enough to understand those references. There's probably a number of people that might hear this that don't understand that reference. If so, if not Yeah. If you don't understand it, look up the road runner.

Dave [00:28:54]:
Yep. Google it, road runner coyote, and

Greg [00:28:56]:
you'll you'll know exactly what we're talking about. Mhmm. No. But the first soil. Right? The first soil is described as the, basically, it's on the way. It's on the road. It's on the path, and it's so packed that the the seed can't fall into any ground, and so it's just right pickings as it were for for birds as they come by. So

Chad [00:29:14]:
I don't think it's on the road. It's on the path because in your field, like, you had there's walkways that you have to walk to do your

Greg [00:29:21]:
to to get to get to word, but yeah. Yeah. I wasn't trying to say it was a big roadway.

Chad [00:29:25]:
Well, because it's I I just think it's important to make that difference for Sure. Later on as we're talking about application. It's not like

Greg [00:29:32]:
it's not like you're throwing it in the road Correct. Where carts drive. Yeah. But yeah. Yeah. But it it I mean, theoretically, it could be by a road too, but the word is hadas or hada, which is the word way or road.

Chad [00:29:44]:
Yeah. But it's it's it's your field. It's in the it's in your field still. But roads are

Greg [00:29:49]:
on the side of fields too. Yeah. Our fields are on the side of roads. Oh, here we go. Here we go. No. I think both I think I think both are appropriate, but okay. Why? Because we never drive by Farmers' Fields today.

Greg [00:30:02]:
That's for sure. We only walk past them.

Dave [00:30:06]:
Okay. Perfect. Yep. So now that we've settled

Greg [00:30:10]:
Whether the the path the word is road or path

Dave [00:30:13]:
in there. Road or path.

Chad [00:30:14]:
Uh-huh.

Dave [00:30:15]:
And that everyone's been bandaged up. Yeah.

Chad [00:30:20]:
We can move on. We

Greg [00:30:21]:
gotta bury it.

Chad [00:30:21]:
I can't believe it took both of us, Chad, to pick them up off the floor. I know. Right?

Greg [00:30:28]:
Oh, you know what the great thing about adding the new person to our life group was? Now it's, like, 2 on 2 instead of 2 on 1. You know of which I speak, Greg.

Dave [00:30:45]:
Tryna do we know of what he speaks?

Chad [00:30:48]:
I think he knows of what he speaks sometimes.

Greg [00:30:52]:
Yes. There was a new member that we added who has taken my side on some jabs at Craig.

Dave [00:30:57]:
Oh, right.

Greg [00:30:58]:
Yeah. Alright. Let me know. Yeah. I know my letters, and I know my words. You know, the know the word hadas can mean road or away. Okay. Alright.

Greg [00:31:11]:
Alright. So let

Chad [00:31:11]:
him let him have his one good day. No. No.

Dave [00:31:13]:
No. No. That's that's true. But, yeah, I mean, to to Dave's point, to compare fields of today to fields back then, there was no farm equipment. You wouldn't see, like, 80 acres with no pass. You would see pass all through these things. Right?

Greg [00:31:28]:
So cart path.

Dave [00:31:30]:
Yeah. You'd you'd have a few other Traditional roads. Yeah. Yeah.

Greg [00:31:32]:
So you Roman road. Right. It it

Dave [00:31:34]:
wouldn't it wouldn't look like the fields of today because everything would need to be with their arms reach, basically, without trampling everything else. Yeah. Right.

Greg [00:31:41]:
Yeah. Yep. But, anyway, so they would so the the point being though that the birds would come in any packed soil that wasn't that didn't have little, you know, holes and furrows in it. The seeds would be left on the surface, and the birds could eat them up quickly. And what what does that refer to according to the text?

Chad [00:32:02]:
Oh, that's somebody who, doesn't understand it and the evil one just comes and snatches it away.

Greg [00:32:07]:
Yeah. So it's the person who just cannot grasp. I don't think it's understand in the sense they can't grasp the facts of the gospel, right, but it's rather that they're like to them it's foolish. Yeah. Right? It's like I know what you're saying, but that makes absolutely no sense to me, and I have no desire to have anything to do with this. Mhmm. Yeah. So it's a much deeper is maybe not the best term, but it's a a very harsh sense of rejection.

