Bible Bibs and a Prayer Season 3 Episode 66

Singer: Brother Jim's got the mic in hand.

Singer: David's laughing like a one man band talking disco, bell bottom

Singer: flares and a little bit of scripture to say your prayers.

Singer: Yes, it's the past, it's the present.

Singer: It's the holy.

Singer: Sit back and join us.

Singer: Bible bids and a prayer.

Singer: Bible bids and a prayer.

Singer: We're keeping it real.

Singer: From the red, white and blue to the spinning wheel.

Singer: It's stories and devotion.

Singer: Good vibes to share.

Singer: Come on and listen to Bible bibs and a prayer.

Brother Jim: Hey what's up everyone?

Brother Jim: It's time my friends.

Brother Jim: Time for Bible bibs and a prayer.

Brother Jim: Welcome to the podcast that absolutely no one asked for, but

Brother Jim: you are getting it anyways.

Brother Jim: And if you're here to learn

Brother Jim: something today, well, let's

Brother Jim: just say you might want to

Brother Jim: adjust those expectations

Brother Jim: accordingly.

Brother Jim: Welcome back to the podcast that keeps you listening to the for

Brother Jim: reasons David and myself, we don't fully understand, but hey,

Brother Jim: we are not asking the questions.

Brother Jim: We are just grateful you are here.

Brother Jim: So go ahead, grab your coffee, ignore your responsibilities for

Brother Jim: just a few moments, pretend your inbox does not exist and let us

Brother Jim: get into it, shall we?

Brother Jim: Because around here we believe

Brother Jim: life is serious enough already,

Brother Jim: so we might as well walk through

Brother Jim: it with a little faith, a little

Brother Jim: laughter, and a whole lot of

Brother Jim: grace.

Brother Jim: And remember, he did not just stumble into a podcast.

Brother Jim: You wandered into a way.

Brother Jim: We are figuring out as we go kind of morning.

Brother Jim: Hey, friends.

Brother Jim: A burglar broke into our house.

Brother Jim: I put the little red light on his chest and the cat took care

Brother Jim: of the rest.

Brother Jim: By the way, smaller babies may be delivered by stork, but heavy

Brother Jim: ones need a crane.

Brother Jim: Uh, yes, it is double joke.

Brother Jim: Thursday.

Brother Jim: So let's turn this in from a conversation into an experience.

Brother Jim: What a blessing.

Brother Jim: Right, miss Ida Lee.

Brother Jim: Mr. Dan the chicken man.

Brother Jim: Grumpy Lynn, our little cute monkey here.

Brother Jim: And of course, Tom the turkey.

Brother Jim: We got our barnyard hill here all together.

Brother Jim: And you know what?

Brother Jim: We're still hanging on and still

Brother Jim: showing up like it's a full time

Brother Jim: job.

Brother Jim: So in some days, I'm sure David

Brother Jim: would agree it is a full time

Brother Jim: job.

Brother Jim: But hey, saying all that good morning to you.

Brother Jim: Good morning our friends.

Brother Jim: Good morning world.

Brother Jim: Let us take a moment and thank God for another beautiful day.

Brother Jim: Another another chance to bring to breathe life air into our

Brother Jim: lungs and another opportunity to grow, learn and try again.

Brother Jim: Because here on Bible bibs and a prayer, we do not just roll out

Brother Jim: of bed and survive the morning.

Brother Jim: No, no, no. We start with gratitude.

Brother Jim: We start with good conversation

Brother Jim: and we start with positive

Brother Jim: energy.

Brother Jim: And yes, apparently we start

Brother Jim: with questionable jokes and a

Brother Jim: cast of characters that probably

Brother Jim: should not be trusted with a

Brother Jim: microphone.

Brother Jim: But that is what makes it so fun.

Brother Jim: And remember, friends, let's turn us in from a conversation

Brother Jim: into an experience.

Brother Jim: So loosen up a little, Smile a little, shake a little, laugh a

Brother Jim: little, and let us make this double joke Thursday.

Brother Jim: Something worth remembering.

Brother Jim: And now joining me, as always, is my co-host, a man who claims

Brother Jim: to be still under construction.

Brother Jim: But the work site has been active for years.

Brother Jim: He is powered by coffee, prayer

Brother Jim: and last minute Bible verses he

Brother Jim: swear he totally had memorized

Brother Jim: already.

Brother Jim: A man who loves the Lord loves people and occasionally forgets

Brother Jim: which mic is on.

Brother Jim: So let's hear it.

Brother Jim: Yes, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages.

Brother Jim: Let's hear it.

Brother Jim: For a man among men.

Brother Jim: A face that only a mother could love.

Brother Jim: And even she sometimes pauses for dramatic effect.

Brother Jim: Please welcome the one, the only, Mr. David Keener.

Brother Jim: Not just a co-host, but one of

Brother Jim: my best friends in the whole

Brother Jim: wide world.

Brother Jim: Good morning sir.

David: Good morning.

David: How are we doing today?

Brother Jim: Yeah, we're doing we're doing fumbling all over the mic.

Brother Jim: You know.

David: I recently got a job as a security guard, and my boss told

David: me that my job as a security guard is to watch the office.

David: So I'm on season six, and I've

David: yet to figure out what it has to

David: do with security, but that was a

David: great show.

David: By the way, The Office, did you ever watch that?

