WEBVTT 13:38.500 --> 13:48.820 And shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. 13:48.820 --> 13:57.060 Then today among the heathen the Lord had done great things for them, the Lord had done great things for us. 13:57.060 --> 14:01.460 Whereof we are glad. 14:01.460 --> 14:04.820 All right, excellent singing everybody at this time. We will pray for the offering. 14:29.400 --> 14:29.900 Amen. 15:13.400 --> 15:16.200 Welcome back everybody to Sher Foundation Baptist Church. 15:16.200 --> 15:18.000 If you could go ahead, take your Bibles 15:18.000 --> 15:22.560 and turn to 2 Samuel chapter one. 15:24.020 --> 15:28.040 2 Samuel chapter one is our text this afternoon. 15:28.040 --> 15:29.520 And as always here at our church, 15:29.520 --> 15:32.420 we read the entire chapter before the preaching. 15:34.600 --> 15:37.400 2 Samuel chapter 1 the Bible reads 15:38.200 --> 15:43.960 Now it came to pass after the death of Saul when David was returned from the slaughter of the 15:43.960 --> 15:51.880 Amalekites and David had abode two days in Ziglag. It came even to pass on the third day that behold 15:51.880 --> 15:59.640 a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent and earth upon his head. And so it 15:59.640 --> 16:06.200 was when he came to David that he fell to the earth and did obeisance. And David said unto him, 16:06.200 --> 16:12.680 him. From whence comest thou? And he said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I 16:12.680 --> 16:18.960 escaped. And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee tell me. And he 16:18.960 --> 16:24.480 answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also 16:24.480 --> 16:30.000 are fallen and dead, and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also. 16:30.200 --> 16:37.640 And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead? 16:37.640 --> 16:46.640 And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon Mount Gilboa, behold Saul leaned upon his spear, 16:46.640 --> 16:51.040 And lo, the chariots and the horsemen followed hard after him. 16:51.040 --> 16:55.280 And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called unto me. 16:55.400 --> 16:57.840 And I answered, Here am I. 16:57.840 --> 17:00.240 And he said unto me, Who art thou? 17:00.240 --> 17:03.240 And I answered him, I am an Amalekite. 17:03.400 --> 17:10.120 He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me, for anguish has come upon me, 17:10.120 --> 17:16.920 because my life is yet whole in me. So I stood upon him and slew him, because I was sure that he 17:16.920 --> 17:22.680 could not live after that he was fallen. And I took the crown that was upon his head, and the 17:22.680 --> 17:27.800 bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my Lord. 17:27.900 --> 17:35.100 Then David took hold on his clothes and rent them, and likewise all the men that were with him. 17:35.100 --> 17:41.020 And they mourned and wept and fasted until even for Saul and for Jonathan his son, 17:41.020 --> 17:46.860 and for the people of the Lord, and for the house of Israel, because they were fallen by the sword. 17:47.300 --> 17:54.020 And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of 17:54.020 --> 18:00.580 a stranger and a Malachite. And David said unto him, How was thou not afraid to stretch forth 18:00.580 --> 18:06.660 thine hand to destroy the Lord's anointed? And David called one of the young men and said, 18:06.660 --> 18:11.460 Go near and fall upon him and he smote him that he died. 18:12.200 --> 18:18.600 And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head, for thy mouth hath testified against 18:18.600 --> 18:25.880 thee, saying, I have slain the Lord's anointed. And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul 18:25.880 --> 18:33.080 and over Jonathan his son. Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow. 18:33.080 --> 18:35.320 Behold, it is written in the book of Jasher. 18:36.100 --> 18:43.860 The beauty of Israel is slain upon high places. How are the mighty fallen? Tell it not in Gath. 18:43.860 --> 18:50.420 Publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon. Lest the daughters of the Philistine rejoice. 18:50.420 --> 18:54.100 Lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. 18:54.800 --> 19:03.200 Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain upon you, nor fields of offerings. 19:03.200 --> 19:13.040 For there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul as though he had not been anointed with oil. 19:13.040 --> 19:14.880 From the blood of the slain. 19:15.100 --> 19:25.100 From the fat of mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty. 19:25.100 --> 19:32.300 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided. 19:32.300 --> 19:36.900 They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions. 19:36.900 --> 19:42.800 Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other... 19:43.000 --> 19:48.000 delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel. 19:48.000 --> 19:51.640 How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle? 19:51.640 --> 19:56.520 O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places. 19:56.520 --> 20:00.400 I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan. 20:00.400 --> 20:03.120 Very pleasant hast thou been unto me. 20:03.120 --> 20:07.680 Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. 20:08.200 --> 20:13.000 How are the mighty fallen and the weapons of war perished? 20:14.200 --> 20:16.800 Brother Remy, you want to pray for the sermon? 20:33.600 --> 20:34.600 Amen. 20:34.600 --> 20:37.540 So we just heard this chapter. 20:37.540 --> 20:39.520 This is 2 Samuel chapter 1. 20:39.520 --> 20:43.000 And what's interesting about this, if you've actually read 1 Samuel, which I'm sure everyone 20:43.000 --> 20:48.240 in here has, basically 1 Samuel is all about Saul taking the kingdom and it's basically 20:48.240 --> 20:53.720 then when he sends and the kingdom is taken from him spiritually and given to David, he 20:53.720 --> 20:57.920 spends the rest of his life hunting David, making his life hard, doing many things against 20:57.920 --> 21:00.320 them, you would think that... 21:01.300 --> 21:05.260 I mean David would just be happy that this evil man is gone. 21:05.260 --> 21:09.060 You would just think like man, if this dude was trying to kill me, he threw javelins at 21:09.060 --> 21:12.140 me, he threw javelins at my best friend, I'd just be glad he's gone. 21:12.140 --> 21:13.940 I'm just so glad. 21:13.940 --> 21:15.020 He's just gone. 21:15.020 --> 21:19.540 But here's the thing is, he literally sings a song about the beauty and strength of him. 21:19.540 --> 21:20.540 The beauty of this. 21:20.540 --> 21:21.540 Let me tell you this. 21:22.300 --> 21:27.420 This sermon is based basically as many of you know I work with in law enforcement. 21:27.420 --> 21:31.740 They deal with a lot of domestic disputes. This is basically the summary of the sermon. 21:32.940 --> 21:38.620 Don't get involved in strife not belonging to you because you have no idea how people will react. 21:39.740 --> 21:44.380 You have no idea and basically I really mean this for everyone here. 21:45.600 --> 21:50.500 Can you imagine if you found out that a man that was hunting this guy, he was going to kill him? 21:50.500 --> 21:53.900 He's like, he's going to be king next. 21:53.900 --> 21:58.600 I want to be the first person to tell him, your pursuer is dead. 21:58.600 --> 22:00.600 I bet there's a reward in that. 22:00.900 --> 22:05.300 If you remember what was just read, but go ahead and turn to the first verse of this chapter, 22:05.300 --> 22:09.700 it says, Now came to pass that the death of Saul, and David returned from the slaughter of the 22:09.700 --> 22:16.340 Amalites. And David had about two days in Ziklad. And it came to pass on the third day that, behold, 22:16.340 --> 22:21.220 a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and upon the earth upon his head. 22:21.220 --> 22:25.940 And so that it was, when he came to David, he fell to the earth, and he did obeisance. 22:25.940 --> 22:28.820 And David said unto him, From whence came thou? And he said unto him, 22:28.900 --> 22:33.700 out of the camp of Israel am I escaped? And David said unto him, How went the matter? 22:33.700 --> 22:37.260 I pray thee, tell me. And he answered, said, The people fled from the battle, and many 22:37.260 --> 22:42.980 of the people also fallen dead. And Saul and Jonathan, his sons, are dead also. And David 22:42.980 --> 22:48.740 said unto the young man that told him, How knowest that Saul and Jonathan, his sons, 22:48.740 --> 22:55.740 be dead? And the young man told him, As I happened by chance upon the mount of Gilbam, 22:55.740 --> 22:56.860 A behold song. 22:56.900 --> 23:00.680 leaned upon his spear and loathed the chariots of horsemen falled after him. 23:00.680 --> 23:04.000 And when I looked behind him, he saw me, and he called on me, and answered me, Here am 23:04.000 --> 23:05.000 I. 23:05.000 --> 23:06.900 And I said unto him, Who art thou? 23:06.900 --> 23:09.900 And answered, I am an Amalek. 23:09.900 --> 23:15.940 And he said it again, Stay, I pray thee upon me, and slay me, for I am anguished come upon 23:15.940 --> 23:18.800 me, because thy life is yet whole in me. 23:18.800 --> 23:22.640 So I stood on him and slew him, because I was sure he could not live after that he had 23:22.640 --> 23:24.880 fallen and I took the crown upon his head. 23:24.900 --> 23:30.540 head, and the bracelets of his arm, and brought them hither unto my lord." 23:30.540 --> 23:32.820 Now obviously David was a big name. 23:32.820 --> 23:35.080 I mean they sung songs about him. 23:35.080 --> 23:36.500 They knew about this. 23:36.500 --> 23:38.700 And I don't believe this guy was part of the army. 23:38.700 --> 23:40.940 He just kind of been the bystander. 23:40.940 --> 23:41.940 Whatever you believe. 23:41.940 --> 23:42.940 I've heard many different tales about this. 23:42.940 --> 23:46.620 I think he's just looting the bodies because after a great battle, I mean armor is valuable. 23:46.620 --> 23:49.940 And he finds the jewels of the king. 23:49.940 --> 23:50.940 Now those would be valuable. 23:52.200 --> 23:56.200 But is a one-time benefit good? 23:56.200 --> 24:00.200 What if I bring them to who we all know is going to be the king afterwards? 24:00.200 --> 24:04.200 There's probably a reward in that. I mean, he's been haunted, this dude. He must hate this guy. 24:04.200 --> 24:08.200 We all know he's sent his man to been out in the wilderness, probably for years, 24:08.200 --> 24:12.200 running. I'm gonna go tell him the gospel. 24:12.200 --> 24:16.200 Hey, did you know he was dead? Do you know it's done? 24:16.200 --> 24:18.100 You don't have to flee anymore? 24:19.000 --> 24:21.800 And we could go on, but you know what David did? 24:21.800 --> 24:22.840 He killed him. 24:23.960 --> 24:25.320 He said, who are you? 24:25.320 --> 24:28.480 You literally just told me you killed the king of Israel, 24:28.480 --> 24:29.920 the anointed of Israel? 24:30.800 --> 24:36.160 What? Your blood is based on your mouth. He literally said, put him to death. 24:36.160 --> 24:39.680 And here's my main example. I think I read for the Bible. 24:39.680 --> 24:46.800 Do not get involved in other people's households. Do not get involved in domestic disputes. 24:46.800 --> 24:53.200 Let me tell you, officers who have to respond to domestic disputes, no. Guess what? 99% of the time 24:53.200 --> 24:58.000 an outsider comes in, there is no solution. No solution. It's not going to help. 24:58.700 --> 25:03.700 And here's the thing, if you can turn there real quick, Proverbs 26 verse 17. 