Hey folks. Welcome to Sunday's edition of the Daily Bible Podcast, and it's very much like Monday through Friday's edition, or Monday through Saturday. Some would say very similar. Very similar. Not a lot of differences except that this is on Sunday. It is on Sunday. Like your market. It's, and it's a unique Sunday. It's a special Sunday because you are the one in the pulpit today. I am I'm really excited. I always appreciate doing it, and at the same time, it feels like such a stressful thing. I think you're probably used to it, but whenever I was. Tasks to cover the main pulpit. I never did well, my sleep suffered. My stomach would not work with me. Here's the thing. I don't want to be blase about it. Not that you are No, that's not my intention to say that. I just, I appreciate that, this is gonna sound funny to say it out loud. I like that I'm stressed out about it. 'cause it tells me I care. Yeah. And if I ever did not feel stressed out about it, I would question myself and wonder do I feel the weight of this the way that I should? So I'm excited. I'm sure that by the time this comes, I'm gonna be rip roaring. I feel like I'm having a baby. I need to push this thing out, shove this thing out as quickly as I can. So I'm excited. And I hope I'm well slept by the time this shows up. What are you preaching? Psalm 90. Psalm 90. It's gonna be a fun time. Looking at what Moses, it's a song that Roses Moses writes and it's in response to some judgment that they go through. And so one of the. Best things that he says that I've memorized and I've repeated ad nauseum is teach us to number our days so that we may get a heart of wisdom. So we're gonna look at that and consider our days as we look at the future 2026, while looking back at the past, God's faithfulness, but saying, okay, what about the future? And how do we best live our lives? And so my anthem is to make your days count. Count your days. Awesome. And who is. Tickle the strings on the guitar this week without you. David, Walt David tickling the strings. David will be doing all the tickling. I don't know if he's tickling by himself or if he's tickling other people with David Rappi. Ddo will be tickling all sorts of things. Yikes. Okay. Yeah, and sad note. This is so sad. We have to tear down today. Yes, we do. Oh, and I bet you're so sad. It's gonna be so hard not to be here. I can't, you know. You know what? Here's the thing, bro. We're gonna let you come back early and join us, will you? I know you so generous. You're gonna want you to do that. I'm gonna let you do it. We're gonna let you join us, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Unfortunately, we do gotta tear down, which is just further motivation for us to go out and invite people to church and grow and share the gospel so that we can get a facility. I mean, that's like 13 steps down the road and we don't have to tear down anymore. Well, it's still to show up early for some reason. Yeah, but you know what? Man, I did not miss it when we were keeping all that stuff up. In fact, it felt like a dream. It was sweet when you show up to church. Yeah. And you just like things are there already. Yeah. Oh, that was so nice. Then you just get to leave and then you just got to get up and go and leave from there. Oh yeah. We're thankful for Founder's Classical Academy. Prosper. They've been gracious to let us keep it up. Yeah. And we don't wanna take advantage of that 'cause they won't let us do it after all. Yeah. Not that we had a choice, but we're stoked. Yeah. And where are you gonna church today? Today we're out with potentially with David, Jeremiah, David, Jeremiah. So, and that was between him and Joel Holstein as I recall. Yeah. I don't know what our, Joyce Meyer was third place option. She was third. Yeah. I don't know what our final schedule looks like. 'cause we are leaving to get back today as well because Wow. We, our kids have to go back to school Oh. I think on the sixth, so, okay. Yeah. You gotta be back for that. Yeah. So I know we're leaving on Sunday. But yeah, so we may be live streaming you in the car on our drive back live streaming, or at least listening to you on Okay. In the car on the way back. I know. I wanna be live streamed. I want a whole video on your front screen. It's gonna be a little earlier 'cause we're in California for that part. Oh. So, okay. But man, I'm thankful that you're preaching, filling the pulpit. I'm thankful to do it. Grateful to go away. I'm excited. Not have to worry about. Who's in the pulpit or what they're saying. Yeah. Not worrying about anything. Right. We got it all under control. You. I'm sure you do. I've signed all the contracts. Dunno what they said, but I signed 'em all. Great, great. I'm doing all sorts of things where you're gone man. That's awesome. That's good. That is good. Hey, let's get into our Bible reading for today. We are continuing with Noah's story in chapter nine and 10 is his genealogy. And then 11 we get into some different territory for the. Progression of world history, which is always really cool to read in Genesis because we're watching the birth and unfolding of