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How to Keep From Falling (Part 9) | What Exactly is Godliness?
When you hear the word "godliness", what immediately comes to your mind? For many people, the word evokes images of pious-looking saints in ethereal settings, or the idea of being "so heavenly minded that you're no earthly good". Unfortunately, these types of misconceptions can make godliness seem out of reach for the average believer, as if it were a quality or trait that is only reserved for the most holy among us. The good news is, the actual scriptural definition of godliness is a lot more practical than we may have realized. In this latest installment of our series called "How to Keep From Falling", David & Phil dig into the Word to discover the biblical definition of godliness, and they offer key insights to help clarify the true meaning of this essential character trait. So brew up a cup of your favorite coffee, grab your Bible and join us as we explore God's Word together!
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As we've looked through the virtues that we found in 2 Peter, chapter 1, we begin to see a pattern developing of how we ought to govern ourselves in order to grow deeper in the knowledge of God. We've talked about things like adding to our faith virtue and to our virtue, knowledge and to knowledge, perseverance and other items there, but this week we're going to hit one that I think is a big one, and it's an important one, and it's godliness. It might be something that, if you're like me, for years, godliness hasn't always been the clearest thing to understand. Tonight, we endeavor to make it clearer so you can actually execute it Up. Episode of Bible Bros and Brew. Episode of Bible Bros and Brew. I'm David, in the middle is John and on the end, the very end, is Philip, and we are so glad that you joined us tonight as we dig into the Word and talk about 2 Peter, chapter 1, verses 5 and 6 right now.
David McIntyre:We started this series back a few weeks ago looking at the first four verses, and those are the setup for what we're now digging into in 5 and 6. 5 and 6 is almost the how-to of 3 and 4. And really the understanding that our objective here is that we have been given. God has given unto us all things that pertain to life and godliness, but how has he done it? Through the knowledge of him. So if we don't have knowledge of him as we discussed a few weeks back then we don't have access to life and godliness. So our knowledge of him impacts our access to life and godliness. But the reality is is that God has given us life and godliness. He's given us all of these things already, but we don't know and appreciate and understand them without digging into his word and becoming acquainted with what all of it means. And by the time we get to verse 5, he kind of now breaks down life and godliness a little bit here and we begin to see that it includes faith, that it includes knowledge, that it includes self-control, that it includes patience and all of these characteristics that really should be assigned to every Christian believer out there. So we're going through, and we've been going through, these virtues and as we look at these virtues, we've been breaking them down a little bit to help your understanding.
David McIntyre:Tonight we are going to talk about godliness. Now I'm going to tell you, like I told Phil a couple weeks ago, I thought I understood this and I thought I appreciated it in the way that I ought to, until I took another look at it again and realized I hadn't gone deep enough yet to really fully appreciate what godliness is. So before you check out and say, okay, here's another one of those big Christian words, don't check out on us yet, because it's really simple in one sense and easy to understand. But then you have to realize that when you dig into it it's one of those small things that all of a sudden opens up and becomes a bigger, beautiful thing. But before we do that, I want to first of all invite you to make sure that you take a moment to subscribe to the channel. Make sure you smash that like button and help the algorithm share us with the world and help the algorithm share us with the world.
David McIntyre:Also, don't forget that each week we have a study guide that goes with each episode. Those go out on Monday mornings that coincide with the Monday morning release of the episode of the week. So make sure that you go down in the description and look for the Bible Study Guide. Sign up. You just put in your name and your email address that you want the guide sent to and we'll ship it out to you automatically every Monday. We're not trying to sell you anything. We're not trying to take anything from you. We're just trying to get a good resource to you that we think will help you in your study time during the week. All right, let's now talk about the next most important thing to the word in this podcast, and that is what is in the cup. John, I'm going to start with you this time what's in your cup?
Jon Dzyuba:That's a great question. As you know, it's in the middle of it's actually towards the end of july. It's hot, so I I actually made myself an iced coffee. Uh, this is like a cinnamon brown sugar iced coffee, not a cold brew. Um, I didn't have the kind of time or effort to make something like that, but this is like an ice, you know brown sugar type of coffee.
Jon Dzyuba:It's good, it's. I just I need a break from the heat. I'm not going to lie to you, it's hot but it's good, it's really it's. It's not. It's a medium roast, so it's not like super light. I had like a light roast the other day and it was. I realized I don't like light roast coffee at all. So it's a nice refreshing taste of summer.
