Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Good morning, good afternoon. Good evening, and good night. Yeah, there it is. We're done. We'll see you guys later. Have a good one. Well, I don't know when they're listening. Well, no, and that's, so that was an universal greeting. That's fair. It just, you know, it. It's like, okay, we're done. We're done. It did sound that way. I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm sorry. Favorite candy Halloween was just this last weekend. What was your favorite candy? Which candy did you steal from your kids? Sour Patch kids. Really? Yeah. My beef there. Thanks a lot. Inflation is, there's like three of them in a package now. Oh, it's ridiculous. Yeah. I opened one up. And it literally had four of them in it. Yeah. And I was like, what has happened? It's crazy to our world, what has happened to our world? I need all the corn syrup, not just a little bit of it. Right. You we're in a little bit. We're gonna open it up and it's gonna take money from you. She's gonna be like, gimme money and you're gonna have to put Sour Patch kids into the bag. Right. Man, that's crazy. Sour Patch. Kids are good. What's your favorite? I'm Halloween. Candy's hit and miss for me because I like Reese's, but nobody's giving out the Reese's Pumpkins. No, that's right. Or the Reese's Eggs or the Reese's Christmas trees. They're not that generous. They're not that generous. At least not where we go. So I, yeah. Halloween candy for me is hit and miss. I'll grab some outta the bucket every once in a while when I get a sweet tooth, but. It's the double stuff. Four wheels and a glass of milk for me, man. That's where I'm at yeah. There's not too many Halloween candies that I like either. Yeah. There's only a select few that I will take least favorite. What's the one that you're like, really? Why, why do we have those? I would say, when the chocolate gets mixed up with the with the other stuff for too long and then everything loses its flavor, you open it, it's like gray. Yeah. Yeah. That is the worst. And sometimes I wonder if it was last year's Halloween candy that they just passed out again this year. That's the worst. Yeah, that could be. That's the worst. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not a big too roll fan. No. Especially those extra flavored ones. The regular ones aren't great. Yeah. But then they make like vanilla ones and strawberry ones. Those are. Yeah, those are, those are like also rans in the life of Candy. It's like, oh yeah, there's TSI rolls over there too. It's like, okay. Yeah, thanks, but no thanks. It's like those candies, did your grandparents ever have those candies that like the Jelly Center in the dish? Like the strawberry ones? Yes. Yeah, like those Intie rolls, same vibes. They're just kind of, they give the same. Impressions. Yeah, I agree. Not fans. I agree. You know anything with caramel too? I like caramel, but not in candy. Not in candy. It just, it just is. Ah, okay. Just it doesn't do it. You know what season it is though? And this is good. We talked about Christmas yesterday, so it's not just that but Bluebell has its peppermint bark ice cream back on the shelves. Oh, that's so good. That with homemade hot fudge. Mm, I'm done man. Gimme that. And that will, even if I have access to that, I'll set the Oreos aside. Wow. Wow. Amanda will make Wow that it rises to that level. Yeah. Amanda makes this homemade hot fudge. Not often enough, but she does. And it's it with pepper and bark ice cream. It's like game over. Yeah. That sounds phenomenal. Yeah, I know that ice cream very well. Yeah. But I've never done homemade hot fudge on it, so I need to level up, I guess. Yeah, man. And we have to ration that stuff some, especially with five kids. So sometimes we'll send the boys to bed. And then it's like, alright, now we're gonna bust out the good stuff. And sometimes they catch us. They're like, Hey, wait a minute. We're like, well, it's okay. Yeah. Your mom and dad. Something to look forward to when you get older. That's right. That's right. Hot fudge and peppermint ice cream. That's right. What do you feel about eggnog? I mean, I know we're around the corner from it still. It's there and I like. I like the idea of it because it's festive and it's about, the Christmas season. I just I don't think I can, somebody called a egg milk the other day and I was like, yep. That, that's, that's why Yeah, it pretty much is egg milk. Yeah. we've made it before and it's actually much better when you homem make it, but it's also terrifying because you see how many eggs go into it and that it truly is egg milk. Well, you're just, it's just, you're just drinking the yolks. It's just like with some sugar. Well, don't think about it that way. How can you not? That's what it is. They even, they don't even hide it on the carton egg nod. Like, somebody could have called it like, yeah, yeah. I like reindeer milk or something. Something festive like that. Like reindeer milk. Yeah, like santa juice. I, I don't know. I mean, okay. Well just think of it as Santa juice and that'll fix. I don't think that helps. I don't think that helps. I