I’m Over It | Hope for When You’re Running on Empty

Tired. Checked out. Running on fumes and wondering if any of it even matters anymore? Yeah. Us too. This isn’t a weakness thing — it’s a human thing and if we’re being honest, it might be the most important conversation we have all year.

We’re kicking off I’m Over It by putting a name to the quiet burnout so many of us are carrying — the kind that doesn’t show up on your face but lives in your chest. We dig into what Scripture actually says about this: Proverbs on hope deferred, Ecclesiastes on the grind that leads nowhere, and why straining after things that can’t satisfy will always leave you empty. This isn’t a pep talk. It’s a real conversation.

We also get into the specific traps that are draining people dry right now — unspoken expectations killing marriages and friendships, the highlight reel pretense of social media, political noise, economic pressure, and the slow erosion of unmet dreams. We’ve felt it. You’ve felt it.  There’s a better way through.

Ecclesiastes doesn’t sugarcoat it — fear God, keep His commands. We unpack what that actually means and why obedience isn’t a cage, it’s a compass. Truth isn’t just a concept — Truth is a Person, and returning to Him changes everything.

If you’re burnt out on the grind, haunted by comparison, or just quietly done — this one’s for you. 

Drop a comment and tell us: where do you most need hope to show up right now?

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Transcript

New Year, New Series Kickoff

SPEAKER_00 0:00

I am so over it. And I have a sneaking suspicion some of you are too. But we gotta ask ourselves the question: is that biblical or is that our flesh? Well, let me tell you, not only is it biblical, but we want to talk about some of the people in the Bible who just said, I'm over it. Up next, I'm Bible Bros and Bruce.

SPEAKER_02 0:55

Yes. Kick off the convo the right way.

Coffee Rituals And Light Banter

SPEAKER_00 0:59

Now I can talk a little better. And we're so glad that you've joined us for this episode, the first episode of 2026. And man, we are so glad that you're here with us. Um, but I'm not here alone. I'm riding strong with uh two good dudes, you know. I have to say it, even though one of them is a little questionable from time to time. But I've got with me Phillip all the way to the left. Um, maybe you're right. And in the middle, we've got intern John. Uh, we like intern John. Uh he's not really an intern, but it just seems appropriate to call him. It should feel like it. We're we gotta do a better job of treating you more like an intern, though. That's the problem. That's where we're like. That's right. Oh my goodness. Again, we're glad that you you guys, we're glad you joined us for this new year. Um, this is gonna be a year filled with some good things and some good thoughts and some good digging into the word. And so we ask and invite you to take a moment and click that subscribe button. It's going to help you to stay connected with us all year long as we dig into each and every new thing in the effort to grow in our walk with the Lord and become true disciples of God by not just knowing a little bit about the word, enough to be dangerous, but knowing the word, loving God, and following Him out in obedience to the full end, so that we can say that we are indeed disciples of God. Well, one of the things that helps our discipleship is a good cup of coffee. Uh, that is not that's in the book of David, chapter 8, verse 12. You won't find that book because technically it has not been read. Uh so, but join me in finding out what's in the cup. Start in the middle with intern John. And intern John, don't you tell us what's in the cup?

SPEAKER_01 3:19

Uh, I can certainly tell you what was in the cup because once again, we're drinking too fast. Okay, hold on now. For those who are not watching this live and watching this afterwards, uh, we started a lot later with the live. Um, I had more coffee in this cup than I drink before. Uh, but what I was drinking was something probably out of season, but it was called it's called a banana split coffee, or it's called just banana split. Uh what you will. I can already hear the comments going weird. Um, it was good. Um, I think it's from Good and Gather. It was good. It tasted like a banana split coffee. And honestly, tonight's just one of those nights where I don't, I don't, I didn't want anything too strong. I just needed something that'll get me through the night because I am so over it right now. Um tonight. So it's it's appropriate that we all need to understand this feeling before we talk about this feeling. What about you, Uncle Phil?

