Best Bible Chapters Draft!

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign. [00:00:09] Speaker B: Welcome in to think you've a podcast presented by Focus Press, co host here Joe Wilkie, joined as always by Jack Wilkie and Will Harrop. And fellas, today we got a fun one. We are taking it pretty light. We've had some, some heavier ones. We got some other ones on the docket that are going to be coming up. I think next week may be for fourth of July. We may do something in that vein. But we really wanted to do something fun. Jack, you came up with this idea. I'm pretty fascinated by it. It's fun in the preparation, just kind of thinking around the favorite Bible chapters. And so as we get into it, explain the rules to people, explain what the draft is. We've had some troubles with that in the past of people going, well, why didn't you just, you know, when we drafted, I think it was Bible characters. Why didn't you just take Moses? Like, he was already taken. He's off the board. It's the way draft works. And so explain the draft, explain the purpose, kind of what gave you the, the inspiration for this as we go to get kicked off? [00:00:59] Speaker A: Yeah, we've done it before. It's a lot of fun. And it just so happens that it's NBA draft week and NHL draft week, so that's kind of has it front of mind for sports fans. But it's also a lot of summer podcasts go to things like this, drafts and things like that where people maybe aren't as engaged as usual. There's a little bit of a lull during the summer, and so you have a little bit of fun with it. And so we're doing great chapters of the Bible and somebody might say, well, they're all inspired, they're all great. Yeah, that's true. But you know a lot more about Genesis 1 than you do about Genesis 34. You know, like that's. So that's kind of the idea behind that. And as Joe said, it's a draft. We ran it through a randomizer. I promise it was random. I ended up with the first pick for sure. But so we'll go 1, 2, 3. But then it's pretty convenient. It's also a snake draft. And so that means we go 1, 2, 3, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3. And so that way Joe doesn't pick last over and over and over. [00:01:55] Speaker C: So, I mean, I'd be fine with that, Jack, if we want to just. [00:01:58] Speaker B: I'm sure you would. [00:02:00] Speaker A: If you're watching along on YouTube, we'll have a visual like the, the Draft board. So you'll see what's going down. But what's that, Joe? [00:02:06] Speaker B: No, I was gonna say I'll be fine with it, but let's randomize one more time with the new rules and [00:02:09] Speaker A: see how it goes. Yeah. And as Joe explained, with a draft again, if you watch the, the basketball draft this week, when a guy gets picked by, you know, whatever team is picking, first of all, overall, he can't be picked again. And so don't come to me and be like, well, why didn't you have Genesis 1 when somebody else had it? Like, that's, that's how that works. We've had non sports fans in our family were baffled by it. And so I was. In fact, I checked it with my wife this week. I said, alison, we're doing a draft again, and you understand how a draft works, right? And she thought, she's like, yeah, that's when you put one against another and then you eliminate one. That's a bracket. That's the other sports thing that we do. So I know we have a lot of non sports fan listeners like my wife and then, you know, the women especially, a lot of times. So the draft is picking one and then it's off the board, it's gone. And so it's. All the chapters of the Bible are in the pool, and we're going to see who can put together the best list of six rounds. [00:03:03] Speaker C: An incredibly fun thought exercise, too, for any of our listeners who, yeah, are listening along and just to just kind of sit back and think, man, what are my favorite six chapters? Because you think about how many books there are. Think about Old Testament, New Testament, you think about the Psalms, think about the Gospels. Like, only getting six is going to be. Going to be tough, but it's a fun exercise here, so looking forward to it, for sure. [00:03:25] Speaker A: All right. And yeah, so six rounds, it's what it's going to be. Obviously, we could go all day long, but that I figure, gives us a couple minutes to talk about each one and move on. [00:03:34] Speaker B: There's so many good ones. [00:03:36] Speaker A: Yes, there are. All right, so I get first pick, which is actually a little bit harder than you might think, narrowing it down with the six or with the number one overall pick. And I should have thought about this a little more because now that I'm looking at it like, oh, boy, I don't know, I'm gonna say Romans 8 is my first overall pick. Romans 8. There are. I mean, honestly, any of the first six chapters of Romans you could pick. I'm gonna go with Romans 8 because starts off, there's a number of memorable verses. You have no condemnation and Jesus is where it starts. You have all things work together for good in 8, 28. What's going to separate us from the love of God? At the end of it, you've got the discussion of the spirit and the flesh. We're groaning and longing for the revealing of the sons of God. Man, there's a lot of good stuff in there. So what do you guys have to say about this chapter? [00:04:27] Speaker B: Honestly, you could have put the entirety of Romans. I had others on my board that I was going to think about. Romans 8. I have another Romans one that I'm hoping you don't take. I don't imagine you'll take two Romans, but it's tough to beat this one when you're looking at it because as you said, just the progression of, you know, how to walk by the spirit and the flesh. And then obviously the whole point about the 26 and falling with the spirit and then separating us from love, that's tough to beat because there are three or four different themes in that chapter. It really encompasses quite a bit the spoiler alert. [00:05:02] Speaker C: My next pick, my first pick is going to be a Romans chapter. Hopefully it's the one that Joe wants. But Jack, I had Romans 8 kind of written down on the side on my list, but it wasn't my number one. And the reason for it is because maybe there shouldn't be a reason, but that one section that is just so hard to explain for us guys who are not Calvinists. You know, that difficulty about predestined part. The predestined part, God foreknowing. Still, it makes for fascinating discussion and it's very interesting. But. Yeah, that's why that one didn't quite hit the number one spot for me. When you. I think you taught this particular section, actually, when we did the Romans class, I thought you did a really good job, but, man, it is. It is tough when it. When you're trying to explain how it doesn't. We don't believe it says basically exactly what it says with the. The predestined part. So. [00:05:53] Speaker B: Yeah, well, you're part of the earth groaning, right? [00:05:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:05:56] Speaker B: In the world. [00:05:57] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:05:57] Speaker B: What in the world's he talking about there? A little intrigue and I think you covered it well. Was it. Will, did you cover that part or Jack, did you do the groaning? [00:06:06] Speaker A: I feel like I did, yeah. Focus plus, go check it out. [00:06:08] Speaker B: Yeah, I was gonna say focus plus, go check out our class in Romans, we got a ton of other classes for our understudied. Romans isn't understudied, but it's just a fun book to study. So we did it anyway. [00:06:16] Speaker A: But okay, so it's Will's pick. He's gonna pick in Romans. He says, joe, I want you and I to guess. Which one do you think he's gonna take? [00:06:24] Speaker B: I think he's gonna take Romans 5. [00:06:27] Speaker A: 5, 3. I'm gonna say 3. [00:06:32] Speaker C: That's correct. Romans 3 is, is my pick. I actually debated between Romans 1 and Romans 3 to Joe's point. Those first 11 verses of Romans 5 are just excellent. But man, that 12 through 21 section, there's. There, it's. It's loaded. There's some tough. Yeah, not too tough, but it's. It's not the most. It's not the most easy to, to read and digest. It's theologically rich. But Romans 3, for the very simple reason, and I think I said this probably ad nauseam when I taught this. I think I taught this section. I think 21, Romans 3, 21, 26 is the most powerful. What is that six verse stretch in the entire New Testament where, you know, because Paul has built up. And the reason I ultimately didn't go with Romans 1, which is just an excellent chapter, is because if you're just taking that chapter by itself, that ends pretty sadly. He's talking about all those who rejected God, all those behaviors. They did not retain God in their knowledge. God gave them over. So excellent chapter. But then you have Romans 3, where he's built up Gentiles, you