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Story Time with Brittany: Jonah and the Fish · Rush Hour

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SPEAKER_01: Welcome, everybody.
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SPEAKER_01: It's another episode of Rush Hour Podcast brought to you by Rush Church.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, and it's me, your host.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm Cody, and we have Ashley and Britney, and that's all.
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SPEAKER_01: That's all we need.
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SPEAKER_01: We don't need anybody else.
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SPEAKER_03: Dream Team.
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SPEAKER_01: Dream Team is here.
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SPEAKER_01: We're glad you're here listening.
0:31
SPEAKER_01: Let us know if you think we are the dream.
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SPEAKER_01: But we are glad that you listen.
0:37
SPEAKER_01: We have a fun time doing the podcast.
0:40
SPEAKER_01: But yeah.
0:41
SPEAKER_01: Hope everybody's having a good week.
0:42
SPEAKER_01: A good October's almost over.
0:44
SPEAKER_03: It is.
0:45
SPEAKER_01: You know that?
0:45
SPEAKER_03: I know.
0:46
SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be November on Sunday.
0:48
SPEAKER_03: Christmas.
0:51
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
0:52
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
0:53
SPEAKER_01: I just thought it was that actually stressed me out.
0:56
SPEAKER_01: Oh, I'm so sorry.
0:58
SPEAKER_03: You said that.
1:00
SPEAKER_03: Trigger word.
1:01
SPEAKER_01: Christmas.
1:03
SPEAKER_01: We can get into Christmas another day.
1:05
SPEAKER_01: We will.
1:05
SPEAKER_01: We're not talking about it yet.
1:06
SPEAKER_01: It's not even Halloween.
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SPEAKER_01: Halloween Saturday, and we're gonna be giving out caramel apples at the park.
1:11
SPEAKER_01: Right?
1:11
SPEAKER_01: We're still doing that.
1:12
SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah.
1:13
SPEAKER_01: I am.
1:14
SPEAKER_03: I tested the recipe for the caramel.
1:17
SPEAKER_03: John and Cody got to test it.
1:19
SPEAKER_03: Was it good?
1:20
SPEAKER_01: That it was fantastic.
1:22
SPEAKER_01: I wanted to drink it, but then I was like, I shouldn't because I'll get sick.
1:26
SPEAKER_01: Shouldn't just drink straight caram sauce.
1:28
SPEAKER_01: Somebody get me a straw.
1:30
SPEAKER_01: Don't you want apples with that, sir?
1:31
SPEAKER_01: No, no apples.
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SPEAKER_01: Just the sauce.
1:34
SPEAKER_01: Sorry.
1:35
SPEAKER_03: I bet you would be good in coffee.
1:38
SPEAKER_01: It would be.
1:39
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
1:40
SPEAKER_01: We'll have to try that.
1:43
SPEAKER_03: Right.
1:43
SPEAKER_01: Caramel's caramel coffee.
1:45
SPEAKER_03: How much did you make?
1:46
SPEAKER_03: Well, I only made one batch because I wanted to test it to see what recipe to use first.
1:51
SPEAKER_03: And the first recipe I used was like it was it.
1:54
SPEAKER_03: I was, I wasn't testing anymore.
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SPEAKER_03: So tomorrow I'll be making all of the batches.
2:00
SPEAKER_01: You need to get like a cauldron.
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SPEAKER_01: Put caramel in it.
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SPEAKER_01: Like a caramel cauldron.
2:05
SPEAKER_03: The problem is I don't want it to burn.
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SPEAKER_03: So I have to make like I can only do a double betch at a time.
2:10
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: That way I don't ruin it.
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SPEAKER_03: But it'll be good.
2:14
SPEAKER_03: Lots of topping choices for your apples.
2:17
SPEAKER_03: You got like Oreos and Yeah, I'm doing Oreos, fresh nuts, Heath pieces, mini chocolate chips.
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SPEAKER_03: I've got marshmallows, fruity pebbles, and by request, bacon.
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SPEAKER_01: Big cone.
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SPEAKER_01: Bacon bits.
2:33
SPEAKER_01: It might be good.
2:34
SPEAKER_03: It might be.
2:35
SPEAKER_01: What do you mean?
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SPEAKER_01: Caramel and bacon.
2:36
SPEAKER_01: How can it not be good?
2:37
SPEAKER_01: You guys ever had a bacon chocolate sundae?
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SPEAKER_01: Apples.
2:40
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, bacon's good on anything.
2:43
SPEAKER_01: I'm having a hard time thinking of like what would not be good with bacon.
2:47
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_01: Bacon's good.
2:51
SPEAKER_01: It's like meat candy.
2:53
SPEAKER_01: So at Dunkin', they just sell little snack and bacon packs.
3:00
SPEAKER_01: You can just go get bacon.
3:01
SPEAKER_03: What?
3:01
SPEAKER_01: At Dunkin' Dance.
3:03
SPEAKER_03: That I've had.
3:06
SPEAKER_03: What do you mean?
3:07
SPEAKER_01: You're like, hey, can I get some snacking a bacon snacking thing?
3:10
SPEAKER_01: They'll know what you're saying.
3:11
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
3:12
SPEAKER_01: And you just get like a little like a little bag, like you put fries in, except it's bacon.
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SPEAKER_01: You just have bacon.
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SPEAKER_03: What?
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SPEAKER_03: It's also covered in like brown sugar and pepper and like maple sauce too.
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SPEAKER_03: I've never heard of this.
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SPEAKER_03: But I also don't really go to dictators.
3:27
SPEAKER_01: It's bacon.
3:28
SPEAKER_01: You've heard of bacon before.
3:29
SPEAKER_03: Oh, bacon.
3:30
SPEAKER_01: There we go.
3:31
SPEAKER_03: But she hasn't heard of the snack and bacon.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, it's alright.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, I wouldn't go there out of your way to get it, but if you happen to be getting a coffee and be like, oh, have you already drinking coffee and on keto, get the bacon.
3:44
SPEAKER_05: There we go.
3:46
SPEAKER_01: What was I gonna say?
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SPEAKER_01: I guess I don't remember something about bacon.
3:51
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but like I was thinking like all the things you could put bacon on.
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SPEAKER_05: Right.
3:55
SPEAKER_01: Like if you had a little bacon-flavored cereal, it'd be good.
4:01
SPEAKER_03: Okay, bacon, like and milk, I do not think would be good.
4:05
SPEAKER_01: Bacon and milk?
4:06
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
4:07
SPEAKER_01: You're probably right.
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SPEAKER_03: Like a spoonful of milk with bacon in it.
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SPEAKER_03: But like cinnamon toast crunch with bacon flavored peas.
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SPEAKER_05: And I drink milk at breakfast, and that seems fine.
4:15
SPEAKER_01: Seems fine.
4:16
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
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SPEAKER_01: Maybe it is by that logic.
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SPEAKER_01: I didn't mean to throw off the podcast already by bringing up the bacon stuff, but let me know next time you see me what wouldn't be good with bacon.
4:28
SPEAKER_01: So we got trick-or-treat, caramel apple stuff.
4:32
SPEAKER_01: We have volunteer youth training Saturday morning for those that want to come and learn about teenagers and that kind of thing.
4:41
SPEAKER_01: It's nine to noon.
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SPEAKER_01: Breakfast is being served by Britney and John.
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SPEAKER_01: Correct?
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SPEAKER_01: Do you guys figure out what you're serving yet?
4:49
SPEAKER_01: Or we won't.
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SPEAKER_01: It's okay.
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SPEAKER_01: Show up and be a surprise.
4:53
SPEAKER_01: It'll be a surprise.
4:54
SPEAKER_01: But if you want to come to that, that'd be great.
4:56
SPEAKER_05: I'd like to make cinnamon rolls.
4:57
SPEAKER_05: I haven't done those.
4:58
SPEAKER_05: I have missed your cinnamon rolls.
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SPEAKER_01: Bacon.
5:03
SPEAKER_05: And bacon.
5:04
SPEAKER_05: For some reason I'm thinking bacon.
5:08
SPEAKER_01: That's what.
5:09
SPEAKER_01: So we have that.
5:11
SPEAKER_01: Thanksgiving dinner here at the church coming up.
5:14
SPEAKER_01: I don't remember what day that is.
5:16
SPEAKER_01: I think it's Sunday the 24th.
5:18
SPEAKER_01: 24th.
5:19
SPEAKER_01: 27th.
5:19
SPEAKER_01: I think it's 22nd.
