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I never get to use that one. My self esteem is in the floor. So, our verse of the day today comes from Daniel chapter six, verse 28. So, this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
You know, out of context, that verse really doesn't have a whole lot to add, but there's so much story behind that. Daniel reigning after all this stuff that he's been through. Yeah, Daniel is an incredible character in the Bible. If you've never read his story, there's a lot that happens in the book of Daniel. This particular verse takes place after the lion's den. So, King Darius is in charge. Daniel's been convicted of praying to the one true God and thrown in the lion's den.
We know the story. God keeps him safe, and then the people who accused him are thrown to the lions. But this is evidence of God keeping Daniel not only safe, but helping him to prosper and be successful in a foreign land.
That's right. I mean, this is not a land where he's surrounded by people who believe like he does, who operate like he does. He's a foreigner in this land, taken into exile, and yet God is blessing him in both Darius' reign, in Cyrus' reign, in his precursors, Belshazzar and Nebuchadnezzar. Daniel was in place. Daniel was prospering through the reign of four different kings, and God had his hand on Daniel's life. I particularly like the book of Daniel, because it lends so much historical credibility to the Bible. Not to say that the others don't, but in Daniel, it's very hard to dispute, because the Babylonian Empire was such a world superpower, and there's so much recorded about it in all these different kings that also appear in the Bible. And also, you've got to think about the prophecies. There's a prophecy in there about Alexander the Great and these four empires that are going to rule, and every single one of them came to pass. So Daniel is a book I think people tend to flock to for the children's stories, but then they kind of veer away from for all these prophecies, because they're complicated. Yeah, you've never read the book of Daniel. It's much more than just the lion's den.
Oh yeah, very much so. That's an important part, but it's much more, so go read it. It's one of my favorite books in the Old Testament. We want to be able to bring you guys the Word of God, and part of the way you do that is by downloading the Date the Word app. They're a partial sponsor of today's episode.
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No one asked for it, and probably no one will benefit from it. Here we go. Here's one for Advice No One Needed. Ready? Ready? My leg! My leg! I don't have one. We're still working on our sound effects. How about this? There you go.
Yeah! Yeah, that's some advice no one needed. Here's some advice that has been helpful to me as a man, and I'm bringing you this as a man. This is a man's advice for the manliest of men. Think about the manliest thing you can, and then take this advice to heart. Get a pedicure.
That was not the direction I expected this to go. I'm telling you, as a guy, we don't do anything like that. We don't go get our manicures. We barely like getting our hair cut. We don't want to do anything where anyone is touching us or anything like that. When I tell you, and I'm like that, I'm going to touch me not. If people come and put their hand, hey, I'm so proud of you, boy, and they're rubbing my back, I'm like, ooh, brother, ooh. I don't love it. When I tell you that sitting down and putting your feet in a tub of warm water and having people file your toenails and massage your feet and clean them feels incredible.
It improved my whole day. When I tell you that, you know I'm not lying to you. You don't like it? You never had a pedicure? I've never had one.
Go get one. Just the thought of it. My feet are so ticklish.
Just the thought of someone touching my feet makes me like... But they're not like... I know.
I know that. They're firm. Those women, I'm telling you, man, they got firm hands.
They could probably crush my hand with a handshake. Nicholas gets them. I don't know. You get them. I'm not opposed to it. You don't like them, though.
You don't get them? Why are you lying on camera? No one can even see you.
No one can see you shake your head, and I know you're lying. I'm not opposed to it. The thought of it just kind of makes my skin crawl a little bit. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. All the men listen, because I'm speaking to the men. They're like, oh, yes, girl. Slay, queen. I'll get a pedicure today.
Ellie actually texted me yesterday, and it was sort of like, hey, are you okay if I go get a pedicure? But it was really more of an announcement. This is what I'm doing. Money's going to be spent on this. Just FYI. Don't talk to me about it.
Here's what the charge is going to be. But I was like, all right, whatever. Because I know after a hard day, that just feels great. I'm telling you, it feels good. It improves your whole mood. And it's just a time where you can just sit and just kind of be pampered. Just be taken care of. Now, I would like a massage.
Yeah. Like that's, you talk about like touch me, not like kind of, but a massage feels good. Especially if you go to someone like who really knows what they're doing. Like I had the first massage I ever had, we did on the cruise in our honeymoon. And man, I walked out of there.
That was my first massage was on mine and Elizabeth's honeymoon. I walked out of there feeling like I was floating on air. Yeah. I was like, man. Yeah. I felt like I could just melt. Oh, yeah.
