The Mighty Men - Part 1

Welcome to part one of our new series - The Mighty Men! We are excited to be sharing this episode with you, as we dive in to what it means to be Mighty Men in today's world. 

Throughout this series we will be exploring biblical truths regarding living a life for God, with a mix of humour and serious discussion intwined. We hope you are blessed by this episode.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hey, welcome back to the Second Chance podcast. My name is Christian. My name is Evan. And we're so glad that you've joined us again.

SPEAKER_02 0:09

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_00 0:17

Today is an interesting day. Yeah. Um I have a new barbecue.

SPEAKER_02 0:22

Give me a three-page essay as to why today is interesting.

SPEAKER_00 0:25

I got a new barbecue. Yeah, and anyway, I cook some delicious steaks, and I don't know about you guys, but I have a hard time. Do you barbecue much?

SPEAKER_02 0:34

No.

SPEAKER_00 0:34

No.

SPEAKER_02 0:35

I burn pieces of toast. Oh, okay. I can't barbecue for nothing.

SPEAKER_00 0:39

So at church I have like a nickname, um, sort of. Um, it was used like once. Are you barbecue boy? No, inferno. Oh. Yeah. I we were at a youth uh thing at our pastor's house when he lived at his old house. And uh anyway, everyone was playing. I had the burgers going on the grill, everything is going grand. And then some random dude who wasn't even involved with the youth thing was on the roof checking like the shingles or something. And he was there and he called out, was like, hey uh buddy, uh the barbecue's on fire. And I like looked up and like the whole thing, man, was just like fire coming up under the cover. And needless to say, the entire portion of burgers and hot dogs for the entire youth group and a barbecue was cooked to like charcoal. So we all scraped them off with knives and everything. But that's not actually why we're G eat them after that went totally interesting. But hey, yeah, we're we're so glad you guys have joined us. Um, and we're looking forward to this podcast. Evan, do you want to give us a little recap about last episode?

SPEAKER_02 1:49

I shall. Last episode we talked about ADHD and how it looks biblically. We went through the fact that your wife and majority of your kids have ADHD. I have ADHD as well, and what sort of the symptoms are for it, and how we overcome them as Christians in day-to-day activities, what God says about it.

SPEAKER_00 2:14

Good recap. Yeah, it was pretty solid. And of course, we're recording this now. We never did an episode for Easter, um, because so much was going on. It was really fun though. I can't believe we did a Halloween episode and we didn't do an Easter episode.

SPEAKER_02 2:30

Oh yeah. We don't have to worry about that. Don't don't worry about it. Forgive us, Lord. We know not what we do half the time.

SPEAKER_00 2:37

Oh yeah, right. Um, but I gotta say, Easter was good. Um it was busy, but not in a negative kind of busy. No. Like, um, I know we were both involved. Uh well, actually, you were involved with the Good Friday service at our church, Revive Church. Shout out to Revive and to our awesome pastor Sheldon.

SPEAKER_02 3:00

Revive is cool.

SPEAKER_00 3:01

Revive is cool. And uh anyway, so we had a great Good Friday service and then a great Friday service. Yes, a great Friday. And then uh Easter Sunday was also really awesome. Um I uh helped lead worship that day, and just honestly, dude, I think it was probably one of the most enjoyable times I've had leading worship. Nice. Um, like everyone was in sync, you could really just like feel like the presence of God and like every people involved, and it was funny. It's the first time. I know you guys can't see me, but like it was the first time I actually put my hands above my head. Oh, yeah, I've never ever done that. I'm not that kind of person. Audience participation. Yeah, exactly. And I lack in that. Uh but that's okay. Me too.

SPEAKER_02 3:58

I'm staring down at the court chart the whole time.

SPEAKER_00 4:00

Oh, yeah, pretty much. Uh but anyway, it was it was awesome. How was your Easter?

