Hey everyone. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Hello. Hello. Monday, November 10th. We are trucking our way through November already. That's right. By the way, we are planning, I've had some people ask everyone is asking actually. Of course they are. We are planning to do the Turkey bowl again on Thanksgiving morning. Oh. And so, yeah, we're, I had not heard about that. We're getting that lined up. We're gonna get the the park space from Frontier Park again. And I believe we're trying to get it reserved from seven to 11, so I don't know exactly the details of when we'll gather there to hang out and play, but if you'd like to do that, we'd love to have you and hopefully you'll you'll enjoy that. You know where I am right now as people are listening to this, probably. Lemme guess. You're at the roller rink. I'm not at the roller rink. That is a good guess. That is not where you're at. Don't bear 'em all. Shocking. I'm not there either. I'll go ahead and tell you. You are camping on, you're camping in front of Lowe's for their Black Friday sales. Yeah, the new Lowe's. That's not even yet the new one. Yeah, that's where I'm you are at Sephora. Buying the latest line of fashion and makeup for your wife? I would've for her birthday, which was in October. Well, for next year. You're ahead of the game. I'm just that early. You're that early on those things. I am actually, you are at, go ahead. I'm with Mike Clementi and Paul Peon and we are playing golf at this Experian golf tournament over at the Cowboys Club, which it's apparently supposed to be like 32 degrees overnight on Sunday night. That's awesome. So. Good. I'm likely very cold in doing that right now, too. Well, but no, Mike asked me to play and I was happy to lend my presence. I don't know how if I'm lending any skill to that, but to lend my presence to that. So it should be fun. Yeah. How many holes are you guys playing? All 18, believe it or not. 18. All 18. You gonna be there all day? Well, no, it's 'cause it, it's a, so we used to play in the Focal point tournament occasionally. Oh yes. And that was 18, but that would start later in the day. This one, it's 8:30 AM is go time, so we're gonna be done by like 2:00 PM probably in, I'm tired just thinking about it. Yeah, in cold. I'm not cold about that. Well, it can be indoors, but I am tired about just nah. Yeah. God bless you on that. Yeah, it'll be fun. It. Yeah. Who's doing it? You, Mike. And who else? Paul Pay. Paul Payon. Okay. Yeah. So who's carrying the weight on this thing? I don't know. Paul's son, Tim beat me the other day. That's true. I mean, that was about a month ago now. But that beat you up? Yeah, he did. He beat me up. Yep. Is there a cash prize for top billing? There's There are prizes. There are prizes. There are prizes. Yes. Cyber truck? Yes. Yeah. Which if I win shopping, if I win a cyber truck, we will wrap it. Encompass Bible Church swag, gear. Why can't you do that with your current car? I just, you know, I don't know. So you could do it is what you're saying? I could do it, yes. Well, why not just do that then? Let's do it. I could do that. How about as a Christmas gift to our church? Yeah. We design. The wrap and then you put it on your car. This is a, this is a, we and a you. i would, I have to lend my leadership to the cause. Of course. I, someone's gotta lend oversight and I'm happy to offer my services. So we will design a wrap for your car and then you get it installed. And this seems in honor of your church. I don't know if I can fully, we've known each other for a while now, and I just, I think I know you well enough to know that I don't know that I trust that I, it would honor the Lord. I know that much. I just, it's, I could only see good things here. Okay. All right. Well, we'll wait and see on that one. Okay. We'll wait and see. Speaking of good things though, let's get into God's word together. Would you like that transition there? That was good. Probably not, but that's okay. Luke 22. In John 13, we got two chapters. And a little bit of whiplash here because Luke 22 is going to cover a lot of ground. John 13 is gonna begin to zoom in. John 13, and then tomorrow's reading as well, John 14 through 17 all is gonna deal with the upper room. And so, like I said yesterday, you've got the synoptics, Matthew, mark, and Luke that are treating this more rapidly rapid fire. Here's what's happening. Luke is like that. And so we pick up and we start reading a lot of what we talked about. Yesterday, you've got the plot to kill Jesus. You've got Judas deciding that he's gonna do this. Luke records for us in Luke 22, verse three. Then Satan entered into Judas as Scarritt. And so that's interesting because he does talk about Satan entering into Judas. John's gonna record that Satan entered into Judas during the upper room meal there. And so it's possible. Remember, Satan is not omnipresent. So it's not like the Holy Spirit who can indwell believers in multiple places at multiple times. It's possible this is a both end. It's possible that Judas was in, in dwell by Satan to go and strike the deal with the religious leaders of the Jews to betray Jesus. And then Satan left Judas. And then when Judas was in the upper room, Satan reentered Judas at that point as well. So it's possible you could have Luke and John both saying the same things and they're both true. 