Hey folks, welcome to Monday's edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Happy Monday. Happy Monday. And if you weren't at church yesterday, where were you? But if you weren't at church yesterday, you may have missed an announcement because you weren't there to hear it. And so we had a pretty sizable announcement that we're excited about, and we talked yesterday even about the parable of the mustard seed and how the church is called to grow just like the kingdom of God is called to grow. And we are growing here at Compass Bible Church and we are so grateful for that. We're thankful for that. God has been bringing visitors, he's bringing new people to our church and we're. Thrilled to have them join us and be a part of what we are doing here with Compass Bible Church. So as such we're realizing that that space is getting tight on Sundays. And so starting Easter Sunday, that's gonna be April 5th, we're going on a diet. Yes. All of us are gonna lose 50 pounds. That'll make a lot more space for us. Yes. And it'll be great. Yeah. Like David and the mo bites, we're gonna have everybody lay down. We're gonna count off every six people. Wow. Yeah. Okay. Uh, No, no. We are, we are actually, we're talking about killing people again. No, now they're frogs. We're we, were burning the frogs. We're eating the frogs. Now we're gonna kill people. Your dad, just the other day was like, take 'em out back and shoot 'em. It must be genetic, I guess so it must be genetic guys. We're not, we're violent. We're not going to kill anybody. Good. Let's clear that up. I don't want an e on our podcast and we're moving to two services. That's what we're announcing. Wow. We're going to two services, nine o'clock and 11 o'clock. And this is a big thing. This is a win for our church. This is us growing. We started in that portable, and we had about 50 of us there on a good Sunday night when we first started with our pre-launch Bible study, and then we launched. And God has continued to grow our body, and now we're at a place where we're saying, okay, it's good for us to move to a second service. So start thinking about it now, praying about it, what service you'll be a part of nine o'clock, the 11 o'clock. What we'd love to see have happen is for you to attend one and serve one. That's the other benefit to this being not just can we grow more as a church, but also those that are part of our church now have the opportunity to serve and then to attend. In each, in every Sunday, so they're not having to choose one over the other. Yeah, there's lots of places to serve. Our setup and tear down teams are always looking for help. So if you have some muscles, even if they're small ones if you can push a cart, you can do that. You can set up a chair, we can help you, you can have us with that. Now, we also are always looking for skilled musicians. If you're good at some kind of musical instrument or if you can sing really well, would love to put you. In touch with our worship pastor. Who is that, by the way? I forget. Also, Pastor Pge needs a break every now and then, so if you wanna preach male or female, whoever you are, you just let us know. We will put you in the queue. But really though, we do need people to serve and we would love to have you guys really get excited about that with us. We'd love to put you to work in all the best ways possible. So if you wanna do that. You can go to our website. There's a link there. Just type in the word serve in our search bar. I'm sure you'll find one of our links that gives you opportunity to set up for those. But let me ask you a couple questions about this move, pastor pj. Okay. Why now? Why now? This is a situation where we feel like, again, we've been growing. So there's a general rule of thumb that says once you hit about 70 to 80% capacity in a room, somebody walking in is gonna feel like, I don't know if there's enough room for me there. And we've been hitting that number. We've been bumping up against that number pretty consistently now. So we feel like this is a good. Move just numbers wise for us to make. It also helps us to capitalize on this push that we're making this year. I talked about it with our church early on this year. I talked about it with our leaders, but that idea of we wanna take next steps and one of the big things we would love to see all of our people take next steps in is inviting people to come and be part of our church family here at Compass Bible Church, inviting people to come join our church. Sharing the gospel with people. We'd love for you to do that. That's a huge way we sure we would love to see people come be a part of our church that are already believers, but I'd love us to start filling up the baptism tanks with people that are getting saved. And so we wanna have room for people to be able to come and be a part of what we're doing here. And it makes sense as well for