Laziness (Ep. 27)

In this episode, Pastors Luke Evans and Devon Patton talk about the effects of laziness in a believers life, how they differ from those that are not in the church, and how we can combat those tendencies. 

Transcript

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Hello. Welcome to the New Life Podcast. Another episode. Another episode. I think that's our tagline. We gotta get that on a t-shirt because we always say another episode. Another one. I think it's because we're just shocked they keep letting us do it. Yeah, that's true. That and the f again, we're still getting like feedback from people that it's all good things. Obviously, I'm sure if there's people who they don't think it's good, they just don't listen to it. Or that's a good thing with podcasts, is if it's not for you, it's not for you. But I've had people tell me like their kids, like they're taking them to school and they're like, Oh, I gotta put that on. Like my kids are like, Yeah, I want to listen to Pastor Luke and Pastor Devin. I was like, Yeah, that's cool. Not Mateo, though. They were like, no, absolutely not.

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This is episode 27, so we're over half a year in.

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Wow.

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That's insane.

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Also, this camera says warning something on it. Never mind, I went away. It knew you were talking about it. Wow, yeah, that's crazy. Because we started, when did we start doing this? Oh, Thanksgiving. Like 27 weeks. Around Thanksgiving, right? First September, was it? No, less than 27 weeks ago because we filmed multiple. We've done multiple weeks. But then we've taken weeks off. Yeah, you're right. So it's probably we're gonna have to get Matt to do the math on it. You're right. What was that from? When you're right, you're right. Nothing. I'm just funny. So you're welcome. Luke always quotes other stuff. He never has anything original. That's not true. At all. I'm hilarious on my. If you heard hears jokes on a Sunday morning, it's probably from somewhere else. Just Devon's is an all-time troll, dude. You are kind of look like one. He's like Hall of Famer. He's like Hall of Fame status. I just like to have a good time. At your expense. At other people's expense. Sue me. I like to have a good time. No offense. But yeah. Alright. So today we're gonna be talking about laziness. But before we do that, Luke, you jokester, we got an ad read today.

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We do. Today's episode of the New Life Podcast is brought to you by United Home Sanitation.

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What? Bringing you all of your dumpster needs. To Fairfield, Trumbull, surrounding towns. Or Fairfield County, we could say. Why would somebody need a dumpster though? I have one currently from United Home Sanitation in my driveway because we cleaned out my both sides of my garage. Spring cleaning. I've filled two dumpsters full of junk. Well, one and a half. One and a half. Oh, we gotta talk about this, dude. This was so funny, bro. You posted Pastor Luke. Knowing the backstory, what? Pastor Luke put a post on his thing. In the middle of the ad reads. Oh, sorry. United Home Sanitation. This is a good thing. We'll get back to it. Get some help, okay? Just like Pastor Luke did when clearing out his thing, but then he posted on his thing. What? Did some spring cleaning, and I was like, you had like four people moving? No, no, no. But almost died. They and then tell them the story. So both sides of my garage were getting a little over. A little bit much. Because like most people do, right? Oh, just put it in the garage. Just put it in the garage. I shouldn't be talking about the city. And then eventually stuff stacks up, and you never even go to the back of the garage because whatever's back there, you're never seeing it. Did you find anything? Like you're like, I didn't even know. Oh, tons of things. Including an entire colony of mice. But so Spencer and Mateo and Big Nate came over the house. Nate Dog. They helped me move the back cabinets in the back, and which was a real task. We ripped them apart. We we threw them in the dumpster. That's where the mice. It was a mouse hotel at that point. It was a mouse hotel. And so we got all that out of there. But then there was, they'll tell you, there was still a lot left. Plus the other side of so we filled one dumpster that day. That's crazy. And then United Home Sanitation, shout out John, came and picked it up, and then he brought another one back because you can get six to twenty foot dumpsters, whatever your needs are. No, I don't know what your needs are. I don't know what you need to empty out. Maybe I need to clear out some stuff, dude. I'm calling John. Six to twenty yards. Yards. Six to twenty yards. My bad. What did I say? Feet feet. Feet. Six to twenty yards, dude. A 20 yard dumpster. 30 feet? I don't even know what size I even have. 20 yards? I probably only have a six. What is that? It's like, what's that? 30 feet. 20 yards, three football fields long. Um and so six to twenty yards, we filled up. I don't know what size the one I have is, but we filled it up. You fill it up, you call Big John on the phone. John, I'm done. He comes and gets it, takes us his dumpster. With his dog with his dog. He's got a dog, too. Oh, it's so awesome. Oh, John's the man, dude. So if you need, if you're cleaning, if you're doing renovation, whatever it is, you need a dumpster, you call United Home Sanitation. They'll put the number up on the phone. And just like Jesus comes and takes out the trash of our lives, John will come and take out the trash from your home. So give him a call at United Home Sanitation. That was something. Where else are you getting ad reads like this? Nowhere. I don't know. I thought you were going to tell about what happened with uh Nate, though. Yeah, Nate. So Nate, if you know Nate. Nate's definitely not listening to this, so uh, or he might on his 27-hour train ride that he likes to take. Yeah. Nate is a young guy in our church. Well, he's a teenager. I don't know why you keep calling him a young guy, but he's a teenager in our church and he helps out here around uh around the the office and stuff, around the grounds. He's awesome. Um because he's a you know he's a big strong kid, and and so and Nate's not really he's not really scared of much, you know. So we you know we make him do all the stuff that you know, all the nasty work that nobody else wants to do because he doesn't mind it. He's a good kid. And so I brought him up, I was like, Nate, you gotta help us out. And I was like, Nate, there's there's mice everywhere in this thing. And he was like, Oh, it's fine, it it's fine, it's not a big deal, you know. And Nate, if you know Nate, his parents are from England, he used to have a British accent, he doesn't really anymore, but every now and then a word will pop out or a phrase or something. And so these mice are like all in the back behind this thing we're moving, and Mateo's got his head over there, he's looking at him. Spencer's freaking out because he picked up a bag and four of them ran out, and we all screamed and ran out of the thing. And Nate, Nate's getting ready to move this one thing, and he like peeks his head around, and the mouse is like up on the on the little little ledge, and the mouse just jumps off, and Nate just goes, Good heavens, he jumped.

