Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Hello. That's it. No, no effects. I said, hello. No applause. I, I can't keep the effects and not, and so you, if you listen to the podcast yesterday, you'll notice that. There was a lot more left in than what's normally there. That's 'cause I couldn't edit it, right? To keep the sound effects, I had to keep the file pretty straight up. So I don't like that. I wanna make it edited and nice and clean and make it as compact as possible for our listeners. So today, no sound effects, so somebody needs to add in post-production sound effects at some point. That would be fantastic if we had somebody, by the way, if you're out there to that point and you're listening to these and you enjoy them and you want to. Improve them. Say, Hey, how can I be of service to the church and service to our pastors? If you want to take these and clone our voices. Nope. And then prompt AI to comment on the Bible passages. Nope. Like we do. Fantastic. Not what I was gonna say. We would love to have you do that. Not at all. We invite you to do that even without our permission. No. Start today, Don, with Pastor pj. I don't, Nope. I do not give you permission. That's a great campaigns slogan. No, this is like the Facebook thing that all the people copy and paste on their wall. I do not give you permission to clone my voice, and that's not a real thing. It's a real thing that people do it, but you should know that doesn't do anything to Facebook. No. Facebook's not gonna honor your status post. No. And nobody's out there being like, oh, we're gonna take all the photos from Facebook and. Sell them to China. They probably use it for their training. Regardless of whether or not you think by right of you using it, you are allowing them to use your data, I'm sure. Yeah, I'm sure. For all sorts of purposes. Nefarious or otherwise. Yeah. Yeah. So you posting it doesn't do anything. Also, the other thing that doesn't do anything is when you're like, I didn't know I had all of these friends on Facebook, and then all of a sudden I looked at my friend list and I copied and pasted this, and now I'm seeing all of my friends posts back on my timeline. Yeah. That doesn't do anything either. Doesn't work. No. But. If you wanna serve the church and you wanna help us with the podcast production and you wanna do some editing for us? We wouldn't complain. We wouldn't argue. No. And we will let you clone our voices as a bonus. No, we won't. You can clone Pastor Rod's voice and Pastor PJ's. We will we can send you the audio files. We've got a program. It's pretty straightforward. And I can get you pp j's driver's license, birth certificate. You let me know what you need. It's the dark web I'll supply. It's on. I was notified about that yesterday. Really? Hey, your driver's license number is on the dark web. Great. Thanks. You know why? 'cause T-Mobile. T-Mobile did it. Is it a T-Mobile League? Really? It was, yeah, but not recent. 10 years ago, but I, so I have identity theft protection and I pay a company to, to monitor things. And so I added my driver's license number in 'cause it still had my California driver's license. Oh. But it, my driver's license number in Texas is the same one. It was when I was here, when I used to live here. Oh wow. Like you, they give it, they kept it, they keep it and they just issue it to you again. So I added that back in and it let me know that there was a data leak from T-Mobile at some point. Wow. Which we haven't had T-Mobile in probably 15 years, but Yeah. That's rough. Yeah, but all of our stuff is on the dark web. It's crazy. And it's okay. Wow. Do you use anything that scrubs your information off of Google? Incog me or whatever? Yeah. No I've considered it. I just am too cheap to pull the trigger. Have you ever Googled yourself? Yes. And so there's not a lot of stuff out there then. 'cause as soon as I did that, I'm like, I need to do this right away. So there's way more information out there about, my name's unique too, so if you put my name out there you're gonna find me or my dad. And I don't like what's out there. So I paid a company to scrub all the data and apparently the way that their service works is that. They'll stay on top of it because new data brokers continue to emerge and find information from all sorts of places. Yeah, no, if you google my name like PJ Burner, like you're just gonna find a bunch of videos of sermons. Okay. That's I see you and Pastor Mike you're wearing some kinda wedding gown or something. Yeah, that's it. It's a wedding gown or it's a graduation, yeah. Gown. Yeah. Is it a gown? Is that what they call that cap and gown? Yeah. Oh, okay. It's a gown. Yeah. Yeah. So you're wearing a gown regalia, if you will. I'm gonna call it a gown. Okay. Yeah. I see lots of see, here's the thing. My, this is my Google, so it's using all of my data to look for you. Yeah I see Compass Bible Church, north Texas. I wonder why that came up first. Compass Bible Church near Texas. Yeah. I don't know. Strange. I have no idea. That's very strange. I see you on the Compass Bible Institute website, which I know is where we used to come from. Yeah. It is where we used to come from. Yeah, it is. Absolutely. That's it. That's it. Yep. That still see you here? Yeah. It says your professor of theology. Did you know that I. Am a practicer of theology