April 2019 – Page 8 – A Walk Through The Word

April 5, 2019

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Friday April 5, 2019 (NIV)

Deuteronomy 28

Blessings for Obedience

28 “Now^(A) if you faithfully obey the Lord your God^(B) and are careful to follow all his commands I am giving you today,^(C) the Lord your God will put you far above all the nations of the earth.^(D) ²All these blessings will come and overtake^(E) you, because you obey the Lord your God:

³You will be blessed in the city
and blessed in the country.^(F)
⁴Your offspring^[a] will be blessed,
and your land’s produce,
and the offspring of your livestock,
including the young of your herds
and the newborn of your flocks.^(G)
⁵Your basket and kneading bowl will be blessed.
⁶You will be blessed when you come in
and blessed when you go out.^(H)

⁷“The Lord will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you from one direction but flee from you in seven directions. ⁸The Lord will grant you a blessing on your barns and on everything you do;^[b]^(I) he will bless you in the land the Lord your God is giving you.^(J) ⁹The Lord will establish you as his holy people,^(K) as he swore to you, if you obey the commands of the Lord your God and walk in his ways. ¹⁰Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you bear the Lord’s name,^(L) and they will stand in awe of you.^(M) ¹¹The Lord will make you prosper abundantly with offspring,^[c] the offspring of your livestock, and your land’s produce in the land the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. ¹²The Lord will open for you his abundant storehouse,^(N) the sky, to give your land rain in its season and to bless all the work of your hands.^(O) You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. ¹³The Lord will make you the head and not the tail;^(P) you will only move upward and never downward if you listen to the Lord your God’s commands I am giving you today and are careful to follow them. ¹⁴Do not turn aside to the right or the left from all the things I am commanding you today,^(Q) and do not follow other gods to worship them.

Curses for Disobedience

¹⁵“But if you do not obey the Lord your God by carefully following all his commands and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overtake^(R) you:^(S)

¹⁶You will be cursed in the city
and cursed in the country.
¹⁷Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.
¹⁸Your offspring will be cursed,
and your land’s produce,
the young of your herds,
and the newborn of your flocks.
¹⁹You will be cursed when you come in
and cursed when you go out.

²⁰The Lord will send against you curses, confusion,^(T) and rebuke in everything you do until you are destroyed and quickly perish,^(U) because of the wickedness of your actions in abandoning me.^(V) ²¹The Lord will make pestilence cling to you until he has exterminated you from the land you are entering to possess.^(W) ²²The Lord will afflict you with wasting disease, fever, inflammation, burning heat, drought,^[d] blight, and mildew;^(X) these will pursue you until you perish. ²³The sky above you will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron. ²⁴The Lord will turn the rain of your land into falling^[e] dust; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed. ²⁵The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions.^(Y) You will be an object of horror^(Z) to all the kingdoms of the earth. ²⁶Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the earth, with no one to scare them away.^(AA)

²⁷“The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt,^(AB) tumors, a festering rash, and scabies, from which you cannot be cured. ²⁸The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness, and mental confusion,^(AC) ²⁹so that at noon you will grope as a blind person gropes in the dark.^(AD) You will not be successful in anything you do. You will only be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will help you.^(AE) ³⁰You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it.^(AF) You will plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit. ³¹Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away from you and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will help you. ³²Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes grow weary looking for them every day. But you will be powerless to do anything.^[f]^(AG) ³³A people you don’t know will eat your land’s produce and everything you have labored for. You will only be oppressed and crushed continually.^(AH) ³⁴You will be driven mad by what you see. ³⁵The Lord will afflict you with painful and incurable boils on your knees and thighs—from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.^(AI)

³⁶“The Lord will bring you and your king that you have appointed to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone.^(AJ) ³⁷You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.^(AK)

³⁸“You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because locusts will devour it. ³⁹You will plant and cultivate vineyards but not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them. ⁴⁰You will have olive trees throughout your territory but not moisten your skin with oil, because your olives will drop off. ⁴¹You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will be taken prisoner. ⁴²Buzzing insects will take possession of all your trees and your land’s produce. ⁴³The resident alien among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink lower and lower. ⁴⁴He will lend to you, but you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.

⁴⁵“All these curses will come, pursue, and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the Lord your God and keep the commands and statutes he gave you. ⁴⁶These curses will be a sign and a wonder^(AL) against you and your descendants forever. ⁴⁷Because you didn’t serve the Lord your God with joy and a cheerful heart,^(AM) even though you had an abundance of everything, ⁴⁸you will serve your enemies the Lord will send against you, in famine, thirst, nakedness, and a lack of everything. He will place an iron yoke^(AN) on your neck until he has destroyed you. ⁴⁹The Lord will bring a nation from far away, from the ends of the earth,^(AO) to swoop down on you like an eagle,^(AP) a nation whose language you won’t understand,^(AQ) ⁵⁰a ruthless nation,^[g] showing no respect for the old and not sparing the young. ⁵¹They will eat the offspring of your livestock and your land’s produce until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, fresh oil, young of your herds, or newborn of your flocks until they cause you to perish. ⁵²They will besiege you within all your city gates until your high and fortified walls, that you trust in, come down throughout your land. They will besiege you within all your city gates throughout the land the Lord your God has given you.

⁵³“You will eat your offspring,^[h] the flesh of your sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you^(AR) during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you. ⁵⁴The most sensitive and refined man among you will look grudgingly^[i] at his brother, the wife he embraces,^[j] and the rest of his children, ⁵⁵refusing to share with any of them his children’s flesh that he will eat because he has nothing left during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you in all your towns. ⁵⁶The most sensitive and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her refinement and sensitivity, will begrudge the husband she embraces, her son, and her daughter, ⁵⁷the afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you within your city gates.

⁵⁸“If you are not careful to obey all the words of this law, which are written in this scroll, by fearing this glorious and awe-inspiring name—the Lord, your God— ⁵⁹he will bring wondrous plagues on you and your descendants, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses. ⁶⁰He will afflict you again with all the diseases of Egypt,^(AS) which you dreaded, and they will cling to you. ⁶¹The Lord will also afflict you with every sickness and plague not recorded in the book of this law, until you are destroyed. ⁶²Though you were as numerous as the stars of the sky, you will be left with only a few people, because you did not obey the Lord your God. ⁶³Just as the Lord was glad to cause you to prosper and to multiply you, so he will also be glad to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be ripped out of the land you are entering to possess. ⁶⁴Then the Lord will scatter you among all peoples from one end of the earth to the other,^(AT) and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone,^(AU) which neither you nor your fathers have known.^(AV) ⁶⁵You will find no peace among those nations, and there will be no resting place^(AW) for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despondent spirit. ⁶⁶Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be in dread night and day, never certain of survival. ⁶⁷In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread you will have in your heart and because of what you will see. ⁶⁸The Lord will take you back in ships to Egypt by a route that I said you would never see again.^(AX) There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

Footnotes:

28:4 Lit The fruit of your womb, also in v. 18
28:8 Lit you put your hand to, also in v. 20
28:11 Lit abundantly in the fruit of your womb
28:22 Or sword
28:24 Lit powder and
28:32 Litday, and not for power your hand
28:50 Lit a nation strong of face
28:53 Lit eat the fruit of your womb
28:54 Lit you his eye will be evil
28:54 Lit wife of his bosom

Cross references:

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

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Luke 11:14-36

A House Divided

¹⁴Now^(A) he was driving out a demon^(B) that was mute.^(C) When the demon came out, the man who had been mute spoke, and the crowds were amazed. ¹⁵But some of them said, “He drives out demons by Beelzebul,^(D) the ruler^(E) of the demons.”^(F) ¹⁶And others, as a test,^(G) were demanding of him a sign^(H) from heaven.

¹⁷Knowing their thoughts,^(I) he told them, “Every kingdom divided^(J) against itself is headed for destruction, and a house divided against itself falls. ¹⁸If Satan^(K) also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom^(L) stand? For you say I drive out demons by Beelzebul. ¹⁹And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons^(M) drive them out? For this reason they will be your judges. ²⁰If I drive out demons by the finger of God,^(N) then the kingdom of God^(O) has come upon you. ²¹When a strong man, fully armed, guards his estate, his possessions are secure. ²²But when one stronger than he attacks and overpowers^(P) him, he takes from him all his weapons^[a]^(Q) he trusted^(R) in, and divides up his plunder.^(S) ²³Anyone who is not with me is against me,^(T) and anyone who does not gather with me scatters.

An Unclean Spirit’s Return

²⁴“When^(U) an unclean spirit^(V) comes out of a person, it roams through waterless places looking for rest,^(W) and not finding rest, it then^[b] says, ‘I’ll go back to my house that I came from.’ ²⁵Returning, it finds the house swept and put in order. ²⁶Then it goes and brings seven other spirits^(X) more evil than itself, and they enter and settle down there. As a result, that person’s last condition is worse than the first.”^(Y)

True Blessedness

²⁷As he was saying these things, a woman from the crowd^(Z) raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you and the one who nursed you!” ^(AA)

²⁸He said, “Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God^(AB) and keep it.”^(AC)

The Sign of Jonah

²⁹As the crowds were increasing, he began saying: “This generation^(AD) is an evil generation.^(AE) It demands a sign,^(AF) but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.^[c]^(AG) ³⁰For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so also the Son of Man^(AH) will be to this generation. ³¹The queen of the south^(AI) will rise up at the judgment^(AJ) with the men of this generation and condemn^(AK) them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon,^(AL) and look—something greater than Solomon is here. ³²The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at Jonah’s preaching, and look—something greater than Jonah is here.

The Lamp of the Body

³³“No^(AM) one lights a lamp^(AN) and puts it in the cellar or under a basket,^[d] but on a lampstand, so that those who come in may see its light. ³⁴Your eye is the lamp of the body.^(AO) When your eye is healthy, your whole body is also full of light. But when it is bad,^(AP) your body is also full of darkness. ³⁵Take care, then, that the light in you is not darkness. ³⁶If, therefore, your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, it will be entirely illuminated, as when a lamp shines its light on you.”

