0:00:00 - 0:00:25 I don't know if it just picked up or not, but hey, let's do it. So, uh it's pretty early. It's 322. So I'd be shocked if anyone's on here. Um Not too many weirdos out there. Get up this early, uh Corsets Mountain time. So I, I was just uh booting up. I've been up for about an hour. I'm still getting 0:00:25 - 0:00:48 into things and I thought I'd, I'd make an exception from my normal policy of not interacting with people too early because it's a little too much for folks to take. Uh I like to wear myself down for 15 hours or so if at all possible before I um interact with other people on gospel topics each day. Um 0:00:47 - 0:01:10 But I, I wanted to, to, um, talk a little bit about um, the milky way and I was just gonna make a video, but I figured I'd stir things up and go live doesn't really make a difference because I don't edit my videos. But um we'll just do this and see how it goes anyway. So I have a collection of thoughts 0:01:10 - 0:01:39 here. Um I don't have a ton of notes. I have notes for my books and I'm just gonna sort of jump around here. Um So the milky way, let's talk about Galaxies um Galaxies, uh scientists tell us that Galaxies have a black hole in the center and so they're dark in the center. But um you should really look 0:01:39 - 0:02:08 up pictures of the milky way. In fact, maybe I could just do that real quick. Um If you see a bug on my screen, I'm battling a really annoying nat infestation. We just part of our summer chores is getting uh wood and I have this not as fancy as it sounds um system for drying the wood while cooling my 0:02:08 - 0:02:38 house. It's like a ghetto swamp cooler setup. Anyway. Um This year there were a lot of nets in the wood which is annoying. Uh So we've been killing nats left and right that just keep plaguing us. This is uh oh here we go. This is a good picture. OK. So can you see that? All right. So here is what the 0:02:38 - 0:03:04 milky way looks like from earth and this is what it looks like from space. And um what's interesting about this? Well, I'm not sure how we would have a picture of the milky way from, from the from space because we're out here somewhere. Um Maybe this is just a picture of another galaxy. It says a conceptual 0:03:03 - 0:03:23 illustration. Um oh This is trying to say what happens when the other galaxy collides with the milky way. So that's Andromeda actually. But whatever. So this is a spiral galaxy, like the milky way. This is what the milky way looks like from earth. Now, if you're unfortunate enough to live where most 0:03:23 - 0:03:44 people do in North America and I'm assuming other parts of the world you're never going to see this. But where I live in Montana, you can see this many, many times a year. If you go outside, it doesn't exactly look like that. But, um, you'll see something like that. Maybe I could find a picture that 0:03:44 - 0:04:16 looks more like what I see at night. Here you go. Just kidding. It doesn't look that clear either. I just, I wanna give you, I wanna, um, this is like more like a just one magic expectations. OK. So these are all like light roomed up pictures. So they've increased the saturation or exposure or whatever 0:04:16 - 0:04:39 and colorized it. I'm just trying to find one. Ok. This one is, is this one is literally what I see outside when I look up in the sky and it's a clear night and it's kind of a bummer because, um, in the summertime it's too bright, too late and I go to bed early. Um, in the sun, the sun doesn't really 0:04:39 - 0:04:55 drop enough until like midnight to see this and that's way too late for me. So I actually see it early in the morning. Uh is how I see it in summer time. But most of the time it's just in the winter and it's really cold. So you have to pay the price to go out on the back porch and look. But that's what 0:04:55 - 0:05:17 you see and what's interesting about this and you can't really see it from this picture, but the Milky way gets brighter, the closer to the center you go. So, uh, where we are on this thing, um, when we see this picture, we're actually, we're looking into the, the center of the milky way, we're on one 0:05:17 - 0:05:42 of the spiral arms of the galaxy. And um OK, so that's all just like science slash go look outside. Um But what's amazing about this is that all of that light it comes from stars and that's not the amazing part. Um What's amazing about it is um that these, these, the, the reason certain regions of this 0:05:42 - 0:06:07 are brighter and it gets brighter, the closer you get to the middle is that the middle is way denser, the stars are way denser. So how much by how much um actually pulled this up? So, and then I got sidetracked looking at parsecs and wondering what the heck they were talking about in Star Wars. Um So 0:06:07 - 0:06:33 I'll share that sidetrack with you. So parsec is a um a measure of distance and I looked this up before and I can't remember. I think it's uh it's something to do with the speed of light, but it's a measure of distance. And um in Star Wars, uh Han Solo says, uh that the Millennium Falcon made the Castle 