and I have been a professor. You are a professor of theology? Yes. You profess theology. You don't necessarily practice it, but you do profess it. I don't practice theology. Practice theology. No, it says you profess it though, oh, okay. I'm also a practicer of theology. Okay. It doesn't say that. I'm gonna create my own website. You should have Pastor Mark update. Update your description here to showcase that you're a professor and practice rep. We should clarify Pastor Mark Kelly, not Pastor Mark Hogan. That's true. Not our pastor. Mark. You know it's funny. People here who are listening. Who don't attend our church? We know Pastor Mark. MARC as pm. Yep. We call 'em PM here. Yep. So if Pastor Mike ever shows up in our neck of the woods, there's gonna be great confusion. I think the PMs will have to fight to the death and only one will emerge. Oh anyway. Yeah. So no, all that to say I've looked at it and I've considered the service, but I, again, I just am too cheap to pull the trigger out. It is well worth it. I put myself on there and Kristen, so Kristen and I both have almost no data on Google. If you Google me, only Compass Bible Church stuff will show up. You know what, which I like, I'm gonna populate stuff on my own website about you. That's fantastic. And they're not gonna be able to scrub it and we'll see. We'll see if they do it. Alright. Let's jump into our DBR today. Something a little bit more positive than identity theft and without sound effects, scrubbing data that's positive now. Hey, we're in chapter 31 through 33 today, and like I said yesterday, we're shifting from Egypt as a nation to Pharaoh, the head of the nation of Egypt. So he is in Target here, 5 86 bc 5 87 BC is our timeframe still. And what chapter 31 basically is it's an extended metaphor that the majority of this, even though Pharaoh is the one that is I guess the subject of it, the main. Thrust of the chapter is about Assyria and God through the prophet, Ezekiel uses this prolonged metaphor about Assyria as a large tree, a cedar and le in Lebanon. Lebanon was known for its cedars and Assyria was, is compared to this. And it's similar to Nebuchadnezzar's Dream about himself in in Daniel chapter two, no, chapter two is the chapter one. No. It's similar to, to chapter one, I believe it is The gigantic tree. It's in the book of Daniel. Chapter two is the statue. Yeah. Anyways, and yeah. The birds of the air, all of these things living in the street, and it points to the power and the splendor and the majesty of Assyria. And yet then God says, and here's what I did to Assyria. I took Assyria out. I destroyed it. I wiped it out completely. And what's left is a sh. A shadow of what used to be there. And the pivot is then when he says in verse 18, whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? In other words, are you Pharaoh greater than what Assyria was in its power? And the answer is no, because Assyria was a greater empire, a greater power. At its height than Egypt was, especially at this time. And so God's judgment on them is you shall lie among the uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sort. This is the judgment coming upon Pharaoh here in chapter 31, the leader of Egypt, and he uses Assyria as an example to say, this is what I did to Assyria, so I will do to you too. Chapter 32. Then we, again, follow the pattern of judgment with Lament. And so we did this with the situation with Tire. We did it with Egypt. Now we're doing it here with Pharaoh. And so the Lament, the Song of Lamentation is offered here for Pharaoh. And the more I think about it the lamentation I don't think is as much. Of, Hey, we're grieving for these nations. We're grieving for the people. I think it's more of we're grieving the opportunity missed that had to bring the judgment of God that they made such foolish decisions to go and worship idols or to put themselves in the place of God. And as a result, they suffer the wrath of gout. And so the lamentation is more over the. The sin and the rejection of God than it is over the judgment that God is bringing against these people, if that makes sense. The distinct distinction there, so it's not Hey, this is a limitation. Feel bad for Pharaoh, but more, Hey, this is a sorry situation because of what happened because his sin was so egregious that God had to judge and punish in this way. Which does shape the way that we lament, at least in, in the sense that when God judges we're not fist pumping and saying, this is the greatest thing ever. I think even in our redeemed nature, our understanding of judgment will necessarily be fooler. It will be more righteous than it is now, but I don't think we're ever gonna be like yes, you destroyed them. I'm so grateful. I'm so glad. I think it'll be a subdued. Rejoicing, if there is such a thing I think we'll have to respond to God with a certain sense of this was right. Yeah. This was just, and I praise you for that, even with what would you, what you would call in our current nature a heavy heart, but it would still be a redeemed heart that says, this was good. Yeah. This was a good thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And that re requires somebody who is, has the heart of the Lord and the affections for the Lord to have that mentality that isn't. The sinful rejoicing, but that is the rejoicing because of God's name and