Hey, NTX team and everybody else that listens to us. Welcome back to another edition, the Daily Bible Podcast. Welcome back. Welcome back. It is Pastor Mark in here, and as I said, I believe yesterday's episode, pastor Rod is in class right now, so you can be thinking about him, praying for him. Remember, he is pursuing his doctorate of ministry in biblical counseling, so he's doing some heavy lifting right now. And pastor Mark graciously volunteered to step in, or actually I think I asked him, I said, Hey, can you be on the podcast? And he said, yes. He said, ah, if I have to, I guess fine voluntold, job voluntold. I enjoy it. I enjoy it. Pastor Rod does an excellent job, so I do not want to I do not want to replace him, but it is fun to do this. It can be, yeah. It is, I, it's not just, can be for me, and maybe it's 'cause I don't do it every day. It is always fun for me to be on here. Well, in full disclosure, I don't do it every day either, but three times a week sometimes it's like, okay, here we go. Let's go again. We're after it again. It's worth it because we enjoy helping you guys and equipping you and having a voice in your life on a daily basis. But yeah, sometimes some passages it's like. Like Song of Solomon. That's why I leave town. I let Pastor Raj handle that by himself. Yeah. And I'll be gone conveniently that week as well too. Oh, well. There we go. Yeah. So he'll do it again. Hey, we had a question written in and the question has to do with our resurrected bodies. And so, the person who wrote this in, she says in our, in one Corinthians 15, which is correct, this is where he talks about us getting our new glorified bodies. Can you explain your thoughts? She says on the new glorified bodies and how our bodies will look. Well, let's talk timing for a second. 'cause that's one question that I think a lot of people have is when do we get these bodies? And my best understanding of it is that this is gonna happen for the church at the rapture. So we get that from first test four. I believe it's first, that's four. Yep. That the Trump is gonna sound. Mm-hmm. And the dead in Christ will rise first. And so that would imply that those that have already gone before us in death, that their glorified bodies will be given to them at that point. That's what it means that they will rise when it says that the dead in Christ will rise first. Because right now we know that Paul says to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. So some people will speak of soul sleep, that for the Christian, that death right now is soul sleep. They're not conscious of anything. They're waiting for that time when the dead in Christ will rise to be with the Lord. But Paul in one Corinthians, second Corinthians four says To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Four or five. So. We know that the soul does depart, the immaterial does depart to go to be with the Lord. When Paul says the dead in Christ will rise, that's the glorified bodies being reunited with those that are in eternity already. And then the rest of us will be caught up together with him. Mm-hmm. And we will all be changed in the twinkling of an eyes. Mm-hmm. So that's that moment of. All of us receiving our glorified bodies. If you're alive on earth, you'll be caught up and then your body will be transformed in that process. So that said, pastor Mark, new glorified bodies, what are they gonna look like? They're gonna seem right now, they don't seem like they're gonna be normal, but when you have that glorified body, it's actually gonna seem perfectly normal. You're gonna be amazed at how normal it feels. That's my contention anyways, because it may be more normal than what your current body feels like. That's exactly my point. That's exactly my point because we were not created to live in a fallen central world. We are, we're not created for that. We can easily think of heaven as this ethereal clouds and cherubs place. And that's not what it is. It's where we're. Ultimately made to live. Yeah it's where we're designed to be, and in that sense it's gonna feel normal. I'm not trying to diminish how incredible it's gonna be. Don't hear me say that when I say normal. I just mean that it's going to be like very. Comfortable in the way that God has made us to be. That's where we're gonna fit. Right. There's lots of implications of what that actually looks like. Yep. But the word normal I pick to try to describe that as best as I can. So our glorified bodies are not that we're gonna be fat babies with wings flying around with bows and arrows. No. Okay. No I can, I'm confident of that. Yeah. Well, I think the best. Example that we have in scripture of what our glorified bodies are gonna be like, is actually the glorified body of our Lord and Savior himself. In