April 2022 – Page 5 – A Walk Through The Word

April 10, 2022

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Sunday April 10, 2022 (NIV)

Deuteronomy 34 - Joshua 2

The Death of Moses

34 Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Mount Pisgah east of Jericho, and there the Lord showed him the whole land: the territory of Gilead as far north as the town of Dan; ²the entire territory of Naphtali; the territories of Ephraim and Manasseh; the territory of Judah as far west as the Mediterranean Sea; ³the southern part of Judah; and the plain that reaches from Zoar to Jericho, the city of palm trees. ⁴^(A)Then the Lord said to Moses, “This is the land that I promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob I would give to their descendants. I have let you see it, but I will not let you go there.”

⁵So Moses, the Lord's servant, died there in the land of Moab, as the Lord had said he would. ⁶The Lord buried him in a valley in Moab, opposite the town of Bethpeor, but to this day no one knows the exact place of his burial. ⁷Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; he was as strong as ever, and his eyesight was still good. ⁸The people of Israel mourned for him for thirty days in the plains of Moab.

⁹Joshua son of Nun was filled with wisdom, because Moses had appointed him to be his successor. The people of Israel obeyed Joshua and kept the commands that the Lord had given them through Moses.

¹⁰^(B)There has never been a prophet in Israel like Moses; the Lord spoke with him face-to-face. ¹¹No other prophet has ever done miracles and wonders like those that the Lord sent Moses to perform against the king of Egypt, his officials, and the entire country. ¹²No other prophet has been able to do the great and terrifying things that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.

God Commands Joshua to Conquer Canaan

1 After the death of the Lord's servant Moses, the Lord spoke to Moses' helper, Joshua son of Nun. ²He said, “My servant Moses is dead. Get ready now, you and all the people of Israel, and cross the Jordan River into the land that I am giving them. ³^(C)As I told Moses, I have given you and all my people the entire land that you will be marching over. ⁴Your borders will reach from the desert in the south to the Lebanon Mountains in the north; from the great Euphrates River in the east, through the Hittite country, to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. ⁵^(D)Joshua, no one will be able to defeat you as long as you live. I will be with you as I was with Moses. I will always be with you; I will never abandon you. ⁶^(E)Be determined and confident, for you will be the leader of these people as they occupy this land which I promised their ancestors. ⁷Just be determined, be confident; and make sure that you obey the whole Law that my servant Moses gave you. Do not neglect any part of it and you will succeed wherever you go. ⁸Be sure that the book of the Law is always read in your worship. Study it day and night, and make sure that you obey everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. ⁹Remember that I have commanded you to be determined and confident! Do not be afraid or discouraged, for I, the Lord your God, am with you wherever you go.”

Joshua Gives Orders to the People

¹⁰Then Joshua ordered the leaders to ¹¹go through the camp and say to the people, “Get some food ready, because in three days you are going to cross the Jordan River to occupy the land that the Lord your God is giving you.”

¹²^(F)Joshua said to the tribes of Reuben and Gad and to half the tribe of Manasseh, ¹³“Remember how the Lord's servant Moses told you that the Lord your God would give you this land on the east side of the Jordan as your home. ¹⁴Your wives, your children, and your livestock will stay here, but your soldiers, armed for battle, will cross over ahead of the other Israelites in order to help them ¹⁵until they have occupied the land west of the Jordan that the Lord your God has given them. When he has given safety to all the tribes of Israel, then you may come back and settle here in your own land east of the Jordan, which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave to you.”

¹⁶They answered Joshua, “We will do everything you have told us and will go anywhere you send us. ¹⁷We will obey you, just as we always obeyed Moses, and may the Lord your God be with you as he was with Moses! ¹⁸Whoever questions your authority or disobeys any of your orders will be put to death. Be determined and confident!”

Joshua Sends Spies into Jericho

2 ^(G)Then Joshua sent two spies from the camp at Acacia with orders to go and secretly explore the land of Canaan, especially the city of Jericho. When they came to the city, they went to spend the night in the house of a prostitute named Rahab. ²The king of Jericho heard that some Israelites had come that night to spy out the country, ³so he sent word to Rahab: “The men in your house have come to spy out the whole country! Bring them out!”

^4-6“Some men did come to my house,” she answered, “but I don't know where they were from. They left at sundown before the city gate was closed. I didn't find out where they were going, but if you start after them quickly, you can catch them.” (Now Rahab had taken the two spies up on the roof and hidden them under some stalks of flax that she had put there.) ⁷The king's men left the city, and then the gate was shut. They went looking for the Israelite spies as far as the place where the road crosses the Jordan.

⁸Before the spies settled down for the night, Rahab went up on the roof ⁹and said to them, “I know that the Lord has given you this land. Everyone in the country is terrified of you. ¹⁰^(H)We have heard how the Lord dried up the Red Sea in front of you when you were leaving Egypt. We have also heard how you killed Sihon and Og, the two Amorite kings east of the Jordan. ¹¹We were afraid as soon as we heard about it; we have all lost our courage because of you. The Lord your God is God in heaven above and here on earth. ¹²Now swear by him that you will treat my family as kindly as I have treated you, and give me some sign that I can trust you. ¹³Promise me that you will save my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all their families! Don't let us be killed!”

¹⁴The men said to her, “May God take our lives if we don't do as we say!^[a] If you do not tell anyone what we have been doing, we promise you that when the Lord gives us this land, we will treat you well.”

¹⁵Rahab lived in a house built into the city wall, so she let the men down from the window by a rope. ¹⁶“Go into the hill country,” she said, “or the king's men will find you. Hide there for three days until they come back. After that, you can go on your way.”

¹⁷The men said to her, “We will keep the promise that you have made us give. ¹⁸This is what you must do. When we invade your land, tie this red cord to the window you let us down from. Get your father and mother, your brothers, and all your father's family together in your house. ¹⁹If anyone goes out of the house, his death will be his own fault, and we will not be responsible; but if anyone in the house with you is harmed, then we will be responsible. ²⁰However, if you tell anyone what we have been doing, then we will not have to keep our promise which you have made us give you.” ²¹She agreed and sent them away. When they had gone, she tied the red cord to the window.

²²The spies went into the hills and hid. The king's men looked for them all over the countryside for three days, but they did not find them, so they returned to Jericho. ²³Then the two spies came down from the hills, crossed the river, and went back to Joshua. They told him everything that had happened, ²⁴and then said, “We are sure that the Lord has given us the whole country. All the people there are terrified of us.”

Footnotes:

Joshua 2:14 May God … say; or We will protect you if you protect us.

Cross references:

Good News Translation (GNT)

Luke 13:22-14:6

The Narrow Door^(A)

²²Jesus went through towns and villages, teaching the people and making his way toward Jerusalem. ²³Someone asked him, “Sir, will just a few people be saved?”

Jesus answered them, ²⁴“Do your best to go in through the narrow door; because many people will surely try to go in but will not be able. ²⁵The master of the house will get up and close the door; then when you stand outside and begin to knock on the door and say, ‘Open the door for us, sir!’ he will answer you, ‘I don't know where you come from!’ ²⁶Then you will answer, ‘We ate and drank with you; you taught in our town!’ ²⁷^(B)But he will say again, ‘I don't know where you come from. Get away from me, all you wicked people!’ ²⁸^(C)How you will cry and gnash your teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God, while you are thrown out! ²⁹People will come from the east and the west, from the north and the south, and sit down at the feast in the Kingdom of God. ³⁰^(D)Then those who are now last will be first, and those who are now first will be last.”

Jesus' Love for Jerusalem^(E)

³¹At that same time some Pharisees came to Jesus and said to him, “You must get out of here and go somewhere else, because Herod wants to kill you.”

³²Jesus answered them, “Go and tell that fox: ‘I am driving out demons and performing cures today and tomorrow, and on the third day I shall finish my work.’ ³³Yet I must be on my way today, tomorrow, and the next day; it is not right for a prophet to be killed anywhere except in Jerusalem.

³⁴^(F)“Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets, you stone the messengers God has sent you! How many times I wanted to put my arms around all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me! ³⁵^(G)And so your Temple will be abandoned. I assure you that you will not see me until the time comes when you say, ‘God bless him who comes in the name of the Lord.’”

Jesus Heals a Sick Man

14 One Sabbath Jesus went to eat a meal at the home of one of the leading Pharisees; and people were watching Jesus closely. ²A man whose legs and arms were swollen came to Jesus, ³and Jesus spoke up and asked the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees, “Does our Law allow healing on the Sabbath or not?”

⁴But they would not say a thing. Jesus took the man, healed him, and sent him away. ⁵^(H)Then he said to them, “If any one of you had a child or an ox that happened to fall in a well on a Sabbath, would you not pull it out at once on the Sabbath itself?”

⁶But they were not able to answer him about this.

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Good News Translation (GNT)

Psalm 79

A Prayer for the Nation's Deliverance^[a]

79 ^(A)O God, the heathen have invaded your land.
They have desecrated your holy Temple
and left Jerusalem in ruins.
²They left the bodies of your people for the vultures,
the bodies of your servants for wild animals to eat.
³They shed your people's blood like water;
blood flowed like water all through Jerusalem,
and no one was left to bury the dead.
⁴The surrounding nations insult us;
they laugh at us and mock us.

⁵Lord, will you be angry with us forever?
Will your anger continue to burn like fire?
⁶Turn your anger on the nations that do not worship you,
on the people who do not pray to you.
⁷For they have killed your people;
they have ruined your country.

⁸Do not punish us for the sins of our ancestors.
Have mercy on us now;
we have lost all hope.
⁹Help us, O God, and save us;
rescue us and forgive our sins
for the sake of your own honor.
¹⁰Why should the nations ask us,
“Where is your God?”
Let us see you punish the nations
for shedding the blood of your servants.

¹¹Listen to the groans of the prisoners,
and by your great power free those who are condemned to die.
¹²Lord, pay the other nations back seven times
for all the insults they have hurled at you.
¹³Then we, your people, the sheep of your flock,
will thank you forever
and praise you for all time to come.

Footnotes:

Psalm 79:1 HEBREW TITLE: A psalm by Asaph.

Cross references:

Psalm 79:1 : 2Kgs 25:8-2Kgs 25:10; 2Chr 36:17-2Chr 36:19; Jer 52:12-Jer 52:14

Good News Translation (GNT)

Proverbs 12:26

²⁶The righteous person is a guide to his friend, but the path of the wicked leads them astray.

Good News Translation (GNT)

April 9, 2022

4/9/2022 DAB Transcript

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.

April 9, 2022

04/08/2022 DAB Transcript

Deuteronomy 32:28-52, Luke 12:35-59, Psalms 78:56-64, Proverbs 12:24

Today is the 8^th day of April welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian I am thrilled to be here with you today as we gather around the Global Campfire and take the next step forward together. And that next step forward together has been back into the book of Deuteronomy for a while now, and that’s where we’re going today, back into the book of Deuteronomy. We have a couple of days left. And then when we begin a new week we will also be transitioning into some new territory in the Old Testament. But for now, we’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week Deuteronomy chapter 32 verse 28 through 52. And just by way of reminder from yesterday, a song was given to Moses to teach the people because God was warning and also foretelling that when things got easy for them, and they were in the promised land they would begin to slide away. And, so, God gave Moses the song that he taught the people and we’re reading the words to that song, and we began that yesterday. We will conclude today.