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What the fuck? It was the funniest, it was the funniest thing ever because Nate's like he's gotta be what, six, two, six three? Yeah, he's a big boy.

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And and he's you know, he's he's been working out, he's getting big, and all of a sudden he's just like, Good heavens, he jumps. It was just the most British thing ever. It was really funny. Well, United Home Sanitation, they'll help you out. Oh yeah. Call Nate, he'll come and link it up. Link it up, United Home Sanitation. Uh, but we today are talking about laziness, but before we do that, I have a fun fact for you. We're gonna get to the topic eventually. Did you bring a fun fact? I sure did. Did you? I have two. Mateo didn't bring one. I got one. You have two? There's quick ones. You know, I like the the I don't like the big stories like you do. I like I leave that for you. Oh, alright. I don't want to share mine anymore. I don't have one. Uh, okay, so you guys have seen the show Wheel of Fortune. Uh, yeah. Luke was on it once. I was not. You were not on Wheel of Fortune. What were you on? It was Wheel of Fortune, but it was like Wheel of Fortune live in Stanford at the Palace Theater. I didn't get to meet. We're not gonna talk about that, though. Orion Secret.

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We've talked about it. We've talked about it before.

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We sure have. So we love it at our house. We watch it all the time. At our house, we have a channel dedicated to just Wheel of Fortune. So it's awesome. I'm like, oh, let's rip Wheel of Fortune. So it's one of the most generous game shows ever. Do you want to guess how much money is that? Because Jeopardy only gives you money if you win the entire thing. Wheel of Fortune, you get it for everybody. Everybody. So do you want to guess like how much they've given away? Hundreds of millions of dollars. 200 million dollars in prizes. Yeah. For like absolute nothing. How long has it been a thing? Oh, it's why'd you ask that question? Wheel of Fortune? I'm gonna say 40 years. Since 86 is when it started. 40 years. Gotta be. 75. 50 years. 50 years, 200 mil. 75 or 50 years? Oh, 50 years. 1975. 50 years, yeah. Because Pat Sajak, look up how old he's in his, he's old. He doesn't look he's done, but he doesn't look it. He's in his life. He's gotta be, yeah. Vanna. He's 79. He'll be 80. Vanna White. How old is Vanna? She's been on it for the whole time, maybe? Pretty close to it. You think? Yeah. She started when she was nine. How old is she? She started when she was 19. 69. Yeah, maybe. Maybe. She had said that she's worn over a thousand different dresses on the show, which is crazy. She rarely repeats it. Um, how much do you think the wheel weighs? This was shocking to me. This is the real fun fact. I thought it was interesting. 300 pounds.

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Okay.

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500? Spencer said 80 pounds. 2,400 pounds. That's a over a pound. So you really got when they're like throwing that thing, you gotta really spin it. And then the last thing is people claim to be good at Wheel of Fortune, which we've talked about before. Right. Both our wives. Yep, our wives. But what they come down to or what they say it is, is if you are good at pattern recognition. So if those type of games are something that you're good at, you'll be good at Wheel of Fortune. So I was like, all right, interesting. You know what else? This is this just adds to your fun fact. Okay, I'm ready. Do you you they make Pat Sajak and they make a ton of money? I'm gonna say a fortune. They make a ton of money, and you know they only film one day a week. Oh yeah. That's like us making a ton of money filming one day a week. Wait, what? Yeah, that's crazy. Just rip out magic. Imagine same with Jeopardy. You go and change, go change your comeback. Yeah. It's like working one day, like the dude that does uh red zone. Well, you're only filming a half an hour, so if you could film five of those in one day, let's rip it. Why not? Film twenty. You could film twenty in one day's work. Thirty. I have uh I have two just I have two. I got a crazy idea though. Could you film 40? I could see that being a strong possibility. Fifty? I could see that happening.

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Now really think about this. 100. 100.

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Yeah, we could probably make it happen. Yeah, we could probably make it happen. I have two. I have I have two. Uh one one is like usual just a thing that I didn't know. Okay. And then another one is just a crazy ridiculous thing. Uh do you know what the folds in a chef's hat mean? You know the white hat that chefs wear, the tall one. How many Michelin stars do you have? No. Oh. Why are you laughing at that? The folds, it says that the chef's hat folds are the it's to signify how good of a chef they are, how many ways they can prepare an egg. Dude, the hibachi guys. There's like a hundred. They got there's a hundred? Fold it up there. Some people. It's insane. How many ways to prepare an egg? Dude, some guy's just got a cylinder. He's like, don't touch the eggs. Don't touch the eggs. Over a hundred.

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What the heck?

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See? Boom. Boom. Dude. So, based on how many ways you can personally prepare it, you get those little notches in your cap, if you will. I don't know if that's where that comes from. And then the second fun fact is a real saying. Is the thing in it? No, notches in your cap is a thing, isn't it? No. Look that up. Look that up. Look that up. Is that really not? Am I did I just I just made up a phrase. I'm gonna start using it. We're gonna start ripping made up phrases. What is it in your cap? Feathers in your cap. Oh, there you go. Feathers in your cap. Yeah, I just mix the two of them up. And then the second fun fact that I had is just not really fun, it's just crazy. The Guinness World Record for the longest veil at a wedding. Can we guess it? Is it in feet or yards? Because I'll just do the math quick. Either one. Give me feet. Go ahead. Um, let's be realistic here. The longest veil. 317 feet. 317 feet. Oh, yeah. Let's be realistic. I was gonna say like 30. 30 feet.

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80.

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The longest veil in history, Guinness World Record, 23,000 feet. 60 Oh! That's who was closest without going around. 63 football fields long. There's that's obviously not real, Luke.

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That's AI.

