Hey folks. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast, conspiracy Edition. Conspiracy Edition. So I saw this clip from the White House, okay. Where some lady, I dunno who it was, Tulsi Gabbard, maybe. Okay. Was saying that the Obama administration was doing these nefarious things in order to disqualify and injure Trump's campaign and sow seeds of discord and of suspicion. My question is, how do I know that? I, and I guess they're reporting it and it's coming from the White House, so you would have reason to believe that it's reliable and trustworthy. Are they presenting the facts fairly? Is that truly what took place? What do we do when we get these really credible sources like the White House saying things like this where it's like, Hey, this prior administration, the Obama administration, they were not. Slow to, to drop his name did all these evil things and now we're gonna find some way to pursue. I don't know what they're gonna do next. I just know that they dropped it and they said, wow, this is amazing. CNN took it off the air and all these Click Beatty titles. What do we do with that? I'll one up. You. No I want you to answer the question. I'm not gonna answer you. Maybe yours. Maybe the, they released all of that to take the attention off the Epstein files. 'cause they don't want those actually released because of all the dude I, because of the aliens. Yeah. That's what they're really hiding, man. It gives me tired head. And as Christians, we do have a responsibility to know what's going on in the world, and we should and yet there's a danger of caring too much about what's going on in the world. I file this under the, I'm gonna let the people and the powers that be, that have clout to sort these things out. Sort these things out. Okay. And if justice needs to be done then I'm gonna say, yeah, justice should be done. I don't lose sleep. Wondering whether or not I can trust them about did this happen, did this not happen? I lost trust in a lot of the overall. Political talking heads a long time ago, I'm gonna do my civic duty. I'm gonna cast my vote according to my biblical principles that I have, when it comes time to vote. But outside of that, I'm, my ultimate confidence and trust in the administration of the affairs of this world and everything else is that I trust the Lord in that. I trust God in that, and I'm. Saying that if you're really overly interested in what's going on with this, that you don't trust God. I'm just saying I think that's where my comfort is. That's why I'm not losing sleep at night going, oh no what did Tulsi Gabbard say? What did this person say over here? God's gonna work those details out and I'm fully confident in the the administration of his justice. If you're intrigued by it because it interests you, again, I think there's a good reason for us, like we talked about with the Epstein files to. Push back and say, why am I intrigued by this? Why? Is it because I want the salacious juicy details and I've got a little bit of a voyeurism about all this? Or am I really concerned for justice because I care about God's character and maybe there's some connection there to it, I don't know, man that's my 2 cents on it. What your thoughts? I have lots of thoughts. I guess I watched it and I thought, man I'm angry about this. If this is true, I'm not happy about what I'm seeing. How do I know it's true was my second thought. And third, what can I do about this? And the answer to all those I don't really know what to do about, I'm upset, I know that much, but I don't know what I can do about it. And I don't know what I should do about it, if anything at all, except to vote prayerfully and faithfully. But let me just slightly turn the conversation just a tad bit here. Dr. MacArthur died recently, but we had another person die, another one of the greats, Dr. Ozzy Osborne. How are you processing this, bro? I, it did not move the needle for me one bit, and I know a lot of people it did. And I'll say this. There was a prominent pastor who's a public figure, and I'll just, I'll name him. Two Inch Vision, who called out MacArthur and basically just stopped short of calling MacArthur a false teacher and a heretic. In after MacArthur's death, and yet when Ozzy Osborne died, he lamented the death of Ozzy Osborne who called himself the Prince of Darkness. So I think there's a massive disconnect there. Ian if you're listening to this podcast, he probably does, if you wanna call me and talk about that, like I, I'd love nine four I'd to have that conversation. Yeah. I, yeah I, okay. I care because it's a soul that's lost and I, who knows it. I think the best take is his eternal fate is between him and God at this point. But I didn't shed tears over the death of Ozzy Osborne. It looks like you're getting pretty emotional right now. I, man, I like, yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I'm the wrong guy