Commentary:

Okay. So, in our reading from the Gospel of Luke today Jesus is basically illustrating through parable what vigilance and awareness looks like and requiring this, vigilance and awareness, that we are alert and situationally aware of what is going on around us, and that doesn’t just mean the circumstances that we can proceed with our five physical senses. That means what’s going on in our hearts. Because the vigilance and the awareness is supposed to be about what God is doing within us and within others and then collectively through the hearts of mankind in the world. And, so, this posture of being alert, of being aware of being ready, of having things prepared. We see this throughout…well…we’ll see this throughout the rest of the New Testament. And there’s context for that. They needed to be aware. Like, there were a lot of things coming against them. But it’s not like there’s not a lot coming against us. We need to be alert and aware of what’s going on, which requires us to take at least one step back from being full-bore full-blown going hard charging ahead. Like if we’re dialed up to 11, we need to turn down to 9 and take a step back because we don’t have any margin. If we are racing at 11 in every area of our lives all of the time, then all we can ever do is react when something happens that was not expected. But if we take a couple steps back and dial it down a little bit then we have a bit of margin. And then when the unexpected happens we have margin to deal with it and we’re not just reacting because it’s those three actions when we live reactionary to everything that is happening around us, we can get ourselves in trouble so quickly. But if we are vigilant and aware and see and see what’s happening in our hearts and have the margin before we just spout off a bunch of paragraphs that we should never say to anybody, then we can allow the Holy Spirit into that margin to lead us into all truth. And, so, Jesus is talking about vigilance but then He comes to something that is famous but is like, “how does this work?” And, so, I’m quoting Jesus here. “I came to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already set ablaze, but I have a baptism to undergo and how it consumes me until it is finished. Do you think I came here to bring peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.” And then He goes on to talk about how different family members will be against other family members. And it’s like, how does that work because this is the prince of peace, right? Peace on earth, goodwill toward men? And, so, we can read into this that Jesus has another side to Him, right? Or, yes, He’s a peace maker, yes He’s a miracle worker, yes, He’s a wisdom teacher, yes He’s the son of the most high God, and yes He speaks a message that brings shalom. So, why is He saying He didn’t come to do that, but rather bring division? So, Jesus certainly was bringing the message of the kingdom of heaven and was announcing it everywhere that He went, and He was bringing that kingdom, right? Through to the miraculous healings that occurred, this is just the kingdom coming and restoring things to how they are supposed to be, the way that He captured the heart of the people and ignited them and gave them an opportunity to sort of see that there’s another way to be a human being, there’s other ways of looking at things. Jesus certainly did that and the accounts that we have of that in the Gospels endure. Like, we’re reading them or being formed by them, we’re being shaped by them. So, He was certainly showing us the path to inner peace, which cultivates and creates peace everywhere that we are. So, it’s not Jesus with a dark side who also wants to cause division even while He is announcing peace. It’s not Jesus. It’s the message that there is a better way to be here. There is a better way to be among each other. There is a better way to live, one that allows the circumstances that surround us, even if there dire to exist while retaining a connection to God from within that knows that no matter what happens to us, we are safe. God is with us. For this to happen and we…we’re 2000 years into moving in these directions, for this to happen requires under surrender to God. And, so, when human beings are told that the pathway to peace, the pathway to strength is through surrender it becomes like dissonance in our minds because we have been told that dominance is power, and people don’t usually give up power. The more power that they have, the more they are less likely to give it up in favor of a better way. And, so, even though there is a better way it still causes division because not everybody is on board with giving up control. What Jesus was describing is just as much with us today. If we look back over the history of the gospel since the life and ministry of Jesus, we see the church doing amazing things in the world and also some pretty horrible stuff. The gospel of Jesus Christ, the message that He brought to us confronts our hearts. It brings the truth to our hearts, and we can’t hide from the lies that we told ourselves and everyone else. It causes a divide. Not for the sake of long term ongoing division and upheaval, but to bring the truth and confront the lies. And, so, we can begin to understand what Jesus is saying. He’s bringing the truth, confronting the false and the false is plotting to destroy Him. And even as we continue on this march forward, revealing the kingdom, being the hands and feet of Jesus in this world we’re told to expect no different. And, so, what we’re supposed to do is be awake and alert and aware of what is happening so that when truth confronts us and causes dissonance or division inside of us that we know what the path is, surrender. Surrender is the path to freedom, surrendering and acknowledging our utter dependence upon God.

Prayer:

Father, we invite You into that. When we think about it like that we can see, yeah, when we’re confronted with the truth that does cause us to have to recalibrate. And a lot of times if it…if it means that we’re going to give up control we fight, And, so, as we look at our processes and the ways that we react to things we can clearly see where our hearts posture is and we invite Your Holy Spirit into that, that we might understand that the first move in a divisive situation is to surrender to You and allow You to work through us, that it really is about Your kingdom and Your work in this world and not about our dominance. Come, Holy Spirit into this we pray in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen.

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Good morning DABbers as I am now at a new DABber and I’m so blessed by this ministry. I have recently become a double DABber. And, so, OK first time calling. This is Peggy in Chicago. And first again thank you so much as I’m continually being blessed by all the praise requests and the families reading. And I am praying along with each one of you, which is in turn blessing to me. So, yes, I’m praying along with each one of you as I get to know my family my new DAB family. And also with that since I’m being so blessed I’m also encouraged that I may also may not want to call in for prayer on my first time. And praying for healing, keeping this short. So, God knows that I have and injury that has a nerve damaged. So, I’m praying that I don’t have permanent damage. And recently I have an issue going on that’s personal and I am believing in God because God’s Jehovah Raffa our healer. He is faithful, He is good. And, so, I thank you Father right now for what I believe you to do. And lift up to my new DAB family and I hope to be calling in again soon. So, signing off. This is Chicago peg.

Hello Daily Audio Bible this is Gin in Min calling on Tuesday the 5^th of April? Oh my gosh. The 5^th of April. And I’m calling because on Sunday I heard this gal sing, and it was such a Billie Holiday vibe. It was so powerful for me to hear. And my husband David has been in the hospital since November from a stroke. And on Sunday I went in, and I said hey, do you want to listen to…I got something to listen to. And I played that song from that gal that sang it that had that Billie Holiday vibe. And after that I played some of Brian’s…we started reading…listening to the Daily Audio Bible and I paused it and I said, David do you know who this is and he said…and he nodded yes. And I said, who is it. And he whispered, Brian. And it was so…so excited because having the stroke and what you can recognize and what you can’t. And we’ve been listening to…for the last year two years and he knew Brian’s voice and it was just great. And I asked him what he thought about the song and he’s like powerful. And, so, it just ministered to me in the morning and then I was able to share it with David. And, so, just excited about the that that was great to hear. Anyway, just thought I’d say that. Thank you for singing It’s a Blessing and I love sharing things with my husband as he’s in the hospital. Thanks. Bye.

Hello, my name is Aaron and I was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia on Christmas Eve of last year. And, so, I began my treatment on January 15^th knowing that God had a plan for whatever was gonna happen. And on March…sometime in March they found a very very rare form of fungal lesions on my brain that were eating my brain and they…and they had to stop my chemotherapy because as they lowered my immune system the…the fungal lesions were ramping up and eating my brain more and more. So, I’m stuck in kind of an odd position because I can’t have the fungal lesions, but I also need my chemo. And if it’s God will that I pass this is really my prayer. God’s gonna heal me if He’s gonna heal me. And I don’t necessarily need prayer for that. I do need prayer for that. Please, please, please pray for that because I don’t want to die, and I don’t know how they’re gonna pull this off. But really if I do…if I…if I have to pass I’m asking for prayer that I pass with grace and mercy and love and __ end in God’s image. Thanks DAB.

Hello Daily Audio Bible family this is Richard from Montreal the taxi driver. Yes, I’m calling in because I want to join my voice to the one with Brian when you’re calling on a Daily Audio Bible that’s saying, well done! I want to say to all of you guys, well done for encouraging our brother who’s calling himself a misfit because me too. I was a misfit. We were all misfits but now we are perfected in God’s Kingdom. And we’re sharpening each other, we’re building each other encouraging each. I know I must be sounding it a little bit annoying with all my joyful and, you know, because when you stop to think about it, you know, there’s a lot of people that are living a lot of stuff. They’re like wares and sickness and death and, you know, all…and how can you be happy? Well, it’s the joy of the Lord. It comes in. And I pray…this is my prayer, that even in trials and in sorrow may yourself be just for a moment, may that last, that you’d be filled with God’s joy and God’s encouragement. And well done to everybody that is encouraging brothers and sisters and building each other up. I’m happy to be part of this beautiful community and I’m saying like Brian, I love you and I’ll see you maybe tomorrow. God bless. Shalom.

Hi everyone, this is Liz from Louisiana. I was just wondering if you can pray for my…my med school board exam scheduled on April 30^th. I’ve been studying for these exams since February, but I really have not been improving and I…I just can’t seem to pass this exam. And I’ve been feeling very discouraged. And I just feel very depressed, and I don’t know what to do. I really don’t want to push it later because we start rotation in the hospital in May. And I also feel like right now I’m just so tired of studying and I have no strength and I really feel like my brain is failing me. I think maybe I take…I need to take a year off but that also doesn’t seem like a good option. I truly would love to be able to take it on April 30^th and pass it but I feel like I really would really need a miracle. I would really need a miracle from God to help me. So, if you guys can pray for me for my board exam on April 30^th just for…for…just if you could just pray for God’s wisdom for me and a miracle from God that would be really appreciated. Thank you.

April 9, 2022

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Saturday April 9, 2022 (NIV)

Deuteronomy 33

Moses’s Blessings

33 This is the blessing that Moses, the man of God, gave the Israelites before his death.^(A) ²He said:

The Lord came from Sinai
and appeared to them from Seir;^(B)
he shone on them from Mount Paran^(C)
and came with ten thousand holy ones,^[a]
with lightning^[b] from his right hand^[c] for them.^(D)
³Indeed he loves the people.^[d]^(E)
All your^[e] holy ones are in your hand,
and they assemble^[f] at your feet.
Each receives your words.
⁴Moses gave us instruction,
a possession for the assembly of Jacob.
⁵So he became King in Jeshurun^[g]^(F)
when the leaders of the people gathered
with the tribes of Israel.

⁶Let Reuben live and not die
though his people become few.^(G)

⁷He said this about Judah:

Lord, hear Judah’s cry and bring him to his people.
He fights for his cause^[h] with his own hands,
but may you be a help against his foes.

⁸He said about Levi:

Your Thummim and Urim^(H) belong to your faithful one;^[i]
you tested him at Massah
and contended with him at the Waters of Meribah.^(I)
⁹He said about his father and mother,
“I do not regard them.”
He disregarded his brothers
and didn’t acknowledge his sons,
for they kept your word
and maintained your covenant.^(J)
¹⁰They will teach your ordinances to Jacob
and your instruction to Israel;^(K)
they will set incense before you
and whole burnt offerings on your altar.
¹¹Lord, bless his possessions,^[j]
and accept the work of his hands.
Break the back^[k] of his adversaries and enemies,
so that they cannot rise again.

¹²He said about Benjamin:

The Lord’s beloved rests^[l] securely on him.
He^[m] shields him all day long,
and he rests on his shoulders.^[n]

¹³He said about Joseph:

May his land be blessed by the Lord
with the dew of heaven’s bounty
and the watery depths that lie beneath;^(L)
¹⁴with the bountiful harvest from the sun
and the abundant yield of the seasons;
¹⁵with the best products of the ancient mountains
and the bounty of the eternal hills;^(M)
¹⁶with the choice gifts of the land
and everything in it;
and with the favor of him
who appeared^[o] in the burning bush.^(N)
May these rest on the head of Joseph,
on the brow of the prince of his brothers.^(O)
¹⁷His firstborn bull has^[p] splendor,
and horns like^[q] those of a wild ox;
he gores all the peoples with them
to the ends of the earth.
Such are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
and such are the thousands of Manasseh.

¹⁸He said about Zebulun:

Rejoice, Zebulun, in your journeys,
and Issachar, in your tents.
¹⁹They summon the peoples to a mountain;
there they offer acceptable sacrifices.
For they draw from the wealth of the seas
and the hidden treasures of the sand.^(P)

²⁰He said about Gad:

The one who enlarges Gad’s territory
will be blessed.
He lies down like a lion
and tears off an arm or even a head.^(Q)
²¹He chose the best part for himself,
because a ruler’s portion was assigned there for him.
He came with the leaders of the people;
he carried out the Lord’s justice
and his ordinances for Israel.^(R)

²²He said about Dan:

Dan is a young lion,
leaping out of Bashan.^(S)

²³He said about Naphtali:

Naphtali, enjoying approval,
full of the Lord’s blessing,
take^[r] possession to the west and the south.

²⁴He said about Asher:

May Asher^[s] be the most blessed of the sons;
may he be the most favored among his brothers
and dip his foot in olive oil.^(T)
²⁵May the bolts of your gate be iron and bronze,
and your strength last as long as you live.

