Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast and happy Lord's Day to you all. Happy Lord's day. It's Sunday. In fact, it's a pretty significant Sunday in the history of our church. Wow. Because. This is the last Sunday that you'll be preaching.

Hey guys, big announcements. Pastor PJ's been promoted. He's gonna be leading Prestonwood from now on. Yikes. That mean. Did you wanna tell him that right now?

Or did you wanna wait? Yeah. No, that was another, that was one of those ones that we weren't gonna release. 'cause it's not not happening. It's not public yet. Yeah, not happening. Not public yet. We'll let you guys know when it's ready to go. No. No. It's our last Sunday at Founder Frisco, so yeah, we are are you happy

or sad about that?

I, man I'm, I'll be honest. I'm happy. I'm excited. You're not sad

at all.

I, this is since it's been home. The nostalgia is there. Yeah, for sure. Of going, oh yeah. This is where we got our start and it'll always have that kind of special spot. But it's kinda like when you're moving out of one place where you used to live for a while and you've got the new place lined up. And yet you haven't yet moved into the new place and you're still in the old place. Yeah. And you're kinda looking around the old place and you see all of the stuff that you're not gonna miss. You see all the dirt, you see all the grime, you see all the stuff. So it's a little bit of that. But I wanna be fair, God has blessed us with the facility that we've had for the last two years. Oh, for sure. It has allowed us to really get our feet under us to grow. We've had great memories there. It's been awesome and we're super thankful for the administration there locally at Founders Frisco and just the way God opened those doors. Those of you listening from outside our area, those in California, you guys understand this, but it's the same here, that in that a lot of the public schools will lease space to churches, but they won't lease classrooms. They won't allow, for example, our kids' ministry uses classrooms at founders in Frisco and will again up here in Founders and Prosper. A lot of the public schools say. No, you can't have any classroom space. You're gonna have to use the gymnasium and just divide it up or whatever. So God really opened a door for us to land at founders in Frisco and gave us classroom usage and facility usage. That has been a huge win, and so it has been awesome. It's the end of this chapter of who we are as a church. As we turn the page next week we'll be at Founders in Prosper, and it's just, it's a little bit of a bigger facility. It's a newer facility. It just sets us up a little bit better, I think to grow as we move forward into the future.

Yeah, I think I'm gonna miss a lot of what I mean, this is, it's the nostalgia it gets me. I was nostalgic probably at 12 years old. I just had that sense built in where I'm like, oh, this is sad. It's a new season. We've had it pretty good.

Yeah,

I mean in terms of what we were told to expect and how challenging things could be and how, the people and the challenges of planting and maybe because we came out together, that really helped to keep us afloat. Yeah. But we've had it pretty good. I'm just gonna say it. We've been really blessed of the Lord and we're not looking down on that. We're not asking the Lord to change that at all. Please hear me say that, Lord. Knocking on plastic wood over here. I'm just saying it's been really good,

so that's awesome. It's been a great time. Yeah, no, I agree. I agree. Also, how dare you accuse my Amazon desk of being plastic wood? It looks pretty plasticky. Yeah, that's fair. You just didn't need to call it out.

Okay.

It looks like wood from a distance for sure. The appearance of it's got the, it's got the strong appearance of wood. Man, as far as desks are concerned, looks at the outside. Oh God. But apparently

you look at the inside. I care about the inside. That's true.

Yeah.

Mine's bamboo. Is that considered wood still? Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's wood.

It's a what do they call that? It's not recyclable. It's a, it's compostable. Sustainable. Sustainable. It's a sustainable resource because it grows like wildfire oh, yeah. That's why they use it in a lot of like hardwood floors. Now you'll see people use bamboo because it's supposed to be, oh, I didn't know that Environmentally. Kind and

no, I like the light color. I expected it to be really light, but it wasn't when I picked it up. No. Which is why I'm glad Mike Clemente made my desk and not my, not me.

Yeah. No, that's true. It was dense. It

was

dense. Very dense. Yeah.

Yeah.

Alright, Sunday, hey you're off starting tomorrow. So you're still gonna hear his voice on the next couple of episodes of the podcast here Monday and Tuesday. But be praying for Pastor Rod and his family as they're gonna be taking some time away. Just a week. Spend some time with friends. Yeah. Just a week.

Don't get don't get too used to it. Yeah. Just for, it's a little, it's a breath of fresh air before we jump into the summer. Then we got two weeks in the summer, and then you got a couple weeks in the summer coming up. I

do, man. I can't wait. I'm, it's gonna be a good time. I'm there. You're ready, Lord.

