God's Got Jokes In The Bible

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Hilarious. I just think there's something about God's sense of humor that we miss because of the way that we've been trained to think in that. And so we can somehow, we think that laughter I guess I wanna say laughter isn't unholy and sometimes we think it is. It's like there's a cross between holiness and laughter and humor and they're kinda like, they're different things.

Like it's gotta be quiet and pious. I'm very serious. If you're to be holy laughter's, very disrespectful.

I don't know. I found laughter to be really helpful. I found laughter to be really helpful because there's so much in life that's just absurd. I have this same tension every single, this time of year, Halloween, every single one. For the first it's I and I had the same conversations with God. What do I do?

Do I shut all up? Go blank bunker in prove I'm a Christian. I'm not gonna talk to you. No, that doesn't seem right. Am I gonna dress up as a vampire? Ran around chasing the kiss. I was tempted. No, but no, that, I thought, that's not a good thing. And and I then I go, I get the theological position.

I'm gonna, I'm not gonna do it because it's part of a pagan festival. But then I have to throw out Christmas and Easter. 'cause they were pagan festivals as well. When the Pagans cave their life to Christ, they had all these festivals and things and we retrofitted them for Christmas and Easter. So it's another thing that the church retrofitted, and I don't know how they worked this stuff out.

Apparently on the 30th of October, Winster winter solstice, that's when the veil between this world and the other world is the thinnest. What a load of bollocks or codswallop, as my dad would say, it's the thinnest, and so you can actually go between. It's like woo, where the people come up with this stuff.

But it's frustrating because when is another time of the year when you have hundreds of people knocking on your door as a Christian asking something from you. It's such a tension. So I have to, I do a little bit of humor and so Anita and I were running around just before and just walking and I saw this thing on the ground and I shot a little video.

I dunno if I got it, if you have you got it there? Just this you along guys. Guys, where are you? Oh man, I've been laying here too long. Let's get outta here. I just saw this thing and I thought, man, that's just funny. So I just lay down between these two graves and I said, Nick, film this. And I'm going, Hey guys.

Guys, we've been laying here too long. Where are you guys? Where I, oh man. I've been laying too long. And that's how I deal with it. I deal with it through humor. Because there's potential in there, and I always say to people, there's a constant conscience issue. If you actually can't get your heart around it right with God then, and you feel like you can't do it, that's fine.

Don't participate. If you feel like you can figure out how to do something to engage these hundreds of people that suddenly bang on your door. I'm thinking one year I had the kids dressed up as fairies and we handed out Rethink Church brochures. Is that right? I figure it's a spiritual event, so they need to learn some spiritual stuff.

We just try and do whatever we can. I had a lady in during the week and her daughter-in-law's from Canada that says they don't come to the church. They're just part of the Junction family. And she was so worried that she's an older lady and traditions about Halloween all they really was troubling her so bad.

And her daughter from Canada is like a Halloween nut. And and this is of course, is her daughter, sorry. It was her daughter-in-law and she was trying to go, oh, she's, she was just really struggling. So we just, we laughed about it and I said, what are you really good at? She goes, ah, I love making cookies and lemonade and that kinda stuff.

I said, why don't you make cookies and lemonade and hand it out to all the little rugrats that come around? She said, oh, are you allowed to? I said, sure you are. Jesus said to love them. I said, don't dress up as a vampire, but just get out there and give 'em some lemonade and just love on 'em. But it's such a tension thing.

And I relate to Mr. Bean. I seriously do, I grew up in an old traditional church up to about the age of four in England. Then I came out and I knew nothing about anything. All I knew is that we discarded church very fast and mainly because of the reason that I was too noisy. I was, I dunno if you know this, but I actually was the very first child to get labeled.

To get labeled, and this is what they said I had, because I had a problem. It was A-D-H-D-I need to pee. And so I was I had kidney problems. I had to go the tour all the time, so therefore I was noisy. And I, and all the noise caused so much problems and in the end, mom and dad just discarded church because of the fact that I was a disruption to them.