25:03.700 --> 25:09.700 Proverbs 26 verse 17, this is probably the key verse of this sermon. 25:09.700 --> 25:18.700 He that passes by and metals with a strife belonging not to him is like one that takes a dog by the ears. 25:18.700 --> 25:23.700 What is that? Now we've all been out to rez, rez dogs. I even saw a rookie card of a rez dog. 25:25.500 --> 25:29.200 Some of them you're like, oh they love behind the ears. 25:29.200 --> 25:30.600 Some don't. 25:30.600 --> 25:32.960 As you guys may know, my wife and I have actually been mulled 25:32.960 --> 25:35.560 by a dog going out soul winning. 25:35.560 --> 25:37.140 You don't want to grab a dog by the ears, 25:37.140 --> 25:38.400 because you don't know that. 25:38.400 --> 25:39.600 They bite you. 25:39.600 --> 25:41.640 And let me tell you, this amyamalike 25:41.640 --> 25:45.440 who is bringing the crown jewels to the new king. 25:45.440 --> 25:47.280 And it doesn't say he's looking for a reward, 25:47.280 --> 25:49.440 but there must have been a reason he came out to David. 25:49.440 --> 25:50.280 You know what happened? 25:50.280 --> 25:51.080 The dog bit him. 25:51.800 --> 25:56.700 You're like, dude, he's been throwing rocks at this dog, kicking this dog, trying to kill this dog with a javelin. 25:56.700 --> 25:58.700 You think the dog would be happy. 25:58.700 --> 26:00.700 He was not. 26:00.700 --> 26:02.700 That was his father. That was his brother. 26:02.700 --> 26:07.700 You know, maybe by adoption or marriage into the family, that was family matter. 26:07.700 --> 26:09.700 We can fight, but don't you join. 26:09.700 --> 26:14.700 And here's the thing is, family issues just stay out. 26:14.700 --> 26:18.700 Now, do you think people call the cops over just simple things? 26:19.300 --> 26:22.740 Oh, you better believe it. They call about a whole bunch of things. 26:23.240 --> 26:26.640 I mean, I was called this past, you know, got a report this week 26:27.080 --> 26:30.900 that's the roommate, their brother uses Netflix too much. 26:31.180 --> 26:32.740 He needs the cops to come stop him. 26:36.000 --> 26:38.000 I don't know what you want me to do. 26:38.320 --> 26:41.680 Do you think people don't call me like they don't do their fair share of cleaning? 26:42.480 --> 26:46.120 You better believe reports coming about that. You know what we're going to do about that? 26:47.000 --> 26:49.000 Yeah, we're just 26:49.640 --> 26:56.240 But if you think that's you think that's ridiculous to call the cops. Do you think people go to God Almighty about cleaning matters? 26:57.120 --> 26:59.120 Because I bet if you know Mary and Martha 26:59.800 --> 27:04.800 She went to God Himself, because her sister was not doing a fair amount of cleaning. 27:04.800 --> 27:06.800 You know what solution there was? 27:06.800 --> 27:08.800 You just got to get right. 27:08.800 --> 27:10.800 There's no solution. 27:10.800 --> 27:13.800 Everyone has stresses and complaints in their life. 27:13.800 --> 27:15.800 And let me tell you, it tears them apart. 27:15.800 --> 27:19.800 And here's the thing is, what's interesting is, I think if you go through the Bible, you know what? 27:19.800 --> 27:22.800 We learn about a bunch of morals, how we should be, how we should act. 27:22.800 --> 27:25.800 And then we learn about families that... 27:25.800 --> 27:27.200 Is any of this a part of it? 27:27.500 --> 27:29.260 Because you know what, when we go through our lives, 27:29.260 --> 27:32.580 we like people that get stuck in TV and social media, 27:32.580 --> 27:35.140 you may think like, all the war in Iran, 27:35.140 --> 27:38.100 or how governments are doing the conspiracy in the banks. 27:38.100 --> 27:39.860 But you know what really bothers you? 27:39.860 --> 27:41.100 Probably that your husband doesn't 27:41.100 --> 27:43.380 put his clothes in the stupid, it's a hamper. 27:43.380 --> 27:44.620 It's for dirty clothes. 27:44.620 --> 27:48.820 It's right there every day. 27:48.820 --> 27:50.900 And that drives you mad. 27:50.900 --> 27:54.620 That's way more personal, affects you, tears you the heart. 27:55.000 --> 27:58.240 Then if we're at war with Iran or not, and I don't know, someone rolled the dice, are 27:58.240 --> 27:59.760 we or are we not at war right now? 27:59.760 --> 28:00.760 I do not know. 28:00.760 --> 28:07.300 Yeah, like, but here's the thing is, domestic things terrors because they're the ones that 28:07.300 --> 28:08.300 are really emotional. 28:08.300 --> 28:10.240 I think that's why the Bible covers them so much. 28:11.200 --> 28:13.920 But here's the thing is, I mean people can just complain like, 28:13.920 --> 28:16.800 do you think you can take someone that's had a really bad life and all this, 28:16.800 --> 28:21.120 like man they've called them the cops, they've been abused, they've been beaten, 28:21.120 --> 28:24.480 man they just didn't get anything and they just like, I just want to escape. 28:25.040 --> 28:29.440 And then like literally forces come, they take them out, separate them, send them off, 28:29.440 --> 28:34.080 and they're like, the food's good but we get the same thing every day. 28:34.880 --> 28:38.480 It's horrible. I want to go back to the place I complained about being abused. 28:39.000 --> 28:41.000 Like, are you talking about domestic violence? 28:41.000 --> 28:43.000 I'm talking about Israel and Egypt. 28:43.000 --> 28:48.000 They're like, we're being beaten, we're a slave, we're doing this, but... 28:48.000 --> 28:52.000 Man, that garlic soup and leek soup is bomb. 28:52.000 --> 28:55.000 That was bomb. 28:55.000 --> 28:57.000 Dude, you're not even a slave anymore. 28:57.000 --> 29:00.000 But the leeks? 29:00.000 --> 29:01.400 Have you had them? 29:01.900 --> 29:04.300 Let me tell you, people are strange. 29:04.300 --> 29:05.980 We gotta understand that, that like, 29:05.980 --> 29:07.600 we don't know how people will react. 29:07.600 --> 29:10.380 People will do crazy things. 29:10.600 --> 29:14.760 And here's the thing is in John chapter 21, John chapter 1 verse 20 it says, 29:14.760 --> 29:18.120 Then Peter turning about seeth the disciples whom Jesus followed, 29:18.120 --> 29:22.920 which also leaned on his breast to the supper and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee? 29:22.920 --> 29:28.840 And Peter seeing him said to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do? 29:28.840 --> 29:35.160 Jesus said to him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? Follow thou me. 29:35.960 --> 29:36.760 Now here's the thing is, 29:37.600 --> 29:44.600 Are you going to know a lot? Like let me tell you, I think everyone in this room plans to spend years if not decades with each other. 29:44.600 --> 29:54.100 Do you think we're not going to learn things about each other? About our family, our households, our family history, our other things? 29:54.100 --> 29:58.100 And let me tell you, as I go through the sermon, I hope you understand. 29:58.100 --> 30:04.600 No matter if some people appear to be more clean than this, I bet your family is a disaster in certain ways. 30:04.700 --> 30:07.400 It's just the way we are because we're all sinners. 30:07.400 --> 30:09.800 But let me tell you this, no matter if sometimes we're like, 30:09.800 --> 30:11.900 I wish I had their struggles or I had that struggles. 30:11.900 --> 30:15.100 Hey, Jesus just said, hey, you just follow me where you are in your life. 30:15.100 --> 30:16.800 How about you follow this? 30:16.800 --> 30:18.400 Remy was touching this on this day. 30:18.400 --> 30:20.300 It's not that we never judge for any situation, 30:20.300 --> 30:23.200 but a lot of times we just need to not judge the things that don't concern us. 30:23.200 --> 30:26.900 You know, I think his sermon this morning was a great intro or just, 30:26.900 --> 30:28.800 these are complimentary, they're different. 30:28.800 --> 30:31.100 But here's the thing is, we need to follow... 30:32.800 --> 30:35.920 our own struggles because let me tell you this that should be enough. 30:35.920 --> 30:39.760 Yeah. The struggles that we have in our lives, our own family, once we get to extend families, 30:39.760 --> 30:44.640 maybe our friends, our households, our work. Let me tell you there are some drama going on 30:44.640 --> 30:48.880 and today I'm going to be kind of reenacting this because maybe this isn't the way you read it. 30:48.880 --> 30:51.280 I just sometimes read the Bible like what would this sound like today? 30:52.000 --> 30:55.680 What would it sound like today if someone called the cops and we got like some of these 30:55.680 --> 30:59.280 Bible stories reported in like a report that I read every day? 31:00.200 --> 31:02.000 You're like, is that saying weird? 31:02.000 --> 31:03.080 Maybe it is. 31:03.080 --> 31:05.280 Don't take offense if you're like, this is kind of weird. 31:05.280 --> 31:07.960 But I'm just saying, do you read the Bible 31:07.960 --> 31:09.800 and see the drama that's going on? 31:09.800 --> 31:11.840 Because it is nuts. 31:11.840 --> 31:13.000 It's crazy. 31:13.000 --> 31:16.080 Can you imagine if somebody called the cops, 31:16.080 --> 31:18.680 and they're like, hey, there's an abandoned child out 31:18.680 --> 31:19.600 in the woods. 31:19.600 --> 31:21.040 You want to check that out? 31:21.040 --> 31:24.480 You're like, all right. 31:24.480 --> 31:26.840 This is unit John 316. 31:26.840 --> 31:27.640 I'm on site. 31:29.400 --> 31:33.480 Babies picked up by a mother. I think I wonder what's the victim. It's uh 31:34.360 --> 31:36.540 Hey, God. All right. Hey God 31:37.120 --> 31:39.120 Hey, I'm coming up to talk to you. Is that all right? 31:39.880 --> 31:43.280 Hey, come here got an abandonment report 31:44.200 --> 31:47.480 Heard you just left a child out. It looks like you left him under a bush 31:47.480 --> 31:51.320 I mean, hey, you seem to be crying or you having the emotional event right now 31:52.000 --> 31:53.800 You seem to be harmed. 31:53.800 --> 31:54.800 You want to talk about this? 31:54.800 --> 31:58.600 Because we got some concern reports that you're just out in the wilderness with a baby. 31:58.600 --> 32:01.040 So we're just checking on you. 32:01.040 --> 32:05.160 Alright, so what's going on? 32:05.160 --> 32:07.440 Your boyfriend got mad and threw you out of the house. 32:07.440 --> 32:10.140 Okay, what's going on with that? 32:10.140 --> 32:11.400 His wife was mad. 32:11.400 --> 32:13.520 Okay, I see problem number one. 32:13.520 --> 32:14.520 Okay. 32:14.520 --> 32:15.600 Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha 32:15.800 --> 32:19.960 Is the child's father around? Oh, that is the husband of the wife. Okay. 32:19.960 --> 32:23.240 Alright, I can see why that would be upset. 32:23.240 --> 32:26.800 And you were living with them. Okay. 32:26.800 --> 32:28.800 So how did that happen? 32:28.800 --> 32:36.800 Your good friend was worried about losing her husband so she decided to try an open relationship. 32:36.800 --> 32:40.800 I'm going to say I've not seen many of these go well. 32:43.600 --> 32:46.800 She had problem having children and they wanted you to be the surrogate. 32:46.800 --> 32:47.800 Okay. 32:47.800 --> 32:50.280 Is this, this is the child. 32:50.280 --> 32:57.600 So exactly what you wanted happened and they got mad and now you're out in the wilderness. 32:57.600 --> 32:58.600 Okay. 32:58.600 --> 33:00.440 Um, yeah. 33:00.440 --> 33:02.400 So what do you want to do here? 33:02.400 --> 33:03.400 Do you want some resources? 33:03.400 --> 33:08.920 Do you want to go to, you're going back to the woman who threw you out and to die in 33:08.920 --> 33:09.920 the woods. 33:09.920 --> 33:10.700 You're going to go back. 33:12.800 --> 33:15.560 You're not claiming any, okay, there's no victim. 