Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Hello and good morning. We're on Wednesday, middle of the week. You made it halfway through the week. There's no snow on the ground. It's actually nice. It's in the sixties and seventies here in Texas, so we're soaking that up. That'll be a nice change of pace for us. But, um, yeah. Do we have any goog? Do we have any questions? I don't think we had any questions written in recently, did we? None to my knowledge. Yeah. But you could talk about a whole host of things that are happening in the culture. We could just talk about a whole host of things. There's so many things that are happening outside of the four walls of their church office and probably their offices as well. Anything that you wanna say about the current things that are taking place? Anything at all about the, well, here's something exciting. Okay. I heard of a physician that found a cure, at least in rats for pancreatic cancer. That's huge. Did you hear about that? That's huge. Isn't that amazing? Yeah, I think that's, well, this is one of the graces of God and the mercs of God to provide us a way to overcome sickness now. I wonder if there's Christians that would say something to the effect of, well, God is the one who cursed the ground, and God is the one who said that there should be consequences to our sin. So why fight the effects of the fall? Mm-hmm. That's a good question. What would you say to that? Yeah, I would say I think the greatest effect of the fall is death, right? And so I think the person who says, I'm trying to push death back and I never ever want to die. I don't know that that's a realistic or a right or a biblical mindset, but the person who says, you know what? I want to live as long as I can to be able to serve the Lord faithfully for as long as I can. I want to enjoy my family as a gift from God for as long as I can. I wanna be a good steward of the blessings that God's given me for as long as I can, knowing all the while that one day I am gonna die, or Christ is gonna come back, one of those two things, and I'm gonna go to be before him. And so with that in mind, I wanna be a good steward of the body he's given me to live as long as it possibly can. Like Whitfield said, we talk about it from the death side, but it also impacts life. We're immortal until our work on Earth is done. And so we've got work to do. And so we want to be good stewards of our bodies. Until then, we don't wanna hasten our end. We don't wanna hasten our demise just simply because we would say, well, you know, death is gonna happen because of the fall. So it's good then to fight the effects of the fall. Sickness, aging, ill health, all the, all those things that would be part of this. Yeah, I think it's like your general posture. I would take that position. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I think I would agree with that. Yeah. Uh, talk about Jeffrey Epstein. There's more stuff that's been released about him, conversations that are taking place. And because he's dead, he can't stand trial, right? He can't be held accountable. Right. Uh, do we have any, do. Desire. Do, do you want people to know about what's happening behind closed doors? Do you care? Is this even, I mean, there's what, 300 million document, 3 million documents to sift through, right? Does this even make sense for a Christian to care about at all? I mean, I, I, I think we should care that justice is done. That good prevails. That is a good thing. That's a right thing. In fact, we're even talking about that this coming Sunday with regards to our response to, personal suffering, whether that be inside or outside of the church. We have this concept that we want good when evil happens, there's a natural inclination within us to say we want the good. That's the response, the necessary and right response to the evil. And ultimately we know that that is gonna be. In the hands of God. God is the one who is good. He's the definition of good. We don't know good apart from God. And so he's the one that is gonna be the one, the arbiter, the judge of all mankind. He's gonna judge the good and the evil, and we will receive what is due in the body for what we have done, whether good or evil. And so we know that justice is coming for. All temporarily speaking, I think to desire justice for victims is a good thing. I think there's a salacious, I think there's a voyeurism that can go too far where we just want to know the nitty gritty details to be entertained by them or to, Be fascinated by them, or even in a prideful way to say, I wanna make sure that I feel better than that person. I'm a better person than that person so I can feel better about myself because I'm not that guy. And that's the tax collector versus the Pharisee who says, Lord, thank you that I'm not like him. Now, we should be thankful that God has preserved us from sin for sure, compared to some others. But I think it's okay if this is going to especially work towards. More justice being done. Some of those that are in these files that need to be exposed, I think it's an okay thing for us as Christians to say, yeah, this is a good thing. Okay. How about AI's use of changing the appearance of people? Have you seen anything about this? You can use AI agents to take the image of somebody and say, I want you to put them in a battle outfit. Or, I mean, just think about where this can go, right? I wanna make them look like a doctor or a lawyer, or something like that. Right. Um, how, how