Allen, Jeramie, Teddy: Well, welcome back to the SCC Saver Podcast where we're savoring God through every bite of scripture. I'm one of your co-hosts, Alan, and I'm joined with host, co-host? Jeremy, what are you? Are you host, co-host? There's a couple times you haven't been on here, so I don't know if you can I'm whatever has a bigger paycheck. Neither. Neither. Okay, so it doesn't matter. What about Teddy? Dude, ⁓ yeah, Teddy's What am I? Who am I? I don't know. This is like your... Have you been here? Twice in a row now or three? Two or three maybe. It's kind of getting creepy. you So are you a co-host yet? When did you become a co-host? I don't know. I feel like the listeners can decide. I feel like this is cool because you're the co-host although you're the apprentice and he's technically your boss. It's true. But you're drunk with power now. But you're my boss so we have like three generations of bosses in this room. That's super. No two generations of bosses. That's neat. So we don't know who to listen to. That's great. So it's just chaos. Yeah. It's chaos. Thankfully, God presented his word in an orderly fashion. Yes. We might be chaotic. God is not. Everything he does is intentional. Speaking of that, one of the intentional things in scripture is how he relates to his people through covenant, which is going to be big theme today as we look more at the story of David. So where we're hopping in is month three, days 14 through 19. And you would have read 2 Samuel 1-13, Mark 13-1465, 2 Corinthians 12, and through the end and then Galatians 1-314, and then Psalms 107-112. As we just mentioned, God relates to his people through covenant, and 2 Samuel highlights one of the covenant figures, covenant heads, in David. Everyone knows the story of David, even secular people know the story of David, but What do we learn about David, about his covenant, about what's happening in this point in Israel's history, Jeremy? ⁓ Well, at the end of 1 Samuel, Saul is now dead. And so we see David becomes the king of Judah, and then ⁓ God continuously and progressively establishes his throne, so that he then eventually puts down the other ⁓ claimant to the throne, Ish- both. Theft. Chef? Anyway. Heard it both ways. Yeah, that's right. ⁓ A poor guy. I'm sure. His mom. Why did she name him that? It's a rough name. It's rough name. Yeah. Ish-bo-chef. Yeah, there's two menish-s in there. he, yeah, so David overcomes him in the Civil War. I think the point is, is like God is establishing him, establishing him. Then it sort of climaxes in chapter seven. where not only has God given him the throne of all Israel, but now he's going to establish the house of David permanently. And this is where we come to the Davidic covenant. know, David says, hey, God, I want to build you a house, you know, a temple. And Nathan the prophet's like, sure, that sounds cool, David. And then that night, God says to Nathan the prophet, go tell David, don't build me a house, I'm going to build you a house. And so that Davidic covenant, is really important. So what are some of the, let's just think, what are the big covenants that been in the Bible so far? Abrahamic covenant. Abrahamic. Even before Abraham? Yes, the creation covenant. Covenant of redemption. Covenant of redemption. Covenant of redemption. What's the covenant of redemption, Jeremy, for those who don't know? That's God's promise. Are you talking about like the eternal covenant? Yeah, God's eternal plan within God's self to redeem a people for. Glory yeah, that's right. It's you know it's that which the father and the son of the spirit purpose to do before creation Yeah, that's great Then you have the Adamic covenant people talk about yeah, where Adam is told like you know ⁓ Yeah Take care of the garden watch over it protect dominion have dominion. That's right be fruitful multiply Don't do this thing don't do this one thing. Yeah, they did it fail. Yeah, so then yeah, no way at covenant Noah Noah That's right. God restarts in a way. Creation 2.0 Creation 2.0. Then we have the Abrahamic covenant. Then we get the Mosaic covenant, right? Which is this majority of what we've been reading thus far. That's right. And then now we have our next major covenant, which is the Davidic covenant. Interestingly, in the Abrahamic covenant, there's the promise of the Mosaic covenant that God is going to bring the people to the land. But there's also the promise embedded in it of the Davidic covenant because you know God says Abraham Kings will come from you and so now you have the fulfillment of that in King David. Yeah, yeah. Teddy you love this story. I've heard you talk about a little bit. ⁓ What are kind of some of the, what is the significance of the establishment of the Davidic covenant that's going to play out? and the rest of redemptive history in the Bible. Like, why is this such an important covenant, and why did this one have to be made? Yeah, that's good. Well, I mean, just one, you know, all the covenants are, like, progressing that original covenant