5:21
SPEAKER_03: Oh.
5:21
SPEAKER_03: Whatever with me and dates, man.
5:24
SPEAKER_03: You're right.
5:25
SPEAKER_03: 22nd.
5:26
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
5:27
SPEAKER_01: It's all right.
5:28
SPEAKER_01: You don't need dates.
5:28
SPEAKER_01: You just put on a calendar and the public service.
5:31
SPEAKER_05: Public service announcement, not to ask Ashley about dates.
5:35
SPEAKER_01: What is with me and dates?
5:36
SPEAKER_01: Darren's like, huh?
5:39
SPEAKER_03: Not that kind of date.
5:40
SPEAKER_01: We know, but it was still funny.
5:42
SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
5:42
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was a joke, Ashley.
5:44
SPEAKER_03: Uh-huh.
5:45
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
5:46
SPEAKER_03: Two sittings, seatings at Thanksgiving.
5:48
SPEAKER_03: We got five o'clock and seven, right?
5:51
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
5:51
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: Entertainment in between.
5:53
SPEAKER_01: What day is that?
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SPEAKER_03: Sunday, November 22nd.
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SPEAKER_01: Perfect.
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SPEAKER_03: Games in between.
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SPEAKER_05: That's my most favorite part.
6:01
SPEAKER_01: We didn't do games last year in between, did we?
6:03
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, we did.
6:04
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, we did.
6:04
SPEAKER_05: Price is right.
6:05
SPEAKER_01: Oh, I love Price is Right.
6:06
SPEAKER_01: It's my favorite game show.
6:07
SPEAKER_01: Oh, I got to run the soundboard.
6:08
SPEAKER_01: We did do games first.
6:10
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
6:10
SPEAKER_03: Oh my goodness.
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SPEAKER_01: Sorry about that.
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SPEAKER_01: What are we doing this year?
6:13
SPEAKER_03: Darren and I have something in the works, but I want to make sure all the kinks are fixed first before I announce it, just in case we have to restart.
6:20
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
6:21
SPEAKER_01: Okay then.
6:22
SPEAKER_01: Look forward to that.
6:22
SPEAKER_01: It'll be a good time.
6:23
SPEAKER_01: In between the Thanksgiving dinners, that's usually like 6 to 6.45 in the sanctuary.
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SPEAKER_01: But yeah, it's always a good time.
6:30
SPEAKER_01: Get your tickets.
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SPEAKER_01: Five o'clock usually goes pretty fast.
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SPEAKER_01: So snatch those tickets.
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SPEAKER_05: I never even try for the five o'clock.
6:37
SPEAKER_01: They um yeah, those are free tickets.
6:40
SPEAKER_01: You just we just need you to sign up and get them so we know how many people we're having and all that good stuff.
6:45
SPEAKER_01: So there you go.
6:46
SPEAKER_01: Thanksgiving dinner.
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SPEAKER_01: Good times.
6:49
SPEAKER_03: And then Friendsgiving.
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SPEAKER_03: Friends giving after real Thanksgiving.
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SPEAKER_01: Friendsgiving is for youth groups around the county.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a youth event.
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SPEAKER_01: We have everybody bring food, whatever food you want, and we have a big meal.
7:02
SPEAKER_01: We have games, prizes, giveaways, and we have a worship night, thanks to the worship team.
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SPEAKER_01: And then uh this year, Drew, a Sutherland speaking, he's the youth guy at First Church of God in Bellfountain and a good friend of ours.
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SPEAKER_01: At least mine.
7:16
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
7:16
SPEAKER_01: Maybe you guys like Drew too.
7:17
SPEAKER_01: Do you guys like Drew?
7:18
SPEAKER_03: I love Drew.
7:19
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
7:19
SPEAKER_01: I thought with him at breakfast yesterday.
7:20
SPEAKER_01: It'd be weird if you guys were like, no, we don't like that guy.
7:24
SPEAKER_01: Oh, I forgot about the breakfast.
7:25
SPEAKER_01: That's we were wondering where you were.
7:28
SPEAKER_01: I I was dropped the kids off at school and I was like, I think there was something I was supposed to do, but I can't remember what it was.
7:34
SPEAKER_01: I was like, maybe I'm just gonna like I might just go get a coffee.
7:36
SPEAKER_01: I was like, nah, I'll just go to my office.
7:38
SPEAKER_01: And then Drew, I texted Drew about something, Friendsgiving.
7:41
SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
7:41
SPEAKER_01: I was like, we're doing this.
7:42
SPEAKER_01: And he was like, Where were you this morning?
7:44
SPEAKER_01: I was like, oh, biscuits.
7:46
SPEAKER_01: A breakfast.
7:46
SPEAKER_01: Oh well, just a free breakfast.
7:48
SPEAKER_01: Was it good?
7:49
SPEAKER_01: It was.
7:49
SPEAKER_01: Pancakes?
7:50
SPEAKER_01: No.
7:51
SPEAKER_01: Bacon?
7:51
SPEAKER_01: No.
7:52
SPEAKER_03: No, cinnamon rolls.
7:53
SPEAKER_03: Cinnamon rolls.
7:54
SPEAKER_03: That were really good.
7:55
SPEAKER_03: Uh-huh.
7:56
SPEAKER_03: Uh sweet aromas coffee.
7:57
SPEAKER_01: And then like a that was a Calvary, by the way.
7:59
SPEAKER_01: It was a Calvary.
8:00
SPEAKER_01: Pastor Appreciation breakfast.
8:02
SPEAKER_01: So yeah.
8:02
SPEAKER_03: I enjoyed their chapel.
8:03
SPEAKER_03: That's what we started with was their high school chapel, and it was really good.
8:07
SPEAKER_01: I'm speaking at their chapel sometime in November.
8:09
SPEAKER_01: I gotta remember, I gotta write that down.
8:12
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
8:15
SPEAKER_01: Friendsgiving is a cool event.
8:18
SPEAKER_01: That's it.
8:18
SPEAKER_01: November 29th, the end of the month.
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SPEAKER_01: Know any teenagers, send them our way.
8:22
SPEAKER_01: You can also come too if anybody wants to just drop in and for the worship part or I don't know, maybe like crazy games and I don't know.
8:33
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
8:35
SPEAKER_01: Good.
8:36
SPEAKER_01: I don't have any more announcements.
8:38
SPEAKER_03: All right.
8:38
SPEAKER_03: Then I'll break the ice here.
8:39
SPEAKER_01: I thought Britney was gonna say something.
8:40
SPEAKER_01: She was just like, you did?
8:42
SPEAKER_01: I looked at you.
8:43
SPEAKER_01: And you're just like, you look at me.
8:46
SPEAKER_04: Does not mean I speak on command.
8:50
SPEAKER_04: I'll be ready the next time that we're gonna be able to do that.
8:52
SPEAKER_01: We should get a uh camera for our podcast and videotape.
8:55
SPEAKER_04: I think it would be fun.
8:56
SPEAKER_03: Now that the rush hour sign on the wall nicer, yeah.
9:00
SPEAKER_03: New chairs.
9:00
SPEAKER_01: No one can see it.
9:02
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
9:03
SPEAKER_01: I was gonna say, this chair is nice.
9:04
SPEAKER_01: Is it?
9:05
SPEAKER_01: I am cozy.
9:06
SPEAKER_01: Good.
9:07
SPEAKER_01: Getting comfy.
9:08
SPEAKER_01: Got my feet up, snuggling.
9:11
SPEAKER_01: May fall asleep.
9:12
SPEAKER_03: Brittany said she might trade steal your chair.
9:14
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I think we should trade seats.
9:16
SPEAKER_01: I thought I was over there last time anyway, wasn't I?
9:18
SPEAKER_03: No.
9:19
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
9:19
SPEAKER_03: I don't I remember you being on the couch.
9:23
SPEAKER_01: Oh no, you're right.
9:24
SPEAKER_01: I was over here.
9:24
SPEAKER_01: I've always been in the chairs.
9:26
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
9:26
SPEAKER_01: You guys are always anyway.
9:28
SPEAKER_01: Carry on.
9:31
SPEAKER_01: Sometimes I forget we're on a podcast.
9:33
SPEAKER_01: I'm just all right.
9:35
SPEAKER_03: First icebreaker.
9:37
SPEAKER_03: What is your ideal Saturday look like?
9:42
SPEAKER_03: Like the whole day?
9:43
SPEAKER_03: Yep.
