Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible podcast. Happy Lord's Day to you. Happy Sunday to you. Thank you. Yeah. Hey, we talked about it briefly well we did talk about it, but then we lost our whole recording, so this is take two on this episode. That's so funny 'cause that hasn't happened in a long time. It hasn't, and. It's inexplicable. The demons that exist in your computer just attacked our file. They did. And destroyed it. And they were like, we're done, we're done with this. Well man, the enemy is not gonna get one on over us today. We're gonna rerecord this and it's gonna be better than the, the first's gonna be better. It's gonna be better. This is gonna be longer too. We're gonna go for 35 minutes. Are we? 'cause you So help me, God, I think you've got a haircut coming up and we're trying to, Hey Netflix, we talked about that. In the file that we lost. We did. Yeah, we did. We did. They did not. They did. So let me ask you some questions. Okay. And we'll try to, we'll try to streamline what we talked about. Everyone's been talking about Netflix. Yes. Because they're promoting things that are targeted toward our kids. And in particular, it has to do with the revolution about the way that people interact with one another. And it seems like there's a lot of content being produced by Netflix that's. Meant to undermine the things that we are teaching our kids. So yes, how do we deal with that? This is kind of in the same category as the demon hunter, K-pop people. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's the title. Yeah. Something like that. How do we work through this? Do we cancel our Netflix account? Do we double down and stay in there because we should know what's happening in the wider culture. Do we just get filtering software? What do we do with this? Please help us. Signed parents everywhere. Signed parents everywhere. Steward your children. That's the key here. That may look like. Cutting, ties with Netflix or Paramount Plus, or NBC or whatever streaming platforms you have. We're in a world getting darker and darker, and as Christians I think we need to understand that we're headed further and further towards isolation when it comes to that which entertains the masses. And so we need to be ready. To pull the plug. It doesn't mean that you have to, we're not saying that right now. There's no hard and fast scripture that says Thou must Baal on Netflix, but you gotta care about your kids. And I know so many of you listening do, I assume all of you do. But guard your family. Know what's out there. Know what they're taking in, know what they're taking. And not just through Netflix and the tv, but also they're sports teams. The kids at school that they may be hanging around, that the neighborhood kids that they're gonna spend time with you're not gonna be able to shelter them from. All of the negative influences of the world. But when the world is going after our kids, we as parents need as Christian parents, we need to put the guard up and we need to fight for our kids. Otherwise the world will take them. And this is an area that we need to be on guard against. And I would say if you feel con convicted right now, and the conviction to say, I'm gonna give up the show that I like on Netflix, because of every, everything else, the junk on there. Then great do it. I applaud that. That's awesome. Again, I can't say here's the scripture verse that says everyone has to do this, but I think we're headed that direction. Yeah. If you can take advantage of the filtering software and you're ready to pony up for that. 'cause I know some of them could be quite expensive, but that would at least be a mitigating step to say, I wanna make sure that when my kids are using it, that they're not getting everything that the world is pedaling at them. But secondly, and I think maybe, more importantly, I'm, as I'm really nervous and I'm really bothered by the fact that Netflix is going after my kids, I can understand that they're gonna pedal this stuff with adults, but when you go after the children and you're adding a 32nd or a one minute clip that otherwise you wouldn't see in the show. That really bothers me and I think that you as the parent have to be, especially on guard with these things, and not to say that you have to necessarily cancel it. If you wanna cancel it, great, do that. Save your money or give it to some worthy organization. But I think especially in this world, you can't trust anything just 'cause it says kids on it and it's rated G or it's rated E for everyone or something like that. It doesn't mean that they're using the same value system that you're using to make these judgements. So don't trust the ratings, don't trust the kid. Channels don't trust YouTube kids. There's really nothing that the world is offering right now that you can say, I could just close my eyes to this and let my kid use it as they will. It's not the way that we do this. We have to be involved and stay on top of these things. Less maybe taught things that you would be mortified by. Yeah. Yeah, don't export your parenting to a screen that's not gonna go well. Yeah, yeah, indeed to that. Let's get into our DBR. We've got Matthew four and Luke four through five. Matthew four and Luke four are very similar in what they contain. There's a few differences here and there, but very similar. But again, remember. ​read them both because they're both written from different perspectives and for different purposes. So we talked