Footnotes:

11:22 Gk panoplia, the armor and weapons of a foot soldier; Eph 6:11,13
11:24 Other mss omit then
11:29 Other mss add the prophet
11:33 Other mss omit or under a basket

Cross references:

11:14-23 : Mt 9:32-34; 12:22-30; Mk 3:22-27; Jn 7:20; 8:48,52; 10:20
11:14 : Mk 7:26
11:14 : Mk 7:37; 9:15-25; Lk 7:22
11:15 : 2Kg 1:2; Mt 10:25
11:15 : Lk 12:58
11:15 : Jn 12:31; 14:30; 16:11; Eph 2:2
11:16 : Lk 10:25
11:16 : Jn 2:11; 8:6
11:17 : Lk 5:22; Php 2:6
11:17 : Dn 5:28; 11:4; Lk 12:52-53
11:18 : Mt 4:1,10; Ac 13:10
11:18 : Lk 4:5
11:19 : Gl 3:7; 1Pt 5:13
11:20 : Ex 8:19; 31:18; Dt 9:10; Ps 8:3
11:20 : Mt 19:24; 21:31,43; Lk 17:21
11:22 : Jn 16:33; 1Jn 2:13
11:22 : Eph 6:11,13
11:22 : Ac 26:28
11:22 : Is 49:24-26
11:23 : Mk 9:40; Lk 9:50
11:24-26 : Mt 12:43-45
11:24 : Mk 1:23-27; Lk 8:29; 9:42; Rv 18:2
11:24 : Mt 11:29; Rv 4:8; 14:11
11:26 : Lv 26:18-28; Dt 7:1; Pr 6:31; 26:25; Lk 8:2
11:26 : Jn 5:14; 2Pt 2:20-22
11:27 : Lk 12:3
11:27 : Lk 1:48; 23:29
11:28 : Lk 5:1; 8:21; Ac 13:7
11:28 : Lv 22:31; Jn 13:17; Jms 1:22; Rv 1:3; 22:7
11:29 : Lk 7:31; 17:25; 21:32
11:29-32 : Mt 12:39-42; Mk 8:12
11:29 : Lk 11:16
11:29 : Jnh 1:1—4:9; Mt 16:4
11:30 : Mk 2:10; Lk 5:24
11:31 : 1Kg 10:1; 2Ch 9:1
11:31 : Lk 10:14
11:31 : Heb 11:7
11:31 : 1Kg 4:34; Pr 1:1
11:33 : Mt 5:15; Mk 4:21
11:33 : Lk 8:16
11:34-36 : Mt 6:22-23
11:34 : Jr 24:8; Mt 7:17

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Psalm 77

Confidence in a Time of Crisis

For the choir director: according to Jeduthun. Of Asaph.^(A) A psalm.

¹I cry aloud to God,
aloud to God, and he will hear me.^(B)
²I sought the Lord in my day of trouble.
My hands were continually lifted up
all night long;
I refused to be comforted.^(C)
³I think of God; I groan;
I meditate; my spirit becomes weak.^(D)Selah

⁴You have kept me from closing my eyes;
I am troubled and cannot speak.^(E)
⁵I consider days of old,
years long past.^(F)
⁶At night I remember my music;
I meditate in my heart, and my spirit ponders.^(G)

⁷“Will the Lord reject forever
and never again show favor?^(H)
⁸Has his faithful love ceased forever?
Is his promise at an end for all generations?^(I)
⁹Has God forgotten to be gracious?
Has he in anger withheld his compassion?” ^(J)Selah

¹⁰So I say, “I am grieved
that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”^[a]^(K)
¹¹I will remember the Lord’s works;
yes, I will remember your ancient wonders.^(L)
¹²I will reflect on all you have done
and meditate on your actions.^(M)

¹³God, your way is holy.
What god is great like God?^(N)
¹⁴You are the God who works wonders;
you revealed your strength among the peoples.^(O)
¹⁵With power you redeemed your people,
the descendants of Jacob and Joseph.^(P)Selah

¹⁶The water saw you, God.
The water saw you; it trembled.
Even the depths shook.^(Q)
¹⁷The clouds poured down water.
The storm clouds thundered;
your arrows flashed back and forth.^(R)
¹⁸The sound of your thunder was in the whirlwind;
lightning lit up the world.^(S)
The earth shook and quaked.^(T)
¹⁹Your way went through the sea
and your path through the vast water,
but your footprints were unseen.^(U)
²⁰You led your people like a flock^(V)
by the hand of Moses and Aaron.^(W)

Footnotes:

77:10 Hb obscure

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Proverbs 12:18

¹⁸There is one who speaks rashly,
like a piercing sword;^(A)
but the tongue of the wise brings healing.^(B)

Cross references:

12:18 : Ps 57:4
12:18 : Pr 4:22; 15:4

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

April 4, 2019

04/04/2019 DAB Transcript

Deuteronomy 26:1-27:26, Luke 10:38-11:13, Psalms 76:1-12, Proverbs 12:15-17

Today is the 4^th day of April. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It’s great to be here with you and just settle in and let the word of God be spoken over us and into our lives. What a joy, what a pleasure to come around the global campfire together with you. So, we’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week and we are kinda rounding the corner on the book of Deuteronomy and that will conclude the Torah. We’re not there, we’ve got a few days to go but we are rounding the corner and we’ll finish up within the next week. So, let’s dive. We’ll be reading Deuteronomy chapters 26 and 27 today. And again, from the Christian Standard Bible this week okay.

Commentary:

So, in the gospel of Luke today, we encounter this little brief story about Mary and Martha and we know from other gospels and other stories, Mary and Martha were sisters of Lazarus who was a friend of Jesus, and who has a story of his own in the Scriptures, but in this story, we have a well-worn visual, right? Martha is working and she’s busy serving and doing all the things that need to be done all around Jesus while Mary is sitting at his feet and listening to Him. And, so, the lesson that we can glean from this is apparent, right? All of our frantic activity and all of our motion and all of our addiction to the motion, even if it is in service to God and his people, this flurry of activity, isn’t the thing that’s going to draw us closer to Jesus, it’s actually being with Jesus. When we live our lives it seems at times, from crisis to crisis and activity to activity, and it’s just a continual perpetual motion and God is kind of whipped into that and off we go, when Jesus…Jesus speaks some things that we can remember here. “You are worried and upset about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary made the right choice and it won’t be taken away from her.” So, let’s remember that today as we go into the chaos of every day, of all of the unknowns of every day, and all of the flurry of activity and all of the obligations and responsibilities. You are worried and upset about many things, but one thing is necessary and that one thing is to sit at Jesus feet to actually be with Him. And if we think, “well maybe He doesn’t even want to be with me” He goes on to tell us, “look you who are evil know how to give good things to your children, do you not think that your Father knows how to take care of you. So ask and it will be given, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you.” And we have to ask ourselves, how much of our flurry of activity even if it’s on behalf of God is asking seeking or knocking because it fundamentally boils down to what we after here? What are we hoping for? What we trying to achieve? What is the goal here? If the goal is that God is an add-on, an upgrade to our lives, our ace in the hole to take care of the problems as they come then we’re going to find that to be lacking. If we understand that we are invited into life with God, that’s different. And if we ask and we seek and we knock we will find what we’re looking for or in the words of Jesus, “if you then who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?”

Prayer:

Father, we are asking, Holy Spirit come, well up from within us that we might sense Your presence and Your guidance and Your leadership and Your comfort in our lives that is always available but usually we’re so frantically busy that we’re not even aware. Come Holy Spirit, let us slow down, slow the whole thing down and see that You are present in leading us forward. We ask this in Your mighty name, the name of Jesus, the name above every name. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

hi this is Kiki from Arizona. This is my first time calling. I’d like to ask for a prayer request for my husband. We’ve been married from just over 26 years. We both have some disabilities. He is not Christian, he’s agnostic. He has a very rare muscular dystrophy and he fell this last year and broke his leg very badly and it’s very hard for me because he had to go into surgery and to think that if something happened to him that he would not be in heaven. And I’ve prayed for a very long time that he’d become a Christian and I’ve been listening to the Daily Audio Bible since February and caught up all through January and I just thought if I called in, the more the merrier for praying for him. So, would you please pray for my husband, his name is Bob and also for his muscular dystrophy that it never get any worse than it is now. He’s had it for 12 years. That would sure be a blessing. It’s similar to ALS but not as fast progression. And my other prayer request would be for a friend I know that lives in Long Island and she’s also on disability. She’s had cancer several times. Her sister’s selling the house that she lives in with her daughter and her grandson and her daughter’s boyfriend and another woman who’s on disability and she was __ Social Security and she has no idea where she’s gonna live, her daughter and her boyfriend, and grandson are going to move into his parents. And for $500 a month in New York she has no idea. So, if you can help and pray for her and also that her cancer doesn’t come back, I greatly appreciate that. So, thank you very much and Brian I thank you for what you’re doing. It’s really made a difference in my life already…

Good morning Daily Audio Bible family, this is Terry from upstate New York, first time calling in, year and a half listener, just loving this community. I’m calling for a woman whose name I couldn’t quite make out but she was from the Pacific Northwest. This is April 1^st that I heard her message. She said she was involved with a man of God that was not her husband. I just want to talk to her and speak to her heart about this because I have been on the wrong side of that type of thing. I’ve been the husband who my wife left for a supposed man of God, which was devastating to my children and myself, still is. I would question whether a man of God is a man of God if he is pursuing a married woman. I’m just reminding you that the heart is desperately wicked and deceitful, and I understand your emotions because I’ve seen my wife at the same thing, but the devastation left behind is not worth it. You asked for God’s will. It’s pretty clear in God’s will what the covenant of marriage is and I urge you to seek out Scripture on God’s will. I don’t have time to go into it all. And just know this, that the author of confusion is the devil and you said you were confused. So, please, just dive into the Scripture on the subject. I’m praying for you because I understand the emotion behind it all but it…knowing what God’s will on it, it is that you honor your vows and pray for your marriage and seek out people that will pray with you for that. So, I’d have to say, I know the devastation for being on your husband’s side of it…

Good morning family, it’s Monday morning, April the 1^st and I heard a call from a sister who is being tempted right now by godly man and I just want to say thank you sister for being so open and honest and just calling in for prayer. And, so, I wanted to pray for you. Father God, I come to You in Jesus’ name Lord and I come on behalf of our sister Lord who just showed her heart to us God and was transparent to us and to You God that she is in a temptation right now God and we know that that is from the enemy Lord God and we know Father God that You are able God to strengthen her and show her way out of this Father. God I lift her up to You and I just pray Lord that You would be her husband right now God while You are doing that work in her earthly husband while she’s waiting for him to be transformed God by You God, that You would be the husband that she needs Father, that she would fall more deeply in love with You Father God and she would not look outside of a relationship with her earthly husband and with You for anything else God. What she is missing, what she is longing for God, that You would come and fill that void that’s in her heart right now Father. God, I know that You know all her needs Father. You know God the deepest places of her heart and I just ask that You would go there and bring healing and restoration Father and just help her Lord as she falls more in love with You God that she can see her husband from Your eyes and just be praying for him for his transformation Father. And Lord I just lift up all marriages that the enemy’s coming against, that You would bring healing and restoration Father. There was a man called Oscar who called for his marriage and there’s been others God and just restoration…

Good morning Daily Audio Bible family community, this is Ann from Charlotte North Carolina. I’m very thankful for all of you for Brian and Jill and the ministry and everybody that calls in and I wanted to ask for prayer about the 10^th commandment, which I have been very convicted about lately about the sin of coveting. It’s a sin that really made the apostle Paul realize that he wasn’t the perfect pharisee that he thought he was, that he failed obeying the law in the area of coveting. And the Holy Spirit is opening my eyes to how infested I can so easily be with this sin of coveting, meaning wishing that I had what someone else has and it can be anything, everything, literally anything that they have or are or have achieved or…it’s just astonishing how easy it is for me to covet and I want so to be free of this sin and I know that the answer is contentment in a relationship with Jesus Christ and I just want to prayer for that and I imagine there’s others of you that have a similar struggle in looking at anything and at others and they have or are and wishing you could be that way or have that or whatever…it’s just endless what it can be. And, so, it robs us of being…

April 4, 2019

04/04/2019 DAB Transcript

Deuteronomy 26:1-27:26, Luke 10:38-11:13, Psalms 76:1-12, Proverbs 12:15-17

Commentary:

Prayer:

Father, we are asking, Holy Spirit come, well up from within us that we might sense your presence and your guidance and your leadership and your comfort in our lives that is always available but usually we’re so frantically busy that we’re not even aware. Come Holy Spirit, let us slow down, slow the whole thing down and see that you are present in leading us forward. We ask this in your mighty name, the name of Jesus, the name above every name. Amen.

