Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Monday's edition of the daily Bible podcast. The Monday, hope we're catching you at a good time. Yes. Hopefully you're listening at a time. That makes sense. But if not, maybe you should pause this and come back another time. Maybe you should, maybe you should, but, uh, it's worth your time. It is. Hopefully it's worth your time as an accompaniment to the Bible. And I think we've said this before, but it's, it's good for us to mix this in every once in a while. This is not a replacement for your daily Bible reading. Um, we are not here to read it to you. We are not here to give you the cliff notes or the spark notes or. Pink monkey notes. Did you ever use those? I don't think so. Yeah. They were like SparkNotes in. And cliff notes, paint monkey, pink monkey, kink monkey, pink and monkey notes. Yeah. I think in high school. I don't remember those, not that I ever used things. He did a short course. He did it. That was chat GBT back then. Right? I mean, now it's like, Hey, summarize. This book, I guess that's true, but I, I, man, I love chatty because. Because this is a better, it's a better companion. You can ask it questions and get more information about and get, even get some character sketches. Except it's not always, it's not always reliable. It. Does hallucinate, which is their, their terminology for when it makes stuff up out of nowhere. Yeah. So you have to know something before you use it and then use it wisely, but I've been loving that I've been using it along with my. I haven't my kids, my two sons Rita. Les Miserables. And it's been fun because I'm having to remember like, oh yeah, I forgot about that scene. Singing the songs as the reading it, no. I actually don't know the songs that, well, I read this, I knew I knew it from the story and every time I've tried to watch the musical version, I never found it especially compelling for whatever reason. Love the story though. So I'm having them read it. I'm trying to remember some of the characters sketches, so I'm reading with them, but I'm also trying to. Uh, get, uh, remember all the things that I read back whenever it was at first. Read it. Yeah. Val, John. Marius. Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of really good redemptive story arc. So many good teams in there. Yeah. Yeah, I used cha GBT a couple of months ago. I was looking for a quote for a sermon from an author named David Wells. Who's one of my favorites. Inside Ash, chap GPT for it. And it kicked back like three or four quotes. And I was like, that's that strange? I don't recognize any of those quotes. And so it, I said, what page numbers are these from? What chapters have these from? And so it kicked back chapters and page numbers. So I went and pulled the books off my shelf and I looked up. That's it. They weren't anywhere in there. Oops, just kidding. And so I told him, I said, these are not in the book. And it was like, oh, you wanted exact ones. I was giving you close proximity. Things that he said. Let's approximate pages. Right. I was like, you are so deceptive. Well, it is helpful if you know what you're talking about. Yeah. If you don't, it's super dangerous, but if you know the subject matter, it's a really great companion. Uh, you know, I do appreciate all, like I'll Google something. Like how to make Mac and cheese and you don't how to do that. Well, you know, sometimes Google has. Craft or yeah. If I throw the box out, then I'm paralyzed. I don't know what to do. So. Up at the topic gives you the AI summary. And so those are helpful sometimes. Yeah, I love those. Yeah. I just temporarily subscribed to x.com, which is not what it sounds like. It's Twitter, formerly known as Twitter, formerly known as Twitter. And so I got rid of all the ads, which I love. Yeah. And the best I think the best feature is that their AI. Thing. Uh, we'll summarize news for you instead. It'll take all the articles and try to put it into a hodgepodge, which is kind of fun. I like that. That is nice. Yeah. Yeah, we need Elan as part of his doge to, uh, take it back to Twitter. I, uh, you want it to be called Twitter again? Yeah. It's just because everybody still calls it Twitter. Yeah, I mean, but that's going to take time. Just like everyone that our church is still calls them home fellowship groups. No, we don't know what they don't obviously, but some people do and they, it just can't, it won't die now. They don't because man, I think. I think maybe half, if not 60% of our church are no longer. People that came from California with us. That's true. Uh, so maybe some of the people that came are still struggling still. I don't know who that would be. I don't know anybody personally. But I know other people might be. Because it's so ingrained as all I'm saying. That's fair. And that's a good, that's a good case for why you should build habits in your life because they die hard. And one of the best habits you should build into your life. Is reading the Bible. What a good segue. That was great segue. All right. And yet you said diehard and it's Christmas time. And now. Ah, diehard is a Christmas movie. Then if you start quoting that people will love it. I w will they, I don't know that that would be appropriate from the pulpit. Well, it depends on what