0:06:32 - 0:06:54 run in 12 parsecs or something. And he was trying to describe, he says, fast ship, fast ship. So he's saying how, how fast the ship was and it's wrong because it's not a measure of, of speed. It's a measure of distance. And um what's really interesting about this is a lot of times in movies, specifically 0:06:53 - 0:07:16 sci fi movies, they have to come up with new names for the ideas that they have because they're not known or uh real. So a lot of the technology that has been uh discovered, they'll adopt names from science fiction, for example. Um because the thing didn't exist in the real world before they, they uh 0:07:16 - 0:07:45 spun it up. So, um but in, in Star Wars as an example, um and sometimes these, these movies, these stories, they can adopt words that are real that have been coined for real things, but that are so poorly known that they can get away with using them in their story, even if they use them in a way that's 0:07:45 - 0:08:09 completely disconnected or only vaguely related to what the word actually means, like using Parex in Star Wars for a measure of speed. So why is this relevant to anything? Um And this is one of the reasons I really don't like making stuff early in the morning because the flood of light takes you everywhere 0:08:09 - 0:08:34 , the spirit will tell you uh it's like a lighthouse shine. You can shine it on anything. And if there's anything reflective, it'll bounce back a bunch of light and anything you focus on will infinitely let me rephrase this. Whatever you focus on God will infinitely reveal information related to that 0:08:33 - 0:08:57 thing or that person or that situation, whatever it is that you're focused on your focus is the door. It's uh it's your intent. It's asking, it's what you're seeking. Your eyes work like that too. Almost, almost 100% of the detectors in your eye are focused forward to wherever you're looking and almost 0:08:57 - 0:09:19 nothing is around that. And that's why everything's blurry except what you're looking at and when you don't have the spirit or I'd say before, you have the spirit, although it's on a continuum, it's like a slider. Um, when that slider is really low, you don't have the focal point in your vision. Your 0:09:19 - 0:09:38 senses of the world are without that. If you don't know that, uh, when I was in high school, I needed glasses and I didn't know that my eyes were getting worse and worse as I got older, they were fine when I was younger as far as I remember. But in high school I kept having to get closer to the front 0:09:38 - 0:10:07 of the room because I couldn't see. But, uh, um, I don't know why it didn't cross my mind, but, um, why do. Actually, I, I've had a lot of problems in my life physically. Um uh blessings that I've been given through that channel. And um God, God says he'll make our weakness strength. And so the first 0:10:07 - 0:10:33 part of that is getting weakness, right? And so I've been blessed with a lot of weakness and uh a lot of that weakness has been physical and um every time, like it took me years and years and years to notice the pattern, which is that, I always assume that, um, how to phrase this, right? Like, like I 0:10:33 - 0:10:51 have asthma and I've had it my whole life, but I didn't, it never crossed my mind that I had an excuse. I didn't know I had asthma. It never crossed my mind that it was diff more difficult for me to run than other people. I just thought I was really bad at it. Right. And that, that I was, I was just 0:10:51 - 0:11:13 a fat kid or something. Um, because I was a fat kid at times, but I thought that's what it was. It was just, I was, I was, uh, basically that I was being lazy and, um, with the, with the glasses thing, I, I felt like the chalkboard kept getting chalkier and I was getting really irritated that the teachers 0:11:13 - 0:11:34 were, were not washing the boards properly and that's why I had to keep moving up because it just looked like it was chalky. And then, um, and then I finally got glasses and I could see, hey, I just, I, it never crossed it like I could have never, uh I never imagined that it would make such a difference 0:11:34 - 0:12:02 to get glasses. And that's what it's like when you don't have the spirit or when you have um you have yet to develop he's sufficient relationship with God that he has opened your, your, your s the focal point of your senses with your senses. We think of that as passive information channels. Like if I 0:12:01 - 0:12:23 poke you with a needle, it'll hurt and you're, you're, you're not considering that as something you have to think about or decide. Um But, but senses actually they include your actions uh and your thoughts, it's, it's everything. So for example, when you say someone is insensible, you're not really saying 0:12:23 - 0:12:50 that they're unfeeling, right? You're saying that they don't think, right? They're not capable of rational evaluation. So that's interesting. OK, let's pop the stack here and get back to what the, the Galaxies in the milky way. So, um in science fiction or Star Wars when they use these words, um What's 