Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Hey, hello. Good morning. Good morning to you. Afternoon as well. And in case we don't see you. Good night. Good night. Yeah, but hopefully not. Good night before you listen to this. Yeah. What is it? It's it's Thursday. Thursday the second. October 2nd. Not sure what's going on right now. Probably who some other major catastrophe. More probably, although the government shutdown down. Has that been averted? I don't know. I don't know. I listened to Moeller on that a couple days ago and he basically like meh to it. Yeah. Did you hear that he like I did. I did. He said this is kind of posturing and theater and he said, unless you're really planning to go to a national park or Washington, DC's not really gonna impact most Americans. That's probably a good thing. Yeah. And beyond that, he said it really plays into the hands of the Republicans in a lot of ways because the Republicans presented, this clean proposal to say, Hey, W let's just keep things the exactly the way they are. Then we're not gonna add anything into it. Let's just extend the budget and keep things exactly the way they are. And it, some people said, no, yeah, don't wanna do that. Yeah. Government shut down man. It is crazy. Hey on a related note, speaking of news, yes. Something tragic happened. Church of Ladder. Yes. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was attacked, set on fire. People have died. Let's briefly talk about this because I think it's important that people understand that there are distinctions. Yes, you can still have love for. Our fellow man and have love for our Mormon neighbors. Yeah. But let's let's add a couple clarifications to that, if you don't mind. Yeah. I think the source of sorrow for us is that this is a tragedy. If this was a movie theater and somebody drove into the movie theater and started shooting a bunch of people and lit it on fire we would feel the grief over this sense of a loss of life. I think that what. Creates the conflict within the believer's heart is the fact that Mormonism is a false gospel and it is a false gospel. So what we have to guard against is those that want to extend the ecumenical branch to the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and call them Christians and say that this is an attack on Christianity and attack, on Jesus. It's not even if that was the shooter's intent he misfired because the Mormon. Church is not a church. The Mormon gospel is not the true gospel of Jesus Christ. It is a workspace gospel that denies salvation by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone as it's revealed in the scriptures of the church. That said, we still grieve the fact that these are people, men and women who were created in the image of God that lost their lives as a result of an act of violence carried out upon them by somebody who committed murder by somebody who broke the commandment of God. Thou shalt not kill. This was a deranged individual who did this. It was evil, it was wicked. It's. Absolutely condemnable in every sense of the word and it's wrong. And we can rally behind that and unite behind that and say, this is a horrific tragedy. Made worse because those people that were cut down didn't bow the need of Christ. At least not that we know of. Right. Otherwise, by all indications, I don't think they would've been in that building. It's awful. It's horrific, it's tragic. We can all agree upon that. We just don't extend that level of saying this is an attack on the church itself because the Mormon church is not the church. Important for you to know that. This doesn't in any way limit or challenge our love for Mormons. In fact, I'd say the opposite. We love Mormons. Yeah. Yeah. We had some Mormons over for dinner not too long ago for food. We didn't eat the Mormons. We invite them for food. Don't know. That was necessary for clarification. You never know. Okay. We didn't eat them. We love Mormons is my point. Yeah. We care about them. We pray for them. We can partner together on a lot of helpful things, and we could say that it's good to do good things together. On the other hand, we are clear and clarity is a gift that we give to people that we do not believe the same thing. We don't believe in the same Jesus. And so this doesn't change the fact that we lament for them, that we weep with them, that we care for them, that we do what we can, that if we have an opportunity to help them rebuild and. Not necessarily rebuild the church. That's not what we're looking to do, but to support them, let's say their house gets torn down by a tornado and you're the neighbor and you have the opportunity to host them or to contribute to them rebuilding man, do that be helpful to your Mormon neighbors. Be helpful to your Muslim neighbors. Be helpful to your Hindu neighbors. Your love for your neighbor doesn't change even when, and perhaps, especially when we say we disagree with you. And that's not a bad thing for us to acknowledge that. Some people feel like disagreement is the height of arrogance and the height of violence, but that's not true. Disagreements is a gift because it tells us where our lines are, and doing that doesn't compromise our ability to love our neighbor regardless. So our hearts go out, for our hearts, go out to our Mormon friends and those who lost people. We care about them. We're gonna pray that God be kind to them and merciful to them. But again, that doesn't change the fact that there are strong lines between us and we believe they're wrong. And it's important to know they believe we're wrong. That's okay. We can disagree and we should disagree helpfully and biblically and let the ships fall where they will. Yeah. Yeah. There's a winsome way to disagree. Yeah. We were talking about speaking truth and love recently in different context, and I think that's what we're talking about. It's not loving not to speak the