Hey everybody. Welcome to a special edition, a baptism Sunday edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Splash. Splash. We were taking a bath. We are, even as we record this, because it is pouring rain outside. It is. So we are hoping and trusting the Lord that he's gonna hold our power in place here at the church offices for us to get all three of these episodes done. So far, so good. It was only flickering earlier. But it never went out. That's true. Yeah. So far so good. Yeah. Speaking of good, man, I I had dinner the other night and in fact Amanda and I had dinner with the Mayors the Mayor's Junior, and we were at the silos in Salina. That's kind of a fun place. I had never been there before. Oh, I hadn't either, but it's got like this open yard and it was beautiful. It was like. In the upper seventies, low eighties. Oh yeah. Was in the evening. And now's the time. They have a like turf out there. And the food was probably a little overpriced, but the atmosphere was great. It was a lot of fun. Yeah. I've seen pictures from that place and I've, I passed by and I thought, oh, that'd be nice to check out. But I never find myself in the position where I'm thinking about it and I have opportunity. Yeah. But if you're gonna go outside in Texas, this is minus right now when we're recording and it's raining besides now, it is a beautiful season. Yeah. We've had weeks now. Of really cool crisp mornings and mild to hot, but mild temperatures in the afternoon. It's been really nice. Yeah. Yeah. In fact, both of our families on different days, but we both went to this Texas state fair this last week. Yes, we did. And what were your thoughts about that place? I love it. Mostly. I think for me a lot of it's nostalgia. 'cause I grew up going there and so going back down is kind of that nostalgic thing. But it's cool to see my kids enjoy it now. And so we took the obligatory selfie in front of big techs and we got some good food and, got the Fletcher's corn dog, which was always good. Corny dog. Say it right? Well, they call it a corny dog. Tomato. Tomato. No, no, it's not. It's a corny dog. Okay. Well, it's very explicit in their advertising. It is not a corn dog. It is a corny dog. Okay. And that's new to me. Well, we got the Fletcher's. As long as it's Fletcher's because there's other purveyors of. Corn. Corn. Dogs. Dogs. No. No. Those are corn dogs. F Fletcher's is corny dogs. There's other purveyors of them at the fair that are even a foot long. But Fletcher's is the og. Like you, you gotta hit Fletcher's. We got one for the first time. Yeah. We never had a Fletcher's corny dog. Yeah. I don't think. Anyway. In fact we would never get the normal stuff that you get at a fair because we think, well, what? What's the fun in that? Yeah. Wanna go for the extraordinary things. But we did get a corny dog and it was great. I loved it. I wish I got one for myself. We shared one. Yeah. Among six of us. Jacob didn't come with us, but the rest of us did enjoy a few bites. At least it was wonderful because the food there is insanely expensive. Yeah. Man. I spent $80 faster than I blink. I know. It's like, where did it all go? Well, and they get you because they're like, Hey, buy these coupons. Oh, it's only 10 coupons. You're like, wait a minute. I just bought a $10 corn dog. Like what in the, a corny dog? What just happened? Yeah, the coupons, I don't get that. I wish they would just let you use your card because then there's at least a little sense of, I'm spending money here, I'm tapping to pay or whatever else. I wonder, feel if it's a speed thing, maybe. 'cause you don't have to do the transaction at the line and you've got different transactions. Like it's all one. Yeah. I guess I never felt like I was waiting. Maybe to your point, I never felt like I was waiting very long. Yeah. And I don't think that the tickets really accelerate a whole lot. And I feel like I'm more prone to lose them 'cause they're so small. That's true. Especially when there's, you know, you have a book and there's a row of 10 that are connected. Yeah. So if you need to do 17 tickets or 14 tickets, well now you have six kind of floating around and then there's sometimes two that are floating around. 