9:44
SPEAKER_01: Depends on the time of year.
9:46
SPEAKER_01: I mean, you know.
9:48
SPEAKER_03: Okay, well, we're in the fall right now.
9:50
SPEAKER_03: I was gonna say these last couple Saturdays have been really nice.
9:54
SPEAKER_03: So what's your ideal Saturday?
9:56
SPEAKER_03: Not something you have to do that's on your schedule, unless you really enjoy it, you know.
10:00
SPEAKER_03: But what is your ideal Saturday look like?
10:04
SPEAKER_01: Nothing before 10 a.m.
10:07
SPEAKER_01: I can get up whenever.
10:10
SPEAKER_01: Usually get up at like 8 if I don't set an alarm.
10:13
SPEAKER_01: Get some coffee.
10:16
SPEAKER_01: Hang out, relax in the morning.
10:19
SPEAKER_01: And then I don't know.
10:23
SPEAKER_01: I like watching my kids play sports, so if there's a soccer game or a baseball or softball game, that's nice.
10:32
SPEAKER_01: Go do something, see people.
10:34
SPEAKER_01: Then I like to watch football.
10:37
SPEAKER_01: So eat wings, something tasty for dinner.
10:42
SPEAKER_01: There we go.
10:44
SPEAKER_01: I don't know what she wanted me to say.
10:48
SPEAKER_02: Nice.
10:49
SPEAKER_01: Oh I mean, ideal Saturday, I hit the lottery and I give us all right.
10:53
SPEAKER_04: Sweet.
10:55
SPEAKER_04: And we all get to ride this car at NASCAR.
10:57
SPEAKER_04: We're all going to NASCAR.
10:59
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we get the biggest youth budget in the world for whatever we want to do.
11:04
SPEAKER_01: Because if I did win the lottery, it'd be a lot of ministry.
11:08
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
11:08
SPEAKER_03: I would give almost all of it.
11:11
SPEAKER_01: I would make sure that everybody was good for a while and then I'd be like, all right, Rush Church, what do you want to do?
11:17
SPEAKER_01: Right.
11:17
SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah.
11:19
SPEAKER_05: But I do really enjoy a day of yard sailing.
11:23
SPEAKER_05: Oh, okay.
11:25
SPEAKER_05: I really I think it's so much fun to go yard sailing, even though I don't need anything.
11:30
SPEAKER_05: But like a fall day is if I get up and exercise and then make food.
11:38
SPEAKER_05: I do.
11:39
SPEAKER_05: I like I like doing a walk around my block, which is pretty far.
11:46
SPEAKER_05: And then make food and watch football.
11:48
SPEAKER_05: A noon Ohio State game.
11:50
SPEAKER_01: You like a noon game?
11:52
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
11:54
SPEAKER_01: I like a noon game.
11:55
SPEAKER_01: That's weird.
11:56
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, because the evening games are pretty late, right?
11:58
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
11:59
SPEAKER_05: I don't really like to stay up late.
12:01
SPEAKER_01: The last few weeks, Kentucky football's good this year.
12:03
SPEAKER_01: We're like in the top ten in the country.
12:05
SPEAKER_01: And for Kentucky football, that doesn't happen.
12:08
SPEAKER_01: So we're very excited, me and Timmy.
12:11
SPEAKER_01: And we've been they've been at all their last three games have been like 7:30 at night.
12:16
SPEAKER_05: No.
12:16
SPEAKER_01: So it's been me and Timmy staying up late watching football together, cheering for the cats.
12:20
SPEAKER_05: I mean, I guess I don't care what time the game is.
12:23
SPEAKER_05: I don't mean I don't want to, I want to make it to where I can see the end of it.
12:26
SPEAKER_05: But I really enjoy eating and watching football at the same time.
12:31
SPEAKER_01: Me too.
12:32
SPEAKER_03: True.
12:33
SPEAKER_03: Well, I would have to say my ideal Saturday is definitely a camping Saturday because I'm not at home.
12:39
SPEAKER_03: And although I love home, but when you're camping, you have like no responsibility.
12:46
unknown: Right?
12:47
SPEAKER_05: As long as I can be anywhere other than where I live.
12:50
SPEAKER_03: I don't mean it like that because I camp with my family.
12:53
SPEAKER_03: I love it.
12:54
SPEAKER_01: Maybe we already made fun of Ashley enough about other things this morning.
12:58
SPEAKER_01: So I was gonna let that one go.
13:00
SPEAKER_03: So we are a family camp kind of people, but it's just we get up, like we don't set alarms, we sleep well in the camper, probably just because you're relaxed.
13:10
SPEAKER_03: And when you relax, you actually sleep well.
13:12
SPEAKER_03: And then I always cook breakfast on the blackstone.
13:16
SPEAKER_03: I love cooking hash browns and eggs and bacon every Saturday that we are camping.
13:20
SPEAKER_03: And then we usually end up like drinking coffee outside, and then we all meet up together and go play bingo, and then that sounds really nice.
13:30
SPEAKER_03: And what's wrong with bingo?
13:33
SPEAKER_03: Nothing, nothing, nobody can see him, Robert.
13:36
SPEAKER_03: Oh, that's true.
13:37
SPEAKER_03: And then depending on what what campground we're at, usually we end up doing like a round of putt-putt together, and that sounds really fun.
13:45
SPEAKER_03: Then we all start preparing dinner and end with a campfire, and that's definitely my ideal Saturday.
13:51
SPEAKER_01: So we can all agree on some good food on a Saturday, right?
13:55
SPEAKER_03: That's true.
13:56
SPEAKER_03: We'd like to do that.
13:57
SPEAKER_03: That is the one common thing.
13:59
SPEAKER_01: Some kind of competition, bingo, and football, football, and kid sports, kid sports, yeah.
14:07
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's true.
14:08
SPEAKER_01: At times, nice.
14:09
SPEAKER_03: Okay, on to jokes.
14:13
SPEAKER_03: What did the mushroom?
14:16
SPEAKER_03: Sorry, let me ask that again.
14:18
SPEAKER_03: Well, let me start over.
14:22
SPEAKER_00: This is gonna be great.
14:23
SPEAKER_00: I'm excited already.
14:24
SPEAKER_03: Why?
14:25
SPEAKER_03: Why did the mushroom go to the party?
14:31
SPEAKER_01: Because he's a fun guy.
14:33
SPEAKER_03: Yes! Good job.
14:37
SPEAKER_03: All right, last joke.
14:39
SPEAKER_03: What does it cost to swim with sharks?
14:44
SPEAKER_01: Well, let me look it up real quick.
14:47
SPEAKER_05: Oh my gosh, I think I know it.
14:48
SPEAKER_01: Oh my gosh.
14:49
SPEAKER_01: Oh, can we get hopefully you get it because I have no idea.
14:52
SPEAKER_05: You don't?
14:53
SPEAKER_01: No.
14:53
SPEAKER_05: Is it an arm and a leg?
14:54
SPEAKER_05: Yes!
14:57
SPEAKER_03: Good job.
14:58
SPEAKER_01: That literally just popped into my brain.
15:00
SPEAKER_01: I love it.
15:01
SPEAKER_03: Nice.
15:01
SPEAKER_01: We got your jokes this time.
15:02
SPEAKER_03: You did.
15:03
SPEAKER_01: You're gonna give us a riddle sometime.
15:04
SPEAKER_01: Y'all know you hate riddles.
15:05
SPEAKER_03: I have a riddle?
15:07
SPEAKER_03: I do.
15:07
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
15:08
SPEAKER_03: I think it's clean enough.
15:09
SPEAKER_03: I have a riddle.
15:11
SPEAKER_05: And we're fired.
15:13
SPEAKER_05: No.
15:15
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
15:15
SPEAKER_05: I got my uh it's ready to go.
15:18
SPEAKER_03: So actually, I don't know if it's necessarily a riddle, but more of a saying.
15:22
SPEAKER_03: I think it is more of a saying.
15:23
SPEAKER_03: But it is funny.
15:25
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's funny.
15:26
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
15:27
unknown: Come on.
15:28
SPEAKER_03: Should we trust Ashley?
15:29
SPEAKER_03: I don't know if we should.
15:30
SPEAKER_00: All right.
15:31
SPEAKER_00: I I'm trusting.
15:32
SPEAKER_03: Do we have delete on the podcast?
15:34
SPEAKER_03: Okay, you can trust me.
15:35
SPEAKER_00: I got you.