us to say, look, we've had our ministry volunteers and others that for a long time have served. And again, like I was saying earlier, they're not a part of the main worship service because they're serving. And so this is a good time for us to say, okay, thank you guys. You guys have done such a great job. Don't stop, but hey, we wanna do this for you. So now that you can be served in the worship service as well some people might feel uncomfortable by this. You know, I like the way it feels right now. I can see everybody every week. I'm afraid that when we move I'm gonna be at one service and my best friends, they're gonna be at the other service, and I'm just not gonna see the people that I'm always used to seeing. Yeah. Yeah. And that is something that is always a part of any sort of change. But again, if we understand what crisis called us to as the church, which is the great commission, that we wanna be a growing organism because healthy organisms grow, this is part of the growing pains. And so. If you've got people that you love and you wanna say, Hey, I wanna be at the same service to them, maybe that's a text message right now to say, Hey, which service are you planning on attending? 'cause we would love to sync up together, but I think for the majority of our people, one of the key points of emphasis that we make every week is we want you to attend and then we want you to connect. And that connection point looks like your community group. And so those are the relationships that you will have still intact week in and week out. And we hope that you will be able to attend your community group and you're gonna still discuss the same sermon whether you are at the nine. O'clock or the 11 o'clock, it's still gonna be the same sermon there, and you'll have those connection points during the week. We think it'll be the same sermon. We think that's our expectation and our eager anticipation and our prayer. This is a good thing. It is a good thing. This change is always hard because you're comfortable with the way things are, but change is always the way things. Are. Yeah. Now, if there's anything consistent about life is that things are always changing. The one thing that doesn't change is that everything changes. So this is a good thing for us. It's a great way to change. It's a good move for the church. And so we're excited about it. We hope that you'll be excited with us and that you'll pray for the transition as we all make these changes. Yes, it's gonna cost us initially a lot of energy up front before we get settled and used to it, and then we enjoy it for the next year or two, and then we add another service and we start changing again. And who knows what's gonna happen. Or maybe God will gift us a building. Wouldn't that be great? That would be amazing. God, just like, here's a building. All the parking. You need lots of space to expand, but we're getting ahead of ourselves, so please pray for us. We're excited about this and we trust that you are too. Yep. Amen. Well, we had a another question written in from one of our devoted listeners. It's a stretch to call it a question. I think that's that's fair. Here's what one listener. I dunno, should I just read this whole thing? Okay. Here's the question. Did any of Jesus disciples get baptized? I can't recall any record of it. Not even for Paul, which seemed like it would've been simple to record since his entire conversion is recorded. Following up to that was it a big deal for Jesus to be baptized and did the apostles get baptized? Do you think the apostles were baptized by Jesus? Would there have been any issue with Judas being baptized? So it's a lot of questions about baptism. Talk about baptism. Who's baptized? When did they get baptized? Why did they get baptized? Is there a difference between John's baptism versus the baptism that we experienced today in the church? Did Jesus baptize anybody? Yeah. Lemme start the last part there with John's baptism in the baptism of the church, there is a difference. In fact, we know that because in the Book of Acts, there's a situation where there's a group that. Paul encounters on his missionary journeys that have received the baptism of John, but they've not yet received the baptism of faith. They've not been baptized as believers. So there is a baptism there. One of the questions was, was it a big deal for Jesus to be baptized as a rabbi? Well, we have to remember when Jesus was baptized, he really wasn't. At the status of being a rabbi. Yet this was the very beginning, the very outset of his earthly ministry. And so he was still largely unknown. John the Baptist knew who he was, but for the rest of the people, they really didn't know who Jesus was. He hadn't been on the Temple Mount holding court and teaching, and he hadn't called the disciples yet to be his followers. So Jesus is really not yet in the public eye as a rabbi