Month: April 2019

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04/21/2019 DAB Transcript

Joshua 22:21-23:16, Luke 20:27-47, Psalms 89:14-37, Proverbs 13:17-19

Today is the 21st day of April. Happy Easter! Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and what a joy it is to be here together now, as we commemorate and celebrate the greatest event not only of our lives, but in the world, Easter, Resurrection Sunday. Sin no longer has a claim over our lives. We are free.

Song:

Easter Song – Keith Green

Hear the bells ringing

They’re singing that you can be born again

Hear the bells ringing

They’re singing Christ is risen from the dead

The angel up on the tombstone

Said He has risen, just as He said

Quickly now, go tell his disciples

That Jesus Christ is no longer dead

Joy to the world, He has risen, hallelujah

He’s risen, hallelujah

He’s risen, hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hear the bells ringing

They’re singing that you can be healed right now

Hear the bells ringing, they’re singing

Christ, He will reveal it now

The angels, they all surround us

And they are ministering Jesus’ power

Quickly now, reach out and receive it

For this could be your glorious hour

Joy to the world, He has risen, hallelujah

He’s risen, hallelujah

He’s risen, hallelujah, hallelujah

The angel up on the tombstone

Said He has risen, just as He said

Quickly now, go tell his disciples

That Jesus Christ is no longer dead

Joy to the world, He has risen, hallelujah

He’s risen, hallelujah

He’s risen, hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

This week we begin with Easter Sunday but as we take our journey through the Scriptures during this week we’ll read from the English Standard Version. So, even here on Easter Sunday that’s what we’ll do, and we’ll pick up where we left off yesterday in the book of Joshua chapter 22 verse 21 through 23 verse 16. And by way of reminder, there’s peace that has begun to come to the newly settled land across the Jordan. and the two and a half tribes received their allotment of land on the east side of the Jordan River have been permitted to go home but they’ve erected this altar that has everyone confused. And, so, a delegation has gone out to see, basically, what’s going on here because this act could cause civil war. And, so, that’s where we pick up the story in Joshua 22.

Prayer:

Thank You, Father for Your word. Thank You for bringing us into this new week. Thank You for bringing us to this day where we are no longer lamenting, we are no longer sitting with what it cost to bring us freedom. We are now meditating on love that is beyond our comprehension. And Jesus, You have rescued us, You have saved us, but more importantly You have brought us into right standing with the Father and according to Your word it is now the same spirit that raised You from the dead that indwells us, that is living within us. And, so, we rejoice in Your victory and we choose to live within Your light. And we ask this to be a resurrection Sunday like no other, one in which we begin to realize the implications. It’s very easy for us to go through the rituals. It’s very easy for us to get dressed up and go to church and have a nice Easter dinner. It’s easy for us to be a part of the tradition of Your resurrection it’s much different to participate. Holy Spirit, well up within us, make us aware that we are irreversibly changed and that should change the rest of our lives irreversibly. This is because of You, Jesus. And, so, we worship You and we ask that we continue to be transformed from this day forward and for evermore pray this in Your holy name Jesus, the victorious one. Amen.

Song:

Jesus, Only Jesus – Matt Redman

Who has the power to raise the dead?

Who can save us from our sin?

He is our hope, our righteousness

Jesus, only Jesus

Who can make the blind to see?

Who holds the keys that set us free?

He paid it all to bring us peace

Jesus, only Jesus

Holy, King almighty Lord

Saints and angels all adore

I join with them and bow before

Jesus, only Jesus

Who can command the highest praise?

Who has the name above all names?

You stand alone, I stand amazed

Jesus, only Jesus

Holy, King almighty Lord

Saints and angels all adore

I join with them and bow before

Jesus, only Jesus

You will command the highest praise

Yours is the name above all names

You stand alone, I stand amazed

Jesus, only Jesus

Jesus, only Jesus

Holy, King almighty Lord

Saints and angels all adore

I join with them and bow before

Jesus, only Jesus

You will command the highest praise

Yours is the name above all names

You stand alone, I stand amazed

Jesus, only Jesus

You will command the highest praise

Yours is the name above all names

You stand alone, I stand amazed

Jesus, only Jesus

Jesus, only Jesus

There’s no other

Jesus, only Jesus

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04/21/2019 DAB Transcript

Joshua 22:21-23:16, Luke 20:27-47, Psalms 89:14-37, Proverbs 13:17-19

Today is the 21st day of April. Happy Easter! Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and what a joy it is to be here together now, as we commemorate and celebrate the greatest event not only of our lives, but in the world, Easter, Resurrection Sunday. Sin no longer has a claim over our lives. We are free.

Song:

Easter Song – Keith Green

Hear the bells ringing

They’re singing that you can be born again

Hear the bells ringing

They’re singing Christ is risen from the dead

The angel up on the tombstone

Said He has risen, just as He said

Quickly now, go tell his disciples

That Jesus Christ is no longer dead

Joy to the world, He has risen, hallelujah

He’s risen, hallelujah

He’s risen, hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hear the bells ringing

They’re singing that you can be healed right now

Hear the bells ringing, they’re singing

Christ, He will reveal it now

The angels, they all surround us

And they are ministering Jesus’ power

Quickly now, reach out and receive it

For this could be your glorious hour

Joy to the world, He has risen, hallelujah

He’s risen, hallelujah

He’s risen, hallelujah, hallelujah

The angel up on the tombstone

Said He has risen, just as He said

Quickly now, go tell his disciples

That Jesus Christ is no longer dead

Joy to the world, He has risen, hallelujah

He’s risen, hallelujah

He’s risen, hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

This week we begin with Easter Sunday but as we take our journey through the Scriptures during this week we’ll read from the English Standard Version. So, even here on Easter Sunday that’s what we’ll do, and we’ll pick up where we left off yesterday in the book of Joshua chapter 22 verse 21 through 23 verse 16. And by way of reminder, there’s peace that has begun to come to the newly settled land across the Jordan. and the two and a half tribes received their allotment of land on the east side of the Jordan River have been permitted to go home but they’ve erected this altar that has everyone confused. And, so, a delegation has gone out to see, basically, what’s going on here because this act could cause civil war. And, so, that’s where we pick up the story in Joshua 22.

Prayer:

Thank You, Father for Your word. Thank You for bringing us into this new week. Thank You for bringing us to this day where we are no longer lamenting, we are no longer sitting with what it cost to bring us freedom. We are now meditating on love that is beyond our comprehension. And Jesus, You have rescued us, You have saved us, but more importantly You have brought us into right standing with the Father and according to Your word it is now the same spirit that raised You from the dead that indwells us, that is living within us. And, so, we rejoice in Your victory and we choose to live within Your light. And we ask this to be a resurrection Sunday like no other, one in which we begin to realize the implications. It’s very easy for us to go through the rituals. It’s very easy for us to get dressed up and go to church and have a nice Easter dinner. It’s easy for us to be a part of the tradition of Your resurrection it’s much different to participate. Holy Spirit, well up within us, make us aware that we are irreversibly changed and that should change the rest of our lives irreversibly. This is because of You, Jesus. And, so, we worship You and we ask that we continue to be transformed from this day forward and for evermore pray this in Your holy name Jesus, the victorious one. Amen.

Song:

Jesus, Only Jesus – Matt Redman

Who has the power to raise the dead?

Who can save us from our sin?

He is our hope, our righteousness

Jesus, only Jesus

Who can make the blind to see?

Who holds the keys that set us free?

He paid it all to bring us peace

Jesus, only Jesus

Holy, King almighty Lord

Saints and angels all adore

I join with them and bow before

Jesus, only Jesus

Who can command the highest praise?

Who has the name above all names?

You stand alone, I stand amazed

Jesus, only Jesus

Holy, King almighty Lord

Saints and angels all adore

I join with them and bow before

Jesus, only Jesus

You will command the highest praise

Yours is the name above all names

You stand alone, I stand amazed

Jesus, only Jesus

Jesus, only Jesus

Holy, King almighty Lord

Saints and angels all adore

I join with them and bow before

Jesus, only Jesus

You will command the highest praise

Yours is the name above all names

You stand alone, I stand amazed

Jesus, only Jesus

You will command the highest praise

Yours is the name above all names

You stand alone, I stand amazed

Jesus, only Jesus

Jesus, only Jesus

There’s no other

Jesus, only Jesus

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Sunday April 21, 2019 (NIV)

Joshua 22:21-23:16

21 Then the people of Reuben, the people of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh said in answer to the heads of the families of Israel, 22 “The Mighty One, (A)God, the Lord! The Mighty One, God, the Lord! (B)He knows; and let Israel itself know! If it was in rebellion or in breach of faith against the Lord, do not spare us today 23 for building an altar to turn away from following the Lord. Or if we did so to offer burnt offerings or grain offerings or peace offerings on it, may the Lord himself (C)take vengeance. 24 No, but we did it from fear that (D)in time to come your children might say to our children, ‘What have you to do with the Lord, the God of Israel? 25 For the Lord has made the Jordan a boundary between us and you, you people of Reuben and people of Gad. You have no portion in the Lord.’ So your children might make our children cease to worship the Lord. 26 Therefore we said, ‘Let us now build an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice, 27 but to be (E)a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we (F)do perform the service of the Lord in his presence with our burnt offerings and sacrifices and peace offerings, so your children will not say to our children in time to come, “You have no portion in the Lord.”’ 28 And we thought, ‘If this should be said to us or to our descendants in time to come, we should say, “Behold, the copy of the altar of the Lord, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifice, but to be (G)a witness between us and you.”’ 29 Far be it from us that we should (H)rebel against the Lord and turn away this day from following the Lord (I)by building an altar for burnt offering, grain offering, or sacrifice, other than the altar of the Lord our God that stands before his tabernacle!”

