0014 Colossians 1: 24-28

Episode 14– Colossians 1:24-28

In this episode of The Break Check Podcast, we continue into Colossians

For the first time, we’re walking verse-by-verse through a book of the Bible—starting with Colossians . Together, we read the passage and unpack Paul’s message to the church in Colossae: faith in Christ, love for the saints, and the hope laid up in heaven.

We talk about:

• Who Paul is writing to—and why it matters
• The power of a Gospel that is “bearing fruit and growing”
• What authentic Christian faith actually looks like
• How encouragement and gratitude shape a healthy church

This marks a shift for us as we begin reading Scripture in order and slowing down to really discuss it. No cherry-picking. No rushing. Just opening the Word and letting it speak.

If you’ve ever wanted to study the Bible more intentionally but didn’t know where to start, this is a great place to jump in.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Welcome to the Break Check Podcast. I'm Lewis.

SPEAKER_00 0:02

And I'm Joe.

SPEAKER_01 0:04

And this is episode I've lost count.

SPEAKER_00 0:07

I think it's 14. 14. I think it's episode 14. That's a lot of Colossians chapter 1, 24 through 28.

SPEAKER_01 0:17

28. We're going to finish the chapter. It's kind of interesting. It's got one of those like weird pause break chapters where so we're not going to include 29. It really does just kind of flow with the next point that Paul makes. And so I'm actually kind of confused why it's not in chapter two.

SPEAKER_00 0:36

You know, we're going to have to call the Bible writers and ask them what the heck. You know? So there's that. We will put verse 29 when we start chapter two, right? In Colossians, and that will happen. And so sad. Feels sad, but we're going to take a break. Yep. I'll take a break for summer. Um, so the next episode that you'll see after this one will probably release what we say early October. October. That seems like a long time, but it actually will be here just like that.

SPEAKER_01 1:11

Yep. So probably gonna be a new studio location, all the things. So we hope so.

SPEAKER_00 1:17

It's gonna look different, probably. All five of you listeners. Yep. No, it just some things are changing in life. Life gets really busy for both of us during the summer. Um, and we want to be able to give you guys notice and stay consistent. And even this episode coming out a little late, so we want to just be able to stay on on track here. So we're gonna take a little break for the summer, get going back in October once fall gets here, and have still great content for everybody.

SPEAKER_01 1:44

For sure.

SPEAKER_00 1:45

All right. We got to do our question. And Lewis specifically asked me, he said, Don't tell me. Surprise me with the question. So this one's for you, Lewis. And I'm gonna answer it too. I have a great answer to this question. Selfishly. A humble answer, too. Yeah. Do you think Jesus has a sense of humor? Why? Yes.

SPEAKER_01 2:07

So Jesus is God and God laughs at me. So that's how I know.

SPEAKER_00 2:16

I am going to just use a single word to answer this question. Farts.

SPEAKER_01 2:22

Oh, Joe, you've told me about this.

SPEAKER_00 2:24

Farts are proof God, whom is also Jesus, has a sense of humor.

SPEAKER_01 2:30

So you're on like the Benjamin Franklin track of like beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

SPEAKER_00 2:37

I okay. Well, I apologize for my ignorance. I've never heard that one. Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin, uh, hops. Good old Ben Frank. Ben Frank forever ago. I I don't know if I can align with that, but it's funny. I'm laughing.

SPEAKER_01 2:57

It's wisdom, right? The dude's like 400 years old or something like that. When did Benjamin Frank?

SPEAKER_00 3:01

Well, he probably wasn't 400 years old when he said that. Well, yeah, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 3:09

That's a little laugh. He came to America first or whatever. That's Ben Frank. Got my history right.

SPEAKER_00 3:13

I don't know. I would stop now. I would stop right now. Am I wrong? You are wrong. You're thinking Christopher Columbus. That's Christopher Columbus.

SPEAKER_01 3:21

Dude, what did Ben Frank do? Was that electricity guy? He flew the kite. Flew the kite, electricity guy. Benjamin Franklin was the He stole the idea for the light bulb. Okay. It's a controversy. I'm telling you right now. I don't think Benjamin Franklin made the light bulb. Yeah. Electricity guy made the light bulb, but he stole the idea. So he didn't technically make the light bulb. Somebody else made the light bulb, but he put his name on the paper. Oh, good lord. He he didn't do anything for the team project and still got the A.