Brother Jim: I've watched bits and pieces.

David: Oh man.

David: Fantastic show.

David: That's one they need to bring back.

Brother Jim: Yes!

Brother Jim: Yeah. Oh, they had the one guy.

Brother Jim: Uh, there's quite a few stars out of that one, isn't it?

David: I think they made quite a few stars out of that one.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Yeah. Oh, the one guy, uh, uh.

David: He's been in everything.

David: Like, his name escapes me right now.

David: He was.

David: He played Michael Scott in the show.

Brother Jim: Oh, yeah, there's quite a few.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: And then the weird guy.

David: Uh, Dwight.

David: Dwight?

Brother Jim: Yes. That guy has a face that.

Brother Jim: Yes, yes, yes.

Brother Jim: But, uh, I forget where he's at now.

Brother Jim: Already?

David: No, no. Well, I mean, I.

Brother Jim: Joke of the day, since it's.

David: Since it's double joke of the day, I can tell you that.

David: Did you know that ten plus ten

David: and eleven plus eleven are the

David: same thing.

David: No, because ten plus ten is

David: twenty and eleven plus eleven is

David: twenty two.

Brother Jim: I'm sure we got some people there saying, wait a minute, I

Brother Jim: need to write this down.

Brother Jim: So. You ever run across them where they do like brain teasers

Brother Jim: on social media?

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: You know, like a, an equation to figure it out.

Brother Jim: And I love going in to read the

Brother Jim: comments because they're so

Brother Jim: there's such a wide variety of

Brother Jim: answers.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: And then people are arguing over their answers, right.

Brother Jim: And it's like, oh my goodness, don't we have something better

Brother Jim: to do with our time?

Brother Jim: Thus saying, the man who's sitting there reading the

Brother Jim: comments to the equation.

Brother Jim: So are the things we entertain ourselves with.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: Big plans for the weekend, my friend.

David: Oh, not that I know of.

David: I'm trying to think.

David: Is there any plans for this weekend?

Brother Jim: Memorial day weekend coming up, brother.

David: Yeah. Oh that's right.

David: Yeah. Yes.

David: I don't know that I have any major plans.

David: I hope to do some more grilling

David: out there on the on the

David: Blackstone.

David: I did s'mores on that thing the other day.

Brother Jim: Really?

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Not a s'mores guy.

Brother Jim: Gotta be honest.

David: I mean, I don't want to eat like fifteen of them, but I'll eat

David: one or two.

David: But we wanted to do s'mores.

David: And, uh, I said, I bet I can do those on the Blackstone.

David: I looked it up and sure enough, I can.

David: So not bad for the first time.

David: Need a little refinement on it, right?

David: But, uh, yeah, they turn out pretty good on there.

Brother Jim: I ran across a guy.

Brother Jim: I couldn't tell you the name of it.

Brother Jim: They live down in Florida and he just came out.

Brother Jim: He's a golfer, which I thought of you.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: And of course, he lives in a beautiful home.

Brother Jim: Beautiful wife, beautiful kid, you know, just blah, blah, blah.

Brother Jim: And he just came out with this new line of seasonings.

Brother Jim: Backyard nine, I think is what it called.

Brother Jim: It's called.

Brother Jim: So anyway, she's, he's like, what do you want for lunch?

Brother Jim: What do you want for dinner?

Brother Jim: And she'll bring up something, you know, really out there.

Brother Jim: And he's like, I can make that.

Brother Jim: And it goes through.

Brother Jim: Goes through the course of, uh, making whatever.

Brother Jim: But I tell you what, this guy.

Brother Jim: Uh, I'm a, I'm sorry, I

Brother Jim: shouldn't judge, but him and I

Brother Jim: were in two different

Brother Jim: lifestyles, let's put it that

Brother Jim: way.

David: Phil Robertson would say he's a yuppie.

Brother Jim: Yeah. Yeah, maybe.

Brother Jim: Yeah, I don't want to, but his appearance is way.

Brother Jim: We're in different class levels.

David: A little too much time in the cul de sac.

Brother Jim: Yeah. There you go.

Brother Jim: Cul de sac living.

Brother Jim: But man, the stuff he creates is amazing.

Brother Jim: And he lists all the menu or how

Brother Jim: to create it right there, the

Brother Jim: menu and everything and the

Brother Jim: ingredients.

Brother Jim: And it's like, but he did smash burgers the other night and it

Brother Jim: was very impressive.

Brother Jim: And he used his Blackstone to do

Brother Jim: the fries, homemade French fries

Brother Jim: and everything.

Brother Jim: And, uh, kudos to him because, I mean, he really the guy knows

Brother Jim: how to cook.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: But of course, what a great way

Brother Jim: to sponsor his new seasoning

Brother Jim: that.

Brother Jim: Oh, I chuckled, he went into some store down in Florida I've

Brother Jim: never heard of.

Brother Jim: And he said, it's just amazing, which I get to see your new, uh,

Brother Jim: something you created.

Brother Jim: And he's really hyping it up and he's like, you know, it's fun.

Brother Jim: We've put so much time and

Brother Jim: effort into this like six to

Brother Jim: eight months.

David: And I'm thinking.

Brother Jim: That might have not been such a great selling point there.

David: Right?

Brother Jim: I whipped up all these ingredients six to eight months

Brother Jim: and have it packaged, marketed and on the shelf.

