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Ask a Pastor with JOBY MARTIN | April 2024 (Ep. 585)

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Ask a Pastor with JOBY MARTIN | April 2024 (Ep. 585)
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In this episode, Kyle Thompson and Joby Martin tackle tough questions about faith, sin, and the consequences of our actions. They emphasize personal responsibility and the importance of biblical truth in navigating life's challenges.
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0:50 This is Undaunted Life of Man's Podcast, I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
0:55 Let's get into it.
0:56 You'll be Martin.
0:57 I know I normally start out with a question from myself because I'm super selfish and
1:01 all that, but I've been really worried about asking you this question because I'm terrified
1:06 of your answer.
1:07 Okay?
1:08 So I'm just going to throw that out there from the very beginning because as everybody
1:10 on all the fans of the show know at this point, you and I've spent a lot of time together
1:14 here recently came out to Oklahoma.
1:16 I showed you what Southern Hospitality is actually about.
1:19 We went hunting.
1:20 We went to one of the greatest whiskey experiences you could possibly have.
1:24 This side of the pond, you know, we record a couple forging tables, right?
1:29 So you made your forging table debut.
1:30 We did a solo episode.
1:32 I went out to Jacksonville not that long ago and you and I took care of some business over
1:36 there.
1:37 And so first question of the day, are you tired of me yet?
1:42 No way, man.
1:44 How could you get tired of this?
1:45 I'm just going to tell you, it happens a lot.
1:47 There are a lot of people that are like initially they're like, yeah, Kyle, you're the thing,
1:51 man.
1:52 Like you're the source.
1:53 Like you're kind of exhausting like that's what starts coming out in the weeks and months
1:58 ahead.
1:59 I have a very high threshold for intensity.
2:01 How about that?
2:02 Okay.
2:03 Well, then dad gummit challenge accepted because that's the one thing we didn't do when you're
2:08 here in my house in my town is we didn't work out.
2:12 Joby Martin.
2:13 Oh, yeah.
2:14 I had a big O tractor tire and a bunch of sandbags ready to go and you did not seem keen on that
2:19 idea.
2:20 No, I just live weights when it gets hard, I quit.
2:23 You have no idea how much that hurts me.
2:26 Did you say that just to bring me physical pain?
2:28 Because you did.
2:29 Well, I mean, I'm trained hard, but you know, when you just live weights when it gets hard,
2:33 you stop.
2:34 Just going to can't go anymore.
2:35 All right, we're going to fix that, but I have a second question to start out before
2:40 we get to the monthly donor questions, which by the way, guys, again, if you want to have
2:43 your question added to the magical question bank for ask a pastor, you have to be a monthly
2:48 donor to undaunted life, again, we're so thankful for the undaunted life monthly donors.
2:52 But since you did come out here and do the forging table, you got to experience all the
2:56 OGs, right?
2:57 You got Matt Grassmeyer and Ryan Horn.
3:00 And then you had Zach Todd and Eric Browning.
3:02 And then you got to meet all the other guys that have kind of done the forging table at
3:05 different points.
3:06 And so we got to know Joby, who is your favorite forging tabular, right?
3:12 And I am included in that because I have been on all the episodes.
3:15 Okay.
3:16 I am DB of the forging table.
3:19 I've been in every single episode, every single season.
3:22 So the world needs to know who's your favorite.
3:25 I think it's uh, undoubtedly, I think it's Ryan Horn because of his, uh, biblically accurate
3:32 view of soteriology.
3:34 So I've got to go with the truth.
3:37 Okay.
3:38 Do you know how disappointing that is to me and everybody else?
3:40 Cause you just gave him all the gasoline he needed, right?
3:44 Cause if he was ever waffling about whether or not I should come back and get back into
3:47 the fight or all that, you just gave him a blank check.
3:50 What is wrong with you?
3:52 I like that guy, man.
3:53 He can you imagine how he feels right now?
3:55 He's going to be bumped.
3:56 Well, I'm just going to tell you this right now.
3:57 I'm going to just like tell the guys, Hey, skip the next few episodes are just not very
4:01 good.
4:02 Like just, you know, uh, I know y'all are busy.
4:05 You got your families and all that.
4:06 So maybe he won't hear it.
4:07 Maybe the horn will hear.
4:08 He's got his own nickname that he gave himself, Joby.
4:11 He calls himself or used to call himself the horn, like you know, you can't do your own
4:15 nickname.
4:16 Correct.