SPEAKER_00 3:52

Okay.

unknown 3:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:54

Look it up.

SPEAKER_01 3:54

I promise. I promise you.

SPEAKER_00 3:57

This is coming from the guy that prides himself with his just general being a Jerzel fuzzy ball of useless knowledge. Yes, I know the most random crap. Are you going to tell me he also made the telephone?

SPEAKER_01 4:09

He didn't. Telephone was slightly after him. Telegram kind of. It all really went fast.

SPEAKER_00 4:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:17

Really took off. Like, because I'm pretty sure what, Model T was like 1810 or something like that?

SPEAKER_00 4:22

I don't know, bro.

SPEAKER_01 4:23

I'm pretty sure the the gap between like light bulb and car is like 50 years.

SPEAKER_00 4:29

Yeah, that's kind of like the Wright brothers' first flight and then commercial airliners. Yeah. You know, that's wild. It was like, yeah. Isn't it nuts? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:37

Because I'm pretty sure Wright brothers were. I mean, like, I think that was only 50 years before World War I or something like that. Ridiculous. Yeah. So really crazy. They were like, you know what? We just learned how to fly. Put a gun on it.

SPEAKER_00 4:50

Put a gun on it. Anything's better with a gun on it, people, right? Good Lord. Okay. We are going to talk. Um, this is Paul's ministry to the church. All right. We're going to start at verse 24. But do you want to get us started off with a prayer before we get rolling? For sure. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:07

Do it. All righty. Dear Lord, thank you for this day and thank you for this opportunity to uh dive into your word and to just learn more about what it means to follow you. Um, we just pray that this impacts not only our lives, but the lives of all the listeners, and that everybody can learn to look to you and to live for you each and every day. We thank you for every blessing you bestow upon us each and every day from waking up in the morning to go in bed at night. Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

SPEAKER_00 5:30

Amen. I could be wrong on this, but I think you read last time. I don't want to read. Okay, I'll read a reading. I'll read it. I'll read it. Okay, Paul's Ministry of the Church, verse 24 says, Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body. That is the church, of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known. The mystery hidden for ages and generations, but now revealed to his saints, to them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom that we may present everyone mature in Christ. What in the theological weeds was that, Paul? That's a good question. Paul, you're you're that's like you're killing me, Smalls. Yeah, you're killing me, Paul. Alright. I had to get deep into the commentary on this one. I had to really start unpacking this? I have two sections of notes for just reverse 24.

SPEAKER_01 7:11

Go ahead after it.

SPEAKER_00 7:12

Alright, here we go. So first of all, Paul is no stranger to suffering, right? I mean, uh Colossians is a captivity letter, right? So Paul, he just begins verse 24 with re rejoicing within his suffering. You know, again, like I said, being a captivity letter, he was in prison. Um uh and and as he writes in other letters, you know, rejoicing is not necessarily contingent on pleasant circumstances, right? So he's Paul is no stranger to sh to suffering, and his reference to filling up what is lacking in Christ's affliction is not him saying he sees a lacking in the death of Christ. I mean, it's clear in Paul's writings that e even in earlier verses, um chapter 1, verse 12 through 13, and then chapter 1, 19 through 22, Paul's mind here is um the necessary suffering of the body of Christ, which is the church. So I said this I don't know if I said it to you or I said it to someone else, but I I don't remember exactly where I got this. So if if you're the author of this and you're listening, then I I do apologize. But it came across as suffering is inevitable, right? You have a decision. You can suffer by way of regret or you can suffer by way of discipline. Not meaning you're being disciplined by somebody, somebody's you know, punishing you, but staying disciplined to, for example, to the word, right? We're staying disciplined to the word, we're following it, we're reading it, we're learning it, we're we're gaining wisdom from it. Um and so I think that's what Paul is he's bringing to us. He's you know, the suffering of the church by way of staying disciplined to the word. And also they're being persecuted and killed for their beliefs. I mean, there's not I mean that we can't forget that part, but I think that maybe a little bit of both.

SPEAKER_01 9:11

Yeah. I'd really I've thought about because you said that to me before the whole they're suffering and then they're suffering out of discipline, and I don't really understand what you're trying to say. Can't really wrap my head around it.

