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And now for A.W.
Tozer and the Christian
leader for June 14th.
And the title is God's Inward Necessity.
God's Inward Necessity.
He's talking to us,
not God's inward necessity.
Genesis 127 is his reference, and it says,
So God created man in his own image.
In the image of God created he him.
Male and female created he them.
Don't worry, it's not a pronoun issue.
We're going to read a
different version that
makes that a little bit clearer.
It's talking about something different.
A.W.
says,
I believe that he created man out of
no external necessity.
I believe it was an internal necessity.
God being the God he was and
is and being infinitely
perfect and infinitely
beautiful and infinitely
glorious and infinitely
admirable and infinitely loving.
Out of his own inward
necessity had to have some
creature that was capable
of admiring him and loving him.
knowing him yes and knowing
him so god made a man in
his own image in the image
and likeness of god made he
him and he made him as near
to being like himself as it
was possible for the
creature to be like the
creator the most god-like
thing in the universe is the soul of man
The reason God made man in
his image was that he might
appreciate God and admire
and adore and worship,
so that God might not be a picture,
so to speak,
hanging in a gallery with
nobody looking at him.
He might not be a flower
that no one could smell.
He might not be a star that
no one could see.
God made somebody to smell the flower,
the lily of the valley.
He wanted someone to see the
glorious image.
He wanted someone to see the star.
So he made us, and in making us,
he made us to worship him.
Be pleased this morning, O Lord,
as I do indeed smell the
flower and see the star,
as I admire and adore and worship.
Amen.
So,
I'm having trouble with this one
because...
What I'm getting from this
is God is so lovely, so perfect,
so beautiful.
He wanted to be adored.
I've heard that before.
I get that.
But he created us in his
image because he knew
everybody would be
conceited enough that if
they looked enough like God,
then they would want to worship him.
Because were we to be too different,
like he needed to put in us
his perfection so that we'd be like, oh,
you're so beautiful.
Or otherwise we wouldn't be
interested in worship.
Not that it's not possible,
I just think it's funny.
It just sounds a little bit roundabout.
No, I think he clarifies that.
I don't know.
I believe that he created
man out of no external necessity.
I believe it was an internal necessity.
The heart.
Internal necessity.
The soul.
No, ours.
Oh.
Well,
he didn't say we had an internal
necessity.
He said God had an internal necessity.
No, he's talking about man.
He needed man to have an
internal necessity for
being able to worship God.
And the only way we can do
that is if it's a piece of
what we were worshiping was in us.
Yes.
Self-centeredness.
Because we're the ultimate narcissists.
Then really at our core,
we're narcissists.
So we have to nurse to Jesus.
Well,
we needed to have an image of God
that he's a being, I think,
because it would be too
difficult for us to worship air.
Oh, no, I get the whole being part.
But he's saying he had to
make us like him because we
needed to worship something
that resembled ourselves.
Hmm.
I don't know.
Is anybody reading it different?
Maybe I'm not understanding the words.
When you say it that way,
it sounds like that God was
flawed in his thinking.
No.
No?
I just think Tosha's flawed
in his explanation.
Well... His explanation
doesn't mean it's the only one.
No.
I think that in During Word,
there is a lot of
explanations as to in our image.
And now it's going to be far
too much to go into.
Mankind alone has a natural
countenance looking upward.
Mankind alone has such a
variety of facial expressions.
Clearly we're reading his image.
But the rationale Tozer is
using is because otherwise
we wouldn't worship God.
We needed to be looking at a reflection.
Here's one.
There are at least three
aspects to the idea that we
are made in the image of God.
It means humans possess personality,
knowledge, feelings, and a will.
This sets man apart from all
animals and plants.
It means humans possess morality.
We are able to make moral
judgments and have a conscience.
It means humans possess spirituality.
Man is made for communion with God.
It is on the level of spirit
we communicate with God.
I don't see narcissism in there.
It's not explicit.
But he's basically,
all of this is just
explaining how similar to God we are.
Tozer is saying he did that
so that we would worship it.
In other words, we're made so flawed,
we are original,
otherwise so flawed that we
wouldn't be capable of worship.
I'm not seeing it that way.
I'm seeing that we need to
be in the image of God so
that we have the ability to see.
To recognize.
God, to recognize.
Not that it is because we
can compare it to ourselves.
Just that we have to have
the ability to smell the flowers,
to see the greatness of his creations.
But can't you recognize the
greatness of flower without
resembling it?
You don't resemble a flower.
We have to be able to see it and smell it.
Yeah,
but you don't have to have any
eyeballs for that.
You don't need to be like the flower.
You need to have a instrument that sees.