'cause you got an 18 ticket thing. Oh, I don't like it. But the good news is if you've got tickets left over at the end of the day, you can save them for next year. You can. They don't expire. I used all of my tickets. In fact, I spent more than the tickets than I expected. And the last thing that we bought was the, what was it called? The cookie Chaos. Oh, the milkshake. Milkshake, yeah. It was the winner in a new category for Sweetss. This year at the fair, which in fact, today I don't know what the weather's like today, Sunday, but you can go. Today's the last day. Last day of the fair. I would suggest getting the Cookie Chaos milkshake. It's 17 tickets. Which to translate in case you're not tracking here is $17. It's the most expensive shake I've ever purchased in my life. It's crazy. But we loved it. Yeah. In fact, one of us loved it so much that after we threw it away, she cried for several minutes on the drive home because it was the last thing we did. It was Kristen. I don't wanna pull her out there, but thanks for bringing her up. Yeah, Phoebe. Phoebe lost it. Phoebe lost it because it was so good. That's how you know it's good. That's how I know it was good. It was sin, but it was wonderful. We enjoyed it together. The cookie chaos. That's awesome. There are, we found a website before we went on how to find some budget food at the fair that the fair actually lists for you, which was cool. Oh, there's a, an. Oat Farms or Oak Farms booth inside the main food tent there. And you can get orange juice for one coupon and they're, they've this fruit juice thing. Juice for two, two coupons there, milk for two coupons and like the little bottles there. Wow. So super cheap. That is pretty good. So we did hit that place up too, but. State fair is fun. It was fun. Anyways, we've got a question, but we'll save that for tomorrow. Okay. Let's jump into our DBR for today. We're in Matthew chapter 15, and then we are in Mark chapter seven. That's right, yeah. Matthew 15. Mark seven. Matthew 15 opens with some confrontation again with the Pharisees. And what we find here is Jesus is gonna really reveal the main problem that the Pharisees had. And that is not so much that they were wanting and pursuing righteousness in some areas, but they'd become so focused on their traditions that they were actually promoting some of their traditions even above and over the law that they claim to follow so closely. And so Jesus is going to. Really in a masterful way, call them out on their own hypocrisy as they're trying to trap him. He's gonna say, Hey let's talk about, you wanna talk about hypocrisy? You wanna talk about failing to uphold the law? Let's talk about this. You talk about honoring your father and mother, and yet you find a loophole in your tradition saying if somebody says that this is for the Lord, they don't have to take care of their parents with the money that otherwise they would've used to take care of their parents. How is that honoring your. Your father and mother. And so they're in, he's indicting them on that. And really this carries over into the rest of this section, which stretches down through verse 20, which is where he's gonna say, Hey, Pharisees you've got an issue. And the is issue is, the issue is a hard issue. And he's gonna talk about something with regards to defilement, and he's gonna say it's not about. What you touch or what you eat or what you drink that defiles you, none of that defiles you. What defiles you is what's already inside you because the heart of the issue is a heart issue. And Jesus is going to confront them in their religiosity and in their self-righteousness and say, you've got all of these things that look great on the outside, but inside is the where the real problem is, and this is setting something up that he's gonna go much more in depth. In Matthew 23 when we get there with some pretty strong statements, but here he's at least hinting at the same thing, which is Pharisees. Your main problem is what's internal, but he's also saying this with an earshot of his followers, his disciples, so that they, I think also understand, okay, I need to think differently about the way I've approached the idea of being clean or unclean. 'cause for them growing up as Jews their whole lives, it would've been ceremonially clean versus ceremonially unclean. And Jesus is saying there's a different kind of cleansing that you need that is. Internal rather than external. Right. And the problem with us today is that even though we don't have these same rules and regulations or the same kind of approach that they have to the temple we have forms of worship that are similar. You know, you come to worship and maybe you raise your hands or you're singing loud or maybe you're even giving, you can do all of those things as a form of worship without actually having your heart engage. And I think that's what Jesus is warning us against. Having a form that looks like the real thing, but minus the heart, then it's nothing to a God. He doesn't want our. Actions. And before he gets our affections, he wants our heart. And then the actions spring from those things. And that's what these guys are divorcing here. They're trying to do one thing while mitigating the other and in a process they're violating the law of God, which ultimately is first of all to love the Lord your God, and then love your neighbor as yourself. So do not separate what the Lord is joined together from here in verses 21 through 28, we get a story that we haven't come across yet in any of the other gospels. And that is Jesus' interaction with a Canaanite woman. And that's important because