Brother Jim: So maybe if he could have extended the truth a little bit,

Brother Jim: but, uh, how about you guys?

Brother Jim: Big plans for the weekend, Memorial day weekend coming up

Brother Jim: around, uh, how is the yard, uh, landscape coming along?

Brother Jim: Uh, are we done?

Brother Jim: Are we halfway through?

Brother Jim: Have we even started?

Brother Jim: Do you have your gardens in?

Brother Jim: Tell you, David, I'm glad I haven't got mine in yet.

Brother Jim: With the frost.

David: Yeah, yeah.

Brother Jim: Yeah. I've got the tractor down

Brother Jim: there at the tiller on ready to

Brother Jim: go, but just kind of waiting to

Brother Jim: see.

Brother Jim: What are we doing here?

Brother Jim: Uh, I am going to hit Marty and Mary up on that.

Brother Jim: That free offer for plants and that too.

Brother Jim: Oh, yeah.

Brother Jim: What you got?

Brother Jim: Oh, another thing he uses is garlic.

Brother Jim: Do you use garlic?

Brother Jim: I'm talking raw garlic.

David: Uh, we use garlic in, like, making homemade Alfredo, but

David: other than that, no.

Brother Jim: Yeah. Every menu, he every dish he creates, it's it's raw

Brother Jim: garlic, you know?

Brother Jim: Wow.

Brother Jim: Smashing.

Brother Jim: And so, uh, and onions.

Brother Jim: And I'm thinking, wow, they must

Brother Jim: not do a whole lot of kissing

Brother Jim: because they chew a lot of

Brother Jim: bubble gum and breath mints

Brother Jim: because.

Brother Jim: Wow.

Brother Jim: But yeah, I don't even know what

Brother Jim: we're doing yet, to be honest

Brother Jim: with you.

Brother Jim: I just want to get some more

Brother Jim: landscaping done around the

Brother Jim: house.

David: And yeah, I gotta get mulching done.

Brother Jim: Yeah. Getting there, getting there.

Brother Jim: Yeah. So but, uh, yeah, what

Brother Jim: they're calling well, this week

Brother Jim: is we're recording, you know, a

Brother Jim: couple hot days, couple cool

Brother Jim: days.

David: Yeah, it was like ninety on Monday or something.

Brother Jim: Let me ask you something.

Brother Jim: Is this complete madness, insanity that lives in profanity

Brother Jim: in my mind?

Brother Jim: The wife and I and Ellie were

Brother Jim: looking at a vacation to get

Brother Jim: away.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: And due to time and everything, it looks like July.

Brother Jim: Now you all know me with heat.

Brother Jim: Me and heat don't get along.

Brother Jim: So guess where we're picking on going.

David: Probably someplace hot.

Brother Jim: Florida. Fort Myers and the third week of July.

Brother Jim: Can we?

Brother Jim: Might as well.

Brother Jim: Why don't we just trip up a book?

Brother Jim: A trip to South America?

David: Well, I'll just I'll just soak a towel in scalding hot water and

David: just throw it over top of you.

David: It'll be the same thing.

Brother Jim: So maybe we could do this.

Brother Jim: David, have an official weigh in

Brother Jim: before I leave and do an

Brother Jim: official weigh in when I get

Brother Jim: back.

David: Now, the last time you took a trip, we got some, uh, some

David: exclusive footage from the trip.

David: You're gonna you're gonna do the same thing.

David: That was enjoyable.

Brother Jim: Yeah. Yes, but, uh, it was funny.

Brother Jim: I was talking with another buddy, and, uh, we were talking

Brother Jim: the two biggest.

Brother Jim: One of the two biggest things in my life that drives me nuts is

Brother Jim: one, shopping for a new car.

Brother Jim: I just hate dealing with cars.

Brother Jim: Not even used.

Brother Jim: Whatever.

Brother Jim: I'm not a Wheeler and a dealer

Brother Jim: and two is buying or booking

Brother Jim: vacations.

Brother Jim: Yeah, because I like to read the

Brother Jim: comments, see what other people

Brother Jim: say.

Brother Jim: And there's not a perfect hotel,

Brother Jim: at least in our price range, you

Brother Jim: know.

David: Yeah. Right.

Brother Jim: So you think you find one and

Brother Jim: then you start reading the

Brother Jim: comments.

Brother Jim: You're like, uh, drives me nuts

Brother Jim: and carries one and just keeps

Brother Jim: fine and fine and fine and God

Brother Jim: bless her.

Brother Jim: And I keep going.

Brother Jim: Yeah, I don't know, but, uh, she finally found one.

Brother Jim: But I'm thinking, oh, Lord, I'm going to die down there if we go

Brother Jim: up and it is a direct flight.

Brother Jim: So that'll be nice.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: But, uh, because I remember we went to Disney World in June and

Brother Jim: she had bought, when we first got married and she had bought

Brother Jim: me a bunch of new tank tops.

Brother Jim: And I remember by nine o'clock, standing in line, she had got me

Brother Jim: some gray ones.

Brother Jim: I mean, not to be disgusting, folks, but all the way down to

Brother Jim: the belly from the top, but was just so it's like, how do people

Brother Jim: survive down here?

Brother Jim: How do people work?

Brother Jim: I mean, it's just it's.