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Yeah. I'm just Guinness dude. I'm telling you what the fun fact website said, okay? Look it up. Look it up on your own.

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Okay, Mateo. You got to beat that. Oh, mine's not beating that. Mine's just a silly little fun fact. Do you know the song? Here we go. You know the song cover being? Do you know that there's double A beat by Morgan Wallen? Yeah. Yeah. That song is actually a cover by Jason Isbell. Oh man. We should have let him start. Yeah, dude. That was the only reason I said that about it is that driving off a coverage. Wow. Yeah. I was just trying to get a reaction out of Devon. So we're probably not doing fun facts everywhere.

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What's your real one? That was your one? No, no, seriously. What's your real fun fact? Yeah, that's a guy. I don't even know who that second guy was that. He said, I don't even know the first guy. No, just kidding. LOL. LOL. No, that was a good fact. That was a good fact. Oh, that's great. That's great. Also, can we talk after quick? Podcast meeting for a minute.

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Next week, Spencer's over there.

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Obviously, what our topic plays in pr very good to what Mateo just did. Yeah, when he's finding his fun fact. He did not take the initiative. He's being a little lazy. Put the work in, you know. So for the third time today, our topic today is laziness. Tell us, Spencer Luke, what's that about? We're gonna talk a little bit today about the way that the world has kind of shifted the our thinking and has made people a little bit lazy. Lazy. A little bit, or as the Bible would call slothy in their in the way that they carry themselves, the slothfulness of life. I got hit with the physical features of that. That's true. Pretty hard. That's true. That's true. Have you ever done your sloth face on here? Google a sloth face. Google a sloth face. It looks exactly like Devin. It's crazy. No, so what so the first question that Mateo had thrown up um into our chat this week and then here is what does laziness look like in the world and in the church? Um there's differences and then there's similarities. And obviously there's a bunch of like drastic ones, or like ones that are glaring when it comes to the first one that I thought of is like the flakiness of people, like laziness. Like I think it happens in church, but it also happens, I think, with like younger generation of like you get people who are volunteering for something, or work. It's like, well, I'm just gonna call it work today, or it's like I get like I have a responsibility, or I have something that I'm supposed to be doing, and it's like yeah, but I can go do something else, or it's like it's not like my wife always says, or like people say, it's like your yes is your yes, or your no is your no. Like it's like this thing of like, okay, you've made a commitment to go do something, you've made a commitment to follow Jesus, like you should be going to church, you should be doing that, like you should be showing up, but it's only when yeah, you feel like it, and it's only and I think that's a sign of just laziness, it's just that's all it is. It's like that's the thing, right? Is that the the the world, and again we talk all the time about how the devil plays the long game, the the world over time has become okay with that. Yeah, right. Like the the it's not a weird now, it's like if you say to somebody, you know, you know, oh you you know, I w I went to work every day or whatever, what you know, I know I haven't taken a sick day or about they go, what you didn't use up your sick days? Like, yeah, like there's it's almost like this badge of honor of like, man, I figured out how to how to cheat the system, how to do how to do the least amount, you know, work work smarter, not harder. Like, and I feel like there's like this epidemic, especially like you're saying, of of the younger generation of like, well, I did, I did everything that I was supposed to do. Nobody goes the extra mile. It's like, give me a checklist of things I'm supposed to do. Once I'm done with those, then I know, all right, I'm done. It's never like, well, let me go see what other thing I can do, or let me get ahead, or let me go ask somebody else if they need some help with this. Or it's it's always, well, I did what I was supposed to do. Like, what do you want from me? And and people, the world has tricked, I think, people, and and unfortunately, like most things, it's crept into the church where now that attitude falls into line with reading my Bible or praying or going making sure I go to church or volunteering or tithing or all of the things that kind of we need to be doing as followers of Christ. Yeah, I wrote down worldly laziness neglects our purpose, but spiritual laziness neglects our calling. So it's like it's not just affecting our purpose, it's affecting now our calling with God as Christians. I'm not saying like you're calling in even your career or whatever you do in life or your calling as a parent. Like, I'm talking about just your spiritual calling of as a believer, what are we supposed to be doing? What has God as believers called us to do? That's when we start to neglect that. And it's not just our purpose anymore. It's not just that those things that we we think we should be doing. It's now what God has instructed us to do. We start we start lacking in our obedience as well. So well, and it ties into everything that we've been talking about over the last few weeks, right? We went from we went from the fruit of the spirit to you know talking about these moments in our lives. We've talked about being obedient, we've talked about doing the things that God has called us to do, and it it all falls into line, right? Like if if I'm not we talked about the armor of God, like if I'm not continually actively pursuing the things of God, if I'm not trying to strive for self-control, trying to pray for peace, if I'm not putting on the armor of God, if I'm neglecting, if I'm being lazy in those areas, that's where the devil's gonna creep in. And it's always a laziness or a lack of uh of wanting to do what it is that God has called us to do that that allows the devil to kind of get his foot in the door and kind of creep into our situations. Yeah. So to kind of piggyback off of that, and it made me think of it like over this this past weekend at church, and I'll explain why. But like laziness avoids effort where growth is required, like where we're supposed to step up, where we're supposed to grow. Um, laziness avoids that effort, so we don't have to grow, we don't have to move, we don't have to improve in our our spiritual lives. But then I wrote down like one way to combat that or to go back at it is to act immediately on your conviction. Like, there's so many times when we're lazy and the way that God convicts us to do something, the Holy Spirit tells us to go talk to somebody. The guy and like we talked about it a couple weeks ago, and like I shared my like how I came back to Mateo and was like, Oh, yeah, this is what the Holy Spirit told me. Like, let's go right now to go practice singing. Like, it's like we sit and we wait and we wait and we wait instead of acting um because of the conviction that the Holy Spirit put on our heart instead of acting right away, and it made me think of this past weekend where we had these baptisms and it was awesome. Like, how many people over 50 people baptized? It was great, like it was this amazing thing. But I get to do the baptism class, so I get to talk with the people who are getting baptized before, and like a lot of them come and they share like their stories. And we had like two situations that made me think of this. One was like a young middle school boy, he's getting baptized, and he came and he asked the question of like, Well, after I get baptized, or uh, or before I get baptized, like, do I have to be perfect? Like, is that something that I have to do? Like, is that something and it's like, no, like, you're never gonna be perfect. Like, you and afterwards, it's gonna be really, really hard if that's the standard you're trying to keep of like, oh, once I get baptized the rest of today and the rest of my life, I gotta be perfect. And it was that immediate conviction of like, no, but this is still something that I need to do. And so, like, at a middle school age, he was like, Yeah, you know what, I still need to do this, and I want to get baptized. And then I thought of one of our young adults. Um, this girl, she came up and she was like, Well, because of my past, because of my life before, like, I'm just a little bit like hesitant to get baptized, or because of my old church that I went to and my culture, like, and so she was really nervous about it, really nervous, and like all week I'm just thinking, I'm like, I'm just praying. I'm like, I hope she shows up, I hope she's there. And then on Sunday, I looked out during worship and I saw she had walked in with her shirt on, and I was like, Oh, this is great. And then we baptizer, and I went up afterwards and I was like, Thank you so much for doing this, for acting on that conviction, right? Of like, of saying, like, this is a huge step. Like her family was there. There were people there to see. There's other people in our church who get to witness now these different testimonies of people getting baptized, but it was because of that. It wasn't laziness, it was the opposite of that. It was God convicted them and told them, Hey, this is a step that when they heard the announcement, they went to the Baptism class. When they saw the forecast and saw it was going to be 55 degrees, they were like, I'm still getting baptized and I'm still going to be there. And so I just thought that that was really, really cool.