30 When (J)Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the congregation, the heads of the families of Israel who were with him, heard the words that the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the people of Manasseh spoke, (K)it was good in their eyes. 31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the people of Manasseh, “Today we know that (L)the Lord is in our midst, because you have not committed this breach of faith against the Lord. Now you have delivered the people of Israel from the hand of the Lord.”

32 Then Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the chiefs, returned from the people of Reuben and the people of Gad (M)in the land of Gilead to the land of Canaan, to the people of Israel, and brought back word to them. 33 And the report (N)was good in the eyes of the people of Israel. And the people of Israel (O)blessed God and spoke no more of making war against them to destroy the land where the people of Reuben and the people of Gad were settled. 34 The people of Reuben and the people of Gad called the altar Witness, “For,” they said, (P)“it is a witness between us that the Lord is God.”

Joshua's Charge to Israel's Leaders

23 A long time afterward, when the Lord had given (Q)rest to Israel from all their surrounding enemies, and Joshua (R)was old and well advanced in years, 2 Joshua (S)summoned all Israel, its elders and heads, its judges and officers, and said to them, “I am now old and well advanced in years. 3 And you have seen all that the Lord your God has done to all these nations for your sake, (T)for it is the Lord your God who has fought for you. 4 Behold, (U)I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west. 5 The Lord your God (V)will push them back before you and drive them out of your sight. And you shall possess their land, (W)just as the Lord your God promised you. 6 Therefore, (X)be very strong to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, (Y)turning aside from it neither to the right hand nor to the left, 7 (Z)that you may not mix with these nations remaining among you (AA)or make mention of the names of their gods (AB)or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them, 8 (AC)but you shall cling to the Lord your God just as you have done to this day. 9 (AD)For the Lord has driven out before you great and strong nations. And as for you, (AE)no man has been able to stand before you to this day. 10 (AF)One man of you puts to flight a thousand, since it is the Lord your God (AG)who fights for you, just as he promised you. 11 (AH)Be very careful, therefore, to love the Lord your God. 12 For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you (AI)and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you, 13 know for certain that (AJ)the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, (AK)but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the Lord your God has given you.

14 “And now (AL)I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that (AM)not one word has failed of all the good things[a] that the Lord your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed. 15 But just as all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled for you, so the Lord will bring upon you (AN)all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land that the Lord your God has given you, 16 if you transgress the covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them. Then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land that he has given to you.”

Footnotes:

  1. Joshua 23:14 Or words; also twice in verse 15

Cross references:

  1. Joshua 22:22 : Deut. 10:17
  2. Joshua 22:22 : 1 Kgs. 8:39
  3. Joshua 22:23 : Deut. 18:19; 1 Sam. 20:16
  4. Joshua 22:24 : See ch. 4:6, 21
  5. Joshua 22:27 : ver. 34; ch. 24:27; Gen. 31:48
  6. Joshua 22:27 : Deut. 12:5, 6, 17, 18
  7. Joshua 22:28 : [See ver. 27 above]; ver. 34; ch. 24:27; Gen. 31:48
  8. Joshua 22:29 : See ver. 16
  9. Joshua 22:29 : See ver. 16
  10. Joshua 22:30 : ver. 13, 14
  11. Joshua 22:30 : ver. 33
  12. Joshua 22:31 : Lev. 26:11, 12
  13. Joshua 22:32 : ver. 10, 11, 15
  14. Joshua 22:33 : ver. 30
  15. Joshua 22:33 : 1 Chr. 29:20; Neh. 8:6; Dan. 2:19; Luke 2:28
  16. Joshua 22:34 : ver. 27
  17. Joshua 23:1 : See ch. 11:23
  18. Joshua 23:1 : ch. 13:1
  19. Joshua 23:2 : ch. 24:1; [Deut. 31:28; 1 Chr. 28:1]
  20. Joshua 23:3 : ch. 10:14, 42; Ex. 14:14
  21. Joshua 23:4 : See ch. 13:2-7
  22. Joshua 23:5 : ch. 13:6; Ex. 23:30; 33:2; 34:11; Deut. 11:23
  23. Joshua 23:5 : Num. 33:53
  24. Joshua 23:6 : ch. 1:7
  25. Joshua 23:6 : ch. 1:7; Deut. 5:32; 28:14
  26. Joshua 23:7 : Ex. 23:33; Deut. 7:2, 3
  27. Joshua 23:7 : Ex. 23:13; [Ps. 16:4]
  28. Joshua 23:7 : Jer. 5:7; [Zeph. 1:5]
  29. Joshua 23:8 : ch. 22:5; Deut. 10:20; 11:22; 13:4
  30. Joshua 23:9 : ch. 13:6; Ex. 23:30; 33:2; 34:11; Deut. 11:23
  31. Joshua 23:9 : ch. 1:5; 10:8; 21:44
  32. Joshua 23:10 : [Lev. 26:8; Deut. 32:30]
  33. Joshua 23:10 : ver. 3; Ex. 14:14; Deut. 3:22
  34. Joshua 23:11 : ch. 22:5
  35. Joshua 23:12 : Ex. 34:16; Deut. 7:3
  36. Joshua 23:13 : Judg. 2:3, 21
  37. Joshua 23:13 : Ex. 23:33; Num. 33:55; Deut. 7:16; Judg. 2:3
  38. Joshua 23:14 : 1 Kgs. 2:2
  39. Joshua 23:14 : ch. 21:45
  40. Joshua 23:15 : See Lev. 26:14-39; Deut. 28:15-68
English Standard Version (ESV)

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Luke 20:27-47

Sadducees Ask About the Resurrection

27 There came to him (A)some Sadducees, (B)those who deny that there is a resurrection, 28 and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us (C)that if a man's brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man[a] must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. 29 Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died without children. 30 And the second 31 and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died. 32 Afterward the woman also died. 33 In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife.”

34 And Jesus said to them, (D)“The sons of this age (E)marry and (F)are given in marriage, 35 but those who are (G)considered worthy to attain to (H)that age and to the resurrection from the dead (I)neither marry (J)nor are given in marriage, 36 for (K)they cannot die anymore, because they are (L)equal to angels and (M)are (N)sons of God, being (O)sons[b] of the resurrection. 37 But that the dead are raised, (P)even Moses showed, in (Q)the passage about the bush, where he calls (R)the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. 38 Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all (S)live to him.” 39 Then some of the scribes (T)answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well.” 40 For (U)they no longer dared to ask him any question.

Whose Son Is the Christ?

41 (V)But he said to them, “How can they say that (W)the Christ is (X)David's son? 42 For David himself says in the Book of Psalms,

(Y)“‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at my right hand,
43 until I make your enemies (Z)your footstool.”’

44 David thus calls him Lord, so (AA)how is he his son?”

Beware of the Scribes

45 (AB)And in the hearing of all the people he said to his disciples, 46 “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and (AC)the places of honor at feasts, 47 (AD)who devour widows' houses and (AE)for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”

Footnotes:

  1. Luke 20:28 Greek his brother
  2. Luke 20:36 Greek huioi; see Preface

Cross references:

  1. Luke 20:27 : Matt. 3:7; 16:1; 22:34; Acts 4:1; 5:17; 23:6
  2. Luke 20:27 : Acts 23:8; [Acts 4:2]
  3. Luke 20:28 : [Deut. 25:5]
  4. Luke 20:34 : ch. 16:8; See ch. 10:6
  5. Luke 20:34 : ch. 17:27; Matt. 24:38; [ver. 35]
  6. Luke 20:34 : ch. 17:27; Matt. 24:38; [ver. 35]
  7. Luke 20:35 : Acts 5:41; 2 Thess. 1:5, 11; See Matt. 22:8
  8. Luke 20:35 : [ch. 18:30]; See Mark 10:30
  9. Luke 20:35 : [ver. 34]
  10. Luke 20:35 : [ver. 34]
  11. Luke 20:36 : 1 Cor. 15:54, 55; Rev. 21:4
  12. Luke 20:36 : [Heb. 2:7, 9]
  13. Luke 20:36 : [Gen. 1:26; Ps. 82:6]
  14. Luke 20:36 : [Rom. 8:19, 23; 1 Cor. 15:52]
  15. Luke 20:36 : See ch. 10:6
  16. Luke 20:37 : ver. 28
  17. Luke 20:37 : Ex. 3:1–4:17
  18. Luke 20:37 : Acts 7:32; Cited from Ex. 3:15; [Ex. 3:6]
  19. Luke 20:38 : Rom. 6:11; 14:7, 8; 2 Cor. 5:15; Gal. 2:19; 1 Thess. 5:10; 1 Pet. 4:2; [Heb. 9:14]
  20. Luke 20:39 : Mark 12:28; [Matt. 22:34]
  21. Luke 20:40 : Matt. 22:46; Mark 12:34
  22. Luke 20:41 : For ver. 41-44, see Matt. 22:41-45; Mark 12:35-37
  23. Luke 20:41 : See Matt. 1:1, 17
  24. Luke 20:41 : See Matt. 1:1, 17
  25. Luke 20:42 : Acts 2:34, 35; Heb. 1:13; Cited from Ps. 110:1; [1 Cor. 15:25; Heb. 10:13]
  26. Luke 20:43 : [Acts 7:49]
  27. Luke 20:44 : [Rom. 1:3, 4]
  28. Luke 20:45 : For ver. 45, 46, see Matt. 23:1, 2, 5-7; Mark 12:38, 39; [ch. 11:43]
  29. Luke 20:46 : ch. 14:7, 8
  30. Luke 20:47 : [ch. 11:39; 16:14]
  31. Luke 20:47 : [Matt. 6:5, 7]
English Standard Version (ESV)

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Psalm 89:14-37

14 (A)Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;
(B)steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.
15 Blessed are the people who know (C)the festal shout,
who walk, O Lord, in (D)the light of your face,
16 who exult in your (E)name all the day
and in your righteousness are (F)exalted.
17 For you are (G)the glory of their strength;
by your favor our (H)horn is exalted.
18 For our (I)shield belongs to the Lord,
our king to (J)the Holy One of Israel.

