Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Hey everyone. Happy Sunday. It is Sunday. It is the Lord's Day, and so hopefully you are on your way to church. I think a lot of people listen in the morning Yep. While they're getting ready. Go and get ready to go to church. Or you're already there and you're setting up right now and you're listening on AirPods because you're, do people do that? I have no idea. I think I have seen a couple of people do set up with headphones on, so maybe they're listening to this could be. That'd be weird to see you working, setting up the stage and also listening to you talk about like Luke 19. Well, sometimes like my wife will be getting ready in the morning. I'll walk in and she's listening to the podcast and it's my voice and it is weird. It is an odd thing. Yeah. There's something about hearing your own voice. That's weird. It's different, but Yeah. Yeah. With a job like this, you kinda get used to it, but that's true. Yeah. That's, that is true. What are your top three favorite things about Sunday morning? Ooh people is number one. Just seeing our people. I love our church. I've expressed that multiple times, I think from the pulpit. So yeah, I just, I love our church. I love seeing our people there. That'd be number one. Number two, I think just worship and song. I, I, yeah, really enjoy that. And especially where I get to sit up front. I don't necessarily get the best sound quality coming from our speakers because of where they're. And they're aimed, by the way, if you want the best experience. Well, no, I don't wanna say that 'cause I want you to sit close stage. Yeah, I was gonna say, you're gonna influence people. Yeah. So don't do that to sit where you don't want them sitting. But what I do get is I do get to hear all the voices behind. Yeah. It's a great thing. Forward. Great. And that's really cool. So I'd say that's up there as well. And then just the whole thing. I preached probably a month ago now, just about, there's something intangible about Sunday morning that is. The pinnacle of the week. Yeah. It's the event mm-hmm. Of God's people coming together to worship him corporately. And I think there's something special that happens there. It's different than any other thing that we do during the week when we gather together. Maybe your work has. A rallying meeting at the beginning of the week where everybody's together and you're talking about the week and everything else, or even your family coming to, it's just, it's different. Yeah. And it's a rehearsal for eternity. And so I, those are my three things that I love you. What about you? Oh, top three. I should, I guess I should have prepared 'cause I was gonna ask you, you asked the question so. I don't want to just repeat what you're saying, but man the people really it is a good thing. And I think that's part of what you're saying in in your third point, which is, there's something special about God's people, right. Coming together. Yeah. Seeing God's church work, it's unlike anything else. It's unlike anything else in our world. And there's a myriad of different ways that it's different, but you can't get people to volunteer to do. What we volunteer to do. Yeah. I mean that in the sense of our church volunteers to do you can't get people to be that committed to things. E even though sometimes it seems like it, right? Political things and this and that, but it's different. The commitment is amazing to watch. The love that is on display is amazing to watch. That's gotta be one of my favorite things. I mean, I'm or with kids. So that is also a particular vantage point that I have. That is really excellent. It is great to see kids learning about Yeah. The Bible. Yeah. Obviously that happens in main service too, but man, kids learning about the Bible is really something special and really, really cool. I mean, I think we should be careful as adults to continue to have the awe and amazement and sometimes even raw confusion that kids display childlike faith. Yeah, childlike faith and we can kind of make ourselves immune to that, I'm afraid over time and as we get older. But, it is really cool, and that's a, that's a poor word to use, but it's amazing. It's amazing. Stunning to see kids learn these truths and I'm eager to see how God uses them. Yeah, that's two things. I'll just stop there. How about that? Well, you were gonna say preaching is number one, but I didn't want to, I understand. You're not trying to puff me up, so That's right. You know, we'll just move on from there. We'll just move on. That's right. No, everything. Yeah. It's sort of a silly question to even say what are your. Three favorite things you asked, man, you know, you asked everything is good on the Lord's day. Alright. You've got some quirky knowledge, so I wouldn't be surprised if you pull this one out, but I've got a pop quiz for you. Nothing to do with church, nothing to do with this. It has to do with American history. Alright, listen. Okay, so that's in your wheelhouse here. Well, 1889 is the date, the year this state was admitted to the union as the 39th US State on November 2nd. Oregon? No. I'll give you a hint. Its Sister State was admitted at the as the 40th state on the same day. It, it can't be the Carolinas. No. 