SPEAKER_02 4:06

My Easter went well. Yeah. I was um kind of the same as yours. It was busy, but it wasn't like stressful type of busy. But it was trying to figure out uh what plans were with family and things like that, because we usually get together for a Easter supper, dinner sort of thing. And that was a little bit hectic today. Yeah. Today, listen to me. It's okay. It's yeah, I'll be fine. Turkey brain. Turkey brain. Yeah. But uh yeah, no, it was fun. It was cool. Good Friday was nice. I growing up I never knew what Good Friday meant, why it was a good Friday, or that it even had anything to do with Easter. I never tied the two together. It was just this is a good Friday. Some for some reason it's better than the other Friday. And what's it like for you now? It's it means something other than that it's a decent Friday. It is a very good Friday. It is a very good Friday. I'm sure for the disciples it didn't feel like a very good Friday, but it was it it it will have turned out to be a good Friday.

SPEAKER_00 5:10

You know, it's interesting that for myself personally, I found that um over the years I don't and this is gonna sound horrible, but I found that like I used to catch myself over the years uh saying like you know, he is risen almost was like as a catchphrase. Yeah. And I I s because I felt like it was the thing to say. However, I can honestly say at 35 years old, I'm turning 36 tomorrow. Woohoo. Um I can honestly say that, and by the way, if this is published like a week later, it's April 7th, just so we're clear. Not turning 36 tomorrow.

SPEAKER_02 5:56

I'm turning 36 two weeks ago.

SPEAKER_00 5:59

Um, but uh honestly though, I don't feel that way anymore. Like when I was saying that, like you know, he is risen, and when I got up that morning uh on, you know, on Easter Sunday, I was spent time with the Lord reading my Bible, I really felt different inside my heart. I really I gotta I gotta say. That's good. Like I actually really felt joy.

SPEAKER_02 6:20

I think and maybe this is just I had a lot of time to think about stuff or something. But I know with some holidays where we have the the certain things that we say just as tradition. Think of November, for example, the less we forget. Yes. Is like everyone says that on Remembrance Day. I'd say half the people who say it don't know what it means other than or not that they don't know what it means, but that they really realize the meaning that those words have. The depth behind us. Yeah. Yeah. Like, do you feel like you're do you have any remembrance for anybody when you say that, or is it just lest we forget?

SPEAKER_00 7:05

And is it just then on that day? Like, do you remember throughout the year too? Yeah. Or is it just because we're on this day, you're dropping catchphrases.

SPEAKER_02 7:13

Who else who ever says lest we forget if it's not on remembrance?

SPEAKER_00 7:19

Correct, yeah. And and let's be clear too, it is a very solemn, as you know, and and we're not making light of nothing like that. You know, it's a is it's a very solemn, it's a very respectful time, but it's also we don't want just like he is risen to become just something you say. It ain't a catchphrase. Correct. Yeah. So anyway, what are we saying? It's not a catchphrase. Uh, it is true. Indeed. He is risen, and uh so so good. Uh so today we're super excited because um this has been on my heart for a while. Uh Evan and I have had like discussions about this stuff in general, hey? Like you hey, as if I'm addressing hi, Evan. And um but what it's like to live as a godly person in today's society.

SPEAKER_02 8:17

Now for us it's godly men because we're men. Exactly. But for the sake of any ladies listening, audience members, yeah, rightly individual.

SPEAKER_00 8:26

Yeah, indeed. Uh so you're gonna hear us, uh, this is like really part one, um, but you're gonna we're gonna do this over multiple episodes. So uh for any of our female listeners, thank you, number one, for tuning into the podcast. We love having you alongside us. Love ya. And um also just know that when we're talking about like men, uh it's also like vice versa, you know, unless there's certain specific things, but oh yeah, of course, like we are including men.

SPEAKER_02 8:55

Thou shalt not pe standing up or something.

SPEAKER_00 8:59

Okay, but anyway, okay, I'll I'll stop that. So what it what is it to live like, you know, how do we do that? How do we live in a society today, Evan, where we are constantly bombarded by people telling us who we should be, what we should look like, how we should speak, what we should not say. How do you navigate that?

SPEAKER_02 9:25

We're gonna discuss these things as we read Mark chapter eight. Yeah, right on. Maybe we won't get to all of them, but we'll get to a good few of them because we're planning on making this a couple episode series. That's right. So what we don't get to in this one, we'll try to cover in the next one.

