Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Welcome back. Pastor Rod's here too. He's just choosing to remain silent. He's sitting this one out, so he's in the room, but you will not be hearing from him at all in this podcast. I'm gonna be working on audio leveling while you guys are talking, so just have fun. He's here. He's here. So, how's everybody? What is today? Today is Friday. So we made it through a week March 26th. Hey, thanks. Thanks, shush. Siri, I didn't even say it. I just asked the question out into the world and the robot just decided to answer. Everybody did. Did you say seriously? I think that's what got it. Is it probably, did I say that word? I don't know. Let's go back to the T transcripts. Were like, seriously, guys? Seriously. Anyways, home Star runner. Remember that. I do remember that. Yeah. That's so good. Yeah. Strong, bad, peak millennial humor. Yes. Are you familiar with Homestar? I have not a clue. Well, because you're not a millennial. That's technically I am. No, you're not. I'm the very last year. No, it, no, we're gonna, we're gonna grandfather you into Jen. What was that? Z Wouldn't it be the other way around? Not grandfather me in. We're gonna I guess what would it, we're gonna catapult you into the future generation. We're locking you in buddy. Or overriding your millennial credentials. I'm right on the cusp. No, I'm right on the cusp between the two. You could go, you all star runner then. Well, fair enough. Then that's the defining factor. Hey, I've got another book recommendation for everybody. It is. Where's Waldo Bible edition? That's cool. Yes, yes. No, it's not. They do have those though. I had them growing up. Where you can find biblical characters in them. Yeah. So maybe at Mardel you can find those. But this book is called Where God Came Down. The archeological evidence is by Joel Kramer, who is the guy behind Expedition Bible. Oh. So the YouTube channel that I've recommended in the past, he put out a book. It's got Feld too. There's a Kramer on Seinfeld. Not the same guy. It's not the same guy. It's got a lot of really cool pictures, but a lot of really good text and explanations of them as well. So if you wanna see some of the places in the Old Testament that we're talking about, for example, the mountain of God. What was the mountain of God? Where was it? He talks about Hebrew in here, Bethel Abraham's altar there, Jacob's altar. He's got images that go along with a lot of these things, and he's coming at it from a conservative perspective. And so, not that necessarily are you gonna agree with a hundred percent of what he says? But by and large, his research is really solid and he's a friend of e Evangelical Christianity. So this is a good resource for you. It's called, again, where God came down the archeological evidence. It's got things from the Old Testament and some really great images from the New Testament archeology and research as well. So that would be a good one for you to pick up. In keeping with our studying of the Old Testament, especially right now with a lot of different name places and the conquest of the Promised Land and everything else. His book is good. Alright, we have another question from. Somebody, I'll just say somebody. Somebody, you know who you are. So the question then has to do with discipleship. They offer a definition and here's how they're gonna describe it. Specific and intentional teaching and learning to a specific person from another with the intent to significantly influence the learner's life. And so they quote and they allude to different examples like Moses and Joshua, Elijah, Elijah, Paul, Timothy, Jesus in the 12, and then even Jesus among the three. And so he asks whether discipleship is supposed to look like that. Is this something, and let me just go to the questions that they offer here. Is this something that's actually practiced in the church today? What's your view on discipleship? Should we really be pursuing this from someone and to someone? In other words, should we be both the receivers and the givers of discipleship relationships? Should they be formalized? Do I call myself a disciple of Pastor Mark or Pastor pj? Is that what you have in mind when you encourage? Christians to take part in discipleship relationships. That's a lot of questions I'll let you guys pick up wherever you see fit. Yeah. So you hear us define partners sometimes as our one-on-one discipleship program being the partner's manual. But I think this question is saying, but what about beyond that? What does discipleship look like? Is it formalized and is there a situation where you'd say, I wanna be discipled by this person, this person is gonna disciple me. And I would say. In my experience, there have been seasons where there has been formalized de discipleship that's taken place. There have been people that I've invested in for a period of time, and likewise people that have invested in me in the discipling me capacity. Even now, I've got other pastor friends that are beyond me and my experience and in different contexts that are discipling me in my role as a lead pastor here, so that I have somebody that I can turn to and say, Hey, can you help me with this because I'm trying to figure out what to do in this situation or. Hey, I want your wisdom in this, and that's important for me. There's a rhythm there. I meet monthly with somebody and there's also informal relationships there. So, for me, discipleship has been seasonal. It's been, sometimes I've got two or