Biblical Leadership Show
The Biblical Leadership Show podcast explores timeless principles of leadership through a biblical lens, offering insightful discussions and practical wisdom for leaders seeking to integrate faith and leadership in their personal and professional lives. Join us as we delve into biblical narratives, lessons, and values to inspire and equip leaders to make a positive impact in their communities and organizations.
Biblical Leadership Show
Playful Wisdom: Exploring Obedience Through Leadership and Biblical Stories
Can humor pave the way to profound lessons in obedience? Join us on the Biblical Leadership Show as Elisa and Luke bring the laughs with their dad and kid jokes before diving deep into the heart of obedience. From personal anecdotes about obeying traffic rules near a hospital to playful stories about their own experiences, we explore the importance of following commands in family, school, and religious contexts. This episode promises a delightful balance of humor and wisdom.
Ever wondered about the steps that lead to true obedience? We break it down, starting with active listening and moving through trust and decision-making, leading to action. Reflecting on biblical stories like Abraham's faith and the Israelites' journey, we discuss the blessings that come with obedience and the challenges that arise in tough situations, exemplified by Jonah's tale. This conversation offers valuable insights into the trust and commitment needed to follow God's guidance.
How can we effectively teach obedience? By building trust, starting small, and being consistent. Throughout our discussion, we share practical examples, from guiding a younger child to training a pet, highlighting the importance of patience and leading by example. The episode wraps up with Dr. Posey’s encouraging words and a reminder to visit biblicalleadershipshow.com for more inspiration. Don’t miss this engaging mix of humor, faith, and practical advice on becoming better leaders through obedience.
all right, all right. Welcome to another exciting episode of the Biblical Leadership Show. Welcome, welcome welcome.
Speaker 2:Welcome, welcome welcome, hey Tim, how you doing Wonderful how are you doing, Dr Bozy? Oh my goodness, I see here in the studio we've got two guest hosts with us today.
Speaker 1:We've got a couple guest hosts with us. They're just hanging out. They're sort of unemployed right now, so we thought we would bring them into the studio and put them on payroll for this podcast.
Speaker 2:I think they ate their payroll. They ate the payroll. How dare you you?
Speaker 1:didn't even pay us. How dare you Wait a minute? Here we go. Dr Posey paid you on cookies over there, we got some cookies yeah. Were the cookies good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, how was that pink lemonade cookie? It was delicious.
Speaker 3:The one I had was the best. I'm going to eat it all.
Speaker 2:Oh you're still eating it. Why don't you introduce our guest host?
Speaker 1:Well, the first one I have here is she's a long-term friend of the show, been on a few of our podcasts in the past. Miss Alisa, hi guys, hey, hey, and by couple, he means two. By two, I mean by couple, I mean by two, yes. And then the guest host, first timer in the podcast world, first podcast, first podcast officially, is Luke.
Speaker 2:Luke, luke, luke, hey, luke, hey, hey.
Speaker 1:Yes, so yeah, that was live cheering.
Speaker 2:It wasn't even from the machine.
Speaker 1:I know, right, that was pretty good, yeah. So they're going to help us a little bit today and they're going to be obedient and they're going to mind their manners in here, because that is our word for the day. But before we do this, we got Dr Posey a gift because he brought some cookies. So we got him a gift. What did we grab, dr Posey, today?
Speaker 3:Emergency dad jokes oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:We got him a box of emergency dad jokes. So at some point I think he's just going to reach in and randomly pull out a card and say let's do this.
Speaker 2:Let's do it right now.
Speaker 1:Oh, let's do it right now.
Speaker 2:Especially because we have two guests, so I think this one is so appropriate.
Speaker 1:How is it now?
Speaker 2:I'm going to say one after him. Are you ready, because I'm ready, lisa, here we go. Let me find it Okay. Y'all listen. Here we go. Luke you ready? Did you hear about the kid who started a business tying shoelaces?
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 2:It's a not-for-profit.
