Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Pothole podcast. Hello and good Lord's Day to you. It is the day that we told you to make sure that you're at church for. We'd like you to be there. We'd like you to be there. Everybody's been asking everybody. We've been getting so many tweets. My mom even texted me. She said, what's the big announcement? Oh wow. She's texting you. Huh? She texted trying to get privileged information. She's trying to find it out. How dare she? She did me told her. Of course you did. Of course you told her. I don't know yet. 'cause I just got the text and we're recording this early. Oh. So I haven't yet decided. So if you wanna sway me one way or the other, I'm hoping for her, I'd be okay with you telling your mom as long as she can keep. Keep it buttoned down. She is very active on social media. She posts all over the place all the time and she's Hey, I've got news. If you want insider information. She was retweeted by Dr. Moeller not too long ago. She is the mole. If we have any, if we have a mole, it's it's her, she she leaks things. No, we are excited about today. And we want you there and we don't wanna spoil it for you if you're not there yet. We're not gonna give the announcement out just yet, but tomorrow's podcast maybe if you're gonna find out about it. Yeah, you'll find out. You'll find out for sure. It's it's good Stuff's stuff you wanna hear from us. And we do want you to hear from us. Yeah. We don't want it to be from somebody else. Hey, just to be clear. Just to be, are we getting a building? We're not getting a building. We're not getting a building. We're not buying anything. We're not buying, we're not getting a bus or something like that. Nope. A church bus would be fun. I used to have I didn't have a church bus, but I used to be connected to a church that had a church bus. Man I wonder, it's more of a van actually, but the idea, yeah. I wonder how that would work in today's culture. As long as there's windows and it's not white, it's know, looking all creepy and weird. Yeah, no, that's true. No, I just wonder because you're right. People used to drive the van through the neighborhood and kids would come out and Yeah. Come to church. Yeah. Pick them up. Families would. Yeah. That'd be an interesting concept. Maybe we could give it a try. Drive through all the bougie neighborhoods around and be like, Hey, come to church. I don't know that they would do that. Yeah, I don't know either. Unless we get a cyber truck that might sway a couple people. Did you hear that? Our own Mark Kogan, our director of kids men donating a cyber truck. No. But he and Julia went on a date and they test drove a cyber truck. Is that right? They did. Just for Yucks, huh? Yeah. Or is he seriously considering one? I wouldn't be surprised if he seriously considering one. No, but it's down at at the shops at Legacy. You can test drive Tesla's down there at the real the shop that's there. And what did he say? He loved it. Of course he did. I asked him about the wire steering 'cause it's yeah. Much more responsive. And so they tried that out. He was like, you get used to it. And but they just said the dashboard is just massive. It just goes on for 10 feet in front of you and you sit much closer up in it than is you're used to. You're sitting almost over the front wheels. And so he said that was a little bit difficult to get get used to. But there's a guy in our neighborhood who. Drives one that's wrapped in an American flag graphic. Oh, I've seen that one around. Yeah. And he's hard to miss. He's a, he does wraps for a living, so he bought the truck and wrapped it to be able to write it off. I think it's such a brilliant idea 'cause it's such a standout vehicle. I've thought about like why doesn't our church get one? I. You're volunteering to take the hit if I have to do it for the sake of the gospel, bro. Okay. Alright. Look, I am at a pat. There we go. Anything, any place, anytime. So if anybody wants to donate a cyber truck to Pastor Rod, I will wrap it with our, you will wrap it with Pastor PJ's face and a compass, a very small, comparatively small Compass Bible Church logo. Mostly Pastor PJ's face, though. I'll just tell you right now, and like an angry expression, like I'm preaching Byron Brimstone with a web link. Best pastor ever.com. Oh my goodness. Is that still live? I'd be surprised if it wasn't. Yeah, I bet you it is pj@bestpastorever.com. Yeah. Wow. That's one. Hey guys, thank you for praying for my voice. I'm almost there. I'm not there yet, though. I'm planning, hopefully to sing this weekend, but, woo, whatever I have. You, some of you can still hear it. If you have a good ear, you could still hear some of what's in there. But I don't have my upper voice. I don't know what, I don't know. I don't know if it's allergies. I just got some blood tests recently. Yeah. And I'm, as, I'm as healthy as I, I probably could be at my age. I'm actually pre-diabetic. I was told that I'm right on the verge of being pre-diabetic. Isn't that everybody though? Like technically, yes. Yes. But I might like my, I don't know. It's a point before. I'm technically pre-diabetic, so I'm looking at that. But otherwise, I'm. I'm healthy so I don't understand what's going on. Keep for that. Yeah. So is it that you're, you can't hit your falsetto or like just your chest voice can't get it to the, where you used to? My chest voice is fine. My chest voice is great. Yeah. The lower register pretty good. It's when I start hitting the head voice. Yeah. It feels like there's a cotton ball. On my vocal cords