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Ask a Pastor with JOBY MARTIN | November 2024 (Ep. 672)

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Ask a Pastor with JOBY MARTIN | November 2024 (Ep. 672)
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In this episode, Joby Martin and I tackle the anxiety surrounding Election Day and the implications of our political choices. We discuss the importance of placing our hope in Christ amidst chaos and the responsibility of the church to respond to societal issues with the gospel.
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1:18 This is "Undaunted Life" a man's podcast.
1:22 I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
1:23 Let's get into it.
1:25 Hey, Joby Martin.
1:26 It is Election Day here in America, so you're smiling and all that, because guys, if you're
1:31 listening to this on time, it's Election Day, even though we recorded this in the past.
1:34 So it's kind of like, you know, we're cutting through the ether and bending the time space
1:39 continuum.
1:40 But I don't know if you know this, but there are a lot of people that are pretty stressed
1:42 out today.
1:43 So there are people that have a high level of anxiety because they're afraid that their
1:47 guy or their gal is not going to win this election.
1:49 It's coming from the left and the right.
1:52 So what is your message on this day?
1:54 Because guys, again, if you're listening to this on time, hopefully you've already voted
1:57 or those types of things, what is your message to the people that have all this anxiety
2:01 at the potential outcome of the presidential election, the future makeup of the United
2:05 States Senate and the United States House of Representatives?
2:10 That Jesus Christ is King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and no matter who is excited or
2:17 no matter who is distressed, although these elections matter, every single one of them
2:23 is very, very, very temporary in the light of eternity.
2:28 And that God is not in heaven.
2:29 He is not taking my locks and pacing the halls and going, Oh, no, he's also not going,
2:34 Oh, yes, that he is doing exactly what he does, which is rain in times of peace and in times
2:42 of chaos.
2:43 So may our hope be there for people that are overly distressed.
2:48 It could be because you've got a misplaced hope and for people that are overly excited,
2:53 it may be because you have a misplaced hope.
2:56 And so put your hope in Jesus and him alone.
3:00 So with that, I've had this thought and I say this without I know where we're typically
3:03 having a good time and saying things ingest, but for a lot of reasons this morning is more
3:07 serious than than most mornings.
3:10 I feel like because I don't like, I don't want to be hyperbolic about, you know, your
3:14 person not winning the election because, you know, what if Kamala Harris wins, but you
3:17 know, it's a Republican house and Senate.
3:19 Okay, that kind of pacifies what her administration can do blah, blah, all that kind of stuff.
3:23 But there is a part of me that thinks if Kamala Harris is elected, that she is our judgment
3:29 as a nation because we've seen all throughout scripture, God removing his blessing from nations,
3:33 his blessing from people.
3:36 And I mean, you could go back and there were people that could make that argument the exact
3:40 same way, but in the opposite, oh, Donald Trump is our judgment or Barack Obama was our judgment
3:44 or George W. Bush was our judgment.
3:45 I mean, I know that you could do this at infinitum, but there's a part of me that thinks because
3:50 of what she has said publicly, you know, willing to kill the filibuster rule in order to ram
3:55 through abortion legislation for the entire country, which could potentially lead to the
4:01 expansion and stacking of the Supreme Court, the adding of Washington, D.C. in Puerto Rico
4:06 as states thus giving Democrats almost a permanent majority in the Senate.
4:10 I think that there is a little bit of a Rubicon thing happening here to where it could be
4:13 our judgment.
4:14 What are your thoughts on that?
4:16 I think that again, man, gosh, we're we're like six weeks before this, right?
4:20 So, um, I've never I've never seen a group of people be so associated with death, like
4:32 policies that are pro-death, I mean, fighting wars that aren't our wars to fight.
4:39 That's death, allowing the Mount of Fentanyl to come over the border.
4:43 That's just death.
4:45 The amount of children that are being trafficked into our country and a group of people turning
4:49 their eye.
4:50 That's just death.
4:51 And then, of course, abortion is more than death.
4:54 It's a genocide.
4:55 Yeah.
4:56 And so, I do think there should be man, there should be a weeping and gnashing of teeth
5:02 if the people in our country are so blinded.
5:06 This isn't about tax policy and stuff anymore, man.
5:09 It's really not.
5:10 This is about death, people voting for death and calling it a right.
5:17 And, uh, yeah, man, God help us, God, God help us if that's the condition that we find
5:24 ourselves in, and so that should create a great angst in the life of the church.