SPEAKER_02 4:33

I am bringing back something from the Christmas season because I never had a chance to promote it then. Um, we had a a delay in the shipment. So uh our last episode, I wasn't able to have this, but I do now. It is Santa's spirit from Peregrine.

SPEAKER_00 4:51

Damn, y'all drank that thing up.

SPEAKER_01 4:53

Yeah, look, dude, we're almost completely out of it. Wow, you said it was a delayed shipment. What is that?

SPEAKER_00 5:01

Yeah, for the time y'all drank it like you had to make up for lost time. That's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_02 5:08

Drink it like we stole it. Yeah, man. It it's definitely it's just so darn good, man. It's uh notes of whiskey, butterscotch, and cinnamon.

SPEAKER_01 5:17

And uh lovely, dude.

SPEAKER_02 5:21

I want to reiterate that I'm not an alcoholic or or even a drinker of alcohol, a recovering alcoholic.

SPEAKER_00 5:30

He's just got coffee alcoholic tendencies, right?

SPEAKER_02 5:33

It's just that what they do is they age the beans in whiskey barrels. They're empty barrels, they're not full of alcohol, it's just empty whiskey barrels. They age the beans in the barrels for like two weeks just to get the aroma and the whatever, and then they roast it in a blessed manner, and then it creates this amazing flavor.

SPEAKER_01 5:54

So, um anything to get a hit, you know.

SPEAKER_02 5:59

It's not it's not alcohol, it's alcohol adjacent, as they would say. But uh praise God. So, but anyway, man, um, good stuff. What about you, David? What are you drinking tonight?

SPEAKER_00 6:10

I too am bringing a coffee in that I I also was delayed in getting over the holidays that I wanted to share on the last episode of 2025, but I didn't get the chance to, so I'm drinking it now, and it's my one of my favorite holiday coffees. It's Green Mountains uh cinnamon sugar cookie. Ooh, yes, and it is just as good as it's ever been. This is, I think, my second or third Christmas with this or holiday season with it, and it has not failed me yet.

SPEAKER_02 6:47

So come on, dude.

Naming The Feeling: “I’m Over It”

SPEAKER_00 6:51

Thanks to you all. Glad you're all joining in. Well, that's what's in the cup now. Let's talk about what's in the word or at least where we're gonna go for this first series that we're gonna start this year. And uh again, like I said before, I really am excited about some of the things that we've already kind of pre-planned that we're gonna share and talk about over this upcoming year. And uh, I'm excited to talk about this one. You know, I guess maybe I could start by asking the question, you know, have you ever just, for lack of a better word, come to the end of your rope? You know, gotten to this place where, you know, you just you just don't feel that you have the energy or the wherewithal to go one more step to deal with one more thing that goes wrong. You know, you look around in the world today and you're seeing all this political stuff that's going on, one side against another, one group against another, one race against another, and you see all this division and divisiveness and people trying to throw you in various and sundry different boxes and tell you now fight. And all of this stuff, and you can you can come to a place where you can just get to a place where you say, you know what, I'm over it, I'm over it all. I'm over you, I'm over this, I'm over it, I'm over it all. And you know, that's um I was thinking about it, and it's like, you know, I think if we're all honest about our humanity, every one of us has come to some place at some time where we said, I'm over it, I'm just finished. I can't anymore. I just can't. And um, I started to ask myself the question, is that biblical? And as I began to search the word, I began to see that not only was it biblical, but it happened more frequently than we might have thought. And that led to a whole bunch of other thoughts. But you know, what's your thought, Phil? What do you what's kind of led you to even want to talk about this?