Speaker 1:Luke, you got any good dad jokes down there. Anything, you have a little thing, oh yeah. So he's got the kid joke book and you've got the 101. So Bad, they're Good Dad Jokes.
Speaker 2:Okay, at least I'm ready for a dad joke. Here we go.
Speaker 3:What did the digital clock say to the grandfather clock?
Speaker 2:What did the digital clock say to the grandfather clock? I don't know.
Speaker 3:He said look, grandpa, no hands.
Speaker 1:Dun, dun, dun, dun, Dun, dun dun dun.
Speaker 2:Okay, here we go. Lisa and dun dun dun, Dun, dun dun dun. Okay, here we go. Lisa and Luke, here we go. Did you hear the rumor about butter?
Speaker 3:No no.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm not going to be spreading it, can?
Speaker 3:I say one, you can say one, you certainly can All right, one more, do whatever you want?
Speaker 2:Okay, we're ready.
Speaker 3:Why did the teddy bear say no to dessert? Why did he say no to dessert To dessert? Because he was stuffed.
Speaker 2:He was already stuffed. Oh, that was good, that was good.
Speaker 1:So that's great. So today we're talking a little bit about obedience.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what a great topic, obedience.
Speaker 1:Yes. About obedience yeah, what a great topic. Obedience, yes. Obedience definition is an act of following orders, commands or instructions from somebody in authority. Right. It can include family, school, military religion. It's also associated with discipline and willingness to conform to established norms and directives.
Speaker 2:Yes, and so I'll just tell you this morning. Coming to. Well, I just came from the swimming pool, but when?
Speaker 1:I was heading which you had obedience by getting up.
Speaker 2:So I was leaving my house, and right about a mile from our house is a hospital, and so around the hospital the speed limit is 30 miles an hour.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there we go. Uh-huh, sure, excuse me, emergency dad joke, pull it out. Oh my gosh, he's coughing, coughing, I know it. Emergency dad joke, Beep, beep.
Speaker 2:Anyway. So, and there's a double yellow line, yeah, so you don't pass each other by the hospital.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:So there was a person behind me who was very anxious to get to wherever they were going. And I was going 30 miles an hour right by the hospital, and they not only pulled around the yellow line but they almost ran the stop sign about 100 yards down the street and they were really anxious to get where they were going. So I'm thinking, wow, we're going to talk about obedience, and so it's like well, are we going to be obeying the rules?
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:And for some people speed limits mean nothing. Yeah, the rules, right, and for some people speed limits mean nothing, yeah, and so you know, when we're talking about obedience, it is about an authority. So the question could be the authority of the law, could be authority of our parent or a boss, or, you know, rules of our HOA or whatever, but what a great topic. It applies to us all, our lifelong.
Speaker 1:It is. You know, what do you guys think about obedience? Do you think that you're a pretty obedient set of kids?
Speaker 3:80% of the time 80% of the time.
Speaker 1:How about you, Luke?
Speaker 3:81%. You're just trying to top me off.
Speaker 1:How dare you so yeah, so what do you think makes you obedient? What do you think makes you obedient as kids?
Speaker 3:I listen to you. You told me to wake up at 7, but you didn't wake me up until 9.
Speaker 1:I didn't. I let you sleep in, so you are obedient.
Speaker 3:I listen to a lot of people.
Speaker 1:You listen to a lot of people. You listen to a lot of people. Yes, does that make you obedient? I don't know. Yeah, yeah right.
Speaker 2:So, obedience, you can either do it by your own choice, or you can do it because you think, ooh, if I'm not obedient, I'm going to get punished which one. Do you think is better being obedient? Being obedient because you choose to do it, yeah yeah. Sometimes that's hard, though, because sometimes the rules or what we're being asked to do is really tough, is really tough. So the question is are we going to do it because we want to, or are we going to be obedient because we have to?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's the whole key Are you doing it when you know? I've mentioned on the podcast many a times where, if people aren't looking, what they do? I think I told a story at one point about Elisa that she one of her friends. They were running and they knocked over a trash can full of trash and she stopped and she stopped. Everybody ran ahead and she stopped and picked up all the trash and that's one of those things that what you do when people aren't looking defines who you are in character, and that's one of those things to look at.