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April 4, 2019

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Thursday April 4, 2019 (NIV)

Deuteronomy 26-27

Giving the Firstfruits

26 “When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance,^(A) and you take possession of it and live in it, ²take some of the first of all the land’s produce that you harvest from the land the Lord your God is giving you and put it in a basket. Then go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to have his name dwell.^(B) ³When you come before the priest who is serving at that time, say to him, ‘Today I declare to the Lord your^[a] God that I have entered the land the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.’

⁴“Then the priest will take the basket from you and place it before the altar of the Lord your God. ⁵You are to respond by saying in the presence of the Lord your God:

My father was a wandering Aramean.^(C) He went down to Egypt with a few people and resided there as an alien.^(D) There he became a great, powerful, and populous nation. ⁶But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, and forced us to do hard labor. ⁷So we called out to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our cry and saw our misery, hardship, and oppression.^(E) ⁸Then the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, with terrifying power, and with signs and wonders. ⁹He led us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.^(F) ¹⁰I have now brought the first of the land’s produce that you, Lord, have given me.

You will then place the container before the Lord your God and bow down to him. ¹¹You, the Levites, and the resident aliens among you will rejoice^(G) in all the good things the Lord your God has given you and your household.

The Tenth in the Third Year

¹²“When you have finished paying all the tenth of your produce in the third year,^(H) the year of the tenth, you are to give it to the Levites, resident aliens, fatherless children and widows, so that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied. ¹³Then you will say in the presence of the Lord your God:

I have taken the consecrated portion out of my house; I have also given it to the Levites, resident aliens, fatherless children, and widows, according to all the commands you gave me. I have not violated or forgotten your commands. ¹⁴I have not eaten any of it while in mourning, or removed any of it while unclean, or offered any of it for the dead.^(I) I have obeyed the Lord my God; I have done all you commanded me. ¹⁵Look down from your holy dwelling, from heaven, and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Covenant Summary

¹⁶“The Lord your God is commanding you this day to follow these statutes and ordinances. Follow them carefully with all your heart and all your soul. ¹⁷Today you have affirmed that the Lord is your God and that you will walk in his ways, keep his statutes, commands, and ordinances, and obey him. ¹⁸And today the Lord has affirmed that you are his own possession as he promised you, that you are to keep all his commands, ¹⁹that he will elevate you to praise, fame, and glory above all the nations he has made, and that you will be a holy people^(J) to the Lord your God as he promised.”

The Law Written on Stones

27 Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, “Keep every command I am giving you today. ²When you cross the Jordan into the land the Lord your God is giving you, set up large stones and cover them with plaster.^(K) ³Write all the words of this law on the stones after you cross to enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey,^(L) as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you. ⁴When you have crossed the Jordan, you are to set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I am commanding you today, and you are to cover them with plaster. ⁵Build an altar of stones there to the Lord your God—do not use any iron tool on them.^(M) ⁶Use uncut stones to build the altar of the Lord your God and offer burnt offerings to the Lord your God on it. ⁷There you are to sacrifice fellowship offerings, eat, and rejoice in the presence of the Lord your God. ⁸Write clearly all the words of this law on the plastered stones.”

The Covenant Curses

⁹Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel, “Be silent, Israel, and listen! This day you have become the people of the Lord your God. ¹⁰Obey the Lord your God and follow his commands and statutes I am giving you today.”

¹¹On that day Moses commanded the people, ¹²“When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes will stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin. ¹³And these tribes will stand on Mount Ebal to deliver the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.^(N) ¹⁴The Levites will proclaim in a loud voice to every Israelite:

¹⁵‘The person who makes a carved idol or cast image, which is detestable to the Lord, the work of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret is cursed.’

And all the people will reply, ‘Amen!’

¹⁶‘The one who dishonors his father or mother is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

¹⁷‘The one who moves his neighbor’s boundary marker is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

¹⁸‘The one who leads a blind person astray on the road is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

¹⁹‘The one who denies justice to a resident alien, a fatherless child, or a widow is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

²⁰‘The one who sleeps with his father’s wife is cursed, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.’^[b]

And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

²¹‘The one who has sexual intercourse with any animal is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

²²‘The one who sleeps with his sister, whether his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

²³‘The one who sleeps with his mother-in-law is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

²⁴‘The one who secretly kills his neighbor is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

²⁵‘The one who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

²⁶‘Anyone who does not put the words of this law into practice is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

Footnotes:

26:3 LXX reads my
27:20 Lit has uncovered the edge of his father’s garment; Ru 3:9; Ezk 16:8

Cross references:

26:1 : Dt 15:4; 17:14
26:2 : Dt 12:11
26:5 : Gn 28:5
26:5 : Ex 1:1-3
26:7 : Ex 3:7
26:9 : Dt 11:9; Jr 32:22
26:11 : Lv 23:40; Dt 12:12; 14:26; 16:11; 27:7
26:12 : Dt 14:28-29
26:14 : Jr 16:7; Ezk 24:17; Hs 9:4
26:19 : Dt 7:6
27:2-8 : Jos 8:30-32
27:3 : Dt 11:9
27:5-7 : Ex 20:25
27:12-13 : Dt 11:29-30; Jos 8:33-35

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Luke 10:38-11:13

Martha and Mary

³⁸While they were traveling, he entered a village, and a woman named Martha^(A) welcomed him into her home.^[a] ³⁹She had a sister named Mary, who also sat at the Lord’s^[b] feet^(B) and was listening to what he said.^[c] ⁴⁰But Martha was distracted by her many tasks, and she came up and asked, “Lord, don’t you care^(C) that my sister has left me to serve alone? So tell her to give me a hand.”^[d]^(D)

⁴¹The Lord^[e] answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and upset about many things,^(E) ⁴²but one thing is necessary.^[f]^(F) Mary has made the right choice,^[g] and it will not be taken away from her.”

The Lord’s Prayer

11 He was praying^(G) in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”^(H)

²He said to them, “Whenever you pray, say,^(I)

Father,^[h]^(J)
your name^(K) be honored as holy.^(L)
Your kingdom come.^[i]^(M)
³Give us each day our daily bread.^[j]^(N)
⁴And forgive us our sins,^(O)
for we ourselves also forgive everyone
in debt to us.^[k]^(P)
And do not bring us into temptation.”^[l]^(Q)

Ask, Search, Knock

⁵He also said to them: “Suppose one of you^[m] has a friend and goes to him at midnight and says to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, ⁶because a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I don’t have anything to offer him.’ ⁷Then he will answer from inside and say, ‘Don’t bother me! The door is already locked, and my children and I have gone to bed. I can’t get up to give you anything.’ ⁸I tell you, even though he won’t get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his friend’s shameless boldness,^[n] he will get up and give him as much as he needs.^(R)

⁹“So^(S) I say to you, ask,^(T) and it will be given to you. Seek,^(U) and you will find. Knock,^(V) and the door will be opened to you. ¹⁰For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. ¹¹What father among you, if his son^[o] asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish? ¹²Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? ¹³If you then, who are evil,^(W) know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father^(X) give the Holy Spirit^(Y) to those who ask him?”

Footnotes:

10:38 Other mss omit into her home
10:39 Other mss read at Jesus’s
10:39 Lit to his word or message
10:40 Or tell her to help me
10:41 Other mss read Jesus
10:42 Some mss read few things are necessary, or only one
10:42 Lit has chosen the good part, or has chosen the better portion; = the right meal
11:2 Other mss read Our Father in heaven
11:2 Other mss add Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven
11:3 Or our bread for tomorrow
11:4 Or everyone who wrongs us
11:4 Other mss add But deliver us from the evil one
11:5 Lit Who of you
11:8 Or persistence
11:11 Other mss read son asks for bread, would give him a stone? Or if he

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Psalm 76

God, the Powerful Judge

For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A psalm of Asaph.^(A) A song.

¹God is known in Judah;
his name is great in Israel.^(B)
²His tent is in Salem,
his dwelling place in Zion.^(C)
³There he shatters the bow’s flaming arrows,
the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war.^(D)Selah

⁴You are resplendent and majestic
coming down from the mountains of prey.^(E)
⁵The brave-hearted have been plundered;
they have slipped into their final sleep.
None of the warriors was able to lift a hand.^(F)
⁶At your rebuke, God of Jacob,
both chariot and horse lay still.^(G)

⁷And you—you are to be feared.^[a]
When you are angry,
who can stand before you?^(H)
⁸From heaven you pronounced judgment.
The earth feared and grew quiet^(I)
⁹when God rose up to judge
and to save all the lowly of the earth.^(J)Selah
¹⁰Even human wrath will praise you;
you will clothe yourself
with the wrath that remains.^[b]^(K)

¹¹Make and keep your vows
to the Lord your God;^(L)
let all who are around him bring tribute
to the awe-inspiring one.^[c]^(M)
¹²He humbles the spirit of leaders;
he is feared by the kings of the earth.^(N)

Footnotes:

76:7 Or are awe-inspiring
76:10 Hb obscure
76:11 Or tribute with awe

Cross references:

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Proverbs 12:15-17

¹⁵A fool’s way is right in his own eyes,^(A)
but whoever listens to counsel is wise.

¹⁶A fool’s displeasure is known at once,
but whoever ignores an insult is sensible.^(B)

¹⁷Whoever speaks the truth declares what is right,
but a false witness speaks deceit.^(C)

Cross references:

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

April 3, 2019

04/03/2019 DAB Transcript

Deuteronomy 23:1-25:19, Luke 10:13-37, Psalms 75:1-10, Proverbs 12:12-14

Today is April 3^rd. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian. It is my pleasure, just a joy to come around the global campfire, come in out of the cold, come in out of the dark, throw another log on and gather together and let God’s word wash over and speak to us as we just step away from whatever else the chaos of life may be bringing our way and center ourselves in this space in this time and hear from God through His word. So, we’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week and our next step forward will take us back into the book of Deuteronomy. Today we’ll read chapters 23, 24, and 25.

