Hey everybody, welcome back to another edition of the daily Bible podcast. Hey, it is a Saturday, March 22nd. Lots of firsts on March 22nd. The first Stanley cup hockey competition was held for the first time in Montreal, Canada. So I know that you're a huge hockey fan, Pastor Rod. And so this is a special day for your family. Are you guys celebrate? We do. Yep. Yep. It's going to look a lot like a normal day to us, but don't be deceived inside. We are celebrating so hard. All right. The first master's golf tournament, also a sport that you love was also held on this date, March 22nd. That's back in 1934, actually. Wow. That's a long time ago. First master's tournament. There's nothing more boring that I can think of then. Watching golf, except for playing golf. All right. We'll agree to disagree there. Yeah. I respect the skill. I won't deny that after taking a couple of swings, I recognize that what they do is pretty impressive. I don't deny that. Yeah. Yeah. The Beatles also another first they released their debut album on March 22nd, please. Please me. Yep. It's a 1963 on that one Yeah, lots of things historically. Unfortunately, this was also the date that Germany opened up its first concentration camp and so obviously that is not one that is celebrated, but that was Dachau, the Dachau concentration camp, which by the way if I know we give recommendations for a lot of theological resources, but if you are a YouTube fan, there's a history channel on YouTube called the history underground that would commend to you. Lots of really good videos. The host goes to these historical sites, a lot of World War II sites, World War I sites, and walks the actual battlegrounds, goes to the places, and he's a believer on top of that. So he's he keeps things very clean. He's a, he keeps things G's. He's walking through there. It's just super good content. So the history underground is the the channel on YouTube, it's worth a watch, worth a subscription. Hey, one other thing guys, while I'm thinking about it, sometimes I noticed that the, our website can, we can have some quirky issues on the website and some of you are listening to the podcast on the website, which we're so thankful for. We would recommend that you download a podcast app and subscribe to it that way, either Spotify or whatever your choices, Apple, Google, download them because we're pretty good about loading the most recent up to date. File and sometimes we get things can go awry. The wires can get crossed on our website. So the most the best thing you can do subscribe to the podcast using a podcast app, by far the easiest, most faithful way to get this. Yeah, I agree. That would be great. I use one called overcast. I think you use pocket cast. There's ones that you can get subscriptions. If you're a power user and you're into things like that, then maybe you want one of those. You can close the gap. You can speed it up. You can do lots of other kind of amplify voices. Yeah, there's so many good features for those things. Yeah. But I would agree with that. I would echo those sentiments. All right let's jump into our Bible reading for today. We are covering, four chapters technically though. One is a hybrid, but Deuteronomy 32 starting there Deuteronomy 32, we get this song and it's a prophetic song. It's a teaching song. It's a song of warning for the people of what would befall them when they drift from the Lord and chase these foreign gods in the promised land. So notice that Moses is writing this song. But he's writing this song prophetically as God is giving him these words. These are words about the rebellion of Israel and their drift from the Lord. And so Moses is going to teach this to them. Notice in verse 15, we get the name Jeshurun. J, how do you pronounce that? Pr. Is that it? Rin Je Run. S Je Run. Yeah. I think we talked about that last year. But did it's a moniker, another name for Israel there. And so when you see that, just know that he's talking about Israel means Upright ones. Upright ones. And I, he's using it ironically. Exactly. I was going. took the words right out of my mouth because that's not what's happening right now. Verse 15, he forsook the God who made him scoffed at the rock of his salvation, stirred him to jealousy with strange gods. Now notice this is not talking about the wilderness wanderings. This is anticipating what's going to happen in the the promised land here. Sacrificed the demons that were no gods to God. They had never known you were unmindful. Verse 18 of the rock that bore you, you forgot the God who gave you birth. And then he's going to talk about exile. He's going to talk about all these things that are going to befall the people of Israel. So this was a song they were to. teach in order to instill a reverential fear of God in the hearts and minds and souls of those that were going to grow up singing this song. And and that's why, music is so incredibly important. And one of the things that we're about as a church and Pastor Rod does a lot of work on this is landing on songs that are. are truthful songs where the content is going to remind us of rich, true, theologically accurate statements about who God is. Music is such a powerful thing. And we've talked about this before, but you probably have the earworms still in your mind of the theme songs to shows that you watch growing up, or you remember the commercial jingle. God has created us as such a people to connect music to our core memories. And when we can. Equip our church with songs that are going to be singable and unfortunately