Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Hey folks, it is Monday, Thursday. Mondi Mon Mondi. Mondi. Which means what? It means. 'cause Monday's on Monday. Yeah. So it's not Monday. It's not Monday, Thursday, it's mondy. It comes from the Latin manda or manum, which means mandate or command. And it refers to the upper room and the new commandment, which Christ gave his disciples that you would love one another as I have loved you. On the liturgical calendar, liturgical meaning I think it's. I think liturgy comes from the word in the Latin for praise or worship, if I'm not, if I'm not mistaken. Sounds right. We're gonna go with it. Yeah. And so liturgical having to do with the worship, having to do with something church related. And so the liturgical week of the holy week, the passion week that we found ourselves in Thursday is called Monday, Thursday because it's connected to the mandate given in the upper room that. We should love one another as Christ has loved us. So, this is the day, this is the day of Passover for that week that Jesus was crucified during, and this is also the time of the upper room, the time of the betrayal, the time of the arrest and the initial trials that Jesus is gonna go through here. Yeah, the it's fascinating the passion. We've kicked around some different timelines and chronologies of it, and it's, there's some difficulties there. I feel at the end of the day, still pretty confident on I. The traditional timeline for when Jesus was crucified, and I think it's based in large part. I talked about this a little bit on Sunday. But the synoptics, they are very clear, especially Mark, that the meal the disciples ate together with Jesus was the Passover meal. And it says that they actually went and prepared the Passover meal, which would've involved the sacrifice of the Passover lamb. And so those that won wanna argue that it. Must have been the day before because they want Jesus crucified on Passover. They've got the problem of figuring out how they're gonna, according to the law, offer the Passover lamb a day early. Nobody's at the temple sacrificing the Passover lamb a day early. So I think because of that in Mark and then also, just the rest of the mention in John of the day of preparation of Passover Week. It's again, not the day of preparation for the feast, but I think the day of preparation for the Sabbath, which the Sabbath is the next day, that's gonna be Saturday plus, I think that is in keeping with what we're gonna find out this week when they go and want the body of Jesus taken back down from the cross because the next day was the Sabbath. I just, I think the evidence is still strong for the traditional reading of the Passion Week events, but some are out there suggesting it, it could have been different timing and I think as long as we have Jesus walking outta the tomb on Sunday morning and three days, and three nights, whatever our reckoning of that is. I, I think there's a little bit of room on this one.

So you're not gonna kick someone out of the church who believes in a different timeframe? No. No, not yet. Not yet. Not this year.

Not this year. Talk to me next year maybe. But if you come to me saying he was raised on a Tuesday, then we've got problems. Yeah. I. Pr What

are you reading these days? Any good books? Several actually. I knew you would have several that I'm working through. I picked up a couple books in preparation for men's retreat, so I've got a few that I'm working on. I just finished More Than a Battle by Joe Rigley. I. I got tongue pierced and bitterness two different titles. I picked up War of Words by, by Trip, which I think is pretty good. I'm also, I just found this book, it was a recommendation from a podcast that I was listening to, totally unrelated to what we do, but it's called Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Godar. Okay. Yep. Have you heard of this book? I've heard of it. Have you read it? I have not. Really fun read, like I'm just loving it. I'm enjoying just getting through it. And so he's talking about the hospitality industry and how how he's navigated through it and some of the discoveries that he's made and some of the principles that he now. Works by, and they're fascinating and I think there's a lot of carryover to the church, although it's not a one-to-one. We do have a hospitality ministry, but it doesn't only apply to that. I think it's got really interesting insights and great stories on top of that have really helped me to I don't know, just to appreciate what goes on behind the scenes. And on top of that, just to say, man, there's some really great nuggets of wisdom in that. And I also just purchased teaching that changes lives by dr. Howard Hendricks. Not a new book. I've read this one before, but I don't have it on Kindle, so I recently got it. I'm gonna reread that one again soon. 'cause I love that one. Yeah. How about you? What are you going through? Yeah. Just finished

up a book by Joe Rigley, the Sin of Empathy, which is is I really like him. Yeah. I now, yeah. 'cause I'm almost done with that one. Yeah. I like this guy a lot. I do too. Yeah. It's really helpful. And that title is meant to be what's the word? Provocative. Yeah, provocative. Thank you. That's, I was thinking tantalizing,

that's a different connotation, bro.

It's a different one. Yeah. Except for

Mary's different books. Song of Solomon, somewhere in this. Yeah. Anyways, guess could be tantalizing without being anything like that.