That was incredible. But we got a pedicure. I can't remember. Ellie took me to go get a pedicure. And I was the same way as all the men listening.
I was the same as you. Oh, that's, that's for girls. Those woman, like I'm not doing that, but I'm gonna tell you, man, that woman started massaging the bottom of my feet. I said, you know what?
I could, I could get used to this. I had a, I had a, um, I had a root beer. I had a bag of chips.
Gavin was like barely a year old. You were getting a pedicure. I was just getting a pedicure.
I was, I was a good day. I'm telling you, that's, that's my advice. And don't, don't knock it until you do it. If you want to write in and be like, oh, oh, you're, you're, you're a girl.
You're that's, that's feminine. Do it. Then write that in. Guarantee you, you won't. Well.
Guarantee you, you will not, you will change your attitude after you get it. Please. I guess I'm going to go get a pedicure now. Do it for real and, and, and come back next week and we'll talk about it.
We'll figure it out. Yeah. Write in and let us know your experiences. Really.
I mean, ladies, we know that you like pedicures, but guys, if you've out, if you've been brave enough to go get a pedicure, write in and let us know about that experience. And guess what? Guess who else gets them? Dr. Questions gets them. He does. Dr. Questions gets them. I don't know about Dr. Shaw, but Dr. Questions a hundred percent gets some pedicures. Write in and let us know.
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We're back at it again with Dr. Abaddon Shaw, who is a Ph.D. in New Testament textual criticism, professor at Carolina University, author, full-time pastor, and the host of today's show, Dr. Shaw. We had some great, some fantastic advice that nobody needed. Nobody asked for this advice at all, but I know you.
You're a man after my own heart. I didn't start doing this until this past year. Okay. I've only done it once. I will say I've only done it once, but I think it's great, I think it's great advice. Get a pedicure.
Oh, okay. Get a pedicure. Get your feet took care of. I'm for that. Here's the thing.
A lot of, a lot of red-blooded men listening to the show, they think it's, they think it's somehow less than or weak. I'm not having somebody rub on my feet. Dude, I'm telling you. You know what's- Have you gotten one? Oh yeah, I got only one, but I loved it. Only one foot? Only one foot, yeah. They went to go touch the left foot, I was like, oh no, no, no, just the one.
I ain't got the kind of money to be throwing away on both feet. Just the one. No, you got it done only once.
I got it done only once. But I liked it. I liked it a lot. It was, it was fun because we went and we, we got it done and Gavin, Gavin was only a baby when we got it done so I could just put him in the- Oh, that long ago. It was, it was a while back.
Yeah. So you're overdue. I'm overdue. I'm way overdue. My feet- It's time to schedule your pedicure. My feet are a little bit rough. Okay.
But you like getting them as well. Like three, three months or two, three months there, they, they tell me that the, the, the ladies are like, you need to come back soon. Okay. I was like, I will. Okay.
I'll see you soon. It's just time. You know, you have to have to make sure I get there and do that. I try to get my boys to do it. They don't like doing it. No, they, they make faces. They pretend like it's hurting them or it's tickling. I'm like, what is wrong with you guys?
See, I can understand being like, I'm, I'm too cool for this. I don't want my friends to see me, but it hurts. It hurts. And I'm like sitting over there on the other side from them on the chairs and I'm like, stop. Stop.
You're fine. Am I right, Nicholas? Why does it hurt, Nick? Oh, it tickles. Ow, it tickles. Ow. It hurts me. That's, I'm not, I have nothing against the pedicure.
I think it's a great thing. I just, my feet are hyper ticklish. So I feel like I would be like squirming in the chair and wiggling all around. They're not like, they're not like, they massage your feet and they're, they're rough with them a little bit. I understand that.
I get it conceptually. I don't think you do because you're, you're, you're still not, you haven't got a, have you made an appointment since the break? I have not. You didn't make the appointment since the break? I did not. Have you ever done one?
I have never done it. Why don't we do an episode from the pedicure place? Like while, while getting, there's nothing, there's nothing stopping us. I fear that I'll just be giggling. You'll be trying to have a conversation. I'll just hee hee hee. They don't tickle you, man. They don't tickle.
It's just like the thought of people touching my feet just already tickles me. All right. That's fine. I don't know.
I don't try it. I'm not, I'm not opposed to it. It's just like, I fear that it will tickle. Yeah. I'm worried about it. Yeah.
I don't know what to say. Self care is not a bad thing. Yeah, that's right, man. That's not, that's right.
That's true. What do you call that? What do you call that thing? Man, man, manscaping. Manscaping. Manscaping. Manscaping. Manscaping.