'cause that would've happened. No, you're on the right track though. That would've, you're on the right track. It must be the Dakotas. Yes. Yeah. North and South Dakota, 39th and 40th. So happy birthday, north and South Dakota. Yeah. Welcome to America. Happy, happy birthday. Yeah. Are we gonna ever see the 51st State? I don't know, man. I think Puerto Rico deserves it. I mean, we admitted the Dakotas. That's true. Speaking of the Dakotas, they, they have, they're pretty representation than Puerto Rico. Poor port, poor Puerto Rico. Yeah, but the Dakotas are pretty beautiful. I've never been to Puerto Rico, so I can't speak to it, but yeah. Well, let's get into our daily Bible reading today, one chapter, Luke chapter 19, Luke chapter 19, and if you are on the shorter side of stature, then this chapter's for you. Because it's all about Zacchaeus. So you're saying this doesn't apply to me. No. Mm, nope. It does not. You would not have had to cl climb the sycamore tree. 'cause we know Zacchaeus, he was a wee little man. A wee little man. Was he climbed up in a sycamore tree to see what he could see and Jesus saw him and went to him. Yeah. What is that? The CSB what? Translation? Yes. Yes, I believe so. Yeah, th this is a familiar story. It's interesting. It says, Jesus, as he entered, Jericho was passing through, and that may cause some questions right there, because when Joshua and Israel entered the Promised Land and Jericho fell, there was a curse put over anyone who rebuilt the city of Jericho. And here it is. And here it is. And yet. This is Jericho 2.0. Yeah. It's not on the same grounds as where the city fell. In fact, if you go to Jericho today, you will be able, we ate lunch in Jericho when we were there with the church back in. 2019. And then we went next door to where the ancient city of Jericho is, and they're doing archeological work excavations there, which is pretty cool. But even driving through modern day Jericho, there's some massive sycamore trees that are there. And of course the guides in Israel, because this is what they do. They're, they point to one and they're like, that's the tree that Zakia has climbed. Which is verifiable. Right. Well, an absolute certainty, right? He just talks to the eyewitnesses and if the trees could talk, certainly the trees are old enough. Yeah. That they could be, but we don't know for sure. Anyways, Zacchaeus is an unlikely convert because of his background. He's a tax collector. In fact, he's a chief tax collector and it says there in the text in verse two, he was rich. Now behind this should also come to mind, the rich young ruler. Mm-hmm. That should be echoing in our minds. We've just read about that recently. And so we read. Now Zacchaeus is a chief tax collector and he's rich. And you remember what Jesus said with great difficulty, will a rich man enter the kingdom of heaven? Mm-hmm. Jesus seeks out Zacchaeus, and I think he's doing this on purpose, and I think he's doing this to drive home. When he said to the disciples with Man, it is impossible. Mm-hmm. But with God, all things are possible. So he goes to Zacchaeus, he calls Zacchaeus outta the tree, he says, Zacchaeus, I'm gonna come to your house and have dinner. And so Zacchaeus has him to his house. And there's an, there's a moment in time, and we don't know where it is here, but there's a moment in time where Zacchaeus leaves off living for himself. Mm-hmm. And convinces himself to following Christ because of the fruit that he bears in repentance. He says, look, I'm going to give back what I. Done. I'm going to sell my things. I'm going to those that have defrauded, I'm going to pay back if I've defrauded anyone I'm gonna restore fourfold. So not even just what I've taken from them, but four times what I've taken from them, which gives you an idea of how much wealth this guy had, that he had the disposal to be able to do that. But this is an unlikely convert who demonstrates true conversion here. Yeah, absolutely. And what an amazing thing too. The. Amount of money that he's likely giving back here is incredible. Yeah. And I think we need to recognize that true repentance is certainly the apology. In the sense of saying we're sorry and recognizing it with our hearts and minds, but then repentance against, you know, when we ascend against people, does require us to do our best. Will we make full restitution for things in this life? No. We're dependent on God to ultimately pay pay for that. What a great example of somebody who recognizes his wrong and then is willing to make those sacrifices to attempt as best as he can to right that wrong here in this life. Yeah. And what's interesting is there's nothing, you're not gonna find a chapter in verse that says, if you've defrauded somebody, pay them back. Fourfold. Yeah. You're not gonna find this. Jesus doesn't tell him to do this. This is him under the conviction and weight of the Holy Spirit saying, this is what I should do. This is what's right. And so he goes and does that, and he acts on his conscience, and I think it's commendable. And so if you're looking for how