Thanks Bernard. We appreciate you. I took Bernard off today. You took Bernard off today? Yeah. So it was really funny. I might leave this in actually. Okay. Talking to Bernard is not there. He's not there. We're just Okay. We're just going cold Turkey. We don't have, I'm still experimenting. Okay. So I'm not settled. I'm still kinda working out and someone this week said, I don't like Bernard. Really? I said, I just fast forward past Bernard. I said, what? So I guess we, he has his haters. Is this the same person that doesn't like our googly? No. Okay. No, it's not. Alright, just checking on that. I like him. I think he feels warm and Yeah. Biting. I feel like he just sets the tone for us and he's certainly the best of the other options. I agree. Yeah, I agree. Unless we get your voice. Nope. In which case I think everybody would be much happier. But I don't need, we don't, yeah, we don't need it to be live. If it's just like we don't need to have it recorded, I can just say these things. Yeah, you could, but you can save yourself, but you wouldn't be able to make me say whatever you want me to say. No, you can save yourself the breath and the thinking. I don't think you can just export all that to ai, I don't think, and let it do the work for you. Yeah. No, I don't think so. Hey we wanted to let you guys know just a, an update here because they are a part of our church fa and we are actually getting texts on the fly live as we're recording this here on Saturday. Ah, whats happening? Our missionaries that we commissioned and sent out, prayed for, and that we're still praying for Garrett and Kirsten, they have reached their training post down in Mexico, so unbelievable. Yep. They are down there and they're gonna be be there for a year. We're gonna see them probably again, Lord wheeling around Christmas time and we will be able to connect with them and catch up. But they'll be there for a year before they head over to Chad and begin to serve overseas there. And I know so many of you are partnering with them in prayer or giving or whatever it may be. But know that they made it down there and they got to spend some time with with her family in Hawaii. Before going, and they were sending us pictures to make us jealous of the pretty scenery and everything else that they were experiencing down in Hawaii on the way. But yeah, they're there. And so be praying for them as they get equipped, as they jump into this training program that it would be good. And and just a what they need to get ready to go overseas. But Garrett and Kirsten, yeah. I don't know if you guys are able to listen to the podcast. If you are, we miss you guys. We we're praying for you and we miss you guys. If you could say that in Spanish, they would appreciate it. I don't know Spanish. Neither do I. My daughter is learning Spanish for school this year, and she comes home and she says things to me as though she expects me to respond to her in Spanish. I'm like, what is she saying? Y that's the question. That's the question. You better figure that out. Yeah. You don't know what you're saying. Yeah. My son's taking a culinary class at his school. Oh yeah. That's fun. Yeah. Have him tested out at home. Yep. Makes him good food. Yep. He's also taking a bible class in his public high school, so that's a little nerve wracking. Yeah, his, he's. Teacher is one of the baseball coaches. Okay. And he told us, he told Josh, he was like, Hey, I know your dad's a pastor. If he wants to come in and teach his class at any point, let him come in and do it. It's fine. So that's great, man. Get to it. What are you doing? Jump on that. So one of their first assignments was like, here's just a printout of a bunch of different Bible translations. Just read through this text and a bunch of different Bible translations. I'm still trying to figure out what the goal of that was. But Joshua was like, Hey dad, have you heard of this translation? I was like, Nope. The message, the pigeon version, but the passion translation, it was a good opportunity to talk about the difference in translations. Yeah. So we talked about, so there's really three categories. Three main categories. You've got formal equivalence. Which we would put like the NASB, new American Standard Bible. The legacy Standard Bible King James version, those would be NA, those would be formal equivalents. Then you've got dynamic equivalents, and that's where we would categorize the ESV. Though the ESV would probably be a hybrid between formal and dynamic. The dynamic is still gonna be faithful to the original languages, but it's gonna be more readable. They're gonna change up some of the word order, maybe some of the grammar not altering the content, but just. Helping it read a little bit better in English than it does in Hebrew or Greek or Aramaic. So ESV, Christian Standard Bible would be in that category as well. NIV would probably be a little bit more towards the last category of text, but still in the dynamic equivalent range for sure. And then the last category is what I, we would probably call thought for thought or something along those lines. And that means they're not. So much concerned with the word for word or the translation of the text to be an directly accurate representation of each sentence in every word in the