Speaker 2:Correct. Good job, I have a story. Yeah, good job you have a story.
Speaker 3:One time in school I was going somewhere and I accidentally bumped into a teacher and I said sorry and she looked at me and said thank you for saying sorry. I forgive you oh, that's nice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, sometimes we just don't look where we're going, do we?
Speaker 3:Like we were in a rush, we were heading to PE and I had to go drop something off, like we were going into science and we were gonna drop, and then this guy named Maddox I think he sort of he forgot something. So I had to and they were already outside. So I had to, like zoom outside and give it to him before the door had shut, or else I was locked out there, that wouldn't have been good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no. So let's, hey, luke and Lisa, let's talk about, maybe, the steps of obedience, because there's different steps, just like going through school. You have first grade, second grade, third grade, fourth grade. So let's just talk about the steps of obedience. What do you think maybe the very first step is? If you're going to be obedient, what's the very first thing?
Speaker 3:To start to listen to what people ask you to do.
Speaker 2:Very good, you have to listen, you have to listen. So you have to listen very carefully. I mean, you could hear somebody talk, but that doesn't mean you're actually listening to what they're saying. Right, you can hear them mouth the words, but if you don't care, then you're not going to be listening. So that's a very good first step, so we're going to listen, and then the next step, you think, is what's the next step after listening?
Speaker 3:Obeying.
Speaker 2:What comes before obeying? What do you think comes before Obeying's up there? But what do you think? Maybe the step after listening? You have to do what.
Speaker 3:You have to start, oh, you have to start like sort of. You have to start like sort of more doing the stuff, doing.
Speaker 2:Okay, that would be obeying. So there's a step in between. So we have to listen and then we have to. What do you think we have to do in our mind in order to say oh yes, I'm going to obey that or no, I'm not going to obey that. Do we have to make?
Speaker 3:a choice. I think I know.
Speaker 2:What's that?
Speaker 3:You have to trust what they're saying.
Speaker 2:You have to trust what they're saying, and so you say, yes, I'm going to trust this. So you're making a decision to either obey or not. Obey, right, and then you obey. Do you obey with just your words, or do you? Obey with your actions.
Speaker 3:You obey with your actions.
Speaker 2:So you obey with your words and your actions. So you listen and then you have to trust, and then you have to make a decision, and then you have to obey with your words and your actions.
Speaker 3:Right, I have another step after that.
Speaker 2:What's that?
Speaker 3:You have to actually do what they're saying. You have to actually do it right and you also have to like remember how, what they want, or if a teacher asks you to do something and you know it's wrong, you have to remember that and you've got to make sure that you don't do anything wrong and that you are able to do this.
Speaker 2:Correct. Nice, so you have. But it starts with listening, right? If you're not listening to your teacher, if you're not listening to your parents, or when you're older, if you're not listening to your boss and someone asks you to do something and you don't hear them, then what do you think you should do? If you don't hear them clearly, what do you think you should do?
Speaker 3:You should say I'm sorry, could you repeat that again? I didn't quite hear you the first time.
Speaker 2:That's a very good answer, a very good answer. So you want to be sure, you, and sometimes you say, well, I don't understand what you mean by that. Could you explain exactly what you want me to do so that I can follow what you want? Okay, so don't be afraid to ask for clarification if you listen but you don't necessarily understand.
Speaker 3:I have a Bible verse.
Speaker 2:You have a Bible verse about obedience. Yeah, you know, if we look up obedience online, there's so many Bible verses about obedience. Why don't you share one with us? Okay?
Speaker 3:And, through your offspring, all nations on earth will be blessed because you have obeyed me Genesis 22, 18.