his glory. Was it Susanna Wesley that told her kids something to the effect of, if I find you on the other side of the Lord that day, I'll rejoice at his justice. Something like that. Like hardcore? Yeah. Man, moms are different back then. Yeah. They're, that's not gentle parenting, Susanna. No, that is not. That is not. Indeed. And by the way, Daniel chapter four was the chapter I was looking for you. That's why I couldn't find it. I told you it was in Daniel. Yeah. Thank you. I. I appreciate all of that. And so those of you that were writing the email to correct me, don't have to correct me anymore, you could text him. It's Daniel four. I know what it is. 9 4 9. It's on the dark. Web X. You just look it up. Dark web.com. Don't go there. I have no idea what that is. Do not go there. Yikes. Just fool this Glen, just go to Compass cx. I don't know who that is. Org org comp. Hey, s speaking of reviews, we got our one star review taken down. What? Yeah, I was letting that sit there for conviction, bro. I didn't suggest, Hey, we need to pull it down. But it's an unfair review though. It is because it's not about our church. It's not about, it is. But it's not because they visited and sat in our service. And that's the fairest way to do it, I think. Yeah. You can't hold a church responsible for the action of one of its members on a bad day. I would bet. Yeah. No one's looking out to go and be road rage, we're trying to, we're trying to cooperate here with each other on the road, so I think that's a good move. Yeah. I'm glad they did that. Yeah. Google came through for us. Yeah, actually that's fair. One of our own came through for us who helps us with our backend, our search engine optimization and all that stuff oh, thanks Dan. He could probably scrub the internet of all of our stuff. He probably could. Yeah. I had one, one church I was at, there was a guy who was really good with the innerwebs and an email went to somebody that wasn't supposed to go to them, and we called the guy thinking, Hey, maybe you can help us with this. Hey we sent this email, we really would like for them not to see this thing. And he's wait, guys I can't do that. This is really illegal. But gimme 15 minutes. And he did it. He did it. He took, that's crazy. He took it from the server on the, I don't even know if he could still do that today. I'm sure it's gotten a lot harder. That's crazy. But he was good and we were thankful for, I forget what the email was even about. I was just so amazed that he knew how to do this, that I've never forgotten it ever since. You know who would know Daniel Mayer ii? Daniel Mayer ii. Yeah. He would know. 'cause he does all that. He does. I think he's a white hat hacker and things like that. We should ask. Yeah, you're right. You're absolutely, he's totally the guy. We should ask about that. We should have him try it. Yeah. Yeah. If I send a loom to the whole church, then he could, he might have been able to return and bell maybe. Yeah. We should have asked Will. Hopefully we won't have that problem present itself anymore. I think there are laws against it though. I'm not sure if it's technically legal. I think so. And if you did it like with the whole church, it would, you'd probably run a valve of some felonious laws, probably a couple people in our church where they might, it might be illegal more so to hack their email than other people spies. Yes. Yes. That's exactly, I agree. Chinese spies is what I was thinking. We won't call that person out. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways. Now that our podcast has been flagged, because we've been talking about the dark web and Chinese spies, you told 'em where to go too. Yikes. The the, whoever the director of the NSA is listening to us right now. You should come to church. By the way, if you are come to church, we'd love to have you. We've got great drivers and you won't find any, anything else, anywhere else that says anything different. I hope so. Alright, going forward. That was just free googly right in the middle of the podcast for, but if that reviewer is listening to this podcast, we would love to know who it was. If you recall that kind of car, what kind of car was, what car it was. Yeah. If it was a spaceship, we'd love to know, especially that dude, why do you keep wanting this to be me? Because it would be so funny. It would just be, I would be tickled by it. I don't. I, but that's not who I am. You're not an aggressive driver. I'm not an aggressive driver. You know what? That's true. I have driven with you on multiple different occasions and I could tell you that you are less aggressive today than the first time I got in the car with you. When was the first time you got in the car with me? That was a long time ago. Well, lemme tell you. Okay. So there, there are times when you've driven and I feel like I'm on a rollercoaster and I don't feel like that anymore. I feel like you're far more subdued and you're driving today. Oh wow. Thanks, man. I appreciate, that's the truth. Yeah. Sorry about the roller coasters. I don't remember that, but yeah. Yeah. Is it just because Texas is flat and California had hills? No, it actually wasn't that I, it was probably, it's probably in Texas, so it had to be two and a half, three years ago, whenever it was on our way down to Hill Country, a realtor down there. That maybe part, maybe partly, yeah. Glad. There you go. You heard it right here, folks. I'm a better driver. You're growing San vacation. Yeah. Thanks man. Hey, Ezekiel 33 then. Ezekiel 33 shifts I guess we should finish 32. It the latter part of this chapter. He begins to just tick off these various nations that God is also bringing. Judgment against and already has brought judgment. 