5:30 You know, people that are actually the church, not the people that just attend buildings
5:33 on weekends, but people that claim Jesus Christ as a ruler and savior.
5:36 And not only should it be a weeping and gnashing of teeth, but it should also be a real call,
5:42 man, that oftentimes the church did her best work in some of the darkest times ever.
5:47 And the way, and our weapons of warfare are different.
5:50 They're different.
5:51 And I mean, that's a problem with the right and the conservative people is that they just
5:57 try to fight with the same weapons of warfare, you know, and the way the Christians toppled
6:02 Rome was by the implications of the gospel.
6:07 And you know what primarily was about?
6:08 It was about life.
6:09 They took care of babies that were being aborted.
6:12 They, uh, there was no racism.
6:14 This is one of my favorite thing, favorite lines, uh, to describe the first century
6:18 church, you know, it was about the second century is that, um, they did not share their
6:24 bed, but they did share their table.
6:27 In other words, obviously, you know, only men and women get married and only sleeping
6:31 with their spouses.
6:32 So they had a high sexual ethic and then, uh, but no matter who you are or where you're
6:37 from, then you were welcome at the table with a believer and it rocked the world of the
6:44 first century.
6:45 So the church was made for this moment, you know, the darker the night, bro, the brighter
6:47 the light shines, but, but you cannot overlook the number of the amount of death that comes
6:55 along with these kinds of decisions.
6:57 If it goes that way, uh, certainly, and that's why in a lot of ways, I think, especially
7:01 in your state of Florida, I would be way more concerned about whether or not amendment
7:06 for passes than whether or not Donald Trump wins.
7:10 And so again, those things are not completely unrelated, but if you're, if you're looking
7:15 for the ticker and waiting for your state to turn red and you're not even paying attention
7:18 to whether or not that gets to the 60% needed in order to pass, I would, uh, say that that's
7:24 potentially evidence of a seared consciousness and you're losing the fact that all politics
7:28 used to be local.
7:29 And the thing is, is when you lose sight of what's happening around you, when you don't
7:32 know the name of your sheriff, the person that runs your school board, uh, the dog catcher
7:36 in your community, those types of things, when you lose sight of that, you lose sight
7:39 of the fact that things happen to you legislatively locally before they happen to you nationally
7:44 but we got to move on to other.
7:46 Oh, hold on.
7:47 And one time it has called the doctrine of subsidiarity.
7:50 That's what it's called the doctrine of subsidiary, which in God's organization of communities
7:54 inside societies and even nations, that the smallest unit was the one best equipped to
8:01 handle the problems closest to home.
8:04 And when that not like above their pay grade, then you would go up one level.
8:09 Currently the society we live in is trying to give the highest level of authority, uh,
8:16 input into the most personal things like what does the federal government know about my
8:20 neighborhood in Jacksonville?
8:21 So it starts with my family and then it goes to a group of families and then it goes to
8:25 my community and then my city and then my state.
8:28 And so, um, yeah, the way God set it up is that the doctrine of subsidiarity.
8:33 The way our culture is trying to set it up is that top down rule from Washington and
8:39 they don't know anything about where I live and it's easier to fight battles on one front
8:43 as opposed to many.
8:44 So if you are in a various force wanting to force a populace of a particular area or country
8:50 into a certain type of totalitarianism, you can't really do that in a neighborhood by
8:54 neighborhood basis or a house by house basis.
8:56 You have to do it as a country wide basis.
8:59 So to get into another fun topic, this has been a terrible year for pastors.
9:03 You always talk about monies and honeys.
9:05 So honeys are getting the pastors this year.
9:06 And so you've got pastor Steve Lawson.
9:09 That has been disqualified from ministry.
9:10 You had pastor Tony Evans disqualified from ministry and then you have pastor Robert Morris.
9:15 Something completely different.
9:16 Apparently, uh, allegedly he is a pedophilic rapist.
9:19 And so this is all related to the question from Ryan Horn.
9:23 And I think it's a good one and an important one.
9:25 Do pastors have a right to privacy in regards to sin, for example, infidelity or should their
9:32 sin be shared with the flock and church discipline be displayed?
9:36 Also, would a pastor caught in infidelity be redeemable to the pulpit?
9:41 Or are they forever disqualified?
9:43 Uh, man, what a complicated question.
9:47 Um, so first and foremost, I guess we'll start with the last one.
