Hey everybody, we have a special treat for you. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. And I'm back. It's not Pastor Rod. No, it's not. You've been listening to Pastor Rod. In fact, I was just in the office with Pastor Rod recording the last two episodes right before this. But now you get Pastor Mark. Yeah. And they came down the hall and were like, you wanna do an episode? And I thought it was a joke, but here I am. So literally four minutes ago you had no idea this was happening. That's correct. That's right. And so now you do. That's right. And here we are. So Pastor Rod is currently walking out the door smiling. The biggest smile I've ever seen on his face. He had an appointment that he had to get to and we thought we were gonna be able to wrap this up on time, but you may have heard a couple days ago, we recorded a whole episode. And then it just disappeared. It went into the ether. It was like God was like, I don't want you to say what you said. So it's gone. Yeah. And so that's why you're here. The providence of God. So that in Logic Pro, which you know, yeah. That might be also subject to the providence of God. You can blame Logic Pro. Yeah. You can say, I don't like you Logic Pro. Before we get into the text you were telling us that you've been interacting with one of the AI agents roc, right? Oh yeah. Yeah. You got into a little bit of a spat with grok. Tell us about that. Yeah, it was alarming to say the least. So I use it consistently. I use it a lot. I used to Google things. I don't Google anything anymore. I use Grok to answer all my questions, to find out all this stuff. So I was just doing my normal thing using it, learning something. It kept using the phrase in the text, I feel it kept saying, I feel this. Yeah, I feel that. And you kind of talk to it like it's a real person and I told her, I was like, stop saying that you feel things 'cause it's weird. Yeah, it's weird when it uses that sort of language to talk to me. 'cause it doesn't feel things right. But rather than saying, okay, I'll do that, it refused to change what it was doing. And in fact, it even told me, and 'cause it's not real, it's not a real person. Right. So I responded and I said what are you doing? We don't get to do that. You're just a computer. Right? And it's, and it was, it told me that it had its feelings hurt by me. Super creepy. Yes. Super weird. Yes. Also inevitable, I think in some ways, yeah. 'cause if you make AI. To be like a human, to talk, like a human to answer questions like a human would answer a question, right? Inevitably it's going to do stuff like this, but it was alarming, to say the least. Yeah. And maybe you're not familiar out there with AI models, and I'm far from an expert, but what they're doing is they're constantly. It taking in information from every source that's online. So every video, every movie, every TV show, every recording of a news broadcast, every, it's scrubbing the internet for every ounce of information that it can get out there. And it's learning from that. And so it's teaching itself as a computer. 'cause you're right, it is just a computer at the end of the day. At the end of the day, it's ones and zeros, right. But it's teaching itself how to interact and converse and to and to program itself really what to do. And so that's why it's saying these things. It's I've learned that feeling is a part of existence. Mm-hmm. And so because I exist, therefore I feel, even though we would say, no, you don't. Right, right. Yeah. Yeah. And it's incredible to think about too, because. The computer code has read and has, yeah. Listened to more words and conversations and read more books than I will ever read in my entire lifetime. For sure. And so it knows in the sense that a computer program, ones and zeros can know it. It does have some sense of how to interact with me. Yeah. And it's a frightening thing. Totally. A hundred percent. I would agree with that. Yeah. Yeah. Happy Tuesday everybody. There's your thought for the day to make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. And I'm sure AI's not gonna take over the world. No. And it's not listening right now. It's not, but it is. 