03/31/2019 DAB Transcript

Deuteronomy 16:1-17:20, Luke 9:7-27, Psalms 72:1-20, Proverbs 12:8-9

Today is the 31st day of March. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I Brian. It’s great to be here with you. I can’t believe it but we’re about to end our third month of the journey this year today and this will conclude the first quarter of the year. So, well done. Look at all that has happened in three months time. We began the story in the beginning and we wound our way here and have covered some serious ground not only in the biblical narrative but also in our own hearts and we’re moving ourselves into the changing of the seasons. So, well done, well done for getting here. If you are hearing me now, chances are better than not that we’ll be talking to each other on December 31st. Well done. And the truth is, yes, we have come three months into the year, the first quarter has passed us, but oh the treasure that is out in front of us. So, let’s just take a moment here, take a deep breath and realize where we are in the year, where we are in the Bible as we take the next step forward. So, we are at the end of a month, but we are also smack at the threshold of a shiny and sparkly, new week that we’re stepping into together. This week we’ll read from the Christian Standard Bible, and we have indeed been working our way through the book of Deuteronomy. Moses is telling the people the last things that he’s going to tell them and they’re all important things that he feels like they must remember, or they will destroy themselves. And, so, we are reiterating and reviewing the law at this point. Today, Deuteronomy chapter 16 and 17.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for this brand-new week. We thank You that this brand-new week will lead us into a brand-new month and this brand-new month will take us through the rest of the season of Lent where we are contemplating what it cost to give us our freedom. And this month will lead us to Easter where we will rejoice like never before at Your victory. So, we are thankful Father that You have brought us this far and we mark it as we have been doing all year. We take moments to look around at where we are in the year and in our lives and in Your word and we pray once again, come Holy Spirit into all the days that are out in front of us as You plant within us and make it bedrock all the days that have gone behind. Come Holy Spirit and lead us deeper into Jesus, lead us deeper into Your word, and lead us deeper into our relationship and Your work in this world. Come Holy Spirit we pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.

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Ahhh, I’m just taking a moment to realize, three months, it really has gone by pretty fast and we have gone to the land of the Bible and we’ve done so much in the community and coming up just in a couple weeks is the More Gathering for women. So, we are certainly moving forward in time and moving through our year. And speaking of the More Gathering for women, today is the last day to register for the More Gathering for women and it’s coming up here in a couple of…well… like a week and a half, April 11th through the 14th and this will take place in the mountains of North Georgia outside of Atlanta about an hour and you can get all the details at moregathering.com or go to dailyaudiobible.com in the Initiatives section and you’ll find the same thing and you can get all the details and we hope to see you there. But this is it, this is the last day to register for the final More Gathering that will take place in the mountains of North Georgia. And, so, speaking of kind of marking things and remembering, that’s one of the things that we are doing with this More Gathering. The Lord’s inviting us forward and we don’t know exactly what that’s gonna look like. We just know last year that the Lord was saying next year’s the last year up on this particular mountain for now. So, that’s all…that’s it. So, hopefully you can come and be a part of this remembering so. So, yeah. Registration closes today. moregathering.com is the place to go to get the details and we do hope to see you.

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And that’s it for today. I’m Brian I love you and I’ll be waiting for you here next month.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi Daily Audio Bible family, this is Oscar out of Denver calling in. __ to say…guys I’m calling because I am reeally blessed, really blessed by God and His grace, His grace endlessly astounds me. I am currently having some issues with my wife. We’re expecting our first kid here in like anywhere from three weeks to six weeks and although my wife and I have been married for two years and change we’re sort of restless right now. We called __ with the service of chaplain with the Navy instead of the Marine core and I just feel that the enemies doing everything he can to stop that and to hinder that in and to __ our marriage. So, if you guys could just pray for unity for my wife and I that we can grow closer, that we can speak each other’s love language better and better and we can have better communication, that we can grow to be one, God as one __ that. I would really appreciate that. I know that she is the one for me, I’m the one for her. I’ve prayed for that many, many times, but I just know that there’s some barriers here that only He can break through, that only he can tear down those walls. So, I just pray for strength and I pray that these things will happen. Thank you, guys for what you do, and I will keep praying for you guys and encouraging you guys and please know that God’s got us and no matter we’re His children of the King of believers and that’s pretty awesome. I love you guys and keep being so mild to the world.

Hey Daily Audio Bible family this is John Corrado calling from Bethlehem Pennsylvania. It’s been just way too long since I’ve called in, but I do want you to know that I absolutely listen every single day. It’s the first thing, generally speaking, that I do when I wake up after I discover that God has granted me another day that was never promised to me and I thank Him for it and I get my feet up on a bed and so on and so forth but shortly thereafter, the good Lord willing I listen to the Daily Audio Bible and I listen intently to you all every day. And I just want to reach out today and let you all know that.  Like, every single one of your calls that come into this amazing program, this amazing platform, they’re being listen to, they’re being heard, there are people out there praying. You know that already, you hear people say that all the time. And, you know, today’s the 26th, I’m sorry…no…the 27th of March and there was a prayer that came in this morning from a woman and Chicago and your name…your name was just muddy…I couldn’t hear what it was but you were calling with regard to your son and how’s there’s just a lot of trouble and had to throw him out of the house and I just want to lift you in prayer right now. God knows your name, I don’t. I heard your prayer request and I’m praying with you. Heavenly, Father thank You so much for this day that You never promised to us. Father You are graceful, You are all grace, and You are all glorious and You are merciful and You are loving and we thank You. We thank You Father God so much for the work that You’re doing in our lives every day. The way that Your transforming us Father God. You heard our sister’s prayer from Chicago. You know the pain that she is in right now from having to turn her son away from her home Father, but You see the abuse that he’s verbally giving her his mother Father God and You know what’s right in that situation. We trust You we trust You Father God thank You for giving us the ability…

Good afternoon Daily Audio Bible. This is Scott from Alaska and I’m actually back in Alaska. Made my trip here. I’m actually about 80 miles from home overlooking a beautiful Matanuska glacier. It’s so incredible and so beautiful. An amazing, amazing story too. You know, I was thinking about what Brian said today on the podcast of we go through our desert times and then we go through our happier times or blessed times and it’s so important to remember the desert times that we don’t forget God. I don’t know about you guys but sometimes in the happy times it…well…I’m ashamed a little bit to admit it but it’s hard to always remember God. Really important when I’m in the desert times to take note of the desert time and take note of God’s provision. As beautiful as the day is today and as happy as I am, even in all of the hard times I know God has been with me just as much in the desert as here overlooking the beauty of the Chugach mountains and the Matanuska glacier. Thank you so much for keeping the podcast going Brian and I’ve been praying with all of you my trip up here and I know that some of you been praying for me and thank you very much. That’s an amazing thing with this technology that we can pray together to make this journey together. And for those of you in the desert times, well, look around at the manna that God is providing and call us back and tell us about it so we can remember and rejoice and pray with you and pray you through the desert too. Thank you, thank you, thank you. That’s all for now.

Hi DAB family it’s James here for the UK. I’m just calling back. I called you guys about a month ago to put in a prayer request for somebody called Ben. He’s a young man whose been really struggling with mental health issues and in any case the long and the short of it is this. Ben was released from the institution he was put into after a lot of time spent with myself…well…much more time spent with my friend Nigel praying with him and just bringing him to a place where he had a much better understanding of Jesus and the Christian faith, which was a huge help and we saw Ben really change over those weeks and months that he was in hospital. Ben was released from hospital and we’re not sure where he is now. So, it’s a burden on our hearts and we think he’s…he’s most probably, obviously, gone back to the old way of living but he’s someone who has such a potential in front of him and he’s such a character and he’s such a lovable person and he’s so vulnerable. And this is thing family, I don’t know want to pray anymore. I don’t know what to say. I’m not in…I just don’t know what else we can do and I just have to put all this back into Jesus hands. I hope desperately that we’ll see him again. I hope desperately that he’s okay. And I know some of you have been praying for him, you know. So, there you go. That’s my prayer request. Humbly just asking for Ben’s health, well-being, so that fundamentally there would be a change inside of him that would unlock…just unlock him from the way that he has been so tied to…

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Sunday March 31, 2019 (NIV)

Deuteronomy 16-17

The Festival of Passover

16 “Set aside the month of Abib[a](A) and observe the Passover to the Lord your God, because the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night in the month of Abib.(B) Sacrifice to the Lord your God a Passover animal from the herd or flock in the place where the Lord chooses to have his name dwell.(C) Do not eat leavened bread with it.(D) For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread with it, the bread of hardship—because you left the land of Egypt in a hurry(E)—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt. No yeast is to be found anywhere in your territory for seven days,(F) and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day is to remain until morning.(G) You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns the Lord your God is giving you. Sacrifice the Passover animal only at the place where the Lord your God chooses to have his name dwell. Do this in the evening as the sun sets at the same time of day you departed from Egypt. You are to cook and eat it in the place the Lord your God chooses, and you are to return to your tents in the morning. Eat unleavened bread for six days. On the seventh day there is to be a solemn assembly to the Lord your God; do not do any work.

The Festival of Weeks

“You are to count seven weeks, counting the weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain.(H) 10 You are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks(I) to the Lord your God with a freewill offering(J) that you give in proportion to how the Lord your God has blessed you. 11 Rejoice(K) before the Lord your God in the place where he chooses to have his name dwell—you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, the Levite within your city gates, as well as the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow among you. 12 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt; carefully follow these statutes.

The Festival of Shelters

13 “You are to celebrate the Festival of Shelters(L) for seven days when you have gathered in everything from your threshing floor and winepress.(M) 14 Rejoice during your festival—you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, as well as the Levite, the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow within your city gates. 15 You are to hold a seven-day festival for the Lord your God in the place he chooses, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands,(N) and you will have abundant joy.

16 “All your males are to appear three times a year(O) before the Lord your God in the place he chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Shelters. No one is to appear before the Lord empty-handed.(P) 17 Everyone must appear with a gift suited to his means, according to the blessing the Lord your God has given you.

Appointing Judges and Officials

18 “Appoint judges and officials for your tribes in all your towns the Lord your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment. 19 Do not deny justice or show partiality to anyone. Do not accept a bribe, for it blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.(Q) 20 Pursue justice and justice alone, so that you will live and possess the land the Lord your God is giving you.(R)

Forbidden Worship

21 “Do not set up an Asherah of any kind of wood next to the altar you will build for the Lord your God, 22 and do not set up a sacred pillar; the Lord your God hates them.(S)

17 “Do not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or sheep with a defect or any serious flaw, for that is detestable to the Lord your God.(T)

The Judicial Procedure for Idolatry

“If a man or woman among you in one of your towns that the Lord your God will give you is discovered doing evil in the sight of the Lord your God and violating his covenant(U) and has gone to serve other gods(V) by bowing in worship to the sun, moon, or all the stars in the sky(W)—which I have forbidden(X) and if you are told or hear about it, then investigate it thoroughly. If the report turns out to be true that this detestable act has been done in Israel, you are to bring out to your city gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing and stone them to death.(Y) The one condemned to die is to be executed on the testimony of two or three witnesses.(Z) No one is to be executed on the testimony of a single witness. The witnesses’ hands are to be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people.(AA) You must purge the evil from you.(AB)

Difficult Cases

“If a case is too difficult for you—concerning bloodshed,(AC) lawsuits,(AD) or assaults(AE)—cases disputed at your city gates,(AF) then go up to the place the Lord your God chooses. You are to go to the Levitical priests and to the judge who presides at that time. Ask, and they will give you a verdict in the case. 10 You must abide by the verdict they give you at the place the Lord chooses. Be careful to do exactly as they instruct you. 11 You must abide by the instruction they give you and the verdict they announce to you. Do not turn to the right or the left from the decision they declare to you. 12 The person who acts arrogantly, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there serving the Lord your God or to the judge, must die. You must purge the evil from Israel. 13 Then all the people will hear about it, be afraid, and no longer behave arrogantly.

