Bible Bibs and a Prayer Season 3 Episode 60

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 hey hey hey what's up everyone?

Brother Jim: It is time, my friends.

Brother Jim: Time for Bible bibs and a prayer.

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

Brother Jim: But you're getting it anyway.

Brother Jim: And if you're here to learn

Brother Jim: something, lower your

Brother Jim: expectations.

Brother Jim: Welcome back to the podcast.

Brother Jim: You keep listening for the

Brother Jim: reasons David and I really don't

Brother Jim: understand.

Brother Jim: So grab your coffee, ignore your responsibilities for a bit and

Brother Jim: let's get into it, shall we?

Brother Jim: I need to switch hats, my friend, because we're going on a

Brother Jim: ride today, a trail.

David: There you go.

Brother Jim: Hitting a happy trail?

Brother Jim: Yes. Hey, my friends, I haven't spoke to my wife in years.

Brother Jim: I thought it'd be rude to interrupt her.

Brother Jim: Woo!

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: And by the way, there was a break in at the wig factory.

Brother Jim: Police are combing the area.

Brother Jim: I don't know if I use that one or not, but.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Yes, yes, yes, it is.

Brother Jim: Double joke.

Brother Jim: Thursday.

Brother Jim: What a blessing.

Brother Jim: Right.

Brother Jim: Miss Ida Li Dan, our chicken and, uh, the Leinster.

Brother Jim: And she's not looking so grumpy today, are you, baby?

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: And I forgot a banana.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Gotta keep her happy because you don't want to see the Leinster

Brother Jim: upset, do you, David?

David: Absolutely not.

David: Ah.

Brother Jim: So saying all that, all that

Brother Jim: gibberish and gibberish stuff

Brother Jim: going on.

Brother Jim: Good morning to you, our friends.

Brother Jim: Good morning world.

Brother Jim: Let us thank God for another beautiful day, another breath

Brother Jim: and another opportunity to grow.

Brother Jim: Just like all those dandelions

Brother Jim: and weeds in the garden, in the

Brother Jim: yard.

Brother Jim: Grow and grow and grow.

Brother Jim: Here on Bible bibs in prayer, we start our day with gratitude,

Brother Jim: good conversation and positive.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: Positive energy.

Brother Jim: Let's turn this from a

Brother Jim: conversation into an experience,

Brother Jim: shall we?

Brother Jim: And now joining me, as always,

Brother Jim: is the human embodiment of

Brother Jim: sarcasm.

Brother Jim: My co-host who showed up today, which already exceeds and this

Brother Jim: is mean to say our expectations.

Brother Jim: He's always here.

Brother Jim: The man behind the scenes that makes all this possible.

Brother Jim: A man that brings the same energy as always confusing.

Brother Jim: But he is committed.

Brother Jim: And that's what we love about you.

Brother Jim: Committed above all else.

Brother Jim: My ho, my co-host, living proof that you don't need a plan to

Brother Jim: have a podcast.

Brother Jim: Say hello to a man among men.

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

Brother Jim: Please welcome the one, the only

Brother Jim: Mr. David Keener, plus one of my

Brother Jim: best friends in the whole wide

Brother Jim: world.

Brother Jim: Good morning sir.

David: Good morning.

David: Well, it might not be the best in the business, but I'm the

David: best you got.

David: So there you go.

David: Oh, yes.

David: And we.

Brother Jim: Me and the barnyard.

Brother Jim: We are so thankful.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: How is life in Kernersville?

David: It's good.

David: The weekend is upon us.

David: And I'm a part of my.

David: My joke for today is the worst limbo player in the world walked

David: into a bar.

David: What?

Brother Jim: He's killing.

David: Me.

Brother Jim: He's killing me.

Brother Jim: I gotta find out where he's getting this stuff.

Brother Jim: Because it is good.

David: Clark.

Brother Jim: Yes. Yes.

David: I was recently on a job

David: interview, and the guy said, I

David: want you to sell this computer,

David: sell this computer, and you're

David: hired.