Greg [00:32:40]:
Like, this got like a scoffer. Yeah. I think that's fair. Yeah.

Dave [00:32:44]:
Like, casting your pearls to swine.

Greg [00:32:46]:
Yeah. Yeah. So there you have it. That's the first one. That's the on the path of the road. Alright. Next one is

Chad [00:32:57]:
the rocky ground. Yeah. The rocky ground.

Greg [00:33:08]:
Is that the Rocky we're talking about?

Dave [00:33:10]:
I thought you were gonna I thought it was Knight Rider. Yeah.

Greg [00:33:14]:
That was the Rocky theme song.

Dave [00:33:15]:
Oh, it was? Like Rocky and Bollington.

Greg [00:33:20]:
Like Philadelphia, Rocky,

Dave [00:33:22]:
Jersey, Philadelphia. Freedom.

Chad [00:33:25]:
I love, love, love you.

Dave [00:33:28]:
Wow. So many copyright infringements. So poorly executed.

Greg [00:33:33]:
Wow. We're bringing up Elton John now. Sir Elton John to you, sir. Yes. Yeah. Anyway, so, yeah, what's the rocky soil all about? Well, I mean, I can answer if you want.

Chad [00:33:46]:
You could you could read it. I got no roots.

Greg [00:33:48]:
Got no roots.

Chad [00:33:49]:
So that's the person that, like, hears here's the truth, and they, like, respond right away. Mhmm. All just this giddy exuberance. They they respond right away, but there's no root there. There's no depth to it at all. Yep. And the moment trials and tribulation come, it's too hard for them and they run away from it.

Dave [00:34:08]:
We're out

Chad [00:34:09]:
of here. And and they say, I can't handle this. I'm done with it, and they leave it. Yeah. They abandoned. So so, like, Jesus sounds great. Mhmm. And they they walk that aisle.

Chad [00:34:24]:
They respond to that altar call. They say that prayer. Whatever it may be, that that conference that they went to, that special church service at Christmas or Easter, they make that, quote, decision to follow Jesus and and there's all kinds of emotion there and everybody's excited. And the moment things get hard, the moment they have to count the cost Yep. They walk away from it. They say, nope. Can't do it. Too much cost, and they walk away from it.

Greg [00:34:57]:
Maybe they lose friends at school or maybe they maybe their parents say, you really wanna be involved in this cultish thing?

Chad [00:35:04]:
The work work relationships or whatever it may be. Yep. It's just too hard, too much cost involved.

Greg [00:35:11]:
Yeah. Right? Yeah. And this one this one is not they're swayed by worldly pleasures. This is actually persecution. Right? Right. So that's the rocky. So because the next one deals with Yeah. Right? Drawn away by worldly pleasures as it were.

Greg [00:35:26]:
Right. Alright. So that's the rocky soil.

Chad [00:35:29]:
So the next one is sown among the thorns. This is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and deceitful the deceitfulness of riches choke out, choke out the word and it proves unfaithful. So this person, again, they hear the word and they respond. They make a decision. They walk the aisle, pray the prayer, whatever it may be. And then it says that the the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches come in. Yeah. So what what do you think that cares of the world and deceitfulness of riches?

Greg [00:36:09]:
Well, and, actually, the terminology is very similar to, where Jesus talks in the Sermon on the Mount about do not be anxious for your life. Yeah. So the anxiety. And there it talks about what you'll wear, right, what you'll put on, what you'll eat. So there's the worry about, okay, how is this gonna affect how I make a living? How is this gonna affect my quality of life? And then you have then the other side of that is, alright, the deceitfulness of riches, right, the the notion that more wealth can get you joy, happiness, right, eternal significance, those kinds of things can be deceiving. So Mhmm. Yeah. Yeah.

Greg [00:36:51]:
But it it really the terminology the one thing I noticed when I was reading through earlier today in Greek was that the terminology is very similar to the Sermon on the Mount. Do not be anxious for anything. Yeah. Could I

Dave [00:37:02]:
have you guys repeat everything you just said? I was trading crypto and tweeting. Yep.

Greg [00:37:07]:
That's right.

Chad [00:37:09]:
And so, like, so much of what the modern church is peddling is a better life.