don't want, yeah, eggnog. I, I feel like Santa juice might be worse actually. Yeah, it's probably, but, so there you go. If you guys like egg milk or eggnog or whatever it's called, or say juice. Then en enjoy it. But for us, for me, in my house, we will serve the Lord without that. But peppermint, bark, ice cream and hot fudge. I'm there, I'm there. Speaking of there, let's go to the Bible. Let's go there. Let's what a smooth transition. Matthew 22. I'm actually paid to do this. I don't know if you knew that, but yeah, you should have seen him preparing for that transition all morning. I was like, how am I gonna, I don't know. Where am I gonna pivot Matthew 22. That was flawless in Mark 12. Mark 12. Every time I come to the gospel of Mark or the name of Mark, I'm reminded of the inconvenience of your name. So I just wanna let you know, I'm sorry that having the C and not the K is just really one of those things that I'm like, why? But we've talked about that before. It's fine. I'm over it. I'm over it. But we're gonna be Matthew 22. Fair enough. Matthew 22, the opens with the parable of the wedding feast. And this is another one of those that is going to rile the Pharisees up. Because Jesus is gonna say there, there are some that are invited at the outset that are gonna be. Rejecting the invitation, they're gonna say thanks, but no thanks. And then the rejection of the rejectors and the inviting of the unexpected is what's gonna follow this. So, the initial invitation is most likely an allusion to the fact that Jesus and the father sent the prophets mm-hmm. Ancient Israel and said, Hey, you guys need to get right. And they rejected the prophets. They did not respond to God's invitation for them to repent and to be restored as his people. And so now he was going to those that were unexpected. We've talked about that a little bit in the last few days, that there are other situations where Jesus appointed the fact that he's going to those that are the unexpected. And this is exactly what we see taking place in the wedding fees. Now, something else that's important here is. He's calling everyone. In fact, the text I think says at one point he's calling the bad and the good, but that is not a reference to the salvific call, the effective call, but the general call. So this is an open invitation and that's how we understand it. So when we break down soteriology, that is the study of salvation. There's what's known as the General Call of Salvation. That is the general call of the Gospel, which goes out to anyone ever. For far and wide that this is the call that everyone is eligible to receive both the good and the bad. You could look at that as the invitation to the wedding feast here and yet it's only those that are part of God's elect. Those that receive this special call, those that are drawn, those that are able to believe in Jesus Allah. John 6 44. That are the ones that are truly welcomed into the feast. They're the ones that are welcomed into the feast and given the wedding garment, if you will, for the feast. And so that's why as this parable winds down, there's a person there that didn't have the wedding garments on. They didn't have the thing that marked them as part of the feast as part of the festivities. And so, the host of the wedding says, how did you get in here? And the man doesn't have an answer. And he hadn't bothered with with any of the preparation or anything like that. And so this man has taken and cast out from the wedding feast. And so it's a reminder that there's preparation that you, that there's distinguishing marks of what it looks like to be part of the kingdom of God. And that's all God's work within us, but it is gonna be known. In the end, who is a part of the kingdom and who's not part of the kingdom. And it's important we read it that way because if we read the bad and the good as the elect, then this is really confusing because the, if it's the elect and then somebody doesn't have their wedding garments and then gets thrown out and clearly thrown into. Into hell, we're gonna be in a totally different doctrinal place. Mm-hmm. So you're exactly right to make sure that we understand that rightly, because otherwise, this actually ends up being really confusing. Oh, for sure. And you may say but how did you get in for the first, in the first place? And I think the answer is. Part of the requisite, for lack of a better term, was when you came to the wedding feast. You had to have the wedding garments on for the feast. Mm-hmm. You have to repent and believe in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. You have to be willing to surrender your life to Christ, and that is a work of God in our lives, but that is still a requisite for salvation. Mm-hmm. We have to repent and believe in Jesus' Christ as your Lord and Savior. If you want to just simply. Add a little bit of Jesus to your life. If you just want the easy believism, if you just want the good things, but you don't want him as Lord, that's like showing up to the wedding ceremony without your wedding garment on, and you're gonna easily stand out and say, wait a minute you don't belong because you