So we come along with all the other British conflicts, let it go. But mom and dad always felt bad because they felt like they needed to be ENT at least once or twice a year. 'cause they wanted to appear to be spiritual and just round this. But if we could just do that. But the trouble is, if you ever got around our family, everybody knew there was a whole lot of other dysfunction.

And our life kept getting in the way of our pretending to be spiritual. So it was mom and dad just cast it all aside and I know what you're thinking. You're thinking you couldn't help that you were a young boy, so you're a kid, that's just how kids are. You've grown up a lot by now.

You'd be wrong. Yeah, you'd be wrong. About 20 years ago, I went down with Ann, my wife, and she was in the bunker. And I said I'm coming down to see your family, Tamworth, that kind of stuff. And she said, here's the church that I grew up in, beautiful old Catholic church. And I said, I'm coming to church with you.

She said, no, you're not. I'm a pastor. She says, you're not coming to church. And I go, why? 'cause they don't like your sort there. I said, trust me honey. I'm a pastor now. I got this. I was wrong. So I we get in there and everyone's sitting there and everyone's sitting so quiet and on these chairs, and it's bringing back all these memories of a kid.

And no one's looking at each other, no one's smiling. Everyone's very unhappy, not happy to be there. And I'm just going, oh, this is not good. And then they start singing again. Songs I never heard of, and they had books and had to kneel at certain points and stand, and I was getting it all wrong. So I so get Mr.

Bean. But then the guy got up to preach and I thought, oh, it lasts something I can do. Lord, speak to me. And anyway, he's talking and he's talking. And about 10 minutes in, I realize I am having a divine revelation of the Holy Spirit because I can't understand a word this guy's saying, and I'm listening and I can't understand it at all.

And I'm thinking to myself. This is a gift from this is the Holy Spirit gift. So I'm asking, God, give me the interpretation and when the interpretation comes, I will come up and deliver it to these people that are so unhappy. And anyway, God didn't say anything. He just was so quiet and I thought, this is really weird.

And I started glancing at Anne and Anne's going. Okay. Okay. So then I thought she understands. So then I thought, oh my gosh, I'm gonna die in Anne's church. This is what's happening. I'm dying right here. I know what's going on. Anyway, it, after a while I'm looking at Anne and she's just going, oh, yeah, I'm, and I turned out, I said, Anne, I cannot understand a single thing this guy is saying.

And she calm, leans across and says, no one can. I said, what? He goes, no one can. Why? He's talking in Latin. And I said how many people around here speak Latin? Nobody. So you're saying, I'm gonna sit here and listen to this guy Rabbit on for 40 minutes in Latin, something that I don't understand.

And I gotta tell you, my spiritual temperature plummeted. Absolutely plummeted. I'm, this is ridiculous. This is a waste of time. And I'm just like, and she's given me death stares. Now, only married men know what a death stare is. You never see it when you're dating. You never see it when you're engaged.

But once you're married, you see it, it comes out. She's giving me these death stares and she's going, and I'm going. So anyway I'm trying so hard to get my heart this is so funny. I'm trying so hard to get my heart and then he broke into English. I wanted to go hall, but I, he, he broke into English and he said these words, he said, we are gonna celebrate the Lords sper together.

And I went, yes. Finally something that I can participate and I can dare. I said, Ann, I'm going out for community. She said, don't you dare. I said, what do you mean I'm going for communion. So with the more death stairs. And then, and eventually she goes, you don't, you go out there, you're not allowed. That's like waving a red flag and a bull, isn't it really?

So I said, that's it. I'm doing it. So I lift up and I got in this line. I walked out with everybody else and as I was getting closer to the front, I really knew I jumped into something I didn't understand. And so I'm down there and there's a process and things you have to say and do, which I didn't know.

