The positive side of anxiety. Where are we at on hearing the word of God and putting him first? Stiff necks and high heads.
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[00:00:15] Speaker A: Welcome to the weekly Deep Dive podcast on the add on Education network. The podcast where we take a look at the weekly come follow me discussions and try to add a little insight and unique perspective. I am your host, Jason Lloyd. Here in the studio with our friend, and this show is producer Nate Pfeiffer.
[00:00:31] Speaker B: What’s up?
[00:00:33] Speaker A: Going back to the Budweiser frogs.
[00:00:35] Speaker B: Yeah, baby. No, dude, it was the dudes at the party, but it was the same era.
[00:00:39] Speaker A: Same era. Yeah. What’s up?
[00:00:41] Speaker B: Was up mid nineties.
[00:00:42] Speaker A: That’s it.
Flash of the past.
[00:00:46] Speaker B: Things are different in the nineties.
I miss a lot of the stuff from the nineties, for better and for worse. I didn’t think I was gonna miss the nineties while I was in the nineties. And now we’re in the whatever words. And I’m like, man, there were some great things in the nineties. Life was mellow in the nineties. We had to find reasons to be upset in the nineties, I feel like.
[00:01:06] Speaker A: Yeah, things have changed.
[00:01:07] Speaker B: There was an entire genre around finding things to be upset about. Music. Remember how rage against the machine was just, like, raging against everything, and then 30 years later, they became the machine?
They’re just the machine now.
[00:01:22] Speaker A: It always does.
[00:01:24] Speaker B: It always works out that way. What are we talking about tonight, buddy?
[00:01:27] Speaker A: Tonight we’re talking about Jacob one through four. And Jacob, he’s got a responsibility to address the people, to talk to them. He’s been anointed.
And for him, a big part of this message is revelation. But at the same time, I mean, he’s trying to balance, feeding the people, turning them to Christ, getting them plugged in to where they can receive inspiration, receive revelation, but also trying to correct their ways. He is seeing a people that are wandering, that are straying, and he’s worried for the direction that they’re headed in. And he’s got to be a prophet and kind of come in and have a very uncomfortable conversation, or what is an uncomfortable conversation for him?
And he’s worried because a lot of the men are taking multiple wives, and he feels like there’s a lot of wives and children that are just trying to do the right thing, that are coupled there with a husband that maybe is trying to take advantage of the situation and maybe exercise a little bit of unrighteous dominion. And he’s worried that if he calls this out, the tender hearts of the wives and the children that are just trying to do the right thing or are going to be offended because of what he’s calling sin, like, wait a second. Are we wrapped up into the sin? So you see, you see how carefully he tries to navigate these waters to correct, but to do it with a lot of love and to guide. And so we kind of get to get into a lot of his feelings, a lot of his speech, and focus a lot on prophecy and putting the Lord first, I think, is where we’re going to end up.
So let’s start here in this message, or we’re going to go right with chapter one.
And the message that I want to lead off with is we use anxiety and anxious. And when we hear this word and we use this term so many times, it’s associated as a negative feeling, as something that we’re trying to overcome, as something that we’re trying to cope with, as something we’re trying to, I don’t know, fix.
And here Jacob uses anxiety as a positive.
And he’s not the only one to do this. In fact, we will see throughout the scriptures, anxious is used in a very positive way. And so I wanted to take what Jacob was saying and see...
