Everybody. Welcome back to yet another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. We're 16 days in. We are 16 days. It's Friday, and so happy Friday to everybody who celebrates Fridays. I know not everybody observes Friday, but who doesn't observe Friday? If you celebrate Fridays, happy Friday to you. We just had a break and my kids already have another break coming up. Yeah, isn't that funny because of, what is it? MLK Day on Monday. Yeah. And didn't you have a teacher in service day or something on Monday when they should have been back in school? No, you're in this whole week. Okay. They were in the there. Some school districts had Monday after Christmas, not ours, immediately back off, which just seems like it throws everything up in the air. It really does. It really does. But hey, you know what? I enjoy that time with my kids and a slower day on a Monday is kind of nice. That's true. Yeah, very true. Yeah, but it's Friday. We don't have a biblical counseling intensive going on this weekend, so it's a little bit less full. Although we do have men's Bible study tomorrow. We sure do. So our men listening should be there. In fact, we're giving you a little bit of an extra, I think it's an hour, right? It is. Because we're at eight 30 now, not seven 30. It is in a brand new location. Yeah. Tell where we're gonna be meeting and the new location will be great. It's the Lighthouse Church. My understanding is that Jacob Sealander can throw a rock from where we meet at Founders Prosper to Lighthouse Church. Told, I've heard that said, told he told me that very specifically yes. And I, my understanding is he's the only person in our church who's able to. To throw a rock that far, but Lighthouse Church is just across the street in just maybe what, a mile down the road. If that even. Yeah. Even if that and it should be a really great location. I know Frisco has been a great great place for us to meet for the last couple years, but with the move to prosper, this place makes a lot more sense. Yeah, no, for sure. It does. And you know what I, I love about it is just, it's a good reminder to us and hopefully we can pay forward down the road when God blesses us with a facility. Lord willing, someday it's just a. Good reminder of the need for the church to work together. Yeah, we've got absolutely great. Church was like-minded with us. Lighthouse Church is pretty like-minded with us. We've got our differences for sure. There's no doubt there. But when it comes to the gospel and wanting to see people saved and wanting to see the church built up, man, pastor Jason there at Lighthouse Church I've gotten to have lunch with him. Super solid dude. And I'm so grateful for their generosity and saying, Hey, why don't you come and use our facility here? And same thing with Grace and and their staff down there. It was such a good experience that we had. There and hopefully one day we'll be able to pay it forward. Yeah. And ultimately right, it's God's church, meaning his universal church. His, yep. And of course there's places that call themselves churches that are not churches at all. But we do need to think highly of our church, specifically Compass Bible Church, but we also need to think highly of God's universal church and the work that he's doing every. Including here in, in North Texas. Yeah, for sure. You're gonna have a special treat tomorrow as Louis Azuma is preaching tomorrow. I think that's his first time preaching in men's Bible study. It is, it's his first time preaching outside of our student ministry here. At least he's preached to adults in different contexts that he's served in other church. But for our church, this will be his first time and I believe he is preaching on, and I'm delaying here because it just totally slipped my mind. Not Daniel, no. Oh man. Come on. Oh, Steven, thank you. It's Steven. Thank you. Wow. I was stuck in Joe for some reason. I'm like, it's not joke. I know it's not joke Rod. Preach, not joke. Yeah, he's preaching on Steven, so it should be awesome, man. Make sure you join us eight 30 tomorrow. Saturday morning at Lighthouse Church there in Prosper, so it'll be a great time. Well, let's jump into our daily Bible reading for today. That is Friday morning. We are in Genesis 38 through 40, and then we are in Matthew chapter 12, finishing up Matthew chapter 12. As you'll note in this plan, I think last time with the chronological plan, most of it, we finished a chapter like you would read. In the section, and it was rare that we would split right in the middle of the chapter. This time around, you're already getting a sense of this and we're gonna do it again with chapter 13. Because of the way it's laid out, you're gonna split in the middle of a chapter and that, that can feel awkward at times. If you wanna go ahead and read the whole chapter, go ahead and read the whole chapter, it's okay. And then tomorrow you can read that, that last part that they wanted you to read or the next part or whatever. But that's gonna happen from time to time. But we are in the Old Testament starting back. Genesis chapter 38. Now we said from 37 on, it's about Joseph, and yet that's not entirely true, is it? Yeah. We get a little a little interlude here. It's not a good one though. It's not, it's not a good one. It is not, and in fact it is very much not a favorable introduction