hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. What's up folks? What day is today? Tuesday, I believe. Yeah, it's Tuesday. Happy Tuesday everybody. All day long. It's Tuesday. You're back to work. We're back to work. You're not back to work Pastor Rod. But I, the rest of us are back to work today because we had yesterday off or for Memorial Day, so we're back at it. It's probably hot, is my guess. The weather. Weather was erratic. But again, it's Texas in May. Yeah. This is probably the worst time to visit. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, that's fair. That's fair. But man, yeah, it's it's we're hard after it. Hey, probably. Helpful for us to stop down. You've heard us talk quite a bit recently in the podcast about some different words in scripture. We've been reading through the Old Testament, we've been talking about this number is different from this number and there's a variant there even last weekend with the sermon out of Hosea. And what word is the right word to describe Gomer there and how do we Yeah. We understand this hour and a half long sermon, bro. What'd you do? It was I had it for four hours and it was only an hour and half at the end. Down. Yeah. Gotta do what you gotta do. You're welcome. You're welcome. Yeah. Yeah we want to let you know that as your pastors, the Bible that you hold in your hand, you can trust the word of God that you hold in your hand. This is not us coming in and saying, Hey, look at there's a variant here. There's something here. And what about this word here? And so therefore you can't trust it. That is not what our intention is. That's not what our implication is, that's not. A correct viewpoint at all. We've given our life to studying this word because we believe that it is trustworthy and more importantly than that, we've given our eternity to the content that is conveyed in this word. We want you to feel that, that boldness, that confidence, that, that. You can stand on the word of God and say, thus says the Lord, and you can read it and believe that this is the inspired word of God. Our duty as your pastors is just to make sure that you are not unprepared for something that comes, as the world might say, yeah, but what about this? Or what about this variant here? What about this? Your Bible is supported by manuscript evidence that is, is well over, 95 to anywhere up to even 98% accuracy. In other words, we can take the manuscripts that we have, that none of them are original copies. We don't have any autographs. But we have. So many manuscript copies that we can do the textual critical work in compare and contrast these to come back to the fact that your bible is nearly a hundred percent accurate to what the originals would say. And that's unmatched. That's unparalleled. In any other work that exists out there as far as the, this timeframe, as far as ancient literature especially is concerned. So the Bible that you have is reliable and trustworthy, and when you hear us say something like the svs translation of this word is open to debate. We're not calling into question the veracity, truthfulness, inspiration of God's word. We're simply saying that as wise stewards of God's word as good berean, we want to know, okay what does the word mean? And that's where you do have the original languages, and you can dig into the original languages and you can compare and contrast translations and understand, okay, the translations are done by editors and this is the word that they've landed on here. Is that the best word? Most of the time we're gonna say, yeah we feel like the ESV is a great. Translation of the text of God's word. There's gonna be a couple. That's how we use it though. Yeah, totally. But there's gonna be a couple times though that in, in faithfulness to being a good berean, we're gonna say, Hey, you know what? The original language may be conveying something just slightly different. Not opposite, not disparate, but just slightly different here. And here's maybe a better rendering of the original term there, which is in part why we have so many different English translations. They have different philosophies and different approaches to the translation of the original words and the Hebrew, the Greek, and the Aramaic. And so we're okay with saying that there's a little bit of verbal flexibility. Now, the liberal Christian or the liberal in general might use that same argument to adopt some kind of heretical teaching and say language is flexible and fluid and it could mean anything. And who even knows that language means anymore? That is not what we're saying. Just because you can drive a car into a tree does not mean that there's something wrong with the car. It's the driver of the car that gets you in trouble. We're trying to drive the car on the road and say, look, scripture has I mean there's a lot of distance between when it was written and today, and being faithful with the text means saying what the text says and communicating it to today's audience. So we use the example, the word for donkey used to mean, used to say one thing, and in fact it's still in, in a couple of our hymns and now we use a different word for donkey because the original word that was used now has a crass meaning. Funny word choice too. Yep. 