Never Will I Leave You | Hebrews 13:1-9

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It's gonna be amazing today, it is.

It's going to be very amazing.

You brought your A game, I can tell I think.

So I went home and turned around and got it.

I was I left the house with a b game

and I was like, I better turn around.

I'll have that in the closet, dusted it off right

right to go.

So here it is today. I'm Chris, this is Jeff,

and we are the Bible Guys, and today we're launching

into a segment, or next not a segment, a series,

and it is called God's Presence and Nearness.

How cool is that?

Yeah, So the whole week we're talking about how God

is near us and God is promised to be with us,

but in different contexts of our lives. So it's uh,

and then next week can be a little different. But

it's this idea that that we're we're banking on the

promises that are given in different contexts. So we got

to come up with the name of it. What is

it called unshaken? Is that what you called it? Unshakable?

Well, I just think it's it's our fifty favorite promises

of God.

Okay, how about that fifty.

Favorites, fifty favorite promises of God.

That kind of like that fifty favorite which means ten weeks.

Well, it's five weeks.

Oh, five weeks?

Is that five weeks? Is that what we're doing? Ten weeks?

What depends on how many promises per day? Per day?

That's true? Yeah, yeah, because it's about just our favorite

promises of God TVD TVD.

All right, very cool. Okay, so so today before we

dive into that, we have a segment, and today is unusual.

We haven't done this too much. We've done it once

or twice before. But Desiree wants us to do Google

Translate karaoke. Okay, Jeff will run through excuse me, He'll

run lyrics through multiple Google Translate languages, then read or

sing or sing, Jeff, there's an option for you.

No, I'm not singing.

No. Look it says no, it says Then Jeff will

read or sing the garbled result to see if Chris

can figure out what the actual song is.

Oh well, yeah, I'm not singing it. I'll read it.

She's throwing the option. She is for you to sing.

I hear the option.

However, you know that all of our listeners want you

to sing.

I know they do. Yeah yeah, but see what we'll

do once you do it?

Right now?

Happened right now? They will never get this feeling back

if I sing, if I sing well, and they never

get back the desire for it, saying it just goes away.

Sing a sentence or it just goes away. So no,

because they've heard you sing, they just want you to

sing more.

Okay, So you can't claim it.

You can't claim that because they've heard you sing something.

M hm.

So sorry about this.

This is never gonna work.

Okay, we'll try it again, or just try it. We'll

see how it goes, even if it's a failure. Let's

let's let our listeners in with the.

Phare we go ahead? Ready?

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Whoa oh oh mon do and font whoa oh oh mon?

Do a more?

Oh wait a minute, mom, do that's French.

That's French?

Well more is love?

Right? Yeah?

Whoa my love?

I know it's kind of a surprising one.

Is that what we're supposed to do, is that the assignment?

I read multiple languages. Yes, I ran through language. I

chose a song, I ran it through the language. Then

I just read the lyrics to you. But I don't

speak any of these languages. So yeah, so that's why

I chose that was a chorus.

Can you do it through Spanish? Because I know a

little Spanish?

Well, I will and minute, but not in this song.

It's multiple language.

Okay, all right, all right, all right? Whoa oh oh something.

Whoa oh oh mond do in font whoa oh oh

oh mon do a more. We've got people who go,

I know what that is? Really yeah, it's uh trying

to think of the whoa oh let me see.

I don't know too many like whoah oh?

Let me see what year this song was?

Crazy?

The song was written, Man, I feel like a woman

nineteen eighty seven.

Show h my something my love.

Yeah.

I don't want to bore the listeners anymore.

Okay, what is it? It's a whoa oh oh, sweet

child of mine? Whoa oh oh oh, sweet love of mine?

Next time, pick a song I'm really familiarly.

You don't know guns and roses, yes, but you you

were busy listening to I wouldn't.

I wouldn't, I wouldn't have. I don't know a single

lyric to that song other than sweet Child of Mind.

Well that's those were literally the lyric.

That's literally the lyric I gave you. Literally, it's the

only thing I read.

It's alone and font that's okay, child of Mine.

Oh, I'm sure that all the French majors out there.

Okay, you appreciate it if they were freaking out. Okay,

So now I have to do another one. Yeah, yeah,

these are hard.