Commentary:

Alright. So, in the gospel of Luke today Jesus told a very famous story, the parable of the Good Samaritan and oh gosh this parable is so loaded and so pertinent to our lives it’s remarkable. So, just quickly understanding who Samaritans were is a little bit helpful but at this point in the year it’s not completely apparent because all the stories that lead us to who Samaritans are haven’t been told yet. So, briefly, the children of Israel are going to make their way into the promised land. You probably know that and they’re gonna settle the promised land. You probably know that too and there’s gonna be seasons that are good and seasons that are not so good, which will eventually lead them to having kings, which will eventually lead them to split into two different nations known as the northern kingdom and the southern kingdom. The northern kingdom of Israel, which is 10 tribes, will eventually be conquered by the Assyrian Empire and they will be carried away into exile. This is the way the empires built the empires or one of the ways. They would conquer a people and then relocate them forcibly into another part of the Empire while moving other conquered peoples into the land that was previously vacated, like, moving people around, mixing them all up so that over the course of a generation or two people would stop remembering who they used to be and only know themselves as part of the Empire. So, when Assyria conquered the northern kingdom and displaced a lot of them and moved a bunch of other people in, what came in was a lot of different religious practices and idolatry. So, the people are worshiping however they’re gonna worship but there’s problems with that. And, so, they request that a priest of Yahweh be brought back to teach them how to worship the God of this land. The problem is that the priest that they bring back…like the priests of the northern kingdom have already been practicing a very, very skewed version of the worship of Yahweh, of the worship that’s happening in Jerusalem in the Temple. This is because the first King of the northern kingdom, his name was Jeroboam. He built two temples and put a golden calf in each one of them and had the people worship this golden calf as Yahweh. And, so, it just got all messed up as you can imagine. So, by the time we get to Jesus time this land is very different and the people are worshiping very differently, and they become Samaritans because the northern kingdom’s capital and its land was known as Samaria. So, those being Orthodox and true down in Jerusalem, they never looked at the Samaritans as anything but, you know, people to not be trusted, people who had a very, very strange way of trying to practice the same worship. And, so, they avoided, they looked down upon, they stayed away from the Samaritans. So, getting back to the story Jesus is telling, there’s the man saying, “what do I need to do to have eternal life”? Jesus asks him a really, really interesting question, “how do you read it? In other words, here’s God talking to a person and asking him how he reads the Bible or the Scriptures. Fascinating. And the man says, “what is true, if you love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength and you love your neighbor as yourself then you’ve fulfilled the law.” That’s still true today. That’s, what we’re supposed to be doing. And Jesus affirms that. And then the man’s like, “who is my neighbor?” That’s what launches Jesus into the story of the good Samaritan. And this road between Jerusalem and Jericho, this is a very, very ancient road still visible today and it winds through a very, very deep, dark valley, very dangerous place to be. And even today, you can see many parts of that and kinda, from different angles, begin to understand, yeah, that's…there’d be all kinds of…there’s nowhere to run and lots of places to hide. So, very dangerous road indeed. So, Jesus is kind of critiquing the religion of the time, the Hebrew religion, by placing a priest and a Levite who step around a very injured man and he makes the Samaritan the hero of the story, which is so counter cultural and, like, such a disruptive message at the time because these were people that were not trusted, people that shouldn’t be the heroes of the story. And, so, in effect Jesus saying, to love your neighbor as yourself is to look around you and see anyone whether they’re your perceived enemy or whether you don’t understand them or whether their people group is foreign to you or whether they’re worshiping in a completely different way from you. If you find a human being that it is in your power to help in some sort of way even if that’s just a smile, then you should do it. That would be loving your neighbor as yourself.

Prayer:

Father, there are endless opportunities for this. It just forces us to be aware because we are so focused on the obligations and responsibilities of any given day that we’re just trying to maintain our lives and we don’t really have time to be paying attention to anything else. And, so, we’re recognizing again, even as we continue to move through this season of Lent that we are humbling ourselves before You, laying all of the obligations and responsibilities of our lives before You and asking You to reorder and reprioritize us, removing things that don’t need to be in our lives anymore, putting things in that do belong so that we can have a life that is something that can be maintained while still having the freedom to follow Your Holy Spirit and be observant about loving our neighbors as we love ourselves because it’s not just about people with cardboard signs on sides of roads. It’s anyone, anywhere, anytime that is in need when we observe it. So, come Holy Spirit. And during this season of Lent we commit to paying more attention to this but what we’re asking is for a life that has space to live, space to actually be Your hands and feet in this world instead of just space where we’re just juggling all of the balls trying to keep them in the air, trying to maintain an oversized life when there is freedom waiting for us and an adventure with You if we would simply allow You to show us what is a priority. Come Holy Spirit into these issues we ask in Jesus’ name. Amen.

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I was thinking about this parable and just thinking about how many different vantage points of seeing this rift. It’s basically…it’s the Kidron valley that runs through Jerusalem and the valley runs, winds all the way down to Jericho. And yeah, it’s a treacherous place. There’s a longer conversation about this parable and about what we’ve just been talking about today, an entire chapter is devoted to this story found in my book Sneezing Jesus, which is available wherever you can get books, including dailyaudiobible.com or audiobooks, wherever you get audiobooks. It’s worth it…it’s worth it to listen to a read if you want to go deeper into this story and that resource is available at dailyaudiobible.com or pretty much anywhere.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi Cherry Chase, this is Betsy from Indiana. I heard your voice today and I was so sad because you are such a shining and bright energetic light for our family and I’m sad that there is such imperfect humans that are leading you to feel at your workplace that it is a difficult as it is and I just pray that the Lord will help open up your eyes to see what’s really going on with those imperfect people and bring that to a resolution that is tolerable for you. Also, Christine with the bumpy dog, I wanted to let you know I’ve been praying for you and thinking of you almost every day during this time of transition. You mentioned it’s really a time of waiting between treatments and I know that can be difficult. I kind of was thinking the other day that I could say I was…your Christie with the bumpy dog and I could be Betsy with a bumpy life and I think all of us can probably relate to that. And I also wanted to shout out to Mary Lynn who has now dubbed what I can only think of as the vacuum ministry. I loved your call, I love your idea. I put my headphones in the other day when I needed to vacuum, and I thought of you and I thought of our community and I loved your suggestion. And also, Scott from Alaska, safe travels to you. Thanks for your insights about traveling this road of life and how often we can see that far into it. I love you all and hope you have a good week.

This Protected by His Wings in Virginia. Thank you, Jesus Christ for giving up your perfect life for my sinful one. Thank you, Brian and Jill that all those behind the scenes for this wonderful podcast, such a blessing to my life. Since I’ve started listening about eight months ago to the Daily Audio Bible there have been several callers involving singleness, loneliness, seeking a mate, have been seeking a mate but it ended, followed a potential mate to another state but it did work out, all asking for prayer and God’s direction. I’ve been all of you. If you’re willing to hear this, here is my advice. Never follow a potential mate. All husbands follow a wife. If they or you are not committed to marriage, they are not someone you should follow. If you start dating someone and then ask God to bless it, don’t expect Him to do so. Instead, ask God’s advice before you ask someone out on a date or you say yes to someone whose asked you on a date. First John 5:14, “Now this is the confidence we have before him. Whenever we ask for anything according to His will He hears us. James 4:3, “You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly so that you may spend it on your own desires.” Psalms 66:18, “If I had been aware of malice in my own heart, the Lord would not have listened.” Thanks be to God who loves us so much He gave us His only begotten son and who should ever believe on him shall not perish but have everlasting life. Thank you, Jesus. Amen.

Good morning family this is Erin from Michigan. Let’s pray. Father God I thank You for this day. I thank You for the fact that You are the great Creator and through we You we are able to create also. I thank You Lord God that You are the lover of all people, all nations, all hues, all groups Lord God. Help us to grow in Your love. I lift up Cherry Chase to You today Lord God. I lift up her pain. I lift up the trouble that she’s having at work Lord God. I pray for these people who are using their race, prejudice, and the power that they have behind them to harm Cherry Chase Lord God. I lift You up and thank You for her. Thank for creating her Lord God and thank You for her voice. I thank You for her heart and her mind Lord God. I thank You for her perseverance and her strong faith in You Lord God. I ask You to bind the demons of racism. Lord God I ask You to bind it and send it to the pit of hell. I acknowledge before You and all of my family Lord God that racism is a total afront to Your holiness. You have created us as one race Lord God, the human race Lord God and I know it breaks Your heart. I ask You to help it to break our hearts as well Lord God. I ask You not to let us shy away from this issue that will define us Lord God. If we say nothing when others are __ to do something but You never meant to divide us Lord God. I ask You, break our hearts Lord God. I lift up Cherry Chase. Help her to be strong Lord God, help her to feel Your presence, Your patients, Your abundance Lord God, Your perseverance. I pray for Cherry Chase Lord God. I thank You for the Daily Audio Bible. I thank You for Brian Lord God and I pray that You make us bold, bold in Your name against the demons of racism Lord God. Help us to be bold. Help us to speak Your name and show Your love. Thank You…

Hi everyone, this is Liz calling from Toronto. I have been listening to the Daily Audio Bible since January the share but today for the first time I listened to the community prayer in its entirety and I’ve got to tell you for the first time I feel like I feel the fullness of the family of all you DABbers. I now have a really great understanding of the prayers that we hear daily and the names of some of the callers that make it a regular practice. I think it’s awesome. I know it’s a three-hour commitment, but I would encourage everyone to listen in and find a way to hear all of the prayers and praise reports. I certainly will from now on. So, I have a praise report and a request for today. I called in the beginning of February I think it was to ask for prayer for the journey that my son Nathaniel is on with his search for a new school as he was transferring to a soccer program at Syracuse University. Well, praise God, it looks like he’ll be committing to the University of Alabama Birmingham on a full tuition scholarship. So, thank you so much for very for your prayers. Its very far from home but as I listened to the community prayer today I heard about five or six colors from Alabama. So, I’m reminded of how God covers us in the body of Christ, right? So, that’s very encouraging to me. I would also like to lift up in prayer my dear friend, Linda. She’s suffering from a shoulder injury that’s causing some really severe pain right now. She recently took the step to retire from a long career in a hairdressing and she’s relying on working from home to support her financially. So, the shoulder injury is preventing her from cutting hair. She can’t lift her arm up. Her rent is due tomorrow. She lives alone. So, please pray that she’ll be healed, and that God would give her a renewed sense of his provision. Thank you, Daily Audio Bible family. I love you and bye for now.

