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Intro: Welcome to the Consider Podcast. Where we turn our minds to consider wisdom, madness and folly. Join the host Timothy and Jacob on a quest to have God enlighten the mind. According to verse 25 of Ecclesiastes chapter 7. So, I turned my mind to understand, to investigate, and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the madness of folly. Ecclesiastes 7:25. The Consider Podcast, examining today’s events and Paulorrow’s realities at www.archive.consider.info.
Video: The Consider Podcast where we take every thought captive for Jesus by nailing it down upon the foolishness of the cross. Second Corinthians chapter 10 verse 5. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. Listen in as we pick up our cross, hate our own opinions and suffer against sin. The Consider Podcast, examining today’s wisdom, folly and madness. www.archive.consider.info.
Timothy: Jacob, I need combat pay.
Jacob: For what?
Timothy: This is one of the segments. We’re going to go through a bunch of different YouTube or TikTok or short videos and they all seem to use like five songs to do the short ones. So, at the end of the day, I’ll have these songs running through my head. I have to go do some listening to some hymns or whatever to get it out. Unless you know a good trick to get those songs out of your head.
Jacob: I don’t have a good trick. Yeah. Combat pay or hazard pay. Hazard pay.
Timothy: Hazard pay, probably better. Looking around Athens seeing all the idols and stuff.
Jacob: Yeah.
Timothy: But this segment’s about is and we’ll do this from time to time. We’ll kind of skip a deep series on a particular topic. Rather what we’re going to do is everything that we examine, look at, we’re going to take that event. Whether it be a movie, whether it be a book, whether it be a cartoon, whether it be a news item, and take it captive for Christ. Read that scripture that we just mentioned earlier, Jacob, the one in second Corinthians 10:5.
Jacob: Second Corinthians 10:5, “We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ”.
Timothy: Christians will often say, well, I don’t know what to do today or you know, I don’t know what God’s will is. We’ll tell you what, just take a day and spend all day long and every single thought you have. Everything that comes your way. Advertising, news, whatever it would be and take that captive for Jesus Christ. Would you be tired at the end of the day?
Jacob: Yes.
Timothy: That’s kind of one reason I know that a lot of people claim to be Christians aren’t picking up the cross because it’s exhausting just to take that one passage. It says, we demolish arguments. So, right now I’m just talking about taking a thought captive. Well, those that are actually taking a thought captive or going on to demolish something. And when you think about demolishing, what do you think of Jacob?
Jacob: Rubble left on the ground, nothing left.
Timothy: Right, and dust and dust and just grind it down. Read that again. Paul says, we demolish argument. I don’t see that much out there in the church. I can tell you among the Christian church. I don’t see much demolishing going on. When you lay hold of something in Jesus Christ you should be taking it all the way till it’s completely dead. I mean down to dust. We demolish arguments. Pick an argument, I’m going to demolish it. I mean that doesn’t mean I walk around with an attitude or whatever, but in my mind in my soul and my spirit or if I’m debating with anybody. Jacob, is it kind of half measures by the time we’re done?
Jacob: Is it half measured?
Timothy: Well, in other words, would you say that you’ve seen me demolish arguments?
Jacob: Yes.
Timothy: Taking it all the way down to the ground.
Jacob: Yes.
Timothy: Not just arguments but pretensions. Anything that puts on an air that says, well, I’m of Jesus Christ or this is of God or whatever. You demolish those things that sets itself up against the knowledge of God. Anything that’s ignorant of God. Anything that’s just stupid. How often have I said, tell me something Stupid. Say something dumb if you want to get me worked out?
Jacob: Correct.
Timothy: I like to just be at peace and rest but if you really want to get me going, just give me a buzz and just say something stupid right out the gate. We’ll go for it. “Pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God and we take captive every thought”. There’s a hymn that talks about the things the world slowly grow dim. There’s nothing like taking every thought or pretension. Taking it captive and making obedient. In other words, you’re watching a movie. We’ll eventually get to that. We probably won’t be able to do it today. I’ve got a couple movies we’re going to kind of look at some points. It takes all the pleasure out of the movie. It doesn’t matter what it is whether it’s the cartoon and it could be what you consider wholesome by nature or compared to something else. If you take every thought and every event in life and every advertisement and everything and the whether it be a pretension whether and you take that captive or you not taking the edge of enjoyment out of it?
Jacob: Yes.