to ask about that. I'm sure we've got some Ozzy Osborne fans out there. I'm surprised the dude lasted as long as he did. He bit the head off of a bat on stage, like that's, talk about COVID concerns, like what is going on? Yeah. I thought it was a chicken. Was it a bat? I think it was a bat man. It was some bird. I don't know what kind of bird it was. Yeah, I know. I know the story is true. I don't know what it was though. It's interesting, man, because there there's a glorification of the evil in so much of the of pop culture out there. And there has been for a long time. I remember Prince prince was maybe not as dark, but he had his dark moments. And then you've got, these other bands that were very much dark and evil and glorifying the Satanic and the occult and those things matter. And I think for a lot of people in that. Area. They spent their careers and they made a lot of money glorifying things that were a direct affront to the holiness of God. And I think they probably thought this is no big deal because, it's just, it's a line in my pockets and God's not doing anything about it right now. And maybe God doesn't even exist. Yeah, I'm gonna be a satanist and I'm gonna celebrate darkness and the evil one and everything else like that, it does matter and they're being held accountable to that. In the end, and they're standing before holy God in the end, and they're gonna have to give an account for every careless word that they spoke including the words on stage the masses and the words of the songs that they penned and that are now earworms in people's minds and hearts. Yeah it's God is not God to bet trifled with. We're gonna talk about that tomorrow. We're the message tomorrow is how to make God mad. And that is something that I think that's enticing. Yeah. That, that they're having to answer for that now and that's a terrifying reality. Alright. You ready to hear something for the first time? Yes. We had Dr. MacArthur die. We had, who were we just talking about? Ozzy Osborne die. Yep. Him and now just a few hours ago. Hulk Hogan died. Hulk Hogan died. Yep. The triumvirate seven, SIA. I know, man. This is the end times. If that doesn't tell you, I don't know what else does. Yeah. How do you feel about Hulk Hogan? I, growing up, tell me brother. I remember yeah. Speak of, do you remember Men's retreat and no. Which one? The yeah, we, men's retreat there was, yeah. The brother. Moment. That was pretty great. That was good. That was Greg Larson. Yeah, you should, if you're, I should ask Greg Larson how he's doing. He's probably heartbroken right now. He probably is. But if you see Greg at church tomorrow, maybe ask him for his whole Hogan impression. 'cause he does it pretty spot on. I'm not gonna lie. It's too soon, bro. He just passed. Yeah, he did. It's too soon. I don't know him. But it seems like Greg has a pretty fond care for him. My memory of Hulk Hogan is this, a friend of mine grown up. Back in the early nineties, he had the WWE e plastic ring and he had the action figure wrestlers and I remember that. Oh yeah. And Hulk Hogan was one of those action figure wrestlers. Oh yeah. But he was the one that everybody wanted. Yeah. Hulk Hogan became a Christian. I heard that. At least that's what's being reported at time. He and his wife were baptized like a, a couple years ago. That's exciting and potentially you might see Hulk Hogan in heaven. You could. I wonderful. Have this same shtick going on. Welcome brother. You waited, ripping his robe open. Jesus is will you stop? Dude, you don't have an infinite. Oh nevermind. We actually do. We do. It's fine. Go ahead. Here you go. Oh man. That's crazy. It is the end times. Because Hulk Hogan died. Hulk Ozzy, Dr. MacArthur. Okay. What's next? Did you ever think you would put those three names together? Never. Never. And here we are multiple times in the podcast so far. Yeah. Hey, let's jump into God's word, daily Bible podcast, daily Bible reading. We're in Isaiah 40 through 43. It's a lot of ground to cover. Important shift here though, because if you don't realize what's going on, you're gonna get confused real fast here in from 39 to 40. In 39, we're dealing with Assyria. We're dealing with Hezekiah, we're dealing with snacker. We're dealing with all this chapter 40 hits. And the focus of Isaiah shifts away from all that. And now what we're talking about is we're talking about Babylon and even chapter 40, 41, 42 it's focusing on the coming. Exile and it's as though Isaiah is prophesying as though that exile is already here. And so he's prophesying comfort, and that's why Chapter 40 opens the way that it does comfort, my people who are in exile in, in the view, in the prophecy of what Isaiah's talking about here. This is a message of comfort because it's a reminder that God is going to be faithful to his promises. Even in verse eight, the grass withers, the flower fades. The word of the of our God will stand forever. Peter's gonna quote this in one Peter one, but here for the exiles, this is a reminder to them of saying, Hey, God is gonna be faithful to you even when you're in exile. Don't forget that God is, has a future. God is going to bring his recompense. Even Isaiah. 