Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Hey, hello and welcome to a brand new month. It is March, March 1st. Today it's also Sunday, first Sunday in March. We're doing communion today, so if you're still on your way to church, be prepared 'cause we're doing the Lord Supper together today at church as we gather as. Do you dress differently or I don't put on a different pair of shoes, or I don't, no, no. Be prepared in the sense of being prayed up and ready for the intentionality of it and the purpose of it. Okay. So cool. I know sometimes communion can catch us by surprise 'cause we don't do it every week. And I always hated that when I attended churches like that in the past that I'd show up and I'd be like, oh yeah, there's communion. And it almost feels like an after thought. So I've always thought, how could we do a better job at letting people know and preparing for that. We try to do that as much as we can by doing it on the first Sunday of every month. But when we have an opportunity to tell people it's coming up, it's probably helpful to, to get in the right frame of mind. I'd prefer just tell people, be ready anytime. 'cause we can do it any week of the month. Surprise. Be ready at all times. Pop communion. It'll be hap, it'll happen once a month. But when it happens in the month, you gotta be ready for it. There it is. There it is. Anyways, you may be wondering where our third voice is. 'cause Pastor Mark was on the episodes the last couple of of days, but, and we fired him. Yeah. Was not good enough. We heard your uproar. We said, you know what, dude, try harder, do better. And until then you're out of this thing. Yeah. No, his schedule and our schedules are a little bit different as far as days off and when he comes in. And so he's been in on Mondays and so we're trying to align some of that to get him back on the podcast with us. We enjoyed it. And we haven't really heard anything from you guys, so we assume it went well from your perspective, but we've heard from some voices here and there, but we enjoyed having it on and I think he'll be a fixture going forward with us too. Yeah, and really we liked it. So whether or not you did or didn't, that matters? Neither good or there? But neither here nor that. We liked it. It was fun for us, and our pleasure on this podcast is always going to be first place. Yes. Speaking of our pleasure, it is our pleasure to answer your questions. Yes. And we have one today that I think is going to be controversial in its answer. Dun, dun, duh. Not for you, but for those who don't know you. Yeah. Here's the question. They asked to remain anonymous, so we'll do them the honor, and we'll read Pastor Marks, I mean, or we'd hit the email without mentioning who they are. What are your thoughts on kids watching Disney movies? Seems like a lot of the recent movies have been about disobeying your parents and they cite Moana Tangled about being faithful, about, about being who you feel like you are, like frozen or about lying like Aladdin, who's the Prince of Thieves. And she says, I haven't seen enough, enough new stuff to give more examples, but as a Christian adult, I know I can discern things, but my kids aren't so good at that. So how do we. As parents, do we let our kids watch these things? Do we just not, what are the guidelines and principles that you would put in place to help us manage our families entertainment habits, especially as it relates to Disney movies? Yeah. Yeah. By and large, there's gonna be a lot of freedom here for our parents to make decisions for their families in this, rather than making a hard and fast law. I do think there are clear. Situations where we as parents need to be prepared to draw the line and say, this is clearly celebrating something that's ungodly. I know I've heard at least that there are rumors of Disney shows and other shows that are introducing co characters that are not choosing identities, if I can put it that way. That would be honoring to the Lord. And we need to be careful as parents to, to guard our kids and shelter their minds about what they're trying to normalize. But. On the other hand I think there are other families that watch movies like Tangled or Moana or others. And the disobeying the parents think you may see that from your perspective. 'cause let put it the other way too. You would say, I'm discerning enough as an adult to see that and say that that's bad. That may not even be registering with your kids as they're watching this. And I would couple that by saying, if you are. Teaching your kids well and instructing them well as what it looks like to submit to their parents and to honor their father and mother at home, then I think you have some freedom to realize, it's one thing if you're letting your kid watch Tangled, 17,000 times and they're learning what it looks like to interact with mom and dad from watching Tangled versus they watch Tangled a few times, but your influence, your voice in their life is so strong in teaching them what it looks like to honor mom and dad, and they know what. Results in a dis in discipline. They know what results in consequences, if they're disobedient. There's opportunities there. There's even opportunities as they get