truth. It's not loving to continue to create a facade of unity when there's no unity there to be found. So true. Yeah. Yeah. Let's jump into our DBR for today. We're in Matthew chapter one and Luke chapter two. Just as a heads up, tomorrow, you've only got one chapter to read. Wow. So whatcha are you gonna do with all your free time? Maybe you wanna read a little bit more. Go to Disneyland. Oh, okay. Yeah, that too. You should read more. You could, for example, read the next passage up in first Peter two, four through eight. You could start, could do that. Pay attention to what's coming this coming Sunday. You could read ahead in the DBR. You're just not gonna have the podcast with you to walk you through if you have 18 hours. Let me just encourage you in hours. If you wanna drive to Florida and go to Gideon's Bake House, Gideon's, buy us a few cookies and bring them back. Yeah. Much like one Ali Trinidad did. Your life will be forever changed. Yes. And you can thank Ali for that and a golden fleece while you're at it. Please do. Yeah. Both of those things, I, they probably sell them. You could get a building with a golden fleece that might help us. Sure. Actually it would help. Yeah. Alright, Matthew, chapter one, we get the genealogy of Jesus, the genealogy of Jesus. This is a list of a lot of names here, and yet this is a list of a lot of names who are massively significant because they fall in the line of Christ. And so it begins with the genealogy of Jesus Christ and that it says this, the son of David, the son of. Abraham and he's gonna start in verse two with Abraham and work his way up to Jesus. We're gonna come across another genealogy later on that's gonna start with Jesus and work its way all the way back to Adam. This one starts with Abraham, and the reason being is Matthew is particularly concerned with demonstrating that Jesus is the king of the Jews, the king, and the long expected Messiah. And so he goes back to Abraham because Abraham was the one who was given the Abraham a Covenant in Genesis 12, three Even. The blessings that would come to all the earth through one of the offspring of Abraham. And what Matthew's doing here for his readers is showing that Jesus traces all the way back to Abraham. And so you're gonna recognize a lot of names here. You're gonna get into a place where you're gonna start to not recognize some of the names, and that's where maybe the log is Fact book or something like that could help you if you've got questions. Who is this person, for example, who's Ram and who's Ab? Beda and n Sean and Salmon and, okay. Boaz, I recognize Boaz and Rahab. But there's gonna be other names in here that you may not recognize as easily, and so it's good to have a a help out with you, a commentary or Log us' Factbook that you can hover over and see the, that information. But you'll see some names that you'll recognize, including in verse 12. There's Zabel. We just saw Zabel as we wrapped up the Old Testament. Here he is in verse 12, the son of Sheel Teal. That's Zabel. And he ends up in the line of Christ himself, and this is gonna go all the way down through Joseph, the husband of Mary of whom Jesus was born, who's called the Christ. This is Joseph's genealogy, and that's. Interesting. Because Jesus wasn't biologically related to Joseph. Ooh. And yet because of Joseph's being his adopted father, legal father, his legal father, yeah. He was eligible for the throne of David because of that. Mm. And so we're gonna see, I think through Luke's genealogy, there is a connection to Mary. And so there's a genealogical right to the throne as well. But there's also this legal right to the throne through Joseph, which shows us that God honors legal adoptions. Yes, the fact that God would qualify this is acceptable tells us that an adoption, a legal adoption, is something that God honors as binding, which is good news for those of us who are adopted in Christ because that means our adoption into Christ or into The Christian faith through Christ is legal and binding. Yes, we are the adopted sons and daughters of God, and we see that worked out here in the first chapter of Matthew. Matthew's Gospel. Yep. Yep. In Matthew chapter one, verses 18 through 25, then the rest of the chapter, we get the birth of Jesus. And this is the familiar Christmas story Mary is found to be with Child Joseph. Being a righteous man, wish to put her away quietly. The penalty that Mary deserved according to the law, by all appearances, and that's what's key, his appearances was death. But Joseph. Loved Mary and didn't want to see that happen. And so he was gonna just put her away until the angel showed up to Joseph and said, Hey Joseph you need to not do this. You need to go ahead and take her as your wife because she's with child by the Holy Spirit and by God. And so, he's told when he's born, you will name his name Jesus, for He will save His people from His sins. From their sins, from, yeah, sorry. Thank you. That's a key clarification. Jesus. Save anybody from his sins. That's right. From their sins. Which is another interesting note here as Matthew's writing to a Jewish group because they were looking for a political messiah, militaristic Messiah. And here from the very word, go God is telling Joseph and Mary very plainly, his name is gonna be Jesus because he is gonna be the Savior, not. Politically or Militaristically, but specifically from the greater need, which is from their sins. That's right. And the chapter ends with his birth. There's no better gift than that. Amen. Especially during Christmas, which is only 84 days away. 84 days till Christmas, just so you know. There you go. Start shopping now. Under 90 days. Under a hundred day. Yeah. I mean, wow. It's right around the corner. 