scene you're quoting is true. Yeah. I don't. I don't know. Anyways, Romans eight, speaking of walking by the spirit and not according to the flesh. Uh, Romans eight. There is therefore now no condemnation for those in Christ. Jesus man. We could spend the entire episode just on that one statement. Yeah. Right. And he's, and to your point that you made in, in yesterday's episode, he's building upon where he's just been in Romans seven. And that the depth of despair saying wretched, man, that I am, who's going to deliver me from this body of death, which again, I think you're right. I think it fits with his. The testimony of the Lockheed. I can't save you. And I think he's saying in Romans seven, I was trying to be justified by the light. And it led me to the end of myself saying, I can't do this. And this is a former Pharisee saying this right. And so then chapter eight verse one gives, has so much more weight with that for him to say, there's no condemnation. Um, we're not condemned, uh, for those who are in Christ. Jesus. Yeah, we can't do it, but, and even more so, because he goes on to say, God has done with the law. We can, by the flesh could not do. And that is justify us. The law couldn't justify it, but God did that for us by sending his son in the likeness of sinful flesh in the lightness of not as a sinner. Notice that there's a difference there in the likeness of sinful flesh. And for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled, that Jesus fulfilled the law for us. A lot of times, we'll say our salvation is not merited and that's a half-truth it's not merited by us, by us. Yeah, but it is a Meredith salvation. Jesus. And that's what he's saying here. Jesus Meredith the righteousness that he gave us a second Corinthians five, which we read not long ago. When he says in that great exchange that he took our sin and gave us his righteousness. That's not just his, his passive righteousness. That is part of who he is as God. That's his merited righteousness. That's the righteousness that he earned through 30 some odd years, 33 years of living on earth, obeying the father's will and law perfectly. We got that registered that's right. Because that's what the standard was. He couldn't just give us his passive righteousness because we need the righteousness of filling the law. Right. So then he goes on and talks about the fact that now we are those that can walk according to the spirit, because in verse nine, every Christian has the spirit. Anyone who does not have the spirit of Christ does not belong to him. So that's important for us to remember if somebody says, well, I was saved and that I received the spirit later on at another time. And wrong. Romans eight, nine would say, you're not saved if you don't have the spirit. Now, the book of acts, which we've been reading, there've been some situations where some people received the spirit later on. And this is one of the reasons why we'd say that's descriptive, not prescriptive because we've got this version Romans eight, nine that said, Hey, the normative is, if you're in Christ, you have the spirit. That's right. And that's true without what that exception, even if we would disagree with some of the ways that. Our Pentecostal or charismatic brothers and sisters might look at this, we're going to say, look, everybody has a spirit. And in equal measure in some sense. So there is a, there is a positional possessing of the spirit. There is an experiential difference between all of us. And we would say, you can have more or less of that, which is why Paul says you have to walk by the spirit, be filled with the spirit. So we would agree with them. Our Pentecostal friends. And charismatic friends, but the expression of that is going to look different in our minds. Yeah. Yeah. And then in verse 11, he says this, that the reality and the result of the spirit dwelling within us now is that we can walk in newness of life. If the spirit who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you again, another thing we could just sit and spend time talking about right there. If that's true, then that spirit is going to give life to your mortal bodies. Your mortal bodies. Uh, through his spirit who dwells in you, your mortal body being the body that you inhabit right now, this is not the future glorified body. Your glorified body is. Uh, for that, by the way, right? Exactly. You're your glorified body. That's going to be in the future. Your mortal body right now is what he's talking about. And that goes back to what we were talking about in Roman six yesterday. That the Christian life is meant to be a life of, of. Bearing fruit of being a slave to righteousness. And we can do that. Because the spirit dwells within us. Uh, from here, he talks about being heirs with Christ. Uh, living by the spirit, putting to death, the deeds of the body. Um, and he says that, that the other product of the spirit that is true of us is that we're now part of God's family. We've received the spirit of adoption and we can cry out Abba father. Again, that term of intimacy for the father. This is not daddy. God, this is. I know that makes you uncomfortable pastor out assume. I said uncomfortable. I know, I know you love this. This is not daddy don't recommend that. Um, but this is a term of intimacy. It's