Bible Bibs and a Prayer Season 3 Episode 65

Speaker 1: Brother Jim's got the mic in hand.

Speaker 1: David's laughing like a one man band talking disco, bell bottom

Speaker 1: flares and a little bit of scripture to say your prayers.

Speaker 1: Yes, it's the past, it's the present.

Speaker 1: It's the holy.

Speaker 1: Sit back and join us.

Speaker 1: Bible bids and a prayer.

Speaker 1: Bible bids and a prayer.

Speaker 1: We're keeping it real.

Speaker 1: From the red, white and blue to the spinning wheel.

Speaker 1: It's stories and devotion.

Speaker 1: Good vibes to share.

Speaker 1: Come on and listen to Bible bibs and a prayer.

Brother Jim: Wow baby, what is up everyone?

Brother Jim: Guess what?

Brother Jim: It's time for Bible bibs and a prayer.

Brother Jim: Good morning family, good morning friends and good morning

Brother Jim: to the whole wide world.

Brother Jim: Welcome to your daily start and your local funny farm.

Brother Jim: Wherever you are.

Brother Jim: We are glad you are joining David and myself this morning.

Brother Jim: We are definitely the dynamic duo.

Brother Jim: At least that is what we keep telling ourselves.

Brother Jim: This, we hope, is your go to place to wake up and formed,

Brother Jim: encouraged, focused and ready to tackle the day ahead.

Brother Jim: Plus just enough madness and

Brother Jim: offbeat humor to keep things

Brother Jim: interesting.

Brother Jim: We've got it all right here on Bible bibs and a prayer.

Brother Jim: Now we got a little laughter, a

Brother Jim: little encouragement, a little

Brother Jim: life, real life, let's put it

Brother Jim: that way.

Brother Jim: And always a whole lot of Jesus.

Brother Jim: Whether you're sipping your first cup of coffee, rushing out

Brother Jim: the door, sitting in traffic, or just trying to wake up enough to

Brother Jim: remember what day it is.

Brother Jim: Amen to that.

Brother Jim: We are thankful you are spending part of your morning with us.

Brother Jim: Every day we want to bring you quick insight, practical

Brother Jim: encouragement, meaningful conversation, and a clear look

Brother Jim: at what really matters today.

Brother Jim: So settle in, wake up, laugh a little, and let us help make

Brother Jim: this morning count.

Brother Jim: By the way, folks, a

Brother Jim: nutritionist said that eating

Brother Jim: healthy involves filling your

Brother Jim: plate with bright colors, greens

Brother Jim: yet and yellows are very

Brother Jim: important.

Brother Jim: So I had a bowl of M&Ms.

Brother Jim: Forgot the milk though.

Brother Jim: I didn't want to try that one.

Brother Jim: Yeah, yeah, but how about first

Brother Jim: off, let you and I thank God for

Brother Jim: another day.

Brother Jim: We do not have to set the alarm for.

Brother Jim: Because baby, we are already

Brother Jim: awake and we are already

Brother Jim: blessed.

Brother Jim: So in case you did not know or have not picked up on it yet, my

Brother Jim: name is Brother Jim.

Brother Jim: One half of the dynamic dynamic

Brother Jim: duo here on Bible Bibs in a

Brother Jim: prayer.

Brother Jim: And as I like to say, I may be a

Brother Jim: legend in my own mind, a hero,

Brother Jim: and absolutely no one else's

Brother Jim: story.

Brother Jim: But that's alright, because God

Brother Jim: still lets me show up every

Brother Jim: morning anyway.

Brother Jim: Welcome to the show.

Brother Jim: Our goal around here is simple.

Brother Jim: Let us turn this in from a conversation into an experience,

Brother Jim: and we're just not here to fill up air time.

Brother Jim: We are here to laugh together,

Brother Jim: learn together, pray together,

Brother Jim: and hopefully leave your morning

Brother Jim: a little more brighter than we

Brother Jim: found it.

Brother Jim: Now, before we get too serious and start sounding like we

Brother Jim: actually know what we're doing here, or we got it all figured

Brother Jim: out, which some days we do, some days we don't.

Brother Jim: Allow me to bring in my co-host, because every funny farm needs

Brother Jim: somebody to help keep the train on tracks, or at least help

Brother Jim: explain why it came off the tracks in the first place.

Brother Jim: And my co conductor over here

Brother Jim: definitely helps fix all the

Brother Jim: problems.

Brother Jim: I end up usually taking the train off of.

Brother Jim: But now, joining me in human

Brother Jim: embodiment of sarcasm, my

Brother Jim: co-host.

Brother Jim: And here it is.

Brother Jim: Some call him talented, others call him.

Brother Jim: Currently under investigation.