Phillip Rich:There you go.
David McIntyre:Nice, nice. How about you, phil? What's in the cup?
Phillip Rich:Well, in keeping with John's theme, I didn't want anything hot today. I wanted some cold brew. So I decided to avail myself to the famous what I call Stoke cold brew. I like to get the one that says unsweet black, because it oh yeah, it's beautiful, it's got that robust kind of a taste. It would be like a dark roast. Basically, if you know, we were doing like a hot coffee kind of situation. But, um, what I do is I throw it in, uh, a nice glass you know, I'm trying to do my cool aesthetic with the mason jar but and putting some heavy whipping cream in there, that's like the, the cherry on top, dude. So that's my drink, man. Cold brew is is. That's where it's at. Shout out to Stoke once again.
David McIntyre:When you put that heavy whipping cream in there it tastes a tad bit like coffee ice cream.
Phillip Rich:It does. It's so good man.
David McIntyre:It's like getting dessert. It's caffeinated, so you're bouncing off the walls a little bit later on.
Phillip Rich:And then just crashing hard towards the afternoon that's a feature, not a bug. And then just crashing hard towards the afternoon that's a feature, not a bug.
David McIntyre:Tonight I am drinking. I know I keep saying I'm going to stop with the K-Cups in a minute, but right now we have to have a moment of truth about this. David, it's my question we may have to. If I do it again next week, then I think I deserve to be called out on my coffee laziness. But tonight I'm drinking Butter Pecan. I know you can't see that I'll put it next to me, but it's Butter Pecan and it's actually from Members Mark. Members Mark is Sam's Club.
David McIntyre:Oh nice nice, and so it's something my wife bought. She tries all kinds of cheap coffee that I would never try. This this one's not bad. So it's definitely not, you know, like the butter pecan that I get from Red Barn when I get a bag of Red Barn coffee. But it's not horrible. So, yeah, it's a nice cup of coffee. It does make me feel somewhat conversational and it carries a little bit of cinnamon on top just to add to the conversation level Come on Good stuff man.
David McIntyre:Well, that's what's in the cup everybody. Now let's dig into the Word a little bit. As you know, we've been talking about 2 Peter, chapter 1, and we're looking right now specifically at verses 5 and 6. And in verse 5 and 6, and if you'll pull that up, john, we'll just read it right through right now, verse 5 and 6 of 2 Peter. And right now we're also reading from the Berean Study Bible.
David McIntyre:You can use any study Bible that you want to use. One of the things I'll just tell you is, as we get into these virtues, that you might just see the words just a little different, but they may be the same, for example, where it says to persevere. In the Berean Study Bible, in the King James, I believe, it says endurance, and so if you look up and study those words, you'll see that they both mean the same thing and will still bring you around to the same point. It's just how some of the non-King James Bibles have decided to break down for better understanding of the reader. So right now we're reading the Berean Study Bible, which is a Bible that I've grown to kind of appreciate because I think it sticks somewhat close to the King James, but it also gives you the wiggle room to understand things a little more deeply, and so we're not at Bible Bros and Brew, one translation only kind of people.
Jon Dzyuba:That's right.
David McIntyre:So we want you to. What's most important is that you understand what the scripture is saying, and as you mature you'll understand why we don't use some translations or don't always go to them, because they don't always add value to your reading. Sometimes they can take away value from your reading. So in verses five and six it says, for this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith. Add to your faith virtue, and add to virtue and we talked about virtue being moral goodness. Then it says add to virtue knowledge and we understood that to be an intimate personal relationship with God, the Father and Jesus Christ, to know him and to know his great salvation. And to knowledge self-control. We talked about self-control being dominion within, but not only of yourself. So I'm taking authority and dominion over what's going on within me, but I'm doing so by the help of the Holy Spirit. Then from self-control, add perseverance.
David McIntyre:We talked about it last week that it was one of our, you know, a cheerful bearing up under a cheerful enduring, to go from glory to glory, to get from one thing to the next thing that God has for you, to get through tough and difficult situations and circumstances that may be happening in your life.
