SET APART
A podcast that combines Eastern and Western teaching/story from the scriptures to regain our WHY in God. The purpose of this show is to break down the severe disconnect in today's Church vs how God has called for this life to be lived.. We do this through the scriptures and our guest's stories with each episode.
The American Church teaches an extremely one sided evident driven view of the scriptures. In that danger you lose the poetry and art of story telling to where there is only half truths left. No wonder people are walking away from Christianity by the masses.
These eastern authors intended much more for our hearts with their writings that God inspired. Watch as these ancient truths give you a new/refreshing perspective that will change the way you live. Getting back to the Garden.
SET APART
Ep.6: Sickly Righteous
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In this episode Tyler and Will explore Mark 2 and discover who is sick and who is righteous. While the ones who think they are "in" Kingdom wise realize quickly how "out" they really are. The hope is for those who have eyes to stop spiritual blurry living and committ to full spiritual clarity.
And we're back. Tyler and Will will and Tyler set apart a podcast. Fun fact of the day, the creator of the Pringle, Frederick Bauer, was cremated and buried in a Pringles jar. Yo. We're here. Yes, we are. We're here. We are here. The Pringles can. Okay, when you first told me this, I thought you meant that he was he was cremated and turned into a Pringle chip. A chip.
SPEAKER_00No, he inventor the can loved it so much that cremated himself into a Pringles can. Yes.
SPEAKER_01Or cremated and buried in a Pringles can, or as the Pringles can.
SPEAKER_00No, it was actually set into a random grocery store. No, it wasn't. In some lucky winner. No, I'm kidding. But that was from our boy. That would be wild. That was from our boy Luke. Yes. Luke Kissinger.
SPEAKER_01Luke, thanks for the fun fact, man.
SPEAKER_00The man.
SPEAKER_01We have people writing in now.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's weird. Of our tens of tens of listeners. And and and so uh we got somebody, Mr. Zach Pursley, uh, also know that guy, love that guy, love that brother. Um, and actually gave us a really good idea because he had a he was asking about worship songs and uh just kind of seeing if we would do um an episode a little segment over that. And then I was just like, hey, how about any time that anybody has kind of uh uh a thoughtful question over stuff that we've talked about and it's stemmed into something else and wonderment and discovery, and and you want to ask the opinion of Set Apart, uh, what do we think? Let us know because we have no messages right now, so we'll easily see it. So uh, and then we're thinking before we get into the main part of every episode that we do a little segment of a short little snippet of whoever's writing in something, yeah, and want us to go over a quick deal of, and in this case, worship songs, yes, and what we think on that. And I love kind of how we're diving right into content and subject right now because people can kind of just blab. And I think I blab, and I was about to be like, oh, now starts the blabbing for Tyler. And I don't want to be known as just that, and I want to be known as per purposeful words, Mr. Will. And so per purposeful, I'm sorry, purposeful, thank you.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, how are you doing? You doing all right? Uh well, I I don't know about that. I might need to take a knee and try again on this podcast. So, what was Zach wondering about? So, Zach was wondering about he wanted us to go over um worship songs and worship lyrics and kind of give us our and kind of give our take on the appropriateness of the song. Um, kind of a thumbs up, thumbs down on on the worship lyric. Um and we're just and we obviously just be focusing on worship lyric for this.
SPEAKER_00And and here's gonna be the the rub is people are gonna people who aren't gonna agree with this, which is awesome, um, will be like, it's not that deep. No, it really is that deep. And the reason why uh it is that deep and you want it to be that deep. You want every part of your life to be deep. You don't want shallowness, you don't want uh, because there I I don't believe there's gonna be such thing at the end of time when when you we are all gonna stand before God individually, and you're just not gonna be able to say, Well, I didn't know it mattered about lyrics in a worship song like that. Because God, God's worth it. God is reverent, he is omnipotent, he is high enough, he is worthy enough, he is everything enough. And so, yeah, um, a couple of examples of worship songs that are a little bit dangerous. Um, there's one worship song that's called, help me, I I get I get lyrics right, but I get names wrong. Uh, what's the first one? It's called Holy Spirit. Will's holding up his phone and he's showing me. And it's called Holy Spirit. And there's a part in there's a multiple repeating part in the song where it goes, Holy Spirit, you are welcomed here. And at first, you know, I didn't really have anything wrong with it. And as I got further into my faith and further um mature in my walk with Christ, and uh um this is a very popular song, very popular song, and child of God, and recognizing who God is, and as I'm understanding the necessity of having a high view of God and how that matters within the worshiping of Him, that I have no place in welcoming God, He's already there, right? He's this is not a universalism take of God is everywhere, but God is the one being like, hey, it's it's me welcoming you into my presence. And so why it's dangerous to feel like, hey, maybe I'm the one that is setting the place for God to be here is because you just aren't that powerful enough. You you aren't high enough to be able to do that, and you don't want that type of pressure because you being the one to say that you're able to do that, that's also meaning that you're living your life in a type of man, type of holy way, perfect type of way, that is pretty um audacious to do, right? It's type of a high pressure to do. And I I just don't think we're designed or called or God's expecting us to do that, right?