40 verse 10 there, he's gonna bring his reward. He's gonna come, he's gonna tend to his flock like a shepherd and gather his lamb. So there's a future still for Israel. And then there's the great depiction in the rest of chapter 40 of the power and the might of God, the magnitude of. God, things like measuring the waters in the hollow of his hand. Picture the oceans being held in the palm of the hand of God, in other words. And it's just a reminder of how big God is, which, which would again be a massive comfort to a group of people, Israelites, who were in exile. So this is preparing them ahead of time for some of the questions they're gonna have. One day have been carried off by Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon and taken into exile. Yeah, the timing of this is really fascinating. Really what you should know is that chapter 40, really some would say at 40 through 55, others would say 40 through 66 is the next section of Isaiah. And sometimes, depending on who you read, you're gonna see a good case made for both of those. But either way, 40 in onward and the rest of the book of Isaiah is a shift. It's a whole different way of looking at the book up to this point. Isaiah largely is talking about God's judgment and what God is going to do interspersed by periods of there's gonna be restoration, but 40 onward, you're gonna see God. You're still gonna talk about judgment, but there's a lot of comfort, a lot of restoration to be had. And remember, he's writing years before they're ever exiled. This is happening well before this over a hundred years, right? And so now you're reading something that they would've understood. And I don't know how they would've understood except wow, this is a, this is interesting. I'm not sure what to do with this. I suppose what this should encourage 'em to do now is live in preparation of those days. But for whatever reason that God does this, what you do see is an interesting contrast. You pointed it out, but I wanna show you this in verses six, seven, and eight. When God says, cry to the people, Isaiah says, what am I gonna say to them? What do you want me to shout out in the marketplace? And he says, this all fleshes grass. That's so fascinating because God's contrast, the enduring nature of his word to people. You're gonna live, you're gonna die. Your generation's gonna pass away. It's not gonna pass away my word. My word will accomplish all that I intend for it to do. The grass whether's, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever. We quote this, and I don't know if we often remember, it's talking about us. Our glory will come and go. Our lives will sprout up in the morning and they'll die by the evening. All of us have an appointed time to die and we'll be judged by the Lord. But here he contrasts his word, which tells us about how important his word is for our lives. He says it here, I think in part to say, look, I'm telling you what's gonna happen before it happens, so that you can know that I'm the one who said it, and you can basically count on it that it's gonna happen. And that's what he does at the rest of Chapter 40 who can compare to me? I've got all the power, I've got all the cards I've got. Everything necessary to accomplish exactly what I'm telling you Israel. So trust my word. Your lives are fickle, fleeting, and fading. My word is not. My person is not. I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. I will accomplish my purposes. Take that to the bank. I think that's encouraging. Yeah, and you wonder also if some of this is because going back to Isaiah six, God is prophesying this through Isaiah about. Future generation because the generation immediately listening to the words of Isaiah, God had already told Isaiah, they're not gonna listen to you. And so it's almost as though God was telling Isaiah, your message is going to be for other people to begin with, right? I'm having you write this down. Not for this present generation, because they're gonna, under my judgment, not listen to you. But the future generation is gonna read this and understand these things and listen and. Repent. At least a portion of them, a remnant of them will, and they will be comforted by the words that you're gonna prophesy in this moment. Yeah. You mentioned chapter, the rest of Chapter 40 being about God saying, no one's gonna be able to stop this in that. His sovereignty there. And then turning the page to chapter 41, we begin to get into some of the details of what this is gonna look like, including even the. The people that are gonna come and be God's instrument against the