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going to be reading from today,
so prepare that in the Bible,
is 2 Corinthians 3, 4 through 6.
2 Corinthians 3, 4 through 6.
Oh, I was going to get rid of it.
Sorry.
I don't know what the heck's
going on here.
I got a great email.
I had the good opportunity
to be included in a... It's called ED Law,
which stands for Eldorado Law.
It's the classes they have
for kids who want to be in...
either attorneys or police
officers or FBI agents,
that kind of stuff.
So it's really cool classes,
but I had the opportunity
to be one of the speakers.
Yes.
And I got some great
feedback from one student who, you know,
they write little comments.
Oh, I didn't know they write comments.
Remember I told you, they asked me to go,
what is your routine for starting a day?
Oh, right.
And so I started off while I
wake up early in the morning.
And the first thing I do is
read the Bible.
And then I went on to talk
about other stuff, you know,
go to the gym, what have you.
Um, and one of the comment was,
I really liked Mr. Falco's, uh, comment,
uh,
for preparation of the day is starting
with the Bible.
That's something that I want to do too.
I thought, wow,
that just reached one
person at that event reached one kid.
Um, then I, that was well worth it.
So I thought that was pretty cool.
So make sure and do things like that.
We were talking about this
other day and I'm sorry,
I'm going to get the devotion a minute,
but we were talking about getting out of,
um,
Not necessarily your comfort zone,
but I guess it is a little
bit getting out of your comfort zone,
but doing what God has asked us to do,
and that is to be bold in our faith.
Yes.
And talking to people and
sharing our testimony to
praying for people at
restaurants or in line at
Starbucks and that type of thing.
Amen.
You were walking into Starbucks with Zara,
and a man stopped you and said,
can I pray for you?
Was that so beautiful?
That was amazing.
I loved that.
So I'm sorry.
That really hit me.
I just got the email just seconds ago.
So I thought, wow, God is amazing.
He brings these things to us
in whatever it is we're doing.
And then he shows us that
what we did made a difference.
Amen.
And he was happy about it.
So strangely enough,
there is a February 29th
devotional for Tozer,
the Christian leader.
And it's entitled,
Wake Up the Lion in You.
Rawr.
not that we that caught me
off guard not that we are I
didn't even do it half as
loud as I was thinking so
he references second
corinthians 3 5. not that
we are sufficient of
ourselves to think anything
as ourselves but our
sufficiency is of god
That is the difference
between Christianity and
all the oriental cults and religions.
All cult religions try to
wake up what you already have,
and Christianity says,
what you have is not enough.
You will need the endowment
which is sent from above.
That is the difference.
The others say,
stir up the thing that is in you,
and they expect this to be enough.
By way of illustration,
if there were four or five
lions coming at you,
you would never think of
saying to a little French poodle,
wake up the lion in you.
That would not work.
It would not be enough.
They would chew the little
fellow up and swallow him,
haircut and all,
because a French poodle
just isn't sufficient for a
pack of lions.
Some power outside of
himself would have to make
him bigger and stronger
than the lions if he were to conquer.
That is exactly what the
Holy Spirit says he does
for the Christian believer.
But the cult religions still say,
concentrate and free your
mind and release the
creative powers that lie within you.
Lord, in our self-reliance,
we're often too guilty of
digging deep for that inner
self-sufficiency.
Our new age culture fosters that in error.
Teach us how futile this
pursuit is and show us your power.
Amen.
So I was just telling Andy,
I was listening to the
podcast of Trim Healthy Mama,
which are these two
Christian ladies who do
health and fitness and wellness.
And so they had a whole
podcast on self-care and
they were both like, well, you know,
they're strong Christians.
So they're like,
we really struggle with
this whole self-care thing
because you can't,
You can't be obsessed with yourself.
That's, of course, bad.
We have to be caring for others,
which we absolutely do.
But we still want to care for ourselves.
Not that we're
self-sufficient or self-reliant,
but in order to honor God's temple.
So Paul advises us that.
Take care of your temple.
This is the temple of God.
Don't abuse it.