to Judah. Yeah. Which is, we mentioned this the other day, but it's fascinating that this is the. The line of Jesus. Yep. But this initial introduction to Judah is downright horrible. It really is. And yet, man it's just a sad situation from the very outset. One of Judah's sons takes a wife for himself. And her name, it says there is Tamar in verse six. Mm-hmm. And this is gonna be, again, like you mentioned, she's gonna be in the line of Christ in er, or this man, he ends up dying because he was wicked and the Lord. Him to death. Well then here comes his brother Onan. And you might think, okay, what's going on with the brothers? This is likely, although it's not, the law has been given the lever it marriage. Right. So the lever it marriage from the tribe of Levi, that idea of the law and the priests the next in line, the. Kinsman Redeemer that should call to mind the Book of Ruth. 'cause we see these themes come up in the book of Ruth. The next kinsman redeemer, the person in line Familially, they would marry the widowed woman and they would see to it that their kin, in this case, the brother that his line would continue. In other words, Onin would have a child by Tamar, ideally here, and that child would continue in the line of. Or not of Onin. Now, any children after that would then belong to Onin. But that's what's happening. Well, Onan doesn't like that, so he doesn't fulfill his job. We'll just put it that way. He doesn't fulfill his duties and he ends up being killed as well by the Lord. The Lord is exacting justice here? These things are not right. They're sinning against Tamar. In this instance, then Judah sins against Tamar by saying, Hey, why don't you just. Wait, and I'll give you one of my younger sons when he comes of age and then he doesn't do that. And it implies in the text that he's a afraid for this guy's life as though somehow it's Tamar's fault that these other two men have died when really what we're overlooking there and what Ju do was overlooking is it was their. Character flaws that brought God's justice against them. But then there's a twist in what happens here and why don't you pick it up from there, pastor Mark, and tell us how Tamar takes things into her own hands and what happens with her and Judah from here? Let me just make one observation. that's interesting, which is this whole chapter is full of people who are not concerned with the lineage. That God has intended. Yeah, that's a good point. At the very beginning, right? It there's the identification that Judah saw a daughter of a certain Canaanite. Who was Abraham concerned with? His son, Mary. Mm-hmm. Right? Mm-hmm. He didn't want him, he. To marry a Canaanite. But then again, to your point and to the discussion of leverate marriage, which again, is not enacted here though but it's still a matter of really ultimately the lineage of Christ. And I think this is an example though of God working sovereignly despite really every effort to ruin things. I think we can see that, and I think that's why this chapter is here. There's are certainly other things that can be taken away from it, but I think that we see that we. See God being sovereign over the situation. Yeah. Despite every intention to derail it. You asked me what you asked me to talk about Tamar. Yeah. What happens from here between her and Judah? Tamar, and again, I will just be PG here, but effectively she exposes. Judah's sin, right? She exposes Judah's sin in a dramatic way, in a dramatic fashion. We've seen lots of people die for their wickedness, right? We've seen her die, own and die for being wicked. And then we even see Shula's daughter die. It doesn't specifically say that it's because of her wickedness, but we don't see Judah die. Yeah. Despite his wickedness. Yeah. And I think what we're also seeing here is that Tamar is ref. Revealing that Judah is a repeat offender, if I can use that term, right? Mm. I think we can see that this is a characteristic of him, right at the beginning of chapter 38. He commits effectively the same sin and then Tamar doesn't even seem to flinch. This idea seems to just come perfectly natural that this is a trap that she can set for Judah, right? And then she goes about this trap and it works flawlessly as she intends it to, right? And she exposes him for his. Sin in a couple different ways. Specifically his failure to protect the lineage, to protect the line, and to be to be, well again, lever law is not instituted here, but to do as he should in that way, and also exposes his sexual immorality. Yeah. Yeah. And Judah, when he's caught in his sin, it says in verse 26, Judah identified them and said, she is more righteous than I since I did not give her to my son. Yes, Sheila. He did not know her again. So Tamar lives from that time forward as a, it appears as a chaste woman and she's not going to be married, nor is she going to continue in that role with Judah. However, from her womb comes the offspring that is gonna continue the line of Christ. Yeah. And so we see that here. And these sons are born to Judah here. And this is, this is gonna continue the lineage to your point of the line of Christ. Yeah. And it's amazing that there's really no hope in this chapter. Maybe there's a little bit of a slight glimmer of hope in Judah's response. But there's really not a lot of hope in this. But yet the greatest