being baptized by John here. Now as far as the evidence for the apostles or the disciples there's really not much as far as evidence that the 12 or, the 11 apostles after Judas and, then Paul's added later on whether they were baptized. We don't have anything documented specifically that says, yes, they were baptized here. If they were baptized during their earthly ministry of Christ, it would've been with the baptism of John. It wouldn't have been with the baptism of the church the way that we think about it today. Was that sufficient because of that dispensation? Did that carry over as something and that I don't know. Again, I'm gonna point to those in the book of Acts that we have the baptism of John, but we haven't yet been baptized as believers and say that it doesn't appear that it would've been. And so why don't we have it recorded? I'm not entirely sure. Now. We talked about it on Sunday, baptism. As the act, the water baptism, baptism does not save us. Peter, when he says baptism, which corresponds to this now saves you, he goes on to say not as a removal of dirt from the body. So it's not water baptism that he's talking about there. Spiritual baptism saves us being placed into Christ, and that takes place at the moment of conversion. So I'm gonna answer it this way, and then Pastor, I'd love to get your thoughts. My gut says yes. At some point they were baptized as believers. Even though we don't have it recorded, my gut says, I think it had to have taken place. Did Jesus do this? I don't know. It's possible. During his post-resurrection appearances, that was something that he had done. He certainly at some point had to instruct them as to what Christian baptism was. He commissions them in Matthew 28, so they had to have known. Why is this different from the baptism of John that had to be conveyed to them at some point, maybe it was then that they got baptized. My gut says they were baptized. I don't know why it's silent as to when or how that took place. I'd say for sure they're baptized. I think for sure it wasn't Jesus and I think for sure. I'm for sure. I don't know. That's my position. I think for sure they're baptized. I don't know that it would be Jesus only because that sense of like, I was baptized by Jesus, I'm of Paul, I'm of Apollo. That same kind of Divis of spirit I think was early in the church. In fact, that's, I'm getting it from the book of Corinthians where Paul is saying, look guys, you're making a big deal outta nothing. You know, who you're baptized by is not important as much as you're baptized into the spirit of God. And the father and the son. I think yes, they had to have been absolutely for sure they had to have been, 'cause this was Jesus' command. But whether it was Jesus who did it, I think I would almost, if I were a betting man, I bet money, it wasn't Jesus who did it. I think he would've had someone else do it just like he had John baptize him. Oh, sorry. Let me, I'm getting my wires crossed. Just like Paul said to the church, like, I'm glad I only baptized a few of you. Yeah. But these other guys, I think it's a similar thing. Yeah. And again, hitting all these different threads of the questions. The question about Judas, well, Judas wouldn't have received Christian baptism because it wasn't in action at that point. So if Judas was baptized, it was the baptism of John. It wasn't the baptism in the church. Right. I would agree with you. Judas would not have been baptized. Yeah. Not as a Christian. That is, you're right. Right. So anyways. If you've got follow up to those questions to those answers, I guess I should say, if you wanna be baptized, let us know. Se sign up? Yes, go to compass north Texas ntx.org. Org slash baptisms, I guess. Yeah, that's my guess. Yeah, baptisms, that's another thing that'll look different with two services, so we're working out some of the shifts and the transitions here. But yeah, definitely something we're still gonna do. All right, well, let's jump into our DBR for today. We've got numbers, chapters eight through 10, and mark chapter five. So numbers, chapter eight opens with reference to the lamps. And again, the lamps were there to provide light within the tabernacle. There God is God of light. And then we get the instructions, how to separate the Levites, to cleanse the Levites, and that's the word that's used in verse 14. Thus, you shall set. The Levites from among the people of Israel and the Levites shall be mine. Just again, the idea of consecration. This is something that is hitting home for me over and over again as I'm reading about the tabernacle and these laws that God cares about his people being set apart for him, for his use. Now, this was the Levites. They were unique. But as Christians, we are. Consecrated, we are called to be set apart for use by the Lord. And so in that sense, all of us need to be ready for that. Now, our