Yeah, it's not unto no, but the book itself is really good and it's super helpful to understand how we relate to one another and what the right approach is to relate to other people, especially as they go through difficult seasons and difficult times and how we can do that in a helpful way in a biblical way, and how we can let our emotions get hijacked and or let our emotions hijack the situation maybe, and and depart from biblical truth in that. So that's a really good one. That's super helpful for us. Would you recommend people read that one? Yes. Yeah, I would for sure. For sure. In fact, we've talked about potentially having that be a book that our community group leaders go through and read. I'm reading another one that's more easy to read called The Pastor's Soul. I. That is by Brian Croft and another author. Oh, I know that one. Yeah, Jim, I can't remember the Jim's last name. But that, that's just an easy read right now just about the importance of cultivating our holiness as pastors and giving attention to our souls not just in the area of sanctification, but also in rest and out, other areas like that to just be as effective as we can. And then another one called How we got the New Testament by Stanley Porter. Okay. So a deep dive into historical. Criticism and the such on that. So very cool. Yeah. Yeah. So there you go. Those are some books for you if you're out there wondering. That might be helpful for you to pick up and and take a gander at. Hey, let's jump into the book that we hope all of you're reading on a daily basis, and that is the Bible. If you're not, then

why are you listening to our podcast? I forgot to tell you about something. What? I was antiquing with Kristen yesterday. Okay, mark That we didn't actually buy anything, so I could, I don't think you can call it that, but we were in an antique store Okay. In downtown McKinney. And we're just enjoying ourselves. Yeah. Came across this this old Bible. And this Bible is a Catholic Bible, and here's what it says. An indulgence of 300 days is granted to all the faithful who read the holy Scriptures at least a quarter of an hour. Wow. Isn't that crazy? So that's 300 days off of purgatory, if I understand that. Yeah. Yeah. So so I bought it. 'cause I certainly, I don't wanna lose the time, so I'm just Yeah. Kidding. I don't do that. But it was interesting. I don't know that, I didn't realize they were so blatant. That's pretty remarkable. That is remarkable. Anyway, so speaking of reading in the Bible, I just, I remember this 'cause I was looking at this stuff with Kristen Cross, so you're offering indulgences to everybody out there. I think we could offer 600 for anyone who listens to this podcast on a regular basis. That's awesome. If we have any pool with the father and the son, I mean by the Holy Spirit, we command this thou shalt. Yeah. I'm just kidding guys. Don't do that. Don't listen for that reason. Listen for other reasons, but not that reason. Yeah.

All right, let's get into, first Samuel Chapter 25, 26 and 27. First Samuel 25 is David and Nal. David and Abigail, however you wanna look at it. NAL is one of those guys that lives up to his name. I

think, how would his parents name him that, by the way? I don't know. What? I don't know. They have it against him

already. They must. Marques Brownley sent out a tweet the other day about nom determinism. Which caught my attention. I was like, what in the world is that? Nominated determinism is when your name. Is, ends up being connected to what you do. And so he gave some examples. The CEO of Nintendo America. His name is Doug Bowser. Doug Bowser. Doug Bowser. So Bowser like Doogie Houser? No, Doug Bowser was one of the bad guys in the original Mario Brothers game. Oh, okay. And so Doug Bowser, CEO of Nintendo Super Mario Brothers. Here's the other one. Fastest Sprinter of all time. You should know this guy's name. Fastest. Insane Bolt. Yes. Insane. Usain. Usain Bolt. Usain Bolt. Yeah. That's the one. Yeah. But Bolt, and Sprinter fast. The chief operations officer of Starbucks is named Rosalyn Brewer. Oh, wow. Brewer could have done beer too, though. Yeah. On fairness, the world record Chili Pepper Breeder is a guy named Ed Curry. No. So the Curry connection there, that's very spicy. Yeah. The CEO of Capital One Bank, Richard Fairbank. Oh, yep. And BBC weather meteorologist Sarah Blizzard. That's not real.

And he missed one major one. Did you not catch this one? What's that one? The. Pastor de jour. No, he's not a de jour anymore. He's long gone, but Creflo. Dollar. Dollar yep, there you go. Yeah, there you go.

Nominative determinism. Nominative determinism. Yeah. So I guess that's what we have with Nabel. He was normatively determined. Yeah. But his

parents decided to call him fool. Yeah, they did. That's I, that's messed up, man. I, I feel for him. I'm not saying what he did was right, but when you got a name like that, how do you not live up to it? Yeah. I, yeah fair. It's almost like you have to change your name. Yeah. You have to be like, Lord, please. I'm just I'm trying not to dishonor my parents, but I gotta change my name, right? Can I be something else? Can I go by a nickname maybe? And then his wife, like way out of his league, what happened there? Yeah. Talk about, having, I guess where his name really stunk, he got a great wife in the deal. Y yeah.