do I take this and apply this? What does the fourfold represent? How do I need to do that? I think you're pressing it too far. Yes. I think what we need to see is there's the radical transformation and then there's a life that follows the radical transformation. Yeah. And there's sometimes, and many times there's sins that we commit that there's exactly zero we can do Right. To fix it. Right. Right. Our faith is not based on our ability to Right these wrongs. It's a heart though that is eager to do that. Yeah. Right. And that's the antithesis of the. Rich young ruler. Right. Who isn't willing to do that and has a heart that's steeled against that. Yeah. And this doesn't, his actions, his repaying the fourfold is not what saves him. Mm-hmm. And it's not what makes him righteous and it doesn't make him more righteous. What saves Zacchaeus is the same thing that saves the thief on the cross, and that is the grace of God. It's just Zacchaeus had time, whereas the thief on the cross had no time left. Zacchaeus does have time and so he goes out and he bears fruit and keeping him with repentance. And I think it's a great, great example for. Us as we read, to be reminded of God's grace in our lives and how we should respond to it. Absolutely. Well, next there is the parable that Jesus tells here of the 10 minus and the minus. These are our coins. This is money. And there was an expectation, there was questions. In fact, we're gonna see this from the disciple. Disciples pre-loss and post-resurrection of Jesus establishing the kingdom right away. And so Jesus even, I think, uses this parable to further clue in his readers to say, it's not time yet for the kingdom. Yep. And so he tells a story of the nobleman who goes away into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return. And so even there, it's this idea, the nobleman. Clearly Jesus here is going away to receive the kingdom and then return. Mm-hmm. With the kingdom. And that's gonna be imply yet future. And so what he does here though, is he calls his servants and he gives them minus, he gave them 10 minuses and said to them, engage in business until I come. There's the rest of this in verses 16 through 19. There's the reminder that there are gonna be variations of reward because the, those that are entrusted with the 10 minus come forward and one says, Lord your minus has made 10 minus more. And he said to him, well done, can faithful servant. You've been faithful in little, you're gonna have authority over 10 cities. And then another one came forward and said I made five. And he said, you're gonna have authority over five cities. And then you get the last one who comes forward and says, I didn't do anything because I knew you to be a cruel and harsh man. And Jesus responds to him, or the nobleman responds to him and he says, you should have at least invested my money into the bank in because you didn't, what you have is gonna be taken from you. So, the idea here is that we've all been entrusted with the greatest treasure that we could have, which is salvation. And just like with Zacchaeus and with other people, there's gonna be different reward that we're gonna earn based on the life that we live. And that's not about salvation, but it is about the reward that we will have in eternity. And so Jesus is here commending the one that responded to that and did something with what he was given. I think the only thing that we would say is this last one because he's a wicked servant is somebody who. Isn't saved. This would be somebody who doesn't respond to the gospel. The he's, the call is there, he's given the same call that everybody else has given. Everybody's given the same amount up front. The call goes out to everyone, but those that respond in faith and repentance and bear fruit are the ones that are going to be received into the kingdom. This wicked one is certainly not. Yeah, and that gonna goes back to what we were talking about a minute ago, which is that our salvation is not dependent on our. Earthly works that are derived entirely from our own strength, our own being. You could read this and mistake this to be workspace, salvation if you weren't careful. Of course it's not because it's the heart that is behind these different people that produces. Produces the different returns. And so yeah, just be careful as you read these sort of things, not to take away from it that and we could, because we're inclined to that in our hearts that our salvation is dependent on our works. Yeah. From here he goes into the triumphal entry and. Luke has a different agenda. So Matthew is going to go and really connect this back to Zechariah nine. He's gonna make sure that mm-hmm. That his readers understand the significance of this From an Old Testament perspective, that's not Luke's goal. Luke isn't writing towards a primarily Jewish audience, and so he's not concerned to connect this back to Zechariah nine, but we know it is because we've read Matthew, and that's one of the things that the four Gospels helps us with, is it gives us a full org. Picture of Christ. And so even as we're reading the triumphal entry in Luke, Luke's not gonna call our attention to that. But