'cause it rhymes. Yep. So that's what we're talking about here. When we look at certain words, we're not trying to cause you to undermine scripture and say scripture's not important. Or we think it's wrong, we need to update it. No, let me refer you to something that you all should read. I. I think I, I'm gonna speak for myself, but I think you would agree with this, pastor pj I would endorse the Chicago statement on Biblical and Errancy. Yes, you would agree. Okay. So this came out in 1978 as a coalition of Christians, conservative Christians who believe in solo scriptura, believe in the inerrancy and infallibility of scripture, which is what we profess we would love for you to read that. It doesn't take very long. It's not very long. Maybe take you 10 minutes or so. Article 10 says this, we affirm that inspiration strictly speaking applies only to the Autographic text of scripture, which in the providence of God can be ascertained from available manuscripts with great accuracy. We further affirm that copies and translations of scripture are the word of God to the extent that they faithfully represent the original. We deny that any essential element of the Christian faith is affected by the absence of the autographs. We further deny that this absence renders the assertion of biblical and errancy invalid or irrelevant. So with that said, the, these guys who, a lot of smart guys, a lot of names that you would recognize honestly who put this together, help us wrap our minds around what we're trying to say which is to say carefully and specifically the words do matter. And insofar as those words. Accurately reflect the original manuscripts. That word is the word of God. Yeah, I agree. Speaking of the word of God, let's jump into the word of God. Together. We're in first Chronicles for a little bit today and also one of the Psalms as well. First Chronicles 26, we get the division of the gatekeepers. We have gatekeepers at our church. We do. But the gatekeepers were essentially the temple guards. And the first 19 verses here as they arranged they are set apart, they're organized. They're just like David was doing with the Levites and the singers. And so besides keeping order on the temple mount, these would also tend to the storage and organization of the temple equipment, oversee the food for the priest, the sacrifices among other things. These are eventually gonna be the people you may remember back in the Gospel of John. It's gonna recall, it's gonna involve some recall for you that. When Jesus was teaching on the Temple Mount, the Pharisees sent the temple guards out to arrest Jesus. These, those were the the descendants of this class the gatekeepers. They're not called gatekeepers there by John. But that's who they were. They were there to guard and protect the temple mount. We have them in our church because we live in a fallen, broken world, and we understand that we want to be, we want to care for you and your family as you show up at our church. And so we have people at our church that are either current or former military or police who are armed and who are there to protect us. And they're there to not only protect something in a reactive sense, but even in a proactive sense. They're walking around our campus. They're they're vigilant. They're watching they're paying attention to things that are going on. And that is taken from a principle like this in one Chronicles 26 that it's. Good to have people like that. Absolutely. And again, David is wise, we're, remember we started with the Levites and then we looked at the priests and in chapter 24, and then in chapter 25, he's organizing the musician. So now we finally get to the place where it's like, all right let's extend further out. If you're thinking about concentric circles, David is starting with what's most important and extending further out. And now you get to the place of protection, taking care of all these people and the things that make up the worship of God the worship of God through his people. And so I just wanna remind you, remember how important this is for David, that he's doing these things first. Scripture doesn't make mistakes in terms of chronology. This, I think he's reporting it as he understood it in terms of its importance. And so for your life, I hope you prioritize God's worship and that's evident both in your family life, the way that you organize your calendar, and in the way that you approach church life. I think David is making a point. To us, worship really matters. Yeah. Yeah. The rest of chapter 26. And then he gets into some of the other offices, including the treasurers. He wants to make sure that the money matters. Yeah. Money that's given matters. Yeah. And that, that's well cared for. We do that at our church and maybe you don't know that procedure, but we have a accounting team that are not us as pastors, but that are our people in the church, lay people in the church that we trust, and they take the offerings after the service and they go and they do the count at that point, and they maintain possession of the. The bag that is eventually taken to the bank they handle all of that. And they only charge us 25% every Sunday's. It's great. It's, that's a great deal. They, the colder that they take home is awesome. Do you owe 25%, not 25 cents. 2020 5 cents? Yeah. Yeah. Alright. Chapter 27, then we go from the gatekeepers and the treasures now to the military. And so David is gonna organize the military. They needed not only to be organized for worship, but also for war. And that's the main thrust of, at least the first part of Chapter 27 here. Verses one through 15 provides an account of the Israel's army by divisions. And while not at war, they would serve on a rotational basis to help guard the temple. 12 divisions are broken down over 12 months. PI know you've been going through this with the Bible being read to you. Anything that has jumped out at you as you've been going through the names and things and the military divisions here. Chapter 27 in particular. Chapter 27. Yeah. Yes. I wanna point something out to you that was important and it relates to a conversation you and I were having a couple days ago when it came to the differences in the census numbers. You remember this? We were talking and saying, why is the number different on this side versus this side chronicles? And Samuel didn't agree. And we're trying to figure out why. And this is another reason why there might be disagreement. If you look at one Chronicles 27 verse 23, it says this, David did not count those below 20 years of age four. The Lord had promised to make Israel as many as the stars of heaven. So this is the first part. God made a promise to him that these people were gonna be numerous. And so there's a promise that's being enacted. And in verse 24 says, Joab, the son of Zaia began to count, but did not finish. Did not finish. That's an important point. Yet wrath came upon Israel for this, and the number was not entered in the Chronicles of King David. So the numbers started to be counted. Joab didn't finish it because wrath came upon the people. And this