three people that I'm meeting with on a regular basis, discipling them. Other times, it's not that. I think in our context, in our church, at least, a lot of that's gonna take place. In the context of community groups too wherein you're having those relationships, you're building those relationships in with the men and or the ladies in the group, depending. And and that's a good venue for it to take place. Yeah. And I would caution against saying I'm a disciple of so and so. I do think that that would be a caution that I would give. And I would look to a place like one Corinthians three where Paul says, for when one says I follow Paul and another I follow Apollo. Apollos are you not being merely human? And then he goes on to explain what he means. And his point is that we are ultimately disciples of Jesus. And so I think we can confuse what discipleship looks like when we are pegging it to one kind of person or a name. That doesn't mean we don't practice discipleship. That doesn't mean there aren't people who disciple us, but I think. Watching out for that terminology, I think that can reflect maybe a misunderstanding of what's going on when we're practicing discipleship. But wouldn't you say though, that it makes a lot of sense to formalize these relationships? For instance, if you were to go to a young guy in the church and say, Hey, I think you could use my help. To grow up in your faith. I would love to meet with you on Thursdays at 6:00 AM we're gonna meet at the Panera, and I'd like you to pick up this book. We're gonna read it together and we're gonna discuss the chapters one-on-one for the next three months. Anything wrong with that? And if that person said, who's discipling you, or Pastor Mark is discipling me. I'm a discip of Pastor Mark right now. Maybe we're so casual that that kind of thing doesn't take place. But wouldn't that be a good thing? Well, I think definitely the discipleship in action that you're describing, I would be cautious about using the term. Because it can create factions. Yeah, and I think that's what Paul's getting at, right? In one Corinthians three. If that's the purpose. Now I think you could use that term. I'm not saying that term is inherently wrong, but I do think what Paul is getting at is that when we're using that term, it's likely to reflect, and I think in the Corinthian church it is reflecting. A misunderstanding of what discipleship really is. 'cause he goes on to talk about, right, that he's very much part of this process. Right? He's laying a foundation and someone else is building upon it. It's not that he's not discipling, but I think he is cautious about using that, that terminology. Not that there would be anything wrong with it though, right? Not that there's anything be inherently wrong with it. Right. But I do, I would be cautious about that. Use of terminology for its potential to create division, and that was a particular issue among the Corinthian church, but in and of itself, the formality of the relationship. Does that bother you at all, pastor pj? No. You'd be okay with that? Yeah. And if someone said, I'm a disciple of Pastor PJ's. Yeah I think by nature, as we mature in our faith, we are disciple. We have a breadth of those that have influenced our lives. So we might say, for me, for example, maybe somebody like Dr. MacArthur influenced me or I was a disciple of his in these particular areas. For example, I would point to issues of soteriology salvation. I would say, man, I think his. Explanation. His view of Lordship salvation is something that was instrumental in discipling me in my understanding of soteriology. But I may look at somebody like Pastor Mike, our sending PA pastor with the area of preaching and say, I discipled. He was my discipler in that. And so I think we are a product of so many different voices out there that I don't think any of us are ever gonna say, I'm a disciple of this one particular voice. In the end. Yeah, it's probably one of the privileges of living in our time and season of life where we can afford to pick and choose from a lot of different people. They write books and they have podcasts, and they have videos and things like that. So rapid fire. Then let's answer the questions more succinctly. Is this something that's actually practiced in the church today? Yes, yes, yes. Maybe not the way that he envisions, but definitely it is. And your view on it is that it is. Formal, informal. I think it could be both. It could be both. It could be both. And it's happening primarily and at least in your church, pastor PJ, in the small group setting. One other area I would add to that is parenting. I think as a dad, I'm discipling my sons right now. And my wife is really discipling my daughter, not that I'm not discipling my daughter, but she's taking that more practical hands-on approach with her in her professed faith. And I'm doing that with Joshua as well. So I think there's a formalized discipleship of the parent child relationship as well. I a hundred percent agree with that. I think even the term, so and so is my dad, using the term dad implies discipleship. In the Christian context Of course. Yeah. Should we really be pursuing this from someone and to someone? Yes. Yeah. I think it should ideally come naturally and that's why I point to community groups as a place where it can naturally form probably most easily. 