David: All right.

David: Tucked it under my arm and took off.

David: A couple weeks later, he calls me back and says, hey, I want my

David: computer back now.

David: I said, that's no problem.

David: Two hundred bucks, it's yours.

Brother Jim: He's not the best color

Brother Jim: commentator in the business,

Brother Jim: folks.

Brother Jim: Yes.

David: Two for Thursday.

Brother Jim: Yes!

Brother Jim: Woo hoo!

Brother Jim: Yeah!

Brother Jim: Plans for the weekend?

David: No, not that I know of.

David: Let me think what weekend this is.

David: Uh, yeah, I think I do.

David: I think I have my son's concert to go to this weekend.

David: So the xylophone thing, he's

David: eagerly and been ready to do

David: that.

David: So so that should be fun.

Brother Jim: We've got a concert tonight.

Brother Jim: Ellie's spring concert.

Brother Jim: Very nice.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Uh, yeah.

Brother Jim: And again, I've said it's never had.

Brother Jim: Our three older ones were never in the band.

Brother Jim: So it's kind of cool.

Brother Jim: I, I enjoy it because again, it's like, I don't know where

Brother Jim: you get that talent from.

Brother Jim: Sure didn't come from me.

Brother Jim: But of course, then I watch her

Brother Jim: playing sports and it's like,

Brother Jim: you didn't get that for me

Brother Jim: either.

Brother Jim: Now, uh, it's one thing, though.

Brother Jim: All three girls that played

Brother Jim: basketball, I think I've

Brother Jim: mentioned this, but when they

Brother Jim: played defense, it would drive

Brother Jim: me nuts.

Brother Jim: David.

Brother Jim: They would hold their shorts

Brother Jim: with their right hand instead of

Brother Jim: getting it down in the proper

Brother Jim: defensive position.

Brother Jim: Yeah, they would get down.

Brother Jim: It looked perfect, except they

Brother Jim: would hold their right short

Brother Jim: leg.

Brother Jim: Why?

Brother Jim: I don't know.

Brother Jim: I would go nuts up in the stands, and to this day, it's

Brother Jim: still a running joke.

Brother Jim: Why why why?

Brother Jim: Uh. But yeah, uh, how about you guys plans for the weekend?

Brother Jim: Uh, I did David.

Brother Jim: Uh, we got the big tractor out the other day.

Brother Jim: Yeah, got the tiller on the back.

Brother Jim: Nice.

Brother Jim: So, uh, getting ready for

Brother Jim: garden, and I've got the lumber

Brother Jim: because I am on vacation,

Brother Jim: actually hoping to be on

Brother Jim: vacation.

Brother Jim: And, uh, got, uh, the, the

Brother Jim: timber laid out for some raised

Brother Jim: gardens.

Brother Jim: So, uh, did I tell you about my forks?

David: You did.

David: You told me.

David: I don't know if you told the ladies and gentlemen, though.

Brother Jim: Well, I've got a Steiner and a Steiner.

Brother Jim: Ventrac.

Brother Jim: It is such an amazing machine.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: For your wannabe weekend warriors, you know.

Brother Jim: And I've got a bucket and a blade along with a mowing deck.

Brother Jim: And that bucket.

Brother Jim: I tell you what, I wear it out because it beats a wheelbarrow.

David: Oh, sure.

Brother Jim: And it's great for an older fat man.

Brother Jim: You know, you just kind of every time you got to get off.

Brother Jim: But, uh, I'm hoping and I'll come back to this.

Brother Jim: Let you guys know.

Brother Jim: I'm hoping to build a couple things because I've got all

Brother Jim: these big, beautiful pallets.

Brother Jim: Yeah, but you can't move them.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: I'm too old and not strong enough anymore to throw.

Brother Jim: And, I mean, these are big pallets like the eight footers.

Brother Jim: And to drag them, you tear up

Brother Jim: the yard and you tear up the

Brother Jim: skids.

Brother Jim: So I have seen these forks that go on the front of your bucket.