is where David is, he's afflicted for three days and all those people died. This is why in part this is the response because God made a promise. David didn't believe the promise. There might have been a motivation in his part to be self-assertive and to protect himself and his people. But notice here, Joab didn't finish, and that might account for the discrepancies between numbers. Maybe there's a number that's floating out there that was number A and number B, but because he never finished it, they took both and they conflated him somehow. That's a potential explanation that would help us understand some of the difficulties that we find in the text itself. Yeah. In, in, in this section of 16 through. Down through 22, I guess through 23 even. We're listing the leaders of the tribes here and Gad and Asher aren't here. And so we've got all of the tribes that are cited, but minus these two tribes, GAD being one and Asher being the other. Aaron as a high priest is given a head of a representation here, even though his was not a specific tribe. Manas is given two leaders there, and so you still end up with a number 12. And it seems like most commentaries that are out there will say that's what ultimately matters is number 12. That, that it was 12 tribes. It was always supposed to have 12 leaders. And so we've got 12 leaders, so be happy with 12 leaders in First Chronicles chapter 27. I don't know why Gad and Asher aren't there. I, we've seen other instances where tribes sometimes drop out and then they show back up and here they're not there in, in first Chronicles 27. Any ideas why those two tribes aren't there? I do not. I didn't look into that. Yeah. Again it doesn't shake our faith. It's just a matter of going, okay, there, there's things that we don't understand. We weren't there. It made sense at the time when they were there. And we can trust that that if it matters when we get to heaven and we remember these things, we'll be able to find out. Yeah. But that's a helpful note on the the, a similar note on the the Joab census information there that you commented on. That's helpful. Anything else? In 27. Okay, 28. David at the beginning of chapter 28, gathers all the people and announces that Solomon is gonna succeed him as the one who would be king over Israel and who would build the temple in Jerusalem. Verses six through seven are rich there with the language of the Davidic Covenant. So we know what David was thinking. We know that David was looking at Solomon as the one that was gonna fulfill these promises of the Davidic covenant. And he's not wrong. He's gonna fulfill and portion some of those things. He's not gonna be the ultimate fulfillment of the Davidic Covenant. That's gonna be the coming of Jesus in the future and even still today, there's a. There's a future fulfillment of the Davidic Covenant that we're still here looking forward to. And that's the millennial kingdom When David's heir in, Jesus sits on the throne and reigns from Jerusalem. But but Solomon is gonna be the partial fulfillment, and he's gonna be the one. And so David is announcing before all people, Hey, Solomon's the guy. Make sure that you are going to follow him. Now we're gonna find out that things don't go as smoothly in this transition as the chronicler makes it look like when we get into the Samuel account. But for the chronicler, he's just given a high level view here going, Hey, Solomon's the guy. And David's gonna announce that Solomon's the. Successor and he's gonna build the temple. And things went great. They lived happily ever after. Not true, but yeah. The point of the Chronicles is to encourage the post exilic people don't forget. That's the context of first Chronicles. It's the people that have recently returned from Babylon and they're trying to get started again in the writer of Chronicles is trying to say, look, God has been faithful. Hasn't God been faithful? God is faithful. He's gotta be faithful. So trust him and let's carry on. That's the idea here. One thing I wanna point out here is in verse nine Solomon, my son, know the God of your father and serve him. How should you serve him? With a whole heart and a willing mind. I love that terminology because it communicates exactly what we're trying to say and what that's our goal as disciples today, to have a whole heart to Christ and a willing mind. Jesus calls us to love him with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to love our neighbor as ourselves. So not a whole lot's changed here but just notice here, this is David, the man after God's own heart. This is what he's communicating to his son as he prepares to lead. Which, by the way, Solomon's name in Hebrew Shlomo. I like that one better. Shlomo. Shlomo. Yeah. Isn't that better? Yeah, it is. You call him Shamo. Yeah. In fact, my son, Samuel's name is Schmuel. Yeah. Yes. Shame mule. Yeah, that's a fun one. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes we shorten it. I like it. Call him the Hebrew name. That's fun. I also like verse 20, when David says to Solomon, similar to God's commission to Joshua, be strong and courageous and do it. Do not be afraid. Do not be dismayed for the Lord God, even my God is with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you until all the work for the service of the house of the Lord is finished. Just that, that confidence that he's instilling in his son there to go and do that, yeah. Chapter 29, then we get into the people bringing the contributions for what was gonna be needed. The people follow the lead of their king and they bring free will offerings of great wealth to be used in the construction of the temple. David issues a prayer before the assembly. I. And the prayer recognizes God as the owner and giver of all good things, including the gifts they had just offered for the construction of the temple. You hear us talk about that often when we're doing offering at church that you know, we're giving and we're not giving from something the Lord didn't first possess. The Lord has given us all that we have and owns all that we have, even while it's in our possession. We are the stewards of similar to the parable of the talents. And so we give