Hope Deferred And A Sick Heart

SPEAKER_02 9:20

Yeah, it's just a I mean, as we we discussed when we were kind of doing some of the pre sh pre-planning for the show, um, it's something that's kind of been happening. I I don't want to say only across social media, but it's been noticeable in a lot of social media, like YouTube and I think Twitter as well. I haven't been on Twitter in a good minute, but I've I've uh I know things that go on there. But um, but the bottom line is that a lot of folks are feeling this sense of like detachment and kind of like they're just kind of over it, like jaded, like being jaded. And I think a lot of it comes from it just being exhausted, like mentally exhausted, maybe spiritually drained, and you just have this kind of feeling of yeah, you know what? I just kind of want to check out of society right now. Not not necessarily like we're not talking like something extreme, like being suicidal, but just something of like I'm just kind of over it all. I just don't really want to participate in too much anymore, you know. Even if it comes down to inviting friends over or going over to friends' house or uh going out, you know, and doing some social activities, or uh I mean, I'm just hearing it from a lot of different people of all different backgrounds and stuff. They're like, man, the current setup just isn't it. You know, they feel exhausted, they feel frustrated, they feel drained, they feel completely like almost like what's the point in doing any of this right now, you know? And I've heard this, and maybe you have too, David, that like um that's I think a symptom of depression, or at least they name it among the symptoms is like, you know, you lose interest in everyday things. Um I don't necessarily think that everybody is depressed, but I do think that's just an interesting little note there. It's like, huh, you know, people just and I mean there's even if you if you type up the phrase people are losing interest, just type that up on YouTube and see what comes back to you. You'll see tons of videos about folks just losing interest in just regular everyday life. You know, they're like, man, I feel like I'm just going through the motions, um, and that kind of thing. And I think a lot of it may be uh the current state of the, like you talked about, David, the state of the political climate, the state of the economy has really got a lot of people feeling the crunch, you know. Um, just in general, the it's hard to afford everything now for a lot of people, man. It's hard to afford stuff, dude. Um and and that that feeling of being stuck or trapped in a job or something like that, where they're like, Am I ever going to get out of this or am I just gonna be on the hamster wheel for the next 40 years? You know, so uh just these things, you know, kind of started rumbling around in my mind about you know what what's going on with people. Um, I mean, I I can't say that I haven't felt those things before myself. I've had times and I've felt that for sure, you know. Um, and only by the hand of God and only by the help of God and the help of his word can we gain perspective, you know, and and kind of remind ourselves of of um you know the hope that we have in Christ, number one, but also the hope that God said, you know, in Jeremiah 29, he said, I've got thoughts of peace towards you and not of evil to bring you to a good end, you know, to bring you to a good destination. And if you lose hope, and maybe that's you know, David, I'm I'm I'm just kind of riffing here, but maybe that's if we could sum it up in a word, maybe that's kind of what it is, like a hopelessness that people are feeling. Yeah. Um and I think a lot of people uh well I I'll tell you the way I heard it. Uh uh a minister say it one time. He said, hope is the ability to foresee change in the future. Hope is the ability to foresee change in the future. So if you don't feel like anything's ever going to change, then that is pretty much a loss of hope. You know, you're you're you're entering into hopelessness at that point. And um I if John, if you don't mind, I wanted to pull up that verse in Proverbs 13. And it kind of talks about this, and I think maybe this is what people are feeling, dude. Um in Proverbs 13, in verse 12. I'll wait for it to pop up on the board, you know? Yeah, Proverbs 13, verse 12. Let's see. Yeah, it says verse 12, hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life. And so, David, it's like hope deferred to me, that means like constant disappointment, you know. Um, and and this thing about the heart being sick, to me, that's that sense of like the malaise that's on society. It's like we know something's wrong, maybe we can't put our finger on it completely, but we know something doesn't feel right, you know. What what are your thoughts about that?

SPEAKER_00 14:44

No, I there's so many, um, you know, in this, there are so many things to diagnose.

SPEAKER_04 14:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:52

And you could feel hopeless trying to figure out where to start. You know, it's um let me start by saying that if you're feeling hopeless, we get it.

SPEAKER_02 15:15

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:17

You're you're you're you're not alone, you're not flawed, there's not something wrong with you because you feel hopeless and you're kind of over it right now. That's that's not the thing, you know. Um, as I was looking through some of these biblical characters who we'll talk about over the coming weeks, you know, as God began to deal with them when they were over it, you know, or desperate or feeling hopeless, the one thing God didn't do was beat them up for it.

SPEAKER_02 15:55

So true.