Dave [00:37:18]:
Yeah. Yes.

Chad [00:37:19]:
And a better life is what this is describing that people will leave the gospel for. Uh-huh. People will leave Yep. The the they're they're going to leave the truth of God for a better life, for a more comfortable life, for riches, for pleasure. That's they're gonna leave God's truth for a better life. So you're never going to lure people into the gospel for a better life, for riches, for happiness, for fixing things. That's because that's not promised in the gospel. You mean, like, your best life now? Yeah.

Chad [00:37:56]:
Yeah.

Greg [00:37:56]:
Or the the big gospel people. The or the big, like, the cool things in a service, isn't that what makes people Christian? Yeah. Like, we woo them with the Christianity is awesome, and it's cool. Right.

Dave [00:38:09]:
Yeah. God's got a great plan for your life, and you're gonna do great, and he's gonna have you do great things. Right. Great. Great. Great. Great. Great.

Chad [00:38:15]:
Yeah. Come and come and try Jesus.

Greg [00:38:20]:
Just makes me so sad. Oh, it really does.

Chad [00:38:23]:
Yeah. Because people It's a false will come and try, and it'll get either the root won't be there and they'll dry up, or they'll get choked out by everything else in life and the riches, and they're just gonna walk away from it Yeah. Because they haven't responded to the true and the real thing.

Greg [00:38:44]:
Yeah. Right? Yeah. That's just yeah. Good stuff. Alright. So let's talk then the last one, which is the good soil. Right? Yep. You're gonna Let's talk the last one.

Greg [00:38:57]:
Let's talk about the good soil. And it's just pretty straightforward. It's good soil. It's been, you know, plowed up. It's been turned over. There's plenty of crevices for the seed to fall into, and it takes root, and it lasts. It shall we even say it perseveres? Indeed. Perseveres.

Greg [00:39:18]:
Yeah. Oh. Good choice of words. Yeah. Thanks, John. I like that word. Yeah. Yeah.

Greg [00:39:23]:
It's good. Perseverance in in righteousness. Yep. And that's how it earns its salvation. Right? That's what we're talking about here?

Dave [00:39:31]:
Absolutely. Not

Greg [00:39:32]:
not sorry. I need a judge's ruling. No. Yeah. No. No. No. So what it's what is it describing here then? The natural consequences of someone who believes.

Greg [00:39:44]:
Right. Right? This is not the cause of their salvation. This is the result of their salvation. So the Bible often describes believers as people who persevere in good works, who are righteous, right, who have hearts that seek after God's glory. Right? Those are descriptions of what true believers are like, but that's to say that would be the cause would be a mistake, that's the effect. The cause is faith and the effect is the righteousness that God produces in you through the Word and the Spirit operating in your life. So Makes sense? Yeah. But there's the perseverance.

Greg [00:40:27]:
So do we wanna hit some some application points? Because I I don't No.

Chad [00:40:33]:
We'll leave that to the Holy Spirit. Yes.

Greg [00:40:36]:
I don't know if we can leave that.

Dave [00:40:38]:
You know what? If we ever do if we ever do rename this podcast, you know what it's gonna be called?

Greg [00:40:44]:
The oops. I gotta cut that out podcast.

Dave [00:40:46]:
It's gonna be called words if necessary. Oh, just be

Greg [00:40:53]:
Oh, that just oh, you just just my blood just started to boil. That was so funny. The natural reaction.

Dave [00:41:01]:
Yes. Let's do application, Greg.

Greg [00:41:02]:
Okay. Let's do application. Is it possible to cook a meal without food? Chad,

Dave [00:41:10]:
I'm gonna say no.

Greg [00:41:13]:
What what do I mean by that? And I no. I'm setting you up. What what are you gonna say? Yeah.

Dave [00:41:17]:
You gotta have application. There's no point to this. Right? Right?

Greg [00:41:23]:
Yeah. Yeah. No. And you you the gospel, you can't share the gospel without actually sharing the word. Right. Right? You have to share the word of the gospel for people to convert. You can't show them by your good works. Right.

Greg [00:41:36]:
Now you can supplement or you can show them good works and then follow that up with the word, but there is no gospel without words. Yep. Period. Full stop.

