Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Hello, y'all. It is Sunday. So happy Lord's day. We hope that you're on your way to church this morning. You should be there. You should be there by now listening to this as you're there before, after, whenever, whenever we want you there. We want, you should be there. Yeah. Yeah. That I agree a hundred percent. Yeah, church is important. Go to your church, whatever it is. If we're not your pastors and this is not your church, then you don't have to come to our church. You're excused. Yeah. But if you do have a church, you should be there. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Good reasons to Ms. Church. What would you say on those pastor around death. Okay. Death is a good one. Okay. Sickness. Yep. You're on vacation, so you're going somewhere else, which even then it would still be good to find another church Sometimes. It's refreshing. It's, you know, it's just showing up and being part of another church body and seeing how they do things. That's nice. Yeah, so I'd say those three things are the ones that come to my mind immediately. I can't think of anything else. Can you. Yeah. No, I don't think so either. Things are going to come up, there's gonna be emergency circumstances and you're gonna be like, well, I've gotten an AC car accident on my way to church, so that's, I wasn't there because of that. Like, okay, fine. It happened to Corinthia. She still showed up. Yeah, that's true actually. She did, she did show up, so, yep. It's not an excuse, it's a, nevermind. I take it back. Tell the ambulance I gotta go to church first. You guys can come in too. Sorry. Drop me off at the church and come get me afterward. Yeah. Yeah. So hopefully we'll see maybe we'll see Ala at church this Sunday. We I think it's Abriel Abriel because it's like Gabe Gabriel Yeah. But with, without the G. Gotcha. Yeah. Well, she, we ran into her this week as we were out having one of our pastors meetings and. We told her about our church and if she shows up, she's gonna be surprised to find out that we were both pastors. Yeah, so here's what happened, guys. We were like, yeah, we heard about this church called Compass. Have you heard about Compass Bible Church? She's like, maybe I've heard about them. Like, yeah, I like the pastors there. They're good guys. I trust them. I respect them. They're both dashingly handsome and just really neat young guys. You should hang out with them. You know? I dunno. It was being silly and so she didn't catch it. Nope. She was totally oblivious. So if she shows up, she's like, these guys are the most vain men is patting themselves in the back so hard. Anyway, I won't be there this Sunday actually. That's true. You'll be there. So hopefully she, if she does show up, she'll understand. That's true. In fact, you'll be on your way back, traveling back to Texas from your brother's memorial service. I will be, and my hope is that the reason I delayed my return, I could have come sooner than. What I did plan on, I should be back by eight o'clock local time on Sunday. And I did that because I was hoping to attend my brother's church that Sunday. Yeah, I wanted to get a sense of those people. And again, I've had nothing but good experiences with his pastor so far. He is been a great dude. He's been visiting them in the hospital. He is cared for them. The church themselves have been wonderful and been so supportive and so I just wanna be among them and get a sense of these people and really also express my gratitude. Yeah. That's awesome. That'd be so sweet for you to have that connection point to I'd really like that. Yeah. Yeah. For him And Mariah as well. His wife, right? His widow. Yeah. Well, let's let's get into our DBR for today. We are in Matthew 26 and Mark 14. So Matthew 26 is really getting into the beginning of the end, so to speak, of Jesus's ministry here. We've been in the Passion Week for a while. We're gonna be, by the way, two days from now. Just give yourself a little bit more time, because you're gonna be reading John. Thir 14 through 17. So those are three big chapters, but we're in the midst of the passion week, getting towards the upper room discourse and everything else like that. But Matthew is going to give us some added detail here of what's going on at Bethany. Now, this anointing that takes place at Bethany right here at the beginning of chapter 26, I believe, is the same anointing that John records for us, where Mary anoints the feet of Jesus and wipes his feet with her hair. And yet here. Matthew's gonna say that this is a woman who comes and annoys his head with this bottle of perfume. So I think it's the same event. I think that this bottle of perfume probably had enough to annoy both the head and the feet. And perhaps John's illusion there to the feet had to do with the washing of the feet that was coming up and that the upper room interaction with the disciples there. But I think this is the same event that takes place here. Pr your thoughts on that one? I know that there are two distinct accounts where Jesus is anointed, and that's because. One of the Simons that's mentioned is Simon, the Pharisee, and then the other one that's mentioned