not every song out there That's really good theologically is good for the body to sing But when we can equip our church with songs that are singable and songs that are true they're true about who God is we want to do that because As those songs pop in your mind throughout the day and you start singing along because your brain recalls the song that you sang on Sunday. We want you singing and thinking right and true thoughts about God. So that's what governs our approach to our worship music at our church. And so PR, I know this is your wheelhouse here. You work hard on this week in and week out. Any additional thoughts that you want to give on that front? Maybe just one or two. Or six, actually six. I only have six. No, I would echo everything. We said, I'd amen that. And I just want you to know, we spent a lot of time as pastors thinking about the content of the songs and even the singability of the songs. I do look for songs that are earworms. I do that on purpose. I want songs that are very infectious because I want you to sing them throughout the week. And I want them to come to you all throughout the day. And a lot of our shaping musically, whether or not we acknowledge it is going to be generational. Some of our shapings in terms of what we like are genera gen generationally formed by what's popular to us at the time. So for some of us who grew up on hymns, it's no wonder that we love hymns. For those of us who grew up on CCM that is contemporary Christian music, it's no wonder that we love those poppy CCM style sounds. So it's gonna take a lot of grace for the church to cooperate. with themselves and not to fight about things that aren't worth fighting about. And we try our best to find that middle ground. And I know that everybody has musical preferences and tastes. Some of us are very strong in those tastes but we're working together toward the common good of the church to the glorification of Christ. And that's ultimately the goal. So as we sing songs, just remember that's a really important feature of this. But can I make one point about chapter 32 here, actually a couple of quick points. The first and probably. The most important here is that often when people read Psalms or songs in the Bible, they they might just say, Oh, this is really cool poetry. I like this, but Psalms usually are chock full of good and profound theology. Let me just give you one. There's actually several points in here, but I'll give you my favorite in chapter 32. And it's in verse four, Moses says, the rock, his work is perfect for all his ways are just. It doesn't say that, does it? It says the rock. His work is perfect. All his ways are justice, which you would expect him to say all his ways are adjective. They're just, but he doesn't say that. He says all his ways are noun. They are justice, which is essentially saying this, what God does. Is definitionally justice. He can't do anything but good and right and perfect, which is so amazing and profound to think about because it means everything that God does again, by definition is that thing. He doesn't submit to an external standard beyond himself. He himself is the standard, which is amazing. Sit on that one for a few minutes and let that one blow your mind. All his ways are justice, not just justice. So cool. That's a great nugget. Yeah. Yeah, that's awesome. Worth pondering. And if only we knew the tune, the tune actually to that, don't you? Can't you sing it for us? Yeah in Hebrew. Yeah I haven't warmed up. I sent you that reel of that guy on Instagram who was singing that song wholly by, I can't remember who, Chris Tomlin, who was singing it in Hebrew. In Hebrew. That was interesting. It was super cool. It was cool. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Chapter 33. Chapter 33. We get into Moses's final blessings because the end of chapter 32, his death is again confirmed that this is going to happen. So chapter 33, his final blessings upon the people. And this is similar to the blessings that we've read before from Abraham, but especially from Jacob. because he's going to go through the tribes and he's going to issue a blessing upon each of the tribes as he walks through this chapter. And so in chapter 33 yeah, we're going to find him blessing all of the different tribes of the nation of Israel as part of his departure, find part of his final words to the to the nation here, Simeon's missing. And one of the leading reasons why. That we think is that because Simeon eventually is absorbed into Judah, and so his absence is conspicuous as in the fact that he's missing is a glaring absence and they would all be scratching their heads thinking, what about us? What about Simeon? And it's a subtle, perhaps subtle way of God saying your future, it's not going to be what you hope, right? You're going to be absorbed into Judah, but that's down the line. So if you're wondering where Simeon is. A lot of people are. We think that's the reason why. That's one of the reasons we think. And also building upon that too, part of the reason for that may be Simeon's failure. Simeon and Reuben both failed as their roles as the leaders of the tribe. And that's why Judah ends up taking the lead. And not that Judah was perfect. We've talked about that too, but but that's one of the reasons why. Simeon fades out of existence there chapter 34, then Moses is allowed to see the promised land and he's been told this. You got us told him multiple times, hey, I'm going to let you see the promised land. And he does, he gets to go up on Mount Pisgah. And he