fact John is gonna say that when we see him, we will be like him. Mm-hmm. And so, that is our future, that we will be like Christ. And I take that to mean also our glorified bodies will be like him. There will always be a distinction. He is truly God. We are not ever gonna be truly God. Right? We'll be in our glorified bodies as human beings. Our bodies will be like his. And so when we look at the resurrected Christ, which is something that we're gonna see shortly in the study of the gospels. Right now we're coming fast upon the crucifixion of Jesus, but we're gonna look in a few days here at his resurrection body and we're gonna see him doing things with his resurrection body. He's appearing through locked doors. There's the question there, is that his deity or is that something that our glorified bodies are gonna be able to do? I don't know. Our glorified bodies are gonna eat. Because he's on the shore with John and and Peter in, at the end of John's gospel. And they're eating as they gather there. And it's fascinating too because there are, and this is again, perhaps this is unique of him, curious to get your thoughts on this Pastor Mark, but there are the marks of. His experience on earth before his glorified body that Jesus still bears fascinat. Now those are the marks of the crucifixion. Yeah. So I could see that being only unique to him, but he's recognizable. We could put it that way, at least. Yeah. I'm gonna say those are gonna be unique to him. I don't think we're gonna bear the effects of sin in our glorified bodies. So my scar from hitting a wall on my bike when I was growing up riding it, that's gonna be gone. I have no verse to point to. To definitively say that, but I think the holes in his wrists are gonna be something unique to him. Yeah. I do think it's fascinating though, that Jesus eats. I think we can easily also think of our glorified bodies as somehow God-like, I mean, there will be. Elements of it that are incredible, but we're still gonna be dependent. Yeah. On God for eternity. Yeah. For even calories. And Jesus in his humanity is dependent on calories. Yeah. In with those fish on the beach. Yeah. There, there's so many questions that we have that right now we don't have all the answers to. Our bodies are not going to break down or decay. Right. So there's not gonna be, what's that gonna look like? Right. There's not muscle atrophy. You're not gonna have the soda pouch on the front of your belly there, you're not gonna have I mean, there's so much about it that we experience now as a result of the fall that we won't experience then even, weariness and exhaustion. Yep. You know, we will work with our glorified bodies because work is not a result of the fall. Work was present before the fall, but it was only as part of the curse of the fall that God said, by the sweat of your brow mm-hmm. Now will you labor for your food? So that would imply to me that there's not. The exhaustion and the weariness that we'll feel in eternity with our glorified bodies. I think we will be able to labor and run and play and do all these things without feeling the broken down weariness. Now there's sometimes it's satisfying to feel outta breath after you've, done something Yeah. And run and played or done something like that. I'm not talking that you'll never be, you're not, we're not gonna be the $6 million man, in other words, but. We're not gonna experience the effect of the fall in the sense of being exhausted or sore or whatever. Yeah, yeah. And we're still gonna be created beings for eternity. And yeah we're gonna have limitations. We're not gonna be omnipresent, that's for sure. We're not gonna be, yeah, we're not gonna be omniscient, but we're gonna still be human beings created in the image of God, but also. Resurrected and restored and made new. Yeah, it's a fascinating thing to consider. It's a fascinating thing to consider. Yeah, it's gonna be awesome. It's gonna be great. So hopefully that helps a great question. If you've got more questions on that, feel free to write us at podcast at compass ntx do org. Hey, we've got two chapters in the DBR today. We've got Matthew chapter 27, and we've got March chapter 15. Matthew 27 opens with Jesus going to Pilate after he's been with Caiaphas. So now that the. Formal charges have been cemented from the Jewish perspective. Now they can turn Jesus over to the Romans. And the thought and the hope of the Jewish people, the leaders at least, is that the Romans are going to carry out the rest of it. The Romans are gonna do the dirty work of condemning him to death and then seeing that he's going to be crucified. So Jesus goes from. From Caiaphas to Pilate. Now there's a brief interlude here, beginning in verse three that deals with the fate of Judas. Now, you'll