0:12:50 - 0:13:21 interesting about this is to me um is they can get away with using words in a way that's completely wrong or only vaguely related to the real thing. So I used to be crazy, religious, crazy religious as religious as you can get. And um that all changed when I had um an experience with God. When, when 0:13:21 - 0:13:50 Jesus visited me for the first time that all changed. And, uh, in a nutshell, what he told me was, um, basically 97% of my life, which was just 100 and 50% dedicated to. Let's not get crazy with the, was 100% dedicated to what I thought was his will as exercise through religion. And I mean, from when 0:13:50 - 0:14:19 I got up to, when I went to bed 100% I was following what others had told me, Jesus cared about. Um, and he said 97% of that just it, it, I don't care. That's not what this isn't making me happy, this isn't what you're meant to be doing and it devastated me and the religions of the world and I'll just 0:14:19 - 0:14:51 zoom in on Christianity. Um But um common Christianity, um nothing about Christianity ought to be common. Nothing. That's the opposite of holy is common. The opposite of sacred is profane, profane just means common. So if something is common, it can't be holy. Um You might say a word about heaven isn't 0:14:51 - 0:15:19 everything holy in heaven, like even the, the bridles or the horses say holiness to the Lord. Um Everything is consecrated but consecrated does not mean equally holy. Holy is a measure of being better and different. You can't be better without being different. So the way of holiness is a way of differentiation 0:15:18 - 0:15:51 . It's a way of splitting and there's a lot of combining too. It's, I drew a picture of this on a presentation but it started as a note which apparently I threw away because I made a, a presentation about it. But, um, things come from above and add and then there's a process of, um, hm hm God spoke and 0:15:51 - 0:16:19 then he watched and waited. There's a process of, uh, I don't wanna say application, but it has to, the leaven has to leaven the lump, everything needs to percolate through. Um and decide. So there's a question of access, there's a process of distribution and there's a reaction uh for all parties within 0:16:19 - 0:16:46 that. So, um well, let's get back to religion. So, so yeah, that's what we common in holy, sacred profane. All that stuff is what we were talking about. So, even in heaven. Yeah. So you would say, well, you might counter what I just said by saying, well, isn't everything um holy in heaven? No, it's sanctified 0:16:45 - 0:17:12 . But the question is by how much? And that's where the difference is. It's true to say everything is holy in heaven, but it's not the same. There's no homogene, there's no homogene. Um there are differences in holiness and it's like the 8020 rule. Have you ever heard of that? So, um let's do wealth 0:17:12 - 0:17:38 . You can, you can apply this, this pattern of uh is found in many things in nature and almost everything related to humans, specifically output of humans. However, you want to look at that. So if you, if you think of wealth, for example, um 20% of people have 80% of the money and it, the 80% has 20% 0:17:37 - 0:17:59 of the money. What's interesting about this is, it's true for any size set of people. As long as it's not super tiny. If you have 10 people, it might break the pattern because there's sampling error there. It's, it's uh your, your set of 10 might not be reflective of greater humanity, but even when you 0:17:59 - 0:18:26 get to 100 and, and certainly once you start approaching 1000 unless you're sampling the country club or something, um you're going to find this pattern. So uh if you picked 100 random people from any, um let's say any country, um you'll find this pattern to be true, more or less. But what's interesting 0:18:26 - 0:18:54 is if you, um if you start with a big enough set, your, your 20% of people that have 80% of the money are gonna have a lot of money compared to the, the normal folks. But you can subdivide this distribution down, down down. I could draw a picture of it if I had a whiteboard, I do, but I'm not gonna take 0:18:54 - 0:19:15 the time to do it. So you, if you drew the distribution, you could slice it down on the long tail. So you took the people who had the most money, the 20% and you treated that as the 100% you could just keep going down. That's how holiness is. It's Pareto distributed. There are massive implications for 0:19:15 - 0:19:39 this that have everything to do with the Galaxies. Uh I'm not sure if we'll get to that. It's been 20 minutes and I don't feel like I've made a point yet. Um, and I need to move on. I have other things to do, like kill Nats. Um OK, so, so what does this have to do with Parex? Well, um the co opting of 0:19:39 - 0:20:07 language is a really big deal. And as I said, with the religious stuff, I, I had dedicated my life 100% like Saul, he said, I'm a pharisee pharisee, right? I, I was, I was trained at the feet of gel or whatever that rabbi's name was. And um I was not raised at the feet of a rabbi or