Brother Jim: Either way, we are glad he made it.

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

Brother Jim: put your hands together for a man among men.

Brother Jim: A true broadcasting pioneer.

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

Brother Jim: And even occasionally.

Brother Jim: She needs a minute on that one.

Brother Jim: Good morning, my friend, Mr.

Brother Jim: David Keener, and plus one of my

Brother Jim: best friends in the whole wide

Brother Jim: world.

David: Well, good morning.

David: And I would argue that somebody else is under investigation.

David: I just want to say to whoever

David: stole my camo jacket and flip

David: flops, you can hide, but you

David: can't run.

Brother Jim: Oh, dude, you kill me.

Brother Jim: Oh, man.

Brother Jim: Oh Ah!

Brother Jim: That's why he's not the best.

Brother Jim: I mean, he is.

Brother Jim: There is no second to none.

Brother Jim: Here he is, the man color commentator and joke killer.

David: You know, I'm not coming up with these on my own.

David: They're all stolen from somewhere else, right?

Brother Jim: I know, but that's okay.

Brother Jim: You keep them coming, we'll keep laughing.

Brother Jim: What is going on in Courville, my friend?

David: Oh, not too much.

David: We've got, uh.

David: Man, I've got I got my.

David: My second is graduating from preschool this week.

David: Oh, yeah.

David: So that's got.

David: Got another one.

David: I don't know how this is going

David: to go because my first one

David: graduated from preschool during

David: Covid.

David: So there wasn't there wasn't.

Brother Jim: Much of a ceremony.

David: No, no, actually they did a they did a parade.

David: We drove cars around town.

David: It was kind of neat.

David: It was a neat thing to do.

David: But this, you know, we're back to the real graduation.

David: I don't know how I'm going to handle it, so we'll have to see

David: how that goes.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

David: So yeah.

Brother Jim: Yeah. I remember, uh, our daughter Kelsey, when she

Brother Jim: graduated high school.

Brother Jim: We had to do that.

David: Yeah. I think they should give him a do over.

David: They really should.

Brother Jim: They should.

Brother Jim: Yeah. Prom was a joke.

Brother Jim: Everything was just a. Yeah.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: You know, but, uh.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: So. Preschool graduation.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: So what's the grades?

Brother Jim: They're finishing up.

David: So my oldest is finishing fourth, and Elijah will be

David: finishing preschool, and the youngest isn't in school yet.

David: Okay.

David: So still got the baby at home.

Brother Jim: All right.

Brother Jim: And then when's the baby go to preschool?

David: Uh, he's got another two years, so.

Brother Jim: Ah. So Mama still.

David: Should be hanging on to him for a while.

Brother Jim: Yes. Oh, yes. Yes. Uh. Time flies.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Time flies.

Brother Jim: How's the grass coming?

David: Oh. It's coming.

David: Good so far.

Brother Jim: Looking all fertilized.

Brother Jim: We're waiting on the video, man.

David: Well, it's been a little.

David: Been a little busy, but I hear that this is supposed to be.

David: And I don't know if it's

David: specifically here or if it's

David: United States in general, but

David: they're saying that this summer

David: will be the worst drought since

David: sixteen forty.

Brother Jim: Really?

David: And if anybody's a history buff, sixteen forty was Jamestown.

Brother Jim: Oh.

David: So so just just in case I've started, you know, sticking a

David: little bottled water back, you know, and keeping it just, you

David: know, in case and I don't, but I mean, if it affects the Midwest

David: where everything's grown, I mean, that's that's not good.

Brother Jim: Yeah. You are the first I've heard that from.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: So yeah.

Brother Jim: Sixteen forty.

Brother Jim: Yep.

Brother Jim: You might want to stock up on a little bit of water.

Brother Jim: Yep.

Brother Jim: Are you just stole the whole thing.

Brother Jim: Jeez, David.

Brother Jim: Well, that's the food.

Brother Jim: Leave it.

David: Just leave it to me to bring the sunshine to the program.

Brother Jim: Yeah, man.

Brother Jim: Talk about a black cloud coming in.

Brother Jim: I think you just hit us with lightning here.

Brother Jim: Oh, wow.

Brother Jim: I did not hear that.

David: Yeah, I just heard that, uh, two weeks ago.

Brother Jim: I think here I am complaining about all the rain.

David: Like I said, I don't know if

David: it's supposed to affect Ohio

David: specifically, but again, if it

David: affects the Midwest, any of the

David: Midwest, that's where

David: everything's grown.

David: So.

David: Yep.

Brother Jim: Yeah. Food prices everywhere.

Brother Jim: Yep. Shortages everywhere.

Brother Jim: And only in America we pay farmers not to farm.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Not to produce. Yeah. Unbelievable.