'cause Satan was not. Taking up a permanent residence inside of Judas. At this point, do demonic forces, or I guess any force, demonic or otherwise, do these guys still inhabit people? And if so, who and how do you know if someone is inhabited by Satan? Yeah. Yes. Is the short answer they, they do a hundred percent. And the question is to. Who I think we can at least bifurcate and say, this is gonna be unbelievers. That the demons cannot inhabit the body of a believer because the Holy Spirit inhabits the body of a believer. So take in residence, right? The Holy Spirit is not going to allow a demon to take up residence within next to him. In other words not gonna be neighbors, right? For the unbeliever they can expose themselves to demonic possession. And that does still happen today. And I think it probably happens more often than we give it credit for. And I think we see, and I'm not. I don't wanna paint with a broad brush and say this is every instance of, mental health issues. But I do think some mental health issues are a result of demonic possession, or at least demonic oppression. And I think there's other instances of this that take place in more traditional ways that we see in the scriptures. In other areas of the world. I think one of the reasons why we don't see that as much here in our country is because we are such a left-brained people. We look for logic. We are still by and large a product of the enlightenment, the industrial revolution. We are a scientific people. And so this is not Satan's tactic is not to take the person and cause 'em to foam at the mouth and fall down at our feet. Here, it's much more to cause us to look at things that are demonic and turn to other resources to try to deal with those rather than to turn to. The spiritual realm that we should be dealing with. So it's almost like he's pulled our, the wool over our eyes. The spiritual realm is still very much at work right now, but we're like, we're a culture that might think of itself as too smart to give itself over to such things. Yeah, and it's also very possible too, that you could have so many of these physical observations that you can make about, oh they're, this kind of medication tends to help them with these things. My point, I guess what I'm getting at is that there's this. Physical component to these things and there's a spiritual component. Yeah. And to say that there's one is not to say that there's not another in other words, they're compatible ideas. You could say there's physical elements and there's spiritual elements. Okay. Satan entering Judases Gart, does he still do this today? Does Satan do it himself or is it just a demons? Yeah, I can't see why he wouldn't. Uh uh But again, he's not omnipresent and so. Even just that idea, the old thing, well, Satan made me do it. Yeah. We would say, number one, even demons don't make you do anything. It's still your choice to sin. But the tempting of believers and unbelievers alike. And then for possession Satan has his demons at his disposal, but he's only one entity, one created being. So he can't be everywhere at once. And so he can still inhabit people. And I'm sure he does. And that's a frightening thought when you think about who that might be. World leaders, you think about things going on, on, on international scenes and geopolitics and how he might be as the prince of the power of the air of this world, the god of this world, as he might be moving chess pieces again under the sovereign purview of God. But it's frightening to think about him still at work in that sense. When people have. Homes or places where things are going bump in the night, they're hearing voices, they're hearing knocks, things like that. And let's say, it's one of those places or it's an old home when there's weird stuff that's always happened, doors open and close, and all those sorts of things. Now, should we conclude that it's always a demon or something? Is it possible that people are coming back from the dead to, to give comfort to a family, to say, Hey, look, I'm, I died, but I'm okay. I just wanna let you know I'm fine. You know? So some people will see their dead relatives floating down the hallway. A Misty like figure. Other people will just hear the knocks and hear things like that happening in their home. Is that anything to be concerned about? Should we assume that's a demon? Is it the parents art, not the parent? Is it a relative? What do we do with those things? Yeah, I would say I don't think it is the relative, in