Well,
in the same vein that we're not
supposed to abuse it,
we're supposed to take care of it.
Discipline your flesh, he says, right?
So we are supposed to take
care of our bodies.
And one of the ladies was saying,
I also like to beautify
myself like Queen Esther
did for the king to honor my husband,
not because he asks me to,
not because he wouldn't
love me if I didn't,
but just because that's my
way of honoring him.
I take care of myself.
I put a little makeup on
when he comes home.
I'm dressed.
You know, I wear pretty clothes.
And so me and my mentor,
we often talk because we
can sometimes end up on the
other extreme where we
don't want to make
ourselves an idol either.
So there's this delicate balance, right?
You rely on the Lord, of course,
for sufficiency, for growth,
for sanctification.
But as a way of honoring the
Lord and your family,
you also take good care of yourself,
right?
But not to an extreme.
There's so many caveats.
So many caveats to being a Christian.
You don't want to go and get
those big duck lips.
No duck lips.
Like the wax lips I used to
get when I was a kid.
Well, and see,
that's also... I think that
actually comes from a
distorted body image, right?
It's from body dysmorphia.
So we have gender dysmorphia, right?
We have body dysmorphia.
And they said a lot of the dysmorphia,
both gender and body,
are coming from people
spending so much time on the internet.
Yeah.
And looking at...
warped body images and
thinking it's attractive.
And it becomes the same
thing as anything else.
Like politically,
if you keep repeating a lie
over and over again,
it somehow has turned into
a truth to people.
And I think it's the same
way that the enemy does with beauty.
He keeps distorting the face
and distorting the face and
then eventually convincing
people that don't have faith
That that looks good.
And I guess some people who
have faith to basically
trying to convince us,
convince us that everything
that God didn't create is good.
And then pushing us towards
that kind of defiance and disobedience.
as a way of fitting in.
Right.
So whether it's partying or
how we raise our kids or
same sex attractions or body dysmorphia,
you know,
it's Satan pulling us away from
the norms that God created.
I think it also goes in line
with at least what I got
from the devotional was
that this is a little bit
of a lie that some people tell kids.
and even some adults.
And that is,
you can be anything you want to be.
And I always kind of like, no, not really.
I know a lot of people that
will never be in the NBA.
They want to be in the NBA,
but they just will never be in the NBA.
They'll never be in the NFL.
And there's also the idea
that in your current state,
you can't be in these things.
But what can you do
to change your circumstances
or change the condition of
your body in order to then be something.
Like being a police officer.
I felt that you needed to be
in shape as a police officer.
That was my belief.
Used to be the standard.
If I can't take care of myself,
how am I going to take care
of other people?
I mean,
I would work alongside these guys
and I would just go...
Bro, I mean,
I don't want you to go on the
call with me because if I
end up having to chase
somebody over a wall, which I did often,
you won't be there for me.
I'm going to tell you,
I had a woman who I showed
up on a call with right
down the street here,
right on the other side of the freeway.
And we go to a call.
There's these kids standing
outside of a vehicle.
The call was suspicious
subjects in the back alley
of this restaurant down the street.
I won't even give the
specifics because it'll
give way too much.
And that was it.
Suspicious youth.
and we get there and it's me
and her and I run the plate
and as I'm running the
plate and talking to the
subjects which are teenage
I think they probably I
think they probably went to
canyon high as a matter of
fact um the a code would be
given to us 1035 is the
code meaning 1035 is I'm
going to give you some information
um are you you have your
radio turned down so the
other people don't hear it
you know the bad guys don't
hear it yeah and so it's 10
35 I said and so we know
right away it means that
the vehicle is stolen we
already know they wouldn't
say 10 35 for any other reason but um
I don't think she had a
radio turned down because it came back,
vehicle Kim's back stolen out of,
you know, Fullerton, what have you.
Boom, the guy, they take off.
The kid that I felt was
driving the vehicle jumps
over a fence and goes into the riverbed.
And I'm over the fence and
I'm running after him.
I chase him down across the
Imperial Highway,
tackle him and get him handcuffed.
