Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible podcast. Happy Tuesday day, everybody. It is Tuesday and we are back in the swing of things. I thought we were back in the swing of things and then snow didn't happened, but we're back now and it's supposed to be nice weather this week, like fifties and sixties, and I even saw that we might hit 75 sometime later this week. Yeah, at least that's what's happening. As of today is when we, as we record, but I love this. Yep. I'm all about this. Bring it on. I'm happy for the snow. I'm happy for the heat. I'm digging it, man. In fact, the other day I went outside and it was cold and I was just like, okay, you, the psychological suffering that I once experienced coming to Texas has almost not, and it's not gone gone, but it's almost ceased. I'm just like, this is normal life now. I'm so thankful for that. The trauma has subsided. Yeah, man. My PTSD after moving to Texas has slowly faded away. I feel like I'm almost fully functional again. Good, good. Hey I had a question for you that came up from a conversation I was having with somebody recently. Oh. They were talking about the DBR and they were talking about, oh no, reading the Bible. In the podcast. Okay. So they were talking about their own experience with it. They said, I used to listen to the podcast and then go read the Bible. And they said that they found that sometimes it was confusing because they were trying to understand the text through what they listened to on the podcast. So they said that I started to just read the Bible and then I would go and listen to the podcast afterwards. And they found it more helpful because that's a great order. They were able to discern things. So is that what you would say? You should read the word first and then go to the podcast. If there's any chance that you will listen to us and not read your Bible. Always privilege the text. Yes. Always, always, always, always, always, always, always, always, always. But otherwise if you're gonna get it one way or the other, I don't know if I necessarily care. I do care that. We do this in part because we do wanna influence you. We make no apologies about that. We want to help you read your Bible, and we wanna teach you how to do it well, right? And to help make application to texts as you make your way through it. So we're doing that for that whole purpose. So on the one hand I say we don't want to influence you. But that's not true. We don't want to over influence you. We don't want to be the larger voice in your life than the text itself. We're trying to help you see how the text fits into your life and what it says to you. So I, I don't know if first front loading or back loading it in my mind is all that important unless you sense in your heart it's not helpful to you if you listen to it before you read the Bible, in which case then move it. No, no problem on my part. What would you say? Yeah, I would agree. Follow up question to that interpretation versus application. Would you agree there's one interpretation of the Bible, but many applications. When you say one interpretation, what do you mean by that? This is what the text means. Okay. So one meaning yes. Yeah. Yes, yes. There's one meaning of a text. You can't, so here's what I mean. Sometimes people will say, this is what this passage means to me. Yeah. And of course we've said before that you, you can't say that at the very minimum it's sloppy language. You might mean something that we could agree with, right? But we wouldn't encourage you to use that terminology because then it confuses what the Bible says. What it means is what it means. Abraham married Sarah you can't say, well, here's what that actually means, right? And here's the underlying nuance of the text, and here's some gnostic knowledge that I need to drop some bombs on you. It has one meaning. Yes, we would agree with that. Yeah. Yeah. And the reason that matters is because the text is under attack, even in today's culture because people wanna take the text and say, well, that's not actually what that means. What it means then is different than what it means now. And so what it means now is we can take this and say, well, for example, marriage doesn't have to only be one man and one woman, and we can change the meaning of this and people can Love is love and the meaning is different based on culture and it changes over time. We would say no. There's a meaning that transcends those things, and we have to start with that, and that's what we're after as we come to this, the scriptures to say what? What was the meaning? What did it mean then? And what does it mean today is the same, how it applies might be different. Absolutely. In fact, I would say how it applies is always gonna be different. Yeah. By and large, because scriptures living in active. Hebrews chapter four, verse 12, it's going to have. Living an active impact on the way that you live your life. And so that means scripture is timeless in one sense. It's not bound to a certain demographic or a geographic area. It's not bound by a certain date. Even though it's written thousands of years ago, it's still as relevant in 2026 as it was in the year six. Yeah, it's just as relevant, if not more so in some cases. So all that to say, it's always gonna have. A flourishing and unfolding application that will look like it fits your place and your time. Yep. That's how scripture works. But yes, there's only ever one meaning. I guess the challenge for that is there's lots of false teachers that they can say things in such a way that it feels like, oh, they're so sincere. They're. And those are the most dangerous people because just because they say it in a