Control, Clarity, And Calling

SPEAKER_00 15:56

But he met them where they were and helped bring them back to uh a certain place. And and I'd also I'll also dare to say something a little crazy. Sometimes I think coming to the end of your rope and coming to the place where you're over it is exactly where we need to be. Because it will be the transition place because when you what I have seen over and over again is so many people come to that place and they begin to question and wonder what really matters, right? Right, and and that's one of the things the Father, Heavenly Father, does is he brings us into this place if we allow him, if we'll walk with him, even when we feel hopeless, that he begins to reveal to us what really matters. And let me tell you, I I've been in a season of kind of feeling that way, and it's only been, you know, I feel like I've been going through it for three years, the better part of three years now. And it was only over the last several months that I feel like God has been saying, this is where the problem's been, this is where the issue lies. You've been doing this, or you thought, and you know, it's like, you know, even look at these people, you know, with the political stuff that's going on in our country today. And look, I regardless of what side you stand on on it, um, everybody feels a sense of frustration.

SPEAKER_02 17:52

Yeah.

unknown 17:52

Yeah.

Unmet Expectations And Relationships

SPEAKER_00 17:53

Yep. And part of that is because all of us are sitting out here, and we have no control over so many outcomes. At least not in the not in the practical, you know, applicable. I can physically walk out of my house and go do something about that issue. So many times we don't have that control. And when you don't have control over something, it leads to that sense of hopelessness. Yeah. When you don't have clarity about things, it leads to a sense of hopelessness. When you feel shut out of things, it leads to that sense of hopelessness. And we have to sometimes begin to ask ourselves the question, you know, what am I supposed to be doing right now? It's like even in the workplace, you mentioned it earlier, Philip. You know, so many people in dead end jobs. It well, is it the dead end, is it the job the dead end, or was it that you were never supposed to be in that job? Because you're in the we're in the wrong place. And I think that some of how we feel and our coming to our end is the result of our lack of perspective and our being mispositioned in the world that we live in. But then some of it is just life and things are happening, and we are so many of us, especially this young generation, and I'd love to hear what you have to say about it, Philip. Have not been prepared to deal with difficulties, hardship when things don't always go your way. We're just ill prepared for that. We want to treat the world like we treat the microwave, you know, and I think that's the the craziest convenience that's happened in our world. Something where we can take something that would have taken us 30 minutes and give us good food in five minutes. minutes and then we try to apply that principle across the board and when it doesn't happen like that we get angry we we lose focus and all of a sudden we find ourselves in a pit it's uh what do you what do you think about that especially this younger generation Phil yeah that's good some good points David I think um expectations when they're not met you know that's going to produce that frustration or that you know disappointment but here's the thing and this is always the trick to it it's like but why did you expect that in the first place?

SPEAKER_02 20:35

Oh my god that's it's one of those things that like it really causes you to step back and examine yourself like what you know yeah what was the basis for me even expecting X, Y, and Z?

SPEAKER_00 20:51

You know is it just for Philip I hate to interrupt you Philip I know you just on this podcast that my wife and I are marriage counselors. And what you just said Philip is at the crux of so many problems unmet expectations that were never communicated but were still expected. Wow wow good it's a bad situation when you will even you know we do it to we do it to one another all the time but when you want your spouse to do something for you you know I expect her to make me dinner every night you've never told her that's what you expected you guys have never talked about that but then when you come home and it's not there then you get mad at her and then over time you still hadn't talked about it you just want a divorce because she's not meeting your needs goodness it's it's the wildest thing. Go ahead Phil I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_02 21:51