Timothy: Say for example, somebody’s wants to let’s go boating or let’s go fishing. There’s always the edge of the cross. There’s always a pulling down of that thought. I may go fishing. I may go on a boat ride. I may do all those things. I may go for a drive in the country but there is at all times taking the day, the event, the pretensions, the knowledge, anything else and taking it captive. That means I wrap it up. I go for it and I tie it up. It’s mine. This applies to scripture here and that over here and I make it an obedient. Think about how little obedience there is in the church. You just go do this. Go to a movie and sit down and go I’m going to make this obedient to Jesus. Are you going to be able to just sit there all casually with the popcorn and juju beads or whatever it is and enjoy it, Jacob?
Jacob: No.
Timothy: Not if you’re honestly doing it by the power of the Holy Spirit and the cross. So, it’s one of those really beautiful things in Jesus. That’s how you grow by craving the pure word of God. Scripture says, by constant use of the word of God, you’ve able to train yourself between what is good and evil. So, when I’m watching movies or when I’m playing or when I’m doing something else or any activity. There’s always within my heart and spirit and soul taking that captive making it obedient and so the luster of this world, the drawing, it takes a real what am I trying to say? Pulls the rug under a lot of temptation. That doesn’t mean you’re not tempted. It just means you’ve learned by nature to take all those things captive. Any thoughts on all of that Jacob?
Jacob: No, it makes sense though. I know what you’re talking about.
Timothy: Now we just saw the one where the dog’s running out. So, let’s take that captive. Remember he’s he once you play us so just a few sections of it just to remind us.
Jacob: Okay.
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Timothy: I really enjoy these guys videos. They’ll take dogs or animals and they’ll add the emotion that you’re actually watching. They do a really good job of it. I noticed in that video is the dog runs away from it. They lower the Microphone.
Jacob: Yeah, he gets quieter.
Timothy: So, you have a real sense of distance and so there’s a lot more professionalism I think going on here than it actually meets the eye.
Jacob: Correct.
Timothy: Alright, so let’s take this captive. Jacob, go to Psalms 104 and read 24-26. One of the things we’ll do with these videos. We’re not going to go very deep. What we’ll do is listen to or watch a video. Comment on it. Maybe a scripture. I’m going to try and keep it to two scriptures. It may get a little difficult for me to do that and then we’ll move on. Everything I’ll try to say, we’ll have scripture to back it up but I’m not going to have time today. That’s not what we’re doing today. We’re just listening to stuff, taking it in, taking it captive, doing what we should be doing all day long. The Word of God should be alive and active in us and every, you can’t even help yourself. It’s not that I’m running around doing it. It’s the Holy Spirit in me saying this scripture applies and this over here and so it becomes a very natural part of your life. Once you’ve suffered against your sin and your flesh that just wants to chill out or get away from the cross or just watch a or you know the classic one. Well, what’s wrong with and then you just tack it on. Well, there is no more what’s wrong with it. It says, everything that I do I take captive. It doesn’t matter what it is. Psalms 104 verse 24, did you get there?
Jacob: Yes.
Timothy: Alright, going down read 24-26.
Jacob: “How many are your works, O Lord in wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. There is the sea, vast and spacious, teaming with creature beyond number- living things both large and small. There the ships go to and fro, and the Leviathan, which you formed to frolic there”.
Timothy: We see that in all kinds of especially animal videos. They’re just frolicking. It’s just a playful kind of thing. I know scientists will take all the joy out of it because they’ll go woes for survival or evolution. Now they’re just playing to play. That it’s also instructive. That’s a total side benefit. Our God is a God of that’s what heaven’s about. Most people don’t want it, they’d rather have their sin than that joy. But and I went and looked it up to make sure my concept at least on the basic understanding. It says, a playful or mischievous action. So, there’s a lot of humor this mischievous that we’ll look at. Our God is a God of joy and happiness and also suffering. I mean they come in equal measure as God wants them to be done, and just watching that dog run through the snow. I don’t know about you but that it brought a smile to my heart. Jacob, go ahead play this South African commercial. And when I first saw this commercial, I’m watching the beginning of it and I’m becoming indignant. You’ll see why here in a moment, and then as it plays on it goes it was actually a commercial with some thinking to it. Go ahead and play that. Commercial: Jump. Get off. All the stuff. One easy. Come. Shop. Shop. Shop. Shop. Go. Yes. Ford Bantam, the bucky that helps build the nation.
Timothy: For those that didn’t actually aren’t watching this, go and explain to them what you saw happening, Jacob.
