Hey folks. Welcome to Thursday's edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Happy Thursday everybody. I was gonna say, happy Thursday too late early Bird gets to the worm buddy. Have a great Thursday. Super. That was really good. I was inspired, bro. Yeah. Gonna have you show up to a meeting next. Alright. Gospel gabbers, do you believe that tail bearing or tattling is a sin? Can we define tail bearing for, other people that need to know what tail bearing means? Well, that's why he included the word tattling. So your neighbor is installing lights on their home and you know for a fact he has not contacted the HOA. And so you contact HOA under an anonymous email and say, dear HOA friends Pastor Mark is installing lights that he did not get approved. Is this okay? Is this a sin? Is it a sin not to say something? Well, that's a different question. Yeah. Well, okay. Well the que, do you believe that tail bearing or tattling is a sin? So is it a sin to do it or is it a sin to not do it? I guess it goes both ways. I, this is, so this actually, this is helpful 'cause. Tuesday morning, I was going over a proverb with my kids as we do in the morning, and it was the proverb about love covers multitude of offenses. Mm. And I think these things are related because I think we have to go to what's your motive in tattling? What's your motive in telling someone? If the motive is I want them to suffer because I want them to get in trouble for what they're doing, then yeah, that's a sinful motive that's a wrong motive for you to have about that person. If your motive is. I'm bringing this to somebody's attention and maybe it's tattling, but you know what? I'm concerned for their safety or I'm concerned for their morality because what they're doing I know is wrong and you really genuine are doing it out of a heart of love for the person or concern for the overall wellbeing of others. Then I think you should do it. I don't think it's the same thing at that point, and we would even say, well, that's not tattling. There's a difference there. And so. I bust my kids for it. If they're tattling, then I will often, yeah. One of the things we often tell our kids is, you are not their parent. And they're like, yeah, but they didn't brush their teeth this morning. It's like, yeah, but you are not their parent. Will we still go to the other one and be like, you need to go brush your teeth. Yes, but. We confront them because that's not their place. What they're doing is wrong in that. Yeah. We, in our house, we try to, and I think in a very similar way to what you're describing, we try to teach our kids the difference. And the way we do it is by saying, if your brother or sister is going to get hurt by what they're doing, then please come and tell us. Yeah. Because that is at least trying to teach them a motive that is, you wanna care for your brother or sister. We don't want them to get hurt. And that's why you come to mom and dad and say, Hey. Lincoln's about to jump off this, or Shirley's gonna break her collarbone again, right? As opposed to, they didn't brush their teeth. Right. Why do you care? And I mean I don't wanna oversimplify it, but you know, why do you care that your sibling didn't brush their teeth? Well, probably because you wanna get them in trouble. You wanna see them get the Shabbat, or you wanna see them suffer in some way, right? And or maybe you want to be. Prideful, maybe I'm gonna be like, well mom, dad, I brushed my teeth. Look how great I am. Mm-hmm. And, little Timmy over here, a little less. So would you discipline your kids for tattling then? We do. Yeah. I think if it was a consistent pattern, yes. Probably every once in a while it would just be the verbal correction with them at the age that they're at, especially now too. But if it was a consistent pattern, yeah. Okay, so one clarifying question that he asks is what if what's being tattled on is a legitimate, sinful situation and it maybe doesn't necessarily involve physical bodily injury, but it is injurious to the soul that's committing the sin, whatever that is. Would you treat that differently? Are both children disciplined at that point? Would only one be disciplined? How do you reconcile those two issues? Yes. So both are disciplined. I would, yeah, we don't discipline if we do not have either the actual evidence of what happened or we didn't witness it. Yeah. Because we. We don't wanna go off what was said. Yeah. Because there's a lot of, it's only one witness. Yeah. And so we won't discipline that. We will. So sometimes a kid will come and tattletale and they'll get a consequence, and we're pretty sure that what they're talking about was probably something that happened. But we don't have full confidence in that. So the kid who comes to tattletales gets a consequence because we knew that they came in. And tattle tailed when the kid who doesn't. But we're in the mindset that if the kid did whatever it was that the accusations are, they're gonna do it again. And they're gonna do it in front of us at some point. Gonna get busted. And we have younger kids, and I know that this is gonna evolve and look a little bit different with older kids. With our younger kids. That's the approach we take. Yeah. We'll usually ask the one being accused and we're pretty good judge of whether or not they're telling the truth on that. Like, Hey did you do this? Is