But he didn't make you like
a flower in order to
recognize the beauty of a flower.
I honestly think that Tozer
is saying that we're so, you know,
our sinful nature,
we're so selfish at our
essence that if we did not
see ourself in God's reflection,
we wouldn't worship.
Nobody on Earth would question.
So you don't agree with Tozer?
I don't know.
I couldn't pose a counter argument,
but I just don't think that
sounds... It doesn't resonate with me.
I can't say it's wrong.
That's really important.
What I said earlier,
when I need you guys to comment,
we need you guys to comment
to give us some other
thoughts on this thing.
But I don't know.
I'm not going to throw in the...
the negative aspects of it.
I just looking at it that we cannot enjoy.
Okay.
Let's see.
He says, look, what happened to Lucifer?
He was made the most beautiful.
And Carrie says, I agree.
The old school was not an image bearer.
We had attributes and look
at what happened with that.
She says we are.
Oh, she's saying she's question.
We are image bearers.
Closure was old school with
attributes only.
Hmm.
Oh, Carrie, can you expand on that?
I want to fully understand what her point,
what your point is.
Hi, Jan.
Hello there.
And Coco's laughing at us
that she's glad the camera
doesn't go both ways.
And that'd be fun.
Hey, Kevin.
Kevin, where have you been?
He's working to get a new job.
What kind of new job?
Oh, yes.
Is it in a band?
Is it an announcer?
Is it comedy?
You do so many things.
How can you add one more thing?
You sound like me.
I've had 30 different jobs.
Yes.
So we are definitely going
to pray for your new job.
Yes.
I hope it's a fun one.
So I want to understand what
does she mean by this image bearer?
Because I've heard this expression before.
Tozer was that we only have attributes.
We're not image bearers.
What's the difference?
I'm stumped here attributes
attributes was what andy is
saying see how smart I am
spirit not physical exactly
of course so carrie when
you say you agree with me
are you agreeing that
basically we were literally
created as image bearers
because otherwise we
wouldn't be incapable of worship
In other words,
it is a nurse of Jesus kind of thing.
Like we, it, it,
it is literally out of our
desire to see ourselves that we worship.
Something to that effect.
So strange.
Okay.
I'm stumped.
You know,
but this has always kind of –
it's one thing I've just
left alone because it's one
of those things that I felt.
What did you know?
That we're not to understand
what he means by – in his own image.
Because every time I thought about that,
I go,
so God's really a man up there kind
of just floating around?
And they make – intentionally to say no.
Yes.
But –
But I didn't understand the phrase.
What does that mean?
And so I just kind of left it alone.
It does this to me where I'm
even more baffled the more we discuss it.
It's kind of like the ends of space,
like where I can imagine
that there's the end of
space because there's probably not.
But even if there is,
then what's after the end?
How far does the end go?
Like the end of this table
stops here and then there's air.
And then it stops and we hit
a wall and then we have wall.
Like there's always
something after the end of something.
And so that drives me crazy.
Oh, but she does not agree with Andy.
What?
She's saying that your
description she agrees with,
but she doesn't agree with
the concept that we.
I don't know the difference
between our two arguments.
What is the difference
between our two arguments?
You're saying, no,
we don't have to see... I
think it's just that we
have the abilities, the senses,
to appreciate God's greatness.
And that's the image that he wanted.
He wants us to be able to
appreciate him and to
worship him and to honor
him and to know and have
morals and know when we're
out of line and are sinful
that that all is important.
But I don't go as far as that.
He gave us that so we could be...
so we can think about his
greatness because now we
feel that they can't
remember what you were saying.
We can relate to it.
We can relate to it because I don't think,
yeah, but I, I cannot relate to it.
I understand that I have to
be able to see his greatness,
feel his greatness,
want to honor him through
not being sinful and,
And understand when I am
sinful that I'm doing something wrong.
All that I feel is necessary.
But I don't see it in the eyes of that,
you know,
that we're narcissistic as to
our greatness because we're
made just like him.
I mean, narcissistic,
what I mean is that we
could not worship because
we couldn't understand it.
That's what I mean by narcissistic.
I'm being flippant.
Meaning like the only reason
we are capable of
worshiping is because we
see ourselves in him.
That all the description in
the world would not suffice
to make us worshipers.
It kind of goes along with
the idea of why did God
bring Jesus in the flesh?
Because we needed not only a
human being to live for the
appropriation of sin,
to pay the price of the sin,
but we needed a man to walk
the earth and have someone to relate to.
You know, it's interesting.
Something you just said just
made me think about this.
I've
I've not had,
when we talked about this before,
and I don't think you have it either,
this feeling of wow when we
meet a famous person.
