WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:09.400 Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, definitely for children of 2 00:00:09.439 --> 00:00:17.440 all ages. Welcome to another edition of Let's Get Biblical 3 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:21.559 with your host, a man formerly in the world of 4 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:27.679 entertainment and stand up comedy and now an evangelist for Christ. 5 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:35.240 Here's your host, my host, our host kDa. 6 00:00:36.039 --> 00:00:38.479 Thank you mister movie Phone, thank. 7 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:41.079 You Dear Lord Almighty, and thank you the listener to 8 00:00:41.159 --> 00:00:44.759 listening to another episode of Let's Get Biblical right here 9 00:00:44.759 --> 00:00:49.799 on your favorite podcasting platform, whether it's Speaker, Spotify, Apple, iTunes, 10 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:55.560 and more seventeen podcasting platforms to over twelve countries worldwide. 11 00:00:55.600 --> 00:00:59.280 Thank you guys for listening to another unique way of 12 00:00:59.359 --> 00:01:03.159 delivering God's word into my life, your life, and the 13 00:01:03.159 --> 00:01:05.879 world around us. And thank you guys for all that 14 00:01:05.920 --> 00:01:08.760 you've been continuing to do on our YouTube page as well. 15 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:11.000 Make sure you go in like our YouTube page at 16 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:14.359 Let's Get Biblical with Katie. We have some fun shorts 17 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:17.159 and movies and memes that we do over there as well, 18 00:01:17.480 --> 00:01:20.640 all dedicated to the Good Lord above. And today we 19 00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:23.040 have a great show for you. We get into a 20 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:25.719 book in the Bible that I absolutely love. It kind 21 00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:29.439 of reminds me of being on the mountaintop being knocked 22 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:32.200 down in a man that gets completely restored. But we 23 00:01:32.239 --> 00:01:35.359 talk about some friends in the middle that really aren't 24 00:01:35.439 --> 00:01:39.120 really his friends. That's why we titled the episode who 25 00:01:39.239 --> 00:01:40.319 Needs Those Friends? 26 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:41.519 So we'll get to that in a minute. 27 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:43.599 Maybe you have some friends in your life right now, 28 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:46.200 you're like, I don't know about these guys. You know, 29 00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:49.079 I'm lonely as it is, but at least I have 30 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:51.920 a couple people around. But if people are trying to 31 00:01:52.040 --> 00:01:55.760 drag you down and hold you as anchors from something 32 00:01:56.439 --> 00:02:00.319 or being something more, maybe they're not the friends should 33 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:02.439 be around with. We'll talk about that in a little bit. 34 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:05.799 And maybe this is your first time stumbling upon this 35 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:09.479 podcast and you're like, listen, Katie, I'm an atheist, I'm 36 00:02:09.479 --> 00:02:12.199 a non believer, but you know, somebody gave me this podcast. 37 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:14.080 They said you're a former stand up comedian. 38 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:14.960 And then I'll check it out. 39 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:16.800 And you sound like a little bit of a goofball. 40 00:02:17.159 --> 00:02:18.120 I like hip hop. 41 00:02:18.159 --> 00:02:19.560 I heard that music in the middle. 