Hey everybody. Welcome to Saturday's edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Hey everybody, hope you're having a great Saturday. Great Saturday. Yeah, an excellent Saturday, an excellent, a stupendous a super Saturday. My kids don't have soccer today because fall, break and prosper. So all that's off. I've got. One of my kids has basketball, so I'm taking him to his basketball game. Yeah. So we have a T-ball game. Okay. So we might be there right now as you're listening to it. I don't know why there's no softball, but there's a T-ball game, so who's doing T-ball? I am. Oh, no. Okay. Well, I figured it was either you or Julia. Lincoln's t-Ball guy. How's he doing with that? He's great. That's awesome. He's great. He was very proud 'cause he was the second fastest on his team. That's great. So you know the things that matter to a 4-year-old. Totally. Does he run the right direction on the base path? He does. That's a win. He does. Which it is a win. And at this age and with T-Ball. That's sort of the victories that you're looking for. Yeah. And when in the field, when the balls hit and all seven kids in the field collapse on the ball. That's right. It's a dog pile for the ball. That's right. And you have to remind them, no, you're actually part of the same team and it's just as good as you getting it as your co whatever player, teammate. There we go. That's the word I was looking for. Yeah, that's it's tough word. Well, and then one kid comes up like victorious. Meanwhile, the kid has already hit first base like 30 seconds. That's right. But he still makes the third of first base as though he is like hoping to get them out. Yeah. And then there's probably not anybody at first base No. Goes because he was also in the dog pile. Yeah. And then the kid running the bases is now an outfield for some reason. Right. And right. And there's usually nose picking that happens. And far too much of it. Flowers picking those off the ground. Yeah. We have one kid on the team. Yeah. Who throws his bat? Okay, so that's really exciting. Like he hits when he hits, okay. Then he releases the bat and just lets it go and the bat goes inevitably into somebody. But so everybody's gonna duck when that kid's up to bat. It's not Lincoln, by the way. Okay, well just double checking in there. Yeah. Lincoln only throws his bat into anger. He's just like, man, I struck out hard to do in T-ball or bat flip, you know, it goes well or bat flip that. Yep, yep. I could see that too. Yeah. But it's awesome. At the same time, man, just watching them figure out, okay, how does this work and how do we do this? And it's amazing to see the brains that God gave them For sure. Developing and figuring these things out For sure. And sometimes not figuring these things out. Yeah. It's fun and it's a good thing, which parents. It's okay to let your kid not continue in sports. Like if you have a kid that you just recognize as like he doesn't wanna be there or she doesn't wanna be out there, like you don't have to keep them out there. Right. You can let them go explore and do something else. It's gonna be okay. That's right. Music. Yeah. Or. Art Adventure Club. Adventure Club Club. They should come to Adventure Club. They could come to Adventure Club. Everybody. They should do that. Everybody should come to Adventure Club. Yes. There's nobody who's bad at Adventure Club. That's true. Yeah, because it, when you get to Kid Pitch, it's the first year of Kid pitch is. It's the longest year of sports ever because these kids are, for the first time, expected to throw strikes and they do every single time. Right? And that's where you love the empire. That gives a strike zone that's like four times bigger than it should be. Even if your kid strikes out, you get it. You're like, no, I get it. I get it. That was six feet over his head. But you had to call to strike because Yeah, because we're only the kid. There's no way only two batterson into the first inning. Right. And this kid is never gonna get it. In the strike zone, what the normal strike zone would be. So six feet over strike. Okay, we're good? Yep, that's fine. Yeah. That's crazy. But anyways, you're not here to hear us talk about kid sports. You're here to hear us talk about. The daily Bible reading. So let's do that. Matthew chapter nine. And Luke chapter seven. Matthew nine. We've got some familiar text that we've covered. In fact, it opens with the pastor Rod is leaving right now. He's leaving us. He's. He's abandoning his post, by the way. He's taking a class if you didn't know that. He is not right now, I guess. But he was taking a class, which is why he's not on the podcast. Faithful friends. You've got the friends that go up on the roof and lower their friend down through the roof. And again, Jesus' interaction there. Son, your sins are forgiven. And the Pharisees grumbling and Jesus knowing that they're grumbling in their hearts, says to them, Hey, which is easier. And then he flexes his God card and says that you may know that I have the authority to forgive sins. I say to you, rise, pick up your bed and go home. And he does that. And, every time I'm like, okay, why didn't they believe? Yeah. Why didn't they believe? And it's just a reminder. 