It doesn't come into play.
It's just another person
that happens to be famous.
But for God, there is an awe.
There is, and for Jesus,
and the fact that the Holy
Spirit dwells in us is so awesome.
that I i what you what I
think you're saying and I
could be completely wrong
is that I can't get that
kind of feeling if I would
even think that he was like
me I joke around and act
kind of like I'm I'm all
that but I'm just messing
around because I i mean I
know I fall short of even a a
molecule of god's greatness
it is it is it is deserving
of my awe no no no human
being nothing that I've no
person I've ever come
across can make me feel
that way here he says bible
says he was sitting on his
throne is sitting on his
throne so in the spiritual
realm there's something
like physicality yet he is
everywhere for all time how
can we comprehend
Yeah, I mean, taking me to my next point,
my next point of the verse,
let's read the scripture,
and then I'm going to ask
my next point about this,
about that topic.
So 26, Genesis 126.
Then God said,
let us make human beings in
our image to be like us.
They will reign over the fish in the sea,
the birds in the sky, the livestock,
all the wild animals on earth.
And the small animals that
scurry on the ground.
So God created human beings
in his own image.
In the image of God, he created them.
Male and female, he created them.
Then God blessed them and said,
be fruitful and multiply.
Fill the earth and govern it.
Rain over the fish in the sea,
the birds in the sky,
and all the animals that
scurry along the ground.
Then God said, look,
I have given you every seed
bearing plant throughout
the earth and all the fruit
trees for your food.
And I've given every green
plant as food for all the wild animals,
the birds in the sky and
the small animals to scurry
along the ground,
everything that has life.
And that is what happened.
And God looked over all he had made.
And he said, it was very good.
And evening passed and
morning came marking the sixth day.
So I think his name is David Heisner.
Michael Heisner, um, has a number of books,
heaven and hell, um, the divine realm.
And he talks about this, and I intuitively,
for me,
makes the most sense that there is
a heavenly kingdom.
There is a divine kingdom that exists,
not only of the triune God, the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Spirit,
but there are ministers and
heavenly beings in the
cherubim and the seraphim
and the angels that are in God's court.
And
So when he says, let us,
it's not the royal we, nor is it,
in my opinion, only God talking to Jesus,
talking to himself, basically.
That's what enduring words is.
He's talking to himself, basically,
in the triune person.
I think he was talking to
all the other heavenly
beings that are in his divine court,
which would...
uh go to carrie's point
about is there a throne and
is he sitting on the throne
and how does he see
everybody else and so when
I when I visualize that
that it's like as if um
that is so magnanimous in
size and scope and space
that our earth is like a
like a dot so everybody up
there at all times because
it has it's it has no time and space
So it exists and watches and
sees and knows everything
from beginning until end
because it doesn't function
according to time.
So they look down at the earth,
which is in a time continuum.
But the God's court is not.
So they're operating in two
different atmospheric planes,
so to speak.
Could it also be that since
God reigns over the entire universe...
That he goes, okay, in my image,
you'll reign over, like he says,
the animals in the plant.
So we have a very similar but smaller.
Is that the idea?
Instead of it being just the triune God?
Mm-hmm.
The man reigns over animals.
I mean,
that's what he says in the scripture.
Right.
So we're not,
we're not reigning over the universe.
We're reigning over our
little tiny universe, our world,
which is the animals and
the plants and that kind of stuff.
Yeah.
What does that have to do
with the opinion of the court?
Are you making an analogy to that?
Yeah.
That he's reigns over
everything and has his, his court,
which is in our case, animals and plants.
Oh, meaning, oh, okay, okay,
making the analogy.
I am this, and you are for that.
Yep.
Yes.
That was Michael Heiser's point.
And then our reign ended at the fall.
And our reign ended at the fall.
Yes,
because that means that now the devil
reigns.
How long do you think that they had it?
How long did they have their rank?
It sounded like three days or two.
I don't know.
They had a little time,
it seemed like to me.
I don't know.
Anybody know how long they
had it before they ate the
forbidden fruit?
Because when they were created,
they were adults.
Were they not?
But they weren't babies.
Are you sure?
I mean, who knows?
I don't know.
It just doesn't seem like
that's the way to say it.
No one knows.
I mean, yeah, no one knows.
It could have been 1,000 years.
It could have been two days.
Yeah.
But that's really sad.
I know because, hey, we did it.
I don't feel so bad.
How long did it take man to
screw things up?
Right?
I mean, it took Biden, you know,
he did more damage in this
first six months.
Oh, sorry.
Intentionally.
Intentionally, yeah.
As opposed to Adam and Eve
who were in paradise.