is Simon the leper. So I know that there are two accounts. Sure. So don't confuse those, right? There are two separate accounts of this happening. This happens multiple times in Jesus ministry, but this one could fit, John 12 can fit with what we're reading here, and that they're complimentary. They're not necessarily in opposition in terms of the details. It's just like the angels at the tomb. We're gonna get to that soon, right? How many angels are at the tomb? One is focused in one gospel, there's two that are focused on in another. So is it one or is it two? And the answer is, well, there's two. Only one is given attention in one gospel and the other one is excluded. But not because he wasn't there. Yeah. It was just a matter of saying, we're focusing on this one and not both of them. Yeah. Now, Simon, the Pharisee, if I'm remembering that one, that's the moral woman who is Yes. Anointing his feet With her tears. With her tears and with her hair. In her hair. Yeah. So here again, we're using the perfume. She was using the tears. Yeah. And again, good point. We think this is Mary Magdalene who is the one that's doing this here. So from here we, we turn to Judas plot to betray Jesus. And I think more and more I'm convinced that this is something that's been stirring in him as he's gone along, that he's been disenfranchised with the one that he thought was gonna be this political messiah. He's clearly somebody that is, is greedy and zealous for earthly gain. He wants financial gain and he's got control of the money bag. And that's even when he's. Inc. Sense that she's breaking this expensive jar of ointment. So it seems like the straw has finally been laid that broke the camel's back. And now he is decided he's gonna go and betray Jesus. But this really is the moment of apostasy for him when he leaves and he goes to the religious leaders and says, Hey I'll do this. What are you gonna pay me to do this? And they offer him 30 pieces of silver. He agrees to do it. And then from here we go into the upper room in Matthew's account where Jesus is going to eat the Passover meal with his disciples. And Judas is gonna be back at this point, but he gives his disciples these instructions. He says, go there, you're gonna find a man, and he will show you the room where we will eat this. And then he goes on to talk about his in the room. Where it happens. In the room when it happens. Yes. Yeah. Mm-hmm. That's for you. People out there who know what we just did. If you know, if you know, you know, but, sorry I took you off your track. No, that's fine. I it. How many times is Judas called the betrayer, or how many times is Betrayal highlighted in this account? And it's not just Matthew it's all of the gospel writers. And I think that's when we get into John and we preach through John. John talks about it, but the upper room is so much more than this. In the other accounts, I think what we gain in Matthew, mark and Luke is we gain the intense focus on Judas Betrayal and. You understand that because especially for a guy like Matthew, Judas was with him for three years with Jesus. And so the intense betrayal that, that Matthew felt individually on top of that, even more so the betrayal of Jesus himself. And so that's gonna be, that's gonna show up here. In fact I circled the word betray or betrayer or betrayed every time I showed up here in Matthew 26 as I was reading through it. And it's just a clear point of emphasis here. Yeah, it looks like six or seven times as I'm. Pulling it up on my screen here. Yeah. So one of the things that's interesting about Judas is what set him off. Yeah. As you made mention here he makes the decisive act to become an apostate when he decides to trade in Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. But it looks like one of the things that set him off was the. Perceived wastefulness of this anointment being used on Jesus. In verse eight, it says, when the disciples saw it, what she was doing they were indignant. So it's not just Judas, you're right. But we find out all of them are pretty upset about this. And the response is why this waste for this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor. And Jesus responds don't harass her. She's doing a good thing. You're gonna always have the poor, but you're not gonna have me forever. It seems like this is the event that is the precursor that leads Judas to say, I can't handle this guy. He upsets me. He disturbs me. Whatever it is. Something about this event in this act really rubbed him the wrong way. But let's just talk about why this isn't waste this. This gal, Mary Magdalene, seems to have wasted using air quotes here, a lot of money on Jesus, and it went nowhere. All it did. Was provide his body, the smell and the fragrance of beauty as he prepared to die. Why is this not waste? Because it seems like this is bad stewardship. Yeah it's a form of honor of Christ. It's a form of showing him that he's worth that to her. And so she's willing to give that, she's willing to sacrifice something that was very costly for her, to honor him, to worship him. And so because it's offered and rendered for him and for hi his glory and his exaltation it becomes something