Ever found yourself chuckling at the chaos of church community life? Join us, Ken and Steve, as we unpack the often messy but always meaningful journey of faith with our signature blend of wit and wisdom. From the squabbles over a new paint color to the more serious issue of a youth pastor's behavior, we get real about the pride and selfishness that can lead to conflict, all while exploring the scriptural guidance found in James 4. It's a candid look at the human side of holy places, and we're diving in with stories that'll make you nod in recognition and perhaps, inspire a change of heart.
Life isn't all about the next big purchase or personal comfort—though, let's be honest, who wouldn't love their own swimming pool? This week, we challenge you to reflect on the beautiful struggle of balancing our earthly desires with the higher calling of our faith. Drawing from John and James, we discuss the nitty-gritty of living sacrificially in a world that values material gain, and we do so with enough humor to keep it light-hearted. Expect to come away with fresh insights on how our daily choices can and should reflect a life dedicated to something greater than ourselves.
Finally, we navigate the unpredictable waters of aligning our plans with God's will, sharing personal tales like Steve's unexpected trip to Ohio and its surprising outcomes. We question whether stating "if the Lord wills" is a matter of lip service or heart posture and consider life's fragility through the lens of a poignant parable. Wrapping up, we extend an invitation to continue this journey with us as we prepare to turn the pages to the final chapter of James in our next episode. So, if you're up for hearty laughs and heartfelt lessons, this is the podcast for you, courtesy of your fellow regular guys, Ken and Steve.
Ever found yourself chuckling at the chaos of church community life? Join us, Ken and Steve, as we unpack the often messy but always meaningful journey of faith with our signature blend of wit and wisdom. From the squabbles over a new paint color to the more serious issue of a youth pastor's behavior, we get real about the pride and selfishness that can lead to conflict, all while exploring the scriptural guidance found in James 4. It's a candid look at the human side of holy places, and we're diving in with stories that'll make you nod in recognition and perhaps, inspire a change of heart.
Life isn't all about the next big purchase or personal comfort—though, let's be honest, who wouldn't love their own swimming pool? This week, we challenge you to reflect on the beautiful struggle of balancing our earthly desires with the higher calling of our faith. Drawing from John and James, we discuss the nitty-gritty of living sacrificially in a world that values material gain, and we do so with enough humor to keep it light-hearted. Expect to come away with fresh insights on how our daily choices can and should reflect a life dedicated to something greater than ourselves.
Finally, we navigate the unpredictable waters of aligning our plans with God's will, sharing personal tales like Steve's unexpected trip to Ohio and its surprising outcomes. We question whether stating "if the Lord wills" is a matter of lip service or heart posture and consider life's fragility through the lens of a poignant parable. Wrapping up, we extend an invitation to continue this journey with us as we prepare to turn the pages to the final chapter of James in our next episode. So, if you're up for hearty laughs and heartfelt lessons, this is the podcast for you, courtesy of your fellow regular guys, Ken and Steve.
Speaker 1:
You are listening to the Regular Guys Bible Study Podcast, the Bible study for regular guys by regular guys. We are your hosts, ken and Steve, and we are just regular guys studying the Bible together, not theologians, all right, steve.
Speaker 2:
Hey Deja vu, ken.
Speaker 1:
It's like deja vu all over again, isn't it Steve?
Speaker 2:
It sure is.
Speaker 1:
Steve has a grievance he would like to share. What is your grievance, Steve?
Speaker 2:
So we met and recorded. Well, we met to record and went through almost the entire thing last night and, lo and behold, none of it was recorded.
Speaker 1:
Okay, and why is that? Because, you're an idiot. No, no, it's because god did not want it recorded, because he well, that may be true too.
Speaker 2:
I don't think what I said is wrong.
Speaker 1:
Okay, what you said is true, that I failed, okay, but one thing that we just realized when we started, it wasn't entirely your fault.
Speaker 2:
It was my fault but it's my fault.
Speaker 1:
But we had assumed I like failed to hit the record button last night. But the reality is now that we tried to hit record today and saw it didn't go on. The SD card was full.
Speaker 2:
So I wonder when it filled up? Was it while we were recording last night, or did we not get all of last week's?