And they would give us a little wave and go, this is the body of Christ, and stick it on someone's tongue. So I did it all wrong. Again, this is the body of Christ. I went. Thanks, mate. And then I moved along and there was a guy with a chalice and he goes, this represents the blood of Christ that washes the way your sins.

I said, okay, very good. And he gives me a little sip and I go, Ooh, that's good stuff. That's a nice Shiraz. That's a good Shiraz. That's a good one. And he looked at me and he said and I was going, I've been pretty sinful. Any chance of another didn't happen. And he was looking at me and I saw the look in my wife's eye that I saw in my mom's eye when that petulant little child under the seat was playing up.

And I was about to get marched out and I don't know, I dunno, I've never been invited back. I've never been invited back. And I'm pretty sure they have my name on a picture on a database somewhere. It was funny. It was funny, but what was more funny is that I would talk to people after that, sat through the 40 minute Latin sermon, understood nothing, and they felt great.

And I'm going, ah. And I just went, Lord, you are hilarious. And I realized that God's not against laughter. Maybe he's the one that orchestrated it. So I wanna bounce around a whole bunch of things now, just to give some idea of, funny, like when Anne and I were getting married, you could probably think of times in your life now, which you'd look back and go, that was seriously funny.

But God did something significant. And when Anne and I were dating, there was Anne and there were two other girls, I can't remember their names, which is the right thing to say. And anyway, they were. All I thought I, I could probably marry any one of those three. And they all had the same kind of car.

They were all looked the same kind of families. It was like, okay, any one of those three. So you gotta remember I was in the Pentecostal church and the Pentecostal church. You have to have a sign from God. If you don't get a sign from God, you can't move. And if you do get a sign from God, you usually move the wrong way anyway.

But anyway, I had to have a sign. I had to have a sign. So I said, Lord, I have to have a sign. So the next day. And drives up in a brand new car. Thank you, Lord. That's my sign that I'm to marry this one because she's got a brand new car. How shallow is that? You, I know what you're thinking. You are a shallow person.

You picked her on behalf of a car. Hey, listen, on the other side, she was so materialistic that she bought a new car that it snagged me. Look at the blessing she got. It all depends on how you look at it. It all depends on how you look at it. Let me keep going. I come down to take over a church down here.

I'm 40, mid forties, and the Lord said, I've been in a church where the leadership told me all my life, you're not senior leader material. That's what I was told. So I said, that's fine. I don't care. I'm not really doing anything. I just serve whatever it is. They said no. So now mid forties, suddenly everyone's telling me, Hey, when are you gonna take this church?

And I'm going, why is that what happened? I thought I wasn't, and he goes, oh no, it's different. It's I didn't see any different. But anyway, they said, why don't you go and take this church? And I said, no. And I said, I've, I'm mid forties, I've been through two years of clinical depression.

I'm not the most happy person around. And in fact, there's probably dead people that were more happy than me. That's how bad I was. I said No. And anyway, we got in a conversation with the Lord about it. He said, I said, why me? Why now? And why didn't you pick me in my thirties when I was in my prime?

And he said when you thought you were in your prime, you were useless. You were so full of pride and you were so full of arrogance, and you're so full yourself, I couldn't do a single thing with you, but now that you're broken down, you got no confidence. You're a pathetic excuse of a human being, and now you're ready to follow Jesus.

I can do some things, and I went, this is hilarious. Where God would take something that is so broken and is such a mess, and then over time build something significant not on them. I'm aware what God's doing around here is not on me. And everybody that knows me, that knows anything that goes on within the context of our church and the journey we've been on, they go, they know yeah, it's not him.

There's gotta be God. Thanks. So we live in culture. We live in a culture that really it kinda like treats, like holiness as the opposite of humor. But if you are honest about the moments in your life that seem the most absurd. And God's in the middle of them, and they're so funny, and I said it at the start, I said, life is too short to miss God's sense of humor and it's too long to live without it.