know, you are completely guilty of sin. Romans 2, Jews, you are completely guilty of sin. And then Romans 3 talking about, you know, all of sin. And then the fact that we're justified freely. God sent forth his Son's propitiation that he might be just. And the justifier ties it all together to Christ. And the fact that we have the hope that we do is just, just so powerful. And the way that Paul builds again through Romans 1, Romans 2, 2. And I know the book doesn't end there, but like, kind of like a culmination there in that Romans 3, 21, 26 section of. Yeah, but you're justified because of what? Christ. Because of Christ. The propitiation is just incredible, just powerful. So, yeah, I wanted to obviously have a Romans chapter. I thought Jack might take Romans 3, so I wanted to get that one off the board. So that is my number one pick. [00:08:28] Speaker B: That's a great one, Jack. You're muted, [00:08:32] Speaker A: Joe, which one Romans 3 or Romans 8? Which one had the better pick there? [00:08:37] Speaker B: Don't do that to me. Romans 8. Because of the variation, I think. Go Romans 8. But on the other hand, Romans 3 [00:08:46] Speaker A: is a great pick. [00:08:46] Speaker B: Romans. Well, Romans 3 has the most well known verse in Romans. And so, you know, you got that too. So, yeah, in 3, 23. Lots of man. That probably won't be the last time we're hearing from Romans. Spoiler alert. But not with my three and four pick. So I was gonna say. [00:09:01] Speaker C: So Joe gets two back to back here. [00:09:02] Speaker B: Yes, I do. Yes, I do. First one's gonna be Genesis 1. [00:09:07] Speaker C: Shocker. [00:09:07] Speaker B: Of course you have to. No, it should be Genesis 2 for me. Yeah, but Genesis 1, how could you not? The beginning of all things. You got the creation account. There's so many elements of Genesis 1. I like the fact that. Excuse me. As it's going through, you know, he gives in 126, and following, he gives the. The purpose of mankind. Why are we here? You know, you go all the way back to the beginning. Be fruitful, multiply, you know, and fix the earth and subdue the earth. And so I don't think that's changed for us today. We've spoken on this a ton. I've preached on this. I've gone on bazillion soapboxes on this on the podcast. And so I know everybody's probably sick of me talking about Genesis 1:3. Jack, I think you have a. You just said today or this week that you have a book in the works regarding this. Correct. Genesis 1, 2, 3. Is that. What's the name of the book that's coming out? [00:09:57] Speaker A: I don't have a name yet. I'm very bad at naming things. [00:10:00] Speaker B: I saw the Eden. Eden Things. I thought. [00:10:03] Speaker A: I think the article was Eden has the Answers or something like that. [00:10:07] Speaker C: Shout out to Marco Royo, who commented, basically you put in your post like, hey, I'm really bad at names, so, you know, or something like that. And he just basically copied and pasted that and said, here's your title. And he was bad at names, too. [00:10:18] Speaker A: It was quite fun. Shout out, Mark. [00:10:20] Speaker B: Yeah, I was wonder if that was so. But no, I mean, it's. It's because this is. It unlocks so much. If we could go back to the perfection of the garden, I think ultimately we will get back to the perfection of the garden. Walking with God, you know, reigning with Christ. I think that's the. The end of all things. And so when you start here, how could you not have? I Wanted some chapter in Genesis 1, 2, or 3. And thank you guys for picking Romans first. So Genesis 1, to me seems like a fairly obvious pick for number one. [00:10:48] Speaker A: Yeah, I think it's a really good call. I mean, made in his image. And that's. I started in on the first chapter of the book just yesterday, and it was exactly this. Of like, there are two options for how did all of this come to be, and it's by accident or on purpose. And that just changes everything. I mean, like, that if it's on purpose by a God who put us here. And then you get to. Not just that he did it, but why he did it at the end of making man in his image and to rule over it and be fruitful and multiply and fill it and subdue it and all that. Like that answers. Everything that philosophers have tried to do for thousands of years is answered in Genesis 1. [00:11:25] Speaker C: Well, and is there a single chapter in the entire Bible where there are like. Where more things take place like in this one? I don't know. The entire world gets created. I think that takes the cake for most eventful chapter. Most things that happen in one chapter, like the entire world and mankind is created. So, yeah, it's a great pick. I'll save my thoughts. I might have a gen. I haven't fully decided. It's going to depend on how the draft, how the rest of the board goes. But I. I have a Genesis one on my list, so I. I'll hold the rest of my thoughts. [00:11:57] Speaker A: Genesis 1 was Joe's first pick, and it was good. [00:12:01] Speaker B: Goodness. [00:12:02] Speaker C: I. Some would say it was very good. [00:12:03] Speaker B: It was very. [00:12:03] Speaker A: Yeah, we'll leave that up to the listeners. [00:12:07] Speaker B: But it's not good for the pick to be alone. So I'm gonna pick number two, which is. [00:12:11] Speaker A: That's chapter two, though, so. Wrong reference. [00:12:15] Speaker B: Yeah, wrong chapter. Sorry. [00:12:18] Speaker C: It's not going to take him long to mess it up. Just like for. [00:12:20] Speaker A: Yeah, [00:12:23] Speaker B: I'm going to go. Matthew 26. [00:12:25] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah. [00:12:26] Speaker B: Matthew 26. No, it is not the crucifixion. That's Matthew 27. But Matthew 26 is 70. Hold on, I just had it. [00:12:34] Speaker C: I was gonna say, you get a lot of verses in that. Yeah. [00:12:36] Speaker B: You get so much in Matthew 26, which covers upper. Exactly. It's kind of like the Romans 8, where there's just, you know, it's a. It's plot. Kill Jesus. Of course, he's anointed with the. Yeah. And then you got Judas bargain, the. The Lord's Supper, the last Passover, and Lord's Supper instituted the Garden of Gethsemane where he's praying his betrayal and arrest. And then he goes before Caiaphas and then Peter's denials. And so it's 75 verses and you just have so much jam packed of kind of the beginning of the end of his life and institute and Lord's Supper. So you're seeing some of those things. It's really tough not to put John because John covers that lord's supper in 13 through 17. Right. And I was thinking John 15, one of you may have it on the list. You know, John 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. You could have done any of this. [00:13:24] Speaker C: They're all spread out. Like, there's not one that just sticks out in that stretch. [00:13:28] Speaker B: You just can't. Yeah, if I could pick five at a time, you know, I'd probably go with that. But Matthew 26 is the. I debated whether to do Matthew 27, but you got Judas remorse. I'm just looking at the headings here. You know, Jesus before Pilate, he's mocked. And then the crucifixion, obviously that's incredibly powerful. And seeing the crucifixion. But on the other hand, I don't know. Again, kind of the value pick. 75 verses, jam packed full of some of the most Peter's denials, things like that. I mean, we're talking. Some of the biggest moments in Jesus life take place in Matthew 26. [00:13:58] Speaker C: And I've always loved Matthew's rendition of the crucifixion account. Matthew just seems like he adds more. Like it's more exhaustive as far from a detail perspective, which I like. So, yeah, I think this is a great pick. [00:14:10] Speaker B: I was looking up Luke 22, 23. Right. Again, great chapters. Not denigrating Luke, Matthew just. There's a difference there in how he explains things, how he goes about it. Obviously, the purpose of the writing is a little bit different toward the. Toward the Jews. And so I think there's a little bit of a richer context for that and the high priest and things like that. So I don't know. Jack, what are your thoughts? [00:14:30] Speaker A: Well, yeah, just narratively it's. You can feel it coming and developing and building and man, even reading through it now, it's one of those, like, where you've seen the movie before, but you kind of hope it ends differently and you're just reading it like. And again, you just feel it pulling towards where it's ultimately heading on the cross. And it just gets sadder and sadder and sadder. And then like you said, it ends in Peter's denial and, you know, he's in the trial and all of that. And it's just. It's awful. I mean, like, it is, it is completely heart wrenching and so literarily even there's a punch to it that is just unbelievable. And as you say, as it's a long chapter and so, you know, you. It just keeps marching forward toward the cross. They. They start off plotting