cleansing doesn't come from the blood of bulls and goats. Our cleansing comes from Christ. Our cleansing comes from the sacrifice, the once for all sacrifice, even as we talked about this past weekend on Sunday, that has defeated sin and death for us and, and made us part of the, the kingdom of God. And now we are set apart to be useful to the Lord, to serve him. Much in the same way that the Levites have been set apart to be useful to God and to serve him. Now, he talks about Moses does here from the Lord. The instructions for the retirement of the Levites, the Levites were to serve from 25 till 50. As a Christian, there's no retirement from Christianity, and so you're not gonna reach an age where we're gonna say, Hey, you know what? You've done enough for the church, you've done enough for the Lord. We don't need you to serve the Lord anymore. You can just kind of kick back and ride it out until the Lord calls you home and that's one of the beautiful things about the church. We talked about it different yesterday, all the various differences and gifts that are in the church. The older saints that are among us have so much to offer us. And so this is something that's beautiful for us as Christians to know. We never get sidelined and it's time to retire from you being a part of the church. Yeah. If you're a careful reader of the Bible, you might notice that there's a different number here than what was read just a few days ago. In numbers chapter four here, Moses says, or rather the Lord spoke to Moses and saying they're gonna be between 25 and 50. And yet, a few days ago, what we read was that they would be 30 years old up till 50 in numbers chapter four. So what gives, and the short answer is, huh? I don't know. Yeah. The ESV study Bible suggests that maybe there's a five year apprenticeship and I think Okay, that's, that sounds good. There's nothing that tells us this. And this is one of those things again, that women at the 10 entrance of the tabernacle, this could be another one of those, like everybody knew what was going on here. But we're reading it saying, why does this say 25? In fact, if you want to throw some more wood on the fire here one Chronicles says that the Levites were counted 30 years old and upward. That one, that one's consistent with numbers four, and their total was X number of people. But in one Chronicles 2324, it says that the sons of Levi, by their father's houses, yada, yada, yada, they were counted from 20 years old and upward, who were to do the work for the service of the house of the Lord. So that in first Chronicles 23, 24 says it'll be 20. So we have different numbers. 20, 25 and 30. I don't know how to put them together except to say that clearly they understood what that meant. They had a sense of like, oh yeah, this makes perfect sense. We all know it's what's happening here. Well, we don't. Best thing we could say is maybe there's an apprenticeship, maybe there's a five years before the apprenticeship, and then maybe between 25 and 30 you're a journeyman. And then from 30 years to 50 years, you're actually on the field by yourself. I don't know. There's just so many questions I have, I don't know how to answer them succinctly. So how does that then, for you, not cause your faith to be shaken when you have that? No, I, and I just explained the way that I rationalize, that I assume there's information here that I don't have access to. Okay. And the fact that this isn't a letter to me, numbers is written what 3500 years ago. So there's a lot of distance between when the original audience got this and when I get it I can get a text, I can be in a text thread and, and look back at texts that were sent a week ago and be like, what is happening? Who's saying what? Yeah, I can be confused at something a week old. Something 3,500 years old, I can have a lot more confusion and be okay with that. Because it doesn't threaten my faith. It doesn't change the essential component here, which is that the God gave a Levites a certain timeframe where they could work. It was the prime. Years of their lives. In fact, their, their age range was probably shorter than ours. So it was basically the duration of their lives that said, I don't struggle with it because it doesn't have anything to do with the primary aspects of my faith. And I can easily look at this and say there's something there that I don't see that they saw. And everyone understood that. And I wonder, I haven't looked through my books on logos. To look at all the options here, but maybe someone else has put together a really good answer to this that would make it make sense. I trust that the answers are out there. I'm not the first person to ask it and not the last. And because of that, so many Christians have already answered things like this before. And give me a confidence that I'm not doing this alone. It's helpful. Your turn? Yeah. Chapter nine. Oh, you're not gonna answer. You're not gonna do, you're not gonna do yours. I think you answered it. The way I would answer it. Oh, okay. Yeah, same, the, the, the way I said it, you would say verbatim exactly the same way. Verbatim. Yes. That's what I thought, man. Word for word plenary. Exactly. Chapter nine, these are instructions for the keeping of the Passover. Notice we are in year two now after the Exodus, and so that's an interesting time marker. Because Exodus, it seems like it was a long time ago for us, but we're just year two here in 1445. Chapter nine. Yeah. DC so that would've been 1443. Right. 