Come back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. What's up folks? And you were just talking about it. Daylight savings time, full effect. We're all feeling the full effects of daylight savings time. Right. Everybody wants to know though. You had mentioned on Saturday mm-hmm. That you were just gonna start living like it was an hour ahead of time. So did that work? I think it worked perfectly. Did it work perfectly? The best It could work? It worked, yeah. On Saturday, I tried really hard just to think. Every time I saw the clock, I said, it's an hour ahead. It's an hour ahead. And my hope was that. I would trick myself into getting tired earlier. Yeah, and I think it worked. Did it. Okay. All right. All right. Most people don't have to trick themselves into getting tired. They just are tired, but that's fair. Yeah. Yeah. No, it is daylight saving time. It's interesting because we even sent out a post on our social media accounts to, to say, Hey, everybody, put your clock forward. Don't Ms. Church in the morning. But really, honestly, nobody does that anymore, do they? No. No. You just have to remember that you're getting up early. Right. And you're gonna feel groggy and tired, so you probably need extra time to get some coffee. Yep. Maybe you get a run in before you go to church. Yep. Hey, you know what we could've done that would've been just super cruel is go to two services on daylight savings Sunday. That'd be so funny. I mean, I would laugh as I cried. I would also laugh. Right, right. Yeah. No. 'cause our setup time is gonna be earlier, which, again, we are going to two services. We probably haven't touched on that in, in a little bit of time here. We're going to nine and 11 o'clock, starting on Easter Sunday, which is less than a month away now. April 5th. Wow. Easter Sunday. So two services starting then. And it's gonna be a shift, but it'll be a good shift. We're excited about it. Yeah. What service do you think is gonna get more popular? Based on our experience at our last church that had a Saturday night. Now that, that, take that off the table. But Sunday morning, nine and 11 the 11 o'clock was always the most well attended service. Oh yeah. My favorite though was the nine because you get your best energy. I'm excited for the day. It's still fresh and then I still have all this time afterward. I just feel like I give God my best energy at nine o'clock. Yeah, nine o'clock became kind of the traditional crowd though. At our sending church, I noticed that there's a lot of gray hair that I sat next to. Yeah. I was okay with that. There was one guy though, and I don't know who it was 'cause I, I don't think I ever had the pleasure of meeting him, but during the nine, he would sit there and he would take his shoes off during the 9:00 AM Oh. And he would just sit and, like, he'd sit on the, on his feet end of an aisle. Yeah. Shoes off. And he'd cross his legs and his sock covered footage just hanging out in the aisle and he just did it like he was at home. Yikes. Yeah. I am, speechless. He was uncomfortable. You should have shook his foot instead of shaking his hand like a little squeeze, like, what's up, man? That's weird. Yeah. Yeah. Some people are just bold. Yeah. Yeah. It's like taking off your shoes on the airplane. Have you ever been on a plane with somebody to do that? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't I, I don't get it. I don't appreciate it, but I'm not one to call it out either. Like I want, I understand. You wanna be comfortable on a long flight. I get it. I'm both annoyed and impressed. I'm annoyed because I don't want you to do that in my presence. I don't want you to take off your stinky shoes on, but you can't smell it on an airplane most of the time. Most of the time. I'm impressed by your boldness, like, right, because I would never have the bravado to be like, yeah, I'm just gonna take my shoes off. Well, I mean, but if you can't smell it, it's just an uncomfortable sight. And that's the thing. If you can be com confident that it's not a pungent odor for everybody else around you. Right. Okay. Well what's the difference between that and sandals? And that's the FlipFlop culture. So somebody who slips their sandals off is different I think because of that. But there's something about the socks that is just like, I, so we're, that we're not being consistent then if we're okay with the sandals, but not the, you know, so I get it, is what I'm trying to say. Yeah. As long as it's not pungent, I can be okay with it. That's fair. I mean, this is a level of googly that we haven't hit in quite a long time. This is, this is classic. This is classic. We can label this episode classic googly. Yeah. Necessary for all the things of life. But we should get to the Bible because yesterday we went 30 minutes. You went so long. I could not believe it. I can't believe you. Let that happen. We had big ticket items to talk about yesterday, so we should get into to today's daily Bible reading. Deuteronomy eight through 10 and Mark 12, 28 through 44. Deuteronomy eight Moses is continuing to call the people to be careful. And that's something that I notice every time I come back to Deuteronomy especially, is the number of times it says, be careful, take care, be careful. And so this is stressing the importance of our vigilance over our obedience of the Lord. God wanted that for Israel. I think he still wants it today. And some of that is, is summed up in something that is quoted in the New Testament when he says there man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. That's verse three. And so if we look at the New Testament, we find that in Matthew chapter four, Luke chapter four, John chapter six, alludes to it a little bit there. Moses is saying, Hey, you need to be careful and look at the revelation of God. The word of God in this time the Torah, the law. Depend upon it like you