when I hit my head voice. Okay. So if I push it, I either squeak or I don't have any voice up there. Squeak crazy. That's amazing. Isn't that crazy? Yeah. It's yeah, it's not like a teenager again. So anyway you could pray for that. Please keep on doing that. I would like to have my voice back and I don't know why God keeps doing this is the second time this has happened. The first one. Paralyzed vocal cord, half a vocal cord. Anyway. Yeah. And now I don't know I'm afraid to go see the laryngologist or laryngologist and find out what's going on. I didn't even know there was a laryngologist. Yeah. The, so the, yeah. The ear, nose, throat person can specialize in the vocal cords. And that's the name of the person I just mentioned. Gotcha. So he's guy. Okay. So like the singers they go to this person. Yeah. And they put the scope down your throat. Yeah. Which, when they did that was so cool. Yeah. They put it through your nose and it goes all the way down the back of your throat. I think that's in. Endoscopy. Sure. Somebody's gonna correct us on that one. Sure. Yeah. We're talking out of our lead way out of our lead. I just know that when I did it, it was so cool. 'cause they had the live feed and they're looking at your, and they're so they'll say okay, sing a note. It was really cool to see and I wish I'd taken a video of it. 'cause it was so fascinating to see your vocal chord. It was amazing. They just, they vibrate together. It's weird 'cause it's all maybe this is TMI, there's. Oh, saliva, phlegm, Fleming. Yeah. All sorts of things back there. Phlegm. Yeah. Anyway, you practicing your Hebrew before you went in there. Basically, please keep on praying. Thank you so much for your prayers. I look forward to more. Good. Good. We're well. We enjoy you singing, so we're glad that your voice is getting back. Hey, one Chronicles 13 through 16. That's our our work today that we've got cut out for us. And so as we jump in here in one Chronicles 13, David and Israel decide to bring the arc to Jerusalem. But in doing so, they make a massive mistake. So let's catch up here. The arc you remember has not been in Jerusalem because it was carried into battle, and then they were like, wait a minute. The Philistines were trusting in the arc, not in God. And so the Philistines captured the arc and then the arc was sent back and it's been MIA for a while. They, although there's a moment where it mentions that Saul called for the arc and we didn't really comment on that, but that's, I. That's, I can't remember exactly the passage there, but I think it's towards the end of Saul's life when he's up against the Philistines and it says they called for the arc, but there's a potential there that instead of arc, it was actually the what's the vestment that the priest wore? The EO Yeah, thank you. The eod, not the arc that he was calling for the EO. And there's reason being because in the context he's calling for it in order to seek God's will and direction in a particular matter. That really was never done with the arc. They wouldn't go to the arc. To seek God's direction and will and besides that, to our knowledge, the arc is still chilling where it was. And that's, we know that too because David goes to bring it up here in one Chronicles 13. So it seems when it said in the text that Saul called for the arc, that there was probably a textual corruption, that it was probably the e thought instead that he was asking for there in that context. But David says, no, we need to bring the arc back. It's time. And so he goes to do this, but he makes this mistake. And the mistake that he makes is they don't obey the law, which committed that the arc should be carried on poles. Instead, they take the arc and they put it on this cart, and the cart's gonna be pulled at behind the oxen here. And as happens from time to time, the oxen on the journey back they stumble, they go to fall, and za who's nearby, reaches out to steady the arc. And in so doing, God gets angry and kills Za on the spot. Then David gets angry. And says, fine, I'm not gonna do this. And leaves the ark in the house of Obed Edem who was nearby there, says I'm not doing this anymore. We're not bringing this up. This was supposed to be a day of celebration, a day of victory, and God killed Za for simply trying to help. And so David is throwing this pity party, making za out to be the innocent one here. And yet I always love Sproul's comment on this. I always go back to this, that USA's greatest flaw was thinking that the. Ground was dirtier than he was. That the arc would be mor defiled by the touch of the dirt on the ground than the touch of a sinful human being. And and I think that's dead on what's going on here but one Chronicles 13, this is the first attempt that doesn't go well. Yeah, I think the challenge for us is to. We could do something similar. We don't know, have an arc, we don't have priests and Levites, so we don't get to see some of the exalted nature of how God presents himself to Israel. They have that advantage. On the other hand, we have the advantage of being post cross post resurrection, post the glory of God being poured out rather the wrath of God being poured out upon Jesus. And so we have a better idea of what God's holiness demands. And yet, ironically, we probably struggle more to hold God in high regard and to treat him lowly because. We don't see things like this. Nia and S are the last people I know of that are immediately dealt with. In the church age. Yeah. God doesn't intend to do this very often. If ever, I guess I don't know of any stories. I'm