SPEAKER_00 9:24

Well, think about going to the gym, right? You're doing chest flies or something. Obviously, I don't go to the gym, guys, but I'm just saying I used to, right? Or think you're doing arm curls and you're just gonna go until you can't go anymore. And that hurts. It's painful, right? It makes your muscles hurt, and then the next couple days you're you're sore as as you it's crazy. It hurts, right? That's a form of suffering. That pain is suffering, but you know that suffering now yields something better for you later. You're gonna be like, you know, able to arm wrestle a grizzly bear because you just do so much, right? So you're you're able to gain something in your suffering. That's suffering by way of discipline. Suffering by way of regret is, I mean, in the meantime, you're living on the hog, right? You're getting to enjoy Benjamin Franklin's beer, you know. Like, you know, I'm just saying you you're you're doing things that are more of the world, but then when you realize that it was always wrong, then you're suffering by looking backwards at it and regretting having not lived for Christ before.

SPEAKER_01 10:28

Yeah. I don't know. I guess this probably just resonates a little closer to you than it does to me, because I don't it may. I just don't see it that way at all. Um when I say like suffering when I'm sore after I go to the gym, I'm not suffering. Okay. In in my opinion. I mean, I'm not, I really am. I it hurts and I'm like, dude, this sucks. I'm really sore. I can't move. But I'm not suffering. I'm not like upset about it or anything. I'm I'm like, this is just this is just the consequences of my actions. Could just be an outlook difference. Yeah, man, and so when and I don't, I don't, I I can honestly say I don't have a lot of regrets. I don't regret things often. Um, and so that's not really suffering for me either. Like, yes, I wish I'd done something differently, but I'm a very it is what it is. We move kind of guy. So um, you know, it's it's in the past, it happened, move along. Understood. So I guess that's probably where the disconnect is for me. But I guess definitely understand what you're saying, because if you struggle with that, it could seem like suffering, right? Nobody likes being sore the day after a workout, right? Nobody likes regretting things.

SPEAKER_00 11:34

So yeah, both are true. Yeah, absolutely. What do you think Paul's trying to tell us here then?

SPEAKER_01 11:40

Well, here Paul is saying that I'm suffering for the sake of the gospel. Um, and so when he says I'm filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions, it's not saying that Christ's afflictions aren't enough or whatever. It's saying that he's adding, right? I'm adding more suffering onto the gospel pile. Um, and I think that's kind of what Jesus meant when Jesus said that you're gonna be prosecuted for my name's sake, right?

SPEAKER_00 12:04

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 12:04

You're gonna suffer because of me. And so it's just adding on to the suffering of the gospel pile of, you know, I preach this and I have to deal with this because of it, right?

SPEAKER_00 12:13

Right. Yeah. Verse 25 was real simple for me. I think Paul's just simply calling out his calling to be a minister. And then the last episode we realized that minister doesn't just mean leader, it means servant, right? So he's just a servant of the word. I think that's really all that has to be said for verse 25, unless you've got more for that.

SPEAKER_01 12:32

Yeah, I mean, it's very I think you're selling them short because I think it's written poetically. Um and yeah, I mean, he's just talking about how he he became a minister. Um, I think that's there's something there, right? Because he didn't he wasn't always a minister. That's true. But for sure. Paul has a very deep history of like knowing the word, right? Right. He probably knew the scroll Isaiah better than anybody else back in 33 AD, right? But at the same time, he became something uh when Jesus entered in his life. That's true. But it didn't come from something he did or anything like that. Um, so uh he says that later in the verse when he says it was given to him. So I think that's there's something done right home there.

SPEAKER_00 13:20

I agree with that. Thanks for thanks for taking it deeper, because I didn't have a lot. I didn't have a lot there. See, it was pretty clear to me.

SPEAKER_01 13:27

I mean, it's it's clear what he says, but how he says it is beautiful, I think.

SPEAKER_00 13:30

I agree. I yeah, I definitely I definitely disagree with that. Paul is Paul is the master of going all the way around you and then like sneaking up behind you and then smacking you in the back of the head with the truth. Just here it is. You know, in verse 26, you know, he starts with the mystery, which I really enjoyed translating that word. Mystery in in Greek is mysterion, which means unmanifested or private counsel of God. Yeah. It was really cool. I really enjoyed that. And so to unpack that a little further, you know, we we we note here that his entire goal is to spread this, and by way of Jesus, it's no longer a mystery.

SPEAKER_01 14:20

Yeah. I think I think uh I think it's important to read the Old Testament for this. Because when you read the Old Testament, I read the New Testament way before I read the Old Testament.