And I look back and I'm all by myself.
And then I get the guy handcuffed.
I walk him back up to the
street and then I finally meet
which was my partner.
And she says, I hope you don't mind.
I don't chase people.
Is that your own police rule?
I guess so.
But that's what I'm talking about.
What did you say to that?
You didn't say nothing.
No, I didn't say nothing.
We don't need to get any further.
But I want to come back to this thing.
You've got to understand.
I want to know what you said.
Was it bad?
It probably was not nice.
And then I talked to my
supervisor and said, listen,
this is dangerous.
I mean,
it's dangerous when somebody leaves
you hanging.
Our job is to catch the bad guy.
At least that's what I thought.
So my point is that... I
wonder if it's now a policy
not to chase the criminals.
Oh, it is.
I mean, now it's ridiculous.
Because all those shootings
that happened when the guy was running.
So bringing it to my point
and exactly what you're
saying here is that what
ends up happening...
is that you reduce to the
lowest denominator.
And that's where we start
getting into trouble.
I mean,
I think that's what's happening in
churches too.
We reduce God's message to
the least forceful,
Least confrontational.
Least offensive.
And if we do this with
everything... The Bible's
supposed to offend you.
It's just crazy.
No.
If the Bible's not offending you,
then you're not going to be convicted.
In schools,
we reduce the standard because...
But because of what?
Because teachers can't teach.
It's not because students can't learn.
It's because teachers can't teach.
They don't want to teach.
Well, and now this is funny.
Sorry, I'm yelling,
but I get so passionate about this.
It's the stupidity of our world.
Just to fix our sound volume.
That's why I'm backing off
of the microphone.
But in teachers,
there's some teachers now
that I hear are giving the
answer keys away.
Because before,
if you turned into work
that did not show your work,
if you turned in answers that didn't show,
you would get counted off.
So they send an answer key
that has work on it.
What's easier?
Teaching the children,
especially the children that are helping,
or just give them the answers.
Teachers don't want to teach.
And then they can all get A's.
And the teachers union support it and say,
no.
And then they say, well,
they need more money.
It doesn't need more money.
You just got to teach.
So we end up reducing everything.
If we go back to the Bible
and the churches and us as
Christians is that we begin to back down.
God has given us everything
we need in the Bible to be
prepared for sharing his word.
We may not be, for sure, me.
I'm not a theologian or Pastor Jack.
But I now feel God has given
me the Holy Spirit to be
able to share what I can share.
Amen.
And to not go over my head
or to put myself in a
position where I'm going to
disappoint him.
Amen.
And simply it's just sharing
what God has done for me sometimes.
It's not knowing.
It's not done for me lately.
It's not knowing where to
find a specific bit of
scripture necessarily.
There you go.
There you have it.
Hey, Cindy, where's Cindy been?
Hi, Cindy.
Nice to see you.
And Carrie wants prayer for
her new eye surgeon.
That's awesome.
And my favorite is her praise report.
Her one-person Bible study
has reached four more.
What?
See, that's where it starts.
See?
I love that.
Carrie was... It just gave me chills.
Yeah, because if you remember,
Carrie before was praying
that she doesn't feel she's
being used by God.
I wonder if you remember that, Carrie.
Yeah.
Look at that.
God is good.
But one doesn't think Jesus matters.
Well,
she won't feel that way once you get
done with her, Gary.
And the Holy Spirit's help.
Good morning, Kate.
Yeah, I forgot it's morning for her, huh?
Yeah.
Gary's saying it's important
to take care of yourself as
a 24-7 caregiver.
I'm not taking good care of me.
Come on, Gary.
So important.
Yeah.
Kate's saying that ship has passed.
Getting up is my self-care.
Well, you've got to start somewhere.
Hey, Lisa.
Putting clothes on.
Yeah.
Oh, my gosh.
Another one just came in.
So I also wanted to comment on something.
Sorry that my thing was going everywhere.
Carrie's saying, I do think.
I do think God is amazingly surprising.
Yes.