9:52 Um, Timothy and Titus have qualifications for elders and pastors.
9:55 And if, if you step outside of those, you are by definition disqualified.
10:00 Are you necessarily disqualified forever?
10:02 I think it's kind of, okay, now I'm being a little subjective because I don't necessarily,
10:08 I can't think off the top of my head of a case study in the Bible where this was played
10:12 out.
10:13 Uh, a lot of people like to go to David in the Old Testament.
10:15 I don't know that that's the best example, however.
10:18 So probably I would say the severity of the sin or disqualification would determine the
10:25 level at which you could lead again in God's church.
10:29 Something like that, uh, because there is a difference in my opinion between a full on
10:35 affair and, uh, inappropriate text, either one would get you disqualified at the church.
10:41 I'd leave.
10:42 I would say not.
10:43 You can't be a pastor here.
10:44 If you're texting somebody like that, it's not your wife and it's inappropriate.
10:47 I would want to see from the pastor that had fallen or had been disqualified, there would
10:54 have to be a very, very long road of restoration, not back into the family as a covenant member,
11:02 but there would be a very long road in regards to having responsibility over people again
11:08 in regards to serving them as a shepherd.
11:10 So, um, and, and the pulpit for me would be the absolute last stop, not the first.
11:18 I mean the absolute last stop because in churches, man, whoever preaches, that guy has the
11:24 most influence and the most authority, and there's so many other places where you can
11:28 make disciples.
11:29 All right.
11:30 Now, the severity also has to do with it.
11:33 So in like if there is, uh, particularly sexual harm against an underage kid, I'm the boss
11:45 of this church.
11:47 There's no chance you're ever coming back on the staff.
11:49 There's no chance in the world.
11:51 People pray for you, well, I'm not saying you don't get to go to heaven because that's
11:55 how crazy and audacious the grace of Jesus is, but we don't hire about grace around here.
12:00 You know, we try to hire competent people that are qualified men and women to shepherd
12:05 the sheep and you have deemed yourself, uh, disqualified forever.
12:10 So the severity now in regards to the public, um, I think what horns got to think about
12:16 is not just the pastor that everybody wants to pile on, but all the collateral damage
12:22 of the other people that were hurt by this pastor who has sinned.
12:26 And I think the church owes it to all of those like for lack of a better word, innocent
12:30 bystanders to try to handle that as gently as possible, like for the sake of the children
12:37 of the pastor who they didn't have anything to do with it or the children of the person
12:41 that he or she cheated with, you know what I mean?
12:44 So sometimes that's what churches are thinking about, but all the people that are reading
12:50 the articles online, they're just into failure porn and they want to have all the details
12:54 about something that's not their business.
12:56 I also think there's a big difference between, is this your church?
12:59 Like if you're a covenant member at that church, I think there's a, uh, level of information
13:05 that you have access to because you're a covenant member of that church that is not necessarily
13:10 just open forum and just because we can share everything about everybody with everyone
13:16 on the world in the world because of the internet doesn't mean that we should.
13:20 And then there's also some things that people just don't think about man, there are some
13:24 legal realities and the church oftentimes is trying to thread the needle of doing exactly
13:31 what's right by the word of God and not breaking like libel or slander laws about a person,
13:37 you know, and so it churches, I mean, we found this in art, we fired several people because
13:44 they disqualified themselves, um, and, and we, man, it's sad, it's so sad for the families,
13:51 bro.
13:52 It is so sad for the families is so sad for the, for the sheep that they were caring for.
13:58 And one of the things that you just got to know, actually Chandler talked about this
14:03 when he was here and you and I were doing the podcast together and bro, it doesn't matter
14:07 what kind of procedures and policies your church has is a brother, if a brother or sister
14:12 decides to hide sin in the dark, then it's, I don't know how you can prevent these kinds
14:19 of things, you know, so the best you can do is definitely around children who have all
14:25 kind of policy and procedures to ever prevent the opportunity for somebody to be mistreated.
14:30 But you, the church, I think, I think the church is doing a better job of trying to take care
14:36 of the people that have been victims and sinned against and not just, uh, you know, expose
14:42 the person.
14:43 But yeah, man, it is brutal.
14:45 It's very, very, very brutal.
14:46 And I don't know why I'm so surprised, but every time I'm, they catches me off guard.
14:53 I every time I'm like him, well, Joe B, it catches me off guard, but I'm not surprised
14:59 because that's why I tell people all the time, please do not put your faith in me.