No no you you're right on track I mean and that can be not even just with marriage but also even in a work relationship or um or just you know just in general with friends or uh even it could even be with certain things about your church uh things like that you could have these expectations that maybe the basis of it wasn't something that should have been realistically expected you know um it I like what you said David a while back it's like it's easier to just kind of go in with no expectations that way if if nothing happens then it's not really a disappointment. And if something does happen, hey what a pleasant surprise you know that kind of thing. So um but in terms of this generation like you're right David it's interesting man I think okay because we know like the younger generation they were raised by people our age and then possibly you know like the millennials are having kids now uh Gen Alpha kind of thing going on um it's like we grew up in a just a different time man like to be honest the contrast between growing up in the 80s like we did versus now there are differences you know in the 80s man I mean I'm not trying to yeah start differences and I'm not trying to turn this into like you know old man yelling at clouds or nothing like that but um but you know the economy was completely different back then. This economy now is truly an oppressive situation for for young people who are just getting started. In the 80s you could buy a house and maybe that house costs four times your income possibly maybe three times your income now try to get a house and if the average income in America right now I think it's like 45 to 5000 a house an average house is going to be close to 5000. So we're talking 10 times your income to try to get a house now you know and people dealing with that and not just that but the high cost of groceries the high cost of practically every daggum thing you know um there's a lot of frustration you know can I throw another thing in there I know I've interrupted you twice now I'm sorry.

Generational Pressures And Pretense

SPEAKER_00 24:12

No you're good man you add to what you just said and that part of the um part of what made families and finances work before was that then people got married. First of all they got married yeah and then secondly they got married younger and statistically we've seen it over and over again one of the greatest opportunities for wealth building is to get married yes yes and we live in a world a day and age now where that is the last thing I mean they're so almost polar opposite they have no intention on getting married they don't want to they'd rather they'd rather sleep around for their sexual satisfaction and never be married and then never wonder why they get ahead especially men need to be married marriage is a motivator to do more go get more to work harder and to drive and they're just not out there doing it that's a good point man and then there's all and no no you're good and then there's oh man don't even get me started on um the dating expectations that you find out there like it's fasting study I've seen so many things on YouTube and different things where you know the women have a certain criteria you know um what's that thing that was like the meme that went around I'm looking for a man in finance who's six five blue eyes it was like a little song that came out you know um but it was you know what I'm saying it was like this kind of criteria like he's got to make six figures be at least six feet tall and I think it was like have a six pack or something like that.

SPEAKER_02 25:57

It was kind of it was hilarious. But um that was you know the the dating criteria and then of course the women uh like dudes who are looking for a woman if she's not not a supermodel then you know he's he thinks it's it's you know not worth his time or whatever the case is it's like dude all these quite honestly I I think these unrealistic expectations that have been kind of put out there for on both sides of that argument a lot of it's because of social media you know and which we didn't have when we were growing up so we didn't even have to really think about stuff like that.

SPEAKER_00 26:31

But now it's like the this this lifestyle that's not really even realistic that half the people flaunting the lifestyle don't even live themselves because the Lamborghini they're driving is rented you know the 10 000 square foot home they're in is an Airbnb they just didn't tell you that you know um all this kind of stuff like that or or or one of these wild things have you seen these YouTube houses and these social media houses that these people schedule time to go into and they film stuff like they live there.

SPEAKER_02 27:07

Yes it's a whole like a microeconomy going on like you know they they can rent a house in Beverly Hills or Hollywood Hills or whatever uh to look like they're wealthy. And then they're also they may even do a thing where they share it with five other YouTube creators and you know they all take turns doing influencer videos that's whatever it is. And it's like all of this it's it's a layer of pretense in society that we simply didn't have to deal with um when we were coming up. It just wasn't there. And so that's adding I believe to the disillusionment people are experiencing because if they don't have the big following on Instagram or whatever it is, you know, they can feel like something's wrong with them if their life doesn't look like the stuff they're seeing on TikTok and Instagram with all these lifestyle influencers you know dude that's such a good word disillusionment.

SPEAKER_00 27:59

Yeah that that that is really such a good word.

SPEAKER_02 28:03

Man so all of that can lead to hope being deferred which can lead to a sick heart meaning a heart that's just experienced disappointment over and over and over again to the point where you feel like uh you feel like you're you're made of paper you know what I mean it it you don't feel like you have any any solidity to you you know after a while so um yeah even even even even to be just you you oy I he just tapped into something there Phillip imagine feeling over it and disillusioned and hopeless because you can't get to somewhere where you believe people are that even they really aren't oh i know this is I know this is gonna be so nasty so y'all forgive me for what I'm about to say but it's just an example you've got all of these people out here trying to tell you stuff like OnlyFans is going to turn people into millionaires goodness and then I watched this thing yesterday where you got all these girls now who are who've decided to sell their bodies to become millionaires and guess what it's not happening for them.