passage. But they're going more for the general gist or tone of the particular passage or paragraph. And a lot of times there you're gonna find text that wouldn't even necessarily come out and say, this is a. Bible, for example, Eugene Petersons, the message that you just referenced a second ago, it's a paraphrase. It's not meant to be a word for word or even verse by verse representation of what the Bible is. You're not gonna be able to look up a chapter and verse necessarily in the message the same way that you can in the NIV or the ESV or the NASB. So there's those broad categories out there. If you're gonna be studying, we would say, Hey, dynamic equivalents, at least ESV or up, we would say would be a good place for you to be studying the scriptures reading. NIV is a readable bible for sure, which is good. We both like the Christian Standard Bible a lot for its readability. But that's just 2 cents on different Bible translations out there. Yeah. All of them are good for different reasons and all of them are bad for different reasons. It really comes down to the intention behind your reading, even though we as a church have chosen to use the ESV for everything that we do, whether it's preaching or whether it's teaching I, I really like different versions because they give you a different flavor of the passages that you're reading and maybe things are exposed that you took for granted. Maybe you didn't realize that there's a certain slant to a translation that you're reading that you are only able to see when you read another take. On that same verse. So I really have liked different passages, different versions. Anyway, I've, I was raised with the NKJV. I loved that. I've been with the ESV for, I don't know, 10 years now, 12 years. I really love that one. I was on the NIV for several years before that. But I've also been reading the NLT lately. And the new living translation, for those of you who are unaware of what that stood for, and it's great. I really appreciate it because it helps smooth out some of the thinking. And I realize as I read the ESV, there's often a distance between the object and the subject. In a sentence someone will be introduced and then you have several pieces of information between, and then they add it later. It really is hard for a Western mind who reads the way that we do and understands sentences the way that we do to put pieces together. So all that to say, we highly encourage you to have different translations available. And a software like logos is always great because you can buy them for pretty cheap and have them at the ready. Yeah. Yeah. There, there are translations out there to avoid, you referenced the passion translation a minute ago. I, we would say stay away from that. That is in fact why? Because it's, what they've done is they've not only tried to translate the text, but then they've added glosses and they've added explanatory material, not as footnotes in the text, but within the text itself. And so some passages are even up to 50% longer in the passage translation than. Are in the original text in the original Greek, in, in Hebrew because they've added their own interpretive statements around it. And it's also coming from a tradition of Hillsong and their church. I forget what their church is in Australia. It may just be Hillsong Church where there's some aberrant teaching that takes place there. And so we would caution you because of that against pursuing the passion translation. Let me qualify that just a tad. We would say that the passion translation, in addition to having source issues the primary, and I think the only translator behind that passion translation is not credible. Sure. That's a, that's an issue. Yeah. And I think that's a far bigger issue than saying he goes to this church or that church. One of the things that makes some of these translations that we reference so helpful is that they're usually done by a group of people. It's not just one person. Behind the translation, you have different men and sometimes women from different Christian backgrounds. It has different traditions. And so when you have that, there's a safety in that. There's a protection against. Endorsing your pet doctrine and enshrining that in scripture Instead, you have a plurality of people coming together to say, look we think this passage says this. Here's the goal of our translation. And so that's true for the ESV, the LSB, the CSV, the NLT. We're talking about all these translations. Not all of them are good. And that's a really great point. I should have said that. And the passion translation suffers in part because it's done by one guy who doesn't have training in biblical languages. That's a big problem. Yeah. 