about that I think in yesterday's episode, that there's different perspectives, different points of view being offered here. One of the main things you're gonna read about in both of these chapters, Matthew four and Luke four, is the temptation of Jesus. Jesus is driven by the Spirit into the wilderness. This is part of God's plan because Jesus is going to walk in obedience to the Father while he's in the wilderness. He's gonna be tempted by Satan. And that temptation is unique because that temptation is not arising from within. Jesus is not going out there and suffering from sinful thoughts and and desires that arise from his own flesh. Rather, Satan is there tempting him in his hunger. Satan is there tempting him for. Power and prestige and honor this is not something that is arising from Jesus inherently. Whereas if you and I were to be stranded on a desert island, we'd still battle temptation because of our sinful flesh. But the temptation of Christ is so significant for for us, even as the writer of Hebrews picks up and says, he was tempted as we are yet without sin. This is him demonstrating his qualification to be our savior. This is him demonstrating that his. Perfect Sinlessness could be our righteousness that we inherit in exchange for our sin. Second Corinthians 5 21. This is such a good chapter. It's a great chapter and I wanna point out to you, as you read, Matthew, one of the motifs in Matthew is the mountain. And so here the way that the narrative ends, or at least the temptation narrative, is it ends on the mountain. And that's because mountains are an important feature of Matthew's gospel. So look out for that. It's gonna be different than what you read and look for. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think this is, yeah. I don't know if there's anything else to say about the temptation. This is where there's a lot of things to say. We had a lot of really fun, exciting, interesting things to say and the Lord has seen fit to just destroy it, take it into the ether. We're a little defeated by that still. I'm living my best life. The Lord clearly did not want you to hear what we talked about there. It's so, that's fine. Rest in Matthew four Jesus begins his ministry. He's gonna be rejected from his hometown, his hometown being Nazareth. He's gonna start there. He's gonna go into the synagogue there. He is gonna read from a scroll, and that scroll is gonna be the scroll of Isaiah. Isaiah chapter 61. And Jesus is gonna say, this has been fulfilled in your hearing today. In other words, what Isaiah wrote is about me. It's a claim to a Messianic identity. And the people there are gonna be an have a mixture of awe and indignation and mostly indignation. They're gonna say, don't we know this one aren't his? His. Parents around us, and Jesus is gonna confront them and condemn them. He's gonna say, A prophet is not without honor except in his home hometown. And Jesus is gonna go hard after Nazareth and Capernaum later because they were exposed to the majority of his ministry. Most of his ministry was not done down in Jerusalem. It was done up in Galilee, in the surrounding areas. And they're gonna reject him, and they're gonna be called to account for that rejection. Later on in Matthew four, we read about his healing of a man with a demon. The demon cries out. I know who you are. You're Jesus, you're the son of God. And Jesus says, be silent and come out of him. Be silent and come out of him. Jesus was on God's timeframe for the revelation of his true identity, not Satan's. So these demons that begin to cry out about who he is, Jesus is not interested in them being His forerunner. John the Baptist was his forerunner, not the demons. So Jesus is not afraid to step into his identity. We're gonna see that in fact in Luke chapter five, we're gonna see that. But for now, he's looking at these demons who want to shout to the world to say, we know who this one is the holy one, the son of God. He's saying it's not the right time right now for you to reveal my identity that's gonna come much later. Yeah. Sometimes this is referred to as the Messianic Secret, and that's a big point to make is that there, there isn't a secret per se. It's not like Jesus is saying, Hey guys, this is not about me. Don't worry about it. Stop spreading my news. This is Jesus following the father's timetable. He's doing as the Father requires, in order to make sure that Jesus doesn't get. Sent to the cross before it is his time. So a messianic secret. Sometimes people use it against Jesus, like, well see, Jesus clearly did not think himself, anyone extraordinary. He's trying to shut it down. That's not the case. Jesus is creating the context where the perfect timing takes place. It's not his time. The time will come in the future. Yeah. And by the way, that was, if you're looking for that in Matthew four, that was Luke four. Sorry, my Bible was open to the wrong chapter there. But the parallel accounts are still there. Nonetheless. It's still the Bible. Yeah, it is still the Bible. L Luke four. The other things that we have taken place here are Jesus calling the disciples, calling the first followers. I guess that's Luke chapter five. As we get into that, it's Matthew four. We see this. Luke chapter five, we see this and this is the formalized invitation into being his disciples. This is not Jesus's some stranger walking by the boats, but remember in John one, these disciples had already been spending time with Jesus. So this is