SPEAKER_00 9:45

That's right. Yeah, sounds good.

SPEAKER_02 9:46

As we go along, if anyone has any questions about topics that are confusing or something you've just never heard anybody talk about before, but you always wanted to know, shoot it, shoot us a message or something. Love to hear from you.

SPEAKER_00 10:00

Yes, ma'am. We'd love to hear from you. Um, all right, so we're gonna hop into Mark chapter eight, and I'm reading from the NLT version. I'm reading from ESB. Yep, and we're gonna get going. So about this time, so start in verse one, another large crowd had gathered, and people ran out of food again. So we know that obviously this has happened before. Yeah. Uh Jesus called his disciples and told them, I feel sorry for these people. They have been here with me for three days, and they have nothing left to eat. If I send them home hungry, they will faint along the way, for some of them have come a long distance. His disciples replied, How are we supposed to find enough food to feed them out here in the wilderness? So let's just pause there for a second.

SPEAKER_02 10:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:57

They're in aka the middle of nowhere. Pretty much. Right? We know this. They're in the wilderness. We know that there's no source of food around because they're questioning Jesus on that.

SPEAKER_02 11:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:11

Look how long they were there. Three days, man. That's crazy. Like without food. Well, you know, like you think about it, like sometimes, like in a church service, whatever, you're there for like, you know, a couple hours, maybe, and you're like, wow, this feels like forever sometimes, right? Sorry, Pastor Sheldon. But sorry, Gord. Yeah, sorry. Um, and sorry, me, I guess a little. Sorry, Christian. Yeah. Yeah. My brain just went. Anyway, that's okay. So um three days. Yeah, three days. My brain was gone for three days. So three days in the wilderness. Crazy. That's a long time. Uh so we got an idea that things are not going that well for food supply. So Jesus asked, How much bread do you have? Seven loaves. They replied. So Jesus told all the people to sit down on the ground. Then he took the seven loaves, thanked God for them, and broke them into pieces. He gave them to his disciples who distributed the bread to the uh to the crowd. A few small fish were found too, so Jesus also blessed these and told the disciples to distribute them. They ate as much as they wanted afterward. The disciples picked up seven large baskets of leftover food. There were about four thousand people in the crowd that day, and Jesus sent them home after they had eaten. Immediately after this he got into a boat with his disciples and crossed over to the region of Dalmano. I definitely said that wrong. That's okay. Um What's your take on that?

SPEAKER_02 12:54

I had something pop into my head pretty much instantly. But um the fact that this happened before already, where Jesus fed five thousand with less loaves, it made me think like the disciples still questioned where they were gonna get bread from. Which is usually you look at these stories and you're like, okay, we can learn from disciples sometimes, because you know, they're living pretty close to Jesus, or at least trying to. It's easier to see the humanity in disciples than it is in Jesus sometimes. Not that he wasn't human, but that's besides the point. I'm digging myself a hole now. But um Remember the things that God has done for you when you feel like you're stuck. That's been one of the biggest things I had to learn the hard way. Yeah. Cause there have been times where I've dug myself real deep holes of overthinking and trying to figure out how I'm gonna get myself out of a certain situation or something like that, and I never even stopped to think about the countless amount of times that I have been in similar situations, and they worked out in ways that I wouldn't have been able to think about.

SPEAKER_00 14:11

You know what? Really, when you think of it, dude, I don't think we're any different than the Israelites in the wilderness either.

SPEAKER_02 14:19

Nah, because we forget.

SPEAKER_00 14:20

Yeah, we do. And you know what? Like, I've heard people say before, you know, like they point fingers, like, oh man, silly is look at them complain. All they did was complain and stuff like that. I'm like, man.

SPEAKER_01 14:32

You're in the wilderness for three days. Right? You can't go church service two hours without being. Well, you know, come on, right? It's true.