Well, and I mean,
he can make anything possible, right?
Way maker, miracle worker, promise keeper.
You prayed and he answered.
I love that.
That's fantastic.
So another thing about this devotional,
Waking Up the Lion Inside of You,
it made me think of this
meme that I had posted
about forget the sheep,
wake up the other lions.
Mm-hmm.
well,
there's this very clever young man
who writes on the post, but wait,
Jesus called us sheep.
So we're all sheep.
And I was like, right, he did.
But we are now lions because
we have the lion of Judah's blood in us.
So that's how I was able to
turn that around because I
didn't think of that.
I was like, oh my God, he did.
He did refer to us as sheep.
But I guess we're kind of lion sheep now.
Because we have lion's blood in us.
Right.
He turned the poodles into lions.
Yes.
All right.
Let's read from 2 Corinthians 3.
Such confidence we have
through Christ before God,
not that we are competent
in ourselves to claim
anything for ourselves,
but our competence comes from God.
He has made us competent as
ministers of a new covenant,
not of the letter,
but of the spirit for the
letter kills and the spirit gives life.
Letter here being as Paul
teaches or whoever teaches
that we don't know the
author of in Hebrews, it is the law.
That actually brings death.
And it was by knowing the
law that we realize and
appreciate the benefits of
the new covenant where
Jesus satisfied the
requirements of the law so
that we can be set free
because no man can ever
abide by the law in and of himself.
So the law in and of itself is not bad,
but the law kills.
Of course,
that's the area that I'm in in my year.
Why can't I remember the name of it?
Bible in a Year?
Is that what it's called?
One Year Bible.
I don't know.
When your Bible is all of the laws,
I've been a week.
It's been like seven days,
maybe 10 days in all these
things that they had to do.
Like if you do this,
then you have to have this sacrifice.
And if you do this, you're going to die.
You got to be put to death.
You have to be stoned.
Not stoned in a good way,
stoned in a bad way.
But thank God for Jesus.
Thank God.
Because, yeah, there's no way.
I don't know how they did it.
That was a lot of stuff.
Isn't there?
A lot of things that you had
to be involved with.
It's really impossible, I think,
for especially us today to
even imagine what it would
have been like to live in those days.
Yes.
What's Carrie saying there?
After 12 weeks, we finished Daniel,
and I've learned so much
because learning in-depth
study habits to be able to teach.
Oh, that's so awesome.
So true.
What Bible study are you using?
I'm a huge fan of K. Arthur's,
the Precept Upon Precept Studies.
They're so deep.
I haven't done one in a while.
I've got to consider doing
another one of those.
Okay.
Oh my gosh,
I just had something from the scripture.
Hold on one second.
Sorry.
Not that we are competent in
ourselves to claim anything for ourselves,
but our competence comes from God.
That really speaks to what
you were talking about earlier,
that there's a line that
we have to keep in mind what
he wants from us, not go beyond that,
not begin to change our,
disfigure our face,
or try to go over our head
in regard to speaking for God.
Right.
I mean,
so many of these things that we can
get caught up in that we now,
all of a sudden,
now we have to now shine.
Yes.
And understand that we need
to be shined for him.
Amen.
The idea that Moses' face shone.
Oh, isn't that beautiful?
Is what we're looking for.
Yes.
That would be so great.
To be shiny.
To be shiny like that.
To come down from one of our hills here.
To get to Chino Hills.
Come from Chino Hills with a shiny face.
We are remarkably shinier
than you would think as a
result of Christ, right?
Yeah.
The more we discipline
ourselves and follow Christ,
the closer we draw to him,
the shinier we get.
I must have been shiny and
trust earlier or earlier today.
I was at Paul's country kitchen.
I know.
That's why I stopped.
I go, you know,
I've been there in a while
and there's a new waitress there.
So she doesn't know me from Adam.
But when I got,
I forget that they don't take Apple pay.
There's like two places that
don't take Apple pay home
Depot and three places.
Walmart.
Oh, Walmart does.
Oh, no, Walmart doesn't either.