Do Spanish?

Do Spanish?

Take a song that you think i'd know?

Okay, a song that you know?

Yeah, you know? The Guns N' Roses is a little

out of my although, you know, I mean I was

a nineteen eighties child and I definitely listened to those

kinds of songs.

Yeah. Well, anyways, I don't know what to do with

you if you don't know a guns and Roses song?

Uh? Do guns and Roses have a lot of hits?

Okay?

Did they?

Did? They have a lot of it?

I don't know.

Okay, here we go. I've got one coming up, and

it's gonna be amazing for you. Okay, hmm, let me

see if I can figure out what the course This.

Is gonna be fun that you're gonna actually read it

in Spanish. Yes, this is great. Make sure you try

to do an accent too.

It's probably not going to do it. Okay, here we go,

and then we're gonna put it. I just copied and

paste it or copied it. Now I'm gonna paste it

here into this app translate.

Choosing the song.

Yeah, well, I mean you got to get the song

so and then you want it in Spanish. Spanish is

the preferred thing because that's what you're an expert at.

You're an expert a Spanish. Okay, go ahead, this one.

You should know Tango estacosa, donde and vecchio pero nukosoi

mas sabio last media, nochez sey convierten and miss tardes

kwondo me depression, trabaja n el torno de noce totis

lost personas a los k he ignorado, sequi don he

and les habitatio.

I have no idea. I caught like fifteen or twenty

words like like that. I sort of knew what it was.

There was the work.

Wait, okay, and there, there's uh that was there.

There's where I caught that, don'te I caught I caught

uh tango tango ya I have yep.

Okay, so it starts that way. What most what's the

most famous song that starts off Yo tango estacosa I

have DoD and the heyo wait wait sabio. That's the sentence,

say it again, Yo tango esta coosa donde and the

hako pero nunka soy mas sabio so massabio. Uh huh.

See our listeners are freaking out. I have this thing

where I get older but just never wiser.

Is that what it says?

Yes?

What is it?

It's I have this thing where I get older, but

just never wiser. Midnight's become afternoons. My depression works. The

graveyard chief, all the people have ghosted. Stand there in

the room. Well, I don't know this In English, it's

are you serious?

I said us a song that I know.

You should have known it. It's Anti Hero by Taylor Swift.

It's her biggest selling song.

Oh yeah, listen, I.

May like I may every Taylor Swift song.

No, this is this is not even close. So this

is not this is not close to the truth. Okay,

I know about seven Taylor Swift songs.

Okay, so what I chosen? I like Lady Gaga. Chef

chosen Lady Gaga.

I like her, but but I only went to see

her in concert because she was.

Okay, Okay, so it's gonna have to be like Broadway. Now,

listen Broadway song. If you if you would have chosen.

Any Carrie Underwood song, if you'd have chosen any Mariah

Carey song of the early days, or if you would

have chosen classic you know.

Okay, Well, that's not me. That's not me trying to

think of I'm trying to think of time from the eighties.

You know, Whitney Houston songs. You don't know Guns and

Roses songs. I would have What is wrong with you?

I would have? No, I I know.

Okay, I'm just thinking of female artists. Okay, because you

chose Taylor Swift. Okay, I see, I know every Sight

t Win song, Okay, every Shania twice. Well, they'll keep

that in my on my list next time. Okay, Hey,

we've killed that one, so let's move on. Yeah, yeah,

that was awful.

We're gonna bury it. Move on.

Yeah, we're gonna kill that when I move on. So

we are in this whole thing.

By the way, speaking of speaking of kill, these promises

slay today.

Okay, there's your transition. So we are in the Book

of Hebrews and we're talking about the promises of God

and these are some of our favorite promises, right, And

I think it's really important for Christians because a lot

of Christians have a lot of anxiety and struggle with

their faith, mostly because they don't know what God's promised.

And God can't lie, right, Yeah, So when he gives

you a promise, he's going to keep that promise. Most

of his promises are if then promises, but he makes

a promise, he'll keep his promise. And so we just thought, hey,

let's take some time to go through as many the

promises of God as we can. And this week, really

the promises of God that we're talking about kind of

cluster on the idea of his presence in our life.

Right, do you really think most are if then promises?

I know there are a lot of if then promises.