that God is going to make and save a people for himself. And here we have, you know, the king who's supposed to essentially, like, embody that, right? And so, in chapter seven, You get that. You get that. Hey, I mean, this is like Pete. This is peak. is this is God saying, I'm going to establish your throne forever. And it's going to be this huge blessing to your family, to the people. And then chapters eight and nine are our peak peak king. Yeah. He defeats all God's enemies. Yes. And he shows like just like pure love and kindness to Mephibosheth. to the son of his enemy. And it's just the picture of what the king of God's people is supposed to be. Which prefigures Christ. Yeah, that's right. Yet the throne of his kingdom said he'd be established forever. That's 13. And there are things pretty interesting, significant in this Davidic covenant is after the Lord makes this covenant. With David, David's response, his prayer of gratitude, it just results in praise. Right? When God deals with his people according to his set-fast love and purposes, the proper response of David is recognizing praise. You are God, you alone. You are great, O Lord, and there's no one like you. There's no God besides you. And so God continues to deal with his people with David to establish his throne forever, which again, we've talked about is going to point toward Christ, which we'll see in Psalm 110 actually a little bit. But yeah, if it had not been for this Davidic covenant, then there would be no Christ to sit on the throne. And so he had to establish his plans moving forward to save the people for himself. Yeah. Maybe I'll just read it real quick. Second Samuel 7, 11 through 13. The Lord declares to you, the Lord himself will make a house for you. When your time comes, he will rescue the fathers. He will raise up for you your descendant who will come from your own body. I will establish his kingdom and he's the one who will build a house for my name and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. So just as Abraham is promised that from his offspring all the nations will be blessed, that same idea that now this is a descendant of Abraham who will now be a descendant of David through whom the kingdom of God will be established forever and it will come from his own body and who will build the house of God. That's But shortly after this we have kind of David's fall. demise with the incident with Bathsheba. Yes, we know he breaks a few of the law. He covets his neighbor's wife. ⁓ He commits adultery and then he murders. So it's just a casketing down downhill effect of sin. David, although the Lord had established covenant with him. ⁓ What do we make of David's fall and what that would mean for the throne and for the kingdom? I think. I think the most important thing is that again, this is like Adam failing in the garden. You have like this ideal set up, Adam's there, he's the king, fill the earth and subdue it, rule over the whole world. And here's David being like the new Adam who's going to bring about God's kingdom. And then just as Adam totally crashes and burns, David totally crashes and burns. It's pretty tragic actually. to the narrator takes us on a kind of a ⁓ bender loop. like, yeah, this is great. And then all of sudden, boom, all comes crashing down, which again is in the wisdom of God points to a better king. There's a necessity for a better king. Yeah, that's right. That's right. And what's kind of interesting is, is then it's sort of, if you go back to that covenant, you know, God says, I'm going to raise up a son from your body and I'll establish his kingdom forever and he'll build the house. And in some ways that's fulfilled in Solomon, who is the king, who will have the throne established, who will build the temple. But already we're seeing that these kings are already falling short. Even David, like just two chapters later, is falling short. And so it it yearns for the king who will be forever, Jesus, and the temple he will build, which is not a building of stones in Jerusalem, but it's a global temple of living stones, his church. Yeah. And I think... Also, you know the point of Bathsheba too or one of the points of the David and Bathsheba is that it's not just falling short It's not like he was like he was good, but he just didn't didn't get there. Mm-hmm Yeah, but it was like he just face planted off the cliff. Yeah I mean, you know some of the lines that are that are jarring in chapter 12 when when God confronts David Just as God confronted Adam and Eve in the garden and then pronounced a curse on them So God confronts David through Nathan the prophet You know, look at verse 10. Now, therefore, the sword will never leave your house. There's the curse because you despised me. Yeah. Or verse 14. However, because you treated the Lord with such contempt. it's not, you're right, Teddy. It's not just like, David had, you know, he's a good guy, but he had some few problems. Like he despised God and treated him with contempt. That's what sin is. Yeah. It's