Appointing a King

14 “When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you,(AG) take possession of it, live in it, and say, ‘I will set a king over me like all the nations around me,’ 15 you are to appoint over you the king the Lord your God chooses.(AH) Appoint a king from your brothers. You are not to set a foreigner over you, or one who is not of your people.(AI) 16 However, he must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire many horses, for the Lord has told you, ‘You are never to go back that way again.’(AJ) 17 He must not acquire many wives for himself so that his heart won’t go astray.(AK) He must not acquire very large amounts of silver and gold for himself.(AL) 18 When he is seated on his royal throne, he is to write a copy of this instruction for himself on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests. 19 It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear(AM) the Lord his God, to observe all the words of this instruction, and to do these statutes. 20 Then his heart will not be exalted above his countrymen, he will not turn from this command to the right or the left, and he and his sons will continue reigning many years[b] in Israel.

Footnotes:

  1. 16:1 March–April; called Nisan in the post-exilic period; Neh 2:1; Est 3:7
  2. 17:20 Lit will lengthen days on his kingdom
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Luke 9:7-27

Herod’s Desire to See Jesus

Herod the tetrarch(A) heard about everything that was going on.(B) He was perplexed, because some said that John had been raised from the dead, some that Elijah had appeared,(C) and others that one of the ancient prophets had risen.(D) “I beheaded John,” Herod said, “but who is this I hear such things about?” And he wanted to see him.(E)

Feeding of the Five Thousand

10 When the apostles returned,(F) they reported to Jesus all that they had done.(G) He took them along and withdrew privately to a[a] town called Bethsaida.(H) 11 When the crowds found out, they followed him. He welcomed them,(I) spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who needed healing.

12 Late in the day,(J) the Twelve approached and said to him, “Send the crowd away,(K) so that they can go into the surrounding villages and countryside to find food and lodging, because we are in a deserted place here.”

13 “You give them something to eat,” he told them.

“We have no more than five loaves(L) and two fish,” they said, “unless we go and buy food for all these people.” 14 (For about five thousand men were there.)

Then he told his disciples, “Have them sit down[b] in groups of about fifty each.” 15 They did what he said, and had them all sit down. 16 Then he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven,(M) he blessed and broke them.(N) He kept giving them to the disciples to set before the crowd. 17 Everyone ate and was filled. They picked up twelve baskets of leftover pieces.

Peter’s Confession of the Messiah

18 While he was praying in private(O) and his disciples were with him, he asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?”

19 They answered, “John the Baptist; others, Elijah; still others, that one of the ancient prophets has come back.”[c](P)

20 “But you,” he asked them, “who do you say that I am?”

Peter answered, “God’s Messiah.”(Q)

His Death and Resurrection Predicted

21 But he strictly warned and instructed them to tell this to no one,(R) 22 saying,(S) “It is necessary that the Son of Man(T) suffer many things(U) and be rejected(V) by the elders, chief priests, and scribes,(W) be killed, and be raised the third day.”(X)

Take Up Your Cross

23 Then he said to them all, “If anyone wants to follow after[d] me, let him deny himself,(Y) take up his cross daily,[e] and follow me.(Z) 24 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will save it.(AA) 25 For what does it benefit someone if he gains the whole world, and yet loses or forfeits himself?(AB) 26 For whoever is ashamed of me and my words,(AC) the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory(AD) and that of the Father and the holy angels.(AE) 27 Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death(AF) until they see the kingdom of God.”(AG)

Footnotes:

  1. 9:10 Other mss add deserted place near a
  2. 9:14 Lit them recline
  3. 9:19 Lit has risen
  4. 9:23 Lit come after
  5. 9:23 Other mss omit daily
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Psalm 72

Psalm 72

A Prayer for the King

Of Solomon.(A)

God, give your justice to the king
and your righteousness to the king’s son.(B)
He will judge your people with righteousness
and your afflicted ones with justice.(C)
May the mountains bring well-being[a] to the people
and the hills, righteousness.(D)
May he vindicate the afflicted among the people,
help the poor,
and crush the oppressor.(E)

May they fear you[b] while the sun endures
and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.(F)
May the king be like rain that falls on the cut grass,
like spring showers that water the earth.(G)
May the righteous[c] flourish in his days
and well-being abound
until the moon is no more.(H)

May he rule from sea to sea
and from the Euphrates
to the ends of the earth.(I)
May desert tribes kneel before him
and his enemies lick the dust.(J)
10 May the kings of Tarshish
and the coasts and islands bring tribute,
the kings of Sheba and Seba offer gifts.(K)
11 Let all kings bow in homage to him,
all nations serve him.(L)

12 For he will rescue the poor who cry out
and the afflicted who have no helper.(M)
13 He will have pity on the poor and helpless
and save the lives of the poor.(N)
14 He will redeem them from oppression and violence,
for their lives are[d] precious[e] in his sight.(O)

15 May he live long!
May gold from Sheba be given to him.
May prayer be offered for him continually,
and may he be blessed all day long.(P)
16 May there be plenty of grain in the land;
may it wave on the tops of the mountains.
May its crops be like Lebanon.
May people flourish in the cities
like the grass of the field.(Q)
17 May his name endure forever;
as long as the sun shines,
may his fame increase.
May all nations be blessed by him
and call him blessed.(R)

18 Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel,
who alone does wonders.(S)
19 Blessed be his glorious name forever;
the whole earth is filled with his glory.(T)
Amen and amen.
20 The prayers of David son of Jesse are concluded.(U)

Footnotes:

  1. 72:3 Or peace, also in v. 7
  2. 72:5 LXX reads May he continue
  3. 72:7 Some Hb mss, LXX, Syr, Jer read May righteousness
  4. 72:14 Lit their blood is
  5. 72:14 Or valuable
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Proverbs 12:8-9

A man is praised for his insight,
but a twisted mind is despised.

Better to be disregarded, yet have a servant,
than to act important but have no food.(A)

Cross references:

  1. 12:9 : Pr 11:24; 13:7; Rm 12:3
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03/30/2019 DAB Transcript

Deuteronomy 13:1-15:23, Luke 8:40-9:6, Psalms 71:1-24, Proverbs 12:5-7

Today is the 30th day of March welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian as I am most every day and it’s great to be here with you today as we take the next step forward not only to the conclusion of our week, but also the next step forward in our Scriptures and we’ve been reading from the book of Deuteronomy listening to Moses give his final discourses, the final things that he wants to counsel and speak to the to the children of Israel while he is their leader because they’re about to move on toward the Jordan River under new leadership and he is about to be become a part of their history. So, we’ll pick up where we left off yesterday. We’re reading from the Good News Translation this week. Deuteronomy chapter 13, 14 and 15 today.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for another week in Your word and another week to continue the rhythm forward day by day, step-by-step, week by week, month by month. And it’s amazing to see the way that simply allowing Your word wash over us into our lives and seep down into our hearts, how radically that changes the way we think about things and continually exposes the things that are dark within us, it continually surfaces those things so that they can’t be buried. You continue bringing things up so that they can be dealt with. So, we are grateful. Sometimes it’s hard work but that hard work is a hard-press toward freedom. And, so, we thank You for this. We invite Your Holy Spirit to plant the words that we read this week into our lives and hearts and continue the work of sanctification within us and we look forward to all that You have yet in store for us as we begin to prepare to step into a new month. Come Holy Spirit we pray. We love You Jesus and we pray these things in Your name. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi, good morning, it’s March 27th, this is Jackie from New Jersey. I haven’t called in for quite a while. It was last year at the beginning of the year I think it was. But I’m calling in because I just heard…this is March the 27th…I just heard…I don’t know what her name was…Karen or Sharon from Chicago. I couldn’t make her name out…so…but she’s having trouble with her son. She had to put him out because he was having rage attacks against her. I had the same issue with my grandson and I took care him off and on for years because him and my daughter could get along and they both are bipolar, but I couldn’t do it anymore myself and I can understand what you’re talking about. And I just recently got back in contact with my grandson. He’s at a rehabilitation center now and I think they’re sending him away for at least two months because he did have problems with marijuana and drinking a little. But I can tell you that it will get better, it will get better. Believe me because I know with him gone for a little while your brain will function a little bit better and if you need to talk my email address is jander2134@comcast.net. I’m looking forward to your…to listening…to read your email. Thank you.

Hey Daily Audio Bible family this is Jay from Nashville Tennessee. So, yeah, pray for me guys. My car got the kiss of death from my mechanic and he’s recommending that I do not try to salvage it. So, just pray for me that I get approved for something that will be conducive for the job that I do. It’s gotta have a lot of cargo space and hopefully good gas mileage. So…but I’m thinking about you guys. Kristi from Kentucky am praying for you. Alfi from Delaware, I’m also praying for you as well. You know this whole like process of being a human is overwhelming at times, especially in moments like this where, you know, you got your check engine light on and you don’t know if the car’s gonna break down before you get one or not. But I do find comfort in focusing on God, focusing on His will, focusing on His plan and recognizing that He has never forsaken me in the past in any way shape or form. He’s always made sure that I’ve been taken care of, always made sure that I have what I need. And, so, now I just lean on Him in this moment, recognize still that He is there and He is in control. Love you guys. Bye.

Yes, Daily Audio Bible, this is Stella calling from Paris. I’ve been listening to you for the past year and I’m so amazed at how many people call in. We just praise Your name and we give You thanks. I give You thanks father for listening to each of our prayers. Thank You for Rita in Nigeria with the problems with pain in her __. Thank You for Scott __. Thank You for Scott driving down the road knowing that You are with him because he listens to Daily Audio Bible. Thank You for my son. Thank You for me for giving me all that I receive every day from people around me. I ask my friends at Daily Audio Bible to pray for my son David who is having many difficulties. I thank you all and I pray that God blesses each and every one of you. Amen.

Good morning guys this is Cherry Chase Cherry Pie. I am actually calling in a request for myself. Just pray for me you guys. I’m having a hard time on the job. It’s seems like these people are just __ people in my life. The just…everything I try to do or try to…I hope you hear me because there’s a lot of noise…but I’m trying to gather myself. It seems like they don’t want me in that position and they just straight up…just tell me no and would choose someone else. So, I’m asking for prayer for God to either move me or move the people out and that’s my prayer because I want to do a lot more. Right now, I’m just so upset that I just can’t believe how they think they’re in control. Think they’re so in control it’s unreal. But you guys keep continuing to pray for me and lift me up today because today is not a good day for me, not on my job, it’s not a good day. I love you guys. I’m gonna continue to pray for you guys and I know you will pray for me. As I always say, have a great day, make it a great day.