You gotta look for his sense of humor and it's in everywhere. I think if we can laugh at the chaos, it might mean that we actually trust him. If you can actually laugh. At the chaotic stuff that goes on in life and the absurd stuff that happens that might actually be an indication to God that you trust him.

Because a lot of stuff that happens in the world, it's like it's above our pay brain. We can't change it. We can't change it. Now, I dunno about you, but every so often I follow some of the political bits and pieces that are going on and I see the different world leaders and I'm thinking oh, at best, everything you say is confusing.

Middle of the road. It's distressing, but it's always depressing at the end of it. There's not, there's never anything good. So when I went, I, it got me thinking, I thought, I wonder what these guys were like when they were kids. What these big leaders of the world, what were they like when they were kids?

What kind of think, anyway, you're not gonna believe this, but I was invest doing a deep dive on the internet, and I actually found a bit of footage. Of these guys when they were kids and they were all knew each other then it's amazing. It's amazing piece of footage. So I thought hopefully they've got it here for you and we can have a bit of a look.

'cause it give you a different perspective of things. Do you actually have that? That book looks so mad. You had too many problems.

How was Trump this Tim, Jon?

They got Putin in there too.

I was growing up. My mom used to say I could be anything I wanted. Turns out identity theft is a crime.

Zelensky, these guys all knew each other. They were all friends. Did you hear about the man? I fell into an upholstery machine. He's fully recovered.

I suspect this isn't real. I don't know. They're just funny.

When I discovered those, I dunno what they're called, but they're very funny. They do all this with these. All these political figures and that make him say all these funny things. When I first seen it, I was waiting for Anne and I was sitting down in an area having coffee, and I just started.

If I just scroll one or two, I was laughing so hard. Seriously. The manager came out and asked me if I was okay. He said, are you okay man? You're crying so much. I said, mate, if I showed you this, I you'd be here too. So laughter's good, but if you can laugh at the things in this world, it's gonna be a lot better.

So lemme just bounce through a couple of. Things from history of the scriptures to help us understand God's humans are a little bit strange, Elijah and Elijah versus the prophets of Bal in one Kings 18. Context of this is that Ahha King Ahab and his wife they follow the BS and so therefore they've led Israel into idol idolatrous worship.

Elijah has. He declare that there will be no more rain in the land. That's it on God's behalf. That's it. You're done. It's all going dry. And so in the minute he delivers this, he goes into hiding 'cause he's unhappy. So Ahab and them are very distressed because they worship Bal and the Bal that they worship was.

What they believe to be the storm guard and the fertility guard, and the one that would actually turn the seasons and give them the crops and things like that. So you can understand why they're not very happy with Elijah, because he's really messed with their guard. But it's reached a point now where it's hitting it, it's hitting crisis point.

And so Elijah's coming out of hiding and he's ready for a showdown. It's kinda like the gun fight at, okay. Corral is about, he's throwing down the gauntlet, when Here's some of the scriptures that you see when IAB sees Elijah coming. He says, is that you o Troubler of Israel? So he's already identified you're a Troubler man.

'cause you had stopped our God from being able to produce all the stuff. And then Elijah just says to him, I'm not the Troubler. You are the Troubler. You're the troubler. 'cause you've abandoned the Lord's commands and you've led everybody down this track. So I just says, this is it. Show down gunfight. Okay, corral.

You get your four 50 profits. I'll come down there. We'll build two altars, we'll make 'em outta wood. We'll put some sacrifice on them. And the God who comes down by fire and consumes the altar, that is the one true God. And you people then can work out who you're gonna follow these useless bas or follow the one tree got.

So Elijahs being a gentleman, says, you prophets can go first. So the ba prophets, they are trying to endear God the God of Baal to work on their behalf. So he's calling out to him and from morning till afternoon they've been calling out and Elijah's just smiling. He's not really doing anything, and then they're shouting louder and louder, no response.