15:02 Don't put your faith in Joe B.
15:03 You put your faith in Matt Chandler, don't put your faith in Joe B. Martin, or I said
15:06 you again, but Vodie Bockham or John MacArthur, your, whatever your flavor or pastor is, please
15:11 don't put your faith in those people because it's the same people that had this attack
15:14 of conscience and attack of the gospel, essentially when Robbie Zacharias was, you know, the evidence
15:20 came out that he was a, you know, a sexual monster, right?
15:24 And so it's like, if you got saved at RZ, I am event, all of a sudden you're questioning
15:27 your salvation.
15:28 It's like, well, cause part of you put your faith in Christ and part of you seem to put
15:31 your faith in Robbie Zacharias and his ability to sound cool and philosophize.
15:34 And the other thing about the, the David thing that kind of falls apart here is, you know,
15:38 David wasn't an elder and a pastor, he was a king and so he was leading a nation and
15:42 not leading a flock.
15:43 And so like that you're, you're stretching at that point.
15:45 And we could, we could talk a little bit more about the subjectivity of the severity because
15:49 some people would say, you know, they would make the claim that the texts are severe because,
15:53 you know, of Jesus is standard of, of sexual impropriety or sexual immorality and things
15:57 like that.
15:58 You know, ultimately I feel like you, you cover the question there.
16:01 So let's move on to another controversial topic.
16:03 I didn't really stack it this way on purpose, but it just kind of is that way because here
16:07 recently, cause people, there are people that don't like that you and I are friends.
16:10 There are people that don't like that Matt Chandler and I are friends, but the biggest
16:13 thing that they hate about us is not that we wear black shirts is that we have tattoos.
16:17 So here's a question from BH tattoos are typically seen as bad by most churches, especially among
16:23 older generations.
16:24 Well, I don't think that people who have or get tattoos are outside of God's grace.
16:27 I do believe there are limits in terms of what tattoos you should, you would be able
16:31 to have while being of Christ.
16:34 For example, if you have a pentagram or a demonic or vulgar imagery tattooed on you,
16:38 I think a new believer should seek to get those removed.
16:41 Here's my question for Joby.
16:43 What do you think is the line for tattoos?
16:46 Is there one?
16:47 Should new believers remove any vulgar or demonic tattoos from their body?
16:52 Yeah, man.
16:54 So you're going to get into some speculation here, right?
16:57 But hopefully it's like by biblically informed.
16:59 I think like maybe a verse to go to would be something like, you know, in Ephesians 4
17:05 when Paul is instructing people on language and the same kind of guiding principles that
17:11 should instruct your language like it, it should be no corrupt communication should proceed
17:17 out of your mouth.
17:18 And only that which is helpful for the edification of those that hear it.
17:21 So in other words, also, I think a lot of it has to do with when you got the tattoo.
17:25 So yeah, I definitely don't believe a believer should be getting anything sinful or according
17:31 to the scriptures, although some people will look at your tattoos and say, well, that's
17:35 violence and violence is sinful to which you would have to be like, you need to keep reading
17:38 in the Bible.
17:39 Okay.
17:40 You haven't gotten to all the parts there, but you know, if you got naked ladies and stuff
17:43 on your arms, I, you know, my preference would be if you asked me, I might go, bro, I could
17:48 find some verses to point to, but I would, you know, I would cover up.
17:53 I would change things if you got things pointing to Satan.
17:57 One of the things I think I've told you this when when I was baptizing some guys with Jim
18:00 Bergen last month, two months ago in Colorado, he taught me that in the early church, when
18:06 people will get baptized, not only did they ask, who is Jesus to you?
18:10 And people say, Jesus is my Lord, but they would also say, do you renounce any association
18:15 affiliation that you have with the dark demonic Satan?
18:17 And so if you got a big devil tattoo on you, then I would get a, you know, I would continue
18:23 it with Jesus's head crush and Jesus crushing his head or so we're going through his head
18:26 or something like that.
18:28 So you know, the ones I have, I'm trying to either thank God for people that mean something
18:34 to me or point people to Jesus.
18:37 And so I think it comes down to the why you have what you have.
18:42 And that matters a bunch.
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20:19 And just briefly, this has been elucidated a bunch, but there are people, again, kind
20:22 of older, funny, duddy types that are just like any marking on your body whatsoever.
20:27 They do use Leviticus out of context.
20:30 Just go ahead.
