Leviticus 11:1-12:8, Mark 5:21-43, Psalm 38:1-22, Proverbs 10:8-9
Today is the 21st day of February, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is wonderful to be here with you today as we gather, move forward together and the way that we move forward together is the same every day, we pick up where we left off the previous day. And so, that brings us back into the book of Leviticus where we are learning about the laws and rituals and customs and holidays and all of the things that will govern this brand-new people being formed in the wilderness, preparing them for the land of promise. So, today, Leviticus chapters 11 and 12.
Commentary:
Okay so, in the book of Leviticus as we’re moving through the giving of the law, we have begun to understand a concept: clean and unclean. And so, we went through clean animals, kind of like these animals you can eat, these you can’t, can’t even touch them. Or these kind of see living, water-dwelling creatures can be harvested and eaten, these cannot. These kinds of flying animals can be used for food, these cannot, they are unclean. And we can look and go, oh ish’t that quaint or isn’t that antiquated or isn’t that so ancient and irrelevant, but I would say well, you now, go head over to your local bookstore, walk into the diet and nutrition section and you will find that plenty of people still have plenty opinions about what is clean and unclean to eat. And then we moved to purification rights, like a woman who has a baby, that makes her unclean because of a flow of blood. And so, that is after childbirth but it is compared to the uncleanness that would come every month for a woman, the flow of blood is an unclean thing. We could take a step back and go well, that’s not fair but we have to remember because if we back read our culture into something that is thousands of years old, we run into problems. They didn’t have any way to dispose of biohazards and you can only imagine what an infection could do in a community that has nothing like an antibiotic. If you go to a doctor or a hospital today and are going to have blood drawn or you are bleeding, they’re going to be suited up to protect themselves from uncleanness, something that could make them unclean or eventually kill them. And then if it’s a male child, they are to take it for circumcision after eight days and then she will remain unclean or in a rehabilitative mode, like resting and recuperating from childbirth for 33 days. If she has a girl, then it’s 66 days for recovery. And we could be like why pick on, like why curse it so that it’s twice as long for the girls. What if it’s not a curse. What if she gets double the time to not have to observe rituals and observations and do all of the things were she’s able to kind of step back, check out for a minute and bond. But speaking of flowing blood and uncleanness, this was the law, and so if you’re bleeding and its ongoing than you are unclean until it stops.
We flip the page into the gospel of Mark and read a story that we encountered in the gospel of Matthew as well, Jesus is on his way to see about healing a synagogue leaders’ daughter, who is dying, when a woman with a flow of blood that had not stopped for 12 years, thought to herself if she could just touch Jesus clothes that she could be made well. So, by the law, as they had interpreted it and as they had carried it forward, this woman had been unclean every minute of every day for over a decade. And it wasn’t like she hadn’t done everything she could to get well. She had done everything she could and spent all that she had to get well and only was made worse and then she believes that she can be made well and touches Jesus clothes and is made well. While she touched Jesus, she touched him and made him unclean which could have been a pretty risky move, was a pretty risky move. And when Jesus stops and starts looking around and says who touched me, she's…she’s busted. But she comes and throws herself before Jesus and tells him the truth and his kindness just permeates the page, daughter go in peace, your faith has made you whole. It’s a beautiful picture of redemption itself. We, unclean with nothing we can possibly do about it, we can do everything in our own power and spend everything we have pursuing cleanness before God or holiness, righteousness, but we find that at the end of that we have no power and then we believe that Jesus can do it and he does. We the unclean, lawbreakers find wholeness and cleanness in Christ. It’s a beautiful picture of the gospel itself.
Prayer:
And so, Father, we thank You for that, we thank You for that example, we thank You that so often we can read of the formation of a thing and then move forward in time in the Scriptures and see what became of the thing and especially in the New Testament, in the Gospels, we see You, not only coming to rescue us, but to set things straight. So, help us listen, learn, understand and obey as we trust in You with all of our hearts. We pray this in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen.
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Prayer and Encouragements:
This message goes out to Val in Vegas. Ma’am, I pray that the rest of life will reenter your lungs and that you will be healed, in Jesus’ name. I sense a urgency of just joining you in prayer that your lungs will be healed, that your respiratory issues will be healed, that you will breathe once again. I just got over COVID, my wife just got over COVID and it’s a rough road but as long as you continue to believe in the Lord and have faith that He can heal you, I believe that He can heal you. I pray that you have success over this issue. We all have this issue and we need to deal with it. So, be strong, be strong in the faith continue to listen to the word. I pray blessings over your life. In Jesus name, amen.
