Hey, everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the daily Bible podcast. We were just talking about what Deuteronomy one and two is in Spanish, and we know, and does, but that's about it. Yeah. I don't know. Second law in Spanish. Yeah. Nope. Yeah. Not even going to try. No. Hey, happy birthday, Josh. Happy birthday, Josh. 16, man. One. Proud of you. Very proud of you. Yeah. I feel also very old to have a 16 year old. You should. Yep. Thanks, man. You're welcome. I do. Yeah. Mission accomplished. By the way, I apologize to everyone yesterday that I offended that posted the social media post. That's fine. I'm really happy that you did. I just, we're not doing it for Josh. So I, please forgive me if I offended your senses because you posted that. I. Didn't mean to. Are you going to post a happy birthday, Josh post? No, I don't. No, we've gone away from that too, because they don't have social media. So it's not, you're telling everybody though. It's not, it really isn't for the person. If they don't have social media, it's really for everyone else to say, Oh yeah. I'll put something on there Oh, happy birthday. So and if I find it at the right time, I don't always see them all, but I'll put something out there. Yeah. Again, it's fine. I'm glad that people do. We just don't. Yeah, it's too much to stay on top of man. I want to like social media because there's so many benefits to it that are Useful, there's a ton of downsides obviously, but I want to like it. I'm trying to like it and I'm having a hard time Yeah, same. Yeah, I'm with you on that. Yeah, it's ridiculous. It's crazy. It's helpful As a role B. I will I mean I find it The reason I keep it's because it's helpful. Like I've got a community Facebook group. I follow ponder on whether he helps me with the weather stuff I find out what's happening in a lot of our church families life So there's a great utility to it for those who are willingly Disclosing information or sharing information that you're concerned about like the NHL draft that we talked about that you made us discuss I did forced it Do this whether you'd like to you're not probably saw it on Instagram or Twitter or one of those things, right? Yeah. I'm also a bit of a sports fanatic. There's utility there. There's helpfulness. It's just I have a hard time sharing my information. I don't want, I'll read everyone else's. I don't want to put my stuff out there though, especially for my kids. I get nervous about that because i'm like, they're not choosing it. I'm doing it for them and right. I don't know. I, we still do some stuff. So it's not like i'm totally abstaining, but I get it as what I'm saying. Yeah. There's a place for it. Yeah, totally. Yeah. So I wasn't trying to offend you if you post about kids with a driver's license. If you take pictures of your Bible and coffee, I was trying to offend you. You know what? Honestly, though, a good photo of a Bible and coffee can be like, yeah, I want to get to my Bible reading right now. There's, I don't know. It is attractive. Okay. So if I took a picture of, look at my Bible, I have my Bible with a cup of coffee here. Dude, would you not want to be like, dude, I want to open that thing and read it so bad. Okay. But let me explain my reasoning here. My reasoning is this, because I know everybody wants to know. My problem is it perpetuates this idea of what Bible reading is that it seems to be unattainable for so many people. Because unless you're newly weds and you don't have kids running around and you've got that flexibility, most people. Aren't sitting down with their spouse and a cup of coffee and their Bible early in the morning, when the house is in perfect golden light and it looks just right and everything else. And it's God is so great. As we sit down and do our Bible reading together in this lovey dovey, if that's you great, enjoy the phase of life. It's just not going to last the rest of us. Your Bible reading is getting up and turning on a single light in the house to not wake up the rest of the house because you're not ready for the chaos to start yet and getting your Bible reading done. in a maybe a more darkly lit room and yeah, you've got your cup of coffee. Great. Some people are listening to it on the way to work in their car. Some people are, doing it towards the end of the day. Some people are doing their daily Bible reading at their desk at work during their lunch break because that's the time that they have where they can do it their way. They can focus. I just. That's why I it creates this like utopian fairytale Christianity that perpetuates. It's similar to the mommy wars that are out there where it's like this. You look at the Instagram page of influencer moms and it's they've got the perfect life and the perfect house and the house is always clean and everything else. And then you come to find out that a lot of these people actually rent Airbnbs specifically for the purpose of doing these photo shoots and it's not reality. And so I think we can be guilty of that as Christians that we yeah. put a front up on social media about what our Christianity looks like. That's not reality for most people. Okay. Two thoughts. Number one, isn't it true that everything that you see on social media is basically an imbalanced snapshot of something you could, in other words, you're never seeing the