Brother Jim: Sorry, folks.

Brother Jim: A little bit of my own personal issues I have, and trust me.

Brother Jim: Got a lot of those.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: I don't know.

Brother Jim: One of the barnyard critters here might get sacrificed.

David: They might be a little chewy.

Brother Jim: Times get tough.

Brother Jim: Yeah. I'm looking at the chicken and I'm looking at the pig.

Brother Jim: Oh, baby.

Brother Jim: It's okay.

Brother Jim: Oddly.

Brother Jim: Oh, but you know what?

Brother Jim: God's got it all under his control.

David: That's right.

Brother Jim: Yes. Uh. We just got a baptismal here at Rockford Church.

Brother Jim: I can see it now.

Brother Jim: We're having community bass here.

Brother Jim: Oh. Uh, there's no way.

Brother Jim: There's no way.

Brother Jim: Uh. And, you know, you look back to, like, uh, medieval times and

Brother Jim: the dark ages and all that.

Brother Jim: I mean, you know, why the case

Brother Jim: the bride always wore or always

Brother Jim: carried a bouquet of flowers in

Brother Jim: the spring.

Brother Jim: Yeah, because the body odor was so bad, it was to help mask the

Brother Jim: smell of it.

Brother Jim: I'm like.

David: I don't want to go back to that.

Brother Jim: Come on.

Brother Jim: Oh, you know, I heard something interesting.

Brother Jim: I really enjoy watching podcasts with, uh, like tier one

Brother Jim: operators from the military.

Brother Jim: And, uh, of course, there are

Brother Jim: dime a dozen right now with

Brother Jim: podcasts and all their

Brother Jim: experiences.

Brother Jim: And, uh, the one was talking about, they were, he was a tier

Brother Jim: one operator for the Navy.

Brother Jim: And, uh, they were doing this raid and they went into this

Brother Jim: large tent, okay.

Brother Jim: Compound.

Brother Jim: But like for us, imagine a giant tent.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: And the smell and not to be gross guys, but this just shows

Brother Jim: how blessed we are.

Brother Jim: The smell of human feces was just ungodly.

Brother Jim: Well, here, what they were doing was they were rolling their own

Brother Jim: feces to help make for the roof.

Brother Jim: That was how they constructed their the roof and he's.

Brother Jim: And he said, you know, I wanted

Brother Jim: to go back to base and get a

Brother Jim: generator and bring out a TV and

Brother Jim: just say, here, this is what

Brother Jim: you're missing out on as far as

Brother Jim: you know.

Brother Jim: And can you imagine that, David?

Brother Jim: You know, not just your family,

Brother Jim: but say your brothers, your

Brother Jim: sisters, all living in under the

Brother Jim: big tent?

David: Oh, no.

Brother Jim: And that is how you roof shingle your home.

Brother Jim: So again, how blessed we are that we are not, you know, we've

Brother Jim: come around or we've come a long way since that.

Brother Jim: But again, folks, that is just yeah.

David: It just gives a whole new meaning to the, the chipped beef

David: on toast meal.

David: I just yeah, I love that I love.

Brother Jim: Oh, that was one of my favorite meals growing up.

David: Me too.

Brother Jim: And now chipped beef.

Brother Jim: It's like almost outrageous.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: So yeah, again, count our blessings.

Brother Jim: But, uh, so anything else going on, you know.

David: No, I think that pretty much covers it for now.

Brother Jim: Yeah. Well, uh, the man Beck

Brother Jim: family, part of the Manbeck

Brother Jim: family.

Brother Jim: I gotta watch myself now.

Brother Jim: Uh, my daughter and son in law, Chandler and Michaela Golec gave

Brother Jim: birth this past Wednesday.

Brother Jim: Oh, nice healthy baby girl.

Brother Jim: Uh. Emelyn Grace Golec, eight pounds, five ounces.

Brother Jim: Harry is Harry can be.

Brother Jim: I mean, kind of reminds me of angry Lynn here.

Brother Jim: A little Grumpy Lynn a little bit, but now beautiful.

Brother Jim: Uh, you know, I'm going to go off on a little bit of a tirade

Brother Jim: here, David again for anybody.

Brother Jim: Uh, and this is where I'm not there yet.

Brother Jim: I've not arrived.

Brother Jim: But anybody who says a baby is

Brother Jim: not a child, you know, actually

Brother Jim: living, breathing.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: I'm sorry I'm calling you out right now.

Brother Jim: And if you'd like to meet me in

Brother Jim: the parking lot, we can we can

Brother Jim: discuss that.

Brother Jim: Because again, as I was sitting there looking at my grandbaby,

Brother Jim: it just what a miracle from God.

Brother Jim: Absolutely a miracle from God.