since we've read Matthew, we know, okay, yeah, there is a significance. This is Messianic what he's doing here. But one of the things that Luke does note that Matthew doesn't, and the others don't necessarily, is in verse 37, it says, as he was drawing near already on the way down the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of his disciples. Began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they have seen. So Luke identifies at least a good portion of the crowd as his disciples. There's a lot of people that pointed this and just say, this is just the masses. This is just the fervor of the masses. And certainly there was some of that, but I think there were some genuine followers of Jesus here that were thinking, okay, now's the time. This is it. And I think we talked about the disciples. The disciples it says in the text, it says, didn't understand these things until much later after these things had taken place. That's not in Luke's account, but that is in one of the other accounts. And so even the disciples as they're going into Jerusalem, are probably thinking to themselves, this is it. Mm-hmm. Now's the payoff. Mm-hmm. We've been following this itinerant teacher for three years and this is it. Finally, we're gonna have him. Take his throne. Yeah. And that's what the crowds think too. And they're in for a big surprise. They're in for quite the surprise. Yeah, yeah, yeah. From here he goes in, it says he drew near to the city and sees it and weeps over it. And in verse 42, he says, would that you even, you had known on this day the things that make for peace, but now they're hidden from your eyes. And so he's alluding to the destruction that's going to be coming, and I believe this is an illusion. In near term, short term to 80 70, when Titus Ian is gonna come into Jerusalem, he's going to destroy the city. He's gonna destroy the temple. The stones are gonna be taken and toppled down one from the other. And then there's also the long term, and we're gonna talk in a few days here about the signs of the times that are coming. And he's gonna talk there about a destruction that's gonna happen and fleeing. And when you see the forces gathered outside the city, that is the long term that is looking to the tribulation period. That's looking to the antichrist time, that's looking to the battle of Armageddon and so forth and so on. This is him alluding to, in the short term the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD that's going to happen. And yet what's interesting is this is going to be the nail in the coffin, no pun intended, for Jesus. Yeah. Because this is gonna be the only thing that the Jews are gonna be able to hang a charge on before is saying that he was de. Destroy the temple, and yet they misunderstood what he was saying when he said these things. Yeah. It's fascinating too that Jesus weeps over this. Yeah. Because, there's all sorts of problems with the Pharisees and the Sadducees and all the things. It's kind of obvious too, but just don't miss that. It's genuine grief. Over these things and he's gonna make things right, but notice, notice that don't miss that. Yeah, yeah, for sure. From here we have, again, the cleansing of the temple, and like I said last time, I believe this is the second cleansing of the temple. He does this and then in verse 47, he was teaching daily in the temple and the chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the other, of the people seeking to destroy him. But they could not find anything they could do for all the people who were hanging out his words, which. You just sit there and you go, man, that the depth of unbelief mm-hmm. Is evident here. Mm-hmm. Because all of the people are captured by him such that they can't even figure out how are we gonna take this guy out? So I should clarify Jesus at another time said, destroy this temple, and in three days I'll raise it. That's what they really charge him with. But here he's alluding to the destruction of the temple, the physical destruction of the temple which is gonna come much later on. Anyways, let's pray and then we'll be done with this episode. God, thanks for your word. And for the example that we see here in it we pray that we would all be like Zacchaeus. That we would all be quick to repent of our sin and to seek, to make amends, to seek to bear fruit in keeping with repentance. That's the repentance that we see in Second Corinthians chapter seven, that Paul commends to us. So we wanna live that way. God help us to have that mentality and that mindset and to root sin out world. Wherever we find it and to replace it, Lord, with righteousness. Not that we would be saved or that we would be acceptable before you, but that we would be Lord, those that are loving you and hating sin, which is what you've called us to do as those you've already saved, you've already bought, you've already purchased, you've already paid the price that we could not pay through the death of Christ for us. And so we thank you for this. In Jesus name, amen. Keep in your Bibles tuned in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Bye all. Bye.

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