fact, even in the Old Testament, when we have the example of Saul going to the medium to raise stamps, Endor yeah. The witch of Endor, there's questions among interpreters as to whether or not that was really Samuel Yeah. Or whether that was a demonic being mm-hmm. That, that was appearing before Saul. We know that the testimony of scripture First Corinthians talks about this as well as Second Corinthians chapter four to be absent from the body, is to be present with the Lord, second Corinthians four and five. So the person who dies here is not coming back here. Even the story of the rich man and Lazarus you have Lazarus or the rich man saying, Hey, send him back. And basically Abraham says, no. They have Moses. Nope. They're not gonna believe. Even if I was to send him back, they're not gonna believe. So somebody's loved ones are not coming back. If somebody's seeing apparitions and things like that. I think there's very much to, to say this could be a demon, this could be a ghost not a ghost. A demon that is, is appearing as a ghost that's doing these things that we would call what's the word that they call it? It's not supernatural, but it's, preternatural something like that. Okay. Yeah. So if you're we're saying then it's possible that this is happening, that this is a real supernatural event that's taking place, suppose then it's a Christian who isn't interacting with this. Yeah. What do you recommend that they do? Should they do anything? They call it pastor, if this is happening to them. Yeah. They got the door knocking. There's weird things that are happening in their home, and it's not explainable by, oh, there's just a draft of wind. It seems like there's something more substantial happening. How would you counsel somebody about that? Yeah, I mean, prayer. Would be huge. I think there's an opportunity to examine the perimeters of your life, just to make sure that there's not any pockets of ungodliness that you have are, have allowed in it's gateways where they could enter, take possession, that kind of thing. Totally. And then yeah. Of the home, not your soul. Right. And then I think it's a appropriate to call your pastors to say, Hey, would you can pray? Would, you can pray for a house? Would you can pray with us. Yeah. We're not saying that this is a demonically possessed home, but we'd love you to come and pray for us. Yeah. Your community group, Hey, if you can get your community group involved, say, Hey, would you guys pray for us? Because we've got these things going on. They're kind of inexplicable. We don't really know what to do with it, but it's weirdness out a little bit. We'd love to have you pray for us. Yeah. Maybe invite the community group to your home. Yeah. Have a meal, have a sleepover, pray. Did you guys hear it? I told you. I told you. Yeah. Pray do some worship take. I mean, I take ownership over that place, man. That, that would declare that place for the sake of Christ, honor the Lord with it. Utilize it if there is things like that happening. And I don't doubt that there're happening all over the place. We believe that there is a real spiritual realm and people are really engaging with that spiritual realm on a regular basis sometimes, and perhaps even oftentimes, as you were saying, unawares. So you should do. Your homework and recognize that these things are really happening, and this is how, one of the ways that the devil provoked Jesus' crucifixion by his demonic power. Yeah. Yeah. Something I thought was really cool that, that stood out to me this time In Luke 22, verse 28 through 30 Jesus says to his disciples, you are those who have stayed with me in my trials and I assigned to you as my father is assigned to me, a kingdom that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the 12 tribes of Israel I was reminded of Peter's. Question to Jesus when he said, Lord, we've left. Look at all we've left. And Jesus told Peter, you're gonna receive so much more than that in this life and in the life to come. Right. And here, I think this is an example of what that's gonna look like for the disciples in the life to come. These 12 minus Judas are going to be sitting on the 12 Thrones. They're gonna be co reigning with Christ who's at 12th. Because if Judas was. Removed, do you think Matthias is gonna be the guy? We, I was just talking about this with my kids the other day. It would seem to be the apostles is where I would go with that rather than Matthias as the replacement there, but the apostles instead. So perhaps Paul would be the 12. So yeah, that's my point. If it's not Paul. I'm gonna be shocked. Yeah, I might for a second be tempted. No, I would be tempted. 