33:15.560 --> 33:17.960 They said they'll take you back. 33:17.960 --> 33:21.040 All right, I guess I'm done here. 33:21.040 --> 33:22.440 Now that'd be a crazy story. 33:22.440 --> 33:25.480 Do you think those things don't happen on almost a daily basis, 33:25.480 --> 33:27.640 even here in Spokane? 33:27.640 --> 33:29.480 That happens a lot. 33:29.480 --> 33:31.600 That's a crazy story. 33:31.600 --> 33:33.720 I mean, and you're like, no, open relationships 33:33.720 --> 33:34.960 are a modern problem. 33:34.960 --> 33:36.500 I don't think you've read the Bible. 33:37.800 --> 33:41.400 Like, there's a lot of weird situations going on in the Bible. 33:41.400 --> 33:44.900 And of course I'm talking about Hagar, Sarah, and Abraham. 33:44.900 --> 33:47.500 That's what it was. 33:47.500 --> 33:49.200 You know, it's crazy because you're like, 33:49.200 --> 33:50.900 well, I mean, it's a whole different time. 33:50.900 --> 33:52.900 It's like, well, if I looked up on my computer, like, okay, 33:52.900 --> 33:54.900 well, let me check on this family as I'm writing this report. 33:54.900 --> 33:57.900 They're like, oh, good. 33:57.900 --> 34:03.000 The nephew of the husband of this child with the open relationship. 34:03.400 --> 34:11.320 has an incest report coming in because during a strange arson of a city his wife said it survived but then she died and 34:11.560 --> 34:14.400 His two daughters seem to be pregnant by them 34:15.720 --> 34:21.760 That seems like some family drama and I don't think anyone's showing up on scene even with the authority of an officer is going 34:21.760 --> 34:23.760 to fix the family problems 34:23.960 --> 34:27.520 It's not going to happen. You try to make sure everyone's safe at the moment, but 34:28.120 --> 34:29.600 Y'all go home 34:29.900 --> 34:35.100 What'd she do? She went back home to a hard relationship. 34:35.100 --> 34:39.100 But I think everybody in this situation made a wrong choice. 34:39.100 --> 34:43.740 So what can you do? All I'm going to say is nothing could have fixed that problem 34:43.740 --> 34:47.980 if you showed up right then, right as, you know, child out there. There's no fixing that. 34:48.400 --> 34:50.400 In 1st Thessalonians 4 verse 11, 34:50.400 --> 34:52.640 in 1st Thessalonians 4 verse 11 it says, 34:52.640 --> 34:54.720 and that ye study to be quiet, 34:54.720 --> 34:56.920 and to do your own business, 34:56.920 --> 34:59.840 and work with your own hands as we command, 34:59.840 --> 35:02.520 that ye walk honestly towards them that are without, 35:02.520 --> 35:06.040 and them may have lack nothing. 35:06.040 --> 35:07.640 Sometimes all we can do is like, 35:07.640 --> 35:08.880 is you're gonna run into crazy, 35:08.880 --> 35:09.800 I don't care where you are, 35:09.800 --> 35:12.280 you're at work, you can be in church, 35:12.280 --> 35:13.200 you can be in your family, 35:13.200 --> 35:14.160 you can be in your neighbors, 35:14.160 --> 35:15.520 you can be in your friends, 35:15.520 --> 35:16.400 you're gonna come across. 35:16.400 --> 35:20.400 stuff, you're like, you are blown away. Like, how are you 35:20.400 --> 35:24.800 involved in such a thing? How are you involved in this? And 35:24.800 --> 35:28.040 sometimes you just got to go, not my place, not my problem. 35:28.520 --> 35:32.000 And you got to carry on. Because sometimes if you're outside of 35:32.000 --> 35:34.880 it, you probably can't help or fix because this is a thing 35:34.880 --> 35:39.360 that took on years. You think abandonment is unusual? 35:39.720 --> 35:41.040 Abandonment is not unusual. 35:43.200 --> 35:50.400 You show up, you're like, ah, you know, unit echo 289, 35:50.400 --> 35:55.360 we got a report of someone dropping a kid off at a church. 35:55.360 --> 35:58.040 All right, I'll go check it out. 35:58.040 --> 36:01.680 Hey, ma'am, ma'am, you're walking away from a baby. 36:01.680 --> 36:02.920 Just want to talk a minute. 36:02.920 --> 36:04.040 You're not detained. 36:04.040 --> 36:05.500 You can leave at your own free will. 36:05.500 --> 36:07.600 Just want to ask some questions. 36:07.600 --> 36:09.800 So there seems to be a kid you're leaving here. 36:10.800 --> 36:13.800 Um, what's going on? 36:13.800 --> 36:18.440 You're like, oh, well, see, I couldn't have kids. 36:18.440 --> 36:20.880 I really want to have kids. 36:20.880 --> 36:22.680 But I finally prayed to God. 36:22.680 --> 36:23.680 He gave me kids. 36:23.680 --> 36:25.960 And I get to be mom life. 36:25.960 --> 36:27.040 And now I'm giving the child up. 36:28.800 --> 36:31.100 You're giving the child up now that you finally have. 36:31.100 --> 36:33.940 Yeah, my friends just ridiculed me for years, 36:33.940 --> 36:36.620 embarrassed me and my husband because I couldn't have kids. 36:36.620 --> 36:38.860 So I prayed for it, and I got it, 36:38.860 --> 36:40.780 and now I'm just dropping them off at the church. 36:40.780 --> 36:41.980 But don't worry. 36:41.980 --> 36:43.540 I love mom life. 36:43.540 --> 36:45.220 Every year, I'm going to make him a sweater, 36:45.220 --> 36:47.740 and I'm going to bring it in every year, 36:47.740 --> 36:49.200 because I love mom life. 36:50.000 --> 36:51.360 But you're abandoning the kid. 36:51.360 --> 36:51.860 No, no, no. 36:51.860 --> 36:54.120 I'm giving it over to a good man. 36:54.120 --> 36:55.680 He's a pastor. 36:55.680 --> 36:56.760 He's a priest. 36:56.760 --> 36:59.080 He's going to take great care of him. 36:59.080 --> 36:59.580 Mom life. 37:02.960 --> 37:04.400 Is this OK with him? 37:04.400 --> 37:06.720 I'm sure it is. 37:06.720 --> 37:09.800 OK, well, I mean, if he's OK with it, 37:09.800 --> 37:11.160 I guess they can do that. 37:11.160 --> 37:13.680 But let me type up this report. 37:13.680 --> 37:15.320 Like, hey, can I do a check on this? 37:15.320 --> 37:15.920 It's like, 37:16.300 --> 37:21.900 Okay, he is the priest of this church. His two sons are a reprobate. 37:21.900 --> 37:28.900 That's where you want to leave your son? Yeah. Oh. Okay. 37:28.900 --> 37:33.100 You're taking the son, you're adopting him? You're like, oh, okay. 37:33.100 --> 37:39.100 I mean, that's the story of Hannah, Elijah, and his two reprobate sons. 37:39.100 --> 37:43.100 I mean, that's a crazy story. Eli. 37:43.400 --> 37:45.400 Eli, thank you. 37:45.560 --> 37:50.800 That's a crazy story. Now here's the thing is you're like you're missing the point that God directed these things to work. 37:50.800 --> 37:55.280 You're like hey, if I just showed up on scene and started asking questions, I bet I don't got the full story. 37:55.280 --> 38:00.380 Let me tell you it sounds nuts. Let me tell you that. I showed up on scene and listen, I'm taking that child. 38:00.380 --> 38:02.300 I ain't fixing it. 38:03.400 --> 38:06.840 So I can have my own opinions on that, but let me tell you, that's crazy. 38:06.840 --> 38:09.240 She just abandoned the kid and all this. 38:09.240 --> 38:12.600 You probably got more information, but let me tell you this, no one here has the full story. 38:12.600 --> 38:15.160 And even if you have the authority of the cops, they show up, guess what? 38:15.160 --> 38:16.280 They don't got all the story. 38:17.080 --> 38:19.240 And they may start to judge, which you know what? 38:19.240 --> 38:21.320 Cops are just going to be like, I have to make a switch. 38:21.320 --> 38:23.800 Like, everyone's okay with this crazy situation? 38:25.960 --> 38:28.280 All right, I guess I'm going to move on. 38:29.600 --> 38:34.080 The first Corinthians 8 first Corinthians 8 go ahead and turn there if you want but it's like 38:35.040 --> 38:38.080 We never know the full story. That's one reason why I think god says hey 38:38.160 --> 38:41.440 Don't just jump into issues that don't involve you because you don't even know 38:41.680 --> 38:47.440 We learned from david that even though you have this I I mean how logical would be that this dude's gonna be so happy 38:47.440 --> 38:49.300 This guy's dead and he kills you 38:49.900 --> 38:54.300 Because when it is family motion is so tied up in emotions stress 38:54.620 --> 38:58.660 Want to change and this or that you never know what's going to happen in time? 38:58.660 --> 39:04.680 You know now what's what's been forgiven what sensitive what's bygone you have no idea and you walk into a scenario 39:05.600 --> 39:09.140 It's crazy. And in 1st Corinthians 8 verse 2 it says, 39:09.140 --> 39:12.440 And if any man thinketh that he know anything, he knoweth 39:12.440 --> 39:16.280 nothing yet as he ought to know. Let us always remember, 39:16.280 --> 39:19.360 we don't know the full story and even as we read the Bible, we go through these 39:19.360 --> 39:20.020 characters, 39:20.020 --> 39:23.800 we find that the hand of God is working through them. We have no idea. 39:23.800 --> 39:27.600 Let me tell you this, there's many other stories in the Bible that are just crazy and insane. 39:27.600 --> 39:30.080 It's not the work of God, it's because of our sin. 39:30.080 --> 39:33.600 Let me tell you, everything Remi said this morning was true, but sometimes... 39:33.600 --> 39:35.960 God just lets us dwell in our sin. 39:35.960 --> 39:38.080 It's for our own punishment, I think. 39:38.080 --> 39:40.840 But we can't tell the difference. 39:40.840 --> 39:43.120 Maybe it's a trial, maybe it's our punishment, 39:43.120 --> 39:45.160 maybe it's just God humbling us. 39:45.160 --> 39:46.480 We don't know. 39:46.480 --> 39:48.720 And let me tell you that, if we don't know in our own lives, 39:48.720 --> 39:50.200 because Job didn't know what was going on 39:50.200 --> 39:51.960 and he got in trouble really bad, 39:51.960 --> 39:54.720 do you really want your wife to be swearing you to die? 39:54.720 --> 39:57.480 Do you think she's the first woman ever to call the cops 39:57.480 --> 40:00.000 and let him do them know that they wish her husband's dead? 40:00.300 --> 40:02.300 It is not. 40:02.300 --> 40:04.300 I will let you know. 40:04.300 --> 40:06.300 The phone call is a long time 40:06.300 --> 40:08.300 or very quick. 40:08.300 --> 40:10.300 But here's the thing is 40:10.300 --> 40:12.300 you know we do all these things. I mean people find 40:12.300 --> 40:14.300 about babies one thing but man you know what's really 40:14.300 --> 40:16.300 crazy? Siblings. 40:16.300 --> 40:18.300 The trauma 40:18.300 --> 40:20.300 of siblings. Don't 40:20.300 --> 40:22.300 ever get into siblings fights 40:22.300 --> 40:24.300 because that's crazy. Can you 40:24.300 --> 40:26.300 manage it showing up in a disturbance? 40:26.700 --> 40:30.980 It's been reported like two brothers have brought their friends together. 40:30.980 --> 40:33.980 It looks like they're gonna clash right in public. 40:33.980 --> 40:35.980 You're like, man, why is it on my shift? 40:35.980 --> 40:37.380 Couldn't they wait until next shift? 40:37.380 --> 40:39.180 Dang it. 40:39.180 --> 40:40.220 And they brought a lot of friends. 40:40.220 --> 40:43.660 So it's like, all right, bring many people. 40:43.660 --> 40:46.740 Dude, they got weapons, bring SWAT out. 40:46.740 --> 40:50.140 All right, so the neighbors call this in. 40:50.140 --> 40:53.900 You get there, you're like, hey, hey, sir, come here, come here. 40:54.300 --> 41:01.300 What's your name? Israel. Is that your birthday? Jacob. Thank you. Thank you for telling me your real name. 41:01.300 --> 41:09.300 I hate when people give fake names. Gee, what up? Anyway, Jacob, what's going on there? 41:09.300 --> 41:15.300 Um, are you the grandson of Abraham? There's always that family in town, man. 41:15.300 --> 41:22.300 Like, you think it's just one person having drama? The family just carries on. Like, I had to deal with their family before, uh... 41:22.600 --> 41:24.940 Yes, that family. 