42 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:22.439 Or maybe you're somebody that has some white hairs of 43 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:25.599 wisdom all over your body. Maybe you've been in the 44 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:27.919 church a little too long and you're sitting there going, 45 00:02:28.159 --> 00:02:31.599 what is this hippie hoppity nonsense. This is not like 46 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:35.560 my grandpa's Bible thumping podcast. Well, first, they really didn't 47 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:38.479 have podcasts back then. But I understand where you're coming from. 48 00:02:38.840 --> 00:02:43.240 This podcast is unique. I take testimony, wrap it around 49 00:02:43.240 --> 00:02:47.719 the good old Bible, the basic Instructions before leaving Earth Manual, 50 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:53.400 and deliver those testimonies in a uke nique transformative way, 51 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:56.520 and we hope for it to bring you some forms 52 00:02:56.520 --> 00:02:59.520 of transformation in your life and my life in the 53 00:02:59.560 --> 00:03:03.599 world around us. So welcome to let's get biblical right 54 00:03:03.639 --> 00:03:04.639 here with KD. 55 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:06.120 And let's get started. 56 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:09.680 Maybe you're a person out there like me. When I 57 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:11.879 was in the world of stand up comedy and acting, 58 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:14.599 I had a lot of people who I thought were 59 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:17.360 my friends. And I'm putting air quotes right now in 60 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:20.439 the background, like you can see me and I had 61 00:03:20.479 --> 00:03:23.280 friends like that, but I realized a lot of them 62 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:27.000 were holding me back from something greater. Now I thought 63 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:29.439 it was stand up comedy. I thought maybe it was 64 00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:32.800 me becoming an actor, maybe it was me becoming a 65 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:33.520 better father. 66 00:03:34.759 --> 00:03:36.840 These people absolutely. 67 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:40.840 Would hold me back from all of that, and it's 68 00:03:40.919 --> 00:03:44.400 kind of weird. The reason why people will hold on 69 00:03:45.159 --> 00:03:48.879 to you like that is because they're trying to claw 70 00:03:48.919 --> 00:03:54.000 out of something themselves. They're trying to get something out 71 00:03:54.039 --> 00:03:58.360 of you. They will ring you until you're dry. You've 72 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:01.800 heard these phrases right well on the Book of Job. Yes, 73 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:05.199 job job, not job, job Okay. In the Book of 74 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:08.479 Job one of my first books I read, if not 75 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:12.719 the first book I read when I was a new believer, 76 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:16.319 you know, walking with Christ. The first couple of months 77 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:18.879 and I read the Book of Job, which was weird 78 00:04:18.959 --> 00:04:23.240 because I was a former stand up comedian actor who 79 00:04:23.319 --> 00:04:27.439 had a lot to lose by just giving up the 80 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:28.759 world for Christ. 81 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:30.360 And I did. 82 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:35.079 I was still doing stand up comedy and some acting, 83 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:38.279 but the jobs would start to dwindle because my on 84 00:04:38.519 --> 00:04:41.000 stage stuff. I started talking a little bit more about 85 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:45.560 God and bars and restaurants where God probably isn't spoken. 86 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:49.040 I spoke of Jesus with the comedians around me and 87 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:52.000 my friends, and they'd give me those looks and those 88 00:04:52.040 --> 00:04:55.160 glares like there's something wrong with his dude. He's on that, 89 00:04:55.319 --> 00:04:57.720 you know, mumbo jumbo, and I don't want to be 90 00:04:57.759 --> 00:04:59.639 a part of that. And I lost a lot of friends. 91 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:08.000 So called air quotes again and I gained Christ. And 92 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:10.439 when I was following Christ, I was reading the Book 93 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:14.079 of Job. And the Book of Job loses everything. Job 94 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:19.120 is a landowner who lived in the land of us 95 00:05:19.519 --> 00:05:24.240 u Z right now, that's about east of the Jordan. 96 00:05:25.079 --> 00:05:26.279 Overseas, of course. 