They're dancing her and they're trying everything to get this false God to do something that he can't do. Then Elijah enough, Elijah's God spokesman. So he's speaking on God's behalf. So then he starts saying some things. Then he says, Hey, maybe your God is sleeping. Maybe he's noded off and he is not, no time for you.

And then he goes on and says, oh, maybe he's busy. Maybe he's got a lot on his plate and he can't be around for you. So he's busy doing another stuff. But the next one I think is hilarious. Perhaps he's. On a bathroom break, which is short for, maybe he's in the bathroom taking a number two, I don't know.

He's mocking them. It's fun. It, he's playing with these guys and this, it carries on. They get so mad they start slicing themselves with all sorts of things to bleed. 'cause they believed that if they shed blood, that they could force their God bowel. They force God to move. And anyway, at the end of it, elijah goes you finished, you're done. Can I have a go now? Yeah, sure. And he goes to his sacrifice. And he goes, I know what you're gonna think. I know what you're gonna think. This is very dry wood, spontaneous combustion. You've all done science. So let's throw some water all on it. Chuck, water all on everywhere.

There we go. Soak it down. You happy with that now? No. No. Let's do it again. Second time throws it all over water. Oh, three times. 'cause everything happens in threes. Pour water all over, there's water everywhere. And then he appeals to God. And the one true God comes down by fire, consumes all of it.

But that's a funny account. God could do this so easily and so simply in more normal ways. But he has Elijah toward them. Perhaps your daughter, maybe he's in the can busy, can't come out right now, he's in the John. Like what is going on? Why? I dunno, it makes me laugh the way God deals with it.

But he's trying, God's humor is being there to reveal his power. To real reveals his power and his personality. You see it again in Abraham and Sarah. Now, Abraham and Sarah, you read about them in Genesis chapter 18. These three visitors have come and they've just said, Hey, I know you're not talking to Abraham.

Says, Hey listen, your wife's gonna have a baby next year. And Sarah is laughing 'cause she's out of ear shop, but she's laughing. Now, the reason she's laughing is because this promise was given to them at 75 that they would be the father and mother of many nations. So they had this promise, like the stars of the sky.

It was wonderful. These visions, things are so beautiful, wonderful, out there. Anyway, after 11 years, nothing's happened. So Sarah comes up with this great idea. And the idea was maybe I don't seem to be able to have children and I'm childless and barrenness is a sign of not being under God's protection and of worth of women.

So she said, I've got this great handmade and Hagar, why don't you start a line through Hagar and then we can start our line. So I, I don't know why Abraham. Abraham should have said, no, honey. God said it's gonna happen for us, but maybe, I don't know, maybe Hagar was really pretty and he just went, oh, if you say so, I don't know. But anyway, that's what happens. So she has a crack at this kind of thing, and they do. He have a son ish, Ishmael. Hagar has a son, Ishmael. And Ishmael becomes a real problem for the people of God all the time. He's actually the father of Islam, Muslim. See it doesn't work. It doesn't go so well when you try and do things, try and force things that God hasn't said is not doing.

So that's what happens. So then go another 13 years and now she's 90 and they've turned up to say, Hey, you're gonna have a baby. And she's laughing. This is what she says to them After I'm worn out and my Lord is old, will I now have this pleasure? She's recounting 25 years plus of difficulty of having a dream and having a visionist, not working, trying to figure it out themselves.

And then suddenly now after we're coming to the end, now you want us to do this thing? And God asks her, why did you laugh, Sarah? Why did you laugh? She denies it. I didn't laugh. Something in my throat, I didn't laugh. It wasn't me, it was someone else. I didn't laugh. He goes, yes you did. You laughed.

And he says, is there anything too hard for the Lord? Now here's the God sense of humor. There they, it's like past the used by date, and God is using them now, but when they have the child, they have to name him. What Isaac? The Son of Promise. What does Isaac mean? He laughs. That's what his name means.