despising God and treating God with contempt, which is super sobering. And one thing I think that I was encouraged this reading through is just that there is that insanely sobering description of sin. But also David's an encouraging picture of the way he reacts to sin in his relationship with God. Yeah. Right. He's mourning his child's death, but then his child dies and he turns around and goes to worship. Yeah. Right. And that that David's grief and sorrow over his sin is appropriate, but it doesn't go on forever. And that he turns back to the Lord. You realize David needs a savior. Yeah. Yeah. Great. Well, we see ⁓ this Davidic covenant kind of play out and then we see a Psalm actually in here attributed to David here in Psalm 110. ⁓ Little fun fact about Psalm 10 if you didn't know this you can get some brownie points for this Daddy will give you a brownie if you come and tell him this He didn't say that but Most cool something maybe something high five. I don't know something most quoted Old Testament passage Psalm 110 yes one through two. That's right Yeah, so I mean this is one that if you're reading through the Bible, and you know, there's a lot of Psalms But one you ought to kind of mentally flag in terms of ⁓ important Psalms, just by, like you said, ⁓ Alan, just by how often it's referenced, is 110. So it's one that you ought to kind of just double-click on as a Bible reader because it pops up again and again in different ways in the New Testament. Yeah. So what is, Jeremy, kind of the significance? Why is it quoted so much and why is this such an important Psalm to understand in the Bible? It's important because Jesus himself flags it as one of the Psalms that points to himself. so I think because Jesus, ⁓ you know, highlights it, the church latched onto it and unfolded it, you know, it's a Psalm of David. But then it says, this is the direct declaration of the Lord, that is Yahweh God, to my Lord. So you're like, wait a minute. So David saying that God is saying to his Lord. it makes you wonder like, who's David's Lord? He's the king. So it's already like we're in weird land. ⁓ And then he says, God says to David's Lord, sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your your foots, like who in the world would sit at God's right hand? ⁓ then of course, the other thing is down in verse four where it says the Lord has sworn an oath and will not take it back. You are a priest forever according to the pattern of Melchizedek. So now you have a king. who's above David sitting in God's right hand, but who's also a priest in the order of Melchizedek, who we have not heard from since Genesis. So it's like this Psalm is just like, it kind of comes out of nowhere and it just begs the question, who in the world are we talking about? king who's above David and a priest who's above Abraham. That's right. Yeah. Doesn't come from Abraham. Snap. Yeah. Because Jesus is the better prophet, priest, and king. ⁓ This Melchizedek figure, just a quick blurb. Mysterious. Genesis 14, 18 is where he actually comes up and this is the first time I think we hear about him since then and then it's picked up in Hebrews specifically about Jesus being a priest after the order of Melchizedek. What does that mean that he's a priest after this order? In other words, he's not of the order of Aaron, who is, you know, the brother of Moses, the descendant of Abraham. Like Teddy said, this isn't someone coming out of Abraham. This is a totally different order, ⁓ a different status. And he's above Abraham. The author of Hebrews draws attention to the fact that Abraham gives him tithes, not the other way around. And so that he's above the Levitical priesthood. so it's really cool. And I think what's encouraging about this is given what we just said about the Davidic covenant, is that God is going to fulfill his promise to David. But it's not, and it's gonna be through a descendant of David, but it's gonna be someone who's greater than a descendant of David. ⁓ And so ⁓ it really is pointing, I think Psalm 110 is a. that's connecting us from the Davidic Covenant to Jesus. Yeah, that's great. And to kind of just draw some like of the theological significance in the life of every single one of you guys as believers filled with the Spirit is because of our union with Christ, having been united with Christ in his priesthood forever, we now are a priesthood of all believers because we are in Christ and have a duty to fulfill what Christ has won on our behalf so that we can be his representatives here on earth and that there be unity in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit with people and that we together collectively as the church are the priesthood, which is really encouraging that you don't need some special priest, you don't need anyone to go mediate on your behalf, but because of your unification with Christ, we together are the body of Christ, are the priest of all believers, which is super encouraging. Yeah, that's right. I mean, that's why Teddy and I are pastors. We're