David: A miserable.

Brother Jim: World to me.

Brother Jim: And then you go further south.

Brother Jim: I mean, yeah, there is no way.

Brother Jim: So yeah, that ought to be interesting, David.

Brother Jim: But we might do an official weigh in and then a weigh in.

David: There you go.

Brother Jim: Back. How much water weight did,

Brother Jim: uh, Brother Jim lose on this

Brother Jim: one?

Brother Jim: Uh, I might come back like a shriveled up prune.

Brother Jim: All righty.

Brother Jim: But, hey, what do you got going on again?

Brother Jim: Let us know in the comments.

Brother Jim: We'd love to hear from you guys.

Brother Jim: You got any vacation plans yourself?

Brother Jim: We're heading into vacation time.

Brother Jim: Let us know where your destinations are, how you're

Brother Jim: getting there, what you're going to be up to.

Brother Jim: We would love to hear and again, share if there's any good

Brother Jim: restaurants eating experiences that like wherever you go every

Brother Jim: year, every couple years is a definite must stop.

Brother Jim: So let us know.

Brother Jim: We will definitely keep you in the loop here on what we find.

Brother Jim: But, uh, again, what about you?

Brother Jim: Big plans for the weekend rest, family time, church, sleeping in

Brother Jim: like it's a spiritual gift haha.

Brother Jim: Or trying to survive until Monday which for many we are

Brother Jim: blessed to have Monday off.

Brother Jim: But for others you gotta work.

Brother Jim: That's kind of sad.

Brother Jim: But again, let us remember as we

Brother Jim: remember why we celebrate that

Brother Jim: day.

Brother Jim: Uh, again, what a, what a an honor.

Brother Jim: Humbling experience it is to live in a country where we've

Brother Jim: been so blessed.

Brother Jim: But whatever it is, we hope it

Brother Jim: is filled with peace, laughter,

Brother Jim: and a little bit of joy and a

Brother Jim: lot of safety because weekends

Brother Jim: may come and go, but God's

Brother Jim: goodness does not take a day

Brother Jim: off.

Brother Jim: Amen to that.

Brother Jim: Alrighty then.

Brother Jim: A week has almost come to an end, friends.

Brother Jim: So let me ask you this morning.

Brother Jim: What have you done this week to

Brother Jim: make a difference in God's

Brother Jim: kingdom?

Brother Jim: Not just what you've

Brother Jim: accomplished, not what you have

Brother Jim: survived.

Brother Jim: Not what.

Brother Jim: Not what.

Brother Jim: You've checked off on a checklist.

Brother Jim: But how did you shine for Jesus in the middle of all of it?

Brother Jim: And again, the weekend is almost

Brother Jim: here, so go ahead, take a

Brother Jim: breath.

Brother Jim: Stretch those shoulders.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Maybe even crack that smile you've been hiding since Monday.

Brother Jim: Because now it is time to settle up.

Brother Jim: My friends hit the brand new weekend trail together.

Brother Jim: And listen, we know you might be a little tired.

Brother Jim: You feel tired.

Brother Jim: You're a little worn down.

Brother Jim: Maybe even a little.

Brother Jim: I just need five minutes of silence and a snack.

Brother Jim: Kind of exhausted for this guy

Brother Jim: with a cowboy hat just to shut

Brother Jim: up.

Brother Jim: That's okay.

Brother Jim: Come on, you can do this.

Brother Jim: You're almost there.

Brother Jim: God has carried you through the

Brother Jim: week, and he's not done with you

Brother Jim: yet.

Brother Jim: So step into this weekend with faith.

Brother Jim: Step into it with joy.

Brother Jim: Step into it knowing that God still has purpose for you even

Brother Jim: on your days off.

Brother Jim: And remember, friends, you're not just ending a week.

Brother Jim: You are walking into another

Brother Jim: opportunity to live, to love,

Brother Jim: and to shine for the kingdom of

Brother Jim: God.

Brother Jim: Now there was a little boy named Johnny.

Brother Jim: Oh boy.

Brother Jim: David, we.

Brother Jim: We know what Johnny does.

David: Oh, yeah.

Brother Jim: Johnny.

Brother Jim: He used to hang out at the local corner market.

Brother Jim: The owner didn't know what Johnny's problem was, but the

Brother Jim: boy would constantly tease him.

Brother Jim: They would always comment that

Brother Jim: he was two bricks shy of a load

Brother Jim: or two pickles short of a

Brother Jim: barrel.

Brother Jim: To prove it, sometimes they

Brother Jim: would offer Johnny his choice

Brother Jim: between a nickel five cents and

Brother Jim: a dime ten cents, and little

Brother Jim: Johnny would always take the

Brother Jim: nickel, and they would say,

Brother Jim: because it.

Brother Jim: And they said, because it was bigger.

Brother Jim: One day after Johnny grabbed the nickel, the store owner.

Brother Jim: He finally had it.

Brother Jim: He took him aside and said, Johnny, those boys are making

Brother Jim: fun of you.

Brother Jim: They think you don't know the

Brother Jim: dime is worth more than the

Brother Jim: nickel.

Brother Jim: Are you grabbing the nickel because it's bigger or what?

Brother Jim: Slowly, Johnny turned to the

Brother Jim: store owner and I can just

Brother Jim: picture this.