Yeah, but they are. But I did the work, did you, Yeah, Yeah,

there's more that are if then, there's qualifiers to most

of God's promises. He doesn't just say, hey, I'm going

to make all your wildest dreams come true. It gets

you draw near to me, then I will draw near

to you.

I'm only asking about the quantity.

Yeah, like fifty Yeah, most joys, most of the promises

in the Bible are are connected to a an obedience component.

If you do this, then I'll.

Overwhelmingly overwhelmingly really yes, I would not have guessed that.

Huh yeah, wow, okay.

Yeah, they're always connected to a thing, right, So like

today is connected to a thing. Yeah, right, so they're

they're they're always connected to Hey, listen, I'm telling you

how the best way is to live. So live this

way and then I'll bless you like this. And that's

that's that's how he always always does it. So and

so yeah, let's just read this. We're going to read

in Hebrews chapter thirteen. This is the last chapter. So

this kind of closing out the book. These are the

concluding words. It says, keep on loving each other as

brothers and sisters. Don't forget the show hospitality to strangers,

for some have done this. Some who have done this

have entertained angels without realizing it. That's kind of a

neat idea. Remember in prison as if they were yourself,

if you were there yourself. Remember also those being mistreated,

as if you felt their pain in your own bodies.

Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another

in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral

and those committed altery. Then he says, don't love money.

Be satisfied with what you have, for God has said,

I will never leave you, I will never abandon you,

I will never fail you. I will never abandon you.

So we can say with confidence, the Lord is my helper,

so I will have no fear. What can mirror people

do to me? Remember your leaders who taught you the

word of God. Think of all the good that has

come from their lives, and follow the example of their faith.

Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today, and forever. So

do not be attracted by strange new ideas. Your strength

comes from God's grace, not from rules about food, which

don't help those who follow them. And then he goes on.

He closes out the chapter. But let's wrap up there,

and clearly the promise that we're looking at is don't

love money, be satisfied with what you have, because God

has said I will never fail you, I will never

abandon you.

So the promise is I will never fail you and

I will never abandon you. And the context is, be

satisfied with what you have and don't love money.

So it's this.

Idea that God is with us and God will never

abandon us. And that is true with every context of

our lives if we're a believer and follower of Jesus Christ,

if we're a Christian. But the context today is in

this area of our lives. Right, and then he also

before we get into that, he does he throws some

pretty pretty big bombs out there. Don't forget to show

hospitality to strangers, for some have done this and have

entertained angels without realizing it.

What is that about?

Well, I mean, you know, I told you. I think

most of the people who know me know I have

an angel story that I believe God sent me an angel,

and I have very very little doubt. In fact, I

would say that there's probably nothing in this whole world

that could ever happen to convince the otherwise. Right, and

and and so anyway, I think that the idea that

God Sends Angels is uh, you know you remember that

old show Heaven Can Wait? What's what's what's his name?

John Landon or something? Michael Oh, Michael Landon, Yeah, yeah, yeah,

Heaven can What was it? Was it Heaven? I don't know, No,

Heaven Can Wait? Was Warren Baties movie.

Uh. We didn't have a TV back then, so I

don't know.

It was like a Highway to Heaven, Highoul to Heaven.

I don't know.

Anyway, he's walking on the road with the music. That

was every That was every episode with the guy with

the beard. Anyway, The point is is that, h have

you ever talked to somebody who has like an angel story?

Have you ever?

I mean, besides besides that, have you ever talked to

anybody like this?

I've had people who've wondered, uh yeah, but I haven't

had anybody as emphatic as you. So.

Uh. So there is a good friend of mine. He

he's at my previous church and I can say his

name because he's told this story publicly multiple times. So

Mark Nelson, you know Mark Nelson is sure? Okay, So

Mark has the story and I've heard it multiple times

where I'm gonna I'm gonna tell it, it's unbelievable, Okay.

So he sees a wreck on the side of the

freeway and he stops, and he gets out of his

car and he runs over and there's a lady and

she's bleeding out of her throat right and and it's

just a horrific scene and and and the windows are

crashed and rolled over and things like this. So he

runs over and he says, can I help you? Can

I help you? And then on the other side of

the car, somebody runs up and peeks in and says,

put your hand right here in her throat, and so

he did it, and he goes, no, no, move down,

and he moved down, and he goes, okay, right there,

and he goes, now, pushed as hard as you can.