any, any Christian 0:20:07 - 0:20:40 equivalent. But from the moment I learned about the Lord, um at 18, I dedicated my life to him. And whenever I learned about more about him, I immediately set myself to trying to um fold that into my life. So, um when the Lord told me, hey, basically all of this is rubbish. Um it was heartbreaking to 0:20:40 - 0:21:03 me because my motive had always been to serve him when, when I first learned about him. Um It's because I prayed and I had been taught that he existed by someone who seemed sincere. And basically I was given reasons to believe that this could be true and I took it to him in prayer and I had never really 0:21:03 - 0:21:31 prayed before and uh I never had a reason to believe that that would do any good. And so I asked God if he existed and before I decided to do that, I understood the implications of if he did. Um So obviously, if God is real and he's anything like people say he is, then it's pretty important to orient 0:21:30 - 0:21:53 your whole life to him. And so when I was praying to know whether God was real, I was doing so, um, kind of like if you're going to buy a house, you're pre-approved, you're ready to make the purchase, you're just going to find something that meets the criteria you've set. And, uh I was all in before 0:21:52 - 0:22:24 I was in at all. I was all in because I knew that if God were real, it made total sense to just dedicate. Like, why would you do anything but dedicate your life to him if he were real? So, um, he, um, he told me he was pretty simple, right? So we're off to the races, but I was on the wrong track. I was 0:22:24 - 0:22:45 running. So that's good. I got practice running, but I was running in the wrong direction or maybe more correct. I was running on a hamster wheel and I had to get off the wheel to actually start making progress in the way. The wheel is not the way, the way is a wheel, the way is a wheel, but the a wheel 0:22:45 - 0:23:07 is not the way. And there are too many people on wheels. Almost every Christian is on a wheel. Um, I wish we could come up, I wish we could somehow divorce all the people that, that mean something when they say Christianity, they mean something other than learning about and becoming like Jesus, learning 0:23:07 - 0:23:35 about and living like Jesus, that's Christianity. And uh someone might say, well, what's your authority to declare what Christianity is and isn't, is not my authority. It's literally his right. What? That's what it means. His name is in the word and it's not like anti Christian. That's not the word that 0:23:35 - 0:23:59 Christians use. It's Christian. I am a Christian, a disciple of Christ disciple. It's to bind yourself to right, to become like Jesus is to follow his example, to be a disciple of Christ. What you're saying is I do everything he would do in my place and I don't do anything he wouldn't do in my place 0:23:59 - 0:24:24 . And that's subject to the limitations of my understanding, but not to my will. My will is surrendered to him at all times. And in all places, you know, you become a living sacrifice to him which isn't giving up, but it's consecrating its holiness, you're giving him the gift of following his example 0:24:24 - 0:24:55 . They're adopting his purpose and you can't go very long adopting someone's purpose. Truly, it's all your heart without becoming more like them. So, um, the parsec people get away with it in Star Wars because no one knows what Parex means. But today we have the internet and uh, it's not 1979 or whenever 0:24:55 - 0:25:30 the first Star Wars came out. And, um, you know, you need an encyclopedia to look that up, which takes time and, and an encyclopedia, you can just Google what it means and then learn and we are coming into a time where knowledge about God will be as easy to access and as deep in content as earthly knowledge 0:25:29 - 0:25:56 is because of the internet. And what's the difference? The manifestation of the sons of God, that's the difference and that has everything to do with these stars. And now we've come full circle and um OK, so back to the center of a galaxy. So what I was about to tell you before we started talking about 0:25:56 - 0:00:00 Pars X, which was planned by the way. Um Where the heck was this? So when you OK, in our area where the sun is, which is such a massive region that it, it really seems silly to say our area. Um But anyway, now I'm trying to find out there, there's something like uh 0.2 stars or 0.02 I can't find it. 0:00:00 - 0:27:07 Now, stars per parsec in this area of the galaxy here it is um in the center of the galaxy, there are more than 10 million, 10 million compared to either 0.2 or 0.02. I, I'm sorry, I can't find that part in, in, in our region compared to more than 10 million per pars in the center of the galaxy. And 0:27:07 - 0:27:34 so it takes eight hours from sunlight to go from the sun to the earth. So every wave particle, whatever, every bit of light you see from the sun, it's actually eight hours old or eight minutes. Sheesh. I'm really bad with the units this morning. It doesn't really matter one of those