97 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:32.079 And he lived in this land where he was like 98 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:37.000 the man. He worshiped God, loved God, you know, did 99 00:05:37.160 --> 00:05:41.519 sacrifices for God. And he was a good man of God. 100 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:44.240 Now I wasn't at that time. I was a struggling 101 00:05:44.279 --> 00:05:49.319 baby Christian, right but I was doing my best. Job 102 00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:56.240 lost everything, lost, his home, lost his livestock, lost his money, 103 00:05:56.560 --> 00:06:00.639 lost his hair, started developing boils and disease on him. 104 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:04.319 And he didn't know why God was doing this to him. 105 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:07.879 He didn't know, and he would question God later on 106 00:06:07.959 --> 00:06:10.879 in the Book of Job, which it's okay to question God, 107 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:15.199 ladies and gentlemen, I want you to know that disciples 108 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:19.360 question God. My man Peter in the Bible, man he 109 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:23.319 questioned God a lot. His man Kad on the other 110 00:06:23.439 --> 00:06:29.759 end right here, questions a lot. Okay, absolutely a lot. 111 00:06:29.800 --> 00:06:33.040 He questions a lot. And we can do the same thing. 112 00:06:33.439 --> 00:06:37.439 Thou shalt not test the Lord, although sometimes people do 113 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:40.639 test the Lord and comes out working in their favor. 114 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:45.040 Another story, another time, my wife tested the Lord one 115 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:48.160 night and she was a former atheist that came to 116 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:52.399 Christ because she tested him. But today it's about the 117 00:06:52.519 --> 00:06:56.959 friends that Job had around. When Job lost his land, 118 00:06:57.079 --> 00:07:01.560 lost his livestock, lost his money, lost his wealth, lost 119 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:08.399 his children, he lost everybody but his wife. His wife 120 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:13.879 and friends were the ones saying, well, maybe it's something 121 00:07:13.959 --> 00:07:17.480 you did, maybe it's something that you need to change. 122 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:21.120 But this man was such a strong man of God. 123 00:07:22.199 --> 00:07:25.120 He's like, I know it's not because of that, but 124 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:28.120 I'm going to question my God because I need to 125 00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:31.120 know why God would you do this to me. We've 126 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:35.120 said that right, Why God would you allow division in 127 00:07:35.160 --> 00:07:38.120 this world? Why God would you allow kids to be taken? 128 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:39.199 Why? God? 129 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:42.879 We always hear that. And you may not have done 130 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:45.879 anything wrong. Maybe you are a Christ follower for so 131 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:48.759 long and you lost something very good in your life 132 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:51.839 and you're questioning right now. You may be a non 133 00:07:51.879 --> 00:07:56.199 believer that's constantly questioning and saying why God. Easy answer 134 00:07:56.240 --> 00:07:58.680 for you guys who don't know God, and you're asking 135 00:07:58.680 --> 00:07:59.120 that question. 136 00:07:59.800 --> 00:08:03.839 You haven't come to him. You haven't come to him. 137 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:07.560 For the christ believer that has been walking and something 138 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:10.319 bad happens in your life and you're like, why, God, why, 139 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:13.680 Because you're strong enough to get through it, and your 140 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:17.800 testimony is going to help others. This is the same 141 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:23.839 thing with Job, a strong man of God that lost 142 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:30.959 everything and was given back tenfold due to his dedication 143 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:34.720 to God. But what about his friends in between? Now, 