'cause that's where you get to know others and others know you most thoroughly. I, yeah, I don't think there's a deficiency if you're going through a season where you don't have it active in your life, though. Would you be able to say if you're going to a church, you are a disciple of that? Pastor Passively? Yes. Yeah, passively. Why passive? Just because it's not, I'd say it's very active. Yeah. But it's not a one-on-one formalized discipleship. Relationship the way that you think? There's not as much of a back and forth the way that we normally think of discipleship. I think in our culture, we think of discipleship as sitting down, reading a book together, having a cup of coffee together and asking questions and going back and forth with each other. You're being discipled it, but it's a one-way discipleship there rather than a two-way conversation that's taking place. You wouldn't qualify it then as discipleship. No I think it is, I think it's a form of discipleship, but what I mean by passive is you are receiving the discipleship from the one that you're, whose church you're attending as far as the pastor of that church, rather than when you're involved in a discipleship relationship, there's more of a dynamic that takes place there. Would you add anything to that Pastor Mark? I do think we should be pursuing discipleship. I think that it may be that there's a season when we don't have it, but I think that would be the impetus to pursue it. In a church setting. Are you a disciple of that pastor automatically? Yeah, I think so. I think so. Would you qualify it as passive as well, would you? I would qualify with something. I think it wouldn't be I, it wouldn't be sufficient on its own. Meaning if you went by yourself and you sat in the chair and you listened to the preaching and then you got up and you didn't talk to anyone and you walked out, I would qualify it by saying that is not a holistic understanding of discipleship. So that would be my qualification. I wouldn't necessarily qualify the word, but I would say that the Christian life looks like more than just that sort of individualistic sitting, listening and then leaving. So with the thrust of what we're getting at then discipleship is good. It's right, it's part of being a Christian, I think, and you're attempting to do some kind of spiritual good to somebody else. Should you pursue these kinds of one-on-one discipleship relationships with other people that you're giving to and that you're receiving from even more from, besides a book setting or besides a podcast. To your point, there's not a lot of response when you're listening to a podcast or a sermon. So should you pursue these one-on-one things yourselves, even as pastors, do you expect that of yourself? Yeah, I would probably say a, again, I don't know that it's gonna be formalized every single time, but you should have somebody in your life who's older, wiser, more mature than you are in their faith that is available to invest in you and pour into you and answer questions when you have them. And you need to be that person for somebody else as well. Yeah, I would agree with that. Alright. All right. That was a thick question with a pretty thick answer. Thank you for sending that in. That was good. I hope that was sufficient. We didn't even hit all the things that they brought up, but it's multifaceted. It's a multifaceted question. It's a very thick one. Thank you. Good work. And now back to the Bible. The Bible, Joshua 19. Because we weren't in it when we were, well, no, that was, now we're going through it chronologically. No, no, no. Not chronologically. That's the last plan. Nevermind Pastor pj. Alright, Joshua one 19 through 20. We are gonna finish really dividing up the land here and in that's gonna take place in chapter 19. You're gonna get all of these other tribes that are gonna get their inheritance here. You've got Zebulon, you've got Simeon, you've got Iscar, you've got Asher, NAI, and Dan. Dan's gonna show up a little bit later in the book of judges too. Dan's a little bit of a Wiley figure here as a tribe, but. This is Joshua bringing things to a close and I think it's interesting that Joshua waits till everybody else has been settled. Everybody else has their inheritance allotted to them, and then he. Last of all goes in to take his and there's a book that's called, that's a secular book called Leaders Eat Last. But it's that idea, I think this is leadership from Joshua. I think he's making sure the people are settled, they're cared for, things have been done, at least to the best of his awareness and knowledge, even though we've pointed out how many times they've failed already. But Joshua waits until everybody else has their allotment given to them. And then he goes to take his own place for himself. Yeah, what a great point that is. And interesting to know and if you looked at your Bible Atlas book, whatever you happen to have, you'll notice that Simeon. Portion is oddly placed, and you find out the reason why. Here in verse number nine, it says, the territory of the people of Simeon rather was formed part of out, out of part of the territory of the people of Judah. So because the portion of the people that Judah was too large for them, the people of Simeon obtained an inheritance in the midst of their inheritance. So their position, like a donut hole in the midst of a donut at some point, and we don't exactly know when and where and how, but Simeon eventually gets absorbed into Judah. And they become the southern tribes together. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. It becomes less clear where Simeon begins and Judah ends. But Judah's moniker, his naming takes the pre the, takes the stage. It becomes the primary name by which the Southern Kingdom is described. But notice here, Simeon is in the midst of them. I was reading in one of the commentators that I was consulting on this passage, talked about all of these places being somewhat even obscure to us, or small to us, but they pointed out the fact that God still cared about what was gonna take place there. Israel still had a stewardship over that area, and I think. It's not too much of a stretch to see when we think about our role in our church or your role in your community of other believers. It may not be the front and center role, but God has given you a stewardship and cares that you take care of that and cares that you give attention to that. And it, it may appear from the outside looking in going, Hey that's not the flashiest, it's not Jerusalem, it's not Judah, it's not some of these key tribes here. But God still cared about those tribes. He gave them a portion of the land and they had a job. They were supposed to steward that land for the glory of God and that mattered. So that's another kind of takeaway for us, even as we're reading through something that's heavy on the geography and going, okay, what do I do with this? Is remembering God cares about these things. These were stewardships for each of these tribes, and we have stewardships too in our own lives. No matter how small they are, no matter how small, they're, what a great point. Some of us have very small stewardships. I think about the parable of the talents. Each of us are given a different amount to steward. And some of us can look, look at the other guy with, oh, he's got five talents and I've only got this measly one. And I think the, I, the ironic part is that a talent is actually a substantial amount of resource, whatever that is, dollar figure wise. So you might look down on whatever God has given you, but don't, and take stewardship over it. Use it, God glorify God with it. And don't look at your neighbor and say, I wish I was him. Enjoy what you got. Take what you got and use it for the glory. God. Yeah. I have an unresolved thought in my head. Maybe you guys can help. Oh, no. So all of these tribes get a very specific allotment of land with very clear. Boundaries. Right? This is not a AI formula coming up with this. This is based on very specific information and very clear landmarks. What do you guys think is supposed to happen as the land in total of the people of Israel grows? Come again. So there's promises the grows of Israel expanding. Yes. Right. And we have locked in some sense, or it appears that it's locked in. Yeah. That there are specific allocations of these tribes. To these specific locations. Yeah. But what happens to the new land that is brought in? That's a great question, and now I was gonna bring it up on the last podcast or the one before this. But here's my working idea, because the land of let's see, Benjamin and Judah, they both border j. And in one allotment, God gives Benjamin Jerusalem. In another allotment, God gives Judah, Jerusalem. Whose does it belong to? Well, Judah fought for it and she won it. And so I think there's probably, in God's mind, he said, these are your boundaries. This is your sandbox. But go, I think go and take more. Whatever one of you guys wants to fight and expand your territory, go for it. Although I know you can easily get into problems when you start running into conflict with your brothers. But I think there is a sense, although not an unlimited one. Where you can expand your territory in a God glorifying way, and maybe some of those neighboring towns that were left up for grabs, I think God would be okay with them taking that position. Yeah, I think that answer satisfies me. I think the thing that'll be funny about that is if that were to happen, which hypothetical it doesn't happen, it does not happen, right? Is that there's some tribes that I guess you could describe as landlocked. Or they're either up against the ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, or they're surrounded by other tribes. How does that work? We don't ever know, but it fascinates me to think about, well, and then because Dan leaves his allotments, it just tells me there's a little bit of flexibility in here that you don't read. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And because of Dan's movement, and God never says no, which is surprising to me. 'cause that seems to me like an egregious move. Dan, you left your land, bro. Yeah. You were beachside. Well, even the tribes that are on the other side of the river, right. He doesn't say name. He doesn't say no he works with them. Yeah. Oh yeah. So I think there's a lot more flexibility baked into this, even though he's giving them specific pieces of land. I'm gonna argue with Dan when we get there. And judges, I don't think God's in favor of what Dan does. I say he was in favor. I just said there's never a clear statement of his disapproval. Right. Yeah. Which gives me a sense that there's some flexibility in the way God has orchestrated his arrangement. Right. 'cause even the tribes on the other side of the river, I think the implication is. That that's not what they ought to have done but there is no definitive statement of God's judgment because of that particular action. Well, God, I think Grants permission to them. I don't think God ever grants permission to Dan. And I think when we see it in judges, I think there's a perversion there. 