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00:00 Introduction and Weekend Weather

00:20 Super Bowl Excitement

01:11 Controversial Halftime Show

02:08 Christian Perspective on Protesting

07:56 Daily Bible Reading: Leviticus

14:35 Daily Bible Reading: Matthew 24

20:06 Conclusion and Prayer

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Speaker:

Back to another edition of

the Daily Bible Podcast.

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What's up folks?

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We are back with you on Saturday, so

hopefully you're enjoying your weekend.

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Some beautiful, sunny, 70 plus degree

weather here in Texas this weekend.

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We had.

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Below freezing temperatures for a week.

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Yes.

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And now we're back at mild spring

temperatures and it's great.

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I love it.

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It's great.

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I love it.

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Windows open.

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This is what I signed up for.

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Everything else.

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Yeah.

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We got the Super Bowl coming tomorrow.

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Oh, you, I know you knew that.

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I know you.

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That's great.

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You got all your gear, all your swag.

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That's right, man.

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Go Chargers.

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They're not in it.

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They're okay.

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Well then I don't care.

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But although I do care I

like to watch the Super Bowl.

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Yeah.

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I do think it's interesting,

especially when it's a good game.

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I do find it the cultural.

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Conversations after the commercials.

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I find that to be fascinating and

enjoyable and even what it says about us.

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Yeah, I think it's a

really helpful mirror now.

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So I do enjoy I don't

know where to find it.

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I'm hoping it's gonna be on one

of the apps that I have currently.

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That'd be nice.

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Usually, usually it is, they

try to make it accessible

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with local channels and stuff.

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I don't have any I have a streaming

services, so hopefully one of

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those, actually I only have YouTube.

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I pay for YouTube.

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Even though you don't need to, I pay for

that 'cause I don't like commercials.

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It's great.

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And do have the NFL app.

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It might be there.

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I hope it's, I hope it's there.

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That one would make sense.

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Okay.

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We have a question.

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Well, lemme tie it in.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Super Bowl, the halftime performer.

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This Super Bowl.

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Oh, who is it?

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Is your favorite?

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My F Yeah.

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Justin Bieber.

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Bad bunny.

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Congrat.

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Oh.

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Oh yeah.

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That's my second favorite.

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To be clear.

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No, I, okay.

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Full disclosure, I have

no idea who that is.

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I just never heard of one of his songs.

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Okay.

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So it's a his.

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I'm with you.

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Yes, it's a hym.

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I thought I was a woman at

first, but the controversy.

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About this and it has led

President Trump to even say,

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I'm not going to the Super Bowl.

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And it's led Turning Point USA to

say, we're doing our own thing.

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Their own Super Bowl, their

own Super Bowl halftime show.

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Oh, okay.

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So Turning Point USA is gonna offer

their own Super Bowl halftime show.

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Kid Rock is performing at that one.

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Oh, I.

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It's because Bad Bunny has made

it patently obvious, number one,

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just immoral as immoral can be.

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Number two, he's made it blatantly obvious

that he is opposed to everything going on

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right now as far as immigration reform.

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And so there's actually betting

lines on whether he will make a

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statement during the Super Bowl

halftime show about ice specifically.

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Wow.

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And.

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The way that connects to this is the

question that we had written in was a

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question about Christians and protesting.

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Mm.

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And so we've got a lot of people

pro protesting today on multiple

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sides of many issues out there.

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But why don't you frame

the question for us?

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Okay.

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So it is simply this, is it biblically

supported to politically protest

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issues, whatever they happen to be?

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We know this is an American privilege.

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We have the freedom of speech, and part

of that freedom of speech is to protest

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as long as it's lawful and peaceful.

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This happened famously, most

recently during the during COVID

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lockdowns, the George Floyd riots

and Protestings were taking place.

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And there was large gatherings

where the government said, we're

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gonna let this happen because

this is a freedom of speech issue.

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We're not gonna clamp down on this.

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It was famously an issue because

churches were locked down.

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They weren't able to get

together in a similar way.

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So the question is simply,

is this okay for us to do?