do you feel about. Using tools like that to create someone's image and to make it do something that they otherwise may not do. This is similar to the conversation about you're using your voice, right? There's enough of our voice out there where people could use it and they could recreate it and make it say something that it's never said before. How do you feel about things like this? Do we care about it? Does it matter at all? Is this a violation of scripture in any way, shape, or form? I mean, when it's used in a perverted way? Oh, a hundred percent. It's a violation. Uh, I mean, this is, is something that in the hands of the wrong person can do great damage. I've seen a lot of people on my Instagram feed and everything else. They're the, I guess the current trend is to turn yourself into a caricature. And so you kind of describe yourself to AI and then it produces. Basically cartoon or something, a cartoon version of you, right? And people are putting it up on their Instagram and Facebook pages and things like that. It's kinda like, oh I bought into the trend that's innocent enough. But you look at what could be done on the other side and it can get nefarious. And I saw one recently that took a, a face of a baby or a toddler from a picture off of Facebook and age progressed it to what this person's gonna look like as a teenager. That's crazy. And, you know, crazy. Turned a video into. Talking to mom and dad about how they were kidnapped, things like that, that you just sit there and you go, man, yeah, this could be used for all kinds of awful purposes. It's a whole new world out there. And we should lament that, we should pray that God restrains the evil that could be done. 'cause he's the only one ultimately that can, because humankind left to themselves are just gonna perpetuate the evil. So, yeah,, you've heard me say I would put AI back in Pandora's box, but. This is a situation kinda like the internet. The internet can be used for good, it can be used for evil and is in our lap to be able to decide how we're gonna do that. That's right. And I think Christians are wise to use the tools that are afforded us responsibly. I agree. And Redemptively, I agree. And to not do that would be to say, well, I guess the Amish have chosen to do something similar where they say, after a certain date, we're gonna cut off the usages, certain technologies, because not all technology is inherently good. And we probably would say something close to an amen to that. And we would say, well. Eh, there's certainly hazards with every new iteration of technological advancement, but that doesn't mean it's all bad. Right. And neither doesn't mean it's all good. It's up to the Christian to say, how do I most responsibly and profitably use the tools that are at our disposal? And I, man, I, I love the challenge, especially as it relates to our technological tools. Yeah, I would agree. Yeah. I love what logos is doing with ai, for example. I think they're doing a lot of really good things that are helpful for Bible study with ai that I'm excited to see 'em continue to develop those things. But Alright, well let's jump into our Bible reading for today. We are gonna be in Exodus chapter 34 through 36, and then we will be over in our New Testament reading for the day as well, which is gonna come from Matthew 23 verses one through 22. So Exodus chapter 34 through Exodus chapter 36, and in chapter 34, Moses needs new. Tablets and you'll remember why, is because he had come down from the mountain with his original tablets and seen Aaron gallivanting with all of Israel and the golden calf and idol worship and everything else, and he had smashed them. So God's gonna call him back up on the mountain. But this is also where God is going to do what he told him he would do. And that is allow him to see as God puts it the backside of his glory. And so that's what God does and he passes in front of him and declares his name. And this is where it's important for us to realize that the glory of God is not simply a visible. Emanation it. It's not only the visible appearance of the brilliance of the glory of God, whatever that looked like for Moses, but it's also who he is. It's his character. It's his name, it's his identity, and that's why as Moses says, the Lord allow me to see your glory. God does this and passes by and as he passes by doesn't just let Moses see something, but let's Moses hear. Thing. And that is what he declares the Lord a God, merciful and gracious and slow to anger and abounding and steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands and forgiving iniquity and transgressions and sin. But who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children to the third and fourth generation. So here God is declaring who he is. That's part of his glory that he's revealing to Moses. And so this is that scene with Moses there on the mountain. Can you address, and I think we did this last year, but it's worth. Reminding ourselves talk to the sense of what appears to be injustice here. He keeps steadfast love for thousands, forgiving their iniquity. He doesn't clear the guilty, however, and he visits the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children to the third and the fourth generation. It seems like God is visiting their sins that weren't committed by them., because their fathers sinned in these certain ways. Can you talk about that? Yeah, I think it's a good reminder to us and something that should cause us