Stone
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364 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
Stone’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Jay sent me a text, which I thought was weird, but now it's all making sense. He said, you want to go squirrel hunting in the morning? You remember what I said? I can't. Yeah. I can't. You should have trusted what I said there. Wrong time of year.
You either do that or you come to Louisiana and run around in a cornfield at night chasing a dog. There ain't no way you're going to be heavy if you do that consistently.
It's been seven or eight years. And it came about the time that your wife said, once you reached a certain weight, just don't come back.
I thought about this passage in 1 Thessalonians 5. I mean, this is right after he's like, describes this, you know, Jesus coming back, dead bodies coming out of the ground. And then it's like, well, when is this all going to happen? And he's just like, well, don't be surprised when it does. He didn't really answer the question. He's like, nobody knows.
And then he's like, we're, you know, children of the light, live in the light. And then he gets to the end and he says, do not put out the spirit's fire. This is verse... 20, test everything, hold on to the good, avoid every kind of evil. And then he makes this statement in 23. This is 1 Thessalonians 5. May God himself, the God of peace, set you apart or sanctify you through and through.
May your whole spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it. I think that's pretty powerful.
I use the word respect, you know, because there's a story in Jude where he's like, don't even make fun of him. It's an idea of respect. Where is that at?
Yeah, that's Jude 9, verse 9. There's only one chapter in Jude. But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, which is an interesting thing because if you go back and read in Exodus about Moses, it says God buried him.
And then later he showed up on that mountain. You kind of got a glimpse of some kind of new body. So something happened there. When you made the statement earlier about the number one goal of the evil one, the devil, it is to kill.
Destroy. Bottom line. That's it. Hebrews 2.14 said Jesus came to destroy the power of the work of Satan. which is death. That's Hebrews 2.14. So that's why he's always associated with the realm of the dead and... So that is the enemy. So they had this, when he had this argument, it says he did not dare bring a slanderous accusation against him, but said, the Lord rebuke you.
So fear, respect, I mean, even the archangel wasn't like going to accuse him. He just said, the Lord rebuke you.
My wife helped write this because you're my family. And I will say, Al, I'm also a dad and a granddad. And one of my favorite lines, to be honest, when I was busy, I would tell my kids, go read some books. And they actually have a set of 10 in this little feature here. Look, you can just go read some books. These are good. Yeah. Lots of books.
I heard somewhere you brought up something interesting, so it's hard for me to do this off the top of my head. But I was listening to a sermon a year or two ago. When he says that verse you just got through saying in Matthew 16, where he says, who do people say the Son of Man is? They replied, some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, Jeremiah. Jesus says, verse 15, what about you?
Who do you say I am? Peter answered, you're the Christ, son of the living God. And he said, blessed are you, Simon, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by the Father in heaven. I tell you that you're on Peter. I mean, that you're Peter. And on this rock, I'll build my church. And the gates of Hades... It says, will not overcome it.
And the guy I was listening to preach looked at the Greek, and when he got into the Greek language here on this phrase, one of these prepositions that we put in here in the translation does not exist. And, of course, he started talking about it, and I was like, where is he going with this? But his point was, when you read it the way we translate it, we're acting like it's coming at us,
But it's not going to overcome it, you know. But when you actually take that preposition that we just put in the English language, trying to grab a hold of it, it actually should read the gates of Hades won't withstand it. And his point was, who's dishing out the power here? When you read it and insert that... And look, I'm not hating on the translators.
They were just trying to get a picture of it. But I think we, a couple thousand years later, are trying to wrestle with it. And we think they're the one... putting all the resistance, and it's kind of the total opposite. They're not going to be able to endure the power of spirit-filled people because if God is for us, who can be against us? And he solved all the problems that the evil one used.
That's why I read that about he disarmed the rulers and the powers when he died on the cross and came back from the dead. Because what are their tools? They want to get you to sin and wallow in it and become a slave in it, and they want you to die. And that's what Jesus overcame. So I think just acknowledging that on who we are, should make us way more aggressive in the face of evil.
That's why we need to go down the rabbit holes or the cane trail, you know, and say, well, wait a minute now.
usurp the work that is done in you and in terms of the work of salvation that is done in you as a believer like you can rest in that man yeah well i think it all comes down to just god's perspective versus your perspective i mean because there's some interesting verses i think if you kind of wrap your head around this which i find fascinating about the the text and i recommend it everyone listen to that sermon i'll preach because it was fantastic
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