SPEAKER_00 14:40

And uh, you know, and and it's it's uh you know, it's one of those things to, and you know what? I'm I'm gonna throw something here. Ready? Okay, I'm gonna throw something here. Um I think that you're you're right. We need to remember, we need to um look at what God has done, thank him for what he's done, and not complain about us. Yeah. And um I really believe, dude, and I've heard this said before um by a close friend of mine that we do, we live in a consumer society. Oh, yeah. We live in a consumer society where the goal is my needs are met. I am happy, I have a long life, I have money. Too dang bad if that don't happen. Exactly. And so for that is and I I I and I'm gonna go here. I'm gonna go here, Evan. Oh no. I know. Okay, I believe that that has 100% entered the church. Oh, yeah. I believe like there's there's people that go out to church and they're like, if this pastor's speaking today, I ain't going. Yeah. If this person's doing worship, I'm not going. How wrong is that? Because that's a consumer mindset, and essentially what we're saying is, hands off, Jesus. I don't want what you have because I don't like the way that it's coming at me right now.

SPEAKER_02 16:15

I think in some contexts it depends on the motive.

SPEAKER_00 16:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:18

Like if there's a pastor at a church where Say there's another church. Sure. I'm not going to use Revive in this example. Because I don't think Revive is like this. Yeah. Yeah. But uh take a church that's like Revive where they cycle through different pastors and things like that. Sure. Without much monitoring of the pastor's background or beliefs or anything like that. Yeah. And you have a pastor that preaches things that are kind of biblically sound, but also throwing ideas in the wind and saying that this is how it's got to be because I feel like this is right because I said so. Not that it's written anywhere, but because I think it has got to be right. I think there's some gray area where you can say, okay, I don't think this pastor is preaching things right. I don't think I should be listening to this for personal reasons. But if it's something that they're preaching from the gospel, what the Bible says, and you don't want to go and listen to it because it's dry or something, which I mean it happens, but yeah, whatever. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:20

Then that's the part where you kind of gotta check yourself. Yeah, exactly. And and I totally agree, like, and and let's be really clear, and and you said it so well, I would never want to stay committed to a church if I felt like they weren't preaching the gospel and living Christ. Right? Yeah. Um, because that's not healthy. But at the same time, if they are preaching the gospel, if the Holy Spirit, right, the Trinity, if everything is being done for the glory of God, and you walk in through the door and you just don't like the way someone talks, or how long they might speak, or the way someone might strum a guitar. Yeah, like or the way someone might play a piano, and then you decide not to go next Sunday because you know they're there, that's the wrong heart.

SPEAKER_02 18:13

That's definitely the wrong heart.

SPEAKER_00 18:14

That's the wrong heart, right? And God forbid, um, and you know what? I'll be completely honest. Years ago, I won't say any names, but years ago, I had a thought in my head, and I don't mind saying this, when I was in church, and I was like, man, like that person's really doing like a bad job for what they're doing right now at this very moment. I'm being completely transparent. Oh, yeah, for sure. And you know what happened? The Holy Spirit spoke to me at that moment and was like, that shut up. Yeah, quite literally, that person is serving me right now. Who are you to say anything about them? Right? And I was like, whoa.

SPEAKER_02 18:52

I love music as much as the next guy, and I feel like there is a place for worship in the church because it invokes something in people. But also, if you don't like it, there's always next Sunday.

SPEAKER_00 19:05

Yeah, or or you can go back and just reevaluate. Yes, right? Go back, re-evaluate, uh, and ask the Lord to check your heart. And we need to do that too, right? It's important that we don't fall into that. Uh-huh. Um, and so that you know, all ties into the idea that, you know, part of being a godly man is to be wise and respectful that not everything is going to go the way that you want it. Yeah. And how you want it. But ultimately you have to look to what God is doing in that moment and accept the fact that he's moving. 100%. Right? And God forbid we get in the way. Right? Yeah. Um, God forbid. So right now, uh, I think it's time. Is it time? It is time for Davikim. Woo! Okay.

SPEAKER_02 20:09

Here we go. It's your turn for Davikim. It's my turn. What are we doing?

SPEAKER_00 20:14

Oh, this is a weird one.

SPEAKER_02 20:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 20:17

Hit me with it. Okay. Um actually, I had one, but now I'm gonna change it. Oh, okay. Okay, ready? Sure. If you had to be trapped in a movie for a week, which one or like which movie would you definitely avoid? Avoid. Yeah. So if there was a movie that you were gonna get stuck in for a week, yeah, what movie would you not want to be stuck in?