4:17 Well, unless you're John, okay, well, that's very disappointing.
4:23 I've been somewhat disappointed by all your answers so far, but let's go ahead and get
4:26 into a donor question.
4:27 This question is from Casey.
4:29 We have freedom from the guilt of our sin through salvation, grace and faith.
4:34 Where can men find spiritual strength when our actions or sin affect the financial stability
4:40 of our family?
4:41 Example, losing a job or professional license because of a poor decision or poor decisions.
4:47 We experience a different kind of pain from the consequence of our sin.
4:52 Yeah, there is a, there are two realities that the scripture talks about, uh, one being
4:59 that through the cross, therefore now there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ
5:03 Jesus that the enemy tries to define you by your scars and the gospel defines us by
5:10 the scars of Jesus.
5:11 And because of the imputed righteousness of Christ in our life, when God looks at us,
5:16 he doesn't see our sin.
5:17 He sees his son, the savior.
5:20 That is true.
5:21 And yet God does not necessarily promise to rescue us from the consequences of our own
5:27 sin.
5:29 And it is just a part of the reality of the world that we live in.
5:34 And bad things happen, man.
5:36 And one of the, one of the reasons bad things happen is because of you and God does not necessarily
5:42 promise that he would save you from the results of your own dumb decisions.
5:47 The only thing is the, the only thing you can do about the past is be forgiven of it and
5:51 learn from it.
5:53 So regardless of how you got to where you are now, you are responsible, especially if you
6:00 are a man that has a family, you are responsible of taking care of your family from this point
6:05 forward.
6:06 So suck it up, buttercup, get to work and do whatever it is that you have to do or need
6:10 to do to care for the needs of your family.
6:14 Now not necessarily everybody's wants, but I would spend about zero time wallowing in
6:19 your sorrow from the past and take all of that energy and aim it towards providing for
6:25 those that God has put under your stewardship.
6:29 One of my favorite things that you've said in your sermon, since I've been, and you say
6:32 this often, it's something along the lines of when people are like, Oh, I'm being put
6:36 persecuted or Satan's all over me right now.
6:38 And then you have them describe their situation.
6:40 It's like, Hey bro, that's you, that's you that's happening, right?
6:43 The reason why you have money problems is because you have spending problems.
6:46 The reason why you have, you know, just just pick an issue, pick an ailment is it's typically
6:50 we're the one at the center of that, right?
6:52 Oh, so many times.
6:54 I mean, the way it'll come across is somebody will come up to me and say, Hey, the devil's
6:57 attacking my finances.
6:58 And I'm like, yeah, please explain, like, Oh, what you're doing is you're spending money
7:02 that you don't have.
7:04 Well, I got two things to tell you.
7:05 You're right.
7:06 The devil is attacking your finances and you're the devil, you idiot.
7:09 These are self inflated wounds.
7:11 He doesn't have to waste his time on you because you were killing you.
7:14 Stop it.
7:15 All right.
7:16 Very good.
7:17 Well, we're going to go to the next question here.
7:18 And wouldn't you know it, Joby, as if by some, you know, this is brief predestined that
7:21 this was going to happen.
7:22 This question is from your favorite forging table or Ryan Horn.
7:27 So it's probably going to be the best question you've ever heard too.
7:29 So here we go.
7:31 One of my favorite Christian music worship artists decided to share the stage and concert with
7:35 a worship band whose church is known for their heretical teaching and whose main artist is
7:40 known to be blasphemous in their talk of the Holy Spirit and the Lord's throne room.
7:45 Is it okay to be a little critical of said artists?
7:49 Should artists in a worship setting in a worship setting?
7:51 That's important.
7:52 Take a stand against heretical worship and CCM artists and not do the show.
7:57 Where do we draw the line in this case when it comes to a group of believers actually
8:01 worshiping God rather than going to a concert?
8:04 Now let me provide a little bit extra context to this.
8:07 He's talking about Shane and Shane, right?
8:10 Obviously my favorite worship band of all time bar none.
8:13 They're good friends with you.
8:14 They come out to church of 1122 several times a year to lead worship.
8:17 So we're not exactly the most neutral arbiters of this particular question, but there was
8:22 something I think it was at Red Rocks out in Colorado or Utah or wherever that is Colorado.
8:27 And they were doing a show that included the people from Bethel.