20:31 I think we may have talked about this before, but again, to people that say that markings
20:34 of any kind on your body, although they do leave out piercings and so you'll have women
20:38 with pier steers that are making claims about tattoos, but what is the verse and how should
20:43 it be viewed?
20:46 You got to read the context of that for sure.
20:49 You got to understand that that was talking about having allegiance to a different Lord.
20:53 So I agree you should not have things on your body that say you haven't allegiance to anybody
20:56 other than Jesus, but the heart of those commands and Leviticus are true, but Jesus fulfilled
21:04 all the holiness code of the old covenant.
21:06 So he is our Yes and Amen and every promise of God.
21:09 And so I obviously am trying to point people to Jesus with my whole life, including the
21:14 things I've decided to put all over me and I'm getting more.
21:17 It actually works out good for me because if you show up to our church and you're like,
21:22 I'm not going here because I don't like your tattoos, please, thank you.
21:26 Thank you.
21:27 Thank you.
21:28 Thank you.
21:29 Thank you.
21:30 Thank you.
21:31 Thank you.
21:32 You're saying to me if you're not going to respond.
21:33 Yeah, dude.
21:34 Yeah, man.
21:35 I mean, you know, yeah, you're right.
21:36 We're not your church.
21:37 We're not your church.
21:38 We're not like the human beings that Jesus is saving here.
21:41 And so, you know, I would gladly give you the address of another church and you can go
21:46 be miserable there.
21:47 When it goes back to things I've talked about for their people that, you know, I've shared
21:50 songs or music videos from metal bands and they're like, there are skulls in this artwork
21:56 and skulls are indicative of death.
21:58 And I'm like, or skulls are like a cool thing that God made.
22:02 It's an anatomical structure, right?
22:04 Of your body.
22:05 It's part of the skeletal structure.
22:06 See, that's what a skull is.
22:08 Now if I have the skull and I mean to use it in a way that is pointing to death and
22:12 the worship therein, probably an issue, but I don't think we got an issue there.
22:17 So let's go to the next question here.
22:18 This is actually for me.
22:19 I just kind of had this thought and I jotted it down.
22:21 And I know you can't actually know the answer to this.
22:23 So here we are in subjective ville again.
22:25 But why do you think that Jesus was never married and didn't father children?
22:33 Because he will marry the church.
22:36 So it's a very limited view.
22:38 You know, the idea that Jesus was never married on the, on earth, you just kind of keep going.
22:44 You know, you talk so much about he only came as a suffering servant once.
22:48 That is currently not what he is doing.
22:51 So Christ eternal marital status will be married to in his bride is the church.
22:57 Now I know now Paul says in emphasis, this is a mystery, yeah, but I can't even explain,
23:04 but that is it that, you know, there's a big myth in the world, especially America.
23:12 And the greatest thing we can do is fulfill, fulfill our potential.
23:15 That is a lie.
23:16 Paul says, no, no, no, no, no, no, you don't fulfill your potential.
23:20 You fulfill your calling.
23:21 And if you've been called to be married, you are going to have less potential in the kingdom
23:26 of God.
23:28 I don't know that Jesus could have done or humanly speaking, you can do whatever he wants.
23:32 He's not asking me for permission.
23:34 Humanly speaking, Jesus married with kids does not have the same availability to be wherever
23:41 he needs to be at all times because he has other responsibilities.
23:45 Similarly speaking, my potential for ministry and your potential for ministry has diminished
23:50 greatly because we have another ministry at home called our wife and kids, right?
23:55 And that is God's calling our life.
23:56 And that's what me and you should do because that's what God's called us to do.
23:59 But if all, I could preach so much more and leave way more people to Jesus if I, if that's
24:04 all I did was be married to the church.
24:06 So when Paul says, I wish some of you were like me, that you would be single, it's so
24:10 that all of your time, effort and energy, love and devotion could be to Christ, Brad,
24:15 the church and you could serve her full time.
24:17 So that's what Jesus did.
24:20 All right.
24:21 Let's keep this train moving.
24:22 This is a question from Brad.
24:23 Brad is a monthly donor.
24:24 Thank you for being a monthly donor.
24:26 I go to church with Joby.
24:28 So apparently you said that before he goes to church with Joby and he's just amazed every
24:31 week at how the Lord is working through you.
24:34 I just recently surrendered my life to Christ last July.
24:36 I've been serving in the church for the last nine months.