He laughs. No one's too old. No one is beyond it. What God has said, God will do. We've just gotta be careful that we don't go mess things up in the middle, which is what we tend to do all the time. His humor reveals his timing. Jesus had the disciples, what a rad tag bunch they were. And James and John, he gives them nicknames, he calls them, which means Sons of Thunder.

He calls 'em Sons of Thunder. Why did you do that? He's being playful 'cause this is who they are. They were so fiery and so zealous and sometimes impulsive. One time they're going through into some area and Jesus is coming through and they reject Jesus. So what do James and John do? Let's call down fire and consume them.

Jesus has to say, ah, steady on, we're not in that covenant anymore. We're over here. But they had that kind of FIS about them. It's and when they getting close to the end, say, Hey Jesus, we wanna be on your left and your right. And they upset all the other disciples. It's hilarious all the time.

But he gave them the nickname because they were passionate, they were bold, they were occasionally explosive, intense, and ambitious. You wouldn't put these guys on your team at all, but Jesus put 'em on there. And then over time, hilariously John goes from calling down fire to actually want to destroy people to become the apostle of love.

It says, for God, so love the world. It's amazing. God reveals his insight that way. This one's gonna really affect the guys, the Galatian church. Paul's been going around, he's been telling everyone about the good news of the gospel. That Jesus and Jesus alone, the Drews in Jerusalem, they're sending out their own missionaries to say it's no, it's not Paul.

It's not just Jesus. He's got a bit of air in there. He's got Jesus plus new Moon festivals and Jesus plus this, and Jesus, in this case, it's Jesus plus circumcision. Ooh. So Paul has had enough he's a bit angry and so he's, but he's getting playful at the same time. Basically, system, if you think that your salvation is tin, is hinging on you, cutting a little bit of skin, if you think that's the important part, you should go all the way and lobb it off.

Oh. Every man just had a shutter up his spine. He was, it was funny in the context, he says, emasculating. It was funny, but it wasn't funny because everyone else knew. That's painful. But also he's behind the, he's showing his disdain and how frustrated his boots goes. He goes, there's a lot of big arteries down there.

If you lob that off, mate, you're gonna bleed out and then I won't have to listen to your nonsense. There's a lot going on in here. That's funny. It's a dark kind of humor that he's used in there to try and get this across. It's not about what you do in the physical, it's a spiritual thing. It's Jesus Christ and Grace in Him alone.

It's not Jesus plus all this other stuff. Now, I don't know this does anyone know who this lady is here? Took a photo here. Anybody been around long enough? Dunno who that lady is. Bob Lorraina Bobbit, she's famous because her husband was not particularly nice to her. And so one day she. Gave him plenty of drinks, knocked him out, and then she got the garden.

She is

and followed Paul's suggestion.

He's being funny to them. He's being funny. It's a side of the humor that's so if you still think that this, you wanna follow the old covenant, just a little bit of snipping that's gonna do. If you feel that's contingent on how you're gonna get to heaven, you might as well not stop there and just lob the lot off.

It's like

sometimes you gotta look a bit harder to find God's humor, but it's there. It's there and it's hidden and it's not there so that he can laugh at it. It is there so he can laugh with us. And laughter lets us know that we are not in control. And God is. That's why I say if you can learn to laugh at life and laugh of all the stuff that's going around, like when you see the way these leaders in the world are behaving, it's oh man, just laugh.

It's comical. Because it shows God that you actually trust him. If you start freaking out, when they start putting out all these false things about the world's gonna end, the climate's gonna do this, and blah, blah, blah, the climate's changing. And of course it's changing. It's changing. Every day. Go to Melbourne, it changes every two hours.

But it's a good strategy because it's changing. It's wow, great. Let dump global warming because that didn't work. But if you cannot get caught up in that and you can actually get to the point where you go, oh, okay. Oh man, it's, oh, this thing. It's gonna go, it's gonna burn up and we're all gonna die and everything's gonna finish on Thursday.