Brother Jim: Mhm.

Brother Jim: So you can easily lift.

Brother Jim: Now, me being a typical American male meat eating, gun loving,

Brother Jim: love, patriotic guy, we go big or go home, right?

Brother Jim: That's right.

Brother Jim: I gotta have a little Texas blood in me.

Brother Jim: So I get online and I find this heck of a deal for two forks.

Brother Jim: Now, of course, I go with the highest rating for for weight.

David: Well, yeah.

David: Why wouldn't you?

Brother Jim: Why wouldn't you?

Brother Jim: Exactly.

Brother Jim: I get them out.

Brother Jim: Good golly.

Brother Jim: They're made for hoops.

Brother Jim: A regular tractor bucket.

Brother Jim: So I'm.

Brother Jim: And of course, like a kid at

Brother Jim: Christmas, I hurry up and throw

Brother Jim: them on.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: I'm like, what have I done?

Brother Jim: Let's just say a little too big.

Brother Jim: But they shall work.

David: So Steiner trying to do a nosedive.

Brother Jim: Well, luckily you got this on

Brother Jim: the backside for counterweights

Brother Jim: because my one friend said, you

Brother Jim: better watch.

Brother Jim: You might tip it.

Brother Jim: And I'm like, Greg, buddy, ain't no tipping.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: But, uh, again, hopefully we get some of that done while I'm on

Brother Jim: vacation, but I'm excited to get the garden in because I tell you

Brother Jim: food prices and everything else.

David: It's crazy.

Brother Jim: Yeah, I wish I could make my own toilet paper, you know?

Brother Jim: Now, of course, we could go old

Brother Jim: school corn cobs at the end of

Brother Jim: the.

Brother Jim: But I'll pass on that one.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Hey, that's a great question.

Brother Jim: Not to be rude, but to our older listeners, have you ever had to

Brother Jim: use a corn cob back in the day?

Brother Jim: Like I said, it's an experience here on Bible bibs and a prayer.

David: Didn't say a good experience.

David: Just an experience.

Brother Jim: Yes. Well, I think we've said keep your expectations low.

Brother Jim: Uh, yes.

Brother Jim: But, uh, uh, how about you guys again?

Brother Jim: How's, uh, how's your gardening going?

Brother Jim: How's your landscaping coming?

Brother Jim: How's everything going?

Brother Jim: Let us know.

Brother Jim: Come on.

Brother Jim: Peg Abraham, our friend.

Brother Jim: How you doing out there?

Brother Jim: Uh, one of our faithful listeners let us know.

Brother Jim: Uh, you know, and again, especially our friends from

Brother Jim: overseas up north, down south.

Brother Jim: Let us know what is going on.

Brother Jim: We would love to hear from you.

Brother Jim: How about Vietnam?

Brother Jim: Let us know what is going on

Brother Jim: over there and you're into the

Brother Jim: world.

Brother Jim: How about it, friends?

Brother Jim: Big plans for the weekend because it is almost upon us.

Brother Jim: Memorial Day.

Brother Jim: David will be here before we know it.

David: Sure will.

Brother Jim: I mean, and then the summer is off and running.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: Alrighty then.

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

Brother Jim: Friends, what have you.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: What have you done to make this past week better?

Brother Jim: A difference in God's kingdom.

Brother Jim: The weekend is almost here.

Brother Jim: You still got time to get out there and do something good.

Brother Jim: Do something positive for

Brother Jim: someone you love, someone you

Brother Jim: care about, or even a complete

Brother Jim: stranger.

Brother Jim: So saddle up and let's hit the

Brother Jim: brand new weekend trail

Brother Jim: together.

Brother Jim: Hi ho.

Brother Jim: Silver, we need to get you a bike.

Brother Jim: I don't know if it offend anybody, but I said I've got

Brother Jim: Native American in me, so we can pass that on to you.

Brother Jim: Like, uh.

David: I'm not sure that's how that works, but yeah.

Brother Jim: Like Tonto.