SPEAKER_00 14:30

Same.

SPEAKER_01 14:31

I read all four Gospels before I even touched uh Kings or Samuel, right? Sure. Um, but so in reading the the Gospels, I got familiar with the language used in the Bible, right? How they say things, how they talk, what what they would say and how they would put it together. And when you read the Gospels and then you read the entire Old Testament, you pick up nuggets of New Testament all over the Old Testament. Oh, yeah. It is incredible, and I think that's kind of what Paul is playing at here, right? It all kind of comes together beautifully, not only in just how obviously, like Jesus is prophesied directly. You read Isaiah or whatever it is, it's like 45, I think, where you know they start getting into this servant that's gonna come along and save the is the Israelites, right? That's obviously directly prophetic of Jesus, but you I jump back all the way to you know, the first time worship is mentioned in the Bible. Uh Abraham sacrificing Isaac on that mountaintop, wherever it was, which is also the same mountain Jesus died on. That's that's uh that was really cool.

SPEAKER_00 15:38

Um Yeah, I I I think I read that. Uh that that's that's been a pretty interesting pretty cool. Yeah, really cool.

SPEAKER_01 15:45

Um, but you know, just just the language of how you know, go sacrifice your son, and they went out and worshipped, and they had a servant there, and just how it all kind of plays together, it's not coincidental, right? Oh, definitely not. And that the book of Genesis was written hundreds of years before, you know, Isaiah even. So um I think it's inter I think it's definitely um really cool this mystery that Paul is alluding to.

SPEAKER_00 16:15

Yeah, yeah. Have you ever looked at like a chronological Bible where because you know some of the books are in like how they're they're not in chronological order.

SPEAKER_01 16:24

Yeah, like r by release date. Like if you watch the Marvel in cinematic uh order or versus chronological order, right? They're in completely different owner.

SPEAKER_00 16:34

Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty it's kind of it's kind of wild, but but yeah, it's it's interesting because the Job is that should be in Genesis. Yeah. That should be really early.

SPEAKER_01 16:43

Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you watch them in if you read it in like because Job was written during the time it takes place during the time of Genesis. But like Genesis and Job were written after like some of the later books. I think Exodus was like if you read them in the order that they were written, I think you read Exodus first. I could be wrong there though.

SPEAKER_00 17:04

Maybe. Yeah. I'll need to I'll need to put that back together.

SPEAKER_01 17:07

I need to figure that out. That's I feel like that'd be a cool way to read the Bible. We need to get a chronological Bible.

SPEAKER_00 17:12

That's probably my next Bible.

SPEAKER_01 17:13

Yeah, chronological.

SPEAKER_00 17:14

Gotta find me one. Gotta find me a good one. Okay, so verse 27. Um, and so Paul explains that that God has made known to the saints the riches that are within the Gentiles. Which the way I understand that, when he's when they say Gentiles, I'm thinking to the world. So anyone other than Israelites are gentiles. That's that's what he's saying there, right? So which until now the word of God would have been a mystery to them. Right? They wouldn't have they wouldn't have really known. Would you would you agree with that?

SPEAKER_01 17:48

Yeah. I think I think uh this I think immediately back to Jesus when uh he asked his disciples to pray for many harvesters to uh to to sow sow the crops and reap the harvest that is coming. Um obviously talking about you know having many people to go out and spread the gospel to the Gentiles. That's right. That's right.

SPEAKER_00 18:14

And so um this is telling them that they are now in the body of Christ. So he sums it up pretty kind of beautifully, kind of what you were saying in for verse 25. You know, he says it poetically where it's Christ in you, the hope of glory. Um, and and it's once again sharing that that yes, Christ is seated physically at the right hand of God in heaven, but also in his people by by the Spirit. Um, to me, that was just like I don't know, I get so much peace and comfort when I read something like that. It is just a strong reminder that Jesus is there, but he's also here and makes me I don't know, it comforts me.

SPEAKER_01 18:57

Yeah. And I think uh it's just this kind of poetic thing of like how great the mission is. Um because I mean obviously Kalosh, the Kalas say people were Gentiles, right? But he's he's he's you know putting the spark on the kindling at this point, right? He's trying to get this this going, and uh so he's like, You're in you're in the body of Christ, but there's so many more around you right who also need this truth that you've found. Um so it's kind of like a truth wrapped in a uh um call to action sandwich.