Brother Jim: A big grin appeared on his face and Johnny said, well, if I took

Brother Jim: the dime, they'd stop doing it.

Brother Jim: And so far I've saved twenty bucks.

Brother Jim: Uh uh little Johnny.

Brother Jim: He always keeps us entertained.

Brother Jim: That's right.

Brother Jim: And hopefully little Johnny's investing that wisely, so.

Brother Jim: Hey, reach out to Bible bibs and a prayer.

Brother Jim: We can help you with that.

Brother Jim: All right, today's thought.

Brother Jim: JJ Packer says hell is the ultimate display of God's

Brother Jim: justice, where the unrepentant meet their due.

Brother Jim: Now, as we continue this segment

Brother Jim: on hell, why do people laugh at

Brother Jim: hell?

Brother Jim: We dove into that this past Tuesday.

Brother Jim: Did you answer any questions for yourself?

Brother Jim: Have you ever laughed at hell?

Brother Jim: Why do you think people laugh at hell?

Brother Jim: Now, last Tuesday, as we started

Brother Jim: with number one, people laugh at

Brother Jim: hell because sin has been

Brother Jim: normalized.

Brother Jim: And that's as far as we got.

Brother Jim: Number one.

Brother Jim: Again, people laugh at hell

Brother Jim: because our society today has

Brother Jim: normalized.

Brother Jim: It's in our entertainment.

Brother Jim: It's everywhere.

Brother Jim: Let's be honest.

Brother Jim: And it's nothing we fear.

Brother Jim: True, David.

Brother Jim: Hell has become so minimized, so turned into entertainment.

Brother Jim: There's no fear of that.

Brother Jim: Again, it's a it's a lie which we know a lie.

Brother Jim: Lies come from the father of lies, who is Satan.

Brother Jim: So today, let us continue.

Brother Jim: Now we're going to look at revelation twenty one eight but

Brother Jim: the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the

Brother Jim: sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the

Brother Jim: idolaters and who all.

Brother Jim: They're all liars.

Brother Jim: Now I'm going to break for a

Brother Jim: moment there, David, practice

Brother Jim: magic arts.

Brother Jim: What does that say to you?

David: Practice of magic arts?

David: Yes, that seems like witchcraft type stuff to me.

David: I would say.

Brother Jim: Yeah, I am the great Jim weenie.

Brother Jim: Come, David and I will read your

Brother Jim: palm, look into my magic pig,

Brother Jim: and I will tell your future for

Brother Jim: twenty dollars.

David: Right, Miss Cleo, remember her?

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Brother Jim: From.

David: The TV commercials.

David: Oh yeah.

David: Miss Cleo, read your fortune or whatever.

David: Or.

Brother Jim: Uh, let's, uh.

Brother Jim: The old memory.

Brother Jim: This has become so outdated in a

Brother Jim: lot of ways, but still has

Brother Jim: relevance.

Brother Jim: The Ouija board.

David: Yeah. You know.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Oh, yeah.

Brother Jim: Hey, it's Friday night.

Brother Jim: We got pizza.

Brother Jim: We got entertainment.

Brother Jim: The parents are in bread, are in bed.

Brother Jim: Let's break out the Ouija board and see what we can summon up.

Brother Jim: Yep.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: Practice magic arts.

Brother Jim: And it's everywhere.

Brother Jim: Everywhere.

Brother Jim: But again, if we got our shades, our blinders on.

Brother Jim: We don't see that, do we, David?

David: Nope.

Brother Jim: But doesn't mean it's still there, correct?

Brother Jim: That's right.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Okay, getting back to Scripture, they will be consigned to the

Brother Jim: fiery lake of burning sulfur.

Brother Jim: This is the second death.

Brother Jim: Now, if we look at number two, jumping right in.

Brother Jim: People laugh at hell because they do not understand holiness.

Brother Jim: Many people want a God of love without a God of justice.

Brother Jim: Yes, God is loving.

Brother Jim: Yes, God is merciful.

Brother Jim: Yes, God is patient, but God is also holy.

Brother Jim: And that's where we sometimes forget.

Brother Jim: We cannot fully understand heaven or hell unless we

Brother Jim: understand the holiness of God.

Brother Jim: Sin is not small in the eyes of a holy God.

Brother Jim: Our holy God.

Brother Jim: The cross itself shows us how serious sin truly is.

Brother Jim: Jesus suffered and died because sin carries.

Brother Jim: Here's a word we don't like.

Brother Jim: Sin carries consequences.

Brother Jim: If hell were not real or serious, then why would Jesus

Brother Jim: endure the cross which.

Brother Jim: Riddle me that one, my friends, if hell were not real or

Brother Jim: serious, then why?

Brother Jim: Why did Jesus have to come and die on the cross?

Brother Jim: The world lasts because many do not realize the depth of sin or

Brother Jim: the holiness of God.

Brother Jim: And let me add a word there.

Brother Jim: The world chooses to laugh and ignore because they choose not

Brother Jim: to realize the depth of sin or the holiness of God.

Brother Jim: True.

Brother Jim: David.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: We're living in the fast lane, right?

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Yeah. We don't have time for that.

David: Yep.

Brother Jim: Been guilty of it myself.

Brother Jim: My friends.

Brother Jim: Been guilty of it.

Brother Jim: The world laughs, though.

Brother Jim: Laughs.