Well, there was intention there.
She wanted to be a god.
Yeah.
And he didn't stop her.
Yeah, he's like, if this works out well,
I'm going to win.
If it doesn't,
he figured it was a win-win situation.
He thought it wasn't.
No.
Yeah.
Because he thought he could blame her.
Hey, hey, it was her.
Yeah.
Can I stay?
Can you just send her down?
I'll catch you on the other side, baby.
That's okay.
If women, when they get pregnant,
it's all painful now.
Just don't hurt me.
Can you imagine if he refused?
And he's like, no, I'm not eating it.
And she ate it anyways.
Like what a different
outcome that would have created.
Men would have been in charge.
Still in charge.
Nice.
Was there anything else in
Enduring Word that kind of
popped out at you with some
of the commentary?
Did you see anything?
We kind of perused it really quickly.
Yeah, no, nothing.
I just wanted to know this
whole proverbial we, the us, the court,
whether Enduring Word guy, David,
believed that or not.
He didn't.
He didn't think so.
Kevin's going for a co-host
position on a smaller
market morning radio show.
Oh, how cool.
During drive time.
Nice.
Are you the guy in the helicopter?
Hello, this is Kevin Cranes.
I'm flying over the 91 freeway.
And boy, is it busy.
Is he King Kong or what?
No,
this is the helicopter making the noise
with the plates.
Hello.
I'm flying.
Please stop.
We're landing now.
You didn't know what that was, really?
It was the sound of me being
in a helicopter.
How do you not know that?
I know what you were going for,
but it just looked like you
were King Kong pounding on your chest.
What's this noise?
Whoa, Nelly.
No,
it just sounds like you're knocking
your... It wasn't me riding a horse.
No, it did not sound like hoes.
It did not.
To them, it did.
You could just see me.
If they close their eyes, they go, oh,
my God.
And Carrie wants to know,
was that before or after
they began to multiply?
Nobody knows.
Oh, really?
I thought it was way before.
Are you sure about that?
Are you pulling our leg?
Oh, Carrie says horses not done well.
Yes, there you go.
Wait a minute.
I need to.
No copter.
Morning drive.
Five to ten.
Oh.
Are you going to do voices?
Do you do, like, impersonations?
Like, do you do President Trump?
It's not a stand-up comedy show.
It's the morning news.
Kevin is a comedian.
But he says he's going for a market.
I'm wondering if he's the guy.
Because, you know, like,
Rick Dees had his wife
sometimes would do impressions.
I mean, she wasn't necessarily a co-host.
But sometimes the co-host
does the impressions.
Is this a serious show?
Why would Kevin do a serious show?
Because he's doing serious news.
Oh, this is Donald Trump.
We had a funny encounter today.
We were next door in an open
house to look at the house next to us.
And there's an Iranian lady.
We always have fun with
these Iranian salespeople.
And so I was telling her, she's like, oh,
your husband, we were speaking in Farsi,
and she says,
your husband is such a good...
disposition basically she
said he seems like a very
uh happy person a laughing
person I said oh yeah he's
always cracking jokes he's
always funny she says oh my
goodness can you treat in
my husband and get me one
like that too my husband is
so sour he's a sour puss
and I am just so tired of
it and I just laughed my head off
She's like,
you don't know how lucky you are.
And I'm like, no,
I've had my share of sour pusses.
When you're speaking Farsi, you didn't say,
that gets tiring too.
No, not yet.
Oh, no.
No, maybe eventually.
Not yet.
I'm not tired of it yet.
Only when I laugh when we're
having a serious talk.
Only when we're fighting do
we start laughing.
Fighting?
I don't know that we've ever fought.
Arguing.
We argue?
Yes.
When did that happen?
Nope, no pulling leg, Andy.
She's not pulling her leg
about them copulating.
No, copulating about whether Adam and Eve,
whether they'd already started to spread.
Oh,
could they have copulated without
spreading seed?
No.
There are only two of them
that were there.
He was created from dirt.
I don't know if you know the story.
I don't know if you know the story,
but he was created from mud and dirt.
I know.
And she was created from a rib.
I know,
but they got cursed with the pain
of childbirth after they
ate from the food.
Oh, come on.
They were in... So they
couldn't have copulated before that.
Or unless they were... But
they couldn't have... They
couldn't have spread...
They couldn't have had
children before the fall.
Correct?
Because God cursed them with
the pain of childbirth after.
Well,
maybe she had a couple of babies and
there was no pain.
It was just all good.
You know what you're saying?
Just get to the story.
So he just skipped ahead.
He's not going to tell you every detail.