note here that it says in verse five, he went back because he felt bad and he took, takes the money and he throws it back into the temple. And we might think, oh, well, Judas feels bad. Mm-hmm. You know, isn't that a good thing? No, I'll never forget, and I think I brought it up on the podcast before Bobby Blakey once preached a message. He's a pastor of another Compass Compass in Huntington Beach, California. He preached a message called Everybody Feels Bad about Jesus. And he contrasted the response of Judas and the response of Peter, and he said, both of them felt bad about basically their denial or betrayal of Jesus. Judas betrayed Jesus. Peter denied Jesus. Judas felt bad and goes out and kills himself. Peter felt bad and. Repented and was restored by Christ and then went on to continue to serve him. So I think when we consider second Corinthians seven even and what Godly grief looks like versus worldly grief, I think what we're seeing from Judas is simply worldly grief. He regrets what he did. He wishes he could undo it. He can't, and that's why he ends in taking on his own life in despair here. So, I don't think we look at Judas and think this is true repentance and maybe we'll see Judas in heaven. I think this is an evidence of man. This is the tragedy of the result of his sin, and he doesn't repent. Truly. He takes his own life. Instead. It's funny you bring up that sermon that sermon is one of Julia's all time favorite. Julia is my wife. For those of you who don't know Julia, it's one of her favorite sermons of all time. Yeah. And it's was a great sermon. Yep. It really was because it helped reveal that. Lots of people feel bad about lots of things, but what's the result of that? And even here, you know, and I know we have some kids listening, but also see what else Judas does, right at the end of this verse. He goes in and he hangs himself, right? What is the response to sin really defines the. Christian life or in this case, the believer's life. What do you do when sin has occurred? What do you, how do you respond to those things? Really, really makes a big difference and really reveals your heart in a way that normal. Boring non temptation filled life. Doesn't in the same way. Right, right. Absolutely. I was looking to see if I could find that sermon on YouTube, but I'll have to look it up later and maybe we will, can we put it in the show notes? We might be able to, yeah. Yeah. Great sermon. Excellent sermon. Real quick, just a note here on what Judas does, it's not the. Of him taking his own life that seals his fate. I know that is an issue that has come up before the Catholic Church teaches that is an un unpardonable sin. Yeah. It's a mortal sin is what they call it. And so that there is no grace that can cover somebody who takes their own life. It taking your own life is atrociously horrible and horrific. And it grieves me that our culture has. Has made it into a heroic act now and I understand that. I don't know the grief that a widow goes through or somebody widower when their spouse does that. And a lot of times it's them that are pioneering the charge to talk about what a great person they were and how they were heroic and they're made to be a hero when really what they did is murder itself. Murder is what it is. And just like we wouldn't. Make a hero out of somebody who goes out and kills somebody else. Neither should we make a hero out of somebody who kills themselves. But that said, that act is not outside the grace of God, and it is not beyond reason to think that a Christian could do that. Now is that. Something that you would expect a Christian to do by no. Stretching the imaginations. Would you expect a Christian to get to that point? But it's not to the point that we would say no Christian would ever do that. Therefore, if you do that you're never gonna go to heaven. Yeah. 'cause if you say that. If you say there is a sin that is somehow unpardonable or somehow undoes your faith, we've got a totally different set of theological things that we need to work through, right? We're in a totally different place beyond the sin of blasphemy of the spirit, which is the one that Jesus says is unpardonable. Right, which is it Parable Today or not? Nope not Parable Today. Hey, real quick here. You'll note that he mentions Jeremiah. He says Jeremiah saying, and then he quotes from Zechariah. So, why does Matthew mention Jeremiah and then quote from Zechariah here? That is in verse let's see where it is. Verse nine, I believe it is. Mm-hmm. In the context, Matthew has been alluding to a lot from Jeremiah, and so it seems that he's referencing Jeremiah and Zacharia here, but he's appealing to the more well-known prophet in this instance. And so he's not saying Jeremiah's the one that recorded Zacharia 1113. This