Brother Jim: If someone was breaking your

Brother Jim: house, David, and God forbid,

Brother Jim: pull a gun on you and your

Brother Jim: family.

Brother Jim: Are you going to be laughing about.

David: No no no.

Brother Jim: No. I highly doubt I could see a smile come to your face.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: It'd be concerned.

Brother Jim: I'd be angry.

Brother Jim: It'd be fear.

Brother Jim: It'd be all these emotions raging.

Brother Jim: Not.

Brother Jim: No. But isn't that what we're doing?

Brother Jim: In a way?

Brother Jim: We're laughing at death.

Brother Jim: Yeah, we're laughing at because let's be honest, one day we're

Brother Jim: all going to die.

David: True life is terminal.

Brother Jim: You cannot escape death.

Brother Jim: The only thing we got going for us.

Brother Jim: If Christ comes back before.

Brother Jim: Before our physical death.

Brother Jim: Here.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: That's it.

Brother Jim: So, yes, we are going to die.

Brother Jim: But again, we laugh at it.

Brother Jim: My friends, why, why, why have

Brother Jim: we become so off the

Brother Jim: reservation?

Brother Jim: And this is again where I go back to just how good Satan is

Brother Jim: with the lie.

Brother Jim: True, David, the atmosphere of the society.

Brother Jim: The world he's created.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: To where?

Brother Jim: We don't have to worry about it.

Brother Jim: We don't want to worry about it.

Brother Jim: Hey, David.

Brother Jim: Little Jimmy.

Brother Jim: Man, I've already got pro scouts coming to tee ball.

Brother Jim: He's going big.

Brother Jim: He's going pro.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Yeah. Yep. Little Jimmy.

Brother Jim: I'm being sarcastic, but I'm not.

Brother Jim: Let me ask you something, David.

Brother Jim: With your children.

Brother Jim: My children too.

Brother Jim: I mean, if God's granted them an amazing gift of being athletic.

Brother Jim: That's great.

David: Sure.

Brother Jim: But it'll come to an end, won't it?

David: Absolutely.

Brother Jim: Usually before it starts.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: So again, at the end of the day,

Brother Jim: what's more important, your

Brother Jim: child.

Brother Jim: Hours and hours and hours.

Brother Jim: Which again, nothing wrong with sports, my friends.

Brother Jim: Nothing wrong with all with sports at all.

Brother Jim: But that versus I don't even know what the odds are for your

Brother Jim: kid to make it into pro ball.

Brother Jim: You know.

David: Even if they do, what?

David: What's the longevity in pro ball?

David: Ten, ten years.

David: Fifteen years.

David: Yeah.

David: Right.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: But again, and I hate to be this way.

Brother Jim: I'm going to be speaking truth.

Brother Jim: They will die one day.

Brother Jim: So what's more important, their eternity or.

Brother Jim: Getting picked up by a division three team.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: You know, something to think about.

Brother Jim: But again, we laugh at that.

Brother Jim: Number three.

Brother Jim: People laugh at hell to hide fear.

Brother Jim: Ooh, do we like to hide things, David?

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Really?

Brother Jim: Really. David.

Brother Jim: Oh, sometimes jokes.

Brother Jim: Ooh, sometimes jokes are a mask for discomfort.

Brother Jim: You know who comes to mind?

Brother Jim: David?

David: What's up, Chris Farley?

Brother Jim: Yeah, most fat guy entertainers, which I'm going to throw Brother

Brother Jim: Jim into this list.

Brother Jim: Not that I have a hold a candle

Brother Jim: to Chris Farley, but seriously,

Brother Jim: sometimes jokes are a mask for

Brother Jim: discomfort.

Brother Jim: What better way, David, for me

Brother Jim: to say it first, to make it

Brother Jim: funny before you get your shot

Brother Jim: in?

Brother Jim: Right.

Brother Jim: And I'm not referring to David Wood, but David knows exactly.

David: What.

Brother Jim: I'm talking about because we

Brother Jim: share the same humor,

Brother Jim: unfortunately.

Brother Jim: No, seriously.

Brother Jim: I would rather make fun of myself to get it out there.

Brother Jim: Hey, I'm the fat, funny guy.

Brother Jim: So then that eliminates your opportunity to put me down.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: I'm making you laugh, which makes me feel good.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Now I'm fitting in, per se.

Brother Jim: I'm your fat guy.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Again.

Brother Jim: I mean, how many heavy comedians, actors, whatever,

Brother Jim: have dealt with that, especially on the comedian route?

Brother Jim: It's easier for them.

Brother Jim: I'm going to make you laugh at me so I don't give you the

Brother Jim: opportunity to make fun of me.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: And how unfortunate.

Brother Jim: But that trans forms over into our own life again.

Brother Jim: Sometimes jokes are a mask for discomfort.

Brother Jim: People laugh about death because they fear death.

Brother Jim: You ever been in a funeral where somebody just laughs?

Brother Jim: Yeah, a little weird.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: And it's not because of what the pastor says or the speaker says.

David: It's just they just don't know how to deal with death.

Brother Jim: To deal with, especially.

David: Children.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: They don't know how to put this all in.

Brother Jim: Some don't know how to deal with loss.

Brother Jim: They're just too young.

Brother Jim: They're immature.

Brother Jim: Yeah, but yet adults as well,

Brother Jim: sometimes they don't know how to

Brother Jim: process it.