8:32 And there was a lot of kerfuffle created by that because people are like Shane, Shane's
8:36 legit as it gets when it comes to biblical worship and those types of things, but they're
8:40 sharing the stage with these people that lead worship for a heretic and some of their songs
8:46 are heretical.
8:47 And they've said very, very strange borderline, heretical things in public.
8:52 And so a lot of people Ryan included said Shane and Shane should have drawn a line in
8:55 the sand and said, no, we're not going to share the stage with these people.
8:59 Now what I tried to explain and I'm taking a lot of set this up, what I tried to explain
9:04 is look, when you're offered to do a show or a, you know, a big, you know, multi person
9:10 set up a one time event, you know, maybe you're going to an event where there's 30 different
9:15 artists, you can't do a theological breakdown of all these different people to determine
9:21 whether or not you should play the show.
9:22 And I went as far to say that if the most satanic bands that I know of behemoth and slayer and
9:29 guar and all these bands, if they invited Shane and Shane to come out on the road with
9:33 them to open, I would say, heck yeah, I'll buy a ticket when you come through Oklahoma
9:37 City, because it's not about agreeing with everything that everyone else believes on
9:42 the stage.
9:43 It's about what you believe and how you comport yourself.
9:45 So I know that was quite a bit of setup, but just wanted to provide a little bit more context
9:49 for the listener.
9:50 Ready?
9:51 Say go.
9:52 Yeah.
9:53 I'm with you on this one.
9:54 One of the realities of these kinds of things is you often don't know all of the artists
9:56 that are going to be involved as a guy that preaches conferences a lot.
10:00 There are many, many conferences that I would say yes to.
10:04 That's a Christian conference, big umbrella and many, many other people that I share at
10:09 the stage was I would never allow them to preach at my church ever because I don't think
10:16 they believe what the Bible says, but I know they think what they think is okay.
10:21 That's fine.
10:22 But so what am I going to do, like remove my gospel voice from that, that conference
10:27 because it's not pure enough.
10:29 I'm the other way.
10:30 I think I, I applaud the chains for playing there.
10:33 I would love for the chains to really get to know all the Bethel artists in a, in a friendship
10:39 sort of way so that if and when the Bethel artists and songwriters are writing songs that
10:47 are outside of what the Bible says is true and right, that we would have some gospel
10:53 centered guys like the chains that can lean in and be like, Hey, I know what you think
10:57 you were trying to say with this lyric, but it's not true.
11:01 It's not accurate.
11:02 And that in a real Matthew 18 kind of way built in a relationship, we would have some
11:07 really solid gospel artists like the chains helping some other really, really talented
11:11 people that if we give them the benefit of the doubt or just trying to do their best
11:16 at seeing worship songs that glorify God.
11:20 And because of their lack of biblical understanding, sometimes they get outside of where they're
11:23 supposed to be.
11:24 So I am a big tent guy.
11:27 I am pro throwing my hat into those rings, not running from them.
11:32 Now I would make a distinction between who I would invite to lead worship at my church
11:36 or not because they're, I am the one making those decisions.
11:41 And so I'm not trying to cosign with people that are outside of what I think the Bible
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13:28 And so I think this leads to a follow up question you and I've talked about this before.
13:31 And so I don't think we've talked about it on the show necessarily.
13:33 If we have, we'll just repeat it, but should churches sing songs that are made by bands
13:40 that represent churches that have heretical teachings or that are straying away from the
13:44 Bible?
13:45 So then namely, those are like the the Bethels and the Hillsongs and the elevation.
13:51 And because I've got a playlist on my computer.
13:54 So when I'm trying to do deep work, I put two, one of two things on either brown noise
13:58 or white noise, whatever it's called on YouTube or whatever, just whatever one comes up.
14:02 So just like like you're on an airplane.
14:04 And the other one is I've got a playlist of everything Bethel has a they do something
14:09 called without words.
14:11 And so it's like lo-fi versions of their songs without singing because there's a lot
14:15 of research about like if there's lyrical content to a song, it really, really destroys
14:21 your ability to concentrate.
14:22 So it's basically just like low key kind of flowy type songs.
14:27 And there are times when I'm like, man, I know Bethels kind of ratchet, but it's like,
14:31 this is the only thing I know of in this space.
14:32 If Shane and Shane made something like this, I would just use theirs.
14:35 But like should churches just say, you know what, no, we're not going to play any songs
14:40 whatsoever by these types of artists representing these types of churches.
14:46 We play Bethel songs and Hillsong songs and elevation songs.
14:50 So we just evaluate the song in and of itself.