²⁶There is none like the God of Jeshurun,
who rides the heavens to your aid,
the clouds in his majesty.^(U)
²⁷The God of old is your dwelling place,^(V)
and underneath are the everlasting arms.
He drives out the enemy before you
and commands, “Destroy!”
²⁸So Israel dwells securely;^(W)
Jacob lives untroubled^[t]^(X)
in a land of grain and new wine;
even his skies drip with dew.^(Y)
²⁹How happy you are, Israel!
Who is like you,
a people saved by the Lord?
He is the shield that protects you,
the sword you boast in.
Your enemies will cringe before you,^(Z)
and you will tread on their backs.^[u]^(AA)

Footnotes:

33:2 LXX reads Mount Paran with ten thousands from Kadesh
33:2 Or fiery law; Hb obscure
33:2 Or ones, from his southland to the mountain slopes
33:3 Or peoples
33:3 Lit his, or its
33:3 Hb obscure
33:5 = Upright One, referring to Israel, also in v. 26
33:7 Or He contends for them
33:8 DSS, LXX read Give to Levi your Thummim, your Urim to your favored one
33:11 Or abilities
33:11 Or waist
33:12 Or Let the Lord’s beloved rest
33:12 LXX reads The Most High
33:12 Or and he dwells among his mountain slopes
33:16 Lit dwelt
33:17 Some DSS, Sam, LXX, Syr, Vg read A firstborn bull—he has
33:17 Lit and his horns are
33:23 Sam, LXX, Syr, Vg, Tg read he will take
33:24 = Happy or Blessed; Gn 30:13
33:28 Text emended; MT reads Jacob’s fountain is alone
33:29 Or high places

Cross references:

33:1–29 : Gn 49:1–33
33:2 : Gn 14:6; 32:3; 36:8; Dt 1:2; Jdg 5:4
33:2 : Gn 21:21; Nm 10:12; 12:16; Dt 1:1; Hab 3:3
33:2 : Jdg 5:4–5; Ps 68:7–8; Hab 3:3
33:3 : Dt 4:37; Mal 1:2
33:5 : Dt 32:15; 33:26; Is 44:2
33:6 : Gn 49:3–4; Jdg 5:15–16
33:8 : Ex 28:30; Lv 8:8; Ezr 2:63; Neh 7:65
33:8 : Ex 17:1–7; Nm 20:2–13; Dt 6:16; 9:22; Ps 95:8
33:9 : Ex 32:25–29
33:10 : Dt 31:9–13
33:13 : Pr 3:20
33:15 : Gn 49:26; Hab 3:6
33:16 : Ex 3:2–4
33:16 : Gn 49:26
33:18–19 : Gn 49:13; Jdg 5:15,18
33:20 : 1Ch 12:8
33:20–21 : Nm 32:1–38
33:22 : Jdg 5:17
33:24 : Gn 49:20
33:26 : 2Sm 22:8–20; Ps 18:7–19; 68:4,33; Is 19:1
33:27 : Ps 91:9
33:28 : Lv 25:18–19; 26:5; Dt 12:10; 33:12; Jr 23:6; 33:16; Ezk 28:26; 34:28; 39:6
33:28 : Nm 23:9
33:28 : Dt 8:7–9
33:29 : 2Sm 22:44–46; Ps 18:43–45
33:29 : Dt 32:13; Hab 3:19

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Luke 13:1-21

Repent or Perish

13 At that time,^(A) some people came and reported to him about the Galileans^(B) whose blood Pilate^(C) had mixed with their sacrifices. ²And he^[a] responded to them, “Do you think that these Galileans were more sinful than all the other Galileans because they suffered these things?^(D) ³No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as well. ⁴Or those eighteen that the tower in Siloam^(E) fell on and killed—do you think they were more sinful than all the other people who live in Jerusalem? ⁵No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as well.”

The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree

⁶And he told this parable:^(F) “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He came looking for fruit on it and found none.^(G) ⁷He told the vineyard worker, ‘Listen, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down!^(H) Why should it even waste the soil?’^(I)

⁸“But he replied to him, ‘Sir,^[b] leave it this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.^(J) ⁹Perhaps it will produce fruit next year, but if not, you can cut it down.’”

Healing a Daughter of Abraham

¹⁰As he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath,^(K) ¹¹a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit^[c]^(L) for over eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all.^[d] ¹²When Jesus saw her, he called out to her,^[e] “Woman, you are free of your disability.” ¹³Then he laid his hands on her,^(M) and instantly she was restored^(N) and began to glorify God.^(O)

¹⁴But the leader of the synagogue, indignant^(P) because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, responded by telling the crowd, “There are six days when work should be done;^(Q) therefore come on those days and be healed and not on the Sabbath day.”

¹⁵But the Lord answered him and said, “Hypocrites!^(R) Doesn’t each one of you untie his ox^(S) or donkey from the feeding trough^(T) on the Sabbath and lead it to water?^(U) ¹⁶Satan^(V) has bound^(W) this woman, a daughter of Abraham,^(X) for eighteen years—shouldn’t she be untied from this bondage^[f] on the Sabbath day?”

¹⁷When he had said these things, all his adversaries^(Y) were humiliated,^(Z) but the whole crowd was rejoicing over all the glorious things he was doing.^(AA)

The Parables of the Mustard Seed and of the Leaven

¹⁸He said, therefore, “What is the kingdom of God like,^(AB) and what can I compare it to? ¹⁹It’s like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches.”

²⁰Again he said, “What can I compare the kingdom of God^(AC) to? ²¹It’s like leaven^[g]^(AD) that a woman took and mixed into fifty pounds^[h] of flour until all of it was leavened.”

Footnotes:

13:2 Other mss read Jesus
13:8 Or Lord
13:11 Lit had a spirit of disability
13:11 Or straighten up completely
13:12 Or he summoned her
13:16 Or isn’t it necessary that she be untied from this bondage
13:21 Or yeast
13:21 Lit three sata; about forty liters

Cross references:

13:1 : Mt 21:18–19; Mk 11:12–14
13:1 : Jn 4:45
13:1 : Mt 27:2
13:2 : Jn 9:2
13:4 : Jn 9:7
13:6 : Lk 5:35; 12:16
13:6 : Mt 21:18–19; Mk 11:13
13:7 : Mt 7:19; Lk 3:9; Jn 15:2; Rm 11:22
13:7 : Is 5:2
13:8 : Lk 16:3
13:10 : Lk 4:31; 6:6
13:11 : Mt 8:17; Lk 4:33; 6:18; 7:21; 8:2,29; 9:39
13:13 : Mt 19:15; Mk 5:23; 6:2,5; 8:23; Lk 4:40
13:13 : Ac 15:16; Heb 12:12
13:13 : Jn 11:4
13:14 : Mt 20:24; 21:15; 26:8; Mk 10:14,41; 14:4
13:14 : Ex 20:9; Ezk 46:1
13:15 : Lk 6:42
13:15 : Lk 14:5,19; 1Co 9:9
13:15 : Lk 2:7,12,16
13:15 : Mt 12:11; Lk 14:5
13:16 : Mt 4:1,10; Ac 13:10
13:16 : Mk 5:3; 15:1; 2Tm 2:9
13:16 : Gn 16:15; Jn 8:37; Heb 2:16
13:17 : Lk 21:5; 1Co 16:9; Php 1:28; 1Tm 5:14
13:17 : Ps 132:18; Is 45:16 LXX; 1Pt 3:16
13:17 : Is 12:5
13:18–19 : Mt 13:31–32; Mk 4:30–32
13:20–21 : Mt 13:33
13:21 : Mt 16:6,11–12; Mk 8:15; Lk 12:1; 1Co 5:6–8; Gl 5:9

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Psalm 78:65-72

⁶⁵The Lord awoke as if from sleep,
like a warrior from the effects of wine.^(A)
⁶⁶He beat back his foes;
he gave them lasting disgrace.^(B)
⁶⁷He rejected the tent of Joseph
and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.
⁶⁸He chose instead the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which he loved.^(C)
⁶⁹He built his sanctuary like the heights,
like the earth that he established forever.^(D)
⁷⁰He chose David his servant
and took him from the sheep pens;^(E)
⁷¹he brought him from tending ewes
to be shepherd over his people Jacob—
over Israel, his inheritance.^(F)
⁷²He shepherded them with a pure heart
and guided them with his skillful hands.^(G)

Cross references:

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Proverbs 12:25

²⁵Anxiety in a person’s heart weighs it down,
but a good word cheers it up.^(A)

Cross references:

12:25 : Ps 94:19; Pr 15:13; 16:24; Mt 6:25–34

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

April 8, 2022

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Friday April 8, 2022 (NIV)

Deuteronomy 32:28-52

²⁸Israel is a nation lacking sense
with no understanding at all.^(A)
²⁹If only they were wise, they would comprehend this;
they would understand their fate.
³⁰How could one pursue a thousand,
or two put ten thousand to flight,^(B)
unless their Rock had sold them,
unless the Lord had given them up?^(C)
³¹But their “rock” is not like our Rock,
as even our enemies concede.
³²For their vine is from the vine of Sodom
and from the fields of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are poisonous;
their clusters are bitter.
³³Their wine is serpents’ venom,
the deadly poison of cobras.^(D)

³⁴“Is it not stored up with me,
sealed up in my vaults?
³⁵Vengeance and retribution belong to me.^[a]^(E)
In time their foot will slip,
for their day of disaster is near,
and their doom is coming quickly.”
³⁶The Lord will indeed vindicate his people
and have compassion on his servants^(F)
when he sees that their strength is gone
and no one is left—slave or free.^[b]
³⁷He will say, “Where are their gods,
the ‘rock’ they found refuge in?
³⁸Who ate the fat of their sacrifices
and drank the wine of their drink offerings?
Let them rise up and help you;
let it^[c] be a shelter for you.
³⁹See now that I alone am he;
there is no God but me.^(G)
I bring death and I give life;
I wound and I heal.
No one can rescue anyone from my power.^(H)
⁴⁰I raise my hand to heaven and declare:
As surely as I live forever,
⁴¹when I sharpen my flashing sword,
and my hand takes hold of judgment,
I will take vengeance on my adversaries
and repay those who hate me.
⁴²I will make my arrows drunk with blood
while my sword devours flesh—
the blood of the slain and the captives,
the heads of the enemy leaders.”^[d]

⁴³Rejoice, you nations, concerning his people,^[e]^(I)
for he will avenge the blood of his servants.^[f]
He will take vengeance on his adversaries;^[g]^(J)
he will purify his land and his people.^[h]

⁴⁴Moses came with Joshua^[i] son of Nun and recited all the words of this song in the presence of the people. ⁴⁵After Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel, ⁴⁶he said to them, “Take to heart all these words I am giving as a warning to you today,^(K) so that you may command your children to follow all the words of this law carefully.^(L) ⁴⁷For they are not meaningless words to you but they are your life,^(M) and by them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

Moses’s Impending Death

⁴⁸On that same day the Lord spoke to Moses,^(N) ⁴⁹“Go up Mount Nebo^(O) in the Abarim range in the land of Moab, across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan I am giving the Israelites as a possession. ⁵⁰Then you will die on the mountain that you go up, and you will be gathered to your people,^(P) just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.^(Q) ⁵¹For both of you broke faith with me among the Israelites at the Waters of Meribath-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin by failing to treat me as holy in their presence. ⁵²Although from a distance you will view the land that I am giving the Israelites, you will not go there.”^(R)

Footnotes:

32:35 MT; LXX, reads On a day of vengeance I will repay.
32:36 Or left—even the weak and impaired; Hb obscure
32:38 Sam, LXX, Tg, Vg read them
32:42 Or the long-haired heads of the enemy
32:43 LXX reads Rejoice, you heavens, along with him, and let all the sons of God worship him; rejoice, you nations, with his people, and let all the angels of God strengthen themselves in him; DSS read Rejoice, you heavens, along with him, and let all the angels worship him; Heb 1:6
32:43 DSS, LXX read sons
32:43 DSS, LXX add and he will repay those who hate him; v. 41
32:43 Syr, Tg; DSS, Sam, LXX, Vg read his people’s land
32:44 LXX, Syr, Vg; MT reads Hoshea; Nm 13:8,16

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Luke 12:35-59

Ready for the Master’s Return

³⁵“Be ready for service^[a] and have your lamps lit.^(A) ³⁶You are to be like people waiting for their master^(B) to return from the wedding banquet^(C) so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.^(D) ³⁷Blessed will be those servants the master finds alert^(E) when he comes. Truly I tell you, he will get ready,^[b] have them recline at the table, then come and serve them.^(F) ³⁸If he comes in the middle of the night, or even near dawn,^[c] and finds them alert, blessed are those servants. ³⁹But know this: If the homeowner had known at what hour the thief was coming,^(G) he would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁰You also be ready,^(H) because the Son of Man^(I) is coming at an hour you do not expect.”^(J)

Rewards and Punishment

⁴¹“Lord,” Peter asked, “are you telling this parable to us or to everyone?”

⁴²The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and sensible manager^(K) his master will put in charge of his household servants to give them their allotted food^(L) at the proper time? ⁴³Blessed is that servant whom the master finds doing his job when he comes. ⁴⁴Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. ⁴⁵But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’^(M) and starts to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk, ⁴⁶that servant’s master will come on a day he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know. He will cut him to pieces^[d] and assign him a place with the unfaithful.^[e] ⁴⁷And that servant who knew his master’s will and didn’t prepare himself or do it^[f] will be severely beaten.^(N) ⁴⁸But the one who did not know and did what deserved^(O) punishment will receive a light beating. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, even more will be expected.^[g]^(P)

Not Peace but Division

⁴⁹“I came^(Q) to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already set ablaze! ⁵⁰But I have a baptism to undergo,^(R) and how it consumes^(S) me until it is finished!^(T) ⁵¹Do you think that I came here to bring peace on the earth?^(U) No, I tell you, but rather division. ⁵²From now on, five in one household will be divided: three against two, and two against three.