we need to understand Canaanite. As Gentile, and we see that she even comes from the region in the District of Tyre inside. And this should again, call back memories from those areas back in the Old Testament as we read about them in the Old Testament prophets, these were areas that were opposed to Israel. These were the enemies of God, and God in fact had prophesied destruction for Tyre inside and they would ultimately be overrun and overthrown under the reign of Alexander the Great. But this is the district. This is the region. That same area, again, Matthew's writing to a Jewish audience. So in the back of their minds, they would've thought, okay, Tyra and Seiden, they would've thought about the Old Testament. They would've thought about the law and the prophets and the writings about, okay, we, we know this area. This is not a Jew. And she comes forward and she. Falls down and she says, have mercy on me. Oh Lord. Son of David. My daughter is severely oppressed. And this is interesting just because of the title that she uses Here you've got a Gentile using a Messianic title for Jesus, son of David. And it begs the question, how did she know? How did she know that that was a title she should use? How did she know that that should be a title applied to Jesus? And it, I think it at minimum shows that she had a familiarity with him. Perhaps she was following him from a distance. Perhaps she was. Part of the crowds. Maybe she was one of the 5,000 that was fed earlier in the gospel. We don't know that's pressing too far to be able to say with any certainty, but she has some familiarity. And then Jesus has this interaction, which seems cold and tells the disciples who are saying, Hey, send her away. He answers and says, yeah, I was not sent to the Gentiles, but only to the lost sheep of the House of Israel. But she continues to implore. She persists saying, Lord, help me. And then he makes this statement. It's not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs. The dogs there being the Gentiles, those that are outside of the nation of Israel. And again, Jesus is expressing his primary audience is Israel here. And then she responds with this statement. She says, yes, Lord, but even the dogs get the crumbs that fall from their master's table. So she's not asking for the children's food, she's not asking for him to reject Israel. She's not asking for him to set aside his mission to Israel. She's rather just simply asking, Lord, can I benefit from the presence of what you're able to do here? And would you do that by healing my daughter? And that elicits his response where he says, woman, great is your faith, be it done for you as you desire. And her daughter was healed instantly. Fascinating story here that we've seen this in a couple other places where Jesus interacts with the Gentile and Marvels at their faith. And it's in indicative of what he came to do, that the gospel is not just for the Jews, but also for the Gentiles. Alright? From here we get 29 through 39 an another situation where the crowds are gonna flock to Jesus after or on the heels of him teaching and also healing a lot of people here. But this is another massive crowd. And so, pastor Rod, do we understand or should we understand that this is a distinct crowd from the 5,000, even though there's so many parallels that we find here, there's some differences, but how do we know that this is a different account or should we view it as a different account? Should we view the 4,000 versus the 5,000 as two distinct accounts, right? Yes. And the reason why is because Jesus tells us that these are two separate accounts. Jesus says, did you not recall when he is, he's chastising his disciples to say, look, you think I'm talking about bread here? I'm not talking about bread. Please stop thinking I'm talking about bread. Enough about the bread guys. He's saying, do you not recall when I fed the 5,000 and do you not recall when I fed the 4,000? So Jesus identifies these as two specific accounts, right? And that's helpful for you to remember. So these are not the same thing. He's doing it twice. And the question is, of course, why did he do it twice? Because he could have done it three times or six times, but he does it twice and I suspect. That the reason he does the 5,000 with the people of Israel is because he's showcasing I am the bread of life. You thought that Moses fed you with bread? I'm actually the bread that you need to feast on as we mentioned previously. But here I think this is a different audience. I don't know that I could say definitively. This is Israel. I think there are hints. And nothing specific, but that there are hints that this is actually a gentile, predominantly Gentile territory, which would fit nicely with the Sero Phoenician woman who is fed, or rather her daughter, who has fed the crumbs off of the master's table. This would be in indicative that Jesus is in expanding his ministry