don't, you haven't dressed appropriately. You haven't prepared appropriately. You haven't repented and believed in Christ as your Lord and Savior. Yeah. And in that day of judgment, it's gonna be super clear sometimes, right now in this time it's not as clear right. Who's. Saved and who's not. But in those days, it's gonna be super clear. I mean, if you've ever gone to a wedding and you've been underdressed you know how awkward that is. Yep. And I think that's the point Jesus is making. And on that day, it's gonna be abundantly clear the faith that you had and the works that came from that faith or the lack of Right. And it's like the other parable that Jesus told her, the wheat and the weeds and the angels come and say, or the. The servants come and say, do you want us to pull the weed, the weeds from the field? And he says, no. Lest you uproot. Mm-hmm. The wheat along with it, but it will be known on in the end. Mm-hmm. Which is which. So from here he goes on and what we're gonna find is there's a series of challenges to his authority, as again, the Jews are trying to trap him. They're trying to catch him so that they can charge him. And so the first question is about taxes and the Pharisees. Are gonna partner with an unlikely group. And that is the Herodians. The Herodians loved obviously Herod the Greeks they loved the Romans. They loved that side of the political sphere. And so you've got the Pharisees who were on the opposite end of things, loving Israel and Israel's independence and yet they're gonna partner together to go after Jesus. And so this is an unlikely pairing. And they come to Jesus and they ask this question about. Paying taxes. And so they feel like they've got 'em because if he says don't pay taxes to Herod, well, the Herodians now have grounds to charge him and sentence him to death for insurrection. If he says, well, no pay taxes to Caesar and forget, God's desire in this, well, then the Pharisees have him because they can turn 'em against the, turn the crowds against him and so forth and so on. But again, Jesus answers. Perfectly. He says, why don't you bring me a deary eye and then I'm gonna ask you a question, whose likeness is on the coin? And they say, well, it's Caesars Render to Caesar, that which is Caesars. And to God, that which is God's, which is a bigger answer than is what appears on the surface. Because what belongs to God is everything. So Jesus is essentially saying, you owe God everything. You can give Caesar what, Caesar's. But now even in doing that, you're really ultimately giving God what's God's, because God is the one that owns everything. Yeah. I don't wanna oversimplify this but pay your taxes. I'm not saying you have to pay too much. Typical CPA pay extra, I'm. Legally required to say, I'm not a CPA, I'm a former CPA, so you can actually, I'm not sure it's legal, but you know, I can What's a CPA? Always a cpa. Isn't that? No, that's not how it works. No. Okay. I don't wanna get you in trouble. Okay. But as a former CPA, right, and as a pastor, you know, I mean, again, I don't wanna over reduce this, but. Recognize that there are things that belong to Caesar, and you can be tempted, especially in the way our system is set up to, to cheat, to lie. But ultimately, everything belongs to the Lord. And we've talked about this in other contexts and even in recent sermons, but we need to render to Caesar what a Caesar's in, in a very practical, in a very practical way and simplistically even. Yeah. Now that said there are. Tax laws that give you the opportunity to pursue. Paying as little taxes as you possibly can, and I think that's appropriate absolutely for a believer to steward his resource as well, to say, okay, how can I set this up legally to pay as few taxes as I possibly can? Yeah, that's not wrong. But yeah, at the end, Jesus is clear here, you need to pay taxes to whom taxes are due. From here, he is gonna be challenged again this time by the Sadducees. In the Sadducees, there's a descriptor that says that they deny the resurrection. And so they're gonna ask a question along those lines. They're gonna paint a ridiculous scenario where a woman is married to seven different brothers, one after the other dies, and then they say in the resurrection, who's she gonna be married to? And then Jesus responds and says, you don't understand the scriptures, nor do you understand the power of God. Essentially, he says, in the new Earth relationships are gonna be different. They're not gonna be the same as they are here. And so he says, people neither marry, nor are they given in marriage. On the new Earth, but rather he says they're gonna be like the angels. That does not mean androgynous. That does not mean that our gender is gonna disappear when we get to eternity. That does not mean we're still not gonna have distinctions of male and female. It just simply means angels don't marry. We're not gonna marry. That said. If you're married and you're sitting there going, oh man, that really stinks. 