⁵³They will be divided, father against son,
son against father,
mother against daughter,
daughter against mother,
mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law,
and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”^[h]^(V)

Interpreting the Time

⁵⁴He also said to the crowds,^(W) “When you see a cloud rising in the west, right away you say, ‘A storm is coming,’ and so it does.^(X) ⁵⁵And when the south wind is blowing, you say, ‘It’s going to be hot,’ and it is. ⁵⁶Hypocrites!^(Y) You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but why don’t you know how to interpret this present time?^(Z)

Settling Accounts

⁵⁷“Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?^(AA) ⁵⁸As you are going with your adversary^(AB) to the ruler, make an effort to settle with him on the way. Then he won’t drag you before the judge,^(AC) the judge hand you over to the bailiff, and the bailiff throw you into prison.^(AD) ⁵⁹I tell you, you will never get out of there until you have paid the last penny.”^[i]^(AE)

Footnotes:

12:35 Lit “Let your loins be girded; an idiom for tying up loose outer clothing in preparation for action; Ex 12:11
12:37 Lit will gird himself
12:38 Lit even in the second or third watch
12:46 Lit him in two
12:46 Or unbelievers
12:47 Lit or do toward his will,
12:48 Or much
12:53 Mc 7:6
12:59 Gk lepton, the smallest and least valuable copper coin in use

Cross references:

12:35–48 : Mt 24:42–51; 25:1–13; Mk 13:33–37; Jn 13:4–5
12:36 : 2Pt 3:12
12:36 : Jn 2:1
12:36 : Rv 3:20
12:37 : Rm 13:11
12:37 : Lk 17:8; 22:27
12:39 : 1Th 5:2
12:40 : Lk 21:36
12:40 : Mk 2:10
12:40 : 1Th 5:2; 2Pt 3:10; Rv 3:3; 16:15
12:42 : Lk 16:1
12:42 : 1Tm 6:8
12:45 : 1Jn 2:28
12:47 : Dt 25:2; Jms 4:17
12:48 : Lv 5:17; Nm 15:29
12:48 : Lv 5:17; Mt 13:12; Rm 1:20; 2:14; 1Tm 1:13
12:49–53 : Mt 10:34–36; Mk 10:38
12:50 : Ac 22:16; Rm 6:3; Eph 4:5
12:50 : 2Co 5:14
12:50 : Jn 19:28; 19:30
12:51 : Lk 2:14
12:53 : Mc 7:6
12:54–56 : Mt 16:2–3
12:54 : 1Kg 18:43–44
12:56 : Lk 6:42
12:56 : Lk 20:10; 21:8,30
12:57–59 : Mt 5:25–26
12:58 : 1Pt 5:8
12:58 : 2Tm 4:8
12:58 : Pr 25:8
12:59 : Lk 21:2

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Psalm 78:56-64

⁵⁶But they rebelliously tested the Most High God,
for they did not keep his decrees.^(A)
⁵⁷They treacherously turned away like their ancestors;
they became warped like a faulty bow.^(B)
⁵⁸They enraged him with their high places
and provoked his jealousy with their carved images.^(C)
⁵⁹God heard and became furious;
he completely rejected Israel.^(D)
⁶⁰He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh,
the tent where he resided among mankind.^(E)
⁶¹He gave up his strength to captivity
and his splendor to the hand of a foe.^(F)
⁶²He surrendered his people to the sword
because he was enraged with his heritage.^(G)
⁶³Fire consumed his chosen young men,
and his young women had no wedding songs.^[a]^(H)
⁶⁴His priests fell by the sword,
and the widows could not lament.^(I)

Footnotes:

78:63 Lit virgins were not praised

Cross references:

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Proverbs 12:24

²⁴The diligent hand will rule,
but laziness will lead to forced labor.^(A)

Cross references:

12:24 : Pr 10:4; 13:4; 19:15

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

April 7, 2022

4/7/2022 DAB Transcript

Deuteronomy 31:1-32:27, Luke 12:8-34, Psalm 78:32-55, Proverbs 12:21-23

Today is the 7th day of April, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian, it is wonderful to be here with you today as we gather, like we do, around the Global Campfire and find a place and keep warm and exhale all the stress and cares of this life for a bit. And just let God’s word come washing into our hearts and minds. And so, let’s do that, we’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week, moving back out into the book of Deuteronomy and today we will read chapters 31 verse 1 through 32 verse 27.

Commentary:

Okay so, there are plenty of things we can talk about today but we really need to focus in on what Jesus said in the Gospel of Luke because what Jesus said today is very, very famous, very famous, but it is like it’s the key to living. It’s the posture that if we’re in that posture living from that space that He is describing if we’re living from there, then we are on the right path. And I wish, I wish there was, I wish, this might sound weird but I wish there was some way that Jesus could say this to us. His voice, I don’t know what His voice sounds like or sounded like but maybe we would listen, maybe we would listen, even though we’ve heard this a thousand times because when we revisit this, we’re going to know whether this is what our life looks like, or not. And if it’s not what our lives look like then…then…then some things need to change. This is one of the times in the Scriptures where me trying to bring context or explain what the meaning might be here is so irrelevant. He said it so clear and so I just want to repeat what Jesus said and in whatever voice Jesus speaks to you, I hope you hear it from Jesus because He said this and we have put all of our faith and hope in Him and we have believed that what we’re doing here is being transformed into His likeness, that we are being made Christ like, that what we’re supposed to look like is what He looked like, and so we simply need to listen to what He has to say and ask ourselves if our lives look like that. So, this is what Jesus has to say to us today. “I tell you, don’t worry about your life, what you will eat; or about the body, what you will wear. For life is more than food and the body more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they don’t sow or reap; they don’t have a storeroom or a barn; yet God feeds them. Aren’t you worth much more than the birds? Can any of you add one moment to his life span by worrying? If then you’re not able to do even a little thing, why worry about the rest? Consider how the wild flowers grow: they don’t labor or spin thread. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these. If that’s how God clothes the grass, which is in the field today and is thrown into the furnace tomorrow, how much more will He do for you - you of little faith? Don’t strive for what you should eat and what you should drink, and don’t be anxious. For the Gentile world eagerly seeks all these things and your Father knows that you need them seek His kingdom and these things will be provided to you. Don’t be afraid, little flock, because your Father delights to give you the kingdom.” That is so beautiful and what that does not mean is that we just go oh, okay, great and exhale, I’m going to take a nap and shirk all my responsibilities and just let God take care of me. What Jesus is saying is, don’t strive after these things making them the focus, even the God of your life. Your heavenly Father already knows. Seek the kingdom where you are with what you have, do what you are doing, do what you can do knowing that it’s going to be okay and all of the stress and anxiety that are inside of you twisting your insides continually and making you lose sleep and making it even worse, doesn’t do anything, that doesn’t do anything. Your Father knows what you need. I hear this every year, every year, it’s one of the things that I take steps back and reflect upon my own life because it’s not my nature. My nature is to look out in front of me and find the 10 things that can go wrong and be prepared for them even though none of them happen. Then I have to examine how much anxiety goes into that, how much energy goes into that, when the Lord knows the 10 things and the thousand other things and He doesn’t have an upset stomach and He is not losing sleep because it’s all His and we are His children, heirs to this kingdom. So, it’s all ours too. This simply requires eyes to see and ears to hear, a different way of looking at things, looking at things from within inside out, not outside circumstances bubbling in and bringing us anxiety. It’s this depth of hope and love within that spills out into these situations and changes them. Otherwise, the circumstances are flying at us faster than we can even comprehend and what they are bringing to us is putting anxiety within, living backwards to the way that Jesus is modeling things for us. So, may we seek the kingdom and these things will be provided for us.

Prayer:

Holy Spirit, that is a deep, deep desire and we continually wonder if we are doing it or if we’re doing it well, or how does look, what is it supposed to look like when you are continually telling us to be aware and vigilant and looking around us and bringing the good news, being Your hands and feet in this world to anyone. Being fully aware that everyone is invited. Come, Holy Spirit, into this we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

Good morning family, requesting continued prayer for my daughter Genesis, she’s 12-years-old. As you know, she has a history of suicidal ideation. I did put her with professional counseling and recently she confessed to me that she was cutting. So, of course I, I’m, I looked at it and I was just really asking God to keep me together. I need prayer for family, prayer for her that God will rest her spirit and protect her and keep her from harming herself and will give her a sense of identity in Him. That He will grant her Godly friends, at least one or two, she doesn’t have friends and at age 12 that’s very difficult. She’s very angry family, very angry and I get it, but I need discernment and I really need a lot of discernment, wisdom to know how to handle her and love her through this process until God rescues her for me. I thank you, family for helping me pray for my daughter’s salvation and deliverance. Her name is Genesis. Thank you.

Hi, this is Susan from Mississippi. I’ve called back last year, Novemberish, I think. And I was calling about my son and his wife who are on drugs. We have adopted their baby who will be two at the end of this month, April. And I’m calling because they’re still struggling to get their act together but it’s better. But it’s not that that I’m calling about today, I’m calling about my other children. I have 4 boys and the other three I don’t know really what you could call it. I know they’re upset because their parents have had to take on a child at our age but they’re taking it out on the child. They don’t want to participate in activities with her, they don’t want us to even bring her over. They just want to pretend that she doesn’t exist and it’s not her fault and I don’t know what they expected us to do because we couldn’t just leave her for the system. So, my prayer is, not only to help us raise her but to also help my son and his wife to get better so that they would eventually will be able to take her back but also for my other three to be on board with us, not, not financially, not babysitting, just to be around her and to love her because again, it’s not her fault. So, I just ask for prayers for all around for all of us and I really do appreciate it. Thank you so much, God loves you. Bye.

My name is Dana from South Carolina and I’m calling in to pray for little girl Annie, that requested prayer for her brother. Lord Jesus, I pray Lord that You would surround him with people that know You and I pray dear Lord, that he would have a true encounter with You. And God, I pray Lord that You would remove the scales from his eyes God and draw him closer to You. And I pray Lord that You would just bring him home. In Jesus name. Amen.

Good morning DAB family, I wanted to call in and pray for Ben and Sarah who are in Liberia right now waiting on the adoption of their child. I heard them, Ben, call in several months ago and just felt called to pray. So, God, thank You so much for Ben and Sarah’s faithfulness God and willingness to be obedient in adopting this child God. We know that it’s a very hard and stressful thing to go through God but we know that You called them to it and we thank You that they’re willing to go across the world Lord because You told them to God. So, I just pray for peace over them, I pray joy over them God, I pray protection, I pray healing, pray against any attacks from the enemy, just keep them safe God, while they’re waiting. Keep their child safe Lord. And I just pray that You move the process along God. And we know it’s all in Your hands. I pray for the right people to get the right documents God for everything to flow smoothly God. I pray for yeah, just the process and I just pray for the waiting for Ben and Sarah. I know it has to be so difficult to just be waiting for their child and wondering and unsure God. But I just pray that they can just feel Your peace God and know that it’s all in Your hands. Cause this is what You ‘ve called them to. I pray these things in Jesus name. Amen.

You did it
You did it
You brought me through
You did it
You did it
You brought me through
Ah, I had a bad night last night but I was able to eventually get some sleep and when I woke up this morning, that’s the ditty that was going through my head. And when I walked out into the kitchen, the sun was just rising and the light, the light in the treetops was just gorgeous and I found myself saying “oh Daddy, the light, the light, it’s so beautiful.” And I realized that I was having a very prophetic moment because every sunrise is prophetic. It’s a promise that He will get us through, He will get all the way through to that resurrection morning and we will gasp “oh Daddy, the light, the light, it’s so beautiful” after all the darkness that we’ve been through. So, I just wanted to call in and share that, to encourage just that He will get us through. Love you guys.

April 7, 2022

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Thursday April 7, 2022 (NIV)

Deuteronomy 31:1-32:27

Joshua Takes Moses’s Place

31 Then Moses continued to speak these^[a] words to all Israel, ²saying, “I am now 120 years old;^(A) I can no longer act as your leader.^[b] The Lord has told me, ‘You will not cross the Jordan.’^(B) ³The Lord your God is the one who will cross ahead of you.^(C) He will destroy these nations before you, and you will drive them out. Joshua is the one who will cross ahead of you, as the Lord has said.^(D) ⁴The Lord will deal with them as he did Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and their land when he destroyed them.^(E) ⁵The Lord will deliver them over to you, and you must do to them exactly as I have commanded you. ⁶Be strong and courageous;^(F) don’t be terrified or afraid of them. For the Lord your God is the one who will go with you;^(G) he will not leave you or abandon you.”^(H)

⁷Moses then summoned Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you will go with^[c] this people into the land the Lord swore to give to their ancestors.^(I) You will enable them to take possession of it. ⁸The Lord is the one who will go before you.^(J) He will be with you; he will not leave you or abandon you.^(K) Do not be afraid or discouraged.”

⁹Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the Lord’s covenant, and to all the elders of Israel. ¹⁰Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of debt cancellation,^(L) during the Festival of Shelters,^(M) ¹¹when all Israel assembles in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he chooses,^(N) you are to read this law aloud before all Israel.^(O) ¹²Gather the people—men, women, dependents, and the resident aliens within your city gates—so that they may listen and learn to fear^(P) the Lord your God and be careful to follow all the words of this law. ¹³Then their children^(Q) who do not know the law will listen and learn to fear the Lord your God as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

¹⁴The Lord said to Moses, “The time of your death is now approaching. Call Joshua and present yourselves at the tent of meeting so that I may commission him.” When Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves at the tent of meeting, ¹⁵the Lord appeared at the tent in a pillar of cloud,^(R) and the cloud stood at the entrance to the tent.^(S)

¹⁶The Lord said to Moses, “You are about to rest with your ancestors,^(T) and these people will soon prostitute themselves with the foreign gods^(U) of the land they are entering. They will abandon me^(V) and break the covenant^(W) I have made with them. ¹⁷My anger will burn against them on that day;^(X) I will abandon them and hide my face from them so that they will become easy prey.^(Y) Many troubles and afflictions will come to them. On that day they will say, ‘Haven’t these troubles come to us because our God is no longer with us?’ ¹⁸I will certainly hide my face on that day because of all the evil they have done by turning to other gods. ¹⁹Therefore write down this song^(Z) for yourselves and teach it to the Israelites; have them sing it,^[d] so that this song may be a witness for me against the Israelites. ²⁰When I bring them into the land I swore to give their ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey,^(AA) they will eat their fill^(AB) and prosper.^[e] They will turn to other gods and worship them, despising me^(AC) and breaking my covenant.^(AD) ²¹And when many troubles and afflictions come to them, this song will testify against them, because^[f] their descendants will not have forgotten it. For I know what they are prone to do,^[g] even before I bring them into the land I swore to give them.” ²²So Moses wrote down this song on that day and taught it to the Israelites.