15:36
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
15:36
SPEAKER_03: Sometimes you're not everyone's cup of tea.
15:40
SPEAKER_03: You can be their lackative.
15:44
SPEAKER_03: Right?
15:49
SPEAKER_03: You can just cleanse them.
15:51
SPEAKER_03: Just let it go.
15:52
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
15:53
SPEAKER_00: I'm keeping that.
15:54
SPEAKER_00: All right.
15:55
SPEAKER_00: I want everybody to hear that.
15:58
SPEAKER_00: Brittany needs to.
16:00
SPEAKER_00: You good?
16:01
SPEAKER_05: Right.
16:01
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, that was really good.
16:02
SPEAKER_05: That was a good couple.
16:04
SPEAKER_05: I would actually prefer that on a t-shirt.
16:09
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
16:09
SPEAKER_01: We should we should you can move them.
16:11
SPEAKER_03: That was it.
16:12
SPEAKER_03: You're not their cup of tea.
16:13
SPEAKER_03: You're their laxative.
16:15
SPEAKER_03: You can move them and cleanse them.
16:17
SPEAKER_01: Doesn't make it any that's worse.
16:19
SPEAKER_03: You make the move.
16:21
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
16:23
SPEAKER_05: I am so sorry.
16:24
SPEAKER_05: I don't understand the sentence.
16:29
SPEAKER_01: Please don't explain.
16:31
SPEAKER_01: If you don't get it, you don't get it.
16:33
SPEAKER_01: All right.
16:34
SPEAKER_01: Tell you off air.
16:38
SPEAKER_01: Anyway.
16:39
SPEAKER_01: Well, that's the last time.
16:41
SPEAKER_01: We'll let anybody say anything unscripted.
16:43
SPEAKER_01: Actually, this whole thing's unscripted.
16:46
SPEAKER_01: It's not bad.
16:46
SPEAKER_01: No, it's not.
16:47
SPEAKER_01: It's very, yeah, it's good.
16:48
SPEAKER_03: I heard that today and I thought it was, you know, it was like, you know what?
16:51
SPEAKER_03: I I'm not a really common doubt.
16:52
SPEAKER_01: Put it on your wall.
16:53
SPEAKER_03: I should.
16:57
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
17:00
SPEAKER_01: Hang, yeah.
17:01
SPEAKER_01: I don't know where how do you transition from that to I don't know a good transition to move from.
17:07
SPEAKER_03: All right, we're starting our new series today.
17:09
SPEAKER_01: That's a good transition.
17:10
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
17:10
SPEAKER_01: We're moving into a new series.
17:16
SPEAKER_04: Just you couldn't let it go.
17:19
SPEAKER_01: Well, I it's a good transition.
17:21
SPEAKER_01: Are you getting a blanket?
17:22
SPEAKER_05: I need a tissue.
17:24
SPEAKER_01: That's not a tissue, that's a blanket.
17:26
SPEAKER_01: Oh my gosh.
17:29
SPEAKER_01: All right.
17:30
SPEAKER_01: Well, we are moving into a new series.
17:32
SPEAKER_01: We wanted to do something we could build on, you know, instead of a one-off kind of thing.
17:37
SPEAKER_01: We wanted a new series for the podcast.
17:39
SPEAKER_01: And so, oh dang it, I already forgot what I was gonna call it.
17:44
SPEAKER_01: Uh I don't know.
17:46
SPEAKER_01: Oh shit, you told me.
17:48
SPEAKER_01: I know, I just said it when we sat down.
17:51
SPEAKER_01: Stories you thought you knew.
17:54
SPEAKER_01: I had a good name.
17:55
SPEAKER_01: I had a good time.
17:56
SPEAKER_01: I'll think of the name later.
17:57
SPEAKER_01: Trust us.
17:58
SPEAKER_01: Anyway, we're gonna look at different Bible stories that you probably are familiar with, you've heard before, but do you know the full story?
18:06
SPEAKER_01: Do you know the little details about them?
18:07
SPEAKER_01: Maybe we'll spark some new interest in a few stories, or maybe you'll learn something you didn't see before in a story from the Bible, and then it's kind of help us to apply it to our lives today a little bit and kind of what we can take from it.
18:20
SPEAKER_01: I think it'd be good.
18:21
SPEAKER_01: These are kind of like we'll do like Sunday school stories that everybody knows, but then kind of like look at the scripture and be like, oh, I didn't know that part about the story.
18:30
SPEAKER_01: So that's kind of what the goal is behind this.
18:32
SPEAKER_01: And so I wish I remember the title.
18:34
SPEAKER_01: It was a good title.
18:36
SPEAKER_03: Anyway, it was only like two words.
18:38
SPEAKER_01: I know.
18:41
SPEAKER_01: Sorry, that was a little aggressive, I think, wasn't it?
18:44
SPEAKER_01: It was two words, but um, stories you knew, stories you story time.
18:49
SPEAKER_01: Anyway, all right.
18:51
SPEAKER_01: Well, today's story, we're gonna start with.
18:55
SPEAKER_01: I just talked to my mom and dad this morning on the phone, and they just finished the book of Jonah.
18:59
SPEAKER_01: And so I thought, that's a good story to start with.
19:02
SPEAKER_01: Everybody knows the book of Jonah.
19:03
SPEAKER_01: It's only four chapters.
19:04
SPEAKER_01: If you haven't read it before, go read it today or whenever you get time.
19:09
SPEAKER_01: It'll have to only take, I don't know, ten minutes.
19:13
SPEAKER_01: If that, I don't know.
19:14
SPEAKER_01: It's a pretty short story.
19:16
SPEAKER_01: Should we let Brittany tell the story?
19:18
SPEAKER_05: Oh, am I up?
19:19
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you're up.
19:20
SPEAKER_01: The story of Jonah.
19:21
SPEAKER_01: He's a prophet in the Old Testament, and so when you hear Jonah, what do you think of?
19:28
SPEAKER_05: A whale.
19:29
SPEAKER_01: A whale.
19:32
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's what I think of it.
19:33
SPEAKER_01: Correct answer.
19:34
SPEAKER_01: Ding ding ding.
19:35
SPEAKER_01: So when you think of Jonah, you think of the whale, but do you know the story?
19:39
SPEAKER_01: The whole story.
19:41
SPEAKER_01: Do you know the story?
19:43
SPEAKER_05: I mean, I know most of it, I think.
19:45
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
19:45
SPEAKER_01: Well, do you want to tell the word?
19:48
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
19:48
SPEAKER_01: Tell us what you know about it.
19:49
SPEAKER_05: So there was a guy named Jonah, and he had a pretty good communication line going with God.
19:56
SPEAKER_05: And God wanted He was a prophet.
19:59
SPEAKER_01: God was you know using him.
20:02
SPEAKER_05: And God wanted him to go and talk to go to Nivea.
20:05
SPEAKER_01: Nineveh.
20:06
SPEAKER_05: Nineveh.
20:07
SPEAKER_05: I always do that.
20:08
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
20:08
SPEAKER_05: You got the other one's the body lotion.
20:10
SPEAKER_03: The other one's the body lotion.
20:12
SPEAKER_03: Nivea.
20:14
unknown: Nivea.
20:15
SPEAKER_05: You're right.
20:16
SPEAKER_03: That's probably where she got confused with.
20:18
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, it is.
20:18
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I get those two confused all the time.
20:21
SPEAKER_05: Anyways, God told Jonah to go speak to these people because they were doing like a lot of wrong.
20:27
unknown: Okay.
20:27
SPEAKER_05: And he's like, you gotta go preach these people because we need we need them to know about me.
20:33
SPEAKER_05: And Jonah refused.
20:36
SPEAKER_05: He said, No, I absolutely hate those guys.
20:38
SPEAKER_05: I'm not going over there.
20:39
SPEAKER_05: They're terrible.
20:41
SPEAKER_05: God's like, that's kind of the point.
20:45
SPEAKER_05: We need to go talk to people who are terrible.
20:48
SPEAKER_05: He refused and essentially got swallowed by a whale.
20:56
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
20:57
SPEAKER_05: And so since he refused, God took him there anyways, in the belly of a whale.
21:03
SPEAKER_05: Spit him up on the shore.
21:04
SPEAKER_05: Jonah said to the people, or said to God, fine, I'll I'll do it.
21:09
SPEAKER_05: Preached to the people.
21:11
SPEAKER_05: They loved it.
21:13
SPEAKER_05: They thought he was great.