SPEAKER_00 19:34

Yes, which is the absolute perfect segue for verse 28, where he says, Him we proclaim. And this is another way of Paul saying to to go share the gospel and and you know tell people about Jesus. So that's him saying, in him we proclaim, um, because that's that's Paul's entire purpose is to teach, right? So he does it by kind of a negative and a and a positive, right? By saying, um, I'm getting ahead of myself in my notes, but but saying, you know, we're warning you to not turn away, right? But then in in the on the positive side, we're teaching you.

SPEAKER_01 20:13

What do you think? Do you think what pause? What do you think he's warning people about? What do you think warning means in this verse 28?

SPEAKER_00 20:21

He's warning them to not fall away from the gospel and the truth that they've heard, right? We we heard that earlier in this this chapter, verse nine and ten.

SPEAKER_01 20:32

I think he is uh the warning means warning people that they're on a collision course with hell. Oh, I think that's what he's getting at here. I think he is. I think this is a uh this is less so for the believer and more for so for the unbeliever. When he wrote this. I think I think verse 28 is and now this is this is kind of where I was gonna take this because I think it's interesting because we all see, I don't know if you've ran up against a fire and brimstone preacher. Right. They stand on the street corner with their sign that says if you're gay, you're going to hell.

SPEAKER_00 21:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:06

If you do XYZ, they list them all out, you're going to hell. Hey, you like abortion, there's your destination, hell, right? Right. And people will take this verse, and there's a verse in Ruth, I believe. Not Ruth. What's the book right before Generation Revelation? Is that Ruth?

SPEAKER_00 21:22

Well, uh, just before Revelation. Revelation is uh Judah. Jude Jude? Jude? Is it Jude?

SPEAKER_01 21:30

It's that one page book that's right before Revelation. Right. Uh yeah, Jude, you're right. Yeah. Um, there's a verse in Jude about like warning people about the fire and brimstone that they're gonna face on or whatever. Yeah. Um, and so I think it's interesting because when you read these verses in context, I think we are to warn people. Um, but it says with all wisdom, uh, that we may present people mature. And so as soon as you You kind of delve down this line of like pointing fingers. Who points fingers? Oh, immature people. Yep. Kids. So kids, that's what I was going to say. Kids. Point fingers. I want they can't say what they want, so they point, right? Yeah, it's about it. And so I think it's important that we make this distinction kind of here. Um, and I I just think it's interesting because um Paul Paul wants us to be aware, right, uh that people are going to hell, but also at the same time wants us to be encouraging and kind of guiding. And I don't know. I've been struggling, I've been not struggling, because I say struggle just as a blanket statement. I've been wrestling with this as of late because I heard something on the internet. It was like, you know, some people today would have told David to pray for Goliath. And I'm like, that's real. I don't know. That that makes me feel feel weird. And I gotta wrestle with that.

SPEAKER_00 22:55

Yeah. I obviously I don't vote. I'm not gonna say David should have prayed for Goliath.

SPEAKER_01 23:00

Me either. No, no. But I also feel like I've fallen into that line of thinking.

SPEAKER_00 23:04

Yeah, we do. I think I think we do have to be careful. And I think that, yeah, the maturity, the spiritual maturity that that and I tell you, I can't wait to redo that episode. Spiritual maturity. In a year, whatever we said. Because I mean, what kind of development's gonna happen as we continue to do this and as we continue to get closer to our wives? And um, you know, just man, that's uh that's exciting. But yeah, I I I agree with I can I can line up with that. Um, I mean, I took it a little bit different of a direction when you know, warning them more from the standpoint of the believer to don't fall away from the truth you've heard, because we have a likelihood of straying. Like humans are naturally going to drift. Um and so teaching them with all wisdom, you know, we learned that in verse 9 and 10, um, this was in his prayer that the church would gain knowledge of God's will um and spiritual wisdom so they could walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him. So mature in Christ is a is a mix of knowledge of God's will and the spiritual wisdom that comes from their understanding of it. But I really do like your take as well. Paul, like I said in the very beginning, before we ever started talking about this, before we started kind of commentating on it, Paul took us into the theological weeds here. And so I think that, you know, there's probably truth in what we're both saying, but I I do appreciate your take on that, because he probably was also warning the unbeliever so that they would go here and hear the truth from these spiritually maturing people that are now in Christ, right? Yeah. So it's yeah, it's it's it's a good that's a good take on it.

