Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. How are y'all doing? Is everyone doing okay? We'll wait. We'll wait for you to respond to that, but only a second. Yep. Okay, because that's where I cut us off. I know you don't let long periods of silence in there. I don't. I don't like to waste your time. So if you really wanna take time to talk to us, just go ahead and hit that pause button and we'll just sit here. We'll wait for you while you talk it out, and then you can hit play. And then we'll say, Hey, we really appreciate you sharing that with us. We took that to heart. We're listening. Yeah, we're here for you. That's sad, man. I hope you have a real person to talk to. Don't talk to the podcast. That's true. Talk to a real person. That's true. Or come talk to us in the office if you want to. If you're part of our church, we invite you to come in anytime to see Pastor PJ or Lewis. Kelly's always here. She'll, she'd love to welcome you. We've got good snacks. Hey, this this Sunday we're launching a brand new series at church on the minor prophets. And just as a heads up to parents, we are starting with the book of Hosea, which is a little spicy. So I, full disclosure, I'm still trying to figure out how, what word I'm gonna use to describe the woman in Hosea. Ladies parents, just a heads up on that if you normally keep your kids with you and don't send 'em to our kids men. Just be forewarned that it's a spicy book on, on Sunday as we jump into the minor profit series. But on that note, I was thinking about some other things going on in pop culture. Pierre, I'd love to get your thoughts on how we should think about, or I. And how much we should be invested in or curious about, for example the P Diddy trial going on right now, or the Epstein list and things like that, that have been, people have talked about we're gonna lease release this list and we're gonna release the people that have been involved in this. And I think it's whipped up a bunch of frenzy. Everybody's we wanna see the Epstein list, or we want to know who was at the parties with P Diddy as Christians. Do we care? Does it register for us? How do we, because obviously we know there's the giving ourselves over to the voyeuristic element of it, or to be overly involved or overly curious about it. But should we care even as these things are splashing across the headlines, do we, should we sit there and say they need to release the list? Yeah. Okay. Couple things. Number one, scripture talks about Christians being those who pursue justice. Yeah, we want justice. Yes. And even from a human standpoint, this is what God charges Israel with failing to do. They don't love justice. They don't love mercy. They're not doing the right things. And so God calls him to task and saying, look, one of the reasons that you're going to be sent to the Assyrians and to the Babylonians is because you're failing it. Bringing about justice, you're not doing the right thing. And so I think a Christian always has a vested interest in seeing that his government, her government is pursuing righteous causes. And so to that end, I would say Diddy and Epstein and whoever else, there's been lots of people in the past 10 years, especially during the Me Too movement, even those who. Were guilty of certain things during the lockdowns. I think about some of the people that were exonerated, or not exonerated, they were j Joseph Pardoned. Pardoned. Thank you. That's the word I was looking for before he left office. Christians feel the pain of that because that's, I. That's justice. That's the foundations of justice being a, they're crumbling at the foundations. So we care about justice. Christians always care about justice. Christians vote for just laws. Christians wanna see justice enacted. Christians are all about righteousness. We want that. I. All that to say, there are times when you said it. I think we have a voyeuristic interest in things and that's part of what the news cycle is intending to incite in us. They're not trying to inform and to say, here's a way to think about this. That would be helpful and wise and God would approve the thinking. This over. No, it's always clickbait. You'll never guess who's on the Epstein list. You won't believe it when we tell you and of course it's all this click baby stuff that's, it's oh, I wanna know who that is. Oh, what kind of parties did he had? And look at this video. Or he looked at this person the wrong way and now it's all obvi. This is stuff that's meant to entice or flesh right, and we ought to be wise enough to see that. So should a Christian care, yes. Should a Christian be enticed, unaware? Should a Christian be ensnared by their lustful appetites? No, and that's where the line is often clear. But not always. And so it's important that you recognize your news source doesn't always have your best interest at heart. Your news source, even if it's from a reputable newspaper, and I'm gonna use air quotes