Hey folks. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Hello and good morning. Hey, I saw something the other day, hit our social medias and I believe it was a save the date for Oh no, compass. VBS. Oh yeah, that happen, happen already. Well, let me look in it. Sign here. I wish I was more sign you up. Yeah. You know what? Whatever the cost is, you're gonna pay double. That's how much you're behind this. I am I double. For each person of your family. And even for those who are not part of your family, you're gonna pay double for them. Yes. Yeah. It is July 13th through 17th. So Compass VBS, July 13th through the 17th. Those are dates here in mm-hmm. In Prosper. We're up here this year. Last year we were getting ready to move. In fact, we had moved. We had moved from That's right. Frisco up to Prosper. And then we confused everybody and went back and then we went back there 'cause it was better to, because we had everything designed for that. Well, this year we're gonna be here. And so we're looking forward to that. So I know July feels like a long, long time away. We're already in Feb, February there, so we're dealing with five months from now. And so July 13th through the 17th, mark your calendars for that. You're gonna wanna be a part of it. Exciting. You can start to tell neighbors about it. Hey. What's the game at VBS? It's, I it has so that the future, something to do with being a shepherd. It's something to do with Ireland and sheep and things. Oh yeah. We should get the Gettys to come do a concert for us on that Friday. I'm sure they'd be available. Let's do it. Yeah. You wanna call? Well, I'll go to one of the Trails Sunday services. I'll talk to Pastor Matt. Say, Hey Matt, we need a favor. Can you get your friends, bring 'em here. I'm sure he'll say yes. I'm sure. And then we'll do that. Yeah. Alright guys, if they need put it in your calendar, you could be like, Hey, you know what? 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We've only got one chapter in Leviticus again today. And then we've got the rest of Matthew chapter 26. We are continuing to talk about skin disease and skin disease in houses, but we're talking about cleansing. So at the risk again of over spiritualizing. Yesterday we talked about the fact that leprosy has a connection there to to sin, and we should see that connection there. Cleansing was a big deal, clean versus unclean. Let's talk about that for a second. I know it's metaphorical, spiritually speaking, being clean versus being unclean, but is there something about that as Christians, we should value cleanliness? As an extension of what God is saying here with regards to these laws. Well, let's be clear here. We're not talking about personal hygiene when we say clean and unclean, right? The biblical prescription here is about ritual cleanliness, right? Being ritually acceptable. But I suppose, yeah, there's gonna be an overlap to saying, generally speaking, we wanna be clean. But standards of cleanliness and even what that all entails. It is different by culture. Yeah. And I'm learning that more and more these days. Yeah. Yeah. And I just think it's interesting because God could have said, you're evil or you're good. Or you're outside. Or you're inside. He just used the language of clean and unclean. And we think about purity. We think about spotlessness white, clean. Yeah. There's that well-known saying cleanliness is next to godliness. That idea there of. Things being clean. It's just a fascinating thing to noodle on as far as in eternity, is there gonna be dirt in on the new earth? Are people gonna get stains on the new earth? What's that gonna be like there? Are you suggesting that maybe there is a legitimate connection between cleanliness and godliness? I maybe like physically clean. Yeah, like your pit smell good clean. Yeah. I mean they, you wanted to be e even bef, he cared about the aroma, right? He wanted a pleasing aroma. Right? The incense being burned in the tabernacle. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it is interesting because so much of our perceptual experience, our sensual experience, I don't mean sensual in a sense that you might be thinking it sensual as in our five senses, our sensual experience of the world is still tainted by scent. Yeah. There are good smells, there are bad smells, there are good sites, there are bad sites. So I think you're onto something. There is something about there being the perceptual awareness of a new and beautiful heavens and earth and something that pleases God. Imagine the world without sin. I don't know if you've ever been driving on Preston Road. Or any of our major roads here and, one of the construction trucks is, pulling out those big plumes of black smoke. Yeah. And you're smelling it like, ah, yeah, that's my fresh Texas air right there. I've often tried to roll up my windows and not quite fast enough to stop that smell from entering my car. But there is a bad smell and there's a good smell. You can, the difference is when you go to open field in Texas and you can smell some of the fresh greenery or some of the, I don't know, whatever it is that you're smelling I think. I think you're onto something in that there's good smells and bad smells and some of this tainted smells and sites that we experience. And even the prickly things on the rows thorns, yep. Yeah, I think that's from sin. In fact, thorn thorns and thistles, it will start producing Genesis chapter three because of sin. So I think, yeah, some of that stuff that we experience is clean and unclean is probably connected to, are inevitable And a future renewal of creation. Well, when the Leos were cleansed in. Chapter 14. One of the things they had to do is they had to go and they had to offer sacrifices. And these sacrifices would've been part of the cleansing process again to pastor Rod's point, ritual cleansing. Not necessarily these sacrifices are making them physically clean, but one of the things that they had to offer is a guilt offering. And that's interesting. Why would they have to offer a guilt offering for a disease when