We all know the civilization
was begun by these two kids,
and then everybody had to
figure out how did we have
all these descendants who just came?
And then him, and then all the other kids.
He didn't talk about the
animal defecating and stuff like that,
but I'm sure that that happened too.
You don't give all the details.
logical fallacy.
Andy is correct.
See?
I love when Carrie says I'm
going to delete the part
where she says I wasn't
right because I don't like
it when she writes that.
Andy,
I pick on you because you are a best
good sport.
You're a good sport.
Oh.
This whole thing is giving
me a little bit of a headache.
I'm so confused.
I'm so interested in what
Kevin's role is as a co-host,
what he does as a co-host.
He just does the news.
But I want to know if he's you,
the serious one, or he's me,
the funny one.
Oh.
There's got to be.
You can't have two serious people.
Yeah, people will click off.
They tune in to see that face you give me.
Did you really just say that?
I've heard a lot of people saying that.
I love when you give Andy that look like,
what in the world are you
saying right now?
It's my famous, how do you look?
do you want to tell you a
divine appointment story
today oh yeah that would be
fun um but I'm still oh no
I still I love that gary
brought up I mean I i love
our audience when they
comment because we we get
so much more uh out of the
show but I've never heard
anyone ever question or
bring up a the thought
that they could have already
been having babies by the
time the fall came.
I don't believe that.
Really?
You don't think somebody
would have brought it up by now?
Exactly.
I think if they had kids before the fall,
we would have known about them.
It would have been common knowledge.
Just imagine if they were in
the most glorious place.
All they would have thought about?
Yeah, let's do it by the waterfall.
Let's do it under the tree.
I think it's the opposite.
Everything was so glorious,
they didn't need that.
Oh, no, they're just ads.
When we go to the afterlife,
we don't copulate.
Then I don't want to go.
You don't, because you don't have spouses.
Who says?
Who told you this?
Heaven experts,
when you read the... Heaven
experts told you that we
don't have... I know for
sure we're not married.
So are we going to be
copulating outside of marriage?
I don't know.
You know what?
That's a crazy question.
Randy Alcorn does not talk
about copulating in heaven.
He does say we're not going to be married.
Copulating is such a word.
Would we copulate without marriage?
Like all the rules go out
the window and they won't matter?
Mm-hmm.
You could just bump up to
somebody and be like, hi, hello.
My name is Andy.
Time to copulate.
That woman over there,
she used to be my wife,
but apparently it's okay now.
That'd be wild.
It's supposed to be the
happiest place on earth.
On earth?
Is it on earth?
Happiest place in the sky.
In the square that Pastor Bob put up.
We're going to live in a cube, apparently.
That's so funny.
Okay, that's Carrie got to say.
See,
I knew she would come up with some more.
The first two, Cain and Abel,
could have been born before they fell.
They were told to multiply
and fill the earth from the beginning.
Yeah, from the very first words.
So, I mean,
as soon as I would have heard that,
I said, okay.
Let's do this.
Did you hear God?
He said multiply.
I don't know.
I don't believe that the
desire to copulate came
until after they fell.
I think Kerry has a point.
I'm on team Kerry.
If it existed,
if the knowledge and desire
existed before the fall,
then it should return after the fall.
And it doesn't, as far as we know.
Anybody else have any opinions?
No, because we're not married.
I'm serious, folks.
Come on, somebody else comment.
I cannot wait until we book
this next appointment with
Pastor Jack because that's
one of the first questions I'm asking.
No, you know what we're going to do?
We're going to send in to Pastor Bob.
Is there a compilation?
Oh, yes.
That's a good one.
He does Ask Pastor Bob.
Yes.
I'm going to see Becky tomorrow.
I'm going to ask you to know.
To put that on the priority list.
We want this question asked.
And don't forget.
It's a big one.
I think I may text Pastor Josh right now.
God put them together.
What are you saying?
They're not copulating?
He just put them together.
What does together mean?
Well, you know.
I know, but that's what I'm saying.
The A tab into the B slot.
But if it happened before the fall,
then it should happen after the fall.
It should happen in paradise.
If it occurs before the fall,
then it has to happen when
we're in eternity.
Because Eden is restored.
We're in right standing with God.
Everything goes back to the
way it should have been.
I know.
So Carrie,
you're saying we're essentially
married to God.
Married by God.
When they were put together,
they were married by God.
So they had a honeymoon.
Yeah.
You ever see those pictures
where they show eating?
It's got this waterfall and
green grass right there.
Immediately.
I think there'll be no sex
in heaven because on earth
there has become God's
greatest hatred of sexual immorality.
Well, Iris, to that point,
if there's no sex in heaven,
then that means there was
no sex before the fall.