rather Jesus inviting them to be the formal followers of his. These are gonna be his disciples now. And so Jesus is beckoning them much like a modern day or a, an ancient rabbi would've done at the time to say, I want you officially to leave off your profession and come follow me as your profession, be my disciples. And that's what they end up doing here. What's important about that, I think on many accounts is that the men who follow him are signing away their lives. And in many respects, I mean granted this is only a three year timeframe because that's how long Jesus' ministry was, but they immediately leave their profession and they follow this nomadic rabbi and Peter has a wife. Probably has kids, the other guys probably we could suspect at least that was a likelihood, if not a certainty of some sort, because that was the normal expectation for young men at that point. So Jesus calls these young men. We often see their pictures with big, burly men who look like they're probably in their thirties, maybe their forties or maybe cresting the prime of their lives. These were young men. Make no mistake, Jesus was the first youth pastor, as I've heard people say. So these were young men. Simon was married. Jesus is making a big claim. Here, follow me, I'm gonna call you. And he And they do that. Yeah. Huge. Because Jesus is taking precedence over their family relationships, which is massive. Yeah. And super cool to see. Yeah. 'cause later on we're gonna see in the next couple days here, somebody's, he's gonna call other people and they're gonna say lemme go take care of my estate first. Right. Lemme follow you when it's convenient for me. And that's not what following Jesus is about. Nope. Yeah. Here Luke four, and Luke five we're right in the same territory as Mark chapter one, the opening chapter that we read, I think yesterday or the day before, where Jesus is healing Peter's mother-in-law and then healing a bunch of people late at night. And then he's gonna do this, and then he's gonna heal this leper. And then you made the point about his, the importance of his prayer life. And we see that again in verses 15 and 16, don't we? Here in, in Luke chapter five. Yeah, I love this because notice here that people have needs, there's a great crowd that comes to him, and if any one of us had a great crowd knocking at our door saying, Hey, we need time with you. USA today wants to spend time with you and they want to interview you, or, big time Mr. Beast wants to interview you for his channel. He, he's getting rapid, massive acclaim and notice the great crowds that are gathering to hear him preach the gospel. And be healed to their infirmities. Jesus says, I'm taking time away from you so I can go pray. This is such a big deal guys. Look at what Jesus does. He takes all these important urgent situations and says, I'm gonna put that on the side to spend time with my father in prayer. If Jesus, the second member of the Trinity needed to do this, and we've heard this before, so I'm sorry for the old canard, but just notice Jesus has taken time to spend time with the Father no matter how important his schedule is. And even though these are really, really urgent needs, the gospel needs to be preached and people need to be healed. He's here for this and yet he prays. Yeah. So good from here. I mentioned earlier Jesus wasn't afraid to step into his identity. And we see that in this next story. This is where the, they come to, to try to get to Jesus. And Jesus is famous. The crowds are flocking to him. They can't get in the door of this house. So these friends take their paralytic friend up on the roof, they dig a hole and they lower him down in front of Jesus. And Jesus looks at this young man and he says, your sins are forgiven. And the crowd begins to grumble. The Pharisees begin to grumble and they say, who can forgive sins, but God alone? And Jesus is saying, exactly, that's the point. And so then he goes on and says, which is easier to say your sins are forgiven, or I tell you, get up and walk and rise and walk. And so that's what he tells them, he says. Get up and walk, and so that you may know that I have power. Forgive sins, I'm gonna heal this man. And that's exactly what he does. So here's Jesus demonstrating he's not afraid of his identity. He's just gonna step into the identity in perfect o obedience with the Father's plan. John chapter five, we will get there in a few days, is gonna say that he's there to do the works the father has for him to work. And right now this was the work that the father had for him to do to heal this man and to begin to pull back the curtain on his true identity as the son of God. Let's pray. And we will be done with this episode again for the Daily Bible Podcast. It's a little shorter than the first time. A little bit by about 10 minutes. Don't tell them that. Alright. God, we thank you for your word. We thank you for technology. We are grateful that it works most of the time, and we're grateful for the ability to listen to your word and even on audio Bibles, and to listen to a podcast and to help us understand more bits and pieces of who Christ is. And we just pray that you'd stir our affections more and more for him. As we spend time in the Gospels this season, we ask in Jesus name, amen. Amen. Keep reading Bibles. Tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. We'll see you folks. Bye.

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Yeah. I would agree with everything that you said