SPEAKER_01I agree. And so we think yeah, uh I just think I just think the r I think the I think the reverence of it is the is the largest point of something is that there are other religions that will take reverence so much farther than anything that I've ever seen Christians do, especially especially in Middle East, especially in China, well they will just be absolutely reverent on not saying a name because it's too holy for them, on on bowing down like Muslims do it with bowing down to the West, I think, West the East and the West and multiple times and just like well, I don't I don't understand why we can't be this reverent on the real God.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and the reason why, because we're just it sounds good. Well, of course, God knows our heart.
SPEAKER_01It's like, oh, we don't want to be legalistic, right?
SPEAKER_00We're not the ones, we're not really saying that we're well, no, say what you mean and mean what you say, and it all matters because everything you every time you speak something out, we were made out of God's image and he spoke everything into existence. And so every time, every time we talk with our words and we're saying stuff outwardly and audibly, that is a created deal happening, and it matters. And another song, um, what a beautiful name it is. Uh, there's a part in that song where it goes, uh, he didn't he didn't want heaven without us, so he brought heaven down, I believe. Yeah, something like that. Uh yeah, no.
SPEAKER_01So Jesus, he brought heaven down.
SPEAKER_00So Jesus, you brought heaven down. So yeah, not not really. Uh God doesn't need us. He wants us, doesn't need us. And that is a framing of individualism a little bit right there. And and there's even if it's halfway and it's not this like, well, it's poetic, Tyler, and you love poetry. Yeah, that's the wrong kind of poetry there. Because if you're able to just um pick and choose when reverence happens, when the in-aweness of God happens, where else are you doing that in your life? Where else are you taking the positional authority and doing that inappropriateness in your life? And then maybe no wonder there's so much mundane mundaness, there's so much militant and just no adventure, just looking at finish lines. You get to the finish lines and then you're begging for the journey again. Because you're you're you're singing songs, which Sunday Sunday services, worship services look like funeral services as we're singing these apparently unbelievable, uh worshipful songs, but they're just making sure that you feel okay about your position with God, and that is not what worship songs are about, just not. So, Zach, so thankful for you. Yeah, and thankful for that question and that this this little bit of a segment on um worship music. And you know, worship music is not meant to make sure that you feel okay in this story. Worship music is worship is is a melody, worship music is just a melody with a poem. That's first of all, all that that is, okay? And so worship is supposed to bring you into a state of making you feel small and God unbelievably massive. There is so many times in the Bible where God's like, if you are not in awe of me in reverent submission, I cannot hear your prayers. I won't hear your worship. So yeah, I would maybe just sacrifice a couple of lyrics. Anytime that I I love singing those songs, I'm not asking for churches to remove those songs. You know what I do? I just don't sing those lines. As cheesy as that is, buy into the cheesiness, yo.
SPEAKER_01I was gonna say, even as a for what a beautiful name, it's a it's still a great I love I use the bridge and the chorus to plug into other songs that I sing all the time.
SPEAKER_00And and even these churches like Hillsong and Elevation, who have horrible leaders, horrible pastors. And it's just like, you know, a clock, a dead clock is right twice a day. You know what I'm saying? It it it should we be singing them? Um if they're doctrinally biblically sound.
SPEAKER_01Well, yeah, what were we talking about? Hallelujah here below.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, right? You know, God can redeem all, but at the same time, you guys, I'm even wrestling with right now of just I think this is how we got here. And the inch by inch, we let things kind of move us, and then the goal, the goalpost keeps moving. And so, um, some ones that we do like is the doxology. Um, hallelujah here below. That's an amazing one. Uh uh uh what's it want? What's it called? This I believe, the creed, the apostles' creed. That's a great one. And so, yeah, I don't know. I feel satisfied about that.
