Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Hello. It's a little bit more robust today. We've got two Psalms, not just one Psalm. I dunno if we're gonna finish. I know too many just buckle up. 'cause in a couple days we've got like 10 Psalms in one day. Why do they do this to us? I don't know. We will never. Understand, never, ever, and as long as we keep doing this plan, which is I think the plan for now-ish. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe we'll switch, maybe in August. We'll just do a new plan. We'll make a call just midstream. Just be like, we're not gonna do this one anymore. I used to do that, but my by boarding plans. I'm bored of this one. I'm gonna go to do a new one. Jump around. Yeah, jump around. Like, how's the jump around? Yeah. Hey, I got a question for us. It actually was brought to mind because I saw our kids at Compass Post on social media. On our ex account, there we're about to get shot at. No, it says this weekend your kids will learn about repentance. When Israel returned from exile, they discovered they were still struggling with sin. They needed new hearts to truly turn from their sin. Your kids are gonna learn that true repentance also requires a new heart from God. So there's a lot here. But I guess my thought is man, how do we avoid raising little legalists in our church? Because we're teaching them all of these things about godliness and holiness, which is all good and right and proper, and we should and that, and we wanna do that. That's why we're doing this. But we're teaching the doctrine of repentance to a bunch of kids who, most of whom, if not. All of them, but most of whom, we'll, we will leave room there, most of whom can't truly repent. And so how do we, what's our thought process behind that? I think it's probably helpful for us to, to revisit that. What's our thought process behind teaching kids doctrines? Like repentance when they're at an age where they can't truly repent? What do you mean about can't truly repent? Explain that before we answer that. The repentance of second. Second. Corinthians seven the Godly repentance, right? Feeling a God godly sorrow that leads to repentance versus a worldly sorrow that produces regret. I think our children, before they're saved, before they're regenerate, they know the worldly sorrow of getting busted by mom and dad or getting in trouble at school or whatever it is that leads to a sorrow that they're willing to say, I'm sorry that I did this, but the true godly sorrow of having sinned and that sin is. Ultimately an offense against God. And so I want to clear my conscience. I want to separate myself from this, you know that's not possible for somebody who is unregenerate. It seems like we are calling these kids to, to do something that they're not able to do. Now, granted we're not telling them you have to go and repent now, but we're teaching them about something and holding this up and saying, this is what's good, repentance is good, and yet at the end of the day, they're not able to do that. And so how do we make sure that we as parents and as a church, are not producing an army of little legalists as we're calling them to godliness and holiness that really they're not able to replicate and produce. Yeah, I guess my quick answer, and I definitely wanna hear what you have to say about this. My, my quick. And dirty answer from the hip here is that we can't be responsible for what their hearts can or can't do. We can be responsible for putting before them what is true, what is right, and what is good. And so we entrust that God can light the logs of our faithfulness at some point in the future, and that's what we're doing. We're putting the wood, stacking the wood, as it were into the fireplace, trusting that God will sump. At some point, light the fuse and cause the whole thing to be a blaze with love for God. And all the training and all the teaching that we put into the fireplace up until that point will serve its ultimate and noble purposes in helping our young people truly understand what's happening and what's happened to them through the process of regeneration and how to direct their hearts to God and repentant faith. So I think that's our ultimate posture. We're humbly entrusting our kids to God. We can't guarantee it. We're talking about the birth rate on the last one last episode. And even then we're assuming that a kid born in a Christian household is probably gonna make a Christian profession of faith. Maybe we hope for that. We want that. But unlike Islam, there's no guarantee. Just because you're born into a certain family doesn't mean that you're gonna become a child of God. But we do pray for that. We do pursue that. We stack the logs and trust that God will like the flame. That's our ultimate hope. And we entrust God with the entire process of that. What would you say? Yeah I agree with what you're saying there. And we do this because it's, it, in part we have to ask what's the alternative? Do we just entertain these kids while their parents are over in church and we say, when you get to be a certain age, then you can learn about these things. At some point we're gonna have to say no. We're gonna start teaching them biblical concepts and in scriptural ideas and ideas that are connected with the gospel because they need to know these things. And these are the, this is the seed that's sown on the path. And yes, God is the one that's gonna. Cause the growth and we're praying that some of the