Speaker 1:
um, no, there was actually 0.2. I think it just wouldn't start because of that. It could have recorded some last night actually, um, but I know it wasn't much. But anyway, here we are again. Yeah, you know, I thought I don't know about you, steve, but I thought at first. I thought you know what. It's going to be really hard to remember exactly what we did last night, but I'm not even going to try.
Speaker 2:
I can't. I don't remember any of of it. Really, you're that old?
Speaker 1:
No, so no, but seriously, I thought we, because we both thought we had actually had a pretty good rundown of John 4, but God disagreed, god disagreed, and, and it was.
Speaker 2:
James 4.
Speaker 1:
What did I?
Speaker 2:
say John Dang, it All right, but if you haven't read it yet, hit toys now and go read it.
Speaker 1:
All right. Well, should we go ahead and get started? We should. This is pretty. It's not a long chapter, but there's actually quite a bit to talk about in it. All right, you know what? I think you should start this time.
Speaker 2:
Obviously, because when you did it last night it just wasn't good enough. All right, james 4.1. What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask, wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
Speaker 2:
You adulterous people, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore, whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the scripture says he yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us, but he gives more grace? Therefore, it says God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. Submit yourselves, therefore, to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Therefore, it says your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you. Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is only one lawgiver and judge he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
Speaker 1:
All right, thanks, steve. Your tongue was really working overtime in some of that stuff.
Speaker 2:
A little bit. Yeah, almost had a burp in the middle.
Speaker 1:
That would have been funny. Why did you not do that? That would have been nice I could do it now. No, that's okay, that's all right, all right. So, steve, I have a question for you.
Speaker 2:
Really. Yes, what causes quarrels and what causes fights among you Is it not this that your passions are at war within you all?
Speaker 1:
right, yes, so it is all right. So he says is it not that your passions are at war within you? And then he goes on to explain what he means by that, and stuff you don't.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, you murder because you want stuff.
Speaker 1:
Now if I were to ask you without reading this passage, what causes quarrels and fights among the church?
Speaker 2:
Among the church.
Speaker 1:
You know this is weird having this conversation two nights in a row. It is, isn't it? It is. Are you gonna answer it the same way I?
Speaker 2:
don't know, it doesn't matter, because you asked the question a little differently I did um, and the answer I gave last night had to do with a, a fight over the behavior of a youth pastor.
Speaker 1:
Okay, and they weren't here last night, by the way, steve, so they don't know anything, that's true, that's true. We got a whole new audience tonight A lot more.
Speaker 2:
Infinitely more than we had last night. I don't remember the details of that particular fight, but anyway I'll think of a different example. I do recall when they were going to paint the church once. You know, there was this like committee to decide and of course not everyone was happy with their choices. So there was a little bit of I wouldn't call it fighting and quarreling, but there was some grumbling.
Speaker 1:
Okay, so I have been. I've had the pleasure of being involved in multiple church splits. And the common denominator is I promise you, when I say involved, I mean I was a member of the church.
Speaker 2:
You were the instigator of splitting up several churches. Congratulations.
Speaker 1:
I'm sure God's really proud of you. Hey, I just spread the rumors, that's all I did. No but. And in those cases I would say power and a quest to hold power. Another was is like well, money is a big, big deal, and how the church spends the money. Yeah, money is always a big deal. Now I do remember growing up there was this you could give a lot of money and have a plaque put on a pew with your name on it.
Speaker 2:
There are verses directly against that.
Speaker 1:
Yes, but nevertheless they did it All right. So there were really big fights over where your name got on the pew and then people would like try to sit in there. That's like they bought that seat.
Speaker 2:
Would they kick people out of their seat?
Speaker 1:
I have seen fights over people being in their seats. Yes, Really Okay fights. These are old people. They don't fight, they're just bitter. Get out of my lawn. It wasn't their lawn, it was their pew. Steve.
Speaker 2:
Ew it stunk.
Speaker 1:
Anyway. So you know what he says is is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? And that made me think a little bit, and that's that's really what he's talking about. Then he gives the rest is like examples right, but the your passions are at war within you. And so what are you passionate about? And so are you passionate about God? Are you passionate about the church? Are you passionate about how people see you in the church? Are you passionate about your status in the church? Right, your passions are at war within you, because those are the things and and I, I, you know, I mentioned passions that I have with, like sports, football in particular can I can get really angry? I used to. I don't get nearly as angry as I used to, but in in my old age, I think anger is like it takes too much energy.