history. It's not like there's other things that have happened in the past, eons before this or that are unfolding even at the same time as all of this. Really, this is the zoom in, especially right now after the flood, this is what's happening. This is it. This is the whole kitten caboodle right here with Noah. And so, God is going to make a promise to Noah and tell Noah, Hey, you know what, Noah? I am going to make a covenant with you. In fact, he's gonna use that word in verse nine. I'm gonna establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you. And he's gonna promise that never again will the flesh of the earth be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again should there be a flood to destroy the whole earth. And then he talks about hanging his bow in the clouds. This is the rainbow. And this is the reminder, it says that he will remember now, God doesn't forget anything, but it's more for us to be reminded of the fact that God is going to be faithful to this promise that he's never gonna flood the whole earth again. And maybe in argument of a universal flood. I think there's evidence here that, that might suggest as well, because there are still floods. In fact, in Texas this last year we saw a tragic flood down in south Texas. Yeah, we did. That took the lives of young children even. Yeah. So this is not a promise never to flood anything. But this, I think is the promise more than keeping it never to flood the whole earth at one time. Yeah. In fact as I pondered Pangea and yesterday's episode, I was thinking, oh. This fits universal flood universal sign. Hence, it seems to me like this is a, as an application to all sorts of people and I guess I'm sure there's at least one person I can think of who's saying why. Why is this even a question? It says the flood all the earth there are good. Exegetical reasons to, to say maybe it's something different. So we're not trying to question God's word at all. We love God's word. We esteem God's word. And so we take it at face value, but we also take it seriously and we consider the word. So I agree that's another sign to me that this is a universal sign that has universal application. Globally speaking, there's nowhere where you don't see a rainbow. You can see it all over the place, all over creation. So I would say that's another mark in favor of the universal universality, the flood. Right, right. I guess before this, in verse six, we're given a statement here by the Lord. He says, whoever sheds the blood of man by man shall his blood be shed for God made man his own image. One thing that's probably worth noting is the Bible is in favor of capital punishment. I know that's something that is looked down upon in our society and culture, and we need to be careful with that. And we need to ensure that justice is gonna be done and that justice has been weighed out appropriately there. That's right. But but God is not, he does not shy away from a life, for a life. And we see that here in verse six, because why? Because God made man in his own image. So that's something that is, is gonna be instituted now as part of the law moving forward is as the law has continually developed for mankind, as God continues to reveal himself to them more and more. Yeah. And that's one reason we are very firmly pro sanctity of life. Yes, we believe life should be protected and honored from the earliest stages all the way to the latest stages. But that would also include things like medical assistance and dying made as it's often referred to. But we don't think that that's a good call. We know that there's times when the body is dying and we choose to let the body die. That's different than saying, I'm gonna help you die, right? We're not for that, and because God's not for that. In fact, you might have noticed in verse five he says. I will co require your lifeblood, a reckoning from every beast and from man. So it's not just a man. If an animal were to kill a human being on accident, you would even say that animal doesn't have a moral compass in the same way that we do. Right? And yet God still holds that animal accountable, right? And so it's very fitting to take the man's life who took a, took another man's life. It's also fitting to take an animal's life that took another man's life. But not to take a man who takes an animal's life, not to take a man who takes, right. Because the animal is different than a man. The animal is different than a man. And that's, yeah. It doesn't go the other way. You're a hundred percent right on that. What a good observation, because there are lots of people that really, really value the ethical treatment of animals and their rights. There are people who. Stand for that. There are lots of people who are all for the ethical treatment of animals and hey, praise God for the humane treat. Okay. Let me throw a dilemma at you. This is a slight digression, but I need you to answer it. Okay. Okay. Maybe people in certain neighborhoods are saying, don't use rat poison because, A, it's inhumane and B. It can kill the house pets. 