this something that you did? And often as well, because our house is five older children in it the instance of one witness is rare. In our house. Usually there's two or three at least. Yeah. To establish credibility there. Yeah. So we don't wanna punish if there's not genuine guilt there, but we'll take it seriously. If there was a, an accusation and it is something that needs to be dealt with, we'll deal with it. I don't I don't think we've ever disciplined my kid. Well, may maybe. I suppose it's possible and I just forgot. We don't typically discipline them for tattling, although we enforce it and reinforce it by reminding them constantly, we ask them, okay, this is not your concern. No need to share this unless, as you said, pastor Mark, if there's physical injury, if there's some kind of issue where they can be wounded in a grievous way, you let us know. Otherwise, mom's a word. You don't need to be mom and dad. You're not the, you're not the tattle police. But I've never considered disciplining them for that. And I suppose maybe I should reconsider that, given the fact that both of you guys are. You'd both have affirmed. You would. Yeah. And some of that too is just the mere fact that we told them Yes, do not tattletale. Yeah. And when they tattletale dis, they're disobeying their, you know, 'cause we don't necessarily know their heart. Right. Right. We can, we're good judges. In fact, we're the best judges, at least in the worldly context of their hearts of anybody else. Right. Obviously God knows perfectly, but at the very least we know when they have come and tattle tailed. They have disobeyed our instructions not to tattletale. Right, right. Not to do that sort of thing. Okay. Let me ask a clarifying question here. 'cause we haven't yet cited any scripture for our positions. We just have told people what we do. What would you say tattling is? Biblically? I don't think that word's in our scriptures, there's none. There's not a word called tattle tailing to my knowledge. Maybe in the King James. What would you call this? Is there a word that we could hang our hats on and say, this is probably the situation we're dealing with when our kids are telling on their siblings? I'd call it gossip. Gossip. Yeah. That's, I think the, I think there's other things you could go with, but I think by and large it's often gossip. I'm thinking first Timothy five, gossip, slander. Mm-hmm. Maybe conceit. Oh, interesting. The wanting to rejoice in the downfall of another. Okay. Yeah. Those are helpful. So those are, those verbal sins are, what we're really getting at is some kind of heart sin. Conce, I think speaks to that. Gossip, slander they are verbal sins and it's hard to use the word tattling 'cause we all know what that means, but there's not a biblical word for that. But I think this is helpful. Thank you for clarifying those things. Any final words on this? No, I don't have any. Discipline your kids. Discipline your kids. That's a good thing. Well, we'll tell on you. We're gonna tell God. We're gonna pray to him Lord. He's not disciplining his children. Alright, great question as always. You know who you are. We appreciate that. Yep. Alright, let's get into our daily by boarding today, Joshua 16 through 18 and Luke five, one through 16. So Joshua 16 opens up with more of the land being divided here. You'll notice in Joshua 16, four, the reference to Joseph. Joseph is named because these were his sons. These tribes, EEM and Manassa were the sons of Joseph. But remember all the way back to our time in Exodus, they were, I. Adopted by Jacob. So that's why they are tribes. They're counted among the sons of Jacob because Jacob adopted them from Joseph. So these are their tribal allotments there. And really what to note I think here in 16 and 17 specifically is just again, the disobedience that we see here. End of chapter 16, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in geezer or the, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Eem to this day, but have made them do forced. Labor. It's almost like that's the, that the hat tip that they're giving. Yeah, but we enslaved them, at least, God at least, but that's not full obedience. And so it's still disobedience or in 17 you look at verse 12, yet the people of Manassa could not take possession of those cities, but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land. They did not utterly drive them out. Again, this is nothing short of disobedience from what God had told the Israelites to do. And so this is going to begin to signify even. In the infancy of their possession of the land. This is beginning to signify the end of their possession of the land because of what's gonna happen. Because these people groups stay amongst the people of Israel. Yeah, and I think you make a helpful observation. This indication of the forced labor that the Canaanites have to do does suggest that the Israelites do have authority over this, right. This is an intentional choice that is being made. Mm. The, it's because you could read this and go, oh, well, they just couldn't quite win the battles. They couldn't quite win the war. They live in the little village down the way. And, but I think what you're seeing here is that this is an intentional choice to what you're, you were saying earlier, pastor pj, and I think that needs to draw the alarm bes. One thing I noticed