41:24.940 --> 41:28.040 OK, the incest family, the people that abandoned children. 41:28.040 --> 41:28.540 Great. 41:28.540 --> 41:31.040 OK. 41:31.040 --> 41:32.300 So what's going on here? 41:32.300 --> 41:34.000 I see it looks like you're about to fight. 41:34.000 --> 41:35.420 What's going on here? 41:35.420 --> 41:38.620 Well, yeah, here's what happened, officer. 41:38.620 --> 41:42.500 Years ago, I dressed up as my brother like he's Bigfoot. 41:42.500 --> 41:45.060 I put fur on me, and my dad patted me on the head. 41:45.060 --> 41:48.460 So my brother wants to kill me. 41:48.460 --> 41:48.960 OK. 41:50.300 --> 41:51.820 Is there anything else going on? 41:51.820 --> 41:53.500 Well, yeah. 41:53.500 --> 41:56.860 You won't believe it, but I made him vegetarian chili before, 41:56.860 --> 41:58.220 and he really wants to kill me. 41:58.220 --> 41:59.500 I was like, how bad was your chili? 41:59.500 --> 42:00.140 No, it was good. 42:00.140 --> 42:00.700 He loved it. 42:00.700 --> 42:01.980 It satisfies him. 42:01.980 --> 42:03.660 It was good chili, but he wants to kill you. 42:03.660 --> 42:04.780 That is correct, officer. 42:06.780 --> 42:07.280 Okay. 42:09.020 --> 42:09.980 What else? 42:09.980 --> 42:11.420 So he was mad about the good chili. 42:11.420 --> 42:12.700 Oh, super mad, officer. 42:12.700 --> 42:13.900 He really wanted me dead. 42:14.700 --> 42:19.940 Okay, so what are you about to go to war like why are you about to declare war on each other in my district right now? 42:19.940 --> 42:24.940 What's going on because you dressed up as Bigfoot and you gave him chili. That's right officer 42:24.940 --> 42:29.980 That's why he wants to kill me when this happened years ago, but I'm sure he's still pissed about it 42:30.540 --> 42:32.900 All right, that's definitely your family. Um 42:34.340 --> 42:39.800 So, how let me check things let me check some things out why you stand right there they're talking to them over there 42:39.800 --> 42:41.500 Let me run some things. All right 42:41.600 --> 42:45.920 Looking up here, um, hey, I want to ask you a question, 42:45.920 --> 42:49.360 because I have a neighbor, uh, district telling me that a couple nights ago, 42:49.360 --> 42:52.640 you had another mom come out and want to kill you. 42:53.440 --> 42:55.600 Yeah, that wasn't my fault either. That was my uncle. 42:56.560 --> 42:57.840 Your uncle wants to kill you. 42:58.720 --> 43:03.600 Yeah, turns out he was missing some anime figures or something. 43:03.600 --> 43:06.080 He has a whole wall of them, you know, he like worships them. 43:06.080 --> 43:09.040 They're like crazy little figures and they went missing and he blamed me. 43:09.900 --> 43:11.900 He's like, did you steal them? 43:11.900 --> 43:13.500 Do you have a warrant officer? 43:13.500 --> 43:14.000 No. 43:14.000 --> 43:16.180 I didn't steal nothing. 43:16.180 --> 43:18.780 No one thinks they're not in my camp. 43:18.780 --> 43:20.340 I didn't take no anime figures. 43:20.340 --> 43:22.060 You're like, oh, OK. 43:22.060 --> 43:22.940 We're not here for that. 43:22.940 --> 43:23.440 All right. 43:26.300 --> 43:30.460 OK, so your uncle wants to kill you because of anime figures. 43:30.460 --> 43:31.740 Any other reason he wants that? 43:31.740 --> 43:34.620 Well, his daughters are with me. 43:34.620 --> 43:35.580 Your uncle's daughters? 43:35.580 --> 43:36.820 So your cousins are with you? 43:36.820 --> 43:37.320 Yeah. 43:37.320 --> 43:37.500 you 43:38.500 --> 43:40.500 Why are they with you? 43:40.500 --> 43:42.500 I married my cousin. Which one? 43:42.500 --> 43:44.500 Yes. 43:44.500 --> 43:46.500 So you married both your cousins? 43:46.500 --> 43:48.500 Yeah, that's right. 43:48.500 --> 43:50.500 Alright. 43:50.500 --> 43:52.500 You're family, man. Okay. 43:52.500 --> 43:54.500 Um, and everyone's cool with that? 43:54.500 --> 43:56.500 Like, yeah, he gave them to me. 43:56.700 --> 43:59.940 Okay, let's just move past that all right. Hey, I'm typing up my report 43:59.940 --> 44:04.340 I just need to figure out who all these kids are you got a lot of people here who are these kids like oh? 44:04.660 --> 44:10.460 That's my wife's maids kids like oh, okay is their father here. Yeah, that's me 44:13.000 --> 44:16.480 So you got your two cousins and their maids 44:16.480 --> 44:17.680 and you baby daddy all. 44:17.680 --> 44:20.280 You got like four baby mamas with you? 44:20.280 --> 44:22.120 Yes, officer, that's correct. 44:22.120 --> 44:26.840 You're like, okay, and your uncle lost some anime figures. 44:26.840 --> 44:28.440 He wants to kill you and your brother, 44:28.440 --> 44:30.840 you gave chili and he wants to kill you. 44:30.840 --> 44:33.240 Officer, no, this is my fault. 44:33.240 --> 44:36.320 This is all their fault, okay? 44:36.320 --> 44:39.080 You're like, all right, hey. 44:39.600 --> 44:42.600 You haven't even gotten a fight yet, but it looks like you're walking with a lip. 44:42.600 --> 44:43.600 What happened? 44:43.600 --> 44:47.600 You're like, last night I was fighting this stranger all night. 44:47.600 --> 44:48.600 Oh, who was he? 44:48.600 --> 44:51.600 I think he was gone. 44:51.600 --> 44:54.600 Oh, great. 44:54.600 --> 44:55.600 Can you imagine? 44:55.600 --> 44:59.600 Do you think you're fixing this multi-generational problem in this incident? 44:59.600 --> 45:02.600 You got two people willing to like, it looks like they're about to go to war. 45:02.600 --> 45:05.600 Boy, you come and try to fix the drama in that family right then. 45:05.600 --> 45:07.600 You ain't getting nothing done. 45:07.900 --> 45:10.900 I don't care if you have the authority of the cop, that cop's just like, 45:10.900 --> 45:14.900 I wonder if I can leave. Can I do anything else? 45:14.900 --> 45:16.900 Like, I'm probably going to go become a school teacher, 45:16.900 --> 45:18.900 because that's just way too much drama. 45:23.300 --> 45:28.820 So here's the thing is, understand one reason why it's hard to enter into someone else's drama 45:28.820 --> 45:33.060 because understand when it's in your household it's not generally one problem. 45:33.500 --> 45:36.300 It's not generally even a group of problems. 45:36.300 --> 45:37.980 It's usually overlapping. 45:37.980 --> 45:40.780 And if this story, if you understand that this is, 45:40.780 --> 45:45.260 you know, Jacob with Laban and his brother Ishmael, 45:45.260 --> 45:48.220 and then his wives are fighting, they're maids, 45:48.220 --> 45:49.940 like everybody's fighting everything 45:49.940 --> 45:51.540 for over different reasons, for different that, 45:51.540 --> 45:54.900 they're all overlapping and it's crazy and there's nothing 45:54.900 --> 45:58.300 you're gonna do in that moment coming in to fix it, 45:58.300 --> 46:01.420 because you have years and years and years and years of- 46:01.500 --> 46:04.640 different reasons people have problems. 46:04.640 --> 46:06.880 It's not just one problem. 46:06.880 --> 46:11.880 That's a concoctony of crazy plus the generational problems. 46:12.460 --> 46:15.780 Cause let me tell you, every town's got that family 46:15.780 --> 46:16.980 that every officer knows. 46:16.980 --> 46:20.580 Like, oh gosh, that's gonna be the rest of my shift. 46:20.580 --> 46:22.180 Going down and dealing with that. 46:23.940 --> 46:25.140 But here's the thing is. 46:29.600 --> 46:32.720 Family drama overlaps everything. 46:32.720 --> 46:34.720 And you're not going to fix it right out of that. 46:34.720 --> 46:38.100 So even if you're law enforcement, 46:38.100 --> 46:39.260 you can't just step in there. 46:39.260 --> 46:41.720 So how much less likely is someone else just steps 46:41.720 --> 46:43.300 into someone else's drama? 46:43.300 --> 46:46.960 Go to turn to Philippians 4, Philippians 4. 46:46.960 --> 46:50.360 In Philippians 4 and verse 8, understand, 46:50.360 --> 46:52.960 don't grab a dog by its ears, especially 46:52.960 --> 46:53.960 if it's not your dog. 46:55.400 --> 46:59.560 And it's just this. And here's the thing is, are all of us guilty of doing this? 47:00.680 --> 47:06.440 As everyone, I mean, I'm not going to raise their hands, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who's 47:06.440 --> 47:12.120 watched cops back when I was online. You're like, dang, that is a crazy family. 47:13.320 --> 47:16.280 And we ignore the craziness of our family because it's not put on TV. 47:19.400 --> 47:24.880 Now, I still don't know who, I mean for like 20 years people were very interested in Brad 47:24.880 --> 47:27.400 taking on with Jenny O'Lee or is she going with... 47:27.900 --> 47:31.260 The person from Friends, I can't think, like, why do people even care? 47:31.260 --> 47:33.820 They're like, this isn't even your drama, like, that's their household. 47:33.820 --> 47:36.060 But people fight about these things, why? 47:36.060 --> 47:40.140 Celebrity, it's news, and it's outside my house, so we always, we like to see the evil 47:40.140 --> 47:44.060 and disgust outside of our own households, because sometimes I think it makes it easier. 47:44.060 --> 47:49.500 But let me tell you, I guarantee you, if I went through your family tree and households, 47:49.500 --> 47:53.260 and let me tell you, the reason I say this is, you know what a lot of my job is? 47:53.260 --> 47:54.220 Researching people. 47:54.900 --> 47:59.060 I go through people's phones. Drama abounds. 48:01.800 --> 48:03.800 So in Philippians 4 and verse 8 it says, 48:03.800 --> 48:05.800 finally brother, whatsoever things are true, 48:05.800 --> 48:07.800 whatever things are honest, whatever things are just, 48:07.800 --> 48:09.800 whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, 48:09.800 --> 48:11.800 whatever things are good report, 48:11.800 --> 48:13.800 if there be any virtue and if there be any praise, 48:13.800 --> 48:15.800 think on these things. 48:15.800 --> 48:17.800 Because let me tell you this, 48:17.800 --> 48:19.800 a lot of law enforcement have to deal with 48:19.800 --> 48:21.800 people's worst days, 48:21.800 --> 48:23.800 it wears on them. 48:23.800 --> 48:25.600 Why do you think most of them are just jerks? 48:26.300 --> 48:31.260 Now some of them it's for love of power but let me tell you you just I mean a lot of people it said 48:31.260 --> 48:34.060 you only deal with like a death a few times in your life. 48:34.780 --> 48:38.300 Dude that's like you know how many DOA's officers go to? 48:39.020 --> 48:44.620 Most people are found dead that means dead on arrival and most people die of natural causes 48:44.620 --> 48:48.460 but let me tell you this you know who usually has to go deal with that? Officers. You know what they 48:48.460 --> 48:52.140 have to do after that? Go watch school kids walk across the street. You know what they have to do 48:52.140 --> 48:53.500 without them to go home. 48:54.600 --> 48:56.200 day in and day out. 48:56.200 --> 48:58.600 And that can be ride heavily on them. 48:58.600 --> 49:01.000 And let me tell you that many of them can't make it 49:01.000 --> 49:02.960 the 20 years it requires to do that. 49:02.960 --> 49:04.360 Whether you hate them or not, 49:04.360 --> 49:07.080 they deal with everyone's trash. 49:07.080 --> 49:09.480 People getting drunk in fights over family reunions, 49:09.480 --> 49:12.040 over food, they got to go deal with that. 49:12.040 --> 49:13.800 They got the most horrible events. 49:13.800 --> 49:14.640 But let me tell you this, 49:14.640 --> 49:17.480 if they don't find a way to actually focus on good things, 49:17.480 --> 49:20.080 to wash their minds, they can't make it. 49:20.080 --> 49:22.160 And how much true is that for everyone? 