'cause if a cat catches the rat that's eating the poison, the cat eats the rat. The cat's now poisoned. Both die, not just the rat. The second argument is, and also don't, instead of using poison use these humane rat traps where you catch them and then you release them into the wild. Okay. Another thing in addition to that is please don't use glute traps. 'cause those are inhumane. They're not helpful 'cause the animal suffers and, it's a terrible way to die. So I take issue with the word humane. Can you. Talk to something like that. Let's apply Genesis nine. It doesn't go both ways. Talk to poisoning animals and dispatching of animals when they're merely pests. It's not like it's posing an ethical issue for us or a health issue. Right, right. Talk to those things. Right. For the, the person that argues that, my guess is if you have a cockroach run across your kitchen floor, you're gonna step on the cockroach. You're not gonna create a humane trap for your cockroach. Well, they're not as cute though. Let's just be honest. Out into the wild. No one thinks a cockroach cute. But that's the thing. That's the point. It's a subjective argument. Right. It's not objective. It's totally subjective to say, well, we think that this has more value than this. And I think God's parameters is we're to exercise dominion. Now, the writer of Proverbs says that a man needs to treat his beast with care and concern that he shouldn't be brutal unnecessarily towards the life of his beast. That that's something that is disdained in the eyes of God, but the dispatch of that, which is a pest, I think just like swatting a mosquito, we're just at a different level when we're dealing with a pest that is potentially harmful because rats are filthy, they're dirty animals. They carry disease carriers. Yeah. They can hurt your family. And so I think it's wise to, in stewardship of your family to get rid of them. Now, the poison the cats eat the rats. The rats have poison. The cats are poisoned. We're so far removed as far as the potential hazard there. And I did see a Facebook post recently that pointed to that happening. Yeah. This is the first time I had ever seen that. And I assume it's happened before, but this is the first time I had ever seen anything like that. I think you, you need to make a conscious driven decision at that point. As for yourself I'm not gonna make a law where there is no law. We have rat poison in our backyard. Yeah it's there, it's effective because I've picked up dead mice from our backyard and thrown it in the trash can. My dog is smart enough or dumb enough not to eat 'em. I don't know. But he avoids it. Okay. Do you take issue with anyone using the terminology, the humane treatment of animals? Yeah. They're not worthy of humane treatment. We can be kind towards them, but we need, and should we be, yes, we should be kind towards animals to an extent when they become a nuisance or a threat to human life. Part of our call to exercise, dominion is a call to rid ourselves of them. In fact, it's interesting 'cause right after the flood too, we didn't comment on this, but God instills fear within the lives of animals when Yeah, it comes to their relationship to mankind. He also lets us eat them. He also lets us eat them and he doesn't qualify it at this point. Nope. There, there's just, Hey, carte blanche, whatever you want to eat, enjoy it. Just go for it. Yeah. Okay. So that's helpful for you to speak into that. That shows us that we value humans differently than we value animals. Yes. And often we make judgements on which value, which animals deserve more treatment, better treatment than others, be because of emotional issues. Yeah, there's sentimentality there and you're right. And a rat in theory or a mouse can be cute where a cockroach is not. And so it's important to see those things. It doesn't mean that it's wrong per se. But it does mean that we're aware of some of our biases and that we can account for those things. Now, if you wanna show love to your neighbor and not use poison because your neighbor has lots of cats and okay. That's their animal and you know their animal's gonna eat your rats, perhaps. Okay, maybe you don't wanna use poison, but I do think you're right in offering the that helpful guidance. Make a decision that your conscience can live with by faith and love for the Lord and love for people, and whatever you choose to do, accept the consequences, whatever those happen to be. Yeah. In the rest of chapter nine, there's an unsavory event that happens with Noah and his, we have questions, his sons what happened? Tell us what happened exactly. It's euphemistic and we don't know. And I think it's intentionally euphemistic and tell, no. Okay. I think there's enough that went on other than just seeing Noah. That's all I can say with confidence is I think that the consequences are enough that Noah was degraded by his son in some way that led to quite the curse on his life. And this is a situation where you see now that sham is gonna be the line, sham is gonna be the promise line. He's gonna be the one that him and Jpe are going to treat their father with honor here and dignity. Even though Noah had not treated himself with honor and dignity, but neither did his son him and him is gonna end up being cursed as a result of this. So, I don't know exactly what happens other than it's something that's bad. It's awful. And it's more than just a sideways glance. And I think we can. Progress. I'm gonna go with he humiliated him. Mocking, poking, something like that. Yeah. To read more into it, which I know people have suggested. Yeah. Did he interact with noah's wife at that point, was there, something like that? 