sincere way or they appear honest, doesn't mean that they're handling the text. Someone brought this to my attention recently and I thought that's a really good point. I haven't thought about that lately, and I should think about that more often. What used to be novel opinions. And minority opinions can now appear to have greater weight and greater impact because all you need is a really good podcast or a polled video to make a minority view sound like a much larger view than what it used to be. Right? A good example of that is the position that Kirk Cameron is flirting with right now. It, it is a minority view in church history. Now, that doesn't mean that it's automatically wrong. We're not saying that tradition is always going to be right, but we are saying. That that is something, and that's a big deal that for most of church history, the minority view is conditional immortality, which is what Kurt Cameron is wrestling with right now. He's reading modern theologians and he's thinking, oh, I wonder if maybe God doesn't consciously torment people. Maybe he just annihilates them from existence. They no longer live. And there are some smart people that support that position. But it is a minority view. It's a minority view in our theological stripe. Most of the churches that confess the things that we'd confess are lock and step when it comes to believing in the afterlife the way that we do. So all that to say social media, YouTube, particularly in other platforms, like it can make a view seem larger and more robust. Then it otherwise would be because social media democratizes information, it flatlines everything. Instead of us being able to say, oh, this is the position that's majority view. Now it looks like it's on equal footing and on the same level as the minority view and that's not always the case. Sometimes that's helpful and many times it's not. Yeah. Yeah. I would agree. I would agree. Yeah. And I'm with you. I think the podcast realm has been. Detrimental towards that. Yeah, it's a mixed blessing though. See, 'cause I love engaging with different thoughts and ar arguments and ideas because it stimulates me and helps me to refine my thinking on it. But for someone who's not stable. Destructive. Unhelpful for sure. And in fact we dealt with someone, a young man who was wrestling through stuff because they heard it on a podcast. Mm-hmm. And next thing you know, he's making appointments with us and saying, look, I disagree with you guys on these. Real is a really critical issue. Mm-hmm. I disagree with that. Well, why do you disagree? 'cause here's what I heard, and here's the way I understand this. Oh man. I, man, there's room for doubt. Lemme just say this for those of you who do waffle on things, there's room for doubters. Good faith, doubting. Hey, we welcome you. We wanna help you. We wanna settle you, we wanna make you more stable. It's not a good place to stay there, but it's okay to bring your doubts out. We want to deal with those and deal with them biblically. We're okay with that. There is such a thing as bad faith. Doubt though, where it's a suspicion, it's a raised eyebrow about everything and everyone, and it's assuming that while tradition is a giant conspiracy theory, and the whole reason that Jesus is understood as a God and man is because certain people were silenced and the people who were honest and full of integrity, they were silenced and put out of the church. Man, you can rewrite all of human history and make it lean a certain way. That's not our goal. We wanna be biblical. And so we welcome you to have your doubts in terms of saying, Hey, let me help you work through this. But bad faith doubting where it's just a matter of saying, I wanna one up you because I've got all these scholars on my side and I think you're wrong. Well, maybe we're not the right church for you. This might not be the best place for you to stick around if you're really struggling with some of these major doctrines That said. Social media I think is ultimately a mixed blessing. I love it. I benefit from it so tremendously. But there's also for every good podcast, maybe there's 20 or 50, a hundred bad podcasts that aren't doing us any favors. Yeah, I'd agree. I would agree. I think we're the good podcast, by the way. Hopefully, hopefully you agree. Team time will tell. The Lord will tell us. Well, hey, let's jump into our daily Bible reading. We're in Exodus 31 through 33. And then we'll be in Matthew 22, the rest of it. So Exodus 31. We get introduced to two people here, OAB and Beel. Now, Beel is an interesting character because to my knowledge, he's the first one I think in the Bible to be referred to as one who is filled with the Holy Spirit. He's mentioned that way in verse three, that I have filled him with the spirit of God and with the ability and intelligence, and so God is using his spirit to equip him. Now, before you, you turn me off and say, well, hey, this is different. Yes, this is different than New Testament and dwelling, but it's still notable that the first person in scripture that we find to be filled with the spirit of God isn't Moses. It's not Abraham, it's not Jacob. It's not. Any of the guys that we've read that you might think it's an artist. It's Beel. Yeah. The artist. Yeah. The architect formerly known as, yeah. Yeah. And so him is in Oh, holy Now, oh holy. Isn't said specifically to be filled with the spirit, but we might, imply from the text that like Bezo was so was oh holy. And they're gonna be equipped to carry out and do the work that is going to be. Done and we're gonna see their work as we continue in the passage here. But before we get there, there's this intervention here in