SPEAKER_02 20:53

That's a good one. Maybe like an apocalypse movie. Do you know one offhand? If you could pick a movie for our listeners. I'm thinking of The Walking Dead, but that's not a movie. We'll count that.

SPEAKER_00 21:12

Okay, well then Walking Dead. Yeah, so you wouldn't want to be stuck there for a week with a bunch of zombies? No.

SPEAKER_02 21:17

The zombies aren't even the worst part, it's the people.

SPEAKER_00 21:23

Okay. Um it's funny, but it's true. It is true. So a quick question for you. Yeah. Uh I'm gonna we're gonna go off topic. We're gonna spend a little bit of time with this Davikim for a moment. Okay. Okay. How would you survive if you were in The Walking Dead? And okay, so you that's when you don't want to be in, but now you are. Now you're now you're there.

SPEAKER_02 21:42

Man, okay.

SPEAKER_00 21:42

Okay. Thanks, man. Um, so you okay, ready? I'm gonna paint a picture for you. Okay. You you're driving in a Jeep, you're listening to the radio, and all of a sudden the radio broadcasts, there's some virus in the air. Yeah. Uh anyone like his DD, you're gonna love this. And anyway, maybe uh your virus. In the air, make your way to the nearest like containment place. Roll for intelligence. Yeah, roll for intelligence. And so you go ahead and you drive, drive, drive, drive, drive. You show up. The fences are broke down. There's no one around. Wait, where am I right now? I wasn't listening to it. You're trying to go to the containment place where it was going to be safe, but the fences are already broke down. Sure. You show up, your vehicle runs out of gas. That's horrible. It's starting to get dark.

SPEAKER_02 22:26

Oh man. Everything's going wrong. What do you do? Cry. What else do you do? Is there anything else around? Like there's no other buildings, it's just the containment place. Yeah, but it's like a facility. So it's like other buildings out on the lot. Okay. Yeah. I'm gonna have a really weird answer. Go ahead. But it's justified. When I was younger, I used to watch these guys on YouTube. I can't remember what their name is, but they had these They had this company where they made ballistic gelatin heads or something like that, and they would test different weapons on them to see. I don't think so. But they might have something too. They might have done something, yeah. Yeah. But they tested a bunch of weapons to see, like, hypothetically, which ones would be best to survive a zombie apocalypse. The best one by far was a the tank for a toilet seat. Really? Yeah. So I'm going in there finding the nearest toilet and I'm taking the tank off. And what are you doing? Like sticking on your head or something? No, that's I'm kicking a zombie in the face with it. Oh, really? If I run into anything, they're gonna know what's coming. Ah. You just whack them with us. Interesting. Gone. Okay. What about you? What movie would you not want to be in for three days or a week or a week? Oh, a week. For a week. For a week.

SPEAKER_00 23:42

Um I would not want to be in. Oh, I know the movie, and I haven't watched this movie and the end um the day after tomorrow. No, not the day after tomorrow, but is it the end of the world or something? Um it's based on the old sci-fi book. Um Tom Cruise is in it. It's where these alien things come down with like the big legs, and they just like walk around and just like suck people up into the things. It's like, and it makes it sound like this. Boom. Just like that.

SPEAKER_02 24:20

While they're sucking people up, they'd have a big cowbell around.

SPEAKER_00 24:23

And then they're literally, and then they just like they just like die. End of the world or something like that, or world's end or something. Okay. Anyway, someone will I tell you what, this is how we know if anyone is actually listening. Someone here. Are you listening? Someone here knows what that who's who's listening. One of you guys, one of you know what the name of that movie is.

SPEAKER_02 24:44

If you guess the name of the movie, you're right, we'll give you five bucks.

SPEAKER_00 24:47

No.