14:55 And then oftentimes we've just changed the lyrics if there's a lyrical problem.
15:01 Because we do want to sing the truth.
15:03 But quite honestly, I mean, it's just some of the best stuff out there.
15:07 It just is.
15:08 There is this thing.
15:09 I think we've talked about this.
15:10 It seems to be the churches that are theologically most aligned with the scriptures are like apparently
15:19 the least artistic, least talented people.
15:22 There's an inverse relationship there.
15:24 So our church is writing a lot of music trying to have some good gospel centered stuff that
15:30 hopefully other churches would find helpful.
15:33 But no, I don't, I mean, I think if you evaluated it that way, you'd have to cut most of the
15:38 songs out of your Bible because the guy that wrote it was a murderer and an adulterer.
15:43 And that's at least on the same level of heresy.
15:46 And so, um, so now we, we sing those songs.
15:49 We just, we evaluate it song by song as opposed to who the artist is.
15:54 So let's go a little bit deeper on that because I know what y'all have done with that before
15:58 because you've straight up showed me certain lyrics like, Hey, here's the lyric of this
16:02 hill song song.
16:03 And here's what we sing at church of 11 22 talk to me a little bit more about that process
16:09 because you do have pastors listening to this right now.
16:10 You do have worship leaders listening to this.
16:12 And it seems anathema as an artist to take another artist's work.
16:17 Like I know tattoo guys that will not do coverups because they're like, I'm not going to touch
16:20 another artist's work.
16:21 That's their work.
16:22 And then other guys are like, I don't care.
16:23 They'll just do it.
16:24 Like to, you know, an artist that's a little bit more, you know, higher in trade openness
16:29 and all that.
16:30 It seems egregious that they would change a lyric or even like a chord progression, like
16:34 that would just seem bad to them.
16:36 But how do y'all handle that as a church?
16:38 Is it you leading that up?
16:40 Is it whoever's leading the worship of all the different campuses leading that up?
16:43 Like, what's the practical?
16:45 This is how we're going to change this particular part of the song.
16:48 Well, I approve all of the songs.
16:51 So if I see a problem there, then I'll tell you that you can change it or I can change
16:55 it or we cannot sing the song.
16:57 And if that offends your artistic sensibilities, here's the thing, Jimmy Cracks corn and I don't
17:02 care because we are primarily shepherds here to serve the sheep.
17:06 We are not here as artists trying to like promote our artistic ability.
17:11 So I don't care.
17:13 We are here to serve, not the other way around.
17:16 So that's what we do.
17:18 And we have incredible, incredibly talented artists.
17:21 And I think the rewrites have been better than the originals anyway.
17:24 So that's just what we do.
17:27 And we don't have to do it very often.
17:28 I mean, quite honestly, I think at some of these places, there's a huge disconnect between
17:36 what their pastors are preaching on the weekends and these artistic subcultures that have been
17:41 created at like a Bethel where they're writing songs.
17:46 So I mean, I get the caution.
17:51 One of the things that has been helpful is, especially in some of the really popular songs,
17:55 if we change the lyric, our people will ask us, but wait a minute, we heard this on the
17:59 radio and it has different words, I mean, the right.
18:02 And that's a great teaching opportunity to say why we changed the words there because
18:06 we wanted to be biblically accurate and not just say something that rhymed or made your
18:12 heart feel good.
18:13 Well, there's two things in addition to that that I find concerning having gone to your
18:17 church several times and experienced worship there.
18:20 I've never seen a banjo appear on stage and I know we happen to like the altar music and
18:25 some of that banjo folk style worship, never seen that making appearance.
18:29 And also I've never heard a metal breakdown or I've never seen a guy get up there all
18:33 aggressive like grab the mic, wrap it around his wrist and get after it.
18:36 Come on, man.
18:37 Let's expand our horizons a little bit here.
18:39 You know, we have had banjos before sometimes we'll do that kind of bluegrass thing.
18:44 I'm actually want to kind of lean us like more country.
18:47 I mean, seriously, we're shock of all shocks.
18:50 I mean, everybody loves country music, you just got to give everybody enough time.
18:53 Eventually everybody's the country fan.
18:55 Okay.
18:56 Well, I'm going to be out there several more times this year.
18:59 So let's just like when you know I'm coming, like let's kind of bring that twang a little
19:02 bit more in there.
19:03 All right.
19:04 Now we've got a question from north of our northern border.