Oh man, I got a massive test I gotta work through on Wednesday. Any chance you can move the thing forward, like me move the game forward. It's like you don't care. You laugh at it. You laugh at it and laughing. It is not denial. We think it's denial, but it's not. Laughing is not denial. It's a defiance of despair.

You refuse to sit in despair because the world media everywhere. As I keep saying to you, don't watch anything online anywhere. None of the news is good. It's all being spun every direction for someone's agenda. If the only news you're watching is the news on tv, you're the most uninformed person in the world.

'cause they dunno anything until after it happens. But if you start following ki. Tapped into Jesus, he'll tell you what's gonna happen beforehand. And if you don't believe me, that's the case. I ask you to go back and read your devotions over the last three months and see how much of it you are working through now, because that's the way God does it.

He does it so life's too short to miss God's humor. You gotta be able to see the humor in everything. Because it's too long to live without it. It's just awful. When you see someone that cannot laugh at themselves, that cannot laugh at life, they end up in terrible despair. So I wonder what has happened for you that's maybe a little bit out of the box, little bit humorous.

What has God taught you? I'd love to hear some of your stories every so often. What has God done this Turned out. It was actually quite good but funny at the time 'cause it's all happening that way. When life gets absurd. I've discovered that God gets creative and that's just hilarious and that's why I say a merry heart is good.

Like a Madison, you must learn to laugh more. And I think more than any time in human history we learn we need to laugh more because God's not laughing at us, he's laughing with us. He's laughing with us. And if you don't think God's got a sense of humor and you're married,

have a think about the person that you are living with now

and is that what you thought it was gonna be when you started,

or that business that you started now, which was gonna do this amazing thing? It is it different to when it started? Everything's like that. It's a constant evolution of change. God is moving things all the time, but if you can learn to laugh, don't take it too seriously. Take what you do seriously. Like we should take seriously the situation that we are to, we to be a witness for Christ all the time and we're to help people find Jesus.

That's important stuff. But don't take yourself too seriously. Learn to laugh at yourself and God will laugh right along with you. Along with you. I don't know if you've ever thought about it. Have you ever thought about, even think about the gospel, Jesus coming into this world. Can you, have you ever thought about what was the conversation like between the father, son and Holy Spirit before this all happened?

I can just imagine. It's just going on. It's going on. Life's going on okay, we're finally getting there. Thousands of years, all that kind of stuff. And then the father says, Hey, I think it's time. What's time? It's time. It's time for us to go and do what they cannot do for themselves. They cannot get out of being trapped in sin and death.

They're stuck there. I'm gonna go down and we're gonna atone for the sins. Okay. That sounds great. That sounds, yeah. And it's gonna be a load of fun. It's a load of fun. You say what's the plan? The plan is I'm gonna go into the world as a baby. Really? You're gonna give up all this and just, yeah.

It's gonna be so much fun. And I found this really lovely girl called Mary. She's so cute. And I'm gonna overshadow her and she'll be with Child and the Holy Spirit just jumps in and goes. Whew. I know you, you've probably thought about this father. It's not really a. Acceptable thing to be having a baby outside of Wetlock.

In fact, it's downright dangerous down there. Have you thought that? Oh yeah. Yeah. That's gonna be fun. It's gonna be fun to see how Mary's gotta explain to everybody how she's been overshadowed and now she's got a baby and the baby is the son of God. She's that's gonna be hilarious. Yeah. But what about Joseph?

Oh yeah, that's gonna be a hoot too. He's gonna have a conniption as she's trying to tell him. I was just out there in the field, in the donkey, and then there was this angel, and then there was this light backwards and forward. Now I got a baby, but dad says it's okay. I'll send him a dream, sort him out.