21:16
SPEAKER_05: They thought he was great and they loved what his message was.
21:20
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
21:21
SPEAKER_01: So that's the story we all know.
21:22
SPEAKER_01: That's the story.
21:24
SPEAKER_01: And if you don't, you know, even people that don't know the Bible or don't go to church or aren't Christians, you know, they hear Jonah and the they hear Jonah from the Bible and they think the whale or the big fish, whatever.
21:37
SPEAKER_01: Guy got eaten by a fish or a big whale.
21:39
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
21:40
SPEAKER_01: And that's probably a lot of people, that's their extent of the knowledge of Jonah.
21:44
SPEAKER_01: Probably.
21:44
SPEAKER_01: They got eaten by a sea creature.
21:47
SPEAKER_01: And then spit up.
21:49
SPEAKER_01: And but I just wanted to kind of look at the look at the story and remind people of how it ended.
21:57
SPEAKER_01: Do you know how the book of Jonah ends?
22:02
SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
22:03
SPEAKER_05: I can remember.
22:04
SPEAKER_05: I don't think I remember either.
22:05
SPEAKER_01: All right.
22:06
SPEAKER_01: Well, we're gonna talk about it because I think it's interesting.
22:09
SPEAKER_01: Jonah was a prophet, and like Britney said, God told him to go to Nineveh, and he's like, No, thank you.
22:15
SPEAKER_01: I don't want to go to Nineveh.
22:16
SPEAKER_01: So he gets on a boat to go to the office, opposite direction.
22:19
SPEAKER_01: Big storm comes.
22:20
SPEAKER_01: The people that he's on the boat with are like, what's happening?
22:22
SPEAKER_01: And Jonah's like, it's me, it's my fault.
22:24
SPEAKER_01: They throw him overboard.
22:25
SPEAKER_05: Oh, yeah.
22:26
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
22:27
SPEAKER_05: I remember that now.
22:28
SPEAKER_01: See you later, buddy.
22:29
SPEAKER_01: And then they threw him off, and like the storm ends, and it says that Jonah was swallowed up, and then uh the he gets spit up on the shore and right over there by Nineveh, and he goes over.
22:44
SPEAKER_01: Do you want to hear the sermon that he preached to the people?
22:47
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
22:48
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
22:50
SPEAKER_01: Jonah chapter three.
22:51
SPEAKER_01: This is Jonah's sermon to Nineveh.
22:56
SPEAKER_01: In verse 4, chapter 3, Jonah began to go into the city, going to going about a day's walk, and he cried out, Forty days more, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
23:06
SPEAKER_01: That's that's the message.
23:08
SPEAKER_03: That's what he was preaching.
23:10
SPEAKER_01: That that's what that's what it says.
23:20
SPEAKER_01: Like eight words.
23:23
SPEAKER_01: It says, and the people of Nineveh believed God, and they proclaimed, they proclaimed a fast, and everyone, great and small, put on sackcloth and repented of their ways.
23:33
SPEAKER_01: And the king was so moved by this that he was like, We need to change how we do things around here.
23:39
SPEAKER_03: All from those eight words.
23:41
SPEAKER_01: Did you know that that's what Jonah's message was to the people?
23:44
SPEAKER_05: No.
23:45
SPEAKER_05: I was expecting something pretty intense.
23:47
SPEAKER_01: I know.
23:48
SPEAKER_01: A lot of people were like, Oh, he must have gave him to he must have gone and preached a preached his heart out.
23:52
SPEAKER_03: Right.
23:53
SPEAKER_01: Jonah shows up and he does the bare minimum that God asks him to do.
23:58
SPEAKER_01: God says, go and tell Nineveh to repent, and that you know it'll be better for them.
24:02
SPEAKER_01: And God tells him to, and Jonah's like, Fine, I got eaten by a fish.
24:06
SPEAKER_01: I got spit up.
24:07
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna go do this now because, well, I don't have a choice.
24:10
SPEAKER_01: Appears.
24:11
SPEAKER_01: He goes there and he gets there, he's like, 40 days, then you guys will be destroyed.
24:15
SPEAKER_01: That's what he says.
24:17
SPEAKER_01: He doesn't say anything about you know repent.
24:20
SPEAKER_01: He doesn't say anything about you can change this outcome.
24:23
SPEAKER_01: He just says 40 days and you're out of here.
24:27
SPEAKER_01: Oh.
24:28
SPEAKER_01: And they hear that, and they all like, oh my gosh, we need to turn back from our ways and all these things.
24:34
SPEAKER_01: And Jonah's like, what is happening?
24:36
SPEAKER_01: Because the part where we don't go is that Jonah didn't want Nineveh to repent.
24:43
SPEAKER_01: Jonah didn't want God to forgive these people.
24:47
SPEAKER_01: In chapter four, and while it goes, when God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil ways, God changed his mind about the calamity that he had said he would bring upon them, and he did not do it.
24:58
SPEAKER_01: He did not destroy Nineveh.
25:01
SPEAKER_01: Start of chapter four, the last chapter in this book, it says, But this was very displeasing to Jonah.
25:06
SPEAKER_01: Jonah didn't like this.
25:08
SPEAKER_01: Jonah didn't like that these people were saved and not destroyed.
25:11
SPEAKER_01: And he became angry.
25:12
SPEAKER_01: He prayed to the Lord and said, Oh Lord, is not that is not this what I said while I was still on my in my own country?
25:20
SPEAKER_01: That is why I fled to Tarshish at the beginning, for I knew that you're a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from punishment.
25:33
SPEAKER_01: So the reason Jonah didn't want to go to Nineveh is because he knew who God was and he knew he would forgive these people.
25:39
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
25:40
SPEAKER_01: And does that sound familiar?
25:41
SPEAKER_01: The things that he just called God, by the way.
25:44
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
25:44
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
25:44
SPEAKER_01: Why is that familiar?
25:46
SPEAKER_05: The characters of God.
25:47
SPEAKER_01: The characters of God that are mentioned in Exodus that we did a series on.
25:50
SPEAKER_01: He mentions these, it's exact word for word almost.
25:52
SPEAKER_01: He's like, You're gracious and you're faithful and you're slow to anger, and it's because of your love that I ran away.
25:59
SPEAKER_01: Because I know who you are, which is changes the way you see the the prophet of Jonah.
26:06
SPEAKER_01: At least it did for me when I realized when I went back and read this.
26:10
SPEAKER_01: Because we hear stories, we hear Bible stories, and we're like, Oh, I know the story.
26:14
SPEAKER_03: Right.
26:15
SPEAKER_01: But do we know the full story, or do we just hear it from somebody else and we never actually went back and read it for ourselves?
26:22
SPEAKER_01: And and Jonah's only four chapters, and you're like, oh, got eaten by a fish, went to Nineveh, they got saved, and it was all but thanks to Jonah.
26:29
SPEAKER_01: Right, right.
26:30
SPEAKER_03: Everything's happy go lucky.
26:31
SPEAKER_03: Yep.
26:32
SPEAKER_01: Well, I think it's funny, and he's like, I knew you would do this, and now, oh Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.
26:40
SPEAKER_01: And the Lord said, Is it right for you to be angry?
26:43
SPEAKER_01: Then Jonah went out to the city and sat down east of the city and made a booth for himself there.
26:47
SPEAKER_01: He sat under it in the shade, waiting to see what would come of the city.
26:51
SPEAKER_01: So the Lord appointed a bush and made it cover Jonah to give him shade over his head, to save him from the discomfort of the heat.
26:57
SPEAKER_01: So Jonah was very happy about the bush.
27:00
SPEAKER_01: But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the bush, so it withered up and died.
27:04
SPEAKER_01: When the sun rose, God prepared a sultry east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah's head so that he was faint, and he asked that he might die.
27:12
SPEAKER_01: He said, It is better for me to die than to live.
27:14
SPEAKER_01: Once again, Jonah's He's like, I hate this.
27:17
SPEAKER_01: This is awful.
27:19
SPEAKER_01: Very dramatic.
27:20
SPEAKER_01: And this is how the book of Jonah ends.
27:22
SPEAKER_01: It says, But God said to Jonah, Is it right for you to be angry about the bush?
27:27
SPEAKER_01: And he said, And Jonah said, Yes, angry enough to die.
27:32
SPEAKER_01: Jonah's he's a piece of work, it sounds like to me.
27:35
SPEAKER_01: Doesn't it sound like to you?
27:36
SPEAKER_01: He's complaining.