is able to look over and this is not just like you and I climbing a water tower here in Texas and being able to look out, we'd be able to see a long way. But I think this PR your thoughts on this too would be helpful. I think God is giving him a supernatural glimpse of the detail of the promise land from the top of the mountain here. I don't think this is just a general look over the river and see a portion of the land. It seems like God's describing, he's able to see a good amount of what the promise land is. I'm not going to pound the pulpit on that one. But. That kind of stood out to me this time reading it. That's interesting. I, it had not occurred to me, but I suppose that's not outside the bounds of God's graciousness. In any case, I don't know that he's suffering much. I think you've made mentioned before that even though he doesn't actually step foot over the physical promised land, he does experience a spiritual promised land. That's going to be, that's better than what they would have enjoyed physically. So he's not hurting. I wouldn't feel too bad for him. Yeah. Yeah. And he dies there and the Lord buries him. And it says there that we don't know where he is. We know that he's buried there in the land of Moab, but in the valley there, but we don't, nobody knows where his grave is. And just as well. Yeah. Otherwise they might've taken his bones out and started, setting up a pillar or something as they're worshiping Moses. Yeah, that's a, that's fortunate for their sake. It is. Although it's unique. Because, and I guess maybe it shows the esteem they had for Moses at the time, because it's not the same with Abraham or Jacob or Joseph or, their bones are all, we knew where they were and they were buried in a certain location there, but God didn't want them to do that. Yeah. Moses is different. I love the fact that he dies the way that I hope to die. It says here in verse seven, he's 120, not that I want to live to 120. That's not the part. The part that I like that I want to emulate is his eye was undimmed and his vigor unabated, which either means one of two things. One, that he was physically still in his prime, that he was still doing really well, that God had protected him, preserved him throughout that wilderness wandering, and he was ready to keep serving and working. Which I tend to lean on that one. The other one is that it's just a way to say, look, he was still doing pretty good. He was good for his age, 120, but still feeling pretty good, still sprightly for his age. I think the first one is more is the one I lean to because I think God preserved his people and it shows that it wasn't because he could not have gone and fought for the Lord. In the promised land, but it was God's judgment to say I'm taking your life deliberately Even though you're still in the prime of your life, even though he technically wasn't. He was still very strong Very ready God took him because it was his time He would he had been judged so that would be the part i'd like to go out Undimmed bigger unabated. That's the part I like but I think it's because of god's judgment that he ends up not going because he could have fought yeah, and this is I Think I lean towards that as well because this For the time would have been still an old age. Cause remember when Jacob is brought down to Egypt, Pharaoh wants to see Jacob because Jacob is 120 years old and Pharaoh's like why are you still alive? Like what's going on here? And so I'm with you. I think this is God has sustained him beyond the natural ability for being sustained at that point. So Lord, please. Yes. Me too. Yeah. Yeah. Let's go over to Psalm 91. He probably ate organic. He probably did. That was probably what was behind it. Not a whole lot of MSGs in that guy's diet. I don't think he ever saw a Twinkie. That's for sure. Yeah. He, all of his food was RFK'd. It was all. RFK approved, you said? RFK'd. Oh, RFK'd. They've turned that into a verb now. Oh, the steak and shake fries now are being fried in beef tallow. Right on. So they're calling them RFK'd fries. Give me some more beef tallow. Yep. We can use more, not less. Yep. All right. So Psalm 91, you're going to read Psalm 91 and it's going to sound familiar, but it's not a, it's not a word for word. This is not exactly the song of Moses, just cut and paste it. There's similarities in language for sure. All right. But this is a psalm that's more brief than what we read about in Deuteronomy 32 and it seems to be more positive than what we read about in Psalm 32, but some of the same concepts, same ideas are communicated in this in this psalm of note, specifically look at verses 11 and 12, these verses are going to be quoted by somebody that you wouldn't expect to quote scripture. And that is going to be Satan. Satan's going to I'm going to quote these verses to Jesus in the wilderness temptation, and he's going to say, Hey, cast yourself off the pinnacle of the temple and you're going to be fine because isn't it written and Satan quotes Psalm 12, that he's going to command his angels concerning you to guard you and they're going to bear you up and your foot's not going to hit a stone. And that's where Jesus turns around and says, you should not put the Lord your God to a test. Yeah, that's interesting that Satan is quoting Psalm 91. It's, it calls to mind when James says, even the demons believe in shutter, right? If Satan is able to quote scripture, then we need to make sure that our knowledge of scripture, we just talked about this recently, the fact that we have the Bible is such a