depend upon your daily bread and depend upon it for your life. Live by it. And that idea wrapped up in live by it is not just memorize it, it's not just know it, it's not just listen to it being taught, but it's let it. Have an effect in your life. Let it transform your life to live by something as to walk in accordance with it. And so, Deuteronomy chapter eight again is be careful. Take care. Lest you forget the Lord your God. He's gonna go say that later. How are they gonna guard against that? By living by every word that comes from the mouth of God by being careful here. So chapter eight is all about Israel being careful about their worship of the Lord. Yeah. As you read Deuteronomy eight, just remember as you're reading it, Jesus. Read Deuteronomy eight. Yeah. As a man and he put it to work. He memorized Deuteronomy eight, at least portions of it, and he also went in that same account. Matthew chapter four, he quotes from Deuteronomy eight and Deuteronomy six and Psalm 91, but that's not my point. He's reading the same words that you read. That's so cool. What a cool idea that we're just, we're looking at the same things and we're being fed in the same ways that Jesus, the Son of God, the son of man fed himself at the well of the Lord. So this is really cool. As you read it, remember, this is something that we're supposed to be doing and this is something that we're joining Christ in. This is such a fun experience. I can't believe. Okay let's talk about chapter nine for a second here. We often talk with people that come in for especially context of counseling. A lot of times there's conflict and so many times people will do what I refer to as keeping in receipts. So they'll sit there in the conflict and they'll be like, okay, but this is just like when you did this, this time, this time, this time, this time, and this time. And first Corinthians 13 we're called not to keep a record of wrongs, right? We're called, if you're gonna forgive something, you are. Releasing your right to bring it up again in the future as far as, Hey, you did this and I'm still upset about this. But here in Deuteronomy chapter nine, God's gonna confront Israel and say, Hey if you're tempted to think that it's because of your righteousness that you guys are here, remember when you screwed up at the golden calf? And remember when you screwed up with the 12 spies? And remember, it's almost like God's bringing receipts. To his interaction with Israel here. And we would say, well, he's God. So he's allowed to but is that a fair reading of this to say, God's saying, Hey, in, in case you're gonna get too proud. Remember your mistake with the golden calf, that though it wasn't them, it was their future, it was their previous generations. But remember that, remember the 12 spies, remember these things that, that you aired with? In fact, chapter 10, I've even have to have new tablets of stone because Moses crushed the ones because you guys were acting like knuckleheads so much. It seems that God is trying to humble them a little bit, knock them down a few pegs here in chapter nine. Yeah, I think that's an important piece of this puzzle here because you're right it does appear to be inconsistent that God on the one hand says love, and here's the way love acts. And on the other hand I haven't forgotten all the things that you've done, all this nonsense that you've committed. So I think what's I wonder partly one, if this is a New Testament blessing where God says, I'm not gonna even bring it up anymore. This is. Part of the new covenant where he washes away our sin as far as the east is from the west. So I will no longer remember your sin. I wonder if that's part of it, but I also think to your point, he's already telling them, look you are a stubborn people. He says in verse six so I don't want you to think that this is because you're an awesome person and God can do this, and he can't not do it. Really. He can't. Not remember when he says, I will not remember your sins anymore. He's using an anthropomorphism to say, I'm choosing not to recall these things. I think it's very similar to how Jesus himself in the flesh chose to act. He had access to divine knowledge that he chose not to access, and because of that, he experienced full humanity by saying, I will withhold or restrain the full expression of my deity. So I wonder if. That kind of sorta approaches the answer, although I'm not entirely sure. What would you add to that? I think that's, I think that's fair. I think you're right on that. And this is in keeping with the instructions, even in Deuteronomy chapter six, they were to recount the past acts. They were to recount Israel's past to future generations to keep them from perpetuating the same sins. And I think that's the difference there. God is not. Trying to get at them the way that a husband or a wife is trying to attack the other person by saying, you, you screwed up in the past and you're the same person today that you've always been. Rather, God is trying to get them to understand, don't make the same mistakes that you made in the past. Yeah, that's an important point. The motivation behind it is not vindictive. Right. God can't be vindictive, but he is being wise and true in saying, don't forget, you need to know these things about yourself. Yeah. How about then in chapter 10, the conversation about circumcising the heart? Circumcision was something that was done during this time with Israel. It was something that was done in the physical body done to the physical body of the Israelite males as they were born. But God is gonna talk about a circumcision of the heart here. And it's in the context of asking a question that I think is really prevalent and important for not only Israel, but for everyone to ask at that point. And that is, what does the Lord your God require of you? And he answers it, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I'm