19:06 So this is from Sid, and so it's a kind of a lengthy one, but let's dig in here.
19:11 I'm a firefighter from the Great White North up in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
19:15 I grew up in a Christian home and heritage, but finally at 50 AM, I don't know what that
19:20 means.
19:21 A Canada thing?
19:22 I don't know.
19:23 We'll just say finally at 50 years old, just realizing what it is to be a disciple
19:28 of Jesus.
19:29 I do have a bit of a theological question for you over and over.
19:32 I hear pastors preach on marriage and continually hear about it being between one man and one
19:38 woman.
19:39 And I totally agree with that theology.
19:40 However, I struggled to answer the question of why in the Old Testament husbands had so
19:44 many wives or even concubines.
19:47 If God created man to have one wife, why was it okay for biblical men in the Old Testament
19:52 to have so many wives and so many concubines?
19:54 I've heard the explanation about increasing the population of the world, et cetera, but
19:59 I don't buy that as I don't feel God would put a limit on his creation.
20:03 I don't feel God would say it's okay to have as many wives and sleep with whoever until
20:07 we have a population of three million.
20:10 After that, it's down to one wife for all men.
20:13 I struggle with explaining any good reasoning, especially to non-Christians.
20:18 Yeah, if you think it was a good idea, then you need to reread your Old Testament.
20:23 It was always only a problem.
20:26 Nowhere does God say, here's what you should do, go get eight wives.
20:29 Every single time it shows up in the scripture, it is evidence of what a terrible idea it
20:35 is.
20:36 There are still today wars being fought over this issue.
20:41 God's idea was one man and one woman.
20:44 Man's idea was like, "Man, we want to do another thing."
20:47 And so nowhere does God command it or even okay it.
20:52 It was outside of God's plan.
20:54 God's prescribed will for human flourishing.
20:59 The greatest evidence is just read about every time it happened.
21:04 It was the downfall of Solomon, it caused Abraham, all kinds of problems, they called
21:10 Isaac, all kinds of problems, just over and over and over.
21:15 It is nothing but a treatise on how terrible of an idea that is over and over and over.
21:22 So Joby, I think that this brings up a really good point that is applicable to this question.
21:27 There are a lot of people that don't really know the difference between description and
21:31 prescription.
21:32 And so they see something described in the Bible and they think that that's a prescription.
21:35 Now that kind of splinters off into, okay, is this message for you, right?
21:41 Or was this written to a certain people group at a certain time in history that it was made
21:46 for them, but it's also for you to understand and learn.
21:49 It's also like, hey, where are you at in this story, like you're not David in the story
21:53 of David and Goliath.
21:54 You're one of the scared soldiers on the side that's just trying to hope to God this works
21:58 out to where you don't actually have to fight today.
22:00 So talk to me a little bit about the difference in where a lot of Christians struggle with
22:04 something that's described in the Bible versus prescribed in the Bible.
22:07 Yeah, there are commands and then there are descriptions of just what had happened.
22:14 And so one of the things you've talked about a lot that's very helpful is it's good to
22:18 know that in the grand narrative of the Bible, there are different genres of literature there.
22:26 And so they're not all on equal footing.
22:28 They're all equally inspired and they're all equally authoritative, but they're not all
22:34 equally applicable.
22:35 So Song of Solomon, things like that is poetry, whereas First and Second Kings is just recording
22:45 history.
22:46 And so it's very helpful to understand what you are reading.
22:51 And so description just means that because this Bible is a historical account of all
22:58 kind of events, it's just describing things that have happened.
23:02 And then how God reacts and rules over those things, prescription is the imperative that
23:09 this is what you ought to do.
23:12 And that's different.
23:13 One, one thing that I've gotten in a habit of really here recently, because obviously
23:18 just in my personality, it's going to be shocked to everybody.
23:21 Sometimes I go off all half cocked, right, I get half a decision made and I just kind
23:24 of launch out and just kind of go forward, I get half a thought in my head, I just say
23:27 it out of my face hole, specifically when it comes to scripture.
23:32 If someone brings up a single scripture and says, you should or you should not do a thing
23:39 based on this one scripture, I like to pause and go, maybe they're right.
23:45 Or maybe I'm right.
23:46 Maybe I'm about to be the one to say you should or shouldn't do something based on this one
23:49 scripture and be like, pause.
23:52 Let's go back to the entire book, not just the, you know, the image that's on Instagram.