older. We, I've had situations with my kids where we've been watching a show and seen somebody do something or say something to, we watched home alone. And Kevin mouths off to his mom and I look at my boys, I'm like, what do you think would happen if you mouth off to your mom like that? And they all answer correctly. I'll just put it that way. You'll punch us in the face knee. Us in the stomach, dad. So kick us in the head. I think there's opportunities even for teaching on the positive side. Now it depends on the age of the child, but I can't make a hard, fast rule to say, I think you boycott Disney across the board at this stage. At least I'll provide that caveat. Or that you need to not watch these movies or watch them. It's a personal decision that's gonna be up to the freedom of the parents that was really even handed of you. You sound surprised. No, no. There's just some acknowledging that. Okay. Well, I appreciate it. I'm gonna, I don't know if I disagree at all. I think obviously I like when we disagree, but I think I'm in lockstep with you in a lot of ways. Let me just offer a couple thoughts in addition now. First, I think the dose is what makes the poison in this case. And I think you're wise to point that out. I don't want to hamstring you and say you can't do this or that. But there is certainly a line that every family has to be aware of, cognizant about, where you're probably just doing too much, too much media, period. Yeah. Even if it's Christian media, you're watching things from the right now, media people. I liked David. I mean, I really liked David, David, the David movie with Phil Wickham and the other people. That was really cool. The music was fun. I really appreciated the animation. It was a really well told story, however. It wasn't thoroughly biblical. They took liberties and they took some artistic license to, to make things fit better into a story arc that lasted an hour and 20 minutes. And I understand that. Yeah. And I'm okay with that. I think that's perfectly fine. But I wouldn't say, Hey kids, let's watch this every day. Let's learn about how David defeated Goliath in the Bible. 'cause now you have a whole different understanding of what that's supposed to look like. It's superior in terms of. Being an alternative to some of the other options. Absolutely. But I would even say Christian media is not healthy as a steady diet when it comes to a steady diet for a family activity and things like that. You just have to be picky and choosy and there's just not a lot of options. I remember even thinking to myself when I watched movies from back in the old day. I mean, I Love Lucy. Have you watched I Love Lucy lately? I've not watched it lately. No. I love, I love Lucy. I might even say I Love Lucy. You love Lucy. It's a fun show. And yet. There's a lot of InApp. Posity in that thing. In InApp. Posity, inappropriate. It's a technical term. I wouldn't expect you to know it. Oh, I don't. Posity is, thanks for enlightening. It's all over. It's not like every line like it is today, but there's a lot of things in their room. I'm like, oh man, that's a, that's something I would not say. Yeah. And for 1950s America, they had sensibilities that were certainly, I think, better than ours today. But even then, there were things that. They believed in the way that they talked about women or mm-hmm. The way that they objectified others was different. Yeah. And I can see that today as a 2026 person looking back at that and saying that, that's not what I wanna teach my kids either. So no matter where you turn, there's gonna be issues. Your job as a parent is to just be careful what the amount that you're taking in and when you do choose to enjoy it, I think there's nothing wrong and everything right. With saying, all right, let's debrief that. Yeah. What did you guys think of that? What about this particular situation? What did you notice about the way that that kid, or the way that that protagonist. Whatever. That's a really helpful thing. That said, so much of Disney's garbage. Yep. Just gonna say it. And there's so much Disney garbage out there. They are. Not, they're not hiding the fact that they're going after our kids, right? And so, for those things that I know for a fact, there's something in it that's objectionable, it's a non-starter for us. Agree. Nowhere near it. We're not gonna play it. We canceled our Disney Plus thing so that we're not paying for that anymore. But I'm not opposed to paying for it once every now and then, and saying, I wanna watch that new movie that came out. I really like that. I wanna see that Zootopia too. So I'll pay for it for a month. But I'm not gonna keep it going 'cause I do not wanna support that. And that's also true for all the other streaming services where they're trying to pedal whatever to your kids. I am especially sensitive because they're not apologizing for it. In fact, they think it's right. And there are some states in our union where they will say, you're not allowed to have your kids if you won't support our ideology here. And I think that's a very dangerous direction for any state to take. And for that reason, parents need to be on. On full alert to make sure that you're protecting your kids. 