SPEAKER_02 24:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 24:48

But you can put type it into Facebook. Go on our Facebook page and type it in under after you listen to the podcast. You'll get bragging race. What is the name of the movie with Tom Cruise in it? Um, where it's the like end of the world stuff, okay? All right. And the things are sucking people up and eating them. So anyway, that's the movie I would not want to be in. Alright, I'm not letting this go. What would you do if you're in that movie? Oh man. I would I know nothing of the movie, but I would dig like the biggest hole um possible. And and I don't know how, like just with a shovel, I suppose. Sure. And just dig my way down. How long do you think that would take? Yeah. Probably probably won't be fast though. I'll definitely get sucked up.

SPEAKER_02 25:32

Aliens around the property, just see you digging like a madman in the backyard.

SPEAKER_00 25:36

Yeah, so uh anyway, that's that's the movie I would want to be in. They were so creepy. I remember watching it and just like sucking people up and and sucking people up, like madness. So anyway, that's this week's Davakem. We hope you enjoyed it. No, we didn't. All right. Um, so now we're going to get into something interesting with this. We've talked about the bread, we talked about the fish, multiplying them, about you know, the fish. Almost there. Yep, right there. Um, yeah, a few small fish, right? A few fish. A few fish. Um, and then we talked about you know the importance of like when you go to church, yeah, you're there to spend time with Jesus. Yep, not to nobody else what you're getting, right? Yeah. Um so let's go ahead and now get into verse eleven. Yep. So, Evan, you want to kick us off?

SPEAKER_02 26:32

Let's do it. Go from eleven to thirteen. Yep. And just reminder, I'm reading from ESV, so it's going to be different from the first one. Yes. The Pharisees came and began to argue with him, seeking from him a sign from heaven to test him, and he sighed deeply in his spirit and said, Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation. And he left them, got into the boat again, and went to the other side. Interesting. Now this is I'm usually a big fan of ESV. I don't think I like the way ESV put this one. You want to hear it from mine?

SPEAKER_00 27:12

Sure. Okay. When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had arrived, they came and started to argue with him. Testing him, they demanded that he'd sh that the he show them a miraculous sign from heaven to prove his authority. When he heard this, he sighed deeply in his spirit and said, Why do these people keep demanding a miraculous sign? I tell you the truth, I will not give this generation any such sign. So he got back into the boat and left them, and he crossed to the other side of the lake.

SPEAKER_02 27:46

Okay, I must be thinking of a different portion of scripture. There was a part I was thinking of where he says, Um This generation will not be given a sign except for the sign of the prophet Jonah. Oh, yeah. That's a different part. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:00

Yeah. But still, like um Well, now I got nothing. Well, for me with that one, you know what stands out to me is that just because someone tells you something or demands something of you, doesn't mean you have to do it. Absolutely not. And Jesus was famous actually for that. He would like people would say to him, Pharisees would say, whatever, like, do this, come now. We need you right now. Like, look at what happened with um uh you know Lazarus and stuff, right? Our brother's sick. We need you now. If you had been here minutes ago, exactly would have been alive. That's right, and like he didn't go on purpose to show the glory of God. And you know, he knew when to say, get ready for it, it's a two-letter word. Nuh-uh.

SPEAKER_02 28:53

Well, oh wait, two-letter word, never mind. I thought you said two words for some reason. I'll be alright.

SPEAKER_00 28:58

Nuh uh. Turkey brain. Yeah, nuh-oh. That's in the uh ESV English uh Evan Standard Version. Come show us an American style. Nuh-uh. Not all. Um, yeah, so he had no trouble saying no. Yes, and that doesn't mean that's like a like a free card for us. Like, let's say, for instance, you say to me, like, Christian, I'm having a really hard day, you know, you want to come up or something for a bit, we can read the word. No, I'm busy, right? Yeah, it's not like that. Um, you know, because we can also get into a mindset that, and I'll I did this for a little bit where I would say no to a lot of things, and I realized like, shoot, I'm actually saying no to some things that like are actually beneficial and have to do with the Lord. I gotta be careful.

SPEAKER_02 29:49

Yeah, there's I got I'm I I've done that plenty of times where I'll realize that I'm becoming a yes man and try to divert from it, and then I'm sitting in my room all week doing absolutely nothing. I'm like, oh, I should have said yes to something.

SPEAKER_00 30:07

Yeah, yeah. It's like you you become a yes man, then you become a no man, yeah, and then you're a nobody man.

