Phil's Answer to ANYONE Who Wants You to Eat Less Red Meat | Ep 270

which is a large passage of gas going in all directions oh, it looks like a nuclear bomb bomb in a yes what I have seen thisThe place is volatile, very, very unstable, that's right, you better look beyond the earth for of salvation. Jason, do you know why they haven't done anything about the volcanoes? No, because they can't, they can't, just get out of the way to get as far as possible. as far as possible and I hope you don't burn yourself before you get out of there, you're right, that's what you do with Obamacare. The dividing line between me on this topic is that people focus on the natural and me on the supernatural.

I'm crazy, but I'm a supernatural believer, yeah, so I'm preaching on Sunday and it was kind of a weird confluence of events that led me to have a little bit of a conundrum about what to do and I had kind of an epiphany yesterday while doing the podcast. when we were talking about acts 20 about Paul's farewell address to the elders, which is really good, the more I looked at it, the more I liked it, so in our church on Sunday we are ordaining. um, two new elders, kind of like what we see in some of these texts of acts that were done throughout all of these ordinations because many people, including myself, well, the word, kind of word, the word could mean ordered or a period, so okay, you know, it's just So the idea is that you're going to recognize two new seniors and um, but at the same time it's traditionally a Sunday when we recognize our high school seniors, already You know, congratulations, you are entering the world that we normally give you. a bit of a load and the older ones usually do well, it was the same day so I was going back and forth to aim this more towards the kids or more towards the idea of ​​leadership so I was reading texts. and Timothy, but yesterday when we were looking at Acts 19 and Paul's speech to the elders, I thought, man, well, he describes a pretty good way to live and then you remember right before that in Acts, uh, it was 16, that's when we met for the first time.

Timothy and then I thought, man, you know what you're seeing on both sides of the equation in the acts with Paul's travels, you know he's naming these young men like Timothy and Titus, who were young evangelists, I mean, they're new and you know, so you have These other guys that are in these cities are all pretty new Christians because they haven't been around very long, but then you have to get some older member of your group that is wiser so they can be on the lookout for these false doctrines and things So. which is what challenges them, so it really gave me this image in my mind of both ends of the spectrum of young people and, in my opinion, you're wiser, so that's where I was headed, yeah, so just focus on the young people, because I have said this many times and people are very offended, but I don't care, I think I'm right.

People over 40 aren't going to listen, they've just already made up their minds for the most part, so go to the Young People, that's my advice, do Timothy right and highlight everything. I know, I talked to a guy one time and I said, you know, and I mentioned the elders in the church and he said we don't have elders and I said. well, if someone sets his heart on being an elder first timothy 3 overseer some say bishop some say he

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a noble test the overseer the elder must be above reproach that's the kind of person it's hard to find anything bad about him the husband of one wife it is difficult to talk to divorced people if you have had a few divorces yourself moderation self-control respectable hospitable people coming and going from their homes all the time able to teach you must know your bible they have not given you much wine someone says well wait a minute now I don't give him much wine that means you can't drink no he just can't drink much you say well how much is not much it is not much I don't give him too much wine non violent not gentle I mean but gentle not violent but gentle does he have a temper yes , yeah, he's not a quarrelsome if he's bad at getting into the crowd, he's a money lover, call him, he's not, he's not someone, he should handle his own family well, uh-oh, and look at that.

His children obey him with due respect if someone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's shirt? So he said you mean this comes down to your children and whether they are belligerent and being difficult to live with. If you are outside, you must not be a newly converted, it makes sense or you may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the devil, you must also have a good reputation, be careful with those outside, the unsaved, so that you do not fall into disgrace before others. the devil's snare and by the way, then deacons are mentioned, therefore it is quite simple that deacons cannot be given much wine nor seek dishonest gain, if it is robbing people of the money they are losing and must hold on to the deep truth of faith and their conscience and the bottom line is that their wives should be the same way, then you look at those halls, they are there for a reason and you go back to your statement in the book of facts that They began in the kingdom of God. you see the beginnings of the structure of how the kingdom of God operates and it includes elders and deacons because I'm reading what elders and deacons are, what kind of people they are, so this whole thing, well, no one can do it because everyone is a sinner.

Well, everyone else, that's what I thought when you were reading. I was like you know it from people who have never heard that they are like that. Well, you pretty much wiped out the entire population. Well, the guy I read it to says we don't have any. him and i then read this to him he said you just read why we don't have them he said we don't have

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like that around here and he was going to clarify wait wait jess let's take a break so jay is one of our mutual friends, well i guess all of us, but you and i were closer to him, it's his old friend trent who used to be our main preacher at wfr and he's also a counselor and you know we're going to try to get him on the podcast we've been talking about, let him know, he's just a wonderful person, very talented and you know he was fighting back and forth instead of being a preacher if the counseling because he was very good at both and ultimately he chose counseling because He opened a counseling center in Colorado Springs, but Trent and I have had many conversations about the need to have someone available to counsel people and I firmly believe in that.

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I was going to clarify, I mean, I was joking about people over 40 not listening, but it's a general truth, but I think what happens is that these young people are its energy, they are the soul of a church and they are more open to hearing Jesus and they should be out there running wide and obviously the Elders and leadership should help guide and assist in situations that arise and become difficult because if you are actively sharing Jesus, especially on campuses college students these days, a lot of things come up that you need advice on and ultimately need some help. wisdom for people who have been there and who are solid, that's why the children are mentioned because he has to raise them, he and his wife have to raise their children to be like that, they just don't pull this out of thin air .

