Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Hello, and happy birthday to two of my favorite ladies. Yes, although certainly not the only two of my favorites, one is my absolute favorite. The other one is a favorite, but I have several favorites. Just to be clear, ladies. The first favorite who stands head and shoulders above the rest is the wonderful, beautiful magnificence and gloriously awesome. Kristin Gomez, happy birthday. Yay. I love you with everything and for your birthday. I have set it up to be such that Pastor PJ will sing to you right now. I take it away, pastor pj, I hate to disappoint, but I try not to and you won't, and see, we're recording this on Saturday. Me and church is tomorrow. And I have to preserve my voice. Happy dude. You got a strong voice, man. Get outta here with that. Okay. One of my favorite ladies Phoebe she doesn't even listen to this podcast. Can you believe it? That's really. I feel like that's rude her. I really, she doesn't even support me. Unbelievable. She has not encouraged me. Once this week in my work, I'm seen come up to you and say, daddy and give you hugs and stuff, but just it seems like empty words if she's not, yeah, I don't know, man. You can't win them all. Choose your battles as they sit with parenting. Happy birthday, Phoebe. I know you don't listen, but I love you and I'm excited to celebrate your third birthday on the same day as your mother's boom. Very you to choose to be born on the same day as your mom. So convenient. Kristen, thanks for being born as well. Yeah. Super thankful for that. Looking forward to celebrating some time with you. That's awesome, man. Happy birthday ladies. Also, we've got some other people in the church with birthdays. We stopped wishing everybody a birthday on. We did that year one on this podcast. Yeah. We said, Hey, it's, that's fun birthday. Yeah. And it was fun. We just, we have a lot of birthdays now and we would spend, thank God. We're already going long. Yeah. And so we would be like, happy birthday to this person and this person, that person. And there's the acceptance speech where they call in and they say here's why I'm thankful. Right. 45 minutes later, we haven't even gotten into the podcast yet. So if it's your birthday today, happy birthday. We love you. Yeah. We do all the days. Even if we never shouted out we still think about you and we're talking about you. Good things mostly. Yeah. We trust man. August is almost, here is July 28th. Dude, I need a car for Jacob. If anyone has a car they're gonna give away or throw away, let me know, man. I'm trying to help. I've preached on this and I've mentioned you twice as application. I've not said anything though to anybody. I've just been trying to, scout territory. I've been looking at the Facebook marketplace ads and things like that. Yeah, I, and he wants, I know what he wants and what he's gonna get. Corvette. I don't think he wants a Corvette, honestly. It's on his radar. Get, yes, he's gonna get a Corvette or a Hummer, an H two perhaps. When I drove by Salina High School's parking lot. I was offended and appalled at how many nice cars are there. There's, I think 80% of people that drive vehicles at Salina High School drive nicer cars than I've ever owned. Sure. Ever. Sure. And not that I'm, I don't begrudge that. If you got a great car, fantastic. I'm just thinking that's not the first. If I tell my son all the time, if I had the money to just ride out, buy you a car, I still wouldn't get you a really nice car. I need to get you a junker. And you gotta start there. Otherwise, you don't appreciate when you finally do get the one with I, the, my first car, I wanna hear about yours. My first car did not have ac. The windows did not work. One did. I could roll it down manually. The others did not. But I love that car. I treated it so nicely. I washed it. I always vacuumed it. I kept it nice. I put an air freshener in there. I took care of it, like my life depended upon it. And then when I got the car that did have ac, I was just so thrilled. And I still love ac I, especially here in Texas. Tell me about your first car. I had a, wait, let me guess. You're one of those guys in the parking lot with a brand new Mercedes S class? No. No, because you were a preppy kid, so I'm guessing BMW. No. No, it was a Mercedes, but Oh. But it was a, I think it was a 12-year-old, 11-year-old. 12-year-old Mercedes. And man it was, this is how good it was. I was driving into the parking lot. We, we had this dirt parking lot and then it was up on a curb that you had to drive into. 'cause we were lowerclassmen and I guess I was leaving. So I was driving outta that. And when my car back tires hit the pavement again, my muffler just fell off the back of the car. Wow. So I didn't. Know anything about cars at that point. I still don't know a whole lot about cars at this point. So I got a car, you need the ler. And I looked at, I was like, can I drive without this thing? And they were like, sure. Yeah. So I popped the making a lot more noise that the before I was done with that car, the bumper, the front bumper was bolted on like we manufactured. A connection onto it. 