Dave [00:41:49]:
Yep. I agree.

Greg [00:41:51]:
And so the the application, 1, 1st and foremost, is reach your hand into that bag and toss the seed out. Yep. We don't know who the soils are Right. Or who's what people's hearts are like, should I say. Yeah. The only thing we can do is we can share the word. Right? We can get the word out, and then we let God take care of the results. Yeah.

Greg [00:42:15]:
And that's determined by what kind of soils we're sharing the word to, to whom we are sharing

Chad [00:42:20]:
the word.

Greg [00:42:20]:
Yeah. So I think that's one really, really big application.

Dave [00:42:25]:
Yeah. One thing that that strikes me is there's there's no part in here where Jesus says, so don't throw it on that soil over there.

Greg [00:42:34]:
Correct. Yeah.

Dave [00:42:35]:
I mean, we're we're called to sow, and and that's what we're called to do. We're not called to, you know, make your best guess and try to only hit the rich soil.

Greg [00:42:43]:
But Yeah.

Chad [00:42:43]:
Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So this is incredibly encouraging for the person who who's sharing the gospel, because it tells you some things, and one of them is that the response is not up to you. It it is all up to God. Mhmm. Because the seed is going to fall.

Chad [00:43:01]:
You did your job, and it's going to fall on hard soil, rocky soil, thorny thorny soil, or fertile soil. And when it falls on fertile soil, it's going to produce. And it's not going to do it because of anything that you did other than you threw the seed.

Greg [00:43:20]:
Right.

Chad [00:43:21]:
And you need to be encouraged by that. And then the other thing that's to be encouraging is it doesn't tell you to look for where to throw. It's just throw. Yeah. Yeah. Throw it. It doesn't say only throw it on fertile soil. It doesn't say just look for fertile soil.

Chad [00:43:39]:
Try to figure out what's rocky and avoid the rocky soil. It doesn't give you, like, ten signs of a hard heart so you can avoid wasting your time on that. Yeah. Like, there is none of that in the new testament. Jesus didn't spend time, like, giving us pointers of who to avoid sharing the gospel with. Right. He just said, preach Yep. In season and out season.

Chad [00:44:03]:
Mhmm. Out of season. Like, just preach, share the gospel. So I I had this quote, and I got excited about it, and I sent it to somebody, and then I didn't source it. So Oh. I don't have the source.

Greg [00:44:17]:
Sent it by somebody.

Chad [00:44:18]:
So and and I sent this. This was back in June. You know, so I've got probably Paul, and I can use that for a lot of things. One is when we're talking about who wrote Hebrews, I say probably Paul. But if I'm sharing a quote, it probably Paul, meaning Paul Washer. Yeah. So here's here's the quote. In the parable of the in the parable, the one that we just Mhmm.

Chad [00:44:44]:
Read, the sower throws seed, not only upon the fertile soil, but among the roads, the rocks, and the weeds as well. He does this knowing that he will receive no fruit from those places. This is because he's not looking for fruit. He's looking for fertile ground. There is no time or place that is inappropriate to proclaim the word of God. There is no people to whom it is inappropriate. His sheep will hear his voice wherever they are because they are good soil. Proclaim the word in season and out of season every day in every way.

Chad [00:45:22]:
It does sound like Paul Washer, doesn't it?

Greg [00:45:24]:
And it

Chad [00:45:25]:
also really sounds like Jesus and I'm sorry for giving them credit for it. But Yeah.

Greg [00:45:30]:
That's good, though. At least you gave somebody credit. Yeah. If somebody If somebody said

Chad [00:45:34]:
that my original thought.

Greg [00:45:36]:
And, actually, they took it from Jesus and Paul. So Yeah. It's a combination of

Chad [00:45:40]:
But it's just Yeah. It's preached. It's Yep. Shared. Like, get that seed out there Yeah. Whenever and wherever.

Greg [00:45:51]:
Yeah. And however. Yep. So I think it's really interesting too because we we often will see churches that really make a big deal out of professions of faith.

Dave [00:46:04]:
Right.