SPEAKER_01That's a good one.
SPEAKER_00Worship is to make to revere God, to glorify God, not to make sure our individualistic self is okay.
SPEAKER_01And this is also very good for conviction on yourself, on being able to underst on being able to understand where your heart is, um, on singing these things, on on understanding where your heart is toward towards God, where your reverence is. What what little thing starts what everybody else would call little thing is nagging at you, in my opinion? Like, what is that thing that's that's showing up like just two lines in a worship song, right? What is that thing nagging at you? Why is it nagging at you? Let ask yourself that question, don't just dismiss it, because I think that will show where your reverence is for God.
SPEAKER_00Reverence, man. In awe, the feeling that you have for the Grand Canyon or the ocean or any of that should be greater and higher every time you pray. Hebrews 5 7. Jesus' prayers were answered because of because of his reverent submission. Which is crazy. Okay, perfect. Good? Yeah, good, great. Now I just want to keep going over worship songs. Right. Uh, but we have a mission, and we've been on a mission, we've been on a journey, we're on an adventure of Mark chapter of Mark and chapter two today. Last episode was Mark chapter one, called America's Gospel. Um, the book of Mark has an agenda. Every every gospel, every book of the Bible has an agenda, has an audience. Um, and the way that we go through the scriptures is both hands at the piano. Uh, not a very popular way in the West, because that takes some time. It's a very unknown way in the West as well. We and the West does not have a good relationship with anything unknown because we need evidential things in order to have faith, which is not faith. Faith is believing in the unseen. Salvation. The hope of the unseen, right? And the hope of and and uh the glory of that. And so uh why the book of Mark is very popular in the West is because it is the shortest gospel. Uh we like things quick, we like things apparently efficient, or we act like we do. It's just that our efficiency is internally wired with such quickness that it fails. It fails. There's a faith bubble growing, just like the dot-com bubble or or the everything bubble, or like the 2008 housing bubble. It is gonna pop here soon. It's coming. And uh we will know it. And the people who uh have just only gone throughout their Christian walk in the Bible with line by line and with their I think it saying this interpretation is going to get wrecked. People who are in have to incentivize people to memorize verses just to be a part of the scriptures, you are going to get wrecked. It's just a promise by God. I'm not promising it, the Bible's promising it. And glory to God for that. Grace be to God, like grace from God by that. What a strange thing. So, can't synchronize the gospels. This gospel has an agenda of a Jew writing to Rome, a Jew writing to Empire of New Kingdom, New King. How kingdom verse empire, how to do God's kingdom within an empire. And what is this empire that we live in? America, the West. We uh don't really care why one plus one is two or how it is two, we just want to memorize a bunch of twos and execute on two and try to stack a bunch of cash so that we we retire and just collect seashells all day. And that's just not working, it's going really bad. So, do you have anything on Mark before you start reading for us?
SPEAKER_01In general?
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I mean, I just I'm I I started reading Mark 2 this week, and it I kind of laughed about it last week, but I immediately laughed again. In the first, not not on the I'm not gonna read it, read a lot of it, but the first thing in Mark chapter two. Chapter two was Jesus already healing the paralyzed man by saying, Your sins are forgiven. And we're we're on chapter two. Right.
SPEAKER_00So the why will is criticizing the two is because you need to listen to our last episode because we talked about how how actually offended I would be. Like this is a jab at the empire that Mark's having to do, he's having to rush his gospel because of the short intention span spiritually and not spiritually, everybody has.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I mean, in Matthew, in Matthew 2, we're just getting we're barely getting started.
SPEAKER_00Oh, in Matthew 2, we're in the birth of Jesus. Yeah. In Luke 2, we're in John the Baptist before Jesus' birth. Or maybe right at the birth of Jesus, also. Like this is, y'all, that that's a reflection, that's a spiritual metric or or a type of audit to be like, okay, is that me? Do I need things quickened? Oh man, am I like that with God? Is that why that part of my life kind of looks like that? Okay, okay, okay. Here we go. Uh, we got Mark chapter two. Uh, Will is gonna start in, where are we at? Verse 13. Uh, we're again, we're not reading all of the chapters because we also feel like we have to kind of a type of way get through the episodes so that people will engage, people will keep listening. Um, maybe one day we won't have to be like that. Okay. Are you ready?