Jacob: Well, it’s two workers in like a little truck. It’s clearly in like South Africa. It’s a white dude and a black dude. So, they roll up to the first house and the white dude says, hey, good morning to the white guy and he starts yelling at the black guy to get going. Get going. Get that. And then so they finish that job and leave and then they get a phone call and then the next job it’s a black dude. So, they switch outfits and now the black guy is like saying, hey, to the to the black guy at the house and he’s yelling at the white guy to get busy.
Timothy: I don’t know about you but when I was first watching it I’m going oh man this is offensive. The first part of it because you haven’t an eye.
Jacob: correct.
Timothy: The second part it’s like oh.
Jacob: Yeah, at first, you’re like whoa this seems awfully racist.
Timothy: Yes.
Jacob: But then these two guys are smart.
Timothy: Indeed, very smart. That they can, I was impressed with the fact that if you weren’t African, they could advertise this.
Jacob: Yeah, they could yeah.
Timothy: And they could take, you could advertise with this and have a discussion with it and I guarantee you that commercial did more good to thaw out prejudice than all of the riots and all the things the United States does and all the laws. Go ahead what were you going to say.
Jacob: Well, but that also go well it’s that means that country is racist, but they’re okay with the racism.
Timothy: Well yeah, there was another video I’d saw where somebody was talking about, they were overvisiting somewhere in Africa, right? And that’s a vast country.
Jacob: Sure.
Timothy: But they get pulled over by the police and the police are racist in the sense of okay let’s see your driver’s license the whole bit. And his friends don’t worry about it, that’s just how we do. They live with the racism without a violent overtone to it.
Jacob: Correct.
Timothy: I’m not justifying prejudice, that’s not my point. But there are ways to love other people and there’s ways to deal with this without I’m going to sue you or put you in prison.
Jacob: Or let’s go right in the streets.
Timothy: Or our governing authorities which are doing everything in their power to stir up hatred and lack of communication. Just think if we sat down with a mixed group and we played this commercial. If everybody had a decent kind of heart, you could have a lot of joy or fun discussing it. Am I correct?
Jacob: Correct.
Timothy: Alright, well the scripture that would go with that, let’s go to Ecclesiastes chapter seven verse 21. Ecclesiastes 7:21. I’ll go ahead and read this while you kind of move there. “Do not pay attention to every word people say or you may hear your servant cursing you”. It’s a fact of who we are. By nature, and again I’m not justifying prejudice but there’s a way that we become so sensitive to it and we’re offended for everything somebody says or we’re looking out for it and then somebody could be doing something innocent and we attack them for it. “Do not pay attention to every word people say or you may hear servant cursing you”. Look at verse 22. “For you know you know in your heart that many times not for you. You yourself have cursed others”. Repenting of my own talk where you’re looking down on other people or a negative side or whatever. I’m not telling you to do away with honesty. But am I being clear here about we walk around with this attitude of like we’re superior. We’ve never said anything against somebody else. You mean to tell me minority groups have never slammed white people and white people have never slammed. That’s why I get so indignant. Somebody gets drunk right?
Jacob: Yeah.
Timothy: And they’ll throw out Racial appetites everywhere.
Jacob: Oh yeah.
Timothy: Or racial slurs is probably a better word. Well, they’re drunk.
Jacob: Yeah.
Timothy: Should they be drunk? No. That’s a done on the podcast in itself. Should I just you know destroy their whole life. Make sure they’re fired from every job and then nothing ever goes well with them again. Oh yeah, that’s really going to solve.
Jacob: Yeah, that’ll solve everything. Well just like in this verse when it’s talking about like look you’ve done these things too. Same with drinking. Like if somebody’s drunk and there’s a situation yeah, is it. No, but like oh so you’re telling me you’ve never. You know what I mean? Like you if you flip it on the other side, like so you’ve never been intoxicated and said something. And for most people it would be like well no yeah that’s happened before.
Timothy: Or the Karen moments. So, you mean to tell me no woman and I’m going to try and be gentle here at certain period. Use the word. Certain times during the month is it more susceptible to goading and responses of course or sleep deprivation. I really think of airline flying. I want to do a psychological test or a study, I can’t find anybody to do it. Whereas from beginning to end to checking in and doing all things we do, it’s a wonder that more people don’t blow up on planes.
Jacob: Yeah, exactly.
Timothy: And then you add alcohol into it or they’re frustrated or whatever. You know what they need most of the time in these airline situations, is a timeout room.
Jacob: Correct.
Timothy: I’m not telling you they shouldn’t be pulled off the plane, but arresting them banning them from life, making their life even worse really.