'cause not to give it away, but they send out spies, dude, giving it away on their own. Spoiler alert guys. They send out spies on their own. And they talk about how good the land is and pleasant the land is, and it's good for us to go up and take it and settle it, but it never says God gave the, in fact, it stresses that the people of Laish were at a peaceful people. And so I think that it's de display displayed in judges as a perversion of what we see in the conquest of the promised land. When Dan leaves their allotment and goes up to take the other one, I would offer an agreement to that, but I would also say, did God not also give them that land though? Because I think when God, yes. Well, no, I don't mean even like practically and actually, but I do mean, did God not promise the land as far north as covering that same territory? Yeah. I don't know if he gave it to Dan. Obviously he did not. But the fact that God still said this. Large piece of land for, it's for Israel. Right. So it makes, it's granted, it's in the book of judges. So that brings all of the sender suspicion, right? Yeah. Right. Because they're not doing what's right. Right. But I still think the land did belong to them, how and when they got it. That might be the perversion. Well, it's coming up, so keep listening, keep reading Bibles on that. Hey, let's get over to the New Testament just for sake of time. We are in Luke chapter five. One verses 17 through 39, and in Luke five 17 through 26 the healing of the paralytic, the friends that it's too crowded, they can't get in there. I think we see Jesus' sense of humor here in a situation that for the man that's lowered down wasn't necessarily funny, but I Jesus clearly knows what this guy's, after he wants to be healed of his paralysis. That's why the friends went to such extreme lengths to do what they did, and yet he looks at the guy and says, Hey your sins are forgiven. Th Thank you. Can you do something about my legs? I'd love to be able to walk. 'cause it's interesting. He doesn't ask the man, why are you here the way he does with some of the other people, he heals when the blind man comes home. What do you wish? Well, I wish to see I want to be made. Well, I wish even the woman who touches the fringe of his garment and she's healed from her discharge, he doesn't approach the man and say, why did you touch me? Or what are you here for? It's plain to everybody why he's there. And yet Jesus says your sins are forgiven. And then he flexes his divinity here because he in his, I think in his deity, understands what's running through the minds. And here's over, here's the grumbling of the Pharisees saying, who has the authority to forgive sins but God alone. And that's when he steps fully into, if you're paying attention. To his identity and says that you may know that I have the power and the authority. So he doesn't say I'm God, but he says, in order that you might know, watch what I'm about to do. And then he heals the man and the man gets up and walks away. So Jesus is kind of toying with his opponents here, I think in this section. I wanna point out that what you see here is fascinating because of who the audience is. In verse 19, it says that these guys, these friends of this paralytic man, let him through the roof and let him down. With his bed through the tiles, into the midst before Jesus. These are good friends, by the way. If your friends are not willing to lower your body down through a roof, they're not your real friends. You need to find some people like this. Find new ones. Definition. This is my definition now. If I ever am paralyzed and you guys don't lower me through the roof to see Jesus this friendship's over. But I notice verse 20 here. This is why this is so unique, because Israelites are not known for their faith, but yet he says and when he saw their faith, it was not their act per se, it was the act because the act revealed their faith. That's right. Jesus' marveling at these people. It was his friends and this paralytic who had faith in him. What was the quality of their faith? I, it's hard to know, but the fact that he offers them forgiveness in my mind is less is less about, well, I, what I do see, what I see is Jesus honoring the act and saying, this is where it's at, guys. You get it. You get it. And it's almost like this is an attaboy. And he, I think the forgiveness of sins is because that's what they're coming for. I wondered this too, because your point is well taken. I was thinking, okay, this is, there's a lot happening. There's a lot moving at once. It's like being in a moving car and there's all these different features that are moving past at once. I was thinking in these days, it was not an uncommon thought to think that your sin created your sickness. Mm-hmm. So remember it was the man born blind. Mm-hmm. Who sinned first. And so I wondered if perhaps what was happening here is that people thought, well, clearly you must have done something really bad for you to warrant being paralyzed. And maybe they all thought that, I don't know. But maybe Jesus knowing their thoughts and knowing their hearts said, this is what he really needs. And of course, that of course what is, what he did really need. But beyond that, let me also hear your body and show that your sins are in fact forgiven. I'm gonna remove this stain from you and give you a new a new life essentially. So I like this because the faith is highlighted that's unique for Israelites. The parallels my man is given the ability to walk and all this