'cause sometimes we think to ourselves, why doesn't God still do miracles today in the same way? Because then everyone would believe, yeah. At least that's what we think, right? That's what we think. And this is a good reminder to us that that's just not true. Yeah. And so for us to think, if God would just let me do a healing service, or if God would, do a miracle, then my unbelieving neighbor would believe in him. Not necessarily. Yeah. And even more so because these guys, the deck was stacked in their favor to believe. 'cause they're the ones that knew the Old Testament backwards and forwards. They were waiting for the Messiah. They should and is, they should have that every single reason. You're exactly right. For sure. And they don't believe, yeah. I mean I've have heard churches say that we should. We should do healings in our churches because that's gonna draw people in, that's gonna appeal to people. And I, I think maybe that there's some little bit of truth to that, but this is evidence that that's actually not the thing that is ultimately gonna appeal to people. And those things are not gonna appeal to people for the right reasons. Right? We need to be a church that appeals to people based on the gospel and. It's evidenced here that even when Jesus himself does miracles, heals people. It doesn't draw people for the right reasons. And you see that evident well in the, it's just a reminder too of second Corinthians four, that the God of the world has blinded the eyes of the lost to keep them from seeing the light of the glory of the gospel. And we need the light of Christ to shine in our hearts, as Paul says there, to give us the ability to believe in him. It's not a matter of convincing them through the evidence. It's a matter of God doing the work to open blind eyes to cause them to see. Yeah, and they should have known, this is a callback to Daniel seven, and then they just go, oh, well it's just another guy. But wow. It's amazing that God gave another guy just a regular guy, right. These sort of powers and the right to identify that he has a powers, they're even Right, I think to be afraid. Right. In some sense, their right to glorify God, although they've, they're off course with why they're glorifying God. Yeah. Yeah. We've got the call of Matthew, which again, we've seen in some of the other gospels. It's interesting, the other gospel writers refer to him as Levi. Matthew refers to himself as Matthew, and so I wonder what's going on there. Just an interesting observation. He says that he saw a man called Matthew which is our author of this gospel. And so he's recording this. You've got the statement again here of Jesus came not for those that. Are healthy, but those that are sick, spiritually sick, that is. And then he gives this statement, go and learn what this means. I desire mercy and not sacrifice for, I came to call the, not the righteous but sinners. And that, is a callback there to the Old Testament. And specifically it's a callback to Hosea six, six. And. This is Jesus saying, look, God is not so much after the external Again, we talked about that in yesterday's episode with the heart and the Sermon on the Mount, but he's after the heart. He's after what's on the inside. And again here, they're condemning Jesus for being externally unclean in their eyes by fellowshipping with tax collectors and sinners. And Jesus is saying, look I'm after not they're external, but they're internal. And so that's why I'm here is for the people that recognize they've got an internal problem, which is their sickness. Yeah. So we're not. Pharisees in the true sense of a Pharisee. What are some of the temptations, though that might be akin to what the Pharisees had for us here in Texas today? Are there, I know it's not gonna be the same. Yeah. But are there some things that we might be, even in our church, even with Faithful Bible teaching, be tempted to do wrongly and to look at those outward things and not at our hearts? Yeah. I think. That we can conflate patriotism with Christianity. Mm-hmm. And I think that's a big danger for us that can become sical. I've said it and we've talked about it multiple times, but God has brought the nations to our back door. And we have people living around us and there's a lot of people that even in the church that have looked at that and been like, I don't like that. Mm-hmm. And I don't want it to be this way and I want to go back to the way it used to be. And I think Jesus would say, Hey they need a physician. Mm-hmm. Your Hindu neighbor across the street, they need a physician that your Muslim neighbor on your kid's soccer team, they need a physician. They need me, and that's why they're here. So I think that's one big area that we gotta guard against being Sal about is, is to say, well, you're different and I don't like it, and I don't like what you stand for. I'm not saying that you have to love the fact that they're worshiping false gods in what they stand for as far as that goes, but to love them and see the