Brother Jim: Well, the other day in Bible study, uh, somebody mentioned

Brother Jim: they were watching the Guardians and I said, I'm going to stop

Brother Jim: you right there because I refuse to call them the Guardians.

Brother Jim: They are the Indians.

Brother Jim: You know, I cannot go to that woke belief right there.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: Love me, hate me.

Brother Jim: It's okay.

Brother Jim: But we gotta stand for what we believe in, you know?

Brother Jim: Come on, come on, come on.

Brother Jim: I wish we could put that to music.

Brother Jim: David, you're almost there.

David: I'll have to work on that.

Brother Jim: We'll work on that one.

Brother Jim: All right.

Brother Jim: Our humor of the day.

Brother Jim: Here's a problem for you.

Brother Jim: And I could see myself doing this.

Brother Jim: David, how do you get two pounds of chocolate home from the store

Brother Jim: in a hot car?

David: No idea.

Brother Jim: You eat it in a parking lot?

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: Actually, that is a good idea.

Brother Jim: And notice the word share was not in.

David: Right?

Brother Jim: Oh, okay.

Brother Jim: Real quick, speaking of chocolate.

Brother Jim: Yep.

Brother Jim: Around Easter time, we.

Brother Jim: Oh, we love those chocolate eggs with the caramel.

David: Caramel.

Brother Jim: Yeah. Uh, I can't think of the name.

David: Of the Cadbury ones.

Brother Jim: Yes.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: And me and my wife have this

Brother Jim: ongoing battle because she loves

Brother Jim: chocolate.

Brother Jim: And she will hide the chocolate.

Brother Jim: And her mom, Marilyn.

Brother Jim: Miss Marilyn always gets her and Ellie some of them eggs.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Now, usually I buy my own.

Brother Jim: And I asked her, did you get any?

Brother Jim: Well, I didn't buy any.

Brother Jim: Did you get any?

Brother Jim: I didn't buy any.

David: That's like a technicality.

Brother Jim: Well, the other day I was looking for.

Brother Jim: Ah, Non-sponsored biofreeze.

Brother Jim: And I did the unthinkable.

Brother Jim: David.

Brother Jim: I opened a woman's drawer by the bedside.

Brother Jim: by the bed, you know, the nightstand.

Brother Jim: And lo and behold, what do you think I found?

Brother Jim: Cadbury Cadbury.

David: Eggs?

Brother Jim: Yes, I didn't touch, but I did have a sarcastic remark for her.

Brother Jim: But she corrected me, said I never claimed to buy any and I

Brother Jim: never claimed to eat them all.

Brother Jim: I'm like, all right, you got me.

Brother Jim: Do you guys do that?

Brother Jim: Especially our women?

Brother Jim: Not stereotyping, but do you hide your chocolate?

Brother Jim: Good question.

Brother Jim: Today's thought.

Brother Jim: The gospel is open to all.

Brother Jim: The most respectable sinner has

Brother Jim: no more claim on it than the

Brother Jim: worst.

Brother Jim: Martyn Lloyd-Jones.

Brother Jim: Now we've started this little series on salvation.

Brother Jim: Why it is so important.

Brother Jim: We're going to continue on this, because I personally feel we

Brother Jim: need to be talking about salvation more than anything,

Brother Jim: and as well as spreading the gospel in this time in this age

Brother Jim: we are facing now.

Brother Jim: Because when that trumpet sounds, my friends who there's

Brother Jim: no going back, is there, David?

David: Nope. You better get ready to go.

Brother Jim: You're either in or you're out.

David: Yep.

Brother Jim: Why do we need salvation?

Brother Jim: David, that's a great question.

Brother Jim: I would ask my barnyard friends here, but I don't think we'll

Brother Jim: get the proper answer.

Brother Jim: And your own personal opinion.

Brother Jim: Why do we need salvation?

David: Well, because we're a lost people.

David: I mean, we're we're a failed and failed and lost people.

Brother Jim: Anything you'd like to add to that?

David: Not that I can think of at the moment.

Brother Jim: How about we're sinners?