April 3, 2019

04/03/2019 DAB Transcript

Deuteronomy 23:1-25:19, Luke 10:13-37, Psalms 75:1-10, Proverbs 12:12-14

Commentary:

Prayer:

Father, there are endless opportunities for this. It just forces us to be aware because we are so focused on the obligations and responsibilities of any given day that we’re just trying to maintain our lives and we don’t really have time to be paying attention to anything else. And, so, we’re recognizing again, even as we continue to move through this season of Lent that we are humbling ourselves before you, laying all of the obligations and responsibilities of our lives before you and asking you to reorder and reprioritize us, removing things that don’t need to be in our lives anymore, putting things in that do belong so that we can have a life that is something that can be maintained while still having the freedom to follow your Holy Spirit and be observant about loving our neighbors as we love ourselves because it’s not just about people with cardboard signs on sides of roads. It’s anyone, anywhere, anytime that is in need when we observe it. So, come Holy Spirit. And during this season of Lent we commit to paying more attention to this but what we’re asking is for a life that has space to live, space to actually be your hands and feet in this world instead of just space where we’re just juggling all of the balls trying to keep them in the air, trying to maintain an oversized life when there is freedom waiting for us and an adventure with you if we would simply allow you to show us what is a priority. Come Holy Spirit into these issues we ask in Jesus’ name. Amen.

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April 3, 2019

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Wednesday April 3, 2019 (NIV)

Deuteronomy 23-25

Exclusion and Inclusion

23 “No man whose testicles have been crushed^[a] or whose penis has been cut off may enter the Lord’s assembly. ²No one of illegitimate birth may enter the Lord’s assembly; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, may enter the Lord’s assembly. ³No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the Lord’s assembly;^(A) none of their descendants, even to the tenth generation, may ever enter the Lord’s assembly. ⁴This is because they did not meet you with food and water on the journey after you came out of Egypt, and because Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim was hired to curse you.^(B) ⁵Yet the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam, but he turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lord your God loves^(C) you.^(D) ⁶Never pursue their welfare or prosperity as long as you live. ⁷Do not despise an Edomite, because he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you were a resident alien in his land. ⁸The children born to them in the third generation may enter the Lord’s assembly.

Cleanliness of the Camp

⁹“When you are encamped against your enemies, be careful to avoid anything offensive. ¹⁰If there is a man among you who is unclean because of a bodily emission during the night, he must go outside the camp; he may not come anywhere inside the camp. ¹¹When evening approaches, he is to wash with water, and when the sun sets he may come inside the camp.^(E) ¹²You are to have a place outside the camp and go there to relieve yourself. ¹³You are to have a digging tool in your equipment; when you relieve yourself, dig a hole with it and cover up your excrement. ¹⁴For the Lord your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you; so your encampments must be holy. He must not see anything indecent among you or he will turn away from you.

Fugitive Slaves

¹⁵“Do not return a slave to his master when he has escaped from his master to you. ¹⁶Let him live among you wherever he wants within your city gates. Do not mistreat him.

Cult Prostitution Forbidden

¹⁷“No Israelite woman is to be a cult prostitute, and no Israelite man is to be a cult prostitute. ¹⁸Do not bring a female prostitute’s wages or a male prostitute’s^[b] earnings into the house of the Lord your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the Lord your God.

Interest on Loans

¹⁹“Do not charge your brother interest on silver, food, or anything that can earn interest. ²⁰You may charge a foreigner interest, but you must not charge your brother Israelite interest, so that the Lord your God may bless you in everything you do^[c] in the land you are entering to possess.^(F)

Keeping Vows

²¹“If you make a vow to the Lord your God, do not be slow to keep it, because he will require it of you, and it will be counted against you as sin. ²²But if you refrain from making a vow, it will not be counted against you as sin. ²³Be careful to do whatever comes from your lips, because you have freely vowed what you promised^[d] to the Lord your God.^(G)

Neighbor’s Crops

²⁴“When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you want until you are full, but do not put any in your container. ²⁵When you enter your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck heads of grain with your hand, but do not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.

Marriage and Divorce Laws

24 “If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him^[e] because he finds something indecent about her, he may write her a divorce certificate, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.^(H) ²If after leaving his house she goes and becomes another man’s wife, ³and the second man hates her, writes her a divorce certificate, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house or if he dies, ⁴the first husband who sent her away may not marry her again after she has been defiled, because that would be detestable to the Lord. You must not bring guilt on the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.^(I)

⁵“When a man takes a bride, he must not go out with the army or be liable for any duty. He is free to stay at home for one year, so that he can bring joy to the wife he has married.

Safeguarding Life

⁶“Do not take a pair of grindstones or even the upper millstone as security for a debt, because that is like taking a life as security.

⁷“If a man is discovered kidnapping^(J) one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from you.

⁸“Be careful with a person who has a case of serious skin disease, following carefully everything the Levitical priests instruct you to do. Be careful to do as I have commanded them. ⁹Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam on the journey after you left Egypt.^(K)

Consideration for People in Need

¹⁰“When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect what he offers as security. ¹¹Stand outside while the man you are making the loan to brings the security out to you. ¹²If he is a poor man, do not sleep with the garment he has given as security. ¹³Be sure to return it^[f] to him at sunset. Then he will sleep in it and bless you, and this will be counted as righteousness to you before the Lord your God.^(L)

¹⁴“Do not oppress a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether one of your Israelite brothers or one of the resident aliens in a town^[g] in your land. ¹⁵You are to pay him his wages each day before the sun sets, because he is poor and depends on them.^(M) Otherwise he will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be held guilty.

¹⁶“Fathers are not to be put to death for their children, and children are not to be put to death for their fathers; each person will be put to death for his own sin.^(N) ¹⁷Do not deny justice to a resident alien or fatherless child, and do not take a widow’s garment as security. ¹⁸Remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed^(O) you from there. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.^(P)

¹⁹“When you reap the harvest in your field, and you forget a sheaf in the field, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.^(Q) ²⁰When you knock down the fruit from your olive tree, do not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow. ²¹When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, do not glean what is left. What remains will be for the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow. ²²Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.^(R)

Fairness and Mercy

25 “If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court, and the judges will hear their case. They will clear the innocent and condemn the guilty. ²If the guilty party deserves to be flogged, the judge will make him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes appropriate for his crime. ³He may be flogged with forty lashes, but no more. Otherwise, if he is flogged with more lashes than these, your brother will be degraded in your sight.

⁴“Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain.^(S)

Preserving the Family Line

⁵“When brothers live on the same property^[h] and one of them dies without a son, the wife of the dead man may not marry a stranger outside the family. Her brother-in-law is to take her as his wife, have sexual relations with her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law for her. ⁶The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so his name will not be blotted out from Israel.^(T) ⁷But if the man doesn’t want to marry his sister-in-law, she is to go to the elders at the city gate^(U) and say, ‘My brother-in-law refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He isn’t willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.’ ⁸The elders of his city will summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, ‘I don’t want to marry her,’ ⁹then his sister-in-law will go up to him in the sight of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. Then she will declare, ‘This is what is done to a man who will not build up his brother’s house.’ ¹⁰And his family name in Israel will be ‘The house of the man whose sandal was removed.’^(V)

¹¹“If two men are fighting with each other, and the wife of one steps in to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she puts out her hand and grabs his genitals, ¹²you are to cut off her hand. Do not show pity.

Honest Weights and Measures

¹³“Do not have differing weights^[i] in your bag, one heavy and one light.^(W) ¹⁴Do not have differing dry measures in your house, a larger and a smaller. ¹⁵You must have a full and honest weight, a full and honest dry measure, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. ¹⁶For everyone who does such things and acts unfairly is detestable to the Lord your God.^(X)

Revenge on the Amalekites

¹⁷“Remember what the Amalekites did to you on the journey after you left Egypt.^(Y) ¹⁸They met you along the way and attacked all your stragglers from behind when you were tired and weary. They did not fear God. ¹⁹When the Lord your God gives you rest^(Z) from all the enemies around you in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance,^(AA) blot out the memory of Amalek under heaven. Do not forget.^(AB)

Footnotes:

23:1 Litman bruised by crushing
23:18 Lit a dog’s
23:20 Lit you put your hand to
23:23 Lit promised with your mouth
24:1 Lit she does not find favor in his eyes
24:13 Lit return what he has given as security
24:14 Lit within the city gates
25:5 Lit live together
25:13 Lit have a stone and a stone

Cross references:

23:3-4 : Neh 13:1-2
23:4 : Nm 22:5-6
23:5 : Dt 4:37
23:5 : Nm 23:11; 24:10
23:11 : Lv 15:16-17
23:19-20 : Ex 22:25
23:21-23 : Nm 30:2-15; Jb 22:27; Ps 50:14; 56:12; 61:8; Pr 20:25; Ec 5:4-7; Mal 1:14
24:1 : Mt 5:31; 19:7; Mk 10:4
24:4 : Dt 15:4
24:7 : Gn 40:15; Ex 21:16; 22:1; 1Sm 30:2-3,5; 1Tm 1:10
24:9 : Nm 12:1-15; Dt 25:17
24:12-13 : Ex 22:26-27
24:14-15 : Lv 19:13
24:16 : 2Kg 14:6; 2Ch 25:4; Ezk 18:20; 33:10-20
24:18 : Dt 7:8; 9:26; 15:15
24:18 : Dt 15:15; 24:22
24:18-19 : Ex 23:2-3,6-9; Dt 30:9
24:19-22 : Ex 22:26-27; Lv 19:9-10,13,15
25:4 : 1Co 9:9; 1Tm 5:18
25:5-6 : Gn 38:8; Mt 22:24; Mk 12:19; Lk 20:28
25:7 : Dt 17:8; 21:19; 22:15
25:10 : Gn 38; Ru 4:1-12
25:13 : Pr 20:10
25:16 : Lv 19:35-36
25:17 : Dt 24:9
25:19 : Dt 3:20; 5:14; 12:9-11; 28:65
25:19 : Dt 15:4
25:19 : Ex 17:8-16; 1Sm 15; 30

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Luke 10:13-37

Unrepentant Towns

¹³“Woe^(A) to you,^(B) Chorazin!^(C) Woe to you, Bethsaida!^(D) For if the miracles^(E) that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon,^(F) they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.^(G) ¹⁴But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment^(H) than for you. ¹⁵And you, Capernaum,^(I) will you be exalted to heaven?^(J) No, you will go down to Hades.^(K) ¹⁶Whoever listens to you listens to me.^(L) Whoever rejects you rejects me.^(M) And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”^(N)

The Return of the Seventy-Two

¹⁷The seventy-two^[a]^(O) returned with joy, saying,^(P) “Lord, even the demons^(Q) submit to us in your name.”^(R)

¹⁸He said to them, “I watched Satan^(S) fall from heaven like lightning.^(T) ¹⁹Look, I have given you the authority^(U) to trample^(V) on snakes^(W) and scorpions^(X) and over all the power of the enemy; ^(Y) nothing at all will harm you.^(Z) ²⁰However, don’t rejoice that^[b] the spirits ^(AA) submit to you,^(AB) but rejoice that your names are written^(AC) in heaven.”