two. Um, but it's 0:27:34 - 0:27:58 , there are stars that are so close together towards the center of the galaxy that it only takes six minutes. It's minutes, eight minutes from the sun. Um It's only six minutes between the stars and we are actually really close to the sun compared to the full distance of the outer edge of the solar system 0:27:58 - 0:28:26 . Um, that's called, I think it's called the solar envelope. I don't remember what this is called, but the sun, the sun's radiation actually pushes out against the galactic intergalactic. What do they call this? Um, ah, I don't remember what it's called in scientific terms. I just call it the fire because 0:28:26 - 0:28:50 that's what it is in God's terms or the, the I should say in scriptural terms. Um And it's funny because they didn't know about this. The scientists didn't know about this until I think one of the Voyager spacecraft crossed over that, that bound and there's massive radiation out there. Um So, you know 0:28:50 - 0:29:14 how astronauts have to wear spacesuits and they have radiation shielding on their ships on the space station because otherwise, um they'll die and uh even, even if they were briefly exposed to that, they'll get cancer um and die from that or if you're a comic book fan, you get the fantastic four or something 0:29:13 - 0:29:38 . Um, but if any human were to get on a ship and go out past the solar envelope, um, they'd be bombarded instantly by so much radiation that they die. So there's that, as far as someone asked me once, what I think about aliens, uh that's something they would have to figure out to travel through the intergalactic 0:29:37 - 0:30:20 um, radiation or light or whatever you wanna call it. Um, it's all energy. So, um the solar system is really big. So for two stars to be um, four light minutes apart or six, I mean, sorry. Um, I think our closest star, sorry, we're live is, so I'm answering the question. Ok. Proxima Centauri, that makes 0:30:20 - 0:00:00 sense because of the name. I should have remembered that from this really old computer game. Um ok, so that's 23 times the earth's sun distance. And, um, if we're at eight minutes, that's 100 and 84 light minutes from the sun. So from the sun to the closest star to us. It's 100 and 84 light minutes, 0:00:00 - 0:31:10 but there are stars that are six light minutes apart, which is closer to two stars closer together than the sun is to the earth. And um there are a lot that are that close when you get back anyway. Ok. So what, what are you ranting about this for? Um the heavens is a really interesting term in the scriptures 0:31:09 - 0:31:36 . So you've got Greek and Hebrew, whenever we're talking about terms in the scriptures, you can look up what the words mean in each language and mind that for meaning. Um And often you find some staggering differences with how we use the words in English. So um you might hear a phrase like heavenly being 0:31:35 - 0:31:57 in English and we use it so often that um like all of our common words, they, they lose a lot of their meaning and words describe categorical ideas. They, it's like you put something in a box in the words of the box and pretty soon you forget what's in the box. You just treat it like a box that's like 0:31:57 - 0:32:24 what happens in human relationships. Sometimes it's really sad and you have this, this object, it becomes an object but it was a person and um they're no longer a process, they're just a an outcome. And that's really sad because we're conduits of infinite meaning being created in the image of God. We 0:32:23 - 0:32:58 are processes life, the word life. It's a process and eternal life is an unending process. That's what it means. So death is um is something that happens. It's an event, but life is a process. It has no end. So words are boxes and those boxes are good because boxes are also portals, um not obviously 0:32:58 - 0:33:27 real boxes, but words are portals. And there's a lot that could be said about that. But just for our purposes, they draw a box around an idea, but ideas are infinite. They're also processes, they're living. Um Spirit is idea and um spirit is a flow. It's a process, it doesn't end, you can impose an ending 0:33:26 - 0:33:51 upon it. But what that's like is taking something in like the number pie and replacing it with a symbol which is like the symbol pie or the word pie. It doesn't go on forever pie, right? Um But it's a process. In fact, you can write a program to generate digits of pi and it can run forever. And um the 0:33:51 - 0:34:12 program itself is finite but the the the outcome of the program, it just keeps going. It never stops, right. There's so many deep things in that like you need something eternal to generate something eternal. You can't do it from a finite standing. Um But let's not get too deep into the weeds. Let's look 0:34:12 - 0:34:46 to the stars. Um Words are also a portal because they can invite you higher than you are. So even though they're finite because they come from above, they come from something greater, their reduction from something greater. Um They invite you uh