27:37
SPEAKER_01: Then the Lord said, You are concerned about the bush for which you did not labor, in which you did not grow the bush.
27:43
SPEAKER_01: It came into being in a night and perished in a night.
27:46
SPEAKER_01: And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left hand, and also many animals.
27:56
SPEAKER_01: That's the end of the book.
27:59
SPEAKER_05: Wow.
28:00
SPEAKER_01: It ends with a question mark.
28:01
SPEAKER_01: The last thing in the book of Jonah is a question mark.
28:04
SPEAKER_03: Yes, do we even know what happened in Jonah?
28:08
SPEAKER_01: That's all we got.
28:10
SPEAKER_01: There's other tales, other writings about Jonah later on that aren't part of the Bible.
28:16
SPEAKER_01: Don't know if they're how accurate they are, but there are a few things that kind of tell about how he goes and he goes back to his home country and does stuff there and eventually dies or whatever, but nothing else.
28:29
SPEAKER_01: But then the Bible, that's the last thing we see of Jonah.
28:34
SPEAKER_01: And so the story itself is really interesting.
28:39
SPEAKER_01: Seems like Jonah doesn't want these people saved.
28:43
SPEAKER_01: He doesn't like these people.
28:45
SPEAKER_01: And Nineveh is the capital of the Assyrian Empire at this point, basically.
28:51
SPEAKER_01: And Assyria is eventually going to come in and take the northern part of Israel into exile and capture them and really just lay waste to the land.
29:00
SPEAKER_01: That's from that's aside from the point, though, these were bad people.
29:04
SPEAKER_01: They were really bad.
29:05
SPEAKER_01: They did a lot of terrible things.
29:08
SPEAKER_01: They were Israel's enemy at this point.
29:10
SPEAKER_01: And so a lot of people think, well, Jonah just didn't want to go because he was scared of what they would do to him because they were known for doing horrible things to people.
29:17
SPEAKER_01: It would be scary to go there just for that reason.
29:19
SPEAKER_01: But that's not the reason that Jonah gives.
29:21
SPEAKER_01: It's not the reason that we have in the scripture that the reason that he didn't go is because he knows that God is full of grace and mercy and slow to anger, and that he would, if given the chance, forgive these people and show mercy to them, which he did, and then Jonas ticked.
29:35
SPEAKER_01: I mean he's like, I knew you were gonna do this, which is so interesting to me.
29:40
SPEAKER_01: How do we do you do you how do you apply that to your life though?
29:44
SPEAKER_01: Like even today, do we have a group of people in our head or a certain person or an enemy that we have in our lives, maybe that we're like, I don't want them to be forgiven, I don't want them to have good things, maybe.
30:00
SPEAKER_01: Maybe not now, but I in the past I have probably felt that way before.
30:06
SPEAKER_01: So it's it's a real human nature and tendency to want your enemies to be uncomfortable, I think.
30:14
SPEAKER_01: You know, that person doesn't deserve that, and you know, they get it.
30:18
SPEAKER_01: And Jonah's looking at these evil empire of Nineveh in the series, like they're terrible.
30:23
SPEAKER_01: They don't deserve, they deserve their city to be burnt to the ground or you know, judgment from God or whatever.
30:30
SPEAKER_01: And he goes in and does the bare minimum.
30:32
SPEAKER_01: He goes in, he's like, 40 days, you guys are gonna be toast.
30:35
SPEAKER_01: And they're like, he's like, This isn't gonna work, it's gonna be great.
30:38
SPEAKER_01: And Jonah's and then they're all like, Oh, we better turn from our ways, and and they do it.
30:42
SPEAKER_01: And Jonah's like, Really?
30:45
SPEAKER_01: But God still moves in Jonah, God still uses Jonah for his purpose, even when he gave the the bare minimum, the just lowest of the lowest level of effort.
30:55
SPEAKER_01: He was like, I'm here, you guys are gonna be gone in 40 days, uh da.
31:00
SPEAKER_01: And then they do, and he's like, dang it.
31:04
SPEAKER_01: And then he goes and sits out and pouts outside the city, and God shows him an example of you know, who are you to tell me what I can do with these people and what I can't do with these people?
31:15
SPEAKER_01: Uh he uses the bush as an example, he grows a bush and covers them, and Jonah's like, ah, some shade.
31:20
SPEAKER_01: And then he's angry when the bush is dead and gone, like he had any control over that to begin with.
31:25
SPEAKER_01: He didn't even put it there, God put it there.
31:27
SPEAKER_01: And you see the last words we have from Jonah in scripture.
31:32
SPEAKER_01: God asks him, Is it do you have any right to be angry about the bush?
31:36
SPEAKER_01: And he says, Yes, angry enough to die.
31:39
SPEAKER_01: That's the last thing we hear from Jonah in the story.
31:43
SPEAKER_01: And so I don't know, I just think it's we think we know these stories sometimes, and then we go back and we're looking like, oh, it's not the same story.
31:51
SPEAKER_01: It kind of changes the way we see the story a little bit.
31:54
SPEAKER_01: The focus is not on Jonah and the great fish being swallowed.
31:58
SPEAKER_01: That's part of the story, and it's it's there, but that's not the main thing from the story that you should take away.
32:04
SPEAKER_01: You should take away about the character of God and who he is and the links that he goes to to rescue his people, rescue anybody.
32:12
SPEAKER_01: Because this is even isn't this isn't even Israel, this is Israel's enemy.
32:16
SPEAKER_01: And God shows up and offers them a second chance, and eventually they turn away from God again.
32:24
SPEAKER_01: In this passage, we see that they're all like, oh, we're gonna turn to God and stuff like that, but eventually they do come in and wipe out northern Israel.
32:33
SPEAKER_05: But it kind of makes me feel like I I don't I don't know exactly how to put it in words, but it almost makes me feel like God didn't need Jonah to go there.
32:46
SPEAKER_01: Like he did it because Jonah didn't have much to say.
32:52
SPEAKER_01: Well, Jonah really didn't do anything at all.
32:53
SPEAKER_01: At all.
32:54
SPEAKER_05: He even tried not to do it at all, and God But it's almost like it was two different plans.
32:59
SPEAKER_05: Do you know what I mean?
33:00
SPEAKER_05: Like God was going to forgive these people for what they would done, what they would have done.
33:07
SPEAKER_05: They would maybe they would have repented without Jonah.
33:10
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
33:11
SPEAKER_05: But that Jonah needed to be obedient.
33:16
SPEAKER_05: If that makes sense.
33:17
SPEAKER_05: Like it just I'm trying to wrap my brain around he just didn't need I don't know that he needed him to go.
33:24
SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
33:25
SPEAKER_01: Well no, I agree with this.
33:26
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, God doesn't need anything from us, he's gonna do what he's gonna do.
33:31
SPEAKER_01: God doesn't need anything.
33:35
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he's God, and like you look all the way back in the beginning of God created everything.
33:40
SPEAKER_01: Did he need to create?
33:41
SPEAKER_01: No, he didn't need to create anything, he doesn't need anything, but he he wants this, he wanted this creation, he wants relationship with his creation, with his people, and then in the story of the Bible, we see him continue to work in the lives of people who really don't deserve to do to be a part of the plan, I don't think, you know.
34:02
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he uses all kinds of people, and this is another one of those things where, like, yeah, he doesn't need us, but he wants to partner with us, he wants he wants to show Jonah who he is.
34:13
SPEAKER_01: And Jonah's like, I already know who you are.
34:16
SPEAKER_01: And then, but he this is an example, he's trying to get across to Jonah, like, if you're gonna be my prophet, you gotta have the same heart as I do.
34:23
SPEAKER_01: And right now you don't.
34:24
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if ever Jonah ever did, right?
34:27
SPEAKER_01: We just left off with this question, how the story ends.
34:29
SPEAKER_01: The writer was like, that's good enough, or maybe something happened halfway through, he didn't finish his story, but uh, you know, I I just think it's the the idea of God's going to work for his plans with or without us.
34:45
SPEAKER_01: It'd be so much better if we were on board from the beginning, and you wouldn't have to be eaten by a giant fish, right?
34:52
SPEAKER_01: You could just trust God and want the same things he wants the whole time.
34:55
SPEAKER_01: But Jonah resisted, and it wasn't that he was scared or or what he was doing, but he was, you know, didn't have the same, he was on the same page as God.