In the air there is a structure involved in the way of life passed down from parents to children and if when you see a family unit that has uh there is no belligerence or drunkenness and all these things that I just mentioned here, you put them all together. and you say hmm and what happened, what happened to America is that we are running out of that type of structure inside the houses, well, when that meets the kingdom of God, there is a little bit of friction there because you have You have to find the right men among all the people. on earth you are local you have to find men and women with their wives who are like that, I mean it is quite difficult, well I think what helped me with the comparison of acts was that you We know that here is Timothy and then Titus, later you know these are younger men who are now taking the reins because Paul, Barnabas and Silas had been traveling starting these churches appointing these elders, but he's about to leave, I mean we know he's supposed to go to Rome and he's not coming back so it's really a challenge for the next generation and that's one of the I think that's my challenge that I'm going to focus on and Jason was thinking you know a lot of them in first and second.

Timothy, but at the beginning of second Timothy chapter 1, Paul makes a very personal and passionate plea to Timothy and I think this is going to be a big challenge. I thank God, whom I serve like my ancestors, I deal with a clear conscience. I love that. Night and day I constantly remember you, referring to Timothy in my prayers, remembering your tears of joy. I long to see you to fill me with joy. I have remembered your sincere faith that lived for the first time in your mother Lois and in your mother Eunice. Grandma Lois and mother, how did they convince themselves?

That was that background, that's all. I was going to say that what's unique about Timothy is that I think the reason he obviously had the faith of his mother and his grandmother and they were Jewish, as we know, but you know, he was also the fit perfectly in this new hybrid church because his father was Greek, so I don't think it's an accident that Paul saw something in him, other people would say, you know, a lot of Jews said, well, you can't have half. Race person trying to tell us what to do, but in reality he was the perfect one because he is rallying and breaking down the wall of hostility between the Greeks and Jesus.

What people need to understand our listeners. You say well, how are the congregation selected well? The names are presented before the congregation and the congregation says they point to this one and that one and the other one and they said these are the guys that we are going to propose to be ordained like you mentioned a long time ago that Jace as elders uh and I I guess that would be a good moment to let people know that we have never said this. I don't believe it, but all of you and I are our elders. I've been there.

I am the oldest in our congregation. I am the oldest standing. I am you, the senior statesman. I started out as the youngest, but years went by and I looked up and all the older bosses left to be with God and I'm looking around saying, "I used to be the youngest." eldest now I'm the eldest so it's true it's quite a journey you know but they're just volunteer leaders who are trying to help that's right servants help people get to heaven and while they're here on earth they give them mentoring and counseling for some of them the livelihood comes from the church and in the case of me and Al we are both elderly but we do what we do without pay, we don't do it, yes, we don't have to pay these people, in other words, some do. evangelists and some that you know like Kellet and some of them that you know and they make a living with the brothers, but you and I are not like that, but we do the work of God and we in the congregation grow and whatever. and elevated and they are punished from time to time and something bad happens in the family and the eyes we meet the parents and we try to get them to do the right thing love their neighbor but they are quite them, but the structure comes out of the correct book of facts and even the word shepherd, you know it means you would be there to care for a flock, you know, that's what he told the fusion elders, which I love because you're there to protect as part of it, but you're also there to calm down and help people and pray for people and that's what pastors do.

We have a wide variety of talents in our senior group. I think a guy like John Howard, who's just you know. He's a prayer warrior, he just goes and sits with people and prays, and because he has time to be able to do that, it's a great gift, you know, it's a shepherding skill, you know, it's a b

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They are the best underwear I have. I've had it before and you know it, but it's not something you talk about much. Men don't talk much about their underwear. Women seem to have a little easier time doing it, so for some reason, I don't know. Why, but I bought Jase a pair anyway? He loves them. The parents are still missing, but I think he knows where they are. Your life will change. You know, if your last 25 years here will be better than your first 75 if you use Tommy. John underwear just sayingsir nor of me your prisoner because when you vocalize it there comes the persecution and I will say it's just semantics but I wasn't doing it the camp way, I was doing it the way of Jesus, which is kind of loud and proud wherever he is.

You are, I mean, that's what causes the good and bad stir when you make it public when the four of you leave the building. walls and go out into the world, but goes on to say who Jesus is for the gospel that testifies to what has saved us and called us to a holy life, not because of anything we have done, but because of his own purpose and grace, this grace was given to us in jesus before the beginning of time and has now been revealed through the appearance of our savior christ jesus, who destroyed death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

Well, Jason, you're a nurse. No, Jason is next in line for an old man. He is that age and around 50. Can I continue doing what he says? It's not his thing. Think about it. Well, you'll have to wait. about what it was like, I don't know any of that when I was first asked a long time ago, I know, but you know, it's funny, I like what I do for the kingdom and I like where I am and it's just me. No, I go into these types of organizations and I tend to annoy people, so let me just keep hanging out here with the masses, this is a pretty Jesus, he's a prickly pear that I'll leave us with.

This is what Jay said a minute ago: be there and loud. You know, I think about it. We all love our church and you know it has taught us many good things and we have had an impact there. but let's face it, the almighty gave us the opportunity through a tv show to not be ashamed of the whole world and yesterday when i was talking to peter the australian he said he didn't know much about the show, he knew who we were but he said you know one thing I really love about your family and again, not knowing each other that well, not being a fan, I said what is that, he said you took a stand, you took a stand publicly and that's what we need more of and I thought you know that Of all the things he could have said to me yesterday, that was probably the biggest compliment: he acknowledged that we are not ashamed because that is how we want to live.

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