Yeah. Although that doesn't really work out for him in this chapter. It doesn't. But yeah, Naval, if you're wondering surely there are other, meanings glosses of the word. Yes, there are fut, futile to be futile to be foolish, which is the main one to declare it to be void or to be considered invalid. So there's not really a lot of good glosses of that one out there. That's yeah, that's a bummer. It could be fool or man of strength. Oh, clearly his parents meant that one. Anyways, in this chapter it's a familiar story. If you've read through the Old Testament, you've got David and his men taking care of na balls. Shepherds basically making sure that they're kept safe because they're part of the Israelite territory and David wants to make sure that he's protecting his own. And they go to NAL when NAL is sharing the sheep, which would've been a celebration and a time of feasting, and they basically ask for a handout. They're saying, Hey we. Took care of your shepherds. Can you supply us some food here? Because you can ask them. And they've been kept safe and we've been there to, to ward off any enemies. And Naval says, who are you? And who is David? And why should I do this? I'm not gonna do this at all. Get outta here. David hears about it mounts up with 400 men and straps on their sword to go to battle, to basically annihilate naval in his entire household. Abigail gets wind of this, goes out and intervenes and. And pleads before David and says, David don't do this thing. And in fact, she even implies that by her doing this, and David agrees with it towards the end of the chapter, that God was keeping David from committing a sin by acting rashly in response to Neal's foolishness. And the sin would've been not just the death of Napal, because Napal does end up dying. So it seems this is worthy of death. What he's done here. 'cause God does through more, I guess natural means take his life from him, but probably because David would've been wielding the sword against his own countrymen. And God knew that was gonna hurt David's reputation down the road. God knew that this was not a just killing, that this was not under the command of Yahweh that David should carry this out. That this is more about David's pride at this point than it is about naval sin. And so Abigail really ends up being a, a grace of God. To come in and intervene and stop him from doing this thing.

That's right. She is truly a gift. 'cause if he had done this, I am confident God would've held it against him.

Yeah, absolutely. I, and I agree with you. The tricky thing in chapter 25 the uncomfortable thing that we just need to point out and call out here is even though Abigail is a woman of character and what she does is good and commendable David's taking Abigail. Abigail is a wife, and then he adds another wife. This a heno. At the same time, this is not commanded nor commanded by gal. And so we need to be careful not to read this as, and God told David, take another wife. Yeah. 'cause David has me call back home. Now granted she's been given to another person and we're gonna find that out later on in the book. But this multiplying wives is not something that God instructed David to do. And this is not gonna be a good thing. This is perhaps indicative even as foreshadowing of what's gonna be one of the biggest downfalls of David

later on. That's true. And notice here that in verse 21 and 22 more specifically, verse 22, he says, God, do to the enemies of David and more. Also, if by morning I leave so much as one male of all who belong to him, this is a vow. Yes, this is a vow to God saying I am committing myself before God to do this or God strike me dead. Abigail prevents David from fulfilling this vow, which means David would've sinned in not fulfilling the vow. Right? Which is the right thing to do, right? The right thing was to break the vow to God, which means he's still guilty on that account too. God would still hold him accountable to speaking to God in this way. So he is, God's not frivolous with his words and he doesn't want us to be. We make a vow or to keep them, but in this case, it would've been sin to keep the vow and it would, it's also sin to break the vow. So in both cases, David's hurt, but the lesser of the two evils in this case is the better option.

Yeah. Yep. We come to chapter 26 and this is familiar territory because we've read something very similar in recent memory. David in the cave of Ven getti with Saul when he cuts off the robe. Here again, David has an opportunity that God. GIF wraps for him. Here is Saul. David sneaks down into Saul's camp and it says in the text that there was a deep sleep over the men there that God had sent to them so that this moment would come to be. And David's down there with Abishai and Abishai is let's go, gimme the spirit. I'm not gonna miss, I won't have to strike twice and we can be done with all this and done with all this running. And David says, no, I'm not gonna lift my hand against the Lord's anointing. Anointed. He takes the spear, he takes the water drug. You, he goes up, and then he chastises, Abner, the Saul's right hand man, his bodyguard for falling asleep, quite literally on the job. And again, it's a very similar territory. Saul confesses that David's a better man than he is and so forth and so on. But I think before we just rush past this and go, oh yeah David did the right thing. Man, that would've been so hard. And here you've got Abishai who's been loyal to you, been with you, been on the run with you and suffering with you, and he's David, look, we can be done with this. We can go back home. We can go back to the tabernacle. We can go be back with our families and our tribe, tribal lens and back where we come from. This can all be over. Let's just do this. Here he is. God's given him to you, and David has enough. Of a conviction and knowledge and respect for God and God's word and God's plan that he chooses to trust God instead of his circumstances. And that's so good for us because something that's worldly wisdom can make a whole lot of sense to you. You can be put in a circumstance where doing something that you know would undermine the word of God, might put you in a situation where you're like, no. Surely this is gonna be better for my family and better for. My career or better for us financially or better for my health or better for whatever. And yet, to do that would put you, cause you to run afoul of God's word. And at the end of the day, we need to be like David and trust the Lord and that the obedience to the Lord is better, even though in the short term it feels like obedience to our fleshly desires would be the better option.