that's not waste. Is it ever possible to waste too much on Jesus? I can't see how we could get there the same here, right? I'm with you. I don't think anything that you give to Jesus will ever be too much. Right. Too wasteful. Right. Even if you do give something to Christ and really you can't give him, you can't give him anything right now. He's in heaven. He's not with us. You give things to his body. You can give things to his church as an organization. And whatever it is, whatever that dollar figure is whether it's your life or just a lump sum of cash or something like that you're never giving too much to Jesus. He deserves all that you have in then some. It doesn't mean you have to, it doesn't mean that you have to give, expensive, lavish gifts. But it does mean, and I think this is important that you look at Mary Magdalene here and realize you can never outgive him. Yeah. And you can never give too much where it's like, oh, you shouldn't have done that too wasteful. If the Lord leaves you to do that, never fear that. That's a good sign. Yeah. Even when you think about somebody like Jim Elliot. Who was a young man, brilliant young man, passionate to reach people for Christ. Yeah. You could look at him and be like, well, what a waste of a life. 'cause he went to a tribe that was risky and dangerous. Right. And he knew the dangers there, and yet he would've wasted life. And yet I think anybody who knows the rest of that story and his widow's testimony and everything else would say, okay, no, that life wasn't wasted. And so if somebody can give their life for Christ, then I don't think we could ever say there's a way to give too much in sacrifice for Jesus. Absolutely. Jim was 28 years old when he died. Which is really young. Yeah. I mean not, there's lots of younger people that have died, obviously, but younger by the year. Yeah. 28 years old and yet God used that life to bring other lives to Christ. Yeah. And I think what a great honor for him. I'm sure he doesn't regret that. Right. Saying, man, I wish I would've stayed on Earth longer and done this or that. Now surely there's other things he would've enjoyed. Sure. But life is never wasted when it's given for Christ. Yeah. Life is never wasted, money's never wasted. Resources are never wasted when it's given for Christ. And so you can feel free that even if you're giving it to something that you know is an imperfect organization or an imperfect person, man, I'm doing this for the sake of Christ. I'm not doing it for you. This is worth it. Mary's doing it for Jesus. He's worth it. He's perfect, obviously. But I just wanna give you the idea here. What I think the text shows us is that giving to the Lord for the Lord's sake always worth it, never wasted. Amen. Yeah. As 26 continues, you've got communion in verses 26 down through verse 29. This is the institution of the Lord's Supper. You've got his foretelling of Peter's denials coming up next here where Peter says, I will never fall away, though everyone else may. And Jesus says, you're gonna deny me three times before the rooster crows. And then you've got the scene in Gethsemane, which always just. Stands out to me for I think, obvious reasons, it probably stands out to all of us. This is the humanity of Jesus is seen so clearly here in including the idea that being both God and man, Jesus possessed two wills as in, in concert with his nature. He had the divine will that was always operative, but he also had a human will. And we see that bifurcation here in this account when he prays to the father and says, I'd rather not. In my will. Honestly, if there's any other way possible, please let this cut pass for me. And then he says, but not what I will, but what you will. And so this is evidence here of the humanity and deity of Jesus the hypostatic union is what it's called in theology. And Jesus notice he praised three times the same thing. And then finally after that third time, he understands, and it's also the time because the arrest is about to take place. But he is not afraid to pray the same thing multiple times to the Father. And yet, eventually he. Doesn't resign himself to the fact he submits to the father's will to say, okay, then this is what your will is. And then he moves on into the betrayal and the arrest from here. Yeah. One thing that stood out to me, as it always does, is in verse 30 that Jesus sang with his men before he went to the Garden of Gethsemane. He sang with him. Yeah. I think that's amazing. Jesus sang. What did his voice sound like? Was he harmonizing with them? What was it? What song did they sing? Right. Whatever it is we don't know, but we do know he sang, and that's important. That's the one of the last things that Jesus does with his disciples is sing with them, and I think that's profoundly important, and that's one of the reasons why we, as a church sing. Because Jesus sang. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. The be portrayal is a familiar story and all of the gospel writers record the fact that there was a disciple, an unnamed disciple, except for John, who names him for us, who lashed out and tried to stop this from happening. And again, I think this is one of the reasons why Jesus kept the disciples from really understanding what he was talking about when he was predicting his death and the other occurrences when he did that, he didn't want them to overly try to interfere or stop him from what he was doing, which was the. Father's will. So you have a great juxtaposition of Jesus, the one who could have stopped this at any point, submitting himself perfectly to the father's will. And then you have Peter who really had no chance at stopping any of this from taking place, lashing out to try to do something. And good thing he was a bad shot because he takes off. Malus ear, the high priest servant and Jesus says, Hey, we're not gonna do things this way, but there is a power in the submission of Christ here that's greater than the power that Peter tries to flex here, because Jesus is submitting himself perfectly to the Father's will, and it's such a good example for us to follow him in those footsteps. In fact, we're gonna be talking about that even this morning as we gather together at church. We're gonna be talking that from Peter's perspective, actually in First Peter chapter two. Yeah. It's interesting that Peter responds in this way. It shows us that Peter has his heart in the right place. His head is not, and that's true for a lot of Christians. We can have the right heart, at least the desire to honor God and do what we think is fitting with his will, and yet be totally wrong. Now, this is why it's so important that we be in our Bibles because there's so many things that. You might question yourself and say, is this what God wants me to do? Is this a right action given the stimulus? And it's hard to know sometimes, but here we have an example in Peter of what it looks like to have your heart in the right place, but have your head in a totally different place than it should be. Check your feelings with the word. Yeah. Yeah. After his arrest, Jesus is gonna be taken to the first of his trials, and that's gonna be with the Sanhedrin. This, he's gonna appear before the higher priest, Caiaphas, and the other religious leaders at the time. And they need to come up with charges that are gonna stick so that they can then turn 'em over to the Romans for capital punishment for execution. Because the Jews were prohibited from doing that, the Jews didn't have the. Authority to execute Jesus. Otherwise, they would've done this well before this. And yet they need this charge. And they're even bringing in people that are willing to lie. And yet they can't find testimony from these liars that's gonna agree. So finally they grabbed some of his words and twist them when he said destroy this temple. And in three days I will raise it again, which is from John chapter two, verse 19. And they say, we heard him say he's gonna destroy the temple. And so that's the trumped up charge the fabricated charge that they finally get. Two witnesses, which was the Jewish law. They needed at least two witnesses to agree to make these charges stick. That's what they're gonna hold onto and that's what's gonna allow them then eventually to turn them over to the Romans, to entrust the Romans to do what they're hoping that they will do, which is sentence 'em to death and then execute 'em. And so this is what's taken place here with the trial at Cais House. From here, we're gonna go to the courtyard as we kind of zoom out to. Meanwhile and we see Peter, and this is the fulfillment of what Jesus predicted back in verses 30 down through verse 35, that Peter would deny him three times. It takes place right away. It doesn't take long. Peter is met by these servants and other people that are gathered there in the courtyard, and all three times he's accused of being one of Jesus' followers. And all three times Peter denies it and says no, and then the rooster crows Jesus, just as Jesus said it would. And it's poignant here because. Even the timing of that, right? The rooster could have crowed an hour later. The rooster could have crowed three hours later, but it's right on the heels of it and it cuts Peter to the heart and he goes out and says, and he weeps bitterly. Now, Peter's gonna be restored in the future, and we're gonna see that in John chapter 21. We're gonna find that. In, I think probably tomorrow's reading or maybe the next couple of days, Judas is gonna feel bad as well for what he is done to Jesus. But there's a difference between what Judas does in response to that grief and what Peter does in response to that grief. But Peter has definitely grieved over the fact that he has denied his Lord and Savior. Yeah. And I think one of the things that's I. Productive to see here is that a genuine relationship with God does include pain. It's not a pain that none of us wanna feel, and it's not a pain that we welcome, at least in a temporary sense. But it, it's a good thing when you feel conviction and it might lead you to tears and it might lead you to feel a bit of guilt and shame for sins that you've committed. And now for the Christian, you could say, well, there is no shame anymore for those in Christ. And I think that's true in a, Ultimate sense, but there are temporary things that can set us back where there is shame, there is a sense of