Jacob: That’s going to solve so things. That’ll solve all of the problems.
Timothy: Oh yeah, that’ll calm the way down.
Jacob: Yeah.
Timothy: And it’s not like the airlines aren’t. Let us say a little sloppy with your seats and all kinds of stuff.
Jacob: Yeah.
Timothy: You just throw in all the different and we’ll probably do a whole podcast. Well, I’ll do my own psychological study and we’ll come back at it but the point is, well, let’s go to Proverbs 19:11. That’s the point. I’m trying to keep this a little bit tight. Jacob, read Proverbs chapter 19 verse 11.
Jacob: “A man’s wisdom gives him patience; it is to his glory to overlook an offense”.
Timothy: It is his glory to overlook an offense”. As a Christian, I literally do that all the time especially if I’m talking to somebody about scripture or whatever because they always normally attack the messenger and they’ll come at me. Most of the time, I just ignore. It’s not worth the time, I’m trying to love them and press on with it. So, it’s to our glory in Jesus Christ to overlook and overlook it. Like and that’s what that commercial does, that commercial overlooks the offense that’s happening, correct?
Jacob: Correct.
Timothy: And it actually adds a touch of humor to it that I think just smooths it out a whole lot. I was highly impressed with them even doing that commercial. Jacob, I know it’ll run us on time but go and play that again.
Jacob: Okay. Commercial: Jump. Get off. Throw it all the stuff. One insert. Come. Shop. Shop. Shop. Shop. It’s not Cheshire. Ford Bantam, the bucky that helps build the nation.
Timothy: Any thoughts on that Jacob before we move on?
Jacob: I didn’t notice the first time that they swapped the sign. The name of the company is different.
Timothy: Yeah, it’s really well thought out. Let’s do one more African one. Jacob, go by the Consider Podcast website.
Jacob: Okay.
Timothy: Where the link is. I didn’t, for some reason don’t have it particularly downloaded. Not a problem and then you’re going to want to look for, this is the toothbrush one. So, it’s called Take Down with a Smile. It’s about two pages in. It was, while you’re finding that it was a pleasure really to watch this because what she does is she takes ignorance and we’re all ignorant of certain things. I’ve just learned to okay yeah, I’m ignorant, teach me, show me. And she really applies without knowing I don’t know that she’s a Christian or whatever. But she comes in with a touch of sarcasm, but it’s done in a very gentle and loving fashion and it just disarms I think the ignorance and makes a real point. You find it there?
Jacob: Yes, so oh the second one. The toothbrush one.
Timothy: Yeah. So, go ahead and play that one.
Commercial: Do you have toothbrushes to brush your teeth in Africa? No, we don’t have toothbrushes to brush our teeth in Africa. But anytime we need to brush our teeth, we just go to the bush and grab a lizard by its head, then use it still to brush our teeth. The older the person, the larger the lizard and that’s how we survive without toothbrushes in Africa.
Timothy: What do you think? I’m sorry, I cut it off then. What do you think?
Jacob: That’s pretty funny. Yeah.
Timothy: It is and it forms and it has a touch of sarcasm to it.
Jacob: Oh yeah.
Timothy: Very nice, very lovely done. Again, I’d like to see more of those things done to kind of communicate a lot of things. Now I need to make a word about sarcasm. This is really good. So, let’s go ahead since we’ve got time. Go ahead and do the one above that. Do and it is do Africa live in houses.
Jacob: Okay, oops.
Timothy: It’s on same page there. Just right there.
Jacob: I clicked off too quick. Okay, here we go.
Commercial: Africa is beautiful. Does Africa have houses. Actually, we don’t have any houses in Africa. The only houses we have here are hots which are already occupied by the rich people. But for those of us who are poor, we just live in the jungle with the wild animals. Sometimes we cuddle up in the lion’s den with the lions or sleep in the zebra cave with the zebras. And also, sometimes we just sleep on trees and that’s how we survive without houses in Africa. Yeah.
Timothy: And of course, she’s standing in front of her, a lot homes got solar panels.
Jacob: Solar panels, yeah. You can see a bunch of homes in the valley.
Timothy: Can you imagine the uproar if somebody in a minority group did this.
Jacob: Oh yeah, I see what you mean. Yeah, meaning if you yeah.
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Timothy: The uproar would be huge, and the violence associated with it. She’s using sarcasm and I want to kind of explore a little bit. This is not a ministry of sarcasm like the Babylon B that they consider that to be their whole ministry and that is the opposite of Jesus Christ. It’s opposed to the cross of Jesus Christ. Well, they don’t even have the fundamental idea what it means to come to Jesus. They’re the ones weren’t they the ones that try Elon Musk in being a Christian.