²³The Lord commissioned Joshua son of Nun, “Be strong and courageous, for you will bring the Israelites into the land I swore to them, and I will be with you.”^(AE)

Moses Warns the People

²⁴When Moses had finished writing down on a scroll every single word of this law, ²⁵he commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the Lord’s covenant, ²⁶“Take this book of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God so that it may remain there as a witness against you. ²⁷For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are rebelling against the Lord now, while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after I am dead! ²⁸Assemble all your tribal elders and officers before me so that I may speak these words directly to them and call heaven and earth as witnesses against them.^(AF) ²⁹For I know that after my death you will become completely corrupt and turn from the path I have commanded you. Disaster will come to you in the future, because you will do what is evil in the Lord’s sight, angering him with what your hands have made.”^(AG) ³⁰Then Moses recited aloud every single word of this song to the entire assembly of Israel:

Song of Moses

32 Pay attention, heavens, and I will speak;
listen, earth, to the words from my mouth.^(AH)
²Let my teaching fall like rain
and my word settle like dew,
like gentle rain on new grass
and showers on tender plants.
³For I will proclaim the Lord’s name.^(AI)
Declare the greatness of our God!
⁴The Rock^(AJ)—his work is perfect;
all his ways are just.^(AK)
A faithful God,^(AL) without bias,
he is righteous and true.

⁵His people have acted corruptly toward him;^(AM)
this is their defect^[h]—they are not his children
but a devious and crooked generation.^(AN)
⁶Is this how you repay the Lord,
you foolish and senseless people?^(AO)
Isn’t he your Father and Creator?^[i]^(AP)
Didn’t he make you and sustain you?
⁷Remember the days of old;
consider the years of past generations.
Ask your father, and he will tell you,
your elders, and they will teach you.
⁸When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance^[j]
and divided the human race,^(AQ)
he set the boundaries of the peoples^(AR)
according to the number of the people of Israel.^[k]
⁹But the Lord’s portion is his people,
Jacob, his own inheritance.^(AS)

¹⁰He found him in a desolate land,
in a barren, howling wilderness;
he surrounded him, cared for him,^(AT)
and protected him as the pupil of his eye.^(AU)
¹¹He watches over^[l] his nest like an eagle
and hovers over his young;
he spreads his wings, catches him,
and carries him on his feathers.^(AV)
¹²The Lord alone led him,
with no help from a foreign god.
¹³He made him ride on the heights of the land^(AW)
and eat the produce of the field.
He nourished him with honey from the rock
and oil from flinty rock,
¹⁴curds from the herd and milk from the flock,
with the fat of lambs,
rams from Bashan,^(AX) and goats,
with the choicest grains of wheat;
you drank wine from the finest grapes.^[m]

¹⁵Then^[n] Jeshurun^[o]^(AY) became fat and rebelled—
you became fat, bloated, and gorged.
He abandoned the God who made him
and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
¹⁶They provoked his jealousy with different gods;
they enraged him with detestable practices.^(AZ)
¹⁷They sacrificed to demons, not God,
to gods they had not known,
new gods that had just arrived,
which your ancestors did not fear.^(BA)
¹⁸You ignored the Rock who gave you birth;
you forgot the God who gave birth to you.

¹⁹When the Lord saw this, he despised them,
angered by his sons and daughters.
²⁰He said, “I will hide my face from them;^(BB)
I will see what will become of them,
for they are a perverse generation—
unfaithful children.
²¹They have provoked my jealousy
with what is not a god;^[p]
they have enraged me with their worthless idols.^(BC)
So I will provoke their jealousy
with what is not a people;^[q]
I will enrage them with a foolish nation.^(BD)
²²For fire has been kindled because of my anger
and burns to the depths of Sheol;^(BE)
it devours the land and its produce,
and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

²³“I will pile disasters on them;
I will use up my arrows against them.
²⁴They will be weak from hunger,
ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague;
I will unleash on them wild beasts with fangs,
as well as venomous snakes that slither in the dust.
²⁵Outside, the sword will take their children,
and inside, there will be terror;
the young man and the young woman will be killed,
the infant and the gray-haired man.^(BF)

²⁶“I would have said: I will cut them to pieces^[r]
and blot out the memory of them from mankind,^(BG)
²⁷if I had not feared provocation from the enemy,
or feared that these foes might misunderstand
and say, ‘Our own hand has prevailed;
it wasn’t the Lord who did all this.’”

Footnotes:

31:1 Some Hb mss, DSS, LXX, Syr, Vg read all these
31:2 Lit no longer go out or come in
31:7 Some Hb mss, Sam, Syr, Vg read you will bring
31:19 Lit Israelites; put it in their mouths
31:20 Lit be fat
31:21 Lit because the mouths of
31:21 Or know the plans they are devising
32:5 Or him; through their fault; Hb obscure
32:6 Or Possessor
32:8 Or Most High divided the nations
32:8 One DSS reads number of the sons of God; LXX reads number of the angels of God
32:11 Or He stirs up
32:14 Lit drank the blood of grapes, fermenting wine
32:15 DSS, Sam, LXX add Jacob ate his fill;
32:15 = Upright One, referring to Israel
32:21 Lit with no gods
32:21 Lit with no people
32:26 LXX reads will scatter them

Cross references:

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Luke 12:8-34

Acknowledging Christ

⁸“And I say to you, anyone who acknowledges^(A) me before others, the Son of Man^(B) will also acknowledge him before the angels of God,^(C) ⁹but whoever denies me before others will be denied before the angels of God.^(D) ¹⁰Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven,^(E) but the one who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit^(F) will not be forgiven. ¹¹Whenever^(G) they bring you before synagogues and rulers and authorities,^(H) don’t worry^(I) about how you should defend^(J) yourselves or what you should say. ¹²For the Holy Spirit will teach you at that very hour what must be said.”^(K)

The Parable of the Rich Fool

¹³Someone from the crowd said to him, “Teacher,^(L) tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

¹⁴“Friend,”^[a] he said to him, “who appointed me a judge or arbitrator over you?” ¹⁵He then told them, “Watch out and be on guard^(M) against all greed,^(N) because one’s life is not in the abundance of his possessions.”^(O)

¹⁶Then he told them a parable:^(P) “A rich^(Q) man’s land was very productive. ¹⁷He thought to himself, ‘What should I do, since I don’t have anywhere to store my crops? ¹⁸I will do this,’ he said. ‘I’ll tear down my barns and build bigger ones and store all my grain and my goods there. ¹⁹Then I’ll say to myself, “You have many goods stored up for many years. Take it easy;^(R) eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.”’^(S)

²⁰“But God said to him, ‘You fool!^(T) This very night your life is demanded of you. And the things you have prepared—whose will they be?’^(U)

²¹“That’s how it is with the one who stores up treasure^(V) for himself and is not rich toward God.”^(W)

The Cure for Anxiety

²²Then he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you,^(X) don’t worry about your life, what you will eat; or about the body, what you will wear.^(Y) ²³For life is more than food and the body more than clothing. ²⁴Consider the ravens:^(Z) They don’t sow or reap; they don’t have a storeroom or a barn; yet God feeds them.^(AA) Aren’t you worth much more than the birds? ²⁵Can any of you add one moment to his life span^[b] by worrying?^(AB) ²⁶If then you’re not able to do even a little thing, why worry about the rest?

²⁷“Consider how the wildflowers grow: They don’t labor or spin thread. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon^(AC) in all his splendor was adorned like one of these. ²⁸If that’s how God clothes the grass, which is in the field today and is thrown into the furnace tomorrow, how much more will he do for you—you of little faith?^(AD) ²⁹Don’t strive for what you should eat and what you should drink, and don’t be anxious. ³⁰For the Gentile world eagerly seeks^(AE) all these things, and your Father^(AF) knows that you need them.

³¹“But seek his kingdom,^(AG) and these things will be provided for you.^(AH) ³²Don’t be afraid,^(AI) little flock,^(AJ) because your Father delights^(AK) to give you the kingdom.^(AL) ³³Sell^(AM) your possessions and give to the poor.^(AN) Make money-bags^(AO) for yourselves that won’t grow old, an inexhaustible treasure^(AP) in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. ³⁴For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.^(AQ)

Footnotes:

12:14 Lit Man
12:25 Or add a cubit to his height

Cross references:

12:8 : Mt 7:23; Jn 9:22
12:8 : Lk 5:24; 11:30
12:8 : Lk 15:10; Jn 1:51; Ac 10:3; Rm 10:9; Rv 3:5
12:9 : Lk 9:26
12:10 : Mt 12:31–32; Mk 3:28–30
12:10 : Lk 1:15,35; 2:25–26; 3:22
12:11–12 : Mt 10:19–20; Mk 13:11; Lk 21:14–15
12:11 : Lk 20:20; Eph 3:10; Col 2:15
12:11 : Php 4:6
12:11 : Ac 26:24
12:12 : Pr 1:23; Jn 14:26
12:13 : Lk 11:45
12:15 : 1Tm 6:20; 2Tm 1:14; 4:15; 2Pt 3:17; 1Jn 5:21
12:15 : Eph 5:3
12:15 : Gn 12:5; Jb 20:20; 31:24; Ps 62:10
12:16 : Lk 5:36; 8:11
12:16 : Lk 6:24; 16:19; 18:23; 19:2; 21:1
12:19 : Mt 11:28; Mk 6:31; Rv 6:11; 14:13
12:19 : Ec 2:24
12:20 : Jr 17:11; Lk 11:40
12:20 : Ps 39:6; 49:10; Jr 17:11; Mt 16:26
12:21 : 2Pt 3:7
12:21 : Mt 6:19–20
12:22–32 : Mt 6:25–34
12:22 : Pr 31:25
12:24 : 1Kg 17:4,6; Jb 38:41; Ps 147:9; Pr 30:17
12:24 : Rv 12:6
12:25 : Php 4:6
12:27 : 1Kg 10:4–7
12:28 : Mt 8:26; 14:31; 16:8
12:30 : Heb 11:14; 13:14
12:30 : Mt 5:16; 6:1; 11:27; Jn 8:42
12:31 : Mt 5:6,20; Lk 11:2
12:31 : 1Kg 3:11–14; Mt 19:29; Mk 10:29–30
12:32 : Lk 12:4,7
12:32 : Is 40:11; Ac 20:28; 1Pt 5:2–3
12:32 : Mt 11:26; Lk 10:21; Eph 1:5,9; Php 2:13
12:32 : Mt 13:19; 25:34; Lk 22:29
12:33–34 : Mt 6:19–21
12:33 : Ac 24:17
12:33 : Lk 10:4
12:33 : Mk 10:21; 2Co 4:7
12:34 : 1Pt 1:4

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Psalm 78:32-55

³²Despite all this, they kept sinning
and did not believe his wondrous works.^(A)
³³He made their days end in futility,
their years in sudden disaster.^(B)
³⁴When he killed some of them,
the rest began to seek him;
they repented and searched for God.^(C)
³⁵They remembered that God was their rock,
the Most High God, their Redeemer.^(D)
³⁶But they deceived him with their mouths,
they lied to him with their tongues,^(E)
³⁷their hearts were insincere toward him,
and they were unfaithful to his covenant.^(F)
³⁸Yet he was compassionate;
he atoned for their iniquity
and did not destroy them.
He often turned his anger aside
and did not unleash^[a] all his wrath.^(G)
³⁹He remembered that they were only flesh,
a wind that passes and does not return.^(H)