to fear to say, man, my sin impacts more than just me. There are generational impacts that can be had by your sin and that is something that is going to show up as consequence, not necessarily. As punishment or as discipline in the sense that God is disciplining them for committing the sin. That's not what it's saying, but the effects of the sin might be visited upon generation, after generation, after generation, and that is something that we should bear the weight of, especially as men, to say amen. I, I gotta make sure that I'm not doing anything that would hurt my family for future generations as far as God is a God of justice and has said that he will visit the impact of the ramifications of these sins on future generations. Yeah, and I would add here that Ezekiel 1820 says that it is the soul that sins or the soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. Now, if we're gonna put these two passages together, it seems to me that you would have to be able to say both of these are true, and therefore what's happening in the iniquity being passed down is that the children are participating in the iniquity of the father. It's not that they're passive spectators saying, oh, this is what my dad did three generations ago. But the point that you make is still important because they remodeled a certain way of life and they're repeating it, and therefore it is. That reason that they continue to participate in the consequences as well. So, exodus 34 6. Write down Ezekiel 18, 20. Make sure those two passages go together for you in the rest of chapter 34. As. We talked about the covenant is given again, a second time here to Moses, and this is gonna be inscribed on these new tablets, but God is gonna promise the same things there, including I'm gonna drive out from before you, the inhabitants of the land. He's gonna purge the land of the idolaters. Why? So that they would not ensnare Israel. And that leads into a. Recapitulation of the law here, of a lot of it, at least where he gives a lot of the commandments that he had given previously. And so chapter 34, this is restoring what had happened previously. He's gonna go over some of the same instructions there, including the laws for the Sabbath, the laws for the Feast of Weeks, the feast of the end, gathering the passive meal, the first fruits. It's interesting because. I've always thought of The 10 Commandments as just the two tablets with five Commandments on one and five Commandments on the other one. I think that's the cartoon version of the 10 Commandments that we always see. But because he goes over so much of these other things, a second time with Moses on the mountain. And then he gives them the new tablets. I wonder if the tablets didn't have more than just the 10 Commandments inscribed on them. If they had also the laws about the Sabbath and the feasts and the in gatherings and the Passover and the first fruits. I wonder if they didn't have all of these things that were on there as well, and we'll never know. We won't. They're lost They, until Indiana Jones finds the Ark of the Covenant. Hey, verse 14, what does that mean? How is God jealous? That seems like that's a negative. A negative emotion that we typically discourage people to feel. And yet in verse 14 here it says the Lord whose name is jealous is a jealous God. Explain that, right? Yeah. In a sense, God can only be a jealous God. He can't not be jealous. So we think of jealous because jealousy is wanting something for ourselves that's not rightfully ours, or a sinful jealousy that says, I want this person's affection. I want this person's time. I want this person's, whatever it may be, because I want it for me. And that's wrong for us, but it's right for God because God is the owner of all things and the thing that He's jealous for specifically is for our worship. And so if God is going to desire our worship, it would be wrong for him to say, it's okay. You can go worship somebody else. I can share you with somebody else that would be wrong for God. Because what's best for us and what's ultimately for the glory of God is for us to only be devoted to and committed to him. So in that sense, for God to say, I'm jealous for your worship, I'm jealous for your affections is for his glory, and it's also for our good. So when we think about the word jealousy as it's used in relation to human emotions, yes. We would say that there's a discontinuity or it's dis analogous in some regards. Not across the board. Okay. Meaning we're both married. And so each of us that's true, should be jealous for the affections of our wives. 'cause that's a right thing for them to be devoted to us and for us to be devoted to them. I guess let's add some color to the definition then, because there's no, and as far as I know, and I know you and I know what we're talking about here, but. There's never a time in the English language where it's used positively, and that's probably an overstatement, but it's rarely ever used in a positive sense. Yeah. What it typically means is resentful, possessive suspicious covetous. These are the kind of synonyms that are, I'm just pulling up online here, that are synonymous to jealous. It's never a positive connotation. Right. So explain what you mean when you say jealousy is a good thing or it can be a good thing. Yeah. Again, to go to the marriage relationship. The best thing for my wife is to be committed to me because that's about her relationship with me, and it's also about her relationship