seed falls on the fertile soil. But we have to sow the seed. We can't just hands off go we will let you come to that realization on your own. Or, don't worry about being sorry for sin. Because you can't truly repent. We, we, this is a good thing to call them to. This obedience and this obedience sorrow and and holiness and godliness. Because ultimately someday we want them to come to faith in Christ. And I think we've said it before in different contexts, but there is, and this is not the most comfortable thought to think about, but there's, even for those that never. Will come to faith in Christ. It's good for us to teach them godliness and holiness at this age because it's going to keep them from some of the wrath and judgment that they might otherwise inco incur because hell is a place of judgment that is, is graded. Not all judgment is equal in hell. And so even the fact that we are raising our children to be upstanding citizens, even if and we pray and plead and beg that God will save all of our kids, but even if that, for those that, that maybe he. Doesn't them being raised in the church hopefully to grow up following biblical morals and principles is going to help them in the long run in, in, in the sense of eternal damnation. Which again, not a comfortable thought. None of us want to entertain that thought, but that is still something that, that is there that weighs on the side of why we do what we do as well. Yeah. Every family, every. I don't know. Every societal institution is undergoing the process of discipling their kids to think and believe and behave in a certain way. The Christian Church is not unique. We've just been doing it for so long that we have catechisms and we have processes where we do this on purpose. In fact the word indoctrination, if you take out the negative connotation is a. Is a word that all of us do. We all indoctrinate, we're all teaching our kids how to think. Liberals and people that are vehemently opposed to what we teach are doing the same thing for their kids. They're indoctrinating them with the thoughts of, Hey, if you feel like you're this gender versus that gender, great. And then they'll support that with all sorts of things that help reaffirm their decision to walk in their footsteps. We do the same thing. We're unashamed about it, we're clear about it, and we're trying to do it in a way that we think this is what God's word says. And so I'm gonna be faithful to deliver to the truth. And what you do with the truth ultimately is your decision. And again, we're stacking the, we're planting the seed, we're stacking the wood, and we're trusting that God's gonna do something great with it, and we're gonna peripherally pursue that. But to let them or to operate under the guise. The ideology that, oh, they're gonna make their own decisions is patently false? Yeah. You're teaching, everyone's being taught, everyone's being discipled. The question is, what are we discipling with? Yeah. And ultimately we're using our Bible. Yep. Yeah. Great. So hopefully that encourages you parents out there, that's the environment that your kids are stepping into in our kids' ministry. We do take it seriously. I know Mark takes it seriously as he leads that ministry and we're grateful for his leadership on that front too. That's right. Hey, let's you jump in today. Psalm 1 0 6, 1 0 7. 1 0 6 is an honest look at the history of Israel and the psalmist does not wear any rose colored glasses as he looks back over his people's past and recounts all the times they sinned against the Lord. So he could have gone back and said, here's this high point and this high point and this high point, and look how great we are. And we did this, and then we repented and look how awesome we are here and there. But instead, man, he goes through and here's all of our warts. This is all the times that we failed, and this is all the times that man, God was ready to be done with us. And yet his kindness, his grace, his mercy. And so he balances this in this chapter with a focus on yes, the punishment for their sins, but ultimately that the Lord shows his abundant mercy and grace by not completely wiping them out. And so the history of Israel given here in Psalm oh six is so good. And that's an area that I think. And I was just commenting on this today with you and I and Mark and Lewis. I'm reading this book on the development of the doctrine of the Trinity, and what struck me in reading this is it's, fourth century ad the heavy hitters are still trying to figure out how do we understand the trinity, how do we explain this and what we take for granted. E even though admittedly today, it's still a very difficult doctrine, it's not something that we anybody can clearly explain to us, and yet we understand one God, three persons to get to that place of one God, three persons. Took 400 years, 300 years post Christ to really crystallize some of this ideology. And, some of the heresies that are out there, albeit yes, are dead wrong and heretical like modalism, that God is sometimes the father, sometimes the son, sometimes the spirit. That emerged I think honestly outta somebody that was trying to understand how God. Shows up in scripture and how we're to understand these three people the father, the son, and the Holy Spirit. How does all this work together? So all that same, and it just got me thinking about church history and how grateful I am for the people that went before us that wrestled hard with these things so that we