commending you today for your good. That's the context in which later on he's gonna say, you need to circumcise your heart. In other words, this needs to be an. Internal reality. It's not just belonging to God, belonging to the people of God. It is not just about what's on the outside of the body, but it's about the internal PO posture. And that is gonna be realized in what he says there, right at the beginning of chapter 10, verse 12, what does the Lord your God require of you? But to fear him, to serve him, to walk after him with all your heart. That's such an important point. This is what the blessing of the new covenant is. But help answer this question because when you look at this, you know. He's commanding them to do things that they can't do, and I think a lot of people feel this way when God says You should love your neighbor as yourself and love your enemies. Even to go beyond that, he says in verse 16, circumcised therefore the foreskin of your heart and be no longer stubborn. It's almost as if God is saying, Hey, you're dead. Be alive. How do we help people with this? Because it seems like he's saying Here, I want you to do these things, and yet we know that they can't. Theologically we that is we know that they really can't just say, alright. Sure I'll do that. Yeah. And we're dealing with, because I'm, we wanna run into New Testament concepts and bring them back into the Old Testament too to help answer that question about what that looks like. Because in the New Testament, we're gonna, we're gonna call people to faith and repentance. Yeah. And we know that theologically, again, they can't, they're dead. Yet we're gonna trust that, that God can do that in the people. It's still what God desired for all people, and it's still what we should desire for all people. And I would say there's a parallel there. Mm-hmm. God desired for every single Israelite to circumcise the foreskin of their heart and to follow him, to fear him, to serve Him, to worship him, to love him. Not all of them would, but that doesn't change the fact that's what he desired of them. Those that did, I believe. And this is where, again, this is where it, the New Testament Old Testament relationship gets so hard. 'cause in the New Testament, we're gonna say those that respond have been regenerated. Mm-hmm. The Spirit has given them life to be able to believe and repent from their sins. And then we see that spiritual fruit in their life from that point forward. But in the Old Testament. I don't the moving in the spirit in the Old Testament is so mysterious. We see it when we get into the life of the kings where it rushes upon Saul at one point, and then that's not a permanent indwelling. And we know David in Psalm 51 is gonna pray, take not your spirit from me. And so was the spirit enabling the obedience of the faithful Israelites? Here was this, that's where I think there's it's mysterious. It's hard to know in the Old Testament. The relationship with the spirits of the individual. Yeah. This is where we begin to use the whole Bible to answer questions like this, because answering from the specific context is really hard. We don't know what God right, intended to do or what he did do For those who are like, okay, I wanna do that. All I know is that with something like this, if you're an Israelite hearing, Moses saying, Hey guys just do this. Just cook, just do it. It's like saying, Hey, just jump over. The entirety of the Great Wall of China. And one, one jump please, by the way, just go ahead and do that. Just go for it. And I, I think even though, no, not even though I think because it's impossible, I think the listening Israelite would say, I can't do this. God, yeah, I can't. And I, I wonder if that's the point that God is trying to drill home for them to say, you, you really can't. I'm telling you what you need to do. But you can't do this. And so he would have to do what Abraham does and this is why God commends him in Genesis 15. You'd have to believe that God is some way gonna justify me and God will credit that to him as righteousness. So this, I think would level the pride of any Israelite who's listening and cause him to say, Lord, you have to do something in me. I can't do this. Which is what the sacrificial system was meant to point to as well. Right. Right. I dunno if they ever got it, but Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Well, let's go over to Mark chapter 12 because I think we get a little bit of a parallel here, because right away in Mark chapter 12 in our reading, verse 28, 1 of the scribes comes up to Jesus and hears this disputing, and he asks Jesus this question, which commitment is the most important of all? And Jesus answers him, and he says, the most important is hero, Israel, the Lord your God. The Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, with all your strength, to your point. I think anybody who listens to that says, yeah, easy. I can't do that. I could do that. So I think our response has to be the same. It's, it has to be, God, I can't measure up When Jesus says, you shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect I can't do that. Yeah, you're right. You can't do that when Peter's gonna write Be holy for he is holy, which is Leviticus 1144 that he's quoting. It's like, well, I can't do that. And that goes back to, you're right. You need God to provide something that is the filler if you will the bridge to spam, the chasm between your sin and his holiness. And that is another sacrifice, not the sacrificial system, but the one that came to fulfill the sacrificial system. And that's Jesus the one who's answering this question here. But yeah, love the Lord's God with all that you are. Oh, oh, okay. Yeah, that's easy. Let me just get right after that. Yeah. And love your neighbor as yourself, which is interesting 'cause we don't wanna let ourselves off the hook either and