Deuteronomy 33:1-29, Luke 13:1-21, Psalm 78:65-72, Proverbs 12:25
Today is the ninth day of April, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian. It is great to be here with you today, around the Global Campfire, moving forward, step-by-step, day-by-day, bringing another one of our weeks to a close. We have been reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week, which is what we’ll do today and we have been reading from the Book of Deuteronomy for quite a while now, we’ll continue that today. Today, Deuteronomy chapter 33.
Commentary:
Okay, real quick, let’s talk about what we read in the Gospel of Luke today. Yesterday, we sort of discussed when Jesus was saying, “did you think I came to bring peace on the earth, I didn’t come to bring peace but a sword or division”. And we talked about how it wasn’t Jesus, like with a dark side. Rather, it was Jesus revealing a picture of how humanity was designed to be and the contrast with how it is and this brings division. We have an example of this today, that can really stand for all…all the other examples in the Gospel because we see it all the time. So, let me just quote “as He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath, a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for over 18 years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. When Jesus saw her, He called out to her, “Woman, you are free of your disability.” Then He laid His hands on her, and instantly she was restored and began to glorify God.” Right, so we read paragraphs like that in the Gospels a lot, all the time. And we read those paragraphs and go, Jesus is amazing, He’s amazing, He’s beautiful. We go, who wouldn’t flock to this? But here’s the other side of that, I continue “But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, responded by telling the crowd, “There are six days when work should be done; therefore come on those days and be healed and not on the Sabbath day.”” Okay, so Jesus didn’t do anything wrong. Jesus brought the kingdom, Jesus revealed the kingdom, Jesus showed us that this was supposed to be normal, that freedom and restoration and healing, like this is…this is how it was meant to be. But even though Jesus was doing good, it still caused division and Jesus calls out the hypocrisy of it. So, I quote “But the Lord answered him and said, “Hypocrites! Doesn’t each one of you untie his ox or donkey from the feeding trough on the Sabbath and lead it to the water? Satan has bound this woman, a daughter of Abraham, for 18 years-shouldn’t she be untied from this bondage on the Sabbath day”? So, there it is, like that an encapsulation of what Jesus was saying and this was normal for Jesus. Jesus was revealing the kingdom and the kingdom was coming and people were being restored and healed and just rejuvenated in their soul, and yet the powerful people, the religious elite people were plotting to kill Jesus at the same time. Where this becomes important for us, beyond just simply understanding the context here, is whether or not we find ourselves in that same kind of scenario. Synagogue leaders, the religious leaders, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the scribes, the teachers of the law, these are educated people who know what they’re talking about but they are also interpreting what they are talking about and forcing it upon the people. And so, Jesus is calling out this thing, like shouldn’t a daughter of Abraham be untied on the Sabbath day, if a donkey or a colt can be. The religious leadership, their determination was no, she should not be healed. Nobody can do any work on the Sabbath day. So, if we zoom out and say okay that, that is a specific argument, about a specific point of law, let’s just consider how we feel about things. And if we see someone doing something that we do not think is right or that they should be doing and yet God is with them and they are pure in heart and they see it a little bit different, but God is with them. And if we find our heart in a judgmental position then we have found ourselves in the position of the religious elite, who plotted and succeeded in assassinating Jesus. So, when Jesus tells us in the Gospels, judge not lest you be judged, we see that it touches so many different areas of our lives but we simply can’t ignore it.
Prayer:
And so, Jesus we’re not ignoring it, we’re welcoming You into it. The fact that You have given us the breath of life and allowed us to be on this adventure of life with You, doing Your work in this world, is incredibly humbling. So often our own wounds and our own judgments have us pitted against other brothers and sisters who love You and who are Your children and we see this going all the way back into the time that You were here, where some people would rather that another person be kept in bondage because of this day of the week that it is. Help us to not be that way, help us to be awake, aware, vigilant and surrendered. We ask this in the precious name of Jesus. Amen.
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Prayer and Encouragements:
This is for the precious, precious sister that called from Georgia this morning, April 6th, who was praying, crying out for strength. Oh, my sister, my heart broke for you. I’ve been in that place where you’re lost and at the end of your rope. And I want you to know that I will be praying for you and that God has heard your prayer. And when we come at the end of our rope, is when He steps in. I know that there’s gonna be many, many that will be praying for you. Please know that you are loved, that you will be carried, and that God will show up, He never rejects anyone, ever. Bless you, my dear sister.