can now study doctrines like the Trinity without having to go maybe we should be Mo Modalist. Or maybe, s was right. Maybe, 'cause his arguments, he's just trying to rap as a. Mind around this. We should be thankful for our past, but also I think there's something, Allah, Psalm 1 0 6, to learn from the errors of the past in the church and to say, okay, we wanna avoid some of these things too, so that we can make sure that we are being the church that God wants us to be. That's exactly right. The errors of the past are often called heresies, and that's what we learn from. Yeah. We still use some of the names today to define the errors that are to be avoided and sometimes we, we fail to explain why heresies are heretical. A heretical idea or understanding about God or the word emerges from someone who probably is sincere as you just brought up. There's a book that I read about that, just about, maybe about a year ago, two years ago at this point by David Alister McAllister called Heresy Uhhuh. I forget if it's Alister McAllister, one of those two. He talks exactly about this and that people don't often understand what the word means. But today, when we understand the word heresy, it means something that is so aberrant and so different from what is. Understood in the text that it does violence to the very foundations of our understanding of God, the gospel, salvation, things like that. So when you're talking about heresy, we're talking about something that's really bad and really destructive to our faith, which is why we are so opposed to them. What's really interesting is that. The church, to your point, pastor PJ has done so much where we're 2000 years old. Yeah. Our church is 2000 years old. Our roots go all the way back to the very beginning with the apostles and with the early disciples. And so we've had 2000 years to hammer out some of these really difficult issues and we now have textbooks called systematic theologies where you can read a really well put together concise, consistent doctrine of the church and doctrine of last things. And I, we just, we read it like, oh, this is nice. Yeah. We don't realize it's taken us. Years of hammering it out, people thinking it over, studying their Bibles, accessing the languages, and putting languages together to give us these rich resources that we now can just pull up on our phone, in the middle of a day. And you say, okay, lemme just read about the atonement. Yeah. No big deal. We have such an embarrassment of riches. It is not even funny. It is wonderful. And we would do well to take it full advantage of all the resources that we have at our fingertips. Yeah. Psalm 1 0 6. A good representation example of remembering the past in a way to benefit the future generations, our present generations. One quick word about Psalm 1 0 6, I didn't realize we're. Moving on. Okay. Psalm 1 0 6. I wanna point to you two verses that go together that are super cool to see. Okay. You ready for this? I heard you say yes. Good. Psalm 1 0 6 verse eight. Yet he saved them for his namesake that he might make known his mighty power. This is something that all Christians are super comfortable with. Christians like us anyway. We believe God does all things for his glory, his honor, his power, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. It's for his power to be displayed. Fantastic. Okay. Scoot on over on your page to Psalm 1 0 6, 45. For their sake, he remembered his covenant and relented according to the abundance of a steadfast love. So who's it for? Is it their sake or his sake? Yes. Yes. This is one of those questions that have two answers. It's for both. God is. Passionate and zealous for his glory. But don't make the mistake of thinking that he doesn't care about you. He does what he does for your sake, even though it is for his sake. It's also for your sake. What's good for God's glory is good for your good and you ought to be comfortable with that. This is such a cool thought. I hope you circle those, connect those two thoughts together. 'cause this is one of those cool places in scripture where it's in the same chapter. His sake and their sake. They're not mutually exclusive. Yeah. Yeah. That, yeah. That's what's so amazing and. We used to tell our college students all the time the gospel's not about you. You're not the hero. The this life is not about you. And yet we get to benefit from the gospel. We get the, to be the recipients of the love of God. We get to, to enjoy heaven and eternity with God. And ultimately it's still even in that not about us. It's about the exaltation of Christ. But we are brought into that in the, at the same time to, to be able to enjoy those things. It's a gracious, loving, merciful God in that sense. For sure. Yeah. He brings us into it in a really. Powerful real way. We're, we share his glory. Yeah. That's, that almost feels wrong to say. Yeah. But we will share in the glory of God. Yeah. Even though he's the one who gets the ultimate glory. That's fascinating to think about all these things. Yeah. Being co-heirs with Christ. Correct. Crazy. Yeah. Alright. Psalm 1 0 7. Psalm 1 0 7 is about deliverance. And this Psalm counts all the times. The Lord had spared his people and and was faithful to them in spite of their circumstances. And so the re repeated refrains here to note are the words. Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble and he delivered them from their distress. And then following that, just a few verses later, each time is this. And let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man. So those two things, they cried, he delivered. And then the response is, let them be thankful for that. And I think that's such a good reminder for us to be a grateful people, a thankful people for our salvation in Christ. Never to get over that, never to treat it as common or banal. That man, God saved me for my sins and I'm justified. I'm forgiven. I've got a future with Christ. But to always be. Find reason, at least there to start to give him thanks and praise for what he's done for us eternally. And Israel, again different circumstance, different situation there. They didn't know salvation the way that you and I know salvation. So how much more should we be grateful and thankful people because of what God has done for us? Amen to that. And I, I couldn't. Help but wonder if verse 29 was in the minds of the apostles the disciples. At that point when Jesus is walking on the waves and when he says, oh yeah, cease be still. Verse 29 says, he made the storm be still and the waves of the sea were hushed. I think this was their experience, and I don't know if they thought about this passage. Maybe they did. I was assume so. Yeah. But when Jesus does what he does and he says, peace be still to the waves and everything suddenly becomes dead silent. Yeah. I could understand why they would be terrified because here it's e evident, they cried to the Lord capital LORD, Yahweh in their trouble and he delivered them from their distress. He made the storm be still, Yahweh alone possesses the ability to do what Jesus does, and therefore their only conclusion is this is more than a man. Yeah. I don't know if they're able to say, this is Yahweh. I. But they could say, this is not a mere man. Yeah. In fact, even verse 30, they were glad that the waters were quiet and he brought them to their desired haven. Yep. There, there's accounts in the gospels where he calms the storm and then immediately they're Okay, how did we get here? Yeah. Teleportation. Yeah. Yeah. And that's why they say, who is this? That calms the, I agree with you a hundred percent. I think that would've been there. In fact, I was listening to something earlier that the Jewish youth. At this time would've had the Torah memorized, but also much of the Old Testament memorized. And so the, it's likely, if not very likely, that the disciples in the boat had Psalm one of 7 29 in their memory banks, and they were ready to pull it out. And so when they see this happen, they're like, wait a minute. I know that I've seen this somewhere. Where did I see this before? Oh, yeah, Psalm 1 0 7. Now, they wouldn't have known the chapter, but they would've said I we've read about this in David Psalms, we know about this. Yeah. That's so interesting to think about. We read stuff like this all the time and I don't think we appreciate because we are so familiar with it what it would be like to be in that situation Totally. To have God the father appear out of a cloud and say, this is my beloved son with whom I'm well pleased. Or to have Jesus say peace be still to the stormy. Yesterday we had a pretty gnarly storm. Yep. I mean it wasn't super cra it was crazy for a few minutes. And we had some clouds that were circling above our neighborhood. But I just imagine Jesus goes outside. He is like, Hey, stop. And everything subtly just, yeah. That would be so surreal. It would be And terrifying. Yeah. Yeah, because it, the, it says in the text there that the waves were stilled. It's not like they. Gradually petered out and yeah, the boats slowly stopped rocking. It was just boom, placid, calm water. Yeah. With no, no movement there. That would blow your mind. Oh, totally. Would. You'd be terrified. Yeah. You do what? Every other person in the scripture who encounters the holiness of God, you do what they do. You fall down. Yeah. And say who is this? I'm terrified. I'm gonna die. Yeah. And you have every reason to believe that unless you're in Christ. Yeah. Benjamin Franklin, I believe it was used to do experiments with oil on how to calm waves and stormy seas. Oh. And so he would use oil that would go out and it would end up suppressing the waves. I don't know all the signs behind it, but he was doing experiments on how you could use oil to calm the waters. Oh. But I don't think he ever calmed the entire sea. Probably not. Yeah. Yeah. That's pretty cool though. Hey, let's let's pray and then we'll be done with this episode. God, we are grateful for Christ. We're thankful for just the joy that we have in knowing him. The joy that we have in knowing the God who calms the sea and the storms. And we're thankful to be able to make connections like that backs to Psalm 1 0 7. That's not something that would come naturally to us, but we're grateful that your word is so cohesive, so unified, that the story is one story. Coursing throughout the entirety of the Old Testament and the New Testament. So help us to grow in our understanding of that and our appreciation of that as well as in our understanding and appreciation of Christ. We're grateful for the deliverance that we do have in Christ because of his death on the cross for our sins and his resurrection that we just celebrated recently. So we thank you for all this in Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Keep reading your Bibles, tuning again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. See you. Bye.

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