84 days time to start listening to Christmas music. Is it? Is now acceptable time? Uh, no. For me it's November 1st. November one. Okay. So here's our problem. We bought a fake tree last year for the first time. Oh man. You heard about that. Welcome to the club. Yeah. But it's kind of sad. It's a little sad except now we have it and so now like we always used to start Christmas music, Christmas movies like November 1st. Yeah. But we wouldn't really put up our tree until after Thanksgiving. Yeah. 'cause you wanna preserve its freshness, right? All the smells. But now we have it. Now you got it. And so if we're gonna start listening to Christmas music, November 1st, you might as well throw up the tree. Do we throw up the tree November 1st? Absolutely. I think some people would revolt. I know of people in my community group that would perhaps refuse to come to community group with my Christmas tree up. That's the only reason I need to put it up. Then I would love to poke at people in that way. I wouldn't, I just don't I don't know. I'm an after Thanksgiving kind of guy. Okay. But we have a fake tree and I'm not opposed to it. Yeah. I just think, oh, that's a good time. I wouldn't build a church on it, but I do. Yeah, maybe I would. If you put it up early, I would consider it. Maybe we'll have that agreement together maybe. And then we'll say to the church, Hey, you need to do, as your pastors do we just need to get pastor marking on that too. You know. Does he do fake trees? I don't know. I don't know. We'll see. He seems like a real tree kind of guy. He does seem like that. Strapping it to the roof of his Tesla driving down the road. He would, the Tesla would do it itself. Yeah. Yeah. Get me a tree, Elon. That's right. Luke two, we get into Luke's account of the birth of Jesus. And Luke again is just so detailed that every time I come to it I'm just impressed afresh at the level of detail that we have contained in the Gospel of Luke. In those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus. There's a detail that the world should be registered. This was the first registration detail when Rinus was governor of Assyria of Syria. Detail. All went to be gathered or to Reg be registered each to his own town. Joseph went up from Galilee Detail to the town of Nazareth, detailed to Judea, to the city of David. He's just packing so much in here, which just reminds us and shows us that he was very intent on making sure that this was, that people could fact check him. Yep. Luke is saying, Hey go. Look you, you want to know that this is true. Go look. You can do it. Jesus is gonna be born in verses four through seven here in Luke's gospel. And then right after this, the announcement is made to the shepherds this unlikely group of recipients out in the fields. They would've been away from a lot of society. Sometimes people looked at the shepherds as though they were the outcast of society, even sometimes, even as those that were perpetually unclean because of their job and their duty. And yet these are the ones to whom the angel shows up and announces this heavenly host and just what a sight that must have been. And they come in telling the people about the Messiah. The first evangelists are the shepherds who come in telling everybody what they've seen and what they've heard. And they come and they find the baby and they tell Mary and Mary treasures these things up in her heart, which she does quite often. From here, the scene shift to the temple as they're bringing baby Jesus in at eight days old to fulfill the law and they bring 'em into the temple. And there's two people there that are given specific, I think honor by the Lord here. And that is Simeon and that is also Anna and Simeon takes the child up and God had revealed to Simeon that he would not die before he saw the consolation of Israel. And Simeon recognizes that consolation in the baby Jesus. And he announces that and rejoices over that. And then you've got Anna who came and she was waiting as well. And she seems to have been a widow for quite a long time. And she sees the baby Jesus and she rejoices over Jesus as well. So I think Simeon and Anna, just a sweet glimpse by God to honor these two people who really. From this time forward, have no bearing on the life of Jesus. They don't show up anymore. They're just mentioned right here, but it's their faithful waiting for the coming Messiah that I think is honored by the Lord here. Amen to that. And I find it interesting and Anna's called a prophetess. Yep. She's one of a few in the Bible to be called such. So she's given multiple distinctions of honor in addition to holding baby Jesus and honoring that. But just notice here, God is making so many different signs that make it easy for us to identify. This kid is more than just a kid. He is unique, he's distinct. There are people that are. Calling out his distinction. And this is what Luke's trying to do for us too. He's helping us to see that Jesus is more than a mere child who has a unique identity. He is truly the son of God. Yeah. We fast forward now to Jesus at 12 years old for the rest of this chapter. And an interesting situation happens where Joseph and married gone up to the temple and they were there in Jerusalem for the Passover. And Jesus stays behind, they leave they leave to go. And this is clearly not Jesus disobeying his parents. Because we know the nature of Christ and we know that the rest of the testimony of scripture that Jesus was sinless. So it's not as though Joseph Marion said, Hey Jesus, make sure that you're with us. And he had said, no, I'm not gonna do that. Instead, Jesus is where he was supposed to be. He was with his father in the temple, and he's holding court there and he's amazing. The religious leaders with his understanding and his perception and his wisdom and his ability to ask these questions and. And and to give answers. And so eventually Mary and Joseph realized Jesus isn't there. They go back, they find him there. Jesus asks a question, which also shows us that they should have known. And