'cause they are certainly not. Yeah, for sure. We're even gonna be talking about this at church this morning. We're talking about this wartime mentality and the fact that we need to be prepared to suffer and have a mentality that expects suffering in this world. And some of the suffering for our faith is going to be persecution, but sometimes suffering for our faith is making decisions about what our family's going to. Ingest what our family's going to watch, what our family's gonna participate in, and what they're not gonna participate in. And we talk about that as adults a lot. Well, we're not gonna watch the same show that our coworkers watch because of our Walk With Christ because of our faith in Christ. And so we are suffering in the sense that we are giving up some worldly pleasures that the world doesn't find objectionable, but we as Christians are gonna say, we're gonna surrender those things for the sake of our walk with Christ, instead of giving in and being just like the world in that sense. Yeah. And it's. On the scale of suffering, if the scale is zero to a hundred, it's not a big deal for us to skip movies, you know? No, it's not. It's okay for your kid not to know about that. Right. Not to be able to have the dresses or the action figures that go along with the new thing. This is an area where I think we're gonna look back in 50 years and be like, that was worth. Not participating in, because it's one of those things where there's so much bad fruit. Yeah. Or as some people have said before, it's one of those, eat the meat, spit out the bones thing where there's so many bones in here, you're gonna choke. Yeah. Yep. Well, let's jump into our DBR for today. Number 24 through 27. We a lot Mark Chapter for eight. Yeah, it's a lot. Have 45 minute podcast. Yeah. Numbers eight is a continuation of what we were talking about yesterday. And numbers eight is about blum's continued Oracles that he's delivering about Israel. And these are. Prophetic statements here. And so he is again, going to be tasked by Baam to say, I want you to curse them. And ba baam or Baic is gonna say, I want you to curse them. Baam is gonna say I can't do, but what God will allow me to do or what God tells me to do. And so Baam is going to give the blessing rather than the curse. BAIC is getting. More and more angry. In verse 10, Bali's anger was kindled against baam and he struck his hands together Now, so he is getting he's threatening. He's ominous now at this point, and Baam yet says, again, look, even if you gave me your kingdom, even if you gave me all the gold that you have, I still could not go beyond what the Lord says here. Now this is. This is a, again, balam ends up being a guy that is a thorn in Israel side later on. Balam is not a good guy. And so this appears to be something that God is doing in his life where God has made it abundantly clear that he is not to do anything beyond. And we go back to the donkey interaction that we talked about yesterday, but Balaam is very aware that he cannot say anything evil against Israel, even if he wanted to. And it seems like this is a man with the character that would say he would want to based on what he does later on with Israel. Yeah, he's an interesting character. We talked about the weirdness before about his character, his life, his ministry, how he even knows Yahweh and why Yahweh would even choose to interact with him. But I think there's a lot of mystery here that we just need to leave as that it's mysterious how and why God chooses to use him. But I do think it. It shows us that God can and in fact Indeed does use different people and from surprising backgrounds and in surprising ways to make his point. And I think the point is, I don't really need any of you guys. I could do whatever I could if I wanted to. I could preach the gospel from a donkey. Yeah. And clearly he does not need us. But I think that shows us that if we're willing to submit to his leadership and to submit to his will and his purposes, he can use even you. If you're not a donkey, you're doing a whole lot better than Balaam's donkey. You can be useful to the Lord. Nice. Yeah. He goes on here in the third and final Oracle and talks about Edem edem shall be dispossessed here and his enemies dispossessed. Now, this is a prophecy about the future that will come true Edem. That edem mites are gonna fade away. They're gonna be taken out outta the scene. The book of Amos, again talks about that as well, but just unique. 