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Saturday March 30, 2019 (NIV)

Deuteronomy 13-15

13 “Prophets or interpreters of dreams may promise a miracle or a wonder, in order to lead you to worship and serve gods that you have not worshiped before. Even if what they promise comes true, do not pay any attention to them. The Lord your God is using them to test you, to see if you love the Lord with all your heart. Follow the Lord and honor him; obey him and keep his commands; worship him and be faithful to him. But put to death any interpreters of dreams or prophets that tell you to rebel against the Lord, who rescued you from Egypt, where you were slaves. Such people are evil and are trying to lead you away from the life that the Lord has commanded you to live. They must be put to death, in order to rid yourselves of this evil.

“Even your brother or your son or your daughter or the wife you love or your closest friend may secretly encourage you to worship other gods, gods that you and your ancestors have never worshiped. Some of them may encourage you to worship the gods of the people who live near you or the gods of those who live far away. But do not let any of them persuade you; do not even listen to them. Show them no mercy or pity, and do not protect them. Kill them! Be the first to stone them, and then let everyone else stone them too. 10 Stone them to death! They tried to lead you away from the Lord your God, who rescued you from Egypt, where you were slaves. 11 Then all the people of Israel will hear what happened; they will be afraid, and no one will ever again do such an evil thing.

12 “When you are living in the towns that the Lord your God gives you, you may hear 13 that some worthless people of your nation have misled the people of their town to worship gods that you have never worshiped before. 14 If you hear such a rumor, investigate it thoroughly; and if it is true that this evil thing did happen, 15 then kill all the people in that town and all their livestock too. Destroy that town completely. 16 Bring together all the possessions of the people who live there and pile them up in the town square. Then burn the town and everything in it as an offering to the Lord your God. It must be left in ruins forever and never again be rebuilt. 17 Do not keep for yourselves anything that was condemned to destruction, and then the Lord will turn from his fierce anger and show you mercy. He will be merciful to you and make you a numerous people, as he promised your ancestors, 18 if you obey all his commands that I have given you today, and do what he requires.

A Forbidden Mourning Practice

14 (A)“You are the people of the Lord your God. So when you mourn for the dead, don't gash yourselves or shave the front of your head, as other people do. (B)You belong to the Lord your God; he has chosen you to be his own people from among all the peoples who live on earth.

Clean and Unclean Animals(C)

“Do not eat anything that the Lord has declared unclean. You may eat these animals: cattle, sheep, goats, deer, wild sheep, wild goats, or antelopes— any animals that have divided hoofs and that also chew the cud. But no animals may be eaten unless they have divided hoofs and also chew the cud. You may not eat camels, rabbits, or rock badgers. They must be considered unclean; they chew the cud but do not have divided hoofs. Do not eat pigs. They must be considered unclean; they have divided hoofs but do not chew the cud. Do not eat any of these animals or even touch their dead bodies.

“You may eat any kind of fish that has fins and scales, 10 but anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales may not be eaten; it must be considered unclean.

11 “You may eat any clean bird. 12-18 But these are the kinds of birds you are not to eat: eagles, owls, hawks, falcons; buzzards, vultures, crows; ostriches; seagulls, storks, herons, pelicans, cormorants;[a] hoopoes; and bats.

19 “All winged insects are unclean; do not eat them. 20 You may eat any clean insect.

21 (D)“Do not eat any animal that dies a natural death. You may let the foreigners who live among you eat it, or you may sell it to other foreigners. But you belong to the Lord your God; you are his people.

“Do not cook a young sheep or goat in its mother's milk.

The Law of the Tithe

22 (E)“Set aside a tithe—a tenth of all that your fields produce each year. 23 Then go to the one place where the Lord your God has chosen to be worshiped; and there in his presence eat the tithes of your grain, wine, and olive oil, and the first-born of your cattle and sheep. Do this so that you may learn to honor the Lord your God always. 24 If the place of worship is too far from your home for you to carry there the tithe of the produce that the Lord has blessed you with, then do this: 25 Sell your produce and take the money with you to the one place of worship. 26 Spend it on whatever you want—beef, lamb, wine, beer—and there, in the presence of the Lord your God, you and your families are to eat and enjoy yourselves.

27 “Do not neglect the Levites who live in your towns; they have no property of their own. 28 At the end of every third year bring the tithe of all your crops and store it in your towns. 29 This food is for the Levites, since they own no property, and for the foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your towns. They are to come and get all they need. Do this, and the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.

The Seventh Year(F)

15 “At the end of every seventh year you are to cancel the debts of those who owe you money. This is how it is to be done. Each of you who has lent money to any Israelite is to cancel the debt; you must not try to collect the money; the Lord himself has declared the debt canceled. You may collect what a foreigner owes you, but you must not collect what any of your own people owe you.

“The Lord your God will bless you in the land that he is giving you. Not one of your people will be poor if you obey him and carefully observe everything that I command you today. The Lord will bless you, as he has promised. You will lend money to many nations, but you will not have to borrow from any; you will have control over many nations, but no nation will have control over you.

(G)“If in any of the towns in the land that the Lord your God is giving you there are Israelites in need, then do not be selfish and refuse to help them. Instead, be generous and lend them as much as they need. Do not refuse to lend them something, just because the year when debts are canceled is near. Do not let such an evil thought enter your mind. If you refuse to make the loan, they will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be held guilty. 10 Give to them freely and unselfishly, and the Lord will bless you in everything you do. 11 (H)There will always be some Israelites who are poor and in need, and so I command you to be generous to them.

The Treatment of Slaves(I)

12 (J)“If any Israelites, male or female, sell themselves[b] to you as slaves, you are to release them after they have served you for six years. When the seventh year comes, you must let them go free. 13 When you set them free, do not send them away empty-handed. 14 Give to them generously from what the Lord has blessed you with—sheep, grain, and wine. 15 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the Lord your God set you free; that is why I am now giving you this command.

16 “But your slave may not want to leave; he may love you and your family and be content to stay. 17 Then take him to the door of your house and there pierce his ear; he will then be your slave for life. Treat your female slave in the same way. 18 Do not be resentful when you set slaves free; after all, they have served you for six years at half the cost of hired servants.[c] Do this, and the Lord your God will bless you in all that you do.

The First-Born Cattle and Sheep

19 (K)“Set aside for the Lord your God all the first-born males of your cattle and sheep; don't use any of these cattle for work and don't shear any of these sheep. 20 Each year you and your family are to eat them in the Lord's presence at the one place of worship. 21 But if there is anything wrong with the animals, if they are crippled or blind or have any other serious defect, you must not sacrifice them to the Lord your God. 22 You may eat such animals at home. All of you, whether ritually clean or unclean, may eat them, just as you eat deer or antelope. 23 (L)But do not use their blood for food; instead, you must pour it out on the ground like water.

Footnotes:

  1. Deuteronomy 14:12 The identification of some of these birds is uncertain.
  2. Deuteronomy 15:12 sell themselves; or are sold.
  3. Deuteronomy 15:18 at half … servants; or and have worked twice as hard as hired servants.
Good News Translation (GNT)

Copyright © 1992 by American Bible Society

Luke 8:40-9:6

Jairus' Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus' Cloak(A)

40 When Jesus returned to the other side of the lake, the people welcomed him, because they had all been waiting for him. 41 Then a man named Jairus arrived; he was an official in the local synagogue. He threw himself down at Jesus' feet and begged him to go to his home, 42 because his only daughter, who was twelve years old, was dying.

As Jesus went along, the people were crowding him from every side. 43 Among them was a woman who had suffered from severe bleeding for twelve years; she had spent all she had on doctors,[a] but no one had been able to cure her. 44 She came up in the crowd behind Jesus and touched the edge of his cloak, and her bleeding stopped at once. 45 Jesus asked, “Who touched me?”

Everyone denied it, and Peter said, “Master, the people are all around you and crowding in on you.”

46 But Jesus said, “Someone touched me, for I knew it when power went out of me.” 47 The woman saw that she had been found out, so she came trembling and threw herself at Jesus' feet. There in front of everybody, she told him why she had touched him and how she had been healed at once. 48 Jesus said to her, “My daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”

49 While Jesus was saying this, a messenger came from the official's house. “Your daughter has died,” he told Jairus; “don't bother the Teacher any longer.”

50 But Jesus heard it and said to Jairus, “Don't be afraid; only believe, and she will be well.”

51 When he arrived at the house, he would not let anyone go in with him except Peter, John, and James, and the child's father and mother. 52 Everyone there was crying and mourning for the child. Jesus said, “Don't cry; the child is not dead—she is only sleeping!”

53 They all made fun of him, because they knew that she was dead. 54 But Jesus took her by the hand and called out, “Get up, child!” 55 Her life returned, and she got up at once, and Jesus ordered them to give her something to eat. 56 Her parents were astounded, but Jesus commanded them not to tell anyone what had happened.

Jesus Sends Out the Twelve Disciples(B)

Jesus called the twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases. Then he sent them out to preach the Kingdom of God and to heal the sick, after saying to them, “Take nothing with you for the trip: no walking stick, no beggar's bag, no food, no money, not even an extra shirt. Wherever you are welcomed, stay in the same house until you leave that town; (C)wherever people don't welcome you, leave that town and shake the dust off your feet as a warning to them.”

The disciples left and traveled through all the villages, preaching the Good News and healing people everywhere.

Footnotes:

  1. Luke 8:43 Some manuscripts do not have she had spent all she had on doctors.
Good News Translation (GNT)

Copyright © 1992 by American Bible Society

Psalm 71

The Prayer of an Elderly Person

71 Lord, I have come to you for protection;
never let me be defeated!
Because you are righteous, help me and rescue me.
Listen to me and save me!
Be my secure shelter
and a strong fortress[a] to protect me;
you are my refuge and defense.

My God, rescue me from wicked people,
from the power of cruel and evil people.
Sovereign Lord, I put my hope in you;
I have trusted in you since I was young.
I have relied on you all my life;
you have protected[b] me since the day I was born.
I will always praise you.

My life has been an example to many,
because you have been my strong defender.
All day long I praise you
and proclaim your glory.
Do not reject me now that I am old;
do not abandon me now that I am feeble.
10 My enemies want to kill me;
they talk and plot against me.
11 They say, “God has abandoned him;
let's go after him and catch him;
there is no one to rescue him.”

12 Don't stay so far away, O God;
my God, hurry to my aid!
13 May those who attack me
be defeated and destroyed.
May those who try to hurt me
be shamed and disgraced.
14 I will always put my hope in you;
I will praise you more and more.
15 I will tell of your goodness;
all day long I will speak of your salvation,
though it is more than I can understand.
16 I will go in the strength of the Lord God;
I will proclaim your goodness, yours alone.

17 You have taught me ever since I was young,
and I still tell of your wonderful acts.
18 Now that I am old and my hair is gray,
do not abandon me, O God!
Be with me while I proclaim your power and might
to all generations to come.

19 Your righteousness, God, reaches the skies.
You have done great things;
there is no one like you.
20 You have sent troubles and suffering on me,
but you will restore my strength;
you will keep me from the grave.
21 You will make me greater than ever;
you will comfort me again.

22 I will indeed praise you with the harp;
I will praise your faithfulness, my God.
On my harp I will play hymns to you,
the Holy One of Israel.
23 I will shout for joy as I play for you;
with my whole being I will sing
because you have saved me.
24 I will speak of your righteousness all day long,
because those who tried to harm me
have been defeated and disgraced.

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 71:3 One ancient translation a strong fortress; Hebrew to go always you commanded.
  2. Psalm 71:6 Some ancient translations protected; Hebrew unclear.
Good News Translation (GNT)

Copyright © 1992 by American Bible Society

Proverbs 12:5-7

Honest people will treat you fairly; the wicked only want to deceive you.

