Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and.
Speaker 2: Girls, children of all ages, Welcome to another edition of
Speaker 2: Let's Get Biblical with your host, a man formerly in
Speaker 2: the world of entertainment as a stand up comedian and actor,
Speaker 2: now an evangelist for Christ.
Speaker 3: Here he is your host, my host, our host KD.
Speaker 3: Welcome everybody to another edition of Let's Get Biblical right
Speaker 3: here on your favorite podcasting platform wherever you may be
Speaker 3: listening to us, whether it's speaker, Spotify, Apple, iTunes, and more.
Speaker 3: We broadcast to seventeen countries on seventeen platforms worldwide. And
Speaker 3: I know what you're thinking, you old timers of believing
Speaker 3: in the Lord, the white haired wisdom carriers, kind of
Speaker 3: like myself. Or maybe you're a atheist and non believer.
Speaker 1: Someone's starting out your faith and you hear this hippity
Speaker 1: hoppity nonsense to start a biblical show. Yes, this is
Speaker 1: a different type of biblical show, brought to you in
Speaker 1: part by yours truly and of course the Lord above.
Speaker 1: And what we do is we take the good old
Speaker 1: bibl e the basic constructions before leaving Earth manual, wrap
Speaker 1: them around your life, my life, and the collective world
Speaker 1: of around us, trying to understand what the Lord is
Speaker 1: trying to speak to us at that time. And sometimes
Speaker 1: these podcasts aren't just made for you, they're made for
Speaker 1: me because I get out of this as much as
Speaker 1: I give into it for you guys. So thank you
Speaker 1: guys for listening over the last several years. Make sure
Speaker 1: you check us out on YouTube as well. We are
Speaker 1: on Let's Get Biblical with Katie's. Sometimes we'll do some
Speaker 1: quick private sermons over there. We'll also have some funny
Speaker 1: videos over there and more and quick memes things of
Speaker 1: that nature that you can share on your social media
Speaker 1: outlets as well, because remember, it's about spreading the gospel,
Speaker 1: and in twenty twenty six, the best way to spread
Speaker 1: the gospel is to take programs like this, videos that
Speaker 1: you see and share them because you're doing just that,
Speaker 1: sharing the gospel. And today we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: something interesting that I didn't really know much about until
Speaker 1: I got into my student ministry studies through my local
Speaker 1: church and also Global University online. We're going to talk
Speaker 1: about the time in the Bible where God was completely
Speaker 1: silent and why it is important to just listen in
Speaker 1: those moments of silence. You see what I did there
Speaker 1: some of y'all just turned off the podcast to something
Speaker 1: you thought happened to your iPod or iTunes or anything
Speaker 1: like that. No, nothing like that. But there's a time
Speaker 1: in the Bible, from the Old Testament to the New Testament,
Speaker 1: over four hundred years were spanned where God didn't speak.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine that today? Can you imagine that a
Speaker 1: world where God did not speak? And maybe you're a
Speaker 1: non believer right now, maybe you're an atheist and you're like,
Speaker 1: I can't hear him speak it, Well, this is the
Speaker 1: opportunity to listen because he's actually talking to you. There's
Speaker 1: a reason why you're listening to this podcast right now.
Speaker 1: There's a reason why somebody said, Hey, John, Joey Jane,
Speaker 1: check out this podcast. This guy's a former stand up
Speaker 1: comedian and an actor. But he's talking very biblically. I
Speaker 1: think you'll like this guy because I never know what
Speaker 1: he's gonna say next. Listen. I'm gonna be honest with
Speaker 1: you guys out there in podcast land. I never know
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna say next. Okay, it's delivered by the
Speaker 1: good old Lord. All right. It's always been that way.