I'm sick, when I have a cold, when I have a flu, when I get. Sick. Ill I don't feel guilty for being sick or like I have to bring to atone for sin because of my sickness here. So any thoughts? I've got one, but I'm curious, pastor, what your thoughts are as to why they're offering a guilt offering here. I can think of two off the top of my head. I didn't think about this beforehand, but it's a good point. I could say one that they're, it is very likely they send apart from the camp. E even though they were isolated, so they're still sinners, they're still doing things. And so if you're gonna be grafted into the camp, well now we have to take your sin guilt seriously and deal with this. And prior to your cleansing, you couldn't come to the temple. You were restricted because you were unclean. So that would make sense to me. That'd be the first one. The second thing I can think of is perhaps it's speaking to a larger reality, that I am plagued with sin and I still need cleansing. And even though this leprosy wasn't my fault. It still speaks to my sinful, fallen flesh. Now that's importing a lot of New Testament theology onto the Old Testament, but I think it still could work. What's your idea? Yeah, I'm with you on that. I think it's the same. they couldn't participate in worship, so this is almost making up for the things that they should have been doing and sacrifices they should have been bringing previous to that. Right. And then along the lines on the same thing, one of the things he does, if you look down in verse 14, the priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering and the priest shall put it on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of the right hand and on the big to of his right. It's almost like consecrated. Yeah. Con re consecrating them, saying, you're back in the camp and here's what you're, whatever you, you hear, whatever you say, whatever you do, wherever you go, you need to be set apart from I'll be there for you. Right? Yes. I'll be watching you. That's the one. Yes. I'll be watching you. Every step You take every movie you make. Yes. Yeah. Every, what's the last part? Every breath you take, move. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the one. Yeah. Is that the police? Yeah. Sting in the police. Yep. Alright. Yeah. And so I'm with you. I think that's part of it. I think it's, Hey, you're coming back. We need to make sure that you're right. And as you're reentering into our society, you're reentering with the right expectations here. You know what, that song is kind of creepy. Now I think about it. You belong to me. Like, oh, can't you see you? If God was saying that to Israel. Totally appropriate. Yeah. But this is some creeper stalker guy talking to his, I guess his love saying, man, you belong to me. So how about this then? Oof. How about you take it and let's redeem it and we can sing it on Sunday to God. Oh. As though God was talking to us. I feel like he might have God would have problems with that, but so would Sting, I think. Yeah. Yeah. Probably, probably. Well, it wasn't just the people that needed to be cleansed and the people that could get leprosy, but strangely enough, the houses could get leprosy as well. And I think the reason being is you have to think back to this time they're using natural elements to build and construct these homes. And so it could get into the walls, it could get into the fabrics of clothes. It, this is mostly I'm like today. Yeah. We use natural stuff too. It can get, mold, yeah. Mildew things. Like that you would have a similar issue here. Yeah. You'd say, how do we get rid of this? You'd have to dry it out. So all these things apply to them as it does to us today. Right. And just like with people, the issue was, did it go deeper than the surface? And that's what the priest was looking for. And if it did, man, that sometimes it was just a section of the house that had to be taken out. Other times it was the whole house had to be taken down in order to be that it wouldn't spread in the camp. So, laws about the lepers, this is chapter 14. We're bringing that to a conclusion there. Let's jump over and finish up Matthew Chapter 26. Then, for the rest of our New Testament reading today, or the rest of our time today, as we get into the New Testament here, we're picking up in verse 55. So we left off at verse 54 like you pointed out. Jesus acknowledging this is all happening in accordance with the scriptures. And then Jesus confronts them and he says, you've come out against me as though you're coming out against a robber. And yet I was with you day after day in the Temple of Teaching and you did not sneeze, seize me or sneeze you. God bless you. Remember that when the religious leaders got together, they got together to plot how they could take Jesus by stealth, and think about the context here. They're coming to Jesus at night. They're coming to him under the cover of darkness, and they're coming to him with their Roman soldiers. The reason is because they feared the people and remember the people not. What, four or five days earlier had welcomed Jesus in with shouts of Hosanna. Blessed is hee who comes in the name of the Lord, and so the Pharisees and the Sadducees are afraid of what the response is gonna be here. They want to go ahead and take him into custody where they can control the narrative rather than arresting him out in public. And Jesus is calling on out on that. He's saying, look, I was with you all the time. Why are you coming to me like this? What? What about who I've been has conveyed to you that you need to come to me with such a force and with so many people in this manner? One of the things that always was a bit weird to me and maybe it might be weird to you as you read this here, Jesus is asked a question and they say, I adore you. This is legal language to say I'm putting you under oath to speak the answer to this, to say the truth. And to this point, Jesus has been silent. But then Caiaphas asks him he says, I adore you by the living God. Tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God. And