Babylonians. And so this is, we were talking about inception the other day. It's like where something's within another thing there. And so now we're like two layers deep on this future because the now it's not only looking beyond the future of Babylon, and remember Assyria is the main empire at this time. So now we're looking at the next empire up being Babylon, but then we're looking at the Empire to come after that. Which is gonna be Persia and the Meads that are gonna come against Babylon. And that's verse two who stirred up one from the east. This is gonna be Cyrus of Persia that's gonna come and deliver the people and send the exiles back to Jerusalem to rebuild, which is what we're, we've been talking about in the minor prophets, Haggai. And even in, in Malachi this week the post exilic exiles coming back per Cyrus of Persia is gonna be the one that sets up that return there. And Chapter 41 is gonna be a lot about that, that deliverance from the Babylonian captivity there. Yeah, I love some of these verses and it's hard to remember the context sometimes, but their verses are so rich. I love he's gonna do this many times between now and the coming chapters that we read. Look at verse four. Who has performed and done this calling? This calling the generation from the beginning. I the Lord the first and with the last I am He God's gonna flex his God muscles and say if there is any other God. I don't know who he is and God's not saying I'm ignorant. I don't know if there is another God who exists. He's saying, I am it. You wanna worship somebody? Worship me. 'cause I the Lord, I'm the first. I'm the last. I am He. I'm everything and everything else in between. I love this exalted language about God. It's exalted, not inappropriately. Sometimes you talk about people being, oh, he's the goat. The greatest of all time. Michael Jordan's the goat. LeBron James is the goat. Kobe Bryant's a goat Derek Jeters. All these guys, the goat, and that's fine. We understand what we mean by that. We mean, comparatively speaking, they're really good. When we talk about God being the goat, we're not saying, comparatively speaking, he's better than the rest of us we're saying. Objectionally objectively, absolutely without flaw or fail. He is all that there ever will be. He's the God of creation. He's the God of non creation. What doesn't exist. He's the God of everything. He's the first and the last. He's everything else in between. I love this language. Isaiah has a lot of it sprinkled out as we read through the next chapters here in Good Theology is comforting. To the people that are his people. When we understand these pictures of God and his power and his might and everything else it is comforting to us. And that's one of the reasons why another repeated phrase that you're gonna find in these chapters we see in verse 10, fear not verse 14, fear not. Verse 13, fear not. And you're gonna find that phrase throughout the next. Prolonged section of Isaiah. Fear not is gonna show up over and over again. When you see it, circle it, underline it, do something. Note that, because again, this is what God is trying to convey to these people. You're gonna be in a tough spot. Don't fear, don't be afraid. And so you think about people like Daniel reading through this book when he's in captivity and realizing, okay, I can trust the Lord, I can have confidence in God. I'm not gonna fear because of what he prophesied from Isaiah about what he was gonna do during this time. He does I think it's important to note in verse eight, he. Calls Israel, my servant. These are, we're getting into what are known as the servant songs of Isaiah. And it's going to be in imperative for us to ask ourselves the question, when we see the word servant, is he talking about Israel? 'cause sometimes he is, or is he talking about his servant? The future? Messiah, capital S. Although it's not always that in the. The conceptually. Yeah, conceptually you're not gonna see it capitalized necessarily by the editors of the ESV. And that's important because we're gonna get to Isaiah 53, which is gonna talk about his servant, the suffering servant. Right? And that's gonna be the Messiah. But even in chapter 42, we're gonna get to the servant, the Messiah. So sometimes it's servant Israel, servant Jacob. Sometimes it's servant Messiah. And you say how can we tell? And the way that you can tell is when it's talking about the servant, the Messiah. The language is of an individual when it's talking about the servant Israel. Either he will call it my servant Jacob, my servant Israel, or he will say of the servant that he will use plural references to refer to the people as the servant there. And so it's, it is distinguishable enough for us to be able to say, this is about the Messiah, this is about Israel. Rule number one in Bible. Context is king. Context. Just like real estate, right? Location, locations. Whenever