And Mark's doing this, and of course, I mean we're

talking trauma like er kind of stuff here, right, So

Mark stops this bleeding and and and he said, he goes,

that's right, he goes, just hold it right there. So

then Mark's holding it, and then Mar's asks a question

and then looks up and the person's gone. And within

one second there was a policeman in an ambulance that

had come up. They just both arrived at the same time.

And Mark looks this way and there's no cars and

it's on the side of the road, you know, there's

like woods. And he looks over it this way and

there's an ambulance and police car behind him. And it

was one second ago, and and and he says to

the I don't know who was one of one of

the gentlemen. And he said, where's the other person, where's

the guy who was on the other side of the car.

And both guys go, there's nobody on the side of

the car except for you. And he goes, he was

on the other side of the car. He was on

that side of the window. And he goes, no, there

was nobody there. He goes, we pulled up behind you.

He was there like two seconds ago. And he goes,

we were behind you like for a full minute and

there were's nobody there. And that's his story. And so

you you hear that. And again I'm a skeptic, right,

So I'm like, I'm like, Okay, what's the explanation for that.

There's a homeless guy camping in the woods?

I'm joking, right, but I mean, you know, I mean

it's it's it's just interesting. So Mark, Mark thinks, Oh,

there's no doubt in my mind God sent an angel

to save this woman.

Yeah, you know, I wish the story God also sent Mark.

That's right, that's right.

So yeah, the context here's hospitality.

Yes, of course. Yeah, we were just getting past the

first one. Yeah.

Yeah, So the context is in that one is is

a hospitality thing. And and he says that, you know, take.

Care of strangersality with angels.

Yeah, yeah, take care of strangers. And some people have

have you know, hosted angels unaware and you know, the

Bible mentions Abraham met with angels and at the beginning

didn't realize that Gideon didn't realize who he was talking

to at the beginning. You know, there's Manoah, there's people

in the Bible who met angels or served angels and

then later on discovered you know, who they were. So

there's that, and you know, I just think about it's

just kind of encouragement. What he's trying to do is say, one,

think about your brothers and sisters who are in prison.

Care about them. Then he says, take care of people,

be hospitable if they need a place to stay, even

if all you have as a table in the chair, man,

somebody's gonna be happy to spend time with you and

have a table in the chair, So take care of them.

So he's kind of as he's buttoning up this book,

he's just kind of giving them one off statements about

things that they should be doing. As a Christian, you

should care about people who are suffering, and you should

think of it as if you were suffering or people

that you love suffer, and then be hospitable and take

care of people. And by the way, hey, sometimes people

take care of angels not knowing it. Right then he

moves on down. He just keeps moving along. Give honor

to marriage. That's kind of out of place unless you

just realize he's giving you these one off statements. Oh,

I wanted the comment on this. I wanted the comment

on this. I wanted the that's what he's doing, right.

Have you ever written a letter? Remember back?

I have several times I've written the actual life.

Yeah. Have you ever back in the day when we

used to have to handwrite letters, You'd write and write

and write and write and write, and then towards the

end you're just like, jeez, this just get so long,

and the sentences get shorter. Did you do that? I

did it because my handwriting's not well or not very good,

and then I get tired writing, And so I think

that's what's happening here is this is a pretty intense book.

For twelve chapters. I'm very thorough and then suddenly you

got this last chapter. He's got Listen, man, there's a

million things I want to say. I'm not going to

unpack them. So he says, be hospitable, be concerned about

people who are suffering, honor marriage. Right, none of those

are connected, but it's just there. And then he's encouraging

to be a good Christian. Right, he's saying live. Well, yeah, yeah,

that's what I'm saying. Is I have all these other

things I want to write about, but I'm not going

to write whole chapters on each of these topics, and

so he's just kind of highlighting it. But then he

gets to this, don't love money. Be satisfied with what

you have, for God has said I will never fail you,

I will never abandon you. And then he says, because

of that promise, we can say with confidence the Lord

is my helper, so I will have no fear. What

can here people do to me? And I think that

this is a big issue. I think a lot of

people spend their life. You know, it used to be

everybody spend all of their time planting food, harvesting food,

processing food, prepping food, cooking food, eating food, make babies

go to sleep, wake up in the morning, plant food,

harvest food, process food. You know, prep food, cook food,

eat food. That was you just lived your whole life.