144 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:39.159 he had three friends in between. They had some really 145 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:41.919 cool names. You're not gonna hear these names ever again, Okay, 146 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:45.480 because we got Billy, Bob, Joe, Jeremy, Jason. Nothing wrong 147 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:49.360 with those names, KD. Nothing wrong with those But his 148 00:08:49.480 --> 00:08:54.600 friend's names were Eliphaz, Bill Dad so far. I want 149 00:08:54.639 --> 00:08:58.000 that name right there. So far kind of sounds like 150 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:02.039 a pill. You take so far to keep away the devil. 151 00:09:02.159 --> 00:09:03.840 But by the way, when you take so far, you 152 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:06.600 may develop sores, boils, losing of hair. 153 00:09:06.720 --> 00:09:09.399 All that good stuff right so far was. 154 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:13.519 One and the quietness of them all ely you elyu 155 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:18.639 e l i hu if you're keeping track at home, 156 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:24.519 So these four friends would come to comfort, and I 157 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:27.759 put up air quotes again in the podcast world for that. 158 00:09:29.240 --> 00:09:29.759 Comfort. 159 00:09:32.159 --> 00:09:34.799 And the first three friends that were sitting and talking 160 00:09:34.840 --> 00:09:36.679 with Job. And by the way, I am giving you 161 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:42.320 the cliff Notes version of Job. Okay, all right, you guys, 162 00:09:42.360 --> 00:09:45.039 go in the Bible and go ahead and read the 163 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:48.000 Book of Job. Read it slow because if you've never 164 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:50.159 read it, sometimes it's like whoa. 165 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:51.960 It kind of reminds me of the. 166 00:09:51.960 --> 00:09:54.639 Maury Povid show back in the days. You have a 167 00:09:54.679 --> 00:09:57.120 friend on one side, you have Job on the other. 168 00:09:57.200 --> 00:09:59.480 This would be a very cool meme to make for 169 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:03.039 o YouTube page, and we might do it. And you 170 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:06.120 have one friend that starts out to be comforting, you 171 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:08.960 know that friend. I'm so sorry this happened to you. 172 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:12.399 I'm sorry, my brother. I hope you can get through it. 173 00:10:12.759 --> 00:10:15.639 Just know that God loves you, and I mean just 174 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:16.039 know that. 175 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:19.639 But what happened? What did you do? 176 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:24.799 This is what his friends were doing to him. They 177 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:29.039 were pointing blame, like he did something to dishonor God. 178 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:32.960 One of his friends. I believe it was so far. 179 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:35.320 So far went. 180 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:39.679 As far as to say, well, you're the sins of 181 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:42.679 your children were brought this upon you and your family 182 00:10:42.840 --> 00:10:47.399 whoa all their late nights of partying and just letting 183 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:49.279 go of themselves and letting. 184 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:53.480 Go of the Lord. Whoa, this guy is slaying in stones? Boy? 185 00:10:53.600 --> 00:10:56.440 I mean, so far the Great remember, kind of like 186 00:10:56.480 --> 00:10:59.120 a cartoon name. So far the Great was just throwing 187 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:05.320 these stones, casting stones, instead of washing Job's feet and 188 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:09.919 tending to him and caring for him. So far was 189 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:12.639 just throwing these stones, boy. And this is what caused 190 00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:15.759 Job to be in a lot of pain and anguish 191 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:17.960 because think about it. Have you ever been in a 192 00:11:17.960 --> 