Speaker 1: When I was a stand up comic. So that's what
Speaker 1: we do here on the show is we take those
Speaker 1: good old verses and we talk about topics like the
Speaker 1: four hundred years of silence from God, and what we
Speaker 1: do is we wrap around testimony of my life, your life,
Speaker 1: collective world around us in hopes of transformation for myself
Speaker 1: and you guys out there. Okay, it's like sitting down
Speaker 1: at a dinner table and now we finished dinner, we're
Speaker 1: gonna have dessert, and you're like, all right, why do
Speaker 1: you look so good? Or why is your job working
Speaker 1: so well for you? Why is your marriage working so well? Well,
Speaker 1: now we're going to discuss it, and now you're going
Speaker 1: to wonder why the whole thing comes together, and that's
Speaker 1: because of God. So let's talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: our topic today, which is the four hundred years of
Speaker 1: silence that God gave from the Old Testament. At the end,
Speaker 1: which was the Book of Malachi starting to be one
Speaker 1: of my favorites. It's only about, you know, four chapters long.
Speaker 1: So if you're new and you're looking for a book
Speaker 1: to read, start in Malachi. If you want it's only
Speaker 1: a couple chapters, Okay, then go to the Book of proverbs.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like little fortune cookies for you. And
Speaker 1: each and every one of those chapters is designed around
Speaker 1: each and every day of the month. There's thirty one
Speaker 1: proverbs hmmm, and almost thirty one days and every month.
Speaker 1: So something for you to think about. Then move on
Speaker 1: to the New Testament. This is where you'll get to
Speaker 1: know Jesus through his disciples, which is fantastic. But today
Speaker 1: that four hundred years of silence, that's interesting, right. Here's
Speaker 1: God in the whole Old Testament trying to speak through Noah,
Speaker 1: Adam and Eve, through the wars and famine, the kings,
Speaker 1: through slavery. He tried to speak. He's kind of like
Speaker 1: that dad that kept trying to show you listen, you
Speaker 1: need to listen. Listen, you need to listen. Listen. He
Speaker 1: starts shaking it and you don't listen, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden he goes quiet. I don't know about you,
Speaker 1: but my father in the past, when I wouldn't listen
Speaker 1: to him and he goes silent and just kind of
Speaker 1: sit in his chair, that's when I really tried to listen.
Speaker 1: So going from the Old Testament to the New Testament,
Speaker 1: which is getting ready to have the birth of the Messiah,
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, and things there are going to come. All
Speaker 1: these things in the Old Testament had to happen in
Speaker 1: order to get to the New Testament. But why was
Speaker 1: he quiet? Well, like a good father, he wanted you
Speaker 1: to come to him. And this may be that opportunity
Speaker 1: right now for you non believers out there. You're going
Speaker 1: through a period in your life where it's quiet, nothing's moving.
Speaker 1: You may be banging your head against the ceiling and
Speaker 1: wondering what's next for you. You can't get to the
Speaker 1: next part of your life. You can't get that promotion,
Speaker 1: you can't get that spouse, and you're fighting with your parents,
Speaker 1: or you're fighting with your girlfriend or boyfriend. And even
Speaker 1: though the world may sound chaotic in the outside world,
Speaker 1: your inside is really quiet because He's waiting for you
Speaker 1: to come to him and speak to him and talk
Speaker 1: to him. This is the same thing during that four
Speaker 1: hundred years of silence. I really believe in it. I
Speaker 1: believe this is where God saying, I want you guys
Speaker 1: to come to me now. I want you to seek me.
Speaker 1: For instance, I was sick a couple months ago. About
Speaker 1: a month ago, I went through about seven days of
Speaker 1: absolute heck, I never felt so worse in my life,
Speaker 1: never felt so worse in my life, And all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, I was wondering why I wasn't feeling well
Speaker 1: well those seven days. I didn't pick up a Bible.
Speaker 1: I was speaking to him through prayer, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: deep rooted prayer. It was more like protect from the
Speaker 1: other family members in my house not to get sick.
