hey, everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. What's up, y'all? Does that satisfy you that's better? That, because now I can say it's Thursday. Okay. You need to be able to think on your feet, buddy. I, you do that. I know that a good, here's the thing. I in high school, I did com not comedy sports, but improvisational comedy. So much fun. I think you and I should practice more of that because then it'll make you sharper. You'll be able to think on your feet a little more quickly and add some funny syllogisms here and there. It'll be wonderful. People will love it. They will eat it up. I think they would like it. Yeah. So what we'll do then is we'll practice some improv games before we podcast and we'll see if it makes any difference on the show. Yeah. Morgan Young, I join us there. Go. I know for a fact he'd, before that he was an acting major. That's right. He was. Yeah. Can't you tell I No, you can't tell because he's that good. He's that good. Hopefully he's not acting like with the major parts though that he has in his life. Just the minor roles. Just the minor stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways. Yeah, Thursday, it's it's Ranger's opening day. This is a national holiday. Yay. Yeah, whatever. Go away, man. This is a good day. Baseball's back games actually count. I know the Dodgers played in Japan, but those games didn't really count. Because it was like, I didn't know they played Japan. Yeah, they did. They went over there and they played, I can't even remember who they played. That's how thrilling the games were. But they played in, but that's where we got Shhe from, right? Yeah. They played the Cubs. That's who it was. But baseball is America's pastime and the fact that they have the first games of the season in Japan is. It's wrong. It's morally wrong. Unless you're trying to expand the influence and the impact of baseball. In which case then it seems right. Play games over there. That's fine. Don't play opening weekend over there. Opening weekend belongs here. It's America's pastime. This is our game. Wait, do those games count? They do. They do count. They do count. No way. Yes, they do count. Oh, that's just a slap in the face then, right? See, now you're on the same page with me. No, I'm not opposed to them playing games in Japan, but. Start the season in America. Wait, so if that team beat them, that would count on their score. They didn't play a Japanese team. They played the Chicago Cubs. What? Yes. Yes. Now you see, you're kidding. Nope. This is egregious. It is egregious. Thank you. I am livid. You know what? I can see you're, here's what I'm gonna do. I'm not even gonna watch opening day baseball. This is a huge sacrifice. A huge sacrifice. I can't believe you're willing to make it. I'm not gonna go to any games this season. You silver. No. You'll go to one, you'll go to June 13th. We going, that's the exception. Yeah. Every other game. I'm not gonna even watch it. Yeah. I won't even entertain the idea. Alright. Alright. I, that's a bold man. I feel so bad. My heart breaks for you. 'cause I know how much you love watching Baseball Nation fills my soul. I can tell. I can tell. Anyways. Yeah, no. June 13th, we're going as a church to watch the Texas Rangers play the Chicago White Sox, and so hopefully you will join us for that. We did that last year. No, the White Sox? No. So they have a chance of winning then? They should, yeah. Okay. That's exciting, man. I'm. I don't knock on wood or anything else like that, so I'm hesitant to even say anything like this. But the, I think this is the particle board. I don't think this is wood. There you go. The people the people that know about what they're talking about they're saying the Rangers should have a pretty good year this year. So I'm excited. How dare you say that out loud. I'm excited. You might as well just curse every they have. I did. I did. Yeah. You've offended everybody's sensibilities. Yep. Yep. That's okay. That's okay. Alright. Enough of baseball. We have some serious Bible questions here. Let's talk about Bible. Alright, so I've been talking to people and people have been begging me. Everybody's been asking to ask you some really important questions, okay? And they're pretty open and they're transparent. So I'm just gonna throw this out there, and if you're offended by the question, hopefully you feel the heart behind it. We're trying to get down to the bottom of some things. Yep. So question number one. Sometimes when you read through the Bible, you can, you talked about this yesterday. You read the proverbs and you're like, oh, this is so good. I needed to hear that. Yeah. That reaches my soul. I'm touched, I'm changed. I understand how this works completely. And then you read some parts of Joshua. Yep. And you're finding yourself saying is, man, it just seems like that was not really helpful. And dare I say, even boring. I'm bored by what the Bible's having me read here, and it seems to play no role in my life. So please talk to the Christian who just read their Bible this morning and said, this is boring. Yeah. I don't know what to do with that. Are they not a Christian anymore? Completely. Yep. Yep. You're gone. Sorry. You're out. Yikes. If you've ever been bored by the Bible, yikes. No, I sympathize with that. There are difficult sections to read. You read through this and it's the border went from here. It went to there, it went from here, it went to there, and this tribe took this, and this tribe took that. It's if, yeah, if we're gonna be frank, if we're gonna be honest with each other or pj. Don't be frank, or if I'm gonna be pastor pj. Yeah. There's portions of scripture that we come to and we read and we're like, this is it's struggling to maintain my attention. I and if you do your daily Bible reading in the evening, your eyelids are getting heavy. They're drooping you're nodding off to sleep. It's not. Capturing your, it's not stirring your affections. You're just reading these geographic place names going, okay, Lord, what am I supposed to do with this? And this just, it's hard to get through because I lose, especially since we're not familiar with these things, right? These are areas of land that we don't know. So a couple suggestions. Number one, if you can read through these sections with. A Bible atlas with a a. We, I think we recommended a couple last year, but