Brother Jim: People laugh about death because they fear death.

Brother Jim: People laugh about eternity because deep down they are

Brother Jim: uncertain and also they don't truly understand eternity.

Brother Jim: And I've said this before, I think I said it last week, you

Brother Jim: know, we don't have a true comprehension of eternity.

Brother Jim: I don't believe the mind can truly comprehend eternity.

Brother Jim: You know, we have to have an endpoint, right?

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: That helps us realize things to adjust, to understand.

Brother Jim: And with eternity, there is no endpoint.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: You know, think about a guy in prison, you know, uh, you've got

Brother Jim: twenty years, all right?

Brother Jim: At least in twenty years there's an endpoint, right?

Brother Jim: Versus seven life sentences.

Brother Jim: Well, don't think you're getting out on that.

David: No.

Brother Jim: But again, seven life sentences versus an eternity in hell.

Brother Jim: I'm going to take the seven life sentences.

David: Right?

Brother Jim: Uh, yes.

Brother Jim: Uncertain.

Brother Jim: So let me ask you, friends, are

Brother Jim: you uncertain with your

Brother Jim: eternity?

Brother Jim: And if you are, what are you doing about it?

Brother Jim: My friends, are you uncertain about people you love?

Brother Jim: They're where they're destined to spend eternity at.

Brother Jim: And again, if you listen to

Brother Jim: Sunday morning's message, we're

Brother Jim: starting in on the Great

Brother Jim: Commission.

Brother Jim: You might want to give a listen.

Brother Jim: How about some people mock

Brother Jim: spiritual things because

Brother Jim: conviction makes them

Brother Jim: uncomfortable?

Brother Jim: You ever been uncomfortable, David?

David: Yeah, quite a bit.

Brother Jim: I remember back in high school, way back when.

Brother Jim: I remember throughout the day, I was my pants, okay.

Brother Jim: My from my waist down was so itchy.

Brother Jim: You ever have those where you just can't never get to it?

Brother Jim: Yeah, it just continues.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: And I remember at the end of the

Brother Jim: day, we had art class, ninth

Brother Jim: period.

Brother Jim: And dude, I was just I couldn't wait to get home.

Brother Jim: Had to ride the bus home, you know?

Brother Jim: And I'm just like pants come flying off.

Brother Jim: I'm like, mom, what did you do?

Brother Jim: Well, she had switched to a new detergent.

Brother Jim: Oh, I was allergic to it.

Brother Jim: And, you know, once once you start, it's so hard to stop.

Brother Jim: We just inflame.

David: It. Yeah.

Brother Jim: So uncomfortable.

Brother Jim: That was just an example of me being uncomfortable for just a

Brother Jim: little bit in time, but.

Brother Jim: Oh, my goodness, it seemed forever.

Brother Jim: Spiritual things become conviction.

Brother Jim: It makes them uncomfortable.

Brother Jim: Now we can go very, very

Brother Jim: hardcore on that, can we not

Brother Jim: David.

Brother Jim: I mean we could go full throttle.

Brother Jim: Hell fire and brimstone and oh my goodness.

Brother Jim: You ever been in a church where you just wanted to get up and

Brother Jim: walk out because.

Brother Jim: Whoa.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Uh, and it's not stepping on my toes.

Brother Jim: They're just downright.

Brother Jim: I don't know what the word would be.

Brother Jim: Uh, Not over the top.

Brother Jim: It's just.

Brother Jim: There's there's no love in it.

Brother Jim: There's no compassion.

Brother Jim: There's no, it's just, you know, kind of like a heavy metal.

Brother Jim: You're an idiot.

Brother Jim: You're an idiot.

Brother Jim: You're an.

David: Idiot. You know something along.

David: Yeah. There's.

Brother Jim: No wait a minute.

Brother Jim: There's a better choice.

Brother Jim: There's hope.

Brother Jim: There's a future through Jesus.

Brother Jim: Not, you know, you're going to die.

Brother Jim: You're going to die.

Brother Jim: You're going to, uh.

Brother Jim: Well, maybe you could bring up some metal to that.

Brother Jim: You know, but no, uh, it's one thing to feel convicted, but

Brother Jim: also, are we listening to that conviction and the Holy Spirit?

Brother Jim: It's been tugs for me or, you know, there's been a couple

Brother Jim: maybe smacks in the back of the head, you know?

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: But it's not what we can how we can turn it into.

Brother Jim: Well, geez, I'm never going back there again.

David: Right?

Brother Jim: Because versus love and

Brother Jim: compassion, it's just straight

Brother Jim: up.

Brother Jim: I'm right.

Brother Jim: You're wrong.

Brother Jim: I'm awesome.

Brother Jim: You're bad.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: So again, our friends.

Brother Jim: Have you been uncomfortable in your life?

Brother Jim: Have you felt have you been conviction convicted?

Brother Jim: Have you felt the Holy Spirit convicted?

Brother Jim: You share in the comments.

Brother Jim: We'd love to hear from that.

Brother Jim: When truth begins touching the

Brother Jim: heart, many people either humble

Brother Jim: themselves or hide behind

Brother Jim: sarcasm.

Brother Jim: Boy, like I've never heard that before.

Brother Jim: Uh, sarcasm.

Brother Jim: Sarcasm is a great thing at times.