'cause he's talking about Pharaoh's downfall, that Pharaoh's gonna go to Shol and then he goes through and list all of these other nations and the leaders of these nations that are already there. And I think the implication there that one takeaway that we can have is there's a little bit of a glimpse into Ezekiel's understanding and the Old Testament Saints understanding of the afterlife. That there's a persistence. That their identity is, that they are present there. Not that they have already gone there, past tense is done and over with. But that there is some sort of continuing presence there in Sheel. Now she all means grave. It doesn't necessarily equate to the idea of hell, but it would seem that there is a concept here of an ongoing punishment that Pharaoh is going to join the ranks of them in the latter part here of chapter 32. Yeah. I'm interested in one of the final verses where it says that he'll be comforted by the people that are judged along with him. I found that interesting. That's a hard one, huh? Yeah, because we've all heard the people that say, I don't wanna go to Heaven. I wanna go to hell because all my greatest friends are gonna be there. All my there. Yeah. I think to your point, I don't think this is the same thing. It clearly isn't, but it is interesting that there's something about the fact that others are judged along with him, that he's comforted by that idea. Misery loves company as the saying goes. Yeah. Chapter 33, we get to a subject of the watchman. And we've already seen this once before, but it's developed even more so here in chapter 33. And that is the job that Ezekiel had to warn the Israelites. And if he didn't do his job, then he would be considered a watchman who is derelict duty. And in that case, those that he didn't warn, they would suffer. They remember, we've already talked about this, Ezekiel 18, I think it is, that each one is gonna die for their own sin, but. If Ezekiel didn't warn them, he would also be held accountable for their rejection as well, their sinfulness as well, which is in some ways what we find in the book of Hebrews about our job as pastors, we are gonna have to give a, an account for the souls that are under our charge. And I think that the main thrust there is more positively in how we shepherded believers, but. There's an element too that I think that we will be held accountable to. Did you the unbelievers in your midst, did you warn them? Did you present the gospel faithfully? Did you present what was hanging in the balance in a way that was that was honoring to the Lord in that context? And so God is laying out. Ezekiel's charge here, and then reminding the people that he desires that they would repent, that the response that he wants from them is not that they would reject his Ezekiel's message, the Watchman's message, but that they would hear it and that they would live, that they would respond, that they would turn back. He says in verse 11, turn back. Turn back from your evil ways for why will you die, O Israel. And he says therein goes on and explains that the unrighteous person who repents and pursues righteousness will be forgiven. The righteous person who sins and doesn't repent will not be forgiven. And in therein we see even an Old Testament glimpse of some of the gospel principles there in chapter 32. But Ezekiel the watchman is the main idea here in the first half of the book. And then the or first half of chapter 32, 33 chapter 33 following the rest of it is the end of Jerusalem. It's the destruction of the city under Nebuchadnezzar at that point that we've seen a couple times now already. So we have a passage here, and I don't think we talked about it in chapter 18. God says something very similar in both chapter 18 and here in chapter 33, where he says, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked. How do we fit that together with what we might've recalled reading back in Deuteronomy 28 and Deuteronomy 28, it says this. And as the Lord took delight in doing you good in multiplying you, so the Lord will take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you, and you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to take possession of. So this is God telling them when he has to judge them, he says, the Lord will take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you. And yet here in chapter 33 and in chapter 18, Ezekiel says they have no pleasure in the death of the wicked. So are we seeing a contradiction? Are we seeing a shade of nuance here that we're not able to easily see on the surface of the text? How might you handle this or how might you encourage us to handle a passage like this? This is challenging. It is challenging. I think in Deuteronomy, in other passages that we see similar concepts, I think God is taking delight in the. Execution of justice because it's a displaying of his holiness and his wrath. And it's the necessary outcome of who he is as a God who is holy. So he takes delight in his justice being