4 14, 43 44. Yeah. Depending on somewhere, thereabouts. Yeah. Yeah. So this is the beginning of year two BC bc, not CD d. And not b, CE, either true not BCE. Before Christ. Before Christ. Right. Thank you very much. And so these instructions are given and yet some people have some questions and this is God condescending to the nation because he shows some patience here in Acquiesces a little bit because there's a question about, well, what if I'm unclean when it's time to celebrate the Passover and then God. Provides and says, you know what? I'm gonna make provision for you. You can still celebrate. You're gonna celebrate it a month later. You're still gonna go through everything else, but this is gonna be a month later so that you can still observe this. God doesn't cut his people off from among them if they're unclean during the observance of the Passover. He doesn't say, well, you just miss it completely. He allows them to say, okay, yeah, you can celebrate it a month later. That's okay. And that shows there's some flexibility in these things. We don't have to be locked tight and rigid on the day, and even the writer of Colossians talks about and warns us about that, about. Stressing a day or a specific event as higher than others and emphasizing that to a legalistic standard there. Yeah, it sounds like Romans 14 as well. One person esteems one day as more significant than another, while another right esteems all days alike let each one be fully convinced in his own mind. What I find fascinating about this, again, when God talks about this, he says it forcefully and authoritatively like this is the way it is. And yet what we see here is God saying, well, there's a little bit of wiggle room here for good reason. Yeah. For reasons. That makes sense. This is not like, oh, I've got a cough. I can't do this. There's other times where God says things like, on these days you're gonna celebrate. Yep. If you're morning, you have to celebrate this because this is worth it. Here. I love the varied nature of God, the way that he interacts with his people. This is a living God. Again, he's not cookie cutter. He's not the kind of God that you put in a box and say, this is exactly how he works all the time. He's compassionate. He's flexible like a father would be. He's not undisciplined. He's just, he's treating his people like people. Yeah. And he's honoring the differences. And he says, look, I'm gonna let you honor me by being part of the Passover, and I'm gonna let you do it a month later. Well, what's interesting though, he said, it is a month. Why not a week? You know, why not eight days later? Yeah. He says A month, I'm gonna give you a month to sort your situation and then do it the second month. Fascinating. Yeah. In the rest of chapter nine and then into chapter 10, we get the preparation for Israel to depart Sinai, and then they're actually gonna leave Sinai. So the initial preparation we get is the GPS, the God positioning system, that the cloud is gonna be there by day and the fire by night. Did you work on that? I just, I came reading it. I wrote in the margin of my Bible. Oh, you wrote, okay, so you wrote it in the margin, your Bible. 'cause I wanted to say it. You were so pleased with yourself. I was like, and this is gonna be good. This is I could tell you, you worked up to that the God position. I, I saw that in your face. Anyways. So that's the rest of chapter nine the cloud and the fire's gonna move. And again, I think this is part of God's condescension to his people. To allow them to see a visual representation of his presence would've been a comfort to them. And so, rather than just an invisible, okay, just trust that I'm here and I talk to this Moses guy, every once in a while, the common Israelite is able to look and see there's the cloud, there's the pillar, and have the presence. And have the comfort to know God is with us. And so God is preparing them for that. And then the silver Trumpets, which is going to be part of the process of the organization of the key. When it's time to leave, when it's time to settle, when it's time to go to war the direction, the order that we've been talking about. And then finally in chapter 10, in the second year, the second month, the 20th day, the cloud lifted and