19 (K)Of old you spoke in a vision to your godly one,[a] and said:
“I have (L)granted help to one who is (M)mighty;
I have exalted one (N)chosen from the people.
20 (O)I have found David, my servant;
with my holy oil I have (P)anointed him,
21 so that my (Q)hand shall be established with him;
my arm also shall strengthen him.
22 The enemy shall not outwit him;
(R)the wicked shall not humble him.
23 I will (S)crush his foes before him
and strike down those who hate him.
24 My (T)faithfulness and my (U)steadfast love shall be with him,
and in my name shall his (V)horn be exalted.
25 I will set his hand on (W)the sea
and his right hand on (X)the rivers.
26 He shall cry to me, ‘You are my (Y)Father,
my God, and (Z)the Rock of my salvation.’
27 And I will make him the (AA)firstborn,
(AB)the highest of the kings of the earth.
28 My steadfast love I will keep for him forever,
and my (AC)covenant will stand firm[b] for him.
29 I will establish his (AD)offspring forever
and his (AE)throne as (AF)the days of the heavens.
30 (AG)If his children forsake my law
and do not walk according to my rules,[c]
31 if they violate my statutes
and do not keep my commandments,
32 then I will punish their transgression with (AH)the rod
and their iniquity with stripes,
33 but I will not remove from him my steadfast love
or be false to my faithfulness.
34 I will not violate my (AI)covenant
or alter the word that went forth from my lips.
35 Once for all I have sworn (AJ)by my holiness;
I will not (AK)lie to David.
36 His (AL)offspring shall endure forever,
(AM)his (AN)throne as long as (AO)the sun before me.
37 Like (AP)the moon it shall be established forever,
(AQ)a faithful witness in the skies.” Selah

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 89:19 Some Hebrew manuscripts godly ones
  2. Psalm 89:28 Or will remain faithful
  3. Psalm 89:30 Or my just decrees

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 89:14 : Ps. 97:2
  2. Psalm 89:14 : ver. 2; [Ps. 85:13]
  3. Psalm 89:15 : See Ps. 66:1
  4. Psalm 89:15 : See Ps. 4:6
  5. Psalm 89:16 : [Ps. 20:5, 7]
  6. Psalm 89:16 : [Job 36:7]
  7. Psalm 89:17 : [Ps. 78:61]
  8. Psalm 89:17 : ver. 24; See Ps. 75:10
  9. Psalm 89:18 : Ps. 47:9
  10. Psalm 89:18 : See Ps. 71:22
  11. Psalm 89:19 : [ver. 3, 4]
  12. Psalm 89:19 : [Ps. 21:5]
  13. Psalm 89:19 : 2 Sam. 17:10
  14. Psalm 89:19 : See ver. 3
  15. Psalm 89:20 : Cited Acts 13:22
  16. Psalm 89:20 : 1 Sam. 16:13
  17. Psalm 89:21 : Ps. 80:17
  18. Psalm 89:22 : [2 Sam. 7:10]
  19. Psalm 89:23 : [2 Sam. 7:9]; See Ps. 2:9
  20. Psalm 89:24 : ver. 1
  21. Psalm 89:24 : ver. 1
  22. Psalm 89:24 : ver. 17
  23. Psalm 89:25 : See Ps. 72:8
  24. Psalm 89:25 : See Ps. 72:8
  25. Psalm 89:26 : [2 Sam. 7:14]
  26. Psalm 89:26 : [Ps. 18:2]
  27. Psalm 89:27 : Ex. 4:22; [Rom. 8:29; Col. 1:15, 18; Heb. 1:5]
  28. Psalm 89:27 : Num. 24:7; [Rev. 19:16]
  29. Psalm 89:28 : See ver. 3
  30. Psalm 89:29 : See ver. 4
  31. Psalm 89:29 : See ver. 4
  32. Psalm 89:29 : See Job 14:12
  33. Psalm 89:30 : 2 Sam. 7:14; 1 Kgs. 2:4
  34. Psalm 89:32 : See Job 9:34
  35. Psalm 89:34 : [See ver. 28 above]; See ver. 3
  36. Psalm 89:35 : See Ps. 60:6
  37. Psalm 89:35 : [Heb. 6:18]
  38. Psalm 89:36 : [See ver. 29 above]; See ver. 4
  39. Psalm 89:36 : See ver. 4
  40. Psalm 89:36 : [See ver. 29 above]; See ver. 4
  41. Psalm 89:36 : See Ps. 72:5
  42. Psalm 89:37 : [See ver. 36 above]; See Ps. 72:5
  43. Psalm 89:37 : See Job 16:19
English Standard Version (ESV)

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Proverbs 13:17-19

17 A wicked messenger falls into trouble,
but (A)a faithful envoy brings healing.
18 Poverty and disgrace come to him who (B)ignores instruction,
(C)but whoever (D)heeds reproof is honored.
19 (E)A desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul,
but to turn away from evil is an abomination to fools.

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 13:17 : ch. 25:13; [ch. 14:5]
  2. Proverbs 13:18 : [ch. 15:5, 31, 32]
  3. Proverbs 13:18 : [ch. 15:5]
  4. Proverbs 13:18 : [ch. 15:31]
  5. Proverbs 13:19 : [ver. 12]
English Standard Version (ESV)

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04/20/2019 DAB Transcript

Joshua 21:1-22:20, Luke 20:1-26, Psalms 89:1-13, Proverbs 13:15-16

Today is the 20th day of April. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it is always a joy, it is always a pleasure to come together with you around the global campfire each and every day. Obviously, we’re ending a week together. This is the day that is in between days. This is a day known as Holy Saturday. It’s a day that believers all around the world are sitting with fact that Jesus has died. If we’re putting ourselves back in story then yesterday was Good Friday, perhaps the blackest day to be to be noted by a believer and this is a day where we sit with the fact we’re in between. If we were back in the time and we had been following Jesus, then we would be very heartbroken and confused. And believe it or not that’s where were supposed to position our hearts while we wait, while we wait for tomorrow when everything changes. So, hopefully that becomes a part of your day, a part of your thoughts and prayers and meditations today. And as we move with that spirit forward we’ll move into our reading for today. We’ve been reading from the New Living Translation this week and today Joshua chapter 21 verse 1 through 22 verse 20.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word, we thank You for another week in Your word and as we come to the end of this week we certainly do find ourselves in this Easter holiday season. And it’s easy for us to just skip today, to make today a preparation for tomorrow and not sit with the fact that for a time You laid cold and lifeless in a borrowed tomb while a tremendous celebration of Passover was happening all around the city and while many, many people were confused and heartbroken and completely lost because they had followed and hoped in You. And even though You had been clear along the way there was still this space and time were al was seemingly lost. And, so, we at least take these moments now to sit with that and to realize no matter what we had done, no matter what we would have done, no matter how we would’ve tried, we would invariably find ourselves lost without You. And, so, we invite You fully as we move our way toward tomorrow, but we can’t get tomorrow without going through today and without having gone through yesterday. And, so, Holy Spirit, come as we contemplate yet again the love, the overwhelming unspeakable love that You bestowed upon us by coming to rescue us. Come Jesus we pray. In Your precious name we ask. Amen.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hello, this is Robbie. It is…I’m calling…it’s April 14th and I literally just came home from the More Gathering which was fabulous. I’m so glad that I went but the reason I’m calling is at one of the sessions I really needed a hug and a lady came up from behind he gave me a hug and kissed me on the head and moved on before I could look up see who this angel was. So, just whoever you were I was in the very back row in the Ring of Fire session and thank you for the hug. You, more than you know, helped during a time when I really, really needed it. Jesus answered a prayer and you blessed me and hopefully he’ll bless you. So, again thank you for the hug. And Jill, thank you for the conference it was exhilarating, it’s life-changing. Thank you. Bye.

Hello Daily Audio Bible community my name is Scott __ from Michigan. I’m calling on April 15th mainly in praise and I want to share a story with you. Since I called late last year I was talking about the stress of almost like PTSD type stuff I was dealing with being in the ICU and the stuff that I see and deal with and I felt like ever since your prayers and calling in that God has shown that, you know, He’s there in both little and big ways. And I wanted to share a story from yesterday that really brought all this home. I was going about my day and ran into a young lady who…we were just talking there for a minute…and she wants to go into a nursing and she was asking me how I dealt with the stuff with nursing and all the things that I see and the first thing that came out of my mouth was that faith and just knowing that there’s more going on than I know, God’s in control, that helps me get through the day. And that had her open up and tell me a story about our father passed six weeks ago going in for it was probably a last ditch surgery but it didn’t quite work but the story was that before he went to the surgery he said he saw Jesus just walking, long flowing hair and a blue robe. He didn’t…she asked him…and he was lucent and he…she asked him if He said anything and he didn’t he just smiled. They were hoping that was a good sign that he would be healed. Unfortunately, he wasn’t healed but she said that before he passed and he was unconscious __ smile on his face…

Hi this is Tiffany from New Mexico and I just wanted to call in today and encourage all of you who are feeling alone. I’ve been there, and I know that you may be the only person you know that listens to the Daily Audio Bible. You may be the only follower of Christ in your family. You may be feeling misunderstood for various reasons or have some disease that you think no one understands or you may even feel so alone that you’ve thought of ending it all and we have heard you. But I want you to know the truth, you’re not alone. This weekend I was blessed to go to the More Gathering and I want you to know I saw an army. There is an army of women and I’m sure there’s also an army of men that have your back and fight for you in prayer when you call in or post on the Prayer Wall. Don’t believe the lies of the enemy that tell you you are alone. I want you to know that it is a just Jesus who loves you although you are His obsession. It isn’t just Brian that loves, as I’m sure he does. But there is an entire family of us that love you. We’re real, we’re not just voices on the phone or posts on a wall but we’re here and we love you and you belong. So, keep fighting the good fight because we’re behind you. Be encouraged today and don’t give up. That’s all I wanted to say but I’m praying for you all. Have a good day.