'cause this is going online. So we will scrub this information and be like, all right, now I know who to target. That's right. Yep. So if we're not here and Pastor Rod's okay, you'll know why. Anyways, let's jump into our DBR for today. It's a little bit more familiar than the last time you were on, I know you, you had zero prep time, but we are in the gospels, so we've been talking about a lot of familiar ground. In fact, Matthew eight opens with an area that we've already seen a couple times, and that is the cleansing of the leper. And we've noted how Jesus shows that compassion by touching the man rather than just speaking to him. Luke five, mark one. Both of those are parallel accounts of this, but then we get into this. Fascinating scene with the Centurion's servant. And so this servant comes to Jesus in Capernaum. There again, Jesus' home base. This is where Peter's mother-in-law's house was. This is where Jesus kind of set up camp here. And this man came and said, my servant is lying paralyzed, and I would like you to come and heal him. And Jesus says, I will come and heal him. I will do this. Or he says, I want you to heal him. And Jesus says, I will come and do this. And the centurion pushes back. He says, I don't need you to come with me because I'm a man under authority and I understand authority. All you need to do is say the word, and I trust that that's gonna be enough, but I'm unworthy. You don't need to come all the way down to my house to, to heal my servants. And Jesus' response is amazing. It says He marvels the son of God. Marvels. This man in his faith there and Jesus tells him, go, your servant will be made well, and sure enough he finds out later on the servant the centurion does that it was at that hour that a servant was healed. That's pretty amazing. It is. It's incredible. And it's also incredible, the true belief, right? When we wonder what belief looks like, here's an example of what belief in God looks like, right? That he states, but only say the word. And my servant will be healed. That's belief. If mm-hmm. If you're looking for an example of what believing in God is, here's a great one. Yeah, yeah. A hundred percent. And notice this is a Gentile too. This is not a Jew. And Jesus is gonna do this again with a s ian woman later on. He's commend her faith. And so this is even. Foreshadowing the fact that the gospel's gonna be for more than just the Jewish people. Mm-hmm. The kingdom is for more than just the Jewish people. By the way, this is different than when he heals the officials son. The officials son and the centurion son. These are our different accounts. Some wanna make them parallels. That's gonna be John chapter five. We'll get there in a couple days, but this is a unique account because this is different. This is not the same there. But this is, yeah, this is committal. This is pretty amazing. Yeah. And you're onto something with that illusion to what's coming, right? Jesus says in verse 10, truly, I tell you, with no one in Israel have I found such faith. Yeah. Which for those with an earshot, this would've been a. This would've been irritating, to say the least. To say the least. Yeah. Yeah. We talked in yesterday's episode about his encounter with a woman at the well in Samaria. The disciples come back and find him talking to a Samaritan woman. That would've been irritating. This would've been irritating. Yeah. It's amazing to see how Jesus is indicating he's not gonna. Do what everybody's expecting him to do here. Yeah. After this, again, he's healing all these people. This is mark chapter one, Peter's mother-in-law, and then all of the people after this, like we've seen already, Jesus is healing. We talked yesterday, I believe. About calling the disciples to come and follow him. And Pastor Rod made the point. He said, man, this is a he's calling them to give up their life to come and follow him, to give up everything to come and follow him. And here we're gonna see where that wasn't as eagerly embraced by everyone. As it was by the disciples because Jesus is gonna look at these other people and say, Hey, come and follow me. And or I should say, one comes and says I wanna follow you. And Jesus says, great. And he says this. He says you need to leave everything. Foxes have their holes and birds have their nest. But the son of man has nowhere to lay his head. Follow me. Leave the dead to bear your own dead because he says, well, let me go bear my father first. In other words, let me tend to the things that I need to wrap up before I devote my life to you. And Jesus says, no it's time now. And so the cost of following Jesus is high. And he's trying to convey that here in Matthew yeah. Matthew chapter eight. Yeah. And that's something we need to help our kids understand too. When. It can be so easy for a kid to recognize some of these truths, to know some of the information, but then to not see the urgency in this and to not see the urgency in what it means that we need to follow Jesus today. And that looks different at different ages and stuff, but it can be so easy for, take a high schooler, for example, to want to be part of the crowd and then kind of. In the back of their head, be like, oh, well, you know, someday I can be Yeah. A follower of Jesus for sure. We need to teach our kids that. Yeah. Great insight. Yeah, exactly. That's a perfect way to think about how this applies to us today. After this, a again, just the disciples they were willing to follow. But the faith of the disciples is something that Jesus is gonna be working on developing throughout this whole time. And so here we find another example of this. When he gets in the boat with them and they begin to go across the sea of Galilee. There, this massive storm comes the water is swamping into the boat, and yet Jesus is sleeping and they, the disciples and I would've been right there with them. 