Speaker 2:And that's about Abraham, isn't it? Yes, and he was so obedient. Even if it was really really difficult, he was still obedient to God.
Speaker 3:It tells me. This verse highlights the blessing that comes from Abraham's obedience to God.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:And there's a lot of things about obedience to God in the Bible. In fact, that's one of the main themes of the entire Bible is that we have a God who loves us dearly, who loved us so much that he sent his son Jesus to die for our sins, and then he rose from the dead. And the question is are we going to trust him enough to obey him and live a life that honors his son Jesus?
Speaker 3:I feel bad for people who don't trust him. Yes, jesus, I feel bad for people who don't trust him.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, and sometimes things go on in our life and we don't know if we can trust God. It's always good to trust him, though, right, no matter what I've got another Bible verse. You have another Bible verse? Okay, let's hear it.
Speaker 3:Now you will obey me fully and keep my covenant, then, out of all the nations, you will be my treasured possession. This verse represents god promising the blessings to the israelites for their obedience oh, that was good, that was good book.
Speaker 2:My kids would say what's the address of that? So what's the book and the verse?
Speaker 3:It is Exodus 19.5.
Speaker 2:Exodus 19.5.
Speaker 3:Exodus. 19.5 is correct.
Speaker 2:That's right before the Ten Commandments. That's really good. Yeah, so they were in the desert, they were coming out of Egypt and they were heading toward the promised land, and God encouraged them to be obedient and to trust him to guide their way.
Speaker 3:Yes, I've got about eight of these Bible verses. Oh, that's so good.
Speaker 2:So what does it say to God when we are obedient to Him? What does that say to God? What message do we say to God when we're obedient to Him?
Speaker 3:We tell Him that we trust Him.
Speaker 2:We trust Him.
Speaker 3:And that we will believe in Him and we can know that he's not going to hurt us or try to in any way.
Speaker 2:That's so good, very good answer. So do we show God that we love Him, that we have faith in Him, that we trust Him? That's so good. And the thing about obedience is it's not like a one-time lesson. It's a lesson that we keep learning over and over and over and over, and sometimes God asks us to do some very hard things, you know, like stand up for Him or stand up for the Bible in the time when people necessarily don't believe it anymore, and that can be hard, but it's important to keep being obedient and trusting God.
Speaker 3:There's a story in the Bible where this man runs away from God. Well, tries to, because God has asked him to go to their enemy's town and preach about him and try to become friends with them. Yes so he runs away and tries to hide from God.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:But ends up in a big old storm and gets swallowed by a whale by a whale.
Speaker 2:Yeah, jonah right. Yeah, jonah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3:Classic story.
Speaker 2:Classic story of God wanting us to do something and we say I don't want to do that, and so we run away from God. So, whether we obey God or we don't obey God, there's always going to be consequences, right? Just like, if we obey our parents or don't obey our parents, there's going to be consequences. If we obey our teacher or don't obey our teacher, there's going to be consequences. If we obey our boss or don't obey our boss, there's going to be consequences. If we obey our boss or don't obey our boss, there's going to be consequences. So there's going to be consequences either way, right? So the question is do we want the consequences of obedience or the consequences of disobedience? So that's really the question, and hopefully we always choose the consequences of obedience.
Speaker 3:Some people choose the wrong side. They Some people choose the wrong side they do.
Speaker 2:They choose the wrong side, and all of us at times choose the wrong side, right, because we're not perfect Jesus was the only perfect person and so sometimes we choose the wrong thing, but that's why we ask for forgiveness and Jesus forgives us. So do you have any other Bible verses, luke? Do you have a Bible verse over there you want to share with us One? Okay, okay.
Speaker 3:Love the Lord, your God, and keep His requirements, his decrees, his laws and His commands always. Deuteronomy 11.1.
Speaker 2:Excellent, excellent verse, excellent verse.
Speaker 3:I can tell that this one, this Bible verse, emphasizes the importance of continual obedience to God's laws.