sadness and sobriety that comes when you recognize I've done the wrong thing. I have sinned against my Lord. I'm sad about this. I'm disappointed by this. I am ashamed of my sin. And so one of the things that this should do for us when you feel conviction is to, I. Drive you to Christ to seek again, to find your fullness your salvation, your fellowship with Christ by repudiating your sin and putting your faith in him. Yet again, this is the way that a Christian lives. It's not just the first time that you get saved. There is a first time you repent of your sin, put your faith in Christ, but for the rest of your life, you'll be doing this. You'll feel conviction for sin. And then you'll turn from your sin and you'll put your faith in Christ yet again for salvation, for restoration, for righteousness. Peter's a good example that even for those who are most godly among us, and Peter's gonna go on to lead and become a powerhouse in the church, that we're all gonna go through seasons of disappointing Christ and saddening his soul. And what that looks like here is we repent of our sin, put our trust in him, and in return yet again. Mark Chapter 14 is your other, I forgot. We're doing two passages reading and, but the good news is it's it's a lot of what we just read. This guy used to doing one a day. There we go. Yeah. So it's a lot of parallel from what we just read, and so you're gonna find pretty much the same things from a different perspective. One of the unique things that Mark Throw is in though, and a lot of people think it's a reference to himself, is in Mark chapter 14, verse 51. Yeah, that's embarrassing. In 52 where it says A young man followed him. With nothing but a linen cloth about his body and they seized him, but he left a linen cloth and ran away naked. A lot of people think that's a testimony to Mark saying, Hey, I was there, but I was in the background. I was a follower on the peripheral, which might explain why Mark's here writing. The gospel because he was, he had an interest in Christ. Maybe he was one of the disciples, but not one of the inner circle of the disciples. Mm-hmm. And so he ends up then sitting down, and by the way, Mark's a gospel is Peter's account. And so this is mark talking with Peter saying, Peter, gimme the insight to, to what actually happened. And we know that because of the testimony of Polycarp and some others from the. Early church history that testified to the fact that Mark was Peter's biographer, right? One of the things that I like here in verse 38 is what Jesus says to the disciples. I liked what he phrases it here in this particular gospel. He says, watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit is indeed willing, but the flesh is weak. Watch and pray. We underestimate the role that prayer plays in helping us to avoid temptation, but here Jesus draws a. Clear clearly for us, there's a strong connection between our prayerfulness and our ability to withstand temptation that's gonna apply to you today. It's not just Peter, it's not just the disciples that's for us today. So watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. What temptation do you think he had in mind here? I've always wondered that because he's telling them, Hey, pray. they don't know what's about to happen. Mm. And so I'm, I've always been curious, okay, what temptation is it? And we don't know. 'cause we can't, it doesn't say, doesn't tell us. Yeah. That's interesting. I wonder if it's about them potentially falling away defecting, you know? Yeah. Defecting the same temptation that snare Judas, maybe he's saying, Hey, you're, we're, you're about to go through something. You have no idea what you're about to watch and endure. Right. And so pray because you're gonna need it. Well, he does say to Peter, Satan is demanded to sift you like wheat. Yes. Yeah. So I wonder if maybe you're onto something there where he's trying to say, look, you don't know what's coming after you. Yeah. Pray. Please pray that you need the spirit to protect you against this, because this is serious. Yeah. Yeah. Well, let's do that right now. Yeah we do pray that you would help us to live godly lives. We don't want to feel that the grief and the heartache over sin if we can avoid it because we don't want the sin against you. And yet at the same time, we do wanna confess and admit that that grief that we feel is a grace of yours. It's a mercy of yours that we would feel that and respond appropriately to it through that repentance that Pastor Adam was talking about. So I pray that we would be a church that is sensitive. To the spirit and sensitive to sin, and does what we should do with it, which is to repent of it, to turn from it, to repudiate it, to not pursue it any longer, to put it off and to pursue godliness instead. So, Lord, I pray that you would help us to do that and to be a holy bride, a holy body and that we would be more effective as a result of that for you. And we'll pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Keep reading your Bibles. Tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. We'll see you. Bye.

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Yeah. I would agree with everything that you said