is a quote from Zechariah 1113. Matthew knew that Matthew's. Sitting here all of a sudden forgetting his Bible. But because he's been talking about Jeremiah in the context, and Jeremiah even does talk about a field and purchasing a field, and Jeremiah has language about the potter as well. It's possible that he's pulling in, again, the more well-known prophet to make the point that he's making here. But it's not something where we're saying, Hey, look a mistake in the Bible. No it's explainable. If we understand kind of some of the Jewish mindset of how he would've been arguing and reasoning at this point, once we go on in chapter 27, we're in familiar territory. He appears before Pils. And Jesus is going to be silent here. Even as we just looked at last Sunday together as the church. Jesus was silent. He didn't revile when he was reviled. He didn't threaten when he was. Was abused by them when he was slandered by them. And so here we see that inaction in our Bible, reading in the, in one of the more tragic moments, the crowd has given a choice to spare Jesus. And I think Pilate fully anticipates that they will spare Jesus. And he says, who do you want me to release for you? Do you want me to release this insurrectionist murderer named Baris here? Or do you want me to release to you? Jesus the king. Your king. And he says it tongue in cheek there. And I think he fully anticipates the crowd is gonna go, no, we don't wanna murder her back on the street. Give us Jesus, the one that's healing people. The one that's, you know, doing good things. Yeah. But so blood thirsty and so blind. Are is the crowd at this point whipped into a frenzy by the religious leaders that they call for a murderer to be released? And they say that Jesus instead should be condemned. And this is really a picture of the gospel at work, even in his condemnation. 'cause we are as that there's a song recently that's been released by, I think I mean I can't remember the guy's name off the top of my head. One of my kids' favorites, but it's called I Am Barabbas. And that's true that this is what's happening. Jesus is dying where Barabbas should have died. And, it's, yeah, I don't know if it's pushing it too far, but Barr means son, and Abbas means son of the father. So you've got Barabbas who's dying, and then you've got the true son of the father who's gonna die for Barabbas there. So, yeah, and Pilate I think is trying to manipulate this situation. I think he's trying to figure a way out of this. He wants to, he does, even verse 23 after they've said everything, he's like, why? What? What evil has he done? But he clearly loses control of this. So despite his best efforts to manipulate this, it doesn't seem to go pilot's way. I'm not sure. Pilot is. Caring about Jesus as he ought to be. But I do think Pilate has some sense of the the problem that's before him and he's trying to wiggle out of it. Right. Well, well, he's, I think he's a philosopher at heart too. 'cause not in this account, but in another one, I think Luke's account, he's gonna ask the question of what is truth. He's trying to figure out what's going on here and get to the bottom of it. But you're right, there's so many attestations to Jesus's innocence by the secular authorities in the account of his crucifixion. Well, he. Pilate does Acquiesces condemn Jesus to be crucified. Jesus is taken out. He's mocked, he's beaten, he's taken to the place of crucifixion. The Synoptics record that Simon of Cyrene carried his cross beam for him. The patibulum, I believe is the cross beam there carried that out to the place of crucifixion where he would've been. And this, the simplicity of the act of crucifying always strikes me as I read the gospels. Mm-hmm. That it says they're the crucified. Mm-hmm. Between two thieves. Between two robbers. And it's not a matter of there, they laid him down and they stretched 'em out. It doesn't walk through the whole process step by step. It's just the simplicity of there, they crucified him. And running behind that is, this is God's plan, right? Mm-hmm. We're gonna get to that in the acts in just a couple of days. According to the definite plan of, for foreknowledge of God, you crucify Jesus. He's mocked while he is on the cross. They're saying save yourself. And he could have, and yet, in saving himself, he would've condemned all of us to hell. Mm-hmm. And so it's his mercy, his grace to, to not get down from the cross there. And then his his cry, betrayal. So you preached about this is Jesus being a doormat here? No, no, in the sense of there's strength in submission, yes, there's strength in his submission to his father's will. That's because he knows he's accomplishing what the father desires him to accomplish and he's ultimately winning the ultimate victory