Why do you think David didn't read this as God's providence in delivering his enemy into his hand this way? It seems like because this is not the first time this has happened, we talked about it the last time as why didn't David do it? And the first time you say, okay, maybe this is God testing me, but he would do it again. It seems like God is saying, David, I'm delivering him right into your hands. And yet David never takes that path. He always sees it as, no, this is God's, it's gotta be God's thing. I can't touch the Lord's anointed. I have to let God take care of this guy. Why do you think he never saw it that way? And I honestly,

I think it was just his fear to, to act against Saul because Saul was an Israelite, he was a fellow Israelite. I don't think David ever entertained the thought of, I'm gonna be the one that takes Saul out. I think he knew God would do it eventually, but I think he believed that God was gonna do it either through natural means or through one of Israel's enemies. And I think we even get this a little bit with his interaction that we're gonna see in a few chapters with the Philistines. When the Philistines are going to battle against Israel. And David initially feigns disappointment to not be able to go out to battle with the Philistines, but I don't think he wanted to go to battle with the Philistines. I think he was looking for every opportunity to avoid that. And if he had gone to battle with the Philistines, I think he was gonna turn against them and fight against them. He had to. He's an Israelite and the people of God are Israelites and he's convinced on that. And so I think that's why here he is I'm, it's not my job to take this man out. He's in some regards, even he's David's king still at this point. Chapter 27. Then it's interesting 'cause 'cause it back in chapter 26, the end of the chapter here, he says, behold, as your life was precious this day in my sight, so may my life be precious in the sight of the Lord and may he deliver me out of all tribulation. You read that and you're like, man, David, your trust, your confidence in God to do this is so high and it's so great and it's so commendable here. And then chapter 27. And in chapter 27, it reveals that this trust is somewhat short-lived because David says in his heart, now I shall perish one day by the hand of Saul. There's nothing better for me that I should escape to the land of the Philistines. So he goes From one moment, God, you're I trust in you. It to the next moment going, I gotta run for my life and go hide out with the Philistines. And this is as I, I just alluded and gave some foreshadowing to this is gonna put him in some tight spots here in, in the not too distant future. But for now, he's gonna take refuge with the Philistines. He's going to talk to the king of the region there who's gonna give him this town called Ziklag to settle in. And that's where he and his mighty men end up putting down some. Temporal roots and they go out on these raiding parties and all along the raiding party against the enemies of Israel, the Amalekites, and others. And the Philistines are happy and appeased because they're also enemies of the Philistines. But David also is not taking shots at his own people in this either.

Yeah. This is a tough situation. I have so much sympathy for him. Yeah. Not empathy. 'cause that's a sin. I have sympathy for him. And I just wonder, man, what would I have, what would I have done? Yeah. I can't imagine making a better decision, honestly. This is tough.

I agree. Yeah. It's easy for us who are armchair quarterbacks to throw stones at David and be like, dude. Why'd you do what you did, right? Yeah. When we're not there. Hey, let's pray and then we'll be done with this episode. God, give us a trust like David had of you in chapter 26. Give us this trust that says that we don't have to compromise. We don't have to take the easier way out. We don't have to do the sinful thing because we can trust in you and wait on your timing for things. That's something that David did so well, is to trust your timing, that you would be the one that would work out all things to bring him to the position that you had already told him that you were gonna bring him to. Lord. So we trust that you will work all things in accordance with your plan for our good because we do love you. And yet, Lord, help us not to try to grab the reins out of your hands or take the wheel from you but to really trust you in the navigation of our life and to live obediently as we wait on your timing. So we pray this in Christ's name. Amen. Amen. Alright, y'all, keep in your Bibles and tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. See ya. Bye.

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Yeah. I would agree with everything that you said