The Son Reveals the Father

²¹At that time^(AD) he^[c] rejoiced in the Holy^[d] Spirit^(AE) and said, “I praise^[e] you, Father,^(AF) Lord of heaven and earth,^(AG) because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent^(AH) and revealed them to infants.^(AI) Yes, Father, because this was your good pleasure.^[f]^(AJ) ²²All things have^[g] been entrusted to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son desires^[h] to reveal him.”^(AK)

²³Then turning to his disciples he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see the things you see! ²⁴For I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see the things you see but didn’t see them; to hear the things you hear but didn’t hear them.”^(AL)

The Parable of the Good Samaritan

²⁵Then^(AM) an expert in the law^(AN) stood up to test^(AO) him, saying, “Teacher,^(AP) what must I do to inherit eternal life?” ^(AQ)

²⁶“What is written in the law?” he asked him. “How do you read it?”

²⁷He answered, “Love the Lord your God^(AR) with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,”^(AS) and “your neighbor as yourself.”^(AT)^(AU)

²⁸“You’ve answered correctly,” he told him. “Do this and you will live.”^(AV)

²⁹But wanting to justify himself,^(AW) he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” ^(AX)

³⁰Jesus took up the question and said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him, beat him up, and fled, leaving him half dead. ³¹A priest happened to be going down that road. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side. ³²In the same way, a Levite, when he arrived at the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. ³³But a Samaritan^(AY) on his journey came up to him, and when he saw the man, he had compassion.^(AZ) ³⁴He went over to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on olive oil^(BA) and wine. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. ³⁵The next day^[i] he took out two denarii,^[j] gave them to the innkeeper, and said, ‘Take care of him. When I come back I’ll reimburse you for whatever extra you spend.’

³⁶“Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?”

³⁷“The one who showed mercy^(BB) to him,” he said.

Then Jesus told him, “Go and do the same.”

Footnotes:

10:17 Other mss read The seventy
10:20 Lit don’t rejoice in this, that
10:21 Other mss read Jesus
10:21 Other mss omit Holy
10:21 Or thank, or confess
10:21 Lit was well-pleasing in your sight
10:22 Other mss read And turning to the disciples, he said, “Everything has
10:22 Or wills, or chooses
10:35 Other mss add as he was leaving
10:35 A denarius = one day’s wage.

Cross references:

10:13-15 : Mt 11:20-24
10:13 : Ezk 16:23; Mt 23:13-16; Lk 6:24; Rv 9:12
10:13 : Mt 11:21
10:13 : Jn 12:21
10:13 : Ex 3:20; Lk 19:37; Ac 2:22
10:13 : Ezr 3:7; Jr 25:22; 47:4; Jl 3:4; Lk 6:17
10:13 : Est 4:1,3; Dn 9:3; Jnh 3:6
10:14 : Ps 1:5; Mt 12:41
10:15 : Mt 4:13; Lk 4:23,31; 7:1
10:15 : Ac 2:33
10:15 : Is 14:12-15; Ac 2:27
10:16 : Mt 10:40; Jn 13:20
10:16 : Mt 25:45; Lk 9:48; Jn 12:48
10:16 : Jn 5:23; 1Th 4:8
10:17 : Ezk 8:11
10:17-20 : Mk 16:17-18; Jn 12:31
10:17 : Rv 9:20
10:17 : Jn 10:25; 14:13
10:18 : Mt 4:1,10; Ac 13:10; Rv 12:9
10:18 : Mt 28:3; Col 2:15
10:19 : Mk 1:22
10:19 : Lk 21:24; Rv 11:2
10:19 : Gn 3:16; Mt 23:33; Rv 9:19
10:19 : Lk 11:12; Rv 9:3
10:19 : Mt 13:39; 1Co 15:25
10:19 : Ps 91:13; Mk 16:18; Ac 28:5
10:20 : 1Tm 4:1; 1Jn 4:1
10:20 : Mt 7:22-23
10:20 : Ex 32:32; Neh 9:38; Mal 3:16
10:21-24 : Mt 11:25-27; 13:16-17
10:21 : Lk 2:27; 4:1; 19:21; Ac 2:4
10:21 : Mt 7:21; Lk 23:34,46; Jn 8:42; 11:41; 12:27-28; 17:1-25
10:21 : Gn 14:19; Ac 17:24
10:21 : Is 44:25; Jr 8:9; Ac 13:7; 1Co 1:19-27; 3:19-20
10:21 : Ps 8:2; Mt 21:16
10:21 : Lk 2:14
10:22 : Jn 1:18; 6:46; 7:29; 8:19; 10:15; 17:25-26
10:24 : Jn 8:56; Heb 11:13; 1Pt 1:10-12
10:25-28 : Mt 22:34-40; Mk 12:28-34
10:25 : Lk 7:30
10:25 : Mt 16:1; 19:3
10:25 : Mt 8:19; Lk 3:12; Jn 1:38
10:25 : Mt 19:29; Lk 18:18; Jn 12:25; Rv 21:7
10:27 : Lk 4:8
10:27 : Dt 6:5
10:27 : Lv 19:18; Dt 6:5
10:27 : Lv 19:18
10:28 : Lv 18:5; Neh 9:29; Ezk 20:11; Rm 10:5; Gl 3:12
10:29 : Lk 16:15
10:29 : Ex 20:16-17; Lv 6:2; 19:13-18; Pr 3:28-29; Mt 5:43; 19:19; Rm 13:9-10
10:33 : Mt 10:5; Lk 9:52; Ac 1:8
10:33 : Lk 7:13; 15:20
10:34 : Is 1:6; Jms 5:14
10:37 : Mt 23:23; Lk 1:72; Jms 2:13

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Psalm 75

God Judges the Wicked

For the choir director: “Do Not Destroy.” A psalm of Asaph.^(A) A song.

¹We give thanks to you, God;
we give thanks to you, for your name is near.
People tell about your wondrous works.^(B)

²“When I choose a time,
I will judge fairly.^(C)
³When the earth and all its inhabitants shake,
I am the one who steadies its pillars.^(D)Selah
⁴I say to the boastful, ‘Do not boast,’
and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn.^(E)
⁵Do not lift up your horn against heaven^[a]
or speak arrogantly.’”^(F)

⁶Exaltation does not come
from the east, the west, or the desert,
⁷for God is the Judge:
He brings down one and exalts another.^(G)
⁸For there is a cup in the Lord’s hand,
full of wine blended with spices, and he pours from it.
All the wicked of the earth will drink,
draining it to the dregs.^(H)

⁹As for me, I will tell about him forever;
I will sing praise to the God of Jacob.^(I)

¹⁰“I will cut off all the horns of the wicked,^(J)
but the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.”^(K)

Footnotes:

75:5 Lit horn to the height

Cross references:

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Proverbs 12:12-14

¹²The wicked desire what evil people have caught,^[a]
but the root of the righteous is productive.

¹³By rebellious speech an evil person is trapped,^(A)
but a righteous person escapes from trouble.^(B)

¹⁴A person will be satisfied with good
by the fruit of his mouth,^(C)
and the work of a person’s hands will reward him.^(D)

Footnotes:

12:12 Or desire a stronghold of evil

Cross references:

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

April 2, 2019

04/02/2019 DAB Transcript

Deuteronomy 21:1-22:30, Luke 9:51-10:12, Psalms 74:1-23, Proverbs 12:11

Today is the 2^nd day of April. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is great to be here with you moving into this fourth month of the year together and taking the next step forward into the month, into the week, into the year, and that will lead us back out into the book of Deuteronomy where we’re listening to Moses say the final things that he needs to say, which is in effect a grand review of everything that is happened and all of the laws and statutes that God has woven into the fabric of this new people. So today, Deuteronomy chapter 21 and 22 and we’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week.

Commentary:

Alright. So, in the gospel of Luke today, Jesus sent out 72 of his friends in advance, two by two, into areas that he would be coming to minister with instructions and one of those instructions was that sometimes you might just have to shake the dust off and move on. So, rather than a pep talk of their victories and prosperity and money and notoriety talk to him. The sobering truth is they were being sent as lambs among wolves and it’s important to recognize that Jesus always told his friends, disciples, and followers the nature of the work that they were doing in the world and the difficulties of it and the harsh opposition to it that they would face. And yet if we look at our own understanding of Jesus so much of the time what we’re expecting Jesus to do is exactly the opposite of that, it is to clear that path so that we have no opposition and the only victory when Jesus promised when following Him was kind of the opposite. Jesus said the cost would be high. Jesus said the cost would be everything and anyone who began the journey and turned back wasn’t worthy of the kingdom that was being revealed. So, Jesus said, “when you enter any town and they welcome you, eat the things they give you, heal the sick who are here, tell them the kingdom has come near. When you enter any town and they don’t welcome you then go out on the street and tell them that we’re wiping off even the dust of your town that clings to our feet as a witness against you because you should understand the kingdom has come near.” So, according to Jesus, it would be more tolerable for Sodom then for a town like that. So, we see in the ministry of Jesus, God revealing His kingdom to a humanity that had fallen so far and so backward from its created identity that it couldn’t even recognize itself anymore. And we not only see this in the teachings of Jesus, but we see the evidence of this in in the horrible suffering Jesus endured at the very hands of His own creation. So, as disciples of Jesus, I mean, our mission’s no different than that of the 72 friends He commissioned in our reading today. In truth we’re still lambs among wolves. Maybe we’ve come a long way in the past 2000 years in terms of how we behave toward each other or our understandings of how to have mercy upon each other, but humanity’s still largely confused and slumbering and backward, at least according to the teachings of Jesus. And, so, we’ve gotta realize that when we decide to live in the truth of the gospel and really pursue that with all of our hearts so that our pursuits are to eradicate all darkness within us so that we are only light and we’re effectively bringing light into the darkness. And even Jesus…I mean…who is sinless, perfect, full of light knew the difficulty of this and we see the difficulty of this in the life of Jesus. So, we have to understand that if we’re gonna follow Jesus and be His disciples then we’re still doing the same thing, we’re still bringing light into the darkness and we’re sure to face…we’re sure to face some opposition along the way. So, it’s can gonna be about how we respond. If we’re going to respond to confrontation or ridicule, or persecution, or marginalization by trying to strike back and perpetuate the same kind of tactics that are being used against us then we’re not replacing darkness with light, right? We’re simply drawing battle lines, we’re perpetuating the darkness, we’re making the darkness more dark because we’re passing it forward. Sometimes we have to do as Jesus said, we have to shake the dust off and move on knowing that we brought the good news of the kingdom. We don’t have to have the last word. We don’t have to have the last dig. We don’t have to bring the last little bit of darkness into the situation. We can bring light. If the darkness will not receive the light then we can shake the dust and move on.