too is that you have a generation of people that are benefiting from the prior faithfulness of generations before them. So you mentioned Jacob slash Israel, who adopts and takes Joseph's children to be his own, and now they're enjoying this rich and beautiful land because of what their forefather had done for them. Joseph, of course, is enslaved, and yet he finds himself in Egypt. He's second in command. God saves the people of Israel by bringing them all over there and here now his descendants are benefiting from all the work that God did through him, and that's fantastic. We want to be thankful for the shoulders that we stand on. We should be. We should look back at the good things that we have even in fact, compass Bible Church. We are thankful for those who have gone before us. Pastor Mike Ez, who operates out of California. His faithfulness to leave his prior church and then start a new Compass Bible Church in Elisa Viejo. And then that grew into something bigger. And now we're part of a church planting network that benefited from his prior faithfulness. I think it's good is this is not all that you should be doing here. Obviously they had work to do and they. Clearly did not do that as Pastor PG and Pastor Mark pointed out. But to be thankful for what you have because of the faithfulness of prior Christians before you, that's a good thing. And in fact, you even get some hints at these tribes grumbling though, right? Oh yeah. Freeman and Manasses aren't actually happy because they feel like they've been gypped. Right. The opposite of being thankful. Yeah. And you see that in verse, well, several places it's hinted at, but right in verse 14, they're upset about the fact they only get one portion. Yeah. Even though they're really, they were huge, only deserving of one portion from Joseph's line. They do get, of course, the split tribes of Efram and Manas. Right, right. They're doing the opposite. Yeah. They're not taking my counsel very well. No, they're not. Why don't you let them know? I'll let letter, I'm gonna tell them I'm telling God. Joshua 18. Joshua's gonna do something interesting here. He's gonna take the remaining seven tribes and essentially confront them. And he says, what are you waiting for? You need to go and take. Possession of the land that God has given you. And then he sends out some men to record what the rest of the land was like, the cities, the towns that were there. And then he's gonna cast lots for those towns and divide them among the people. And then the main tribe in focus here in the rest of chapter 18 is Benjamin and the inheritance that's going to fall to him. Remember Benjamin was the youngest of the sons of Jacob, and that was Joseph's brother. This would've been so much easier. This is. Pretty silly, but this would've been so much easier if they had like iPhones and cellular networks instead, they have to like GPSA lot, write all this stuff down and there's no cameras to take pictures, so they have to figure out how to describe it. I'm just, you know, if only, if only, if only iPhone, bc. All right, let's flip over to our New Testament reading then. We are gonna be in Luke chapter five verses one through 16. So Luke five, one through 16, we've got the call of the first disciples. And so you have the scene here again. Jesus is by the shore. He sees the two boats. The fishermen gone out to them, they're washing in their nets, and they're mending their nets. And Jesus sits down to teach the people from the boat. And when he had finished speaking, we've got this unique scene where he tells Simon Peter to put out further from the shore. And so he does this and Simon says. Let down your, or Jesus says, let down your nets. And Simon obeys the Lord and pulls up this catch. And in this, I think is a foreshadow to John 21 because Jesus is gonna do something similar. In fact, that's when Peter re recognizes the resurrected Jesus on the shore in John 21 is when Jesus does the same thing to them. There it says, let down your nets. And they. Pulling a great hall of fish. And so Jesus here uses this moment when Simon realizes the power of the one in the boat with him. And he's, he just falls down from him. And he even says, depart from me. I'm a sinful man. Oh Lord. And Jesus, rather than doing that, lifts him up and commissions him to become one of his disciples, one of his followers. Again, the background to this, we have to remember these disciples had already been around Jesus, but this is part of the formal. Introduction into the fellowship of being one of his official disciples at this point. Yeah. Really quick clarification just before you keep on going here. The Lake of Nesset is also the Sea of Galilee. It's the same thing. So as you read that, maybe make a note for yourself. This is also the Sea of Galilee. It has both of those names and you're often gonna see Sea of Galilee more than Esra, but that one also shows up as well. So make note. This response of Peter is fascinating, right? He says, depart for me for I am a sinful man. I think this is a kind of response to the gospel that we don't often recognize or don't often like necessarily fully articulate, but I think there is many times when people are exposed to the gospel and they see their sinfulness and what do they say? They don't say, come help me. They say. Go away. They say, God, go away. Leave me alone. And I think