verses 12 and following, where God is going to focus again on the importance of the Sabbath and command, the honoring and the keeping of the Sabbath. Now, the command has already been given back in the decalogue and the 10 Commandments, that you should honor the Sabbath and keep it holy. But again, he's gonna say this again. Above all, you should keep my sabbaths above all that you may know that above I'm the Lord. Yeah, this is above all this is. Strong. Above all. Above all. That's what it says. That's a single lot, man. Why does it say that this is. Yeah. Above all. And he goes on, he says, it's above love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul minus strength above. You shall have no other gods before me. Above all, it's an expression of all those things, but, and the penalty for it is death, which again, ratchets it up. But it's because of this command from the Lords who his people, Israel, part of it was their dependence upon him. He wanted them to always remember they needed to rest. They needed to depend upon him that they couldn't. Trust in themselves and their own self-sufficiency. So he's going to put in a pattern of rest to make sure that they understand that they're gonna depend upon him. Just like when he gave them manna and said, on the Sabbath day, though you're not gonna find any manna. You need to rest there. And so this is for them. And he says, it's a sign forever between me and the people of Israel, that in six days the Lord made the heaven and the Earth not on the seventh. He rested and was refreshed. So the Sabbath is an important pattern of rest for the people here. Yeah, and it's that and so much more. This is one of those things that the people really struggled with. God wanted them to be a people of rest. This is what would define them outside the ordinary. The other six days of the week, those were the days that they would work. But this is one of the things that I think God uses this to hint at the. And maybe it's a large hint. Maybe for me it's a hint, but for God, it's like this is as obvious as a nose interface. This is how God shows his grace to them. Mm. Instead of saying, I want you to work all seven days just like you did in Egypt, you're gonna be my slaves and my servants, and they are a slaves, make no doubt. But he's saying, look, I want to define a relationship by rest. We rest so we can work. That's the principle. But here it's a spiritual recipe that he's alluding to. In fact, later on in the New Testament, we're gonna find out that the rest that we get is in Christ. It pointed to an ultimate rest and a satisfaction that would define our relationship, hence forth. So for here I agree it's an above all because it's so defining for their relationship between them and God. Yeah. After this in chapter 32, we get into not so much of a good situation here while Moses is up on the mountain. And then that's important for us to remember because we are reading and we're breaking this all up. This is. Part of Moses is 40 days and 40 nights on the mountain when, while Moses is up there delaying to come back down the people gather together and they go to Aaron and they say to Aaron, Hey, we want you to make us Gods so that we can have something tangible. 'cause this Moses, well, we don't know what's become of him. And so Aaron and what struck me this time is just. Aaron's a smarmy dude at this point. He asks them to come and says, gimme all your stuff, gimme your gold give. And he crafts. It's very intentional. In the text, he received the gold from their hands and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden calf. So he receives it, he fashions it, and he makes it. And he says, and then he presents it to them and says, these are your gods. And he builds an altar before it. And he makes this proclamation. Aaron is anything but. An innocent victim in all this. You could argue he's leading in this, and yet what's gonna happen ultimately is he's gonna plead ignorance as we're gonna see later on. But this is horrific. As Moses is hearing from the Lord, you shall not make any graven images. You shall not have any other gods before me. That's exactly what they're doing down there. And so. As the Lord reveals this to Moses, Moses goes down and he finds what's going on here. And the Lord says to Moses, leave me alone in verse 10. Then my anger may burn hot against them, that I may consume them in order that I may make a great nation of you. We almost had Adam and then Noah. And then Moses as the three figurehead of humanity, so to speak. Mm. And yet Moses is going to intercede. He's going to Implo, implore the Lord not to do this. He's gonna call him to remember his covenant. And God is going to relent. It says from the disaster. I think this is less about God and more about Moses. I think God is testing Moses to find out what kind of leader is Moses gonna be? What kind of character does Moses have? Is Moses the right man to lead, the people to intercede, to be patient with the people and to be the man that, that God hopes that he will be throughout this time. And so God is going to relent when Moses intercedes, God was always going to relent. This is not God changing his decree, changing his eternal order. This is God condescending to us to help us understand what's going on with his ordination of things. Amen to that Spectacular failure though on Aaron's part poor. In fact, I'm surprised. I'm genuinely surprised that God does not take Aaron out. Same. Maybe we're gonna find out soon enough that Aaron's sons are gonna be taken out for something that appears to be a lesser crime. Yes. Appears to be that I, I guess God knows more than I do but I'm surprised that God doesn't