Hi this is Greg, I’m a frequent listener and I was listening to the April 13th outcast and I decided to listen beyond the teaching and into and through Brian’s prayer and something he said was to pray that God be present in the moment and that to be with us during this week, throughout this week, as this week passes by and becomes a part of our history, a part of my history. And I really felt prompted to think about the practical things I can do before this week expires to advance God’s kingdom. I thought I’d share a couple of simple ideas that I’ve been blessed and I’m gonna commit to doing. Number one, give. And giving is always a great idea but if you’ve not given before, don’t give what you can’t and don’t promise to give what you don’t have, but whatever you do decide to do, do it quickly and with joy even if it’s a dollar a week or a dollar a month. And even better yet, make it a make a habit. Get that auto pay __ . I’m sure the Lord will bless you in doing so. And the second thing would be, you gotta pray, and not only pray but think about taking a day and giving the first fruit of that day, the very first moment of that morning to the Lord. And a couple of things that I’ve been blessed in doing is just laying down and letting the Holy Spirit guide me and actually moving my lips and praying out loud as an act of faith because I think the Lord really likes to hear from his children and think He’s blessed to hear from each of us and it might stretch your faith boundaries a bit by praying out loud. And the third thing would be to call this week and pray for a country. Pick a country whether we’re…maybe you’ve got friends who are in missionaries in a country where God’s children are being persecuted, maybe even a country that’s an enemy of the nation that you live in and just pray that the gospel could force fourth from the missionaries and saints, touching that country and that they do it __ Jesus and receive Him into their hearts and turn and repent and be healed and their land gets healed and maybe even that that nation…that that nation, the Lord’s gospel would pour forth and…

Hey guys, Darrell Prizano down here in Georgia. I don’t call in too often but I’ve called in before. Listening to today’s message, April 15th. Brian, I don’t know if you’re gonna hear this message or not but man, thank you, thank you, thank you, brother. Needed what you shared today in your commentary when you were discussing where Jesus is talking to…I think it was Jesus was talking to His disciples and He says that the kingdom of God is at hand. What does that…what that means is, the kingdom of God is here among us already. It is within us and I knew that as soon as you said it, as soon as you read it from the reading, but in your commentary you said, “how long are we going to simply be grateful for the grace of God in our lives and how it applies and yet continue to battle and battle and battle out our own inner darkness and not be effective the kingdom of God which we are, which is among us?” The job is right now, right here, while we are here, to spread his love. My gosh…because that is me - battling today, not effective for God today, get past it tomorrow and I can be effective. But what about today? What about when I share…talk about Jesus today as it were? They need me ready, in season constantly. The world needs that. Brian, thank you so much man. I really appreciate that. I needed to hear that today. That was a great great word __ read the gospel passionately. Love you guys. God bless you all.

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04/20/2019 DAB Transcript

Joshua 21:1-22:20, Luke 20:1-26, Psalms 89:1-13, Proverbs 13:15-16

Today is the 20th day of April. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it is always a joy, it is always a pleasure to come together with you around the global campfire each and every day. Obviously, we’re ending a week together. This is the day that is in between days. This is a day known as Holy Saturday. It’s a day that believers all around the world are sitting with fact that Jesus has died. If we’re putting ourselves back in story then yesterday was Good Friday, perhaps the blackest day to be to be noted by a believer and this is a day where we sit with the fact we’re in between. If we were back in the time and we had been following Jesus, then we would be very heartbroken and confused. And believe it or not that’s where were supposed to position our hearts while we wait, while we wait for tomorrow when everything changes. So, hopefully that becomes a part of your day, a part of your thoughts and prayers and meditations today. And as we move with that spirit forward we’ll move into our reading for today. We’ve been reading from the New Living Translation this week and today Joshua chapter 21 verse 1 through 22 verse 20.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word, we thank You for another week in Your word and as we come to the end of this week we certainly do find ourselves in this Easter holiday season. And it’s easy for us to just skip today, to make today a preparation for tomorrow and not sit with the fact that for a time You laid cold and lifeless in a borrowed tomb while a tremendous celebration of Passover was happening all around the city and while many, many people were confused and heartbroken and completely lost because they had followed and hoped in You. And even though You had been clear along the way there was still this space and time were al was seemingly lost. And, so, we at least take these moments now to sit with that and to realize no matter what we had done, no matter what we would have done, no matter how we would’ve tried, we would invariably find ourselves lost without You. And, so, we invite You fully as we move our way toward tomorrow, but we can’t get tomorrow without going through today and without having gone through yesterday. And, so, Holy Spirit, come as we contemplate yet again the love, the overwhelming unspeakable love that You bestowed upon us by coming to rescue us. Come Jesus we pray. In Your precious name we ask. Amen.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hello, this is Robbie. It is…I’m calling…it’s April 14th and I literally just came home from the More Gathering which was fabulous. I’m so glad that I went but the reason I’m calling is at one of the sessions I really needed a hug and a lady came up from behind he gave me a hug and kissed me on the head and moved on before I could look up see who this angel was. So, just whoever you were I was in the very back row in the Ring of Fire session and thank you for the hug. You, more than you know, helped during a time when I really, really needed it. Jesus answered a prayer and you blessed me and hopefully he’ll bless you. So, again thank you for the hug. And Jill, thank you for the conference it was exhilarating, it’s life-changing. Thank you. Bye.

Hello Daily Audio Bible community my name is Scott __ from Michigan. I’m calling on April 15th mainly in praise and I want to share a story with you. Since I called late last year I was talking about the stress of almost like PTSD type stuff I was dealing with being in the ICU and the stuff that I see and deal with and I felt like ever since your prayers and calling in that God has shown that, you know, He’s there in both little and big ways. And I wanted to share a story from yesterday that really brought all this home. I was going about my day and ran into a young lady who…we were just talking there for a minute…and she wants to go into a nursing and she was asking me how I dealt with the stuff with nursing and all the things that I see and the first thing that came out of my mouth was that faith and just knowing that there’s more going on than I know, God’s in control, that helps me get through the day. And that had her open up and tell me a story about our father passed six weeks ago going in for it was probably a last ditch surgery but it didn’t quite work but the story was that before he went to the surgery he said he saw Jesus just walking, long flowing hair and a blue robe. He didn’t…she asked him…and he was lucent and he…she asked him if He said anything and he didn’t he just smiled. They were hoping that was a good sign that he would be healed. Unfortunately, he wasn’t healed but she said that before he passed and he was unconscious __ smile on his face…

Hi this is Tiffany from New Mexico and I just wanted to call in today and encourage all of you who are feeling alone. I’ve been there, and I know that you may be the only person you know that listens to the Daily Audio Bible. You may be the only follower of Christ in your family. You may be feeling misunderstood for various reasons or have some disease that you think no one understands or you may even feel so alone that you’ve thought of ending it all and we have heard you. But I want you to know the truth, you’re not alone. This weekend I was blessed to go to the More Gathering and I want you to know I saw an army. There is an army of women and I’m sure there’s also an army of men that have your back and fight for you in prayer when you call in or post on the Prayer Wall. Don’t believe the lies of the enemy that tell you you are alone. I want you to know that it is a just Jesus who loves you although you are His obsession. It isn’t just Brian that loves, as I’m sure he does. But there is an entire family of us that love you. We’re real, we’re not just voices on the phone or posts on a wall but we’re here and we love you and you belong. So, keep fighting the good fight because we’re behind you. Be encouraged today and don’t give up. That’s all I wanted to say but I’m praying for you all. Have a good day.