'cause at that point then you might as well just call it something else. Yeah. You shouldn't call it a translation. You shouldn't. Translation is a very specific word. It means something. And that's not a fair word to append to the word passion Bible. Fair. Yep. Yeah. Good. Good qualification there. Let's get into our DBR for today. We're in Jeremiah 38 through 40, and we've got a couple of Psalms thrown in there as well. So Jeremiah 38 I mentioned this love-hate relationship here between Ticia and Jeremiah. Jeremiah's gonna be thrown into this. Pit into this cistern. And that's gonna be a bad situation for him. King Zaka is the one that gives the okay for this. And so Jeremiah's thrown into the cistern. Now, cistern was a pit that was meant to hold water. This one doesn't have any water. It's just a muddy bottom. Jeremiah sinks into this mud that's in the bottom of this, and in the writings on the wall that he's gonna die. And this man named Ed Melek. Now that may have been his name, but it also is a word that means servant of the king. So it could have just been a title, but he's an Ethiopian. Here he goes and he, his heart goes out to Jeremiah and he goes to, to ask permission and says, listen to the king here. If we don't do something, then he's gonna die. And so he's given permission. They go out and they make this system of ropes out of old rags and cloths, and they lower it down to Jeremiah in the cistern. Jeremiah puts it under his armpits and they pull him up out of this pit, out of the cistern. And then here comes the inconsistency here. Zaka calls for Jeremiah again and wants to know from Jeremiah, okay, hey can you tell me what's gonna happen here? And I just think to myself, man, that's bold. Like you, you've been, he, you've rejected him, you've rejected his prophecies already. You've had him cast into this cistern. Yeah. You let him be pulled outta the cistern but you're gonna really do this. And Jeremiah says, here's the message. Surrender or die basically is what it is. You can surrender to the Babylonians or you can die. It's going to be up to you. And then there's this troubling scene towards the end of this where says, okay, I'm gonna send you back. And when you go back, if they ask you, what were you talking to the king about? I want you to tell them that you were making sure that you weren't gonna be sent back to the house of Jonathan. And that's what your request was here. The troubling part to me is that Jeremiah does that. He and we've talked about this, when is it o okay to lie? And I struggle with this one. I struggle with this one a lot. I don't see why this is an appropriate one when you've got a wicked and evil king as the one telling Jeremiah to lie about this, and Jeremiah still lies about it. Thoughts? I agree that it's muddy. Pun intended. Yeah, I don't, I don't have a great answer 'cause I've struggled with this for, I know as long as we've been talking about scripture together, I've always wrestled with the lines between truth and deception. And I've, I still hold to the fact that not saying everything you could say is not inherently wrong. Telling you the truth versus saying everything I know about a certain situation is different. And even though. I think that's happening here. I think God's silence on it tells us that it's neither F forbidden nor endorsed. And I think it's hard to say with any kind of certainty God was okay with this because he doesn't rebuke him for it. We just don't know. And so I'm gonna stick with that one for this one. Yeah. Jeremiah. It. God is not mad with Jeremiah to the point that he turns him over to, death or destruction or anything else like that. So it's not as though this is represents total compromise. This is not Jeremiah abandoning his call or his prophetic role. It just seems inconsistent with the rest of Jeremiah's life. Jeremiah was never one to run from a conflict. Yeah. And here it seems that he's. Going along with the king and not doing what God had called him to. Not standing up for what he knew to be right, knew to be true. Did he owe these wicked men? The truth though, I think that's an important question. If you have someone break into your house, we've talked about this one before, and they're bad people, right? Do you owe them the truth? And I don't think that's always the case. Yeah. Would you disagree with that? No. It, depending on the stakes and that's, I don't know what would've happened here to Jeremiah if Jeremiah had been like, oh yeah, he wanted me to tell him about what was gonna happen to the city. I mean it maybe Jeremiah's thought process is meant this would throw the whole city into chaos. If this, because there might be an uprising against the king if they found out that the was now. Believing this prophecy and they're gonna overthrow the king, wanna assassinate him, and then what's gonna happen at that point? Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. It's, it is just a, it's a head scratcher for sure. It is. Yeah. I agree. Yeah. I think the thing about this you talked about Zakia, that it confuses me, but it also gives me a sense of this is how people work. I think we're full of contradictions. Yeah. People are often this way, on Sunday there are a certain mentality and of a certain persuasion, and then on Monday they change, there's a different. I don't know. There's a lot of dynamics that happen within the human heart, and I think Zedekiah maybe at this point is sincere. I really want to know, okay, tell me again, what's the Lord say about this? And then his heart is swayed back to its normal default setting, which is, I'm gonna do everything I can against the Lord in disregarding what he says. I think tiah is a lot like us. We are filled with contradictions, and some days we're hot, other days we're cold. And I think he shows us how desperately we need the Lord to sustain us. He's the one who's consistent. He's the rock of ages. We're not my rock rolls left and right all the time. I need to support myself on him and build my life upon his word, because that's really the only kind of stability that we're able to sustain when he himself is doing the sustaining. Yeah. Yeah. Chapter 39. Then we get the downfall of Jerusalem the fall under Nebuchadnezzar. This is 5 87. 