Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast, and happy May 2nd to you. May 2nd. May 2nd. It's gonna, it is May. There you go. Yep. You need the curly bleached Justin Timberlake hair, though, to pull it off. Oh, man. Did you ever have that? You probably did. I frosted tips, but not, I did not have the curly bleached with the pooka shells. I did have the pooka shells. Oh, of course you did. Yep, I did. I rocked all of it. Yep. I never did the double polo. Look. Some guys did the polo, the double polo. I remember that. Yeah. Yeah, but it is, it's May 2nd. And hey, we've got exciting news. Not from necessarily our camp, but from one. It's our camp. It is, but people, not like our backyard. It's not us, it's not our church. But it is our church. Big city. City network. Yeah. Yeah. Our, our sister church in Treasure Valley that's up in Idaho, they are launching their first church plant. And so Compass Bible Church South Valley will be the newest Wow. Compass Bible Church crazy. Which I believe will be the seventh, eighth. I stopped counting after three. Yeah. Anyways but it's their first church plant. They're sending it out and it's gonna be awesome. Pastor Josiah Smith, who is actually, some of you may have met him and his team while they were down here visiting with us recently, but he's gonna be the lead pastor of that church and they are going to be sent out there to help reach more people in the valley. I. And it's interesting they're not too far away from the sending church as far as where this location is gonna be, but in talking with them there's quite a, at least conceptually there's it is a lot farther than it is geographically now. He said that they're literally on the other side of the tracks. What you say, but that it's a very different demographic. People think differently about that area more rural versus the urban side suburban side. That is where Treasure Valley is. But should be great. And this is, if you sat through our one-on-one session, we talk about one of our distinctives always working to plant more churches. And this is an example of one of our church plants who is doing just that. And church planting is one of the best ways to reach people domestically for Christ is to plant more churches and to get, go the gospel out there. And so we re we rejoice with them in this. And if you know anybody up in the Idaho area, in, in the Boise area there the surrounding regions, we would love for you to encourage them to check out our church plant. Some of you guys are here because. Some of their people told you about our church plant, and so you, you found your way here. So I think we've got a few families that are in that that camp. Yeah, this is a good thing. We're excited to see God continue to multiply the church network here, compass Bible Churches. Which by the way is it's a network. It's not a denomination. It's, we are together, we believe a lot of the same things. And so there's a, we're together for the gospel. At least we're together for the gospel. Yeah we're almost a coalition of gospel minded people minded churches. Yeah. Yeah. That's interesting. But yeah, it's. It's there's no Compass Bible Church denomination. We are non-denominational, but we are a network of churches that are all sent out from the same sending church there. Ultimately, as we trace our DNA back there and we love to see our churches succeed and continue to do well. Guys, I put them on your prayer list. I'm sure there'll be a way to. Sign up for prayer updates and what have you. But this is an exciting day for us. We could, we love seeing that. We just re recently witnessed the launch and the birth of a new church even before them. A Compass Bible Church. Long Beach. Long Beach, yeah. So you got Pastor Josh Petras over that. This is an exciting time. It, the churches that have been planted are planted new churches, which the multiplication of this should be really cool to see as the years progress. Totally. In fact I saw a post on X yesterday as we're recording this on Thursday. So it was Wednesday. That was, it's one of those clickbaity posts, but it was somebody saying that three churches in Florida had just recently been bought by Muslims and they're being converted into mosques. And it was this quote from this Muslim cleric saying, we want to continue to do this, and we want to see by, in his words, all's good favor. The United States come under. The control of Muslims. And we'll just say we see that and we raise you church plants that are going out from our church and we're gonna keep going. Yeah, what do you say? We buy a mosque and plant our church in that would be awesome. That would be awesome. That'd be awesome. And then we could send an next post too. Yeah, I think we would have to do some work to to cleanse it a little bit. No, just take it as is. Yeah. As is. Yeah. Yeah. But, yeah. Hey, people wanna know if we're gonna plant a church where we're gonna plant. That's a great question, man. It's, and when and where, it's still a ways out and who's gonna lead it. Still a ways out, but I, in my mind I always think, you look at DFW, you've got Dallas, you've got Fort Worth, you've got both sides of the metroplex there. So I could see somewhere over on the Fort Worth side of things, north Prosper or, yeah. Prosper. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. No, but Denton, somewhere over in Denton, Argyle in that area as that area is growing. How about Tennessee quite a bit too. Lots of people are talking about Nashville. They're liking that area. You like Tennessee? Yeah. Tennessee's. Yeah. Cool. Tennessee is good. Yeah. Hot Lana. Hot Lana, yes. We'll go to, we'll go us and Todd Fri. We'll go hang out over there with him. Hey, tell you what though. I feel called to plant a church. And either Maui or Malibu. Oh, do you? I'm sure. I'm just, I'm sure I feel the burden, bro. Just the, the lost people in those areas. You, but you don't have the right dialect 'cause it's bra if you're gonna go down there, those ways aren't gonna surf themselves. That's true. Someone's gotta do it surfing for Jesus. That's right. Actually, I don't like surfing. No. It's suffering for Jesus, not surfing for Jesus. Oh yeah. You put the wrong fastest on the wrong salable. Yeah. But crazy stuff going on in our world. Yeah, Molo talked about it in a recent edition of the Briefing. He talked about the decline in, in birth rates and Oh, yeah. What that means for everybody. Not in my family, but yeah, go ahead. No f for sure. And same here. And I bring that up along the, that. And this is connected to this conversation about, what the Muslims are trying to do. And we've talked about this before the long game that a lot of Islam is all about. And part of that is, comes down to having more kids than anybody else is gonna have. And, and so that's why it's a good thing for Christian families to have kids. And I understand that there are circumstances and unique events wherein that may not be possible the traditional way for every family. But there's still ways for us to adopt and to bring children into our home and to raise children in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Put them in the way, the gospel as much as we possibly can. And that's something that's good. Not just for our church and for our. Our families, but also for the good of the spread of the gospel all the way through. And we live in a world where our enemies understand that if they have more kids than we have, then eventually they're gonna win. Now we know that the end of the story, but that's their mindset, that's their mentality, and they're doing that. Just something to bear in mind. Mueller also asked a question similar last Friday or the Friday before, somebody wrote in and said, Hey, what if I'm just don't want kids? And he said basically he the question was, what if I don't feel called to have kids? And Mueller said, you don't to feel called to obey a command of God was his response. Wow. He said, if you're gonna get married, he said you have that biblical mandate there. And can you put a blanket statement a hundred percent across the board? I don't think you can bat 10 for 10 on that one, but I do think those young families getting married and starting out that's God's. Design. It's his his goal, his aim, and and it's a good thing. And again it's a bigger picture, not just for our local church and local families here. Yeah. It's important not only to have kids, but also to raise them in the fear and admonition of the Lord. Totally. So it's a both and we need you to have kids and we need you to raise them like Christians. Yeah. It's not moralizing them, it's not creating behavioralists or Pharisees. It's teaching people the way that life works. Yep. Which is of course, everything that he's revealed to us in his scriptures, not the least of which. Psalm PSM 1 33. 1 33. That was a great transition. Oh, you're welcome. Yeah I saw you pulling us back in there yeah. Hey, Psalm 1 33, buckle up. This one is gonna take a long time. There's a lot here and no it's three verses and so this is why we told you, hey. Grab this, read this. Maybe jump over, read one, Peter read something else in concert with this. Spend more time in God's Word than just in Psalm 1 33 today. But Psalm 1 33 three verses. In fact, we can read it together. So here we go. We'll do your daily Bible reading together. Wow. Live. This is a first. It is. I. Behold how good and pleasant it is. When brothers dwell in unity, it's like precious oil on the head. Running down the beard on the beard of Aaron running down the collar of his robes. That sounds gross actually, but go ahead. Yeah, maybe we'll come back and talk about that. It's like the dew of Heman Herman. Not Heman Herman which falls on the mountains of Zion. For there the Lord has commanded the blessing life forevermore. So the picture here is the anointing of the priest there, the precious oil on the head, running down the beard on the beard of Aaron. And that would've been a day of celebration because of his role and who he is. And everybody uniting under the leadership, the headship there. And so he, this is about that. And it's, you'll notice written by King David in Psalm 1 33, which. Is significant force because David was a man who knew much about divisiveness and disunity. He knew about betrayal, he knew about just having enemies in general. And he saw the harm and damage that Disunity can do both nationally and on a personal level. And we don't know exactly when he wrote this whether or not this was at the time that we're reading about or even post Bathsheba and the situation that he had with Absalom, but. But David knew what Disunity was and so as he's writing this, I think we can even sense that the passion that he has, the conviction that he has to say, man, it's so much better when people dwell in unity. And we would say that about the church. This is something to take and apply to the church and say, we need a church that is united together. And it's such a good thing when you have that. Yeah, this is cool because I think it, even though it's not to the church obviously benefits from this concept. Scripture in the New Testament talks about how necessary it is for the church