Yeah, I don't go to Walmart much.
But so they don't either at
Paul's Country Kitchen.
So I said, I'll be back.
I'm going to go out and get my wallet.
And and so I leave and then I come back.
Now, I know most of the people there,
but this is a new person
I've never met before.
And I said, I almost made it out of here.
I could have just got in my
car and drove away.
And she goes,
I can see that you were not
the type that you wouldn't do that.
She goes, but the last place I worked at,
they were leaving all the time.
Nobody paid for their food.
And so I thought that just
in that what you were just
talking about is that, that I guess,
I don't know.
I don't know what I look
like compared to the people
that she used to deal with, but she goes,
when you, she goes,
it didn't even cost my mind
that you weren't going to come back.
But do people say that too?
Let me go.
I'll go get it for the car
and then I'll come back.
I'm sure they do.
I'm sure people just don't
even say anything.
They just walk out.
Dine and ditch.
Wow.
But yeah, especially today.
I mean, you know,
people are just walking out
with TV sets and clothes
and that kind of stuff.
And yet I get stopped for
shoplifting at Starbucks.
Oh, did you?
Don't you remember?
I told you the manager came
out and stole a cup.
I just looked at her and said, excuse me.
You weren't shiny that day.
You must have been a little dark.
Do I look like I would steal a cup?
Maybe on that day, Snuggs.
Maybe you were a little far
from God that day.
Yeah, right.
My lizard Chanel bag.
Well, she don't know.
Maybe you just came from
Goodwill and picked up that bag.
I like I like I like Sidney's comment.
LOL.
Is there a good way to be stoned?
There used to be a good way to be stoned.
Not my book, but.
Oh, my goodness.
You knew what I meant, Sidney.
Come on.
Hey,
I watched Pastor Jack's Wednesday
night this morning,
which touches on this quite a bit.
Such a powerful message.
I watched Sunday's.
I was just thinking, I saw Sunday's,
but I haven't seen Wednesday's yet.
I watched Mark.
He's funny.
Mark has been so funny.
At least I think it was Wednesday's.
I'm not sure.
But he was talking about
No, maybe that was Sunday, too.
How to be a coward?
How to become courageous from a coward?
Maybe.
I don't know.
I'm losing track.
But I just love it.
Whatever I'm listening to,
I don't know which weekend it was.
He was just hysterical talking about.
I can't even tell you.
That's how interesting it is.
Talking about going to the bathroom.
But it was Sundays or Wednesdays?
I don't know.
Okay.
I don't know.
I should not have even brought it up.
Yeah.
Oh,
so we're going to need prayer for Zara
because she's sick.
Sick.
And doesn't she have things to do?
She has a church retreat tomorrow.
So I'm going to dose her
with as much antibiotics as
possible today.
Yeah.
So by the time she wakes up tomorrow,
she's good to go.
How come they had to drop
off their luggage so far ahead?
I don't know what the whole
luggage thing is.
I'm a little worried about that.
Are they running dogs over it?
I'm just hoping that it's still there.
I saw it last night.
You saw Zara's luggage?
I saw everybody's luggage.
Oh, in the gym?
In the gym.
I'm just hoping it's going
to reach its intended destination.
I think, I hope,
I think the kids were going through it.
They were looking for stuff.
The four-year-olds are four
great fourth graders and fifth graders.
It's ours.
It's got a lot of food in it.
They're running on it.
They were making like
pyramids out of the luggage.
No, they weren't.
Oh no.
Are you serious?
Oh, my goodness.
So Lisa,
Carrie is not even using a Bible study.
She's just using the Bible.
How are you?
Wow.
So you're just doing a commentary.
So you're doing it like preacher style,
like Pastor Jack,
like creating your own commentary.
Reading a commentary and
then doing the expository
verses and stuff like that.
That's what we were doing in
my Saturday men's Bible
study for a while.
We went to Mark.
So we started on chapter one.
But without direction.
Then we went to Enduring Word.
Okay.
It went a little deeper.