Hi this is Greg, I’m a frequent listener and I was listening to the April 13th outcast and I decided to listen beyond the teaching and into and through Brian’s prayer and something he said was to pray that God be present in the moment and that to be with us during this week, throughout this week, as this week passes by and becomes a part of our history, a part of my history. And I really felt prompted to think about the practical things I can do before this week expires to advance God’s kingdom. I thought I’d share a couple of simple ideas that I’ve been blessed and I’m gonna commit to doing. Number one, give. And giving is always a great idea but if you’ve not given before, don’t give what you can’t and don’t promise to give what you don’t have, but whatever you do decide to do, do it quickly and with joy even if it’s a dollar a week or a dollar a month. And even better yet, make it a make a habit. Get that auto pay __ . I’m sure the Lord will bless you in doing so. And the second thing would be, you gotta pray, and not only pray but think about taking a day and giving the first fruit of that day, the very first moment of that morning to the Lord. And a couple of things that I’ve been blessed in doing is just laying down and letting the Holy Spirit guide me and actually moving my lips and praying out loud as an act of faith because I think the Lord really likes to hear from his children and think He’s blessed to hear from each of us and it might stretch your faith boundaries a bit by praying out loud. And the third thing would be to call this week and pray for a country. Pick a country whether we’re…maybe you’ve got friends who are in missionaries in a country where God’s children are being persecuted, maybe even a country that’s an enemy of the nation that you live in and just pray that the gospel could force fourth from the missionaries and saints, touching that country and that they do it __ Jesus and receive Him into their hearts and turn and repent and be healed and their land gets healed and maybe even that that nation…that that nation, the Lord’s gospel would pour forth and…

Hey guys, Darrell Prizano down here in Georgia. I don’t call in too often but I’ve called in before. Listening to today’s message, April 15th. Brian, I don’t know if you’re gonna hear this message or not but man, thank you, thank you, thank you, brother. Needed what you shared today in your commentary when you were discussing where Jesus is talking to…I think it was Jesus was talking to His disciples and He says that the kingdom of God is at hand. What does that…what that means is, the kingdom of God is here among us already. It is within us and I knew that as soon as you said it, as soon as you read it from the reading, but in your commentary you said, “how long are we going to simply be grateful for the grace of God in our lives and how it applies and yet continue to battle and battle and battle out our own inner darkness and not be effective the kingdom of God which we are, which is among us?” The job is right now, right here, while we are here, to spread his love. My gosh…because that is me - battling today, not effective for God today, get past it tomorrow and I can be effective. But what about today? What about when I share…talk about Jesus today as it were? They need me ready, in season constantly. The world needs that. Brian, thank you so much man. I really appreciate that. I needed to hear that today. That was a great great word __ read the gospel passionately. Love you guys. God bless you all.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Saturday April 20, 2019 (NIV)

Joshua 21:1-22:20

The Towns Given to the Levites

21 Then the leaders of the tribe of Levi came to consult with Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders of the other tribes of Israel. 2 They came to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan and said, “The Lord commanded Moses to give us towns to live in and pasturelands for our livestock.” 3 So by the command of the Lord the people of Israel gave the Levites the following towns and pasturelands out of their own grants of land.

4 The descendants of Aaron, who were members of the Kohathite clan within the tribe of Levi, were allotted thirteen towns that were originally assigned to the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin. 5 The other families of the Kohathite clan were allotted ten towns from the tribes of Ephraim, Dan, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

6 The clan of Gershon was allotted thirteen towns from the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

7 The clan of Merari was allotted twelve towns from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.

8 So the Israelites obeyed the Lord’s command to Moses and assigned these towns and pasturelands to the Levites by casting sacred lots.

9 The Israelites gave the following towns from the tribes of Judah and Simeon 10 to the descendants of Aaron, who were members of the Kohathite clan within the tribe of Levi, since the sacred lot fell to them first: 11 Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, along with its surrounding pasturelands. (Arba was an ancestor of Anak.) 12 But the open fields beyond the town and the surrounding villages were given to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession.

13 The following towns with their pasturelands were given to the descendants of Aaron the priest: Hebron (a city of refuge for those who accidentally killed someone), Libnah, 14 Jattir, Eshtemoa, 15 Holon, Debir, 16 Ain, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh—nine towns from these two tribes.

17 From the tribe of Benjamin the priests were given the following towns with their pasturelands: Gibeon, Geba, 18 Anathoth, and Almon—four towns. 19 So in all, thirteen towns with their pasturelands were given to the priests, the descendants of Aaron.

20 The rest of the Kohathite clan from the tribe of Levi was allotted the following towns and pasturelands from the tribe of Ephraim: 21 Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim (a city of refuge for those who accidentally killed someone), Gezer, 22 Kibzaim, and Beth-horon—four towns.

23 The following towns and pasturelands were allotted to the priests from the tribe of Dan: Eltekeh, Gibbethon, 24 Aijalon, and Gath-rimmon—four towns.

25 The half-tribe of Manasseh allotted the following towns with their pasturelands to the priests: Taanach and Gath-rimmon—two towns. 26 So in all, ten towns with their pasturelands were given to the rest of the Kohathite clan.

27 The descendants of Gershon, another clan within the tribe of Levi, received the following towns with their pasturelands from the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan (a city of refuge for those who accidentally killed someone) and Be-eshterah—two towns.

28 From the tribe of Issachar they received the following towns with their pasturelands: Kishion, Daberath, 29 Jarmuth, and En-gannim—four towns.

30 From the tribe of Asher they received the following towns with their pasturelands: Mishal, Abdon, 31 Helkath, and Rehob—four towns.

32 From the tribe of Naphtali they received the following towns with their pasturelands: Kedesh in Galilee (a city of refuge for those who accidentally killed someone), Hammoth-dor, and Kartan—three towns. 33 So in all, thirteen towns with their pasturelands were allotted to the clan of Gershon.

34 The rest of the Levites—the Merari clan—were given the following towns with their pasturelands from the tribe of Zebulun: Jokneam, Kartah, 35 Dimnah, and Nahalal—four towns.

36 From the tribe of Reuben they received the following towns with their pasturelands: Bezer, Jahaz,[a] 37 Kedemoth, and Mephaath—four towns.

38 From the tribe of Gad they received the following towns with their pasturelands: Ramoth in Gilead (a city of refuge for those who accidentally killed someone), Mahanaim, 39 Heshbon, and Jazer—four towns. 40 So in all, twelve towns were allotted to the clan of Merari.

41 The total number of towns and pasturelands within Israelite territory given to the Levites came to forty-eight. 42 Every one of these towns had pasturelands surrounding it.

43 So the Lord gave to Israel all the land he had sworn to give their ancestors, and they took possession of it and settled there. 44 And the Lord gave them rest on every side, just as he had solemnly promised their ancestors. None of their enemies could stand against them, for the Lord helped them conquer all their enemies. 45 Not a single one of all the good promises the Lord had given to the family of Israel was left unfulfilled; everything he had spoken came true.

The Eastern Tribes Return Home

22 Then Joshua called together the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. 2 He told them, “You have done as Moses, the servant of the Lord, commanded you, and you have obeyed every order I have given you. 3 During all this time you have not deserted the other tribes. You have been careful to obey the commands of the Lord your God right up to the present day. 4 And now the Lord your God has given the other tribes rest, as he promised them. So go back home to the land that Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave you as your possession on the east side of the Jordan River. 5 But be very careful to obey all the commands and the instructions that Moses gave to you. Love the Lord your God, walk in all his ways, obey his commands, hold firmly to him, and serve him with all your heart and all your soul.” 6 So Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went home.

7 Moses had given the land of Bashan, east of the Jordan River, to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (The other half of the tribe was given land west of the Jordan.) As Joshua sent them away and blessed them, 8 he said to them, “Go back to your homes with the great wealth you have taken from your enemies—the vast herds of livestock, the silver, gold, bronze, and iron, and the large supply of clothing. Share the plunder with your relatives.”

9 So the men of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the rest of Israel at Shiloh in the land of Canaan. They started the journey back to their own land of Gilead, the territory that belonged to them according to the Lord’s command through Moses.

The Eastern Tribes Build an Altar

10 But while they were still in Canaan, and when they came to a place called Geliloth[b] near the Jordan River, the men of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh stopped to build a large and imposing altar.

11 The rest of Israel heard that the people of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had built an altar at Geliloth at the edge of the land of Canaan, on the west side of the Jordan River. 12 So the whole community of Israel gathered at Shiloh and prepared to go to war against them. 13 First, however, they sent a delegation led by Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, to talk with the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. 14 In this delegation were ten leaders of Israel, one from each of the ten tribes, and each the head of his family within the clans of Israel.

15 When they arrived in the land of Gilead, they said to the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, 16 “The whole community of the Lord demands to know why you are betraying the God of Israel. How could you turn away from the Lord and build an altar for yourselves in rebellion against him? 17 Was our sin at Peor not enough? To this day we are not fully cleansed of it, even after the plague that struck the entire community of the Lord. 18 And yet today you are turning away from following the Lord. If you rebel against the Lord today, he will be angry with all of us tomorrow.

19 “If you need the altar because the land you possess is defiled, then join us in the Lord’s land, where the Tabernacle of the Lord is situated, and share our land with us. But do not rebel against the Lord or against us by building an altar other than the one true altar of the Lord our God. 20 Didn’t divine anger fall on the entire community of Israel when Achan, a member of the clan of Zerah, sinned by stealing the things set apart for the Lord[c]? He was not the only one who died because of his sin.”

Footnotes:

  1. 21:36 Hebrew Jahzah, a variant spelling of Jahaz.
  2. 22:10 Or to the circle of stones; similarly in 22:11.
  3. 22:20 The Hebrew term used here refers to the complete consecration of things or people to the Lord, either by destroying them or by giving them as an offering.
New Living Translation (NLT)

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Luke 20:1-26

The Authority of Jesus Challenged

20 One day as Jesus was teaching the people and preaching the Good News in the Temple, the leading priests, the teachers of religious law, and the elders came up to him. 2 They demanded, “By what authority are you doing all these things? Who gave you the right?”

3 “Let me ask you a question first,” he replied. 4 “Did John’s authority to baptize come from heaven, or was it merely human?”

5 They talked it over among themselves. “If we say it was from heaven, he will ask why we didn’t believe John. 6 But if we say it was merely human, the people will stone us because they are convinced John was a prophet.” 7 So they finally replied that they didn’t know.

8 And Jesus responded, “Then I won’t tell you by what authority I do these things.”

Parable of the Evil Farmers

9 Now Jesus turned to the people again and told them this story: “A man planted a vineyard, leased it to tenant farmers, and moved to another country to live for several years. 10 At the time of the grape harvest, he sent one of his servants to collect his share of the crop. But the farmers attacked the servant, beat him up, and sent him back empty-handed. 11 So the owner sent another servant, but they also insulted him, beat him up, and sent him away empty-handed. 12 A third man was sent, and they wounded him and chased him away.