'cause I'll be perfect, but I would be like, hold on a second. Hold on. Can we talk about this? Is there room for us to have a discussion? Right, Lord, please. Right. Can we out, can we add a 13th chair at minimum? Come on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I, I just thought that was really cool. Hey, how about the angels coming to minister to Jesus in the garden. I keyed in on that and I'm like, man, what is happening there? Right. But it's not unusual 'cause it happened already in the gospel of Matthew when he was being tempted. He was ministered to by angels. But that's a unique detail that Luke includes that is always a bit curious. Yeah. Yeah. And that's Luke though. Luke's the physician. Luke's the detail guy. Yeah. He's gonna get to the bottom of everything that he can in the story. And yet he doesn't talk about the bodies walking outta the tombs like Matthew does. We'll get there. Come on man. Matthew is the only one. Yeah. Weird. Yeah. Anyways, rest of chapter 22 in Luke, a lot of the same things. You've got the betrayal and the arrest. You've got Peter's denials of Jesus, and then you get into the mocking and the blaspheming of Christ the abuse of Christ. And again, we're gonna, we. Did talk about that. I guess on Sunday we talked about the suffering of Jesus and how that is a template and example that model for us, like a workbook where a child traces the letters in the workbook. That's the example. That's what it means there, that Christ's suffering is that example for us. So, we see some of that here taking place in Luke chapter 22. One question here in the middle section verses 35 through 38. He talks about see if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy a sword. And then he says. One of the disciples says, look, Lord, we have two sword. And he's like, Hey that's enough. What's the point there? Should we be buying guns? Is one gun too many or is two guns too many and one is enough and every family should have one. Yeah. Is there a parallel that we could point to in the modern day that. Is effectively applying this text. Yeah, I think he's commissioning his disciples to be shrewd and to be on the defensive because they're going out as sheep in the midst of wolves. And he's not gonna be there to protect them. He's not gonna be there anymore to be guiding them and leading them. So I think he's saying you need to be smart. And part of that. Wisdom and that shrewdness is yeah, grab a sword and have a sword. What he's not doing is he's not commissioning an army. And so that's when they're like, Hey, we've got two swords. He's not saying, great, go out and amass as much firepower as you can because you gotta go out and kill people. No, he's saying, I want you to defend yourself if you need to defend yourself. Right? But because you've gotta a mission to take care of here, and I need you to be per on mission for me. But he's not commissioning them to go out and go on the offensive and just start slaughtering people. So he's essentially saying, trust, trust the lord, but make wise provision. Yeah. To do one is not, does not exclude the other. Totally. Trust God. Make wise provision. Yeah. So if you've got a gun at home, that's reasonable. Yeah. If you've got the conviction to say this, I need this for, to be wise and I'm gonna trust the Lord, but I'm also gonna be wise, then great. You know, I've lived in Texas long enough now that I want to go take a gun class and get a gun at some point. I do too, actually. Yeah, we should do it. Staff. I'm for All of us can do it together. Team building. Yes. Mike Clementi actually recently sent me a half off email at the Frisco Gun Club for one of their trainings. I think it was only for this weekend though, so it may be expired by now. Well, that would be a great staff event. And we know somebody in our church and we'll leave his name out of this, but he is one that does not only have two sorts. He has many swords. Has a lot of swords, and one might argue it's part of his profession. It needs to, it could, yeah. Yeah. For safety purposes. Alright, so John, chapter 13, then as we switch gears over here, we are in the upper room now. So, we're backing up. Jesus has not yet been betrayed. We're not at the trials. We're back in the upper room. Institution of Passover has actually not yet taken place either, but here we find. What Jesus is going to do here with his disciples, and that is as they get into the room, he's gonna do one of the greatest acts of humility that we find prior to the cross. And this is meant to foreshadow the cross and point to the cross. And Jesus is gonna get up and wash the feet of his disciples. And you've probably heard it many, many times before I preached. Through John, and so you can go back and find that message from this passage as well. But my argument there was, this was not so much about the fact that we need to go out and wash each other's feet, but that we need to consider our cultural context and we need to serve one another with that same level of object humility. We need to be willing to debase ourselves for the good of someone else because we wanna love them and we wanna love them as Christ has loved us. And that's really the gist of John 13. He's