David: Oh, yeah.

David: Yeah, yeah.

Brother Jim: There is no redemption for us as we talk Tuesday.

Brother Jim: You can't earn it, can you?

David: Nope.

Brother Jim: You can't do good works, can you?

David: Nope.

Brother Jim: And I'll quiz you.

Brother Jim: What did we say on Tuesday?

Brother Jim: It is a gift, a gift.

Brother Jim: So why do we need salvation?

Brother Jim: I am so glad you asked.

Brother Jim: If you go to Romans three twenty

Brother Jim: three, hopefully you grab your

Brother Jim: Bible.

Brother Jim: That's something we need to start encouraging.

Brother Jim: When you watch Bible bibs and a prayer.

Brother Jim: Grab your Bible.

Brother Jim: Bring it with you.

Brother Jim: Romans three twenty three tells us, for all have sinned and all

Brother Jim: fall short of the glory of God.

Brother Jim: Oh, whoa!

Brother Jim: Wait a minute, David.

Brother Jim: You're meaning I have sinned, I fall short.

David: Yeah. Get out!

David: Shockingly.

David: Yes.

Brother Jim: Oh, jeez.

Brother Jim: Elizabeth, it's the big one.

Brother Jim: I'm coming!

Brother Jim: Ha ha!

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Everyone needs salvation because everyone is sin.

Brother Jim: I don't care how self-righteous you think you are.

Brother Jim: You've sinned and you keep on sinning.

Brother Jim: Now, maybe you don't sin as much.

Brother Jim: And that's.

Brother Jim: Thank God for the transformation, the Holy Spirit.

Brother Jim: But yes, we we do, don't we, David?

Brother Jim: Sure do.

Brother Jim: How about those little thoughts of anger?

Brother Jim: Yep.

Brother Jim: How about those little thoughts of lust?

Brother Jim: How about those just unholy moments?

Brother Jim: And again, as we've been talking about temptation, temptation is

Brother Jim: not to sin, but when we act on temptation, it becomes a sin.

Brother Jim: So yes, brothers and sisters, it means you and me.

Brother Jim: Sin separates us from God.

Brother Jim: It is not just bad actions.

Brother Jim: Oh, but a broken condition.

Brother Jim: David.

Brother Jim: I thought, you know, it's all them bad people out there.

Brother Jim: All those bad heathens out there.

Brother Jim: Not me.

Brother Jim: Whew.

Brother Jim: I'm getting a little riled now, folks.

Brother Jim: Had a great discussion in Bible study.

Brother Jim: The way we were raised, especially that old school way.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: If you smoke, if you drink, if you say naughty words, those are

Brother Jim: the top three.

Brother Jim: Whew.

Brother Jim: There is no salvation for you, is there?

Brother Jim: You're going to hell.

Brother Jim: MM. HMM.

Brother Jim: Let's ponder that for a moment.

David: I don't think the Ten

David: Commandments were in any kind of

David: order.

David: I mean, I don't think they were numbered.

David: Worst.

David: Worst to not so worst or what have you.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Are we picking are we judging?

Brother Jim: Are we, you know, picking what we deem.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Is sin.

David: Right.

Brother Jim: MM. Think on that one for a moment, my friends.

Brother Jim: Not just bad actions, but a broken condition.

Brother Jim: We cannot fix ourselves on our own.

Brother Jim: As we discussed Tuesday.

Brother Jim: We can't do it no matter how hard, how bad.

Brother Jim: We want to think of salvation this way a broken phone.

Brother Jim: Had an experience just this morning with that.

David: Oh, fun.

Brother Jim: A broken phone that cannot repair itself.

Brother Jim: It needs what it needs an outside fix.

Brother Jim: Our.

Brother Jim: Our internet goes down.

Brother Jim: We can only do so much.

Brother Jim: Right, David?

Brother Jim: You can only reset the router,

Brother Jim: but after that, it's out of our

Brother Jim: hands.

David: Yep.

Brother Jim: Yes. Your car breaks down today.