with God. So I'm jealous for her devotion To me. I'm jealous that she would love me exclusively and not love other people, other men, other people that are in the world, that other people that she knows, whatever it may be. And she has that same passion for me, that I would be committed totally to her. She's jealous from my affections for her because that's the right context of that. To, for me to be jealous of someone else. For, for me, that's not mine. For, for it to crossover into covetousness, which is sometimes compared with this greed, things like that. That's when it becomes a sinful behavior. But when I'm jealous for her affections because that's good for our marriage and that's also good for her, uh, I think that's the right thing that's gonna impact how I act. I'm gonna do good things to, to help protect her and care for her and love her and things like that. To perpetuate that. Amen. I think that's a really good way to posture it. I still think that there's a great deal of baggage with the word. I agree. It's hard to use that without people having a negative sense of what we mean by that, or even a negative sense of how God intends to be understood when he says he's jealous. I like the word that you chose passion. I think that's a good way to start it. Jealousy, as God experiences, it is dis analogous to our experience and his experience is a passion for your primary allegiance. And I think if you can think of jealousy in that sense and not in the negative sense, the resentment. Mm-hmm. The suspicion, the I can imagine a scenario where. I don't know. At church, we have brotherly sisterly relations and so it's not unusual where you get an A-frame hug with the opposite gender. Right. If a man is jealous, he might look at this. I don't want you touching that guy. Right? I, well, he's just my brother and the Lord he's from, I don't want still, I don't want you touching him, right? 'cause you're mine, you're my wife. Right? Don't touch him. That's the kind of thing that I think people would naturally gravitate toward and understand jealousy as. Totally, and that's what I wanna guard against. Totally. Yeah. I agree with you. Yeah. Yeah. It absolutely is most often a negative thing. I would agree a hundred percent with that. And so when you read it, you have to do some mental groundwork in your mind and think this is not the way God intends for us to understand it. Right. He's not the jealous boyfriend. Right. Yes. Or a boyfriend of any sort. It's true. Alright, man, Moses is on the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights not eating, not drinking. So let's acknowledge this is a God thing one. This is a miracle that's taking place. We think of so many other miracles around this time, but I think that's pretty miraculous that Moses has sustained for 40 days and 40 nights without water or without food. I wouldn't try that. Contrary to what any health, wealth, and prosperity gospel preacher might tell you to do. The Moses fast is not a good fast. When I was in the Pentecostal church there was a guy who re not regularly, but. More than one time, maybe more than twice, even did a 40 day fast. That's crazy. He did drink. Yeah. And I think he even used, you know, some kind of shake or something. But one thing I miss about the Pentecostal church is that people were really, really intensely passionate about experiencing and knowing God and going deep in and loving the Lord. Yeah. And nothing against my reformed brothers and sisters. I, I love my camp. This is my home, but. There was something that was special about that that I do miss. Yeah. I've never heard anybody on the reform side do a 40 day fast. That's fair. That's fair. Isn't that crazy? But different fast than what Moses is doing here because very Moses didn't have food or drink in that. That's right. So the rest of chapter 34, we get the impact of Moses' intimacy with the Lord. We talked about that I think in the last podcast episode that he spoke to God as a man, speaks with his friend face to face. And so we see the impact of this, that Moses, when he comes down the mountain, his face is glowing so much that he has to put on a veil. His is but a sliver of the actual glory that's there when Moses is before the glory of God. And so the people are seeing the effect of God's glory on the face of Moses. And it says that this happened every time that Moses went in to speak with him. He would lift the veil and then when he came back out in front of the people, he'd put the veil back down. Or when he spoke to them and revealed God's word, he would lift the veil, then he'd put it back down. So this is pretty powerful, the impact of God's glory on Moses. Here, Paul's gonna take this analogy. And use it in second Corinthians chapter three, where he's gonna say, we behold the same glory of the Lord. And as we do that we are transformed. And so Moses is kind of a type for us. He looked at the Lord, he was transformed. We look at the Lord through the Spirit and we are similarly transformed. And that's exactly how God designs for us to change. We become more like Him, the more we behold him. And in Second Corinthians, chapter three, Paul's gonna essentially say, you become what you behold. Therefore, we should behold the Lord. Far more often than we do on chapter 35. He gets more into the Sabbath in the initial part here, which just notice again just how important this was. He talks about the Sabbath so many times. He's going to revisit it again here at