even the ESV study Bible has got some maps that will show you the promised land and you can read and look visually at where these locations are and go, okay, these are real places. This really matters. So that's one thing. Number two I think it's if you've ever been around somebody else's family and they're looking through old family pictures. And you're sitting there going, oh, I'm glad you guys are remem reliving all your memories, but I'm bored as watching paint dry. Listening to you guys talk about how great that vacation was with all of you and how cute Timmy used to be. And the reason being, 'cause you're not a part of that family. If you're a part of that family, you love those memories and you love looking back at those photos because they're part of who you are. They're part of your lineage, they're part of your history, your tradition and everything else. I think we need that mindset when we come to reading these sections of scripture. If we can read saying, okay, God, this is part of your people. And there are people that are involved in this who I will spend eternity with. I'm not Israel and I'm not an Israelite, but there are believers, there are those that are part of the Abrahamic blessing here, that are, I'm gonna spend eternity with. I'm gonna be on the new Earth with someday. And this is part of their history. Their hi. Their lineage, their background. Not to mention this is dealing with the land that you've set out to be your land, your promised land, the land that you chose to set your seal upon, so to speak and the land that contains Jerusalem and where Christ will reign during the millennial kingdom. I, if we can remind ourselves of some of the bigger picture items that's gonna help us get through some of the weeds, so to speak, that can at times come across as boring. I want to add one quick thing into that. The more you know, the more you see. If you think about professional let's say announcers on it, we're talking about baseball. You hear the baseball guys talking baseball on the radio, and they're describing everything that's happening in the play. I could be sitting there right behind the dugout and I can be watching the same thing, and I will see you one. I don't know, 100th of what a sports announcer can see. He sees everything. He sees the intricacies, he sees the guy that's leading off a second, he sees the, the curve of the ball. He see, he's just seeing all these pieces and they fit together marvelously for the novice. I see. I see things, but even what I see is confusing and it's I didn't see that. I didn't see who he's, who's leading off, where is that? What does that number mean? What does that stat mean? Everything's confusing, and that, that might be where you are at. The more you know, the more you can see and what you have to do with texts like these is just be patient that you're putting into the repository of your soul information and data that will help you see much more of scripture as you study it and read it. So stay the course and recognize this is part of the learning process. The more you know, the more you can see. Right now, you might not see a whole lot, but if you're a careful reader of the scriptures, there's a lot to see here. There's cues and subtleties in it that you just, you learn to see over the course of time. So be patient with the process and enjoy the process. But I have one more follow-up question for you. PPJI heard someone say once and this is a controversial statement, I'm just gonna tell you now, so if you get triggered easily, I just want you to know this, you might get triggered on this one. Here's the question. Is it true that all scripture is inspired? All scripture is equally inspired, but not all Scripture is equally relevant. What? How dare they? I'm so triggered right now. I could tell the vein in your forehead is just throbbing. I leaned back so that it didn't come across so loudly. I did though. Man, I. Huh? Proportionately, I would say yes. Yeah. Gasp, shock. Case in point, right? Jeremiah 29 11, how dare you. Let's take that one. I'm still mad, Jeremiah 29 11 for, I know the planes I have for you, declares the Lord, planes to prosper you for your welfare. That nest, nothing should harm you, so forth and so on. People get that painted above their kitchen doors and, stencil above their beds and everything else like that. That is a verse for Israel. That's not a verse for the church. And so that's why I say it's. Proportionately more relevant for the Israelite reading that verse as it was originally written, than it is for you and I reading that verse today. That doesn't apply to the church today. There is, there, is there still some relevance to us? Yeah, there's still some relevance to us. It, it has a, an impact on how we read Israel into what God's doing currently with the world's plan and program. It has a, a. Impact on our understanding of God's character, that God is a God of grace and mercy, and compassion and love and he does things that people don't deserve. And we can read that into that. But is that as relevant to us as some of Paul's writings to the church in Ephesians? I would say Ephesians one is far more significant for you as if you're looking for hope in a sure future. Ephesians one is far more relevant for you than Jeremiah 29 11 is relevant for you. Both are equally authoritative as scripture. Both are fully inspired by God. Jeremiah 29 11 is not less Bible than Ephesians one is, but based on who we are in our period of time in our dispensation, they're gonna have a different degree of relevance for us, one over the other. So as imaginary Christian will say, that's why I only read the New Testament 'cause the Old Testament is irrelevant for me. And I didn't say that I didn't say it's devoid of relevance. I said there, it's proportionately, right? And so if you completely unhitch yourself from the Old Testament and don't spend time in the Old Testament, you're robbing yourself of a fully orbed understanding of who God is. God reveals himself in the Old Testament as much as he reveals himself in the New Testament. And so as good berean and students and those that love the Lord, we need a fully informed, a fully, a fully orbed picture of who God is and you can't get that if you don't have the Old Testament and the New Testament together. That's a great response. Thank you very much, Joshua 16 through 