SPEAKER_01Mark two.
SPEAKER_00Verse 13.
SPEAKER_0113?
SPEAKER_00Yes. No, sorry, verse 15. Verse 15 through 18. 17. I'm I'm so bad at this. Sorry. Are you okay? I'm I'm great now.
SPEAKER_01Uh chapter 15, uh, chapter two, verse 15. While Jesus was having dinner at Levi's house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples, why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners? On hearing this, Jesus said to them, It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous but sinners.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so huge deal, right? Every time what we do, we let the text be the context, and we remind ourselves who this is to. This is to Empire, to the people of Rome then, but it's for us now, for people who believe and claim the cross and empty tomb in 2026 for us now, in the already, but not yet. The already is that we have the living God inside of us. We're in heaven, but we're not physically there yet. We're still in this fractured world of now. And then the third step is how do we apply this to our walk with our community and individually with God? Right? So, so what we I like to ask is what are some problems here? Why are why are people um what's happening? Why are people kind of freaking out uh what seems weird, what seems stupid, what seems real, what seems wrong, what seems right? Uh, some things that stand out is I've heard this story a million times. So it's kind of a lullaby story, and we've talked about that. Um, there's a phrase called the lullaby effect where you've read something so many times, you've heard a story so many times that you don't know what to look for, you don't know how to ask better questions, you don't know how to think Bible, and that's the same thing for your own spiritual individual life, your own salvific life. Do you is is your own salvation lullabied? Oh man, that's crazy. Okay, so something that stands out with me is tax collectors. Will, is this tax collector a Roman tax collector or a Jewish tax collector? What do you think?
SPEAKER_01Uh I would probably say uh I think it sounds like Roman because he said he said he saw Levi son of Alphaeus, which sounds like a Roman name.
SPEAKER_00Sure. But Levi being a type of Hebrew name. Yeah, for a priest. Right? And so he he does come from a Herodian background, but also a Jewish oh, it could be just the Herodian. It's the Herodian thing, it's the same thing. Herodian being a Greek, Greek, Greekish, Greek background, but I'm sorry, Jewish background, but Greek community. And so you have Jesus being around this type of community, which is unpopular to do in front of the Hebrew crowd, and while claiming what Jesus is claiming with everything, and at the same time, the chosen people of God had people of their own faith siding with the empire by becoming what? Tax collectors, right? Right. And if you became a Matthew, right, Levi here, if you became a tax collector, especially with and you're uh of the Jewish background, that is you to your people selling your soul. And so Jesus not only dining with so called a community that isn't popular, he's dining with people that have sold their soul against their own people because tax collectors were. We're evil. We're taking way more than they should. We're we're giving um I think types of graces from the empire that others were not given to make sure that they were collecting more than they should for the empire, right? Kind of feels similar of maybe opinions of today. I don't know. Uh, but here's Jesus. Why why do you initially think is he trying to sit with these tax collectors at first?
SPEAKER_01In the within this context?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Even within Matthew, what's the even kind of the thing that we've talked about with Matthew? Um so are these tax collectors popular? No. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_01Well, the the whole, I mean, this whole small section is then is to me the entire point of Matthew in a very in five verses, which is no more outcasts.