Speaker 2:
And I don't have that much energy anymore, but or you realize how pointless it is that too.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, that's true. When your team loses all the time, you kind of get used to it.
Speaker 2:
You've been broken. You're like a horse. You now wear a saddle.
Speaker 1:
Yes, that's a good point, but you know my passions and then I regret my attitudes later and behavior and behavior, Throwing chairs across the bar. Were you there? Just a joke. You hit me in the head. Were you there? That's just a joke. But you know that's where your passions are at war within you, because you know what good behavior is, what right behavior is, but your passion drives you asunder.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, it's a good example. A lot of people suffer from that disability. I, however, have no passion you really don't.
Speaker 1:
You have no passion at all. You're not an emotional character. I think we've established this. I am a robot yes, I think there's a robot thing on here like a button I could hit and you would sound like a robot. Oh, that's right, but I think I'll not do that, mainly because I don't know how it works. All right, so let's move on from there. Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God?
Speaker 2:
I do know that, I just read it.
Speaker 1:
I was just reading it again. Therefore, whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. So that basically repeats itself If you are a friend of the world, you are an enemy of God. What does that mean?
Speaker 2:
Well, if you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, Therefore the world hates you. So the reverse.
Speaker 1:
That sounds like scripture you were reading.
Speaker 2:
It is when was it. What book did we do before?
Speaker 1:
John.
Speaker 2:
Where is it in, john?
Speaker 1:
I don't remember, say it 1519. John 1519. So John and James are tracking.
Speaker 2:
And that was red letter John. So that was Jesus, that was.
Speaker 1:
Jesus. So Jesus and James are tracking.
Speaker 2:
It's like they're brothers or something.
Speaker 1:
They're brothers. I was going to say blood brothers, but they're brothers from the same mother.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, they're brothers from the same mother. They're brothers from the same mother.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, they're brothers from the same mother and also from the same God, I mean, as in brothers in Christ.
Speaker 2:
So do you think this means that you should avoid the world?
Speaker 1:
Well, we live in the world. There's nothing we can do about that right.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, but you could isolate yourself.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, but that's not what it says and that's not at all what any scripture teaches to isolate yourself from the world, but it does say to not be a friend of the world. What is that?
Speaker 2:
I think it has to do with setting yourself apart so that we look different than the rest of the world. We shouldn't have the same behavior. We shouldn't have nearly the same rate of divorce.
Speaker 1:
We should not.
Speaker 2:
I mean, there's a lot of stuff that Christians fail to live up to a higher standard.
Speaker 1:
Yep, okay, and we should not have the same aspirations as our neighbors, our non-believer neighbors, in life, right.
Speaker 2:
I have no idea what's wrong with my neighbor's aspiration. Should I take them some Preparation H.
Speaker 1:
Very I'm not going to say very funny. I don't know what that is, steve. That was inappropriate.
Speaker 2:
Inappropriate. That is, steve, that was inappropriate.
Speaker 1:
Inappropriate. That's like friendship with the world. That was friendship with the world right there. But you know, my goal should not be the same as my unbelieving neighbor. My goal in life should look very different and sometimes it doesn't. Life should look very different and sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it looks like we're both, you know, just saving up money to retire and yeah, race, uh, keeping up with the Joneses, whoever they are.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I hear you. I definitely can feel that sometimes. Yeah, that was me. I get the feeling that you like nice things, ken.
Speaker 1:
I like nice things. This is why we can't have nice things. I do like nice things and you know, sometimes that's wrong. I got to call it what it is.
Speaker 2:
Sometimes that's wrong. Yeah, it's hard to know where to draw the line between spending money on yourself and luxuries and such, instead of, like I don't know, helping.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I know what you're saying. Where do you draw the line? You know, should I live in poverty?
Speaker 2:
Well, the Old Testament says tithe, the New Testament doesn't really have a limit, right.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 2:
Are you giving sacrificially?
Speaker 1:
I mean in a way, I mean sure it is a sacrifice. Yeah, I could probably buy a car. Is that really a sacrifice? I could put in a pool my wife wants a pool. You could buy a cow and you could sacrifice the cow I could buy several cows, but you know my wife wants a pool, you're not getting a pool no, but the point is, my wife wants a pool.