Doesn't that logically follow?
Because they had to populate the earth.
Okay, are you listening?
You keep repeating the same thing.
I know they were supposed to multiply.
Yes.
But they hadn't started
multiplying before the fall.
He said, be fruitful and multiply.
And then she went and grabbed this thing.
So he's like, okay, for that,
just now what you did,
you're going to have a pain in the chest.
But the instruction to multiply was there.
They just hadn't begun the
process yet before the fall.
Because if they had, then...
Sex occurred before the fall.
Sex must occur after man is restored.
Okay, I'm hearing you.
And I acknowledge your feelings.
Okay.
But you think they copulated before?
Yes, because they said go populate.
And I don't think she went
right away to thinking that
I am going to go over here
and talk to the snake.
So then why don't we copulate in heaven?
Why don't we have sex in heaven?
I don't know that we don't.
You're not convinced we don't.
Okay.
Can we take a poll?
I want to know how many
people think... On Earth,
but not in Heaven.
What?
On Earth and not in Heaven.
Sexual immorality?
Yeah.
Do we have to come back down
to the Earth on occasion to
have some sex and then we go back up?
It's like...
god knows where no one's
gonna want to be able to
come back down I'm so
confused okay so here's one
thing uh that you know we
have um we talk about these
divine appointments yes and
you seem to have like a
divine appointment every
couple hours no often I
wish and every time we talk
about when I get so jealous
because I go I want to have a um
divine appointment yes and
then today I had two in one
day in the same place in
the same place yeah and um
just I'm gonna I'm gonna
shorten this up I'm ready
So I have my one year Bible.
And I decided I was going to
have a meeting with a
gentleman who was running
for school board.
His name's Ryan.
And so I had about 45 minutes.
So I go, you know what?
I'm going to stop at Bodie,
my coffee shop that I like to go to.
And I go, I have time.
I'm just going to go ahead
and knock out my daily
reading of the one year Bible.
And I did.
15 minutes.
Done.
And it was, you know,
it was done and it was good.
And so I had completed it.
So I'm meeting Ryan at a
different location called Avalon,
where they sell bagels and
stuff like that,
just right down the street.
And so I drive down there.
I have no reason to take in
my one-year Bible because
I've already done it.
Yes.
But for whatever reason, I grabbed it.
One-year Bible in hand.
My one-year Bible in hand and my iPad,
and I go sit down waiting
for Ryan to get there.
I set the one-year Bible down.
I go, why did I bring that?
And then God showed me why I
brought that because the
waitress brought over my bagel, salmon.
Oh my gosh,
I was eating a Jewish meal too.
Bagel and salmon and lox and
bagel I was eating.
And she comes over, Hispanic lady.
And she comes over and she goes,
is that a Bible?
I go, well, it is the Bible,
but it's in a one-year Bible format.
And she goes, what does that mean?
i mean that they've they've
broken up each day they
give that on the date every
every uh every so often
there's the date and it has
the is the old testament
new testament proverbs and
then a parable a song sorry
uh and and she goes oh
that's interesting I said
yeah so every day you read
a portion of each one of
those bits of scripture.
And then over the year,
you end up reading the whole Bible,
but you're not reading it
from Genesis to Revelation.
And she goes, oh,
that sounds so much better.
She goes,
I went to a Christian high school
where we had to read the Bible and
She goes, I couldn't do it.
I mean,
I had to do it and I couldn't do it.
And I go, wow.
I said,
I know this is fantastic because
there's a portion where
you'll get into where
you're reading all the names,
but then you get to read after that.
You get to read something
that John or something in
the New Testament and then, you know,
Proverbs and Psalms.
And she goes, oh, she goes,
can you show me?
Like,
and so I opened the book and I show her,
she goes, like she had this,
And it's, you know,
what's so cool about it is
that she was so amazed by that.
And yet we take for granted
that we go to churches that
do that practice.
Like if it was not for
Pastor Jack or Pastor Bob,
we wouldn't even,
because you were friends for 20 years.
No, you never heard of a one-year Bible.
That how many people walk
around not realizing that
there is this opportunity,
there is this way to learn
the Bible for those that
have struggles trying to
read it from start to finish, you know?
Again,
they may have they may mention and said,
yeah, you know,
get yourself one year Bible
and then move on.
But Pastor Jack and Pastor Bob really say,
hey, let's start this together.
I really encourage like,
let's do this as a church.
We'll all be on the same page.
We'll all be on the same thing.
And of course,
I listened and I followed it.
But she came over and I told her, I said,
take a picture with your phone.
Yeah.
And she came over.
She goes, I got this.