Prayer:

Holy Spirit, we invite You into that because it will take discernment understand when You are telling us this is not your battle, or this is not your place anymore. This is not a situation for you to be in any longer, you have done what I’ve sent you to do, now shake the dust and move on. That’s hard for us. It’s hard for us to know when it’s time. It’s also difficult for us to not perpetuate the darkness by being drawn into a vortex of conflict. These are difficult things and we do not know how to discern and navigate them without your Holy Spirit’s guidance. And, so, we ask for it because You said You would give it to us. Come Holy Spirit. Make us wise, help us to see what’s really going on in the situations that we face in our lives and help us to step aside and away from ourselves and see things as You do, to look behind what it appears is going on to what is real so that we can take ourselves out of the equation and not insert ourselves by making more darkness. Come Holy Spirit and show us when to shake the dust we ask in Jesus’ name. Amen.

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April 2, 2019

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Tuesday April 2, 2019 (NIV)

Deuteronomy 21-22

Unsolved Murders

21 “If a murder victim is found lying in a field in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him, ²your elders and judges are to come out and measure the distance from the victim to the nearby cities. ³The elders of the city nearest to the victim are to get a young cow that has not been yoked or used for work. ⁴The elders of that city will bring the cow down to a continually flowing stream, to a place not tilled or sown, and they will break its neck there by the stream. ⁵Then the priests, the sons of Levi, will come forward, for the Lord your God has chosen them to serve him and pronounce blessings in his name, and they are to give a ruling in^[a] every dispute and case of assault. ⁶All the elders of the city nearest to the victim will wash their hands by the stream over the young cow whose neck has been broken. ⁷They will declare, ‘Our hands did not shed this blood; our eyes did not see it. ⁸Lord, wipe away the guilt of your people Israel whom you redeemed, and do not hold the shedding of innocent blood against them.’ Then the responsibility for bloodshed will be wiped away from them. ⁹You must purge from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, for you will be doing what is right in the Lord’s sight.

Fair Treatment of Captured Women

¹⁰“When you go to war against your enemies and the Lord your God hands them over to you and you take some of them prisoner, and ¹¹if you see a beautiful woman among the captives, desire her, and want to take her as your wife, ¹²you are to bring her into your house. She is to shave her head, trim her nails, ¹³remove the clothes she was wearing when she was taken prisoner, live in your house, and mourn for her father and mother a full month. After that, you may have sexual relations with her and be her husband, and she will be your wife. ¹⁴Then if you are not satisfied with her, you are to let her go where she wants, but you must not sell her or treat her as merchandise,^[b] because you have humiliated her.

The Right of the Firstborn

¹⁵“If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved bear him sons, and if the unloved wife has the firstborn son, ¹⁶when that man gives what he has to his sons as an inheritance, he is not to show favoritism to the son of the loved wife as his firstborn over the firstborn of the unloved wife. ¹⁷He must acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved wife, by giving him two shares^[c]^[d] of his estate, for he is the firstfruits of his virility; he has the rights of the firstborn.^(A)

A Rebellious Son

¹⁸“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father or mother and doesn’t listen to them even after they discipline him, ¹⁹his father and mother are to take hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate^(B) of his hometown. ²⁰They will say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he doesn’t obey us. He’s a glutton and a drunkard.’ ²¹Then all the men of his city will stone him to death.^(C) You must purge the evil from you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.

Display of Executed People

²²“If anyone is found guilty of an offense deserving the death penalty and is executed, and you hang his body on a tree, ²³you are not to leave his corpse on the tree overnight but are to bury him that day, for anyone hung on a tree is under God’s curse.^(D) You must not defile the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.^(E)

Caring for Your Brother’s Property

22 “If you see your brother Israelite’s ox or sheep straying, do not ignore it; make sure you return it to your brother. ²If your brother does not live near you or you don’t know him, you are to bring the animal to your home to remain with you until your brother comes looking for it; then you can return it to him. ³Do the same for his donkey, his garment, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.^(F) ⁴If you see your brother’s donkey or ox fallen down on the road, do not ignore it; help him lift it up.

Preserving Natural Distinctions

⁵“A woman is not to wear male clothing, and a man is not to put on a woman’s garment, for everyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord your God.

⁶“If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, do not take the mother along with the young. ⁷You may take the young for yourself, but be sure to let the mother go free, so that you may prosper and live long. ⁸If you build a new house, make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it. ⁹Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; otherwise, the entire harvest, both the crop you plant and the produce of the vineyard, will be defiled. ¹⁰Do not plow with an ox and a donkey together. ¹¹Do not wear clothes made of both wool and linen.^(G) ¹²Make tassels on the four corners of the outer garment you wear.^(H)

Violations of Proper Sexual Conduct

¹³“If a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, and comes to hate her, ¹⁴and accuses her of shameful conduct, and gives her a bad name, saying, ‘I married this woman and was intimate with her, but I didn’t find any evidence of her virginity,’ ¹⁵the young woman’s father and mother will take the evidence of her virginity and bring it to the city elders at the city gate.^(I) ¹⁶The young woman’s father will say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, but he hates her. ¹⁷He has accused her of shameful conduct, saying: “I didn’t find any evidence of your daughter’s virginity,” but here is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ They will spread out the cloth before the city elders. ¹⁸Then the elders of that city will take the man and punish him.^(J) ¹⁹They will also fine him a hundred silver shekels and give them to the young woman’s father, because that man gave an Israelite virgin a bad name. She will remain his wife; he cannot divorce her as long as he lives. ²⁰But if this accusation is true and no evidence of the young woman’s virginity is found, ²¹they will bring the woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous while living in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from you.

²²“If a man is discovered having sexual relations with another man’s wife, both the man who had sex with the woman and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel. ²³If there is a young woman who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her, ²⁴take the two of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s fiancée. You must purge the evil from you. ²⁵But if the man encounters an engaged woman in the open country, and he seizes and rapes her, only the man who raped her must die. ²⁶Do nothing to the young woman, because she is not guilty of an offense deserving death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him. ²⁷When he found her in the field, the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her. ²⁸If a man encounters a young woman, a virgin who is not engaged, takes hold of her and rapes her, and they are discovered, ²⁹the man who raped her is to give the young woman’s father fifty silver shekels, and she will become his wife because he violated her.^(K) He cannot divorce her as long as he lives.

³⁰“A man is not to marry his father’s wife; he must not violate his father’s marriage bed.^[e]^(L)

Footnotes:

21:5 Lit and according to their mouth will be
21:14 Hb obscure
21:17 Lit him mouth of two, or two mouthfuls
21:17 Or two-thirds
22:30 Lit not uncover the edge of his father’s garment; Ru 3:9; Ezk 16:8

Cross references:

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Luke 9:51-10:12

The Journey to Jerusalem

⁵¹When the days were coming to a close for him to be taken up,^(A) he determined^[a]^(B) to journey to Jerusalem.^(C) ⁵²He sent messengers ahead of himself,^(D) and on the way they entered a village of the Samaritans^(E) to make preparations for him. ⁵³But they did not welcome him, because he determined to journey to Jerusalem.^(F) ⁵⁴When the disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?” ^[b]^(G)

⁵⁵But he turned and rebuked them,^[c] ⁵⁶and they went to another village.

Following Jesus

⁵⁷As they were traveling on the road someone said to him,^(H) “I will follow you wherever you go.”

⁵⁸Jesus told him, “Foxes have dens, and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.” ⁵⁹Then he said to another, “Follow me.”

“Lord,” he said, “first let me go bury my father.”

⁶⁰But he told him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and spread the news of the kingdom of God.”^(I)

⁶¹Another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but first let me go and say good-bye to those at my house.”^(J)

⁶²But Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

Sending Out the Seventy-Two

10 After this, the Lord appointed seventy-two^[d] others, and he sent them ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he himself was about to go. ²He told them,^(K) “The harvest^(L) is abundant, but the workers^(M) are few. Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.^(N) ³Now go; I’m sending you out like lambs among wolves.^(O) ⁴Don’t carry a money-bag,^(P) traveling bag,^(Q) or sandals; ^(R) don’t greet anyone along the road. ⁵Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace^(S) to this household.’ ⁶If a person of peace is there, your peace^(T) will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you. ⁷Remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they offer, for the worker is worthy of his wages.^(U) Don’t move from house to house. ⁸When you enter any town, and they welcome you, eat the things set before you.^(V) ⁹Heal the sick^(W) who are there, and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God^(X) has come near^(Y) you.’ ¹⁰When you enter any town, and they don’t welcome you, go out into its streets and say, ¹¹‘We are wiping off even the dust of your town that clings to our feet as a witness against you.^(Z) Know this for certain: The kingdom of God has come near.’ ¹²I tell you, on that day^(AA) it will be more tolerable for Sodom^(AB) than for that town.^(AC)

Footnotes:

9:51 Lit he stiffened his face to go; Is 50:7
9:54 Other mss add as Elijah also did
9:55-56 Other mss add and said, “You don’t know what kind of spirit you belong to. ⁵⁶For the Son of Man did not come to destroy people’s lives but to save them,”
10:1 Other mss read seventy

Cross references:

9:51 : Mk 16:19
9:51 : 2Kg 12:17; Is 50:7; Jr 42:15
9:51 : Lk 13:22; 17:11; 18:31; 19:11,28
9:52 : Lk 10:1
9:52 : Mt 10:5
9:53 : Jn 4:9,20
9:54 : 2Kg 1:9-16; Rv 13:13
9:57-60 : Mt 8:19-22
9:60 : Lk 8:1; 9:2; 16:16
9:61 : 1Kg 19:20
10:2 : Mt 9:37-38; Jn 4:35
10:2 : Rv 14:15
10:2 : Mt 20:1
10:2 : 2Th 3:1
10:3 : Mt 7:15; 10:16; Jn 10:12; Ac 20:29
10:4 : Lk 12:33; 22:35-36
10:4 : Mk 6:8; Lk 9:3; 22:35-36
10:4 : Mt 10:9-10
10:5 : Mt 11:26; Lk 10:21; 12:51
10:6 : Lk 7:50; 8:48; 24:36; Jn 20:19; Ac 15:33; 1Co 16:11; Jms 2:16
10:7 : Mt 10:10; 1Tm 5:18; 2Pt 2:13
10:8 : 1Co 10:27
10:9 : Mt 10:8; 1Th 5:14
10:9 : Mt 12:28; Lk 11:20; 17:20
10:9 : Mt 10:7; Mk 1:15; 1Pt 4:7
10:11 : Mt 10:14; Mk 6:11; Lk 9:5; Ac 13:51; 18:6
10:12 : Mt 7:22; 13:1; Lk 17:31; 2Pt 3:10
10:12 : Rv 11:8
10:12 : Mt 10:15; 11:22,24; Lk 10:14