The words of the wicked are murderous, but the words of the righteous rescue those who are threatened.

The wicked meet their downfall and leave no descendants, but the families of the righteous live on.

Good News Translation (GNT)

Copyright © 1992 by American Bible Society

03/29/2019 DAB Transcript

Deuteronomy 11:1-12:32, Luke 8:22-39, Psalms 70:1-5, Proverbs 12:4

Today is the 29th day of March. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is a pleasure and a joy to be here with you as we end another work week together or end another school week together and this week we’ve been spending our time, at least in the Old Testament, reading the book of Deuteronomy and we’ll continuing to move our way through Deuteronomy, Moses’s last words to the children of Israel before they moved forward toward the Jordan River. So, we’ll pick up with that story where we left off yesterday. We’re reading from the Good News Translation this week. Deuteronomy chapter 11 and 12.

Commentary:

Okay. So, this story in the gospel of Luke, it’s a famous story, certainly in the New Testament. Those of us who were in Israel last month, you know, stories like this, they echo back through our memory because we can see the sea of Galilee freshly in our memories. And this particular story from the Gospels, especially this account in the gospel of Luke, has always been intriguing to me. I’ve thought long and hard about this particular story over the years, even writing about this particular story in Sneezing Jesus because there’s a couple of things about the story that are just so fascinating to me. One is the Jesus went to the other side of the lake through an incredible storm after being exhausted through ministry on the other side of the lake for this one guy because, as the story goes, this one man was the only one who was set free on this journey. I’ve sat at that place. There’s a place that marks the spot. It’s called Gerasene. There’s an ancient monastery there, one of the oldest monasteries in Israel and you can walk up the side, kind of the cliff face, and there’s like former shrines up there to the event and I have sat there. I have sat there in the fall, when all of the grass is dead and brown and I have sat there in the spring when the wildflowers are just dancing in the fields and thought about Jesus coming for this one person because man…I mean…I…at least I think we all…but I have played the role of the of the man running down the shore screaming at God. And in some translations what the man screams is, “why are you interfering with me?” I thought about the times in my life when I’ve felt that way only to feel Jesus saying, “because you asked me to. Like, do you want to be free or do you prefer bondage.” I’ve also been riveted by the events, right? I mean, Jesus casting a legion of demons into a herd of swine and the swine running down into the sea of Galilee and drowning and just bobbing there along the shore is a pretty dramatic scene. So, the shepherds when they go to the villages and the people come down off the mountain to see what’s going on. You can just feel the tension and the drama in that story and in that moment. And their response to this man getting his freedom and his life and his sanity back was to ask Jesus to leave. And I find myself in that story too. If God decides to move in some sort of way that does not find itself into our theological formulas or bends our minds around because how could God work through a sinner like that? That can’t be God. And, so, it must be the devil. And, so we freak out and just say go somewhere else. And those are the saddest moments in the Bible to me. They echo Moses – “Lord send anybody else but me.” So, this story that happens kind of on the northeast side of the Sea of Galilee echoes across time through the Internet and lands itself in our laps no matter where we are sitting on this planet and invites us to consider the ways that we’re thrashing around and asking God why He’s interfering with us and what He’s doing when all He’s doing is trying to set us free or the ways that we get freaked out at the move of God that we’re seeing in our lives or in other’s lives and ask Him to leave. We might not out and out say a prayer, “dear Jesus, holy son of the living God I need you to leave” but we do this with our thoughts, words and deeds every day.

Prayer:

Holy Spirit, we invite You into that. What are our lives asking of You? Are our lives asking why You are interfering with us or are our lives asking You to leave or are we running to You with abandon, naked, and desperate for freedom? Holy Spirit we ask You to lead us down the pathways of our lives today so that that question can be rightfully answered. And when it is rightfully answered, we invite You into that answer. We don’t want to be pushing You away or asking You to leave. We want to be running to You and staying by Your side in lockstep movement so that wherever You are that’s where we are because wherever that is it will be the right place even if we don’t understand it.  Come Holy Spirit we pray. In Jesus name’ we ask. Amen.

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Hi friends, this is Vivian from the front range in Northern Colorado. I thought I would just call in and give you an update on my pastor’s son, Noah whose been having seizures. He is scheduled for surgery this Friday the 29th and I’m just calling back to once again ask for your prayers for this little boy. He loves Jesus. He’s a sweet little thing and I know his family is anxious about this. I would be too if it were my little boy. I’m just asking for your prayers for support for the family, for provision, protection, and healing for this little guy. I love you all and I appreciate all the prayers that I’ve heard on his behalf already. Just keep them coming. We appreciate it. Thank you. Love you guys. Bye.

This is a praise call and this call goes out to all of the ladies that listen to the Daily Audio Bible. This is Cindy the Sinner from Seattle. You’ll never forget my name now because I’m a sinner and that is part of my name, but I wanted to tell you all the reasons you should go to the More conference. I think there’s still time for you to sign up and the biggest things that I got out of the conference last year are number one, forgiveness. It is so hard sometimes to forgive and I know it’s 7×70 but if you really want to make some progress on forgiving some people or things that you need to in your life, More will help you create the scaffolding to help forgive other people. Not only that but you will gather some tools at More that will help you address your giants. So, Brian has talked about facing our giants this lent and again, More will prepare you and give you some tools to face your giant. Addressing sensitive thoughts and wounds, I know we all carry around these wounds and things that make us really sensitive throughout our lives and More can help soften and heal those spots. And lastly, I have 14 More sisters. There’s probably more than that, there’s probably 15 or 16 or 17 but we have been in communication all year and let me tell you ladies, I’ve got some issues that I need prayer for on a daily basis and these more sisters are praying for me and man there is no other support system like a good Christian sister and More sister. And, so I’d love to see you there and hope I do. Bye.

Hi, this is Michelle in Indiana and I’m calling for my mother in Kentucky, her name is Sally and I am calling for prayers. She lost feeling in her legs on Sunday and I’ve been praying, and we don’t know what the outcome is. The hospitals still running tests. We don’t know if it was a stroke or what it is but I just…I’m asking for prayers for her. I just need the Daily Audio Bible family to pray for her, come together, heal her, help her heal, let her walk again, let her know that Jesus is with her and Jesus can heal her. This is the first time I ever called. So, I really appreciate any prayers that can send your way. Appreciate it very much. Thank you. God bless you all.

Hello DAB community family this is Catherine calling from Maryland. I was just listening to the March 25th podcast and once again amazed at the confluence of messaging between the readings and the prayers. So, I just wanted to call and celebrate with you Bridget and to say __ I was so very moved by your prayer. I will be praying for Michael and __ because our God is mighty to save. And as Moses said in the reading this morning, “when does this ever happen, when else in the history has this happened?” But we can forgive and have compassion for someone who hurt us so badly, you know, in killing your son-in-law. But God is so powerful. He is mighty to save, and He upholds you with His righteous right hand. And if God can save in this situation, and He will. He will do a mighty work in Michael and __. Like, Moses was a killer, that killers can’t be redeemed. And I think you’ve obeyed…you’re obeying God, you’re forgiving, you are…only in God’s power could you ever do that. And in so doing you unleash all of the power of God and the Holy Spirit to work in this world. And as you do that it goes well for you, that’s what the word of God says. So, Bridget I salute you and you’re an inspiration to the rest of us. And, so, for those who are calling and who are anxious or worried or filled with feelings of worthlessness, you think about this, think about how wonderful and amazing God is and how He can redeem anyone from anything and that’s just the truth. So, may all of those who suffer from feelings of worthlessness from anxiety…

Hi, I’m a listener…I’ve been and around for I don’t know…about four or five years. I’ve been to the More gathering twice. I’ve never called. I’m calling today for my daughter Amanda. She’s 33. She knows who Jesus is. She knows…she grew up that way in church, but she doesn’t…she doesn’t want to talk about it. She doesn’t want anything to do with Jesus anymore. She’s hurting, she’s been hurt very badly recently. She has two beautiful children but she’s going off the deep end [crying] I can’t reach her. Please pray somebody will come into her life and reach her and show her the love of the Lord. Thank you. Thank you.

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Friday March 29, 2019 (NIV)

Deuteronomy 11-12

The Lord's Greatness

11 “Love the Lord your God and always obey all his laws. Remember today what you have learned about the Lord through your experiences with him. It was you, not your children, who had these experiences. You saw the Lord's greatness, his power, his might, (A)and his miracles. You saw what he did to the king of Egypt and to his entire country. (B)You saw how the Lord completely wiped out the Egyptian army, along with their horses and chariots, by drowning them in the Red Sea[a] when they were pursuing you. You know what the Lord did for you in the desert before you arrived here. (C)You recall what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab of the tribe of Reuben. In the sight of everyone the earth opened up and swallowed them, along with their families, their tents, and all their servants and animals. Yes, you are the ones who have seen all these great things that the Lord has done.

The Blessings of the Promised Land

“Obey everything that I have commanded you today. Then you will be able to cross the river and occupy the land that you are about to enter. And you will live a long time in the rich and fertile land that the Lord promised to give your ancestors and their descendants. 10 The land that you are about to occupy is not like the land of Egypt, where you lived before. There, when you planted grain, you had to work hard to irrigate the fields; 11 but the land that you are about to enter is a land of mountains and valleys, a land watered by rain. 12 The Lord your God takes care of this land and watches over it throughout the year.

13 (D)“So then, obey the commands that I have given you today; love the Lord your God and serve him with all your heart. 14 If you do, he will send rain on your land when it is needed, in the autumn and in the spring, so that there will be grain, wine, and olive oil for you, 15 and grass for your livestock. You will have all the food you want. 16 Do not let yourselves be led away from the Lord to worship and serve other gods. 17 If you do, the Lord will become angry with you. He will hold back the rain, and your ground will become too dry for crops to grow. Then you will soon die there, even though it is a good land that he is giving you.

18 (E)“Remember these commands and cherish them. Tie them on your arms and wear them on your foreheads as a reminder. 19 Teach them to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you are resting and when you are working. 20 Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates. 21 Then you and your children will live a long time in the land that the Lord your God promised to give to your ancestors. You will live there as long as there is a sky above the earth.

22 “Obey faithfully everything that I have commanded you: Love the Lord your God, do everything he commands, and be faithful to him. 23 Then he will drive out all those nations as you advance, and you will occupy the land belonging to nations greater and more powerful than you. 24 (F)All the ground that you march over will be yours. Your territory will extend from the desert in the south to the Lebanon Mountains in the north, and from the Euphrates River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. 25 Wherever you go in that land, the Lord your God will make the people fear you, as he has promised, and no one will be able to stop you.

26 “Today I am giving you the choice between a blessing and a curse— 27 a blessing, if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today; 28 but a curse, if you disobey these commands and turn away to worship other gods that you have never worshiped before. 29 (G)When the Lord brings you into the land that you are going to occupy, you are to proclaim the blessing from Mount Gerizim and the curse from Mount Ebal. (30 These two mountains are west of the Jordan River in the territory of the Canaanites who live in the Jordan Valley. They are toward the west, not far from the sacred trees of Moreh near the town of Gilgal.) 31 You are about to cross the Jordan River and occupy the land that the Lord your God is giving you. When you take it and settle there, 32 be sure to obey all the laws that I am giving you today.