David McIntyre:And then we got to well, we got to perseverance. And now it says got to well, we got to perseverance. And now it says and to perseverance, godliness and to godliness, brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these qualities and continue to grow in them, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ and that's an important part there at the end of verse 7, that the objective of digging into these things, understanding them and deploying them in your life is so that you won't be ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of God, which we established in verse 3, is the key to unlocking all the things that pertain to life and godliness. So tonight, Philip, we're going to dig into godliness here in verse six. And man, it's a loaded gun. You want to kick us off here and talk about godliness, or how do you want to do it?
Phillip Rich:Yeah, I wanted to share the definition that I found from the Strong's Concordance for that word. Godliness Now, for those listening, david and I talk about this all the time, but what we like to do is we use different Bible study tools to kind of help supplement what we're studying. Um, one of the biggest ones that we use all the time is we call uh, the Strong's Concordance. It was a gigantic book and it's written by a gentleman named James Strong who basically took every, every word in the King James Bible and he matched it to a or gave the Greek definition or the Hebrew definition depending on if it's Old Testament or New Testament of what that word was in the original language. So it's like a reference book.
David McIntyre:Can I just say something real quick about that, please? Yeah, what an undertaking. Oh my gosh, that had to be that. Just had that to me. Hearing you say that it all of a sudden sparks in me that's wild, that a dude decided to literally start with number one and start connecting the dots between the Greek and the English so that we could better understand.
Phillip Rich:I don't even know how the man completed it in a lifetime. To be honest with you. Right, that is a massive undertaking to literally take every single word, including the A, the ands, the these, all of it, and find the Greek or Hebrew definitions and then look them up and put them in order. And that's why, when some of the Bibles that you may see us use, especially the online versions, you'll see that, like the words and the verses, have little numbers beside them. Well, those numbers are the Strong's Concordance reference numbers. So when you look it up using different software tools, you can look it up by number. Then it'll give you the Greek or Hebrew translation of that word in English. So I just want to point that out.
Phillip Rich:I know we've talked about it before, but I don't want to. I like to not assume. You know that that that is just a common thing. A lot of times it's one of those things that people hear about, but maybe they haven't heard the details of how those tools are being used and that type of thing. So, the Strong's Concordance if you haven't yet got it, I highly recommend that you find you a concordance. There's plenty of Christian bookstores that carry these types of things or you can order them online from places like christianbookcom, or you can do what David and I have done. There's plenty of websites where all this stuff is for free. You don't have to order something and wait for it. You can just go right online and get it. I think one of David's favorite sites is biblehubcom. Is that it, David?
David McIntyre:Yep.
Phillip Rich:Yeah, biblehubcom, and then also one of both of our favorites, blueletterbibleorg. That's a fantastic website that gives you the Strong's number for each word you're seeing in the English. So please avail yourself of those resources. It'll change your whole understanding of the scripture. It'll help you kind of get the deeper clarity as to what these things are saying, because a lot of times what you see in the English is is almost like the cliff notes compared to what's in the Greek or the Hebrew of those same words. So much richness in the original languages, man, that you learn just from taking time to study it out. So highly encourage you guys to do that out there. But back to our unless, David, if you wanted to say anything else about that, I don't want to.
David McIntyre:Just no, no, no, go ahead, you're good Okay.
Phillip Rich:All right, but that word godliness, it is from the Strong's word or the Strong's definition, 2150. It is the word Eusebia, eusebia, and it means that first definition there under the numbered list there, well, reverence, which I find interesting because it's two words put together, the word well and the word to respect or reverence something. So it's Eusebia, well, reverence. And there's also the second one here devout reverence in attitude, conduct and deed. And then the last one is especially the gospel plan.
Phillip Rich:Now, one of the things that I read from another resource I use all the time, esword, which I love, is e-swordnet. Sword, which I love, is e-swordnet. They have a, uh, a commentary from a gentleman named Marvin Vincent who was a Greek scholar. He dug deep into all this stuff. Uh, the way that he put it for that word, eusebia. He said worship rightly directed, worship rightly directed, and I love that. It's like, um, you're giving God the worship that is rightly due to him. And when you think about that, david, I don't know about you, but the first thing I think of, or one of the first things, is like the fear of the Lord comes to my mind. You know, you're living in a way that shows reverence, proper reverence towards God you know, philip, I'm trying to find it right now.