comprehensive nature of anything, right? And if you were to apply that metric to anything on social media, you would say that all of it is basically. Unhelpful. Yes. Except that I think there are varying degrees, right? If somebody is posting the meal that they made, okay, I get it, right? My meal is not going to look like that if I try to make it, but I don't feel the pressure to go out and do that. That's not my bag because it's not necessary for me, but it's thinking that's your that's your deliberate response, right? But as Christians. There are things like it's if it was possible to make breathing look more attractive than it is, right? If it was like, look at how I breathe so awesome and it's so peaceful and everything else. And you're like, man I'm struggling to breathe right now. I know I need to breathe, but I'm struggling to breathe right now. I just think there are things that are less helpful for us to perpetuate than others. I agree with you that all of it has the smacks of a certain air of fraudulence. I wouldn't even say fraudulence. It just. Just everything's inherently imbalanced. You're never seeing the full comprehensive nature of anything online because a photo can't capture it. Even a video, right? A video is not going to capture the true essence of the thing. It's giving you a slice of it. And then second thing I was going to mention is that Neil Postman argued this back in what the eighties that the medium is the message. And even before him, there was another guy that wrote a book about this whole idea that what we communicate over digital media. Is going to necessarily not even a possibly, but necessarily change the way that you understand the message itself, which is why he argued about watching TV and getting news from a television, because you're seeking the entertainment value and not just the informational value. So I will see the point, but I would argue then if that's the case, and you would have to look at all of social media and say that's not really what your family looks like. You guys are never that well behaved or well dressed. Even though your family photo looks like you guys are having an awesome time and you look amazing, you don't ever look like that. In fact, that's why I don't like my, I hedge on our website. Like I don't look like that ever. So I guess I agree with you, but I also, it's one of those buyer beware situations where you go into social media knowing that it's not all what it looks like. And I suppose if you go in with that mindset, you could probably engage with it in a helpful way. Sure. Maybe. Yeah. You don't agree. Okay. That's fine. We're still shaking hands. We'll still do the podcast. I think we'll make it through the episode. I don't know. We'll see. I don't know. We'll see. Yeah. Anyways, let's jump in. Deuteronomy one and two. Deuteronomy one at Deuteronomy. Let's talk about Deuteronomy to begin with. It means second law. And this is not that this is a second law. This is not that it's like, Hey, Moses, here's an additional 10 commandments and more commandments aside from that. But rather this is a redundancy. This is going back over it again. This is making sure that this new generation about to enter the promised land remembers the law. The law is imperative to their relationship with the Lord at this point during this dispensation. This is how God was interacting with the people was through the keeping of the law, the blessings for obedience, the cursing for disobedience. And so in this book that's, what's going on. The book also includes a number of farewell speeches from Moses as the book is set in his. Final weeks of his life. This is the end for him. And he knows that he knows he's not going into the promised land. And so he is landing the plane and giving these final charges throughout the book here. And it's also to a new generation because the people that originally received the law are no longer there. They're died. Not they're died. They have died. They're died. They're died. They're died. They're dead, gone, deaded. And so the people that he's now talking to are different. But it's going to be interesting because the way he's going to talk to them, he's going to talk to them as though they were there on the mountain and as though they were the ones to see the sign. So it's really interesting and we'll talk about it, I'm sure, when we get there. But this is meant to be for the generation that's entering the Promised Land. I think of it one of those summarization speeches like in closing, here are the things that we've covered. Here's what matters. Here's what I want you to know now. That's really long. That's a really long book But it's one of my favorites in the pentateuch. Honestly as i'm reading it again. I'm reminded about how much I love Moses teaching he's so fatherly. He's so pastoral in his tone and his care for the people But he's also unwilling to He's not unwilling to pull punches. Like he'll say what needs to be said and he'll put the finger in the chest and make you feel like, man, I'm calling you to the mat right now. You need to pay attention to this. You need to listen to this. This is a book that is absolutely awesome. Yeah. Yeah. One commentator said the focus of Leviticus was really the law itself. And the focus of Deuteronomy is on the people. In relation to the law which, which carries