This episode is brought to you by Manscaped. It's not. It's not. It's not really. We could never read their ad reads on Christian radio. Yeah, absolutely not.
Not really. I don't really have a segue out of that, so we're just going to hard shift into talking about communion. Hard shift into the Lord's Supper. Right.
We're going to hard shift into talking about communion because they were not caring for one another. That's right, yeah. There you go. Hold on one second. I just got to give this man the respect he's due. Thank you. I will turn over the mantle of segue to you, Dr. Shaw. I don't know.
I don't know how you guys do it every day. I don't. You are the one. You are the one, though. Yeah, they were not very caring towards one another, and as we talked about it yesterday, when you come to the Lord's Table, Lord's Supper, communion, look around in fellowship. That's right.
Right? Look around to see who else is there at the family meal, and I suggested is figure out or pick out somebody, somebody that God lays on your heart, man or woman, boy or girl, you know, young or old, just pick out someone or a couple or a family and say, I'm going to pray for them. That's so good.
That's right. Pray for God's blessing upon them. You may not, but I promise you, you will have more compassion on them.
You may have a feeling of love towards them. Amen. And that's what God wants us to do. I'm going to adopt that. That's going to be my new communion practice is while we're doing the Lord's Supper here at Clearview. I'm going to look around. You know, all you do during the communion, you just sit there and you twiddle the bread in your thumbs and you try to look like you're thinking on something deep and you're looking at your shoes. You know, that's why somebody says something funny and like, yeah, yeah. What even if you're praying, even if you're kind of examining yourself, it gives you a sense, like you said, to look around and see your church family. That's good.
I'm going to do that. That's right. That's right. But then there's another look, which is look behind in remembrance. Again, going back to First Corinthians 11, but this time to verse 23, where Paul says, For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which he was betrayed took bread. So what Paul first does is that he addresses the situation in the church in Corinth and tells them, be mindful of one another. Look around and see you're judging each other based on their social status and you're mistreating one another. So one is hungry.
Another one is drunk. I mean, there is a huge disparity between members in this church body. And that should not be the case.
So look around in fellowship. But then he takes them back. OK. And verse 23 is taking them back to that night. Yeah. Yeah. And which night are we talking about?
We're talking about the night when Jesus celebrated the Passover with his disciples. I think it's really important to touch on that, because one of the things that Clearview does, and I've noticed this over the last 10, 11 years that I've been here, is Clearview does a very good job of laying out both the how and the why. And Paul is doing this here. He's saying, look, here's the method. Don't do that. Don't do it this way. Do it this way. Right.
Here's why you should do that. Right. This night, on Thursday, people often ask the question, was this Passover? Because Passover is supposed to be Friday.
So what's happening here? Was Jesus misunderstanding the timing of the Passover, and he celebrated a day early? Or because he knew the next day he would be the Passover lamb, and he was doing that?
Or there is also a suggestion made. I think it was Gleason Archer. By the way, Gleason Archer was, his father founded Suffolk Law School, where Abby is. I didn't know that. Wow. Yeah. Huh.
Yeah. Gleason Archer was an amazing, brilliant guy. I think he was a Harvard or Princeton graduate. And then, of course, he went to law as well.
He's a brilliant defender of the faith. But his father started the school, I think, law school, and then Gleason Archer went there too. And he went there as well. And that's where our daughter, Abby Gill, is. That's awesome. She's right there.
In Boston. Yeah. And how I found out, I knew that, but I'd forgotten about it. And as we were walking through the law school library, law school building, I went to this Hall of Remembrance or whatever, and I was like, Gleason Archer?
Gleason Archer? I'm like, yes. He was in law school in Boston.
Oh, this is the law school. So I called Abby over. I was like, come check it out. That's pretty awesome. This place became very special very quickly.
Wow. This is the place. So anyways, but Gleason Archer suggested that the people in Galilee celebrated the Lord's Supper, I think, on Thursday, and the people in Jerusalem or Judea side celebrated on Friday. This is because there were so many lambs that were slaughtered, so it was better to have this division. Oh, that makes sense.
I don't know for sure if that was the answer, but I believe it's something like this. Jesus chose to make Thursday evening the Passover meal, because he knew the next day he would be the Passover lamb. Gleason Archer suggested that people in Jesus' time or the early church? No, Jesus' time. OK. Well, because- The church is not here yet, right?
Right. But I guess I'm thinking if he was crucified on Friday, if that's concrete, or if it's at least treated as concrete- It is concrete, yeah. He was crucified on Friday. So Passover would have to have been on Thursday, right, because it was the day before that he had the meal? But Passover was always on Friday. Historically? Historically, Passover is supposed to be on a Friday. OK, so you're saying Jesus chose to do it on Thursday? Right.