hope we could possibly imagine, in fact, comes from this situation. Yeah. Which is ironic. Yeah. To say the least. And I think your observation that man. There's a lot of things that are not in line. Like Tamar was probably a Canaanite as well, and yet God is still ordaining and working through it all. So in spite of ourselves, God works his plan out. That's his name. That's right. That's right. Well, Genesis chapter 39, then we flash back to Joseph now. We left Joseph having been sold by the Canaanites or by the Mediaite, rather into the house of Potiphar. Potiphar was a very powerful man in the house of Egypt. And at this point he, Joseph is going to be rising through the ranks pretty quickly and I think the reason being we can connect this back to the Abrahamic covenant, even though the line was not specifically continuing through Joseph. I think the fact that God promised to Abraham, I will bless those who bless you. In those who curse you, I will curse. Joseph's presence there in Potiphar's house causes what is happening in pot of her's house to succeed. And this is gonna be true later on with Pharaoh's house too. But he's experiencing the the overflow of the Abrahamic blessings in Joseph's life. And so Joseph rises. Through the ranks here and basically gets to being second in, in power only to poter himself in the house there. And Pot's wife then comes on the scene and she's a wily woman who has her sights set on Joseph. And she wants Joseph for all the wrong reasons. And Joseph being a godly and upright man resists over and over and over again. And I remember when Pastor Rob preached on this to our men, he pointed out what Joseph says there in verse nine where he says. Of Potiphar initially, he says, he's not greater than I in his house. Nor has he kept back anything from me except you because you are his wife. And then Joseph says this, how could I do this great wickedness and sin against? And you expect him to say Potiphar, right? And yet he says, how could I sin against God in this way? And that just shows us Joseph knew who was responsible for the blessings and who had put 'em in that place. Long story short, she frames Joseph for a crime that he did not commit. And here's the thing, man. I think Potiphar knew the type of woman his wife was, because here you have an Israelite slave in his full power and possession, and when she cries wolf and when she cries foul on what she proclaims that Joseph did to her any man in his right mind in the position of Poter at this time, if he thought that this was true, would've had Joseph immediately executed, yes, but instead he has him simply. Imprisoned, banished, taken away from his sight, I think to save face, but also I think he knows what type of woman his wife was. And so I think that's why Joseph's not dead at this point. That in the sovereignty of God. Yeah and I think that's obviously really key, right? And I think that's a repeating theme throughout all this account of Joseph, right? It starts in verse two in this chapter, right? It says the Lord was with Joseph in stark contrast to 38, where there's no mention of the Lord being with Judah. But in this. Passage, right? We see that the Lord was with Joseph. Do you think that it's God being with Joseph? I guess in some sense it's an easy answer. Yes. But. That makes him successful. So I guess the answer to that is yes, but why is God not with Judah? Right. And I'm kind of going back to 38, but I think we just see such a stark contrast here. Mm-hmm. Right. God could have been with Judah in a similar way and protected him and kept him. What do you think Moses is trying to communicate? With these and this re repetition of this idea that the Lord was with Joseph. Yeah, I made that note too. It shows up four times in chapter 39 and anytime the Bible is repeating a phrase like that, it's trying to get you to pay attention and say, Hey, this is important. I think it just speaks to the character of Joseph that there was a difference that all of them were sons of Jacob, sons of Israel, but not all of them were equal in their godliness. Mm-hmm. And we've already seen that with Reuben and Simeon and Levi they are our. Men who, who do wrong things, who do sinful things. And and there's differences here in the godliness. And Joseph was a godly man. Mm-hmm. And I think that's what the author's trying to show us. And there's reward for that. Yeah. And you see the opposite thing happening, right. Judah? Actively pursues sexual immorality. Joseph actively pursues sexual fidelity. I don't know, whatever. Right. Faithfulness. Yep. You see that contrast here? And I think your point is well taken that there's a difference in the character. There's a difference in the faithfulness of these two men. And I think it's in strong contrast here. Right. And then the Lord is with Joseph and it repeats that and we'll continue to see that theme repeated in this account of Joseph. Yeah. Chapter 40. This is basically what happens here, Joseph's imprisoned, and again, just like when he was in Potiphar's house, the Lord is with Joseph. He's gonna rise in power even in the dungeon. He's gonna end up being kind of second in command of the jailer, and he meets two men in prison. And one of those happens to be the cut bearer of Pharaoh who was in jail. And then the other one happens to be the chief baker for Pharaoh's