beyond the gates of Israel into Gentile territory, which hints at what he would eventually do, which is to include anybody and everybody who will call in the name of Jesus. Yeah, I think you're right. I would agree. I think this is probably a gentile territory in a gentile crowd that's largely gathering, so I'm with you. I think that's a good way to handle it, for sure. And there's minor differences that are in the text that are notable differences still, like the number of loaves versus the number of fish and even the number of baskets that they pick up at the end. But there are parallels, but there's enough differences for us here, including, to your point, Jesus' own words that he's gonna say, Hey these are two different occasions for us to say no. It's two different occasions here as we flip over to Mark chapter seven, then what we find in Mark chapter seven is a lot of parallel between seven and 15, which again is why we're reading them together. He's gonna start out talking about the Pharisees. Hey, you've got the wrong emphasis here. The Pharisees had been undermining the word of God with their tradition. In fact, in Mark seven 13, he says, thus, making void the word of God, you're even robbing the word of God of its power by supplanting your tradition over the word of God. He's gonna talk about the heart problems there in verses 14 through 23 and in Mark as a, an interesting editorial note here in Mark seven 19. Thus he declared all foods clean. Mm. The disciples didn't get that note. Because if we fast forward to Acts chapter 10, Peter is on top of a roof and he sees in a vision, a sheet being lowered down with all these unclean animals in it, and Jesus or the voice from heaven says, arise, kill, and eat. Peter says, by no means because these are our defiling. And it happens three times. And finally he gets it on the third time. Oh, you're telling me that all these foods, I can eat these now. Praise God. Praise God for bacon. Yeah. How many others? Yep. But here Jesus had already. I declared that in in Mark seven, we have the s Venetian woman, the can woman there in Mark 7 24 through 30. Mark doesn't record that Jesus commends her faith is great, but that's where reading the parallel accounts together are helpful for us because it really does show us that Jesus did have. A high esteem for the way that this woman had responded to him. And then we get a unique event here, and that is the healing of the deaf and the dumb man. And I think this anticipates the opening of the ears to hear in the mouth, to confess that Jesus Christ is Lord as he's doing both here. The ears and the tongue loosening the tongue. And it seems this is part of the healing that brought the crowds that he will then ultimately feed the 4,000. So, matthew 15 recorded the 4,000. We're gonna read about the 4,000 tomorrow in Mark chapter eight, but here, I think this is one of the examples of the healing that he's doing in the area that's causing everybody to flock to Jesus, because again, Jesus is famous at this point, and this is where I would find hints that the crowd that we're looking at is primarily Gentile, and it's found in verse 31 where it says He returned from the region of tire and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee. In the region of the deis, the region of the deis, the 10 cities is what that word means, is a primarily a confederation of gentile cities. And so it doesn't mean that there's no Israelites, I'm sure there were, but that it's primarily a Gentile context. And so you'll notice even though there's a chapter break. In verse one of chapter eight, it says, in those days when, again, a great crowd had gathered it seems like this is a carryover from chapter seven to chapter eight, that these are still the same people, the same timeframe. So that's one of the hints that I was referring to earlier. Another interesting, I don't know, an interesting point from this particular text, how Jesus heals this guy. I would love for you to comment on this PPJ verse 33 and taking him aside from the crowd privately. He put his fingers into his ears and after spitting touched his tongue. And then he sighed and he said, Raha be open. Well, why did he do it this way? Jesus could have spoken a word because he done, he did this before. Well, we saw him heal. People from a distance doesn't need to touch, but he does it. He puts his fingers in his ears and then does this weird thing where he, I think he spits on his tongue or spits on his fingers and touches his tongue. I'm not quite sure. It's a little bit ambiguous, but why does he do it this way? I don't know if I have a good answer for that. Other than we see him heal in different ways in multiple contexts within his ministry. And he's gonna have another situation we're gonna read about where he is gonna have a two-state healing. Which there, I think there's a more clear, like, okay, we can see maybe there's a deeper meaning