'cause to uncover nakedness can mean a lot of things. I don't wanna read more than what's there. I don't wanna read less either. But I think I'm just gonna go with the mockery humiliation. It doesn't matter actually what the extent of it was. 'cause scripture doesn't tell us, right? It does not, it's not clear and specific and therefore we shouldn't try to twist the arm of scripture. Say, tell me what's there. Right? We should be good Bereans and study what's there, but. There are some things that God has chosen us to reveal to us, and that might be one of those things right from here in chapter 10. Then we get the lineage of Noah, and it's gonna go through this line of Shem, him and j. Now Shem is gonna be the son of the promise, so he's the one that the, again, the promise made the eve back that we talked about a few days ago that the. Offspring of Eve would crush the head of the serpent. That one's gonna come from Shem eventually, but we see some notable people here as we come down here. The sons of Ham. You've got Kush, you've got Egypt, you've got Put, and Canaan. You can hear some of the names of peoples that would emerge from these these numbers there. Down in verse 10. You've got Babel. Babel's gonna play a role in the very next chapter that we're gonna get to. You've got a reference to the Philistine. So you see right off the bat there that the Sons of Ham, this cursed child of Noah, are going to end up being a thorn in the side of Israel for a long time. In fact, the Canaanites are going to come from Ham. The Canaanites are gonna be the ones that they're gonna have to drive out of the promised land. You're also gonna have Sodom and Gomorrah. Our first mention of Sodom and Gomorrah shows up here in Genesis 10 19. They are. Gonna be the descendants from ham as well. And then in the rest of it you get Shem beginning in verse 21. And Shem is going to produce his own offspring. We're gonna get more into she's lineage in chapter 11, though. But but this takes us up to the days the earth was divided as it references there in verse 26 of chapter 10, which is explained to us in chapter 11 with the Tower Babel. Tower Babel in chapter 11 is one of those stories that's always fascinating because it's what were they doing? What was the problem here? And I think that the main problem is found there in verse four. It's not just that they were like most boys that are thinking to themselves, let's build a tower and get it as tall as we can. But rather they wanted to make a name for themselves lest they be dispersed over the face of the earth. The creation mandate of God was be fruitful and multiply and fill the face of the Earth, which was. In obedience to God, making his name great. They were to populate the whole earth and represent him part of the Imago Day. The image of God was that they would image God and represent him globally across the whole face of the earth. This is a perversion of that because they're gathering together. They're not dispersing and they're trying to make a name, not for God, but for themselves. And so God in response is gonna come down and confuse the language. He's gonna divide them whether they like it or not. And the way that he's gonna do that is gonna take what at the time was one language and turn it into many languages. And so they were gonna have to gather together based on common tongue, which meant what a talk about questions like how did this work? Because did they. Did God make it to where they all knew the language together right away and what they were saying? Or did they have to learn this thing and kind of fumble through it as they're finding themselves? And who spoke this tongue, who spoke that tongue, right? There's a lot that's not explained here but God is about his glory and obedience to him here. Yeah. And what's most exciting about chapter 11 is that you have the reversal of the Tower of Babel and, I don't know, two, 2006, several thousand years later in Acts chapter two. Where you have the tongues setting on the heads of people, and now God is giving them the key, as it were to speak God's truth in this. So you have the, you have God initially sending people over the face of the earth and saying, I'm gonna divide you with tongues. And then later on he's gonna send divided tongues to proclaim his glory in His honor. So you can see some of the way that scripture weaves itself into. Itself by giving you clues in context clue's like this that help you see, oh, I see what's happening here. Sin resulted in confusion and division. God's righteousness unites that and brings together what was previously fractured. How beautiful is that? It is. The