need. There, I think is a. An area that I'd say I, I pray that I get better at that and that we all get better at seeing them and saying, man, they need Jesus. Yeah. And it's about loving the person, right? Yeah. Not just loving in general or being loving. Obviously you have to do those things, but you need to also love. The individual people. Right. And if you've got a neighbor who even maybe has a different political background, but certainly if they are a Hindu or a Muslim mm-hmm. You need to love that individual person. Mm-hmm. And it can be really easy to lump them in with other things or to categorize or just to. To dismiss them. When God has called you, whatever the political situation is, he's called you to love your next door neighbor. Yep. Or the person down the street. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Matthew also records the question about fasting. We've covered that a couple times already here, but it shows up again here again, the synoptic gospels, Matthew, mark, and Luke, you're gonna. Find a lot of common ground covered in all of these different gospels, written from different perspectives, again, with a different purpose from the author, but similar events that are gonna be here because they were all there. Luke was not an eyewitness, neither was Mark, although Mark was recording Peter's testimony, so sort of an eyewitness once removed. But Matthew was there. And so Matthew's recording this. And then we find a situation that we haven't come across yet, although we will again in Mark chapter five and Luke chapter eight. And that is this situation with Jairus. And Jairus is the one who Jesus is, approached by a ruler. It says just in, in Matthew's gospel, but Mark and Luke both record that his name was Jairus. And so the ruler comes and says, my daughter has died, and I need somebody to come and savor. And it's interesting that this ruler realizes that Jesus can do that. Mm-hmm. And so Jesus says, okay I'll come with you. And on the way the, there's a woman there who had been, who had a discharge for 12 years, and she comes up and just wants to be made well and reaches out just to touch the fringe of his garment. And Jesus stops and realizes the power has left him. And we've read more in depth in Luke's gospel about his interaction with this woman. But it's fascinating that he looks at her and says, your faith has made you well go and. Instantly it says the woman was made well. And she goes on from there. So, just an amazing encounter there. And I can only imagine gyrus and the impatience of going, yeah, can but my daughter, can we just move on? And then he comes to the house, everybody's there. He says she's sleeping. They laugh at him. They, he puts them out. Luke is gonna tell us that he's only gonna take the inner three, which are Peter, James, and John up into the room with him. And he's going to take her and resuscitate her. Not resurrect, 'cause resurrection means never to die again. But he's gonna resuscitate her. He is gonna bring her back from death to life and give her back to her family. So just a fascinating. Interaction here in, in this middle part of John, of Matthew nine. I love this two reasons. First is, as a dad with a daughter I can sympathize, empathize, yeah. So deeply with this. And it brings me such comfort to know that that. I follow a God who has this sort of power. Mm-hmm. And this sort of love for me and for my family. And I know Jesus isn't walking and doing things like this, but he's the same God with the same heart cares for me and my family. The other reason I love it is this is one of the first stories that Edith, my oldest daughter, began to like, wrap her mind around and could remember as That's awesome. As a little kid. That's awesome. She called it the sick girl. Yeah, the sick girl. And I can't imitate her, little 2-year-old lisp, but man, I love the story for that reason as well. even in her room, we actually framed the page from the little beginner's bible. That's awesome. Of this story. Just 'cause just as a sweet memory. Totally. Yeah. And there's so much here too, right? I mean, that's all of us. We're all in that desperation. We're all in this situation where nothing from the world can help us. Right? Yeah. Because it talks about I think in Matthew and also in Luke, this woman had been to so many other doctors to try to deal with her problem and our sin problem. We look. Get so many other places in the world to try to deal with our sin problem. And there's only one place that we can go to find relief from sin to find healing. And that's Jesus. And this woman represents that for us. And so it's neat that Matthew's recording things like that for us that we can now through the lens of the gospel understand with so much more depth and profundity. Yeah. But that's awesome. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. From here, again, speaking of another. Miracle that points to a greater reality is these two blind men that Jesus passes by who see more than so many other people do, because they recognize, they say, have mercy on us. Son of David. That's a Messianic title. Whether this faith is fully baked at this point, I don't think so, but they know enough to think, okay, Jesus may be the Messiah. So they're gonna call out there and he is going to. Heal them. They're gonna, he's gonna call them to him and say, do you believe that I'm able to do this? And they say yes, and then he heals them according to their faith. So again the faith that's necessary to give sight to the blind. And that's the gospel again, right here in Matthew chapter nine. I know we've talked about these sort of things before, but let's just go over it again. If I have enough faith. Is Jesus gonna heal me of my ailments today? Yes. Yes. Yes, he is. Let's move on. No. No. And that's not it. That's not the point. Right. Jesus is doing these things. He's revealing his glory. That's right. As Jesus says in John chapter two manifesting his glory in Giving us pictures and glimpses into the kingdom. But that's why the opening one that we talked about is so important because the greater need was, son, your sins are forgiven. And the same thing with these blind men. Their greater needs was that their sins would be forgiven for this woman. The greater need was that she would be healed from the discharge, not that they would be given the physical healing that they're after. Yeah. God does that out of mercy for them. That's right. And I think it can be so easy to read. These stories through the wrong lens. Yeah. Which is, it's about me. It's about service to me where this is revealing Jesus to be the son of man. Yeah. To be the son of David and it's about him. Mm-hmm. And obviously mysteriously and wonderfully we get included in that. Mm-hmm. But it's, this is about him. This is about Jesus. Yeah. Yeah. Well, let's jump to Luke chapter seven, and I know we've got some more in Matthew nine. There's a mute man who's healed the harvest is plentiful. The laborers are few. Pray for those to the Lord to raise up. Laborers to send out into his harvest. Man, that's, there's so much good there. But for the sake of time on our podcast here, let's jump over to Luke chapter seven. Opens with the Centurion servant. We talked about this already in Matthew chapter eight. What's different here is Luke records that it wasn't the servant that came to Jesus, but that the servant sent his, or that the centurion rather sent his servant to Jesus. So it wasn't the centurion himself, which is what Matthew said. Luke said he sent his servant pastor Mark, do we need to be. Perplexed and. Up in arms about the fact that Luke and Matthew disagree on that? Yes. Yes. Okay. I mean, cool. You answered my question really simply, and so. I say yes, I think we should be in despair over this. Okay. Well, that's today's episode of the Daily Bible Podcast. No, of course not. Of course not. We have to study these things carefully. I think we also have to recognize that we've got three synoptic gospels that are consistent and consistency. Isn't gonna mean precision in the sense of how we normally think about these things. Right? Right, for sure. And Matthew was probably after the nuts and bolts of what was going on here. Whereas as Luke is different. Luke is more in the weeds. And that's Luke's character, that's who Luke is. He's a physician, he's a scientist. He's gonna investigate, he's. Interviewing people, whereas Matthew is kind of telling the stories as he recalled them. And this is whether it was the man or the servant the servant was the representative of the man. And so in essence, it was the centurion that was there with Jesus saying, come and heal my servant. Yeah, I don't think this should give you. Pause to be, to doubt the scriptures or to doubt things. I think you're right, pastor Mark, there's gonna be a difference in our perspective that's going to, we're gonna remember details differently. Yeah. And this doesn't mean that the Bible has errors in it. It just means that there's different perspectives, different purposes behind what people are writing there. Yeah. And that's what I mean by precision. So don't mishear me saying like, oh, the Bibles and Precise, or the Bible is inaccurate. Yeah. It is a challenging thing though for believers to wrestle with. There's ways to wrestle with it correctly, and of course there's wrong ways to do that for sure. In Luke seven, 11 through 17, we've got the raising of the widow's son. And again, this is Jesus rising someone from the dead resuscitating them. This is his power over death. A lot of times we just think about Lazarus, but he did this multiple times in his ministry and so he does this and he does this in front of the crowds, and their response is fear and amazement, and his fame continues to spread. At that point or shortly after this, John the Baptist who's in prison, he sends a message to Jesus saying, Hey, are you the guy or are you not the guy? And Jesus says to those that were sent, Hey, go tell John what you've heard and what you've seen. And he quotes from Malachi three and, or sorry, he quotes about himself from Isaiah chapter 29 and Isaiah chapter 35 saying, I'm doing the things that the Messiah was gonna do. So wait and trust. Then he praises