to say reputable, because they're not all that. Even if they look that way, you need to be discerning enough to say, is this the kind of source that I should be reading about this topic? Again, you care about justice. We want that. We pray for that, we pursue that, but not all sources are equally helpful or equally qualitative. I would agree that's great advice. And it is an issue of the heart. It's what's your heart's motive in wanting to know these things and wanting to find these things out and chasing them and, yeah. And the point of a clickbait thing is to bypass your thinking. It's not meant to say, Hey, think about this. Do you want, it's, no. It's meant to appeal to your lustful flesh. Tell me more. I want to hear gossip. I want salacious details about this and that. I wanna know. It's like one of those things that there's something in the human nature. The fallen human nature that says, I wanna see the gory evil nonsense, and I want to be entertained by that. That's a bad indication. I don't think that's a good thing that you should allow yourself to pursue or to entertain, because that doesn't help the spirit that entices the flesh. What is the proverb that talks about gossip is like a morsel that goes down into that. It goes down, yeah. That's what I was trying to look it up. I'll cut out the silence. Thanks, man. Do. It can't cut that out. If you're gonna do. All right. Proverbs 18, eight. The words of a whisper are like a delicious morsel. They go down into the inner parts of the body that that's. Summing up what we're talking about here. All of our news media outlets are whisperers. Yeah. That's all they are. Most of them anyway. Buzzfeed, I think of let's talk about some recent regular offenders. Most everything on Facebook Yep. Is click bait. And it's meant to be this, it's provocative. It's meant to draw your attention. It's not meant to help you. It's meant to get you down a rabbit hole. In fact, when you click on those links, and I don't. Know this, except by my own experience, it takes you to links that are like, oh, here's 50 other ones that you'll wanna look at that are also just as salacious and gory and whatever else. So most of Facebook Pro, I don't know, X is 50 50, I feel like. Yeah, sometimes you get good ones, other times not so much. I guess I. Let's just say this, that the quality is a big deal and finding quality sources for your news and for your information is really challenging. Today it's really hard, but this is part of our job. Yeah. And there's a, I'm not gonna go all Trump and be like, fake news but there's a ton of fake news that's out there on both sides, though. Both sides, but not even that. Just in the influencer world too. Oh, yeah. Like we've made a lot of jokes and comments, offhand, comments about, microplastics and stuff like that. I referenced this account literally on, on Sunday where this woman like get, is like, Hey ladies, you all need to be waking up and grinding your own sausage and making your own biscuits and preparing, home Jam. Yeah. She, oh, she just models it. She does it. But then she says, why are you buying butter from the grocery store? It's got all of these additives and all of these other ingredients. Butter needs to have just milk and salt in it. It's you live on a farm in Idaho, so you can do that, but for the rest of these normal people, all that to say, yeah, people are excited about that. In fact, if I remember right, I heard a few mms. How'd you feel about that? Yeah, I was glad about that. I was like, yeah I will preach that. Yeah. Don't take every homeschool mom's PhD to the bank for you on how to, how you should be raising your kids. Do what's best for your family and then. Let everybody else live their life. Yeah. I saw recently on x, one of the accounts I follow, they posted about Vodi Baum. Yeah. There's this website on, or this channel on YouTube. I sound like an old person already. There's this Google it on YouTube, Google Let's, yeah. Anyway there is this channel on YouTube that is a bunch of Vodi sermons. Yeah. They look like Vodi. They sound like Vodi. They're like three things. Every guy needs to know about this. Something like that. And the website highlighted the fact, rather the. The X account highlighted the fact that these are all AI generated. Yeah. They're all taking his voice and putting together vodi like sermons based on content that he's producing. I thought that's terrifying. Yeah. Cool. Because it sounds so convincing. It looks good. It sounds provocative. It's just, yeah. This is a difficult time to be alive. Somebody's doing that with MacArthur too, actually. Not surprised. Yeah, not surprised. Yeah. Nobody's doing that with me. Not yet. Not that I know of. But I do it. I'm, yes you do. I just, but I take what's already there and just, and I use it for my purposes. That's different. You just take it outta context and put it over here. That's it. Alright. Let, by the way, lemme give you a