not priests, except in the sense that every Christian in our church is a priest. The kingdom of priests and the holy nation. know, don't, Teddy and I don't mediate between the members of our church and God. ⁓ That's just such a terrible concept. It's so anti-gospel. So anti-gospel. The whole good news of the gospel is that the priest in the Order of Melchizedek has finished with the sacrifices and that he is our priest. It's finished in that it's not going on. He's a priest forever, forever in the order of Melchizedek. So we have a king and it's Jesus, and we have a priest and it's Jesus. And he currently is and is going to forever continue to be. Yeah, that's right. And so all we are as pastors is just fellow citizens and fellow priests who are just Saying hey, here's what the king says and holding up our Bibles and pointing to it Yeah, like really that's all we do is we just tell people whether from the pulpit or on a podcast or in individually like hey remember what the Bible says Yeah, I'm sure it's encouraging. Yeah Speaking of Jesus. We've been talking about him a lot. Yeah, we're gonna look at the marks gospel here 1332 through 1465 so coming down towards the end we're going to Jesus the final week of his life. We've been in there reading ⁓ pretty significant passages here. We have ⁓ both Jesus predicting Judas' betrayal, which is a significant event, of course, and then Peter's denial and the disciples abandonment here. So kind of jump in here speaking about Mark's gospel. ⁓ What's up with Judas? Infamously. ⁓ man. Yeah, you know what's interesting about Judas to me is that when Jesus says one of you is gonna betray me, the disciples didn't all roll their eyes and look at Judas. Like nobody knew, in fact they all said, is it me? So like Judas, like Judas is obviously this nefarious character who Jesus is like better if you hadn't been born. ⁓ But. like nobody could tell, which I think is really interesting because sometimes we're shocked when we hear about people who seem like they're great Christians, but then you find out they have like this total double life or something. We're like, how is that possible? It's like, ⁓ yeah, human beings are totally capable of faking everybody out. can't fake out God, but Judas had everyone faked out. It's crazy. And it's just to not go backwards, but it It struck me with David, it took, know, David was so mad when Nathan gave this story about the kid and his lamb being taken away. Yeah, that's right. And he's so mad, he doesn't see his own sin. He doesn't see that mapped onto himself and he's so self-deceived by his sins. And so there's an essence, like we can just cover up sins so well for ourselves and for others. Yeah. I think one of the most interesting things in this this narrative in this in this section ⁓ is the idea that we'll just say out of text here we talk about it 1421 for the son of man goes at his as it is written of him but woe to the man by whom the son of man is betrayed talking about Judas it would have been better for that man if he had not been bored this this verse is perplexing because it's written of him that this would happen that this was God's plan when we talked about kind of the covenant of redemption where God would redeem and this is how he would do it through his son but at the same time it's better that Jesus didn't go but clearly that was the plan all along how does how does the crucifixion of Christ being the ordained plan and mark recording Jesus saying that Judas It would have been better if he didn't born. How does one reconcile those two truths together? Yeah, I guess I would see ⁓ the fact that Judas is going to betray Jesus as part of God's providential plan. But the statement, it would have been better for me not been born. What that's saying is it's a ⁓ figure of speech to say like Judas, like it's so bad what you're about to do and it's so bad what's going to that the judgment you're gonna deserve. Like it'd been better if you hadn't been born. In other words, it's a figure of speech to shock the listener into showing the dire status of Judas. And let's also be clear, the fact that Judas is doing this and has been written about him doesn't mean that God's making him do something against his own natural desires and evil instincts. It's not like Judas is a really good guy. And then God like Jedi mind tricks him and he's like, you will betray Jesus. And this really good guy named Judas goes, I will betray Jesus. And then it's like, ha ha, you fulfilled the plan. Like Judas is a bad guy. And humanly speaking, like, yeah bro, it would have better if you hadn't been born. And the, you know, better if you hadn't been born, you you could say that about everyone who faces the eternal wrath of God. It's not just him specifically because he betrayed Christ. Is that if you go to hell, it would have been better for you if you hadn't been born. Yeah. That's a point. Yeah. So it's a shocking figure of speech to show the dire circumstances of a person. And before we go to 2nd Corinthians, I