say, well, I guess you're free. You can just leave as you please. Right. You know, you're not gonna make it. That's what we affectionately refer to as antinomianism, maybe without affection. It's called antio. No law. If that's the case, if you're justified by grace through faith, then what does the law have to do with any of this except to condemn you? Now that you're in Christ, you're righteous. The law doesn't play a role, and we would say that's not true either. We don't want to veer from one ditch in order to fall into the other, right? The idea here then is that you're putting your faith in God as you pursue these things to genuinely and truly love him and love your neighbor as yourself. We ultimately don't rely on the works, but the God who works within us, that's the difference maker. We're not doing this in order to say, God, see, aren't I good enough? You never will be. The next section Jesus is teaching. And this is interesting because this isn't a response to a question. So we've been getting a lot of Jesus, Hey, here's a question. Jesus interacts. She's a response. So here we're eavesdropping on Jesus teaching in the temple, and he's trying to. Say, this is who I am. Pay attention to what I'm saying here. 'cause he says, how can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? David himself says, and he quotes from Psalm 1 10, 1 here, the Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet. So Jesus says, David himself calls him Lord. So how is he also his son? So I think Jesus is trying to expand our understanding or the understanding of those that are listening here of who the Messiah would be. That the Messiah was not just a human being that was gonna come bring military restoration or political restoration. The Messiah was a much more significant figure than this, and he's using David A. Key figure in the life of Israel to do this. But this is fascinating because this is Jesus preaching and we get to kind of eavesdrop on that as he's on the Temple Mount. After this, then Jesus is going to warn the people in the same context of teaching, saying, beware the scribes beware those that walk around in long robes, beware of their self-centeredness and their their pride. And he says they're gonna receive even greater condemnation. And that leads right into the scene with the widow's offering, which a lot of times, and we've talked about it before, she's commended, look at her being willing to give all that she has in order to be fully devoted to the Lord. And I think there's something to that that we should. Be ready and willing to say, Lord, all that I have is yours, and so I'm willing to surrender all of it that you want. But in the context here, it may be that Jesus is further condemning the scribes and the Pharisees and those that devour widow's households by pointing to this young or this young this older widow who comes forward. With all she has to live on and gives it. And it's not as though he's saying that this is a good thing, but almost saying that this is the fruit of the Pharisaical teaching. This is what they're doing, and this is what I mean that they're devouring. Widow is household and he says she's giving more than they've ever given because she's really truly seeking to obey the Lord with all that she has. Yeah, perhaps it's a little bit of this and that. Maybe he is commending her for her faith because it is. That is real when you're giving everything you have to live on and it's legitimately your last two pennies. God is, I don't wanna say forced, but God is positioned to provide for you. So maybe he is commending her and condemning. The religious rulers that made this possible where this is the right response. In fact, this is one of the reasons why we have such a disdain and despising of these prosperity gospels because they pray on vulnerable people to the point where they'll say, Hey, just give your a thousand dollars seed from your credit card. Trust that God will pay that back. God will take care of that a thousand dollars and he's gonna give you 10 times more, or 30 times, or even a hundred times more. We despise that because they're preying on people, much like the lottery, the state lottery also does something similar. It's the people who can least afford to play, who play these things. And that's why I think you're right. I think that's what the right read on this, but I also want to think he probably is commending her. And this is faith. She's a widow. She has nothing less. She's trusting in the Lord. I think that is commendable, even while their actions are condemnable. Yeah. Yeah. I would agree with that. Yeah. Well, let's pray and then we'll be done with this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast. Lord helps us to be faithful to you Lord, not to demand too much, but also not to demand too little. We want to be those that do love you with all of our heart, soul, strength and might, and we wanna be able to do that faithfully and we know that on the one hand that's impossible but I pray as Pastor Rod was talking about that you'd guard us from a mindset that says, well then wi even bother. Does it even matter? We know that you answer that in passages like Romans six, where Paul says that we should never. Continue to sin that Grace May a bound but God, I pray that we would be zealous for good works, even as we're called to, as a fruit of the gospel in Titus. So help us to live faithfully before you and never to let up or slow up or think that it doesn't matter that our sin is something trivial and doesn't count. It does immensely because it costs Christ his life so that we could be forgiven. And so we pray that we would live in response to that, in a way that hates sin and loves you. With all that we are in Jesus name. Amen. Keep your new Bibles. Tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. See ya. Bye.

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