David McIntyre:I think it's in the Old Testament. Yeah, if you look, and, john, if you there on the, if you pull up that, that concordance piece that you've got up right now, yeah, and it feels there we go If you look, if you scroll down and look into the, the deeper, dive into this word, keep going down. Yeah, if you get into, scroll back up, I think it's the um or maybe uh, maybe, uh. Well, let me just read it for you, because it's in the, it's in the background in the old testament and jewish thought.
David McIntyre:It says, although the exact term does not appear in the hebrew bible, its substance is embedded in the fear of the lord oh wow praise god covenant faithfulness and wholehearted love for God yeah so I, when you just said you know that it took you to the fear of the Lord Philip, I just wanted to share that thought with you because I remember that from my reading in in that and I put it in here as a note for myself. So, yeah, that makes perfectly good sense. I connect with that.
Phillip Rich:Yeah, and I think, David, one of the things I think is important for us to bring out when we hear that word godliness a lot of times people can have what do you call it like religious concepts of what that word means, and most of that's going to be probably on the negative side, or maybe the side that seems to lean towards like pretense. You know, when they hear godliness and one of the definitions actually is piety and for some reason, when people hear the word piety, they don't think of it a lot of times in a positive way. They think of it in like a oh, they're holier than thou. You know, you're untouchable, You're so heavenly minded that you're no earthly good, and that kind of thing. We're not talking about that when we talk about godliness. We're not talking about trying to be some overly spiritual, super deep person that can't connect with people on a regular you know type of basis or a common ground people on a regular, you know type of basis or a common ground.
Phillip Rich:We're talking about truly, truly reverence towards God, done right, you know, living in a way that shows I truly do believe God's real number one. I truly do think that I am accountable to him. I truly do think that the way I live matters to God. It's not just something where it's a greasy grace all the time and no matter what I do, hey, God forgives me, so it's not a big deal how I live. That is not the biblical definition of godliness. Godliness is a proper right, reverence towards the father, towards him, living in a way that shows you do believe he's real, you do believe he's up there, you do believe that how you live matters to him. So I think it's important just to kind of point that out. It's not being fake and religious, it's being someone who truly respects God and says okay, because I respect him, I'm not going to do these things over here that I know don't please him.
David McIntyre:Yeah, and you know I had to get over that word, piety. Yeah, me too, I was telling you, philip, and part of it was because I didn't really understand what it meant. But, piety generally refers to a deep respect, devotion or reverence, especially towards God. It can be used in non-biblical terms in one sense, but it typically has to do with respect, devotion or reverence to God and there's a connection between piety and this sense of godliness and the fear of the Lord.
David McIntyre:Yeah of the Lord, yeah, and so it's a bridge word there, and it has everything to do with how you govern yourself, which is kind of what godliness is talking about. Godliness requires you to for lack of a better word. Godliness requires you to act in three realms, and I wrote them down to act in three realms. And I wrote them down if I could, just if I can find them again, because the thought, uh, the thought has just come to my mind. Uh, it talks, it.
David McIntyre:it should be in prayer, in scripture intake and in service and all of these things have to do with if you to me and you could disagree with this and we could talk about it prayer scripture intake and you're actually leading to your serving of people.
Phillip Rich:Yeah.
David McIntyre:I agree they should precede your serving of people, because they will help you. Prayer and scripture intake will help you to serve people and serve them better. The reason why you can be a great member of your community is because you lead off with prayer and your time in the word.
Phillip Rich:Yeah.
David McIntyre:And because you take that time in, you can then go out and serve your community and love on the people in your community, be a blessing to the people in your community and do good in your community. But when we talk about godliness it includes those three things, so there is an inward part of godliness and there is an external part of godliness and it all is inclusive in one.
David McIntyre:One part should impact and affect the other. Now don't be like I've been guilty of and do the scripture intake and do the prayer, but don't go out and serve people because you're still stymied right, because you never get the opportunity to express your faith out in the real world. You don't see the opportunity to put the things of God to work in the real world, in a real environment, and see how they can change and impact things. And also, what will happen is you'll get out there and you'll be operating in godliness and that godliness will cause you. In some cases you'll run into some stuff that'll send you back to your prayer room.