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Is this lawful, is this biblical?

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Is this even encouraged?

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And some to some extent.

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Sure.

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How would you understand this?

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So a few thoughts.

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Number one, has given us our

rights and he's given us the rights

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that we even have in this country.

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Now, let me distinguish that the

rights that we enjoy as Americans

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are not biblically guaranteed rights.

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And so if we lose those rights, it's

not that we can point to scripture and

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say, we are biblically guaranteed the

rights that we have in this country.

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And we can't argue that because there

are Christians all over the world that

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don't have the same rights that we do.

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Hmm.

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And so we get.

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Them and they're a stewardship

from the Lord for us to use

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voting, so forth and so on.

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So as such, the right to go out and

protest exercise, freedom of speech is

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something that we have as an American.

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We can steward that, right?

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As long as it is not leading

us into sinful behavior.

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And so we need to make

sure a couple things.

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Number one, what we're protesting

is biblically supportable that

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we are going out to protest.

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For example, let's use the issue of

ending the life of a preborn child.

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Okay.

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We would say it's biblically

commendable to protest and to say We

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are against the termination of life.

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We are against that, that's wrong.

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And we would stand against that.

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And if we have the opportunity to go

and rally and make our voice heard as

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a people and we're gonna stand up and

say March for Life, things like that,

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yes, we're gonna participate in that.

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I think that's biblically commendable.

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I would say.

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Second, we need to make sure that we

are not that, that we are not certainly.

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Crossing the line with our heart

attitude and our heart posture

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in this, that we're not sinful in

the manner in which we protest.

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Certainly they're not

protesting necessarily.

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Something I would say is biblical

supportable, but everything going up in

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Min Minneapolis right now, the protests

that are happening right now, the

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violence, the vitriol, the hatred, the

language that's spewing forth a Christian

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would have a very hard time participating

in that protest in a way that is

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biblically something that you would say,

yes, this is a good and right thing to do.

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And then third we have to

understand that we are.

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Strangers and aliens in this world

that we're never going to get to a

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place where we would probably say,

as Christians, I don't have anything

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that I would protest against.

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I think as long as we are in this

world and this world is governed by

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the prince of the power of the air,

we as Christians are gonna always say,

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there's something here that isn't right.

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And so we can't be those that are

always looking for opportunities

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to protest, that are always looking

under every rock to find something

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to protest and stand up against.

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So I guess that's a long answer to

say, is it biblically permissible?

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I think so.

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Permissible, yeah.

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But not necessarily biblically encouraged.

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I don't know that I would say

that it's a necessity for somebody

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to participate in protest.

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That it would be something

that I would say, yeah, you

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should, you need to go do that.

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I suppose it in part for me would

rely upon what you mean by protesting.

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Protesting can be done

in a few different ways.

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And the way that I think we're

most often familiar with, the way

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that we're tempted to think about

is the one where people march.

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They hold signs and they chant things

together in unison, and they do so

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in a place that is highly symbolic.

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Usually it's peaceful and it's ideal form.

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It's peaceful.

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Yeah.

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And so if that's what you mean, I

would say, I don't think there's

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a category for that in scripture.

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I don't think they even

knew what that was.

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They had riots, right.

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And I think about the riot and Ephesus.

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So we have a category for.

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Unpeaceful protesting and non

peaceful protesting a riot where

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when Paul's preaching the gospel

and he's speaking against their

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gods and so they say, we need to go

away with this guy, kill this guy.

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Or even something similar to what

was happening in Jerusalem or yeah,

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Jerusalem, when Jesus is being

tried there was close to a riot.

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So PIL wants to t it down by saying,

all right, I'll release him to you.

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You killed this guy, but I

want nothing to do with it.

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Right?

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So I see riots in the Bible

and those are frowned upon.

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Obviously those are not good situations.

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Anytime they show up,

they're not for good reasons.

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Protesting as we understand

it today in:

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I don't think it has a category in

scripture, so I would, I'm gonna

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have to do some work here, which

tells me does God want us to voice

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his truth in venues that are public?