Speaker 1:
Um, through a few years of tithing money, that would be a pool, yep and so, um, that's a sacrifice. Now, do I think that's a big sacrifice? No, I don't. So what level of sacrifice is called for? What is God calling me to do?
Speaker 2:
So you live in a very large house. Well, I won't say very it's a pretty large house for two people. Yes, you didn't have to build a large house. You could have built a place the size of my shop as we talk about excess and you could have lived in that.
Speaker 1:
That's true. All by myself, I did not. I'll just let me just say I did not build the size of house I wanted Steve. I built the size of house I wanted Steve. Oh, this is true, I built the size of house my wife wanted.
Speaker 2:
The size of house your wife told you to build.
Speaker 1:
Actually it's much smaller than what she wanted. Yeah, it's ridiculous. I mean, she had great ideas, it just was not practical for our finances. Let's move on.
Speaker 2:
Steve, so you sacrificed for your wife.
Speaker 1:
No, no, I sacrificed my wife.
Speaker 2:
Anyway, I think we're getting a little off topic, okay.
Speaker 1:
Let's go on, steve, all right. One thing I want to hit here. He says it's not me, is it? I do want to hit you. To hit here. He says it's not me, is it? I do want to hit you he says he yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell on us, and I kind of skipped over that many times when I read this I kind of this feel like I did too, paragraph.
Speaker 1:
But you know so he's talking about it's a lowercase spirit, it's our spirit, not the Holy Spirit, this is just us. And it says he yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us, but he gives more grace. Therefore, it says God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. So God hates it that we have these passions for the world and other things, and he's jealous over where we put our attention yeah, over where we put our attention, yeah, and. But then it says but he gives more grace To the humble and therefore it says yeah. Therefore it says God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.
Speaker 1:
And I want to come back to this part later, because just at the end of this section I think it goes with this here. So to be humble, first of all, we know our passions are crazy, wrong at times, what we set our mind to, but thank God, and that's not just a statement.
Speaker 2:
Not a flippant thing.
Speaker 1:
That's not a flippant thing, but thank God for his grace that he gives more, but we need to be humble and realize our failings. I think that's what it means by humble. You realize that, man. I'm trying, but I know I just messed up. I know I'm not always trying.
Speaker 2:
I find you very trying, gosh.
Speaker 1:
All right. What else do you have to say about that first paragraph, Steve?
Speaker 2:
Submit yourselves, therefore, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. How should we draw near to?
Speaker 1:
God. Okay, first of all, I'm going to answer the first thing you didn't ask how do we—.
Speaker 2:
Submit.
Speaker 1:
How do we get the devil to leave us alone?
Speaker 2:
Oh, just resist him.
Speaker 1:
Just resist him. That's easy, all right, that's all. And Jesus showed us how to do that when he was tempted by Satan three times. He quoted scripture yes, he did All right. So what was your question? Again, uh, how do we draw near to?
Speaker 2:
god. Well, maybe I should say how do we submit to god? Because that is really the first statement submit yourselves, therefore, to god.
Speaker 1:
Resist the devil, and he will flee to you. Well, I think he's saying. I think submitting to god, the way you submit to God, is first resist the devil and draw near to God.
Speaker 2:
I think also the humble part we just talked about, and humble and humble and the next thing you say Recognize the stuff.
Speaker 1:
And recognize the stuff.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, you're very trying.
Speaker 1:
I'm trying. I'm trying. Cleanse your hands, you sinner, my hands aren't dirty, Anyway, all right. So, gosh, you're getting me all befuddled. If that's a word Is that a word.
Speaker 2:
I believe it is All right, I'm befuddled.
Speaker 1:
All right, so draw near to God. Your question was how do you draw near to God? Yep, All right. I think there are two important ways that I draw near to God. Your question was how do you draw near to God? Yep, All right. I think there are two important ways that I draw near to God. Yep, the end. Oh no, I have a quiet time almost every morning no-transcript, and Sunday I go to church and I feel like I have a past. That's a horrible reason.
Speaker 2:
I had public time with God, so I don't need any private time with him.
Speaker 1:
Oh man, you know it made so much sense until I said it yeah, all right, well, anyway, I can't knock you for that.
Speaker 2:
I know the same way.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, yeah I know you're an idiot.