SPEAKER_00Right. And so so Matthew trying to also say, hey, you know, if if I've been given a second chance here, and this this messiah, this person is telling me, I'm sitting down with people um who are sick and trying to tell them, hey, you're actually healthy in my father's eyes. And the person who is sitting down, like, that's not what the world is telling me. And not only that, my own people, my own family are saying, I've sold my soul, and I'm just trying to fit in and have a job within this whole world. I've never been accepted. And in Matthew, kind of uses this word of mums or the Hebrew word called of bastard, that there's no more, no more mumsers, no more outcasts anymore. There's no more illegitimate people. And if there was ever an illegitimate person that society of the church society looked at, it was the tax collector. And Jesus was making sure that this person knew, hey, you are included in this kingdom. No matter what you have done, and you don't have to do this anymore. And what an unbelievable thing to do. People telling people that don't think that they're in, hey, you're actually the ones that are in. And these people who are walking by saying, Why does why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners? And Jesus hearing this, knowing that these people all are also sick, but he knows that they think they're not sick. He's like, I'm gonna test you here. It's not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous who they think they're righteous, but the sinners. But there's none who are righteous. There's zero. And so it's like even the people who might not even be talking out against what Jesus is doing. Maybe the people of today who are going in the in the outcast places, going in the mumsery places, that have been told, uh, you know, we kind of look at the panhandler, the person on the side of the road, or the homeless, or people who are addiction in addiction, or people who are cheating on people, or people who are just in a sinful state, and we look at them as Christians or people who are going to church saying, when they're no longer doing that, then God will love them. That is what these people are doing right here. But Jesus is saying in Matthew and Mark and Luke and John, when these stories like this, when he's sitting these type of people, and he's giving this type of response back, he's saying that my father's favor is actually with those people who are struggling in their sinful state more than they are with you, who are walking by saying, What are you doing with those people? Don't you know that they're in a sinful state and that it was them that got themselves theirs, then that shouldn't have done that in the first place? You don't have to tell the poor in spirit, the poor in spirit. But how much that is happening today. Right. We we think that we're disguising our tower of babbles by not building them tall anymore, by just building them really wide in low ceilings, and everybody in these uh nominal churches, just existing churches, are all looking around at these people and saying, well, as if they would come to our services, then they'd be close to God, or if they get in our community groups, then they'd be close to God. If they just memorize more verses, then they'd be close to God, instead of living in and recognizing the unconditional acceptance by God Himself, seeing the forgiveness that God introduces and always has available and walking out of that, and then addressing all of this. Jesus doesn't wait for for Levi to stop collecting taxes to physically sit down at the table and let him know who he is and who his father is about. He doesn't wait for that, he sits down right away. He doesn't, and you know what he's also not doing? He's also not waiting for the Sunday to do these things. Okay, and in about five Sundays, our whole church, we're not gonna have service a Sunday, and we're all gonna go meet down in the homeless under the bridge and go set up camp there and go hand out food and all this good stuff. Edifying things, but those things that have to be set up, which is good to do, set up, but the amount of cameras that are out. Well, we gave away 400 cars. Oh man, it's it it's it's it's the one of the three parts of kingdom that Jesus introduces in Matthew 7. I see that church over there doing that thing, I see that homeless ministry over there doing that thing, I see that worship group over there doing that thing. But all of you have your own agendas, your own programs, your own everything, and you don't know me. You don't know the three parts, the threefolds of kingdom that Jesus is quoting right there. Because if you only do the one of the three parts, two of the three parts, you're always gonna be confused. And who are you that might be in the group of people who are walking by Jesus saying, Yeah, look, go, Jesus. Look at him sitting with the lost and the sinners. Man, he's doing really great stuff, sitting with the sick. Why are you not sitting down also? You're sick. Why don't you join in? This is why house church ministries exist in the way of not starting any new domestic missions programs. We are partnering where God is already moving, already established. Too many churches want to steal models and start it for their own so they can assure attendance. That's not okay. That's a form of walking by and saying, Jesus, why are you sitting down there? Don't you know in just a couple of Sundays we're gonna all join up together and do an event, a serve event, a workout group event, and all the money goes to this, and no hearts are transformed. None. That's why the part when the gentile woman asks for Jesus to come heal her daughter, and he's like, actually, gentile woman, I I'm I I need to be fixing the the chosen people of God, the Israelites, right? The Hebrew people who are who are aren't getting it. You guys are Gentiles are getting it actually more than they are, and they're supposed to be, and they are supposed to be taking care of being, they're taking care of you, but you're taking care of them. And she quotes on the story and ends up healing her, or his daughter, and being there for the Gentiles as well. But that's where we're at. The people of the ones who don't look like the people of God today are more holy than the ones who are claiming to be the people of God. It's unbelievable.
SPEAKER_02It's gross. It's the bad eye.
SPEAKER_00It's the it's the whole thing on that. And so, um yeah, I don't know.
SPEAKER_01I could keep monologuing on so it sounds it seems like Mark, so Mark's whole agenda is the fact that it's how to enact holiness with while living in another empire, right?
SPEAKER_00Exactly. So, and what is holiness? What's the word? It's Kodesh. That's the Hebrew word. And what's the Hebrew word in the English? Only two phrases. And Sharker, one of them's the title of the podcast, to be set apart. To and what's the other one? You know this, no? McQuiz you. Ah, he's looking at me. To be set apart. And to be different.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_00To be different. Both things we can do, and I hate. Oh, I hate. Hey, yo, yo, yo, yo. I hate when people say, and no one's, we're not, no one's perfect. Hey, thankfully, no one's asking you to be perfect. Nowhere in the Bible has anybody asked for you to be freaking perfect. Stop saying that.