'cause Edem was the ones that prohibited. Israel from traveling through during the wilderness period, during the wilderness wanderings. And so here's Baam saying even Edem is gonna be dispossessed by this people, this people Israel, that are gonna be so strong. But meanwhile, back in the camp, back in Israel, chapter 25, things are not going all that well. In fact, they're beginning to go after these other gods, specifically the God Baal. Now Baal is gonna be a specific false God an idol of the nations that. Is gonna be a snare to Israel for many, many, many years, and they're going to draw, Baal is going to draw Israel away. Even think about the days of Elijah, Elijah and the prophets of Baal, right? This is much further on in the history of Israel, but here we see Baal beginning to be introduced into the the minds of the people of Israel. So much so that there's this scene that happens as they're beginning to intermarry with people and take foreign wives for themselves against something God had commanded them not to do. Where you have a man named. Phineas step up and put an end to some of the Godlessness by saying he's not gonna Stanford anymore. And there's one particular situation where he ends up killing two people in a particular act because. They were doing exactly what God told them not to do. And so Zeal is gonna be com Phineas is gonna be commended for his zeal here for being jealous. I think with the jealousy of God, we talk about how God is a jealous God and Phineas has some of that jealousy in and of himself here when he goes and does what he does to stand up for what's right for the Lord. And that's another thing of just saying, we, we need to be ready to stand up for what's right for the Lord to call sin sin. And sometimes to act when we need to act to bring it to an end, rather than to just turn a blind eye to it or to perpetuate it by participating in it. What's happening here I think is also related to numbers Chapter 15. This is someone who sends with a high hand numbers 15 verses 30 through, I don't know, let's just call it. The end of that chapter this sin with the high hand was egregious in God's sight. And I think that's what makes this so permissible and something commendable in the Lord's eyes because the feel of Zia zeal the feel of zines too. Yeah. His feelings were affected by his zeal. And I think one of the things that we might be tempted to look at as Man Finney's just. Killed them and that was awesome. 'cause it seems like, it says that I don't think that's the whole story, although it is certainly part of it. His zeal was because of what God had previously revealed. God said if someone sends with a high hand, their blood is on their own head, they will die. And so Zaius enacts what God has called in to do. Now granted, there's a little bit of ambiguity here. To me, there's no core, there's no, you know, but there's a plurality of witness. It's for sure. Yeah. So this is not just on the evidence of one witness. There's multiple, he enacts the death sentence, which is what they deserved, and this is what stopped God's judgment against them. And we also remember that this is not something that happened by accident. This is Blum's idea. He's trying to encourage them to be promiscuous with these other people because of what it says about their relationship to God, their Baal worship of God. So Vinia zeal is multifaceted. It's not just this one text. You have to keep in mind what's been happening and what God has told them in the past. Yep. Numbers Chapter 26. We have a new generation, which means we need a new head count. And so we are gonna go back through another census here where they're gonna take a account of the number of people in each of these tribes. And as you go through, you can mark in your Bible or underline in your Bible, each of the tribes as their names are listed. And then how many. Of them are are listed there with each tribe. So, we get all the way through chapter 26, and we read down in verse 63. There were those listed by Moses and Azar, the priest who listed the people of Dan a Jericho. Now remember, Azar is the priest because Aaron is no longer here. Aaron has died. Azar, his son is acting as priest now. But among these, there was not one of those listed by Moses and Aaron, the priest who had listed the people of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. God's word had come to. To fruition. God had promised these are not gonna enter the promised land. And now we see that that has come to fruition, that's come to fulfillment. And they are right there on the other side of Jericho. Now chronologically they're close to being at the place of taking the promised land. They're close to going over. Moses is not gonna go. So there's more for us. In fact, there's an entire, another book of the Pentateuch before they're gonna take the Promised Land. And that's the book of Deuteronomy. But just that we set the scene, they are. At the banks of the Jordan River looking across basically at this point into the promised land, ready to go. And and this is a huge turning page for them, realizing that the previous generation is gone. The generation God condemned is gone. And those that are left are the ones that are gonna take the land. As often happens as you read through these chapters, you find yourself feeling like, oh, that happened quickly. But make no mistake, we are reading about 38 years after the first census that begins the book. So we're looking at a long period of time. God highlights a few of the key events for us to see and to understand, but we're looking at a long period. 