Greg [00:46:05]:
And I I'm I'm not saying those aren't cool and important, but, like, it seems to me what's way more important that is long term faithfulness. Yeah. Right? And if somebody professes faith and and might be very excited early on, that's no guarantee that they're a true believer. Yeah. And we need to keep discipling him. We need to keep encouraging him, and we work with them as though they are. But time and life circumstances and their response to the word and and life will tell what things really are. And I think that's probably one of the reasons why Paul says stuff like don't lay hands on elders too quickly.

Greg [00:46:52]:
Right? You you you want to see people mature in the faith before you invest a lot of leadership in them. And just lo and behold, they might apostasize.

Chad [00:47:07]:
Being being faithful is the the important thing. Yeah. So my wife went to a children's ministry conference on Sunday in in Nashville with, with, her coworker who works with her. That's why it's coworker. That was redundant.

Greg [00:47:23]:
I was gonna say. Dautology.

Chad [00:47:25]:
That was that was redundant, wasn't it?

Greg [00:47:27]:
And I don't think so.

Chad [00:47:29]:
And, you know, they they faced their trials and tribulations because they landed at the airport and they went to the rental car, desk, and they did not have the a car that they had reserved.

Greg [00:47:42]:
Right. There's there's a whole Seinfeld bid on this.

Chad [00:47:45]:
Yeah. Yeah. So they ended up getting a BMW. Oh. Yeah. So That's too bad. That was rough.

Greg [00:47:50]:
So they drove around Joel is right.

Chad [00:47:54]:
So so so they they lived there.

Greg [00:47:56]:
You shouldn't have said that. You're proving Joel.

Chad [00:47:58]:
So they lived their best life life in Nashville. And, so last night

Dave [00:48:03]:
so what's the point? You're ruining it. I have

Greg [00:48:06]:
no idea what the point is, Greg. It's your story.

Chad [00:48:08]:
So they drove back to the airport last night, and, they checked their car in and they flew back to Detroit. And they get to Detroit, and they need to get a shuttle back to the hotel that they left my wife's car at. So they called the hotel, and the shuttle girl comes to pick them up. I just wanted to tell the story about the BMW. That's all.

Dave [00:48:29]:
Yeah. Okay.

Chad [00:48:29]:
So the the girl the hotel shuttle comes and picks them up, and, like, the girl says, like, 3 things, and she, like, opened the door and for for my wife and her coworker to start sharing the gospel, and they spent the whole way back to the hotel, talking about the gospel. Really cool. And, so what happened in the end? Don't know. Yeah. Yeah. What did they do? They threw their seed. Yeah. They sowed seed.

Greg [00:48:59]:
They sowed. There you go. Maybe maybe somebody else will water. Yeah. And somebody else will.

Chad [00:49:03]:
And was it was it rocky soil? Was it thorny? Was it, hard? Was it fertile? We don't know. Yeah. Were they faithful? Yes. Yeah. That's cool.

Greg [00:49:15]:
It is. Well done, though. Good and faithful servants. Indeed. Mhmm. Cool. Yeah. And cool story about the BMW too.

Dave [00:49:23]:
Yeah. I thought it was gonna end with them, you know, getting back. And they bought the insurance, so they just lit it on fire. That would

Chad [00:49:31]:
be breaking breaking back moment.

Greg [00:49:38]:
Oxymandias and all that. Oh, Jesus. Sorry. If anybody gets the Oxymandias, leave us a comment.

Dave [00:49:45]:
Yeah. Bonus points.

Chad [00:49:46]:
I have no idea what that means.

Dave [00:49:48]:
Well, Dave's not gonna say on the air. No.

Greg [00:49:51]:
I can't remember. I'll tell you. Okay. That's to do with Breaking Bad and TS Eliot. Okay. It's an episode name too.

Dave [00:50:01]:
You've seen Breaking Bad? Yes. No wonder your alma mater went under. Yeah.

Greg [00:50:11]:
Yeah. I think that finale was probably one of the greatest finales of all TV shows, and I can talk through it sometime. But I

Dave [00:50:17]:
have gotta watch my way through that. I've never seen a single episode.

Greg [00:50:20]:
It's so aggravating sometimes, and it's so yeah. Alright. But, yeah, it's like yeah. It's a really interesting it's a really appropriate no. No. No. It's a really appropriate finish. Like, you you can't you can't if if you have any sense of decency and you you can't make the high school teacher that turned into a meth producer and dealer

Chad [00:50:43]:
Mhmm.