David: Oh yeah, it can be.

Brother Jim: It can be.

Brother Jim: But so is humility.

Brother Jim: But they can go hand in hand, right?

Brother Jim: The way I look at it, it's like your toolbox.

Brother Jim: You have different tools for different jobs.

Brother Jim: And sometimes sarcasm can be a little fun to pull out.

Brother Jim: And sometimes sarcasm can be used to get across a, a message

Brother Jim: or a, a meaning or a value.

Brother Jim: But oftentimes, uh, Chandler

Brother Jim: Bing comes to mind from the

Brother Jim: show.

Brother Jim: Friends.

Brother Jim: Chandler was very insecure, God

Brother Jim: rest his soul, and he used his

Brother Jim: sarcasm and his jokes to protect

Brother Jim: himself.

David: Yeah. Yes.

Brother Jim: Now, of course, that is a

Brother Jim: Hollywood entertainment, which

Brother Jim: we see.

Brother Jim: But maybe you know someone, or

Brother Jim: maybe you themselves, yourself

Brother Jim: is somebody who uses sarcasm to

Brother Jim: hide behind because you want to

Brother Jim: protect yourself.

Brother Jim: It's better to fire the first

Brother Jim: shot than receive the first

Brother Jim: shot.

Brother Jim: So I'm going to get it out there, or I hide behind my wall

Brother Jim: of sarcasm to protect myself.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: It's not that I'm really mean.

Brother Jim: I just don't want hurt.

Brother Jim: How we deal with things, my friends.

Brother Jim: But ignoring eternity does not remove eternity.

Brother Jim: A person can deny.

Brother Jim: Think about this.

Brother Jim: A person can deny that fire exists.

Brother Jim: But the denial will not stop the fire from burning.

Brother Jim: Ooh.

Brother Jim: We could open that up.

Brother Jim: David.

David: Oh, yeah.

Brother Jim: Oh, Lord, help me right now,

Brother Jim: because I just want to break,

Brother Jim: though.

Brother Jim: But we're gonna stop there, my friends, due to time.

Brother Jim: And this will get away.

Brother Jim: And I'll go on another rant, and David will have to hit the edit.

Brother Jim: Try to steer me back on.

Brother Jim: Let me back up that.

Brother Jim: Let me say that one more time.

Brother Jim: A person can deny that fire

Brother Jim: exists, but that denial will

Brother Jim: still will not stop the fire

Brother Jim: from burning.

Brother Jim: Mhm.

Brother Jim: That says a lot right there.

Brother Jim: Well, my friends, that just about does it for this.

Brother Jim: Thursday, May twenty first, twenty twenty six.

Brother Jim: Something to chew on there, my friends.

Brother Jim: Think about that one.

Brother Jim: Mr. David, my friend, my compadre.

Brother Jim: Any closing thoughts or comments before we wrap this this up this

Brother Jim: morning and send these fine folks out into the world.

David: Just want to remind the ladies

David: and gentlemen that you can

David: download these podcasts and

David: audio format.

David: Take them with you.

David: Not everybody has the time to

David: sit in front of a computer for a

David: half hour.

David: But, you know, I like to listen to them while mowing the yard.

David: And if you go to Bible bibs and

David: a prayer dot com, there's a

David: listing there of all the I mean,

David: we're available on all major

David: podcasting sites.

David: iHeartRadio, uh, tune in.

David: I forget what they all are.

David: Uh, Apple iTunes.

David: Um, but you can download them

David: and listen to them go back and

David: catch things that you've, you've

David: missed.

David: I've done that quite a few times myself.

David: So yeah.

Brother Jim: If you just want to skip over the jokes, you know?

David: Yeah, yeah, you can just dive right in.

Brother Jim: Or if you want to use them for

Brother Jim: the Memorial Day weekend coming

Brother Jim: up.

Brother Jim: There you go.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: Hey, by the way, and I know which ones you're going to pick.

Brother Jim: You're going to pick David's because mine most of the time

Brother Jim: aren't that great.

Brother Jim: So hey, you think it's easy?

Brother Jim: Come on.

Brother Jim: You think it's easy?

Brother Jim: Then give me some good jokes.

Brother Jim: Really?

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: I'm calling it out on you people.

Brother Jim: Yes, I love you.

Brother Jim: Alright, remember.

Brother Jim: Remember you have meaning.

Brother Jim: You have value.

Brother Jim: And most of all you are loved.

Brother Jim: Never forget that God created

Brother Jim: you with purpose and that this

Brother Jim: world is better because you are

Brother Jim: in it.

Brother Jim: May God continue to bless you, guide you, strengthen you, and

Brother Jim: walk beside you through every day, through every moment.

Brother Jim: And may you and I continue to thank our Lord above for all the

Brother Jim: blessings we often take for granted each and every day.

Brother Jim: So wherever life takes you today, keep smiling, keep

Brother Jim: believing, keep loving, and keep trusting in God.

Brother Jim: And remember, if we meet again,

Brother Jim: well then we will smile and

Brother Jim: rejoice.

Brother Jim: And if not, then this parting was well made.

Brother Jim: Thank you for joining Dave and

Brother Jim: myself here on Bible Bibs in

Brother Jim: prayer.

Brother Jim: Until next time.

Brother Jim: This is the big guy, Brother Jim, out.