'cause I like my spouse. Great. And you should like your spouse. I fully believe that you're gonna have a unique relationship with your spouse in eternity. That will still be different than your relationship with other people. And I, I don't think that you're all of a sudden gonna be like strangers or you're not gonna be, you're gonna live on opposite ends of the new Earth from the other person. I think God is kind and this relationship is so significant here on earth that I cant. Imagine an eternity where you don't still have that connection with your spouse. Yeah. I run into many Christians who have this idea that somehow this life is going to be entirely scrubbed from our memories, and we're gonna be starting over from scratch. I don't think that's the case. Oh no, not at all. And this is not saying that. So if you do think that. That be comforted by the fact that the relationships you have now with believers, of course are going to matter. And they're gonna, they're going to, they're gonna remain. And as you enter paradise, right? And even, I think. You know, pastor Ron and I have talked about this before on the podcast, but we may have memories even of some of the things that we did that weren't great, that mm-hmm. Some of the sins. Mm-hmm. Not in a shame inducing sense, but in the sense of always remembering the greatness of God's grace to save us. Yes. The greatness of his mercy. That for eternity, we're gonna have an awareness of, man, God is so merciful to me, so gracious to me, so kind to me. So, yeah I totally agree. And again, it's not. To our shame, we're not gonna feel that at that point. Right. 'cause E, everything will be done. The books will be closed. But it will, I think, prompt us to be thankful, to be grateful to, to praise God for what he did for eternity. Yeah. Oh no, for sure. For sure. It will. For sure. Well, well, one point that, that Jesus makes theologically towards the Sadducees who deny the resurrection is he appeals back to the Old Testament there and he says, what did Moses say back this is Exodus 3 36? Or what did God say as he revealed himself to Moses when he said, I am present tense. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, those that had already gone before and died. And yet God reveals himself to Moses saying, I am the God of those people still presently. And so he says, he's the God of the living, not the dead. So some ex of Jesus, a little sermonizing there from Jesus on the Old Testament to silence the Sadducees objection to the resurrection. From here. There's another test at least at the outset where an expert in the law comes to Jesus and says, what's the greatest commandment? And Jesus answers and he answers, according to the shaman, the Deuteronomy six, four, and five, the hero, Israel, the Lord your God. The Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart. With all your mind, with all your soul. And then he gives the second one. The second is like it. You should love your neighbor as yourself. He says on these two things, the hang, the whole law. Now in Mark's account of this Jesus is gonna. Have this interaction go a little bit further because the one who asks is gonna say, you've answered so well. Like you, you've, yes. That is such a good answer. And Jesus is gonna say to that one, you're not far from the kingdom, which I've always has always puzzled me. I'm like, tell me more about that. Like, what happened to that guy? Who is it? Where did he go? And maybe we'll see him in heaven and maybe he will come to that point. But that's an amazing statement to Jesus with this expert of the law who initially was trying to trap him. That seems to have been. Put in his place and humbled by Jesus in an appropriate way to say, yeah, you've answered well. Yeah. And this also demonstrates that there is continuity between the Old Testament and the New Testament, and we have to be really careful about how we understand that continuity. It's a particular type of continuity. It's not the same thing clearly, but there is there is continuity between the two. Yeah. And it's amazing to see that God is the same God of the Old Testament that he is of the New Testament. Yeah. And that the Old Testament problems are. Are resolved with the New Testament solutions. Yeah. Yeah. Jesus is then gonna go on the offensive he's been on the defense and it says in the text that nobody wanted to ask him any more questions. So Jesus says, okay, well then I've got a question for you. And he takes them back to Psalm 1, 10, 1. And there's the question that he asks of David saying that he, the Lord said to my Lord. And so Jesus says if. The Messiah is supposed to be the son of David. How can he also be David's Lord? And how does that work? And so he's implying there's a deity here that David is recognizing that he is subservient to his descendant. And the only way that he would be subservient to his descendant if his is, if his descendant is the son of God. And so Jesus is on the offensive saying, oh, hold on guys, before you go, before you retreat, I've got a question for you this time. And he does. Offer that that challenge. And the Pharisees know their Old Testament. They do dare do I say better than you probably do. Uhhuh. They know these things. They know these particular words. They have it memorized. And