caveat. I didn't mean to put all homeschool moms on blast. We love you guys and not all of y'all are. There's regular moms and not regular moms. See, I'm just getting, you can just delete all that stuff out. Pastor Rod, you can just cut all that. That's what makes us endearing. Yeah, it's. Words. That's not perfect. Hold on. Let me get my foot outta my mouth, everybody. It takes me a minute before I'm named after Peter, the foot, the apostle with a foot shaped mouth. So there you go. Yeah, I just, I don't like when people sensationalize things and fear monger and everything else. It's it irks me. I vexes me. I'm terribly vexed. Anyways, let's get into our Bible reading for the day. Psalm 95, Psalm 96, Psalm 97 90, or no, not 96, Psalm 95 and 97 through 99. Psalm 95 is a psalm giving us reason to praise and warnings of what will happen if we don't praise God. And so verses seven second half of verse seven through nine are the warnings along with verse 11. And these are actually quoted by the writer of Hebrews and applied to those that he was addressing who were attempted to return to Judaism. So you'll read this and sound and say that sounds familiar. It sounds, it's somewhere in the New Testament where if it. Is it's there in Hebrews. Hebrews chapter three. And so this is from Psalm 95. Today. If you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as at marba on the day at Messiah in the wilderness. When your father's put me to the test and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work, verse 11, therefore I sworn my wrath, they shall not enter my wr my rest. So the writer of Hebrews takes this and applies it to the context of the. Christians in in the area that he was writing to who were attempted to go back to Judaism. He's saying don't do this. Don't harden your hearts against the Lord. And so Psalm 95 is giving us reasons to praise God and also warning us what happens if we harden our hearts and refuse to praise God as well. Psalm 97. Then the phrase that came to mind as I was reading this is just the phrase, the fear of the Lord. This is a picture of God that should instill fear in his enemies and that rev reverential respect in us who love him. The psalmist even concludes as much in verse 10 when he says, oh, you who love the Lord hate evil. And it's just an appropriate response. But this is a picture of God that is a powerful picture. It is the fire that goes before him in verse three that burns up his adversaries, his lightnings, that light up the world. Just like the other night, we had that massive storm blow through here and the lighting was just nonstop around us. And this is a picture of that, but that coming from the vengeance of God, the. Anger of God, the mountains melting. And then it says, the heavens proclaim his righteousness and all the people see his glory. And for the unbeliever, that's gonna be a terrifying scene. But for the believer, it is a cause for us to worship him, but to worship him in that reverential fear. Yeah, I love the way that you see us. In verse two, it says, clouds and thick darkness are all around him. And we typically associate that with evil. And that's and understandably because we look at that and we say, that sounds terrifying. That sounds threatening. That's because it is. I think about Isaiah chapter six the foundations of the threshold shook and there was smoke all around. God is holy and part of his holiness is the display of his holiness in kind of a foreboding and terrifying differentiation from us. But in the second part of verse two, righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne, and that's what's terrifying. It's a good thing that God is righteous and just He does all things well. There's no evil or sin in him, and yet that's the problem that we have with him, is that he is righteous and just, and we are not. This presents an issue for us, which is why the judgment of God that the clouds and thick darkness are threatening to us because apart from Jesus dying on the cross for our sin, we are certainly his enemies. And so the adversaries that the Psalm talks about, those are us. Unless he provides something to atone. Yeah, Psalm 98. Then if Psalm 96 or 97 rather instills fear within us Psalm 98 should provoke joy as the reason for worship. And so we have in here the call to sing a new song, but we will see in verse four, make a joyful noise, verse four. Again, break into joyous. Song verse six, and again a call for a joyful noise. In fact, even all of creation is being called to praise the Lord, the seas to roar the rivers to clap their hands, the hills to sing again. Here it is for joy together before the Lord, before he comes to judge the earth. And so even though the Lord is coming in judgment, verse two, the Lord has made known his salvation and revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations. And so there's reason for us as Christians, especially to read Psalm 98 and to say, okay, I've