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Well, it's active faith.

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Like how you know the Bible talks about it all the time about how active it is, and you you don't want to be the person that feels like God is calling you to something or or giving you the opportunity to do something and you just keep putting it off and putting it off. It's like when a kid, you know, when someone graduates college or when somebody graduates high school and it's like, are you gonna go away to college? Like, no, I'm gonna take a year off, and everyone's always like, Don't take a year off. Like you take a year off, it's gonna turn into two, and then it's gonna turn it. It's like it's like everything in life, right? Like, like you're saying, you you you gotta you gotta be active in that faith and figure out uh you know how how do I keep how do I keep moving forward? I don't wanna be stagnant, I don't wanna sit still, I don't wanna you know, I I don't want to get in a place where I miss out on what God has for me, or heaven forbid, God uses somebody else. Yeah. Right? Like God, like God, you know, calls me to witness to my friend at school or to someone at work and and I keep putting it off and putting it off because I'm I'm sure apprehensive about it, but sometimes that's that same idea of that laziness or that apathy of like, well, I'll get to it when I get to it, and then some you know, and then you miss out on the opportunity and what God wants to do. And I think spiritually it's more than just like our productivity, right? Like I think it's God wants your faithfulness as well. Like it's not, yeah, he wants you to be productive and he doesn't want you to be lazy, but he wants you to be faithful in what you do. Like it's it's not just about yes, we're getting things done. It's no, it's it's about a daily relationship with Jesus, it's about a daily walk with him. And so it's I think it's it's important. So I just found a a verse that I thought was was interesting. It's 1 Corinthians 15, 58. It says, Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. So again, just that same same idea of don't be lazy, be faithful. Um and continue to do the work, continue to to do what he's asked you to do. The when we when we set in the text that we were gonna talk about laziness today, the thing that the the story that jumped out in my mind and when I was thinking about laziness was uh where my brain goes a lot, but it's to David and the fact that when David sinned with Bathsheba, the reason that David sinned with Bathsheba is obviously, you know, because of lust and all these different things, but what a lot of people don't realize is that David shouldn't have been there in the first place. That's good. Right? So like I went back and I I I looked it up, and you can go read it for yourself in 2 Samuel 11. In the first verse, it says, In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab and his servants with him and all of Israel, and they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David remained at Jerusalem. And literally, verse 2, it said, It happened late one afternoon when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof. Yeah. Like you read the story and you go, Well, you can't get any lazier than that. Yeah, right? Like just hanging out. When the time when kings are supposed to be at bat, it's when when the laziness creeps in, when it's man, I don't want to go do what I'm supposed to do. I don't want to go do what God has tasked me with or assigned me to. I want to do what I want to do. Yeah, that's the that's the only moment that the devil needs to kind of creep in and to either I mean, we all know the the the times when we're most tempted to sin or to fall back into the things that we used to be into before we were saved, is when we're sitting around alone, quiet. Like it's never the busiest moments of life that's like, oh man, I really want to go back and do that sinful thing I used to do. No, it's when it's when we're being apathetic, when we're just vegging out or just kind of hanging around and not actively pursuing, like that verse that you just read talks about not actively pursuing and doing the things that God has called us to in his word. And so if you're watching today or you're listening, I would encourage you. It's okay to don't don't come up to well, you we're supposed to rest in the Lord. I that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about you know what God has called you to do. Get to church, read your Bible, pray, witness to people, love people, be full of joy, all of these things that God has called us to. And some days, myself included, I wake up and I don't feel like doing those things. But it's being active in pursuing the things of God and pursuing what His Word has called us to, of saying, even if I don't feel like doing this, I'm I'm gonna go and I'm I'm gonna go do this. I don't, I don't, I don't feel like being nice to that person at work. I don't feel like going to school today, I don't feel like going to church, I don't feel like reading my Bible. It's we get caught up in this world of con where we're consumed with feelings. I gotta feel it. I gotta feel it. I gotta feel it. And my dad said it a million times, and I'll repeat them because that's what we do. We we hear things from other people that are meaningful to us. It's way easier to act your way into a feeling than to feel your way into an action. And so when I don't feel like it, too bad. Begin to do the steps that you need to, and guess what? You'll act your way into that that feeling instead of if you just wait for I gotta I gotta wait till it feels right, I gotta wait till it feels it you it'll never happen. It'll it'll never come to pass. So get up, get out of bed, get to church, read your Bible, pray, do the things that God has called you to do, and be active, be active in it. Well, that's why I'm always like super encouraged with like our teenagers. Um like when they drive themselves to church. Like I've talked about it on here before, but it's like I mean, I remember being in high school, my dad worked at the church, like I came to youth group, but I mean, if my dad gave me the choice, would I have been here all the time? Just being honest, probably not. Or like in college when I finally got my freedom and went out to school. I was at a Christian school in a Christian university going to