Like, look, I mean,
I taught her so many things today.
And she goes, yes!
And she goes and gets her phone,
comes back, and she takes a picture.
And she was just so happy
with that idea of being
able to read the Bible and
to be able to get through it.
And then Ryan happens to be
a… I can't imagine that you
remember this guy's name so many times,
too.
Oh, well,
we've been talking about him a
lot in Signal.
Not a lot,
but enough for me to remember it.
But Ryan Miller,
he's running for school board.
And so I wanted to meet him
so they could vet him, you know,
because I don't want to get
taken again like I was with
Marilyn Anderson,
who is a complete heathen.
She tried to tell if she was, you know,
conservative.
She wasn't.
So I go,
I'm meeting this guy and I'm going
to spend some time with him
and talk to him.
And he's a former pastor of a church.
Oh, Iris is busting you.
You should have given her
the Bible as a tip.
Iris, good point.
I love that.
Busted.
We could have bought another
one on Amazon.
So anyway, I'm talking to Ryan,
who is a pastor and a father,
and he's running for school board.
And it turns out everything was,
it was a great meeting.
It turns out to be a great guy.
But I, for one,
it's not that I'm intimidated, Schnugs.
It's that I wouldn't.
Defer.
You defer.
I would defer to a pastor.
Why would I pray for a pastor?
Oh, they don't know he was a pastor.
Oh, he was a pastor.
I did.
I told them.
Where were you?
Were you not listening to my story?
I thought you said he's a
dad and he's got two kids.
Earlier I said he's a pastor.
Did you?
Yes.
Did he say he was a pastor?
He was a pastor.
So I... We finish our
meeting and we get outside.
And again,
I would not have prayed for a pastor.
I wouldn't pray for Pastor Jack,
for instance.
I would say, hey, Pastor Jack,
let me pray for you.
I would expect him to pray for me.
But there's no reason why
you can't pray for him.
I would not.
But I wouldn't step on his toes.
That's how I would feel.
And same with Pastor Bob.
And so we go outside.
And before we leave, we're saying,
it was great meeting you.
Glad I got to know you.
And I said, let me pray over you.
And I put my hand on his shoulder.
And right in front of like
five other people that were
standing outside,
like right in the middle of them.
I love that.
I start praying out loud,
asking for God's protection
over him as he's going into
the lion's den of the
school board elections and campaign.
And just ask God to be with
him and to make him win.
Yay.
Because we need him.
And I was without a thought.
The Holy Spirit just came over me.
And I got in the car and I go, oh, my gosh,
what did you just do?
I looked at myself in the mirror like,
is this Andy?
I love it.
So it was quite awesome what
God can do with the least of us.
When you surrender, when you yield,
that's the word I was looking for.
You have to yield.
I still could, Iris,
but I think she ordered it already.
So, you know.
Oh, my gosh.
Where were you, Iris, this morning?
Why didn't I think of that?
Just handing it to her.
Here, take this one.
Yeah.
It's all tattered and stuff.
The edges are all folded.
Thanks a lot, Iris.
Now I'm going to go to bed all upset now.
No, it was still lovely.
Fantastic, Andy.
Thank you, Carrie.
I'm not going to talk to
Iris for a couple of days.
You've come a long way.
I love these divine appointments.
These are something else.
They put a smile on your face.
Well,
the one with the lady did until like
a couple of minutes ago.
I could have just handed it to her.
That would have been amazing.
Wouldn't it?
Okay, can I tell the story again?
And then I handed it to her.
And she cried.
And she hugged it.
And she said, oh my gosh,
this is so awesome.
Thank you.
Next time.
That did not happen.
Next time somebody says,
I'm going to carry a couple of my,
that's what I got to do is buy a couple.
Because she's not the only one.
What?
I buy one every year.
But now I do it on my app.
But yeah.
They're not different every year.
Why do you buy one every year?
They do.
They are.
They change?
They change.
What?
They mix them up different.
Oh, I didn't know that.
I thought they were always the same.
No.
Interesting.
I'm still mad at Iris.
I'm not going to talk to her again.
If Iris comments,
I'm not going to bring it up.
Please stop.
You bring it up.
You're not that sensitive.
You may be that conceited,
but you're not that sensitive.
She says she's had those moments herself,
Andy.
All right.
It's 2020 for all of us.
It's Monday night quarterbacking.
Yeah.
You know, we look back and we're like, oh,
yeah, we should have, could have,
would have.
What can you do?
It would have been great.
Wouldn't it?
And especially if I would
have done it in front of Ryan.
The editor's edit.
What does that mean?
They fix it.
I don't know.
You can't fix the Bible.