to kill Jesus at the start. You know, he's anointed Lord's Supper, and everything that happens, it just gets a little worse, a little closer. Then the garden, then the, the arrest, then the, the trial, then Peter, like all hope is sucked out of the room by the end of it. And, man, that just really packs a punch. [00:15:34] Speaker B: Yep. Tough not to put 28 with the resurrection on there, but. [00:15:37] Speaker A: Yeah, great commission as well, so. [00:15:39] Speaker B: Great commission. Yeah. [00:15:40] Speaker A: But Will, what you got for round two? [00:15:42] Speaker C: So I'm thrilled this, this one is on, still on the board. I feel like this one, when we did the Bible book draft, which was a year and a half, maybe two years ago now, at this point, that one, we were. I feel like we were sniping each other's picks, probably a whole lot more, but, man, there's so much variety in the chapters that we might not. We might all have different tastes. So where we're not taking each other's [00:16:01] Speaker A: like, what, a thousand of them or something? [00:16:02] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. But my second pick, hands down, is [00:16:05] Speaker A: Matthew 5 on my list. Yeah. [00:16:09] Speaker C: Talk about a value pick. So we've got 48 verses. It's obviously the opening to the Sermon on the Mount. So you get Beatitudes to start. You get the you are the light of the world, salt of the earth section. And then you get him talking about how he came to fulfill or complete the law. And then he goes into, what is it? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 different. You have heard it said this, but I say to you this, I love this chapter. I absolutely love this chapter. Obviously you get the, you know, committing murder in your heart, many adultery in your heart. You get turning. Yeah, Turning into cheat. Going the second mile. One of the marriage section or one of the marriage passages about divorce. You get to love your enemies. There's a ton here. I was looking. I wanted a Sermon on the Mount chapter because I love Matthew 5 through 7, Matthew 6. Another great candidate, but it's just not quite as long. Same with Matthew 7 and then Matthew 5, getting the Beatitudes and getting all 48 verses there made that a runaway picker. I thought Joe might have this one, so I'm very glad it was on my list on the board. I Love love Matthew 5. [00:17:13] Speaker B: It came down between Matthew 5 and Matthew 26 and I thought getting some of the crucifixion side heading toward that would be good. I really like Matthew 7. This is the difficulty is Matthew 5 I think is the right pick from if you're going to take from that sounds horrible to say take from the [00:17:28] Speaker A: stone on the mount of the biggest Once again. Yeah, correct. [00:17:33] Speaker B: Matthew 7 with the golden rule, the narrow and wide gate, the tree and its fruit, the two foundations, wise men, [00:17:38] Speaker C: wise and foolish man building on the [00:17:39] Speaker A: rock and do not judge, obviously, that's [00:17:42] Speaker B: why and do not judge. That's why I didn't take Matthew 5 is because it's like same thing as John. If I took John 15 like man, but that whole section, I want all of it and I want all three. I think you're right to take Matthew 5. I'm partial to Matthew 7. That's why I didn't take it. But man, what a chapter. And you're right. I mean the he's not rewriting the law. He's clarifying and explaining the purpose of the law in a way that only he could as the Son of God. And to me that's a that's why he's speaking as one. Having authority is like he's not just going over the same things like, hey, this is why it was originally intended or what it was originally intended, why it was originally put down the way it was. And it's mind blowing. So even secular people, when they think of Christ and they think about his good teachings, go back to the Sermon on the Mount and say that this is different. Like Buddha and Confucius and things like that. They put them up there for Matthew 5. So a good pick. [00:18:34] Speaker A: Some stories make you laugh, some bring tears, and some stay with you forever. Ink by the Barrel by Joe May is a powerful collection of true stories from small town Arkansas. Stories of faith, heartbreak, healing and the kind of humor only real life can write. 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The meek shall inherit the earth, you know, is one that you'll hear out there in the world. And so, yeah, it's. [00:19:41] Speaker C: It's. [00:19:42] Speaker A: It's a good pick. We all had it pretty high on our board and Will got to it. But I am going to run to the stage for my next pick because I am so thrilled you guys don't have either of these. Go with Psalm 23 for my first pick. [00:19:51] Speaker B: That's my next pick. [00:19:53] Speaker A: Well, yeah, that's the. Didn't get it. But Psalm 23, it is what it is. It's short, but it says it all. That depicting him as a shepherd, and the care and the need that we have, that. That depicts. And the providence that he gives, the quiet waters and the still green pastures and the valley of the shadow of death. I mean, just everything. And just wherever you are in your life, you can look at it and go, okay, here's how he's shepherding me right now. And it's. Yeah, I mean, it's. It's the ultimate comfort Psalm. It's the ultimate. It's the reason why it's read at funerals. It's the reason why, again, this is one that non Christians know is just. It tells you who God is as clear as any chapter in the whole Bible. [00:20:43] Speaker B: I'm looking at my notes. [00:20:44] Speaker C: I was. I know Jack is big on Psalms, so I was curious. He might have two. I don't want to predict. I would imagine that's one psalm I might. [00:20:52] Speaker A: We'll see. I end up with. Okay, I might come back around this one. [00:20:56] Speaker C: I was thinking just now, like, man, what are the top six most popular books or chapters in the Bible? Like, not popular. This one is by. Is definitely on the list. [00:21:05] Speaker B: It might be number one. I mean, at funerals. [00:21:07] Speaker A: Honestly. Yeah. Yeah. [00:21:09] Speaker B: I mean, just everywhere, you're gonna hear Lord's my shepherd. You walk into Mardell or hobby lobby. Psalm 23 is everywhere. Like, you just. This one is so much in the culture and you can see why, because as you said, there's a little bit of everything I had in my. The margin. There's so much you can pull out of it. You know, God provides, pardons, is present, protects, gives peace. You know, five part. Like, there's so many sermons you can build just out of six verses, like you said, packs a theological punch. There's a comforting element to it, recognizing the way God really fights for his people, talking about his loving kindness again as a key throughout the entire book of psalms. So Psalm 23 is tough to beat. This was going to be the next one on my list, so I'm going to have to come up with a number three as it snakes back around toward me, but really tough to beat this one of all the psalms. I don't know, this probably won't be the last time we're hearing psalms, but that's good stuff. [00:22:01] Speaker A: I put this out on Facebook, like, hey, we're going to do this. What are your favorite chapters? What would you pick? [00:22:05] Speaker C: Mostly I purposely did not read that yet because I wanted to have my own list, but I was hoping this one was pretty common. [00:22:12] Speaker A: I already put together my list before I started looking at theirs. This came up. But one of the things that I would see, and nothing against anybody, but, like, I wanted to make sure not to get too cute with the list, right? Like, you can say, oh, well, you know, picks in, well, like Ezekiel and the Dry bones or whatever. Absolutely wonderful chapter. That's really cool. Psalm 23, though. I mean, like, let's not overthink it here, you know, like, let's. Yeah. Well, the other thing is we're gonna put a crowd vote on this of who had the best list. I gotta win the list. And so, I mean, it's on 23, stuff like that. So what do you say? [00:22:45] Speaker C: Well, yeah, no, I was just thinking, like, from the sports reference, that's, it's like, no, just take the best player available, right? I think it's the famous, famous story of the Bulls where I think they were picking three, right? And Georgia drafted third, and they really needed a center. That was their gm or whoever it was, was like, you know, draft Jordan, just play him at center, because we just need the best player. But it's interesting that you say that. Sorry, I know we got to move on. I don't. I. I hope everybody votes for my list here, but I'm kind of just picking my favorites. Like, if you don't like my list, that's fine. [00:23:16] Speaker A: It's a little bit of that, because I If I were purely doing that, I would have started with Psalm 23. If I