18. Then as we get into this Yeah, read it carefully and the more you know the more you'll notice I. And and so in Joshua 16 and 17 we've got land for Eum and Manas. And so in John six, Joshua 16, four you've got Joseph named here. And Joseph is named as, these were his sons whom Jacob adopted. So he is dealing with Eum and Manas and we've gotta go back to our time in Genesis. Joseph had his two sons, ere and Manas. Adopted by Jacob. And so that's why they're here getting tribal land. They were part of then Jacob's inheritance or they benefited from the inheritance of Jacob there. That's Joshua 16 four Joseph shows up there Joshua 17, 12. The people here are unable to take possession of some of the cities and that's worth note. When they were strong enough, they didn't drive them out, but made them their servants and that's. Because of their disobedience to God's command here. This is not because God failed. This is a failure of the people there. And so in, in chapter 16 and 17, we're taking land for Ephraim and Manas. I take special notice of the fact that they gave a reason, a really good reason for why they chose not to obey God. They say here in verse 16, the Hill countries. Enough is not enough for us yet. All the Canaanites who dwell on the plane have chariots of iron, and Joshua basically says, Hey, good excuse, but not really, because he says in verse 18, you shall drive out the Canaanites. Though they have chariots of iron and though they are strong, I want you to notice a couple things here. Number one. All sin has really good excuses behind it, especially the sins that that they're particularly compelling to you for one reason or another to obey God or disobey God or rather to not do something that God told you to do. There's always gonna be a good justification. I can, God, this is too hard. This is too, this is requires too much, or whatever it is. We might be a lot like Ephrem and say this is too hard for these good reasons. There's good reasons here. And God still says no, even though you have good reasons through the lips of Joshua. He says you're still going to, you're gonna drive them out and you're gonna do it even though they have superior weaponry. And even though they have superior strength. Always recognize that God might put you in a situation where the odds are against you. And the reason why is because he's doing all things for his glory. He doesn't want you to come out the other end and say, man, I'm amazing. Can't believe how smart I am. Can't believe how strong I am, or how skillful my tactics are, and God intended for them to go against a superior foe. In order to show that he's a superior God, keep that in mind when you face the next temptation or trial that comes to you today, tomorrow, or in the next 10 minutes. Yeah that's great. That's, we're talking about that a little bit on, on Sunday because in John 18, 11 10 and 11 Peter pulls out a sword and attacks the servant on the high priest, and Jesus heals the servant. And I think one of the things that God is showing in that whole interaction is, Hey, I don't need your help. Right now, like you need to be in a situation of trusting me of depending on me and not depending on yourself here. And sometimes, yeah. We're put in situations where we're like, we can't see our way out of this. We wanna try. And a lot of times when we try, just like Peter, we end up screwing things up rather than helping God out in helping us get out of a particular situation. Because he wants the glory. That's right. That's not a let go, let God mentality, by the way. We'll talk about that. Too different. Yeah, different. Alright. Joshua 18, then the rest of the land verses two through three. Joshua confronts the seven remaining tribes for not taking possession of the land that God had given him. He's saying, Hey, what? What are you doing? It's time we're here. Let's go let's get settled. Verses four through 10. Then Joshua has men go to record what the land was like describing the cities and the towns. And then Joshua casts lots for these people and divides them these towns rather, and divides them amongst the people that are remaining there versus then 11 through 28. We find Benjamin's inheritance given for us towards the end of the chapter, but again, this is a lot of this boundary, this territory, this city. If nothing else, I, I think a good starting place is, oh, read it with your Bible atlas open. Look at where these town names are when you can find them. If you've got logos, that's a great resource. You can even look 'em up on a fact book. Say, do I know anything in the fact book? Do I have any resources about this town? Or about this tribe? Even if you wanna find out more information about one of these tribes who was Asher, I want to find out more about Asher and you can do some research there on it. Super helpful resource for you. Yeah. I guess one quick tidbit here is that you'll notice that the people of Israel are now moving their religious center to Shiloh. Shiloh is gonna be one of the places that they operate from, and that's where the Tabernas gonna be erected. This is gonna play a large role after we make our way through the prophets. Shiloh is gonna be one of those places that is there for a season. I think it actually goes away in one Samuel after who was it? I'm forgetting his name right now, but anyhow, Shiloh's gonna be one of those locations that is one of Israel's spiritual hubs, so that might be worth keeping in mind. You're gonna see it again soon. Yep. Alright let's pray and we'll be done with another episode of the Daily Bible Podcast. God, thanks for your word and for these reminders, even as we walk through. Portions that are more difficult, admittedly, so that your word is still just as relevant to us as it as it ever has been, as it ever will be. And that it's not as, it's not less impactful for us, just simply because it's more difficult for us to get through. And so help us to pull something away, whether it's something about who you are or one of these towns or one of these names to learn more about you so that we might be more like you in the end. And so we thank you for your word and pray that would be the result of our time in it. In Jesus name, amen. Amen. Keep reading your Bibles. Tuning again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Boy, bye.

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