00:11:19.919 situation where you're talking to your friends. Maybe you just 193 00:11:19.960 --> 00:11:23.159 broke up with someone, you lost a job, you're down 194 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:26.679 in life, and your friends come over to comfort you. 195 00:11:27.759 --> 00:11:32.200 Maybe those friends are not close friends, and they bring 196 00:11:32.200 --> 00:11:34.720 a six pack, or they bring something to kind of 197 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:39.279 ease your mind. Maybe you'll have dinner, which is a 198 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:42.519 nice thing. Someone will be like, I brought dinner. You know, 199 00:11:42.600 --> 00:11:45.519 let's watch a movie and let's talk. Then when you 200 00:11:45.559 --> 00:11:47.879 get deeper into the talk, some people are just sitting 201 00:11:47.879 --> 00:11:52.200 there going, well, you know the reason why Sarah left 202 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:55.360 you is you haven't really brushed your teeth lately, you know, 203 00:11:55.480 --> 00:11:59.519 haven't brushed your hair. And you're like, whoa, whoa, why 204 00:11:59.600 --> 00:12:02.919 am I getting these stones thrown against me? Right now? 205 00:12:04.120 --> 00:12:06.519 This is not what I need? Then you have some 206 00:12:06.720 --> 00:12:09.759 friends that try to fix the situation you're not looking 207 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:12.480 for a fix, and then you have some that are 208 00:12:12.519 --> 00:12:17.919 just so mean, like so far was, Oh, your sins 209 00:12:17.960 --> 00:12:22.440 of your children have brought pain upon God and pain 210 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:29.399 upon yourself. Whoa first off, so far deuces Oo says 211 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:34.240 you need to leave, but he didn't because Job still 212 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:37.320 needed that comfort in the suffering he was going through. 213 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:43.399 And then later on at the end of our story, 214 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:46.480 we'll talk about a friend who is kind of like 215 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:50.039 that coach, kind of like that coach that builds you 216 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:52.240 back up, and we'll talk about that in a minute. 217 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:55.080 But maybe you're in a situation today where you're just 218 00:12:55.120 --> 00:13:01.559 stuck in the rut. The story of is about perseverance 219 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:06.559 and suffering. Jesus is every day with every single human 220 00:13:06.600 --> 00:13:12.120 in the world, we persevere. And I love what Paul 221 00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:17.080 says in the Bible. We suffer to build perseverance so 222 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:22.000 we can endure the race. To me, it's more encouraging 223 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:25.679 to look at it that way. For a moment, I 224 00:13:25.759 --> 00:13:27.840 will look and say, Lord, why am I going through this? 225 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:32.120 And we can question again, don't forget, we can question. 226 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:36.480 And when you're deep in prayer and meditation and worship 227 00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:39.759 with the Lord. That relationship develops, and you will hear 228 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:43.080 that small, faint voice turned to you and say something. 229 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:46.600 But when I question, I'll hear the Lord say something like, listen, 230 00:13:47.759 --> 00:13:52.639 I love you. I'm not going to harm you, not 231 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:57.200 going to hurt you. The opposition wants that from you. 232 00:13:57.399 --> 00:14:00.360 He wants to maim, kill and destroy. As we seeing 233 00:14:00.360 --> 00:14:02.639 the Book of Job. At the very beginning book of Job, 234 00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:09.279 the devil asks for permission to God to do harm 235 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:11.320 upon Job. And I know what you're thinking. You're like, whoa, 236 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:15.360 why would God allow that pump the brakes? Because he 237 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:18.000 knows you can get through it, and he knows when 238 00:14:18.039 --> 00:14:21.519 you get through that breakthrough on