Jacob: Yeah, it was like a word game round robin scenario and then yeah, they were supposedly like saved Elon Musk. According to them, I think.
Timothy: And I’m not so sure Elon didn’t take it up on the off or whatever it was. But let’s understand clearly there is no ministry of sarcasm. In fact, in the Bible, Jacob can you name me any sarcasm that’s actually in the Bible?
Jacob: None’s coming to mind.
Timothy: Well, that’s Interesting. The only time that sarcasm is actually used in the Bible is toward the Christian church. Paul will be talking about the insanity in the church, men boasting about one another.
Jacob: Yeah.
Timothy: And in second Corinthians 11:21, he says, “To my shame, I admit that we were too weak for that”. And there’s a whole sarcasm thing he’s going through. We won’t explore it today. As a side note, I’ve written a book called “Insanity in The Church”, and that’s kind of that well that is dealt with. But the point is that when you apply sarcasm to people in the world, did you soften them up for the gospel or do you make them more embittered on an emotional level, Jacob?
Jacob: Sarcasm is just a sneaky way to like usually look down on someone.
Timothy: It is. It doesn’t do anything to build them up. The people in the world they’ll make fun of Biden or whatever in a sarcastic kind of way. You’re not preaching the gospel. You’re actually hardening them up. Now granted you’re going to make a lot of money and a lot of people are going to like you but it it’s not the gospel of Jesus Christ. Can sarcasm sometimes work? Yes, just like we’re watching here. And Paul can use it, but I just want to sympathize and I’m going to have to move on that the only time that I found sarcasm in scripture. Somebody has another one let me know was applied toward the church and that’s just even very rare. I don’t remember a single time when Jesus turned and said, oh well, I’m just too holy for that or something like that. You don’t recognize any sarcasm. So, like all words in Jesus Christ, it is we need God to tame our tongue. There’re so many violations of scripture. We’re not even supposed to talk evil about those in leadership. I’m not telling you doesn’t ever have us present the truth or to be bold or to be clear or maybe to use sarcasm in the air, but it is a rare thing. Because you’re not winning people over. You’re just hardening them emotionally to coming to you. It’s a prideful jump up on somebody of just showing them how stupid they are. You don’t sense this kind of love that we saw within the African lady talking about toothbrushes and homes with sarcasm United States. Am I correct on that, Jacob?
Jacob: Correct.
Timothy: Alright, let’s go on to the next one. This is the pie in the face wrap. Commercial: Yo, babe. What? Hurry up, quick. What? Quick, quick. What? I see your little contraption. The girl’s slick and so tall.
Timothy: What do you think, Jacob?
Jacob: That’s pretty funny. It’s pretty funny.
Timothy: It’s a good thing YouTube and these few things went around when I was young and married. I’m too little too old. Don’t quite have the energy level for that. Well, I’m not married so I don’t have that opportunity. Ecclesiastes 9:7. Go ahead and read that Jacob, because I know you’re married and they’re having fun together. But let’s put this, let’s take it all captive fresh. For those that couldn’t see it, what he did was she’s in the kitchen and they he wraps the doorway at the top with Saran Wraps, so she can see that she comes around the corner. And there’re a lot of YouTube out there where the saran wrap is there and people can’t see and they come marching into it and they do with cats and dogs and everybody else. Please don’t go wild on this but anyway, so he wraps it so she can see it. And what you don’t see is he’s around the corner with a whipped cream pie in his hand. So, when she walks around, you hear her say, oh I see your little contraption there, right? In fact, I’m going to have you play this again before we do the scripture.
Jacob: Yeah.
Timothy: And he’s holding the pie there and so when she bends down to go underneath the saran wrap, what does he do?
Jacob: He pies her.
Timothy: He pies her and then they go off from there. It was a joy to watch. She doesn’t get angry. They’re just having fun. There’s a there’s a frog in there. There’s a plane together. It was just nice to witness. Play it again Jacob, and then let’s look at the scripture and take it captive in Jesus Christ.
Commercial: Yo babe. What? Hurry up. Quick. What? Quick. Quick. What? I see your little contraption. The girl’s slick. You’re so tall.
Timothy: Now we see in Ecclesiastes 9:11. This is very fitting. “Go eat your food with gladness”. Yeah, that’s one way to eat whipped cream, isn’t it?