was just playing to the crowd. But you know. [00:23:22] Speaker C: Yeah, exactly. [00:23:23] Speaker A: A little bit of a mix. But you got to throw the crowd pleasers in there. Here. There you go. I'm going to do another one of those here and pick two. Two, which is Isaiah 53. [00:23:31] Speaker C: Isaiah 53. Yeah. [00:23:33] Speaker A: So classic. [00:23:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:23:35] Speaker C: So you are double Old Testament so far. Like two out of three are Old Testament. [00:23:39] Speaker A: Are we shocked Jack's gonna take on the Old Testament? [00:23:41] Speaker C: I figured I would have some New Testament availability based on Yalls love for the Old Testament. [00:23:46] Speaker A: Well, it. It's kind of funny like the New Testament, so much happens that it's very hard to isolate a chapter like we saw in Romans. Like you, it's. They all interconnect so well. Whereas the Old Testament, the standalone chapter works better sometimes. And obviously the psalms are individual standalone. So that's 150 standalone kind of things. But you know, Isaiah 53, of course, the Suffering Servant, A fantastic Lord supper text. You hear it a lot of times. It's another, as we've talked about with Matthew 26. It's just heartbreaking. You know, it's. And it's. When you read the Lord, he caused the iniquity of all of us to fall on him. How does that not just break you up? You know, like, wow, that's. [00:24:30] Speaker C: There's a really beautiful words in all of scripture. Like the. The section where he's talking about we were bruised or he was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him. By his stripes we are healed. That's some of the. Again, to me, most beautiful sections of literature and prophecy and in the entire Bible in all of history, really. So, yeah, this is. This was on my list. I didn't know how early it would go off the board. [00:24:57] Speaker A: But this is a. [00:24:58] Speaker C: This is a great pick. Just to give my brother a hard time real fast. Reese, the one thing I. The one thing I did see when I was scrolling Facebook, where it just shows you like one comment Reese put on there an underrated pick. Isaiah 53, like. [00:25:09] Speaker A: Right. [00:25:10] Speaker C: That's not underrated. [00:25:11] Speaker A: No, that's not at all underrated. Got a little. Yeah. A little bit of a. Under the radar, you know. What is it? The sleeper, they call it, you know. No, it's not. No. [00:25:26] Speaker C: So any thoughts, Joe, before I go to mine? [00:25:28] Speaker B: No, that's. It's so. So dense, so deep. Because the only thing that I would add that makes this a really good study. It's not just something to read at the Lord's Supper. You know, when you're reading verse 10, the Lord was pleased to crush him, putting him to grief. You understand a little more of God's holiness. You understand the sense of justice. You understand God to a greater extent that we're talking about his Son that he is pleased to crush based off of the sin that he is bearing. So you understand the weight of sin. You understand? Yes, obviously it put Jesus on the cross, but, like, God was pleased to do it. That hits really, really heavy. And so, yeah, there's a lot that you could pull out of this. There's great outlines all the way throughout, great sermons that you can preach from this. [00:26:11] Speaker A: So one other thing I was going to say is, I mean, throughout Isai, he's been building up the one who's coming. You know, the, the government will rest on his shoulders. Prince of Peace. Wonderful counselor. And the, the branch that, you know, comes up out of Jesse and all that. And like, all right, the, the guy is coming. The guy is going to be here, and, oh, by the way, he's going to be slaughtered for us. [00:26:29] Speaker B: Like, he's gonna be rejected. [00:26:30] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Whoa. That's. That's a bit of a plot twist, you know, that's. And that's like, when you see in the Gospels, they, they just didn't get it. They got all of the first part, but they had not connected this. And it really sits hard. So. All right, so that's my third will. What do you got? [00:26:44] Speaker C: I have such a conundrum in front of me because I, I. There's a. There's a chapter that I want that I do not think is going to be here when this comes back around. I'm not going to reveal it at all because, yeah, don't take my name. The chapter that I'm going to choose is one that I has to be on my list. And I have not gone Old Testament yet. And so here it is. Deuteronomy 6 is on my list. [00:27:07] Speaker B: Great one. [00:27:09] Speaker C: Deuteronomy 6 is such a great chapter. Everybody knows it for the first half, which is obviously the Shema. Teach them diligently to your children, love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. But the back half of Deuteronomy 6 is also just excellent, because what you see is, you see, you know, God, you know, through Moses, you know, commanding him to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength to teach it to your children, which by Itself is just again, one of the best four or five verse stretches in the whole Bible. But then 10 through 25 is basically Moses warning the Israelites again, you know, cautioning them against, hey, this is what's going to happen if you guys disobey. If you guys turn away from God he talks about, you're going to. You're going to have houses full of good things that you did not fill, things that God is going to give you that you didn't really work for. Beware lest you forget God, you should not go after other gods. And I love Starting in verse 20, when your son asked you in time to come saying, what is the meaning of the testimonies of the statutes and the judgments? The Lord our God has commanded you. Then you shall say to your son, we were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt. And as he continues, it goes on, verse 23. Then he brought us out from there that he might bring us in to give us the land of which he swore to our fathers. [00:28:24] Speaker B: Just. [00:28:24] Speaker C: I love the picture there of. Yet pass this on to your children. When your children, when your sons ask you, hey, what does all this mean? Tell us about what God did for you. Here's the answer. And so it's an awesome again section. Just. Even if it was just the Shema, the love, Lord your God, with all your heart. So my strength, Jesus refers back to that multiple times. But when you add in that back half of beware lest you forget, which obviously they end up doing, they do end up turning away from God. They do end up getting spoiled by the riches of Canaan. Yeah, it's a great chapter. So this one was for sure on my list. [00:29:01] Speaker B: Yeah, the generational element. We're big on multi generational faithfulness. Right. As you pass it down through the generations. You see this in just in verse two of chapter six that you, your son, your grandson, might fear the Lord. Talking about the fathers before this. So you got four generations that are presented in this chapter alone, showing God was not intended to be a generation by generation. You know, one at a time. This was to go all the way down. And he gives the perfect understanding of how to do this, which is, it's got to be your life, it's got to be your everything. [00:29:30] Speaker C: When you're sitting, when you're walking. [00:29:32] Speaker B: Correct. There's a homeschool passage, I think, where, man, it's really tough to Send your kids 8 hours a day to someplace else that's going to actively go against all of these teachings. And so there's a little bit of that, we hit that quite a bit. We hit the multigenerational faithfulness quite a bit. [00:29:44] Speaker C: That's what I was going to say, Joe, is that if there's one chapter that hits multi generational faithfulness the best, I think it's this one. [00:29:50] Speaker B: Yeah. So a lot of our pet pet things, you know, that we are going to bring up a bunch of. We run back to Deuteronomy 6. Didn't we do a full episode on this while back? Yeah, it feels like we did, but at this point. [00:30:01] Speaker C: Feels like we've done an episode on everything at this point. [00:30:03] Speaker B: I was gonna say at this point. That's fine. But, Jack, how about you? [00:30:08] Speaker A: Yeah, I've had a lesson on this for years and years and years and about the generational faithfulness. And you can't give your kids what you don't have. You can't, you know, leave them a billion dollars. If you don't have a billion dollars. If you don't love the Lord with all your heart. And if you're not practicing these things, as he says in the time to come, when your kids see you do this and they ask, why do we do this? Well, if you're not practicing your faith, they're not going to ask that question. And so this is setting yourself up for success generationally. And I know we