Brother Jim: And if you don't like that, well, you can shut us off right

Brother Jim: now because I don't want you listening to us.

Brother Jim: Sorry, David.

Brother Jim: I'm speaking for both of us on that one.

Brother Jim: You know, and the mass murderer.

Brother Jim: I looked this up the other night, David.

Brother Jim: Now, again, take this for whatever it's worth.

Brother Jim: As far as because, you know, you pick and choose where you're

Brother Jim: getting your stats from.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: But, you know, basically they

Brother Jim: said from three to four thousand

Brother Jim: children are murdered every day

Brother Jim: in the United States through

Brother Jim: abortion.

David: We're killing entire generations.

Brother Jim: Yes we are.

Brother Jim: Yes. So again, and David, I've got this one and I'm going to

Brother Jim: figure out how to play it.

Brother Jim: It is from a a pediatrician now O natal care physician who is a

Brother Jim: Christian and brother.

Brother Jim: He broke it down because I was always under the gun.

Brother Jim: Hey, if the mom's life is in

Brother Jim: danger, you know it's okay,

Brother Jim: brother.

Brother Jim: He breaks that myth.

Brother Jim: He busts it wide open.

Brother Jim: With what we can do.

Brother Jim: Now with technology, we're saving the mother, we're saving

Brother Jim: the child and brother.

Brother Jim: He and I didn't even know there

Brother Jim: was an association of physicians

Brother Jim: that are so pro-life in fighting

Brother Jim: this.

Brother Jim: So again, it's just like, come on man.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: It's no, no. I don't care what

Brother Jim: political regime you're from

Brother Jim: from.

Brother Jim: But if you're backing that man,

Brother Jim: you better get in your Bible and

Brother Jim: start looking up some serious

Brother Jim: scripture.

Brother Jim: So.

Brother Jim: Alrighty.

Brother Jim: There's my little rant over for the day.

Brother Jim: But we are blessed.

Brother Jim: Uh, I'm going to throw it back at you.

Brother Jim: David.

Brother Jim: Have you got any more good dad jokes?

Brother Jim: Because, brother, you tear it up.

David: If I can do this one from memory

David: because I don't have it in front

David: of me.

David: Uh oh.

David: If you've got a wife who comes home in a white suit and a face

David: mask, just know she's a keeper.

Brother Jim: Oh.

David: Man. Beekeeper. Get it?

David: Beekeeper.

Brother Jim: Yes, I got it, I got it.

Brother Jim: Uh!

Brother Jim: Oh, wow.

Brother Jim: You kind of evened that out.

Brother Jim: Now, the first one was awesome.

Brother Jim: Second one.

Brother Jim: Not bad.

Brother Jim: Alright.

Brother Jim: Uh. But hey, you know what our dad jokes around here?

Brother Jim: We believe terrible jokes are part of the healing process.

Brother Jim: I don't know if that one's going to heal, and most of mine don't

Brother Jim: do any healing.

Brother Jim: They probably rip you up more than anything.

Brother Jim: But yeah, remember this today, family.

Brother Jim: Another sunrise means another

Brother Jim: chance to shine, another

Brother Jim: opportunity to smile, another

Brother Jim: opportunity to encourage

Brother Jim: somebody.

Brother Jim: Another opportunity to show the

Brother Jim: world and everyone around you,

Brother Jim: around you, that you are one

Brother Jim: special person.

Brother Jim: You are created with purpose.

Brother Jim: You were given another day for a reason.

Brother Jim: Remember that my friends.

Brother Jim: And no matter what yesterday looked like today, today, today

Brother Jim: is a fresh start.

Brother Jim: So lift your head up, take a deep breath, grab that coffee if

Brother Jim: you need it, and let us make today count together.

Brother Jim: But family, let us remember this

Brother Jim: morning and let us remember this

Brother Jim: and let you and I just stop for

Brother Jim: a moment and thank God for

Brother Jim: another beautiful and blessed

Brother Jim: day.

Brother Jim: And whether you're driving down

Brother Jim: the road, heading into work,

Brother Jim: sitting at the kitchen table

Brother Jim: with your morning coffee, or

Brother Jim: just trying to wake up enough to

Brother Jim: function.

Brother Jim: We're here to help guide you.

Brother Jim: Just to give you a little inspiration, and we're glad

Brother Jim: you're here with us.

Brother Jim: So let's show a little gratitude this morning, because a thankful

Brother Jim: heart changes everything.

Brother Jim: Gratitude changes the way we see God, the way we see others, and

Brother Jim: even the way we face our struggles and challenges.

Brother Jim: Sometimes life is not easy.

Brother Jim: Sometimes life gets messy.

Brother Jim: Sometimes life gets downright weird.