Brother Jim: Now, I used to think I could fix

Brother Jim: back in the day most of the

Brother Jim: stuff.

Brother Jim: Not now, brother, you need a

Brother Jim: computer just to tell you what's

Brother Jim: wrong.

David: Yep.

Brother Jim: And a little question.

Brother Jim: What ever happened to having a spare tire?

Brother Jim: Even the donut was better.

Brother Jim: Right now you get a can of fix-a-flat, if you're lucky.

Brother Jim: Yeah, we can fix it.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: We can't fix it no matter how bad we want to.

Brother Jim: Or we think we are capable of doing it.

Brother Jim: Because what happens, David,

Brother Jim: when we usually try to fix

Brother Jim: something.

David: It usually gets worse.

Brother Jim: It gets worse. Exactly. Golfing, David, for example.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: I couldn't help but think of

Brother Jim: that movie Tin Cup because

Brother Jim: brother Rich.

Brother Jim: Rich stopped in to see us.

Brother Jim: God bless Rich.

Brother Jim: And, uh, uh.

Brother Jim: And then they're heading down to Tampa.

Brother Jim: Safe travels for you.

Brother Jim: But he was watching his buddy golf, and it reminded me of the

Brother Jim: Tin Cup situation.

Brother Jim: That movie at the very end where you got your little hole out

Brother Jim: there in the on a little island.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Water surrounded.

Brother Jim: Yep.

Brother Jim: What happens to us?

David: We joke.

Brother Jim: We shank the first one.

Brother Jim: Oh, no, I got this.

Brother Jim: Then goes the second ball into the water.

Brother Jim: We hit it perfect.

Brother Jim: It hits and then it rolls.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: So close.

Brother Jim: But yet so far.

Brother Jim: Is that how we view it sometimes?

Brother Jim: And be honest about your need for God.

Brother Jim: Be honest about your life.

Brother Jim: Do not compare your sin to others.

Brother Jim: Everyone needs saving.

Brother Jim: Oh, again I said, we compare ourselves to others.

Brother Jim: Do we start judging others?

David: We do.

Brother Jim: Oh we do.

Brother Jim: So how does salvation, how does salvation work?

Brother Jim: Let's break it down again in a clear, simple manner.

Brother Jim: Number one for all have sinned.

Brother Jim: This means everyone has sinned.

Brother Jim: Not just certain bad people, not the bad people out there, the

Brother Jim: heathens, the ones that go to a bar, the ones who you name it,

Brother Jim: will come up with a way.

Brother Jim: Why?

Brother Jim: It's a sin.

Brother Jim: Not just the people who get caught.

Brother Jim: All means all of us.

Brother Jim: We're in one big Ole kettle.

Brother Jim: You ever make a good beef stew or a vegetable soup?

Brother Jim: That's all.

David: Yep.

Brother Jim: Don't it, brother?

Brother Jim: Yep. But it sure does taste good at the end.

David: Absolutely it does.

Brother Jim: Yes, sir.

Brother Jim: And includes wrong actions.

Brother Jim: Ooh.

Brother Jim: Lying.

Brother Jim: Hurting others.

Brother Jim: Hurting others.

Brother Jim: Do we ever hurt anybody, David?

David: Multiple times a day.

Brother Jim: Sometimes, yes.

Brother Jim: Yes. Putting our foot in our mouth.

David: Yep.

Brother Jim: Speaking before we think.

Brother Jim: Yes. Being in meetings.

Brother Jim: Remember the little angel and the little devil?

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Who?

Brother Jim: In a meeting, for example.

Brother Jim: Those little thoughts start coming in.

Brother Jim: Yes.

Brother Jim: Wrong thoughts, wrong attitudes.

Brother Jim: Jealousy.

Brother Jim: Pride.

Brother Jim: Selfishness.

Brother Jim: Stop.

Brother Jim: Remember that commercial?

Brother Jim: Stop the madness.

David: Yep.

Brother Jim: Yes. Even ignoring God. Oh, yes.