house. And both of them have these dreams. And again, here's dreams showing up in Joseph's life again. And the cup bearer comes to Joseph and says, here's my dream. And tells him, and Joseph says, Hey, well I've got good news for you because your dream means that you're gonna be lifted up and restored to your position and even gives him the timeframe of when that's gonna take place. Well, the baker hears that, and the baker says, this is great. Lemme tell you my dream. He tells him the dream and Joseph says, your news is not as good. You're gonna be lifted up only to be executed. Your head is gonna be lifted up from you and you are gonna be put to death. As a result of this, and what a bummer. Right? Exactly. The guy's like, oh, nevermind. That's not what I dreamed. I dreamed the same thing the cup air did. And then what's tragic is Joseph says to the cup Bear, he remember me when you are restored to your position, and yet verse 23 says, yet, the Chief Cup air did not remember Joseph Buffer got him. We're gonna pick up this tomorrow, but there's gonna be two years that pass. It's fascinating. Clearly we've seen God's hand in Joseph's life his entire life at this point. God's hand's here in the forgetting of the cup bear, and we don't know why. But clearly he was wanting. Ja Joseph to experience more, to, to grow more, to trust him more to whatever, more while in prison over those two years. But yeah, he's gonna be left there. And I think, and again, we don't know quite what God is doing in all the details, but I think it's so that Jo Joseph can show up on the scene when he's finally remembered and interpret those dreams from Pharaoh that we're gonna see in the following chapters, right? That timing is really imperative in order for Joseph then to be called by Pharaoh to be second in command of all of Egypt. And God is clearly sovereign over that. Why does God not have Pharaoh have those dreams and then kick off those seven years? Oh we don't know. We don't know, but you can definitely see that God is being very intentional with these things. He's the author of history and he is. He's sovereign over every single one of these elements. One of the things I think that's really interesting that Joseph says in this chapter is in verse eight, he says to them, he says, do not interpretations belong to God. Please tell them to me. I think that's fascinating. One interpretation does belong to God. Remember that he's the author of Creation. He's the author of Morality. Crops and everything. And so interpretation does indeed belong to God specifically when it comes to the context of these dreams. But really we need to remember that in, in all of life. And Joseph remembers that very well. It's also interesting that it, he recognizes that God is the instrument, that God has chosen to do this interpretation. Yes, the interpretation belongs to God, but Joseph also sees that, those dreams are to be told to him. Yeah. Fascinating. Yeah. We're gonna see that in the life of Daniel later on as well. Daniel's gonna interpret dreams And God's gonna use those interpretations there as well. Visions and things. Yeah. Well, let's jump over to our New Testament reading, Matthew chapter 12. We're gonna be in verse 22 through the end of chapter 12 here. There's a lot going on here. Right away we see this whole section on the blasphemy of the spirit. Now we talked about that last year. We did, and probably the year before during the podcast. But this is attributing the work of Christ to demons, basically saying of what Jesus was doing, his teaching and his power, and saying that's not from the Lord. That's demonic. And I guess I've always thought because of that I've said, well, this isn't repeatable today. I think I'm. Altering my view on that a little bit, not that the blasphemy of the spirit is something that we have to fear committing. You're not gonna wake up tomorrow and be like, ah, well, I'm gonna blaspheme the spirit. And I think that's why a lot of Christians ask the question, because it's this thought of like, oh man, there's a sin that won't be forgiven the blasphemy of the spirit. Am I gonna, that's a good question to ask, right? Am I gonna accidentally commit the blasphemy of the spirit somehow? No. No it's. A very specific sin. And I still believe it's very specific. I'm just saying, I don't know why somebody today couldn't still look at something that God is clearly doing and call it demonic. And I think at that work time we're taking the work of the spirit and equating it with the power of demons. And that's exactly what was happening here. So I do think it's possible to still do this probably today. It's just a very specific sin. I think I agree with you. I think. It seems like sort of a silly thing I think in Christian circles, but like hypothetically, take somebody who reads Matthew and ignores these passages, but. Reads what Jesus does and says, oh, just like the Pharisees, that must be the work of Satan, of demonic powers. I could see that fitting within the context of this warning or even, think of, some of the colts today or anything else, like when you have somebody who has a genuine conversion or an unbeliever, right? Somebody who has a genuine conversion and their life is radically transformed. And we as the church are celebrating that. And as Christians, they're saying, look what God has done