SPEAKER_01What about wait, wait, what about Matthew 6?
SPEAKER_00Matthew 5, 48. Be perfect for your Lord, God is perfect. Yeah, that's in the Greek. The Greeks invented the word perfect. The Jewish people, Jesus had never, he's a Jew. He's not, he doesn't even have a word, ever introduces the word perfect. It's too static. Their word is good. So they never have a word in their vocabulary is perfect. Theirs is be different. That is so manageable. But how lazy and um addicted to Egypt in the slave victim mindset we are, we don't want that. It's too exposing, it's too accountability, it's too um it's actually easier to be militant and follow the nine to five cultural way. And then you realize when it's too late, when you get so old, and that's why people get mad, the older generations, they get mad at the younger ones because they see how much the younger ones bet on themselves, and they're jealous, and they're seeing how much the younger ones are finding their identity in God and their mastery in God and being a human, and how God's waiting for the older generations to die and pass away, and actually partner with the generation to lay expectations on them and watch them grow. All right. Good for next part of Mark. Yeah. All right.
SPEAKER_01I love that. I actually like this part a lot because I talk about this all the time.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01All the time with people.
SPEAKER_00All right, we we are in uh what'd I say? Mark 23?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, Mark 2, verse 23 through 28.
SPEAKER_00Perfect. Get it.
SPEAKER_01One Sabbath, Jesus was going through the grain fields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. The Pharisees said to him, Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath? He answered, Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need? In the days of Abiathar, the high priest, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions. Then he said to them, The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the man, so the Son of Man is Lord, even of the Sabbath.
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SPEAKER_01Son of man.
SPEAKER_00Son of man, son of Adam. Uh aren't I one of those? Uh you are. So am I. Son of Abraham. We are too.
SPEAKER_01I'm not doing that.
SPEAKER_00I forgot that song.
SPEAKER_01Uh okay. We already had our worship section songs.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Uh, so here we are. We we love reading the passage, uh, letting the text be the context. Actually, we could do a little of the four-layer hermeneutic if you wanted. Um, hermeneutic meaning interpretation, how to interpret this, because it referenced a story uh back to the story of David. And so you would take the literal reference, the hint, and go into the second part, and then the hint would take you into the third part, which is the full meaning. And where you get that is reading about this situation with David and what he got into. And the full meaning would have you further understand what Jesus is saying here in Mark. Um, but really what is saying, and the whole point of this is this comes out of there's a huge argument over, not over the first commandment, but there's a huge argument over what is the greatest second commandment. Everybody agrees since the dawn of time or the put together of the commandments that what is the greatest first commandment, right? It is love your Lord, your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, uh, with all your strength. And the second commandment is where people divide. And a long time ago, in ancient times and to this day, uh in the Bible, there are two rabbis, uh Hillel and Shemmai. And these two rabbis, very well-known rabbis, ancient rabbis, uh, that were these scholarly rabbis that uh kind of divided in these two camps based off of what is the greatest second commandment. And Shemai said the greatest second commandment is keep the Sabbath holy, keeping the Sabbath. And what does that mean? Doing uh enjoying the day of rest with God, no work, uh, no anything. Now you cannot do anything. And usually what that falls under the category of obedience. And then you have the other rabbi, Hallel. And he was under the camp of the second greatest commandment is love your neighbor as you love yourself. And so majority of the that that that was his second greatest second commandment that he thought. Not that either one of these guys didn't think that the other commandments weren't great. It's it's this is more talking about the prioritization of it. And so, what you now get into is your yoke, and this is how your yoke means how you interpret your life, how your yoke is your visual. So when Jesus says, My bring to me all of your burdens, come to me with everything, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. How I'm going to view all of your problems is through this yoke. And Jesus, right here, is revealing whose side he is taking in this, what is the greatest second commandment. And here, right, what story is he referring to? When David was on the run and he was needing food, and yet David was lying in a time of need and yet the the priest still gave him food, right? Understanding and to help out what was going on. And so, would this would this fall under the camp of obedience or love? What would you say? Which one? This the story.