have this individualistic mindset of Christians, like, well, we just go and baptize people. And whether that's our own kids or outsiders, it doesn't matter. The church, the generations of the church are the new converts. It can be both. It needs to be both. Do you not want your kids to follow in your footsteps? You don't want your kids to be in heaven. And so, yeah, Deuteronomy 6 really gives the blueprint. And, man, we would do so much better if we focused on it a lot more. [00:30:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:59] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:31:00] Speaker B: Great pick. All right, this is where it's gonna have to deviate, because this is not necessarily my favorite chapter. I mean, I love the chapter. [00:31:09] Speaker C: Are you going crowd pleasing here? [00:31:10] Speaker B: I'm going crowd pleasing. Hebrews 11. Yeah, I know it's underrated. I know it's underrated. [00:31:17] Speaker C: I didn't see this one coming. [00:31:18] Speaker B: Yeah. Hall of Faith. How could you not? The idea of them. I was just talking to somebody about this. I can't remember the context why I was bringing this up, but the context of not yet. You know, they're looking for something. They're longing for something. They weren't there yet, and for us to get to, you know, and that's his whole point is it's realized in Christ everything that Abraham was looking for, the country, you know, that. That he was going toward. And the things that Joseph, Moses, all those that are spoken of, the things that they're looking toward, they didn't yet get to see. We do, we have Christ. And to me, that's a. That's one of the most powerful. And then obviously chapter 12 is fantastic. Running that race, you know, and with setting or fixing our eyes on Jesus, author and perfecter of faith. So it's. I love that those come back to back. Obviously we can only pick one of them. And so for the hall of faith, to me, it's just one of those, like, how could you not. It sums up so much of the Old Testament, but it also gives the purpose for why did they go through these things without ever seeing it? Because they had faith. And we can have the same faith, but ours is more realized than them because we do get to see the entire picture. And I think it's in reference to a certain degree of what Paul talks about with the mystery throughout some of his books. And the mystery of, like man, it's revealed to us. We get to see what they did not get to see as God is bringing everything together. So it's just a great chapter. [00:32:36] Speaker C: Yeah, I don't have a lot to add. It was on my list, wrote it down was probably going to be towards the back of my draft if I did hit it. So Joe clearly valued it higher than I did. No, but it's a great chapter. The. I think it's fascinating to see all the examples of the people that are named, you know, because the, the writer of Hebrews could have, you know, there's probably a dozen other people that he could have named Rahab. Making the list, of course, has always been very interesting. Bayrak, I think, is mentioned in Hebrews 11. [00:33:05] Speaker B: It's very interesting. [00:33:06] Speaker C: Fascinating stuff. It's a great chapter. [00:33:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:33:09] Speaker A: I mean, as you said, there's not. Not really much more could be said. It's known for a reason. I've always been a big fan of Hebrews 11. Six, that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him. That, you know, you really just get a sense of faith is. Keep going, keep going. As I've been saying for, you know, recently, Christianity is an acquired taste. Like, you got to trust God, do it his way and trust that it's going to pay off. Trust that you're going to acquire the taste, you're going to enjoy it. It's going to go better for you. And that verse really illustrates that. [00:33:39] Speaker B: And, and faith is defined in 11:1, right? Insurance things, hope for conviction of things not seen. So between 11:1 and 11:6, you know, two of the bigger verses that people know. And so my. Number two or number four? Number four, yeah, number four. But number two on the back end is we snake back around this. I'm with Will. It's one of those like I'm vacillating between two that I think one of these I don't think you guys will get. But on the other hand, I'm gonna go with Ephesians 1. [00:34:10] Speaker A: I kind of thought you might. I'm. [00:34:13] Speaker B: This is one of those just for me, man. I love Ephesians, the entire book. Once again, it's same as, as sermon on the mount. Same as all these like, I like [00:34:23] Speaker C: the first 14 verses of Ephesians are just chock full of theological. [00:34:29] Speaker B: You know, you could preach on it for, for a year and there's a warm and fuzzy element. There's so many cool things in here, you know, for instance, like when he talks about. What you'll know is, is the. As it says in 1:18 prayer, the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so that you'll know what is the hope of his calling. The riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints. I mean, it seems to indicate there that with his inheritance, I want Jesus inheritance. The saints are his inheritance. He gets us at the end. We are what God gets or what Jesus gets. And he did it for that, you know, he did it for God's glory, obviously. But he loves us, he desires us, we are his inheritance. Because it's like man, what does he get after all this? He comes down, he loves us, obviously. God gets the glory, God the Father. And we see that in Philippians 2. And that's great. But what does Jesus get out of all this? And the answer is he gets you. You know, that's so powerful. And as you said, the first 14 verses getting into the pledge in verse 14 with the Spirit go into the. What it means to be predestined by him. Not in a Calvinist way, but man, this goes back to the very beginning. He had this planned out. And so yeah, there's. I think of it from a sermon point of view on a lot of these, of man that'll preach like this one to me. You could spend a long time in this. As it lays out now I also had on my list and you guys might take one of these I mean, Ephesians 4 stuck because as it starts getting. Or is a great one, tough not to take that as it starts getting more into the practical and the, the walk in a worthy manner. And there's so many things in the church and how it's put together. But Ephesians one, to me just. It's tough not to take that one. [00:35:58] Speaker C: All the, all the spiritual blessings in him is repeated, what is it, seven times or something? I have it underlined. Might be more than that. But like in him we have redemption, verse 7. In him we have obtained an inheritance, verse 11. In him you trusted like. Yeah, great, great start. I think it's one of my favorite starts to one of Paul's letters where he doesn't jump into the Galatians. I can't believe you're turning to a different gospel. It's praise, it's praise of Christ. And then the prayer in the back half of the chapter of I'm praying for this, for you. That the eyes of your understanding. You already hit that, Joe. So yeah, this is a great pick as well. [00:36:36] Speaker A: It's crazy. I was looking at. It's 23 verses, but you can take off the first two that are greetings. So really, 21 verses, pound for pound, that is the most loaded chapter in all of Paul's writing. I think I was looking at it as well. I think it's probably the single most marked page in my Bible just because of how much there is in there. You're underlining all the in hims, you're connecting the Greek words, what he's done for us. I mean it just, it's one thing after another. Paul's prayer in there, just a beautiful prayer of what he wants them to know. And I mean, it's one of those. You could spend a month of Bible classes on that chapter alone and still have stuff there to get to. [00:37:17] Speaker B: So it's so good. [00:37:18] Speaker C: Yeah. Well, on that note, I have an Ephesians chapter as my next pick as well. I was incredibly torn as well between four and five. Five obviously is going to be the more well known section because of the awesome section on marriage. I think it gets mistaught a lot personally, but from a practical standpoint. But it's nonetheless, it is an incredible section. With that said, I think I have to go 4. [00:37:48] Speaker A: Good choice. [00:37:49] Speaker C: I think I gotta go Ephesians 4 there. If I was going crowd pleaser, I feel like people know five a little bit better. I'm just not going the crowd pleasing route here. I love chapter four. Every Single section is. Is incredible. So you've got the start of the first six verses. You got the seven ones. And I think the best section, best verse in that section is verse three. Endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit and the bond of peace. Basically saying, hey, unity is the goal here. Unity is the goal bearing with one another in love at the end of verse two. Like, that's what you need to work towards. You've got the spiritual gifts he gave himself. He himself gave some to be apostles, prophets, evangelists, verse 11, pastors and teachers. And then 12 through 16, 11, 16, that entire one sentence from Paul, you could once again spend weeks in that section. You've got the new man, what it take, or, you know, the plea to become a new man. And then you've got what that. How that's manifested in verses 25 through 32. Putting away lying, be angry and do not sin, Letting who stole, steal no longer. Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth. Like he. [00:38:53] Speaker A: He doesn't. [00:38:53] Speaker C: I always love that. Paul doesn't just stop with, all right, you get, you know, be a new man. You know, put on the new man. All right, let's keep going. No, he's like, here, here's exactly how you do it. And of course, that continues into chapter five with walking in love, walking in the light. You know, husbands, wives. So, yeah, I was really torn. I actually thought Joe was going to have Ephesians 5. I knew he'd have an Ephesians chapter, but I'm gonna. I'm gonna go with chapter four. [00:39:16] Speaker A: It's. There's more memorable in there than. Than you think when you start looking at it. Like you said, there's the seven ones and the. Whatever joint supplies, like people can quote. If you can't quote the whole phrase, you can, or the whole verse. You can quote those phrases and kind to one other. Tenderhearted, angry, and do not sin. There's just a lot of things that Christians, even if you don't know that it comes from this chapter, it does. And so it is one of those loaded ones, as you said. [00:39:40] Speaker B: There's so much to break down. The church, speak the truth in love. We were to grow up in all aspects in him who's the head, Even Christ in verse 15, from whom the whole body being fitted and held by whatever joint supplies. Now, that's not the only place Paul talks about the, you know, being a body. It's one of the bigger ones. And everybody being given spiritual gifts of some kind. You know, there's just like, you Said the put on the new man. Lay aside being put on and what that looks like. It's practical. It is. You know, as he shifts into and talks about walking. If you were looking at how do I become in like I've come into Christ, what should I do as a new Christian? Would you not have them read Ephesians 4? Read this. This is what it looks like. Be unified. Understand the seven ones you know, be pursuing your spiritual gift. Love the brethren because it's the body of Christ. Lay aside all the filth and put on the new man. And here's what it looks like, as you said, 25 and following. So it for every new Christian. If you just read them Ephesians 4 and 5 and 6, obviously, but specifically Ephesians 4, I think that's the, the, you know, it's so rich. So good pick. Good pick. [00:40:44] Speaker A: Hey guys, Jack Wilke here. If you enjoy our work with podcasts like Think Deeper and Godly Young Men and our books, articles, seminars and want to support the work that we do, the best way to do so is to go to focuspress.org donate that's focuspress.org donate thanks again for listening. All right, I'm going to do a one for them, one for me kind of thing. We're going to start with First Corinthians 13 again. Another one of those guys got three [00:41:13] Speaker C: crowd pleasers in a row. He is gunning for this title. [00:41:15] Speaker B: I mean, [00:41:19] Speaker A: I Googled favorite chapters. ChatGPT baby. No, I mean, obviously there's a reason it's great what love is, but it's also the start of it, of speaking the truth, like not being that clanging symbol, right? That you have to have love in all that you do. That's a really good reminder that gets lost in this does become cliched. People who are not Christian at all will read this at their wedding. Love is patient, love is kind. And that's great. Don't let it become cliche because it's really powerful. But don't miss the first part and then the end where he talks about the perfect coming and just kind of that maturity that's yet to come. And so that we know in part, we prophesy in part, but the perfect is going to come. And the part about being when I was a child, thinking like a child, speaking like a child, but I'm going to do away with the childish things. There's a lot in this short little chapter, just 13 verses in chapter 13 that it's not just the wedding verses, even though that's That's. It would be great even if it was. [00:42:19] Speaker B: I feel like we're taking the. The value picks that, you know, the big chapters with the bazillion, like Matthew 26. And Jack's like, just give me the short ones that are the pack of [00:42:26] Speaker A: short to the point. Yeah, that's right. Which is kind of funny because you guys both preach longer than I do, so [00:42:33] Speaker B: that's about right. [00:42:34] Speaker A: You're the 30, 35, I'm the 23, 25. I mean, it just is what it is, so. [00:42:38] Speaker B: Oh, there you go. You know, the. The suffering servant 53, Isaiah 53, and then you know the chapter on love, man, it is tough to beat. Like, if you're going to go anywhere on love, let's define love. What does it look like? Not going to say what is love? Because I want to start getting the song, but oh, boy, you know, if you're going to start thinking about love in general, you're going to go here. And love is the key theme. God is love. And so it is a crowd pleaser. Yes, but it's also the theme of the Bible. Or one of the key themes is love. And this might be the central point. And Isaiah 53 too. But, you know, specifically speaking of love, this might be the central point for that. [00:43:13] Speaker A: So. [00:43:14] Speaker B: Yeah, tough to beat this one. [00:43:17] Speaker C: All right, Jack, what's your second one? [00:43:19] Speaker A: All right, this is hard. I've got. I've got one I really want to get, but I feel like, ah, man, I've got two picks left and I've got three chapters I really want, so I'm gonna have to pick one of them. I'm gonna start this one with Psalm 51. [00:43:38] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:43:39] Speaker A: That I picked Psalm 23 first to be the crowd pleaser. I think Psalm 51 is probably the better. Like, not the better, but like the one that speaks more. Just the. The repentance, the. [00:43:51] Speaker C: The David after Bathsheba song. [00:43:54] Speaker A: David after Bathsheba, the repentance Psalm. Right. Yeah. And of course, unfortunately, people do that. I was in sin, my mother conceived me. And so it gets proof texted for the wrong things for that. But everything that he leads to, but that it's so crushed to begin with. But he comes out of it hopeful. He comes out of it looking to God. And the idea, this is one of the most important themes in all of Scriptures where he says, you know, it's not about the sacrifice. That's not what you're looking for. It's the broken and contrite heart. But then I will Offer the sacrifice once I've offered you that. Well, what did Jesus say over and over? Like, it's not about these external things, you know, like these people honor me with their lips, their hearts are far from me and I desire mercy and not sacrifice and all that. And he tells the Pharisees, you know, you were worried about your tithes and all those things and neglected the bigger things. You should have done both. And I think sometimes people go and they lose that balance and think, oh yeah, I don't have to do the religious, you know, rituals. It's just about my heart. And here David's like, I'll get my heart right and then I'll do the rituals. And I think we can learn a lot from that as well. [00:44:59] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, Psalm 51 is a, is a great pick. I had that written down as an option. I wrote down like 30 because I didn't know how many rounds we were doing when we sat down this morning. But yeah, I love, I love that we get such an insight into David's contrition. We see obviously in the, I think it's first or second Samuel 12, right, where Nathan comes to him, tells him the parable. We, we see David's contrite heart, we see him be sorry, but man, this chapter really gives us an inside view into just how contrite he was, just how sorrowful he was about his sin. The create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Just an all time verse. And I think the way he pours his heart out to God, I think it's this to me, if I was looking for evidence other than the exact verse that says it of why was David the man after God's own heart? This right here, the way he, you know, the repentance, the contrition, the way he pursued God in that. So yeah, that's a great pick, Jack. Great pick. [00:45:56] Speaker B: We Talk about Ephesians 4 being the thing you might give new Christians