13 “‘What will I do?’ the owner asked himself. ‘I know! I’ll send my cherished son. Surely they will respect him.’

14 “But when the tenant farmers saw his son, they said to each other, ‘Here comes the heir to this estate. Let’s kill him and get the estate for ourselves!’ 15 So they dragged him out of the vineyard and murdered him.

“What do you suppose the owner of the vineyard will do to them?” Jesus asked. 16 “I’ll tell you—he will come and kill those farmers and lease the vineyard to others.”

“How terrible that such a thing should ever happen,” his listeners protested.

17 Jesus looked at them and said, “Then what does this Scripture mean?

‘The stone that the builders rejected
has now become the cornerstone.’[a]

18 Everyone who stumbles over that stone will be broken to pieces, and it will crush anyone it falls on.”

19 The teachers of religious law and the leading priests wanted to arrest Jesus immediately because they realized he was telling the story against them—they were the wicked farmers. But they were afraid of the people’s reaction.

Taxes for Caesar

20 Watching for their opportunity, the leaders sent spies pretending to be honest men. They tried to get Jesus to say something that could be reported to the Roman governor so he would arrest Jesus. 21 “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you speak and teach what is right and are not influenced by what others think. You teach the way of God truthfully. 22 Now tell us—is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”

23 He saw through their trickery and said, 24 “Show me a Roman coin.[b] Whose picture and title are stamped on it?”

“Caesar’s,” they replied.

25 “Well then,” he said, “give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and give to God what belongs to God.”

26 So they failed to trap him by what he said in front of the people. Instead, they were amazed by his answer, and they became silent.

Footnotes:

  1. 20:17 Ps 118:22.
  2. 20:24 Greek a denarius.
New Living Translation (NLT)

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.


Psalm 89:1-13

Psalm 89

A psalm[a] of Ethan the Ezrahite.

1 I will sing of the Lord’s unfailing love forever!
Young and old will hear of your faithfulness.
2 Your unfailing love will last forever.
Your faithfulness is as enduring as the heavens.

3 The Lord said, “I have made a covenant with David, my chosen servant.
I have sworn this oath to him:
4 ‘I will establish your descendants as kings forever;
they will sit on your throne from now until eternity.’” Interlude
5 All heaven will praise your great wonders, Lord;
myriads of angels will praise you for your faithfulness.
6 For who in all of heaven can compare with the Lord?
What mightiest angel is anything like the Lord?
7 The highest angelic powers stand in awe of God.
He is far more awesome than all who surround his throne.
8 O Lord God of Heaven’s Armies!
Where is there anyone as mighty as you, O Lord?
You are entirely faithful.

9 You rule the oceans.
You subdue their storm-tossed waves.
10 You crushed the great sea monster.[b]
You scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
11 The heavens are yours, and the earth is yours;
everything in the world is yours—you created it all.
12 You created north and south.
Mount Tabor and Mount Hermon praise your name.
13 Powerful is your arm!
Strong is your hand!
Your right hand is lifted high in glorious strength.

Footnotes:

  1. 89:Title Hebrew maskil. This may be a literary or musical term.
  2. 89:10 Hebrew Rahab, the name of a mythical sea monster that represents chaos in ancient literature.
New Living Translation (NLT)

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.


Proverbs 13:15-16

15 A person with good sense is respected;
a treacherous person is headed for destruction.[a]

16 Wise people think before they act;
fools don’t—and even brag about their foolishness.

Footnotes:

  1. 13:15 As in Greek version; Hebrew reads the way of the treacherous is lasting.
New Living Translation (NLT)

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.


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04/19/2019 DAB Transcript

Joshua 19:1-20:9, Luke 19:28-48, Psalms 88:1-18, Proverbs 13:12-14

Today is the 19th day of April. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it is great to be here with you today although this is the most somber day of the year in the life of a believer. Today is Good Friday. Today commemorates the day that Jesus was crucified. So, it’s important for us to keep that at the forefront of our thoughts today and maybe we’ll talk about that a little bit at the end of our reading today even though it is Good Friday it is another day and, as is our rhythm, we will take the next step forward in the Scriptures this year. And we’ve been reading from the New Living translation this week. Today Joshua chapter 19 and 20.

Commentary:

Okay. So, as I mentioned at the beginning, today is Good Friday and really, what else should or would we talk about. This is a day that we’ve been leading up to and we began to observe this season almost 40 days ago, I guess 37, 38 days ago on Ash Wednesday, which began the season of Lent and we talked about it along the way and some people observe Lent and some people don’t. And it’s not a command in the Bible. It’s a way of preparing our hearts to get here and to get through here and we can’t get to Easter, which is perhaps the most important day in the life of the believer. We would say maybe this is the most important day in human history, Easter, but we can’t get there without coming through here. And today is a day that commemorates the day that Jesus was nailed to a cross and hung in unspeakable agony, pain that I don’t even know how to…I don’t even know how to think about, but it wasn’t just a physical pain, it wasn’t just the physical torture that would eventually cause his heart stopped beating it…it was the weight of the sins of the world upon his shoulders and the utter and complete rejection of everyone, it was the weight of the verbal abuse in the lying, it was the weight of being spit upon and smacked around, it was the weight of the world upon his shoulders. And, so, thankfully, we do understand that Easter is coming. Thankfully we have that hope but if we put ourselves back with the disciples, if we put ourselves back with the people who were following Jesus at a distance, if we go back to the people who were talking about the things that Jesus was talking about and it was spreading like wildfire and they were following this man and then we get to today and rather than any other number of things that could’ve happened that this day took the life of this person and his life was taken by crucifixion, a horrible death and we don’t know that we can look forward to Easter, right? He said stuff about this, but it was all cryptic and we don’t understand. And we watch Him bow his head in death then we would properly put ourselves in the confused and black day that it is because we do certainly look forward to Easter. We certainly do understand that that’s coming but today we put ourselves in the position of understanding that the light of the world went out, was snuffed out, and that Jesus came off of the cross dead and He was wrapped with spices and put into a tomb quickly to avoid all of the problems with Passover. And they had planned to get through Passover and come back and get his body and figure out what to do. That was the plan. So, we put ourselves in that position. And even if you go to a Good Friday service today, depending on the tradition you’ll probably receive Communion or the Eucharist, but an appropriate way to end a Good Friday service is that the candle gets blown out and everything goes dark and everyone leaves in silence because what worse thing could happen? Besides the light of the world being taken out of the world, what hope would be left after that? And that’s where we leave ourselves on Good Friday. We’ve been considering during the season of Lent, the weight, the cost of our freedom and we’ve invited God to reorganize and reprioritize our lives and take out whatever doesn’t need to be there and put in whatever does to just allow ourselves to lament and sit with it. And, so, we come to this day of ultimate grief. Now we’re face-to-face with what it cost to give us our freedom. We’ve been tracking with the Bible and through the sacrificial system and all the way through all of the things that would need to be done to remind a person of how helpless they are without God and then we get to this day and we see that people could still, could still, could still try to do away with the Lord. And yet, in spite of it all what the Lord’s saying through this scene that we commemorate today is that I am doing away with sin. Sin isn’t going to be the story anymore. Once and for all this is being dealt with. We’re not going to be separated anymore. We’re going to be united. And, so, that’s what we hope in as we move toward Easter, but today. Today we experience the blackness of the day that it is. Today we consider what it would be like if there were no Easter. Today, we consider the price that was paid to take the shackles off of our lives and give us freedom and we once again consider the shackles that we keep putting back on that don’t need to be there anymore.

Prayer:

Holy Spirit, we invite You into the experience of this Good Friday. For some of us it’ll just be another day and we’ll be busy and get things done. For others of us, we’ll sit with the blackness of this day. And for most of us it’ll be something in between. We invite Your Holy Spirit to bring the year what it cost to remove sin as a part of our story to give us the freedom to walk away from a dead-end life and onto a narrow path that will lead to life. We sit with these things and we thank You Jesus. We are humbled. But the truth is the word…there aren’t the right words that at least that I know that can properly show gratitude and it be big enough. You changed our lives completely and utterly and we apologize for the shackles that we keep putting on ourselves and we ask that Your Holy Spirit lead us through this season to resurrection day and that those chains fall off once and for all. Come Holy Spirit we pray in the name of Jesus we ask. Amen.

Song:

Death Be Not Proud - Audrey Assad

Death, be not proud, though the whole world fear you:

Mighty and dreadful you may seem,

But death, be not proud, for your pride has failed you

You will not kill me.

Though you may dwell in plague and poison,

You’re a slave to fate and desperate men,

So death, if your sleep be the gates to Heaven,

Why your confidence?

When you will be no more,

You will be no more,

When you will be no more.

Even death will die.

Even death will die.

Death, be not proud.

Death, be not proud.

Death, be not proud,

Cause even death will die.

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04/19/2019 DAB Transcript

Joshua 19:1-20:9, Luke 19:28-48, Psalms 88:1-18, Proverbs 13:12-14

Today is the 19th day of April. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it is great to be here with you today although this is the most somber day of the year in the life of a believer. Today is Good Friday. Today commemorates the day that Jesus was crucified. So, it’s important for us to keep that at the forefront of our thoughts today and maybe we’ll talk about that a little bit at the end of our reading today even though it is Good Friday it is another day and, as is our rhythm, we will take the next step forward in the Scriptures this year. And we’ve been reading from the New Living translation this week. Today Joshua chapter 19 and 20.