got reason to praise God. That's gonna be a joyful reason to praise God because he has brought salvation, revealed his righteousness. We know in the person of Christ. He says he's coming to judge the Earth. And again, that's the problem. But before we get there, we do get to say, man, the Lord is worth everything that we have to give. In fact, we were just talking about this we were talking about the conversation. Where do we put announcements in our church? Yep. Because we're trying to figure out, okay, where do we get the most amount of people to hear it? We want them to respond and come to the events. But we also don't want it to be a distraction where it's interrupting our worship our worship and song that is worship is more than music. It's not less than that though. And so I think this Psalm encourages our people, encourages Christians, believers in Yahweh to be people who are singing. Even if that's not natural to your constitution, it is natural or supernatural as a believer to sing to the Lord. This is part of what we're called to do, which is why we show up to church on time so that we can do this. We wanna participate in the body's worship, and that includes, I know someone said once. I love worship music. And not too long thereafter, they were, I don't wanna say complaining, but they were making a comment about the song that we do that they weren't excited about. And I thought, then I wonder if you like worship music or if you just like music maybe you don't actually enjoy worship. Maybe you just enjoy having your ears enjoy a certain kind of melody or a certain riff or something like that. Now worship will transcend our preferences. And I know even as the worship leader, you guys might think it's 'cause I'm handpicking all the songs that we do, that I must love them all. I don't, I pick songs that I think are helpful for us songs that I don't enjoy doing. In fact, some songs, there's 13 different core changes in the first line. I'm looking at you Geddes that are so hard to play, but I'm like, this is a good song. This is helpful for us to sing. And I put it on our agenda, I put it on our service. I'm like, this is a, this is good for us to sing and to do together. So I don't even pick all the songs that I like. I pick songs that are helpful for us. All right, so everybody's dying to know. What's your least favorite song? No, I'm kidding. I'm not gonna put you on books. I dunno. I even have one because every time we play that people are gonna be, he doesn't want, he doesn't like it. He hates that song. Yeah. But I still sing them with gusto. I still s them in their heart. 'cause I'm like this, I think the lyrics are worth singing and working through all the different chord changes for, and that's life of. Of sometimes we do work through things. We were just talking about this series that we're doing this upcoming summer on the minor prophets. It's gonna be a difficult series. Doesn't mean it's not gonna be good, but it's gonna be difficult and there are times, and that's part of expositional preaching. You preach the next text that's up now. Difference is I've done this to myself. You chose it. Yes. Yeah. I decided to go through the minor of prophets and I think it's gonna be helpful and beneficial for our church. That said, it's gonna be hard. It's gonna stretch me as a preacher, it's gonna stretch you when you pitch hit and preach in for a couple weeks while I'm gone outta town. It's hard And sometimes it's hard, though. It's hard. Doesn't mean it's not gonna be profitable, though it's hard. Doesn't mean that we shouldn't do it, though It's hard. Doesn't mean that it's not gonna be something that we can also, at the same time we're going, this is really hard at this. We can also say, and I love doing it at the same time. There's that marriage there that is, is strange, but it's so good when it's present and we can have that mindset. I like a good challenge. Yeah. Alright. Psalm 99 Psalm 99. Then this is bookends it's back to this idea of fear inducing worship here, at least as I read this. He's again picturing the lord. The Lord is great. He's exalted the king in his might loves justice. You've established equity. Again, that to your point, pastor Rod, that's the problem. We don't measure up. Verse five though. Exalt the Lord, worship at his footstool. Holy is he we're not. He is, we're gonna bow before his footstool there. He talks about Moses and Aaron in the psalm. But again it's again, a psalm that is going to be fear inducing as it magnifies the power of God and the holiness of God as the grounds for our worship of him. What is a footstool? How many of us actually use one? I don't use a footstool, do you? I don't think I do. We talk about ottomans. People have ottomans. I guess that's a foot still. Yeah. That, that you'll put your feet up on as a posture of reclining, of rest. And we're gonna worship it as footstool. No one wants to sit by somebody's ottoman if they've got their feet stretched out on it. Yeah. 