Speaker 1:
Um, I meant, I did not mean that, steve I mean you just said you're an idiot because I said I'm the same way okay all right anyway, um, I have a quiet time with god, and um, what I mean by that is I actually try to to be quiet. I ask God for the Holy Spirit to fill me and give me direction for my day, and then I try not to. I try to listen and it's hard to listen. Sometimes I find myself talking more After my quiet time. I pray for some things, some people not some things.
Speaker 1:
I'm not like give me this give me that that's not what I'm praying for. Actually, I do have some things I do pray for, but I mainly pray for people around me. And then I read scripture. And you know, I think it's really valuable for that quiet time before I read scripture, because I think sometimes God might not be ready to talk or God might not be talking to me or I might not be able to hear God during while I'm trying to be quiet during while I'm trying to be quiet, but then when I read the scripture, sometimes God just like thumps me in the head and says you see that, and it's a, you know, a big aha moment.
Speaker 1:
The light goes on and I understand something new.
Speaker 2:
I do think that is a thing that you really have to have discipline to make yourself do, so I tried to do it this morning, because I'm not good at doing it every morning. Yeah, and I made it about all of 15 seconds before I got distracted by something.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, what were you distracted by?
Speaker 2:
I don't even remember Probably a bird. I was on the back porch.
Speaker 1:
Okay. So I think it's funny sometimes. So my wife and I, we both have our quiet time in the morning, but not necessarily at the same time, and so one might be done and say, hey, what do you want for breakfast? And the other one one of us of us shut up, I'm having my quiet time. Okay, I'm exaggerating just a little, but sometimes, you know, we are irritated that the other one interrupted us during our quiet time.
Speaker 2:
It's like I almost never have that problem, because I usually get up around 630 and my wife doesn't get up until usually after eight.
Speaker 1:
Man, she's lucky.
Speaker 2:
She is.
Speaker 1:
And you're lucky, my wife's waking me up at five. Oh, all right. Okay, let's see. What else would you like to?
Speaker 2:
say here, steve, do we want to talk about?
Speaker 1:
wretched and mourn, All right, Weep. I do, Because I think that goes to the humble and about recognizing your sin and who you are. And then he says yeah, because he says Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy be to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you. So you know what I think I understood this this morning better when I read it. It sounds like it, because I think this is about recognizing your sin and humbling yourself before God.
Speaker 2:
That's why God didn't want us to record last night. We had it all wrong.
Speaker 1:
We did have that wrong, didn't we?
Speaker 2:
I think I did yeah, and you agreed with me.
Speaker 1:
Well, you know because I didn't know any better. Who am I to judge?
Speaker 2:
I don't know, but you've spoken evil against me.
Speaker 1:
Well, whatever I do that sometimes, steve, all right, do you have anything for this last paragraph?
Speaker 2:
I really don't.
Speaker 1:
Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. Yeah, don't do that. That's bad. All right, why don't we go on to the next section then? You ready to go to the next section?
Speaker 2:
I'll read that you want to take a break in the middle or you want to go to the next section. I'll read that you want to take a break in the middle or you want to go straight through I'm gonna go straight through.
Speaker 1:
All right, I'm gonna read all four verses. All right, uh, james, uh, chapter 4, verse 13 through 17. Come now you who say today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make profit. Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say if the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that. As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. Did you like my voice there, steve? Did you change it?
Speaker 2:
I thought that was your normal voice.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, that was my normal voice.
Speaker 2:
You know, I might have a good example of doing almost this exact thing, although it hasn't played out entirely yet All right.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, is this the Ohio thing.
Speaker 2:
It is the Ohio thing, all right. Yeah, is this the Ohio thing? It is the Ohio thing, all right. So last fall I decided that I wanted to spend time with my elderly parents before they pass yeah, and I wanted to get away from the Texas heat yeah, I knew the heat had something to do with it.
Speaker 2:
Oh yeah, it was like the first thing we thought of. And then we started looking north and I'm like, well, I'd really like to be close enough to visit mom and dad more often. And then it turned into the same town. So we bought a house. You okay over there, steve? Yeah, I'm fine. Okay, bumped something. We bought a house, yeah, and it's still completely empty. Yeah, I did finally see it about a month ago. That's good. And uh, that was cause I was going up there to to visit dad in the hospital.
Speaker 1:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
Um, so hopefully, uh, he'll recover and my plans won't go to pot. But yeah.