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Absolutely and clearly in the

ministry of Paul in his first,

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second, third missionary journeys.

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Part of his mo.

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He wants to go to places where he can

be heard and be given an audience.

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Now, this is not protesting in the

strictest sense, but you see public

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profession taking place in an area

where he can get maximal bandwidth.

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Jesus, if you want to call it

this, did something very similar.

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He wanted public attention

for what he was saying.

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Paul, at the Opus, he's in front

of the Greeks and they're saying,

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well, he'll you more about this.

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Tell us more about this

religion that you believe in.

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That said, I think it's appropriate

for Christians to use their voice

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if they have one to make inroads for

for change, whatever that looks like.

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And I know there's lots of different

ways that we can approach that.

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So I don't think protesting is biblical

in the sense that it's there, but the

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principles that underlie it, speaking

for truth, speaking up for those who have

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no voice using your political power, and

Christians as a voting block do have it.

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And I think we're crazy not to use it.

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We should use it.

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If we can agree about what

we should use it for, I guess

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that's a different conversation.

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But absolutely.

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I think scriptures would encourage

us to use the resources and the

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stewardship even in Matthew 25, the

talents, what we think about talents

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in terms of what our, what we can do.

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Well, all of us have a talent,

a resource of voting power, and

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we'd be crazy not to utilize that.

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Yeah, I would agree.

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I'm with you.

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Let's turn to our DBR for today.

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We're in Leviticus one through three.

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If you've got more questions on

that clarifying questions in that,

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we'd be happy to pull the thread on

that a little bit more Rebuttals.

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Rebuttals, Leviticus one through

three, and then we'll be in

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the rest of Matthew Chapter 24.

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So we're starting a brand new

book, dude, Leviticus, this is fun.

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It is.

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And this is such a fun book.

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There's a lot in here, man.

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There's a lot in here.

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I you say it was your favorite book.

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I don't know this.

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Still your favorite?

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I don't know if I'd go that far.

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Number one, Leviticus, number two.

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Song as solo.

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Yeah.

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Clearly as a heads up, if you're reading

through this with your family, if this

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is your first time in Leviticus in a

long time, or if your kids are reading

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it on their own, just know Leviticus

deals with some pretty adult level

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conversations, adult level things.

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It's probably wise if you're.

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Having your kids read through the

Old Testament to read through these

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sections with them to be able to

help them understand what's going on.

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And maybe you wanna read ahead

of them a little bit on that too.

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Leviticus one through three.

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What stood out to me this time

as we're getting into this is,

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here's how you're gonna do this.

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So the Tabernacle's now set up here's

how you're gonna do everything.

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Here's the instructions for all the

offerings and the sacrifices that

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are gonna need to be done here.

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And God has very specific instructions

because he wants Israel to be different.

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He wants them to stand out.

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So he's gonna begin talking about

the bowls, and he's gonna talk about

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sheeps and goats and birds and all

kinds of different offerings here.

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What I found fascinating

this time is with.

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Specifically the burnt offering

here that the worshiper is

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the one that kills the animal.

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I was in my head, I don't know why I

didn't see this before, thought that

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the worshiper brings the animal, but the

priest is the one that kills the animal.

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But in verse five, it says, then he

shall kill the bull before the Lord.

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That's the worshiper.

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That's the one that brings the bull.

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And so the priest is the one that's gonna

take the carcass then and go and offer it.

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But the worshiper is the one that has

to participate in the bloodletting in

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the execution of the animal itself.

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Yeah.

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Which is interesting because the title

of the book would lead you to believe

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that this is primarily for the Levites,

and I guess you could say that Yeah.

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Leviticus comes from the Greek subin,

which is a, which means that the

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word means pertaining to the Levites.

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Yeah.

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So most of these religious cultic

instructions and cultic, not in a

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negative sense, cultic as pertaining

to the cult, the religious cult of.

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Judaism this is pertaining to what they're

to do, and it is primarily ink spilled

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for how they're to conduct worship.

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In the Hebrew Bible it's

not as complicated as that.

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It's just any cult, which is I think, is.