40 years is a long time, 38. But, let's just round up. 40 years is a long time. And what you have to do as you read then is not allow yourself to quickly skim over and say, okay, this is cool. I already saw this. It's a matter of you saying, man, there's been a long time between the beginning and now the chapter that's ending and establishes another chapter. You have to feel a little bit of time by slowing down and just recognizing what's taking place here. The tribes are lar, they're not exactly the same size. There's been a few that suffered some pretty catastrophic losses. For different reasons, although we don't know all of them. We could take a couple educated guesses. But just notice here, this is a whole new scene, A whole new chapter is about to begin, and before that chapter fully begins, you're gonna have an extended series of sermons from Moses to remind them, here's what's happened. Here's what's gonna happen. Here's how you should be faithful. Chapter 27. Then we have a unique request made by some daughters of a man who had passed away and they were saying, wait a minute. We're about to go into the promised Land, and what about us? Do we not get tribal land according to our father's inheritance because he's no longer with us. These are the daughters of Zfa had, ZFA had, so Zfa had was a. Man who was no longer, again, part of the generation there. He had died off as God had announced that they would. And the daughters just saying, do we have any inheritance in the land for us? And Moses is going to seek the Lord there. And this is gonna result in verse eight. You shall speak to the people and tell them, if a man has dies and has no son, then you shall transfer his inheritance to his daughter. So God's gonna make provision for these daughters to say, yes, you do get land according to your father's inheritance. You're not gonna be homeless when we enter into the promised land. And so this is a kind of a case law situation for Moses to. With before they enter the land. And so it was that God cared en enough about protecting the possession of each tribe. That he's even willing to say, look if you're a woman and you don't have a male counterpart, then it's gonna have to go to the daughters. He gives several lines of succession to say you have to go down these different routes so that you don't lose the possession. God was concerned that they not lose what he himself is giving them. And so this is really cool because it showcases the fact that these women who are. Ordinarily would be overlooked, are not overlooked by God. In fact I think is it this chapter or the future one where he talks about go marry someone? No, this is later. Yeah, this is later. Okay. I ahead of myself, we're gonna come back with, and I have more to say about them when we get there. Awesome. Chapter 27 ends with the announcement that Joshua is gonna be the one to. Mm, succeed. Moses and Moses', care for the people is seen here in that he says to the Lord he says, let the Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh. Verse 16, appointed man over the congregation who shall go before them, and who shall lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the Lord may not be as sheep. Without a shepherd, that should remind you of Jesus seeing the crowds and saying they're like sheep without a shepherd. Moses wanted to make sure that the people were gonna be led well after him. And so even though he's not about to die at this point, he wants to know from the Lord who's the guy who's gonna be the one that's gonna lead the people after me, and he cares that they're gonna be cared for. And that's where the Lord identifies Joshua. Joshua is gonna be the one you shall commission him in their sight, which is important. Because this is gonna be instrumental for Joshua's leadership and the people following Joshua, they're gonna see that Moses is behind Joshua. So sometimes when succession takes place, you can have a situation where those that were loyal to the one that was in that role previously, they're gonna have a hard time following the next guy up. And so I think there's wisdom here on Moses apart, on God's part. By having Moses be the one to lay hands on Joshua and commission him in the side of the people, because Joshua's gonna have a big order to lead them into the promised land after this shows how important that God considers leadership to be. He didn't wanna lead them without a shepherd. He didn't wanna lead them without some kind of direction setter. When we see here, then that leadership is inherently a good thing. It can be wielded for negative and evil ramifications, but it is ordinarily a good thing that we should esteem and we should pray for. This is not the kind of thing that happens naturally, organically. You have to pursue healthy, godly leadership, and when you have it, it is something special. I think another thing that's helpful too is that Moses dies after he installs Joshua. Not immediately. He doesn't linger. Yeah, but he doesn't stay around. I know there's a pastor or scholar emeritus and they're kind of still in the congregation, and I understand there's a sweetness to that, but I think it's also helpful. To not send mixed messages. Installing a leader and then saying, you are the guy. And there's not a competitor. No one's gonna go to old Pastor Bob and say, well, pastor Bob when he did it, and what does Pastor Bob think? And what if Pastor Bob doesn't like what Pastor Caleb's doing, and yada, yada yada. So all that to say, leadership examples here, all throughout the scriptures, good leadership is a god thing. All right, let's flip over to Mark chapter