⁴⁰How often they rebelled against him
in the wilderness
and grieved him in the desert.
⁴¹They constantly tested God^(I)
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.^(J)
⁴²They did not remember his power shown
on the day he redeemed them from the foe,^(K)
⁴³when he performed his miraculous signs in Egypt
and his wonders in the territory of Zoan.^(L)
⁴⁴He turned their rivers into blood,
and they could not drink from their streams.^(M)
⁴⁵He sent among them swarms of flies,^(N)
which fed on them,
and frogs, which devastated them.^(O)
⁴⁶He gave their crops to the caterpillar
and the fruit of their labor to the locust.^(P)
⁴⁷He killed their vines with hail
and their sycamore fig trees with a flood.
⁴⁸He handed over their livestock to hail
and their cattle to lightning bolts.^(Q)
⁴⁹He sent his burning anger against them:
fury, indignation, and calamity—
a band of deadly messengers.^[b]^(R)
⁵⁰He cleared a path for his anger.
He did not spare them from death
but delivered their lives to the plague.^(S)
⁵¹He struck all the firstborn^(T) in Egypt,
the first progeny of the tents of Ham.^(U)
⁵²He led his people out like sheep
and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.^(V)
⁵³He led them safely, and they were not afraid;
but the sea covered their enemies.^(W)
⁵⁴He brought them to his holy territory,
to the mountain his right hand acquired.^(X)
⁵⁵He drove out nations before them.^(Y)
He apportioned their inheritance by lot
and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.^(Z)

Footnotes:

78:38 Or stir up
78:49 Or angels

Cross references:

78:32 : Nm 14:16–17
78:33 : Nm 14:29,35; Jb 14:1; Ps 90:9; Ec 1:2–3
78:34 : Nm 21:7; Ps 63:1; Hs 5:15
78:35 : Is 44:6,8
78:36 : Is 29:13; 57:11; Ezk 33:31
78:37 : Ps 51:10; 78:8; Ac 8:21
78:38 : Nm 14:18–20; Dt 4:31; Is 12:1
78:39 : Dt 31:27; Ps 107:11
78:41 : Ps 95:8–9
78:41 : Dt 9:7–8,22; Ps 106:29; Zch 8:14
78:42 : Jdg 8:34; Ps 44:3; 106:10
78:43 : Ex 4:21; 7:3; Ps 105:27
78:44 : Ex 7:14–25; Ps 105:29
78:45 : Ex 8:17; Ps 105:31
78:45 : Ex 8:3–6; Ps 105:30
78:46 : Ex 10:14–15; Ps 105:34
78:47–48 : Ex 9:23–24; Ps 105:32
78:49 : Ex 12:13,23; 2Sm 24:16
78:50 : Ex 12:29–30
78:51 : Ex 13:15; Ps 105:36
78:51 : Ps 105:23,27
78:52 : Ex 15:22; Ps 77:20
78:53 : Ex 14; 15:19; Jos 24:7; Ps 106:11
78:54 : Ex 15:17; Ps 74:2
78:55 : Jos 11:16–23; Ps 44:2
78:55 : Jos 13:7; 23:4; Ps 135:12

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Proverbs 12:21-23

²¹No disaster overcomes the righteous,^(A)
but the wicked are full of misery.

²²Lying lips are detestable to the Lord,^(B)
but faithful people are his delight.^(C)

²³A shrewd person conceals knowledge,
but a foolish heart publicizes stupidity.^(D)

Cross references:

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

April 6, 2022

04/06/2022 DAB Transcript

Deuteronomy 29:1-30:20, Luke 11:37-12:7, Psalms 78:1-31, Proverbs 12:19-20

Today is the 6^th day of April welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian and it’s of course wonderful to be here together today, wonderful to come around the Global Campfire and just let God’s word speak into our lives. And, so, let’s move in that direction. We’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week. Deuteronomy chapters 29 and 30 today.

Commentary:

Okay. So, we are rounding the corner in the book of Deuteronomy. We have several days to go in front of us, but we’ve…we’ve talked about what Deuteronomy is, the final discourses of Moses to the children of Israel. They will very soon move in opposite directions, the children of Israel toward the Jordan River and across toward the promised land and Moses in the opposite direction into the mountains where he will die. This gives what he has to say a lot of gravity, a lot of weightiness because for all the grumbling he is the human leader that they know, the prophet of God, the one who speaks on behalf of God and tells them what God is saying. And, so, this is very important. And we have moved through the retelling of the places that the children of Israel camped. We’ve been through the story, kind of a retelling of the story. We’ve reviewed the law. We’ve seen new covenants made new statutes enacted. And we can look at the whole thing and go, “man, there is a lot to this. There is a lot to pay attention to. There’s a lot that they have to do. I’m so glad that we don’t have to do those things.” The interesting thing is all of those things that they have to obey and do are establishing a culture, a framework so that everything that they do reminds them of their identity and won’t allow them. In fact, there’s whole tribe that is there to not let them forget who God is and how they got where they. But all of the rules, they distill down, they boil down to a core that can be understood, and we see that very clearly in what Moses is saying today. And, so, let’s go back and just look at a few verses. I quote. “This command that I give you today” and this is Moses speaking “is certainly not too difficult or beyond your reach.” Right? So, the idea that “there’s just so much to this in the minutia” and “who could ever” and “it’s not beyond your reach. It’s not too difficult.” This is what Moses is saying. And he goes on to say, “what you are supposed to do is not up in heaven, so that you have to wonder who is going to go up to heaven and get it and proclaim it to you so that you can follow it. And it’s not on the other side of the ocean so that you have to ask who’s going to go over there and get it and bring it back and proclaim it to us so that we may follow it. The message is very year you, in your mouth and in your heart so that you may follow it.” So, I we just stopp there, take a step back for second. There is a lot in the law in the country that you live in. If you go and look at the national laws you’re gonna find a library. There’s a lot to it, but so often the actions that we take in our lives…while…it’s like Jesus said, it flows up from our hearts. Our hearts posture is why we do the things that we do. We may disobey a law because we think we can get away with it. We may obey a law because we think we’ll get caught. That’s certainly a deterrent. But when it comes to matters of faith and love these decisions are made within us. And although we may have rules, they become apparent and natural because we are in love. So, for example in marriage adultery is against the rules. We don’t have to usually be told that every day. We know that. And there is a deterrent. We could blow up our entire family and things will never look the same for the rest of our lives. That’s a deterrent. But the greater issue here is we wouldn’t break the heart of the one that we love. And, so, when things get boiled down as Moses doing today’s talk we can see this. And, so, let me go back to quoting Moses. “Today I have set before you, life and prosperity, death and adversity, for I am commanding you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways and to keep his commands, statutes and ordinances so that you may live and multiply and the Lord your God may bless you in the land you are entering to possess. But if your heart turns away and you do not listen and you are led astray to bow and worship other gods and serve them, I tell you today that you will certainly perish, and will not prolong your days in the land you are entering to possess across the Jordan. I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you, life and death, blessing and cursing. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live. Love the Lord your God, obey him, and remain faithful to him, for He is your life and He will prolong your days as you live in the land the Lord swore to give to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” What we see here is that this is a choice. Choose life Moses says. And he has already told them that choosing life is not too difficult and is not beyond their reach, which means it’s not too difficult and it’s not beyond ours either. This comes down to the posture of our heart. Moses is telling them to choose life. Jesus would say something similar. There is a narrow path that leads to life, and few ever find it. But finding it is less complex than we make it. We get lost in the minutia of theology and doctrine wars and all this kind of stuff that just stirs up what we believe and what we don’t. When what were supposed to do this fall in love with God. That is choosing life and when we are in love, things become apparent to us. It becomes important that we treat one another appropriately because we are children of the most-high God, and we do not want to offend our Father by denigrating what He has created. So, if we could take a step back in our own lives and become observant of ourselves and our motives and our passions and our decisions and our words and sit there and hear the words echoing from the Scriptures, “today I have set before you, life and prosperity, death and adversity”. Knowing that the way that we live, the choices that we make are showing whether we are choosing the one over the other. How we are living reveals what we are choosing. And, so, may we hear out of the Scriptures from the lips of Moses what we need to hear. Choose life. Choose life. Friends, this is the offer of the gospel. This is what we believe that Jesus came to set us free and give us life eternal, that He has come that we might have life abundantly. Or, as Moses said, “I set before you, life and prosperity.” The offer is there. It’s all or nothing. May we choose life.

Prayer:

Holy Spirit, we invite You into that and we can often think like I’m either choosing one or the other, but the truth is we’re choosing both and that is why things are the way that they are. When You have given us clarity that when we fall in love with You like You have fallen in love with us everything changes, and we are choosing correctly. So, this isn’t just about us, brute force having self-control. Although we need this. It’s not just about managing our behaviors. Although we need this. It is about a change that happens inside when a stony heart falls in love and softens and becomes a heart of flesh, a heart given to You Lord unreservedly knowing that this is the safest thing, knowing that this is what we were made for. Come Holy Spirit, help us to think on these things, reveal the paths that we need to get off of. May we day by day, moment by moment choose life. We ask this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Good morning, DABbers this is God’s Chosen from Georgia. I’m calling in this morning to ask for prayer and I please want you to lift me up in prayer. I need strength to be able to continue to fight. It looks to me like I’m at the end of myself wandering in the wilderness. The only way I know to turn is to turn to God. But I’m looking for him everywhere this morning. I can’t find any strength of my own. I need strength from Him to continue to push on. I’m in that desperate and desolate place and need help. I need prayer. Please lift me up. Lift me up. Lift me up. Help me Jesus. Help me. I need strength to continue to fight. Help me Lord Jesus. Thank you.

Hi this is Dorothy out in California responding to Misfit as well as Mike in New York. Mike in New York, I’m so…what came to mind when I was listening to you was for God is at work in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure. You discussed your pursuits and your ideas, and I am looking forward to…don’t be surprised if you hear from God and He gives you your life back or He turns your world upside down and gives you a whole new direction. So, just excited for that. Also…and…and Misfit, and actually I…I almost felt the same thing, you were wanting God. Both of you. You want God. You want to know Him, and you want to know His will. And it says that you…this is for both Mike and Misfit…if you search for him with all your heart, He’ll let you find Him. And I’m so excited because Misfit it says that the Bible says that there’s none who seeks after…there’s none righteous and it says we love Him because He first loved us. And, so, that seed in both of you actually, God put there that yearning for Him and yearning to know Him. And, so, I know you’re gonna be…you’re gonna be OK as you just yearn for Him because He put that there. Keep going. Keep going. There is a throng of believers cheering you on here and…and…and the ones that already existed. So…

Hey DAB fam this is Nobody Gets Left Behind in Colorado. I’m calling for my daughter Halo. I just want to thank everybody for your prayers for her. Rob, Levi, another woman I can’t recall her name. Today’s reading, it was Luke 10:3. Go your way. Behold I send you out as lambs among wolves. I know you guys have heard some of our prayer requests. You know, she’s a…a devout believer at 9 years old. She witnesses to the kids in her classroom and she’s just an amazing child. Don’t wanna brag or boast but I do wanna boast on the Lord and His glory and the things that He does through Halo. She was invited to a boxing event to sing the national anthem. It was a pay per view event. She…she just did amazing. I just pray…ask everyone to pray for her that she never loses her boldness and continues to use her talents for the Lord. And I covet your prayers family and I thank you for always being here. I don’t know what I would do without this family. This is my 11^th year and I'm…it feels like the first year. It’s just the…the best place to be in the world and I thank God for Brian and Jill and their children. And I just encourage you brothers and sisters to go your way, behold Jesus is sending us out as lambs among wolves. Love you guys. Take care.

Green upon green upon green upon brown
such intricate detail right here on the ground
a miniature forest right here in the grass
bending and swaying as the breezes blow past
tiny little bushes abundant with leaf
ants on the ground crawling beneath
little tiny palm trees 2 inches tall
tower above deserts bushes in all
a microcosm of life complete in every way
God is amazing what more can I say
little tiny boulders a 16^th of an inch
dwarf boulders even smaller too small to even pinch
long lushes leafy strands trimmed in green and gold
some are trimmed in purple but all of them are standing bold
and then I see this flower it’s tiny petals white
also yellow asters that sprang up overnight
and a dandy lion standing tall with its fur ball
perfectly round it’s tempting me to blow on it and spread the seed all around
but I decide to leave it in its present form just as if it was in a book
I love the detail that God implores
I love the way things look
but even with such intricacies I still see tiny flaws
and once I recognize that fact it gives me cause to pause
‘cause I know that I don’t look so good when sometimes God looks at me
the closer that you look at things the more of them you see
and God has seen me very close he knows each part of me
but he still loves me anyway my beauty he still sees
thank you God for hearts and eyes that see
beyond my flawed ugliness to the beauty inside of me

blindtony1016@gmail.com. Like to give a shout out to Drew from the Bay Area. It was nice hearing from your brother and I’ll be praying for a little Drew now that he's…

Good morning Daily Audio Bible family my name is Rashonda I’ve been a part of the community for well over a decade and I’ve only called in maybe five times. I called in for my son when he was three. He had heart surgery and that was successful. I’m calling for two reasons today. I’m calling for him because we have to do a follow up appointment now. He’s 16. I’m just praying that his heart is still healing and it’s working well and that he is finished with his cardiology visits. I’m also praying because I have a heavy heart today just about my marriage and finances. It’s me who has a hard time sticking to the budget and even if it’s $5 here or $2 there $6 here, I’m not sticking to the budget. I never have stuck to the budget over 20 years. And, you know, is really starting to take a toll on us because that five and $10 here and there turns into three and $400, you know, $500 by the end of the month. And, so, please pray for me that I can just shake this thing that I have with comfort, that the real issue would be brought forth, my real heart issue to why I’m not content and satisfied with what I have because I have so much. My husband’s so gracious and he just loves me like Christ but he’s really tired because that extra money could have gone into savings. So, please pray for us that I can be obedient to the budget in Jesus’ name.