here behind this. Yeah. Here. I don't know that there's anything that I can point to with concrete. Confidence at least to say, I think this is why he does it this way. But if you have thoughts on it, I'll take a stab. Yeah. Just because I don't really have a great answer to this, but here's my thinking. Jesus could heal any way he wants, so there must be a reason why he does it this way. And here's my best guess. Verse three, two says they brought to him a man who was. Death. That means he can't hear and he has a speech impediment, so there's something about his ability to communicate his thinking. I'm wondering if Jesus seeing this man and knowing him better than he knows himself, says he needs to see this. And even though I can speak the word and he can be healed, even though I can just think it and he could be healed. I need him to see a demonstration of this. And so Jesus condescends in his healing, in order to show him, here's what I'm doing for you. I'm gonna put my fingers in your ears to show that I'm gonna heal your ears. And then I'm gonna use my saliva and touch your tongue with it to show that I'm healing and I'm loosening your tongue. And this is the way that he communicated best. This is a father using baby language with his kids. In other words, Jesus is condescending for his sake. I don't think anyone else around here benefits from that except for this man. And he does it because he cares about this man. And that's how he decided to heal him. And I think that's. That's fitting of the kind of God that we serve. Mm-hmm. He loves us enough to condescend to our needs. He's willing to lower himself to help us understand, and I think that's a really cool image of what Jesus does for us. Yeah. I love that. I think you're right. That's that's good. Yeah. The sigh, the groan is interesting too. I. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It gets, the more you dig, the more interesting it is because he just doesn't have to do any of this. Nope. He could just speak. He could just think, and it's done, but he doesn't. So there's so many cool facets here. You should spend some time digging into that, folks. Yeah. I love that though. I think you're right. I think he engages with that man in the way that that man could best understand what, what was happening. Isn't that so sweet? Yeah, so sweet. Yeah, for sure. For sure. Well, hey, let me reiterate today's baptism Sunday. So if you're listening to this before you get to church we're excited about today. This is an important day, and if you aren't yet aware, we're gonna do this after our service. I promise not to preach too long today. Mm-hmm. But 1140 is what we're gonna shoot for. We're gonna have food there. We're gonna feed your family because we want this to be a family event for. Not just your immediate family, but our church family. Yes. So, gather together, we're gonna be underneath that blue awning outside the church building there, and we will hear your testimonies. I think we've got four or five baptisms tomorrow. And these are all men and women that have met with one of us as pastors and given their testimony. And so we've heard. That it, and being able to attest, yes we are confident that this is somebody who is truly walking with the Lord. And we're excited to do this. So join us. Plan to stay a little bit later after church tomorrow. We know you've got plans for lunch and other things like that. That's why we wanna feed you and calm the grumbling tummies a little bit there. But this is such a good thing for us to do. So plan to join us today after church for our baptism service. We would love for you to do that. Yeah, let's pray and then we'll be done. God, we are in awe of the way that you. Work the way that you hear in this text, even as Pastor Rod was just saying. So personably pursued this man who needed healing. And really the way that you've done that with us, if we're in Christ by coming for each of each one of us, and bringing the gospel to us in a way that we could understand it in a way that you would open our eyes and give us ears to hear, to be able to see and hear the good news, the message that we need, Jesus as our savior we love that you're a God that cares about us. So, personably and intimately and deeply, and we also love what we're gonna celebrate today with baptisms, that you're a God that. Unites us to Christ and unites us to Christ through the church that you bring us into the body of Christ, into this family of believers that we now get to call a church family and call brothers and sisters in Christ. Would you pray for a great day today, on Sunday, a great time worshiping Christ, exalting him through all that we do. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Keep your Bibles. Tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. See you tomorrow. Bye.

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Yeah. I would agree with everything that you said