eight. Mark Chapter eight is our New Testament reading, verses 11 through 38. So if we get into this, we see a lot of what we've read already in the gospel of Matthew against synoptic Gospels contain a lot of the same events, just told from a different perspective or a different angle, different lens, if you will. And so we see again this interaction between the disciples and Jesus, where they're gonna get in the boat and they're gonna realize they don't have any bread with. Them and they're talking about this, and Jesus is gonna confront them and says some pretty hard things to them. He says in verse 17, Jesus aware of this, said to them, why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Are you. Not yet. Do not yet perceive or understand. Are your hearts hardened, having eyes? Do you not see and having ears? Do you not hear and do you not remember? And so Jesus is pretty harsh with them because they're failing to connect the dots between the feeding of the 5,000 and the fact that he can provide bread, that he must be talking about something else. When he says, beware the 11 of the Pharisees, which he had said previous to this, that there must be something else going on here. And so Jesus is not pulling punches with them as far as laying things out to say, Hey, you need to understand. That I'm talking about something deeper than surface issues here, and Jesus is going to try to get them to understand more of this. After this, he is gonna heal a blind man. A blind man at be. And this is an interesting healing 'cause it's a two stage healing. Jesus certainly could have healed this man in one, but he does it in two. He initially is going to take the blind man. And lead him aside, he lays his hands on him and spit on his eyes, laid his hands on him, and says, do you see anything? And the man says, well, I see things like trees, people walking around like trees. And then he is gonna lay his hands on his eyes again. And this time his eyes are fully opened. And he's gonna say, don't enter the village. Don't go tell people. But I've restored your sight to you pr. Any thoughts on the two stage healing here from the blind man? Yeah, mark is doing that on purpose. Jesus is not powerless to heal with one fell swoop. He does this before. And so what we're meant to see is that like the disciples who are still trying to understand and still see, they are like the blind man and then their ability to see what Jesus is saying and understand what he's saying is progressive. And so in the next section, Jesus affirms that Peter's gonna say, you are the Christ. This is the Caea Philippi confession. When they're way up north in kind of the wilderness and that's, this is before, or this is rather after. He says to them, do you not understand? Yeah. They're like the blind man who only sees partially, but here they see fully. And that's why I think that the blind man between this sandwiched episode is there. Yeah, that's a great point. That's a great point. And that is where it goes next with Peter's confession, which is a high point for Peter right before a pretty low point for Peter, because right after this confession that you're the Christ Jesus is gonna predict his crucifixion again. And Peter's done with this. He's heard it a couple times now, and he says, Lord, what are you talking about? You're not gonna die. And Peter goes from this confession of saying, you're the Christ where Jesus has blessed are you? And. Then now Jesus is gonna look at Peter and say, get behind me, Satan. The word Satan means adversary. He is not setting his mind on the things of the Lord. And so Peter's. Kind of swing here is pretty intense. And Jesus, again, has hard words for his followers. He wasn't soft on his followers. He expected more from them. And so he's gonna confront Peter and and try to get Peter to understand more of what he was talking about here. I wonder if it was simultaneously both the best and worst day of his life. Probably, I dunno. He walked on water, he had the denial so that the denial probably was the best or the worst day of his life. This could have been one of the best ones. Peter was just so impetuous. He's, he's just, he's out there. Yeah. He's not hiding it. He's just throwing himself out there. And he takes risks. He does. I respect that. Yeah, for sure. For sure. Well, hey, let's pray and then we'll be done with this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast. Well, thanks for your word that you've given to us. As we've been talking about lemon and bread. It is the bread of life and we turn to it and we want to devour it. We want to spend time in it, we want to know it, we want to ingest it. And so I pray that you'd help us to give our minds over to this study that it wouldn't just be, letting our eyes glaze over the page, but that we would really, truly take these things to heart, to ask good questions, to dig in, and to groan our understanding of you so that we may follow you more faithfully. So we thank you so much for your word in the truth that it contains for us. We pray this in Jesus' name, amen. Keep in your Bibles. Tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. See you tomorrow folks. Bye.

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