the beginning of chapter 35 before shifting gears to the supplies for the tabernacle. And one of the things that always stands out to me is just the repetition of whoever's of a generous heart here. And then over and over again, it says, those whose heart stirred him, everyone whose spirit moved him. That's a repeated refrain throughout Chapter 35. And so when we think about this and we think about all of the requirements, all of the supplies, everything else that the Lord demanded or the Lord required for the building of the tabernacle, these were not strong armed outta the people. These were given freely by the people of Israel to the Lord. They were behind what was doing. They were excited about this. Everybody came in and brought the materials and they brought their skills, they brought their abilities, they brought their gifts to be used, and they did this because they were behind what God was doing here. You're gonna see a lot of repetition here in chapters 35 through 39, and that's because what you're going to see now is the erection of the tabernacle, where in chapters 25 through 30, Moses has given the pattern and God is describing what he's supposed to do. Now in these chapters, 35 through 39, you're gonna see a lot of, here's what they did, here's how they accomplished that, and it's gonna read the same because the point I think the. Moses is trying to make is what God told us to do. We did it. Yeah. And this is one of the few times in Israel's history where they're nailing it. Yep. In chapter 36. As we continue here, a couple things, I guess right before this end of chapter 35, notice again, it refers to Beel as one who's been filled with the spirit of God to do this work. And then he also mentions, oh, holy Am. Uh, and it says here, he has inspired him to teach both him in Ouab, the son of. Yeah, that guy's name of the tribe of Dan filled them with skill to do every sort of work. So God is the one equipping them to do the work that needs to be done for the construction of the temple or the tabernacle. Rather. Chapter 36, the results of everybody whose heart stirred him. This is how behind this Israel was. It says the people bring much more than enough for doing the work that the Lord has commanded us to do. That's verse five. So, all the artisans in charge of each of the area, they came to Mosin. They said, we've got enough. You can tell them to stop. They don't have to bring anymore, which is. Awesome and so cool to see the generosity of God's people overflowing to such a great extent there in chapter 36. But they are excited about this tabernacle. And if you wanna do your cross references here starting at verse eight all the way through the end of chapter 36, you can parallel that to chapter 26 pretty closely. So if you wanna read them together, at least compare and contrast, you'll notice there. It's pretty similar. I, I don't think I even noticed any differences. I didn't use my computer to verify that, but I did look at it, flip my pages back and forth. And I think one of the takeaways for us here is we see the generosity of spirits and all of these people executing exactly as God told them. I think it's not a one-to-one. We're not Israel. Israel's not the church. But there is something special here about seeing people come together and say, this is important. This is worthy of our attention and even of our sacrifice. The Lord who has saved us, deserves us being willing to sacrifice for his sake. So in the old covenant, remember, their primary salvation paradigm was the Exodus. Our primary salvation paradigm is being saved from our own exodus, but now we're saved truly and fully in Christ. And so if they were saved from a tremendous burden of sin and shame under the Egyptian bondage, how much more of a burden are we safe from? And therefore, how much more generous and how much more giving should we be than Israel, who only experienced a partial salvation where we get to experience. The whole of it. Let's flip over to Matthew Chapter 23. Matthew chapter 23. In our New Testament reading, Jesus is going after the Pharisees, and this time he is gonna go after them much more than just targeting them with some parables that he'd been telling. Now he's going to. Come after them and condemn them. And there are seven woe statements that he gives here. And that word woe was a word that suggested a cursing or even a damnation on them as he goes through. And so he's going to really confront them by and large for their hypocrisy. And he even starts it out by saying, you do what you do to be seen by men. They do all their deeds to be seen by others. They're after the applause of men and not the favor of God. And the favor of God would've been. Evident in them internally, not just externally. So you see wo number one in verse 13, WO number two in verse 15, wo number three in verse 16 and then wo number four in verse 23. And that I guess starts tomorrows, but five, six, and seven is in tomorrow's reading. So the first three woes we see here in the opening part of chapter 23 here, what of this do you think is especially important for us to walk away with? I think it's the egal mindset can creep into what we do on a weekly basis. We can show up and we can go through the motions and we can do things for the, to be seen by others rather than simply to understand that, man, this is something that we need to do for our devotion to the Lord. We also see here that they were in error. It says in verse 13, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites, you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces, it talks about traveling across the sea to make a single ProSite, and when he becomes a ProSite, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves. I think he calls them blind guides in verse three or wo number three in verse 16. Just making sure that we know the gospel and that we. Proclaiming a biblical gospel. That's one of our distinctives. We work to proclaim a biblical gospel. We don't want to make anybody a convert of something that's not genuinely what it means to follow Jesus. And so we have to be clear when we call people to follow Christ and we have to be clear with the gospel. And I think the Pharisees were certainly obfuscating things by calling people to a religion that was not gonna save them. Alright, so one of the things that Jesus warns against here, and this is something our church does, and so this would be helpful for you to discuss, he says in verse eight, you are not to be called Rabbi. Mm. Rabbi means teacher. Mm-hmm. He says, because you have one teacher and you're all brothers. And last time I checked you were called Pastor pj. I was called Pastor Rod, and Mark was called Pastor Mark. And then he says, look, you're not to call. Any man on earth. Your father. Yeah. For you have one father who's in heaven, neither be called instructors for, you have one instructor. The Christ. And so it sounds like he makes a pretty clear all encompassing. Rule guideline to say you're not to do this. And yet throughout all of church history, titles have been a pretty significant part of how the church has functioned. Yeah. Rabbi not being one of them. We typically use the term teacher or pastor, or elder or bishop. So explain that. If Jesus is making a clear command here not to do this, why do we do this? I think it's informed by the context. Again, back in verse five. They do all they do to be seen by others. They make their. Flac is broad. Their fringe is long. They love the place of honor at the feast and go back. What's the fractory? Flac was the, the, the strings? They, uh, no, the fractory was the box right on the, the head. I'm, I'm sincerely asking. I think it's the box on the head, man. I don't know for sure. Okay. Let's come back to it. I'll back while you're answering. Okay. You look it up on logs AI while I'm answering, but they were all about the outward appearance. And this goes to that same idea. They wanted to be called these things because they wanted the honor that came with the title. They wanted to be known as the rabbi. They wanted to be known as father. They wanted to be known as teacher because for them it was gonna build them up. They were gonna be. It is the box on the forehead. Thank you. Good. I'm glad. Glad I, I saved some face on that one. The box on the forehead. They wanted to have these titles because of the position in the rank that was associated with it. Later on, Peter's gonna say, I, I urge you as a fellow elder. Right. So Peter's gonna adopt the idol, the title of elder, or Paul's gonna call himself an apostle multiple times. So we see that it wasn't necessarily a wrong thing to have a title that distinguished the role that you were in or the position that you held so long as your heart wasn't after the glory and the acclaim that came along with that position. And that's what Jesus is condemning here. He's condemning saying, you want these things because you want them for your status. You don't want them because you want to own them for the role that they're meant to convey. What a helpful way to frame that, because I think anybody reading this would say, well man, there you go. Never do this. Right? You should never be called after any of these titles. But the point here, and we've come across this several times, I just feel like it's such a good thing to remind ourselves here in verse 12, he says, whoever exalts himself will be humbled. And he's saying this on the heels of all of these honorific titles, whoever humbles himself, however, will be exalted. And I think this is one of the repeating themes that Matthew continues to bring to the surface for all of us. If we're proud, we're gonna have a really hard time operating in God's kingdom because we continue to fight for our own kingdom. If we're proud, it makes us unwilling to be confronted, unwilling to be corrected, unwilling to follow the Lord, unwilling to be challenged. Yeah, and pride is one of the most destructive things here that. He continues to warn against. But I, it's a great thing to say that. I'm glad you pointed that out because now we can actually understand what Jesus is saying and not what it appears to say if you just take it at a superficial reading. Yeah. Well, hey, let's pray and we'll be done with this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast. Gotta pray that you'd make us a church that. Knows the gospel and knows the gospel well, such that we would be those that call people to follow Christ and not call people to some false religion or manmade pursuit of self-righteousness. Help us to point people to Jesus or help us to be faithful towards that end. And so we pray that we would be an effective and fruitful lamb. Stand towards that purpose, and we pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Hey, y'all, keep reading new Bibles and tune in again tomorrow as we continue our daily Bible reading. See you then guys. Bye.

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