just wanted to point out, you know, we walked through the Old Testament covenants and the Davidic covenant that's looking forward to Christ. And then Christ himself institutes the new covenant in Mark 14. Mark 14, 24, he said, he said to them, this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many. Truly I say to you, I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God. Yeah. So all the Old Testament covenants are promissory. They are So, you know, none of them is, you know, binding now. They were all pointing forward to Christ. And now that Jesus is there, he's fulfilled them all. And he establishes the new covenant of which all the others were promises pointing forward. Abrahamic covenant was promising to Jesus, Davidic covenant promising to Jesus. And now here's Jesus ⁓ taking, you know, the ritual of the Mosaic covenant Passover and saying, it's now fulfilled in me. So. Pivotal moment where all the covenants find their fulfillment in the new covenant in Christ. Yeah. Yeah, they they promise progress and then climax in Christ And so this is the most climactic Event essentially because now the new covenant is here to be established forever until God would return Where Christ actually will return and bring about the new heaven and the new earth in the new Jerusalem? Yeah, that's right It's the ultimate land fulfillment. Just as Abraham was told you'll be given a land, even as Israel's given a land, David's gonna be given, they're gonna build a temple. It finally comes true where you have a new heavens, a new earth, a new Jerusalem, which is a temple city. God, ⁓ it's a kingdom, like God is going to bring about everything, land, kingdom, temple. In the new heavens and the new earth except he's gonna do it through his son Jesus who will build it It's great heading over to second Corinthians then Wrapping up second gracing up second yeah, he's on a soft note. Yeah, not not Not there's the mysterious passage of most people in those Christians know what the thorn in his flesh This is this is interesting ⁓ But yeah, he ends kind of I think it's really funny in in in the text he goes I once knew a man who went up to the third heaven You're like, what is he talking about? And then you start realizing he's talking about himself. Yeah, that's right And you're like what in the world you talking about Paul's so funny so interesting So his humor in what you know Paul was talked about is not being some, know Magnificent manly man super strong super big when I say manly man. I mean like in stature and size ⁓ but you have this like humor about Paul his like courage and strength to defend himself. And yeah, just one of the things I enjoy about the Bible is its little humor and its little quipping ⁓ at certain points. And I think, you brought up, Alan, that people sometimes wonder what the thorn in the flesh was for Paul. And the ultimate answer is we don't know. But the point isn't sort of figuring out, was it his eyesight? Was it, you know... some health issue, but like really the key is what God taught him through that. That he prayed three times for God to take away the thorn, just like Jesus prayed in the garden three times for God to take away the cup. so, know, Paul's life is always kind of echoing Jesus's life in so many different ways. And God says to Paul, my grace is sufficient for you. And then I just think this is so amazing. He says, I gladly boast in my weaknesses. I take pleasure in weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions. I don't know if I can say that. That I take pleasure in weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, difficulties for when I'm weak then I'm strong. But Paul's like, I love it when it's struggling because that's when I feel and experience the power of God. That's so amazing. That's when his power is made perfect, is in his weakness. I aspire to have this attitude. I can't say I have this attitude. I really want to have this attitude. He double quit. He double, triple and quadruple taps on that two in thirteen when he, when he talks about his weakness and God's power. Thirteen, four, for he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. Or we also are weak in him, but in dealing with you, we will live with him by the power of God. Yeah. and then verse three before that, since you seek proof that crisis speaking in me. He's not weak in dealing with you, but is powerful among you. Yeah. I feel like it's one of those truths in the Christian life that you have an intellectual knowledge of, but your experience is hard to catch up with your intellectual knowledge of that God's powers made perfect in your weakness. It's like, believe that I just don't want to accept it. It's pretty challenging. How might you encourage? mean, you said you struggle with this mindset. Every Christian, I imagine, struggles with maintaining this mindset. How might you encourage us Christians, listeners? to adopt this mindset? Is it prayer? Is it recognizing? Is it meditation on this passage? Is it talking with brothers and