that relational component there of Moses and his love for the people there well, in verses one through five introduction, a general summary of its contents, you've got Deuteronomy one, three, the 40th year. In the 11th month. And so we're sitting around 1405 BC, early 1405 BC here post Exodus, 40 years in about to take the promised land here. Verses six through eight contain the opening charge. Their verse eight is important. See the land that I've set before you go in and take possession of that land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, to Jacob, to give them the land and to their offspring after them. And we, we've got this opening charge and this is what they're, Cut being called to do this new generation to your point, PR, this is what they're being tasked with. Go and do this. And then from here versus nine through 18, he reminds them of the leaders that they've had before this and who God had used before this. And so he talks about verse 13, how he's selected the elders, choose for your tribes, wise, understanding, experienced men. I will point them as your heads, the leaders of the tribes, the leaders of the people there versus 19 through 33, then takes on a little bit more of a somber note as he reminds them. of their initial rebellion, the fact that they forfeited the original opportunity to take the land. And that's hence the 40 years of wandering is warning them, Hey don't do this. Remember the penalty for the rebellion. You need to make sure you don't make the same mistake. And this is where PR in verse 39, we get that comment again about the concept of the age of accountability. Do you want to address that a little bit as he talks about that idea there? Yeah. So both you and I agree that we think that God does something special for infants. Those who have the. Inability to respond to a gospel call those who have and I like the way that Miller Erickson puts it in one of his books I forget which what that what the title is But he talks about someone being old enough to ratify their sin nature at some point in your life You decide to sin against the rights the good the true and it comes pretty early in life he says if for someone like a Chapter one, verse 39 person here, a little one who the people feared would become prey children who today have no knowledge of good or evil. They're going to go in. Those are the kind of people that we think God will say, okay, if they die in the womb or something awful happens, or even someone who is mentally disabled in such a way that they're unable to comprehend a gospel call. We think that God does something special for them. I have a hard time talking about it because I don't know how to talk about it in a way that puts all the pieces together nicely and neatly without creating confusion for you. But I think some The Deuteronomy 1. 39 is one of the best. One of the best cases, one of the best evidences for the fact that God treats them differently. If you also want another cross reference, Jonah 4 11, same thing. You have the idea of God saying, Jonah, isn't it right for me to show mercy to people who don't know their left hand from their right hand, from people who don't know what's happening. Again, I think he's talking about the class of people. infants in particular, but also others perhaps who don't have the mental ability, who just can't hear or respond to the gospel call. Yeah. This builds on a point that we were talking about on Sunday. There's different group strengths on different doctrines that we have. There's things that we hold firmly and we say without a shadow of a doubt, this is what's true. The deity of Christ, the exclusivity of the gospel, the inerrancy and authority of scripture. Those are doctrines that really don't evolve much for us. We may understand them a little bit more than we do when we're first Christians, but. Pretty much they're static. There are other things that are more difficult, that are our understanding, our conception, our perception of these things are going to evolve over time. And I don't mean that macro evolution. We're not going to go from, a heretical view to a non heretical view but we're going to, our view can change. It can morph. It can develop over time. Our understanding can deepen over time. Just like I talked about on Sunday, that, that brisket, nobody's microwaving a brisket. You're going to put it on the slow cooker and it's going to. be smoked and it's going to come out better that way than just trying to zap fry your brisket. That's our Christian faith. It takes time to, to, for us to be brought to full steam on some of these things. This is another one of those. Yeah we were talking about that recently and I think with this, there's that idea of the difference between the, do they have the capacity to repent and believe versus the what did the access or cause we brought up the aboriginal person who doesn't have the ability to hear the gospel, the access. Yeah. So you made the difference. You made the distinction that there's a difference between someone who's unable to mentally physically process this truth versus someone who. Can actually hear it and understand it at least potentially right now They have the capacity to do it someone who doesn't the capacity would be someone like a baby or mentally disabled person, right? because in Romans 1 He's not