5 86 bc. This reminded me I think a few days ago we mentioned Haze Kai is gonna die. It says in the text, in peace. This reminds us that it wasn. It wasn't in peace in the sense that he was super comfortable, because what happens, the Zia in this chapter is really awful. In the, this season, in this time, 5 86, that the wall is breached. The people inside the city flee, including Zakia, but they're eventually tracked down by the Babylonians and the Zakiah is brought before the king, as well as his sons are brought there in the king. Executes his sons in front of Zeki and then takes Zika's eyesight from him. So that the last thing that he saw is the death of his children, which would be an awful thing regardless of how wicked you are. And so the king of Babylon, this is just a reminder. Nebuchadnezzar is a cruel individual and sometimes we can think of Nebuchadnezzar like Daniel, and we can domesticate Nebuchadnezzar because we think about the good things from the book of Daniel that we see from him. And yet this was a wicked, evil, cruel, fear-inducing man that we see this. From him here in chapter 39. Meanwhile, Jeremiah is going to be he's known here and he's gonna be preserved, Alaya is gonna be made king, or not king, but ruler of the city, the son of heke. Remember, Ahki had been crucial in preserving Jeremiah's life earlier in the book. And so here you have a situation again where the Lord is gonna be caring for Jeremiah. He's also gonna care for Evan Melek. The servant of the king, the one who rescued Jeremiah out of the ci. He's not gonna be executed either, and so God is going to care about these people. And it's just a reminder that. Though there's corporate judgment that's being brought against a nation. He, God does care about those that are faithful. He does reward those that are faithful. And so that's something for us to think about too. When we look at the depravity of the world around us. It's not as though we should just say, judgment is gonna come across come against this nation as it is. Let's just shrug our shoulders and throw up our hands. Now, God is gonna reward those that are still faithfully pursuing him, faithfully pursuing righteousness and not, which is good. And I think we see that in chapter 39. Yeah. It's been observed before that Zakiah is a great image of what happens when you give yourself over to sin, when you reject the Lord. There's both blinding and binding effects and it. Also has fallout effects on those whom you love. Because of Dee's position, his sin was not isolated to him alone. The fallout hit everybody in his city. All the territory that God had entrusted to him had been compromised because he himself was a compromised man. Would that be a fair warning to you? Sin is not satisfied, but just. Having a small compartment in your life, it will eventually bind you because that's what sin does. It enslaves us. It will blind you, it will deceive you such that it continues to increase in your life. And finally, it will have an effect on everyone else that you love. So beware. Be killing sin or sin will kill you. Yeah. Chapter 40 Jeremiah is gonna be given a choice. Does he want to go or does he wanna stay when it comes to Jerusalem? Should I stay in Judah? Should I go now? And he's gonna stay, he's gonna stay there. He's gonna go to get Aya, the son of Akim at mitzvah and live with him among the people who were left in the land. And so there's this remnant it's not the who's who by any stretch of the imagination. It's a lot of the poor and the destitute. And Jeremiah's gonna say, this is my home. This is where I wanna stay. And I think that's just a reminder too of how important the homeland was. We, again, we can look at. Daniel Han Ra and Misha, which we will shortly here and think that it was, how great is that they got to go live in the King's Palace and everything else, but they were taken away from their homeland. The Abrahamic Covenant promised land. This is still a place that matters. And even though the temple was gonna be destroyed, the walls were gonna be broken down. I think there was something about this being God's people, God's place, God's land. That caused Jeremiah to say, no I want to stay here. The rest of the chapter in Chapter 40 explains a lot of the administration under gal and Gal is gonna rule for a little while, but not for very long. And so this is not a king that's important to remember here. Gal is not a king in Judah. Zah was the last king of Judah before the exile. And so GAL is in place as a royal official here as a vice regent serving at the whim of, of Nebuchadnezzar, but he's not gonna have a very long administration, as we'll see in our reading in Second Chronicles tomorrow. Let's let's pray Or no, sorry. We got psalms. I almost skipped the Psalms. That would've been, that would've been, I don't know if we could have recovered from that. We would've just given