23:56 Let's go back to that entire chapter and see what's going on in that chapter.
24:01 And again, they didn't have chapters and verses whenever they wrote this stuff down.
24:04 That was part of a larger narrative.
24:06 And then there's obviously the overarching narrative of scripture as a whole that tells
24:10 the same singular story of God's glory and the sacrifice of his son for the propitiation
24:15 of our sin debt.
24:16 And so that's the other thing I would encourage guys out there to think through when you're
24:20 going into something like this and you're like, gosh, well, slavery's in the Bible.
24:24 And you know, my liberal friends, it's slavery's in the Bible.
24:26 So, you know, so Jesus couldn't rise from the dead because slavery's wrong.
24:30 It's like, no, like, let's talk about that tattoos are the same one.
24:34 Like where they bring out this tattoo and say we shouldn't mark our bodies and all that.
24:37 It's like, what was the context of that particular verse?
24:39 And so you got anything else to say on that before we move on?
24:43 Yeah, when doing Bible study, it's always a good idea to figure out what the original
24:48 author was trying to say to the original intended audience.
24:53 Then you begin to ask it, just ask the question, what does it say about God?
24:56 What does it say about me?
24:58 And where is the gospel in this?
25:00 That will help take you out of the spotlight and it'll help you from proof-testing the
25:08 Bible to try to find some God-inspired backing to do whatever it is that you have pre-decided
25:15 you already want to do.
25:17 Absolutely.
25:18 All right.
25:19 Well, this next question is from me.
25:20 But interestingly, I jotted this question down when you were sitting next to me.
25:23 So last time I was out at Church of 1122 is one of those rare moments where you were
25:27 there on a Thursday, but you weren't preaching from the stage.
25:29 The great Charles Martin was preaching and this was like pre-decided and all that.
25:33 And so you got to just experience church because you were preaching somewhere else on that
25:36 Sunday.
25:37 So you weren't going to preach the Thursday.
25:38 So I thought of this while we were sitting next to one another.
25:41 So you may have already seen this if you're one of those creepy dudes that's like looking
25:44 over at people's text messages while they're making sure that they're not doing crazy stuff
25:47 in church or setting their fantasy football lineup.
25:50 But I had this thought.
25:51 I was like, I have no idea how I would answer this.
25:53 So here it goes.
25:55 Or Adam and even hell.
26:00 Oh, wow, what a question.
26:02 I don't think so because I think God made a covering for their sin.
26:09 And I think it's going to be a little bit of speculation.
26:11 I would have to like dig back through the scriptures and make sure there's not a scripture that
26:16 says one way or the other anyway, you know what I mean?
26:19 Because one of the things I've tried to be careful of when people say, do you think?
26:23 When it's a Bible question, I just want to say, hold on, hold on.
26:26 It doesn't matter what I think.
26:27 Let me see what the Bible says.
26:28 So like right off the top of my mind, I cannot think of a verse that says they are condemned
26:33 to hell nor can I think of a verse that says, and they walk with God in eternity.
26:37 But what I do know is that they did receive the covering of a animal that was blood was
26:44 shed for the covering of sin.
26:47 And the way people in the Old Testament and Eve did hear the proto-evangelion.
26:53 And I will put him to see between your offspring and this enemy and one day he'll bruise his
26:58 head.
26:59 He's going to get his head crushed.
27:00 So there seems to be, this is a little bit of speculation.
27:03 Okay.
27:04 My Bible is over there.
27:05 I'm speculating.
27:08 That is enough to say I see what you're talking about here, God the Father, that you are going
27:13 to make a way for sin to be covered or you're going to sin one for the propitiation of our
27:20 sin.
27:21 Even though they wouldn't know that kind of language and they received the covering.
27:24 So that's how people in the Old Testament got saved.
27:27 Everybody can only be saved through Jesus.
27:29 And so Shane and Shane line is what they knew by faith, we know by name, but we were all
27:35 putting our faith in the lamb that was slain for the forgiveness of sin.
27:40 So based on that, I think you could say that they received salvation.
27:45 And I guess you would say this as well, that the concept of the elect that was in effect,
27:52 even at the creation of the first humans as well, right that before time they were known
27:56 and all that stuff was known that, you know, election and that type of thing didn't come
28:00 along later.
28:01 Is that fair to say?
28:02 Yeah.
28:03 Yeah.
28:04 Yeah.
28:05 Our names, the elect's names are written in the lands book of life before the foundation
28:10 of the world.