49:22.600 --> 49:28.120 Hey, sometimes we get so obsessed with certain things that perhaps don't even affect us that sometimes we have to go 49:28.120 --> 49:33.340 We got to renew ourselves and focus on other things. We have to stop how our brain is circling 49:34.260 --> 49:37.560 Even if it's the most interesting drama of the world. Sometimes we just gotta go 49:37.560 --> 49:42.560 Hey, I need to just go and focus on something else something pure something good and something maybe in my life 49:43.800 --> 49:47.320 And I believe that is what we are supposed to do. 49:47.320 --> 49:51.080 We shouldn't just go out and strife. We shouldn't just build strife. We shouldn't 49:51.080 --> 49:53.160 put stumbling blocks in front of other people. 49:53.160 --> 49:57.720 And frankly, we get into communities and then we just raise more drama about 49:57.720 --> 50:00.200 drama around drama and all this. And let me tell you, 50:00.200 --> 50:04.100 that's exactly like you ever go read a news article even the Spokane Review. 50:04.200 --> 50:06.440 Pretty much the article's like this big, 50:06.440 --> 50:08.640 and then the blog under that is like people 50:08.640 --> 50:11.800 fighting about everything from Epstein to the article 50:11.800 --> 50:13.920 to the cops to taxes. 50:13.920 --> 50:15.800 And it's just people like just wait every day, 50:15.800 --> 50:17.080 like, oh, news article! 50:17.080 --> 50:18.880 Bah! 50:18.880 --> 50:20.520 They go nuts. 50:20.520 --> 50:21.980 Because it's something about getting 50:21.980 --> 50:24.020 into other drama that doesn't directly affect us. 50:24.020 --> 50:26.280 Sometimes we feel, I don't know, engaged. 50:28.600 --> 50:30.400 But here's the thing is, I will tell you this, 50:30.400 --> 50:33.320 open relation and baby mamas, they're going to cause drama. 50:33.320 --> 50:35.560 There's one thing I've learned about being in law enforcement, 50:35.560 --> 50:37.280 dealing with people's households. 50:37.280 --> 50:40.520 I highly recommend you try to limit these to, 50:40.520 --> 50:43.120 you know, have your one wife. 50:43.120 --> 50:44.080 All right? 50:44.080 --> 50:46.880 Because I'm going to tell you, and the Bible folds this through. 50:46.880 --> 50:48.920 We don't, they don't use open relationship. 50:48.920 --> 50:51.560 They use, you know, wives. 50:51.560 --> 50:53.480 They also use concubines and all this. 50:53.480 --> 50:54.920 But baby mamas. 50:55.400 --> 50:58.400 Baby mama drama. That's what it is. 50:58.400 --> 51:00.400 And let me tell you, I mean... 51:03.400 --> 51:05.400 Once again, we could show up in another scene. 51:05.400 --> 51:09.400 You know? Once again, you're showing up on call. 51:11.400 --> 51:14.400 Oh, goodness. Hey, this is Unit, door four. 51:14.400 --> 51:17.400 Uh, is this... Jacob's sons again? 51:17.400 --> 51:20.400 They're like, yeah, you're showing up that family. That family. 51:21.300 --> 51:25.860 goes by Israel. I guess that's his street name. His legal name's Jacob. 51:25.860 --> 51:31.300 All right, a bunch of his sons are now calling in because they believe 51:31.300 --> 51:35.540 the second younger brother is going to kill them all. 51:35.540 --> 51:38.900 You need to be aware that the second youngest brother is the current prime 51:38.900 --> 51:41.000 minister. Oh good! 51:41.700 --> 51:44.440 I love when it's a political case. 51:44.440 --> 51:45.900 Those are great. 51:45.900 --> 51:48.700 Because it certainly never comes back to bite the person investigating. 51:48.700 --> 51:49.580 Wonderful! 51:49.580 --> 51:52.820 The Prime Minister has a bunch of brothers that think they're going to kill him. 51:52.820 --> 51:54.820 This will be a great call. 51:56.380 --> 52:00.620 Alright, well, before I get there, since the Prime Minister's involved, let me do some research. 52:00.620 --> 52:02.620 What's going on in this family? 52:02.620 --> 52:03.620 Ah... 52:04.460 --> 52:08.820 Turns out that the father just died a couple days ago. 52:09.400 --> 52:17.400 and it was overheard that with his dying breath he was still pissed that one of his sons slept with his side chick. 52:18.400 --> 52:21.400 Hmm. That's not great. 52:21.400 --> 52:32.400 And also he cursed two of his other sons for causing a never-solved multiple murder because there weren't any witnesses, 52:32.400 --> 52:37.200 but they took all lower parts from a whole village. 52:38.300 --> 52:42.460 And it was never solved, but the dad cursed the two sons for this violence. 52:43.660 --> 52:50.700 That's great. And this is the step- step- uh, Prime Minister's, uh, family. Great, great. Um, 52:52.860 --> 52:58.540 mass murder, uh, oh good, yeah, it's connected that, um, this is all because 52:58.540 --> 53:01.500 something about their- his sister's former boyfriend. 53:02.100 --> 53:09.100 There's a whole family dispute there too. That's why they killed everyone reportedly, but we could never prove it. 53:09.100 --> 53:15.100 Further reports show concerned citizens that one of the sons had a child with his daughter-in-law. 53:15.100 --> 53:21.100 This happened because she dressed up like a hooker on his favorite street while he was traveling. 53:23.900 --> 53:25.900 I hate dealing with this family. 53:25.900 --> 53:28.900 No good ever comes from dealing with the Jacobs. 53:28.900 --> 53:29.900 Alright. 53:29.900 --> 53:37.900 Um, so I've gotten the context of this, and you see, uh, well let me find out what happened. 53:37.900 --> 53:39.900 How is the Prime Minister connected to this? 53:39.900 --> 53:41.900 He's never even been with this family before. 53:41.900 --> 53:45.900 Alright, there's an old report of a missing child. 53:45.900 --> 53:49.800 I see there was reports of blood, maybe a beast in a pit. 53:50.900 --> 53:55.860 But what's this say? The Department of State has redacted the rest of this report. Great! 53:56.980 --> 54:02.660 Fantastic! All I know is that the Prime Minister was in jail for some reason, 54:02.660 --> 54:05.140 and all of a sudden he became the Prime Minister of our country. 54:06.100 --> 54:08.660 But somebody's connected to this ghetto family. 54:11.300 --> 54:17.300 I really don't... Is there any way I can keep this case to anyone else? Because this is insane. 54:17.300 --> 54:21.300 Alright, the reports are conflicting... 54:21.300 --> 54:23.300 Alright... 54:23.300 --> 54:25.300 You know... 54:25.300 --> 54:27.300 I'm just not even going to... 54:27.300 --> 54:29.300 Like, the Prime Minister... 54:29.300 --> 54:31.300 Like, this family... I mean, let me tell you... 54:31.300 --> 54:33.300 My shift is going to be a lot easier if they stop existing. 54:33.300 --> 54:36.300 So I don't know how well I'm going to investigate this. 54:36.300 --> 54:37.600 But... 54:38.300 --> 54:40.300 You're not fixing this family. 54:40.300 --> 54:43.000 Can you imagine the brothers all call in because they're like, 54:43.000 --> 54:43.900 he's going to kill us. 54:43.900 --> 54:45.100 And why was he going to kill him? 54:45.100 --> 54:47.600 Because they sold him to slavery. 54:47.600 --> 54:50.460 Because this brother who became the prime minister 54:50.460 --> 54:53.900 did not have a great life, but neither did his brothers. 54:54.100 --> 54:58.700 I mean, imagine if you're gonna sell your own brother into slavery, man, they went on and did even more wicked stuff. 54:58.700 --> 55:01.500 It wasn't like it was a simple, it was like great from there. 55:01.500 --> 55:04.900 And hey, why did these brothers even get rid of this child? 55:04.900 --> 55:09.500 It's because dad got him a little better drip than the other kids, right? 55:09.600 --> 55:11.700 He had this slick coat and they're like, 55:11.700 --> 55:14.400 oh, him, heck no, man. 55:14.400 --> 55:16.100 That's not the way we're going to do it. 55:16.100 --> 55:18.900 You're going to have, you know, we got all these browns 55:18.900 --> 55:20.500 and like a white coat. 55:20.500 --> 55:23.000 He's got the multicolored? 55:23.000 --> 55:24.640 No. 55:24.640 --> 55:26.600 No, young bro, you're not. 55:26.600 --> 55:28.100 Into the pits you go. 55:29.400 --> 55:32.920 You're like, that seems really like drama. 55:32.920 --> 55:34.440 You're like, yeah, that's some drama. 55:34.440 --> 55:35.240 Let me tell you that. 55:35.240 --> 55:38.120 You showing up trying to get into that family picture, 55:38.120 --> 55:39.960 you're not going to solve nothing. 55:41.320 --> 55:43.080 I bet there's some gossip about them. 55:43.640 --> 55:46.360 I mean, you got the prime minister there, 55:46.360 --> 55:48.680 the king just selected him from jail. 55:49.880 --> 55:51.720 I mean, you know some corruption's going on. 55:51.720 --> 55:52.760 And what I've heard... 55:53.200 --> 55:56.000 That dude is such into the economic forum. 55:56.000 --> 56:00.200 He wants you to rent everything, own nothing, and be happy about it. 56:00.200 --> 56:03.000 I mean, you think the economic forum's that? 56:03.000 --> 56:04.800 They just rent Joseph what he did to Nisha. 56:04.800 --> 56:08.000 They're like, oh, I'll make everyone rent the land they're living on. 56:08.000 --> 56:09.200 Genius. 56:09.200 --> 56:12.600 I mean, that's drama. 56:12.600 --> 56:14.400 That's, I mean, like, it's all there. 56:14.400 --> 56:16.800 You're like, oh, these are all new problems. 56:16.800 --> 56:18.100 No. 56:18.100 --> 56:19.800 There's nothing new under the sun. 56:20.600 --> 56:21.800 Just, you know, update it. 56:21.800 --> 56:23.000 Go ahead and turn it to first temp. 56:23.000 --> 56:24.000 5, first temp. 56:24.000 --> 56:25.000 5. 56:25.000 --> 56:26.000 All I'm saying is this. 56:26.400 --> 56:31.200 When you read the Bible, we learn about morals that I think should be, but then the difficulty is this. 56:31.200 --> 56:34.960 Even if we can keep our own selves pure, even if we can do our own thing, say, 56:34.960 --> 56:38.400 Joseph is literally giving us a scene because the way he's told in the story, 56:38.400 --> 56:42.320 we don't hear one sin from him. I'm not telling him he's sinless, but the way he is told, 56:42.320 --> 56:47.040 he did everything he was supposed to do. Was his life peaceful without stress and without problems? 56:47.040 --> 56:54.320 Heck no! He was accused of adultery, he was a slave, he was lied to, thrown in jail. 56:54.400 --> 57:00.000 to get like innocent? So I mean you got this guy who's a slave, he's got a criminal record, 57:00.000 --> 57:02.560 and we got reports of sexual misconduct. 57:04.960 --> 57:13.040 I mean that's dramatic. Who's going to use that guy? Well God can. But here's this total drama. 57:13.500 --> 57:17.900 And if you're there in 1st Timothy 5, 1st Timothy 5, verse 11 says, 57:17.900 --> 57:22.780 But the young widows refused for when they had begun to wax wanted against Christ, 57:22.780 --> 57:27.340 that they will marry, having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith. 57:27.340 --> 57:33.180 And with all they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, 57:33.180 --> 57:37.820 not only idle, but tablars and busybodies, speaking the things which they ought not. 57:37.820 --> 57:41.100 I will therefore that the young women marry, bear children. 57:41.500 --> 57:45.700 and guide the house, give none occasion unto the Azari to speak reproachfully. 57:45.700 --> 57:51.300 And why I threw this in here is, let me tell you, if you really think about Israel's family 57:51.300 --> 57:54.700 dis- yo, can you imagine there was a lot of gossip? 