slide across the table. Anybody that's in sin, you know, come out of sin, this is the one. And it's every Christian, you know, we are still sinners, we are still sin. But you look at all the things, you know, they says, be gracious, blot out my transgression. Wash me, cleanse me, purify me, Wash me, make me hear the joy. Hide your face or, yeah, hide your face. My sins blot out my iniquities, created me a new heart. Renew his like over and over and over. You can see if you just follow what he's asking God, like that's exactly how we have to approach our sin as we're coming out of it, is just approaching God with a complete contrite heart, as you've talked about. But also he's not afraid to ask God of all of these things. It's not a, you know, woe is me, I can't even approach you. It's I am approaching you and I'm in desperate need of you. And so, yeah, it's a man. That's a great. I say that after everyone. Great pick. They're all great, but good one. All right, well, number five, I also [00:46:50] Speaker C: have three chapters left that I want to include. One of them is. I know I don't think either one of y' all are going to have. So if I do decide to do that one, I will probably make that my last pick. But man, I have two more. I am going to go with the, I guess my fifth pick with First Corinthians 15. [00:47:08] Speaker A: Okay. [00:47:08] Speaker C: Yeah, the resurrection, another value pick. I get 58 verses with this chapter. Yeah, this is an incredible chapter. And I know we can't spend too much time on all our picks as we're hit the 45 minute mark. But verses 12 through 18, obviously, where Paul basically is emphasizing just how critical the resurrection is to our faith. Christ not risen. Your faith is futile. You're still in your sins. We of all men are to be the most pitied man. What a stretch. What a powerful kind of wake you up moment to the absolute necessity, essentiality and power of the resurrection. Then you get into starting verse 35, a little bit of a more difficult section, talking about our, the glorious body, kind of the kind of eschatology section. And then of course 50 through 58, oh, death, where's your sting? Hades, where's your victory? And then to end it with verse 58, which is, I would say, top five of most well known verses in the New Testament, at least within the church of Christ. Maybe not to the world, but within the church of Christ. This one gets quoted all the time. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast and movable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. That coming upon the heels of basically, you know, death wears your sting. Yeah, I love this chapter. Again, another value pick. I think it's a, it's a great chapter. As I was looking through First Corinthians. Like man, which one of these makes my list? 15 was at the top, even above 13 actually, just due to the richness of it. So. Yep. [00:48:39] Speaker A: This, as I was making the list, it's one of those, like, man, I know I'm missing some really big chapters. I'm forgetting something. You know, I'm writing down because I didn't Google or chat GPT like we joked a bit ago. [00:48:48] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:48:49] Speaker A: This is one of them. When you said that, I'm like, oh, my goodness. That's one of the most important chapters in the entire Bible. Like, yeah, I'm really glad this made the list because that would have been really bad if it didn't so good. [00:48:57] Speaker C: Slid down the board a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:48:59] Speaker A: It's off the radar. [00:49:00] Speaker B: It's off mine too. I can't believe I forgot about this. [00:49:02] Speaker A: It is enormous. Yeah. Good pick. [00:49:05] Speaker B: It's value picks. All right. This is the difficulty because I round out my last. [00:49:10] Speaker A: Your finish. Yeah. [00:49:11] Speaker B: I hate this. I hate this so much. If I was going with crowd pleaser, I'd say Psalm 119. I'm actually gonna say Psalm 1. Yeah. [00:49:19] Speaker A: I thought you're mine. [00:49:21] Speaker B: This is one of my first big, big time sermons that I preached at Bear Valley and one of the first sermons I was genuinely proud of. I had preached, you know, future preachers and things like that. But I remember being proud of my Psalm one sermon, maybe for the first time of like, I think I nailed it. I look back on. It's like, okay, well, I don't know why I was. So it's okay. But I just fell in love with the psalm itself. You got six verses. It's a great progression starting. I probably should pull it up, but, you know, you start with the progression of sin as you get closer to walking sin or walking, standing, sitting, you know, and then you get into the righteous versus, like, the contrasts involved here with the lighting. [00:50:00] Speaker C: Verses are about the righteous and the last three verses about the. [00:50:03] Speaker B: You get a little illustration. They're like the chaff. The wind drives it away. We're gonna stand firmly planted tree. [00:50:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:50:09] Speaker B: Yep, yep. So I just think you get a. It's a neat mix of the illustration. Neat mix of contrasts in there, of progressions in there. There's a lot in Psalm 1. That man spend some time in there. I think you'll. You'll find some cool little nuggets. [00:50:24] Speaker A: Yeah. It's a perfect start to the Psalms too. [00:50:27] Speaker C: Yep. [00:50:28] Speaker A: All right. [00:50:29] Speaker C: I don't have much to add this one. This one I had written down, but it's a great pick. Yeah. [00:50:32] Speaker A: Round six. [00:50:35] Speaker B: This is where it gets really, really difficult. You know, I Could do as Will was talking. Will, you may have this one on your song of Solomon 2. [00:50:44] Speaker C: That's not on my list. [00:50:45] Speaker B: Not on your. Okay, well, not on my board. I was gonna. There's so many. I was gonna put. I'm gonna have to go. It's kind of a cheesy one. You guys have Romans. I'm gonna have to go Romans 5. [00:50:57] Speaker A: All right. [00:50:58] Speaker B: Just to round out my list. How could you not? You guys already referenced it. We've already talked about it. I don't need to spend a ton of time on it. But yeah, you do get into that section, Will, as you were talking about. It's a rough section of understanding. What exactly is he talking about with Adam and Christ? I also think, though, that it provides for a really deep study, you know, for people to just spend some time going, okay, what is he talking about? Pouring over that. But the first part of chapter five is huge. You know, with all the things we get, the peace, the grace, the hope, tribulation, you know, the justification. We're getting into some heavy theological terms. Romans 5 is. Is a great chapter. [00:51:34] Speaker A: You can't really top while we were yet sinners and while we were helpless. So. [00:51:38] Speaker B: Yeah, right. [00:51:38] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:51:39] Speaker B: Thank God all the time in therapy. [00:51:40] Speaker C: Yeah, that's exactly right. [00:51:42] Speaker A: Yep. [00:51:42] Speaker C: All right, I got one pick left. I've got a psalm I want to do, and I've got a crucifixion chapter that I want to do. And so I am going to cheat. I'm not going to take two picks. I'm going to pick one and then I'm going to tell you what my other pick was just for fun. [00:51:53] Speaker A: Okay, well, hold on to it. Let's do a speed round seventh round. Because like, yeah, six is just. Go ahead. So we'll just. [00:51:59] Speaker C: My sixth pick is Luke chapter 23. This is. I think this is my. As much as I love Matthew, I was talking to Joe before we got started. I think about why Matthew is such a. Why I love Matthew so much. But man, I love Luke 23 as a crucifixion chapter. Luke 22 is incredibly long. 71 verses is the build up to the crucifixion. You've got the. This usually the Lord's Supper prayer in the garden, denial of all of Jesus by Peter and all that. But Luke 23 as a crucifixion job, the reason I love it is because it's got three of different sayings of Jesus from the cross. You've got the Father, forgive them. They know not what they do you've got the conversation with the thief on the cross that once again does get abused a lot, but is still like, I don't think we should discount how powerful of a section that is just because the Baptists misuse it all the time. [00:52:47] Speaker A: Right. [00:52:48] Speaker C: That's the saying from. Of Jesus from the cross. And then, of course, the Father, in your hands, I commit my spirit. Is the Third 1. Luke 23 is excellent. You get the burial as well. At the end. You get his death, you get his walk up to Calvary. You also get him facing Pilate and Herod in the first chapter as well. [00:53:05] Speaker A: So It's a. [00:53:06] Speaker C: It's 56 verses. It's a long