rest here of chapter 11, zooms in on sham and sham again is the line of promise. This lineage here is gonna take us down all the way to verse 26, where it says, Tara had lived 70 years and he fathered. Abram Hor and Harran. Now Abram is later he comes church. Abraham. Yes. Abram Kim right here. He's really old, but he wears it really well. He looks really good for his day. He does. He does. He does. And so Abram is gonna be the one that the scene is now gonna zoom in on starting in chapter 12, but we also have a lot here. Mentioned in verse 27, lot is gonna play a role and Saray is gonna be Abram's wife. She has mentioned there in verse 30, and notably it says that she was barren and had no child. That sets the stage for the conflict that's gonna take place later on in Abraham's life. So chapters one through 11. Is considered a unit in the book of Genesis one through 11, really through verse 26 is Primeval history. This is the creation of all things, how God dealt with humanity prior to this from chapter 1127, all the way through the end of the book, chapter 50 verse, whatever that is. You have patriarchal history, so if you can remember that two Ps one through 11, primeval history 12 through 50 or about 12 through 50. Patriarchal history, and we'll pick that up tomorrow. That's good. New Testament reading. Now we get into Matthew chapter four. Matthew chapter four. Oh, this is a good one. So chapter three you had Jesus baptized and it said the spirit of God descended upon him like a dove. Now that's more than just a, a. Argument for the existence of the Trinity because you've got the father speaking, the spirits descending and the son there in the water. It's also the spirit of God was descending on Jesus for a reason, and that was to anoint him for his ministry, to equip him, empower him for his ministry. Remember Jesus here has veiled the fullness of his glory in the fullness of his humanity. His true deity is still present within him, but he's chosen Allah. The Kenosis passage of Philippians chapter two, to empty himself by taking on the form of a servant and being found in the likeness of. Of men here, the spirit is going to equip him and empower him in his humanity. That is to be able to do the work that the Lord has for him, including what happens in chapter four, which is the wilderness temptation. So the spirit, that's why it says, leads Jesus into the wilderness where he's gonna face the temptation of the enemy. Now, this is one of the things that I talked about last Sunday that time in God's word does for us, is it equips us to experience victory over sin by helping us to battle sin and fight sin. This is the sword of the spirit being wielded by the word. Of God by Jesus himself. And we see just a masterful interaction between Jesus and the devil who comes to tempt him as Jesus combats the temptations that the devil throws at him by using God's word to establish what's true in the face of the devil's lies. What a cool display of Jesus' wisdom and the power that he operates in. This is something you and I can do. We often look at Jesus and say, well, I can't walk on water and I don't know the future. I, yeah, and that's fair. Jesus is God in the flesh, but notice he is in the flesh. This is something we can do. And in fact, I have a sneaking suspicion, at least a part of sneaking suspicion that maybe Jesus was. In his daily Bible reading. Maybe he was in Deuteronomy, because two of these passages come from Deuteronomy, one's from chapter six, one's from chapter eight. He does quote Psalm 91 and Isaiah chapter nine, so he's a little bit all over, but I wonder maybe he memorized those and he has just read Deuteronomy six scroll. Yeah. Eight scroll. I don't know. All I know is that Jesus is a man of the word. He's the word incarnate, but he's a man who knew this. He had to learn this. In his flesh. He had to learn these things. Yeah. How does it work? I don't know. I just know that he did. So if Jesus spent time doing this, man, this is a worthy investment of our time to spend time in the word, at minimum, to engage with it, but also. If you've got time and you have the will, what a good thing to do then to memorize the word and employ it like Jesus did. And you mentioned yesterday that there's the announcement from the father. This is my beloved son, with whom I'm well pleased. And just like Satan in the garden, like we talked about a few days ago. Yeah. Satan's gonna go after Jesus's confidence in the father's love for him. Yeah. Does God really say, yeah. Did God say this? Don't, doesn't God care about you? If you throw yourself off, he's gonna take care of you, won't he? Mm. Jesus is gonna see through the lies of the enemy. In other words, no, Satan's not stupid. He is in the pejorative sense of the term, but he's not stupid intellectually. Like he's cunning, he's smart. He's crafty. Yeah. And he even tries to use God's word in ways to get us to fall prey to his temptations. And we need to be careful. We need to know our word well enough, like obviously Jesus did to be able to combat these things as well. Yeah. You know that's a great point. Because that