April 6, 2022

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Wednesday April 6, 2022 (NIV)

Deuteronomy 29-30

Renewing the Covenant

29 These are the words of the covenant^(A) that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb.^(B) ²Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “You have seen with your own eyes^(C) everything the Lord did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to his entire land. ³You saw with your own eyes the great trials and those great signs and wonders.^(D) ⁴Yet to this day the Lord has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.^(E) ⁵I led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes and the sandals on your feet did not wear out;^(F) ⁶you did not eat food or drink wine or beer—so that you might know that I am the Lord your God.^(G) ⁷When you reached this place, King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.^(H) ⁸We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh.^(I) ⁹Therefore, observe the words of this covenant^(J) and follow them, so that you will succeed in everything you do.^(K)

¹⁰“All of you are standing today before the Lord your God—your leaders, tribes, elders, officials, all the men of Israel, ¹¹your dependents, your wives, and the resident aliens in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water— ¹²so that you may enter into the covenant of the Lord your God, which he is making with you today, so that you may enter into his oath ¹³and so that he may establish you today as his people and he may be your God as he promised you and as he swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.^(L) ¹⁴I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you, ¹⁵but also with those who are standing here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God and with those who are not here today.

Abandoning the Covenant

¹⁶“Indeed, you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and passed through the nations where you traveled. ¹⁷You saw their abhorrent images and idols made of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which were among them.^(M) ¹⁸Be sure there is no man, woman, clan, or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the Lord our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Be sure there is no root among you bearing poisonous and bitter fruit.^(N) ¹⁹When someone hears the words of this oath, he may consider himself exempt,^[a] thinking, ‘I will have peace even though I follow my own stubborn heart.’ This will lead to the destruction of the well-watered land as well as the dry land. ²⁰The Lord will not be willing to forgive him. Instead, his anger and jealousy will burn against that person, and every curse written in this scroll will descend on him. The Lord will blot out his name under heaven,^(O) ²¹and single him out for harm from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law.

²²“Future generations of your children who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant country will see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses the Lord has inflicted on it. ²³All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown, producing nothing, with no plant growing on it, just like the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord demolished in his fierce anger.^(P) ²⁴All the nations will ask, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this land? Why this intense outburst of anger?’ ²⁵Then people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he had made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. ²⁶They began to serve other gods, bowing in worship to gods they had not known^(Q)—gods that the Lord had not permitted them to worship.^(R) ²⁷Therefore the Lord’s anger burned against this land, and he brought every curse written in this book on it. ²⁸The Lord uprooted them from their land in his anger, rage, and intense wrath, and threw them into another land where they are today.’ ²⁹The hidden things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things belong to us and our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.

Returning to the Lord

30 “When all these things happen to you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you come to your senses while you are in all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you,^(S) ²and you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey him with all your heart and all your soul^(T) by doing^[b] everything I am commanding you today, ³then he will restore your fortunes,^[c]^(U) have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.^(V) ⁴Even if your exiles are at the farthest horizon, he will gather you and bring you back from there.^(W) ⁵The Lord your God will bring you into the land your ancestors possessed, and you will take possession of it.^(X) He will cause you to prosper and multiply you more than he did your ancestors.^(Y) ⁶The Lord your God will circumcise your heart^(Z) and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love him with all your heart and all your soul so that you will live.^(AA) ⁷The Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you. ⁸Then you will again obey him and follow all his commands I am commanding you today. ⁹The Lord your God will make you prosper abundantly in all the work of your hands,^(AB) your offspring,^[d] the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land. Indeed, the Lord will again delight in your prosperity, as he delighted in that of your ancestors, ¹⁰when you obey the Lord your God by keeping his commands and statutes that are written in this book of the law and return to him with all your heart and all your soul.

Choose Life

¹¹“This command that I give you today is certainly not too difficult or beyond your reach. ¹²It is not in heaven so that you have to ask, ‘Who will go up to heaven, get it for us, and proclaim it to us so that we may follow it?’ ¹³And it is not across the sea so that you have to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea, get it for us, and proclaim it to us so that we may follow it?’ ¹⁴But the message is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may follow it.^(AC) ¹⁵See, today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and adversity.^(AD) ¹⁶For^[e] I am commanding you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commands, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live^[f] and multiply, and the Lord your God may bless you in the land you are entering to possess. ¹⁷But if your heart turns away and you do not listen and you are led astray to bow in worship to other gods and serve them, ¹⁸I tell you today that you will certainly perish and will not prolong your days in the land you are entering to possess across the Jordan. ¹⁹I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life^(AE) so that you and your descendants may live, ²⁰love the Lord your God, obey him, and remain faithful^[g] to him. For he is your life, and he will prolong your days as you live in the land the Lord swore to give to your ancestors^(AF) Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

Footnotes:

29:19 Lit may consider himself blessed in his heart
30:2 Lit soul according to
30:3 Or will end your captivity
30:9 Lit hands in the fruit of your womb
30:16 LXX reads If you obey the commands of the Lord your God that
30:16 LXX reads ordinances, then you will live
30:20 Lit and hold on

Cross references:

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Luke 11:37-12:7

Religious Hypocrisy Denounced

³⁷As he was speaking, a Pharisee^(A) asked him to dine with him. So he went in and reclined at the table. ³⁸When the Pharisee saw this, he was amazed that he did not first perform the ritual washing^[a]^(B) before dinner.^(C) ³⁹But the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed^(D) and evil.^(E) ⁴⁰Fools!^(F) Didn’t he who made the outside make the inside too? ⁴¹But give from what is within to the poor,^[b]^(G) and then everything is clean^(H) for you.

⁴²“But woe^(I) to you Pharisees! You give a tenth^[c]^(J) of mint, rue, and every kind of herb, and you bypass^[d] justice^(K) and love for God.^[e]^(L) These things you should have done without neglecting the others.

⁴³“Woe to you Pharisees! You love the front seat^(M) in the synagogues^(N) and greetings in the marketplaces.

⁴⁴“Woe to you!^[f] You are like unmarked graves; ^(O) the people who walk over them don’t know it.”

⁴⁵One of the experts in the law^(P) answered him, “Teacher, when you say these things you insult us too.”

⁴⁶Then he said, “Woe also to you experts in the law! You load people with burdens^(Q) that are hard to carry, and yet you yourselves don’t touch these burdens with one of your fingers.^(R)

⁴⁷“Woe to you! You build tombs^[g] for the prophets,^(S) and your fathers killed^(T) them. ⁴⁸Therefore, you are witnesses^(U) that you approve^[h]^(V) the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their monuments.^[i] ⁴⁹Because of this, the wisdom of God^(W) said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles,^(X) and some of them they will kill and persecute,’^(Y) ⁵⁰so that this generation^(Z) may be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world^[j]^(AA) — ⁵¹from the blood of Abel^(AB) to the blood of Zechariah,^(AC) who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.

“Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held responsible.^[k]

⁵²“Woe to you experts in the law! You have taken away the key to knowledge.^(AD) You didn’t go in yourselves, and you hindered^(AE) those who were trying to go in.”

⁵³When he left there,^[l] the scribes and the Pharisees began to oppose^(AF) him fiercely and to cross-examine him about many things; ⁵⁴they were lying in wait^(AG) for him to trap him in something he said.^[m]^(AH)

Beware of Religious Hypocrisy

12 Meanwhile, a crowd of many thousands came together, so that they were trampling^(AI) on one another. He began to say to his disciples first,^(AJ) “Be on your guard^(AK) against the leaven^[n]^(AL) of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.^(AM) ²There is nothing covered that won’t be uncovered,^(AN) nothing hidden that won’t be made known.^(AO) ³Therefore, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in an ear in private rooms^(AP) will be proclaimed on the housetops.^(AQ)

Fear God

⁴“I say to you, my friends,^(AR) don’t fear^(AS) those who kill the body, and after that can do nothing more. ⁵But I will show you the one to fear: Fear^(AT) him who has authority to throw people into hell^(AU) after death. Yes, I say to you, this is the one to fear! ⁶Aren’t five sparrows sold for two pennies?^[o] Yet not one of them is forgotten in God’s sight.^(AV) ⁷Indeed, the hairs of your head are all counted. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

Footnotes:

11:38 Lit he did not first wash
11:41 Or But donate from the heart as charity
11:42 Or a tithe
11:42 Or neglect
11:42 Lit the justice and the love of God
11:44 Other mss add scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
11:47 Or graves
11:48 Lit witnesses and approve
11:48 Other mss omit their monuments
11:50 Lit so that the blood of all... world may be required of this generation,
11:51 Lit you, it will be required of this generation
11:53 Other mss read And as he was saying these things to them
11:54 Other mss add so that they might bring charges against him
12:1 Or yeast
12:6 Lit two assaria; a small copper coin

Cross references:

11:37 : Lk 7:36
11:38 : Heb 6:2
11:38 : Mt 15:2; Mk 7:2–5
11:39 : Mt 23:25; Lk 12:20; 16:14; Heb 10:34
11:39 : Mk 7:22
11:40 : Mt 23:17; Lk 12:20
11:41 : Lk 12:33; Ac 24:17
11:41 : Ps 24:4; Ti 1:15
11:42 : Lk 10:13
11:42 : Dt 14:22; Lk 18:12
11:42 : Mc 6:8; Zch 7:9; Mt 12:18,20; Jn 7:24; Ac 8:33
11:42 : Dt 6:5; Lk 10:27; Jn 5:42; 2Th 3:5
11:43 : Mt 23:6; Mk 12:39; Lk 20:46
11:43 : Jms 2:2
11:44 : Mt 23:27
11:45 : Lk 7:30
11:46 : Mt 23:4; Ac 27:10; Gl 6:5
11:46 : Mt 11:28–30; Ac 15:10
11:47 : Mt 2:23; Ac 7:52
11:47 : Lk 20:15
11:48 : Mt 23:31
11:48 : Ac 22:20; Rm 1:32
11:49 : Pr 1:20–33; 8:1–36; Mt 23:34
11:49 : Lk 11:27; 13:1; 15:32; 21:9–10; Jn 13:16; Ac 1:2
11:49 : 1Th 2:15; 2Tm 3:12
11:50 : Lk 11:29
11:50 : Heb 9:26; Rv 18:24
11:51 : Gn 4:9–10; Heb 12:24; 1Jn 3:12
11:51 : 2Ch 24:20–22
11:52 : 1Co 14:6
11:52 : 1Co 14:39
11:53 : Mk 6:19; Gl 5:1
11:54 : Ac 23:21
11:54 : Is 29:21; Mt 22:15; Mk 3:2; 12:13; Lk 20:20; Jn 8:6
12:1 : Lk 8:5
12:1 : Mt 16:5–6; Mk 8:14–15
12:1 : Jr 9:4; Lk 17:3; Ac 20:28
12:1 : Lk 13:21; Gl 5:9
12:1 : Mt 23:28; Mk 12:15; Gl 2:13; 1Pt 2:1
12:2–9 : Mt 10:26–33; Mk 4:22; Lk 8:17
12:2 : Lk 6:44
12:3 : Mt 6:6; 24:26; Lk 12:24
12:3 : Ac 10:9
12:4 : Ac 27:3
12:4 : Is 8:13; 51:12; Jr 1:8; Jn 6:20
12:5 : Ps 147:11; Pr 1:7; Ac 10:2; Rv 14:7
12:5 : Mk 9:43; Jms 3:6
12:6 : Ps 50:11

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Psalm 78:1-31

Psalm 78

Lessons from Israel’s Past

A Maskil of Asaph.^(A)

¹My people, hear my instruction;
listen to the words from my mouth.^(B)
²I will declare wise sayings;
I will speak mysteries from the past^(C)—
³things we have heard and known
and that our ancestors have passed down to us.^(D)
⁴We will not hide them from their children,
but will tell a future generation
the praiseworthy acts of the Lord,
his might, and the wondrous works
he has performed.^(E)
⁵He established a testimony in Jacob
and set up a law in Israel,
which he commanded our ancestors
to teach to their children^(F)
⁶so that a future generation—
children yet to be born—might know.
They were to rise and tell their children^(G)
⁷so that they might put their confidence in God
and not forget God’s works,
but keep his commands.^(H)
⁸Then they would not be like their ancestors,
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation whose heart was not loyal
and whose spirit was not faithful to God.^(I)

⁹The Ephraimite archers turned back
on the day of battle.^(J)
¹⁰They did not keep God’s covenant
and refused to live by his law.^(K)
¹¹They forgot what he had done,
the wondrous works he had shown them.^(L)
¹²He worked wonders in the sight of their ancestors
in the land of Egypt, the territory of Zoan.^(M)
¹³He split the sea and brought them across;
the water stood firm like a wall.^(N)
¹⁴He led them with a cloud by day
and with a fiery light throughout the night.^(O)
¹⁵He split rocks in the wilderness
and gave them drink as abundant as the depths.^(P)
¹⁶He brought streams out of the stone
and made water flow down like rivers.^(Q)