a familiar term for the father that we can approach him that way because of the spirit that dwells within us, which is the whole point we can. Were we on familiar terms? Familial terms with God? Which suggests intimacy, which suggests deep relationship with suggests a kind of even boldness where I can, I can go into the father's master bedroom, so to speak and say, Hey dad, I need help. Uh, because he welcomes us. That's the, that's the desire to cause that's what Paul desires to communicate. It's not please. Don't call him daddy. God. Please don't please. Don't. And then he goes on, he talks about, um, suffering. He says, we're heirs provided. We suffer with him. Now that kind of takes over. We talked about this on Sunday during the sermon a little bit, but that takes over from this point forward. And in chapter eight, him talking about the future glory that they're suffering now, but there's a future glory coming. That's going to render the suffering that we have now, not worth comparing to that glory. That's going to be revealed. And again, we find that proposition for over and over and over again in this section. And he talks about creation, groaning, and we're groaning, and we're all longing to. To have the, the, the fullness of the glory in front of us. And this is the context where we find things like the spirit helps us in our weakness, praying for things that we don't know how to pray. And he says that this is the same section where he says God's causing all things to work together for. Good. For those who love him in the context of what, of suffering and groaning and longing for the future. God is still causing all things. Romans 8 28 caused to work together for the good of those who love him, which would be that we would be conformed to the image of Christ. Um, and then there's the unbroken chain of, of being called in or predestined and called and justified and glorified. So much is, is in here, but Romans eight is such a chapter of our secure standing in Christ from the very beginning of there's no condemnation to the very end of saying who can separate us from the love of God. Chapter eight is all about our security in Christ, which is why, again, it just feels like there's such a contrast being created between the end of chapter seven and what we have here in chapter eight. It just feels like Paul is shifting from, this is what it was and look at this and how it now is. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, this is. Yeah, there's so much control yourself, bro. Self-control. Yeah, come on. Yeah. So chapter nine, let me just give you a high, high view. Chapter nine chapter nine begins this section. Uh, that goes through chapter 11 of what about Israel? Um, what about the people of the law? What about the people of the covenants? What about the people of the promises? And Paul, basically his message in chapter nine at the very beginning is God's word has not failed because the Israelites are still looking to the, the law for justification. Uh, God's law has not failed. Not all. Israel is true. Israel. There's going to be a difference here. And. He's going to go through here to say, you know, God has his purpose of election. Uh, and, and this is going to be hard because it's going to raise objections from us. We're going to want to say, that's not fair. That's in just, we're going to want to see them then why does he still find fault? And these are questions that Paul asks and the answers to in chapter nine here. And it really culminates in verse 20. I think when he says of us, he says, who are you to answer back to God? Will, what is molded say to the molder? Why have you made me like this? There's a humility that is required of us to say at the end of the day, you are God and I am not. Um, and, and his ways are above and beyond our ways. And so Paul hears lamenting the current state of Israel. He says at the very beginning, I would give my own salvation if it meant the salvation of all of Israel. And that's an amazing statement in and of itself. But from here, he goes on to explain, you know, there are those that, that God has hardened and he's hardened them for the sake of the Gentiles. You know, Israel's unbelief is, is, is he's going to go on and say later on is, is actually good for the Gentiles, but, but this is. Th this is difficult. And ultimately he's going to say that God's doing everything and he's doing for his glory in, in our rules to say, God, I trust you in this. And that's really, I think that's, that's the emphasis for me, just trust that God is doing. What's good and right. And no, one's going to charge him at the end of the age and say, oh God, you should've done it differently. You're not going to say that you might feel that. And that's a natural human inclination because we have this insane desire to have this, uh, Autonomous control over our lives that says I exist apart from and outside of God. And that's just never going to happen. You can't think your way out of God's sovereignty, you will always get you always going to end up saying at the end of the day, I'm dependent upon him for everything. Even my very thoughts. If my brain synapses fire together in the right way, it's because of what God is doing. So. As hard as these chapters are. One of my, I love the way Paul