You're ready. And I'm covering the pulpit for you for two weeks and Lord knows what I'm gonna preach. Hopefully Jonah and Micah. We'll see. That's what we said. I don't know

if I fully agree to it. We'll see. Yeah. On that note we do kick off a new series, our summer series Today. That's true. Today we're

kicking off the minor, majoring in the minors. Majoring in the minors. The minor profits have major truths or something like that. Major from minor profits. Dude, you got really in touch with your. Inner slim Shady. Your m inner Eminem. Yeah. I was impressed by the creativity that I saw. I was like, wow, he's turned over a new leaf. I'm trying. I'm working. I'm working. Now. If you came dressed as a hip hop artist tomorrow, today. Today, yeah. Church.

Yeah.

That would be even better

in Alma Drip. Yeah. No, but one of our goals in this is that we'd love to have a word or phrase that you associate with every one of the minor profits. So by the end, you can roll through them and go, oh yeah, this is this. The word for Hosea is gonna be, oh, don't say it. Don't say it. Oh, no, that's not that word. No, it's not that word. Okay. It's no. It's not that

word E on our podcast here.

No. The word for Jose is gonna be redemption.

Oh, okay.

So when you think about Jose, that think

about redemption, there's another word that I thought of that was also equally different. Different word, equally suggestible.

Yeah. But we would love for that because again, part of the goal of the series is that you'll walk away from each week knowing the core message of the book. And so we want a word that, or a phrase that's gonna help you identify and hold onto the core message of that book. So Hosea Redemption, we'll be jumping into that today. Let's get into our daily Bible reading. First Chronicles chapter 23 through 25. This is David's Life Winding Down. And it's, yeah, this is him organizing everything so you'll remember. I think I. Our last time we were in First Chronicles we were looking at how he was setting things up for Solomon's success. And and David does that and continues to do that here. And the way he does that here is he sets out to organize all of the officials that are gonna be necessary for Solomon to complete the temple and also to have the temple operate the way it needs to. So David's gonna organize here and set up the Levites, and he's also gonna set up the singers. And so this is a lot of him still preparing for making his son's life. Easier. And so this is something commendable, I think about David. David cares about Solomon's success. He cares about the next generation. David's not there just to say my life is ending, so what does it matter what the future holds? He's sitting there saying, my life may be ending, but Solomon, you've got some significant work to do in front of you. And so he wants to set up his son for success. And so there's principles that we can take away from that as parents to say. For that next generation we need to care more about, not just are they gonna matriculate their way through school and graduate school, and maybe they'll go to trade school, maybe they'll get a job, maybe they'll go to college. But the more important thing is spiritually, are we setting up that next generation, spiritually speaking? Are we investing in them? Are we giving them what they need? Doing everything in our power to make sure that they're set up for success in the eyes of God. 'cause that's what ultimately matters is whether or not they come to faith in Christ. And now can we change that as parents? No, we can't. But can we do everything possible to put them in the way of the gospel to make sure that they're hearing the gospel, that they're learning God's word, that they're at church as much as they possibly can be. Yeah. A hundred percent we can. And you as mom and dad, you've got the power. You've got the leverage. As long as they're under your roof and eating your food to make sure that they are gonna be there and be present and hear the word preached and hear the gospel and you have the opportunity to say, Hey, we're gonna meet together. And get coffee together and talk about the Bible together. You, you can do those things and care about their future wellbeing. And so even though this is David organizing the Levites and the singers and things, and we read this and we're kinda like oh, okay. I think the principle is there that we need to care about the next generation.