chapel, and I was like, Oh, this is like church, I'm good. Like, I don't need to be plugged in and involved at a church, and then we have high school students, some of them who their families aren't Christians, and then they come and they get saved at an event or a young adult or something, and they're serving and like and they're involved in our church every single week, and nobody's telling them to, like, they're driving themselves here, they're they're making a part. And I'm like, like, I applaud those because it's the uh complete opposite of laziness. It's like you have every other excuse as to why you shouldn't be here or go do something else, and it's like, no, this is important to me. This is what I'm doing. In the next generation of our church right now, we see an incredible shift from you know what I would call passive Christianity to active Christianity, of like you're saying, of even even in the even kids' ministry, right? Like kids inviting their friends, Legos and Egos, there's you know, 300 something people, like you know, and then all the youth stuff, young adults. They had, you know, we rescheduled this bonfire for this past Sunday night a hundred times, and then finally said, we're not doing a bonfire, we're just gonna do game nights. If you want to come hang out, come hang out. And there was 120 young adults at at church on Sunday night. So it's like we see this shift taking place, and I think that people are waking up um to the fact that I I gotta get active with this. Well, it made me think, sorry, excuse me. It made me think of that I shared it in youth a couple weeks ago, but like hunger outweighs laziness, like a lot of the time. Like, so how hungry are you will determine like your level of getting involved, like in life, but in in this situation is what we're talking about. But I it made me think of in youth a couple weeks ago. I don't know what made me think of it, but we were talking about like I was talking about just pre-worship, like intro to worship, talking to the kids about like we go to all these different places trying to find what we need, but what we really need is here, like it's it's the Holy Spirit. He's in this room right now, like so it's not you don't have to go anywhere else, like you're here. And but I was talking about when I was in I think I just got married and I came back, and me and Nicole were and I was I love there's these things called like tasty cakes, you know, like the butterscotch crimpets, whatever they're called. I don't know if if that crumpets, crimpets, uh whatever they are. I think it's crumpets. At some point, I was like eating them all the time. Like I was like obsessed with them. And so I went to Target and they didn't have any. And I was like, You're on the hunt. But it was like obviously like I'm tired, it's been a long day, but I was so like hungry and wanted them so badly that I was like, I'm willing to do anything. I drove to nine different stores to try and find them. Yeah, dude. I was in like North Haven, I was over in Fairfield, I was over everywhere. Like, I was just trying to get again what I wanted and what I needed, and it's like, well, what's your level of hunger then? Like, what it's like, what how badly do you want this thing? Because if you do, you're not gonna be like, how badly do you want to get in shape? How badly do you do you want to be successful? How how badly do you want to make money? It's like then your laziness will reflect that. Yeah, and it's always easy if it's something that we want, yeah, it's always easy to go after it. Yeah, but the hard part and the test is the things we don't want to do, the things we don't ask. Yeah, the things that don't look as appealing that God asks us to do, you know, that difficult conversation that we need to have, or asking somebody if they need prayer, if they want to come to church. Like the things that God asks us to do that we look at and we go, I don't getting baptized, like I don't know if I'm worthy, I don't know if I'm good enough. Those are the things that sometimes we put on the back burner and we get apathetic about. And so it's figuring out how do I not just go after what I want, right? But how do I also go after what God wants and and and do what it is that and I think like you're talking about how you went to those different those different targets, and I can only imagine after like the sixth one, you were like, Come on, like, oh, I was so fired up, dude. I was like, you gotta be careful. Now it's like a mission, like calling people. Yeah, I was like, I can't come home empty-handed. I've already spent an hour and a half driving around for these things. Like, yeah, you yeah, you have to come back with something, some bounty. Found them with like yeah, I bought like six boxes. I was like, and I think that that's what's the cool part like about our church too is that we see people coming from 50 miles away, 60 miles away. We see people waiting on the street to get in, and we think us as staff members, we think to ourselves, oh, these poor people, like I can't believe they have to go through this, but then they walk in and they're like, We love it, it's the best, like it's because of that hunger, right? Like what you're hungry for, you don't you don't mind you don't mind waiting in line for something that you know is gonna be something that you really wanted or something that you really were waiting for. And like is there something you've waited in line for like a really long time? I can only think of like sneaker drop. Yeah, I was gonna say like at Universal when we'd go. Remember, we we went to like on one of those rides, dude, and we're like it had just come out like the velocity coaster and we sat in that in the rain. We stood in the rain waiting to get on that, and it was just like, dude, we were in that last headache of my life hours for like an 80-second ride. It was like this is crazy. Because they tried to upcharge us on the flash passes that did bums at Universal. That was crazy. Yeah, good times though. Next time we'll be more prepared. Yes, and we're burning it to the ground. No, I'm just kidding. Oh, we went to Epic Universe last time. That was great. That was awesome. All right, well. Thanks for the invite. You could have gone whenever you want. You didn't invite me next summer. Lazy. We're going. Yeah. Well, we hope that you're productive. Did you have anything to add, Mateo? Sorry, we kind of were chatting.