Got you, got you. What Gleason Archer suggests is that- because this is a big discussion, by the way. OK, I didn't know that. Was the Lord's Supper Passover? That's a big discussion. It's two different things? Supposedly two different things? Right. So Jesus just having a meal with his disciples versus Lord also celebrating the Passover with his disciples. Those are two different things. I didn't realize those were two different things? Right. OK. I believe that there is no division between the Galileans and the Judeans Passover. I don't find that very compelling evidence, you know, not being there.
Yeah. I believe Jesus decided to celebrate the Passover with his disciples at the last meal, which was on Thursday evening. And that night he went to the Garden of Gethsemane. He was arrested, taken before Herod, Pilate, all that drama back and forth.
And then the next day, that morning, he's taken and crucified by noon. In your estimation, do you consider his merging of those two, the Lord's Supper and the Passover, to be a- I don't want to say a convenience thing. Is that a symbolic that he did that, that he merged them? Is that like a New Covenant style thing?
He wanted to celebrate the Passover with them. OK. Remember, he says that. Right.
Go to this place, follow this man with a picture, and then where he goes, say the master wants to use this. So let's talk about the Passover a little bit. And by the way, for our listeners, viewers, one reason we do this kind of discussion is because tomorrow somebody hits you up with a question like this. Yeah. You're not like, I didn't know there was an issue. Yeah, I didn't even know this was a thing. Yeah.
So now you're aware of it, whether you believe this was the Passover or not, or you take at least an archer's approach or whatever, at least you have options. That's right. You're at least aware of the discussion. Right. You're aware of what's going on. And a lot of times, at least for me, being aware that there's a discussion to be had is enough. Right. Right.
Because at least you can say, well, I know some people say that, but where I fall is this way. Rather than be like, oh, I don't know. I don't know. I didn't know there was an issue.
Yeah, I don't know. So Jesus, what Paul does is he takes them back to that fateful night, F-A-T-E-F-U-L, fateful night. And so we need to understand, what was the Passover meal all about?
OK. So according to the Passover Haggadah, Haggadah is a Jewish text from the second century A.D. that lays out the instructions and the blessings of the Seder. Seder is the meal. OK. And in this Haggadah, it gives you all the discussion. Now Haggadah means telling. OK. That's what the word means in Hebrew, telling. So the Haggadah is like a text? It's a text.
OK, OK. It's a text from the second century A.D. that gives us all the instructions and the blessings. So once you read that, you sort of begin to piece things together as to what was happening when Jesus celebrated the Last Supper or the Passover with his disciples. And I believe it was a Passover. OK. And there are a lot of things Jesus does that are very indicative of the Passover meal, the cup of this new cup. This is all part of the Passover language. So what this Haggadah says is very important to understand. It says that in every generation, a man must so regard himself as if he came forth himself out of Egypt. What the Lord did for me when I came forth out of Egypt.
Hmm. So you're supposed to imagine yourself there that night. That night. It's not just like my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great ancestors were sitting in Goshen in their little huts and homes waiting for the death angel to pass by or they were all in this room waiting for the death angel to go by and I wonder what it was like. You are to, when you celebrate the Passover, you are to picture yourself standing in one of those rooms, in those homes.
And can you picture what it must have been like? Yeah, it gives a gravity to it. I mean, even here talking about the Lord's Supper, it gives a weight to it, not just like this is something that we do and it's just an event in our church calendar. No, there's a remembrance that happens.
There's weight, there's history behind what we're doing. A hundred percent. You have to picture yourself in the upper room. So if you ever seen those pictures with, was it Michelangelo's?
Leonardo da Vinci's Twelve Disciples. Imagine yourself sitting there around that table. I feel like, and maybe this is, I don't know if this makes me better than anybody in this room, but especially you and me, we don't have to imagine being in the upper room, because we've actually been there. Yes we have. I hate to single you out in that way.
God, no, it felt intentional. It took me a second to figure out where you were going, so I was like, I mean, I know we have to imagine ourselves. What do you mean? But yeah, we have been on Mount Zion. There's only one person in this room who doesn't know what it's like to stand where Jesus stood and eat where his disciples stood.
I mean, man, I just wouldn't want to be that person. Have you been to the land of your ancestors? What's up? Because I have.
What's up? I've been there. Because I have been to Greece. But I've been there in spirit. But I have been there in body. So just... And you also went to Delphi, right?