here. Yes, this is not defeat, but victory because this is the fate being sealed for not only those that are gonna trust in him for salvation, but also for his enemies. Those that are gonna reject him. Ultimately Satan himself, this is the death blow of of Satan himself. This goes back to Genesis three 16. Mm-hmm. He will strike your heel. Mm-hmm. This is Satan striking the heel, and yet he will crush your head. This is also Jesus crushing the head of Satan. It's done. The death blow is dealt, even though it's not gonna be fully realized until the future there. Yeah, absolutely. And don't miss the gravity of this, there's a really important thing that can happen in our mental psychology where we can know this and just skip over it. Maybe we read the words, but the crucifixion is so central to what we believe. Mm-hmm. It is so. It's integral to everything. If these things aren't true if we don't believe that these things happened, if Jesus was not crucified, then everything we do as Christians is meaningless. That's what Paul says. That's, yep, that's what Paul says. So when you come across this. Every year in your daily Bible reading, or if you read it some other time in the year, make sure you're going slow. Make sure you're paying attention. Make sure you're praying because this stuff can we even though it's so significant, we can just so easily skip it over. Yeah. Yeah. Mark chapter 15, which is our second chapter today, is a parallel passage. And so we have the interaction with Pilate. We have the situation with Barabbas being freed. We have Jesus being mocked and beaten. We've got the crucifixion again. Mark does record for us that. Was the third hour when he was crucified. So Jesus is actually on the cross for six hours. There are three hours of darkness, but he is on the cross there for six hours. And then there's mocking from the criminals and the death of Jesus, which again, I we didn't mention that. But again, the simplicity of his death. Mm-hmm. God in the flesh dies, which is, I mean, to try to wrap the mind around that, how does. God die. Yeah. In his humanity, his true humanity dies. Obviously his deity doesn't die 'cause it can't. But his true humanity dies for us. And then his burial, we've got Joseph Ver Mathia here who comes to ask for the body Pilates. Surprised. He should have already died at this point. And that goes to, to just show the unique death that he died. It wasn't just the n natural suffocation on the cross, which is what would've happened to criminals that were crucified, but it was also just the wrath of the father being poured out upon him. Joseph Arimathea, it's noted in Texas, a member of the council, so he would've been part of the Sanhedrin. So this is a big deal. This is showing that not everybody was against Jesus and the reli religious leaders. You've got Joseph, who is sympathetic to Jesus and even provides his own tomb for that. And that last verse, verse 47. The two Mary's are the witnesses of this. And you see that other places in the gospels, but it's amazing that the gospel writers record that women were the ones who witnessed some of these things. I think it's amazing. Of course, there were others. Is that because you hate women? I do not hate women. I do not hate women. I'm amazed by this. Because at the time and we're gonna see this with the resurrection account. Yes. The women are the first of the tombs, and the testimony of women at this time was not held in high honor. Yeah. And so it was barely worth anything. Right. If you were making these things up, you wouldn't have had women be the ones that were there. You would've put the men, they would've been there going, yeah. The men are the ones that saw this stuff happen. All right, we've got more, but we've got another episode tomorrow that we're gonna deal with more about the crucifixion. So make sure that you tune in tomorrow, but let me pray and we'll be done with this episode. God, thanks so much for your word and thank you for the death of Jesus for us, for his substitutionary death, that he took our place, that he paid the penalty that we could not pay, and that he bore your full wrath on our behalf so that our sins might be forgiven. Lord, it's amazing that we would be given such an amazing and great gift as the gift of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. And so I pray that that's a gift that we would've come to have received, those that are listening to this, and that more and more will come to receive that gift as well as a result of our testimony of our faith in Christ. We pray this on Jesus' name, amen. Keep in your Bibles. Tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Bye bye.

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Yeah. I would agree with everything that you said