the other side, you're 239 00:14:21.559 --> 00:14:25.679 going to be so much stronger in life for someone else, 240 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:30.320 but most of all for him. This is the problem 241 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:34.440 that people have with our heavenly Father. Well that sounds 242 00:14:34.600 --> 00:14:40.799 very controlling. Yeah, he controls our lives. We're the ones 243 00:14:40.840 --> 00:14:44.159 that make it difficult, guys. We're the ones that decide 244 00:14:44.200 --> 00:14:47.440 to continue to latch on and we'll hold on to 245 00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:52.360 words like suffering and we'll suffer and we won't look 246 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:55.120 at words like perseverance as a good thing when you 247 00:14:55.159 --> 00:14:59.120 go to the gym, you have to perseverere man that 248 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:03.000 it was not English whatsoever, Ladies and gentlemen, I understand that, 249 00:15:04.320 --> 00:15:10.240 and I apologize to my brethren overseas. But when you 250 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:16.840 hear the word like to preserve, to persevere when you 251 00:15:16.879 --> 00:15:20.320 go to the gym, you have to persevere and suffer 252 00:15:21.120 --> 00:15:25.639 to get that finished product that you want, the six 253 00:15:25.720 --> 00:15:30.759 pack abs as they would say, six pack abs, or 254 00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:34.360 maybe you're just trying to be in a diet. You 255 00:15:34.519 --> 00:15:37.000 have to persevere. We don't look at it as a 256 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:41.200 good thing. But when we're going through something bad, nah, 257 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:44.240 we look at it as a horrible thing. But just 258 00:15:44.320 --> 00:15:46.000 know the Lord wants you to come out on the 259 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:49.919 other side a victor. And by the way, he does 260 00:15:49.960 --> 00:15:56.200 it because he knows you will be a victor. So 261 00:15:56.320 --> 00:15:59.080 think about that when you're in the midst of struggles. 262 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:05.840 Why keep the company that job kept. Don't call upon 263 00:16:05.919 --> 00:16:11.000 those friends that are going to be negative nellies down 264 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:14.159 in the dumps. You need to find a band of 265 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:18.799 brothers and sisters, maybe in your church community, maybe just 266 00:16:18.840 --> 00:16:25.000 that positive person that can sew life into you. The 267 00:16:25.080 --> 00:16:28.240 ultimate person that can sew life into you is Jesus Christ. 268 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:31.480 And you may not know Jesus Christ, but this is 269 00:16:31.480 --> 00:16:33.960 where you can build your personal relationship with him. And 270 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:37.080 at the end of the show, we want to pray 271 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:39.960 you out and we have something for you brought to 272 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:44.320 you in part by the good old Lord above from 273 00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:47.440 the Lord. But think about it as we go into 274 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:51.399 this break. Why do you keep the company that you keep? 275 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:54.320 And when we come out of the break, I'm going 276 00:16:54.399 --> 00:16:57.399 to tell you what I did. Sometimes we have to 277 00:16:57.720 --> 00:17:02.000 trim the fat in life, because when we trim the fat, 278 00:17:02.759 --> 00:17:07.039 that's when blue skies will start opening. Speaking of blue Skys, 279 00:17:08.279 --> 00:17:10.799 here's the music. If I needed this Dave, Yes, I 280 00:17:10.920 --> 00:17:14.559 needed this Dave. 281 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:16.319 With blue Skies when we come back. 282 00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:21.960 Oh oh, why do you keep the company you keep? 283 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:32.400 Jesus Shiny blues Guy, Blues Guy, Oh God on me 284 00:17:32.759 --> 00:17:37.880 blue Blues. 285 00:17:39.319 --> 00:17:43.400 I was so I wanted to die. So there's a 286 00:17:43.559 --> 00:17:48.119 man I can never cry. Shame in mid and prod 287 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:51.000 in my eyes. Will you break the silence? 288 00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:52.839 You tear down the lines? 