Brother Jim: When that conviction comes upon us.

Brother Jim: Whew!

Brother Jim: No one is excluded from this.

Brother Jim: Number two.

Brother Jim: Fall short of the glory of God.

Brother Jim: Fall short means not reaching the standard.

Brother Jim: God's standard is perfect goodness, perfection, his glory.

Brother Jim: Imagine trying to jump across the huge gap which.

Brother Jim: That in itself would be funny

Brother Jim: seeing me try to cross a huge

Brother Jim: gap.

Brother Jim: Some people might jump further

Brother Jim: than others, but no one makes it

Brother Jim: across.

Brother Jim: And that is what this verse is saying.

Brother Jim: Even if some people seem better than others, no one reaches

Brother Jim: God's perfect standard.

Brother Jim: Are you listening?

Brother Jim: Simple meaning.

Brother Jim: Romans three twenty three is saying, every one has sinned,

Brother Jim: even pastors, even evangelists.

Brother Jim: Even grandma, great grandpa,

Brother Jim: grandpa, who's little grandma

Brother Jim: sitting there knitting, you

Brother Jim: know, has her little dress on

Brother Jim: and everything.

Brother Jim: Yes, even grandma has sinned.

Brother Jim: No one is perfect.

Brother Jim: And you're looking at one right now who claims that?

Brother Jim: Not even close.

Brother Jim: But that's where the Holy Spirit comes in with transformation.

Brother Jim: When you say I am yours, God start to shape me.

Brother Jim: Start to mold me.

Brother Jim: No one meets God's standards on their own.

Brother Jim: And why does this matter, Brother Jim?

Brother Jim: This verse helps us understand something important.

Brother Jim: We all need salvation.

Brother Jim: We all need salvation.

Brother Jim: Because.

Brother Jim: David, let me ask you something, brother.

Brother Jim: Is there a heaven?

David: Absolutely.

Brother Jim: Is there a.

David: Hell?

David: Absolutely.

Brother Jim: Is there anything in between?

David: Not that I'm aware of.

Brother Jim: Not that I'm aware of.

Brother Jim: And I'm talking for eternity.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: You got two choices.

Brother Jim: Two choices.

Brother Jim: And that should be pretty simple, shouldn't it?

Brother Jim: You ever go up to order something and.

Brother Jim: Oh my goodness, just choo choo

Brother Jim: choo choo choo choo choo choo

Brother Jim: choo.

Brother Jim: Even McDonalds.

Brother Jim: Yeah it gets confusing at times.

Brother Jim: Heaven or hell.

Brother Jim: My friends, it's as simple as it gets.

Brother Jim: But salvation removes the idea that I am good enough on my own.

Brother Jim: I do not need God and I've heard that before.

Brother Jim: I have said that I've so filled

Brother Jim: with bitterness and just not

Brother Jim: self righteousness, but

Brother Jim: bitterness, anger.

Brother Jim: This is the way God treats me.

Brother Jim: This is what he's allowing.

Brother Jim: And who needs God?

Brother Jim: You ever been there before?

Brother Jim: Oh, I'm a walking, talking example of that.

Brother Jim: And guess what?

Brother Jim: I was wrong.

Brother Jim: Wrong.

Brother Jim: Can you say that with me today?

Brother Jim: Wrong, I was wrong.

Brother Jim: But instead, if we ante up and

Brother Jim: be honest, it shows we all need

Brother Jim: forgiveness.

Brother Jim: We all need help from God.

Brother Jim: So what is the bigger picture?

Brother Jim: Number one, as I said, heaven and hell.

Brother Jim: You got two choices.

Brother Jim: I got two choices.

Brother Jim: David has two choices.

Brother Jim: Think about it.

Brother Jim: You're either going to heaven or you're going to hell.

Brother Jim: Bottom line.

Brother Jim: And again, if you're keeping a scorecard with gold stars,

Brother Jim: you're in trouble.

Brother Jim: And if you don't care if you've chalked it up to this is my

Brother Jim: life, I'm going to do what I choose to do.