Hey, this one is for Candace from Oregon. This is Micah. What you said about your son really struck a chord with me. First, obviously, because my name is Micah and then I had alcohol and drug issues all growing up. Like, from the time I was, I think I first got drunk at like age 12 and then steadily drinking and did drugs all through my youth until age 25, is when God got a hold me and I started feeling that I was doing sin. I started having a conscious, but it was really God showing me what I was doing. So, I began to pray. I began to run from the evil situations and when there’s different evil happening and I asked God to take me away from my group of friends so that I wouldn’t be tempted to drugs or alcohol. And he brought me way out to Liberty where my dad lives, just far enough to where my friends wouldn’t drive out that far, just that far. Like, if it was 10 minutes closer, my friends probably would have came but it was just a little too far. And I pray today that God put your son just a little too far out of the reach of the enemy, and that in my likeness of how he stopped my urges for drugs and alcohol, that He’ll do that for your son Micah. And that it would be victory for all the Micah’s. I love you sister and I know God can do it cause he did it for me. So, believe God, can do it for your son. Bye.
Hey DAB fam, it’s Laura in Eugene. Just sitting in the parking lot at this lovely elementary school where I’m gonna substitute teach for a really active, fun group of third graders. So, I could use your prayers today and tomorrow. I’m a retired teacher, I taught for 31 years here at this school and now I’m subbing here and there. They just really can’t get subs; school do need our prayers. I heard someone on the community prayer line I think, lifting up a beautiful prayer for teachers and children and everyone who works at schools. And I just will be praying that as well. But I’m really on here because as I was driving, I was listening and I’ve never heard our cheerful Val in Vegas sounding the way she did and I just want her to know that she is loved and we are all praying for her. And I will pray now, Heavenly Father, I just lift Val in Vegas up to You Lord. I pray that You bring her healing and comfort and Your peace that surpasses all understanding. Lord, be with her and all the others who are suffering from COVID or upper respiratory illnesses Lord. We just know that You are in control and we cling to You, we hold on to You tightly. Father, just be with us all and especially a special prayer for Val as she is feeling horrible and still yet, praying for others. Lord, we thank You, we love You. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
Good morning DAB family. This is Paula in Albuquerque. Hope that you all are doing well and staying in the word. Just wanna give a shout out to my brother Daniel and my sister, Treasure to Treasure. Thank you for praying for my daughter and her husband. As I heard both of those prayers, I just had to give you a little bit of an update. My son-in-law was admitted and had to have a toe amputated. He’s got diabetes and not taking care of himself. My daughter separated from him, almost two years ago. She is doing well in her own strength. Got a better job, making plans for the future without him. She just went on a date with somebody she met on a singles site. My heart just aches for my little grandson, who is our little miracle and for them too because they’re so lost. Would you please continue to pray for them? Jackie and D and for my precious grandson who we call Bubba. I will celebrate his 5th birthday with him in a couple of weeks, which is so exciting. Thank you all, I love you all so much. Have a blessed week in Him.
Hello, Daily Audio Bible family. It is February 18th, I just finished listening to the podcast. Thank you, pastor Brian, and thank you everybody who called in. This is Lavender Dream, I’m on day, I think, 14 with COVID. And I’m slowly getting better but I still have some hearing loss in my right ear and the respiratory stuff is getting, it was getting worse and I’m high dose prednisone and a Z-pack. Doing all my modalities that I need to do and just trusting in God that this is getting better. It is getting a little better every day. So, I just heard a woman share that she tested positive for Trisomy 13 at 17 weeks pregnant and I would like to offer some encouragement. I too, test positive for Trisomy 13 with my second boy and I had the amniocentesis done and I am grateful to let you know that I gave birth to a healthy baby boy and he did not have those characteristics. So, I’m trusting and believing that you too will have a very healthy baby. I think sometimes that those tests sometimes that we can be carriers but they’re not full proof. So, I’m trusting and believing that your baby is going to be healthy and God will carry you through this pregnancy. And I want to thank everybody for your, putting your logs on the fire and for being here every day. I love this app. And praying for all of you. And I just ask for prayer for me to continue to heal and get better as I have many risk factors that are troublesome. Thank you.