SPEAKER_03 33:55

I mean, we kind of went touched on everything a little bit here and there. I think one of the things uh which would have been a good segue from the last thing you were saying about how how to combat laziness, we kind of touched on it like it. I think for Christians it's very simple, right? Um, in terms of read your Bible, like do these things. But and then there's practical ways. Like I've been seeing a lot of videos about this app that like keeps a streak of how many times you read your Bible and things like that, so like you you know are are conscious of it or whatever. Um but I think there's also a lot of you know practical physical ways to do it. You know, like you you've talked about um and you mentioned it too. Like if you're in bed all day, like you're gonna make poor decisions, or you're gonna do you're gonna fall back into something, or you're gonna just be lazy. Like, I think that's one of the big things that I've seen a difference in my life personally, is just you know, they call it getting vertical. So like you get up, like get out of bed, like stay up, and then once you're up, like, alright, I'm not gonna go lay back down, like I'll go do something.

SPEAKER_02 34:53

I mean about make your bed, that's what they say. Oh, I don't I'll never do that. I don't make my bed. That's a waste of time. I'm getting back in it. It's like washing a towel. Like, why would I wash a towel? I'm use I'm clean when I use it. I use the same towel for at least a year. Oh my towel's disintegrating. I have one towel per year. Talk about lazy. Yeah, not doing that long.

SPEAKER_03 35:15

The laziness that I struggled with in school, which is like I kind of asked this and I'm curious on what you guys think. Do you think like taking which you had mentioned it is taking the easy way a form of laziness?

SPEAKER_02 35:26

Like school's a bad example. School is a bad example, I guess.

SPEAKER_03 35:29

But like I was so I would consider myself to have been a pretty good student, but I was a bad like study or do your homework on time type of thing. Like I winged everything, and I was okay with you know the grades that I got. I got like B's ish. But yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:45

But like, is that I just like went about it and got like an A-. Like, is that a form of laziness to like not go for like the A, the A plus? Or like is in probably my oh, I mean, definitely mine, probably Luke's as well, is like just not applying ourselves. Like, is that just a form of laziness? Of course, of course it is. Yeah, some areas. Now, yeah. With a with Alexa, with Siri, with AI. Yeah, but I mean, you could literally ask, you could probably trade all right. Tough debate. Sorry to start yelling over you. But would you trade the easiness of the school over, like I don't know, I see some of these kids with the pressures of the social media stuff, and it's like the pressures they have of that. Would you trade? It's like probably not. You know what I mean? Like, one little thing you do wrong, it's getting blown up, dude. Like, even though we went to a small school, like, so everybody kind of knew your business. So you gotta trade. You can either grow up, yeah. And and like the way we I wouldn't I would school's harder, but great. Give me AI. I'm still going back to where we were. School's harder, but school life is easier. Whereas now school's easier, but school life is harder. I think so. Yeah. There's a lot of public pressures and stuff like that. Yeah. I think I'd stay with how I went. Yeah, I don't I think if social if if like the access to everything that there's access to now I would have gotten in even more trouble than I did. That and I did it without it, so I know that I can accomplish it already. So I think that that's it's yeah. I mean, it's easy for us to say because we're through it. Like Yeah, I knew he's the second you said did it. That's why Spencer doesn't have a mic, guys. He just he's over there. He's over there on his typewriter while I'm trying to chat with you guys. Yeah, he's being productive. Nice. Well, be productive, get something done, be uh be who God's called you to be. Don't be lazy. I'm slothful. Slothful. Put the side by side. We don't even know. That camera, that screen shot off a while ago.

SPEAKER_03 37:53

It's on, it's on, it's on. I see the recording. Alright, well trust. Big trust. Speaking of trust.

SPEAKER_02 38:02

Crab ants. Based. Based. That's based.

SPEAKER_03 38:07

Look at us. Look at us. Look at us. Look at us. Love to be a part of one today. Like ping-pong off each other. Spencer and I have something for you. Well, Spencer gave me the philosophy. I need some of that.

SPEAKER_02 38:16

It was you? Oh, dude. I have not seen that. Wait, wait, wait. I gotta talk about this because it's just been a uh no. Since we talked about the meat, like the like eating red meat. Oh, the tick.

SPEAKER_01 38:28

You haven't had any?

SPEAKER_02 38:29

So I haven't had any, but I've been like, great. And I so this morning, dude, got crazy sick after eating the pork. I ate a pork sausage from chicken only, dude. I'm like, I called Nicole, I'm like, I so I like legit like got stomach sick. Nothing. No, so but so we looked it up. So Nicole was like, let me do a little more research. So she looked up to this morning, and then during prayer, she was like, A lot of the people had said pork, beef, and lamb. All of those, the it's been the the same thing. There's no four-legged creatures for Devin. Poultry. I can have duck and chicken, two legs, turkey, yeah. Yeah, that's why I said four legs. They have yeah. Ostrich, quail, peacoat, two legs. Seal can't eat peacock. Seal meat. Why not? It's gross. You can't. Oh, okay. You've eaten that? No, I'm saying nobody eats it. It's not enough. There's no there's not enough uh fall under the four legs buffalo also when we went on that when we went on that gator tour that we talked about, there was peacocks on the property everywhere. It's like walking around like Yeah, they're always they're always they're kind of sketchy. Have you ever had gator before? And they kept making the noise, they kept making the noise, and it brought me to Kung Fu Panda 2 with the city. How do they do it? What's the noise with the peacock we're talking about? It's pretty good, right? Yeah, I don't think that's a peacock noise. Oh, it kept drawing me back to his Kung Fu Panda 2 when they killed his mom, dude. Oh golly, thanks. Spoiler. Yeah. Um the movie's like 15 years. Okay. Sorry, but I wanted to let everybody know. No, that's thanks. Because there have been people who have asked me. They're like, how's it going? I'm like, what about how about seafood? Good? Shrimp? Oh, shrimp's the best. I love shrimp. Shrimp, fish. Yeah. Fish and chips. I could probably live without steps. That's what I said. I was like, I bet if I don't eat work anyway. Chicken and shrimp for the rest of my life, I'm probably cool. You could live without steak for the rest of your life. Yeah, I don't ever like order crave a steak ever. That's crazy. What about beef jerky? Nope. Don't ever crave that either. Slim gym every now and then.

SPEAKER_03 40:33

Slim jim. I always hated on them just as a concept, but then I tried them when we were at camp. Oh dude. Rip.