It was just survival and it's all you could think

about is preparing and taking care of yourself and your family. Well,

now most of us aren't suffering and struggling over food,

and yet we still live in a very similar grind

of just more, more, more, more more, and believe it

or not, that turns into this consumerism turns into for

a lot of people worry. It's because we get overextended.

Sometimes we start to worry about it. And so he's saying, man,

when you love money, you're going to struggle with worry.

But if you are content with what you have, if

you're satisfied with what you have, you're going to feel

God's presence. If you're satisfied, you'll feel God's presence because

he promised He'll never leave you, no for sake.

Yeah, I think it's a really powerful thing to attach

the promise I will never fail you, I will never

abandon you to money and provision, right and back then,

of course, you know, just sort of what you said.

Everybody spends all day worrying about the next meal, processing

food and getting water, collecting water. And today we don't

necessarily have that kind of worry, but we worry about

future things. And you know, by the way, I'm only

talking about my bubble and my world.

Yeah, right, you worry about the future financially.

Well, I'm talking about like I just realize what I said.

I just spoke like a spoiled American, right, saying, Oh,

we don't have that kind of worry, But most of

our audience probably don't have that kind of worry. They

turn on the faucet and water.

Comes out right in the west, in the for the West.

And yeah, so I know that a lot of the

world is still there, right, But the idea that God

will never fail you, so I just think that I

don't think that that always means you're always going to

have enough money for everything you want, right, right, And

and sometimes we do go without, and sometimes we are,

you know, challenged, and sometimes we question, and sometimes we

wonder and we thank God. I'm you know, there's so

many people friends of mine who say, I'm not where.

I where all my friends are in life. I should

be here, and now I'm not there, and something's happened

and I lost my job and then I couldn't get one,

and this is this is not you know, this is

not great. But I think that regardless of how our

finances play out, in terms of our future and our

you know, grain that we have stores in our barns,

I think that it's important to understand that God is

always going to be with us. There's not a single

need that God is not aware of. And God will

never fail on his promises. He will always be there

to take care of us, even if sometimes we question

when and how.

Yeah, that verse is a quote, I will never fail you,

I will never abandon you. The author of Hebrews is

quoting the Book of Deuteronomy there right, you.

Know, I was looking for a note in my study

Bible and it quotes the next verse. It says the

next verse comes from Solvient, but I couldn't find Deuteronomy.

Here yes, Deuteronomy thirty one to five.

Huh, yeah, my Bible doesn't say it.

Yeah. So in the In the King James, he says,

I will never I will never leave you. Right, Yeah,

I will never forsake you, is what he says. And

then because of this promise, I will never leave you,

I will never forsake you, I will never fail you,

I'll never abandon you. Because of that promise, then the

author of Hebrews connects us to Psalm one eighteen, where

he says, the Lord is my helper. Not only is

God hanging around you, God's presence is near you. God

is also willing to intervene for you. Right, And the

author of Hebrews is connecting those two ideas. He's present

and he'll intervene. He's not just present and watching. Gee,

I wonder what's going to happen next, But he'll step

in and he'll be your helper. And so because God

will never abandon me, and because God will be my helper,

then I don't have to have any fear. And then

he says, what can mere people do to me? That's

similar to the Book of Romans. You know, who can

be against me? If God's for me who can be

against me? And that should give us a tremendous amount

of confidence. So, hey, if you're struggling financially, listen, God's

not going to fail you. It's never going to be you,

and he will help you. But you have to decide

you're going to be satisfied with what you do have

and stop putting all of your focus on what money

can do for you and instead put your focus on

what God promises to do for you. And then at

that point there's a certain amount of satisfaction that comes

with that decision. And when you come to that place

where you're satisfied with what God has promised, then he says,

I'll be your helper.

And on the negative side, don't love money to such

a degree to where you spend wasted energy and time

and everything else because you're pursuing the wrong thing. Well,

that's great, that's a good place to end. And so

we will see you tomorrow for another promise on the Bible.

Guys,