Yeah, absolutely. In fact, I would add to that, you'll notice in, in David's approach here, I think he's tackling it in odor of priority. He starts in chapter 23 with the Levites, and so you have a long list of different names and families, and he arranges the people that are gonna support the ongoing worship of Judah. And he says, we need to make sure that you guys are appropriated first and foremost. And so his main concern, he'll get to the military later in a couple chapters. It looks like the gatekeepers chapter 26, and on. So chapter 27, he will get to the divisions of military, the leaders of the tribes. So that's chapters away from now. He's taking care of first things first, and this. Is a totally appropriate David's heart is for the Lord. Remember, he was a man after God's own heart. This is the man who was the prototype of the future Messiah. And so appropriately, his concern, first and foremost, even for Solomon, is that Solomon gets his religious affairs in order, and so he's setting everything up. He's arranging the table so that Solomon can feast on this particular meal that he's setting up here. So I think it's really good for us to see that he's establishing the first things first and our families need to see that. Our churches need to see that our churches should be one of the. First things first that we put into our family schedule and calendar because this is what mattered to the David that was prior to Jesus our new and better David. Now, a couple of notes here, just fact, in fact, one note. You'll notice if you're paying close attention in chapter 23, verse three, he says here, the Levites, 30 years old and upward were numbered, and the total was 38,000 men. Okay, move on over in your Bible and look at verse 27 for, by the last words of David, the sons of Levi were numbered from 20 years old and upward. What gives there? So I did some digging and here's what I've come up with. It looks like David at one time said 30 and at another time said 20. And in part, probably because he addressed an associate or assessed the need for Israel and said, we need more Levites. And so we're gonna lower the threshold of the age to allow for more of these young men to serve in this capacity. Now, the priest, it still looks like we're older, but in terms of Levites, remember all priests were Levites, but not all Levites were priests. So the Levites are the helping force. They're the they're the. Service arm of the worship. And so they're here to, set up and tear down the, they're those people setting up chairs perhaps. And so David is saying, we need more helpers, we need more workforce, and therefore we're gonna lower the age in the threshold. Hey, by the way, we have a setup and tear down team, and we'd like to lower the age and of our threshold as well. If you're a young man who would like to help us set up and tear down, this is for you. Chapter 23 of First Chronicles is up your alley. We could use your young, vibrant muscles to help us set up and tear down things. So if this chapter reaches out to you at all, there it is. I.

That's a great plug. Man. That was seamless. It was just awesome. It was right in there. It almost like we planned it almost like that, but we did it. Yeah. It's interesting because in, in this, you're reading through this going, okay, all these duties and this person was gonna serve connection to the New Testament in Luke chapter one, when the angel shows up to Zechariah to tell him about the birth of John the Baptist, Zachariah is fulfilling his Levitical duty. He's doing what David is organizing here. Good. Yeah. That's great. And and so that's a connection there to the life of Christ through the life of John the Baptist there. Yeah. This is good. I wonder if some of this even led to Solomon's ability to have the good request that he makes of God when God says, what do you need? It's almost as though some of this is David does such a good job setting his son up for success, that Solomon really had the luxury to sit back and say, okay, God. I don't need the Levites organized. I don't need. The supplies to the temple. 'cause my dad took care of all that. Here's what I need. I need wisdom. I need wisdom to be able to do the job that's in front of me. So please grant me wisdom. And there's probably more to that, but I have to imagine at least some of this. He didn't feel the tyranny of the urgency to God say, okay, God, I need this. I need this. 'cause David had done such a good job to care for a lot of those anticipated needs that he was gonna have.

And again, I just wanna reiterate this is because David's a man after God's own heart. Yeah. Sadly, this does not carry through to all of his sons. Some of his sons do carry that thread. But sadly not all of them. And I guess one thing, one thing that ought warn us about is that a godly heritage is not. Taken for granted, right? It is not something that you should just assume is gonna be passed down just because you're a God-fearing person. It takes a lot more than that. We should be praying for our church families. We should be praying for their kids and their kids' kids. I pray often for my kids' grandkids. Yeah. Thinking generations down the line should the Lord Terry. Yeah. I would love for them to say, man we. We were people of the book. We continued as the Gomez family grew, or whatever names that my daughters inherit later when they get married. I want our families to be families of the book. People who love the word of God, love the people of God, and stay faithful for generations. It scares me, maybe not scary in a sinful sense, but I just I'm nervous about the future of our country, the future of our families, and I want them to stay faithful. What does that look like? I think it is in part being and maintaining that status of being people of the book.

Yeah. Let's pray and then we'll be done with this this episode. God, we do thank you for your word and we thank you for David's example here. Pray that we would have families that follow suit, that do just what Pastor Rod was just talking about, that do care about the future generations and not only prep, but also pray for them and recognize that is significant. That's something that we should be doing that is good for us to do. So we thank you for the example that we see here in God just help us to glean things when it, when we come across passages that maybe aren't as. Readily applicable for us the first time through. Help us to think about, okay, God, what are you looking at? What are you teaching us? What are you trying to drive at with this? And help us to glean what we can glean from passages like this. We pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Alright, y'all tune again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. See you. Bye. thanks for listening to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. This is a ministry of Compass Bible Church in north Texas. You can find out more information about ourChurch@compassntx.org. We would love for you to leave a review to rate to share this podcast on whatever platform you happen to be listening on, and we will catch you against tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Yeah. I would agree with everything that you said