in this person's life. And maybe they've got an unbelieving, atheistic family member or something else and saying, I don't know what's wrong with them, but they're like, and not tongue in cheek, but even attributing that, something like that to something demonic, right? Or something evil. I think there's a modern day equivalent even where. Real time we could say of the work of the spirit in somebody's life. That's not the spirit that's demonic. And I think there's that same danger of blaspheming the spirit. We're not the eyewitnesses of Jesus public ministry right now, which is what specifically was happening here. They were looking at what Jesus was doing on earth. We're going, this is by the devil, and that was the closed book. This is what. The textbook version of Blasphemy of the Spirit is, but I think there's maybe ways that it could still happen today. I agree. I agree. At the very least though, there is a, there's a clear distinction between something that's done in ignorance and something that's done with careful premeditation. Right? Yeah. There's definitely a difference in God's eyes. And even if you don't think that blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is something that can be done today, I think at the very least we can see that there is very much a distinction and it's an important distinction that we can make mistakes out of not knowing, out of confusion, out of ignorance. There's a big difference when the Pharisees know these things specifically, they have a memorized, they're very familiar with their Old Testament, and then Jesus shows up and says. Says the things he says does the things he does, and then you say, no, that's of Satan. There's definitely a difference there. That is worth noting. Yeah, it's fascinating here. Also in chapter 12, Jesus is addressing these same pharisee, these same religious leaders and he says in verse 34, you brooded to vipers. Now this is. A callback to something that John the Baptist said when they came out to John the Baptist. John the Baptist called them the same thing. You brew to vipers. The chapter before this, Jesus has just commended John the Baptist. I wonder if this isn't a way of Jesus even honoring John. Yeah. By quoting John here, you've got the son of God quoting something that John said. Now. John said it led by the spirit, part of the carried by the spirit and everything else like that. So who said it first? Yeah, that which came first, the chicken to the egg. Still, I think this may be a way of Jesus giving that to hat tip to John Yeah. In how he's confronting the Pharisees here and they probably remember that. Yeah. The Pharisees are. I think presented as kind of a sensitive, not in a good way. Right. And so I imagine that they remember the rebuke of John the Baptist. Right. And I suspect they're gonna immediately make that connection here. Yeah. It's also ironic that the Pharisees accused Jesus of blasphemy. Right. They accuse him of blasphemy. Right. But then they're the ones actually guilty. Yep. Guilty of it. Yeah. Hey, pot. You're the kettle. I'm black. You're black. Yeah. Whatever. Pot calling the kettle black. I, everybody knew what you meant. Thanks, man. I butchered that, but I appreciate that. Anyways. Yeah. And then you got this sign of Jonah thing. The Pharisees want a sign. We wanna see a sign for you. And why they're asking for that is they're saying do something that's gonna make us go, oh, okay, we'll listen to you. Well, he's done plenty for them to say, oh, okay. We'll listen to you. And that's why one of the things he says to them is you unbelieving an adulterer generation. There's not gonna be a sign given to you except for this the sign of Jonah. And he references three days and three nights. Now that's caused a lot of problems 'cause people have said, well, he wasn't in the grave for three days and three nights. And that's where the, again, the Jewish reckoning of time, and Pastor Rod and I have talked about this before in the past it was not as precise as you and I count time today, a partial day or a partial night was counted as a full day or a full night. So, this is the. Reference here. Not expecting them to get their Timex out and go, okay, atomic clock. Ready, let's mark starting now we're looking for three full days and three full nights. Rather, this is him saying, you're gonna see this sign fulfilled just like it was in Jonah. You're gonna see it fulfilled in me, and this is clearly an illusion, lest we get caught up in the timing to his death and resurrection. Yeah, Julia and I, Julia is my wife. For those of you who don't know, we always have a hard time agreeing on the amount of time that has passed because I always round up. And she accuses me of generously rounding up, but I always round up, she always rounds down. So, you know, when we're retelling things, we always have a different number When we tell those things, it's similar to what's going on here. You're waiting for her to get ready for a date. You're like, that took you 45 minutes. And she's like, no, took me 15. Yeah, yeah. Somewhere in between, somewhere in the middle of that. And the reality is it's 30, right? Yeah. My argument is it was 31, so, round up, right? It took an hour. Fair enough. We'll give it to you. We'll, it to go over doesn't go over well all the time, yeah. One of the other things that's