really going to bring it to its. Pinnacle in when he says a new commandment I give to you that you love one another as I have loved you and running through the background for them at that time. Is his washing their feet. But then when John's writing this in the late first century ad, he's writing this through the lens of not only the foot washing, but also what the foot washing was foreshadowing. And that is the cross. And so that's our template for how we should love one another with this self-sacrificial, self basing love that. Considers someone else even more significant than ourselves. Yeah. This is one of the lowliest jobs that anybody could take. Maybe akin to changing someone's diaper, perhaps something like that. At least because we don't have this kind of thing anymore. It's hard to make a one-to-one comparison. But the point is, and I think you said it well, there's just a willingness to sell. I'll serve you anyway that I can, that even if it's a lowly job that not many people would wanna do. So I think that's great. Everybody wants to know. When are you gonna wash the church's feet? Dude, I got in trouble on the podcast for this, our first year that we did this podcast. Do you remember that? I don't, what did you say? I think I got an email from somebody that doesn't even go to our church. I don't remember this, that was like Pastor PG, you need to get off your high horse and wash people's feet. Oh wow. Okay. I'm sorry. I'm ping me up. It blew me up. They only got one email because I said. You said you weren't gonna do it? Never. Well, I just said I don't think that's what this is really about, and I stand by that. I still don't think that's what this is about. Because this was about in the cultural context, to your point, this is something we don't have an equivalent of today. Yeah, we don't. And so Jesus was doing this because it was a need. That they had, that he was meeting and it, that's what we lose sight of in this. Yeah. They were eating a meal together. It was common for their feet to be washed before they had a meal. Yeah. And that wasn't taking place. 'cause their feet would've been in each other's faces. Exactly. The way that they were laying, reclining a table. They were walking through nasty streets. They didn't have a household slave there because this was more of an impromptu gathering. Yeah. And so Jesus took that role and said, I'll do it then. And so that's why I don't think this is about anything significantly mystical about washing people's feet. I think it's about serving one another and he doesn't say the same things that he says about communion. Do this, and as often as you remember, and remembrance of me. So it carries a different weight. The weight of it is, its symbolism what it would point to, namely his crucifixion. So I'm just gonna ask you in front of everybody here, will you. Wash your staff speed. No. In a basin of water? No. What if I brought the water? No. What if I brought the basin? No. What if I got a really awesome smelling soap for you to use? No. What if I got you latex gloves? No. You're not making this very easy. No. Maybe if you got me like those grabbers and I could use those trash grabs, those claws, those, that'd be funny. Yeah. I, this the other thing, last thing about this chapter that always just. It makes me an awe. And this goes to what we're, we've been talking about, is that this is what Jesus identifies in not only this, but here, this is what Jesus identifies as the defining marker of a Christian. By this, all people will know that you are my disciples if you love one another. If I have loved you as I have loved you, that's amazing. And that speaks to the fact that the reason is because to love radically like this. Only happens from a heart that has been loved radically by God. And so that's why this is one thing that people are the world's gonna look at and be like, oh, they're Christians. Because I see the way they care for each other. Yeah. And would that we be a church that the world does look at and make that conclusion? That would be great. Yeah. Well, let's pray and they'll be done with this episode. God, as I just prayed in what I said would that we would be that church, that church that loves one another, so well, so cause us Lord, to, to even Philippians chapter two as the Apostle Paul called us to have the mindset that is ours in Christ Jesus and that we would consider others more significant than ourselves. That we would look out not only for our own interests, but also for the interests of others, and that we'd be willing to serve. And meet the needs that we see in our brothers and sisters in Christ, and may that speak loudly to the world around us. We prayed this in Jesus name, amen. Amen. Keep in your bible soon again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. We'll see you Tuesday. Bye.

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Yeah. I would agree with everything that you said