28:11 Okay.
28:12 Very good.
28:13 Well, we're going to move on here to another question from a forging table or a forging
28:17 tabular.
28:18 That's Matt Grasmaier.
28:19 So Matt, thanks for this question.
28:20 Who is your favorite pastor to listen to?
28:23 And so I'll say for me, like I kind of have a rotation.
28:26 Sometimes people will fall out, but my normal rotation is you, Matt Chandler, and I picked
28:30 up Jack Hibbs.
28:31 I got Mark Driscoll.
28:32 I'll put in some Steve Lawson here and there some John MacArthur here and there some Bodie
28:36 Bocum here and there and I'll kind of mix some guys in, but even the last time I was in your
28:40 office, whenever I walked in, you were listening to a pastor that, you know, you hadn't listened
28:44 to a whole lot, but you were preaching at one of their churches there and you were like
28:48 into it and you were like, gosh, this guy's really good because you wanted to kind of
28:51 sense like, Hey, I'm going to be on the same stage in a week from now and I want to know
28:54 kind of what the style is and what these people are used to and what to expect.
28:59 And so for you, if you had to pick one, give us the one pastor that you like to listen to,
29:05 but then I want to hear you kind of flow about like for you as a pastor that delivers 40 something
29:10 messages, maybe over 50 a year, depending upon what conferences you're doing, like who do
29:15 you listen to?
29:16 Who do you like to have in the rotation that kind of feeds you?
29:20 Number one is John Piper.
29:22 It's the intensity that he brings.
29:26 I mean, first of all, his biblical knowledge is just, I don't, he's like Rain Man, bro.
29:30 I don't know how that got, it's, it's crazy.
29:33 You know what I mean?
29:35 I love how he obsesses over like the prepositions or something.
29:40 He'll just, he'll do a whole sermon on just because of this conjunction.
29:45 This means that I love, I love the way he does that, but I just love his intensity.
29:49 I mean, that's probably my favorite and I get to preach a conference with him in a couple
29:54 of months or maybe next month.
29:56 Yeah, I'm pretty pumped about that.
29:57 So, so he would be, if I could only listen to one, I would listen to him.
30:02 And then outside of that, a bunch of these guys are just my buddies now.
30:06 And part of the reason I like to listen to him is, I could just call him too.
30:12 Like if I have a question, I can just like call Chandler and be like, Hey man, you said
30:15 this and talk to me about that.
30:17 So that's kind of neat, you know, that I could do that.
30:22 I like to listen to a lot of preaching.
30:24 The person you're talking about is Ben Stewart at Passion City Church in DC.
30:29 If you're not, if you're kind of a preacher junkie, like I am, man, that guy is in a phenomenal
30:34 communicator of the gospel.
30:37 He is doing a series leading up to Easter and he just wrote 50 implications of the resurrection.
30:46 It's incredible.
30:47 So I think it's going to take him three weeks to get through all 50.
30:51 And then he inserted me in the middle to talk about after Tim is empty, anything is possible.
30:55 But it's just 50 theological realities and he's, he's, he's just a great communicator,
31:03 like he's funny.
31:04 He's all the things, you know, and so I like listening to him a little bit.
31:07 One of the things I have to watch because I am a preacher is I am a terrible imitator,
31:12 man.
31:13 I can't hope it.
31:14 Like if I just listen to the guy too much, I'll just start saying their things, you know,
31:19 and I'm not talking about learning something from the, about the Bible from somebody and
31:24 then re preaching it.
31:25 No problem.
31:26 That's what commentaries are.
31:27 So you can do it from people, people use my sermons all the time.
31:30 It bothers me none.
31:31 So any preachers out there, this is your official permission to use any of my sermons.
31:35 I don't care.
31:36 Whatever, whatever glorifies God, that's what we're going to do.
31:39 But my problem is if I listen to a guy that has a unique style, then the next thing I
31:44 know I'm up on stage, just like, if I listen to Chandler too much, I'll start saying, are
31:48 you tracking or you tracking and that's his thing.
31:52 But there are many sermons where I'm saying, are you tracking?
31:54 And so, Piper's the best, I still listen to Chandler.
31:59 I like listening to JD a lot, Alistair Begg, you know, he got in trouble, whatever, man.
32:08 I like to just listen to people that teach the Bible.
32:13 That's it.
32:14 Just teach the Bible.
32:15 I love listening to him, but I also am a sucker for guys that preach with passion.