Speaker 1: It wasn't deep rooted prayer where I was trying to
Speaker 1: develop that relationship with him. Because this is about a relationship,
Speaker 1: it's not about a religion. That's what I want you
Speaker 1: to know to start things off. When it comes to
Speaker 1: getting to know God, getting to know Jesus, the way
Speaker 1: to the Father is through Jesus. So what's the best
Speaker 1: way to get to know the Father, No, Jesus. Develop
Speaker 1: that relationship today, and that's what you're doing by listening
Speaker 1: to a podcast like this. So during that four hundred
Speaker 1: years of silence, this is where people should be coming
Speaker 1: to him. Now, God didn't speak to us through prophets
Speaker 1: at that time or teachers. People may have been trying
Speaker 1: to seek God at that time, still obeying in his laws,
Speaker 1: but then had to come something in the world to
Speaker 1: really wake them up up. And that was the birth
Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ. For he is the way to the Father.
Speaker 1: So that four hundred years of silence is like what
Speaker 1: we go through every day. And when I was sick,
Speaker 1: it was quiet. I got tired of watching the same
Speaker 1: TV shows and I got bored in the house, and
Speaker 1: I probably should have been turning to the Lord in
Speaker 1: my Bible and just reading. There was silence, and in
Speaker 1: that silence, I should have come to him toward the
Speaker 1: end of my sickness a little bit. Toward the end,
Speaker 1: I was feeling a little bit better. I started opening
Speaker 1: up the Bible, I was reading a little more, trying
Speaker 1: to do some of my online studies. I started feeling better.
Speaker 1: Now what you're saying, oh, you're telling me right now, Katie,
Speaker 1: If I just believe that it'll happen, well, it depends
Speaker 1: on what what you're believing for. If you're believing for healing,
Speaker 1: you're dealing for transformation, you're dealing you're believing for renewal
Speaker 1: in your life and a relationship or a job or
Speaker 1: wherever he may be. If you believe in Jesus Christ
Speaker 1: and the power of Jesus Christ. There ain't anything he
Speaker 1: can't do. Now. Also a little side note there, we
Speaker 1: say on this show every once in a while, he
Speaker 1: won't give you the whole Hershey bar at first. He's
Speaker 1: gonna give you a little morsel. He's gonna give you
Speaker 1: a Hershey kiss from time to time because he wants
Speaker 1: to see you digest that first. He's gonna give you
Speaker 1: something and see if you appreciate it at that time.
Speaker 1: Because you know what it's like giving a kid a
Speaker 1: chocolate bar, right, you can give a young kid, say
Speaker 1: like a three year old chocolate bar. He's going to
Speaker 1: devour that whole thing in two minutes. He doesn't know
Speaker 1: any better to say. I'm gonna eat a little bit now,
Speaker 1: eat a little bit later, i'm' let it digest. I'll
Speaker 1: lead a little bit more, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: when happens to that kid, we get sick. Right, it's
Speaker 1: the same thing in our lives. He doesn't want that
Speaker 1: for us. He doesn't want us to get sick. So
Speaker 1: he's not going to have you consume any more than
Speaker 1: your digestive system can handle. And that includes the things
Speaker 1: that you read, the things that you listen to, the
Speaker 1: things that you hear. You may only listen to those
Speaker 1: podcast this week. It's a start. You may turn on
Speaker 1: a TikTok and all of a sudden there's a video
Speaker 1: by Brandon Lake or a Christian artist you've never heard of,
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, I like that song. It sounds
Speaker 1: like so and so, just like at the top of
Speaker 1: the show you heard l Cray that songs called the Drop.
Speaker 1: Lacree could be an artist on the Billboard charts in
Speaker 1: the secular world. He really could. He could be somebody
Speaker 1: that's up there with the likes of Taylor Swift, this
Speaker 1: and that and the other thing. But he chose that
Speaker 1: road for the Lord. Now it's time for you to
Speaker 1: choose a road not just for yourself, but for the Lord.