chapter as well. And so kind of pound for pound, as Jack said earlier, one chapter about the crucifixion itself, I'd have to go either Matthew 27 or Luke 23. And so I went with Luke 23 just purely due to the sayings of Jesus on the cross. The Father forgive them, they're not. What they do is just one of those. You read in your jaw drops, like, yeah, he is in some of the most physical, most intense physical pain that anyone has ever endured. And that's what he's thinking and that's what he's saying. It just makes your jaw hit the floor. So, yeah, that. This one was. Was. Even if we weren't going to do a seventh round, this one was going to be my sixth pick for sure. [00:53:41] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, you can't. You can't go wrong with that for sure. Joe, do you have any thoughts on it? [00:53:46] Speaker B: No, that's. That's great. Another value pick. 50, 56 verses. Yep. [00:53:49] Speaker A: Yeah, no kidding. All right, so I haven't been in the Gospels yet. And so let's go ahead. [00:53:56] Speaker B: He's just been doing crowd pleasers the entire time. [00:53:58] Speaker A: That's right, yeah. Since. Well, I got another one here, so we'll start with that. Luke 15. I just taught on this twice last week, actually, three times in the last couple weeks because I had to speak in different places and that. And that just happened to be the topic. I mean, it's the product. Yeah, that's exactly it. But I mean, like, how. And obviously the lost sheep, the lost coin, but like, there's nothing more powerful than the Father running and embracing him. I mean, that is just incredible stuff. And so let me go with that. And then the other one was John 13. You got the Last Supper, you know, a brief reference to the Lord's Supper. You've got the washing feet, you've got Judas's betrayal. You've got love one another. And so. Yeah, as. As I have loved you. I was gonna say. And so. [00:54:42] Speaker B: Yeah, pretty. [00:54:44] Speaker C: That's good. [00:54:45] Speaker A: Pretty strong chapter. All right, last one for you guys. [00:54:48] Speaker C: This one for sure for me is. Could not be any less of a crowd pleaser pick. Because if I'm gonna say it, I don't think anybody's gonna know a single verse. But I love this chapter and it's Psalm 5. Psalm 5. I think it's my favorite psalm. Honestly. It's hard to me to give 60 seconds on what it's about, especially as we're in at the end of the episode. But what you get from the Psalm of David, the first three verses are, you know, David, talking about my voice. You shall hear. The pronouns are interesting. My King, my God, my words in the morning, I will direct it to you. Verses 4 through 6 are about God, for you are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness. You hate all workers of iniquity. You shall destroy those who speak falsehood. The next two verses are David. Again, he switches back, switches the pronouns. As for me, I will come into your house in fear of you. I will worship towards you. [00:55:36] Speaker A: Lead me, o Lord. [00:55:38] Speaker C: Verses 9 and 10 are talking about evildoers. Pronoun switches again. There's no faithfulness in their mouth. Their inward part is destruction. Then verses 11 and 12 talking about the righteous. Let all those and I love verse 11. Let all those who rejoice. Let all those rejoice who put their trust in you. Let them ever shout for joy because you defend them. Let those also who love you, who love your name, be joyful in you. Just an incredible verse. I could go two hours on Psalm 5. Again, not at all a crowd pleaser, but I think this is one of the most rich psalms that we have, even though it's only 12 verses. So love this one. This one was my number one psalm. [00:56:15] Speaker A: Good call. [00:56:15] Speaker B: Can't go wrong with this great psalm. All right. This is also not a crowd pleaser in the least, but I just happen to love this. It's just a personal pick. Ezekiel 36. [00:56:25] Speaker A: Ezekiel. [00:56:26] Speaker B: Ezekiel 36. And I guess every time I go to preach on something, I just fall in love with it. I need to preach a lot more or something. But I preached on the number of years ago. It's always stood out to me. Specifically 22. And following on the 1st. [00:56:38] Speaker C: First, like all my pictures are based on all my amazing sermons that I did. [00:56:42] Speaker B: Exactly. No, I mean you just fall in Love with whatever you're studying. I was gonna go Joshua 1, but I'm looking at Genesis 1, Ephesians 1, Psalm 1 Joshua 1. [00:56:49] Speaker A: It's like man, hey [00:56:52] Speaker B: yeah. Ezekiel 36, just as a brief breakdown, you know, I'll vindicate the holiness of my great name, verse 23, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst. And the nations will know that I am the Lord. The whole point of Ezekiel 36 is I didn't choose you because you're great. I chose you for my own name. I chose you for my own glory. And I'm going to use you for my glory one way or the other because my name will be great among the nations. Now that's a theme that's carried throughout. We just taught on Malachi and our understudied. He also has that theme in there of I will be treated as great among the nations. But it's a great breakdown of even as Christians, he chose us for his glory. He chose us because he loves us and not because of our own goodness. And he specifically says that there. It's such a gospel centered chapter in my opinion. Just stuck in Ezekiel 36, you know, back in Ezekiel. Like man, I chose you for my own purposes, not because you're great. And I don't know, I just love Ezekiel 36. [00:57:42] Speaker A: Good call. Alright, well that wraps. Go ahead. [00:57:45] Speaker C: I think Jack is gonna run away with the crowd though. [00:57:48] Speaker A: Yes, [00:57:50] Speaker C: I love my. [00:57:52] Speaker A: All three lists are really good. I mean like I did get the more popular. The ones that are gonna come up on Google a little bit. But I got some personal favorites in there too. So. Yeah, at a certain point I'm like, oh, I'm gonna kill these guys. I'm gonna, I'm gonna get 70% with [00:58:06] Speaker C: all the ones that people know. [00:58:07] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:58:08] Speaker A: But I mean like Psalm 51, that's. I love that one. John 13. I mean Psalm 23, Isaiah 53. Like just cuz they're popular doesn't mean they're bad. You know, like they're. Or they're overrated or anything. Like they're. They're great for a reason. So anyway, so we are gonna put out a poll on the Think Deeper and Focus Press Facebook pages. But if you're watching this on YouTube, drop a comment. What are your favorite chapters? What are some we left out? I mean we could. You guys want to drop a quick honorable mentions? No, no discussing them at all. Just honorable mentions. I had Daniel 2. Let's see. Go ahead Will, let me look at my list here. Acts two, Acts two. Yeah, that was on my list. Yeah. Joe. [00:58:48] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:58:48] Speaker B: Revelation 22 hitting the end of it. I want to James 4 first Peter 2. [00:58:54] Speaker A: We can do Psalm 119, Titus 2, [00:58:56] Speaker C: and Galatians 5 as well. About walking in the Spirit is an excellent chapter. [00:59:00] Speaker A: Isaiah 6 Before the throne. There's just a great one. Yeah. So whatever you think we missed, whatever you might have drafted if you were here, drop it in the comments whether you're on Facebook or YouTube or wherever. Of course, Focus Plus. You can join us there and we'll have another we'll have a Deep End episode. So we will follow up on this and talk about people's picks and all that. So check that out. Join [email protected] plus Joe made multiple references to things that we've taught through on our teaching series on there. You get those as well with a Focus plus membership. So check that out. FocusPress.org/ that's all we've got for this one. We thought about doing a thing fast. We ran a little bit long, so we're gonna cut it off right there. We appreciate you listening. Always a good time. We'll be back next week with something 4th of July and America 250 themed, so keep an eye out for that and we'll talk to you guys on the next one. [01:00:04] Speaker C: Hey guys, Will Hirab here. Just wanted to take a minute and let you know that if you enjoy listening to the Think Deeper podcast, we wanted to make you aware of another podcast we have on the Focus Press podcast platform. It's called the Godly Young Men Podcast, where myself and Joe we tackle a lot of cultural issues that are facing young men. The target age range is around 15 to 25 years old, but we have young men of all ages listen to it. Our goal is just to restore them to godly masculinity and talk about the challenges and things that are facing young men in today's time. So if you're interested, check that out on YouTube or on any of your favorite podcast platforms.