Speaker 1:Nice.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Do you think Jesus was obedient? Yes, why do you think Jesus was obedient? Yes, why do you think he was obedient?
Speaker 3:Because I think he was obedient because he knew who he had to obey and he believed that God would never steer him wrong. And he was obedient because he already knew that no one would and that God would never try to hurt him, and he already knew his purpose, and so he knew that he needed to be obedient and good.
Speaker 2:Wonderful. That is a great answer that is a great answer. Let's go back a few minutes to what we were saying a while ago about the steps of obedience, because I wanted to mention that, and this goes back to your Latin class there, Tim.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, my 32 seconds of Latin class.
Speaker 2:Okay, so the word obedience actually comes from a Latin word, means to hear. So when we're going to obey God or someone else, it's a sign that we're hearing and then we're living out what we hear. Okay, so, like we said, it's important. The first step of obedience is listening and actually hearing what is said.
Speaker 1:Most people don't listen to hear. They listen to respond. So as somebody's talking to you, you're gathering the thoughts that you want to say back to them. The best way is just to listen and then, after you hear everything they say, then you take a moment, think about it and then respond to them. That's the best way to be a good listener.
Speaker 2:Correct.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So do you deal with that with your homeowners? I mean your builders association and your contractors?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You're starting to talk to people and they already have an answer before you even finish your sentence. Oh, yeah, yeah 100%.
Speaker 1:I mean, that's most people in the world. I've had to work and I'm still bad about I teach this stuff for a living. I still do it myself and I have to check myself. Sometimes I'm like, all right, I'm trying to finish somebody else's conversation, I know where they're going, but it's not always the case. You know, and a lot of times you have an idea of where they want to go, and then sometimes it's just being quiet, listening and making sure that that's truly the case.
Speaker 2:So all right, hey, luke, alyssa, I've got some. I got a dad joke for you.
Speaker 1:Did he reach out of the emergency dad joke box? I?
Speaker 2:got it from the box, here we go, you ready. So you know I retired, right, you know I retired from being a pastor, yes, yes, okay. So I've been retired now and I thought, you know, sometimes I have extra time. So I went and got a job, a part-time job at a juice factory, okay, but I lost my job at the canned juice factory. And you, but I lost my job at the canned juice factory. And you know why? Because I just couldn't concentrate.
Speaker 1:Did you guys get that one Like concentrated juice compared to regular juice. A little concentrate, alright, I've got a kid joke here. You've got a kid joke.
Speaker 2:I am ready for your kid joke.
Speaker 3:Why did the obedient student bring a ladder to school?
Speaker 2:Why did the obedient what?
Speaker 3:Student bring a ladder to school. Call on me, luke. Why? Luke do not dare.
Speaker 2:He knows the answer I already know.
Speaker 3:You know the answer. You have the exact same answer. You have the exact same question.
Speaker 2:Okay, here's the question why did the obedient student bring a ladder to school? Is that what you said to school? Yes, Because he wanted to rise to the top.
Speaker 3:Nope, because they wanted to go to high school. Oh I was going to answer it correctly. I'm going to look for a dad. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 2:Here's another one, red card. What has five toes, but isn't your foot? I don't know my foot.
Speaker 3:That's funny, I have a dad joke here.
Speaker 2:Oh, you do have a dad joke. Okay, I'm ready.
Speaker 3:Why did the scarecrow become obedient?
Speaker 2:Why did the scarecrow become obedient? Why did the scarecrow become obedient? I bet Luke knows the answer. Luke, don't you dare. Even I saw you flip that page. Y'all have the same jokes, huh. Okay, I don't know. Why did the scarecrow become obedient?
Speaker 3:Because he was outstanding in his field. Okay, I've got one for you.
Speaker 2:I've got one for you. Okay, here we go. What do you call an angry carrot? A steamed veggie?
Speaker 3:That's funny. I'm going to do another one. Why was the computer so obedient? Luke, don't answer this one.