sisters as encouragement? How can we be encouraged to kind of adopt this mindset? Yeah, I mean, I think it's all things you said. It's reading God's Word. You know, it's when I'm going through difficulty, going back to the Word, reading texts like this, reminding myself of God's work. through weak vessels. I think it is talking to brothers and sisters. Part of it just being honest when we're like, man, I'm struggling. And part of the way God strengthens us is through the body encouraging us. Yeah. And I think all those things just point to, know, reading God's word is the only way you're going to really know the paradoxical nature of the kingdom of God. That weakness leads to strength. God flips the expectations of the world on itself to highlight himself and his glory. But the word is the only place you're gonna get that. right. Yeah, that's Yeah, that's great Galatians Yeah, so we wrap up second Corinthians and we start Galatians. Yeah and second Corinthians We don't need to talk about it, but he just ends with such a strong warning Yeah that I feel like it's just it's good for us as a church to to think about just you know that that just because just because you're a church, know doesn't mean that that everything you're doing everything the way you're acting in and walking before the Lord is right and that we need to examine our ways. Both individually and as people, as a community. ⁓ So we head over to Galatians. What's a overview? What is happening in this church? Another church that needed confrontation and rebukes. That's right. Although theirs was probably a lot more theological. Yeah, so basically Paul is writing a letter to the church in Galatia, which probably a region. So it's a number of churches who ⁓ have been infiltrated by false teachers. And the false teachers are telling these probably Gentile Christians, hey, it's great you have Jesus, but to be saved, you also need to basically take on the signs of the Mosaic covenant. Like you need to be circumcised, you need to eat kosher. You need to obey cleanliness laws. You need to follow the Sabbath. That's right. Yeah. And basically kind of like do the things that were the badges of Judaism in that day. And if you don't have that, then you can't be saved. Right. It's like Jesus plus. Yeah. Jesus plus. You could see how they'd be deceived by this, right? Like Jesus is the fulfillment of the Old Testament. So you still have to do all that stuff, but it's all fulfilled in Christ. Right. wait, wait, what? Yeah. Which again is you know, it goes back to why we have to understand the Old Testament ⁓ covenants as promissory and ended and now fulfilled in Christ. And that's the problem is they were trying to like bring some things forward, you know, into the New Covenant, which we have Christ, you know, He is our salvation. It's not circumcision. Yeah. And He highlighted, you see the right out the gate, He comes out swinging. He's like, who has bewitched you? He chastises them for turning to another gospel. He's like, not that there is one, but turning to another gospel. So he comes out swinging against contrary gospels. He's kind of establishing his authority there. He's like, hey, my gospel that I preach was derived from God, not people, because that's essentially the problem here. And then he bites down on this most important point, which is justification, which we're going to talk about in chapter three. Depstication by faith and he goes to prove his point. Right and it's so important, know, we're thinking through the Old Testament I think it's common even even for people today to think ⁓ Old Testament saints were saved by the law, right? They were saved by eating kosher by being circumcised But in chapter 3 Paul puts the kibosh on that he's like no ⁓ Chapter 3 verse 7 know that you see the word kibosh by the way That was great. Yeah I haven't just I haven't heard the word kibosh in a while. We need to start bringing kibosh back. Kibosh needs to come back. All right. Your challenge is to use kibosh three times in your sermon on Sunday. Oh my goodness. All right. OK. Have you ever heard people say kibosh instead of kibosh? Like what's the proper pronunciation? I've got the dictionary up here. Yeah. Give it to me. look kibosh is it. It's kibosh. Yeah. Teddy was right. But kibosh. I don't know if that's more like Bugs Bunny. All right, so Paul... Wait, no, might be Kibosh. I gotta pull up the phonics. Sorry, go ahead. And while you're there, I need to know the etymology, because when I get into weird words... So I really like words, but I like weird words and then I want to know the etymology. List of English words of Irish origin. Irish? Banshee, a mythical being. A banshee? Why are we talking about banshees? I don't know. That's like a wailing spirit. Yeah, fairy woman. fairy woman. right, Teddy. All right. So Paul. You mean a nerd nerd? We're trying to be Bible nerds here. Yeah, that's true. All right. So Paul said that. OK. And ladies and gentlemen, a glimpse into our staff meeting. We'll be making progress