Stay Thirsty My Friends (S15 Episode20)

Friends, I am not sure when the good ol’ days were, but I think one could make a pretty strong case that they were between 2006 and 2016. Why those 10 years? Well, that is when Dos Equis beer was running their “Most Interesting Man in the World” ads.

I loved those ads. We were gifted lines about this most interesting man, like, “he once won a staring contest with his own reflection,” or “sharks have a week dedicated to him,” or “he can speak Russian…in French,” or “he once made a weeping willow laugh.” Those ads were delightful. But every ad ended the same way. The Most Interesting Man in the World would stare into the camera and say, “Stay Thirsty, My Friends.”

Jesus has now entered the home stretch of his Sermon on the Mount, and we come to a passage of Scripture that has flummoxed me for a long while. It is Jesus’ exhortation to ask, seek, and knock. Jesus promises that those who do will be answered, find what they are looking for, and have doors opened to them. What in the world might Jesus be getting at?

I am excited to dig into this passage with you all. To start, I want to tell you about the revelation I had this week about O.J. Simpson and black pickup trucks. Then, I want to introduce you to the Nobel Prize winner, Isidor Isaac Rabi, and the incredible reason he became a scientist. Then we will dig into the passage itself while exploring an oft missed part of Jesus’ teaching style. Finally, we will explore a most curious idea: WHAT we know may be less important than HOW we know. Oh yeah, and somehow The Most Interesting Man in the World ties into all of this.