35:04
SPEAKER_01: He wanted, and we see this again, we see this with Jesus when he's walking around and they leave a city, and James and John are like, call down fire from heaven, burn the city up, and Jesus is like, Whoa, guys, are you still not getting what I'm doing here?
35:21
SPEAKER_01: And so it's the process of humanity trying to learn to have the same heart that God has, and it's difficult, it's really hard because I'm sure there's people in your life, or there's been points in your life where you're like, I really don't want anything good for this person because of what they did to me, what they said to me, how they treated somebody else.
35:38
SPEAKER_01: Um and I think it's a process of knowing God better and better, learning who he is, just having yourself transformed throughout life as you go to get to the point where I want the same things that God wants, even if I I don't know, even if I don't like Jonah didn't agree with God that none of us should be spared.
36:04
SPEAKER_01: And God's like, I'm doing it anyway.
36:06
SPEAKER_01: And Jonah's he had a hard time that God didn't want what he wanted, I guess.
36:10
SPEAKER_01: Would you agree with that?
36:11
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
36:12
SPEAKER_01: And do we have a hard time agreeing with God sometimes, maybe?
36:18
SPEAKER_05: Oh, definitely.
36:19
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, like I just I think of all the I don't know, all the evil stuff in the world.
36:25
SPEAKER_03: My first my first thought is like all the child trafficking.
36:29
SPEAKER_03: Like I can't, I can't I can't stand it, I hate it, like it just it breaks my heart.
36:35
SPEAKER_03: And to think that God, if any of them repented, God would forgive them.
36:41
SPEAKER_03: And me, I would have a hard time with that.
36:43
SPEAKER_03: Thankfully, I'm not God, but like that that's where I went.
36:47
SPEAKER_03: I'm like, how could you forgive them?
36:49
SPEAKER_01: And I think that's God's point in this scripture, and he's like, you know, when he says, What does what did it say?
36:58
SPEAKER_01: Is it and the Lord said, Is it right for you to be angry about this?
37:02
SPEAKER_01: Do you have any right to be angry about whether I do this or do this?
37:05
SPEAKER_01: No, we don't have we don't tell God what to do.
37:08
unknown: Right.
37:09
SPEAKER_01: Rule number one Yeah, and I think that's the point he's trying to get across to Jonah, even if we don't like it, God still has his way, and I don't know, it's difficult.
37:20
SPEAKER_01: The forgiveness part and evil that we see in the world, and to know, like God, if they change their ways and come back to him, then it's okay.
37:33
SPEAKER_03: Right.
37:36
SPEAKER_01: There are consequences still, though.
37:37
SPEAKER_01: We know this too.
37:38
SPEAKER_01: We've been reading in Samuel in our Bible study about people do things and God forgives them, but there's still prices to pay, there's still consequences to live out.
37:48
SPEAKER_01: Right.
37:48
SPEAKER_01: It's not a you know, when it comes to your relationship with God, though, he's gonna forgive you if you want him to, if you ask for it, if you do that.
37:58
SPEAKER_01: So that can be a hard thing to to do because have you ever secretly rooted for someone to fail or face consequences because you felt they truly deserved it?
38:06
SPEAKER_01: And I was like, Yeah, I've I felt that before.
38:09
SPEAKER_01: I I I've been Jonah before, probably at some point in my life where I'm like, that's not fair.
38:15
SPEAKER_01: Like they deserved this and they didn't get it, or they and something like that.
38:19
SPEAKER_01: And so Jonah uses God's own self-description again, once we said, you know, he's gracious, compassionate, slow to anger, but he uses it almost as an insult to God.
38:30
SPEAKER_01: He's like, How dare you be slow to anger and gracious?
38:32
SPEAKER_01: And you know, he's like telling God the truth about who he is, but like he's using it in a way of like, This is terrible.
38:40
SPEAKER_01: You're slow to anger and you're so compassionate and you're so loving.
38:43
SPEAKER_01: And Jonah's like, I hate that.
38:45
SPEAKER_01: And like, right, we just spent a whole series on this picking how amazing God was for these things that he was doing.
38:50
SPEAKER_01: And Jonah's kind of throw it in his face, like, I knew you were gonna be this way, and I just I don't know, makes me laugh.
38:56
SPEAKER_01: But it also kind of have I ever caught myself doing that before or have wanted to feel that way, so I don't know.
39:07
SPEAKER_01: And then at the end, you know, God uses a plant, the bush, we talked about that, and so the book ends on a cliffhanger with a different question from God.
39:18
SPEAKER_01: Why do you think the author chose to leave Jonah's answer out entirely?
39:22
SPEAKER_01: Why does Jonah not get to respond?
39:25
SPEAKER_05: Maybe it wasn't a good response, maybe it wasn't a good response.
39:29
SPEAKER_05: And we got the point.
39:30
SPEAKER_05: I mean with what was being said.
39:33
SPEAKER_01: What does it force the reader to do?
39:35
SPEAKER_01: And if you finish this reading this book and you're like, forces the reader to reflect and do what we're doing right now and saying, if I ever acted like Jonah, and how am I going to move forward?
39:45
SPEAKER_01: It doesn't matter what Jonah did, it matters what we do, matters how we see the story and how we know that God is in control and God is going to forgive who he wants to forgive, and he's going to show mercy where he wants to show mercy, and we don't have a say in that.
40:04
SPEAKER_01: And we don't want to be like Jonah where we're so against somebody, and we see it all the time, right now.
40:11
SPEAKER_01: I think we see politics and people that we think are our enemies, and people like that, and we're like, we want bad things for them, or just because they believe this, or they think this way, or in this, and so yeah, we can't write them off and say they don't deserve God's compassion or mercy because we're we don't have the right to say that.
40:36
SPEAKER_03: Right.
40:36
SPEAKER_03: They were still created by God.
40:38
SPEAKER_01: And they're still, and we've talked about that before, everybody's in the image of God, everybody has the, you know.
40:44
SPEAKER_01: And so, yeah, Jonah had a specific group of people he deemed irredeemable.
40:50
SPEAKER_01: He had already written written them off even before he went there.
40:53
SPEAKER_01: He's like, There's nothing good here.
40:55
SPEAKER_01: I don't want anything good for these people.
40:58
SPEAKER_01: And so I'd ask people that are listening, who is your Nineveh in your life right now?
41:03
SPEAKER_01: Is it a political opponent, an ex-partner, a family member, or a toxic you know, person in your life, a coworker, or somebody you know, or a neighbor, or any of these things, culture you disagree with, a worldview you disagree with.
41:17
SPEAKER_01: Realize that God's mercy is not bounded by your personal comfort zones.
41:22
SPEAKER_01: And so that can be difficult.
41:24
SPEAKER_03: That was good.
41:27
SPEAKER_01: That's the one I really wanted to get to because I think that's what this story is about.
41:33
SPEAKER_01: Don't put a boundary on God's grace and his mercy because of your personal feelings toward a group of people or different view.
41:42
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, is that is that kind of what I'm trying to say?
41:44
SPEAKER_05: Oh, yeah.
41:45
SPEAKER_01: I think so.
41:46
SPEAKER_05: Yes, Cody, that's what you're trying to say.
41:49
SPEAKER_05: Well, I'm talking out loud.
41:50
SPEAKER_05: I know.
41:51
SPEAKER_05: Normally we have to decode what we're saying.
41:57
SPEAKER_01: Jonah grieved deeply over a withered plant.
42:00
SPEAKER_01: He was so bothered by this bush, he wanted to die.
42:03
SPEAKER_05: I really think he was just having a bad day, you know.
42:07
SPEAKER_05: He's just starting to spiral out of control.
42:09
SPEAKER_01: He's starting to spiral real quick.
42:11
SPEAKER_01: The last words we hear from him is God says, Is it right for you to be angry about this bush?
42:15
SPEAKER_01: And he says, Yes, angry enough to die about it.
42:19
SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry, Jonah.
42:21
SPEAKER_05: Maybe that was really hot.
42:22
SPEAKER_01: It was hot, and then God sends a warm breeze to like really show him.
42:28
SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna start using that with John when John's like, What's wrong with you?
42:31
SPEAKER_03: I'm angry enough to die.
42:36
SPEAKER_01: Isn't it really that big a deal?
42:37
SPEAKER_01: It's just such a big deal.
42:38
SPEAKER_04: Oh, such a big deal.
42:39
SPEAKER_04: We're out of bacon.
42:40
SPEAKER_04: We're out of bacon.
42:44
SPEAKER_01: Oh my goodness.