closer to the actual process and everything. Um Everything 0:34:45 - 0:35:09 in creation, it testifies of Jesus. That doesn't mean it just gives evidence that Jesus is real. Testifies another word that we've, you know, all words are limited, but we've really cut the legs off a lot of words. Um, in, in the ancient languages, testify, it's the same word as demonstrate. It's also 0:35:08 - 0:35:30 the same word as martyr, which has some serious implications. But um words can call you higher and then, then where you are, and we see this all the time. If you read Shakespeare, you're being called higher than you were. But you're just, it's just happening through finite words, but you can tap into 0:35:30 - 0:35:54 the infinite, through that channel. So even through limited finite things, you can be invited towards the the infinite, towards life, even through death, you can be invited towards life. All right. So the word heavenly, when we say like heavenly beings, the legs that get chopped off of that phrase through 0:35:54 - 0:36:33 common overuse, um the ideas that we lose are the fact that the word heavenly means the sky. So heavenly beings, Paul talks on and on about heavenly beings and also about um the heavens, like the, the three heavens, the third heaven. Um And in the ancient languages, there is far less distinction between 0:36:32 - 0:37:07 talking about objects in heaven in the sky, sorry, objects in the sky and beings that are heavenly. So, um aiming this precisely, um let's talk about what this has to do with the Milky way. So the milky way that, that name, it's a collection of stars, right? That's what we see. You don't see planets 0:37:07 - 0:37:31 up there, you see the light coming from stars, uh planets emit light by the way. Um But it's not perceptible by our uh with our eyes. Um That's another one that scientists were kind of late to the game on. They discovered that the earth was emitting energy, but they had to develop the technology to detect 0:37:30 - 0:37:59 it and they finally did. Um So the earth has light that it emits and the sun emits light and um do I wanna go there? No, but I'll just say the earth emits light. So fancy that, but you don't see the light emitted from the planets in the milky way just like you don't see the light emitted from any of 0:37:59 - 0:38:19 the planets in the solar system. You only see light. Um You only see planets when they reflect the light from the sun. That's why the moon glows it. You don't, you're not actually seeing the light coming out of the moon, you're seeing the light from the sun reflecting off of the moon or Saturn or Jupiter 0:38:18 - 0:38:48 or whatever you're looking at Venus. Um So the milky way that name um it, it comes from uh, a Greek myth. Uh, it's called Milky because, um, the myth is that Hera, the goddess, she was sleeping and someone put Hercules on her breast to nurse him and she woke up and she was mad and she swatted him down 0:38:48 - 0:39:11 and, you know, if you've ever watched a baby nurse or dog or any kind of mammal, um, milk makes them really tired. And so they'll, they'll fill their mouths up and get sleepy and just wake up and start sucking again and then fall asleep again. And, um, so this poor mythical baby got knocked down and 0:39:10 - 0:39:28 so milk spilled everywhere because there's suction, right? And when you pull that off, it's like squirts everywhere. I mean, it's not like a fire hose, but if you've seen it, you've seen it. You know what I mean? Um, so, um, that's where the name Milky Way comes from because they said like that's the 0:39:28 - 0:39:54 milk they got splashed. Um, but it's not milk, they're stars. And, um, even though it looks like a cloud of light that intensifies as you draw it to the center is actually a collection of stars. It's a collection of finite points that are emitting light. But in, um, in conjunction with one another, they 0:39:54 - 0:40:16 formed this band. And so you see this cloud of light and you can actually pick out if you have a telescope, it's great if you have binoculars that can work. But if you live in the right place. You can pick out the specific stars. Some of them, the brightest ones with your naked eye. So if you took any 0:40:15 - 0:40:40 kid who could see and put them on my back porch at night in the winter time and child protection service services didn't get there before you finish because it'd be cold and they, they think that you were harming this kid. Um, so you wrap them up really warm and you put the kid on the back porch and 0:40:40 - 0:41:07 you say I want you to trace with your finger. I want you to follow the milky way. They would point up and, and trace their finger right into the middle. Why? Because it's way brighter in the middle. Everything's dark and it leads lighter and lighter until you get to the middle. What is this all about 0:41:06 - 0:41:33 ? The center of a galaxy is a black hole according to scientists, but it's blank. There's, it's a black hole, right? But when you look at the milky way, it's not the milky doughnut. Sorry you have, you know, you gotta crack yourself up. No one else