32:24 Some people teach the Bible, but they don't ever, it's like they're not kind of like reading
32:29 the Wall Street Journal, you know, they're saying everything they're saying is true.
32:33 But I'm attracted to the guys that get a little fiery.
32:36 Yeah.
32:37 And I would just go back to your point about whenever you pick up someone else's cadence
32:40 and language and way of saying things.
32:42 It's my encouragement to everybody, especially because I get asked all the time about people
32:45 that want to start a podcast and I'm like, are you wanting to start a podcast because
32:49 I have one or because Joe Rogan has one or because, you know, name a random podcast for
32:53 that has one?
32:55 Because if you're just going to try to redo my show, bro, like you better have something
32:59 unique to say or a unique way of saying it.
33:01 Because otherwise you're just adding to the noise of the marketplace.
33:04 Like I'm certainly not worried about competition, but it's like, I've heard some other guys
33:07 shows where it's like, they're clearly kind of taking, you know, our style and our way
33:12 of approaching things, but people can sniff out BS so much better now.
33:17 I feel like then even 10 years ago, and I especially with 2020 and everything that went on down
33:21 there, it's just like, we're also skeptical now.
33:24 And if someone starts saying something like, I even text you, I think one of the guys on
33:27 your, your deepen podcast was saying, are you tracking?
33:30 And I text you and I'm like, Hey man, homie needs to stop listening to Chandler so much
33:33 because he said it about 14 times in this episode.
33:36 And then he hasn't said it again, so you probably said something about it.
33:38 But yeah, that's the thing is like, some people have their thing that they do, their way of
33:43 saying it.
33:44 And so like, just don't, don't try to be a copycat.
33:46 Have your voice God gave you a voice, he puts you on this planet for a reason.
33:49 Like, I don't have a booming voice, right?
33:52 So when you go to a place and someone's got a big booming voice, I'm super jealous.
33:55 But guess what?
33:56 That booming voice was meant for them and not meant for me.
33:58 One quick thing before we get you out of here, because I know you're right up against a break.
34:02 Is there an up and coming preacher that most people don't know about because all the names
34:07 that have been mentioned so far in this episode, most guys on this show have heard those names.
34:11 And so, but is there someone that you're aware of?
34:15 They could be in the act 29 network outside of the baby, someone that you just listened
34:18 to one sermon one time and you're like, Hey, there's something here.
34:21 Like this is a young guy that, man, if he keeps going in this direction and doesn't become
34:26 a knucklehead and you know, gets into Jiu Jitsu and has some good, fun habits, this guy could
34:30 be a monster in five to 10 years.
34:32 Yeah.
34:33 A guy named Josh, Josh Howardton, he's at Lake Point Church in Texas.
34:38 He took over for Steve Stroop, Josh is probably like mid 30s, something like that.
34:46 He's the guy.
34:47 Maybe you've seen him.
34:48 He's got one of the best Instagrams ever.
34:51 He will do some kind of theological, sociological commentary on hot takes and hot events, you
34:58 know, but he does it in a really, really biblical way.
35:02 He's a really great preacher and quite honestly, he tells his church, I'm his preacher.
35:10 So part of the way I got to know him is he was using a bunch of stuff for me, but he's
35:15 an incredible communicator.
35:18 He gets society and trends and things like that, like generational habits and he gets
35:27 that better than anybody I know and he's just a monster Bible teacher.
35:32 So that'd be, that'd be a young guy come into you.
35:35 That's at Josh underscore Howardton, apparently he didn't know how Instagram worked before
35:40 he got it.
35:41 But it's at Josh underscore Howardton on Instagram.
35:43 So guys give him a listen, but Joby, we're out of time.
35:46 You got anything else that you need to tell me before we get out of here?
35:50 I like the scars on your face, man.
35:51 It looks like you've been training hard.
35:53 Yeah.
35:54 You know, we've had some rough rolls at the forge here in Edmond and I guess I will before
35:57 I let you go give you one more opportunity to change your vote for favorite forging
36:00 table.
36:01 Are you sticking with the horn?
36:03 I'm sticking with the horn.
36:04 Now, you know, that was just for forging table.
36:07 You'd get best all around, but that's not what you asked me.
36:09 Well, I'll take the all around like who cares about who wins the balance beam.
36:13 You got to win the all around, right?
36:14 That's right.
36:15 Okay.
36:16 Very good, Joby.
36:17 We'll see you next month.
36:18 All right, peace.
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