you're reading the answer to your question, 99.999999% of the time, it's gonna be what does the context say? And that usually is sufficient enough to help you answer the question. Occasionally you have to reference other parts of the Bible to build the picture, but most of the time we're gonna look at the immediate context and that usually is enough to resolve the issue. You were talking about not being afraid, and I thought, what a, what an interesting way to look at it. If you have someone who's all powerful. Who's saying this is what I'm gonna do, then what? What do you have to fear? You're invincible until God decides to take you home. It's like getting the star field in Super Mario. When you have the star you do. You could go anywhere in that you can't die. If you die. But if you go and you hit all the bad guys, they just jump outta the way because you got the star. If you got the Lord, if the Lord is who he says he is, and he says, these are my plans, you have nothing to fear because your lives are invincible until he says otherwise. Yeah. George Whitfield had that famous quote. He said, I'm immortal until my work on earth is done. I just said that. So I'm going to say Whitfield could take it back to you. There you go. There you go. Just kidding. George, one exegetical note here. He continues to talk about this deliverance. Verse 25 at chapter 41. He says, I stirred up one from the north and he has come. So 41 earlier, one from the east, now one from the North. Cyrus did come from the east. That's where Persia was located, but he did attack Babylon from the north. And so we're still talking about Cyrus as. The one that is going to come against the Babylonians there in chapter 41. Even though directionally things have changed, he's from the east, but he attacks from the north, and that's why that is, is referred to that way. Chapter 42 does introduce the messiah, behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, and whom my soul delights. I have put my spirit upon. Notice the language here, him. It's singular. It's not upon them, but him. He will bring forth justice to the nations. This is quoted in Matthew chapter three at the baptism of Jesus. This is pointing towards the coming Messiah. Verse two. He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice or make it heard in the street. It bruised Reed. He will not break. This is his first coming. This is the first advent, but then it's going to shift quickly to the later coming where he's going to bring justice. On behalf of the Lord and there's gonna be deliverance there from this coming Messiah. Verses six and seven. Talk about the contrast between light and darkness. He's gonna be a light for the nations to open the eyes of the blind, to bring the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prisons, those who sit in darkness. And so the deliverance that's going to come from the servant is a promise to the people is Israel as well. So on the one hand, Cyrus is gonna be the Lord's servant. But there's a greater servant that's gonna come, that's gonna pro provide an even greater deliverance for the people, and that is the servant of the Messiah. Rest of chapter 42, there's a call to sing, which pastor Rod likes because as our worship guy, he's always calling us to sing as well. And it's here. Isaiah the prophet, is sing in the midst of your exile. It there's reason to sing because of our trust in the Lord and the trust of the salvation that this future Messiah is going to bring. I think that shows how. The God designs people to be singers. And I know for some of us, we don't sing particularly well. And in fact, I don't even know if you guys know this I don't choose to do worship ministry. 'cause I'm like, I love doing this. I do it because if there's a need and I know I have some skills where I can do it. It's not my first choice. But even still I think it's ironic and also funny and delightful that God wants me to do this in this particular season. And I struggle to sing. I'll just, I'll be honest with you about that. Singing in worship is. It's just not something that I naturally gravitate to, but it is something that God has me do and I enjoy doing it to the extent that I recognize it's good for me and it's something that God is pleased by when I do it with a joyful heart. One time I was talking during worship saying You can sing Happy Birthday to someone that you love out of compulsion. Or it's like happy birthday to you, or you could sing it. With a joyful smile because you love the person that you're singing to, even if you're not particularly fond of the song, which I think could be the case for a lot of people, regardless, God likes when we sing. And he delights in the fact that we give him our songs, he sings over us. We're gonna find out in one of the minor prophets that we'll get through. At some point, God sings over his people, he sings over us, we sing