Speaker 1: And you have by starting out with this program. So
Speaker 1: the four hundred years of Silence happens. Have you ever
Speaker 1: had silence in your life? I know single mothers out there,
Speaker 1: You're like, I have chaos every day. Even in the beginning.
Speaker 1: In the Book of Genesis, chapter one, it says in
Speaker 1: the beginning right, and when you move on to chapter one,
Speaker 1: verse two, it talks about there was complete darkness over
Speaker 1: the waters and God was starting to create the world
Speaker 1: at this time. You don't think there wasn't chaos. Then
Speaker 1: the waters started churning, the world started moving. But to God,
Speaker 1: that's not chaotic. In the midst of chaos, who was
Speaker 1: in the center of it? God? When God was creating
Speaker 1: the world, it was silent. Do you know that the
Speaker 1: Lord wants you to come to him in your quiet times?
Speaker 1: This all ties in. It makes sense now, doesn't it.
Speaker 1: Not even just the four hundred years of silence from
Speaker 1: the Old Testament to the New Testament, but silence in
Speaker 1: your life, silence to develop a relationship with the Lord.
Speaker 1: It even says in Luke chapter five, verse sixteen. But
Speaker 1: Jesus often withdrew to a lonely places and prayed. If
Speaker 1: Jesus went somewhere where it was quiet to pray, which
Speaker 1: he was drawing closer to his father, why wouldn't we
Speaker 1: do the same thing to develop this relationship with Jesus Christ,
Speaker 1: find a quiet time to go pray. I don't care
Speaker 1: if you've never picked up a Bible. I don't care
Speaker 1: if you don't know how to read the Bible. We
Speaker 1: all know how to talk. And when we close our
Speaker 1: eyes and just say Jesus helped me. Guess what you
Speaker 1: just prayed. I'm a big believer in prayer. You want
Speaker 1: to be rich in life, be po. You know when
Speaker 1: you kind of broke, you say, I'm po right, Well,
Speaker 1: I have an acronym for that, Poe Poe. Pray over
Speaker 1: everything you wonder why you're having a bad day. I mean,
Speaker 1: Monday mornings started out for me. Okay, I literally felt
Speaker 1: like Garfield. Okay, I hate Mondays all right, because I
Speaker 1: woke up with all the great intentions of praying with
Speaker 1: the Lord, reading my Bible, grabbing my wife's hand, giving
Speaker 1: her a kiss, saying hello to the kids. But we
Speaker 1: had a plumbing problem and I had to fix it
Speaker 1: right then and there, which took four hours. And I realized,
Speaker 1: in that quiet time when my family left the house
Speaker 1: to allow me to fix this thing, I needed to
Speaker 1: come to God. I took a quick, little quiet drive
Speaker 1: to home depot, which all us men love, right, it's
Speaker 1: not quiet when it comes to our pocketbooks. At the
Speaker 1: end of that trip, right, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I had this amazing prayer time in my truck. And
Speaker 1: I got home and I turned on Zach Williams' music
Speaker 1: in the background. It's kind of seemed like I'm talking
Speaker 1: to myself, but I'm talking to God. And the project
Speaker 1: went pretty smoothly. He just wanted me to be with
Speaker 1: him in those quiet times. Now, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: in the quiet times, the opposition can come to and
Speaker 1: really attack your thoughts. Oh, this is what you're doing.
Speaker 1: Oh you want to get to know Jesus. Okay, you
Speaker 1: do that. You do that and see what happens. And
Speaker 1: then your mind's like, what do you mean, I'll see
Speaker 1: what happens. Because once the opposition gets in between the
Speaker 1: ears and sneaks in, like the serpent that he is,
Speaker 1: through the nooks and crannies of our life, he tries
Speaker 1: to break it apart. Tried to break apart that day
Speaker 1: for me because he knew I had an amazing day
Speaker 1: at church and we had church meetings on that Sunday,
Speaker 1: and then Monday came and I had great intentions to
Speaker 1: be with the Lord and get some work done with
Speaker 1: my student ministry and do these podcasts. And then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're gonna have a problem with your plumbing,
Speaker 1: and I know you hate dealing with stuff like that.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come after you we don't even know it, guys.