Jesus said to him, you have said so. And that's a weird way to answer that. It sounds like you're saying, well, you said it, not me. I'm not saying anything about this. So help explain that this is confusing. Why didn't just you, why didn't Jesus just say yes? Yeah. This was a way of saying you've borne witness to this and yes. That your testimony is true. It's. Common at that time. It was a cultural way of acknowledging with an affirmation saying yes. That is indeed what you have said is in fact true. And so he's justifying Yeah. You as the high priest, you've made the statement, what you've said is actually true. Yeah. It's a colloquial way of saying affirmative. It would be like someone in Texas saying, you bet your britches. I'm gonna, you say this all the time, pastor bj, you pitch your bottom dollar. I do, yeah. Yeah. What's her name? Peggy Polly Pollyanna. What? No. Who's that? Shirley. Shirley Temple. What's that girl that says bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow, uh uh, Annie, or is that Annie? It's your daughter's name. Yeah. You should know this. Yeah. Okay. Colloquial way. There it is. We understand colloquialisms really easily. Y'all versus, I can't say that word, versus humans. Yeah. We under, well, we understand what the board means even if we can't say it. Yeah. And we, when we start looking at the text like this and we say, that doesn't sound right to me. I'm not, what is he saying? Usually what's happening is that there's a cultural expression there. Mm-hmm. That for them makes perfect sense. Perfect sense. They understood that Caiaphas understood this as an affirmative. Of course. Jesus says more than you have said so. Yeah. 'cause he says you've, I tell you from now on, and then he quotes Daniel chapter seven and 13. Actually, he alludes to it more than quotes. Quotes it. But you see here, Jesus is affirming it, and it was evidence to everybody around. It's less clear to us in 2026 America, because we don't have that same figure of speech. But for them it was totally obvious. And often when you see these issues, if you read the context, that usually resolves it for you and you can probably figure it out. But on occasion, if you stumble over things like that, just recognize you're reading a different culture. Remember the past is a foreign land. It takes time and effort and energy to understand what's happening. Yeah. The reaction of the priest, of tearing his robes. This is a state of mourning, and he's making a grand show and he's declaring blasphemy. And he utters the sentence here. And remember, this is in the context of the Sanhedrin. So they don't yet have the right or the authority to crucify Jesus. But they're going to make their decision right here. They're gonna say he deserves death. And so that's in verse 66. After this. They're gonna have to get the Romans to get on board with things. And that's gonna be our next reading in chapter 27. But at this point, the Sanhedrin, the Jews, they're saying he deserves death. This is condemnable. But they did not have the authority under the Roman rule at this time to carry out that sentence. They needed the Romans to participate, and that's why they're gonna move on in the tran in the the trials order here. What's fascinating to me, and I'm reading this now with a. What's a book behind me as I'm working through it? One of the things that gives Peter away, and this is fascinating, is that he has an accent. He has a local accent. Maybe as Texans you have twang and people can tell, oh, you're not from here. Or if you come to Texas and you don't have any twang, people know, oh, you're probably from somewhere else. His accent is what makes it evident to the people around him. Oh you're not a local. Remember, he's a Galilean and he has a Galilean dialect, I guess. Something about the way he says words. We see this also with the shibboleth. This word is used earlier to identify people that weren't insiders. So here the accent betrays him as an outsider to that community and an insider with Christ. Notice that in verse 74, that he invokes a curse on himself. Now, don't think about modern day cursing you and I. When someone says, oh, that guy was cursing, you think of the profanity laden. Line of whatever, right? You know what thele is. I don't think that's what's happening here. And you can correct me if I'm wrong in this PPJ it's more likely to saying, may God strike me dead if, and then he fills in the blank. I don't know this guy. Something like that. So remember as you read to maybe do a little bit of digging. He's not cursing in the way that you and I might curse today. Hopefully you're not cursing let no corrupting talk, comment your mouth. But he's cursing in other words, saying, may the Lord strike me dead, or may the Lord do to me. And even more so if this is not true. Yeah, I with you a hundred percent. Let's let's pray and we'll be done with this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast. God, thanks for your word. Thanks for just the encouragement that we find in it. We want to be those that are faithful to you to the end, and we don't know what that's gonna look like. We know there's suffering. We know there's trials and we know that you restored Peter and Peter went on and did great things for you. And we're even studying that through our time together on Sunday mornings. And first Peter Peter knew what suffering was and Peter would suffer himself under death. And so we want to be faithful like that. We wanna have such a. Us confidence in you and confidence in following your will for our lives, that we can go all the way to death with you. And even though that was Peter's initial boast, and he failed initially, Lord, your grace and mercy was active in his life. And so, Lord, help us to be prepared and ready for whatever comes our way and whatever the cost is of following you as we move forward, as your disciples who pray this on Jesus' name. Amen. Keep reading those bibles. Tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. I'll see you then. Bye.

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