Brother Jim: But here on Bible bibs and

Brother Jim: prayer, we admit, life gets

Brother Jim: weird.

Brother Jim: Definitely looking at us and

Brother Jim: while also reminding you that

Brother Jim: you never, ever, ever have to

Brother Jim: face life alone because we have

Brother Jim: Jesus.

Brother Jim: So come on and thank.

Brother Jim: Join Mr. David and myself as we say boldly.

Brother Jim: Thank you Lord.

Brother Jim: Thank you for another day of opportunity, another day to

Brother Jim: laugh, another day to love, another day to make our mark on

Brother Jim: this world, find the good in life and as we like to say, spit

Brother Jim: out the bad.

Brother Jim: Don't let it steal your joy.

Brother Jim: Rejoice that you are alive.

Brother Jim: Rejoice that when you look in

Brother Jim: that mirror, remember today

Brother Jim: you're beautiful.

Brother Jim: You matter.

Brother Jim: In this world.

Brother Jim: Your life has purpose.

Brother Jim: And most of all, oh my goodness, you are loved.

Brother Jim: Now in saying all that, yesterday I was buying two large

Brother Jim: bags of dog food at Walmart.

Brother Jim: I was about to check out when a

Brother Jim: woman behind me asked if I had a

Brother Jim: dog.

Brother Jim: Oh, here we go.

Brother Jim: What did she think?

Brother Jim: I had an elephant.

Brother Jim: So since I had a little, you

Brother Jim: know, I didn't have a whole lot

Brother Jim: going on.

Brother Jim: And I was kind of led by the impulse.

Brother Jim: I told her that, no, I didn't have a dog and that I was

Brother Jim: starting the Purina Diet again.

Brother Jim: Although I probably should have

Brother Jim: not of, uh, shouldn't because I

Brother Jim: ended up in the hospital last

Brother Jim: time.

Brother Jim: But on the bright side though, I lost fifty pounds before I

Brother Jim: awakened and the intensive care ward with tubes coming out of

Brother Jim: every hole in my body, I had IV's in both arms.

Brother Jim: I told her that I was essentially a perfect.

Brother Jim: It wasn't a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to

Brother Jim: load your pockets.

Brother Jim: You take your pockets, fill up

Brother Jim: with Purina Purina nuggets, and

Brother Jim: simply eat one, every one or two

Brother Jim: every time you feel hungry, and

Brother Jim: that the food is going to

Brother Jim: actually give you nutrition, uh,

Brother Jim: and nutritionally complete as to

Brother Jim: say.

Brother Jim: So I was going to give it a try again.

Brother Jim: I have to mention here that

Brother Jim: everyone in the line was

Brother Jim: thrilled with how my story was

Brother Jim: going.

Brother Jim: Horrified, she asked if I ended up in the intensive care because

Brother Jim: of the dog food.

Brother Jim: It had poisoned me.

Brother Jim: Uh. She was very concerned.

Brother Jim: Why would you go back and do it again?

Brother Jim: And I told her no. I stopped in the middle of the parking lot to

Brother Jim: search to scratch my fleas, and I got hit by a car.

Brother Jim: Now I just butchered all this up.

Brother Jim: I thought the guy behind me was going to have a heart attack.

Brother Jim: He was laughing so hard.

Brother Jim: Walmart won't let me shop there again anymore.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Sorry, folks.

Brother Jim: I kind of butchered that one up.

Brother Jim: Uh, but, hey, we tried.

Brother Jim: You get the point.

Brother Jim: That would be fun to try, though.

Brother Jim: David, get somebody going in line.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Yeah, yeah.

Brother Jim: No, the the dog food didn't kill me.

Brother Jim: It was.

Brother Jim: I stopped scratching my fleas

Brother Jim: out in the parking lot, and I

Brother Jim: got hit.

Brother Jim: That's kind of scary, though.

Brother Jim: When you go out to Walmart, you don't need to stop and act like

Brother Jim: you got fleas.

David: Oh, yeah.

David: Oh, yeah.

Brother Jim: Any parking lot anymore?

Brother Jim: Holy cow.

Brother Jim: All right.

Brother Jim: Even though I butchered that one, our thought of the day

Brother Jim: comes from Jonathan Edwards.

Brother Jim: The Wrath of God.

Brother Jim: Wow.

Brother Jim: I am messing up now.

Brother Jim: See?

Brother Jim: Wow.

Brother Jim: All right, I'm gonna have David come over here and smack me.

Brother Jim: The wrath of God burns against them.

Brother Jim: Their damnation does not slumber.

Brother Jim: The pit is prepared.

Brother Jim: The fire is made ready.

Brother Jim: So as we continue this discussion about heaven and

Brother Jim: hell, we're going to start with why do people laugh at hell?