Speaker 1: But in the quiet times, the opposition can try to
Speaker 1: manipulate you. But in the quiet times, when we go
Speaker 1: toward the Lord in prayer and develop that relationship, man,
Speaker 1: anything can happen. That's what happened during this four hundred
Speaker 1: years of silence, four hundred years of silence, and at
Speaker 1: the end became the New Testament in the birth of Jesus,
Speaker 1: Christ came to be the savior of the world. Now,
Speaker 1: during that four hundred years there were kings that were
Speaker 1: trying to dominate the land and do bad things to
Speaker 1: the people, in slave people, things of that nature. That
Speaker 1: was the serpent, That was the opposition trying to get
Speaker 1: into their lives. But it is finished. And when you
Speaker 1: know the Bible and you know the next chapter, you
Speaker 1: have nothing to worry about. And when you go to
Speaker 1: the Lord in those quiet times, just like we talked
Speaker 1: about in Luke chapter five, verse sixteen, I love that.
Speaker 1: But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. We
Speaker 1: should be doing the same thing, should be doing the
Speaker 1: same thing. You can move on to other verses such
Speaker 1: as Psalms forty six ten. Be still and know that
Speaker 1: I am God. If you just be still and say, Lord,
Speaker 1: let me feel your presence. I've never prayed before. I
Speaker 1: don't know you, but I want to get to know you. You're
Speaker 1: gonna feel an overwhelming, calming presence come upon your soul.
Speaker 1: I believe that I've seen that, I've felt that, and
Speaker 1: I want you to feel the same thing. Psalms forty
Speaker 1: six to ten goes on to say, be still and
Speaker 1: know that I am God. I will be exalted among
Speaker 1: the nations, and I'll be exalted in the earth. Means
Speaker 1: he'll be known everywhere Psalms sixty two, verse one. Truly,
Speaker 1: my soul finds rest in God. When do we rest
Speaker 1: in the quiet times? Right we go to bed at night,
Speaker 1: when everything is settled and is quiet. Truly, my soul
Speaker 1: finds rest in God. My salvation comes from Him. It's wonderful.
Speaker 1: And finally, Mark chapter one, verse thirty five. Very early
Speaker 1: in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up,
Speaker 1: left the house and went off to a solitary place,
Speaker 1: solitary confined just with him and the Father, where he prayed.
Speaker 1: This ties back in the Luke five verse sixteen, but
Speaker 1: Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. Mark one
Speaker 1: thirty five goes on saying these verses. The description of
Speaker 1: these verses where we were talking about guys, act as
Speaker 1: reminders in the power of the quiet time of God.
Speaker 1: And boy, was there a great quiet time from the
Speaker 1: Old Testament to the New Testament where God didn't speak
Speaker 1: and it was quiet. I want to try something with you, guys,
Speaker 1: and we do this every year wherever you may be.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're in an office cubicle right now, don't do it.
Speaker 1: If you're driving, all right, pull off to the side
Speaker 1: of the road. Maybe you're on the treadmill, get off
Speaker 1: of that for a moment. We're just gonna have ten
Speaker 1: seconds of quiet, no prayer, just quiet. Now. I want
Speaker 1: you to feel the presence of God in ten seconds.