is happening in order to confront the authorities who are watching. Yeah, that's a great point. Rest of chapter five, you've got the calling of Levi, AKA Matthew, the tax collector who's called away from his boot to follow Jesus. This one's interesting because we don't know how much Matthew knew about Jesus prior to this. We've mentioned it earlier, Peter, James, John, those guys had spent some time around Jesus before they left everything to follow him. With the tax collector here with Matthew, we're not exactly sure how much he knew, how much he was aware of. About Jesus before Jesus passes by his booth and says, come and follow me. And Matthew gets up and goes. And so we're left to fill in some of the the blank spots there to figure that out. But something is compelling enough about Jesus for Matthew to leave a pretty lucrative job being a tax collector. One of the reasons they were despised by the Jews was they worked for the Romans and the Romans kind of had a. An understanding. Hey, if you want to overcharge your countrymen and skim some off the top with them, go for it. We'll look the other way. We don't care as long as we get what's due us in the end, and that's one of the reasons why the tax collectors were hated. So Matthew gives up a good gig to go and follow Jesus Now, not good as far as his countrymen, but good as far as his own provision and wellbeing. All of that was so good, bro. Thanks man. Love that. I appreciate that. Did you get what you needed? I sure did. Did you? That's good. Why are you bringing this up? They don't know. Well, I just, the inside joke was for you and Pastor Mark and myself, but I didn't wanna toot my own horn by thinking You just started, are there blowing smoke? Yeah. You didn't actually hear what he said. It was heard. It was pretty egregious. Egregious. Yeah. It was actually. It was awful. He was heresy. Yeah. Maybe a little bit Mercy. I said it the wrong time. Everybody's probably super confused right now. They're alright. Matt, cut this out. Isn't that worth having anything on the last section there? The question on fasting that we wanna point out. We've covered it, I think with Matthew, but anything we wanna hit on again on that? Okay. Quickly, is fasting still something people should do today? Yes. Yes. When? All the time. All the time. All the time. Whoa. Yes. Okay. Every day new diet, crashed. Diet. After Mark 27, forget GLP ones. Everybody's just gonna stop eating. Yeah, that'd be cheaper. That would be a lot cheaper. It would be regularly. That's what I mean by all the time. Yeah. Consistently. I think it's. In the New Testament model, I think we see it for those situations where you have something significant coming up. Like when the missionaries are being sent out, when Paul and Barnabas are being sent out there, there's fasting and they lay out, lay their hands on them and they send them out. So I think fasting is meant to be used intentionally, and I think it's purpose is that when we feel the pain of whatever that thing is that we're fasting from, we're driven to prayer or we're driven to worship, or we're driven to whatever it is that we are pursuing, it's meant to serve as a real life physical object lesson for us to drive us towards that thing. What about weekly or monthly? Would you advise a Christian to pursue something with that sort of timeline outside of kind of bigger events that you're describing? Probably not, 'cause I don't think it's established that way in the New Testament for the church. Does fasting make your prayers any more effective? I think it makes you more zealous and passionate about your prayers. I don't think it changes the nature of your prayers. So it could increase the quality is what you're suggesting. Yeah, I think it does, but I don't think it makes your prayers more effective, is what I'm saying. Yeah. I think you're gonna pray more, makes your prayers effective. Yeah. I think you're gonna pray more and you're gonna pray more urgently. Urgently because you're keenly aware of what you're not having, which is driving you to pray more consistently. Yeah. Yeah, I think fasting's a great tool in the tool belt. I do think it'd be great to use on a fairly regular basis because I think it's a good spiritual discipline. Now, it can be done wrongly, it can be wielded wrongly. There's so many different, I don't know, trenches. So many different pitfalls we can have in that, but I think it's good. Jesus commends it. I'm for it. Yep. It's generally good ground to stand on. I think so, yeah. Alright, let's pray. God, thanks for your word and for the time that we got to spend in it right now, answering these questions about discipleship and the Old Testament, the land allotment, the New Testament, talking about fasting, talking about the healing of this paralytic God we love how dynamic your word is and that there's so much for. Us to glean from it if we will give ourselves over to studying it. So I pray that we would do that. I pray, God, that nobody would just satisfy themselves with listening to us on this podcast. But they would use this either as an after course after their time in the word or as setting up their time in the word, but they would really get their main meal from spending time in the Bible. And I pray that would be true of all us we pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. On that note, keep reading the Bible and tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. See ya. Amen. Bye.

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