John the Baptist as somebody who, among human beings, there's not one that has been born that's greater than John, and yet he says the one that's least in the kingdom of heaven is gonna be greater than John. So some interesting eschatological insight there into what heaven is gonna be like. Even as far as the. Gradation in ranking in heaven and things like that. But Jesus is fond of John. John's curious 'cause John's in prison and he's like, Hey anytime you wanna be the Messiah, like, I'm ready. So I think we get some of John's hu John in. Not that John's not human, human, but I think we get some of John's frailty here. Yeah. And Jesus, in a moment of compassion, mercy says to his disciples, go tell John what you've seen and what you've heard. I'm fulfilling things that Messiah's supposed to do. Yeah. In a really kind way saying like, you should know this too, right? Like, right. This is here's the evidence of this. Right. And here's why you should believe these things. And you're right. I think you do see John's frailty. You see his humanity. And that's not inconsistent with the other prophets. Yep. And that's different. That what Great point we've been seeing Jesus do. Yep. Being one who speaks with authority, unlike all the others. Yep. And it's. Still good that John the Baptist is John the Baptist. Oh yeah. But we also need to recognize that John the Baptist wasn't the final answer. It's Jesus who was For sure, for sure. The end of Luke chapter seven is just another amazing picture of Jesus' love for the lost. And here you have him come to dinner at the house of a Pharisee whose name was Simon and he's there. And it was tradition at the time that. The host would have somebody, a servant, or if the servant was available, the host would do it to wash the feet of the guest. It was a way to honor the guest. It was something that was considered pretty commonplace. It wasn't always, but a Pharisee should have had the means to be able to do this. Meanwhile, this woman comes a sinful woman, and we can, basically leave the unsaid as to what probably her sinfulness was here. And she begins weeping in her tears, is what she uses to wipe to wash his feet and wipes his feet with her hair and kisses them as she anoints them with even ointment. And Simon's incensed by this and says, man, this woman is, I know who she is. I know the type of woman she is. And clearly he doesn't, because if he did, he would stop her and she. It is then commended by Jesus in that sweet moment where he says, Simon, she's been forgiven much, so she loves much. The implication is, Simon, you don't feel like you need to be forgiven at all. And so your love for me is very minimal. Yeah. It's convicting. It is. It is, and I, but I think it's also encouraging in the sense that we, if we're struggling to love somebody. There's somebody difficult at work, or maybe it's our neighbor or whoever it is there. Here's a clear way in which we can grow that love for those people's by washing their feets by, yes, that's right. Knock on your neighbor's nore with a bowl. Yeah. Say hey and cry, and then wipe their feet with your hair. You took all the air out of what I was saying, but sorry, go. No, but you were saying we can love our neighbors by, by, by remembering how much we've been forgiven. Totally. And if we are people who are constantly remembering what God did for us while we were enemies of him it's gonna make it a lot easier to love those people who we struggle to love For sure. A hundred percent agree, man. Yeah. Well, there you go. Let's let's pray and then we'll be done with the another episode. Lord, we have all, if we are in Christ, been forgiven so much and help us to remember that so that we will love you much to be reminded just day after day of how great your mercy has been to us. In fact, we'll talk about it even tomorrow because once we had not received Mer Mercy, but now we have received mercy, and that is such a good thing that you have not given us what we deserve, which is the full wrath. Of that is our sins are worthy of. And just like this woman, she was a sinner. She was guilty, she was somebody that was immoral. And yet she had been forgiven because of the faith that she would possess. And her faith was not yet what it would be because she didn't fully understand how Jesus was gonna deliver her. But she understood enough. So Jesus commenced her, well, we wanna be like her. We want to understand how much we've been forgiven, and we wanna love you much by by extension. And so, God we look forward to even to get. To eternity to find out the questions we may have. Like, was this Mary Magdalene and was this because she hadn't had the demons cast out of her? And so many questions that maybe we have and one, one day we'll know. But for now Lord, we, we just love the example and we love the example of our savior and his love for her and his love for us, since we pray all this in Jesus name, amen. Amen. Keep her in your Bibles. Tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Bye y'all. 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Yeah. I would agree with everything that you said