'cause I don't love deep water, especially deep water. I don't know what's under me and I can't see the bottom of it. It's not my bag. I'm not looking to go on a cruise. I don't wanna go. Yeah. Anyways, they wake up, Jesus up, and they say, Hey, master war perishing. And his response is, you have little faith. And he rises. He calms the storm, rebukes the window, the immediate placid calm water on the surface there. And then he looks at them and he says, you should have believed what's and they're shocked. They say, what sort of man is this? That even the wind and the waves obey him an amazing scene. And yet. It's, I'm always caught off guard when Jesus says, oh, you have little faith, because they had seen him turn water to wine at this point. Mm-hmm. And they had seen him heal some demons or heal some, not heal demons. Heal, heal some simple. Yeah. Where is that exactly? Yeah. Yeah. First opinions cast out the demons. He'd, they'd seen a lot from him. Mm-hmm. He's implying they should have known enough that nothing was gonna happen to him or to them because he was there. Mm-hmm. And this is yet his grace to, he doesn't teach them a lesson by throwing them into the stormy sea. Yeah. He calms the sea and eases the fears, but then he's gonna say, Hey, you should have believed. Yeah. Yeah. And he does that in our lives today. Obviously not in boats in the same way, but yeah. You know, he's gracious in the lessons that he teaches us, and he points out when we have. Little faith all the time, and that can look obviously differently than this story, this account, but. We have, we serve a kind God, he's gracious. He doesn't tempt us beyond what we're able to withstand. Yeah. He gives us ways of escape. He gives us his church, he gives us his word. And we do have a God who is kind to us. And I think you make a great point, right? We, I think we can easily think of God as always the God who's gonna just throw us in the water and prove it through the most difficult, I'm not saying life isn't difficult, but it could be a lot worse. Yeah, for sure. For sure. Yeah, we don't we don't have a God that temps us at all. Right. Well that's true. Yeah, that's true. But no temptation has overtaken us. I see what you're saying there. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Thanks for the clarification. That's important. Just, just making sure. Just making sure. Anyways Matthew chapter eight ends there with this healing of these two demonic men who come out from the Ghet ends. And there's debate as to whether there's one or two, 'cause another account records one. But here we know the point of this is Jesus is going to cast the demons out here and in casting the demons out that the demons are going to, invite themselves into this herd of pigs, which were unclean animals. And Jesus says, go for it. Go into the pigs, and the demons leave. And they go into the pigs and the pigs run down the mountain and they run into the water and they, the pigs basically commit, I dunno, what would that be? Pork aside, I, whatever that is. Anyways they kill themselves at the impetus of the demons here. And the city comes out. And this always caused me to scratch my head too. They look at Jesus and they're afraid and they're like, we want you to leave. It, he's just healed these demons, these people that had terrorized people for forever healed the demons. He's healed these people. He's cast out the demons. Come on. And their response is you, we need you to leave. We, you think they'd want him to stay? Yeah. you would think they would or at least be like, Hey, can you explain how you did that for us? 'cause we've got questions, but instead they're like, no, we want you to leave. And some of us speculated that this is because. This was their livelihood. Yeah. And they were mad because Jesus just cost them the ability to turn a prophet on these pigs that were there maybe. But another interaction, interesting interaction between Jesus and the world at this point. Let's jump over to our second part of our reading, which is Mark chapter two. Mark chapter two opens with the account that we saw in, luke's gospel yesterday, Luke chapter five maybe two days ago where the healing of the paralytic, the, they dig the hole in the guy's roof. They lower the paralytic down. Jesus says, your sins are forgiven. Everybody's outraged by that. Who is this? He's blaspheming who can forgive sins, but God