The reason I love the precepts,
the predefined ones,
unless you're going to
spend weeks and weeks studying it,
Um, yeah,
she said she's doing it like Pastor Jack.
Okay.
Uh, is that works been done for you?
The comparison to other scripture,
the relationship to other scripture.
Um,
the study questions have all been laid
out by someone,
but if you are able to do that yourself,
that's amazing.
Yeah.
Well, yeah,
I think that we were choosing a
reasonable amount of the so
not an entire chapter.
Sometimes it would be like the 1st 10.
Verses of Mark, right?
You know, chapter 1,
and then going through the enduring word,
but give us clearly enough.
Um, content is too much.
Yeah, maybe it was less than that, but,
you know, but see,
the problem with that is
you don't see how it
relates to the other chapters.
Oh, I see what you're saying.
You know how Jack always,
whenever he's teaching in
Hebrews or Romans,
he's going all through Isaiah,
Old Testament, New Testament,
see how this relates to Hosea,
see how this relates to Daniel.
This is mentioned again in
the book of Revelation.
That cross-referencing is
how you turn the Bible into
a gigantic jigsaw puzzle
where the pieces start to
fit and you're like, I understand.
Then on occasion he goes to
the book of Trump to...
I thought you would say, oh yeah,
I didn't know there was a book of Trump.
Lisa says,
I have to say I enjoy the laughter.
Thank you, Lisa.
And Kate says,
I believe God can create the universe.
He can create new knees for me.
Yes.
Absolutely.
Yes, Kate.
Expository.
You learn so much in how
scripture goes together like a puzzle.
Exactly.
amen so I was asking people
on my on a facebook post
I'm not sure how many
people that are watching
follow me but I i went to
the one year bible I
remember the name of the
book and today I go to the
one year bible I get the
book out I'm getting all
ready to read it and I'm
look there's there's no
february 29th oh what a
dilemma yeah so I went to
the facebook I said what
are those of you that are
in the one year bible what
are you doing for today's study
And then some people said, you know,
they took them a second to
realize what I was talking about.
But there is no 29th.
In any of them?
Not the one I'm looking at.
But mine does.
Well, that's why I was shocked that A.W.
Tozer on this devotional had the 29th.
And I'm wondering why.
So what happens?
Yeah, mine has a February 29th.
What does yours have a February 29th?
I'm in the classic version of...
Nikki and Pippa Gimbel.
Well, they're probably,
they just started it this year.
Could be, could be.
But yeah, mine doesn't have a 29th.
So I just prayed.
Lisa,
when you say a link for the study
guide you use, are you referring to me?
Yes.
I presume.
Yeah.
Oh, precepts.
Okay, Arthur.
So I don't actually, Lisa,
it's a little bit tricky to find.
So I'm going to messenger
that to you guys.
I've been,
it seems like when we've been
talking to people about the
different either pastors or
theologians or people that
we watch on YouTube.
Kay Arthur has been brought
up a couple times.
I'm not sure if it's you or not,
but is there controversy as to?
No, she's just a legend.
Oh, just a legend.
She's a legend.
I mean,
she's like the most formidable
female scholar of the Bible ever.
Wow.
She's like 80 now.
Where does she come from?
What's her history?
Do you know by chance?
No.
Hmm.
I'm thinking Baptist, or maybe evangelical,
actually.
But maybe Carrie knows the
history of character.
That's like a long-term
Christian person question.
But extremely reliable.
Solid.
Is there any controversy
that she's a woman?
She's not a pastor.
She's a Bible teacher.
teacher.
Yes.
She's very careful not to
say she's a pastor.
Really?
Yes.
Interesting.
Who else?
Oh,
we were just talking about Stephen
Furtick.
And, uh, and, and it's on your,
on your website.
So there's, um, we had that discussion.
It seems like a lot too, but it is, it's a,
it's a, uh,
seems to be a fairly popular church.
Uh, that draws a lot of people.
Um,
but I don't know why that seems like
he's been coming up a lot lately too.
Is he even gaining a popularity?
What's no controversy.
Hmm.