57:55.300 --> 58:00.480 I mean frankly if we had like more dealing you can spend a whole lifetime in the drama of that family 58:00.760 --> 58:06.440 That's not there'd be so many lifetime channel and whatever else channels 58:06.440 --> 58:13.260 There'd be documentaries about the drama of this one family every my man the true crimes based on this family would be nuts 58:15.220 --> 58:18.700 But here's the thing just because it's dramatic 58:20.400 --> 58:23.000 And I think that's why you can identify that the Bible is real. 58:23.000 --> 58:25.100 You could gossip about all this forever. 58:25.100 --> 58:27.700 Because let me tell you, the Bible does not use perfect people. 58:27.700 --> 58:32.000 Like when it tells that story, I think it's because we can identify that it's based on real people. 58:32.700 --> 58:36.600 Because let me tell you, you read the Quran or you read a lot of other texts, 58:36.600 --> 58:40.400 it's about powerful people that are just always power. 58:40.400 --> 58:44.200 It's like reading like Marvel comics or more so like DC, 58:44.200 --> 58:48.200 where it's like this is a superhero that is just always more powerful. 58:48.400 --> 58:51.600 They're just always better. They are always that. 58:51.600 --> 58:54.600 And there is one weakness, so there's drama? 58:54.600 --> 58:56.900 But it never really does anything. 58:56.900 --> 58:58.400 That's not the way. 58:58.400 --> 59:02.100 Can you imagine on your dying bed, you're going around, your kids, you're like, 59:02.100 --> 59:05.800 I'm really glad you're all here, but you three still suck. 59:05.800 --> 59:08.000 Thanks, Dad. 59:08.000 --> 59:11.100 Like, but hey, they're all there. 59:11.100 --> 59:13.200 That's like another good picture of family. 59:13.800 --> 59:18.800 They all still lived in the same household with this knowledge. 59:18.800 --> 59:20.800 Because you know what families have to do? 59:20.800 --> 59:23.800 Not all of them will ever move on, and not all are ever reconciled, 59:23.800 --> 59:28.800 but you know some families get over a lot of craziness and they still come together. 59:28.800 --> 59:32.800 And that is why it's so hard for an outsider to try to get into a family, 59:32.800 --> 59:34.600 because let me tell you that. 59:35.000 --> 59:36.500 How are you going to count? 59:36.500 --> 59:39.600 There's years of drama and things you can never even know. 59:39.600 --> 59:42.800 You may not even know why you are not allowed to bring potato salad. 59:42.800 --> 59:46.700 It is because 20 years ago, this and this ad both broke potato salad, 59:46.700 --> 59:49.200 but she's supposed to bring pasta salad and ruin the potluck 59:49.200 --> 59:51.200 and no one talked to each other for three years. 59:51.600 --> 59:53.200 You think that's out of the question? 59:53.200 --> 59:55.400 I've seen families break up for far less. 59:55.400 --> 59:57.200 You're like, no one fights over food. 59:57.200 --> 59:59.640 We fell from damnation into damnation 59:59.640 --> 01:00:05.640 because our father and mother couldn't decide what not to eat. 01:00:05.640 --> 01:00:06.400 I mean, it's true. 01:00:06.400 --> 01:00:08.840 And the children of Israel got cursed by God 01:00:08.840 --> 01:00:11.480 because they complained about honey cake. 01:00:11.480 --> 01:00:12.800 It was delicious. 01:00:13.000 --> 01:00:15.800 But I want, I want, you know, yard bird. 01:00:15.800 --> 01:00:16.800 Get some yard bird in there. 01:00:16.800 --> 01:00:18.400 Like, people fight about food. 01:00:18.400 --> 01:00:20.000 You know, like, sometimes you think that's ridiculous, 01:00:20.000 --> 01:00:21.200 but then you apply it to your own life, 01:00:21.200 --> 01:00:23.600 and if you're married, you better know food is very important. 01:00:23.600 --> 01:00:25.800 I don't know why, but I've had to learn it. 01:00:25.800 --> 01:00:27.700 It's very important. 01:00:27.700 --> 01:00:30.200 Otherwise, there's drama. 01:00:30.200 --> 01:00:33.900 But here's the thing is, gossiping about other things. 01:00:34.300 --> 01:00:41.540 Doesn't help staying out of don't grab the dog by ear like staying out of people's others others problems is a 01:00:42.260 --> 01:00:43.340 Necessity 01:00:43.340 --> 01:00:45.260 And let me tell you this if you work in law enforcement 01:00:45.340 --> 01:00:50.500 You're in so many people's business that you have to learn to let go because there's just no possible way 01:00:50.500 --> 01:00:54.420 You can keep all that and a lot of times you were like, why are you so unemotional? 01:00:55.020 --> 01:00:58.900 How do you not feel? How do you hear this and you just don't break down? 01:00:59.700 --> 01:01:00.900 you know like 01:01:02.000 --> 01:01:06.000 You cannot imagine the amount of drama that happens in your neighborhoods and around. 01:01:06.000 --> 01:01:10.880 Hundreds of stories a year that are similar, worse, different. 01:01:10.880 --> 01:01:13.200 This just over and over again. 01:01:13.200 --> 01:01:15.360 The insanity that people have to go through. 01:01:15.360 --> 01:01:16.640 Let me tell you this. 01:01:16.640 --> 01:01:21.360 Every time I find people that are amazed that drama is going on in other people's lives, 01:01:21.360 --> 01:01:26.640 whether they're celebrities, politicians, your neighbor, your aunt, like... 01:01:26.640 --> 01:01:29.200 I always go like, how are you surprised? 01:01:30.600 --> 01:01:32.600 I mean, do you not have a family? 01:01:33.320 --> 01:01:36.840 Because if you don't, I bet there's drama associated to why you don't. 01:01:37.400 --> 01:01:42.680 But I'm going to tell you this, I'm sure whether I talk to you about your lifetime of family, 01:01:42.680 --> 01:01:46.920 whether it's your immediate family, maybe it's your immediate, you know, family outside, your 01:01:46.920 --> 01:01:52.120 brothers, aunts, cousins, but then we all know family's not perfect. I've never met someone who 01:01:52.120 --> 01:01:57.160 has a perfect family tree. It's like we have our household and then we have our sisters and that 01:01:57.160 --> 01:02:01.720 it's all mixed in. There's people there, but let me tell you this, I bet there's not possible you 01:02:01.720 --> 01:02:04.840 could go one step away from your house and certainly not two steps. 01:02:05.700 --> 01:02:10.820 that you don't have infidelity, orphans, step parents, abandonment, custody issues, money, 01:02:10.820 --> 01:02:17.780 infidelity, inheritance problems. Let me tell you, those cause big issues. Favoritism, childhood 01:02:17.780 --> 01:02:25.540 wrongs, disappointed parents, family honor, a jail, criminal history, fights, deaths, assaults, 01:02:26.820 --> 01:02:27.940 stealing from each other. 01:02:30.200 --> 01:02:38.360 stress, hard, impossible, drug use, breaking home, mixed families, mixed morals, mixed religions. 01:02:39.240 --> 01:02:46.440 Some people fight about mixed races, class issues, different wealth levels, different nationalities 01:02:46.440 --> 01:02:53.400 being brought into it, family history, and one of a thousand things. Let me tell you this, this is why 01:02:54.200 --> 01:02:55.920 Everyone's family is nuts. 01:02:55.920 --> 01:02:57.360 Now some, you look at it, you're like, 01:02:57.360 --> 01:02:58.600 I could never deal with that. 01:02:58.600 --> 01:03:01.000 And other people look at others that have way worse family, 01:03:01.000 --> 01:03:03.480 and they're like, what are they complaining about? 01:03:03.480 --> 01:03:04.960 They have an easy family. 01:03:04.960 --> 01:03:07.160 But I'm going to tell you this, if you really dig down 01:03:07.160 --> 01:03:12.920 to your families, you know their ghetto. 01:03:12.920 --> 01:03:16.000 Like, there are some stories that come from your family tree. 01:03:16.800 --> 01:03:22.460 I'm just saying I've never met someone that can't tell me they're like no our family's totally normal 01:03:24.240 --> 01:03:29.960 Your aunt was a offspring of rape I say that because that's my lineage 01:03:31.480 --> 01:03:35.400 Like there's many things in my family is that if you're telling me your family has 01:03:36.240 --> 01:03:38.240 Absolutely nothing odd different 01:03:38.840 --> 01:03:40.840 strange weird 01:03:41.080 --> 01:03:44.360 Demonic this or that somewhere in the family 01:03:45.200 --> 01:03:48.960 I imagine it's a pretty small thing, but then you got friends, your church, your business. 01:03:50.080 --> 01:03:55.360 Like, people have stresses and craziness in their life, and all I'm saying is this, 01:03:56.080 --> 01:04:01.040 sometimes we can't afford all parts of it, but man, we can limit what we engage in. 01:04:03.900 --> 01:04:07.980 Because domestic issues happen throughout many houses. 01:04:07.980 --> 01:04:10.500 And frankly, we just have to stop limiting the drama. 01:04:10.500 --> 01:04:11.620 It's going to happen to us. 01:04:11.620 --> 01:04:13.080 Look at the people who read this book. 01:04:13.080 --> 01:04:15.180 Not all of it was their fault. Some of it was. 01:04:15.180 --> 01:04:16.020 Some of it was that. 01:04:16.020 --> 01:04:17.020 It was brought to them. 01:04:17.020 --> 01:04:18.940 It was brought upon them. 01:04:18.940 --> 01:04:20.420 And sometimes we have to deal with it. 01:04:20.420 --> 01:04:22.820 But how much do we need to deal with another person's 01:04:22.820 --> 01:04:25.380 household as our primary focus? 01:04:31.500 --> 01:04:35.460 Here's the thing, go ahead and turn to Luke 6, Luke 6. 01:04:35.460 --> 01:04:38.300 Hey, here's the thing is why I keep wanting to focus on this 01:04:38.300 --> 01:04:42.340 is one, in my job, I just have to go and learn more things 01:04:42.340 --> 01:04:44.740 about people than you would ever want to. 01:04:44.740 --> 01:04:47.460 And like I said, going through people's phones, the dramas, 01:04:47.460 --> 01:04:51.340 the criminal, the intense, the victims, and all this, 01:04:51.340 --> 01:04:53.340 it just gets nuts, the drama. 01:04:53.340 --> 01:04:57.180 You're like, how do people even get to this point? 01:04:57.180 --> 01:04:58.700 It's little things here and there. 01:04:58.900 --> 01:05:02.660 But I'll tell you this, I don't think anyone can literally tell a whole story. 01:05:02.660 --> 01:05:04.420 Let me tell you, this is true in the Bible. 01:05:04.420 --> 01:05:07.980 The more someone's talked about, the more disastrous their family sounds. 01:05:07.980 --> 01:05:12.060 And I think it's because, frankly, you can grab it or wrong. 01:05:12.060 --> 01:05:16.500 I think anyone who's truly honest about their whole family history going longer and 01:05:16.500 --> 01:05:19.020 longer and longer, the more crazy it gets. 01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:24.560 But here's the thing, the more the Bible talks about someone, it seems like the weirder or 01:05:24.560 --> 01:05:29.280 broken their family is with drama. And it's just because I think they're just telling more about 01:05:29.280 --> 01:05:33.760 it. And we'll get to David because I think he was one of the more characters that have talked more 01:05:33.760 --> 01:05:39.680 about in the Bible. Like the more details of like his young life, his going, his ruling and that, 01:05:39.680 --> 01:05:44.720 his family. It's nuts. But it's crazy. 01:05:45.600 --> 01:05:49.760 But if you're in Luke 6 and verse 42, it says, 01:05:50.640 --> 01:05:53.280 Either how canst thou say to thy brother, 01:05:53.280 --> 01:05:57.280 Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thy eye, 01:05:57.280 --> 01:06:00.120 When thou shouldest behold it is not the beam that is in your own eye, 01:06:00.120 --> 01:06:03.800 Thy hypocrite, cast out the first beam out of thy own eye, 01:06:03.800 --> 01:06:09.200 And then thou shalt see clearly to pull the mote that is in thy brother's eye. 01:06:09.200 --> 01:06:12.240 And why I just quoted that is this, is 01:06:12.600 --> 01:06:17.440 Understand, not everyone's going to deal with everything that the crazies and other people 01:06:17.440 --> 01:06:20.680 do, but I guarantee you, you look closely in your life. 01:06:20.680 --> 01:06:23.800 There is something that is absolutely crazy. 