Brother Jim: Well, yes, you're choosing that,

Brother Jim: but there will be heavy

Brother Jim: consequences.

Brother Jim: And this verse might sound heavy, but it sets up good news.

Brother Jim: Right after this, the Bible explains God offers forgiveness.

Brother Jim: But do you want it?

Brother Jim: God makes a way through Jesus.

Brother Jim: Do you want him?

Brother Jim: So Romans three twenty three shows the problem, and the rest

Brother Jim: of the message of salvation shows the solution.

Brother Jim: There is a problem and there is a solution.

Brother Jim: I wish other things in life were

Brother Jim: so easy, but when it comes to

Brother Jim: salvation, we complicate it, do

Brother Jim: we not?

Brother Jim: And that is something.

Brother Jim: With this big old head of ours, we complicate things.

Brother Jim: Mind and heart because we think we can do it by ourselves or we

Brother Jim: have no need for God.

Brother Jim: Ah, so again, something to chew on this weekend.

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

Brother Jim: Thursday, April twenty third, twenty twenty six.

Brother Jim: Mr. David, my friend.

Brother Jim: My brother from another mother.

Brother Jim: Closing thoughts or comments on this segment.

David: Nope. Just encourage the folks again to check out the YouTube

David: page for Bible and Prayer.

David: They can catch up on all the

David: stuff that they've missed and

David: download.

Brother Jim: Why?

Brother Jim: David?

Brother Jim: Why is that so important?

David: Well, because, you know, you

David: jump in the middle of something,

David: you have no idea what we're

David: talking about.

Brother Jim: And maybe going back and paying it through.

Brother Jim: Now again, the mind, the brain's not that big, but maybe you

Brother Jim: might pick up something that you need at the right moment.

David: There's been movies that I have

David: watched for a hundred times, and

David: I catch something new every

David: time.

Brother Jim: So he makes a great example.

Brother Jim: I'm going to throw out one to you too.

Brother Jim: And I just had a conversation with a woman about this who was

Brother Jim: just seeking someone to talk to.

Brother Jim: You ever go through?

Brother Jim: And I was good at this.

Brother Jim: Pastor says, turn to Ephesians two.

Brother Jim: You happen to be thumbing through and out of the blue.

Brother Jim: You come across the verse you need.

Brother Jim: Exactly.

David: Yeah.

Brother Jim: Now, is that coincidence?

Brother Jim: Or could that be God working on you, showing you.

Brother Jim: And again, I don't get upset.

Brother Jim: I will not get upset.

Brother Jim: I will get upset if you're

Brother Jim: sitting there playing tic tac

Brother Jim: toe or drawing, trying to sketch

Brother Jim: me out unless it's a good

Brother Jim: sketch, but you know, again, you

Brother Jim: never know unless you open up

Brother Jim: the Bible.

Brother Jim: You never know unless you go back.

Brother Jim: So as David said, maybe you need something.

Brother Jim: Just click on a YouTube session

Brother Jim: and it might be the one you

Brother Jim: need.

Brother Jim: We're trying here, our friends.

Brother Jim: We're trying better than nothing, isn't it?

Brother Jim: I think I'll close on that one because I could go.

Brother Jim: Our friends, as we close, please remember you.

Brother Jim: Yes, you have meaning.

Brother Jim: You have value.

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

Brother Jim: May God continue to bless you and just as well.

Brother Jim: May you and I continue to thank our Lord above for all of our

Brother Jim: blessings each and every day.

Brother Jim: And if we meet again, well then

Brother Jim: we will smile and we're going to

Brother Jim: rejoice.

Brother Jim: We're going to do a little dance.

Brother Jim: Yeah.

Brother Jim: David.

Brother Jim: Woo!

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

Brother Jim: Happy trails to you until we meet again.

Brother Jim: Thank you for joining Dave and

Brother Jim: myself, along with the barnyard

Brother Jim: crew here on Bible bibs and

Brother Jim: prayer.

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

Brother Jim: Out.