SPEAKER_01Oh, this one falls under love.
SPEAKER_00Right. Of taking care of your neighbor, right? This is why even on a day where you're not supposed to be doing anything. And so what Jesus is saying to these Pharisees and priests, hey, you're missing the point of what's going on here. You've missed the point of how, and and of course they have, but also don't be tripping and don't be tricked on how you missing uh all of us missing the point, on how we're kind of taking these things a little too far. And it's not just with legalism on stuff, it's especially with emotionalism. Where you can't even hold the gospel in your hand anymore because it's so emotionalized, it's running through your fingers, right? And so, where we need a little bit of more obedience in our life and and in the and a less of oh, just this lovey, goopy, goopy, goopy thing. You see what we're saying? So this does matter on what camp. And majority of the time, Jesus falls in line uh under the halel camp as his yoke, the love side of thing, of loving your neighbor and then keeping the uh Sabbath holy, right? If if your neighbor's donkey falls into the crack on the Sabbath, right, you go and help your neighbor save the freaking animal, right? But you what you have today of what I call kind of the Jew 2.0 of Christians, why I say that is because the Jewish people miss the Messiah. And today, the Christian people, I believe, are running a real risk of missing the Messiah because of their yoke, how they view this world. And Jesus even says at the end of six, you either have a good eye or a bad eye, and that is how you're gonna view everything. And the next paragraph is if you have a bad eye, you will have anxiety about the world. Truly, if you look at tomorrow inappropriately with a bad eye, or any other subject in your life, with an ain rah-a rather than a good eye, which is ain tovah, you will have anxiety and depression. And guess what the next chapter is in Matthew 7 in this judgment. You will start misjudging everything in your life, everything. So the greatest first commandment is love your Lord, your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind. Oh, we love God. The second, up to you, doesn't matter. Has to be something, right? Either, either it's uh obedience, we fall, you know, you great. If you're a little more structured like that, more of the type A type of things, awesome. You cannot make sure you you will out um orthodoxy, right? Doctrine, rules, all this stuff gets gets you twisted in a way where uh should I be helping that person like this right now? Come on, come on, and then if you if you fall in line more with hello, the love your neighbor side, you you're more of the emotionalism side. Make sure you do not allow uh the type of emotionalism to run your life where you can't, it's just chaos and there is no order. We are designed for both, everybody. Chaos and order. Have your hands open with both. Do both.
SPEAKER_01And isn't this just an opportunity just to take it back to Genesis um two and the and Genesis one of knowing when? Exactly. Knowing when these things are necessary to discernment factor.
SPEAKER_00It's such a power. The discernment power power is being the human. Being a human is the greatest superpower there ever is of knowing when, knowing when to go and knowing when to stop. We have a God who knew when to stop creating and a God who knew when to stop destroying. In a way, knowing when to stop destruct deconstructing. And whenever you're deconstructing, especially if you're one of the rule followers, I'm such and you find peace with that, that's awesome. That's great. But be careful on you expecting you out of everybody else. Don't do that. You living in the gap of that is gonna crush you, right? So, so how do you kind of westernly live like this? Encourage yourself to live with your hand, both your hands open, right? Find order in your life, call it out, recognize it, make sure things are in order in your life, and then allow there to be some chaos, especially, especially with going out of the way and inconvenience yourself for others. Sit down with people that you're like, man, I I don't know about that group, but I know God's favors with them, and it God's favor doesn't wait on people because of circumstantially, God has given us unconditional acceptance. It's not up to us to determine the value of the human like that. So we have to be ultra careful. Have the good eye, don't stop being anxious, be in today. Watch what happens in the transcendent freedom that comes with it. It's incredible. Good?
SPEAKER_01Good.
SPEAKER_00Mark chapter two. There we go. You want to break us out? Sure.
SPEAKER_01Father God, just want to take a second and kind of sit here and thank you and bless you and just think about you. As we were talking about earlier, we want to be reverent towards you. I pray that everyone who hears this starts to have that conviction to be more reverent in our words and our in our in our mind and our spirits in what we in what we see and what we watch. Just in chasing after you and holiness, teach us how to be set apart as we go through your word. Teach us how to be different. Thank you for Tyler. Thank you for blessing us with this podcast and his and his help. Thank you for ZP, Zach Pursley, and Luke Kissinger for writing in today. I just like sitting here with you. But bless everybody who hears this word. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Amen.