can do it for you. You gotta laugh so you don't cry 0:41:32 - 0:42:13 . Um Some, some should we talk about differentiation, right? So some people laugh because they're fools, they are ignorant of just how bad things are. But the thing about darkness is it's the equal and opposite of light. And when you follow the Lord, his path will lead you through both. And your manifestation 0:42:11 - 0:42:49 of mirth is not the foolishness that it would be with others. It's a manifestation of the glory of God because he has overcome the darkness and his joy is in you. And so, um although you carry the darkness to a much greater extent than other people can even imagine it exists, it swallowed up in the joy 0:42:49 - 0:43:13 of Christ. It's literally got a bubble around it like a soap bubble. Do you know how soap works? Um You see soap bubbles when I say that you're probably thinking of like a kid with bubbles, but that's really shrunken down in soap. Even though you see the bubbles, the bubbles are like the giant freakish 0:43:12 - 0:43:36 apparitions in the whole process. They're tiny microscopic bubbles and they envelop particles of dirt and the bubbles are really slippery. And so when you wash your hands and use the soap, it's getting all the oil and dirt and wrapping it in this very slippery thing and then it slides off your hands 0:43:36 - 0:44:17 um when you wash it. And so the darkness, darkness isn't particles. Um It's one big thing and it, it's bounded by this um this living being who is Jesus and it gives you a process for dealing with that anyway, so two things can look the same from the outside and be very different on the inside. And so 0:44:17 - 0:44:40 some forms of mirth, the foolish mirth. Um So there's innocent mirth which is like laughing Children. What do they know? Right. But everyone likes laughing kids. Unless you're, you're a really terrible person. You'll like laughing kids, right? That's a good thing. And there's something, um there's something 0:44:40 - 0:45:03 divine about that, right? Um But then there's the laughing fool, the moron who's just carrying on and doesn't understand just how bad things are and they're not actually happy, it's an illusion. Um I gotta, I gotta cut this short So I'm just gonna stop talking about that. But when you see someone who 0:45:02 - 0:45:41 you wouldn't see it, ok? But when, when you see Jesus laugh, it's a holy thing. It's the holiest thing because of what. It's not just, he's holding it back. That's not um his love, his love is bye. His love is so great that it's overtaking, that it's conquering that actively. It's not, it doesn't go 0:45:41 - 0:46:34 away. He forgets your sin, but he will never forget the pain of the darkness that he walked through. He can't, I mean, the holes, the marks are in his hands, his feet, but the marks in his soul will never go away. Mm mm. So back to the milky way. So even a child could follow the milky way to the center 0:46:34 - 0:47:13 of the galaxy. But scientists tell us the center of the galaxy is dark. So why does it look brighter? Well, it's because of all the stars around it and there are many, many, many stars. So, um all things demonstrate Jesus and the, the universe is intentionally ordered as um sign and, and um illustrations 0:47:12 - 0:47:41 of who and how God is and how he works, how his system works, how His kingdom operates. And he said anyone that's seen the stars in the heavens and how they operate has seen me. What? So you look at stars and you see Jesus, how does that work? Well, he's told his apostles if you've seen me, you've seen 0:47:41 - 0:48:09 the father. Now that one's a little easier to figure out. But how is it that when you look at the stars, you see Jesus? Well, creation is AAA hologram, not a simulation, not an illusion but a hologram and look that one up, but it's an image and you can chop it up and any piece of it will contain what 0:48:09 - 0:48:31 the whole thing did. It's just at a lower resolution. So um if you think of, if you had a camera and you took it out of focus and snapped the picture, it's the same thing. It's just not as clear. So everything in reality, it demonstrates something about Jesus. It actually demonstrates all of what there 0:48:31 - 0:48:58 is to know about Jesus just as super low resolution. So in a sense, there's way more to know this is why John said not even all the books on earth would be sufficient to describe Jesus. You actually have to know him face to face because nothing lower than him can contain him, not equivalently, um, and 0:48:57 - 0:49:29 when it tries, it becomes like him and the more a person knows and lives like Jesus, the more like him they become so you can't separate that anyway. So when you look up at the sky, you, you can't see the middle of the galaxy, but when you look at it, what you see is all the stars that are right around 0:49:28 - 0:49:56 it and they're way brighter, that region is way brighter than everything else. And the night sky it's dark with a star here and a star there and they're way apart in the sky, but that milky way is way brighter than the rest, way brighter. And all you have to do is follow the light and it gets brighter 0:49:55 - 0:50:28 and brighter till you get to the middle. Um, I just thought of an analogy but I'll probably just detract from the conversation. Well, I'll go for it. There's this old commercial. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie roll pop? And, um, and the, I think there was an owl, a cartoon 0:50:28 - 0:50:59 owl doing this, but he's counting as he, as he goes, but then he just bites right into it and stops counting and as you trace the milky way, um, and you, you taste of God's Goodness. Bye. Sampling how he is and living that way in your life, you'll get, you'll get hooked and if you have any brain in your 0:50:58 - 0:51:25 head, you're gonna figure out very quickly that the best thing you can do is to bee line for the middle and just to bite right into that sucker. Literally that sucker. Right. That's what they call them here out west. I'm not, I'm not from the west, but I'm, I'm in the west. So, um, what are the stars 0:51:24 - 0:51:55 ? So we'll, we'll go there. But let's start with what is the light? It's anything that's good, true, beautiful, full, it's anything that grows strengthens that gives greater meaning, greater joy, think on these things, but don't just think on them and don't just talk about them, do them seek them, live 0:51:55 - 0:52:30 them. And I don't care what it is, what it entails. But as long as it's improvement, go for it, that improvement that's seeking greater light. The end goal is to, to envelop it inside yourself, to bring it inside yourself and to become like it, right? But you have to get ideas from somewhere and that's 0:52:30 - 0:53:02 the other side of this demonstration of the stars because the stars are people, the stars are people in this analogy in this demonstration. So um one limitation of the analogy is that when we look up into the heavens, we see the stars and that's all we're paying attention to because we can't see planets 0:53:01 - 0:53:29 , you know what else we can't see asteroids. And there are so many you should look this up in our solar system. I've done this. There's a Nat, did you see it? I saw a Nat standing in the sun. Um, uh, and that's what it's like when I'm writing and one flies across the screen. Uh, um, I get, I get totally 0:53:29 - 0:53:55 distracted. I guess I have the brain of a net. Um, gee whiz. Yeah, we see the stars and so we say like, oh there's a star here and there and then they cluster tightly in the milky way and then just get tighter and tighter as you go to the middle. But you should look up in our solar system, you should 0:53:55 - 0:54:17 look up the ratio of stars. There's one clue planets. It depends and I'm not even gonna say it because people might fight and I just don't care and everything else, you have no idea unless you're an astrophysicist or a physicist or you really like trivia just how many things are in the solar system in 0:54:17 - 0:54:46 that solar envelope that aren't planets or the sun. It's enormous. That's our solar system. What do you think other solar systems are like? So for every one of those stars, there are a lot of other things out there that do not emit light that can be seen by your naked eye. In fact, they emit so little 0:54:46 - 0:55:11 light that even astronomers can't see these things. They have to do fancy math to speculate on where planets are and it's really, really fuzzy and that those are the planets. Those are the enormous things. Those are, those are needles in a haystack. It's, it's way worse than that. Even if we don't even 0:55:10 - 0:55:37 have analogies, phrases to describe like counting comets around Proxima Centauri or whatever, that would be a band name, but no one would buy your albums. Um, that'd be like finding an atom in a billion haystacks or something. Good luck with that. Right. So what does this have to do with anything? Stars 0:55:36 - 0:56:02 are people, planets are people and asteroids are people. So not literally, they're not literally people, but I'm saying the analogy. So what does it mean to have the brightness of a star again? Paul talked about celestial terrestrial, celestial heavenly beings and you know, he said some are like the 0:56:02 - 0:56:39 moon, some are like this and that, right? Um A lot could be said about that. A lot will be said about that. But what you c that leads you to the center is not the planets and it's not the asteroids, it's the stars, it's the stars and the manifestation of the sons of God is what leads you to the center 0:56:39 - 0:57:10 . So I'm gonna leave it at that. And the second I end this, I mean, I think of a billion other things I should have said, but that's all for now. And uh I hope this video achieves the Lord's purposes. We 02 people are here who's here. Say hi. I'm just about to end this but uh no is chat enabled. Let's 0:57:10 - 0:57:37 see. Hold on live chat. All messages are visible. I don't know if that was enabled by default, but you should be able to say hi. Now I give it 10 seconds silence. All right. Well, we'll keep this under an hour. Um, have a good day. See you.