YOU DON'T KNOW WHO YOU'RE MESSING WITH (7 OF 31)
by Tim Badal
Scripture: Matthew 11:11, John 5:19-47
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You Don’t Know Who You’re Messing With (7 of 31)
Series: The Gospel of John
Tim Badal
Matthew 11:11, John 5:19-47
The older I get, the more I start comparing my generation to the next generation living life now. What I mean by that is I look back to my high school days and say to my children, ‘‘That’s not the high school I was a part of. Things are different.’’ One of the things I ask is, ‘‘Are there fights in the high school?’’ I’m in a family of boys, so my question may be different than you who have girls. Now, I grew up in the ‘90s and if you were in my peer group, there were a lot of fist fights in high school. There doesn’t seem to be that anymore; maybe it’s all happening on social media. I remember there usually wasn’t a week that went by without a couple guys getting together and hashing things out, dealing with it by throwing some punches. Now, listen. I’m not advocating violence. I don’t want any of our high school students to get in trouble. I don’t want the principal or police calling and saying, ‘‘Yeah, Junior heard your sermon yesterday and learned there aren’t enough fist fights, so he started one.’’ I’m not advocating that. I’m just saying it’s just different these days. I remember when I was a junior in high school, there was a senior in my P.E. class who was the biggest guy in our school. He even made me look small. He was pestering and harassing one of the smallest freshmen in the P.E. class. We were doing floor hockey, which already has a lot of pushing and shoving. Something had transpired in class that moved its way into the locker room. As we entered the locker room, the big kid shoved the little freshman into the lockers, saying, ‘‘You’d better watch it.’’ What the little guy did next was crazy. He put up his fists, then he uttered words I will never forget and caused everybody to break out laughing. He said, ‘‘You don’t know who you’re messing with.’’ I thought, ‘‘What are you doing? Yeah, we know. You’re little. He’s big. Little ...
Series: The Gospel of John
Tim Badal
Matthew 11:11, John 5:19-47
The older I get, the more I start comparing my generation to the next generation living life now. What I mean by that is I look back to my high school days and say to my children, ‘‘That’s not the high school I was a part of. Things are different.’’ One of the things I ask is, ‘‘Are there fights in the high school?’’ I’m in a family of boys, so my question may be different than you who have girls. Now, I grew up in the ‘90s and if you were in my peer group, there were a lot of fist fights in high school. There doesn’t seem to be that anymore; maybe it’s all happening on social media. I remember there usually wasn’t a week that went by without a couple guys getting together and hashing things out, dealing with it by throwing some punches. Now, listen. I’m not advocating violence. I don’t want any of our high school students to get in trouble. I don’t want the principal or police calling and saying, ‘‘Yeah, Junior heard your sermon yesterday and learned there aren’t enough fist fights, so he started one.’’ I’m not advocating that. I’m just saying it’s just different these days. I remember when I was a junior in high school, there was a senior in my P.E. class who was the biggest guy in our school. He even made me look small. He was pestering and harassing one of the smallest freshmen in the P.E. class. We were doing floor hockey, which already has a lot of pushing and shoving. Something had transpired in class that moved its way into the locker room. As we entered the locker room, the big kid shoved the little freshman into the lockers, saying, ‘‘You’d better watch it.’’ What the little guy did next was crazy. He put up his fists, then he uttered words I will never forget and caused everybody to break out laughing. He said, ‘‘You don’t know who you’re messing with.’’ I thought, ‘‘What are you doing? Yeah, we know. You’re little. He’s big. Little ...
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