David McIntyre:That'll send you back to your scripture intake so that you can go out once again and do more. And a perfect example of that is have you ever talked to a person about the Lord or something of God? And you've talked to them and you don't feel like you're breaking through, or they've pushed back and given you something you didn't know about. What does that do? Sends you back into prayer for that person. Sends you back into the word to better understand the approach that you should take or what God has to say about that. Why? So you can then go back out again and connect with that person. So godliness is it is one of the definitions, philip, that I saw for godliness. It is someone's inner response to the things of God which shows itself in godly reverence.
Phillip Rich:That's good. That's good. I love that man.
David McIntyre:And also broke it down as a godly heart response.
Phillip Rich:Yeah, yeah, it's almost like, oh gosh, remember how David said and I forgot where this is in the Psalms but he said what shall I render to the Lord for all the things he's done for me? You know I could be screwing that scripture up, but it's something to that effect Like what can I render to him? Meaning, how can I?
David McIntyre:What can I thank him?
Phillip Rich:Yeah, how can I thank him? How can I repay him? And we all know that we can't actually repay God for the gift of salvation. It's not even possible, but there is actually repay God for the gift of salvation, it's not even possible.
Phillip Rich:But there's also the goods. You don't have the cards, man. You don't have any other cards to do that. But at the same time the Lord made it simple for us because he said don't owe anybody anything except to love them. That's your key, right there. The only thing Jesus is requiring of us at this point if you want to call it a requirement is that we love others as he has loved us. That's actually how you pay or repay, if you want to call it that the Lord for the amazing gift of salvation and righteousness and all those things that he's given us.
Phillip Rich:And again, we know it's a debt we could never pay. That's something that in one of the Greek translations of that verse in Romans 13, when it says oh, no one anything but to love us, love them. It says you don't. He says don't owe anybody anything but the continual outstanding debt of loving one another. So it's a debt that can never actually be repaid and it's not meant to be. You know we're supposed to just live that way because, after all, if Jesus did all this for me, you know what business do I have, not walking in love towards my fellow man. You know it says forgive one another in Ephesians four. Forgive one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, forgave you, right? So it's. It's in that same kind of a realm, like it's the least I can do. You know, if you think about all that he's done for us, it's the least we can do is serve him and walk with him and reverence him and make that our right reverence toward him or our act of godliness towards him.
David McIntyre:Yeah, I completely agree. I think that and I know I'm jumping a little bit, but, Phillip, I wrote a note down here and I know that I'm looking at my notes a lot and it's because I don't want to miss. I don't want to miss a thing. Sorry, I don't know where that came from.
Phillip Rich:I was not expecting that.
David McIntyre:That was great Sorry.
Phillip Rich:Steven Tyler's spirit said whoo.
David McIntyre:Yeah, that thing set in too quick. I reject that in Jesus' name Lips and all.
David McIntyre:But Philip, when I was talking, Philip and I talk about stuff in in between time we talk about all kinds of stuff. That's kind of where this podcast came from. Yeah, Um, but Philip, you said it a way that I really I really liked. It says living like you actually believe God exists, Right, that that is godliness, yeah. And one of the things else that I found as I was working through the commentary on this is that it said you ought to live holy and godly lives because the certainty of cosmic judgment impels moral earnestness.
Phillip Rich:Ooh, that's good man.
David McIntyre:And what we mean by that is that. You know, when Philip says live like God actually exists, it is to recognize that not only does God exist and that he has first of all given us this, regenerated, this born again life where we can walk differently and we can literally be born again, from darkness into light Right, darkness into light right. And so not only has he given us that, but in that light we become extremely intensely aware that there is a judgment that is coming to this world, and that judgment is for those who remain in darkness. So when we live godly, one of the things that we think about is we live as people who know and believe that God exists, and not only that he exists, but that there is a judgment coming for those who don't accept him as he is and come to him and lay down their sins before him and allow him to give them new robes and new life in him.
David McIntyre:And so, philip, I just I like your definition of that, because now it sets us up to say that I'm going to live in a way that honors and pleases God, that considers, that, considers scripture, that considers prayer, that considers my service to people. And the reason why I consider scripture is because scripture teaches me how to live. The reason why it requires prayer is because prayer guides my actions in my day-to-day life, just as scripture does. And then, ultimately, I can go out and serve and be a person in this world who makes a difference, because I choose to live godly.