Brother Jim: Why do people laugh at David?

Brother Jim: You ever thought about laughing at hell?

David: No, I can't say that I have.

David: It's a serious.

David: It's a serious place.

Brother Jim: Yeah, just a little bit on the bad side.

Brother Jim: Yeah, I agree.

Brother Jim: I mean, I think you got a couple

Brother Jim: marbles loose if you're laughing

Brother Jim: at hell.

Brother Jim: But hey, there are people out there with some marbles loose.

Brother Jim: I've got some myself, but never laughed at hell.

Brother Jim: From Galatians six seven we are told do not be deceived.

Brother Jim: God cannot be mocked.

Brother Jim: A man reaps what?

Brother Jim: Oh, I love that.

Brother Jim: A man reaps what he sows.

Brother Jim: Now we live in a world where

Brother Jim: many people laugh at serious

Brother Jim: things.

Brother Jim: People laugh at sin.

Brother Jim: People laugh at judgment.

Brother Jim: People laugh at holiness.

Brother Jim: And sadly, many people laugh at hell.

Brother Jim: Hell has become the punchline of jokes, a theme in a movie, and

Brother Jim: something many people casually mock or dismiss.

Brother Jim: You hear statements like, I'm going to rock on.

Brother Jim: party.

Brother Jim: Hardy in hell.

Brother Jim: Hey, I'll see you in hell there, Johnny Reb.

Brother Jim: See you in hell, Billy Yank.

Brother Jim: Hell does not really exist.

Brother Jim: Oh, David, here comes one that

Brother Jim: sounds familiar from today's

Brother Jim: service.

Brother Jim: A loving God would never send anyone to hell.

David: Oh, yeah.

Brother Jim: But church hell is not a joke.

Brother Jim: Jesus never treated it lightly.

Brother Jim: And again, as we spoke last week, Jesus.

Brother Jim: In fact, Jesus warned about hell

Brother Jim: more than anyone else in

Brother Jim: Scripture.

Brother Jim: The enemy, aka Satan.

Brother Jim: The devil, wants people to laugh at hell because if he cannot, if

Brother Jim: he could convince people it's not real, then they will never

Brother Jim: prepare for eternity.

Brother Jim: Now today we must ask number one, why do people really.

Brother Jim: Why does society laugh at hell.

Brother Jim: Number two.

Brother Jim: What does the Bible say about it?

Brother Jim: Well, first off, let's go to

Brother Jim: number one under the first

Brother Jim: question.

Brother Jim: People laugh at hell because sin has become normalized.

Brother Jim: Is that true, David?

Brother Jim: Do you think we've normalized

Brother Jim: sin in our world, our society,

Brother Jim: our families, our schools, our

Brother Jim: businesses, our government

Brother Jim: today?

David: Yeah, absolutely.

David: We have.

Brother Jim: Yeah, absolutely.

Brother Jim: Give the man a cigar.

Brother Jim: Well, I shouldn't say that.

Brother Jim: Give the man a Snickers.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: Normalize.

Brother Jim: The world has become comfortable with sin.

Brother Jim: Let me ask you something, viewers.

Brother Jim: Our friends, are you comfortable with your sin?

Brother Jim: Well, Brother Jim, right back at you.

Brother Jim: Are you comfortable with your sin?

Brother Jim: No. I'm not.

Brother Jim: It's called conviction, my friends.

Brother Jim: What?

Brother Jim: Once shocked people.

Brother Jim: Wow.

Brother Jim: I've been around long enough to know this.

Brother Jim: When once what once shocked people is now celebrated.

Brother Jim: Oh my goodness.

Brother Jim: Look on social media.

Brother Jim: Again, I like to go back to the old rag mags, the National

Brother Jim: Enquirer News and all those.

Brother Jim: You know how it showed Hollywood celebrities.

Brother Jim: Today's social media just blows it away.

Brother Jim: Insight.

Brother Jim: Reporting.

Brother Jim: Insight.

Brother Jim: Facts.

Brother Jim: David.

Brother Jim: Of course it's true.

Brother Jim: Yeah, yeah.

Brother Jim: What once caused conviction now causes entertainment.

Brother Jim: The people we embrace, the people we idolize, the people we

Brother Jim: put up on the pedestal.

Brother Jim: The people who embrace sin, let's just call it what it is.

Brother Jim: The less they know.

Brother Jim: Is this true or false?

Brother Jim: The less they want to hear about judgment.

Brother Jim: We put them up on a pedestal, per se.

Brother Jim: We idolize them.

Brother Jim: Those who embrace sin.

Brother Jim: Do you think they want to hear about judgment?

Brother Jim: Well absolutely not.

Brother Jim: Do you want to hear about your sin, your judgment?