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Pretty bad name, but

that's what they called it.

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We call it Leviticus because it

relates mostly to the tribe of

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Levi, who by the way, don't forget.

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The reason that they're given these

instructions is because they are

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now in place of the firstborn.

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Remember we looked at this in the

book of at Exodus where God says,

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the firstborns, you have to redeem,

but now he's saying instead of the

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firstborns, I'm just gonna let the.

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Tribe of Levi is spec, specifically the

men over 20 and up, I think through 50.

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They're gonna take the place

of the firstborn in Israel and

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they'll be the ones who conduct

worship services at the tabernacle.

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Yeah.

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Notice that God does give permission

and you've brought this out before for

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those that can't necessarily afford

to bring the full bull or the goat or

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the other animals that he provides.

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Caveats for that.

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He says, look, if you can't do this,

bring something, bring what you can bring.

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And for many it looks like that was

the turtle doves or the pigeons that

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they would bring to, to offer in

place of the larger animals that maybe

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the family couldn't afford or they

didn't have access to at the time.

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Yeah, this is the pattern and this is what

God is calling us to and or not calling

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us to, but calling Israel to at the time.

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And it's important to know that this

is not completely unique to Israel

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offerings and sacrifices were offered by

other nations, but this is God saying,

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this is the way I want you to do it.

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This is how you're gonna do it with

me, and this is what's successful.

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Acceptable, and this is

what's not acceptable.

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I think it's interesting in chapter

two that God tells them to season all

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of their grain offerings with salt.

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God is not eating this

food as it's being offered.

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God is not eating the grain here,

and yet he calls it, seasoning it

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and he says, you shall not let the

salt of the covenant with your God

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be missing from your grain offering.

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There were those that.

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Pointed out, or at least some of the

commentaries that I read, that salt was

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impervious to the heat of the offering.

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And so the salt would remain.

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And so it was almost a reminder of God's

covenant love and the persistence of his

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covenant, so that after the, that was

gone, the Israelites would be left to,

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to see the salt leftover and be reminded

of God's covenant faithfulness to them.

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Peace offerings in chapter three.

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You've got all kinds of these

different categories here.

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And so the categories are notable for

us, burn offerings, sin offerings,

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grain offerings, peace offerings,

wave offerings so much sin offerings.

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We're gonna get to, I

guess in chapter four.

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But this was something that.

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Essentially suggested that Israel was

gonna be perpetually offering animals on

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an ongoing basis here at the Tabernacle.

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Yeah.

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And one of your favorite verses here,

verse 16, all fat is the Lord's.

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What's that about?

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It is my favorite verse.

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No, there were some things that

the priest were not to eat, so they

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were given specific instructions.

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You can eat this, you can't eat this.

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And the fat, I don't know if

it's the richness of the fat.

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I don't know if it's the,

this is some of the choice.

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Parts of it, and we're saying

we're giving the best to the Lord.

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And so that's why the Lord gets this.

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But the priests were prohibited

from engaging in the fat.

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So the gristle, if you let gristle on

your meat, which I'm not a big fan of,

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that you couldn't have been a priest.

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I don't mind it if it's good.

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So, is it okay then if someone,

if a Christian company takes this

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and puts us on a workout shirt,

is this okay for them to do that?

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All fat is the Lord's, as

tongue in cheek, as a joke.

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As long as they're ready to explain

that's not exactly what that means.

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All right, well notice here, and

you guys have seen this, right?

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This is a violent, this

is a violent religion.

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Violent as in, there's lots

of blood being Chad here.

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And there's animals being burnt.

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They're being filet, they're being

cut open and certain things are

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being taken out and other things

being sacrificed here and there.

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I need you to see this in part and

not be, not immediately recoil.

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I know as Americans, we don't slaughter

any of our own meat, and so we're not

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used to seeing animal death in this

particular way, but I want you to see

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that God institutes this because this is

how they're going to relate to their God.

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Sin is the problem.

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The sacrifices are the

temporary, immediate solution.

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This is God making a picture for them

to say, your sin is so grievous that.