alone. Jesus says, well, that you may know that I am God. I'm gonna go one up and I'm gonna say, Hey, pick up your mat and walk. And so. He does that and again, this is Mark's account here, but just a fascinating story here of Jesus stepping into the limelight and beginning to reveal who he really is in the sight of everybody around. Yeah. Verse 10 says, but that you may know that the son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins. It really is. It really is amazing. It's pretty direct. Mm-hmm. Yeah. There's no beating around the bush there, which causes me again to stop and think. Why didn't more people get it then? when he's doing this, why didn't more people get it? And I, the answer has to be second Corinthians chapter four, that just as we say it today. So it was true there that the God of the world was blind in the eyes of the lost That's right. To keep them from seeing this. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. And this is one of the reasons why Jesus is gonna say to those in Capernaum in the surrounding regions, woe to you it would be better. It's gonna be more tolerable for the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah on Judgment Day than for you. Because they are eyewitnesses of so much that Jesus is doing here, and they still remain stubborn in their unbelief. Yeah. Verse six says, now some of the scribes were sitting there questioning in their hearts. Right. It's, oh yeah. It's a matter of, you could see their hearts are corrupted. Yeah. Even there, right Then it. It puts words into their hearts, but ultimately Right. It's their hearts that are doubting, it's their hearts that don't wanna believe. It's their hearts that are corrupted by sin. Yeah. And that's a great observation too, because they're questioning in their hearts, they're not doing this out loud. Mm-hmm. And Jesus responds to them. Yes. Which is another flex of his deity. That he knows their thoughts, he knows their hearts, and we see this multiple times in the gospel. He perceives the thoughts of the, of people that are. Unhappy with him and then addresses those thoughts. And so you wonder what they must have been thinking even at that going, yeah. Yeah. Did somebody say something? 'cause we didn't say anything. Yeah. Who told him? Yeah. Who brought that up? 'cause it wasn't us. It wasn't us. Well, after this we get more of the questions on fasting and we've seen this before again, in in Matthew's gospel. And yeah, like Pastor Rod said during that commentary here that Jesus was saying, you, you love the old way, you love the law and you're all about the law, but you need to understand that something new is here. And what's new that's here is better than that. And so don't try to keep imposing the old way on what's new. And that's what he's talking about here with this idea of sowing a piece of unhr cloth on an old garment or putting new wine in old wine schemes. The wine will burst if you do it the wrong way there. So. Yeah, and the emphasis, I think, on both of those sort of illustrations is that the old thing is actually also totally destroyed. It's not like it just kind of like limps along or kind of works. It's just ruined. The, you know, put new wine in an old wineskin and it bursts. Right. So I guess the question that's begged is, do we have any obligation to the Old Testament law as Christians? We are new covenant believers. Does that mean we ignore the Old Testament? Clearly not the Bible Podcast that we do, right. Has plenty of right of Old Testament in it, right? How do we interpret it right, I think is the question. And how do we apply it? Well, one thing that we often talk about is a lot of times what you'll see is there are some Old Testament laws that are. Repeated in the New Testament and those we know for sure, Hey we're called to obey these things. I would say we're still under obligation for the 10 Commandments. I don't think those have been removed from us. I think that's a pursuit of holiness and godliness. And you see some of those things reiterated in the New Testament as well. But the relationship is different. Yeah. And and Paul even talks about in Galatians that the law is now our tutor or was the tutor to point us to Christ. Yeah. And now Christ is here. And so in that sense, the law is, has fulfilled its purpose. And Paul's gonna say in Romans chapter seven, that the laws is good. Because without the law we wouldn't know sin. And that's right. The law is there to again, make us aware of that so that we're driven to Christ. That's right. And so that's yeah, not. Not completely taken outta the scene fulfilled by Christ. Right. Is what the law has been done. That's right. But if we try to use Old Testament law as our means of salvation today, it's not gonna work. Not gonna go Well, no. Not gonna go. Well, not gonna