amazing here is that Jesus makes the specific point that they repented at the preaching of Jonah. Mm-hmm. They specifically repented at the preaching of Jonah, which was not a long sermon. It was, yeah. Not a long sermon at all. At least the way we are presented in the book of Jonah. Pharisees have heard of the prophecies of Jesus to come. They have heard John the Baptist preach of the coming of Jesus. They have heard Jesus's teachings and they've seen miracles. And they still reject Jesus. Yeah. They still full scale reject Jesus. I think it's amazing that this foreign land, this foreign city of Nineveh is willing to repent just at the mere preaching of Jonah. When the Pharisees, God's very own people get way more. And then continue to reject him many ways. Right? Right. And he's addressing their self-righteousness, which is where he goes in verses 43 through 45 with this kind of enigmatic address here. When he talks about this unclean spirit that leaves and it passes through waters. When he comes back, he finds the house put back into order and swept. And yet, then it goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and they dwell there. And the last state of the person is worse than the first. What's going on here? Jesus is confronting the idea of self-righteous moral reform. Mm-hmm. That doesn't really happen by the spirit again. Mm-hmm. This started in the passage that we're reading today with the blasphemy of the spirit here. Jesus is saying, because you don't actually have the spirit of God, you're trying to clean yourself up. This. Is akin to what he's gonna get to in Matthew 23 with the whoa statements. He's saying you're cleaning the inside, but not mm-hmm. The outside, but not the inside. And so he's saying, you, you've got this wickedness about you that, okay, yeah, you're cleaning it up to, to make it look okay on the external, but then what's reality is it's not gonna last that the decay in the moral depravity is going to eventually take over. And the state that you're gonna be in, in the end is far worse than the state that you were in at first, because you're rejecting the spirit of God and what the real hope and solution is. When he says at the very end of that section. So also will it be with this evil generation? What? What does he mean by generation? So he says this evil generation, does that mean just the people that were living at that time and that one generation, generation. A alpha, whatever was way back then. Generation one, generation one. He's, I think he's primarily got the Pharisees and sades in mind in earshot there. And this is where we got the original audience and then us reading it today. And there's the dual application for us. And I think as good be, we need to understand there's an application for them. There's an application for us too. I think the application for us is a little less specific, but still the same. To say, okay, I gotta make sure that I'm being transformed not by moral reform, but by the spirit of doubt within me. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And I do think he specifically talked. About that generation. But I do also think he is hinting at the fact that this is the, there's a new era, there's a new age, right. And it's, there's gonna be this problem continuing on even past the literal generation that we see at the time of Jesus. Yeah. The chapter ends with this interaction between Jesus' family and his. Ultimate family who he points to there. And this is a good verse for us to consider. This is a good section for us to consider for this weekend's sermon. 'cause we're gonna be talking about the churches as the family of God, the need to have real relationships there. And Jesus even was looking at his mother and his brothers and saying, you know what, who my real family is? My real family are those that do the will of my father in heaven. And I know it's not a popular message, but in, in a lot of ways, that should be our mentality as the church too. Our true family, our ultimate family are those that are our brothers and sisters in Christ. Now, ideally, Lord willing, the, that involves our blood family as well, and our kids and our spouse and everything else, but it doesn't always for everyone. And in those instances the people you will spend eternity with are the people that you go to church with. And so that's a helpful thing for us to think about there as uncomfortable and hard as it is. Let's pray and we'll be done with this episode of the podcast. God, thanks for your word and for just the hope that we have in the spirit of God doing the heavy lifting of cleansing us and making us holy, making us godly that we're not trying to do this on our own, like the righteous the self-righteous Pharisees and Sadducees were, but that we have the spirit of God working within us. If we're in Christ, we're so grateful for that reality and we are grateful for the reality that we will one day be with you because we have seen and heard the message of faith and. Open Jesus crisis, our Lord's Savior. We've repented and put our trust in that reality, and so we pray that you'd be pleased with us the rest of this day, whatever's in front of us. In Jesus' name, amen. Keep your Bibles. Tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Have a great rest of your Friday. Bye.

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