Jacob: Yeah.
Timothy: Did you like that or would you?
Jacob: Yeah, I like it?
Timothy: Yeah, it’s very cute. “And drink your wine with a joyful heart. For it is now that God favors what you do”. You’re young and you’re married. Enjoy your time with each other. Believe me it goes by very very quickly. I’m widowed so I’m looking back at decades of what went on marriage and all kinds of things. So, there was a lot of joy that went on. I won’t go into all the escapades that we went through. But it also warns us and here’s where the suffering of the cross or holiness comes in. You can have those fun and do those fun, but we’re not just dissipating ourselves into the world. Read verse 8 there Jacob, and what does it say?
Jacob: “Always be clothed in white, and always anoint your head with oil”.
Timothy: Always be clothed in white. Make sure everything’s done in a holy way. Make sure it’s unclean. Make sure your clothes are clean. It’s easy to get stained robes even as we follow Jesus Christ, because we all James says stumble in many ways. And anoint your head with oil. Make sure the Holy Spirit is really pouring down love upon the marriage and upon the situation. Now granted the other person, your other partner may not allow this, but make sure it is with you always and where you have a good and decent marriage. Make sure those two things, you’re always clothed in white and your head is anointed with oil and move forward. And let’s add a little bit more the offense of the cross to it. Let’s go where it really adds, like yeah have fun but realize life isn’t all about fun and it may not always be there and there’s a lot of suffering in Christ. Read verse 9 there, Jacob.
Jacob: “Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that the God has given you under the sun. All your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and your toilsome labor under the sun”.
Timothy: This idolatry of family needs to be put to death in the church and I’ll just leave it at that for a moment. But it says, “Enjoy life with your wife”. Nobody’s pulling away the joy from a marriage whom you love. All of those things are good and holy if you’re anointed and your clothes are clean. It goes on to say all the days of this meaningless life. Life is meaningless. The faster people realize there is no meaning to life. There is none and give up that search and learn to embrace the fact, the overwhelming fact that life is meaningless that God has given you under the sun all your meaningless days. He’s kind of emphasized that a couple times, don’t you think? For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun. Treasure the times. You can put a pie on somebody’s face or do ashram because it’s rare. We’re under toilsome labor. That’s our lot in life. It’s what God has sat down and said, okay, here’s your Mary enjoy it but understand life itself is meaningless. Life will have a lot of turmoil. You’re going to have a lot of toilsome labor under the sun. That is your lot. It’s not going to change. I’m not telling you can’t spend your time trying to get out from under it but that’s a futile thing. You’re never going to put meaning into life and one way or another, you’re always going to be laboring under the sun. Any thoughts on that, Jacob?
Jacob: Nope.
Timothy: Alright, let’s go to the flip side now and we’re going to play one This is the negative side of marriage if you get a bad partner or whatever. So, we’re going to talk about that in a moment. Let’s play the sandwich video.
Sandwich video: Why? Why can’t I have that half?
Man: Okay here.
Girl: But why did you want to give me that to begin with?
Man: It’s the same thing. It’s the same thing. It’s literally the same sandwich cut in half.
Girl: But why didn’t you want to give me that one first?
Man: I don’t care which one you want. Here. You want this one? Take it.
Girl: No. I want that one now. Blaze.
Man: Which one you want now? It’s same thing.
Girl: Never mind. I don’t want anything.
Timothy: I can’t help but laugh at that. Part of it is I’ve been through being married you get into ridiculous arguments.
Jacob: Yeah.
Timothy: I don’t ever remember one that bad.
Jacob: Yeah.
Timothy: But and you want to turn to this guy, do you?
Jacob: No, no, no I’m joking my own wife.
Timothy: Oh okay. Well, she’s not here to defend herself.
Jacob: I’m not going to give an example but I understand.
Timothy: Okay you understand. Exactly. That’s why I’ll laugh because the judge that told me I should go into marriage counseling. I wanted to go; are you nuts?
Jacob: Yeah.
Timothy: I’ve said this before. I’d rather shoot my foot, on both feet and both my hands before I would ever even begin to do that. Well, let’s look at Proverbs 21 verse 9. Because you really want to turn to this kid and go, get out. Don’t move any forward. If this is the beginning and the dating and this is where things are at, it doesn’t get better unless she is going to pick up her cross and follow Jesus Christ and you can still expect that’s going to be a wrestling environment. She’s not quite ins missive. Spirit off hand, right Jacob?
Jacob: Correct.