42:45
SPEAKER_01: But he grieved over a plant that provided him temporary comfort, but felt zero sympathy for the 120,000 people in the city.
42:54
SPEAKER_01: What are our priorities like?
42:56
SPEAKER_01: Where are we missing the mark when it comes to the heart of God?
42:59
SPEAKER_01: Like, what do we care about the most when we should be caring about those that need to know about God and his grace and his love and his slow to anger and his compassion, all these different things.
43:10
SPEAKER_01: And people sometimes we put our anger and our emotions in some places that shouldn't be.
43:15
SPEAKER_01: We shouldn't be angry about the bush that we had no control over in the first place.
43:18
SPEAKER_01: We should really care about the person next door that lives to us who doesn't know about who God is and try a little harder on that situation instead of a meaningless shade bush, whatever that might be for you, as a as an example, you know.
43:33
SPEAKER_01: Are you spending more anger and passion over minor inconveniences than you're showing empathy and and things towards a hurting person in your life?
43:43
SPEAKER_01: So I think we can take all that from the story.
43:46
SPEAKER_01: Uh, it's not just about a whale and a boat, and Jonah's not the hero of the story.
43:51
SPEAKER_01: God's the hero of the story.
43:53
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
43:54
SPEAKER_01: And so, in spite of Jonah, in spite of who he was, God still shows up and does.
44:00
SPEAKER_01: Amazing things.
44:01
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but we don't need to just do the bare minimum.
44:04
SPEAKER_01: We need to not be like Jonah and actually care about people.
44:08
SPEAKER_01: Actually show them who Jesus is.
44:11
SPEAKER_01: So the story ends on a cliffhanger.
44:15
SPEAKER_01: Should I not have concern for this great city?
44:18
SPEAKER_01: says God.
44:18
SPEAKER_01: That's what he leaves us with.
44:20
SPEAKER_01: Should I not have concern about these people?
44:24
SPEAKER_01: Take time this week and reflection.
44:27
SPEAKER_01: However, you do that, will you join God in showing compassion to the people around you, or will you stay sitting outside the city pouting in the heat?
44:36
SPEAKER_01: I guess you could say.
44:37
SPEAKER_01: Like it's our choice.
44:39
SPEAKER_01: So that's the story of Jonah.
44:41
SPEAKER_01: That's the story.
44:45
SPEAKER_01: Stories.
44:46
SPEAKER_01: I almost had the title again.
44:48
SPEAKER_01: Something to do with stories.
44:50
SPEAKER_01: So that's the story.
44:51
SPEAKER_01: I don't remember.
44:52
SPEAKER_01: Anyway.
44:53
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
44:54
SPEAKER_03: If I'm allowed to interrupt here real quick, I think that it's a great reminder going into this coming Tuesday with elections.
45:03
SPEAKER_03: Like we don't we don't talk about politics a whole lot, which is good.
45:07
SPEAKER_03: Someone's gonna win, someone's gonna lose.
45:09
SPEAKER_03: You're gonna like something, you're not gonna like something.
45:11
SPEAKER_03: But I think what this story's reminding us too is God is ultimately in control and he's gonna do what he wants to do.
45:17
unknown: Yeah.
45:18
SPEAKER_01: I think there's too much of your neighbor, you know.
45:21
SPEAKER_01: I'm not gonna show this person kindness because of this certain thing.
45:24
SPEAKER_01: Politics is one of the big things right now, and it's been really split in all different kinds of ways.
45:29
SPEAKER_01: And well, I'm not gonna help that person because they voted this way.
45:32
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's a Jonah.
45:34
SPEAKER_03: That's a Jonah move.
45:35
SPEAKER_01: That's a Jonah move.
45:36
SPEAKER_05: Do a God move, isn't it?
45:37
SPEAKER_05: It is like we have to start using that.
45:40
SPEAKER_01: I think we should.
45:41
SPEAKER_01: Don't be a Jonah.
45:42
SPEAKER_05: Don't be a Jonah.
45:43
SPEAKER_01: That's a Jonah.
45:44
SPEAKER_01: We don't know how like hopefully.
45:48
SPEAKER_05: Hopefully he was a great guy.
45:49
SPEAKER_01: Hopefully he did get the point.
45:52
SPEAKER_05: And like well, he had to be like somewhat of a good guy to already be a prophet, right?
45:58
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I guess so.
46:00
SPEAKER_05: He had to have some good qualities.
46:02
SPEAKER_01: God's talking to him and using him.
46:03
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
46:04
SPEAKER_01: He's like, come on, Jonah.
46:05
SPEAKER_01: I'm pulling, I'm dragging you along with me.
46:08
SPEAKER_01: Get up and walk.
46:10
SPEAKER_05: Some guidance.
46:11
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
46:11
SPEAKER_05: This was his.
46:12
SPEAKER_01: So I think this might have been his moment of, you know what?
46:14
SPEAKER_01: You're right, God.
46:16
SPEAKER_01: We don't have that part of the story, but hopefully that's well.
46:18
SPEAKER_05: We can make it up.
46:19
SPEAKER_05: He did.
46:20
SPEAKER_05: He said, Thank you, God, for teaching me.
46:23
SPEAKER_04: I don't think we can add or take from the Bible.
46:26
SPEAKER_04: Oh, yeah, that's rule number two.
46:31
SPEAKER_04: Well, we'll just make it up.
46:32
SPEAKER_01: I like it.
46:33
SPEAKER_01: But yeah, that's a good reminder because I go vote Tuesday.
46:37
SPEAKER_01: But whatever.
46:38
SPEAKER_01: It might be politics is just one of the things that we do that with, but there's a lot of things.
46:41
SPEAKER_01: Um, whether it's somebody that you know has done something against you or there's I don't know.
46:47
SPEAKER_01: Everybody's story is different.
46:48
SPEAKER_01: There's people in your life that done bad things or hurt you or don't agree with you on certain things, and we have to still find a way to reflect God's character, his passion, his compassion, his mercy, and his slow to angriness.
47:04
SPEAKER_01: So something to think about.
47:06
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
47:07
SPEAKER_01: I think that was a good story.
47:10
SPEAKER_01: I don't know what we're gonna do next, but I'll pick a different story.
47:14
SPEAKER_01: What kind of story do you want to do next?
47:17
SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
47:18
SPEAKER_05: Whatever you tell us, Cody.
47:19
SPEAKER_01: Perfect.
47:20
SPEAKER_01: I like that.
47:20
SPEAKER_01: That's pretty good.
47:22
SPEAKER_01: A prodigal son story.
47:23
SPEAKER_01: You might do that.
47:24
SPEAKER_05: It's a good story.
47:26
SPEAKER_01: Everybody knows the prodigal son story.
47:28
SPEAKER_01: True.
47:28
SPEAKER_01: But do they know everything about the story?
47:31
SPEAKER_01: Dang it.
47:32
SPEAKER_01: I'm trying to remind myself of the title of the video.
47:37
SPEAKER_01: You're never gonna remember it.
47:39
SPEAKER_01: So that's the story or story.
47:43
SPEAKER_05: Time.
47:44
SPEAKER_01: The rest of the story.
47:45
SPEAKER_05: Is that the name of the rest of the story?
47:47
SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
47:48
SPEAKER_01: I don't remember.
47:50
SPEAKER_05: I'm sorry, I don't remember either.
47:52
SPEAKER_03: It was good though.
47:54
SPEAKER_01: Well, thanks for listening.
47:56
SPEAKER_01: Should we pray?
47:58
SPEAKER_03: Yes.
47:58
SPEAKER_01: All right.
47:59
SPEAKER_01: Do you want to pray?
48:00
SPEAKER_01: Sure.
48:01
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
48:02
SPEAKER_03: God, we just thank you for this day.
48:04
SPEAKER_03: We thank you for this time that we get to spend just chewing on your word, Father, just understanding it more and being able to dig deeper.
48:11
SPEAKER_03: God, I pray for everyone who's listening.
48:13
SPEAKER_03: I ask for protection over them.
48:14
SPEAKER_03: Lord, I pray for this nation.
48:16
SPEAKER_03: I lift it up to you.
48:17
SPEAKER_03: God, I ask that you would be in control and that you'd protect us and protect this whole world, Father God, and just show your mercy and your grace upon all of us.
48:25
SPEAKER_03: In Jesus' name, amen.
48:27
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
48:28
SPEAKER_01: All right.
48:28
SPEAKER_01: Thank you guys, and we'll see you next time on Rush Hour.