tells us that we should not expect every person who brings the Bible in their mouth that they're telling the truth. Right? You have to have, you have to have the knowhow and the skill to, to know your word well enough to combat the truth, or to combat the error with the truth. So another example that Jesus gives us is not only to know the word, but to know how to wield it. That is, that's different than just knowing, okay, where's John three 16? How do I find that in my Bible? That's good. And I'm not gonna poo poo that at all. But you should also know how to wield the word of God just like Jesus did, and that's gonna take a lifetime. Of mastery, and I'm sure Jesus was doing this from Sabbath school years when he was just a little boy. Mm-hmm. From his whole upbringing to his adult life, he was a man of the word. And it's evident here as he engaged with the devil, masterfully with the word. Yep. As chapter four continues, then Jesus launches his earthly ministry. He's gonna have make his home base there in Capernaum. So this is north in Israel. This is up by the Sea of Galilee. And so this is gonna be where he's going to reside. This is also Peter's hometown. We know that Peter and his wife and his mother-in-law live here. We're gonna find that out later in the gospels, but this is where Jesus is gonna make his home base, at least up in the Galilean region for the early part of his earthly ministry. He finds out that John the Baptist has been arrested, and it says in verse 17. From that time on, Jesus began to preach. And his message is the same as John's was. Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. So Jesus here takes up John's message and continues to go and reach people by calling them to repentance for the kingdom is at hand. After this, he's going to call his first disciples. Now it's important that you note this is not their first time interacting with Jesus. We can go to John's gospel and see that John. Recording. There is more of the initial interaction between Jesus and these disciples. This is Jesus officially beckoning them to come and follow him as their rabbi. This is the formal call of these disciples. That's why they leave everything that they're doing to go follow him. This is not as though this is a stranger saying, come follow me, and they're going, okay, yeah, we're all in. No, these had already spent time with Jesus and heard him and been around him. This is. Him commissioning them, saying, come and be my followers. Come and follow me. Learn from me in a formal sense. And that's what's going on here with the calling of the disciples here in this middle section of chapter four. And not to contradict you at all, but I don't wanna take away from the fact that they did leave everything. Yeah, they did. They did. They dropped and they knew who Jesus was. And I think that's an important caveat here. Yeah. Is that he wasn't a stranger to your point. Mm-hmm. He had displayed to them. That he had the credentials to be someone who could teach them. He was worthy of leaving everything for Yeah. Now I, I don't know that this was a permanent situation because Peter still had a wife and kids. They still had their fishing business, they picked back up. So I'm not sure what it all included, but it is a healthy picture for us of what discipleship typically looks like. You give up all to follow Jesus. Yeah. And that call that he gave them still applies to us today. Yeah. The chapter ends, and it's an interesting statement here. It says, he went throughout all Galilee teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction. We may wonder what is the gospel of the kingdom and what does it mean when he was saying Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. I think we're about to get a glimpse of that. Tomorrow when we start into the Sermon on the Mount to understand some of what the gospel of the kingdom looked like for Jesus as he was preaching and teaching through these regions. So make sure you tune in again tomorrow as we tackle chapter five of Matthew, at least half of it, as well as our Old Testament reading. Hmm. Let's pray. Lord, thanks for the example that we have in Jesus. I pray that you would make us. It comes Bible church, men and women who wield the sword of the spirit effectively. That we would know our Bible so well, that we were able to combat the lies, the temptations of the enemy. And so God help us to be men and women who are godly and who are ready to take on whatever comes our way each and every day. And we know that spending time in your word each. Each and every day is such an important part of that. So may we stay committed. We pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Well, hey guys, you are doing such a great job. Keep going. You're doing an awesome work in laying this foundation. It's going to pay dividends, I promise. Remember, the gains come in the end as we look back, but this is part of the process of building those gains. So keep going, tuning against tomorrow as we keep this process of reading God's word together. Y I'll come back now. Bye.

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