up. We can't, we wouldn't have been able to say, we've done the whole Bible. We almost skipped over. Yeah, it's true. Psalm 74 really, and Psalm 70 79. Together, both of them have a very similar feel to them. Both of them are psalms of lament, they're psalms that are mourning over the destruction of Jerusalem, and that's why they're here. When you read the language of these psalms, both of them bear indicators of the fact that the city of God has been laid and ruins that the temple is destroyed, the wall is broken down. In fact, those things are mentioned in these Psalms, and so it makes sense that they would've been written during this time. I don't know of another time. In Israel's history that these two psalms could have been written. So even though they don't necessarily have the super script that says these were written by Jeremiah, these were written by Baruch, or these were written by, one of these people, Evan Milick maybe. It does really fit this context as to when these psalms would've been written, perhaps at some point other during the time of exile by one of the remnant living there while the temple was destroyed. But it seems that these are psalms of lament that are written during this season, whatever it is. The timeframe. They're both Psalms of Asaf which I think was earlier than this timeframe. And if that's the case, then Asaf just wrote in a prescient way, he Prophetic. Prophetic way. Yeah. So either way it doesn't make a difference a whole lot. But I think one thing for you, as you read through things like this, I just want you to notice. He doesn't pull punches. ASAP is honest with the Lord. He's raw, he's vulnerable. He's speaking to the Lord like a familiar friend. And then in both of these, he's asking, how long, Lord, what are you gonna do? What? What's happening? I think this is helpful for your prayer life. Don't get so routined and so formulaic in your prayers that you just stopped talking to the Lord. Like a person. He is a person. In fact, he's three persons. In one essence you need to learn to use the Psalms as your springboard to talk to the Lord. This was a ruinous event, and of course we don't know that. We don't know the half of it. We've never had this kind of catastrophic event in the United States. Certainly not for as long as any of us who are listening have been alive, but this kind of event evokes raw, painful emotion, and I think the lesson for us is that God wants us to bring that to him. It's messy. It's not perfect. You're not gonna say everything, right? But I think I take great comfort in the fact that these psalms say things that we would probably not say. If we're gonna get theologically precise, if we're gonna get precise, we're gonna say asap. Verse one of 74, oh God, why do you cast us off forever? Asap. He doesn't cast off forever. Dude, come on, be precise here. That's not good theology. Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture? Oh, come on, Asaf. Your sins are atoned for through these sacrificial works and or through Christ. The experience that he's confessing is real to his emotions, if not real theologically. My point simply is this, when you're praying to the Lord, bring the reality. Don't try to pretend, bring your true heart, your true mindset to the Lord. Let him work on you from that point. Yeah. Yep. Yeah, I was just doing a little bit of reading too as a, there's question. Is this the historical ASAP or was there other asaps? Yeah, it's probably more than one asap. That's becauses. Interesting. Yeah. Could have been you, did you write these? I didn't write them. I didn't write them. The only reason I bring that up is just because of how. What you're saying here, right? If this is historical Asaf, he really is getting in touch with this future destruction of the temple and the situation there. W why do you cast this off forever? This language to your point it's. It's indicative of the same language of the lamentations, of the ones that are witnessing these things as it's taking place. So yeah, but it does say Selma Asaf. Interesting. Interesting. We'll find out, I guess One day in eternity we'll say, Hey, Asaf, did you write these? Was there another one? Anyways, let's pray. God, we are grateful for your word and the clarity of your word and the honesty of your word, even as we read these psalms. And to be reminded that that we can ask hard questions and yet at the same time, to to trust you. And that's so important for us to come back and remember the things that are true and our theology should inform our laments, our theology. Theology should inform our sorrows and our pain. And God, you are good. And I pray that we would always remember that even as we walk through the trial, as we walk through the valley, and that we would continue to trust you. And even as we learned about yesterday, that trust would be a source of assurance for us, that would prove to be more precious than gold. Though it perishes. When tested by fire. And so God, give us a faith that is strong in you regardless of our circumstances. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Keep in your Bibles tuning again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Bye.

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Yeah. I would agree with everything that you said