289 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:59.519 Lordolphlo, please lead me back to the little Cross. 290 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:04.400 Jesus, U need blues. 291 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:11.640 Booz guys. Oh God, honey blues cow. 292 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:16.279 Boozcu. 293 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:21.960 Tom keeps slipping because lies and nothing. The world keep 294 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:26.000 judging the worth of my life. They call me a failure, 295 00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:27.640 wasted past. 296 00:18:27.839 --> 00:18:31.160 For your grace is spoken, your love will last. 297 00:18:31.319 --> 00:18:36.119 My skin is the moartiest glass. I feel every fear 298 00:18:36.279 --> 00:18:38.559 of the mom's past for you. 299 00:18:38.680 --> 00:18:41.400 Oh my future, you hear my past. 300 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:44.720 Your mercy reminds me that sts don't last. 301 00:18:45.240 --> 00:18:48.240 Jesus some running, running the seal. 302 00:18:50.160 --> 00:18:53.799 I feel all out play see me on the pathom 303 00:18:53.839 --> 00:18:55.599 braying with all I know. 304 00:18:56.160 --> 00:18:58.799 Minds are lifted high in my eyes. 305 00:18:58.640 --> 00:19:01.039 Are close me through the storm. 306 00:19:01.079 --> 00:19:02.359 I'm and show me blues. 307 00:19:02.480 --> 00:19:22.400 Guy, Oh God, please show me blues. Guys loose. I 308 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:32.079 know the plan some me for you. Oh, oh future, 309 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:41.359 My world is true. No one small sparrow alls from the. 310 00:19:41.640 --> 00:19:46.759 Scot without my cat, without my. 311 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:50.440 I see you. 312 00:19:51.559 --> 00:19:54.799 I know you eat chir on your head before you 313 00:19:55.039 --> 00:19:55.880 had a name. 314 00:19:56.440 --> 00:19:57.759 You are my child. 315 00:19:58.079 --> 00:20:00.160 Don't be ashamed. 316 00:20:01.559 --> 00:20:09.000 Life. You can see. 317 00:20:13.759 --> 00:20:18.599 The music of I needed this, Dave. I needed this, Dave. 318 00:20:18.839 --> 00:20:23.000 Blue skies sometimes we need blue skies. And do you 319 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:25.880 know when we look up to me, even in the 320 00:20:25.880 --> 00:20:29.680 midst of dark clouds, there's always a blue sky. That's 321 00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:34.359 because when you're a follower of Christ, you're just right there, 322 00:20:34.720 --> 00:20:37.319 you're just right there with him. And today we're talking 323 00:20:37.319 --> 00:20:42.000 about who needs friends like that? Who needs those friends? 324 00:20:42.039 --> 00:20:44.440 You may have heard your family members say that, why 325 00:20:44.480 --> 00:20:47.319 do you hang out with that, that group of hoodlums? 326 00:20:47.480 --> 00:20:48.160 Why do you hang out? 327 00:20:48.200 --> 00:20:51.480 They're just gonna bring you down, and they do. You See, 328 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:54.359 when I was growing up, it's all about, Hey, I 329 00:20:54.440 --> 00:20:56.400 want to be cool man, I want to run with 330 00:20:56.480 --> 00:20:59.440 that cool crowd. Hey I see that guy drinking over there. 331 00:20:59.599 --> 00:21:03.400 I'm gonna do that. Oh as a stand up comedian, Yeah, 332 00:21:03.799 --> 00:21:05.880 give me a little of that drink over there, because 333 00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:08.079 I think it makes me funny on stage. 334 00:21:08.079 --> 00:21:09.039 It makes you a fool. 335 00:21:11.160 --> 00:21:14.799 The spirits enter your body, another story, another time, hence 336 00:21:14.839 --> 00:21:20.440 the name spirits. When we drink, spirits change you. I 337 00:21:20.559 --> 00:21:25.240 was two alter egos on stage when I would drink 338 00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:27.960 because of the company, I kept. 339 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:31.279 Not saying that. 340 00:21:31.400 --> 00:21:35.440 Everybody that I came across was that way. There were 341 00:21:35.519 --> 00:21:41.519 positive people. Big shout out to Don Davis Womack in Virginia. 342 00:21:41.640 --> 00:21:45.160 She is a stand up comedian. Her and her husband 343 00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:49.880 have a YouTube channel and social media called The Funny Womax. 