you're seeing that with an dare say an unregenerate Peter at this point, right? He is, has some sense of his sinfulness, and he actually doesn't want to have anything to do with Jesus, right? He says, go away. Is that what Jesus does? He doesn't go away. In fact, he does the very opposite. He calls Peter to him. But I think that's a response to sin that we often see in different ways, in different forms in our regular lives. Absolutely. In fact, I would say it's so essential to salvation that to fail to have that awareness and. That consciousness of your own humility before the Lord is a really dangerous sign. I can't say definitively that to not have, that means you're not a believer, but I think God humbles us. One of the first things he does is he humbles us and draws us to himself to become aware. I'm sinful and that's what makes the gospel so glorious. I needed to be reconciled to the Lord and he does that for me for free. And I just say, yes, I want that. Yeah. I love that. I agree, man. What a profoundly important point for most of us, that humility, that consciousness of I'm a sinful man, so critical when trying to get someone to understand the gospel, but I do think we need to be people who call Jesus to come and help us, right? Yeah. As opposed to Peter who says. Go away. Well, that, I think to your point, that is the natural response of encountering holiness. Yeah. When people encounter the holy Angels, they fall down. Fall down as though dead. Yeah. They be, they're fearful. Fearful. They're terrified. Yeah. They have to say, don't be afraid. And yet in some of the books, the Todd Burpo and those guys who go to heaven, they're like, oh, this is awesome. Hey Jesus, what's going on? They fist pump him. They're like, I've got a, I've got an image of you on my dashboard, and it's the whatever that bobblehead Jesus thing. We have such a small and trite God today that I think if anyone were to encounter the real Jesus of the Bible in the flesh, people would be mortified. Yeah. I think they should still be. Mm-hmm. Because we are sinful. That's right. In the rest of this this chapter verses 12 through 16, you've got a man come to Jesus, who, the author here, Luke, describes as being full of leprosy. And so that jumped out to me this time reading it because we had just read back in chapter four, verse one that Jesus had been made full of the Holy Spirit. So Luke four, one, Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, now encounters a man full of leprosy. The question arises, who's gonna win? Which fullness is gonna overcome the other? And the leper says if you can heal me, or if you will, you can make me clean. Jesus says, I will be clean. Reaches out, touches him, and the leprosy leaves him. And I think one of the reasons why the leprosy flees, or the leprosy leaves this man is because of Luke four. One, Jesus is filled with the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit, and Jesus is going to overcome the illness, the sickness in this man. That's a great observation. And if I can plug logos, sometimes you'll see words that are repeated and you wonder, oh, is that the same underlying word? And it isn't. In this case, that's a great connection because that's exactly there, and there's all these, there's language connections that you won't see because you're an English speaker and you don't know the ancient languages. We have logos. There's easy ways to see some of these things. And I do see that. That's a great connection. Yeah. And back to what you guys were just talking about too, just the progression of discipleship, right? Because we don't know what happened to this man, but this man didn't have the same response to being in the presence of Jesus that Peter did. Peter had been around. Jesus had listened to some of Jesus' teaching. Jesus was staying with Peter. And that got him to the place of saying, depart from me. I'm a sinful man. This leper is bold to come to Jesus and say, Hey I'm lepers. If you, I've heard about you. If you will, you can make me clean. Yeah. And Jesus does. And then we don't know other than the report about him when went about from here to the, to the people around. So, yeah. Yeah. Anyways, let's pray and we'll be done with this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast. Lord, we thank you for the way that you came for us, and that you showed us if we are in Christ our sinfulness, and that we responded the way that Peter did to say that we are sinful and we need salvation. And you gave us that understanding because of your grace to open our eyes to see that, not just to leave us in our sin. In fact, it's interesting even that this leper comes to Jesus recognizing his need. His need is a physical need. Peter recognized his spiritual need. We know we have our spiritual needs as well, so help us, we pray to never lose sight of that. Never forget that, never be ungrateful for what you've done for us, and revealing that yes, we're sinful, but your grace is enough to cover our sins through the atoning work that you did on the cross for us. So we ask that and we pray that in Jesus' name, amen. Keep in your Bibles and tune in again tomorrow, which is Friday already. Can't believe it's Friday already tomorrow. And we'll be back with you for another Daily Bible podcast. See you. See you. Bye. Eli.

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