Brother Jim: No. Nobody does.

Brother Jim: So what about the truth?

Brother Jim: Can we handle.

Brother Jim: David, I'm not even gonna try to do Jack Nicholson there.

Brother Jim: But can we handle the truth?

David: You can't handle the truth.

Brother Jim: You can't handle the truth.

Brother Jim: Yes. Maybe you can pull that up for a clip there.

David: Yeah, we'll throw it in there.

Speaker 4: You don't have to answer that question.

Speaker 5: I'll answer the question.

Speaker 5: You want answers?

Speaker 5: I think I'm entitled.

Speaker 5: You want answers?

Speaker 5: I want the truth.

Speaker 5: You can't handle the truth.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: But yes, we don't want to hear it because it's going to.

Brother Jim: It's going to rain on our parade then, right?

Brother Jim: Oh, come on, dude, I got a party.

Brother Jim: I got a camping trip with the boys this weekend.

Brother Jim: Yeah, really?

Brother Jim: You know, we're gonna watch some films we shouldn't be watching.

Brother Jim: Drink a little, maybe smoke a little wacky tobacky.

Brother Jim: Whatever.

Brother Jim: Have a good time.

David: Messing up my fun.

Brother Jim: You're messing up my fun?

Brother Jim: Yes. Gotta be honest, folks.

Brother Jim: It happens when?

Brother Jim: Well, number one then who wants to hear about judgment?

Brother Jim: I got time for that.

Brother Jim: David.

Brother Jim: Isn't that one of our number one excuses?

Brother Jim: I got time.

Brother Jim: I'm a young man.

Brother Jim: I'm good looking.

Brother Jim: Make a lot of money.

Brother Jim: Well, I'm zero for two on that one.

Brother Jim: But but yeah, it's true.

Brother Jim: We got all the time in the world until we don't.

Brother Jim: Or until the Grim Reaper comes looking for you.

Brother Jim: How many people have died questioning that, David?

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Wait a minute.

Brother Jim: You got the wrong person.

Brother Jim: I'm young, I'm beautiful.

Brother Jim: I got my whole life ahead.

David: Yep.

Brother Jim: But how many people are on their deathbed when they're old?

Brother Jim: Same thing.

Brother Jim: Still not really ready to surrender it all.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Even when death is knocking on their doorstep.

Brother Jim: When people do not want to change their lifestyle, they

Brother Jim: often mock the truth instead.

Brother Jim: Rather than repent.

Brother Jim: Many choose to joke.

Brother Jim: There's nothing new.

Brother Jim: In the days of Noah, people

Brother Jim: ignored warnings until the flood

Brother Jim: came.

Brother Jim: Sodom, Gomorrah.

Brother Jim: People mocked righteousness until judgment arrived.

Brother Jim: Sin hardens.

Brother Jim: The heart has sin.

Brother Jim: Harden your heart, my friends.

Brother Jim: And when the heart becomes hardened, eternal things no

Brother Jim: longer feel serious.

Brother Jim: Huh?

Brother Jim: No longer feel serious.

Brother Jim: What do you think, my friends?

Brother Jim: Let's be honest.

Brother Jim: We're going off script now.

Brother Jim: David's rolling his eyes like, oh, boy, here we go.

Brother Jim: Got the edit button ready?

Brother Jim: You think about it.

Brother Jim: What is hell to you?

Brother Jim: Now.

Brother Jim: Uh, we've made songs, you know, we've, you know.

Brother Jim: Well, hell is here.

Brother Jim: I'm going through my own hell right now, which I. I understand

Brother Jim: what you're saying, David, I understand I've to me, I've

Brother Jim: said, you know, I've been through hell and back, right?

Brother Jim: But again, not even close,

Brother Jim: brother, because I heard this

Brother Jim: one pastor say it can be a

Brother Jim: billion years from now and

Brother Jim: you're not one second closer to

Brother Jim: hell ending.

Brother Jim: You're still just.

Brother Jim: Yeah, think about that a billion years.

Brother Jim: David.

Brother Jim: I, I told the church the other

Brother Jim: day, I got wrapped up, I lost a

Brother Jim: year.

Brother Jim: I thought I was fifty two and here I'm fifty three.

Brother Jim: So, you know, again, only fifty three years.

Brother Jim: Think about a billion.

Brother Jim: Think about just a million.

Brother Jim: Let's keep it a thousand years, David.

Brother Jim: A thousand years of what's the

Brother Jim: worst thing here on earth that

Brother Jim: you've experienced.

David: That I've experienced?

David: Yeah. How about.

Brother Jim: Physical pain?

Brother Jim: How about physical pain?

David: Uh, thankfully, I haven't had too much physical pain, but, uh,

David: I mean, you know, I've had my back go out where I can't get

David: off the floor before.