Phillip Rich:That's good man, that's good, good stuff. David. You know you made me think of that scripture. I think it's in Philippians 1. John, if you don't mind, could you bump us over there? I might be wrong, we're about to find out. In Philippians 1 it's the one where it says only let your conversation be as it becometh Christ. That might even be in Philippians 2, actually, let me see here. Oh well, let me look at Philippians 1 first. Sorry, okay, uh-huh, if we keep going down a little bit there, john, keep on going. Oh, back up a little bit.
Phillip Rich:Yep, there it is in verse 27, philippians 1, 2727. It says nevertheless, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. That's that right reverence we're talking about. Right. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I'll know that you stand firm in one spirit, contending together as one for the faith of the gospel, without being frightened in any way by those who oppose you. And look, this is this goes back to your point, david this living that way, this is a clear sign of their destruction, but of your salvation, and it is from God. So he's saying just living in a way that reverences God. It's almost like it's an indictment against living any other way, and that's how it should be. I think that you know we should live in a manner, honestly, that makes people think about where they stand with God. You know, like I know, that we can't be the Holy Spirit to anybody.
David McIntyre:No, but I do believe Nor should we try.
Phillip Rich:Nor should we try. But I do believe that the Holy Spirit can use our life, our manner of living, as an example to people to show them hey, okay, this is somebody who takes God seriously. You know, they take the things of God seriously, and just from that alone it could cause them to think where do I stand with God right now?
Phillip Rich:You know, I wonder, you know, where would I end up if I died today? You know those are some important questions. I mean, you know that's like there's nothing more important than that, honestly, and I think about that because one of the biggest complaints if you want to look at the flip side of that, one of the biggest complaints that we always hear from people who don't want anything to do with God is all those Christians are all hypocrites anyway. You know, they say one thing but they do another, or they expect you to live a certain way and they're not even living that way themselves. So we see the flip side of it, what that produces. It produces people who don't want anything to do with God.
Phillip Rich:But what happens when they encounter somebody who's actually serious about God, takes the word of God seriously, takes their walk with God seriously, and they see that these people see that and they know okay, this guy is the real deal. You know he may not be a perfect person and nobody's expecting him to be, hopefully but we know that he means business about God. All of a sudden, that produces in some degree of a conviction. You know, in that person, like man, where do I stand with God? You know, I think that's the purpose of it, honestly, is not to sit here and beat people over the head with the Bible or, you know, tell them how much of a sinner they are. You don't have to do any of that. All you have to do is live in a way that reverences God, and that actually is enough to get people thinking about where they might stand with God.
David McIntyre:You know, Philip, we weren't designed to live that way with God. You know, Philip, we weren't designed to live that way. I don't know where the beaten people over there with the Bible came from and all this stuff. Like you, you used to see, at least back in the day. You know, the Westboro Baptist church and they show up at places and show their behinds.
David McIntyre:Yeah, and some of these people, you know, some of these street preachers. I've seen some that are really good, but I've seen some that are really good, but I've seen some that are really bad. Yeah, and you know, the bible tells us to live quiet and peaceable lives yes to to be quiet in one sense to be well, not in one sense. It says to be quiet and do your work and let that talk for you.
David McIntyre:Yeah, and just think if all of us who are believers lived like we believed him and lived like we trust him, we wouldn't have to say anything because our lives would do the talking for us. Remember it says they would know, they will know we are Christians by our love for one another. If they saw that love for one another, if they saw that community, if they saw the way that you go out and serve, if they saw all of those things, you have to realize that a godly life is a convicting life and you've got to know that personally. Just think about it. It's the guy or girl at work who doesn't get involved in everybody's gossip, you know, sits quietly at lunch and you know they're easy to talk to and get along with. They're never involved in a bunch of drama and stuff, but you know that they love God. They're the ones that everybody secretly goes to and says, hey, can you pray for me?
Phillip Rich:Exactly.
David McIntyre:You know, and they want to talk to you about their problem and see what feedback you could give them, because they're looking for some answer that's other than the one that they currently already have. Those people who are living quietly and peaceably, but still out serving people and serving the Lord and living it through their lives, not through their much talk, those are the ones we're talking about and that's what you're designed to be. Some of you get so concerned. Oh, my God, god might send me out knocking doors. Well, you might knock a door, but the reason you knock that door is to say to a neighbor hey, I noticed some of your flowers fell out over here.
David McIntyre:You want some help putting them back together.