24:39 I try consuming as many podcasts and books as I can to strengthen my faith.
24:42 I recently stumbled upon an interview where somebody was talking about the book of Enoch.
24:47 Is this book something you'd recommend for believers to read and what are your thoughts
24:50 on it?
24:51 If you want to, you can, you just have to make sure that you know that there is actually
24:57 a book in Enoch.
24:58 It is historically a thing, but it is in no way in the same realm as the revealed word
25:06 of God or the canon of Scripture.
25:08 And so if there's anything in the book of Enoch and the Bible refers to that book, but
25:14 the Bible is authoritative.
25:17 Any other written thing by man could be helpful to know, but it could also be used as a distraction
25:23 by the enemy.
25:24 And even the enemy will sometimes even use our very own Bible to try to distract us,
25:29 see Jesus being tempted in the desert.
25:32 So yeah, yeah, you can read whatever you want, just do it with caution.
25:36 So with that in mind, because I know I pick on it and kind of call it funny, but do you
25:40 think the devil is using something like the message version of the Bible in the same way?
25:44 And what I mean is because the message is not a, it is an interpretation of Scripture.
25:49 It is not a, you know, a translation, right?
25:55 It's not a transcription that's taken to translation.
25:57 It's a description taken to, and I hear people like it makes me cringe when I'm reading a
26:02 book and they have a scriptural references and then it says MSG and I'm just like, oh,
26:06 this isn't like this is, this is not, this is not good.
26:10 It's like it's giving you a Bible adjacent is what it feels like.
26:15 What do you think?
26:16 Yeah, I'm a bit of a stickler on this one is if I'm in a, if I'm in an environment where
26:20 somebody calls, it says the message translation, I'll go, whoa, whoa, whoa, that is the, you
26:25 mean interpretation that that's Eugene Peterson's interpretation of the Bible.
26:31 So that is not authoritative.
26:34 It's not.
26:35 It is the equivalent, it's a bet, it's better, it's like, you know, he's smarter than me,
26:41 but you reading that would be the equivalent of you reading a transcript of my sermon.
26:47 Like that, that's my interpretation of these verses and sometimes I'll summarize a biblical
26:53 story.
26:54 That's not authoritative.
26:55 I'm just kind of like, ah, here's kind of the high points and I might get those wrong.
26:58 Right.
26:59 But if what, what the message would be like, cause I do it all the time.
27:03 I do it all the time.
27:05 But if you, but if I wrote it on a piece of paper and then you quoted me as if you're
27:09 quoting the Bible, that is no, no, no, no.
27:12 Now the reason that he did it, all he was trying to do is trying to help people in his
27:16 church understand it.
27:17 That's, you know, and it started, but he just did one book.
27:19 He's just started with like Psalms or something.
27:21 And then it got so popular that then he did the whole Bible.
27:24 But you've got to understand that is not a, it is not authoritative period.
27:29 You got, it can only, like if you try to live off supplements, you're going to die.
27:34 But the message interpretation is a supplement to the Bible.
27:39 It is not the double edged sword.
27:41 It is not alive.
27:43 It is not.
27:44 It is not.
27:45 It is not.
27:46 And yet there's, there's a couple of places I use it cause I'll say like, uh, John one
27:50 14 says, and the word became flesh and dwelt among us, Eugene Peterson's interpretation
27:54 says, and the word became flesh and moved into the neighborhood.
27:57 And then I'll talk about what that means.
27:59 But the Bible does not say that the word became flesh and moved into the neighborhood.
28:03 Eugene Peterson said that's what it means.
28:06 You got to make that distinction.
28:07 All right.
28:08 Very good.
28:09 We got a little bit of time left.
28:10 I got a couple more questions.
28:11 These should be pretty quick though.
28:12 This is from Matt Grasmire, the forging table.
28:13 Thanks for the question.
28:14 Matt, is there biblical support for Christians being cremated?
28:18 This seems like a pagan thing, but I know a lot of Christians that have done that or
28:22 planned to, uh, you're not going to hell if you do, but you shouldn't get cremated.
28:27 Uh, it, it shows a lack of dignity towards the body.
28:31 And it's a bit Gnostic, like that my soul is what matters, but my body doesn't, but that's
28:37 not the biblical worldview is that your body matters a lot.
28:40 You were fearfully one if we made you were knit together in your mother's womb, that
28:43 at the resurrection, your soul will be reunited with a glorified body.