ends at the end of chapter 11. It's from him to him and through him are all things. He Paul praises. God, what else can you do? And I know that as you make your way through this theological depth, Uh, one of the challenges is going to be the sense of, I don't like this. I'm repulsed by it. The other, the other response, hopefully if you can work your way through this. Is God your God. And I am not, I love that. Let's just let it be what that is. Yep. Yeah. Chapter 10. He continues on this theme of Israel and here's where he says, you know what, the Israelites, they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. And so, um, This is why you saying my heart's desire for them is that they may be saved that they they're not our enemies in this, but they don't understand the thing that is, is crucial for them to understand. And that is verse four. Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes they're there looking in the wrong place. And he wants them to get to the right place there. And he goes on and the rest of this, and he's saying to them, look, salvation is not beyond your reach. And that's what he means there when he says. Uh, the righteous based on faith says, do not see in your heart who will ascend to heaven or who will descend into the abyss. He sing. You don't have to jump through all kinds of hoops to get to Christ. It's he's near to you and he's near to you in the message of salvation. So confess with your mouth, that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart. God raised him from the dead and you will be saved. And then this is where he goes on and says, and to make that happen, people got to hear about it. And so we need to have people go out to preach the gospel. And if people are going to go preach the gospel, they gotta be sent. And so in that sense, That's all of us. That's not, when he's talking about preaching here, he's not talking about what I do or what pastor Ron does. He's talking about. All of us corporately is believers are preachers proclaimers of the gospel of Jesus Christ to bring the message of faith to the lost so that faith might come from hearing and hearing through the word of Christ and people might be saved. And specifically, I think he's, he's here. He's talking about that. I think in his mind on his Hardart. The Jewish people say, man, I wish that they would get this. I wish they would understand this, but applies. Across the board to all of us. Yeah, preach the gospel everywhere. And if necessary, use words respond to that. It's necessary all the time to use words. Yeah. And in fact that. From what I understand. I don't think Francis Sisi who's attributed that quote is attributed to him. I don't know that he ever said that. And it's, it's something that preached for a long time because it's one of those things that's like, oh man, that's powerful. I need to make sure my lifestyle preaches Christ as much as my words preach Christ. But no one's ever going to get into heaven because you opened a door for them. No one's ever going to get into heaven because you were kind as a neighbor. No one's ever going to get into heaven because you know, you, as a, as a employee, refuse to compromise the way your boss wanted you to compromise and you stuck by your Christian integrity. Listen, all those things are good, but nobody is going to get into heaven without hearing the message of Christ the gospel. So you have to use words because words are necessary all the time. And I can't find anything on Snopes, but there is lots of suggests that it is not St. Francis of Assisi. Um, which I think about, I think about this quote, every time we pass by it in the morning to go to church on Sunday. Cause the Catholic church that's near us is St. Francis of Assisi. Yeah, but I guess there's two things there. Number one. That's that's not true. It's just simply not true. These sentiment is true. Uh, your actions should match your words, but they should not supplant your words. Right. Uh, second thing I would say is don't trust everything that you see on the internet to please. I mean it's harder to day, especially in the, in the age of AI. When things can convincingly deceive, you have to do extra homework to make sure that what you put on your social media. If you're, if you're one person to do this, Uh, is accurate and true. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Well, there you go. Let's pray. And then we'll be done with today's episode of the DVR. Got we, uh, we thank you so much for your, your word. We want to be a church that is faithful to proclaim the good news to open our mouth, to speak the truth. And we've got Christmas season coming up. We're going to be around. Family members lost ones in our lives. And we're going to have some more time on our hands. If we're taking time off work or have some time where the office is closed around 24th, 25th, whatever it may be. We'll give us divine appointments and causes to be ready as a church to, to say, here's, here's the gospel. This is Jesus. You need to repent and believe from in him. Uh, to be saved. And so make us a church that bears fruit as a result of that, we would ask in Jesus name. Amen. All right, y'all keep it in your Bibles and tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the daily Bible podcast. See.