so when Jesus challenges them on these things, it's coming right to the top of their brain. Yeah. And they are put to shame by the fact that they don't actually have. An answer to this quandary. Yeah. And he goes even further on the offensive mark records for us. Much of Mark 12, by the way, is what we've just read. But the end of Mark 12 verse 38 through 40, he warns about the scribes in the Pharisees. He says they like to walk around. They're all about. The external, and they're also oppressive. He says in verse 40, they devour widow's houses for a pretense. They make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation, not commendation, condemnation. And so Jesus is again on the offensive with them. And then he goes on and he points out this widow right on the heels of saying they devour widow's houses. He points out a widow who goes up and she puts in just two small coins. Into the offering box there on the temple Mount and he commends her offering. He says that she gave much more than those that have contributed outta their wealth 'cause she contributed out of her poverty, out of her need, and put in everything that she had to live on. MacArthur makes the point, and I've kind of come around to it, that this is not something that he's saying, this is what somebody should do, that somebody shouldn't give everything that they have to live to the temple. At least not under this leadership of the temple here, but rather this is illustrating what he's just said. It's al as though he's saying, look, this is what I mean. Here's a woman that the Pharisees don't care about. They care more about the two coins that she's putting in the box than they do about the person. About her. Mm-hmm. Which almost goes back to the Sabbath. The Sabbath is not created for man, but man for the Sabbath or the Sabbath is created for man, not man for the Sabbath. And it's the similar thing here. Should people bring their ties and offerings? Yes. But should you give everything that you have so that you've got nothing left and you're not gonna be able to live? No. No. You're gonna find some pastors out there that are gonna preach that some of the televangelists, the health, wealth, and prosperity people, they're gonna say, Hey, in fact, I saw a reel the other day that was ridiculous. This woman had brought in a checkup and it was just a ridiculous scenario to begin with. People were bringing their tithes up and handing it directly to the pastor, which if I, if you ever see me do that then it's time to move on. And she brought up a check to the pastor, and the pastor looks at the check and he says, this is only $1,200. I told, I need $2,000 from everybody. And she's like, well, I don't have the 2000, I had 1200. I'll make up the rest of the 800. He is like, yeah, you're right, you will, but you need to under, I didn't ask for this. I asked for two thou. That's the modern day example of what Jesus is talking about here. That's hideous. It's obscene that somebody would. Would do that. And this is again, just an indictment of the perversion of the religious leadership there and how bad things had gotten as Jesus is getting ready to go and turn the tables at the cross. Yeah. And God doesn't need that money, but the televangelist or the scammer, whoever that is, right? Obviously Sinfully, but they need that money, right? And so they're after that money. God is not after. Dollars and cents. Right? He's after hearts and obviously their church. Our church needs money to operate. Yep. We need money to operate, but ultimately God takes care of those things, right. Right. Yeah. It's a good thing to give. We're not, mm-hmm. This is not saying it's bad to give, this is just saying, man, number one, for the Church of Leaders, it's bad to, to oppress people to give out of their poverty such that they can't take care of the needs that they need for survival. And number one and number two, this is not why stewardship, what this woman demonstrates here, because she had been taught that in, in oppressed by that way, by the Pharisees. So, alright. Well, hey, let's pray and then we will be done with this episode. God, we thank you for the example that we have in Christ. Just his boldness, his ability to answer the challenges to his identity, the challenges to his authority here that we read about in Matthew 22 and Mark 12 and even his. His pivot is going on the offensive here to challenge those that were coming against him. And we thank you, Lord, that we worship and serve a savior who is strong. Yes, he was meek. Yes he was lowly, but he's also strong. And he was not afraid to stand for what is right and to call out what is wrong. And we see that from Christ here. And so we wanna follow in his example in that even as we engage with the world around us to be able to in love. Call out that which is wrong to speak truth and to say this is what's right and this is what's wrong. And we want to be obedient ultimately to Christ. We pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Keep your your Bibles tuned in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. See ya. Bye.

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