David: Okay, that's that's no fun.

David: No fun?

Brother Jim: No, uh, kidney stones for me.

David: MM. Yeah.

Brother Jim: Yes. So I'm trying to wrap my head around.

Brother Jim: Okay, let's just go.

Brother Jim: Six months of kidney stones would be because with kidney

Brother Jim: stones, you're just.

Brother Jim: You're almost praying for death, you know?

Brother Jim: I mean, no matter what you do

Brother Jim: position you get in, there's no

Brother Jim: relief.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: So, and I'm sure people out

Brother Jim: there have had it a lot worse,

Brother Jim: but I'm just trying to compare

Brother Jim: to what I've known, uh, kidney

Brother Jim: stones.

Brother Jim: So. But yeah, just think about

Brother Jim: now we burn our hand, David,

Brother Jim: our, our automatic reaction, the

Brother Jim: human body is to pull our hand

Brother Jim: back.

Brother Jim: Correct?

David: Sure. Yeah.

Brother Jim: Yeah. Well, what if you can't?

Brother Jim: What if the flames are so great?

Brother Jim: I'm just saying, you know, if we're going to go that road,

Brother Jim: there's no escaping it.

Brother Jim: You know, when it's ninety some degrees out, humidity is high.

Brother Jim: We can go inside and hit the AC.

Brother Jim: True.

David: Yep.

Brother Jim: Yeah. Not in hell.

Brother Jim: All alone, my friends.

Brother Jim: All alone.

Brother Jim: And David, you brought up a good point here.

Brother Jim: Back when your one son missed out on graduation.

Brother Jim: What did Covid bring?

David: A lot of sadness and despair.

David: Sadness, loneliness.

Brother Jim: There you go.

Brother Jim: Not the best in the business for nothing, folks.

Brother Jim: Loneliness.

Brother Jim: And again, loneliness.

Brother Jim: We discussed that just a little bit last week.

Brother Jim: There's not going to be.

Brother Jim: Hey, David.

Brother Jim: How you doing, buddy?

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: You want to go catch the fireball down at the.

Brother Jim: No. No loneliness.

Brother Jim: You're all by yourself in the absence of God.

Brother Jim: Absence of God.

Brother Jim: So why take a chance, my friends?

Brother Jim: Why take a chance?

Brother Jim: How about we close with prayer

Brother Jim: today before we go into our

Brother Jim: ending?

Brother Jim: Heavenly father, help us take

Brother Jim: eternity seriously while still

Brother Jim: seeking truth with love and

Brother Jim: compassion.

Brother Jim: Soften hardened hearts and open eyes to the hope found in Jesus

Brother Jim: Christ, your son.

Brother Jim: Forgive us for the times we have treated holy things casually.

Brother Jim: Give us boldness to share the gospel and hearts that care

Brother Jim: deeply for lost people.

Brother Jim: Thank you for your mercy, grace,

Brother Jim: and salvation through Jesus

Brother Jim: Christ.

Brother Jim: In Jesus name we pray.

Brother Jim: Amen.

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

Brother Jim: Tuesday, May nineteenth, twenty twenty six.

Brother Jim: Mr. David, my friends, any

Brother Jim: closing thoughts or comments for

Brother Jim: this segment?

David: No, I think you said most of it,

David: but I mean, it bears repeating

David: that, you know, hell's forever,

David: just like heaven's forever,

David: hell's forever.

David: So, you know, you don't you want you want something a little bit

David: better than fire insurance.

David: Do you really want to skate there along the along the edge,

David: hoping that you get in or hoping you want to be a little closer

David: to God and know.

David: Know where you're going?

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Hope in one hand.

Brother Jim: And you know what in the other.

Brother Jim: What's going to fill up first?

Brother Jim: Just being honest, guys.

Brother Jim: Just being honest.

Brother Jim: Well, to all our friends listening this morning, please

Brother Jim: remember this before you go.

Brother Jim: You.

Brother Jim: Yes, you have meaning.

Brother Jim: You have value.

Brother Jim: And most of all, you are loved.

Brother Jim: Never forget that God created you with purpose and this world

Brother Jim: is better because you are in it.

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

Brother Jim: walk beside you through every moment of this day.

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

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

Brother Jim: So whenever, wherever life takes

Brother Jim: you today, keep smiling, keep

Brother Jim: believing, keep loving, and keep

Brother Jim: trusting God.

Brother Jim: And remember this if we meet

Brother Jim: again, well then we will smile

Brother Jim: and rejoice.

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

Brother Jim: Thank you for joining Dave and myself here on Bible Bridge,

Brother Jim: Bible bibs and a prayer.

Brother Jim: Until next time.

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