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Psalm 74

Prayer for Israel

A Maskil of Asaph.^(A)

¹Why have you rejected us forever, God?
Why does your anger burn
against the sheep of your pasture?^(B)
²Remember your congregation,
which you purchased long ago
and redeemed as the tribe for your own possession.^(C)
Remember Mount Zion where you dwell.^(D)
³Make your way^[a] to the perpetual ruins,
to all that the enemy has destroyed in the sanctuary.^(E)
⁴Your adversaries roared in the meeting place
where you met with us.^[b]
They set up their emblems as signs.^(F)
⁵It was like men in a thicket of trees,
wielding axes,^(G)
⁶then smashing all the carvings
with hatchets and picks.^(H)
⁷They set your sanctuary on fire;
they utterly^[c] desecrated
the dwelling place of your name.^(I)
⁸They said in their hearts,
“Let us oppress them relentlessly.”
They burned every place throughout the land
where God met with us.^[d]^(J)
⁹There are no signs for us to see.
There is no longer a prophet.
And none of us knows how long this will last.^(K)
¹⁰God, how long will the enemy mock?
Will the foe insult your name forever?^(L)
¹¹Why do you hold back your hand?
Stretch out^[e] your right hand and destroy them!^(M)

¹²God my King is from ancient times,
performing saving acts on the earth.^(N)
¹³You divided the sea with your strength;
you smashed the heads of the sea monsters in the water;^(O)
¹⁴you crushed the heads of Leviathan;
you fed him to the creatures of the desert.^(P)
¹⁵You opened up springs and streams;^(Q)
you dried up ever-flowing rivers.^(R)
¹⁶The day is yours, also the night;
you established the moon and the sun.^(S)
¹⁷You set all the boundaries of the earth;
you made summer and winter.^(T)

¹⁸Remember this: the enemy has mocked the Lord,
and a foolish people has insulted your name.^(U)
¹⁹Do not give to beasts the life of your dove;^[f]
do not forget the lives of your poor people forever.^(V)
²⁰Consider the covenant,^(W)
for the dark places of the land are full of violence.^(X)
²¹Do not let the oppressed turn away in shame;
let the poor and needy praise your name.^(Y)
²²Rise up, God, champion your cause!^(Z)
Remember the insults
that fools bring against you all day long.^(AA)
²³Do not forget the clamor of your adversaries,
the tumult of your opponents that goes up constantly.^(AB)

Footnotes:

74:3 Lit Lift up your steps
74:4 Lit in your meeting place
74:7 Lit they to the ground
74:8 Lit every meeting place of God in the land
74:11 Lit From your bosom
74:19 One Hb ms, LXX, Syr read life that praises you

Cross references:

74:0 : 1Ch 16:5,7
74:1 : Ex 32:11; Ps 60:1,10; 108:11
74:2 : Is 63:17; Jr 10:16; 51:19
74:2 : Is 8:18
74:3 : Ps 79:1; Is 61:4
74:4 : Nm 2:2; Lm 2:6-7
74:5 : Jr 46:22
74:6 : Lm 2:2
74:7 : 2Kg 25:9; Ps 79:1
74:8 : Ps 83:4
74:9 : 1Sm 3:1; Lm 2:9; Ezk 7:26
74:10 : Ps 79:12; 89:51
74:11 : Ps 59:13; Lm 2:3
74:12 : Ps 47:6-8; 95:3; Jr 10:10
74:13 : Ex 14:21; Is 51:9; Ezk 32:2
74:14 : Jb 41:1; Ps 104:26; Is 27:1
74:15 : Ps 104:10-11
74:15 : Is 42:15; 44:27
74:16 : Gn 1:14-18; Ps 104:19
74:17 : Gn 8:22; Jb 38:10-11; Pr 8:29; Jr 5:22
74:18 : Ps 14:1; 53:1; 89:51
74:19 : Ps 9:18; 68:10
74:20 : Dt 4:31; Ps 106:45
74:20 : Ezk 7:23
74:21 : Ps 9:9; 103:6; Is 41:7
74:22 : Ps 9:19; 82:8
74:22 : Ps 79:12
74:23 : Ps 65:7

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Proverbs 12:11

¹¹The one who works his land will have plenty of food,^(A)
but whoever chases fantasies lacks sense.^(B)

Cross references:

12:11 : Pr 24:27
12:11 : Pr 28:19

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

April 1, 2019

04/01/2019 DAB Transcript

Deuteronomy 18:1-20:20, Luke 9:28-50, Psalms 73:1-28, Proverbs 12:10

Today is April 1^st. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is great to be here with you today as we step into this brand-new month, the fourth month of the year and it’s our opportunity to step into the second quarter of the year. So, well done. We are well on our way. Our reading today will be from the book of Genesis chapter 1 and will be reading from the Street Bible.

First off, nothing but God, no light, no time, no substance, no matter. Second off, God’s is the word and whap! Stuff everywhere. The cosmos in chaos, no shape, no form, no function just darkness total and floating above it all, God’s Holy Spirit ready to play. Day one. Then God’s voice booms out, “lights!” And from nowhere light floods the skies and night is swept off the scene. God gives it the big thumbs-up but calls it day. Day two. God says, “I want a dome. Call it sky, right there between the waters above and below” and it happens. Day three. God says, “too much water. We need something to walk on a huge lump of it. Call it land. Let the sea make its edges.” God smiles and says, “now we’ve got us some definition but it’s too plain. It needs color, vegetation, loads of it, a million shades, now.” And the earth goes wild with trees, bushes, plants, flowers, and fungi. “Now give it a growth permit.” Seeds appear in every one. “Yes”, says God. April fool’s everyone!!!

Welcome to the month of April in springtime here in the rolling hills of Tennessee. Oh, I have so much fun with that. Believe it or not, that is actually in print. I like, find these obscure, strange, partial or full translations of the Bible and bring them out here on April 1^st. I love it. April fools, we are all awake now and we are aware that we are in a new month although it’s been a while since we’ve been back in the book of Genesis but nice to visit there in an odd sort of way for just quick second. We’re really in the book of Deuteronomy and we’ve been working our way through the book of Deuteronomy for a while now, listening to the final things that Moses has to say to his people before he becomes…before he dies, becomes part of their past. So, we’re really reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week. And today, Deuteronomy chapter 18, 19, and 20.

Commentary:

Okay. So, all joking aside about April Fools’ Day and all let’s go back to Psalm 73 that we read today because it’s very revealing. So, Asaph is the author of this Psalm and he pours out his heart with questions that probably are familiar, probably about things that we’ve thought about. And he is basically saying, “why is it that the proud and wicked people get to have an easy life, get to be healthy and prosperous while I’m here trying to do my best, to be good and to be devout, but all I seem to do struggle? So, am I trying to do good for no reason and does any of it matter because what I see in the world makes me feel bitter? That's…that’s pretty honest, right? That’s pretty stark and we’ve probably all had shades of those feelings in our lives from time to time. And, so, we can see that the Scriptures are inviting us into honesty, into being honest with ourselves with what we’re seeing with God. It was really only until Asaph went into God’s presence that he began to understand. He realized that just complaining about everybody else’s life and comparing his life to everybody else’s life was ignorant. In his own words he said, “I must have seemed like a senseless animal to you.” So, what we see is a Asaph realizing that his identity, his purpose, who he is is not found by comparing how well he might be doing with someone else’s life. His identity was found in knowing God and he found that, he reoriented himself to that by going into God’s presence. And once that happened and his heart was reoriented to the fact that he belonged to God, well, then there was hope in being God’s child. He said, “I still belong to you. You hold my right hand. you guide me with Your counsel leading me to a destiny that is glorious.” We may feel, we may sense the things that Asaph observed and lamented about but we have to follow the same path into God’s presence because we’re all invited into life, into this collaboration on this planet with God that we call life. And when we lose sight of that because we’ve placed our eyes on someone else’s life then we’re no longer freely living hours, we’re attaching ourselves in all kinds of ways to compare to get some sort of identity but it’s false. It’s a total distraction. We can’t find our identity like that. Our identity is found in God’s presence. And, so, along with Asaph today, let’s pray these words from the Psalm, “As for me, how good it is to be near God. I have made the sovereign Lord, my shelter and I will tell everyone about the wonderful things you do.”

Prayer:

Holy Spirit, we invite You into that. It’s something that we see often in the Scriptures because it’s part of our human experience to compare ourselves, how well we’re doing, how superior we are, or how inferior we are when we’re asking the wrong questions and looking in the wrong places. And, so, we come into Your presence where true identity dwells and where everything that we need is because we are Your children. Come Holy Spirit into this brand-new month that we have, lead us forward into the changing of the seasons and may we find You in everything and may we see clearly where You are leading us in the days ahead. We pray these things expectantly because You have offered these things to us. And, so, we pray these things expectantly in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Deuteronomy 28

Blessings for Obedience

Curses for Disobedience

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Luke 11:14-36

A House Divided

An Unclean Spirit’s Return

True Blessedness

The Sign of Jonah

The Lamp of the Body

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Psalm 77

Psalm 77

Confidence in a Time of Crisis

For the choir director: according to Jeduthun. Of Asaph.(A) A psalm.

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Proverbs 12:18

Cross references:

Deuteronomy 26-27

Giving the Firstfruits

The Tenth in the Third Year

Covenant Summary

The Law Written on Stones

The Covenant Curses

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Luke 10:38-11:13

Martha and Mary

The Lord’s Prayer

Ask, Search, Knock

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Psalm 76

Psalm 76

God, the Powerful Judge

For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A psalm of Asaph.(A) A song.

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Proverbs 12:15-17

Cross references:

Deuteronomy 23-25

Exclusion and Inclusion

Cleanliness of the Camp

Fugitive Slaves

Cult Prostitution Forbidden

Interest on Loans

Keeping Vows

Neighbor’s Crops

Marriage and Divorce Laws

Safeguarding Life

Consideration for People in Need

Fairness and Mercy

Preserving the Family Line

Honest Weights and Measures

Revenge on the Amalekites

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Luke 10:13-37

Unrepentant Towns

The Return of the Seventy-Two

The Son Reveals the Father

The Parable of the Good Samaritan

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Psalm 75

Psalm 75

God Judges the Wicked

For the choir director: “Do Not Destroy.” A psalm of Asaph.(A) A song.

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Proverbs 12:12-14

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Deuteronomy 21-22

Unsolved Murders

Fair Treatment of Captured Women

The Right of the Firstborn

For the choir director: according to Jeduthun. Of Asaph.^(A) A psalm.

For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A psalm of Asaph.^(A) A song.

For the choir director: “Do Not Destroy.” A psalm of Asaph.^(A) A song.

A Maskil of Asaph.^(A)