they set out from Sinai. So this is at this point, them getting ready to head towards the promised land. Now we know that's gonna take some roundabout ways to get there for purposes of God's discipline over the generation that grumbled against him. But they're at least beginning to move towards that end of saying it's time to go. But they've been at some. And I, since the giving of the 10 Commandments back into Exodus chapter 20. So it seems like a lot of time has passed, but they're now getting ready to go and head towards the promised land. Yeah. One of the things that's cool in addition to God positioning system. The GPS that you talked about here. I notice here in verse 19 it was God himself who controlled their pace. I think that'll preach for a lot of us. Sometimes we're ahead of the Lord, sometimes we're behind him. What he wants to do is control our pace, and that often means just being patient, letting him tell us when to go, when to stop. All those things. So I saw that, that was cool. They kept the charge of the Lord at the command of the Lord by Moses. This is at the end of chapter nine, verse 23. I thought that was significant because they're often, again, not that they're not doing that, but this is one of their highlights among many low lights. Another thing that the silver trumpets here that the reason that the trumpets. Or sounded among, among a few of them, they're offered here. He says you're doing this, that they shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the Lord your God. So this is a way for them to arouse their God, so to speak. Interesting because you don't see this a lot. It's say like, Hey, play the guitar so that you can have the Lord remember who you are. It's not like that. This is a way for them to connect with their Lord. And of course, this is a kind of worship to the Lord. So I think that's really cool and interesting. That's, it's unusual. Mm-hmm. I don't read that in a lot of other places in the Bible, and I found that. Wording fascinating. Yeah. Yeah. He says, they shall be a reminder of you before the Lord your God. I am the Lord your God. So, really cool. Yeah. And hoba, the guide in the end of chapter 10 there, who knows the land really well, and Moses says, Hey, why don't you stick around? Why don't you stick around? You can help guide us as we go through here, which is an interesting component as well, is, okay, so here's something else with that. I remember reading and someone using hoba as an indication that Christians believers in general, 'cause obviously these are not Christians. Believers in general should make use of resources outside of scripture because God does not intend to give us everything that we need from scripture as it pertains to life and godliness. Yes. Second Peter one, three. But as it pertains to almost everything else in the world in terms of like operating in the way that God has designed it God was leading them. Right. And yet he said, Hey man, do you stay here? We can use you now. I would think if I'm God, well hold on a second here I was doing this right. What are we doing? A GPS thing. Pastor Pian made a joke about it and yet he asked hoax. So I think this tells me, see, this is complex. I love this. There is a deep trust in the Lord, but you still go to the doctor and get the checkup. Yeah. There's a deep trust in the Lord, but you still get your GPS on your car. Yeah. There's a deep trust in the Lord. And yet you still ask Hoba to lead you through the wilderness. Yeah. I think this is phenomenal. It's a great point. Yeah, yeah. Mark Chapter five, new Testament reading Warren verses one through 20. It's really one account here and it's one that we've encountered before in Matthew, and this is the healing of the Garrison Democ. Now in some accounts there's one, in other accounts there's two, and here we find one we find. This man singular. In other accounts, does Matthew have two? I can't recall if Matthew has two or Luke does. I think it's Matthew. Yeah, I think, and so we have to again say, and this is appropriate. We talked about textual criticism yesterday. What do we do with this? There's one here, there's two in that one. Peter doesn't, or this is Peter's account through Mark. By the way, mark doesn't record for us that there was only one and one only, and there wasn't two. And don't even suggest that there's two. And if you say that there's two, you're wrong. Mark simply highlights one that we see here. Matthew Records, there's two. Mark is saying, Hey, there's one here. And this may have been the one that was the spokesman. If there were two, and we can believe that there were, because Matthew said there were, then this appears to be the one that this is the spokesman and this is the one that Mark's gonna choose to record. This is the one if Peter is the one helping Mark do this and Marcus Peter's biography. This is the one Peter