meted out, and that is where he finds delight, not necessarily in the objects of his wrath. Is he delighting in their punishment? Is he delighting in their perishing? And I think there's room for that bifurcation. Bifurcation to take place. I think God can delight in his wrath being meted out because that is a satisfaction of his justice and yet at the same time not to delight in the death of the one that he is punishing. And that's some of what we get to in the New Testament when God says, I don't wish that anyone should perish, but that all should come to eternal life. I think it's the same heart. That we see from God there in second Peter that we see here when Ezekiel says, God doesn't take delight in the death of the wicked. Yeah, that's a helpful framing of this. Sticky situation here. So it superficially, it looks like it contradicts, but I think what you're bringing up is a really helpful point and a really helpful way to look at this. The delight that God has is the expression of his justice. The no pleasure portion is an expression of his reluctance to destroy the wicked, because that's what's necessary. So there is a sense in which God does delight in bringing destruction upon them, and there is a sense in which God does not delight. And I think we have to hold that tension too. There is a sense in which we long for God's justice and there's also a sense in us in which we long for his mercy and we want him to save as many people as possible. This is why the gospel shines so brightly. Even in Ezekiel, we need God to be just and righteous. We don't want a different kind of God. We might think that, but in reality we really want a just God because there's so much evil, and it really isn't until that evil's on our doorstep. Affecting our family and our closest loved ones that we begin to feel that sense of God bring justice please. So we really do want a God who is just, but at the same time, we want a God who's gonna forgive and show mercy, and that's where Christ comes in. He takes the justice that we deserve. And that's why passages like this are still so potent, but they're not potent against us. They're potent against Christ because we are found in. Yeah. One final warning that we find at the very end of chapter 33 that I think is particularly relevant for us. He says in verse 31, they come to you as my people come and they sit before you as my people and they hear what you say, but they will not do it for, with lustful talk in their mouths, they act. Their heart is set on their gain and behold you are to them like one who sings lustful songs with a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument for they hear what you say, but they will not do it. This is. Indicative of a lot of. Professing Christians, I would say today who will show up and they will hear a sermon and agree with it and sit there and nod along with it and say Yes and amen. And yeah, they go out and they don't want to apply it. And so they want to sit there and hear the good theology, but they don't necessarily want to. Put the good theology into practice, and that's what Israel was doing. They were willing to listen to it and not along and say, yes, this is good. This is right, this is, this just may be but then they were going out and they were denying the things that they were affirming by the way that they lived their lives. We'll talk a little bit more about that tomorrow at church Together too. Yeah, I think that's a really great point and the fact that you're not there if this is you. I think it's important that you look at that as evidence of God's grace at work in you. What we are and who we are becoming in Christ is still an act of his grace. What good in you is God at work in you. This is Philippians chapter two. Paul says, to work out your own salvation because God's the one at work in you. And so if you are making progress in the faith, if you are listening to the sermons and you're deriving benefit from them and you're applying them and you're seeking to grow up in your faith, notice. God is the one who gets the credit for that. You're cooperating and praise God for that. That's amazing. That's a great thing, but don't take that for granted. As you see here, there is a kind of person that we can become where we're listening and we're nodding along and saying Amen to that pastor. You get those sinners, and at the same time, we're totally missing it because it's supposed to hit us in the heart and not the person next to you. So pray for a soft and tender heart. Don't let yourself become deceived by sin. It's very tricky and it longs to harden you against yourself, against the Lord against. Your brothers and sisters, if you have a tender heart, don't take it for granted. Pray that you keep it. Yeah, let's do that right now. Again we want to be a church with tender hearts. We soft hearts towards your word and not just to hear it and to agree with it in in a context of a sermon or reading it, but we also want to then take it and apply it and live it out. And so give us that we pray. Keep us humble. Lord, guard us against self-deception and may we be a fruitful congregation. We pray in Jesus' name, amen. Keep in your Bibles tuning again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Bye bye.

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Yeah. I would agree with everything that you said