Speaker 2:Why was the computer so obedient?
Speaker 3:Because it followed all its commands.
Speaker 2:Oh, there we go.
Speaker 1:Nice.
Speaker 2:Wow, okay, here's another one. Y'all have studied geometry like squares and circles and things like that. Yeah, pentagons, what did the triangle say to the circle?
Speaker 3:What did he say?
Speaker 2:You're pointless.
Speaker 1:Oh, you should have known that one. That was the one that you guys used to. It was different but it was the same. But I knew it was something to do with the point Right.
Speaker 3:It used to be the spoon and the fork instead of the triangle.
Speaker 1:I see.
Speaker 3:It used to be the fork sped to the spoon.
Speaker 1:So how do you think let's get back to a couple things how do you think you would teach obedience?
Speaker 2:Great question there.
Speaker 3:Tim, how do you think?
Speaker 1:that you would teach obedience.
Speaker 3:Good question, dad.
Speaker 1:Well, how would you handle? Answer that one, miss Elisa.
Speaker 3:How I would teach obedience is I would start off by telling them the steps and getting them to trust me first okay and then I'd start asking them to do stuff, probably around the place or, depending where I am, I'd ask them to do stuff around the place and then I would start asking them to do bigger and bigger things and then eventually they would become obedient. I'd explain and keep giving them bigger and bigger commands until they really got how.
Speaker 2:So you'd start out with small things? Yeah, really small things.
Speaker 3:Go pick up something.
Speaker 2:You know what Jesus said about that. What If you can't be trusted with small things, you can't be trusted with big things.
Speaker 3:I would get them to trust me. Yeah With small things right.
Speaker 2:First, and then you would just kind of grow to bigger and bigger things. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:We have a friend, Eliana.
Speaker 3:Oh yes.
Speaker 1:Yes, she's not that obedient, no, but she's a lot younger, right? Yeah, she's like four. Yeah, so she's still young. So how would you teach Eliana, as a friend, to be obedient? She already trusts me. Yeah, she already trusts you. What are some ways that you can do that?
Speaker 3:I was thinking of one in particular. Sometimes, when I'm at Luke's baseball game, she likes to play in the dirt. So I would tell her get out of the dirt and wipe the dirt off your knees. And then another way is she grabs random things all the time. So I would tell her please don't grab that and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:Okay, when you tell her please don't grab that and stuff like that, Okay, when you tell her those things, what kind of voice do you use? Do you use a kind voice or do you use a mean voice?
Speaker 3:Eliana, please put that down, and then, if she gets on hers, I'm like Eliana, put that down right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you start out with a kind voice yes, okay, how about you Luke?
Speaker 1:It gets on my nerves. How would you teach somebody to be obedient? Anything. Think about the Sophie, our dog. How would you teach Sophie to be obedient if you needed to teach her something new?
Speaker 3:I would start with one small thing. Then we would slowly like work that one thing up and more and more.
Speaker 1:So what you need to do in training not training, but helping people understand would be consistent. Right, You'd have to be consistent in your actions. Is that fair enough? Be consistent, yeah. How?
Speaker 2:about Be patient.
Speaker 1:Be patient.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:How about, like? Do you think that people would when you're teaching obedience? How about one of the biggest things I think of as being a role model and being that person that you can teach somebody lead by example so somebody will follow you and be example be obedient If they see you doing the rules and you know if you're in the line at the school and you're the line leader, you're wandering around and you're staying in line. Everybody's staying in line, but one person's not. Do you think that's obedient if everybody's staying in line and lead by example? Yes, I think that's actually true.
Speaker 3:I actually know. I know Eliana thinks I'm her role model. I know she thinks that. Because she like talks exactly like I do, and she looks at her dad the exact way I do. Because she recently got a purse and I know she used the look that I give you to get that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you give me that look. Yeah, that's what made you buy me that, tiffany bracelet.