and then something will go out the window. That's right. That's right. So Teddy, Paul is putting the kibosh on the idea that kibosh or kibosh. think it's probably both the way he hits it. ⁓ But he's saying they weren't saved in the Old Testament by the law. The Judaizers who are trying to convince these new Gentile Christians, saying, like, hey, they were saved in the Old Testament by these works, and so you, though were saved in Christ, also need to do these works. But then Paul here goes in Galatians 3.7, know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. And he had just finished talking about how Abraham was counted righteous by faith. Yeah, right. And so the true sons of Abraham, the true Jews are people who had faith in God and that's how they were saved. Yeah. Yeah. In other words, there's only one way anyone's ever been saved and it's by faith alone. Now in the Old Testament, their faith in the gospel they had was a promissory gospel. was on credit. It was on credit. And then now it's on debit. Now it's on debit. That's great. Shout out shy Lynn. says then one of us really yeah, I did Yeah, people want to listen to shy land. What's the best song they should listen to? Mmm Probably election elections pretty fire. Yeah, I like it False teachers is another great one. Yeah, yeah, I like what's one in Adam all die I don't know. It's I love that one. Yeah, no shy Lynn. Yeah, look him up look him up all right So this is, ⁓ yeah, that's right. So it's through ⁓ faith in Christ. mean, know, verses 10 through 14. So if you're gonna just look at one thing in this section of reading, read again, 10 to 14 of chapter three. It is a tour de force showing that you can't be saved by the law. Verse 10, for all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse because it is written. Everyone who does not do everything written in the book of the laws curse So if you're gonna say I'm gonna be right with God through the law then cool. You just have to do everything Perfectly, that's right or you're cursed Yeah And he says verse 11 now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law because the righteous will live by faith Mm-hmm. So the law is not based on faith. That's right And then of course the most wonderful gospel verse Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us because it is written, cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree. And this language is all just ringing so strongly too that Christ became a curse. But also earlier he's telling, hey, someone who's telling you a different gospel, they are going to be a cursed. Yeah, that's right. It's so, yeah. And so that all these curses, so now to kind of wrap it all together, Adam failed cursed. You know, ⁓ David fails, he's cursed. The sword will never leave your house. know, death is going to be in your house. ⁓ know, Israel, if you break the covenant, you'll be cursed. And so here comes Jesus and he finally and fully as the priest in the order of the Melchizedek receives the curse so that we can receive the blessing by faith through the Spirit. Yeah, the promised Spirit. The promised Spirit. That's right. On whom there will be no curse. Because this the spirit will bring to completion what he started in us That's the promise of Philippians 1 6 and and then we'll finally be in that new heavens new earth new kingdom new temple city That's what the new Jerusalem is a temple city ⁓ and it's and there's no curse Mm-hmm death is no more pain is no more the curse of sin is forever gone And we finally live the way God designed us to be which is free from sin in his presence. That's right where Jesus said he'll drink of the fruit of the vine again with us. Yeah, that's right. So we keep having the Lord's Supper reminding us of the new covenant and Jesus is like, I'm going drink it with you when we get there. that's great. Well, that was a great talk. ⁓ by the way, it's kibosh. It is? It's kibosh. You got to kibosh. It's a battle for another day. Should we go kibosh? Should we go kibosh that section? your ground Teddy, stand your ground. In Florida do we have that? What's that? Anyway, any concluding comments from you gentlemen? Nope, it's great, great. Isn't it great how when you read these different passages there's always these threads that lie together. I don't think that's because of the genius or the way the readings were broken up, I just think it's the very nature of God's word. because the whole Bible has two authors, the human author of a particular book and God who's writing the story. And so we shouldn't be surprised that we find these threads running throughout the whole thing, tying it all together. Well, this has been another episode of the SCC Saver podcast where we're savoring God through every bite of scripture. Continue to press on in your reading. We are on Apple, YouTube and Spotify. Hey, people who are up north listening, we love and miss you guys. We're praying for you guys regularly. Keep reading. Keep staying faithful. Keep seeking the Lord. Till next church.