to dwell in unity, even though it doesn't use its exact language, and the oil that we have is not the consecration oil of the priest or the levies or the Messiah. We have the oil of the spirit who indwells within us, who by his grace, and makes it so that we're. Able to dwell in unity far better than these guys ever could. The brothers here are the brothers of Israel, the people of God under the old covenant. The brothers and sisters here in the New Testament are those who have been bought by the blood of Christ and again, sealed with the spirit, which consequently gives us the ability to pursue unity. Even at great personal cost to ourselves, which I think is the point, the fact that Unity is so precious is because it's so hard to obtain with any degree of consistency, without a lot of work on the part of the people who experience the difficulty of infighting and backbiting and all sorts of situations that are brought about because of sin. So in, in this particular text, even though we're only looking at one passage and this is probably not one that you would choose or I would choose, I don't know about. Anyone else listening, but I wouldn't choose Psalm 1 33 to say, Hey, we're gonna spend time on one Psalm today, guys, and it's only gonna be 1 33. But I think it's a great reminder for us about how important it is to be united as the body of believers. Again, this is not us. We're not Israel. David's writing about a different time and a place, but it is still sweet when the church is united. And I think our church has that by and large. We haven't really. And not that I believe in superstition. I'm not. So I'm gonna say it knowing that people are like, oh, you can't say things like this. We haven't really experienced any major divisiveness. And I love that. And I think that, there's a lot of reasons for that, but not the least of which is God's grace. He has protected us. He's continuing to sustain us by his mercy. And as long as we keep our head on straight about what we're here to do. And how we're about going and how we're gonna go about that. Man, I think we have an incredible road ahead of us where God's grace and his glory is honored because of our unity. Yeah I would agree a hundred percent. And I would add to that the, one of the greatest threats that we would face is. To our future would be for disunity to take root in our church for divisiveness, for grumbling, for complaining, for bitterness to, to take root in our church. And you can have a church where the gospel is sound, where the doctrine is intact and where the preaching is there. And yet, if you don't have a church that's committed to a. Humility that produces unity to a godliness that produces unity, then that church is going to fall. It's not gonna stand, it's not gonna be able to survive. And it is a fruit of the spirit when, even though unity isn't in there when we say let the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace that peace is what we're talking about here to have peace amongst one another. That's what. Is being envisioned here in Psalm 1 33. And it's crucial to our ability as the church, to be the church and to carry out the mission that we have of reaching teaching and training. If we're not united, we won't be able to do that. And the devil would love nothing more than to divide us. And so often the division doesn't come over. You know the church stopped teaching that Jesus is God. No. The division comes in the small areas. The division comes in the areas of I disagree with you. This secondary or tertiary doctrine that's out there. Yeah. Lots out there. And so this is what I believe, and you turn that into your hobby horse and your platform and you begin to try to amass a following. And that's where divisiveness creeps in the church so much so that the Bible says, Hey, warn a divisive person once and then twice, and then have nothing to do with them anymore. And so this is super significant and in the Bible it takes this very seriously for the health and wellbeing of the church. And we can see it here in Psalm 1 33. Yeah. And probably the greatest thing to. To be sacrificed here is our humility. It takes a lot of pride to fight with somebody to the point of saying, we just can't do this anymore. Our church has to guard our heart with humility and to recognize that we are all products of God's grace. If we're knowledgeable about something, if we've, if we're right about something it's not because we're inherently special or more intelligent than the next guy. It's God's greatest that work within us. And if we can remember that, I think we'll do okay. Yeah. Sacrificing our pride, not our humility. Yeah. Don't sacrifice your humility. Yeah. Philippians two would be a great companion passage to this too. Maybe you jump over there and read Philippians two. On the mindset of humility that we should all have in Christ. Let's pray and then we'll be done. God, keep us a church that is united, that is one that is protected and guarded from divisiveness. And Lord from backbiting and from self-centeredness. God help us to be a church that loves one another. That. Imitates Christ in that. And God, we thank you for a passage like Psalm 1 33 with its focus on the the unity there that David experienced and how good that was. And God, we just, we desire that for our church and pray that would be a mark of who we are both now and into the future. And so we ask this in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Keep reading your Bibles. Tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Bye bye.

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