Speaker 3:Get that, yeah, you give me that. Look, yeah, that's what made you buy me that Tiffany bracelet.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, Look at me.
Speaker 3:Dad, look at me.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh Luke, I bet you want Robux. Yes, I do. Wow, I didn't know that. Look at all.
Speaker 2:I've never seen that look before.
Speaker 3:I have a funny story. So one time we just walked into Tiffany not expecting anything. Dun dun dun and my mom was looking at some sunglasses and so they showed me like this cute little bracelet. It was like 200 something dollars, 250. 270 something 275, I think.
Speaker 3:Give or take so my mom was looking at sunglasses and they showed me the bracelet and it fit like perfectly on my wrist. It wasn't dangly or anything. And then what ended up happening is I looked at my dad and said, dad, it's the cheapest thing they have in the store besides a bookmark.
Speaker 1:You know I ain't going to use a bookmark. I mean who is?
Speaker 3:So I looked at him and said Dad, please.
Speaker 1:And then he just looked, and then I was obedient.
Speaker 3:He looked at me, handed me the card, and then Mom looks over. Mom walked out of nothing with that store and I walked out with the one thing.
Speaker 2:That's amazing. No one that was hilarious.
Speaker 1:What a great present.
Speaker 2:It was a good present. What a great present.
Speaker 1:So what do you think, Dr Posey? Do we have any more that we want to talk about obedience?
Speaker 2:I think obedience is something that is a lesson that we learn our whole life and it's something that, whether we are conscious or not, we get up every day and we make a decision as to if we're going to be obedient and to whom we're going to be obedient. And if we're a follower of Christ, then hopefully the answer is I'm going to do my best to be obedient to Him every day of my life. I know I'm going to make mistakes, I know I'm going to do things that are not pleasing to Him, but I hope those become less and less so that I can be obedient more and more and we hopefully learn from our mistakes instead of beating ourselves up over our mistakes, and just learn to be more and more obedient. I do think an obedient life to Christ is one of the best ways to honor Him, and we don't have to be vocal about it.
Speaker 2:Sometimes we're very silent, sometimes we're behind the scenes, sometimes we're in public. Sometimes we're very silent. Sometimes we're behind the scenes, sometimes we're in public. But you think about the people who changed the world for good throughout human history and a vast majority of the invitations we have. It's not a requirement. God doesn't force His will on us. God's always a gentleman. He invites us to be obedient, and whether or not we are is really up to us. Obedient is the willingness to follow the commands or the requests of someone that we see is a person of authority, and so if we see God as an authority and we say, yes, I want to live a life that's obedient to him, then we have to know what he said.
Speaker 2:We have to hear, which means we need to read the Bible and understand that. We need to pray and meditate about that. We've talked about that. We'll talk about that more here in a few weeks and then we live our life. That's honoring to him.
Speaker 2:And I do think it's important to try to not do that in a vacuum, and I think that's one reason the local church is so important for us to be involved, so we can be around other people that are living a life of obedience as well, at least trying to, and we can encourage them. They can encourage us, we can pray for them, they can pray for us, because we're all going to go through difficult times or going through a difficulty like the death of a loved one or an illness, or financial hardship or relationship breakup. It's very challenging sometimes to be obedient, and that's why I believe we need other people around us that can encourage us, to lift us up, support us, pray for us and be role models for us about being obedient when life is difficult.
Speaker 1:I like it.
Speaker 3:I have a joke. You have one more joke.
Speaker 1:While you were talking, you have a talk I figured each of you could give us one joke, and then Dr Posey can give us a joke and we can wrap this show up.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm ready.
Speaker 2:I'm listening. Knock, knock, come in.
Speaker 3:No, it's who's there. Oh okay, I was supposed to say who's there? Kent.
Speaker 2:Kent who.
Speaker 3:Can't you tell who I am by my voice no.
Speaker 1:Okay, here's one, luke, it's your turn.
Speaker 3:Go ahead, you, go next you go next.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm going next. Okay, what do you call a potato that wears glasses? Luke?