Timothy: Alright. So, Proverbs 21 verse 9 says what? “Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife”. I’ve seen that over many decades where men have an oppressive woman or an opinion woman, however you want to look at it and they just slowly move away to the corner there. They go somewhere else. They do their thing. They get very quiet. They become a non-person. It’s really sad when I see it when I’m talking and the and the wife is just doing all the talking. You can tell the husband is not allowed to say one or two words going on. Go ahead and read Proverbs 21:19, because God goes down a few verses here and repeats it again. Go ahead and read that one, Jacob.
Jacob: “Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and ill-tempered wife”.
Timothy: “Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and ill-tempered wife”. Proverbs 21:9 says, “Go to the corner of your roof”. Proverbs 21:19 says, “Go to the desert”. We kind of get in the clue here, right? So, as if because what happens is you realize wait a minute these arguments are futile and I see that in men who get older. They’ve been dethroned from leading the household and all they can do is just get quiet and just go about their life. And it’s really sad to watch both the woman is harmed, the home is harmed and the men no longer become men. That’s even more so today. God repeats it again Proverbs 25 verse 24, “Better to live on the corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife”. Proverbs 27:15, “A quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping on a rainy day”. I think I did some sermons entitled no dripping allowed. Right Jacob? Fortunately, those are somewhere and I don’t think anybody can find them but they may be out there somewhere. Alright, I want to stop in a moment because remember the video there I said that we added. We’re getting low on time here and I’ve got a lot more. But I want to end with this one. Go ahead and play. This is an ATF. What did ATF stand for, Jacob?
Jacob: ATF?
Timothy: For the Firearm.
Jacob: Yeah.
Timothy: What the? Look it up there.
Jacob: Okay.
Timothy: Let’s real quick and see what it says.
Jacob: Well, for some reason ATF it’s the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms. There we go. ATF. Alcohol Tobacco Firearms.
Timothy: Okay. Play the video for those people that are not watching the front of the computer. There’s not going to be any words to it. What he’s comparing the ATF 2 is the Gestapo and he has a gun and a rifle and this is on YouTube. So, this is how much I don’t think law enforcement realize just how, maybe they do how much animosity is out there. And really my point will be here in a moment is we need to pray for the ATF. We need to pray for people in law enforcement, the legal thing. Because their souls are really doomed if they continue in this oppression. Go ahead and play that Jacob.
Timothy: You know with all the censoring ship that goes on with in YouTube, I was really surprised this one was on there.
Jacob: Sure. It is kind of funny.
Timothy: Yeah, it is funny and it’s well done.
Jacob: Yeah.
Timothy: And I wish I could run like that. I’m looking at going wow. And he certainly is proficient with what he’s carrying. So, he’s well prepared.
Jacob: I’ve seen that kid before or the guy. I’ve seen a couple other gun videos with him.
Timothy: We’ll see everybody’s a kid to me because I’m old enough now. So, any other thoughts on that kind of, I mean I want to get to scripture here but any thought you’ve got at the moment.
Jacob: Well, I was just going to, aren’t both sides guilty because the police have bred this us versus them. Even in the video right the ATF is rolling up with a bunch of guns and a bunch of dudes. So, then the joke is that he’s calling his buddy right and his guy is running, right? It’s I’m on your team, I’m here to help you and he’s got his guns and stuff. But both sides are guilty of us versus them, but the cops are kind of more guilty because they have, I guess they were the ones to abuse people first I don’t know.
Timothy: Everything you said it’s true. It’s absolutely true.
Jacob: But both sides are inflaming, right? So yeah, it is true. The ATF just rolls up on people. Many times, they could potentially even be innocent or didn’t really do anything wrong or you know what I mean? Like we know that happens. But then this other guy’s making this funny video that like oh well no matter what I’m going to be there with my guns. And it’s like well that’s not a Christian attitude for sure.