Idols, Emptiness, And Ecclesiastes

Fear God And Keep His Commands

SPEAKER_00 29:24

No no no not a bit there was a there was a study that came out about that and I think it was like I don't want to I don't want to quote it literally because I don't know but it's like less than one percent make an income above a hundred bucks a month on OnlyFans here it's like you you put you put your whole nasty self out there for it I mean you're putting parts of your body out there nobody needs to see and and you're barely able to scrape up a hundred bucks on the site you know I'm sorry and and you and you lose you're willing to give up the fact that God says that you're fearfully and wonderfully made thank you and you turn it some into something cheap and tawdry and you give it away it's just like that girl um I you know who decided that she wanted to have sex with a thousand guys in uh like a 24 hour period or something and she did it what is wrong with people bro and we're and but then she did an interview afterwards where she looked happy but then different parts as they were asking her questions about it she looked terribly depressed which means you didn't get out of this what you thought you would get you gave yourself over hoping to get an end that you ended up not getting a feeling an emotion and and part of that desperate feeling that we're feeling that disillusionment that sense of being over it is partially because we keep reaching for things we keep reaching for things that are empty in themselves come on man come on the end of the end of Ecclesiastes um I believe it's two twenty six says you know talking to the sinner it says this is all vanity and vexation of spirit yeah yeah and which mean which basically means double empty almost goodness gracious and to and to just have your spirit pierced through by empty things which ends up leaving you feel destroyed empty and over it yeah yeah and if you think about it David I'm sorry I'm sorry go ahead man no no no no go ahead go ahead go you're good I was just gonna say man if you think about that's the entire book of Ecclesiastes is the I'm over it manifesto like if you're that's exactly what the whole book of Ecclesiastes is it's a dude who's been disillusioned and jaded because he did have it all he did do it all right I mean he he spent I forgot how many yeah like he did them all I mean brother had 700 wives and 300 concubines I mean it was a pretty serious situation man um but so he he had had Solomon had everything dude he even talked about it in Ecclesiastes like you know I I I've got the best gold from this country and the the linen from here and I had exotic animals brought in from other places to be my pets and all this kind of stuff that you know you hear about like celebrities doing who are kind of halfway off the rocker you know Solomon had gotten into some of that stuff man and um at the end of it all he was like you know what's great and he was like what's crazy is you could spend your whole life working for this stuff accumulating finally getting it and then you die and leave it to somebody who blows it in two months yeah you know it was he was just saying what's the point in any of this stuff man and so he well go ahead I'm sorry David no you're I think you're about to say the same thing he ends it all with what he what he figured out we figured it out fear god his commandment that's right at the very end of the whole book he said let's hear the conclusion of the whole matter yeah fear god and keep his commandments for this is the whole duty of man praise god there's your answer man to the to the discontentment it's like get back to like what you're saying david get back to what matters you know find out what matters and there really is only one thing it is your relationship with God because if you don't have that intact everything else suffers dude everything else suffers yeah so you know interrupt you guys real quick go ahead I wanted to add one point and I wanted to see if you guys can connect these two different concepts because what I'm hearing is life sucks and it just sucks the life out of you and makes things suck right and at the very end of Ecclesiastes a great book by the way 100% agree I love that book for all the right reasons um you fear God so the I want to connect those two points and and and ask why you everything is meaningless right everything is vain you're chasing the wind why why why is fearing God the important part um I feel like I know part of the answer but I want to hear you guys what you're thinking and why why fearing God is is the is the connection there between finding hope in a place where there is no hope that wants to separate out of everything. What what fearing God do to receive that hope yeah Philip I'll let you tackle that but I will say this you can't take fear in God without keeping his commandments right good um so you got you got to ask why the two things are beneficial because you can fear God and never keep his commandment and that means you don't fear God.