Everything will be fine. Whoa, this is hilarious. So when's it gonna happen? What's gonna happen soon? It's gonna happen soon. But here's the real kicker son. I'm going as you No, this was your idea, dad. No. I'm going as you. I'm coming as the son. It's gonna be great. And then we'll, I'll, we'll submit ourselves to Mary and to Joseph and we'll live life and I'll grow up to be a man and I'll show people what God is like in a human body.

And then eventually when the time's right, I'll go to the cross. You sure you don't wanna go dead? No. You got this. And yeah. Yeah. Okay. And I go to the cross and then I'll pay for the price for their sins. I go to hell on their behalf. I take the punishment, I'll raise rise from the dead, and then I'll say whosoever wants to can come.

What a great plan. This is gonna be amazing. Yeah. It's gonna be hilarious to see it outrun, but it's going to be amazing. Because the heart, the sun, and the Holy Spirit have always been in communion. And when you think about it, that would've been an interesting conversation to have. I think humor is actually part of the divine, and I think one of the worst things that we've done today is through political correctness stopped our comedians from using humor.

Because it's humor that helps us cope with the fact that everything is outta control. But that's okay because our God is in control. It's amazing. Let's pray. Father, I just thank you for this series. It's been really fun. And Lord, there's so many ways that you display your humor to us. And we don't, sometimes I think we don't catch it.

We just, we don't miss it. And sorry, we miss it because we don't really know what's going on at the time. But there's always that hindsight that afterwards we look back and go, oh my goodness, that was funny. But there was some deep spiritual significance to that. So Father, I just pray for all of us here because there are some of us that have personalities that tend to be more serious and they struggle more.

Ones of us that are like that. Help us to be able to know that you are in control. No matter what happens in this life, you are still in control. And this is only a prelude really to what's coming next. We just gotta keep ourselves well connected to you. So Father, I pray for people right now that maybe never made the decision to follow online in the room.

That you might make the decision to say, you know what? Acknowledge that you're broken knowledge. You can't fix yourself. If you could, you would've done, and then just say, I'm gonna surrender my life to Christ, the gift from God that takes away the sin of the world, and instead of fixing myself, I'm gonna trust him to actually bring me back to God's original design.

And I know it's gonna be funny on the way, but that's okay. God will laugh with me. So Holy Spirit, would you just please keep just leading us and guiding us in Jesus' name? Amen. If you've never made the decision to actually start your journey, it's not that hard. Just talk to someone that's with you online or in the room.

It's not that hard. Gaining and maintaining a relationship with God is easy. We've made it hard. Religion's made it hard, but it's actually very easy. And I was thinking today even this morning as we were. About what happens in the context of a week around here. It's like the junction's like chaotic in a great way and there's lots of fun.

And we had a busy week and they had a couple of short staff and I think I was bouncing between cleaning toilets, delivering coffees after washing my hands, of course, then going to the kitchen and making food. And someone came in and they just needed some help and they said, oh, we just want to come in and just felt I just wanted to be here and maybe someone could pray with me 'cause it had an issue. And so I sat 'em down and I saw one of our other guys come and said, could you just take to talk to him for a bit? And I just kept doing things that I was doing and I had a word for him and it came out. I said, there's this word for you and I think you need to think about that, and then we'll pray shortly.

And so I did that back doing the stuff. And then we prayed for this person and they got up and said, Hey I feel better. I feel like there's some healing happened in that area. Anyway, they text me back later on in the evening and said, you're not gonna believe it, but that thing is gone. It's totally gone.

It's healed. And I'm thinking Now that's funny, Lord, where did all that happen? I didn't get time to go and have a long prayer meeting or 45 minutes of worship or something like that. It happened just because. I could see the funny side of it. This is ridiculous. Like I'm trying to fit this guy in.

Having some prayer in the middle of cooking and cleaning and things like, it's just funny. But if you keep your heart open to the interruptions that are there, God just jumps in and Dutch stuff and I'd encourage you guys to the love on each other. That way, get involved in each other's lives. Don't let it be static.