Commentary:

Okay. So, as I mentioned at the beginning, today is Good Friday and really, what else should or would we talk about. This is a day that we’ve been leading up to and we began to observe this season almost 40 days ago, I guess 37, 38 days ago on Ash Wednesday, which began the season of Lent and we talked about it along the way and some people observe Lent and some people don’t. And it’s not a command in the Bible. It’s a way of preparing our hearts to get here and to get through here and we can’t get to Easter, which is perhaps the most important day in the life of the believer. We would say maybe this is the most important day in human history, Easter, but we can’t get there without coming through here. And today is a day that commemorates the day that Jesus was nailed to a cross and hung in unspeakable agony, pain that I don’t even know how to…I don’t even know how to think about, but it wasn’t just a physical pain, it wasn’t just the physical torture that would eventually cause his heart stopped beating it…it was the weight of the sins of the world upon his shoulders and the utter and complete rejection of everyone, it was the weight of the verbal abuse in the lying, it was the weight of being spit upon and smacked around, it was the weight of the world upon his shoulders. And, so, thankfully, we do understand that Easter is coming. Thankfully we have that hope but if we put ourselves back with the disciples, if we put ourselves back with the people who were following Jesus at a distance, if we go back to the people who were talking about the things that Jesus was talking about and it was spreading like wildfire and they were following this man and then we get to today and rather than any other number of things that could’ve happened that this day took the life of this person and his life was taken by crucifixion, a horrible death and we don’t know that we can look forward to Easter, right? He said stuff about this, but it was all cryptic and we don’t understand. And we watch Him bow his head in death then we would properly put ourselves in the confused and black day that it is because we do certainly look forward to Easter. We certainly do understand that that’s coming but today we put ourselves in the position of understanding that the light of the world went out, was snuffed out, and that Jesus came off of the cross dead and He was wrapped with spices and put into a tomb quickly to avoid all of the problems with Passover. And they had planned to get through Passover and come back and get his body and figure out what to do. That was the plan. So, we put ourselves in that position. And even if you go to a Good Friday service today, depending on the tradition you’ll probably receive Communion or the Eucharist, but an appropriate way to end a Good Friday service is that the candle gets blown out and everything goes dark and everyone leaves in silence because what worse thing could happen? Besides the light of the world being taken out of the world, what hope would be left after that? And that’s where we leave ourselves on Good Friday. We’ve been considering during the season of Lent, the weight, the cost of our freedom and we’ve invited God to reorganize and reprioritize our lives and take out whatever doesn’t need to be there and put in whatever does to just allow ourselves to lament and sit with it. And, so, we come to this day of ultimate grief. Now we’re face-to-face with what it cost to give us our freedom. We’ve been tracking with the Bible and through the sacrificial system and all the way through all of the things that would need to be done to remind a person of how helpless they are without God and then we get to this day and we see that people could still, could still, could still try to do away with the Lord. And yet, in spite of it all what the Lord’s saying through this scene that we commemorate today is that I am doing away with sin. Sin isn’t going to be the story anymore. Once and for all this is being dealt with. We’re not going to be separated anymore. We’re going to be united. And, so, that’s what we hope in as we move toward Easter, but today. Today we experience the blackness of the day that it is. Today we consider what it would be like if there were no Easter. Today, we consider the price that was paid to take the shackles off of our lives and give us freedom and we once again consider the shackles that we keep putting back on that don’t need to be there anymore.

Prayer:

Holy Spirit, we invite You into the experience of this Good Friday. For some of us it’ll just be another day and we’ll be busy and get things done. For others of us, we’ll sit with the blackness of this day. And for most of us it’ll be something in between. We invite Your Holy Spirit to bring the year what it cost to remove sin as a part of our story to give us the freedom to walk away from a dead-end life and onto a narrow path that will lead to life. We sit with these things and we thank You Jesus. We are humbled. But the truth is the word…there aren’t the right words that at least that I know that can properly show gratitude and it be big enough. You changed our lives completely and utterly and we apologize for the shackles that we keep putting on ourselves and we ask that Your Holy Spirit lead us through this season to resurrection day and that those chains fall off once and for all. Come Holy Spirit we pray in the name of Jesus we ask. Amen.

Song:

Death Be Not Proud - Audrey Assad

Death, be not proud, though the whole world fear you:

Mighty and dreadful you may seem,

But death, be not proud, for your pride has failed you

You will not kill me.

Though you may dwell in plague and poison,

You’re a slave to fate and desperate men,

So death, if your sleep be the gates to Heaven,

Why your confidence?

When you will be no more,

You will be no more,

When you will be no more.

Even death will die.

Even death will die.

Death, be not proud.

Death, be not proud.

Death, be not proud,

Cause even death will die.

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04/18/2019 DAB Transcript

Joshua 16:1-18:28, Luke 19:1-27, Psalms 87:1-7, Proverbs 13:11

Today is the 18th day of April. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian. It is great to be here with you for another day, another time that we can come in out of the cold or the heat or whatever but just come around the light of this global campfire and let God speak to us through His word. So, we’re reading from the New Living Translation this week and out today as we go back into the Old Testament we’ll read Joshua chapters 16, 17, and 18.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word, we thank You for all of the ways that it speaks to us, how it touches every part of our lives at one point or another. It penetrates deep within our thoughts and motives. It penetrates deep into our hearts, our emotions. It speaks into our relationships with each other. It leads us on the narrow path that leads to life. It leads us to You. And, so. we thank You for Your word. Father, as we’re here in this week that the ends the season of Lent that also commemorates Your death and burial and resurrection, we enter into this fully here on this Thursday, a day that has been called Maundy Thursday to represent Your last meal with Your friends where You washed their feet and modeled for us to be great in God’s kingdom is to be the servant. So, come Holy Spirit as we contemplate these things today and as we continue to sit with the question from yesterday. “What do You want me to do for You?” Come Holy Spirit into these questions, into these contemplations as we move into these holy days that commemorate our very salvation. Come Jesus we pray. In Your mighty name we ask. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is the website, its home base, its where you find out what is going on around here. So, be sure to stay tuned and stay connected.

Of course, what is going on around here is exactly what we were just talking about in the prayer. These days that are in front of us, we can go through them and they can just be other days as the clock continues to spin and the world continues to rotate around the sun, they can just be other days, but these days are given to us all throughout our church history to remember the magnitude of what happened on our behalf, the magnitude of the impact on the world, the magnitude of the impact of our eternity. And, so may we drink deeply of this time.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, you can do that at dailyaudiobible.com. There is a link that lives on the homepage. If you’re using the Daily Audio Bible app, you can press the Give button in the upper right-hand corner or, if you prefer, the mailing address is PO Box 1996 Spring Hill Tennessee 37174.

And, as always, if you have a prayer request or comment 877-942-4253 is the number to dial.

And that is it for today. I’m Brian I love you and I’ll be waiting for you here tomorrow.

Community Prayer and Praise:

It’s Dustin from Spokane Washington and it’s Friday April 12th and I just listened to the Daily Audio Bible and wow that was a good episode. I pretty much cried during both of them, my phone just downloaded it twice for some reason. Anyways, I just wanted to thank you Brian, thank you Blind Tony, thank you everyone who participates in creating the podcast and thank you for everyone that calls in. Whenever you ask for prayers I pray right then for you in your name and in Jesus’ name and that’s pretty much it. Oh, and, Brian I love you too. I just wanted to say that. I don’t think enough people say that enough. I know you say that every episode. Just another one back at you. Anyways, I love all you and take care. Bye.

Hello, my name is Don Perry, I’m calling for my son Tyler Davidson. Tyler has been diagnosed with bipolar schizo-affective disorder and he has been battling this and struggling with this for the last five years. He refuses to take his medication and has tried to self-medicating with alcohol and his life is spiraling out of control once again. He’s been in jail over this issue. He’s been in several mental institutions. He can’t get his life together because of this problem and its characteristic for this type of diagnosis that they will start taking their medications, they think they’re okay, and that they will just stop taking them because they don’t need them anymore. They get their life together and they don’t remember how it was before they started taking the medication. I raised him in church, he is a godly child, and he is a sweet, sweet man. He’s 25 years old now and I still, as a mother of course, moms always see the little boy inside of their child as they grow up forever and, you know, I just I know he’s just got so much of to give to God and to the world. And, you know, so my prayer is that you will please pray for my son. I don’t know what to do. I am putting this in God’s hands. I just thank you so much. Bye-bye.

Hey DAB family, my name is Scott, I live in Fresno California and I’m calling today…I don’t call very often but I was gonna call in for friend. Anyway, I have one particular friend who has been married for 30 years and they’ve had a lot of struggles and challenges in their marriage but this past week my friends wife asked him to leave and it’s kind of blowing him away and it kinda blows me away but in a lot of ways I see this a lot with some other people. I have, oh shoot, at least three people around me who are involved in some kind of situation like this and, honestly, sometimes I start feeling like, why bother if people just decide to do what they’re gonna do. And even with my friend that I’m mentioning to you, as I see some of my other friends and I come around him to talk with him, it doesn’t seem like there’s an awareness or even a desire to press in and pray for my friend. I want to pray for his wife. And for some reason she’s just shut down. And I’ve known my friend for a while, he’s a good guy. It’s just they’re two different people, you know. And, so, I guess I just ask that that where two or more are gathered, you know, we lift up this couple, this relationship. Lord, I just…I just ask that you bring them back…

Good morning my beautiful sisters and brothers. This is Don calling from New York but I’m actually calling from the More Conference on Sunday morning as we pack up to leave today. And my heart is so full and I’m so grateful. Thank you, thank you, for all of you who have been praying for us. This was very likely one of the most beautiful, well-crafted, __ precious women’s event that I’ve ever gone to, truly lovely, beautiful team, you amaze me, each of you, you really acted like one unit. It was pretty impressive to watch the way you all were with one another. Thank you so much for all the beautiful preparation. I wish I could tell each one of you what your contributions, your testimonies, meant to me. I want to note, Bonnie, your mentioning secondary losses was pretty incredible. And Ireland, when I think of you and your face I’m going to continue to smile because you make me smile. Communion together was very, very precious. Thank you so much for everyone praying. All right, I want to give a few shout outs to some of the lovely people I met, all my sisters on the bus on the way in, the shuttle bus from the airport. Danielle __ and her mom, dynamic duo, and Angie and the others. We all said we were gonna call in a little more, we’re gonna try. So, I’ll be listening for your voices. Angie from Salt lake City,  I’m carrying you home in my heart girl. Jennifer and the beautiful friend from Canada game who came and I love you beauties in the back row. It was great to worship with you. Beth from Texas, __ with a rocking chair, thank you sweetie. Terry and Jenna who prayed with me. God bless all of you. So many sweet, sweet people I met. And especially it was wonderful to have time with God and the Holy Spirit. Thank you for all of you praying for us and thank you to the beautiful team.