Well, I mean,
you can have different versions,
but I don't think Carrie
likes the When You're Bible.
Oh.
So you, this one last thing,
is that you are... No,
When You're Great
Chronologically Strange.
Yes, yes.
Wow.
So you're getting closer to the book.
We've narrowed it down to a cover, right?
Yes.
Still doing changes to the cover.
Changes to the cover,
but we've narrowed it down
from what was it?
I know, please don't be disappointed,
folks, if all of you voted for the lion.
But the Lord had put on my
heart the four living creatures,
and I felt like if I used the lion alone,
I was...
not honoring that request.
And I just felt like I had
to use the one with the
four living creatures.
Good job.
I think you made the right decision.
Thank you.
It is my second favorite cover,
but you're right.
When you told me, I said, you know what?
You're absolutely right.
I just have to stick with what he says.
Yep.
And then I have a feeling
I'm going to find out why.
Yeah.
Either this life or the next.
This one.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Wow.
Still working on the
transcript or the manuscript.
Sorry.
Yes.
The manuscript.
Yes.
But it's coming around.
Coming around.
For sure.
I think by the fall.
It's going to be awesome.
Looking forward to it.
So we'll just keep you guys
abreast as things are coming,
but it's coming along.
Yes.
Just like, just like books do the covers,
the back cover, the spine,
and then you get the
formatting and all that stuff is,
is it's work.
And I put together my first book.
It took me,
I think a year to put together.
The next one took a couple
months and I did one in a, in a week,
in a weekend.
wow so it gets faster and
faster as you learn how to
do it all right any other
prayers we're praying for
kevin's kevin's job and uh
I was saying just
suggestion I've done a
one-year bible for several
years every year I get a
different translation and
this year I'm doing a
chronological daily bible
oh nice yeah I'm doing a
totally different I'm doing
one by this organization called
alive or something.
It's, and I just love it because they do,
it's a,
it starts with a devotional every day.
So they've literally gone
through the trouble.
It's the Bible with Nikki and Pippa,
Nikki and Pippa Gumbel.
And so they do a devotional
that ties together the
themes of all the scriptures of that day.
Hmm.
Uh, it's just awesome.
I really enjoy it.
Any relation to Brian Gumbel?
I have no idea.
Hmm.
No idea.
So let's pray.
Please,
God's blessing on our prayer team
during my surgery.
Please, God's blessing on our prayer team.
Okay, sorry.
Carrie, I don't understand.
You mean the praying for the people?
All of us are her prayer team.
During her surgery.
She's already had her surgery.
Blessing,
God's blessings on everybody that
prayed for her during her surgery.
Oh, okay.
So it's essentially a praise report.
Fearful and joyful, eyes progressing well.
Yay.
Is the bubble gone?
Is the bubble gone yet?
I think she said the other
day it's still not gone yet.
Okay.
Heavenly Father, Abba, Father,
the one who's both near and far, Lord,
that speaks to our hearts
and guides us along the way,
that is the power of the
Holy Spirit that comes upon us,
that we can go out and
witness to others and be a
light in the universe.
And we are,
to our friends and to our neighbors, Lord,
thank you for that power.
Thank you for the blessing and
Andy,
for being able to share that power
now more and more.
We're so excited for what
you're going to do in and through us.
Thank you for the blessings of this group.
Thank you for their wisdom
that they impart to us,
that the wisdom we're able
to share together, Lord.
It's such a beautiful opportunity to
learn more from our brothers
and sisters in Christ and
to just pray for one another.
And we pray for our friend, Kevin,
as he goes for this new job, Lord,
your will be done.
If it's a door that only you can open,
we ask that you open it and
you open it wide and that
whatever's best for Kevin
in light of your grace and
your mercy and your provision on his life,
Lord, that that shall come to pass.
And for Carrie,
her continued recovery and
her prayer request for all
of us and blessings be upon
this group and anyone who
suffers from an ailment, from a sickness,
Lord,
that you give them your healing and
your restoration,
your full power of wholeness, Lord.
Thank you for your peace
that passes all understanding.
Thank you that you give us rest.
that we can bring our burdens,
lay them at your feet,
and you will give us rest, Lord.
So I pray rest over all of
us that we may enjoy your Sabbath.
Thank you for making us believers.
And for those who do not yet know you,
Lord,
may they come to saving faith in Christ.
We love you.
We honor you with our lives.
It's in the mighty name of
Jesus that we ask all things.
Amen.
Tiny bouncing ball is now
the size of a pencil eraser.
Wow.
It's amazing.
God, it's amazing.
All right, my friends.
Oops.
We love you.
Good night.
God bless you.
Take care.