not from something that he doesn't possess already. We give as an act of worship to say, Lord, we want to dedicate these things to you and to the use of. The ministry here. And so he prays for Solomon in this same section here to have a fully devoted heart keeping the commandments of the Lord. And as David's praying, he's acknowledging the fundamental reality that the ultimate, rule and authority belongs to Yahweh, belongs to God. Not to Solomon, not to him, which is a key component to understanding again, that the Davidic covenant there. But David's prayer for his son is good too. You you talked about our words to our kids, our prayers for our kids matter too. And I love that David is praying here that Solomon would have that heart that is fully devoted to the Lord. Yeah. And notice here in verse nine, in chapter 29, it says, then the people rejoice because they had given willingly for with a whole heart. This is what David told his son, Shlomo, just a few verses ago. He wanted him to have he, the people have the whole heart. They offer freely to the Lord. And David, the king also rejoice greatly. So this is a sweet time in their history. Not a perfect time. To be sure, but this does show that God is operating in them. In fact, when you have something like this taking place where people are doing things from the heart, this is a sign that God is at work because only God can cause a person who is dead in their trespasses and sins to be born alive or be born again. To be made alive together with Christ, and then to operate from the heart. That's the goal. That's so sweet. Yeah. Chapter 29, verse 23 through 25. Then you mentioned everybody lives happily ever after. That's a little bit of the summary statement here from the chronicler. He's Hey, Solomon is anointed and here's a quick summary of his reign. Everything's gonna go really well. The Lord made Solomon very great in the side of all Israel and bestowed on him. Royal Majesty has not been seen on any king before him in Israel. And then the chapter ends with the death of David. Yeah I forgot to point out one more reference for you guys. Lemme just throw it out to verse 19. David pray he's not done with Solomon. He really wants him to understand this. Verse 19, he says, grant to my son Shlomo, a whole heart. I, he just can't get away from that. Yep. And again, David, a man after God's own heart, he's concerned that the heart of his son remains steadfast with the Lord. And does that happen folks? Does he stay that way? Can't say that he does. It's the lady's fault. Yeah. It's his fault, but yes, it's his fault. Yeah. The whole heart, man. I, there's, I it resonates so deeply with me because I just feel like that's where the battle is either fought it's either won or lost at the heart. If we have a heart devoted to the Lord, a lot of things go better if it's divided for any reason. Yeah, even for good things, there can be good reasons that your heart's divided. Paul acknowledges that when you get married, you have a heart that's rightly concerned about worldly things. Yep. And there's a place for that. But man, even in the worldly things, let it be that your heart is whole toward the Lord as you live for his sake, and serve for his sake and all the various capacities that you do. Yeah. Psalm 1 27 then is fitting here because this is the Psalm of Solomon. It's noticed that in the title there, so it's no longer David. Now it's Solomon who's writing the psalm for us, and this is about the construction of the temple. He says, unless the Lord builds the house, those who labor or who build it labor in vain. And that's so important for us to remember as a church, we're moving up to this new facility in Prosper and we're excited about that and we're seeing God bring people to the church. But we know at the end of the day, unless the Lord's behind these things, then all of our hard work towards whatever it is that we're doing is gonna be in vain. And that's something that goes back to our motives, our hearts, and our dependence upon the Lord. And that we've gotta make sure that is indicative and that is, is true for us. That, that we are truly seeking him. Here he's talking not just about the temple though, but also about our homes. And notice where he goes, he says, look, it's in vain that you rise up early and go to. Go late to rest. And then he turns to our kids. In verses three and four, he says, children are heritage from the Lord. The fruit of the womb. A reward like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. And what do you do with an arrow? You let it fly. You shoot it. And that's what we're doing with our kids. And we want to do everything that we can. As we talked about a few days ago, to put our kids in the way the gospel as much as possible to. Train them to follow Christ as much as we possibly can. Ultimately the trajectory of that arrow is gonna be decided by God, but we wanna do everything that we possibly can to put it on the right course from the beginning to at least fire it in the right direction and trust the Lord with the hearts of our children, because unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Amen. All right, y'all. Let's pray and then we'll be done with this episode. God gave us that whole heart that Solomon was was after because his father had en encouraged him that direction and had prayed for him. Towards that end. God, we want to be a church with a whole heart. With families raising children who will eventually also have a whole heart. And we want to be faithful to steward the gifts that you've given us, specifically our families. We want to have families that, that let loose our arrows, our children towards you, towards Christ, and that we will ultimately trust you with their trajectory and their flight. But God we want to do everything that we can to try to set them to follow you. And so God be kind to us to cause many from our church to grow up, to be passionate followers of Jesus who follow you with a whole heart. And we pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Keep in your Bibles, tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. See you. Bye.

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