SPEAKER_02 40:41

They're always kind of like moist though. The slim gyms? Yeah. In particular. Yeah, exactly. The healthy ones are not moist. No, no, no. The healthy ones, I don't like the like the healthy ones are actually really like the beef sticks and stuff. They're really good for you. The chomps. Chomps, the jalapeno. But you can taste the dude, I can't eat it anymore. You can taste the coating. You know when you bite it? Yeah, like that. Yeah, yeah. Like the fill. You like that? Yeah. Alright. Little bit of little bit of plastic. Yeah, it's like you're biting through a balloon. Yeah, it's gross. To get to it. Yeah. That's a great meat-filled balloon. Alright, let's move on. Disgusting, dude. Alright, what's the game for the head? Oh my gosh. That reminds me. Just picture it a bubble.

SPEAKER_01 41:33

Spencer hit his head mortally hard. Alright, well, what's the stupid game that you guys have? They wouldn't tell us about this, which we don't like because whenever Mateo doesn't tell us, it ends up being something really stupid. And he's got props.

SPEAKER_03 41:48

You have props. Spencer handed me this bag and he with a note that said he just said read it. So it's game time.

SPEAKER_02 41:55

What time is it?

SPEAKER_03 41:57

Game time. I have two questions. Yes, ma'am. Do you like candy? How do you like them apples? It depends. I hate you. Oh, you just ruined it? Forget it. Oh, you ruined it. That was the second question. That's hilarious. Well, how do you like bean boozle? Did you get that from a I am not knowing that? I have one of those in there. So, hold on, let me set this up for you guys. There's no way I'm doing that. Come on, bro.

SPEAKER_02 42:25

There's like one that tastes like baby poop and so. So just spit it out. We'll get the trash can. This will be fun. Alright, come on. Dude. You think red meat messes your stomach up? Wait till you eat a turd gummy. Let's keep it rolling. Stink bug. No, good. Yeah, open the whole package on camera. This is good. This way to be prepared. What's he gonna dump them into that bag?

unknown 42:51

This is for you.

SPEAKER_02 42:53

Alright. Oh, it comes with a little spin. Oh, it is an actual game. For all our audio listeners, can we read the flavors out loud? Yeah, burnt rubber, licorice, wet dog. How do they even figure out what that tastes like? You don't want to know. Top banana, berry blue, toothpaste, tootie fruity, stinky salt. I bet the toothpaste is nice. Barf, barf, peach, stink bug, toasted marshmallow, barf, booger, juicy pear, old bandage, pomegranate, liver and onions, old cappuccino, dead fish. They're just like at a hospital. They're like, we're gonna need to find it. Bro, I swear if I if I eat the dead fish one, I'm I'm punching every single one of you in the face. Alright, spin it.

SPEAKER_01 43:42

So I spin and and the every every bad one has a good one that matches.

SPEAKER_02 43:48

So you don't know. Alright, here we go. This is horrible. How many do we have to do? We're already at 43 minutes. I don't want to do this. Yeah, three's five. Three each. Alright, here we go. All right. Oh. That wasn't. How much does that wheel weigh? Alright, so you got a red you got a red. The licorice or burnt rubber. Both of those are bad. Both of those are bad. I thought I thought the color just means you eat a red one. No, it's on the thing. So that's either gonna be black licorice or black rubber. Yeah, burnt rubber. Burnt rubber than black licorice. What is it? Oh, burnt rubber. Dude, that's so gross. That is crazy accurate, though. Bro, so burnt rubber you smack. It actually just tastes kind of like charcoal. I would rather anything than dead fish, please. I open the dead fish. You didn't even spin it. He put his somewhere he wanted it. No, I didn't. I got it right here. I got I'm spinning for you next time. Old bandit pomegranate, old bandage. No, you did this totally wrong. No, where's the arrow? What's it on? The arrow, the arrow. Oh, pomegranate or old bandage. There we go. Alright, find what it looks like. Please, Lord, give me the pomegranate. What is an old bandage? I don't know, but I want to find out.

SPEAKER_03 45:01

You're about to find out.

SPEAKER_04 45:05

It's old bandage.

SPEAKER_03 45:07

Bro. He's like I hate it.

SPEAKER_01 45:09

Describe it, describe it. He just hurls.

SPEAKER_04 45:13

Bro.

SPEAKER_01 45:15

Bro. It's in there. It's in there. That's so who. Whoever's idea this was, dude. I swear. We're gonna, again, we're having a talk after this. Uh I still taste it.

SPEAKER_02 45:31

Dude. I don't know if I can do another one. I got cappuccino or liver and onions. Bro. This is not. I feel like you'd like both. This is not cool. Uh I don't know which one that is. I can still taste it.

SPEAKER_00 45:48

It's gotta be just in the last one. It's like in my tooth, bro. Is this solid brown one? Oh, there it is.

SPEAKER_02 45:55

A few tips when getting started. Do have a trash can handy. Trust us, you'll need to. Cappuccino? Cappuccino! Nice! Not very good though. Jelly beans are disgusting. Yeah, jelly beans are verossians. I like jelly beans. Tootie fruity or stinky socks. Come on, socks. So help me. Lord. What is that? One of these guys with a blue. Audio's gonna be all over the place at night. Guys, I don't know if I can do this. Tootie fruity. Alright, last one for me. I still don't want to swallow it, though. And then Mateo's gotta do one. And Spencer. Nice! Ooh, toasted marshmallow or stink bug. Did you do that one already? No. I eat stink bugs all the time. Extra protein. A little crunch.

SPEAKER_00 46:54

It's gotta be this one, right?

SPEAKER_02 46:57

Let me see.

SPEAKER_00 46:57

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:00

It looks like a toasted mark. Yeah, that's it. And also a stink bug. Yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_01 47:10

Does it taste like what you think is stink bugs?