talking about the infants there when he's indicting all of humanity there And he says what can be known about God is plain to everyone you can talk to a one year old and be like what's the sky and they're not gonna say it's the heavens that declare the glory of God But you can talk to somebody who's In one of these tribes and that so often happens in the stories that we have heard of missionaries that have gone into these tribes and they have some concept of a creator that's out there, which is again, evidence of that natural law that's impressed upon them. So that's why I do think there's the difference there between ability, do they have the ability to comprehend and obey versus the access and the access that's a difficult conversation. That's where we get again back into the Romans nine. Conversation about God's sovereignty and all of that gets uncomfortable really fast for us. But yeah, this is one of those doctrines that we've got a looser grip on. Our group strength is not as strong on this one. All right. Chapter two, then verses one through 25, we get into the reminders here of the wilderness years, the wilderness wanderings. It's as though Moses is setting them up saying, Hey, remember how bad things have been. Don't mess up. Don't. Don't fail in what your task is now, obey the Lord is Moses is concerned you, you brought fatherly. I think that's what, where Moses is out here, I'm thinking of the apostle Paul in second Corinthians five, when he says we implore you be reconciled to God through Jesus Christ. It's almost like Moses is imploring them not to walk in the ways of their forefathers, as he's setting them up here for what's in front of them. Yeah, I love the fact that what Moses is doing in addition to making his charges and his admonitions. He's retelling them who they are He's helping them to understand their familial history and what it means and now how they should rightly respond to that again There's got to be someone who's a keeper of the story Yeah, and I love the fact that Moses here is taking responsibility by telling them. Here's who you are. Here's the problem. Here's a solution He's defining the reality for them He's setting up the stage so that they can go into the right mindset and tackle the land that God's about to give to them Yeah. Yeah. And then interesting. He turns in verses 26 through 37 to talk about King or Sihon, the King of Heshbon. And it's strange that he would bring that up, except that again, I think this is encouraging them going, you're going to go in and encounter, encounter conflict. There's going to be opposition to what you're about to go do. And that's why you've got to remember that God is the one that is going to go before you and fight these battles and give you victory. And in fact, there's a parallel. it with pharaoh. If you look at verse 30 of chapter two, it says, but Sion, the king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him for the Lord, your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate that he might give him into your hand as he is to this day. And so he's encouraging this new generation to say, Hey, remember, God is going to be the one that gives you the victory. You're going to encounter opposition. It's okay. Trust the Lord. He's the one that's going to give you the victory. Amen to that. And probably one, one small connection to that is that Jesus promises something very similar. We're not conquering land But when it comes to the conquering of our flesh And our own sin and the demonic opposition that we encounter we ought to be prepared for that kind of Response as well. It's not going to be easy. The devil's not going to let you Salter into, you know his territory and just start claiming people for Christ, right? Much less those in your own family or even the people at your workplace Now you're going to experience opposition and you're not going to make It's going to look like the pain and prayer, the pain of travail, praying on people's behalf. It's going to look like the pain of sowing seeds of truth. And so persist and know that God ultimately wants you to be successful in these things and he will ensure it in his time and in his purposes. Yeah. Yeah. In fact, Moses is really doing here corporately what he's going to charge the parents to do on a familial basis in Deuteronomy six. We'll get there in a few days here, but he's laying the groundwork here. He's saying, this is what God has done. Remember what God has done. Remember his faithfulness and move forward in obedience in light of that. Let's pray and then we'll be done with this episode. God, we're grateful for a new book to study. We pray that you'd give us wisdom as we study the book of Deuteronomy, that we would not grow weary of your word, that we would not grow dull of hearing when it comes to your word, but that we would mine it for all that it's worth. Lord, we thank you for the resources that you've given us, the commentaries, the study Bibles, everything that we have now that feature. And so we want to be wise stewards of these resources, help us to dig in and to learn much as we spend time with you through your word. We pray in Jesus name. Amen. All right. Y'all keep reading your Bibles and tuning again tomorrow for another edition of the daily Bible podcast. See it. Bye.

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