'cause it's like a, I don't wanna be next to your feet. It's a demeaning posture. It's a demeaning position, but that's. Intentionally, the psalmist is putting himself there and saying, this is where I belong. I belong here at your feet and I'm gonna worship even just at your feet. Reminded of I think it's. Is it job? He talks about the fringes of Yeah. Of God. The fringes. Yeah. Yeah. The fringes of his robe. Yeah. Or Isaiah in Isaiah six where he can't even get above the robe there be before the throne and the vision of Christ. He said, this is as far as I can get. I'm just gonna be able to describe the edges of your garments. Yeah, it's worship at his ottoman is what I'm atman saying. Worship. Yes. I think it's really, it's a great image because a king doesn't put his feet on the ground. He's too high, he's too lofty, and so he would always have something to rest his foot upon, even if he's not reclining like we typically do with an ottoman. It's really interesting because the footstool imagery, I did some, a little bit of work on this. It's used all over the place. The idea of the foot. So in fact, in this particular psalm, if you look at verse five, he says, exalt the Lord our God, worship at his footstool. Which by itself is really interesting because we think about exalting him, we're lifting him up, we're trying to and we're not lifting him up as in as though he needs to be propped up. We're exalting him as who he is, what he is. And the best that we can offer is we're gonna worship at his foot. Verse nine probably explains the footstool in view here, which in this case is exalt the Lord God in worship, not at his footstool, at his Holy mountain, Jerusalem. So in this case, the footstool is probably a reference to the mountain, but it's used all over. It's used as the ark, it's used as the temple. It's used about his enemies. Yeah, his enemies become his footstool. Yeah. Sit at my right hand until your enemies become a footstool. Psalm two. One 10. One 10. That's what I was thinking. Psalm one 10. Did you hear me say it differently? I did. I caught You must have misheard. Yeah, sorry. So the footstool the idea here then is that everything is a footstool to God. The concept of everything being God's footstool means that he's exalted over all things everywhere, all the time, at all places, which is an amazing thought because this is what we talk about. We want to maintain a high view of God because he is high, not because we're trying to prop him up. The footstool analogy. So good. When you're worshiping God, you're at his footstool, and that's where we belong. That is great and great observation on verse nine to the comparison to Holy Mountain, because if this is I can't remember if this is Davidic or not. No, it doesn't have a title, but if this is post Davidic, if the temple is there even before the temple, the ark, you mentioned the ark. For the Israelite at the time, that was the pinnacle of the place of God's glory. And then the temple is built the Holy of Holies. And the priest can only go in there once a year and he's gonna wear bells in case he dies and they can pull 'em out. When they hear him stop, jingling around in there. And yet God's going. That's not, that's just my foot stool. That's not even, that's nothing essentially to me, this is just propping up the feet of my glory. The fullness of my glory is so much more than what you guys are experiencing here. Just a simple taste of it there. Yeah. Moses couldn't even see the back of his glory without being radically changed. Yeah. And that's something we don't often think about. We see the beauty in glory. Of God in Christ, but even that's mitigated. We're not seeing the full ulence of his glory. That's a good word. It's a great word. The manifestation of his lightness, his brightness on in this life. We see glimpses of it. We get Costco samples of it, but certainly not the full extent. And that's something that we can look forward to the, in the next life. Totally. Hey, let's pray and then we'll be done with this episode. God we look forward to that time of being with you. In the meantime, give us a greater appreciation for the fullness of your glory. As much as we can wrap our minds around it. It is, but the edges of the garment, of your glory and even for eternity we, it's not like we're going to step foot in eternity and say look. We fully understand the glory of God. We're gonna spend all of eternity trying to fully understand your glory. And so help us to understand just as, as much as we can, as your creatures now here and now. And so we thank you so much for your kindness to us to reveal what you have revealed about yourself to us, and help us to live for that glory we pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Keep your Bibles turning again tomorrow for another edition to the Daily Bible Podcast. See you. Bye.

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