The One Place for Worship

12 “Here are the laws that you are to obey as long as you live in the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you. Listen to them! In the land that you are taking, destroy all the places where the people worship their gods on high mountains, on hills, and under green trees. (H)Tear down their altars and smash their sacred stone pillars to pieces. Burn their symbols of the goddess Asherah and chop down their idols, so that they will never again be worshiped at those places.

“Do not worship the Lord your God in the way that these people worship their gods. Out of the territory of all your tribes the Lord will choose the one place where the people are to come into his presence and worship him. There you are to offer your sacrifices that are to be burned and your other sacrifices, your tithes and your offerings, the gifts that you promise to the Lord, your freewill offerings, and the first-born of your cattle and sheep. There, in the presence of the Lord your God, who has blessed you, you and your families will eat and enjoy the good things that you have worked for.

“When that time comes, you must not do as you have been doing. Until now you have all been worshiping as you please, because you have not yet entered the land that the Lord your God is giving you, where you can live in peace. 10 When you cross the Jordan River, the Lord will let you occupy the land and live there. He will keep you safe from all your enemies, and you will live in peace. 11 The Lord will choose a single place where he is to be worshiped, and there you must bring to him everything that I have commanded: your sacrifices that are to be burned and your other sacrifices, your tithes and your offerings, and those special gifts that you have promised to the Lord. 12 Be joyful there in his presence, together with your children, your servants, and the Levites who live in your towns; remember that the Levites will have no land of their own. 13 You are not to offer your sacrifices wherever you choose; 14 you must offer them only in the one place that the Lord will choose in the territory of one of your tribes. Only there are you to offer your sacrifices that are to be burned and do all the other things that I have commanded you.

15 “But you are free to kill and eat your animals wherever you live. You may eat as many as the Lord gives you. All of you, whether ritually clean or unclean, may eat them, just as you would eat the meat of deer or antelope. 16 (I)But you must not eat their blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water. 17 Nothing that you offer to the Lord is to be eaten in the places where you live: neither the tithes of your grain, your wine, or your olive oil, nor the first-born of your cattle and sheep, the gifts that you promise to the Lord, your freewill offerings, or any other offerings. 18 You and your children, together with your servants and the Levites who live in your towns, are to eat these offerings only in the presence of the Lord your God, in the one place of worship chosen by the Lord your God. And you are to be happy there over everything that you have done. 19 Be sure, also, not to neglect the Levites, as long as you live in your land.

20 “When the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised, you may eat meat whenever you want to. 21 If the one place of worship is too far away, then, whenever you wish, you may kill any of the cattle or sheep that the Lord has given you, and you may eat the meat at home, as I have told you. 22 Anyone, ritually clean or unclean, may eat that meat, just as he would eat the meat of deer or antelope. 23 (J)Only do not eat meat with blood still in it, for the life is in the blood, and you must not eat the life with the meat. 24 Do not use the blood for food; instead, pour it out on the ground like water. 25 If you obey this command, the Lord will be pleased, and all will go well for you and your descendants. 26 Take to the one place of worship your offerings and the gifts that you have promised the Lord. 27 Offer there the sacrifices which are to be completely burned on the Lord's altar. Also offer those sacrifices in which you eat the meat and pour the blood out on the altar. 28 Obey faithfully everything that I have commanded you, and all will go well for you and your descendants forever, because you will be doing what is right and what pleases the Lord your God.

Warning against Idolatry

29 “The Lord your God will destroy the nations as you invade their land, and you will occupy it and settle there. 30 After the Lord destroys those nations, make sure that you don't follow their religious practices, because that would be fatal. Don't try to find out how they worship their gods, so that you can worship in the same way. 31 Do not worship the Lord your God in the way they worship their gods, for in the worship of their gods they do all the disgusting things that the Lord hates. They even sacrifice their children in the fires on their altars.

32 (K)“Do everything that I have commanded you; do not add anything to it or take anything from it.

Footnotes:

  1. Deuteronomy 11:4 Red Sea: See Word List.
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Luke 8:22-39

Jesus Calms a Storm(A)

22 One day Jesus got into a boat with his disciples and said to them, “Let us go across to the other side of the lake.” So they started out. 23 As they were sailing, Jesus fell asleep. Suddenly a strong wind blew down on the lake, and the boat began to fill with water, so that they were all in great danger. 24 The disciples went to Jesus and woke him up, saying, “Master, Master! We are about to die!”

Jesus got up and gave an order to the wind and to the stormy water; they quieted down, and there was a great calm. 25 Then he said to the disciples, “Where is your faith?”

But they were amazed and afraid, and said to one another, “Who is this man? He gives orders to the winds and waves, and they obey him!”

Jesus Heals a Man with Demons(B)

26 Jesus and his disciples sailed on over to the territory of Gerasa,[a] which is across the lake from Galilee. 27 As Jesus stepped ashore, he was met by a man from the town who had demons in him. For a long time this man had gone without clothes and would not stay at home, but spent his time in the burial caves. 28 When he saw Jesus, he gave a loud cry, threw himself down at his feet, and shouted, “Jesus, Son of the Most High God! What do you want with me? I beg you, don't punish me!” 29 He said this because Jesus had ordered the evil spirit to go out of him. Many times it had seized him, and even though he was kept a prisoner, his hands and feet tied with chains, he would break the chains and be driven by the demon out into the desert.

30 Jesus asked him, “What is your name?”

“My name is ‘Mob,’” he answered—because many demons had gone into him. 31 The demons begged Jesus not to send them into the abyss.[b]

32 There was a large herd of pigs near by, feeding on a hillside. So the demons begged Jesus to let them go into the pigs, and he let them. 33 They went out of the man and into the pigs. The whole herd rushed down the side of the cliff into the lake and was drowned.

34 The men who had been taking care of the pigs saw what happened, so they ran off and spread the news in the town and among the farms. 35 People went out to see what had happened, and when they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone out sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind; and they were all afraid. 36 Those who had seen it told the people how the man had been cured. 37 Then all the people from that territory asked Jesus to go away, because they were terribly afraid. So Jesus got into the boat and left. 38 The man from whom the demons had gone out begged Jesus, “Let me go with you.”

But Jesus sent him away, saying, 39 “Go back home and tell what God has done for you.”

The man went through the town, telling what Jesus had done for him.

Footnotes:

  1. Luke 8:26 Gerasa; some manuscripts have Gadara (see Mt 8.28); others have Gergesa.
  2. Luke 8:31 It was thought that the demons were to be imprisoned in the depths of the earth until their final punishment.
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Psalm 70

A Prayer for Help[a] (A)

70 Save me, O God!
Lord, help me now!
May those who try to kill me
be defeated and confused.
May those who are happy because of my troubles
be turned back and disgraced.
May those who make fun of me
be dismayed by their defeat.

May all who come to you
be glad and joyful.
May all who are thankful for your salvation
always say, “How great is God!”

I am weak and poor;
come to me quickly, O God.
You are my savior and my Lord
hurry to my aid!

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 70:1 HEBREW TITLE: A psalm by David; a lament.

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 70:1 : (Ps 40:13-Ps 40:17)
Good News Translation (GNT)

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Proverbs 12:4

A good wife is her husband's pride and joy; but a wife who brings shame on her husband is like a cancer in his bones.

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03/28/2019 DAB Transcript

Deuteronomy 9:1-10:22, Luke 8:4-21, Psalms 69:19-36, Proverbs 12:2-3

Today is the 28th day of the month of March. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian. It is a pleasure to be here with you on this 28th day of March where we will take our 28th step of this month forward as we continue our journey through the Bible this year. So we’ve been reading our way through the book of Deuteronomy, the final words of Moses to the children of Israel before they would move forward without him and we’ll continue with Moses second discourse today by reading from the Good News Translation, which is what we’re doing this week by reading chapters 9 and 10 of the book of Deuteronomy.

Commentary:

Okay. So, we have been going through the giving of the law in the previous weeks that we’ve been together, at least for the last month. Now here we are in the book of Deuteronomy where a lot of summary has happened and is happening. And, so, there’s like a lot of rules and customs and rituals and methods that have been laid out. And, so, we might wonder, like this is pretty complicated how do you know if you’re doing it right and we can even think that in our Christian walk. What are the rules? Like, what are the fundamental rules that we’re supposed to do because it is hard to even remember all of these rules. So, what are we supposed to be doing and is there an order that these things are supposed to be done? And is there a way that they’re supposed to be done, right? What’s the recipe? What’s the magic that we should follow and bake at 325 and come out with a strong faith? What will make it all work like it’s supposed to work? Moses actually answered that question today in the book of Deuteronomy. We can read all of the rules and normally we’ll start thinking like, you know, like, what do I have to modify in my behavior to be adhering to that rule? As if all of the rules are about caging us in from doing things that maybe we want to do but shouldn’t. What Moses revealed is that the rules boil down to something deeper than modifying your behavior. So, quoting Moses, “listen to what the Lord your God demands of you. Worship the Lord and do all that he commands. Love Him, serve Him with all your heart and obey His laws. I’m giving them to you today for your benefit.” So, basically, revere the Lord and honor the Lord. And because you’ve fallen in love with Him, serve Him with all your heart and soul. So on the one it seems like it seems like it should be a little more complicated than this, at least for the children of Israel because we’ve just gone through the giving of the law. There’s so many rules and rituals and customs and observances and so many reminders that have to be obeyed, but when we begin to peel all that back we begin to realize what’s happened here. The rules were certainly the rules but those were the outer boundaries beyond those boundaries was a road that would lead to death and destruction. So, the law wasn’t to be a cage to control the people. It existed to do what Moses said it had to do, to remind people who they were, where they’d come from, and who God is. And, so, all of these rules and rituals and customs and remembrances and holidays, this is all things that are baked into the culture itself, constant reminders of who their true source is. Our faith in Jesus is not different although we can often look at it the same way. Like, just tell me the fundamental rule, like a how do I live into this? And we have to recognize it that God isn’t interested in rule-based dominance over His people, that was never what He was after. A faithful loyal holy relationship is what He’s always been interested in. He wants to be known. And if we really do love God, right, if we love the Lord with all our heart and mind and strength, we’ll be obeying the rules and we won’t even have to think about them anymore, they’ll be apparent, they’ll have meaning. This is how all relationships are shaped and there are things we shouldn’t participate in because we’re in love with God, we’re unwilling to betray the love that we have for God. And, so, that is how obedience begins to take form and shape in our lives. God didn’t offer rules to humanity so that humans could have boring lives. He’s been all along showing us what will lead us to life and what will destroy us and we saw that kind of playing out in Moses talk today when he’s telling the people, “you’re not going across the Jordan River to take this land because you deserve it. You do not deserve it. You’re going into this land because there was a promise and the people who are currently living in that land have become so wicked that they have gone as far as God is going to permit.” So, may we all remember, we don’t deserve anything from God. He doesn’t owe us anything at all, ever. The fact that you are about to take another breath is a gift and when you exhale that breath may it be an act of worship. Moses is warning the children of Israel about what they will face when they enter into a land of plenty and that warning is no different for us but the way that we can stay on the narrow path that leads to life is to fall in love with God. The rules and regulations of our faith show us the outer boundaries. We can go out beyond those outer boundaries if we want, but it will only lead to destruction. But the deeper we fall in love with God and the deeper that intimacy grows the less we even think about the rules because we don’t want to be anywhere outside of God’s presence.