SPEAKER_02 35:42

Yeah that's a good point you've got to fear God and keep his commandments what are your thoughts Phil I I'll say actually the answer or at least partly partly the answer is in I think Ecclesiastes three when he said God has set eternity in men's hearts and so what it boils down to is there's a God-shaped hole in your heart and only God can fill that hole you know so learning how to fear him learning how to walk with him how to keep his commandments it satisfies that that thing that nothing else can and so that's why it's important it's like um yeah like that movie The Matrix it's a you know it's it's been a long time since that movie came out but in the movie The Matrix uh Lawrence Fishburne asks Keanu Reeves a question he said well not really a question he was like he said you're feeling like something's wrong but you can't put your finger on it he said it's like a splinter in your mind and I love that I think that's a brilliant line it's like that's what it is like if you don't have God at the center of your life you know something's off but you don't quite know why or what it is and you can't quite put your finger on it. But when you have cultivated a life where you practice fear in the Lord, you know walking in reverence towards him that's what fear in him means that walks walking in reverence towards him and learning how to keep his commandments learning how to walk in love like he tells us to to love your neighbor as yourself to as you want people to do to you do to them you know that's pretty much the keep the commandments part also staying out of the sins that he tells you to stay out of you know there's plenty of that that needs to be kept as well um all those things that practicing that that way of living that's being a follower of Christ basically then that begins to scratch that itch that you couldn't scratch otherwise you know so um to me I think John that that's that's kind of the like is the remedy in my mind. Why fear God? Because it fills that hole that only God can fill in your heart. You know and I think you had that scripture pulled up right I I maybe I I I think I saw it there.

SPEAKER_01 37:59

Yeah I do um I've I don't know what what particular verse you were looking at but I do want to add um in verse 14 something that sticks out to me is something that to me that adds a ton of hope regardless of how I feel and I think we can talk about that later you know feelings versus you know truth and fact uh in verse 14 he says I perceive that whatever God does endures forever. Nothing can be added to it nor anything taken away from it. God has done it so that people fear before him. Yep and then he goes on to say what like there's the point is that we are meant to worship we are designed to chase after something and I think that that's why we fall into idol idolatry and whatnot I think by nature we are designed to worship um such as that hole in our hearts um but the reason why God has to fill out that hole um is because there's there's nothing else in all of existence that is never changing. And leaving us just more desperate for the next thing um but this to me where whatever God does endures forever. That tells me that there's nothing else I need to rely on regardless of how I feel in the moment that's good man.

Truth, Freedom, And Following Jesus

SPEAKER_02 39:43

I feel like I I just wanted to put that out there um yeah yeah and actually verse 11 is the verse so it's right above where you were yeah uh it says he has made everything beautiful in its time also he has put eternity into man's heart yeah That's so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. And it's like, like you're saying, you know, we we're kind of hard-coded to seek after, you know, seek after God. Um, and before you even come to know God, I don't know if anybody else ever felt this way before they got saved or whatever, but I remember I I started having a hunger just to know what truth was. You know what I mean? Like, like what is truth among all this stuff that's out here in the world? Because I'd I had seen, you know, I'd read a lot of the self-help stuff, the Tony Robbins and the uh D-Pak Chopra and all these people that do this kind of stuff. I'd I'd read a bunch of stuff like that. And I felt like it was poking all around it, but I still felt like, but that ain't quite it, you know. And it wasn't until I heard some good, solid Bible teaching that I knew this is truth, you know, and and actually what it ended up being was truth actually as a person and not just an idea, you know. Right, truth is Jesus, that's the bottom line. So um and so that's kind of what what you know is is the pursuit of truth, you'll always end up with Jesus if you're really sincerely pursuing truth.

SPEAKER_00 41:15

And then don't forget what John tells us, uh, and why that what Philip just said is so important because John tells us you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

SPEAKER_02 41:28

Come on, man.