Good morning this is Bridget from New York City. I’m calling to pray for Luke and Sharon. Dear Lord, we just pray for Luke right now Father God and I ask You Lord God that every time he comes into Your presence Lord to read Your word that You would cover that time Father God for him. Lord I just pray that as he gets distracted, as his mind becomes renewed Father that he would not allow distractions to keep him from reading Your word but would continue to read the Scripture over and over and over, following that he receives what You desire to give him through that Scripture Lord God. For Sharon, my sister, my husband, he smokes, and he has even dabbled with different types of things and my father was like that. I’ve been raised as a child by my father…not…exactly the same you experienced it but what God has taught me is that it all roots back to sin and the fact that the people that hurt me didn’t know God. Because of my mother’s choices, she allowed strangers to live in her home, which caused for those strangers to molest me and to do things to me from childhood up and my mother was an alcoholic and it all roots back to sin. And what God has taught me with my husband, in the past I personalized his smoking with him not loving me and that’s not the truth. So, I pray Father that You would reveal the truth to Sharon Lord about why her husband drinks and that she would not personalize it because You don’t personalize it God. But that she would see him from the broken place that he’s in God and that she would try to love him from that place and that through that You would deliver him God. In Jesus’ name.

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04/18/2019 DAB Transcript

Joshua 16:1-18:28, Luke 19:1-27, Psalms 87:1-7, Proverbs 13:11

Today is the 18th day of April. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian. It is great to be here with you for another day, another time that we can come in out of the cold or the heat or whatever but just come around the light of this global campfire and let God speak to us through His word. So, we’re reading from the New Living Translation this week and out today as we go back into the Old Testament we’ll read Joshua chapters 16, 17, and 18.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word, we thank You for all of the ways that it speaks to us, how it touches every part of our lives at one point or another. It penetrates deep within our thoughts and motives. It penetrates deep into our hearts, our emotions. It speaks into our relationships with each other. It leads us on the narrow path that leads to life. It leads us to You. And, so. we thank You for Your word. Father, as we’re here in this week that the ends the season of Lent that also commemorates Your death and burial and resurrection, we enter into this fully here on this Thursday, a day that has been called Maundy Thursday to represent Your last meal with Your friends where You washed their feet and modeled for us to be great in God’s kingdom is to be the servant. So, come Holy Spirit as we contemplate these things today and as we continue to sit with the question from yesterday. “What do You want me to do for You?” Come Holy Spirit into these questions, into these contemplations as we move into these holy days that commemorate our very salvation. Come Jesus we pray. In Your mighty name we ask. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is the website, its home base, its where you find out what is going on around here. So, be sure to stay tuned and stay connected.

Of course, what is going on around here is exactly what we were just talking about in the prayer. These days that are in front of us, we can go through them and they can just be other days as the clock continues to spin and the world continues to rotate around the sun, they can just be other days, but these days are given to us all throughout our church history to remember the magnitude of what happened on our behalf, the magnitude of the impact on the world, the magnitude of the impact of our eternity. And, so may we drink deeply of this time.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, you can do that at dailyaudiobible.com. There is a link that lives on the homepage. If you’re using the Daily Audio Bible app, you can press the Give button in the upper right-hand corner or, if you prefer, the mailing address is PO Box 1996 Spring Hill Tennessee 37174.

And, as always, if you have a prayer request or comment 877-942-4253 is the number to dial.

And that is it for today. I’m Brian I love you and I’ll be waiting for you here tomorrow.

Community Prayer and Praise:

It’s Dustin from Spokane Washington and it’s Friday April 12th and I just listened to the Daily Audio Bible and wow that was a good episode. I pretty much cried during both of them, my phone just downloaded it twice for some reason. Anyways, I just wanted to thank you Brian, thank you Blind Tony, thank you everyone who participates in creating the podcast and thank you for everyone that calls in. Whenever you ask for prayers I pray right then for you in your name and in Jesus’ name and that’s pretty much it. Oh, and, Brian I love you too. I just wanted to say that. I don’t think enough people say that enough. I know you say that every episode. Just another one back at you. Anyways, I love all you and take care. Bye.

Hello, my name is Don Perry, I’m calling for my son Tyler Davidson. Tyler has been diagnosed with bipolar schizo-affective disorder and he has been battling this and struggling with this for the last five years. He refuses to take his medication and has tried to self-medicating with alcohol and his life is spiraling out of control once again. He’s been in jail over this issue. He’s been in several mental institutions. He can’t get his life together because of this problem and its characteristic for this type of diagnosis that they will start taking their medications, they think they’re okay, and that they will just stop taking them because they don’t need them anymore. They get their life together and they don’t remember how it was before they started taking the medication. I raised him in church, he is a godly child, and he is a sweet, sweet man. He’s 25 years old now and I still, as a mother of course, moms always see the little boy inside of their child as they grow up forever and, you know, I just I know he’s just got so much of to give to God and to the world. And, you know, so my prayer is that you will please pray for my son. I don’t know what to do. I am putting this in God’s hands. I just thank you so much. Bye-bye.

Hey DAB family, my name is Scott, I live in Fresno California and I’m calling today…I don’t call very often but I was gonna call in for friend. Anyway, I have one particular friend who has been married for 30 years and they’ve had a lot of struggles and challenges in their marriage but this past week my friends wife asked him to leave and it’s kind of blowing him away and it kinda blows me away but in a lot of ways I see this a lot with some other people. I have, oh shoot, at least three people around me who are involved in some kind of situation like this and, honestly, sometimes I start feeling like, why bother if people just decide to do what they’re gonna do. And even with my friend that I’m mentioning to you, as I see some of my other friends and I come around him to talk with him, it doesn’t seem like there’s an awareness or even a desire to press in and pray for my friend. I want to pray for his wife. And for some reason she’s just shut down. And I’ve known my friend for a while, he’s a good guy. It’s just they’re two different people, you know. And, so, I guess I just ask that that where two or more are gathered, you know, we lift up this couple, this relationship. Lord, I just…I just ask that you bring them back…

Good morning my beautiful sisters and brothers. This is Don calling from New York but I’m actually calling from the More Conference on Sunday morning as we pack up to leave today. And my heart is so full and I’m so grateful. Thank you, thank you, for all of you who have been praying for us. This was very likely one of the most beautiful, well-crafted, __ precious women’s event that I’ve ever gone to, truly lovely, beautiful team, you amaze me, each of you, you really acted like one unit. It was pretty impressive to watch the way you all were with one another. Thank you so much for all the beautiful preparation. I wish I could tell each one of you what your contributions, your testimonies, meant to me. I want to note, Bonnie, your mentioning secondary losses was pretty incredible. And Ireland, when I think of you and your face I’m going to continue to smile because you make me smile. Communion together was very, very precious. Thank you so much for everyone praying. All right, I want to give a few shout outs to some of the lovely people I met, all my sisters on the bus on the way in, the shuttle bus from the airport. Danielle __ and her mom, dynamic duo, and Angie and the others. We all said we were gonna call in a little more, we’re gonna try. So, I’ll be listening for your voices. Angie from Salt lake City,  I’m carrying you home in my heart girl. Jennifer and the beautiful friend from Canada game who came and I love you beauties in the back row. It was great to worship with you. Beth from Texas, __ with a rocking chair, thank you sweetie. Terry and Jenna who prayed with me. God bless all of you. So many sweet, sweet people I met. And especially it was wonderful to have time with God and the Holy Spirit. Thank you for all of you praying for us and thank you to the beautiful team.

Good morning this is Bridget from New York City. I’m calling to pray for Luke and Sharon. Dear Lord, we just pray for Luke right now Father God and I ask You Lord God that every time he comes into Your presence Lord to read Your word that You would cover that time Father God for him. Lord I just pray that as he gets distracted, as his mind becomes renewed Father that he would not allow distractions to keep him from reading Your word but would continue to read the Scripture over and over and over, following that he receives what You desire to give him through that Scripture Lord God. For Sharon, my sister, my husband, he smokes, and he has even dabbled with different types of things and my father was like that. I’ve been raised as a child by my father…not…exactly the same you experienced it but what God has taught me is that it all roots back to sin and the fact that the people that hurt me didn’t know God. Because of my mother’s choices, she allowed strangers to live in her home, which caused for those strangers to molest me and to do things to me from childhood up and my mother was an alcoholic and it all roots back to sin. And what God has taught me with my husband, in the past I personalized his smoking with him not loving me and that’s not the truth. So, I pray Father that You would reveal the truth to Sharon Lord about why her husband drinks and that she would not personalize it because You don’t personalize it God. But that she would see him from the broken place that he’s in God and that she would try to love him from that place and that through that You would deliver him God. In Jesus’ name.