SPEAKER_02 30:12

Yep. Then I don't know what man. You're just there, right? Here's the thing that I think was interesting. Yeah, Jesus, well, of course he had the authority to say no, but he already did like plenty of signs. So it's not even a thing of I don't want to show you a sign. It's I showed you plenty of good signs, yes, and you didn't want anything to do with any of them. Exactly. So what purpose is it that it's why why why would I give you another one? Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 30:42

You're only gonna do the same thing. Right on. Like you think about it. Like, if you you're asking Jesus to do a miraculous sign, something from heaven, to do what? Prove your unbelief of the thing. I bet I strike you did. You know what I mean? It's like how how vain of them to ask that. Like you you think about like there's no wonder Jesus sighed deeply. Right? You know, I can literally probably like I can picture in my head and be like, here they go again. I literally just did all this stuff with the fish and the bread. Weren't you there for that? Maybe they were, maybe they weren't.

SPEAKER_02 31:26

They would have they should have been there for a bunch of other ones. They made he made people blind, he made people walk. Yeah. There you go, that's another one. The man who was paralyzed, take up your bed and walk. Yeah. Pharisees were there for that one because they were pretty quick to point it out.

SPEAKER_00 31:39

Yeah, yeah. And uh, but you know what, dude? I really think that today's in like today's society too, I don't I I s I really feel like we're not that different.

SPEAKER_02 31:53

No, I don't think so either.

SPEAKER_00 31:54

You know what I mean? Where we ask for things, um, and I think you said it really well earlier, you know, about like remembrance, looking back on what the Lord's done. Yeah. Right? Um, and that we need to be mindful to, you know, actually um, you know, just search after um, you know, the Lord, and when hard times come, to be thankful for what we've already had. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 32:26

You know what I mean? And a quick reversal of the very first thing we talked about of the things that we sometimes just say without meaning. Yeah. Like the less we forget that he has risen. I think there's oddly enough a time and a place for that. Because if you're feeling like crap, feeling like junk, sometimes pushing yourself to say thank you for other stuff can get you in the mindset of wow, I actually have a lot right now. Yeah. In even if you don't mean it in the moment. Yeah. But it's saying it enough to to think about it, I think, is the key. Yeah. I woke up I woke up on Easter Sunday with the biggest crick in my neck. I couldn't look to the room at all. Yes, yes. I woke up with a nosebleed. Pretty sure I stubbed my toe a couple times. It was like crazy. Yeah. But I didn't want to be the guy to complain on Easter Sunday, knowing what Easter Sunday means. Yeah. So I said, okay, you know what? I woke up in a bed. Yeah. Thank you, Lord, for that. I had something to eat. You know, I'm alive. I'm not passed out or anything. I I'd rather have a nosebleed and be conscious than not be conscious at all. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But um, yeah, it's the Sometimes you do gotta force yourself to remember good stuff sometimes to really put it into perspective.

SPEAKER_00 33:56

Yeah, and what that really does is it takes the like the lens off of you, yeah, and it puts it right on Christ. That's right. Right. And then all of a sudden then we see the switch, right? And um, you know, so that's that's our challenge. I challenge, I challenge you, we challenge you as a listener to you know, be thankful. That's for us until our next episode. Be thankful. We look when we go through difficult times, um, you know, be thankful for what we have. And you know what? Maybe right now, listener, you're having a pretty crappy week. Yeah. Um we pray in Jesus' name uh that you would experience a breakthrough in whatever situation you're dealing with. Amen. Um, that you would experience a breakthrough and that you would come to know Christ as your deliverer. Um so we encourage you uh to share uh this episode uh with people that need to hear uh some good positive words, and uh we hope that you've been blessed today and uh we look forward to our next episode where we continue on to talk about what it's like to live uh like godly lives. Of course. And as we use the Bible, and in particular today, you know, we were looking at you know our Lord Jesus and how he would react to things, yes, and also how he dealt with things too. Yeah, and um, so Lord, we just ask that you would guide us all.

SPEAKER_02 35:38

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 35:39

All right. Well, we're signing off. Yeah, sounds good. We'll see y'all next time. All right, God bless everybody.