344 00:21:49.920 --> 00:21:52.640 You've got to check them out. But I'll never forget 345 00:21:52.680 --> 00:21:56.039 what she said to me when we were on tour 346 00:21:56.200 --> 00:21:59.599 for the King of King's Comedy tour, going into churches 347 00:21:59.720 --> 00:22:02.799 raise money and awareness and having some fun and some 348 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:06.640 laughs with comedians that were walking with the Lord or 349 00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:10.160 positive people, things of that nature. She came up to 350 00:22:10.200 --> 00:22:14.000 me and says, you remind me of Peter. You remind 351 00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:17.200 me of Peter by the way you lead. You're very stern, 352 00:22:17.359 --> 00:22:21.680 but you love Jesus so much and you'll do anything 353 00:22:21.720 --> 00:22:24.559 for him. And this was before I really truly knew 354 00:22:25.519 --> 00:22:29.759 the purpose I have in life right now, and I'll 355 00:22:29.759 --> 00:22:32.519 never forget her for that. But you can see that 356 00:22:32.640 --> 00:22:36.720 company that I kept raised me to be closer to God. 357 00:22:37.599 --> 00:22:43.200 But before that, oh man, I was literally walking in darkness. 358 00:22:43.839 --> 00:22:47.799 I had to get rid of those friends. There was 359 00:22:47.839 --> 00:22:51.400 a time that when I started stand up comedy, before 360 00:22:51.440 --> 00:22:55.960 I became a follower of Christ, I had to cast 361 00:22:56.000 --> 00:22:58.319 out people in my life that didn't believe I could 362 00:22:58.319 --> 00:23:02.799 make it, friends, family, and say this is what I'm 363 00:23:02.799 --> 00:23:05.160 going to do. I'm not going to be here if 364 00:23:05.200 --> 00:23:09.839 you like it or not. Well, only the Lord knew 365 00:23:09.880 --> 00:23:14.359 many years later, I'm making the same decision again to 366 00:23:14.480 --> 00:23:19.680 certain people that I'm making a decision to walk with God, 367 00:23:20.640 --> 00:23:24.559 minister to others about the Lord, and you're either going 368 00:23:24.640 --> 00:23:27.200 to come with us or not. And I'm okay with that. 369 00:23:27.200 --> 00:23:31.920 I'll always love you. But I have to trim the fat. 370 00:23:32.359 --> 00:23:34.839 I have to break the chains that are holding me 371 00:23:34.960 --> 00:23:38.640 from drawing closer to the Lord for his purpose. That 372 00:23:38.839 --> 00:23:46.720 is what we have to do, my friends. We have 373 00:23:46.759 --> 00:23:50.599 to make a decision. You may be somebody who only 374 00:23:50.640 --> 00:23:53.960 has a few friends. Say you have four friends, but 375 00:23:54.319 --> 00:23:57.359 three of them, man, are the ones. 376 00:23:57.200 --> 00:24:02.079 That hold you back. You're like Job. 377 00:24:03.400 --> 00:24:08.119 Job had somebody by the name of Elihu. Job had 378 00:24:08.160 --> 00:24:12.880 the name of a gentleman who defended God with honor. 379 00:24:13.839 --> 00:24:16.119 And I love Elai who he does not have a 380 00:24:16.240 --> 00:24:20.079 huge part in the Bible, and you probably have never 381 00:24:20.200 --> 00:24:23.079 heard of this guy before. Those are the ones the 382 00:24:23.200 --> 00:24:27.160 Don Davis Womax in my life, or the Eli who's 383 00:24:27.279 --> 00:24:31.480 in Job's life that's sew into him to change the 384 00:24:31.559 --> 00:24:37.880 trajectory of my life for God's purpose. A little bit 385 00:24:37.960 --> 00:24:41.759 about a lie who he was the fourth friend and 386 00:24:41.839 --> 00:24:45.039 he'd been listening to the other's debate, and they were 387 00:24:45.359 --> 00:24:48.920 when you read Job, Job used to be my favorite 388 00:24:48.960 --> 00:24:51.960 book in the Bible. It's hard for me to read Now, 389 00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:56.119 because they're constantly complaining in the negative thoughts that they're 390 00:24:56.160 --> 00:24:58.920 throwing toward Job. I mean, you want to reach out 391 00:24:58.960 --> 00:25:02.319 and be like you just want to shake them. I 392 00:25:02.319 --> 00:25:04.839 didn't want to say the word strangle, by the way, 393 00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:09.000 because that's not very Christian like parents, you know what 394 00:25:09.039 --> 00:25:12.039 I'm talking about. Sometimes we've seen Homer Simpson do it too, 395 00:25:12.200 --> 00:25:15.640 you know Bart Simpson many millions of times. But I 396 00:25:15.680 --> 00:25:18.319 feel this way when I read Job now, I'm like, oh, 397 00:25:18.359 --> 00:25:25.599 it's so heartbreaking in despicable of how they're treating Job. Well, 398 00:25:25.640 --> 00:25:30.799 this fourth friend, Eliyu, would hear the debate and right 399 00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:36.319 after Job was questioning God, he's questioning God. And he's 400 00:25:36.359 --> 00:25:39.119 still questioning God, and God's not answering by the way, 401 00:25:39.960 --> 00:25:44.319