Awe, Obedience, And Real Hope

SPEAKER_00 41:29

And God's intention has always been for us to be free in Him. Yeah, and so you you need truth. Um, I'll just throw one other thing uh about that. Uh, when we talk about fearing God, I just want us to uh to be clear that what we're not talking about going around like, ooh, you know, ooh, oh God got me in. You know, we're not talking about getting spooked by God, you know, or like God is creeping around. Have you seen some of those memes on TikTok or YouTube or wherever, where you know, somebody else shows somebody doing something, and then they have a little picture of Jesus in around the corner to see how you're gonna respond? You can laugh, you're gonna laugh, laugh. Jesus is watching, you know, it's it's it's not when we talk about the fear of the Lord, um there is a sense of recognizing that you know the word says that He can He can blacken it all, he can He can make it all disappear and go away as if I never existed. Right. You know, there's right there's that genuine fear of the Lord that says, I recognize that He is all power, He is all authority, and my job is to bow down to all power and authority, not rise up to all power and authority, because He's already shown you when you rebel against Him, He casts you out. So you want to be mindful of that, but it is also to be in awe of God, yes, it's to have a respect of God. I respect who you are when I begin to see who you are and know your works and know who you are. I am in awe of you, and that's why you see how the word talks about how the angels circle the throne of God, crying, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty. There's some who've said, you know, as the angels circle the throne, they see something fresh and new about God every time, yeah. And so God is an awesome God, and He is worthy to be praised, He's worthy of our adoration, He's worthy of us declaring His goodness, He's worthy of us exalting His name, but He's also worthy then of our obedience, yeah, yeah, and worthy of us following in the pathway that He set before us. I'll give you this great New Year's scripture that I shared with everybody. It says in um uh Psalm 65, it says that you crown the year with plenty, and your pathways drop fatness. Yes, so yeah, it is better for us. One translation says, even the difficult or the hard pathways overflow with plenteousness. Wow, and so even when we're going through hard times when we follow God, He causes plenty and prosperity and favor to be down those paths. It may not always be easy, but God will give you those seasons of refreshing. It's good to follow Him because to get off of that path and go your own way puts you in a completely different place, and God got you, you just then you'll need to pray your way out of it, like the Israelites seemed to do the entire time that they were out of Egypt. You know, that's a whole lot of but yeah, just just be mindful to be in awe of God means that I honor and respect him, and I also recognize his power to the degree that what I am left with is obedience to his call and his will.

SPEAKER_02 45:37

That's good, that's good, dude. Well, guys, I think it's good to put the bookmark here, man. Episode one.

SPEAKER_00 45:47

I think we've so much for our short conversation.

SPEAKER_02 45:51

Yes. I mean, I thank God for his help, man, because it's like one of those things where you know what you want to say, but you hope it all comes out right, you know. So um, but we just want to say thank you guys for joining us for this first uh episode of the year. And we're gonna be getting more into this theme of I'm over it. And I think we've already touched on the main thing that helps to kind of get past that, and that's when you start cultivating your relationship with God. But um, but of course, there's many more things with the scriptures we have to cover that we didn't cover tonight, so we'll be jumping into this even more. But um, like David said at the beginning, please remember to like and subscribe and share these videos. Comment on whatever platform you might be viewing us on. We'd love to have your comments. And if you have any types of questions or things you want us to cover or things you want us to address, maybe something about the scriptures, you're like, well, what does that mean? You know, whatever the case is, uh drop us a line at our email, which is gotbrew at biblebros.net. Once again, gotbrew at biblebros.net. And uh David, any final thoughts before we jet?

SPEAKER_00 47:08

No, we'll tackle that the next couple episodes.

Closing, Next Steps, And Contact

SPEAKER_01 47:11

Okay, John, how about you? Any thoughts? Y'all said it. It's all on to God, never changing. World will always change, but God will never and Bible rules will never also change because we love Jesus.

SPEAKER_02 47:32

There you go. Come on now. The two the two must-haves, Jesus and coffee. So but I but yeah, so we will see you next time. Until then, get into your word. Stay blessed. We'll see y'all soon.