Greg [00:50:44]:
The hero of the of the series. Sure. You have to bring it to a righteous Sure. End, and they do.

Chad [00:50:49]:
Alright. Very cool.

Greg [00:50:51]:
It was a awesome finish.

Chad [00:50:52]:
That was really Yeah. Alright. I don't see how that's making it into the final cut.

Greg [00:50:56]:
Yeah. I don't care. We talked about it. So Alright.

Dave [00:51:01]:
Yeah. Alright. So if you like what you hear, if you didn't like what you hear

Greg [00:51:04]:
Oh, is that is that it?

Dave [00:51:06]:
Wow. Do we wanna try for a second episode today?

Greg [00:51:08]:
I was just saying, well, I don't see how Do we have any other episodes?

Dave [00:51:11]:
Yeah. We're good. That's how

Greg [00:51:12]:
we had that's how we had

Dave [00:51:13]:
thought. We'll we'll do more prep time on Christian mysticism.

Greg [00:51:17]:
Oh, that's not what I was talking about. Oh, sorry. I thought we had one more application in there that we

Dave [00:51:20]:
Oh, do we have an application?

Greg [00:51:24]:
No. That's fine.

Dave [00:51:25]:
We could, you know, make it into a Breaking Bad parable.

Greg [00:51:33]:
There was once a science teacher.

Chad [00:51:35]:
Tight, tight, tight.

Dave [00:51:38]:
But was there any more applications? Sorry.

Greg [00:51:40]:
No. I don't actually think we hit we hit the main points in house worth. Alright. Yeah. So

Dave [00:51:48]:
I don't know. We got quite a bit of good stuff here.

Greg [00:51:50]:
I don't know. Cool. We got good stuff.

Chad [00:51:52]:
Yeah. We we did. That's our 3rd good stuff of the night.

Greg [00:51:56]:
I know. Alright.

Dave [00:51:59]:
Anything else? If you like what you heard, if you didn't like what you heard, please drop us a line at the fish at catfishministries.com. The fish at catfishministries.com. We'd love to hear from you. Your ideas, your thoughts. Your questions? Questions. Yes. Suggestions? Kind suggestions. We will take them into consideration.

Greg [00:52:25]:
So We'll take the mean ones too. That's okay.

Dave [00:52:27]:
Yeah. Address the mean ones to Dave. Put it right in the subject line.

Greg [00:52:33]:
Mean suggestion for Dave. That's right.

Dave [00:52:36]:
I've got a bone to pick with you. The

Greg [00:52:40]:
Seinfeld reference.

Chad [00:52:41]:
Is coming up.

Dave [00:52:42]:
It is.

Greg [00:52:43]:
It is.

Chad [00:52:43]:
It is. To get the Festivus poll out. We will. Yeah.

Dave [00:52:47]:
Oh, maybe we we maybe we could do an air episode of the airing of grievances.

Chad [00:52:52]:
Yeah. I'm sure that Joanna's gonna have some grievances to air when she hears this one.

Greg [00:52:55]:
But but would anyone I actually complimented my wife.

Dave [00:52:59]:
You did.

Greg [00:52:59]:
Yeah. She was 5 times 20. Worth 4 times more than the wife on that Twenty cows worth

Dave [00:53:05]:
of 20 cows worth of compliments.

Greg [00:53:07]:
That's right. It's a lot of beef.

Chad [00:53:17]:
That's gotta make it in the outro.

Dave [00:53:20]:
Chad and Greg will be back at the next episode.

Greg [00:53:24]:
Catfish Mystery. I will not approve that. I wanna be.

Chad [00:53:28]:
Dave, we don't know where he is, where he's been. There's rumors. Just just rumors.

Greg [00:53:35]:
There's a new pit in the backyard. Yeah.

Dave [00:53:38]:
And Joanna just seems extra happy all

Chad [00:53:39]:
of a sudden. We heard

Greg [00:53:40]:
the sound. Insurance policy. I've answered it too.

Chad [00:53:44]:
There is a volleyball team that's been suffering. You may have heard of it.

Dave [00:53:54]:
We love you, America. Get catfished.

Greg [00:53:56]:
Get catfished.

Dave [00:54:11]:
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