take him out. And I think you're right. I think your instinct is right on this. It's probably in part because he's doing something with Moses and it includes Aaron's folly, his disobedience, his. Terrible fall from glory. This is awful. This is as bad as it gets. He does exactly what you say he fashioned. It's a intentional move on his part. So I read one commentator suggest that what he does is, so he says in verse four, well, I guess it doesn't say this right here, but that what he's trying to do is depict Yahweh. So he's breaking mm-hmm. The second commandment, or he's fashioning Yahweh as a calf, which is interesting. I wonder why he chose a calf of all the things he could have chosen. Yeah. Calf was just the thing that stood out to me, and I don't know why he chose that one, as opposed to it's easiest to make some. Yeah, this is probably it. Here's a snake, guys. Anyway, all that to say, I'm surprised that Aaron's alive after this. Yeah, I am too. I'm too, and there's consequences. It just because God relents doesn't mean there's no consequences. Part of the consequences is Moses is gonna take this calf and grind it up, and sprinkle it in the water. They're gonna have to drink it, drink up. And then there's 3000 people that are gonna be executed by the Lord for this, that, for their participation in this. And then the Lord's gonna send a plague as well on top of that. And he says this, he says in verse 33 32 and 33, he says, but now if you'll forgive their sin, but if not, please blot me out of your book that you've written. This is Moses. Then it says in verse 33, the Lord said to Moses, whoever has sinned against me, I will blot outta my book. Does that include Aaron? I don't think so. I think Gar lives he lives, but to blot outta the book as in no Longer Saved, right? Mm. The Book of life. That's a step too far for me. I don't know. I don't know because I don't think God would've permitted him to maintain his role as high priest. That's fair. Yeah. If he was not. In some way, shape, or form. Still a Yahweh devote devotee. Yeah. So I think I, what I find here that's fascinating to me is that this is where the Levites are like, Hey, hold up. We got this. Let us help you. 'cause these guys are the executioners, God, this is interesting to me too, because these are the holy men. These are the guys that God's gonna say, I'm gonna choose a Levites instead of the firstborn. They're the ones that step up to say, we'll kill our brothers, we'll execute these guys, these knuckleheads who stand out. And what's also interesting is that later on, Phineas is gonna do something very similar and God's gonna say, yep, that dude's a dude after my own heart. I think this is fascinating. Yeah. Because we talked about a few days ago, someone asked, what about when, we have our loved ones who are not on the right side of Christ in the afterlife. How do we feel about that? I see glimpses now in scripture where I see, I see God's justice executed and people that are a part of that. Are both honored and esteemed by God because they share his sense of justice. So I have to think that what we are seeing here is a holy anger, a holy justice that, that God can say, yeah, that's my heart. So God is love. We read that first John four. He is love. Certainly that's what his love does. It provides a foundation for us to be forgiven. That is through Christ, by the sacrifice of his own son. But if you're not found in that. There is justice to be experienced. Yeah. Chapter 33, then the Israelites are gonna be in instructed to, to leave Sinai. Sinai wasn't the promised land. And so they're going to be called to move on and the Lord gives them instructions. Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp. This is where the kind of the rhythm and the pattern of what is going to happen is gonna be established here. And Moses is gonna go meet with the Lord. It says they're face to face as a man speaks to his friend now. God doesn't have a face. We, we talked about the fact as he smell, and so here, what does it mean face to face? This is about the intimacy, the closeness of Moses' relationship with God. They were talking as though they were close and intimate, friends face to face. In that sense, it's not as though Moses was beholding his face because we're gonna see right over here in verse 20, you cannot see my face for man, shall not see me and live. And so this is not literally behold the. Face as far as the full glory of God, but this is more the intimacy, the closeness of the relationship that Moses had with God, which was different than anyone else's relationship. And so Moses is going to be interceding for the people as such. Moses wants to know as much of God as he can, and so he asks him. Lord, I want to see you. Please show me your glory, and we're gonna find out that God's gonna respond to that in verse 34. He's gonna say initially, or in chapter 34, but initially here in 33, he's gonna say, Hey, you know what? I'll show you a portion of it, but you can't see the fullness because no one can see my face and live. And that's what he's talking about here with Moses. Yeah, that's such a cool passage. I don't know if that's still something that God would use is to describe his people today to say, oh man, they know me face to face. But man, that sounds like a really sweet relationship with God because we have Christ. I have to think that that's not only possible, but maybe even more possible and more likely than it was under the covenant that Moses was. Administrating at this point. So if that excites you, like it does me, I would press in. I think God wants us to draw near to him and to experience that kind of intimacy. I would