back to him. It's what people do when they care about each other, and so it's totally expected that God would say, here's a song to sing, even though you're going through a DA difficult time. Yeah. Yeah. Chapter 42 ends with another reference to his servant. And yet this is not the servant of the Messiah, but this is the servant of Israel again there in verse 19. And the way we know that who's blind is my dedicated one. Number one, because this is negative language, so the Messiah is not gonna be described in negative language, but you've jumped down to verse 22. This is a people plundered and looted. So the servant there is referred to in the plural as a people, in not just the individual. And chapter 42. Again, more about the deliverance, but also about the deliverer who's gonna come. But again this chapter ends by reminding them of the problem in the interim, which is the blindness of Israel, the refusal to see in God's sovereign wrath. Verse 24, who gave Jacob up to the looter in Israel to the plunger? Was it not the Lord against whom we have sinned, in whose ways they would not walk and whose law they would not obey? And God is confronting them in his wrath There. Chapter 43. We move on now, and this is again, you'll see in 43. One fear not this is God reminding Israel of his love for them and his affection for them. Again he's coming back to this is a largely a section of comfort. He created them. He formed them. Fear not for I've redeemed you. Verse three, for I, the Lord, your God, and the holy one of Israel, your. Savior, he's gonna call himself there now. And so he continues on here, he says in verse four, because you are precious in my eyes and honored I love you again. Verse five, fear not. And so this is more hope for Israel more hope for them that they should not despair even despite the circumstances and what it was gonna look like, but. This is a situation where he's encouraging them to hope. Notice down in verse 14, he's going to introduce the concept of Babylon here. And this is one of the reasons we know that this whole section is about Babylonian exile, thus says the Lord, your redeemer, the holy one of Israel, for your sake, I sent to Babylon and bring them all down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans. And so that's one of the reasons why we know that this section pertains to Babylon because of the contextual clue here in chapter 43. And what's also comforting too in chapter 43 is the reason that God acts. A lot of times we can look at ourselves and say maybe God will act on my behalf because I'm doing A, B, C, and D. But what we see here is that God acts for his own sake. 43 40 43 7. Everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for. My glory whom I formed and made. And so we first of all see that God creates a people for his honor, for his distinction, for his magnification, for people to see that God is good. God designed and made a people for himself to showcase the brilliance of his kindness. His goodness, his justice, his love, the panoply of his character is displayed in the people that he's created. And furthermore, he for not only creates it, but he forgives them for his own glory. Verse 25, I am He who blots out your transgression for my own sake, he does it so that he can be glorified When we talk about the language of being. Of glorifying, God, let's try to, I don't wanna say dumb it down, but let's try to explain it using some regular language. If we were to say, God creates for his glory and he saves for his glory, what's another way that we could utilize that lang or talk about that without utilizing that particular word? Yeah. In fact we're gonna talk about this on tomorrow, sermon as well. I the word that I'm really zeroing in there is the word honor. He does it for his honor and we can understand that what you give honor to and that the contrast is gonna be when we treat something lightly. If you think about the word glory as weightiness and you think about the opposite then is something that is light. There's not a lot of substance to it. And so it may be helpful to, to think about it in the, in terms of when you address something or treat something or approach something flippantly. You don't think much of it. You walk in, like you go to get a haircut, you're not gonna walk in to get a haircut and treat that as sacred ground. You're gonna treat it flippantly. You're gonna plop down in the seat, wait for your name to be called. You're gonna go back there, you're gonna hop in the barber chair and tune out while they, cut your hair and hope they don't mess it up too bad, right? And then you're gonna leave and it doesn't really move the needle. There's nothing sacred about that or emphatic about that. There should be a difference when we approach God when we come before him, there's a weightiness of what we're doing that we should be cognitive of. Everything should be