Speaker 1:do you have any idea? What do you call a potato that wears glasses?
Speaker 2:Luke, he's on a mosquito hunt there. Okay, I'll say it one more time what do you call a potato that wears glasses?
Speaker 3:I don't know what do you call a potato?
Speaker 2:A spectator? I don't know what do you call a spectator, a spectator?
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:Okay, luke, I'm ready, you ready. You got one more joke. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 3:How do you stop a bear from charging?
Speaker 2:How do you stop a bear from charging? I know this one.
Speaker 1:I think I know this one too.
Speaker 2:Take their credit card away.
Speaker 3:No, take away his credit card. Oh too, Take their credit card away. No, take away his credit card.
Speaker 1:Oh okay, All right, go to the emergency kit. One more time, Dr Posey.
Speaker 2:That one is so easy I'm not going to even say it. I can do another one.
Speaker 1:It's so fun just to pull out of the emergency dad joke. Yes, I really like this the kit. So, yeah, very, very great, I love it.
Speaker 2:Okay, here we go. What did the buffalo say when he dropped his kid off at school?
Speaker 3:What did he say?
Speaker 1:I do not know.
Speaker 2:Luke, what did the buffalo say when he dropped his kid off at school? I don't know, bye son, that was pretty good, I like that one.
Speaker 1:Bye son, that was pretty good, I like that one.
Speaker 3:I've got a tongue twister.
Speaker 2:Oh, you have a tongue twister. Okay, well, maybe we'll end the show with a tongue twister.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'll end the show on this one.
Speaker 2:Okay, here we go.
Speaker 1:Unless you got one, I'm ready.
Speaker 2:Tie twine to three tree twigs, can you say?
Speaker 3:that Tie twine to three tree twigs.
Speaker 2:Can you say that Tie, twine, two, three.
Speaker 1:No, I can't even say it one time, I can't even say it one time, I can't even say it backwards. Luke do you have a joke to finish out the show. Okay, joke, here we go.
Speaker 2:Luke, I'm ready Anything Okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she's already done it, Just grab one.
Speaker 3:Why did you say you slept like a log last night? Why Just?
Speaker 2:grab one. Why did you say you slept like a log last night, dad? Why did you say you slept like a log last night? Yes, I don't know, dad. Why did you say?
Speaker 3:you slept like a log last night Because I did.
Speaker 1:I woke up in the fireplace. I woke up in the fireplace.
Speaker 2:What do you call a fish without an eye?
Speaker 1:What do you call a fish without what An I, an I.
Speaker 2:Stop it.
Speaker 3:Luke Well a fish without an I A fish, a fish, a fish. No, it's not fish, it's fish, fish. Okay with that shh, ah, exactly right, all right, bye, guys, have an awesome day We'll get there.
Speaker 1:Hey, check us out BiblicalLeadershipShowcom for all your questions concerns prayer requests. Anything you might have, oh, I have one other thing.
Speaker 2:We have a listener that has made a request that we're going to do that in a couple weeks. That we're going to do that in a couple weeks. And so just recently we did a podcast on meditation and we talked about meditation and prayer, and so this listener was saying can you expand on that? Can you do a part two so that we can know the similarities and differences between prayer and meditation? So we're going to do that here in a couple weeks, and so I encourage any of our listeners if you want a topic that you want us to do again expand on maybe we haven't thought of then just write us at biblicalleadershipshowcom and we'll work that into the schedule. We'd love to hear from you.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. We'll show a co-host and special guest. I appreciate you guys being here with us today.
Speaker 2:It's so good to have you in the studio. I think I got the mosquito you did good for you the cheer thing, the applause oh yeah, thank you all for coming, so yeah, we appreciate you.
Speaker 1:Check us out biblicalleadershipshowcom and Dr Posey. Make it a great day. Make it a great day.
Speaker 2:Talk to you soon.
Speaker 3:Bye guys, Bye Bye.