'cause the duct tape gave out. Yeah. Yeah. All that stuff. But now your bumper's not bolted on True. At least not inappropriately. So true. It's bolted on in the right way. In the right way. And now you have a spaceship. I do. Don't you appreciate that so much more because of your first time with this brand new Mercedes nice class that you have. Yeah, I do. It's, this is the funnest car I've ever driven and I don't take it for granted. I'm grateful for it. I don't know. That's why I don't want Jacob to have a nice car. Yeah. I want him to have a junker like I did. Like Kristen Kristen did cheating over there, but I don't know. We're looking for a car, so if you happen to see a good deal Yeah. Or anyone's gonna throw it away. Maybe have them throw it away in my trash. My wife had a an explorer, but it, we called it the exploder. The exploder, yeah. So I noticed that you have an explorer, so clearly it did not dissuade you from getting another one. It may also be known as the explode before we're all done with it too. What? It's just, it's created its fair share of problems. Yeah. It hasn't exploded though. No. Everybody knows everybody, but it was like, American cars don't have the best of reputations. Fair. Yeah, it is. It is large though, and I feel good about my son being in a larger vehicle. I totally get that. Yeah, totally get that. But it's cheaper to take care of a small, four cylinder Oh yeah. To buy new tires for it, to all that stuff. Oh yeah. Everything, yeah. All altogether cheaper. Yes. Anyway, but if anybody has a car, August is coming. And so I thought about that because Jacob is starting school. All the kids are starting school again. Everyone's getting back in the swing of things. Yeah. People return to church. We're looking forward to all those things. I look forward and I love consistency. I love schedules. So summer is wonderful 'cause they get to spend more time with the fam. Yep. But I do miss the schedules. Yeah. Yeah. I know we've got some people in our church that work for Toyota, so they just need to go talk to Mr. Toyota and be like, Hey would you be willing to Yeah I was. I'm hoping one day they just start throwing their brand new cars that they crush after they're done testing them. Yeah. They isn't that crazy? It's nuts. I wish that they would just throw them away to their. They're best friends. And their family members and things like that. Here's one. Yeah. And some other pastors perhaps. You can't guarantee it's safe. That's okay. We'll do it anyways. That's alright. We'll take the risk. Yeah. Hey, let's jump into our daily Bible reading today. Mean we're gonna try to be shorter than we have been in the last couple days. Oh, we will be. We will be. Yes. Because that's what a pastor does. That's what a pastor's doing for Right. Short. Short, pithy speech. Yeah. Not saying too much. Yeah. Yeah. So two Kings 19. This is ground we've covered. This is again, Hezekiah's response to Sinna rib drying up and him seeking the Lord. God intervening. This is where the rabbis shaka gets sent back and then when the angel of the Lord comes out and ends up taking out 185,000, this is, we've got some of Isaiah in here as Isaiah's prophesying the fall before the angel takes out the 185,000. Again, this is a benefit to the chronological plan is we have a context for this 'cause we've been in Isaiah and now we're back here in two Kings, and it reminds us That's right. Isaiah's prophesying during the reign of Hezekiah. Isaiah has a relationship with these historical other figures in Israel at this time, including Hezekiah. And this is this is that, that situation, we're not gonna get. Yet we'll get there when we get to chapter 20 into the end of Hezekiah's life, like we talked about the added 15 years and stuff, that's not yet. Chapter 19 is really just gonna be about how God delivers Israel from Sinna and Assyria, which he is gonna do. By the way some people including my mom occasionally read our transcript of the podcast rather than listening to it. Oh. So she texted me the other day very confused about snacking on ribs and she and Kristen was like, Hey, pastor Peachy hasn't even responded to that. And I said, no, he did. You just couldn't see it. 'cause it's audio. And because I also cut out silences Yeah. That are longer than a second. Your laugh probably got taken out, so people were probably confused by that. I also thought to myself, I said, I think he said that last year too. I can't remember. I'm sure I did, but I think you said it last year. Snacking on ribs is my thing, man. Yeah, that's how I remember his name. Yeah. So that's what this chapter's about. Second Kings 19. Anything in here PR that you want to point out that we didn't necessarily see in the coverage of Isaiah's? I just wanna point out a theme that I've seen and it's in verse 25, only this verse here. Have you not heard? That I determined it long ago. I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins. This is God's super intending his oversight of everything, including evil kings and evil nations. Doing what evil kings and evil nations do. And so