not saying that they're not happening, but I don't know of any yet. The problem remains that we can treat God lowly, and this is why our church says this is one of our distinctives. We aim to keep a high view of God because we recognize it's not just that we're ex, we're not. Lifting God up as though he were lowly. We keep a high view of God because that's the reality and this, these are stories that are meant to capture some of that for us so that we are reminded to keep God in high esteem. He often, I don't know he mercifully allows us to. Sinful to do sinful things, but he doesn't do that because he's afraid or because he's impotent, rather it's his mercy. We should never take that mercy for granted and presume upon him. I wonder if we see an example of it maybe in one one Corinthians five, I. That when Paul says, there you're to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of his flesh so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. I could see like physical affliction, but the kind of immediate, you're dead. Yeah. You sinned against God. You took the communion in an unholy way. Yeah. Boom. You're dead. That doesn't happen to my knowledge very often. Yeah. No, I, yeah. Agree with you. I think you're right on that. Yeah. Then chapter 14, we get into a situation that, that parallels the events that we just read about in Second Samuel chapter five with the two battles. And so here we have, I think this is our first instance of reading the same thing again but this time through First Chronicles rather than through Samuel. And so we're gonna see this quite a bit through the rest of of first and second Chronicles in our study of first and second. Second Samuel, but the, these there's a lot of similar ground covered here. One thing of note though, in second Samuel 5 21 it says that David's men carried away the idols that were left behind by the Philistines. So you might read that and think, oh man, that's not good. Why did they take these idols? That may be I. Tempting them to go and worship them, or maybe you're gonna give them the benefit of the doubt. And that was the ancient near Eastern custom where they would take them and they would put them in the temple of their God and flex over 'em that way. Maybe that's what they were trying to do there. But we get some clarity here in the first Chronicles account because in one Chronicles 1412, we read that they actually took the idols and they burned them. So these are, this is an example where you've got two situations and they don't contradict each other. But it's, that one doesn't give all the detail that the second one gives. And that's why the Chronicles and Samuel. Parallel is so good for us to read these things in concert together because it's gonna add color and add layers, add depth to our understanding of the scripture in the accounts of what actually took place there. So they didn't take the idols to keep them. I. They took them to burn them, to destroy them, which is what they end up doing First Chronicles chapter 15. Then here we got David bringing the ark back this time the right way. And so bringing it back this time, the right way he does have it carried by the Levites here this time in accordance with the loss of David is very careful. And in fact, I think in the second Samuel account. That will read it even talks about them sacrificing something every so many steps here it just says they sacrificed seven bulls in, in seven rams, I believe. But this was a time where David was gonna be very intentional, very careful to do this the way that God had committed them to do it. And so that's what we read about here. With David celebrating, and that's what this was, it was a party. In fact, first Chronicle 16 is gonna build upon this, with this song of praise when the arc is installed in its tent. But everybody's excited here except for Mical. Mical is despising David, and again, the Samuel account will give us a little bit more of an understanding of that, but Mical is certainly not happy that the arc is coming back. Not so much that she's not happy with her husband. Her husband isn't the king she wanted him to be. And that that is evidencing itself here. But ironically, the contrast is David is the king that God wanted him to be. And that, that's a good reminder for us. And sometimes I. Following the Lord means that your family even may hate you. Your family may des despise and detest you, and yet you need, at the end of the day, need to be sure that man, if you are following the Lord, that's the better portion. That's the better place to be is to be in a place of obedience to God rather than a place where you've got marital bliss and everything's good at home and everything else like that. It's, it is better for you to be faithful to the Lord and obedient to him than to compromise in order to have unity at home. Amen to that. Yeah. Jesus said it came to bring division. And often even though we don't practically experience that on a day-to-day basis it should be that our commitment to him is so high that our comparative love for others looks like hatred. That our commitment to Jesus is our highest and greatest allegiance, and that is gonna cause problems for us. Yeah, it is, for sure. Chapter 16, this chapter gives a much greater level of detail on the ARC's installation in Jerusalem than we find in Second Samuel six second Samuel six 17 through 20 is, is basically it there, but here it's gonna expound much more on it. Verse two. You've got an interesting situation here where David brings the assembly together and he it says there blesses