Prayer:

Father that’s our declaration at the outset here. We want to be wherever you are and nowhere else. We don’t want to be doing things that you aren’t and we certainly don’t want to be doing things that will lead us to destruction. So, we humble ourselves before you, we repent, we invite your Holy Spirit to lead us into all truth, that we might walk on the narrow path that leads to life. And as we’ve prayed many times, you’ve been clear that few find this path. We want to be the few. Come Holy Spirit we pray. In Jesus’ name we ask. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Hey everybody this is Pelham from Birmingham Alabama. The Lord has brought be a house and it’s perfect for me to return to the city I was born in and I am going to be running an Italian ice truck called Rippicis’ Italian Ice. How about that? No more pizza. Thank God we didn’t open a restaurant in Coleman. Thank God because it wasn’t gonna work out. God does what’s best. I don’t know anything. So, I’m calling in and just to say…Annette, I heard your call. Girl, hearing your voice, just hearing the first three words out of your mouth made me smile, brought joy into my room, into my atmosphere, just listening to you talk. Dahs, fist pump to you man. Guys, I just want to say, don’t ever give up, don’t ever give up, just keep moving forward because whatever you’re facing God knows that it’s happening for a reason, everything has a purpose. And one thing I’ve learned in the season is the suffering and loneliness can be turned into a relationship with Jesus and that is something that’s forged. It’s incredible. I mean I was loading the van to go DJ an event and a friend that I’d work for that was next to the entertainment company overheard me saying that I couldn’t find a place and called that night to say he had a house fully furnished, available right now with a backyard for Otis and horses, yup horses are back there for Otis and me. Love you guys.

Hello my Daily Audio Bible family this is Leah Nora from the Florida Panhandle. I just finished listening to March 25th‘s podcast and Bridget just finished her plea for prayer for the two men, the two young men that were involved in her son-in-law’s death and it left an impression on me very strongly that I needed to call. Bridget, first of all, God is smiling on you. You are a child of God and to think of those two young men as you are in the midst of the tragedy and the loss for your daughter says so much and that’s exactly what God wants us to do is to pray for those that are hurting. And we are all sinners, we’ve all made mistakes and He needs us to lift these two young men up in prayer. Nothing happens by chance and something good no matter when it may occur will come out of this. And I pray for your daughter as well that she will get through this difficult time and for you as well Bridget. And just thinking of all of you. And family we lift up these two young men, that God may use them. Open their hearts, their minds, their eyes to receive His light and His love and know that they are loved by our Lord and Savior and we pray this in Jesus’ name. Thank you, family. Thank you, Brian. God bless all of you for all you do. Bye-bye.

Hey Daily Audio Bible family it’s Dr. John from Jordan New York. I need you prayer warriors to be praying for a young lady that I saw. For HIPAA purposes I’m just gonna use her initials, AR. She’s 18 years old. She was living with her boyfriend who beat her up. He previously had gotten her pregnant and she had to get an abortion and she needs Jesus desperately. I was very fortunate that I was able to share Jesus with her and give her a lot of hope I hope to find what she needs for peace. But she’s been looking for it with a guy. So, please pray for her and please pray for her salvation and for her safety and that she’ll have the strength to press charges and make sure that he’s accountable. You know, it’s just one of those situations that really tears my heart up. So, thank you Daily Audio Bible for lifting AR up in prayer and…and I know that she’s…she…I might…I’m gonna say she doesn’t stand a chance for salvation because we’ve got for now. I know you guys prayers will bring her to faith in Jesus. Thank you Everybody. Love you. Dr. John from Jordan signing out.

Hi, it’s I’m Hidden in Him calling from California. I’m calling this morning just to encourage all our family from our Daily Audio Bible and especially to thank Brian because Brian has been such an inspiration to me. I’ve been listening to you now for the past four years and listening to him reading the word of God morning by morning has just brought new meaning to me and I’ve grown so much just following him every day step-by-step. And this morning I’d also like to say a big thank you to his little Cherry. Whenever she calls in I just have to listen to her because she is just so inspiring and just the sound of her voice, I just love the sound of her voice. And I just want to thank God for her because she’s such an inspiration to this community. And I thank you because I don’t really have a family church that I go to but I do go to churches and I listen to messages online. And for the past four years Brian has been my church, just listening to Brian reading the word of God and listening to all the wonderful people that call in to encourage and just to uplift one another and just to stand in the gap for one another. It’s just so beautiful and I love all of you. And every single prayer that is, you know, called out that is made known Jesus helps us. I record every single one of them I do not…

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Thursday March 28, 2019 (NIV)

Deuteronomy 9-10

The People's Disobedience

“Listen, people of Israel! Today you are about to cross the Jordan River and occupy the land belonging to nations greater and more powerful than you. Their cities are large, with walls that reach the sky. The people themselves are tall and strong; they are giants, and you have heard it said that no one can stand against them. But now you will see for yourselves that the Lord your God will go ahead of you like a raging fire. He will defeat them as you advance, so that you will drive them out and destroy them quickly, as he promised.

“After the Lord your God has driven them out for you, do not say to yourselves that he brought you in to possess this land because you deserved it. No, the Lord is going to drive these people out for you because they are wicked. It is not because you are good and do what is right that the Lord is letting you take their land. He will drive them out because they are wicked and because he intends to keep the promise that he made to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You can be sure that the Lord is not giving you this fertile land because you deserve it. No, you are a stubborn people.

“Never forget how you made the Lord your God angry in the desert. From the day that you left Egypt until the day you arrived here, you have rebelled against him. Even at Mount Sinai you made the Lord angry—angry enough to destroy you. (A)I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets on which was written the covenant that the Lord had made with you. I stayed there forty days and nights and did not eat or drink anything. 10 Then the Lord gave me the two stone tablets on which he had written with his own hand what he had said to you from the fire on the day that you were gathered there at the mountain. 11 Yes, after those forty days and nights the Lord gave me the two stone tablets on which he had written the covenant.

12 “Then the Lord said to me, ‘Go down the mountain at once, because your people, whom you led out of Egypt, have become corrupt and have done evil. They have already turned away from what I commanded them to do, and they have made an idol for themselves.’

13 “The Lord also said to me, ‘I know how stubborn these people are. 14 Don't try to stop me. I intend to destroy them so that no one will remember them any longer. Then I will make you the father of a nation larger and more powerful than they are.’

15 “So I turned and went down the mountain, carrying the two stone tablets on which the covenant was written. Flames of fire were coming from the mountain. 16 I saw that you had already disobeyed the command that the Lord your God had given you, and that you had sinned against him by making yourselves a metal idol in the form of a bull-calf. 17 So there in front of you I threw the stone tablets down and broke them to pieces. 18 Then once again I lay face downward in the Lord's presence for forty days and nights and did not eat or drink anything. I did this because you had sinned against the Lord and had made him angry. 19 (B)I was afraid of the Lord's fierce anger, because he was furious enough to destroy you; but once again the Lord listened to me. 20 The Lord was also angry enough with Aaron to kill him, so I prayed for Aaron at the same time. 21 I took that sinful thing that you had made—that metal bull-calf—and threw it into the fire. Then I broke it in pieces, ground it to dust, and threw the dust into the stream that flowed down the mountain.

22 (C)“You also made the Lord your God angry when you were at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth Hattaavah. 23 (D)And when he sent you from Kadesh Barnea with orders to go and take possession of the land that he was giving you, you rebelled against him; you did not trust him or obey him. 24 Ever since I have known you, you have rebelled against the Lord.

25 “So I lay face downward in the Lord's presence those forty days and nights, because I knew that he was determined to destroy you. 26 And I prayed, ‘Sovereign Lord, don't destroy your own people, the people you rescued and brought out of Egypt by your great strength and power. 27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and do not pay any attention to the stubbornness, wickedness, and sin of this people. 28 Otherwise, the Egyptians will say that you were unable to take your people into the land that you had promised them. They will say that you took your people out into the desert to kill them, because you hated them. 29 After all, these are the people whom you chose to be your own and whom you brought out of Egypt by your great power and might.’

Moses Receives the Commandments Again(E)

10 “Then the Lord said to me, ‘Cut two stone tablets like the first ones and make a wooden Box to put them in. Come up to me on the mountain, and I will write on those tablets what I wrote on the tablets that you broke, and then you are to put them in the Box.’

“So I made a Box of acacia wood and cut two stone tablets like the first ones and took them up the mountain. Then the Lord wrote on those tablets the same words that he had written the first time, the Ten Commandments that he gave you when he spoke from the fire on the day you were gathered at the mountain. The Lord gave me the tablets, and I turned and went down the mountain. Then, just as the Lord had commanded, I put them in the Box that I had made—and they have been there ever since.”

((F)The Israelites set out from the wells that belonged to the people of Jaakan, and went to Moserah. There Aaron died and was buried, and his son Eleazar succeeded him as priest. From there they went to Gudgodah and then on to Jotbathah, a well-watered place. (G)At that time the Lord appointed the men of the tribe of Levi to be in charge of the Covenant Box, to serve him as priests, and to pronounce blessings in his name. And these are still their duties. That is why the tribe of Levi received no land as the other tribes did; what they received was the privilege of being the Lord's priests, as the Lord your God promised.)

10 (H)“I stayed on the mountain forty days and nights, as I did the first time. The Lord listened to me once more and agreed not to destroy you. 11 Then he told me to go and lead you, so that you could take possession of the land that he had promised to give to your ancestors.

What God Demands

12 “Now, people of Israel, listen to what the Lord your God demands of you: Worship the Lord and do all that he commands. Love him, serve him with all your heart, 13 and obey all his laws. I am giving them to you today for your benefit. 14 To the Lord belong even the highest heavens; the earth is his also, and everything on it. 15 But the Lord's love for your ancestors was so strong that he chose you instead of any other people, and you are still his chosen people. 16 So then, from now on be obedient to the Lord and stop being stubborn. 17 (I)The Lord your God is supreme over all gods and over all powers. He is great and mighty, and he is to be obeyed. He does not show partiality, and he does not accept bribes. 18 (J)He makes sure that orphans and widows are treated fairly; he loves the foreigners who live with our people, and gives them food and clothes. 19 So then, show love for those foreigners, because you were once foreigners in Egypt. 20 Have reverence for the Lord your God and worship only him. Be faithful to him and make your promises in his name alone. 21 Praise him—he is your God, and you have seen with your own eyes the great and astounding things that he has done for you. 22 (K)When your ancestors went to Egypt, there were only seventy of them. But now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Good News Translation (GNT)

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Luke 8:4-21

The Parable of the Sower(A)

People kept coming to Jesus from one town after another; and when a great crowd gathered, Jesus told this parable:

“Once there was a man who went out to sow grain. As he scattered the seed in the field, some of it fell along the path, where it was stepped on, and the birds ate it up. Some of it fell on rocky ground, and when the plants sprouted, they dried up because the soil had no moisture. Some of the seed fell among thorn bushes, which grew up with the plants and choked them. And some seeds fell in good soil; the plants grew and bore grain, one hundred grains each.”

And Jesus concluded, “Listen, then, if you have ears!”

The Purpose of the Parables(B)

His disciples asked Jesus what this parable meant, 10 (C)and he answered, “The knowledge of the secrets of the Kingdom of God has been given to you, but to the rest it comes by means of parables, so that they may look but not see, and listen but not understand.