Speaker 1: That's it. Ten seconds. I dare you. That's a phrase
Speaker 1: we have around here for everybody. We dare you. We
Speaker 1: dare you to ignite your fate. We dare you to start
Speaker 1: your faith. We dare you to grow your faith with
Speaker 1: things like this. Ten seconds of your life. That's all
Speaker 1: I'm asking for. Ten seconds of quiet. You always complain
Speaker 1: about it. I don't have time to just sit and
Speaker 1: be quiet. Yeah you do, Yeah you do. I mean
Speaker 1: no offense. You've wasted twenty two minutes on this podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm kidding. I'm kidding. It's not a waste. It's not
Speaker 1: a waste. So I want ten seconds from you to
Speaker 1: be with the Lord, and we're going to start in
Speaker 1: three two one. I want you to know that was
Speaker 1: fifteen seconds. I want you to know that that peace
Speaker 1: you just felt it was God. That peace and that
Speaker 1: comforting was from the Lord. For fifteen seconds. Did any
Speaker 1: of you think of anything or did you just think
Speaker 1: about that moment in what was in it? That's the
Speaker 1: question I want you to answer with yourself in your
Speaker 1: next quiet time. You can take fifteen seconds, you can
Speaker 1: take longer than that. I remember at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the year, we were doing a fasting thing here in
Speaker 1: our home, and I wanted my children and wife to
Speaker 1: pray upon their fast so we'd pray over it, and
Speaker 1: then I said, okay, you're going to have five minutes
Speaker 1: with the Lord. That's it. I don't care if you're
Speaker 1: walking around the backyard, I don't care if you're in
Speaker 1: your room praying. Just five minutes me. I go into
Speaker 1: my prayer closet, literally, my son, my eight year old,
Speaker 1: walks in the yard, my wife listens to music. My
Speaker 1: other son goes in, just lays down. But it goes
Speaker 1: back to that rest. Right truly, my soul finds rest
Speaker 1: in God. My salvation comes from Him. You just had
Speaker 1: salvation for fifteen seconds of your life. Could you imagine
Speaker 1: what it would be like the rest of your life
Speaker 1: if you gave your life over to Him? And maybe
Speaker 1: you be thinking about that right now. I need to
Speaker 1: change my life. It's been too chaotic. And listen. It's
Speaker 1: not all rainbows and sunshines, kittens and marshmallows coming out
Speaker 1: of your dairy, or it's not because it is a
Speaker 1: hard walk. But man, when you're walking hard and you're
Speaker 1: in that piece, it is glorious because he's defending us.
Speaker 1: He's cloak, covering us with his love, defending us with
Speaker 1: his shield and sword. So right now, wherever you may be,
Speaker 1: I ask you to pray after me. There's nothing magical
Speaker 1: about it, but just a moment with you and God.
Speaker 1: Dear God, I come to you in the precious name
Speaker 1: of Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Dear Lord, I am
Speaker 1: not perfect. I stumble daily and I fall short of
Speaker 1: the glory of God. I turned my life over to you.
Speaker 1: I needed to change. Please, I'm ready to make you
Speaker 1: my personal Lord and savior of my life. Make me
Speaker 1: new Lord, cleanse me. Now. I believe you were real.
Speaker 1: I believe you were born. I believe you had died,
Speaker 1: and I believe you have risen for my victory and yours.
Speaker 1: Dear Lord, help me take over my soul today. Amen.
Speaker 1: And if you just repeated that welcome, Welcome to the kingdom.
Speaker 1: He's been waiting for you. Next step, find a place
Speaker 1: with like minded believers like yourself, church, small group. Continue
Speaker 1: to listen to your podcasts. Open the Bible, that's the
Speaker 1: biggest Start. Like I said, go ahead and start in
Speaker 1: chapters one through thirty one of Proverbs. They're like little
Speaker 1: fortune cookies for your soul. And pray. I dare you,
Speaker 1: what else do you have to lose? I dare you pray?
Speaker 1: Have faith in whom you're talking to, And just like
Speaker 1: those fifteen seconds you just had of quiet time, peace
Speaker 1: will be unto you. Guys. Thanks for listening to another
Speaker 1: episode of Let's Get Biblical with Katie. We'll see you
Speaker 1: guys on the flip side. God bleame us shall take care,