again, they're 12 years in and they had the announcements from God as to who Jesus was. Both of them knew. Who the true father of Jesus was. And so when Jesus says, should I not have known that I would be in my father's house? This isn't him being snarky or passive aggressive with his mom and dad. They should have known that because of the nature of his identity and who they knew him to be. And I think a lot of what we probably don't know of what it was like to raise him for the first 12 years of his life. And boy, do we have questions? Oh yeah. Wouldn't it be so fascinating to drop in on. Mary and Joseph interacting with the boy Jesus. Oh, very. How interesting that would be. One thing to note here, verse 50 they didn't understand what he was saying, but there is clearly an understanding. At 12 years old, he knew who he was. Yeah. He wasn't guessing and trying to figure out who he was. He doesn't go through the typical teenage or pre-teen angst of saying, who am I? What kind of identity do I have? No. Jesus was not addressing emo, right? He knew who he was from the very earliest stages. How early? I don't know. Right? We don't know that answer, but we knew, at least at 12 years old, he had a pretty clear understanding of who he was and what he was there to do. And verse 50 again reminds us that, it's at least common even for parents of the son of God to not quite understand their kids. So if you're in that boat, you're in good company press on and endure here. Jesus shows that even for a perfect child, the parents may still not understand and just, I think, Paul and Philippians chapter two talks about the emptying. Of Jesus. And that's often referred to as the kenosis. And it's less of an emptying, more of a veiling in a humility. And I think we see that in verse 51, right after that verse, it says, he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. There you have the boy child of God, Jesus Christ being willing to go with his imperfect. Parents that he had a hand in creating and sustaining their very life. And he's willing to go with them. Be submissive to them and say, okay, yes mom, yes dad, I'll do it. People have asked the question, Mary, did you know, what do you think Mary would say? Today? What would she say? Well, no, back then Mary, did you know that your baby boy would someday walk on water? There were the prophecies that. Of the pain that she was gonna experience, as a result of him turning many to the father. But yeah, that's a great song. I don't care who you are. I don't think that's a great song. Yeah, I don't think she, she knew something, man. Her Magnifico shows that she had a pretty good theology. It always says she treasured all these, verse 51 again, his mother treasured up all these things in her heart. She was contemplative, she was wise. But I would say if the disciples who walked with him and heard from him directly for the three years of his earthly ministry couldn't have anticipated what was in front of him with the cross. I think Mary probably had, maybe at the foot of the cross, she's having flashbacks to all of these things. We don't know. Yeah. That's how Mel Gibson presented it. Yeah, I think that's what happened. Yeah, probably. Probably. Dude she is such a rock star. Mean granted, absolutely. Granted as Protestants, we don't give her the same deference and honor and worship that others might, but man, to talk about a young woman who is selected by God to carry the son of God. Yeah. Talk about trust. Talk about honor. Yeah. Talk about distinction and she's a thoughtful young lady. She's treasuring things in her heart, which tells me that she's taking in truth and not just passively receiving it, but thinking through it. She's Psalms chapter one. It, she's she's cogitating upon it. She's meditating, she's rolling it over in her mind to derive insight from the truths that God has given her. And clearly, she's a theologian in her own right now. She's not a disciple in the same way that the apostle that is, she's not an apostle in the same way that the men are that Jesus chose, but she's clearly someone very special. Protestants we're okay with saying that she's special, she's chosen she's selected to, to carry on a very important mission, but it does not mean that she's without sin or that she is a cox, right? Those are not taught in the scripture. Evidently, clearly not taught. So please don't be deceived by those things, right? She's not interceding for you, neither is any other in the Catholic church. Preach. We have one. Mediator and intercessor the man Christ Jesus. That's right. The book of Hebrews is one of the greatest answers to Catholic theology that you will find out there. If you will read the book of Hebrews, memorize it, you'll find a lot of answers to what's wrong about a lot of the Catholic theology when it comes to that. That's a great one. Yep. Let's pray and then we'll be done with this episode. God, to say thank you for the birth of Jesus is the greatest understatement that we could ever offer. We are so thankful for the incarnation, thankful that in your grace and your mercy, you sent Jesus, thank you, Jesus, that you were willing to condescend to come and to veil. The full glory and take on full humanity to yourself and to live this life that we're even reading about here in the pages of the gospels. Help us to, as we read the gospels during this season, to learn more and more about who you are, to have new insight and to appreciate more the life of Jesus, the life that you live for us Jesus, so that we can one day live in eternity with you as we've put our trust in you, as our Lord and Savior. So we pray all this in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Keep in your Bibles tuning again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. We'll see you folks. Bye.

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Yeah. I would agree with everything that you said