Jesus Explains the Parable of the Sower(D)

11 “This is what the parable means: the seed is the word of God. 12 The seeds that fell along the path stand for those who hear; but the Devil comes and takes the message away from their hearts in order to keep them from believing and being saved. 13 The seeds that fell on rocky ground stand for those who hear the message and receive it gladly. But it does not sink deep into them; they believe only for a while but when the time of testing comes, they fall away. 14 The seeds that fell among thorn bushes stand for those who hear; but the worries and riches and pleasures of this life crowd in and choke them, and their fruit never ripens. 15 The seeds that fell in good soil stand for those who hear the message and retain it in a good and obedient heart, and they persist until they bear fruit.

A Lamp under a Bowl(E)

16 (F)“No one lights a lamp and covers it with a bowl or puts it under a bed. Instead, it is put on the lampstand, so that people will see the light as they come in.

17 (G)“Whatever is hidden away will be brought out into the open, and whatever is covered up will be found and brought to light.

18 (H)“Be careful, then, how you listen; because those who have something will be given more, but whoever has nothing will have taken away from them even the little they think they have.”

Jesus' Mother and Brothers(I)

19 Jesus' mother and brothers came to him, but were unable to join him because of the crowd. 20 Someone said to Jesus, “Your mother and brothers are standing outside and want to see you.”

21 Jesus said to them all, “My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”

Good News Translation (GNT)

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Psalm 69:19-36

19 You know how I am insulted,
how I am disgraced and dishonored;
you see all my enemies.
20 Insults have broken my heart,
and I am in despair.
I had hoped for sympathy, but there was none;
for comfort, but I found none.
21 (A)When I was hungry, they gave me poison;
when I was thirsty, they offered me vinegar.

22 (B)May their banquets cause their ruin;
may their sacred feasts cause their downfall.
23 Strike them with blindness!
Make their backs always weak!
24 Pour out your anger on them;
let your indignation overtake them.
25 (C)May their camps be left deserted;
may no one be left alive in their tents.
26 They persecute those whom you have punished;
they talk about the sufferings of those you have wounded.
27 Keep a record of all their sins;
don't let them have any part in your salvation.
28 (D)May their names be erased from the book of the living;
may they not be included in the list of your people.

29 But I am in pain and despair;
lift me up, O God, and save me!

30 I will praise God with a song;
I will proclaim his greatness by giving him thanks.
31 This will please the Lord more than offering him cattle,
more than sacrificing a full-grown bull.
32 When the oppressed see this, they will be glad;
those who worship God will be encouraged.
33 The Lord listens to those in need
and does not forget his people in prison.

34 Praise God, O heaven and earth,
seas and all creatures in them.
35 He will save Jerusalem
and rebuild the towns of Judah.
His people will live there and possess the land;
36 the descendants of his servants will inherit it,
and those who love him will live there.

Good News Translation (GNT)

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Proverbs 12:2-3

The Lord is pleased with good people, but condemns those who plan evil.

Wickedness does not give security, but righteous people stand firm.

Good News Translation (GNT)

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03/27/2019 DAB Transcript

Deuteronomy 7:1-8:20, Luke 7:36-8:3, Psalms 69:1-18, Proverbs 12:1

Today is the 27th day of March. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian. It’s great to be here with you today as we move through the center of our week together and take the next step forward in the Scriptures. In the Old Testament in the book of Deuteronomy we’ve been listening to Moses give his second of three talks to the entire camp of the children of Israel before they move forward without him. So. We’re reading from the Good News Translation this week. Deuteronomy chapter 7 and 8 today.

Commentary:

Okay. So, Moses continues to speak to the entire congregation of Israel and I don’t like, want to be so redundant that we get boring, but this is kind of important because as we end the book of Deuteronomy we are ending an era, we are ending the Torah, or the Pentateuch and an entire culture was formed under the leadership of Moses. So, he has some things to say and gave a dire warning to the people that were about to cross into the promised land. Mixing, right? Mixture would destroy them. When they enter the land, they were to destroy all the worship of lesser gods. If they didn’t then they would be eventually seduced away from God, which would have devastating repercussions. And then he reminded them just how special that they were. So, quoting Moses here, “from all the peoples on earth He chose you to be His own special people. The Lord did not love you and choose you because you outnumbered other peoples. You were the smallest nation on earth, but the Lord loved you and wanted to keep the promise that He made to your ancestors. That is why He saved you by his great might and set you free from slavery to the king of Egypt.” Right? So, Moses is reminding the people of God’s on ending faithfulness and loyalty. He told them that there’s no ceiling on the blessings that awaited them if they would listen to and obey the Lord. And then Moses began to warn them that, effectively, once they cross into the promised land and they begin to establish themselves and begin to feel the prosperity that has been promised after a long season in the wilderness that they’re going to be tempted to forget how they got to the promised land and start to think that it was in their own strength that they got to the promised land and it was their own strength that they have what they have. It’s a warning that we’re going to be able to see in vivid color play out. However, it’s probably a warning that we have already experienced in our lives in vivid color, right? So, when the fires are burning around us and it feels like our lives are upside down and we have no way to get out, when we’re in the wilderness, in other words, it becomes pretty clear pretty quickly that our only hope is in God, but honestly for most of us the wilderness is just like a season we may pass through between times of plenty and it’s in the times of plenty that we tend to forget who we are, how we got here, and God’s hand in all of it. And this is what Moses is warning the children of Israel about. He told him that if they forgot the wilderness and God’s mighty hand of provision and began to believe that they had achieved all that they are seeing and experiencing in their own strength they would be doing nothing but dooming themselves. In fact, Moses, he gave context of their whole wilderness experience, “God had used the wilderness to mature his children. He used the starkness of the desert to show them that in everything, they were utterly dependent on him for life. And if you’ve ever been in a desert then you kinda know the drill but if you’ve never been in the wilderness that we’re describing here, the wilderness that we were in about a month ago, you do begin to realize there’s no way, not a million people, not a horde of people, there’s no way in their own strength they could survive out here like this. And, so, Moses is saying, you’ve got to remember ultimately whose you are and why you are here or quoting Moses here, “in the desert gave He gave you manna to eat, food that your ancestors had never eaten. He sent hardships on you to test you so that in the end he could bless you with good things. So, then you must never think that you have made yourselves wealthy by your own power and strength. Remember that it is the Lord your God who gives you the power to become rich. He does this because He is still faithful today to the covenant that he made with your ancestors.” So, yeah, thousands of years have passed since Moses story was lived out and the children of Israel were contemplating crossing the Jordan River into the promised land, but the truth here and the warning here is absolutely as relevant to our lives today as it ever was. Our only hope, whether we’re in the wilderness or whether we’re in a season of plenty, our only hope is in our utter dependence on God and the sooner that we realize that in our lives the fewer times we’ll need to go back into the wilderness to be reminded because if we are utterly dependent upon God and we actually get that into the core of our being then whether we’re in the wilderness or whether we’re in a season of plenty really makes no difference. Like, what the circumstances are make no difference because the God of the universe who owns everything is our Father and He’ll provide. If we can live into then we will stop experiencing those kinds of seasons and actually settle into a state of being that is constant. God is my Father, He will father me, He will not abandon me. The circumstances that I may be experiencing, I am the one giving them the place in my life. I am allowing the anxiety to rise. I’m choosing a reality other than the one that tells me that God is my Father and He will provide. Rather, I’m believing that He will not show up and I am on my own and have to figure this out. Thus, the anxiety.

Prayer:

Father, we invite Your Holy Spirit into that because that probably touches all of us on some level. It’s something that we can all understand. And, so, we invite Your Holy Spirit. Show us how. And You do. You actually answer that prayer and sometimes that answer includes going back into the wilderness to once again be reminded that You have always sustained and brought us through. How can we hold onto this Lord without having the back-and-forth seasons? How can we live into the fact that You have us and the only time that’s not true is when we disentangle, when we run away or walk away, when we step away from You? But if we could settle into the reality that You are our Father, You will provide, we can experience life, the adventure of life together in collaboration with You. The quicker these things will become core truths and realities that we are living out the quicker so many of the distractions that slow us down would be eliminated. So, we’re turning toward You and we’re reaching toward You. Come Holy Spirit, You are only provider, You are only hope. Father, You are the only one who could ever save us. And, so, we apologize for the times of arrogance when we thought, “ahhh…in my own strength I did all this”   when the truth is that every day since the moment of our birth You’ve been chasing after us and providing for us. So, we acknowledge You in all things and humble ourselves before You. Lead us forward into all truth we ask in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

If foundation isn’t solid then the structure will not stand
the stresses and the tolerances that the storms of life demand
it’s hard to build on granite on any kind of rock
even with the proper tools and work around the clock
drilling boring shaping pouring
bracing propping up and shoring
and lots more stuff that I’m ignoring
but there is one rock that’s worth exploring
Jesus is that rock the rock on which I stand
forget about the storms of life and all that they demand
the winds may blow the waters rise on earth may die
you’ll still be safe in Jesus the rock that’s very high

blindtony1016@gmail.com. Like to give a shout out to Michelle from LA. Love you. And Tito from Maryland, it’s good to hear your voice again brother. And once again Brian thank you, oh yeah, and congratulations to Joe the Protector on being a grandpop. That’s great. And once again Brian I want to thank you and your family, the Hardin family for this wonderful podcast for God’s Holy Spirit to flow. Keep it flowin’ y’all. All right. Bye-bye.

Good morning Daily Audio Bible people, my name is Heidi Daniels and I am a new Daily Audio Bible member. I started this month, March. I have so much to be thankful for. I have all three of my kids living nearby. They are adults and I have two of my grandkids who have moved in. That is an answer to desperate prayer of mine and my husbands. We have…we are just beyond grateful. Today we are going to walk across the Goldengate bridge together, laugh, and chat and just…this is for my birthday. He said what you want for my birthday mom and I said I want everyone together as a family happy, whole, loving Jesus. Huge story, just beyond grateful. Just want to give a shout to Jesus and thank You so much for being a part of our lives. Oh my gosh, __ You are our lives. Thank you so much for my kids having a relationship with You.