remembered. And so Mark sit down to record these things in these events. I think it's fascinating. Hear that the demon. Doesn't, the demon submits to Christ, and yet I found it uncomfortable when the demon says, I adjure you by God. Do not torment me. The demon doesn't have authority to aju Christ to do anything. And so this is the rebelliousness of the evil spirit here that we see in verse. Seven as he's responding to Jesus, telling the demon, come out of the man and the the demon says, Iju you by God, don't torment me. That's an interesting interaction. This is so much fun to think about and here's why. I've thought about this a lot, only because what they say really bothers me. Actually what is said in verse eight? Did you notice this? Verse eight? For, he was saying for, he was saying, well, we talked about this before. Yeah. Jesus said it more than once. At least that's the way I interpret that. Jesus was saying more than once, come out, come out of him, come outta the man, you unclean spirit. So we find out that there's more than one spirit there. So it's very possible that maybe one was leading. Who he was talking to, departed. And because Allegion can be thousands, maybe there is lots of demons in this guy, which would explain his unusual strength, his cutting symbolizing kind of a distress, a horror, and he was sleepless, which means he also had some kind of a supernatural energy that carried him. And on top of that, the strength as well. So all this this whole scenario, I'm reading a book right now about the first century cultural aspects of the New Testament. And I wonder if they're aduring him by God saying, look, I appeal to you on God's authority. A joy I know is I'm putting you under oath. Essentially, if it's an honor, shame thing where they're saying, look, on the honor of God, he has prescribed our day, and that day's not yet. So because of that day not being yet, and you're here, please don't dispose of us in that way. So I appeal to the honor of God, which I know you're tight with. Don't treat us the way that he says he's going to later right now. Does that make sense? Yeah. I could see that being a situation here. The whole thing is fascinating. Yeah. He's in gentile territory, which is more because that's where you get the pigs and this whole dynamic is just endlessly. I'm like, what's going on? Tell me more. And to your point, there's 2000 pigs. That rush over the cliff now. Right. Did the 2000, were there 2000 demons or did the other pigs just get caught up in the stampede? Yeah. We don't know, but 2000 of 'em rush over the edge of the cliff. That's something that, that that totally something. In fact, that's the whole reason they don't want 'em to stay. Right. They were so concerned with their financial loss mm-hmm. That they didn't want Jesus, the son of God, the son of man who just healed these two guys. Right. I mean, and, and everyone saw it. In fact, if you wanna have, do something fun, circle the word begged. Begged happens three times here and everyone's begging. But not everyone's begging for the right thing right now. Jesus does tell these guys to go and make it known what he's done for them. And I think because this is Gentile territory, I think that's why. Hmm. Because this is a different situation. They're gonna go throughout the de capitalis, that's gentile regions to tell other people about Jesus. And so this isn't Jewish territory. This is Gentile territory. Right. And he tells the Gentiles, yeah, go tell others. Go tell other gentiles what God has done for you. Right. This whole scene is so beautiful because these, again, these are gentiles. This is Jesus showing his power among the Gentiles. This is the beginning of his outreach efforts to the Gentile territory. To this point, I don't think we have any other gentile interactions in Mark. So Jesus is primarily an Israelite Messiah. But here we begin to see glimpses that Jesus is more than just a tribal God. He's the God of all creation and of all peoples, including the people from the Gris. Yeah. Well, hey, let's pray and then we'll be done with this episode. Lord, we thank you that you are the God of all, that you are the God of us. If we have repented from our sins and put our faith in Jesus Christ, you're not only our God, but also our savior through Christ. And so we just pray, Lord, that you would help us to live faithful to you and we want to be obedient to you. We want to follow what you have. For us, especially as believers, we want to devote ourselves even as we were talking about the Levites earlier, we want to devote ourselves to service to you with our entire lives, with our entire being. So help us be faithful followers of Christ for praying Jesus' name, amen. Keep bringing Bibles tune again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Please come back now. Bye.

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