SPEAKER_02 47:12

That's just ground up stink bugs, dude. Who comes up with this? Oh, good lord. That is aggressive right from the start. The way you win the game. Do not let wimps or crybabies play this game. Is that you? Why'd you point at me? Is that you? No, obviously not. I'm the one playing it. You haven't played it. Do fake out your friends while you're playing, if can. Got wet dog. Try to keep a good poker face and swear that it's top and not doing a very good job. Try smelling someone's breath if you s suspect they're faking. What the heck? You're faking. He's got his nose and his belly. Alright, come on. Who's up? You're up.

SPEAKER_01 47:58

No, he did two.

SPEAKER_02 48:00

I did three.

unknown 48:01

Golly.

SPEAKER_02 48:02

This guy's trying to get I want to spin for you because I think you're cheating. I'm not cheating at. Look at him. He is. He doesn't even know how to do it right now. There you go. I'm not cheating. Juicy pear booger.

SPEAKER_03 48:13

Yeah, booger! Booger's gotta be good. It's gotta just be salty, right? I would think so. That's a booger! That's a bugger.

SPEAKER_02 48:29

That's a booger. Alright, Mateo, you're up, brother. Alright. You were right. We did not like this game. No. Alright, if I didn't tell you. Did you provide mouthwash for us as well?

SPEAKER_01 48:45

What'd you get? What'd you get? Peach or barf. Oh, let's go.

SPEAKER_02 48:49

Get this man the barf for bringing this game. Go eat it over in front of your camera. But you have to eat the whole thing. Yeah, you gotta swallow it no matter what. A garbage can't game. Here we go. It's either what? Barf or Peach. Ah Alright, now you have to pick one until it's a bad one. No, what they ought to do, what they gotta do is spin it. They each take one color and then see who gets the moves. Yeah, that one you just did. Well, it was a good one. It's a palette cleanser. Do one that we haven't done to the mouth one. I just did not do it. Or toothpaste or the dead fish.

SPEAKER_03 49:28

Just try the toothpaste one.

SPEAKER_02 49:30

Don't tell me what to do. Okay. Strawberry banana smoothie or dead fish.

SPEAKER_00 49:37

What's it look like? This one. The pink one. That's this one, isn't it? No, that's the one I just hold me over here.

SPEAKER_02 49:46

It doesn't look yellow on there, but.

SPEAKER_03 49:48

No, that's the wet dog. Okay. Wait, wait.

SPEAKER_02 49:51

This one right here. It's gonna be that one. That's that one right there that doesn't just find it.

SPEAKER_00 49:56

Oh, this is my hand just running.

SPEAKER_02 49:59

Alright, let's go. Spencer's like, it tastes a lot like a no camera finger.

SPEAKER_01 50:02

Spencer, come sit here.

SPEAKER_02 50:06

Let's see who gets. Do you want to get on camera? Yeah, this is what? Come sit here. Come on. He's not asking you. Sit right there so people can see you. There you go. Look into that camera right there. Edit it in post.

SPEAKER_01 50:22

Here we go, ready? Alright. This is what? I don't know. Don't tell me. I'm actually gonna be so mad if this is dead fish.

SPEAKER_02 50:27

It's either dead fish or strawberry banana smoothie. Alright, here we go. Ready? Three, two, one.

SPEAKER_04 50:38

At the same time. Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_01 50:50

I'm gonna get that one. Let me smell your breath. I think you are cheating. Come and breathe in my face.

SPEAKER_03 50:59

That's a dead fish.

SPEAKER_01 51:01

Bro.

SPEAKER_02 51:03

That's gotta be the worst one. Dead fish is gonna be the worst one. I agree. That tastes like a dead fish. What about that toothpaste one?

SPEAKER_01 51:09

That tastes like a dead fish. Your face looks like a dead up.

SPEAKER_03 51:14

I gotta get water. That's so bad. That's the worst thing we've ever tasted ever. Oh my gosh. Get the toothpaste. I dare you.

SPEAKER_02 51:25

What's that?

SPEAKER_01 51:26

The toothpaste?

SPEAKER_02 51:29

Yeah, it just tastes like toothpaste.

SPEAKER_01 51:31

I think toothpaste is the good thing. No, no, no. A blueberry is the blueberry. Blue berry. Blueberry. Toothpaste. That was refreshing.

SPEAKER_04 51:44

Ladies and gentlemen, the food fighters.

SPEAKER_01 51:45

The food fighters. Poobet bo. Poobath boat.

SPEAKER_02 51:49

So we tried all of them then. Yeah. Except uh no, except wet dog. Anyone want to take a spin? Anyone want to take a spin on the Buzz Debbie, see if she's down or wrong. Well, we've been being boozled. That was great.

SPEAKER_03 52:05

I got home at 8 30 last night from my game at Harvey, and I was like, I gotta go run and grab that. So drove to nine different tarts.

SPEAKER_02 52:12

No laziness. There's the no laziness, right? He was like, we need a game for tomorrow. There you go. There you have it. Man, that toothpaste was actually pretty refreshing. I still taste one of the blue ones. Because if it's the toothpaste, it'll everybody get a blue. Because then if it's if it's a toothpaste, it'll clear things out. That is so great. Eat a blue one. I'm telling you. Because if it's a blueberry, then it's good. I don't want to eat these. I don't want to ingest that. Spence wants a blue. There's multiple blue. It might be toothpaste. Toothpaste is good. That's what I'm saying. It clear, it's like a palate cleanser. It's a nice and minty shot into the bad. Alright. Well, right? It's nice. You have a great rest of the day or night or whenever you're consuming, go by being boozled, not sponsored. Not a sponsor. There's a spicy one that we should try. We're never doing that again. We should do that. That's what we should do with Devin. We should do hot ones. Dude, the hot chip challenge. Devin would be hilarious on hot ones because he can't take spicy. No, I like spicy. I just will sweat profusely. Yeah. I'll be talking about it. Also, you think red meat gave you issues. Yeah, that's orange meat. Because of the buffalo sauce.

SPEAKER_01 53:28

Hey, have a great day. See you next episode for the New Life Podcast.