Phillip Rich:Right right.
David McIntyre:Or hey, you got a package delivered over to my house. I just wanted to bring it over to you and you bring their package back to them. You know, you welcome somebody who's new to the neighborhood to your neighborhood. People used to do that all the time Welcome new people to the neighborhood and have block parties and stuff like that and connect and get along. And we still have the ability to do that. We just live in a world that values isolation more than it does connectedness, even though all of the surveys and studies will tell you, the number one thing people talk about that they lack is connectedness. Wow, Wow. So you really do have the opportunity to live an example that could absolutely change people's lives without you being some super preacher. You don't have to be your pastor at church in order to win people to Christ, in order to impact lives and make a difference for people.
Phillip Rich:That's good, david, and I think that's probably, if we want to sum up what we've been talking about. That's pretty much it. It's like God. Godliness is that quality of living in a, in a manner where your main focus is how you live unto God and because you're serious about that part of your life, it has such a ripple effect on the people around you, your neighbors, your coworkers, your friends, family, whatever they see the evidence of your reverence towards him, of your right reverence, right respect towards God. It's something that can't really go unnoticed if you think about it and that alone speaks to people. Like David said, it's not about shouting people down with a bunch of preaching. It's about just living your life, quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty is what it says. And I think first Timothy or whatever, and again, that's another element of it.
Phillip Rich:How do you, how do they observe how you work? Element of it. How do you, how do they observe how you work? You know, are you working with any level of integrity? You know, do you goof off when the boss is not looking, then all of a sudden, pretend like you're working hard when you see the boss? You know that kind of thing. That's people take note of that.
David McIntyre:They may not say anything to you, but they're watching man, they're watching People. I'm going to say it in an e-bop people be Hawkeye in you. Yes, you know in one sense nobody's paying all that much attention to you, but you know what they do, pay enough attention to learn and discern whether or not you're real or not.
Phillip Rich:Yeah.
David McIntyre:They do understand and appreciate that.
Phillip Rich:Yeah.
David McIntyre:And you just be careful, you know. Think about the example that you want to set and who you want to be seen as. Do you want to be seen as God's man in your workspace, in your life and in your environment? And the same is true at home, the same is true at home. There's not a different rule for at home than there is for out at work.
David McIntyre:That's right so give both places, all places, the respect that that God would have you to, and live as if God exists in your life and he's the most important thing. Amen Any final thoughts on this before we call it a wrap on this episode.
Phillip Rich:I think I think we covered it pretty well. Man, I'm grateful for what came out, but I just want to encourage everyone watching do a do a word study on that word godliness. Go through the Bible and look at it in terms of how it's being used in different places. One of the things too and I'll say this real quick one of the definitions of godliness and another thing I read in Marvin Vincent's word study was that it's that which is opposite of profane, and I love that, that which is opposite of things that are profane. So there's just something to chew on right there. But I encourage you guys to go over the scriptures that we covered in the podcast and just really get a good grasp on what that word godliness is all about.
David McIntyre:That's fantastic, Philip. Well, guys, we're so glad that you joined us for this episode. Before we wrap up, let's pray for everybody, Philip. Let's pray that godliness will take over in their lives and be the way forward.
Phillip Rich:Yes, all right. Well, father, thank you for what was brought out tonight. We thank you for the help of the Holy Spirit in helping us to express these things, and we just give you praise, lord. Your word said give them that spirit of wisdom and revelation in their knowledge of you, so that they can have a clearer concept and understanding of your character, your nature and how they should reflect that character and nature in their life, because you told us in second Peter that we are partakers of divine nature through your exceeding, great and precious promises. So, father, help all of us, lord, help us to reflect and be an expression of you and of your Son in the earth. We thank you for that.
Phillip Rich:We thank you that Christ is being formed in each one of us more and more every day. And for those who are struggling, father, with these things and they know there's things they need to let go of, things they need to adapt in their life I pray that you strengthen their hearts, strengthen their minds by your Spirit to be able to do those things that they know they should be doing, and that they'll not have condemnation or guilt about any time they fall short, but that they'll just be encouraged to continue seeking you, father. We pray for that, that they'll be encouraged in their spirit to continue seeking you through your word and through prayer, to help them develop in this quality of godliness. And we give you praise for it, lord, and we agree on it now, in Jesus' name Amen.
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