28:48 This doesn't mean that you're not going to, that's not going to happen.
28:51 Cause like if you burned up in a car fire, somehow God's going to be able to put all the
28:55 particle back together.
28:57 However, what it does show, most people do it for the wrong reasons, like to save
29:01 money or stuff like that.
29:02 And so the, I would highly advise for people to show dignity towards the physical body that
29:11 God made and for it to be laid to rest, um, as an act of worship unto the Lord, showing
29:18 dignity to the thing that God had made.
29:21 And so I think it's a poor stewardship issue to get cremated.
29:24 It won't keep you out of heaven though, cause Jesus died for our sins.
29:27 And I don't even know if it qualifies sins, especially if you didn't know it, but now
29:30 you do know.
29:31 So don't do it.
29:32 Well, now let's talk about something that people will say, if you do it, you're definitely
29:35 not going to heaven.
29:36 Last question of the day.
29:37 This one's for me.
29:38 Is it okay for Christians to do yoga?
29:40 Uh, who, I mean, if you're dumb and don't know any better, yes, but you, I would not
29:47 do yoga.
29:48 It is, it, I mean, it's, it's like an ancient form of worship.
29:54 Now I do think you could redeem the things and you could do some other thing where you
29:58 stretch and breathe, but you better call it stretching and breathing.
30:01 Right.
30:02 I would be very careful about putting some demonic name.
30:04 Dude, I'm telling you the older I get, the more I do this stuff, um, I may be hanging
30:08 out with Charles Martin too much, but he's the guy that says, you know, some people see
30:11 a demon behind every bush.
30:13 I see too.
30:14 And so I would not want you to open yourself up to anything dark or demonic in your life.
30:18 And I'm telling you, if you get in some room with a bunch of sweaty women, and hopefully
30:22 this is not a man asking this question, and you like contort yourself in historically
30:28 what has been a worship posture and somebody up front is telling you to do demonic things
30:33 like empty your mind of all thought.
30:35 And you're saying, yeah, but I'm just praying, okay, well, then, then you start a pray and
30:39 stretch thing and do not copy those things, but go see a, uh, you know, a doctor or personal
30:46 trainer and say, Hey, what are the best nonhistorically worship posture?
30:51 Like just divorce it of all that.
30:53 So if you want to go in a room and stretch and pray, praise God for stretching and praying
30:57 and don't run on wrong with that, I would avoid anything with a dark demonic history.
31:02 And this is overt, man.
31:04 I would, I would avoid that with everything I made us.
31:07 And this is what I've told people, I've told people the posture of your heart makes a big
31:10 difference because there are only a few things you can do to stretch your stomach and upward
31:15 dog is probably the best one.
31:17 But if you were doing upward dog while doing breath work while doing Ohms while emptying
31:21 your mind.
31:22 It's like, no, sir, can't do that.
31:23 Don't hook your ponytail to the tree.
31:25 Like holding certain poses that does help with connective tissue and connective muscle.
31:30 All that's positive.
31:31 Like I, I've done different like 30, 45 minute yoga things to, you know, help open up my hips
31:35 and things like that.
31:36 But when they start doing the silly little Ohms and just kind of empty all that, I'm like,
31:40 shut up idiot.
31:41 Like just tell me what the next thing is.
31:42 Yeah.
31:43 But also don't just put Christian in front of it, Christian yoga is like a meat eating
31:46 vegetarian.
31:47 Yeah.
31:48 No, no, no, no, that's not it.
31:49 Dude.
31:50 Just call it prayer and stretching or Jesus movements on the glory of God.
31:54 Like I would redeem that thing and, you know, eat the fish spit out the bones.
31:59 But I'm telling you, man, the people so many people have unknowingly opened up themselves
32:04 and their family and generations to the dark arts and darkness and the demonic.
32:10 And we as believers need to do everything we can to pronounce any area.
32:15 We don't need to give the devil a foothold that that verse primarily has to do with anger,
32:19 but I bet he'll take a foothold anywhere he can to infiltrate your life.
32:23 Amen.
32:24 That's all for me.
32:25 Is there anything else you want to get off your chest?
32:26 Man, praying for you, buddy.
32:28 I know you've been through it.
32:30 It just keeps coming.
32:31 This has been a high year and a low year for a lot of reasons, but it is what it is.
32:34 Appreciate you, Joby.
32:35 We'll talk again next month.
32:36 All right.
32:37 Peace.
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