Good morning, today is April 6th and this message is for God’s Chosen in Georgia. God’s Chosen, first, I would like to say, I live in Georgia. I wish I could meet you personally to help encourage you, but I want to say this morning, I don’t know what you’re going through but looks very, sounds very severe. I wanted to pray in the name of Jesus. Father, that You would undergird her today. Father, that this sister will feel Your arms around her today, oh God. Lord, whatever battle she’s fighting, You said that we have already won, that we are more than victoriously, that we’re more than conquerors. Father, I pray today in the name of Jesus, that You would make Your presence known to her oh God. Father, that You will intervene and whatever challenge and whatever the situation is, oh God, whether it’s physical, emotional, financial oh God, Father, spiritual, that the battle already won. Lord, I pray that You would cover her today in the name of Jesus, surround her with Your guardian angels oh God. Undergird her oh God. Lord, I would love to stand even beside her physically Lord, if I can reach her. Father, help us oh God, to be a community Lord, that we can encourage and lift and build up in Jesus name. God’s Chosen, trust the Lord today. Turn to Him with all your heart, cry out to him. He knows your need. He hears your pain; we hear your pain. We love you and we supporting you. We’re praying for you; we’re lifting you up. He will be the fourth man in your fiery furnace, He will be the one that calms the storm. He is the way maker. He is the Alpha and the Omega. He is the bread of life. He is the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Father, I thank you today, oh God, that God’s Chosen will be delivered oh God, from the pain, whatever she’s going through. You’re the only One who can do it, oh God. We stand in the gap with her. Lord, we lift up her hands, oh God, like Aaron held up Moses’ hand, oh God. We stand beside her oh God, and we bring a prayer request to You in the name of Jesus. And we thank You for…
Hi DAB family, it’s Pam, His Ransom Soul in New Jersey. I wanted to reach out to the young man who called in to the March 31st podcast and referred to himself as a spiritual misfit. I’m only gonna use that term once here darling, because that is not what nor whom you are, despite the fact that you feel like one. You’ve burned yourself with a lot of needless, meaningless labels. Listen, labels or for canned goods and medicine bottles, not human beings. Please know, there’s no Christian umbrella under which our Lord asks or wants you to stand. He just wants you to stand at the foot of the cross of Christ and give Him your heart. Can I tell you, that many of us here probably haven’t had a straight simple, easy, and definitely not a perfect walk of faith either, myself included. And as cliché as this sounds, it’s a fact that we’re all a work in progress. Right now, you’re knowing and believing the truth that Jesus loves you is key and I’m so thankful it’s kept you from harming yourself whenever you were in a dark place. My prayer for you going forward, is that you truly see yourself as our merciful and grace filled Lord God sees you. His beautiful beloved child, created in his image, bought with and covered by the precious blood of his son Jesus. You are the one for whom are good Shephard leaves behind the 99 to find because Jesus loves you and said do we and so do I. I’m pray for you darling.
Hey DAB family, this is Kirstie in the Kingdom, both heavenly and united. I’m just out walking my dogs in the rain and listening to today’s podcast which, oh gosh, it had rained in the background as well, it there was just this overwhelming sense of peace, as I was listening to all your prayer requests. And I did want to just call in and pray that peace over the DAB family. So, Father God, I just pray that You would come and meet each person of this massive family, where they’re at right now, Lord. I pray that Your peace that passes all understanding would fall down upon on them and fill them with Your love and that gentleness and that whisper of You that can calm even the most tormented soul. I pray that You would flow in and around their days and their workplaces and that they would just feel this overwhelming sense of peace as they go about their day, no matter what their current circumstances are, no matter how difficult things are, I pray that each member of this family would encounter and feel Your peace today. In Jesus name. Amen. I do hope that you feel blessed and feel peaceful this day.
Hey siblings, it’s your little sis, His Little Sharee in Canada. I just wanted to call and encourage someone who may be listening to this and encourage myself too. That it’s not too late for God to do a miracle. It may seem like it, it may feel it, the damage may have been done decades ago and it doesn’t seem like there’s anyway to fix what’s broken but God. But God. I look to Him for redemption and I’m just praying that God would give us courage and faith to believe that it is not too late. We don’t know how he’s gonna do it, we don’t know exactly what He’s going to do, but God is the God of redemption. That’s my timer, letting me know it’s not too late. Love you guys.