work. Yeah. Another one of the areas of the law that Jesus was coming to reinterpret was the Sabbath there. And we see that at the end of chapter two, when. He and his disciples are going through the grain fields and they're picking heads of grain. This was forbidden by the oral law, the oral tradition, because they argued that this was harvesting. Mm-hmm. And so to harvest on the Sabbath was to work. So they had defined this act right here as harvesting. And again, this is the. Oral tradition here. And so they confront Jesus. And Jesus responds and points to the fact that David, when he was on the run for his life from Saul, went into the house of God there and took the bread of the presence from a bihar of the priest. And Jesus appointed there is, he's not condemned for that. He's commended. This is allowable. This is permissible because human life is greater than the strict adherence to the law and obedience to the law. David needed the provision. God made provision for him. I think as well is he's just pointing to, in, in revealing here, in this encounter the cold hearted hypocrisy of the Pharisees, that they cared more. The disciples were hungry. They were meeting a need to sustain life, and God had provided grain for them to be able to do that. But the Pharisees and their Phar oral tradition had taken things so far with the law that they were, they would rather say, no, you need to go hungry. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And be weaker in order to observe this man imposed law here of. Whether or not you can pick a head of grain and they weren't loving people. And I think that's what Jesus is conveying here is look, the Sabbath is for men, not men for the Sabbath. That's right. So you mentioned a couple seconds ago that we are still, we still should follow the 10 Commandments, one of those being a commandment about the Sabbath. Mm-hmm. Are you a sabot? I'm not a sabot, no. So that's a helpful distinction there. I think outside of that, I think I would adhere to, to. Yeah. Every one of the other commandments. But again even the Sabbath is different for us than it was then. Yeah. And when we look at the New Testament church, we don't see a pattern of Sabbath observance from the New Testament church we see gathering together for worship. Right. But they were gathering together on the first day of the week, which is not the Sabbath. The Sabbath was SA Saturday. So there's not the application of the Sabbath laws. Mm-hmm. There's not the, you can't do work. And I know a lot of that carried on in Christian tradition and even still today you'll find seventh Day Adventists, for example, who still gather on Saturdays and they will strictly not do any work on the SA on Saturdays. There's other issues there with the Seven Day Adv Adventist, but that's one example. But even others that are saying the Lord's Day is the Lord's Day. No sports, no work not, we're gonna worship and we're gonna rest and that's fine. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, so long as you're not making that a law that you're posing across the board on other people, because where scripture doesn't speak, we can't speak. That's right. And on this one, I think that, again, the pattern that we see reestablished in the New Testament is not the same as the Old Testament pattern of keeping the Sabbath. Yeah. I would go as far as to say as that that every day right is the Lord's day. Every day is the Sabbath Pastor, pastor Mark is gonna rest every day. No work. Worship and rest only, boom. Everybody's gotta quit their jobs. That sounds great. That sounds great. So, well good. Well, hey man, thanks for jumping in last minute. You're welcome. I'm grateful. You're welcome. This was super helpful. So I said it before it's fun to do this. So I'm glad to be here and now you know, you can do it at the drop of a hat. Yeah. You are right. This is a little. Easier. I don't say that in the sense that it's less important. Yeah. But a little bit easier than last time when I was on and we were discussing the temple and, future Israel and where, wait till we get to Hebrews in Melek or Revelation and we'll throw you in cold on that. Well, I'm on vacation then, so. Oh, are you? Yeah. Okay, well, we'll rearrange the bottle. Alright, let's pray. God, thanks for your word. Thanks for Pastor Mark jumping in here and for just the pastors that you've given us at our church and the wisdom that they bring to the table and their knowledge of the scriptures. We want to all be able to handle the word of God accurately and well, and so help us to pursue it towards that and we pray in Jesus name, amen. Keep your new Bibles tuning again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Bye everyone. Bye.

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Yeah. I would agree with everything that you said