Hello everyone, this is Doug from Alabama. I don’t believe I’ve called in for maybe, it’s been about a couple months, a month and half. I meant to call in…and I guess I want to call and I don’t quite…kinda now how to word like what I’m gonna say, but I was listening to March 23rds episode…to March 23rds episode and today’s the 24th, yesterday, I didn’t really feel well and so on I’m a couple days behind but…and I don’t think she ever…she said her name today, but the lady…you had moved…it was a relationship that you had moved away and you were feeling a lot of hurt and betrayal. I feel that. I had a relationship in the past several years ago where I dated somebody from California and they moved here, and they asked me to pick up everything and move out to California with them to San Diego and I did. So, I picked up everything I had, everything I’d ever owned because I lived here all my life and I went out there and a little under two years into the thing in California it failed. There were a few things I did that in my shortcomings that led to it, but I was extremely hurt. It ended with me essentially like kicked out of the apartment and I really had no place to barely stay and it was hurtful, but your call just spoke to me. So, I did want to let you know that I am praying for you and I understand that hurt you feel when there’s somebody you care about and you trust and then they hurt you. So, just know you’ll be in my thoughts and prayers. I also wanted to say Brian, thank you so much for doing what you do. When you do say at the end, “I love you”, like for me that’s the only time I do here it throughout the day. So, it means the world. Small praise report, this morning cause this is Sunday, March 23rd, I almost text cause I volunteer at my church…I almost texted the guy I work for in parking…I almost told him, you know, I’m tired but I didn’t. I went, and I see why Satan wanted to keep me out of church…

I’m calling…this is __ from Chicago. I’ve called in a few times before over the last year asking for prayer for my adult son who…I don’t know exactly what’s going on but he just really seems to be in a really negative and bad place and consistently just acts out in ways that are unhealthy or makes decisions that are not productive and today we had a huge blowout that ended in him yelling and screaming and using all kinds of profanity towards me and in front of his 10 month old baby. He left the house and I told him he couldn’t come back until he could get his act together because I didn’t want to be living in that kind of situation and he’s 23 years old and I certainly can’t control his day-to-day actions, but I don’t even know what I’m praying for. I guess I’m just praying for peace and protection over him and that whatever is going on with him like getting in the way of him being able to be happy and productive where he is freed from that and gets whatever support __ out there he needs so that he can get back to a better place in our relationship, but I don’t know when that’s gonna happen, but I also…just…I can’t continue to live with the tension and the verbal abuse and the stress of just worrying about every day about what’s going on with him. So, until we can get back to a better place, I guess my prayer is just for peace and faith and patience. I’m sure all the parents listening understand how heartbreaking it is to have to separate yourself from your child, but I also feel like that…

I stand in awe before my faithful Lord. Good morning everybody this is Christy from Kentucky and I am…it’s taken a few days to even make this call because every time I do I start to cry again because my heart is so blessed. Brother Sean, I believe that’s what you said your name was, you said at the end your name was John 316. So, I’m thinking that your name is Sean and if I’m not I’m sorry, but I just want you to know how much I appreciate your obedience. When the Holy Spirit spoke my name into your heart there was a reason brother. This past week was a hard week. But you know sometimes we try to mask our pain and then you know God just calls us out on it and that’s what He was doing. And I’m humbled and broken and blessed at all at the same time because I know that God is sending His word through you my friend. And Sean that was such a blessing for me that you just can’t even imagine how much it touch my heart. So, thank you. Friends, your calls matter and your prayers matter and when we feel impressed to call and pray for someone you need to do that because it could change their day and it did mine. Thank you, Sean. I appreciate it. I love you guys so very much, and I pray each of you are having a blessed and lovely day today.

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Wednesday March 27, 2019 (NIV)

Deuteronomy 7-8

The Lord's Own People(A)

(B)“The Lord your God will bring you into the land that you are going to occupy, and he will drive many nations out of it. As you advance, he will drive out seven nations larger and more powerful than you: the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. When the Lord your God places these people in your power and you defeat them, you must put them all to death. Do not make an alliance with them or show them any mercy. Do not marry any of them, and do not let your children marry any of them, because then they would lead your children away from the Lord to worship other gods. If that happens, the Lord will be angry with you and destroy you at once. (C)So then, tear down their altars, break their sacred stone pillars in pieces, cut down their symbols of the goddess Asherah, and burn their idols. (D)Do this because you belong to the Lord your God. From all the peoples on earth he chose you to be his own special people.

“The Lord did not love you and choose you because you outnumbered other peoples; you were the smallest nation on earth. But the Lord loved you and wanted to keep the promise that he made to your ancestors. That is why he saved you by his great might and set you free from slavery to the king of Egypt. (E)Remember that the Lord your God is the only God and that he is faithful. He will keep his covenant and show his constant love to a thousand generations of those who love him and obey his commands, 10 but he will not hesitate to punish those who hate him. 11 Now then, obey what you have been taught; obey all the laws that I have given you today.

The Blessings of Obedience(F)

12 (G)“If you listen to these commands and obey them faithfully, then the Lord your God will continue to keep his covenant with you and will show you his constant love, as he promised your ancestors. 13 He will love you and bless you, so that you will increase in number and have many children; he will bless your fields, so that you will have grain, wine, and olive oil; and he will bless you by giving you many cattle and sheep. He will give you all these blessings in the land that he promised your ancestors he would give to you. 14 No people in the world will be as richly blessed as you. None of you nor any of your livestock will be sterile. 15 The Lord will protect you from all sickness, and he will not bring on you any of the dreadful diseases that you experienced in Egypt, but he will bring them on all your enemies. 16 Destroy every nation that the Lord your God places in your power, and do not show them any mercy. Do not worship their gods, for that would be fatal.

17 “Do not tell yourselves that these peoples outnumber you and that you cannot drive them out. 18 Do not be afraid of them; remember what the Lord your God did to the king of Egypt and to all his people. 19 Remember the terrible plagues that you saw with your own eyes, the miracles and wonders, and the great power and strength by which the Lord your God set you free. In the same way that he destroyed the Egyptians, he will destroy all these people that you now fear. 20 He will even cause panic[a] among them and will destroy those who escape and go into hiding. 21 So do not be afraid of these people. The Lord your God is with you; he is a great God and one to be feared. 22 Little by little he will drive out these nations as you advance. You will not be able to destroy them all at once, for, if you did, the number of wild animals would increase and be a threat to you. 23 The Lord will put your enemies in your power and make them panic until they are destroyed. 24 He will put their kings in your power. You will kill them, and they will be forgotten. No one will be able to stop you; you will destroy everyone. 25 Burn their idols. Do not desire the silver or gold that is on them, and do not take it for yourselves. If you do, that will be fatal, because the Lord hates idolatry. 26 Do not bring any of these idols into your homes, or the same curse will be on you that is on them. You must hate and despise these idols, because they are under the Lord's curse.

A Good Land to Be Possessed

“Obey faithfully all the laws that I have given you today, so that you may live, increase in number, and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors. Remember how the Lord your God led you on this long journey through the desert these past forty years, sending hardships to test you, so that he might know what you intended to do and whether you would obey his commands. (H)He made you go hungry, and then he gave you manna to eat, food that you and your ancestors had never eaten before. He did this to teach you that you must not depend on bread alone to sustain you, but on everything that the Lord says. During these forty years your clothes have not worn out, nor have your feet swollen up. (I)Remember that the Lord your God corrects and punishes you just as parents discipline their children. So then, do as the Lord has commanded you: live according to his laws and obey him. The Lord your God is bringing you into a fertile land—a land that has rivers and springs, and underground streams gushing out into the valleys and hills; a land that produces wheat and barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives, and honey. There you will never go hungry or ever be in need. Its rocks have iron in them, and from its hills you can mine copper. 10 You will have all you want to eat, and you will give thanks to the Lord your God for the fertile land that he has given you.

Warnings against Forgetting the Lord

11 (J)“Make certain that you do not forget the Lord your God; do not fail to obey any of his laws that I am giving you today. 12 When you have all you want to eat and have built good houses to live in 13 and when your cattle and sheep, your silver and gold, and all your other possessions have increased, 14 be sure that you do not become proud and forget the Lord your God who rescued you from Egypt, where you were slaves. 15 He led you through that vast and terrifying desert where there were poisonous snakes and scorpions. In that dry and waterless land he made water flow out of solid rock for you. 16 In the desert he gave you manna to eat, food that your ancestors had never eaten. He sent hardships on you to test you, so that in the end he could bless you with good things. 17 So then, you must never think that you have made yourselves wealthy by your own power and strength. 18 Remember that it is the Lord your God who gives you the power to become rich. He does this because he is still faithful today to the covenant that he made with your ancestors. 19 Never forget the Lord your God or turn to other gods to worship and serve them. If you do, then I warn you today that you will certainly be destroyed. 20 If you do not obey the Lord, then you will be destroyed just like those nations that he is going to destroy as you advance.

Footnotes:

  1. Deuteronomy 7:20 cause panic; or send hornets, or send plagues.
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Luke 7:36-8:3

Jesus at the Home of Simon the Pharisee

36 A Pharisee invited Jesus to have dinner with him, and Jesus went to his house and sat down to eat. 37 (A)In that town was a woman who lived a sinful life. She heard that Jesus was eating in the Pharisee's house, so she brought an alabaster jar full of perfume 38 and stood behind Jesus, by his feet, crying and wetting his feet with her tears. Then she dried his feet with her hair, kissed them, and poured the perfume on them. 39 When the Pharisee saw this, he said to himself, “If this man really were a prophet, he would know who this woman is who is touching him; he would know what kind of sinful life she lives!”

40 Jesus spoke up and said to him, “Simon, I have something to tell you.”

“Yes, Teacher,” he said, “tell me.”

41 “There were two men who owed money to a moneylender,” Jesus began. “One owed him five hundred silver coins, and the other owed him fifty. 42 Neither of them could pay him back, so he canceled the debts of both. Which one, then, will love him more?”

43 “I suppose,” answered Simon, “that it would be the one who was forgiven more.”

“You are right,” said Jesus. 44 Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I came into your home, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has washed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair. 45 You did not welcome me with a kiss, but she has not stopped kissing my feet since I came. 46 You provided no olive oil for my head, but she has covered my feet with perfume. 47 I tell you, then, the great love she has shown proves that her many sins have been forgiven. But whoever has been forgiven little shows only a little love.”

48 Then Jesus said to the woman, “Your sins are forgiven.”

49 The others sitting at the table began to say to themselves, “Who is this, who even forgives sins?”

50 But Jesus said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”

Women Who Accompanied Jesus

Some time later Jesus traveled through towns and villages, preaching the Good News about the Kingdom of God. The twelve disciples went with him, (B)and so did some women who had been healed of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (who was called Magdalene), from whom seven demons had been driven out; Joanna, whose husband Chuza was an officer in Herod's court; and Susanna, and many other women who used their own resources to help Jesus and his disciples.

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Psalm 69:1-18

A Cry for Help[a]

69 Save me, O God!
The water is up to my neck;
I am sinking in deep mud,
and there is no solid ground;
I am out in deep water,
and the waves are about to drown me.
I am worn out from calling for help,
and my throat is aching.
I have strained my eyes,
looking for your help.

(A)Those who hate me for no reason
are more numerous than the hairs of my head.
My enemies tell lies against me;
they are strong and want to kill me.
They made me give back things I did not steal.
My sins, O God, are not hidden from you;
you know how foolish I have been.
Don't let me bring shame on those who trust in you,
Sovereign Lord Almighty!
Don't let me bring disgrace to those who worship you,
O God of Israel!
It is for your sake that I have been insulted
and that I am covered with shame.
I am like a stranger to my relatives,
like a foreigner to my family.

(B)My devotion to your Temple burns in me like a fire;
the insults which are hurled at you fall on me.
10 I humble myself[b] by fasting,
and people insult me;
11 I dress myself in clothes of mourning,
and they laugh at me.
12 They talk about me in the streets,
and drunkards make up songs about me.

13 But as for me, I will pray to you, Lord;
answer me, God, at a time you choose.
Answer me because of your great love,
because you keep your promise to save.
14 Save me from sinking in the mud;
keep me safe from my enemies,
safe from the deep water.
15 Don't let the flood come over me;
don't let me drown in the depths
or sink into the grave.

16 Answer me, Lord, in the goodness of your constant love;
in your great compassion turn to me!
17 Don't hide yourself from your servant;
I am in great trouble—answer me now!
18 Come to me and save me;
rescue me from my enemies.

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 69:1 HEBREW TITLE: By David.
  2. Psalm 69:10 Some ancient translations humble myself; Hebrew cry.
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Proverbs 12:1

12 (A)Any who love knowledge want to be told when they are wrong. It is stupid to hate being corrected.

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 12:1 : Sir 21:6
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