Um,
because they claim that he's part of
the new apostolic reformation,
bringing heaven down as
opposed to allowing Jesus
to bring heaven to earth,
like lowering the bar at schools, uh,
kind of thing.
Well,
that giving a lot of Providence to
men that, um,
Jesus basically is on the
throne next to the father
at the right hand of the
father and has left
dominion of the world to Adam, to mankind,
to fight the devil.
And then he'll come back and
sort it all out.
That's NAR.
Stephen denies being part of NAR.
He was originally Southern Baptist.
He was trained Southern Baptist.
But they said that he's
become so self-helpy,
guru-y type that he's more
into Narcissus than Baptist.
Yeah.
Carrie doesn't know K. Arthur.
You don't know K. Arthur.
That is so surprising.
I don't know of any
Christian principal or dean
that Carrie didn't know.
Yeah, she's an older lady.
Been around, I think,
teaching the Bible for about 40 years.
She does this thing called precepts.
She says that Nora wants to
be your boss wants to be your boss.
They're not the boss of me.
Nobody's boss me but Jesus.
Any other prayer requests?
My prayer requests?
Did you include my daughter Zara?
Yes, in our prayers.
My daughter, not yours.
My daughter.
Oh,
and I got a message from Jan about her
cataract surgery.
Um, God willing that went well too.
So we're going to be pretty for June.
All right, then.
Should we wait just a couple more seconds?
No.
I was just thinking about the same,
speaking at El Dorado High School,
the principal there.
He's been one that I've been hard on.
Yes.
I've been hoping that we're
going to find a different principal.
But for whatever reason,
he decided he wanted to sit
down on my class that I was teaching.
For whatever reason?
Yeah.
He was looking for something
to crucify you with.
And I couldn't.
When the girl asked me the question,
she goes,
what is your daily routine and
how do you start off your day?
And I started off, well,
I start by reading the Bible.
He was sitting in the room.
And he hates cops because, remember,
there's the police officers.
Yeah, why does he hate cops?
Who knows?
But that's where I was.
It was me and two other cops.
That was our block of teaching.
And he sat in on the cops.
Isn't that interesting?
And he's the one who the
police filed a hostile work
environment because he was
telling them that he hated
cops and didn't want them around.
That is so interesting, right?
Bananas, right?
And then the rest of the
story is that after I left there to speak,
I went to the lacrosse game,
same high school,
because that's where my kids go.
And I'm the announcer for
the lacrosse team.
And I'm doing the announcing
and there's the same principal.
Joey Davis.
thought that was so
hysterical I put the links
for k arthur for precepts
and um I'm just pulling up
50 years of god's word 50
years yeah she's she's up
there she's amazing I'm
trying to see if we can
find a little there's no
pictures of her there was
one and then we first
opened but I don't know it
disappeared oh because when
I did k arthur first it
came up about her yeah
But it's a very cool website.
This stuff is expensive.
It's not cheap.
But I think that that's also
because there's just so deep.
And a lot of times they came on CDs.
They were like old school
CDs that she would send out.
But I think now they've
managed to do it online.
I hate to ask you this
because I probably should know this,
but what's a precept?
Is it like a short,
short teaching or something like that,
like nugget teaching?
Well,
it's the it's actually a word that
comes from study of the Bible.
So, OK, so she met her husband, Jack,
and they were married in 1965.
They had Bible studies in their home.
um through tennessee she
hosted precepts for life
that had 75 million viewers
in over 30 countries yeah
she's amazing uh she came
to christ when I was a year
old 1963 I don't know the
exact definition so I'm
going to look it up what
does precepts mean in the bible
It's rules, commands,
and instructions given by God.
It's the divine principles, guidelines,
and statutes and
instructions that God gives
for righteous living.
Precept upon precept.
Pretty cool.
Yeah.
It's kind of cool, right?
I should write a book called Dog Precepts.
It originates from the
Hebrew word mitzvah.
Oh, like a bat mitzvah.
Yes.
Those are the rules of coming of age.
Oh.
The bar mitzvah, the bat mitzvah,
the rules of coming of age
for him and her.