Yes, I have. That's where every Greek was supposed to go in his lifetime. So even if you, your ancestors did not come from Corinth or Thessaloniki or Philippi or even Athens or Corinth, Delphi, so they had to be there. And they have been. That's crazy.
But you're not Greek. I know. It's crazy.
I really know. What was it like standing in the upper room? Like, what was the feeling? Because I remember it was like, well, you go first. Well, one thing I do need to clarify that it is the same ground. The structure, the ceiling or the wall, the pillars came later. Not that Jesus did it in the open air. What I'm saying is there was a room there. But in time, it was all remade and destroyed or redone.
But it is the same area because it's Mount Zion. Yeah, like if it were like, maybe this is not a great analogy, but like right now we're in this room. This is our radio room. If this room was demolished and they built another room maybe over there where the hub is, was that sort of similar? Like it may not have been this room that we're in now.
It's very close. I mean, it may be where the steps were leading to the room. And it's right there because Mount Zion, that's Mount Zion, right? That's that hill very close to the temple and all of that. So at some point we walked through where Jesus and the disciples were eating that last summer?
Yes. A lot of places you and I were walking to, of course, the walls of Jerusalem were not there. The walls were built, what, four or five hundred years ago. But the area was more than likely where Jesus walked. And there is a place where you can actually go and see the original street of Jerusalem. We walked down there and you can walk on it. Then there's another place where you can just look down and see. But there is a place you can actually walk on that. And it's amazing to think that Jesus came through here. A hundred percent.
More than likely he came through here. That's amazing. The gravity of that room, I remember, really got me because we filmed in there and it was one of the, that was a really great one because there was no lights. You know, it was everybody held up their camera, their phones. Their flashlights. Because it was late in the day. The sun was like going down, we were fighting for daylight and we had Dr. Shah stand up against the wall and it was just so dark.
So everybody came together and just had their flashlights on. Wow, that's cool. I was like, I'm going to find that video. That's one of my favorites. That's amazing.
It was a great, great moment. So going back to the Lord's Supper, look back in remembrance, picture yourself in the upper room sitting across from Jesus around him. And I know, I know Leonardo da Vinci's idea of sitting on a table may not have been how they did it. They probably reclined. But imagine yourself reclining somewhere.
That's right. That fateful night. And then it says in 1 Corinthians 11, 24, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, take it. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in remembrance of me.
This is very personal. So imagine Jesus saying that to you, to you, to you, to me, this is my body broken for you. That's right. And you have to think of him handing you that piece of bread and knowing that, okay, your body was broken for me.
Okay, I got it. I know sometimes people say he was torn. He was not torn. His body was not torn. That's right.
His body was broken. It's a picture of bread. And in the same manner, he also took the cup after supper. You see the cup after supper in the Haggadah, it gives us instructions of how there were different cups. This is a different, this is a cup that comes after supper.
Which lends itself to the idea that this was indeed the Passover meal. So he also took the cup after supper. It's not like he took the cup after supper was over. This is a cup that comes after the meal is done.
This is now a different cup. This is the cup after supper, not the cup that we use after supper is over. And also, by the way, that bread take eat, this is my body which is broken for you. This is the bread that's in the middle.
Three pieces of bread. And some of these traditions came later, they say, I don't think so. I think these traditions were always there.
Okay, they were always there. But I don't know who is trying to say that these traditions came later. There were three pieces of bread and they don't take the first piece or the third piece. They just take the middle piece, which represented, in my opinion, represented the Son of God, Jesus, second person of God. And then two implications here very quickly is to remember in gratitude for what he did for you and remember how much you need his forgiveness and grace in your life. And so when you put yourself back into that room 2,000 years ago, just think about what he went through for you so that you can have freedom, you can have forgiveness, you can have eternal life, new heavens, new earth that's coming for you. Somebody had to pay the price to satisfy the holiness of God.
You should see yourself unworthy and never able to thank him enough for his grace and mercy. I don't know if you struggle with this, but I think there's a lot of people out there who struggle with this who are like in ministry leadership where you feel like you have to just fill the time. Like I've got to be saying something, I don't want these awkward lulls. Then you come to communion where it's really designed to be a lull for you to sit there.
Because I was thinking about it, we've done three episodes on it and it's like, man, that's a lot to sit there and think about. And it's like, that's why we have that time. That's why we stretch it out and that's why we have soft music playing and no one's talking, no one's moving around because I think there's such a, especially in churches today, there's such a push to fill the time and cram and cram and cram. So having these times of just openness and quiet is really helpful. Yeah, instead of rushing to the next thing, we can remember what Christ has done for us.
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