SPEAKER_01 24:48

I think redemption has warning in it. Redemption isn't necessary unless you're being redeemed from something. Yeah. So um, you know, when you hear I'm gonna redeem you from something, like redeem redeem you from what? Yeah, kind of deal.

SPEAKER_00 25:02

So yeah, reconciliation with God. Reconcile from God. How was I reconciled with God? Well, there's a lot of people. You gotta go somewhere. There was this guy named Jesus, right? If you notice my shirt, he's he's saying peace to the grave. He's getting out of there, right? Yeah. Lycas. I like this shirt. This was my Easter shirt. I wore it. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:22

I wore I wore uh a sage green polo. Yeah. And white pants. You went you went I went country club.

SPEAKER_00 25:30

You actually dress nice for Easter.

SPEAKER_01 25:31

I have jeans boots. I feel like country club is kind of fun. Yeah. Yeah. You think I could uh you think I'd be suited for a country club? Yeah. I think so. I could live that life. I feel like I could try at least.

SPEAKER_00 25:43

I don't know. I feel like I mean I could try anything. I could go hang out with a biker club if I wanted to. For a while at least. I could fake it for a little while. I don't know. I probably couldn't. You couldn't. Mm-mm.

unknown 25:54

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 25:55

No. I'd probably get kicked out.

SPEAKER_00 25:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:57

You'd probably tell somebody the truth and Yeah, I'd tell them that their O3 Harley is kind of slow actually, and then I'd get beat up and then never go again. Golly, man. They're O three Harley. I'd I'd hit them with the statistic of like the reason that like 70% of motorcycle deaths are drunk dudes on their Harley and then get thrown out.

SPEAKER_00 26:17

Good lord. Back in that that episode, I don't even remember what number it was, like episode three, what do you wish you were better at? I think one of Lewis's things he wishes he was better at was you know, just because it's true, you don't mean you have doesn't mean you have to say it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:30

That was true, man.

SPEAKER_00 26:31

I feel strongly about that. You feel strongly about that.

SPEAKER_01 26:33

Because that's the reason I can't get a motorcycle.

SPEAKER_00 26:35

All right. You can't get a motorcycle because you're going to drink Benjamin Franklin's beer and go to the city.

SPEAKER_01 26:40

No, no, no. I'm not going to do that. I'm not stupid. Sure. But motorcycles are a statistic, and my wife sees those statistics and then says that I can't have a motorcycle because of those statistics, but those statistics are skewed because of the drunk Harley dads, and so that's who I blame for not getting a motorcycle.

SPEAKER_00 26:57

Got it. So you are you have like a vendetta. So you would go to the Harley Club to tell them about themselves. No, I wouldn't.

SPEAKER_01 27:04

I wouldn't, but I would end up doing that because I can't control my mouth and then get beat up.

SPEAKER_00 27:10

I don't have your back in this one. Yeah, I know. I'm not going with you. It's okay. I'm too old too. I totally understand.

SPEAKER_01 27:16

I'm just saying, like I would it would come up in conversation, and then I'd say something dumb. I just know myself too well, you know?

SPEAKER_00 27:23

I get it. I get it. I I appreciate your your transparency here. Vulnerable. You were very vulnerable in this moment, Lewis. I'm proud of you. All right. I'm going to pray us out of here. Cool. Before I do that, let's remind them that again, we're taking a break till October. Find us on Facebook, find us on Instagram. I think we got TikTok, all that kind of stuff. I think I I think I threatened last episode that we're going to try to be more active, and then we did absolutely nothing with it. So we might work on that. We might not. It'll be a surprise for all of you. But um breakcheck.net is our website. We have a contact form there. You can you can get hold of us if you have questions or you want to comment or tell us Lewis's hat is on the wrong direction or whatever you want to say. Hey, how do you know your hat's not on the wrong direction? It's a valid question. Don't know. All right. Well, I'm gonna pray it's out of here. Father, we love you. Thank you for this day, God. Thank you for this opportunity to get together and just talk about your word, Lord. And we're so thankful for the lessons that we learn on these pages. God, we just ask that you protect us as we navigate our days, God. And um, we're just so thankful for your blessings, Lord, and we lift up our families. Uh, we lift up the listener to you, Lord, and we just ask that you bless them and whatever they're struggling with, dealing with, Lord, and we we pray this in your son's holy name. Amen. Amen. Episode 14. See ya.