Timothy: And that’s what we’re going to look at. You really have the ATF pointing the finger at this kid and then the kids pointing at the ATM. In terms of facts, you’re both correct. It is and quickly turning into a Gestapo situation. We’re turning into a police state. There’s no doubt about it. I mean, we went through a hate crime where we’re kicked out of town and that was 10 years ago and things have escalated even more so. The message of the gospel and this is what I want us to get to because it’s going to be difficult to hold on to not striking back. As this all begins to escalate and the government and the spiritual forces even those so called in the church are doing everything in their power to inflame on us versus them. And what’s missing is we’re not picking up the cross. I want to pick up my cross and love the kid that is running to defend himself and his friend and I want to love the ATF. Because both are headed to the same place called hell if they don’t repent. Let’s go to John chapter 18 verse 11 and Jesus is getting ready to go to the cross and the ATF there has showed up in the Garden of Gethsemane and the police and the religious people are there. They’re going to crucify him. He knows where he’s going. Well, he doesn’t pick up a bunch of swords and he doesn’t get, Jesus doesn’t get a bunch of people together to defend himself. He knows I’m going to have to go to the cross. I’m going to have to suffer in this and it’s going to be the governing authorities. It’s going to be the police. It’s going to be the legal system that’s going to deny me justice and put me on the cross. So, he gives a command to Peter because all of our initial reaction in our flesh and this is all of us. This is to defend ourselves, correct?
Jacob: Correct.
Timothy: We’ve had a lot of discussions about can a Christian own a gun or not own a gun and we’ll go through that. I’m not going to go through and it’s not as easy as saying no they Shouldn’t or no they should. We’ll come back to that later. First, we’re looking at the attitude of the heart and taking captive every thought and pretension whether it be on the kid that’s running to defend his friend or the ATF running to defend their selves. In John 18:11 says, “Jesus commanded Peter”. This is not an option. These groups that are going out for the end times and they’re bringing their guns and they’re getting together to what? Save themselves or the life of protective. It is a command by God to put away your sword. Jesus commanded Peter, “Put your sword away”. I mean, how much more clear can Jesus be? It is not time to defend ourselves. When they come for you, they’re coming for you and they will win. The question is, will you stand before God saying, I love those who surrounded my house. I love those who took everything and all my joys from, everything that I had during the hate crime. Whether it be family, whether it be whatever was totally destroyed all the things our own job whatever. The goal was not to hate the people coming after me but to love them and Jesus Christ. It was time to pick up the cup, the suffering that Jesus had of mine and that’s exactly what Jesus said to Peter. “Put your sword away. Shall I not drink the cup the father has given me”. Verse 12 goes on to say, “Then the detachment of soldiers with its commander and the Jewish officials arrested Jesus. They bound him and took him out to be tried and crucified”. That’s where we’re headed. We’re not going to be raptured out. The church is not going to be delivered from this suffering. We’re going to have to prepare ourselves, the church around us and the church is certainly not getting ready to put away the swords and to drink whatever the cup is. God has laid out for you to do his will. There are people that Jesus Christ that God wants you to suffer for. Whether you save their souls or not, that’s a different story. It is the suffering that God has said you your family or you who you are must go through. And we need Jesus knew. Jesus knew from baptism on where this was going to end, correct?
Jacob: Correct.
Timothy: So, every family, I’m not telling you God’s going to lay it out. I mean it’s a good thing God didn’t lay out the whole plan. I don’t know. I’d probably taken too many things in my own hands. But step by step. I knew this wasn’t leading to some glorious huge mega church. I knew it was leading to persecution and prosecution and opposition and all those things. I just didn’t know where it was going to come from. Over the decades and over the years, you prepare your heart. You drink a little bit of the cup that God gives you day by day so that when the time comes and that full cup of suffering, that love of Jesus Christ, the love of the father in us, we drink that full cup and we know exactly how to love the ATF or how to love this individual here. This is not an easy thing to get to and if there’s anybody that tells you this, they’re not doing it and they’re not prepared and they’re liable to get smacked really hard. Remember Peter? Yeah. I won’t deny you. I won’t do those things and everybody runs and scattered. So be careful more than careful. Be terrified of self-confidence. Jacob, any thoughts on that?
Jacob: No, only that a lot of, so Jesus when they first come to arrest them and he says yes, it’s me and they all fall down. So, Jesus had the power. He had the guns. He had the swords. He could do it and he didn’t. So even today like owning a gun not only gun, whether you have a gun, whether you don’t have a gun, but yeah, exactly what you’re saying. What is the cup God wants you to drink?
Timothy: Better keep it short. Take us out Jacob.
Outro: This has been the Consider Podcast at www.archive.consider.info where yesterday’s folly is today’s madness. In the beginning, the unrepentant sinners words are folly. At the end, they are wicked madness. Ecclesiastes 10:13. Judgement begins with the house of God. Therefore, let everyone who loves the Lord with an undying love pick up their cross and walk the talk. As Peter the wrote. “Therefore, prepare your minds for action. Be self-controlled”. First Peter 1:13-14. The Considered Podcast, examining today’s events and Paulorrow’s realities. www.archive.consider.info.
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