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Something else innocent, and I'm using

air quotes here, innocent needs to die in

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your place to keep our fellowship working.

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And this is how there to dwell with God.

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This is how God's going

to dwell with them.

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And so all these things that you're

seeing that probably repulse you a

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little bit, need to be internalized

as this is what sin does.

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It creates barriers between me and God,

and something has to die in my place for

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me to enjoy this fellowship with God.

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So as you read this, if you get a

little queasy reading this stuff,

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I just need you to see this is

important because we don't do.

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And it's not because this isn't

necessary, it's because Jesus was the

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necessary sacrifice on our behalf.

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Praise God.

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We don't have to apply Leviticus in

its sacrificial code, but the only

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reason why is because the lamb of

God was sacrificed once and for all.

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If it weren't for that, these

would all still be binding.

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Yeah.

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And thankfully, thankfully they're not.

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And that was a violent death too.

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Yes.

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Jesus did not go out peacefully.

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Yes.

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He went out peacefully.

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He didn't go out without.

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A lot of trouble.

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Alright, let's flip over

to Matthew chapter 24.

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As we finish up here, Matthew chapter

24, we are continuing to talk about the

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signs of the times and he's going to

give us some more on the tribulation

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period here, as well as give us.

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Some parables about the coming

end here, the coming of the son of

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man, the lesson of the fig tree.

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Maybe not parables so much as some

explanations here, but you brought

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up verse 24 and you couldn't get

there 'cause we weren't there yet.

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So why don't you unpack

verse 24 a little bit for us.

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You were gonna talk about this yesterday.

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Verse 24, the false Christ

false prophets are gonna arise.

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Was that the one I was looking at?

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You.

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I could talk about it.

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The one you mentioned.

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I don't know if that's the

one that you had in mind.

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Alright, well, false Christ and false

prophets will arise and perform great.

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Si.

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This is scary.

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Great signs and wonders so as

to lead astray if possible.

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Even the elect.

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Okay, let's cut to the quick here.

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Jesus is calling the shots and he needs

you to see that there's going to be

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a time, a period of human history and

hopefully you're not around for this,

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where there's gonna be convincing Christ.

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And convincing prophets,

why are they convincing?

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Well, because they arise and

perform great signs and wonders.

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Jesus warns us that the next time

that we should experience and expect

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a rash of signs and wonders are during

this particular time of human history.

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The eschaton the last days.

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And so he says, you gotta be aware of

this because these guys are seriously

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threatening in terms of their deception

ability if you're performing science.

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Beyond what David blamed and what

he does, by the way, it's pretty

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remarkable Sometimes I wonder if

whether or not he's made a deal

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behind the scenes with somebody, but.

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Jesus says beware.

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And so what you see here is pretty

scary unless he says in the second

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part of the verse so as to lead astray

if possible, even the elect, which

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tells us that it's not possible.

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If it were possible, they would

even be led astray because this

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is how powerful the delusion is.

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That's something to be aware of.

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I don't think it's something you

personally have to be aware of

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unless you're around for that time.

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But hopefully you're not.

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Yeah, hopefully none of us are.

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And the way you make sure that

you're not gonna be there is

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getting right with the Lord.

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Now, before that time

comes, that's a good call.

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He talks about the second

coming, what it's gonna be like.

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He says, look it's going to be

after the tribulation period.

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The days the sun is gonna be dark.

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The moon is not gonna give its light.

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The stars are gonna fall from heaven.

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And then it says they will appear,

then will appear in the sky, the

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sign of the sun of man, and all

the tribes on earth will mourn.

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This is a picture of Daniel seven

with Jesus coming back on the clouds

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and he's coming with the power.

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He's coming with the glory.

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He's coming with redemption.

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For him and his followers he's

not coming back as the one that

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is the meek and lowly one, the way

he came at the first appearance.

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And so then he goes on here and

he's encouraging his disciples.

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He's gonna say this, he's gonna say,

look you need to be ready for this.

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And so you need to look.

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To the fig tree.

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You need to look to, to find out.