intentional. It should be thoughtful. We're not doing this casually, flippantly, that was the problem in Malachi. They were just like, can you just be happy that we're showing up? God, can you just be pleased with that and let us move on with the rest of our lives? Instead of honoring him by that intentionality and that weightiness that comes with that. Yeah. That's a really good example, the barber chair versus. Even going to a chair in a stadium, you go to the Ranger Stadium or the Cowboy Stadium. There is a sense of transcendence there. Yeah. A sense of weightiness that comes with that environment. And they want that. They're designing it for that. They want you to feel small in a large arena so that there's honor for the team. They put big signs up on the screen, on the screens, and on the walls. They showcase their trophies and their championships because they're testifying to the greatness of that team. And I think that does helpfully encapsulate the idea of glory. You're bringing glory to the team by saying, this is what. This is all about, this is what we're about, this is what we're for. Christians do the same thing. We just don't create stadiums for that. We create the stadium of our lives to say, God is what this is all for. We are for him. We exist for His glory. We are here to show how good he is. In the same way that a gentleman might wear a jersey with his favorite player or you wear team spirit things on your person. You go to your school, you wear a school jersey or a school shirt that says Bobcat Pride or something like that. You're testifying to the glory of that thing. Christians don't do that in a microcosm. We do that through the entirety of our lives. And we're trying to say, God is best glorified in my life. He's the most worthy of glory. And the way that we do that is we talk about him. We speak good and write things about him. We point to him when good things happen to us. We recognize he's the giver of good gifts. We're trying to help people see life is about him. And when we do that, we're bringing glory to him. We're giving him the. Honor and the distinction and the reverence that's due because of who he is. Yeah I think we're also at a little bit of a disadvantage in our culture, in our time as the church large capital C. We talked about this recently as pastors, and I know we're running long on this, but I think this is worth bringing up. We. We go to, to worship God in a cafeteria. And that's hard for us. It's a sacred cafeteria to capture the weightiness. When you went into the cathedrals of whole, there was a reason why they built them the way they did. It was to convey what we're talking about right now. The glory of God, the majesty of God, the grandeur of God, the austerity of the whole experience. We have to be. More thoughtful I think, than did Christians in past generations because we do, we walk into a cafeteria to worship God. It's not that has to impede our worship of God, but we do have to be careful to not let that. Make God tame and domesticated when we approach there as though, oh, it's not that big of a deal, because kids are gonna be eating sloppy joes here on Monday morning. We need to be thoughtful and go, man, I'm still here to come before a holy God. The God of Isaiah six is still the God that I'm coming to worship on Sunday morning. And there's a reverence and an honor and austerity that, that we need to. Not manufactured, that's the wrong word. 'cause it makes it sound fake. But that we need to be careful to cultivate as we come to worship him on a weekly basis. That's a good word, bro. Let's pray and then we will be done with another episode. God, we thank you for your word and for the ability to approach you. And we confess that we don't. Often approach you with the right degree of reverence and holiness and honor that you're due, and yet your mercy extends to even make up for that. We still wanna be thoughtful and careful as we approach you. And even when we think about the cafeteria we're thankful for that space that we get to gather to worship you. And yet we also know that that if we could, if we had a rathers, we would build you the most massive and grand cathedral that we possibly could imagine to reflect your goal. Your glory and who you are. And so again we just pray that you would help us to worship you well. That it wouldn't be an impediment or an excuse for us not to render you the honor and glory that you due, but that we would gather intentionally and thoughtfully every single time that we do to render you that, that praise and that honor, that austerity that we should have as we come before you, as your people. And so we thank you for these things. We pray this in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Keep it in your bibles. Tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. We'll see you then folks. Bye.

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