I had no idea.
I thought it meant party.
Okay.
Isn't that what it is?
Like you have a party when
you're a certain age.
Like a confirmation.
Coming of age party.
Yeah.
Mitzvah.
I actually think weddings
are called mitzvahs too now.
See,
that's why I always thought it meant
party.
Thank you all for joining us
today for a little lunch and learn.
We, I don't know,
life's getting away from us.
We're finding a hard time.
Me and Andy are like two
ships passing at nighttime.
You guys have witnessed the
most we've been together in
like two weeks.
Yes.
Oh, goodness.
I can't wait for Ray to
drive though because I wish
he could drive Zara around too.
Oh, I found a car.
Oh, so you, you gave up on the,
I'm not gonna get you a car.
Well, it's, it's, uh,
it's inexpensive and it's, uh, the,
the car on the outside looks fantastic.
It,
it was at Paul's country kitchen parked
in the, in front.
Oh.
And it had a for sale sign on it.
Oh.
And it had the price and I go,
how much was it?
$8,000.
Oh, what was it?
Alexis.
Oh, yeah.
But remember,
everybody told us not to buy
German cars old.
They're very expensive.
It's Japanese.
Oh, let's say it's Japanese.
It's a Toyota.
It's a different version of a Toyota.
Oh, Yvonne.
Hi.
Hi, Yvonne.
Yes.
Can you believe?
I think she's actually still alive.
video the other day or she
says it's amazing.
But so here now I don't feel so bad.
Somebody know who Kay Arthur?
Have you ever done any of her studies?
I was telling the girls that
I just I just love her studies.
Yeah, but it's straight.
I mean,
it doesn't look like there's been any,
I mean, no dents on the outside.
It's clean.
It's white.
Nice.
And it's a very nice looking car.
I'm wondering what's wrong with it.
It has a lot of miles.
Miles, 157,000.
But Toyotas are known to go 200,000,
300,000 miles.
Oh, you talked to the person?
No.
I didn't know how many miles.
Because it says on the little sign,
the for sale sign.
Oh, cute.
But I meant to call as soon
as I got home and I completely forgot.
Thank you for reminding me.
You're welcome.
Okay.
Dear Lord, thank you for this time.
Thank you for the
opportunity to fellowship
with your lovely daughters, Lord.
Encourage us, speak to our hearts,
lead us in the right direction,
the direction that draws us closer to you,
Lord.
And all of those that are
suffering with some ailment
in their bodies, Lord,
will you restore them?
Will you bring them to
perfect health as only you
are capable of doing?
help them in their doctor visits,
give the doctors wisdom and discernment,
make the medicine strong and powerful,
especially for Carrie and
Eddie as they continue to recover,
for Jan as her eyes continue to recover,
for Kate as she struggles with her knees,
Lord.
We ask for complete restoration,
for complete healing,
and for peace and comfort
during difficult times, Lord.
There are
So many pressures around us.
Oh, and Zara too, Lord,
that you will heal her science infection.
And all the kids that are
going on this retreat tomorrow, Lord,
and the churches,
the church in East Anaheim
is having their spring retreat.
May they have new revelation, Lord.
A new sanctification process
that draws them closer to you.
May they hear your voice and
receive a fresh filling of
the Holy Spirit, Lord.
Bless all of our children.
Bless all of our loved ones.
All of those who do not yet know you.
We know Lisa has lots of
family members that she wants.
To be in direct relationship with you,
Lord, and so do I,
and all of those who are
listening to us that have
family members that do not yet know you,
Lord,
we ask that you bring them to their knees,
that you bring them to submission.
For every knee will bow and
every tongue will confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord.
We love you.
We offer ourselves as a living sacrifice.
It's in the mighty name of
Jesus that we ask all things.
Amen.
All right, my friends, we love you guys.
Thank you for joining us.
First day of autumn in Australia.
They don't have to leap year maybe.
Oh no, because it's the next day.
Yeah, it's March already.
All right, my friends, we love you.
God bless.
Take care.
Bye.