I just wanna point out to you, God controls all of that. He oversees all of that. And if you understand that rightly, that is an enormous comfort. It's not comforting when you go through the pain of those things, but it is comforting to realize these are not unhinged evil entities that are outside the control of God. Perfectly maintains control to the point that he's saying, look, haven't you heard I called my shots and I'm telling you now what's about to happen. Take confidence that I will accomplish my plan and purpose. What would you prefer? Would you prefer to wake up to a world in which God doesn't know what's gonna happen and he's not sovereign over the events and. All of this is happening and he's witnessing happening, it happening and reacting to it happening the same as we are. Or would it be more comforting to know who God is, like we talked about yesterday at church to understand something about him, to have a robust theology that allows you to trust him even when you don't necessarily know what he's doing in the moment. That, that is a huge comfort to us to be able to say, God, you're. So even when it doesn't feel like it, I'm, I, my theology, my understanding of you from your word tells me you're good. And it also tells me that you're sovereign. And so those are the two things that I'm gonna hold onto and hang my hat on right now. And I'll trust that you're gonna work this out. I think a lot of people want to preserve that. Because they wanna protect human freedom. Can you talk about that for just a brief moment? Preserve what, I'm sorry. Human freedom. Yeah. In other words, God doesn't have control over those things. Yeah. Because he's endowed man with the ability to freely choose apart from any intervention on his part. What would you say to that? Yeah. And the. The ultimate end of that is what is a, actually a heretical doctrine that we refer to as open theism, which says that God doesn't know what's coming and he is totally oblivious to what's coming. Now, that is not everybody who believes in autonomous free will. There are those that would say no, God, ordained a world in which free will would be what would take place. Or he saw everybody's choices before he created the world. Yeah we don't. I think this is a nuance of the atheist reason for rejecting God. We don't wanna be accountable to God, and so we want a measure of free will. We want a measure of autonomy. We don't like the idea that somehow my fate has been set or my destiny has been set, or whatever language you want to use, or God has ordained my path. That, that grates against our natural fleshly inclination to say, no, I am the master of my fate. I'm the captain of my ship my soul. And so the. Idea that man, I'm gonna submit to God is something that, again the strawman against it. 'cause you can strawman both sides. The straw man against God's sovereignty would say, then we're just all puppets on strings. And what's the point? And I think that's where we o often talk about there is a sense from our perspective while we are here, that we are making real choices every single day and they are real choices. Whether or not we're gonna serve and obey God and God can at the same time be sovereign over those choices. Even though we in the moment don't experience that awareness, we don't feel that. And yet it doesn't change the fact that he is. And so is he a hundred percent sovereign? Yes. Are we a hundred percent responsible for our choices? Yes. Both of those things are taught in scripture and we have to hold those intention. Yeah, we would call that dual agency that then in any given act, there are two agents at work. There is God's agency and that's always gonna be true. And there's the human agent also making decisions. And this is how God can say through Joseph, what you meant for evil. God meant for good Two agencies at work. The agency of his brothers, Joseph's brothers that is, and the agency of God, one's committing evil in their works and God is committing good in his works. He will always accomplish good because he's sovereign over good and evil. Yep. Chapter 46 of the Book of Psalms, so let's jump back into Psalms again. This is one of my favorite psalms. There's a lot of bands that have done this musically recently even that are really good. We just read this for scripture reading on Sunday, and so here we are with it as part of our D-B-R-I-I, I like it here in this context and maybe yet last year I wasn't. As tuned in or paying attention to it as much, but probably not. Thanks man. But just this idea of God's deliverance of his people and the Assyrians. I think this makes a lot of sense as to why it would be here. If you look at verse five, God is in the midst of her, but is Jerusalem his people? She shall not be moved. He will help her when mourning Dawns well, when did the angel of the Lord go out and strike down the 185,000? Overnight. And so when mourning dawned the next day, what did they find? They found the Assyrians defeated and gone because of what God had done. He will help her when mourning Dawns and just the confidence of saying the Lord of Hosts, which is by the way the Lord of Armies that were hosts means armies, the angelic armies, the angelic for forces, the Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our fortress. And then it ends in verse 10. Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth, be still, and know that I'm God is a, it's be in awe of me. It's not so much about. Peace. Like sometimes we make it, hey, just be still and know that he's God. It's be still and sit down. It's, yeah. Sit down and be quiet and look, because this is who I am. You should do your own translation. I was trying to be careful not to that's the PJ's translation of the Bible that might get me in trouble. But then the comfort of verse 11, the Lord of hostess with us, the God of Jacob is our fortress. Love Psalm 46. Amen. Psalm 80 then is a plea for salvation. And it's a cry as the Psalm says to restore us, oh Lord, the God again, the Lord of hosts. And so it fits again that the situation here of them saying, and this is similar, I think to, to Hezekiah's prayer back in two Kings 19 or Isaiah 37. Think it fits a very similar situation there where he's asking and praying in verse two, come and save us. He says in verse three that we might be saved. Verse seven, restore us. Oh God. And so this fits that context again of a city besieged by the Assyrians, afraid, not knowing what's gonna happen, wondering how God is gonna deliver them. This psalm could have been written during that time, or even on the backside of that, reflecting back at that time saying, God, you are the one that does deliver us and does save us. Psalm 1 35. Feel free man to, to just jump in and bail out the stinky ship at any time. Oh I feel free all the time. In fact, I make true and real decisions. You do every day. You do. You're like, yeah. I'm just gonna let that one, I'm just gonna sit out. I'm gonna lay out on that one. Yeah. Psalm 1 35 is another Psalm of appraise here and we could look at this again contextually with what's going on and why it's here. Perhaps again the remembrance of God's deliverance. Look at verse 15, though. The idols of the nations are silver and gold. The work of human hands, they have mouths but do not speak eyes, but do not see ears, but do not hear, nor is there any breath in their mouths. Those who make them become like them. So do all who trust in them. That reminds us of what we've been talking about in Isaiah. In fact, what we talked about yesterday, about how God was saying how foolishness, idolatry is, and here in Psalm 1 35. The psalmist is pointing that out. That same thing out in contrasting the idols with God. So similar themes there again, back to what we've been studying in Isaiah. Yeah, I think it's really important to see that idolatry, whatever it is that you worship, will have a necessary influence on the shape of your soul. If you worship something like money you become in some way, shape or form like the God that you serve. You become money oriented. Your mind thinks about money. Your mind calculates everything in terms of money. If you're worshiping at the idol of health and physical prowess, you think about everything in terms of your. Physical health and prowess you, you calculate everything according to that thing, and so you become shaped by the God that you serve. How freeing it is then to have a God that shapes us according to love. He says to love him with heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself so you will know if you are being more conformed to the image of God. If you have love for him and love for his people. It is really so simple and yet so profound. Anything short of that, any other God or idol is gonna misshape you and distort your soul. Alright hey, we said it was gonna be a shorter episode. I think we we followed through on it. Nailed it. Yep. Let's let's pray and then we'll be done with this this episode. God we thank you for, what we see in Two Kings 19 and Isaiah 37, in, in Your Deliverance to the People and how in the Book of Psalms that inspire these songs of praise and worship to you. And I pray that would be a reminder to us, that should be true of us as well as we consider the way that you saved to us and delivered us not from the Assyrians or the Babylonians or anybody else, but from your wrath through Christ, Lord, what a a greater deliverance we've experienced and how much more it should. Compel us to want to worship you. And so we pray that we would be a worshipful people, that we pray that we would not misdirect our worship to the false gods and the falses idols, but that we would direct it to you as the one who has delivered us that our trust is not ultimately in our security systems or in our jobs, or in our paychecks or anything else, even as we think about just the deliverance from a daily basis of making it through a day. But our deliverance is in from you that you are the one who sustains us. And so we thank you so much for that. We pray that we would be a worshipful people. In Jesus name, amen. Amen. Keep her in your Bibles tuning again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. See ya. Bye.

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