Speaker 1:
In any case speaking of pot is pot legal?
Speaker 2:
in Ohioio. I it's at least medically. I think they just passed the the other okay is that the real reason you're trying?
Speaker 1:
you want to go to ohio.
Speaker 2:
No, I'm not, it's bad.
Speaker 1:
Okay. Well, I mean, do you feel like you did? You charged ahead of God, or because? Well, just because you made a plan.
Speaker 2:
Okay, it may still be God's plan, but not for what I thought it was for. Okay, I mean, there's a possibility that my mom has to move into that house, all right, there's a possibility that we need a place to stay to like take care of getting rid of all their stuff yeah, or when the apocalypse hits, maybe that's uh, that's true.
Speaker 1:
The midwest, maybe that's going to be a good safe haven? That's true, could be. Is that? Considered midwest, it is okay, which is funny because it's so far east, it is that never made sense to me growing up.
Speaker 2:
I was like wait a minute, how can this be midwest? There's so much west of midwest yeah, okay not even close to mid yeah, um, so all right.
Speaker 1:
So seems like it should be mid-east. I want to go back to this now, but, yeah, I agree, mid-east makes sense to me, but um. So, if you notice, though, in both cases they the only. There's only one difference between the two If the Lord wills, if the Lord wills and you know, I know, we have a tendency, as people, to make a ritual around something, but I don't think this is a talking about something, but I don't think this is a talking about you should say these words before you do something. It's not about the words you say, it's about your heart, and I know for a fact that you prayed about this thing to Ohio and thought is this the right thing to do? Should I do this? In fact, you asked for prayer for this. I did, so I think that's a bad example, because that's not at all. It's just that your thoughts.
Speaker 2:
It's a good example of the right way to do it Exactly.
Speaker 1:
It is the right and I agree completely because it's just what I thought it was for.
Speaker 2:
may not be what it was for, that's true. I should have prayed for this or that.
Speaker 1:
This or that. Yeah, yeah, that's true, instead of just that.
Speaker 2:
Well, I prayed about going into such and such a town, spending three months there, get away from the heat.
Speaker 1:
Yeah. So you know, paige and I did that with this, uh, the house that we built, that you were talking bad about, um, you know, we had no idea what we should do and and we said god, and we repeated this over and over again and and we prayed about it a lot, believe it or not we said God, I don't know if you want us to build this house or move there, just if you want it to happen, make it happen. But we are happy with whatever you choose. And so I firmly believe that we're out there because God wants us out there. Because of our attitude, of how we approached it, we never and it was really actually surreal that neither one of us were like, oh, we got to build this house, it's going to be our retirement home, it'll be beautiful. You know, neither one of us had that attitude, uh, in the approach, um, which was really nice, because we have had wrong attitudes before. Um, I gave, we both gave actually good examples. But can you give a bad example, steve?
Speaker 2:
there's this one farmer I heard about that had a lot of grain and so he built silos to store that grain. But little did he know that that very night he was going to die. Okay.
Speaker 1:
I believe that's a parable that Jesus told oh right, but so that's? I mean that's a fine example, but it's really a parable. It's not a true story of your life, and I don't know if I can come up with something honestly.
Speaker 2:
Try coming up with something dishonestly.
Speaker 1:
Ah, okay. Well, once I was going to the French embassy to sell them some Cuban cigars what, some Cuban cigars, what? And I said I will go to the French embassy and sell them Cuban cigars. And I went to the French embassy and it was, I sold them Cuban cigars. But what I should have said is if the Lord is willing, I will go to the French embassy.
Speaker 2:
I think you're missing the point here, Ken All right.
Speaker 1:
By the way, that was a completely made up on the spot story. That did not happen.
Speaker 2:
I've never been to the Cuban and the French embassy, I think the real point here is that we are but a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
Speaker 1:
All we are is dust in the wind.
Speaker 2:
And so we should spend our time and effort and our passions for Christ.
Speaker 1:
I agree yes.
Speaker 2:
And on that we should close.
Speaker 1:
You think so. I think so, all right. So next week is James, chapter five. How many chapters are in James? That's it. That's the last one, last chapter in James next week. Catch you later guys. Bye, bye the Regular Guys. Bible Study is a Chasm LLC production. All rights reserved.