01:06:23.800 --> 01:06:27.740 And if I got up here and tried to do a fake police report, you'd be like, please do not 01:06:27.740 --> 01:06:30.000 ever tell anyone about that. 01:06:30.000 --> 01:06:32.320 Because it'd be nuts. 01:06:32.320 --> 01:06:37.200 And what happens between closed doors or in a household or in the immediate family? 01:06:37.300 --> 01:06:44.900 I mean, if you told me I can't think of one fight my two steps out of my family has ever had in my lifetime. 01:06:46.300 --> 01:06:48.300 I expect you're as old as Karina. 01:06:49.000 --> 01:06:52.000 Because outside of that, I don't...how? 01:06:52.300 --> 01:06:57.660 You have sinless family? They have no conflicts? They have no differences about the whole list of things I have? 01:06:57.660 --> 01:07:02.940 Because let me tell you, you mix that all together. I mean, what are what like, why is friends giving now a big thing? 01:07:02.940 --> 01:07:07.340 It's because people are like, I don't even see my family. Like that's a big thing, right? 01:07:08.060 --> 01:07:14.380 I don't, you can do both. I don't, I'm not saying against that, but I'm just saying like a lot of people like they try to avoid because we're just going to fight. 01:07:15.500 --> 01:07:18.380 The boomer is going to tell me to vote Republican and I'm Democrat. 01:07:18.380 --> 01:07:19.980 Like, you know, whatever people fight about. 01:07:20.540 --> 01:07:23.260 But that's the big thing because they don't even want to have conflict. 01:07:23.980 --> 01:07:26.220 But guess what? Conflicts is kind of part of life. 01:07:28.140 --> 01:07:31.740 But here's the thing is, let's talk about a man like Jim. 01:07:32.940 --> 01:07:37.340 Remy mentioned him this morning, but David, a man after his own heart, God's own heart. 01:07:38.620 --> 01:07:41.740 What a disaster of a family like. 01:07:42.300 --> 01:07:47.100 I don't know if there's much, like, it's a horrible family life. 01:07:49.700 --> 01:07:55.720 Mean can you imagine like just all the craziest there but just picking like one story in his life 01:07:55.820 --> 01:08:00.860 Can you imagine showing up just like we got a call someone burning a field? 01:08:01.420 --> 01:08:04.660 Can you go out and check on that and you show out you're like? 01:08:06.340 --> 01:08:11.740 Yeah, he's kind of like I mean he's kind of lean dude he's got no blemishes, but he's got this mullet 01:08:12.300 --> 01:08:14.300 Kind of weird really long hair 01:08:15.180 --> 01:08:16.500 sir, sir 01:08:16.800 --> 01:08:18.080 Put the matches down. 01:08:18.080 --> 01:08:18.880 Come here. 01:08:18.880 --> 01:08:20.920 I just want to ask some questions. 01:08:20.920 --> 01:08:21.400 Right there. 01:08:21.400 --> 01:08:22.520 That's a good safe distance. 01:08:22.520 --> 01:08:23.280 All right. 01:08:23.280 --> 01:08:26.160 What is going on here? 01:08:26.160 --> 01:08:28.920 You want to see your dad so you're burning this field. 01:08:28.920 --> 01:08:31.360 Is this your dad's field? 01:08:31.360 --> 01:08:33.920 It's his co-worker's field and you're burning it? 01:08:33.920 --> 01:08:35.440 Because you want to see your dad. 01:08:35.440 --> 01:08:36.480 But it's not your dad's field. 01:08:36.480 --> 01:08:37.000 OK. 01:08:37.000 --> 01:08:38.760 Does that make sense to you? 01:08:38.760 --> 01:08:39.400 It does. 01:08:39.900 --> 01:08:41.400 Do you think you've lost your mind? 01:08:41.400 --> 01:08:43.480 Like, why are you burning your dad's co-worker's field 01:08:43.480 --> 01:08:45.520 out here because you want to see daddy? 01:08:45.520 --> 01:08:46.700 That's nuts. 01:08:49.900 --> 01:08:51.340 You think that makes perfect sense. 01:08:51.340 --> 01:08:53.380 All right. 01:08:53.380 --> 01:08:56.860 Have you gone to see your dad since you want to see him? 01:08:56.860 --> 01:08:58.620 No, you haven't. 01:08:58.620 --> 01:09:01.860 You've waited two years, but you haven't gone and seen 01:09:01.860 --> 01:09:02.700 your dad in that time. 01:09:02.700 --> 01:09:04.700 Now you're burning his co-worker's field. 01:09:04.700 --> 01:09:07.580 OK. 01:09:07.580 --> 01:09:08.620 But you're really mad. 01:09:11.500 --> 01:09:17.340 You're mad because your gimped cousin gets to dine with your dad every single night 01:09:17.340 --> 01:09:21.820 because he's dead uncle's, you know, only living relative. 01:09:23.260 --> 01:09:25.980 That bit like, so you're angry at your cousin. 01:09:27.020 --> 01:09:30.060 You think I'm an idiot because I said that. Well, why are you mad about? 01:09:30.060 --> 01:09:33.660 You want to see your dad. Why did you talk about your gimped cousin? 01:09:33.660 --> 01:09:35.180 He's not really your cousin. He's... 01:09:35.900 --> 01:09:41.260 How are you related to this guy who gets to dine with your dad every night that's like handicapped, 01:09:41.260 --> 01:09:46.380 handicatable, whatever you want to call him, sir, what is going on here? All right. 01:09:48.800 --> 01:09:53.140 So the handicapped woman person you're eating dinner with 01:09:53.140 --> 01:09:56.140 had a grandfather that tried to kill your dad with a javelin. 01:09:59.100 --> 01:10:00.580 Who are we talking about, sir? 01:10:00.580 --> 01:10:02.980 Like, what's going on? 01:10:02.980 --> 01:10:04.460 OK. 01:10:04.460 --> 01:10:08.820 So your cool dad uncle that your dad never stopped talking about, 01:10:08.820 --> 01:10:11.140 that's the guy's father that tried to kill both of you 01:10:11.140 --> 01:10:11.860 in the jail. 01:10:11.860 --> 01:10:14.140 Not you, your dad, and the brother. 01:10:14.140 --> 01:10:16.780 Like, sir, what does that have to do with you 01:10:16.780 --> 01:10:18.660 burning this field right now? 01:10:18.660 --> 01:10:19.900 You're trying to tell me. 01:10:19.900 --> 01:10:21.020 OK. 01:10:21.020 --> 01:10:22.780 Sir, please focus. 01:10:22.780 --> 01:10:25.260 I just need to know why this field's going burned down. 01:10:27.300 --> 01:10:30.300 Alright, something about your father. 01:10:31.300 --> 01:10:32.200 Alright. 01:10:36.000 --> 01:10:43.200 Okay, you want me to tell about Jonathan your kind of uncle who had a father try to kill you both and 01:10:44.400 --> 01:10:46.400 So I was raised your dad 01:10:46.580 --> 01:10:47.960 Okay, so 01:10:47.960 --> 01:10:53.600 What does that do with you? You're like you okay now you're talking about your sister. What happened to your sister? 01:10:54.920 --> 01:10:57.200 I'm really sorry that happened to your sister 01:10:58.160 --> 01:11:00.480 What happened to your brother that did this? 01:11:01.500 --> 01:11:05.300 Why don't you want to talk about your brother that did this? 01:11:05.300 --> 01:11:07.020 Where is he now, so I can question you? 01:11:07.020 --> 01:11:08.100 OK. 01:11:08.100 --> 01:11:09.900 Yes, I'm not here to investigate that, 01:11:09.900 --> 01:11:10.900 but I'm here about the fire. 01:11:10.900 --> 01:11:12.180 What happened to the brother? 01:11:12.180 --> 01:11:13.700 OK, you don't want to talk about him. 01:11:13.700 --> 01:11:15.340 OK, great. 01:11:15.340 --> 01:11:17.340 All right, so you don't want to talk about what happened 01:11:17.340 --> 01:11:20.060 to your sister that you're mad. 01:11:20.060 --> 01:11:23.100 OK, how do you know any of this? 01:11:23.100 --> 01:11:26.800 You talk to your stepmom, your dad's first, like, 01:11:26.900 --> 01:11:31.900 Your dad's first wife, is that your mother? 01:11:31.900 --> 01:11:32.660 Oh, it's not. 01:11:32.660 --> 01:11:33.340 How many wives? 01:11:33.340 --> 01:11:34.380 He has a lot of wives. 01:11:34.380 --> 01:11:35.380 OK. 01:11:35.380 --> 01:11:37.720 What do you want to tell me about your dad's first wife? 01:11:37.720 --> 01:11:40.020 Because he's such a bad man. 01:11:40.020 --> 01:11:42.620 His first wife loved him. 01:11:42.620 --> 01:11:46.420 She risked her life to save his life, and he abandoned her, 01:11:46.420 --> 01:11:49.260 went out into the field and got multiple wives. 01:11:49.260 --> 01:11:51.940 And once she found the man that she loved, 01:11:51.940 --> 01:11:54.060 he came back, took her away, and broke them up. 01:11:54.900 --> 01:11:58.900 I'm sorry that happened to you sir, but why is this field on fire? 01:11:58.900 --> 01:12:06.900 Okay, so you're angry that your dad just uses people and throws them away and abandons them, 01:12:06.900 --> 01:12:08.900 and you feel that's what they are. 01:12:08.900 --> 01:12:12.900 So tell me about your dad's rule, why is this all happening? 01:12:12.900 --> 01:12:16.900 It's because your dad has a rule about not killing family members. 01:12:16.900 --> 01:12:18.900 Is that a good thing? 01:12:18.900 --> 01:12:20.700 You're saying no. 01:12:20.900 --> 01:12:24.900 If he would have just killed his father-in-law, a lot of people would have lived. 01:12:24.900 --> 01:12:26.900 Okay, sir, I'm talking. 01:12:26.900 --> 01:12:29.900 We're running through hypotheticals, let me know. 01:12:29.900 --> 01:12:33.900 If he would have killed your eldest brother, a lot of people would have lived. 01:12:33.900 --> 01:12:37.900 Okay, well, I'm sorry. 01:12:37.900 --> 01:12:41.900 But you're saying your dad will kill people. 01:12:41.900 --> 01:12:43.900 He killed one of his best friends. 01:12:43.900 --> 01:12:45.900 Why'd he kill his best friend but not his son? 01:12:45.900 --> 01:12:47.900 Because his wife was hot. 01:12:47.900 --> 01:12:48.600 Okay. 01:12:49.700 --> 01:12:57.200 Sir, is your dad's next wife, is that why you're burning the field? 01:12:57.200 --> 01:12:58.200 No. 01:12:58.200 --> 01:13:00.200 What's going on? 01:13:00.200 --> 01:13:01.200 What's all this? 01:13:01.200 --> 01:13:04.200 You're like, stop telling me I'm not listening. 01:13:04.200 --> 01:13:07.200 I'm trying to listen to you sir, but this story doesn't make any sense. 01:13:07.200 --> 01:13:10.200 There's a lot of drama going on, I'm trying to straighten it out. 01:13:10.200 --> 01:13:13.200 Help me understand why you're burning this field. 01:13:14.200 --> 01:13:15.700 It's because... 01:13:15.900 --> 01:13:19.580 But after your dad killed one of his best friends to take his hot wife, 01:13:19.580 --> 01:13:23.100 he's promised that the inheritance will go to this child. 01:13:23.100 --> 01:13:24.300 And you're mad about that. 01:13:26.220 --> 01:13:27.900 Sir, that- hold on, I'm getting a call. 01:13:29.100 --> 01:13:31.500 Yep. Are you serious? 01:13:33.260 --> 01:13:34.220 Right now, let him go. 01:13:36.380 --> 01:13:37.820 Well, sir, I guess it doesn't matter. 01:13:38.500 --> 01:13:44.100 Turns out the owner of the field saying he absolutely wanted the field dead and there's no pressing charges. 01:13:44.100 --> 01:13:46.900 And I guess your dad will speak to you now. 01:13:46.900 --> 01:13:49.100 So I'm gonna let you go. 01:13:49.100 --> 01:13:51.700 I guess I don't need to figure out all your drama. 01:13:51.700 --> 01:13:55.700 Have a great day sir. Please don't burn down any more fields. 01:13:55.700 --> 01:13:58.900 I mean that'd be pretty dramatic. 01:13:58.900 --> 01:14:05.100 And of course this is Absalon burning down the commander's field because he wanted to talk to his dad. 01:14:05.600 --> 01:14:07.840 Do you think you're gonna show up and fix that? 01:14:08.720 --> 01:14:10.000 That's some drama. 01:14:10.000 --> 01:14:12.600 There ain't nothing you're gonna do to get into that mess. 01:14:12.920 --> 01:14:14.280 And that's just crazy. 01:14:14.700 --> 01:14:17.280 And in Proverbs 26 verse 15 it says, 01:14:17.280 --> 01:14:18.780 and he that passeth by a metal that 01:14:18.780 --> 01:14:21.300 would strive belonging not to himself 01:14:21.300 --> 01:14:23.760 is like one that taketh by a dog's ears. 01:14:23.760 --> 01:14:25.160 Can you imagine walking in that? 01:14:25.160 --> 01:14:27.740 This guy's burning fields because he was mad at his dad. 01:14:27.740 --> 01:14:29.880 He's mad at his sister being taken. 