the people. And I believe also it's in this context where he's offering. And so that's a, a, a. Unique situation because that was usually something reserved for the priest. Now I think there's multiple ways to look at this. Either David was given special ability to do that. Yeah. When David finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, or what we're to read here is when David finished doing this through the acts of the priest, pastor Rod. Do you have a view on that one way or the other? I tend to think that he's, wow, this is challenging. I think it fits nicely to see him functioning in a priestly like role. He's wearing the linen EOD in verse 27 at chapter 15, and because of his unique position in Israel's history, as the one who pointed forward to the ultimate True and better David, I could see that making sense. Although it would be un unusual, highly unusual for a king to do priestly type things without anyone batting an eye. But it I think that makes the. Best sense given his future pointing to the anti type Jesus. Yeah. Yeah, I would agree. Yeah. In this this chapter we get here psalm that appears, shows up right in the middle of the chapter and it's meant to do that. You, you've got something in Hebrew called a chiasm which is a way that sometimes the chapter was written to emphasize something and the point of emphasis was the center section here. And that is this praise psalm which is in found in verses eight. Eight eight through 36 there. And this is something that is meant to draw our attention to this, our focus to this. You've got the Levites being appointed in Jerusalem right before that. Then you've got the All Levites being appointed in Gibeon right after that. You've got David blessing all Israel to open the chapter. Then God blessing David to end the chapter. And so it's in this stacked point to emphasize this praise psalm that we find here right in the middle of of one Chronicles 16. Any other notes on First Chronicle 16 PR that you wanted to? Call out. I no, let me just say this 'cause I do have things to say. I have lots of thoughts. You guys might have caught that by now. I want you to pay attention to something unique to David that still influences us today. Now, David's in responsible for a lot of positive change in Israel's history. And in particular, one of the things that he's known for is he institutes the. The class of Levites who are responsible for Israel's worship. He's also the guy who's writing all these psalms. Yeah. He's writing so many psalms that some of them, this is I think Psalm 1 0 5 that we're looking at mostly here in, in first Chronicles 16. Just notice the role that music plays. And this is the first time in Israel's history where there's a formal class of people that are now called the musicians. They're the ones who to write songs. You got people whose names are now recognized as the songwriter. You got asap, you got David, of course you got, as Ezra, he I forget who he read this morning or who I read this morning. You guys are gonna be on a slightly different plan. But anyway, just notice the role that music plays in Israel's history and now how Today because of what David did, we now possess their songbook. We sing many of their songs today. I. I want you to see how important it's that God gives us this resource and this access to showcase how important singing is. I know you're expecting this from the worship pastor, and this is not gonna be my job for forever. I don't think just doing it right now as we need the role. But I just want, I want you to see singing's important. We typically do it for our kids. We make our kids sing, we make them learn all the songs and that, Genesis acts, those vitus, the songs that teach the Bible, that man. We don't outgrow this. This is a grown man, the king of Israel, who points to the ultimate king of Israel. In fact, even Jesus, before he was go gonna be crucified, he sang a hymn with his disciples, grown men singing I, and it's so unusual for us today in 2025 to do this. But I just want to reinforce the fact. Singing and music is super important in God's economy of what worship looks like. It's more than worship, it's more than singing. That is, but it's not less than that. Yeah. And we even see that's part of the early church from the very beginning, it was something that they were practicing together not only in Acts, but also in the diday, which is something that is not scriptural, but it's a, the oldest representation of what the early church was like that, that we have, I believe. And they talk about singing. Hymns in, in the DECA as well. This is something that was intended by God to be part of our worship services. That's right. Absolutely. 100%. And it's it's a good thing for us to do. I agree. So come ready to sing on Sunday. Yep. Let's let's pray. God, thanks so much for your word and thanks for music. We're grateful even for the way that music will stick in our ears. It will stick with us throughout the day and we will remember these things and sing these songs as they pop into our minds. We're grateful for that. We pray that you would do that for us, that you would keep your truth coursing through our minds in good music, good songs, things that, that cause us to worship you. And we're grateful for the example of that we have in scripture. So we pray for a great rest of our day in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Keep reading your Bibles. Tuning again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. See you church. Bye.

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