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You need to see the sign of the times.

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As you can interpret these things

on the tree, you need to be able to

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interpret the things that are coming.

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Then he makes this fascinating

statement in verse 34.

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He says, this generation will not pass

away until all these things take place.

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That may lead you to think He's

talking about the immediate context of

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those disciples, but rather, I think

he's talking about the interpret the

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generation that begins to see these

signs, that generation is not gonna

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pass away before everything else

takes place as the tribulation begins.

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That generation is not gonna.

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Disappear.

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It's not gonna be a prolonged,

drawn out, multiple, decades thing.

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And that goes back to, I think he cuts

it short for the sake of the elect.

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But rather, all of this is gonna

happen within the time of those

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that begin to witness these

things as they're taking place.

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Notice Jesus pairs special

revelation with general revelation.

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And you just talked about it, verse 32.

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Jesus says, look at the fig tree.

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Learn from the fig tree and for the fig

tree would've been general revelation.

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This is how God explains

himself in creation.

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Look at the sunrise and the sunset.

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Look at the birds of the air.

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Go look at the ant.

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Scripture says, scripture constantly

points us to general revelation.

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We're not we're not the kind of people

that we only look at our Bible and say

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that's all we're gonna use to, to develop

our understanding of the world around us.

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It is our primary lens, but we

use this primary lens to look at.

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Everything else around us.

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So we should be studying things

that God gives us access to.

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General revelation is a gift of

God that we should make use of,

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but again, we study and we learn

through the lens of scripture.

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Verse 36, concerning that day in hour,

no one knows even the angels in heaven

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with a son, but the Father only.

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Do you think Jesus now

knows when he's coming back?

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Hmm.

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What is, I don't know, for

200, man, I'm with you on that.

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Part of me thinks he does

because I wonder if this was an

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admission during his kenosis.

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He's still got the human form though.

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He still has the human form, but

Philippians two, he's been exalted and

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given the name that's above all names.

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Well, if you want to go like

that he knew here too then.

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'cause he was still deity.

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He chose in his humanity not to know.

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Right.

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But in his deity, he could not not know.

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Right.

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Right.

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But I would say part of the kenosis

was the veiling of his glory.

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And so I believe the kenosis if not

fully is undone now in his exalted,

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resurrected form that he's no longer

humbled to the point of, I, I don't

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think the kenosis, in other words,

is a permanent state of Christ.

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I think it, I agree.

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It was the purpose of the

work that he came to do.

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I agree with that and a

hundred percent I would agree.

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I would, I'm just making the point.

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I don't know if he's received the

highest level of his exalted glory

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that he has promised to receive at

the end of the ages, and so, right.

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Whether he has it now

or whether he has it.

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After the great white throne judgment

where he is exalted and all of his

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enemies are crushed under his feet.

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I don't know.

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I guess I'm ambivalent in terms of when

he gets it, but I don't know if he does.

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I just say He knew here too.

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Yeah.

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He chose not to know.

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And I think when we talk about the

kenosis, Jesus emptying himself out.

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Taking on the form of a servant and

veiling his deity, doesn't mean that

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he didn't have access to those things.

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He chose not to make use of that access.

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As I understand it.

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Yeah, that's fair.

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Rest of the chapter, he's gonna

convey this need to be ready that

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we should be ready for his return.

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And he talks about the faithful and

wise servant is the one that is found

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doing what his master has given him

to do so that when the master returns,

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he has nothing to be ashamed of.

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He's ready for the return of the master.

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And that's a good word to us

as the church, that we should

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be ready for that as well.

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Let's pray towards that end and then

we'll be done with this episode.

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God, make us such a church that's busy,

about the work that you have for us to do

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that's busy, about the great commission

that's busy about seeing disciples made

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for your glory and for the kingdom.

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And so we thank you for the opportunity

to do that, the opportunity to serve you.

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We pray that we be

faithful towards that end.

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In Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Hey, keeping you reading your

Bibles, y'all, and if Jesus doesn't

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come back tonight, we'll catch

you again tomorrow for another

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We'll see you then.

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