01:14:29.880 --> 01:14:31.340 He's mad at probably this. 01:14:31.340 --> 01:14:34.980 I mean, the things he talks about his dad must be insane. 01:14:34.980 --> 01:14:37.520 And you try to get in there, you're just going to get bit. 01:14:37.520 --> 01:14:39.780 Because here's the thing is, even after everything 01:14:39.780 --> 01:14:42.020 Absalom does later in his life, did David want him dead? 01:14:43.300 --> 01:14:46.500 Yeah, just like he did in Once All Dead. 01:14:47.300 --> 01:14:49.800 It's hard to get into other people's dramas to know how they will act, 01:14:49.800 --> 01:14:52.500 because you would think one way, but it's not always that. 01:14:52.500 --> 01:14:54.200 In Romans 14 verse 4 it says, 01:14:54.200 --> 01:14:56.400 Who art thou that judges another man's servants? 01:14:56.400 --> 01:14:58.500 To his own master he standeth and falleth, 01:14:58.500 --> 01:15:00.400 yea, he shall be holding up, 01:15:00.400 --> 01:15:02.400 for God is able to make him stand. 01:15:02.400 --> 01:15:04.900 One man esteemeth one day above another, 01:15:04.900 --> 01:15:06.500 another esteemeth another day alike. 01:15:06.500 --> 01:15:09.100 Every man be fully persuaded of his own mind. 01:15:09.100 --> 01:15:10.300 Understand this, 01:15:10.300 --> 01:15:12.800 if it's another person's household, it's another person's that, 01:15:12.800 --> 01:15:15.100 let them deal unto that, because let me tell you this, 01:15:15.300 --> 01:15:18.020 You may judge one issue, and let me tell you this. 01:15:18.020 --> 01:15:19.460 Probably you go through David's life, 01:15:19.460 --> 01:15:22.860 and you're just like, huh, he was right, he was wrong, 01:15:22.860 --> 01:15:24.860 and that happened to him. 01:15:24.860 --> 01:15:26.740 And here's the thing is, it's all together. 01:15:26.740 --> 01:15:27.980 It's one life, it's connected. 01:15:27.980 --> 01:15:30.420 You can't isolate one problem when it's a family matter, 01:15:30.420 --> 01:15:32.280 because it's all of it together. 01:15:32.280 --> 01:15:33.560 It's all of it together. 01:15:35.620 --> 01:15:39.620 And I mean, we could go through so many other traumas 01:15:39.620 --> 01:15:42.500 and this and other issues that are going on. 01:15:43.400 --> 01:15:50.400 But let me end on this. What's another reason why you don't want to get involved in other people's drama? 01:15:50.400 --> 01:15:55.400 Because let me tell you this, you have no idea how it will turn out. 01:15:55.400 --> 01:15:57.400 You have no idea. 01:15:58.300 --> 01:16:04.860 Where they're going to go because you would like I'm talking about people abandoning like their side chick and their child in the wilderness to die 01:16:05.500 --> 01:16:10.460 I'm talking about like a son who's angry that dad didn't do anything because his sister was raped 01:16:10.940 --> 01:16:15.740 And then he's going to give the inheritance to his new new new new new wife's 01:16:15.820 --> 01:16:20.060 Your child with all his other children have been around forever. I'm talking about big things 01:16:20.060 --> 01:16:22.540 But here's the thing is do you even know how it's going to turn out? 01:16:23.420 --> 01:16:25.420 because hey 01:16:27.600 --> 01:16:29.000 I mean, we can think about this. 01:16:29.000 --> 01:16:32.440 Hey, you know what Abraham and Hagar did? 01:16:32.440 --> 01:16:34.640 She moved back in and raised that child all the way 01:16:34.640 --> 01:16:37.280 to adulthood in the house. 01:16:37.280 --> 01:16:39.960 There was issues later in life when the other child came to life, 01:16:39.960 --> 01:16:42.280 but she continued living there. 01:16:42.280 --> 01:16:44.280 They lived the rest of their life there. 01:16:44.280 --> 01:16:48.960 You know, Absalom became basically second in the kingdom. 01:16:49.900 --> 01:16:55.500 David was willing to forgive him for what he's done all that and then raised him up to a status that he lived 01:16:56.060 --> 01:17:01.940 years a second in the kingdom now, you know if you read your Bible that that didn't last 01:17:02.980 --> 01:17:06.260 But here's the thing is he had years. They could have worked things out even further 01:17:06.260 --> 01:17:11.420 You don't know where they're going to go because I'm going to tell you this you meet a guy burning a field because he's angry 01:17:11.420 --> 01:17:13.680 His dad you think it's over family's done 01:17:15.300 --> 01:17:17.060 But they actually worked together for years. 01:17:17.060 --> 01:17:22.220 Now, it does seem like Absalom never forgave his father. 01:17:22.220 --> 01:17:26.860 But here's the thing is, think of Israel, Jacob. 01:17:26.860 --> 01:17:30.620 I mean, your uncle's riding out to kill you, 01:17:30.620 --> 01:17:35.300 or at least take everything you have back with him. 01:17:35.300 --> 01:17:37.620 But it turns out that they bothered him peacefully 01:17:37.620 --> 01:17:38.540 for there now. 01:17:38.540 --> 01:17:41.020 Your brother, who swore upon his death 01:17:41.020 --> 01:17:42.180 he was going to kill you. 01:17:42.400 --> 01:17:50.080 He didn't even care anymore. Family drama but it passed on. Hey, here's the thing is, what will pass on? 01:17:50.080 --> 01:17:54.400 What will last? Is the family forever broken? Is this relationship forever gone? Is it going to be 01:17:54.400 --> 01:17:59.600 men and be forgotten? Let me tell you this, you don't know but the thing is you're an outsider 01:17:59.600 --> 01:18:03.840 going into that. You're just setting yourself up to be bit. 01:18:06.100 --> 01:18:08.220 And that's all the wisdom I'm trying to pass on to you. 01:18:08.220 --> 01:18:09.660 I believe it's biblical. 01:18:09.660 --> 01:18:11.940 Hey, if it's not strife pertaining to you, 01:18:11.940 --> 01:18:12.900 just stay out of it. 01:18:12.900 --> 01:18:14.820 Because here's the thing, especially 01:18:14.820 --> 01:18:17.980 when it's in a household, the relationships 01:18:17.980 --> 01:18:19.780 don't make sense. 01:18:19.780 --> 01:18:22.620 All our relationships, what we allow, what we don't, 01:18:22.620 --> 01:18:25.300 what we will forgive, and what we won't, does not make sense, 01:18:25.300 --> 01:18:27.140 especially the closer they are. 01:18:27.140 --> 01:18:29.340 A husband and wife will have drama that doesn't even 01:18:29.340 --> 01:18:30.900 make sense to anyone else. 01:18:31.500 --> 01:18:35.980 Alright, do you know like my parents they got a divorce over a sandwich. 01:18:37.100 --> 01:18:40.540 Wasn't really about a sandwich, it's about a rug. That doesn't make sense. It doesn't. 01:18:42.220 --> 01:18:46.860 But no relationship really makes... arguments don't like... our bitterness builds up. And let me tell 01:18:46.860 --> 01:18:52.300 you this, you probably have enough within your own life to focus. We don't need to go out and find 01:18:52.300 --> 01:18:54.540 more. And that's really my whole thing. 01:18:55.600 --> 01:19:01.600 I don't think anyone here is gonna support the blue anymore, but I understand it sucks getting into other people's business. 01:19:02.600 --> 01:19:03.600 It really does. 01:19:04.600 --> 01:19:08.600 But sometimes you just have to understand there's not much we can do when we come in. 01:19:09.600 --> 01:19:13.600 We want to see, we see people having problems, they having stress, they're having a ruined life. 01:19:14.600 --> 01:19:17.600 I even look at them and I'm like, how could you deal with this another day? 01:19:18.600 --> 01:19:20.600 But there's nothing I can do. 01:19:20.900 --> 01:19:25.900 I could have not helped Hagar, I could have not helped Jacob in any point of his life. 01:19:25.900 --> 01:19:28.900 What would I do with Epsilon? 01:19:28.900 --> 01:19:31.900 And I just think that's the way we are in life. 01:19:31.900 --> 01:19:36.900 And sometimes it's hard for us to understand that it may not involve us. 01:19:36.900 --> 01:19:41.900 And I hope if it does involve you, maybe you just follow biblical principles on how we resolve conflict 01:19:41.900 --> 01:19:43.900 and hopefully forgive and move on. 01:19:43.900 --> 01:19:45.900 But man, if it doesn't... 01:19:46.100 --> 01:19:50.100 All you're doing is trying to put a stumbling block before your brother, I believe. 01:19:50.100 --> 01:19:56.100 With that, I hope you got any from this. I just want to let us know. 01:19:56.300 --> 01:19:58.940 don't go out to try to grab a dog by his ears. 01:19:58.940 --> 01:19:59.780 So with that, let's pray. 01:19:59.780 --> 01:20:01.820 Heavenly Father, thank you for this. 01:20:01.820 --> 01:20:03.780 Allow me to preach this. 01:20:03.780 --> 01:20:05.940 I hope it was edifying, not just to your word, 01:20:05.940 --> 01:20:07.380 but the people of this church. 01:20:07.380 --> 01:20:09.300 I hope that we could take some lessons from it. 01:20:09.300 --> 01:20:10.620 And just remember, Lord, 01:20:10.620 --> 01:20:12.900 we have enough concerns in our own life. 01:20:12.900 --> 01:20:15.540 We don't always need to be involved in everyone else's. 01:20:15.540 --> 01:20:17.260 In Jesus' name, amen. 01:20:25.500 --> 01:20:30.300 All right, if you want to go ahead and take your hymnals, we're going to turn to page number 43. 01:20:35.200 --> 01:20:39.200 It's page number forty three, we're marching to Zion. 01:20:44.200 --> 01:20:46.200 page number 43. 01:20:46.200 --> 01:20:48.200 We'll sing it out on the first. 01:20:50.600 --> 01:20:58.120 Come we that love the Lord and let our joys be known. 01:20:58.120 --> 01:21:02.120 Join in a song with sweet accord. 01:21:02.120 --> 01:21:06.040 Join in a song with sweet accord. 01:21:06.040 --> 01:21:10.040 And thus surround the throne. 01:21:10.040 --> 01:21:13.880 And thus surround the throne. 01:21:13.880 --> 01:21:18.280 We're marching to Zion. 01:21:18.280 --> 01:21:18.600 the 01:21:18.600 --> 01:21:29.100 Beautiful, beautiful Zion, we're marching upward to Zion, the beautiful city of God. 01:21:29.700 --> 01:21:37.580 Let those refuse to sing who never knew our God. 01:21:37.580 --> 01:21:41.540 But children of the heavenly King, 01:21:41.540 --> 01:21:45.420 but children of the heavenly King, 01:21:45.420 --> 01:21:51.780 may speak their joys abroad, may speak their joys abroad. 01:21:53.000 --> 01:21:57.200 We're marching to Zion 01:21:57.200 --> 01:22:01.000 Beautiful, beautiful Zion 01:22:01.000 --> 01:22:04.000 We're marching upward to Zion 01:22:04.300 --> 01:22:09.100 Zion, the beautiful city of God. 01:22:09.100 --> 01:22:21.060 The hill of Zion yields a thousand sacred sweets before we reach the heavenly fields, 01:22:21.060 --> 01:22:25.340 before we reach the heavenly fields. 01:22:25.340 --> 01:22:32.300 Well, the Golden Streets or walk the Golden Streets. 01:22:32.300 --> 01:22:40.300 We're marching to Zion, beautiful, beautiful Zion. 01:22:40.300 --> 01:22:47.300 We're marching upward to Zion, beautiful city of God. 01:22:48.600 --> 01:22:56.440 Then let our songs abound, and every tree be dry. 01:22:56.440 --> 01:23:00.600 We're marching through Emmanuel's ground. 01:23:00.600 --> 01:23:04.760 We're marching through Emmanuel's ground. 01:23:04.760 --> 01:23:12.440 To fairer worlds on high, to fairer worlds on high. 01:23:12.440 --> 01:23:13.720 We're Mark! 01:23:13.900 --> 01:23:26.620 marching to Zion beautiful beautiful Zion we're marching upward to Zion beautiful city 01:23:26.620 --> 01:23:29.420 of God. 01:23:29.420 --> 01:23:32.460 All right excellent singing everybody brother Remy would you please close with a word of 01:23:32.460 --> 01:23:32.740 prayer.