blessing, but it's also a danger. Because if we're not taking it and applying it, taking it and letting it transform us by the spirit's work within us, then we're no better off than Satan. Satan knows the Bible probably better than any of the rest of us know the Bible as far as being able to pull it out and quote it whenever he wants to pull it out and quote it. Which is why someone quoting the Bible doesn't automatically make them a safe person to listen to because while it's true that someone who's a false teacher can really know the Bible really well, or at least appear to be pretty well versed, they can still mishandle the Bible fundamentally. It's like building a puzzle. There are times when you're building the puzzle where two pieces can really look like they fit together. So close. In fact, that you might say that looks right and that really looks right, but it's only until you fill in most of the puzzle that you realize, Oh, those two pieces, even though they're similarly colored and shaded, and maybe a little cutouts fit they as evident, they don't fit now that I see more of the picture. And it's very much like that with your Bible reading, the more of your Bible, the more you can see when pieces don't fit together, the less of your Bible, the harder it's going to be for you to discern, am I really looking at the right thing here? And a good false teacher can sound smart and sharp and speak with eloquent tones and say things and sing songy ways and make it just sound like they know exactly what they're talking about. You need to do well to know your Bible so good, so well inside and out that you can detect it and discern it. And that just requires a lot of time and energy invested. Otherwise you're vulnerable. Okay. So on that front there's been. Some photos flying around on X over the last handful of days. So Trump has tapped Paula White to be his personal spiritual advisor. People are going to look at that. Number one, they're going to say, Oh, pastor Paula White. So I think most of the people listening to us are going to throw the flag on the play already and say, Okay. Oof, but there's my short answer. Yeah. Beyond that, she is a known false teacher. She's a, she's health, wealth, and prosperity to the extreme. And she has attributed God to saying things that God has not said. So some in the camp are saying Hey, look, Trump's got a spiritual advisor who's a quote unquote Christian. But what I hear you saying in part is we need to be careful and not necessarily pump the fist and say that's good that he's got Paula White in his ear because she's not an accurate handler of the word of God. So that shouldn't necessarily make us feel any better than if he were to have a Muslim Imam in his ear quoting the Quran to him. Yeah, it's probably almost worse. That he has someone in his ear who's giving him what seems to be and probably on occasion is sound Christian wisdom But that's the problem because if you if one tenth, let's just be generous here if seven tenths of what she says is true That 30 percent left over leaves him Especially vulnerable to bad thinking and bad ideas because you tend to become like the person you're listening to You tend to mimic your master and that's by design. God made it that way. That's what Jesus says. You become like who you follow, you become like who you worship. So it's especially dangerous. And so we ought to pray that God would put him in the position to be influenced by someone of high caliber and high esteem of the word and high view of God. Otherwise you're right, man. That's a it's not a good situation. Yeah. I did see that also in that room around the president. I heard that. Yeah. I was surprised by that. I wonder how he got a seat at that table. I think it's through his new, he's working with James Dobson's ministry focused on the family. And so I think he stops and he has the connection. Yeah. He's got a great name. You ought to make that connection to spot there with Trump. Yeah. Yeah, sure. I'll call him up right now. No. Great. At least our governor gets to start there. Greg Abbott. He was just down at Prestonwood Baptist church. Is that right? Yeah. He was there visiting their school for special needs. Walked to the front of the line. I said, Hey, Greg. I didn't know he was there. I'm pastor PJ, which you refer to me now going forward. Actually, if you want to get technical, I'm Dr. Pastor PJ reverend. You're his highness. All right, y'all let's pray. And then we'll be done with this episode. God, keep us as pastor, I was just talking about discerning people that we would know the word of God and know how to handle it accurately and expose ourselves only to those that do handle it accurately that we would not. Give our ear to false teachers. Anyone who would scratch an itching ear or a tickle the ear Lord, we want to make sure that we are listening and paying attention to and heating truth. And so help us to do that. And as pastors in this church, God, we pray that you'd keep both of us as men of truth, that we would be preaching the word that is true and not. Tempted in any way to tamper with it or practice cunning or anything else like that, that we would just present the word of God as it is in its power, and that we would be faithful to its context as we do that. And so we ask that you would enable us to do that, and do that we pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Keep your Bibles tuning again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Bye folks. Bye.

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