agree. There's a guy on I think it's on Instagram or something, who listens to, to worship music, and he says, I'm gonna listen until I hear something that would kill me. And so there's an old third day song that starts out, show me your glory. And so it's one of the first lines out. And so he is like, oh. We're done. That's funny. But alright. New Testament, Matthew 22, 23 through 46. So here we get the question again. That the sad sees they're trying to trip Jesus up. So the sad sees are entering the picture. Now they're gonna ask them this question about marriage. If a man dies and he, his wife marries another, and then that man dies and so forth and so on, whose wife will she be? And Jesus says, you've got it all wrong in the. Afterlife, we neither marry nor are given in marriage. But for the resurrection of the dead your main issue is you don't believe in the resurrection of the dead. You need to remember what the Lord said, what God said, and when he said, I am not, I was, but I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And his point is he's the God of the living, not the dead. So Jesus is answering the question. To your point, sometimes he doesn't answer the question, he does answer, but then he really goes after what their greater error is, which is they're denying the bodily resurrection and so Jesus is going to condemn that here with the Sadducees as he engages with them. Yeah. This is lever at marriage that they're referring to, by the way. Yep. We talked about it. Recently don't remember when, but this is Lever it mirrors that they're referring to. So they're saying, talking about something that we just recently talked about as it related to polygamy. Yeah. After this, then we get the question about the greatest commandment Jesus gives to in response. He says, the greatest is to love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and all your mind. And then he says in the second is like it to love your neighbor as yourself on these two commandments. Hang the whole law. We've talked about that the 10 commandments. You can break it down into a love for God and a love for the neighbor. And so Jesus is answering in accordance with this. And one of the. The other passages, I believe it's Mark's account where the expert in the law says, you've answered well. And Jesus even tells that expert, you're not far from the kingdom of God. So it's an interesting interaction here. Mark gives us a little bit of a greater insight here that there's maybe some genuine. Approach to some of the people that are asking Jesus these questions. I think there's a couple takeaways from this that stand out to me. Number one I would say that probably you could draw a line or an arrow from every law that God gives to one of these two laws to l. Love the Lord your God, heart, souls line of strength or secondly, to love your neighbor as yourself. And when he says, which is the great commandment of the law, that tells me that at least in the mind of the first century audience, and perhaps in the mind of Jesus too, because he answers the question, there is a ranking of laws. Mm-hmm. Which tells us that there are certain laws that, as we just saw about the Sabbath above all, keep the Sabbath. Yeah. There is a ranking of the law of God. That means that not all of them have. Equal authority at equal times. They're all equally binding. They all are from the mouth of God. They're not dispensable. You can't just throw things away saying, I don't like this one. They all play a role and they're all weighty, but they're weighted differently, and I think the way that you discern A from B from C is wisdom. Yeah. Knowing the word of God and knowing the heart of God helps you make decisions about which law of God takes precedence in any given situation. Yeah. I would agree. There's another question that's asked. The Pharisees are gathered together this time. The question is not asked by the Pharisees, but asked by Jesus to them and he says, who do you think? What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he? So Jesus goes on the offensive, even here with them, and they said. Said to him, well, he's the son of David. And he said, yes, you've answered right. But then how does David say of him in the Lord? The Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet. And so this is a reference to, again, the deity of Christ and the deity of the Messiah that if. David is able to say of his offspring, his future, great-great-great, great, great, whatever grandson that he is, his Lord. The only reason he would say that is because he's greater than David. And if he's greater than David, then he must be significant to the level that Jesus has been posturing himself to be. And so again, he's trying to get the Pharisees to understand who he is here. But Jesus goes on the offensive here at the end of chapter 22. All right y'all. Well, let's pray and then we'll be done with this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast. Lord, help us to be those that love you with everything that we are and love our neighbors. Well also help us to honor the great commandment and the second Lord, we want to be faithful to both and really there's no way to be faithful to. To, to loving you without letting that overflow into our relationship with others. And so I pray that we would be mindful of that and that we would do that in a way that honors Christ. And so we pray this all in Jesus' name. Amen. Hey, keep pressing through the week. It is Tuesday. We're almost halfway through this week, and we've got another episode of the Daily Bible Podcast coming to you guys tomorrow. I'll see you then.

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