¹⁷But they continued to sin against him,
rebelling in the desert against the Most High.^(R)
¹⁸They deliberately^[a] tested God,
demanding the food they craved.^(S)
¹⁹They spoke against God, saying,
“Is God able to provide food in the wilderness?
²⁰Look! He struck the rock and water gushed out;
torrents overflowed.^(T)
But can he also provide bread
or furnish meat for his people?” ^(U)
²¹Therefore, the Lord heard and became furious;
then fire broke out against Jacob,
and anger flared up against Israel^(V)
²²because they did not believe God
or rely on his salvation.^(W)
²³He gave a command to the clouds above
and opened the doors of heaven.^(X)
²⁴He rained manna for them to eat;
he gave them grain from heaven.^(Y)
²⁵People^[b] ate the bread of angels.^[c]
He sent them an abundant supply of food.^(Z)
²⁶He made the east wind blow in the skies
and drove the south wind by his might.^(AA)
²⁷He rained meat on them like dust,
and winged birds like the sand of the seas.
²⁸He made them fall in the camp,
all around the tents.^(AB)
²⁹The people ate and were completely satisfied,
for he gave them what they craved.^(AC)
³⁰Before they had turned from what they craved,
while the food was still in their mouths,
³¹God’s anger flared up against them,
and he killed some of their best men.
He struck down Israel’s fit young men.^(AD)

Footnotes:

78:18 Lit in their heart
78:25 Lit Man
78:25 Lit mighty ones

Cross references:

78:0 : 1Ch 16:5,7
78:1 : Pr 5:7; 7:24; Is 55:3
78:2 : Ps 49:4; Pr 1:6; Mt 13:35
78:3 : Ps 44:1
78:4 : Dt 6:7; 11:19; Ps 145:4
78:5 : Ps 19:7; 81:5; 147:19
78:6 : Dt 11:19; Ps 22:31; 102:18
78:7 : Dt 6:12; Ps 103:2; Pr 3:1
78:8 : Dt 31:27; 2Kg 17:14; 2Ch 30:7
78:9 : Ps 44:10
78:10 : 1Kg 11:11; 2Kg 17:15; Jr 32:23
78:11 : Ps 106:13
78:12 : Ex 7–12; Ps 78:43
78:13 : Ex 14:21; 15:8; Ps 136:13
78:14 : Ex 13:21; Nm 14:14; Ps 105:39
78:15 : Ex 17:6; Nm 20:8–13; Is 48:21
78:16 : Ps 105:41; 114:8
78:17 : Dt 9:22; Is 63:10; Heb 3:16
78:18 : Ex 17:2,7; Ps 106:14; 1Co 10:5–10
78:20 : Nm 20:11
78:19–20 : Ex 16:3; Nm 11:4; 21:5
78:21 : Nm 11:1
78:22 : Dt 1:23; 9:23; Heb 3:18
78:23 : Gn 7:11; Mal 3:10
78:24 : Ex 16:4,31; Jn 6:31
78:25 : Ex 16:3
78:26 : Nm 11:31
78:27–28 : Ex 16:13; Ps 105:40
78:29 : Nm 11:4,34
78:30–31 : Nm 11:33–34; Jb 20:23

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Proverbs 12:19-20

¹⁹Truthful lips endure forever,
but a lying tongue, only a moment.^(A)

²⁰Deceit is in the hearts of those who plot evil,
but those who promote peace have joy.^(B)

Cross references:

12:19 : Ps 52:4–5; Pr 19:9
12:20 : Pr 14:22

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

April 5, 2022

4/5/2022 DAB Transcript

Deuteronomy 28:1-68, Luke 11:14-36, Psalm 77:1-20, Proverbs 12:18

Today is the fifth day of April, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is wonderful to be here with you today as we take the next step forward, forward, of course, in our week, in our month, in our life for that matter. But forward in the Scriptures, which leads us back out into the book of Deuteronomy. This week we’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible and today, Deuteronomy chapter 28.

Commentary:

Okay, let’s do a little exercise today and think about what we are known for; think about that. What are you known for? And maybe that’s some kind of talent that you have or the occupation that you have, or the money that you have or don’t have or any of those kinds of things can go into all of those things but let’s just strip all that away. That’s, that’s what we do and certainly in this culture we are known by what we do. But if we strip it away, who are we, what kind of person are we? And we can think that we know ourselves, but how do people, what kind of a person do people think that we are? Are we argumentative and belligerent, are we kind, are we a peacemaker, are we a tough guy and nobody’s gonna get past us? Do we judge everybody and everything? Are we peaceful and the kind of person that people come to confide in for advice? Like, we can be all kinds of things. But if we think about how we would be known, the kind of person that we are, typically that’s going to come from the analysis of our words. If we are known as hateful, it’s probably because we speak that way, if we are known as kind, it’s probably because we speak that way; the power of life and death is in the tongue the Scriptures tell us but our one sentence from the Proverbs today tells us an awful lot as well. And I quote “there is one who speaks rashly like a piercing sword but the tongue of the wise brings healing.” So, if we speak rashly like a piercing sword that’s not like the tongue of the wise. The contrast is right here in the book of Proverbs for us to examine but wisdom is at the crossroads, at every crossroads saying go this way, walk this way and this is a crossroads, if we’re going to continue to speak rashly, we’re going to continue to wield a sword that slices and dices the hearts and souls of those that we love and those that we don’t. We’re just like a renegade with a weapon we don’t really know how to use but it’s a life and death weapon and we’re wielding it on whatever makes us upset. By contrast, the tongue of the wise brings healing. So, all we have to do is take like a few steps back, a few steps back enough to get perspective and ask ourselves, do I bring healing with what I say because we are certainly invited to do that and that is the path of wisdom. And so, if the answer is no, I don’t, I hurt everybody, then we aren’t walking the path of wisdom. It doesn’t have to be the we heap condemnation upon ourselves. It’s more of an awareness, I’m not going the direction that I should be going. I’m not going to end up where I want to cause we need to get off that road, which begin this with at least, at bare minimum listening to ourselves. We can say all kinds of horrible things as if we didn’t say them because we’re reacting in anger, we’re not listening to what we’re saying but in retrospect, we didn’t mean that, we don’t mean that, we didn’t have control, we swung a piercing sword and it didn’t lead us on the path of wisdom at all. And so, let’s allow the contrast, in the book of Proverbs to kind of spillover into our lives. This was penned thousands of years ago, thousands of years ago, people have been healing with this. And so, it’s no surprise that we still deal with this, these kinds of things as well. We have this contrast to at least locate where we are and if we’re not on the past wisdom, well we need to move in that direction as quickly as possible.

Prayer:

So, Holy Spirit, come because frankly for all the wisdom and experience we might think that we have, we know so very little. And yet You know everything and have invited us into intimacy with You. So, why we keep trying to go out there and do our own thing and react in anger and cause damage it’s well, now that we’ve taken a few steps back to look at it, it doesn’t make a lot of sense. We need You. Come, Holy Spirit, we humble ourselves, we repent. May we speak wise words that bring healing. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

Hello Ben from Minnesota. I just wanna tell you that we’re praying for you and your wife and the adoption out of the country. My daughter recently adopted here in America and that was, it took a long time. So many, so much paperwork and so many things you have to go through, so many hurdles you have to jump over, so I’m praying for you guys to get back to the states, safe and well with your new adopted child. And I wanted the say to Ezekiel, thank you for your April Fools fun reading with your dad today. That was so much fun. Seven years now, my husband and I have been listening to Daily Audio Bible. We look forward to, just the fun stuff that happens on that day on April 1st. I believe Jesus had humor and it’s good to have humor and the children are important. So, that was a perfect reading, that was for today, when Ezekiel was reading. Thank you all. God Bless.

Hey, this is Eyes of a Dove. And I’m actually sending a message to the gentleman that called and said he was a spiritual misfit. He felt that he didn’t quite fit into the fabric of what society would deem a Christian for he had been, earlier in his life a stout believer. But then he went into Pagan and other realms, I believe he said. And in his dark places, the thing that caused him to not want to harm himself was that thought that Christ Jesus had loved him and still does. And I want to tell you my friend, straight from Eyes of a Dove, we love you here too. And it’s okay if you don’t fit into that perfect fabric. This is a family and we’re willing to carry you along on our journey through the Bible and just allow the Lord to come in whatever capacity and just be a sponge and just let it come and consume you. And take it for where it’s at. The Lord will meet you where you’re at and He loves you. He loves every confusion, every broken piece. And just the thought that you’re knocking on His door again, that you’re asking for some spark of recognition from your Father’s eyes, not quite sure who your father is, just that you know and sense in your deep soul and spirit that He loves you, my friend. He loves you. He is mad, crazy, in love with you and I’m gonna be praying for you, my friend. You didn’t leave your name, you just said that you were a misfit. But man, you’re graphed into the vine and please stay. Put your log on the fire and be blessed and absorb the time that you stay with us. I hope it’s for good. Bye friend.

Hey, this is Rachel from North Carolina. I’m calling to pray for the Spiritual Misfit that called in on, well it was played on March 31st. Welcome, we are so glad you’re here. You are so welcome here. We, we are here for anyone who trying to get to know who God is. But the Bible says what truth is. I would encourage you, keep seeking, keep seeking to know God, to know what’s true about Him. Which may be different than what you’ve been told. And that’s okay. That’s why God gives us His word as something we can rely on, so we can learn about Him. So welcome. Let me pray for you. God, thank You for this new friend, this new log on our Global Campfire. Thank You for bringing him here. I ask that You would bless him to know You more and that You would continue to reveal Your love to them. Continue to guide them into all truth, like You say Your Holy Spirit does. And bless them to know You more as he or she draws near to You. Thank You. Amen.

Greetings, Daily Audio Bible family. This is Michael the Goldsmith from Washington State. Hey, I am calling in a response to a caller that called in the end of the podcast March 31st. You didn’t leave your name but you identified yourself with others as being a spiritual misfit. You were thankful for this community and that we’re here for you and we are here for you, I tell you. We, you said you tried many different roles in your Christian life from being a legalist to being a liberal. You even experimented with forces outside of God. You have doubts with your faith and where you fit in. And I tell you, I’ve been a listener for 15+ years and this is the 3rd time I’ve called in. And this is a kicker why I called in. God just really tugged on my heart strings here. You’ve been to different churches where they’ve used the bible to condemn people, to abuse people, in Jesus name. And we just want to say, we are so sorry, we are sorry as a community that you ever experienced that. We just want to affirm with you, Jesus knows you and loves you and you’ve seen that in your own life when you reached out to Him, He has been there for you. The Gospel is good, good news and its unbelievable news as we receive a free gift that is not of our own, so righteousness not of our own. I just pray that your faith with increase, that this, like the bible says this foolishness of preaching will transform you. You will grow, your reality will change to His view. Your view of yourself will change to His view, a loved child of His.

Hello Daily Audio Bible this is C from Mississippi. Today is April 1st 2022 and oh my land, it was such a blessing to hear Ezekiel. I thought we was going to hear China and Brian cause they always switch it up on April 1st, it was just wonderful hear that sweet little voice. I just wanna just thank the Hardin family for all that they do and I was just thinking about, about this time last year we was sitting around in a circle listening to Brian, ready to throw our log on the fire. And really we was just all waiting on the birth of baby Reagan Brave Brown. She’s about to be 1 in a couple of weeks. You guys, time just flies by. Everybody have a blessed day. I love you guys so much. This is C from Mississippi.

Deuteronomy 34 - Joshua 2

The Death of Moses

God Commands Joshua to Conquer Canaan

Joshua Gives Orders to the People

Joshua Sends Spies into Jericho

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Luke 13:22-14:6

The Narrow Door(A)

Jesus' Love for Jerusalem(E)

Jesus Heals a Sick Man

Cross references:

Psalm 79

A Prayer for the Nation's Deliverance[a]

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Proverbs 12:26

Deuteronomy 33

Moses’s Blessings

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Luke 13:1-21

Repent or Perish

The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree

Healing a Daughter of Abraham

The Parables of the Mustard Seed and of the Leaven

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Psalm 78:65-72

Cross references:

Proverbs 12:25

Cross references:

Deuteronomy 32:28-52

Moses’s Impending Death

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Luke 12:35-59

Ready for the Master’s Return

Rewards and Punishment

Not Peace but Division

Interpreting the Time

Settling Accounts

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Psalm 78:56-64

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Proverbs 12:24

Cross references:

Deuteronomy 31:1-32:27

Joshua Takes Moses’s Place

Moses Warns the People

Song of Moses

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Luke 12:8-34

Acknowledging Christ

The Parable of the Rich Fool

The Cure for Anxiety

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Psalm 78:32-55

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Proverbs 12:21-23

Cross references:

Deuteronomy 29-30

Renewing the Covenant

Abandoning the Covenant

Returning to the Lord

Choose Life

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Luke 11:37-12:7

Religious Hypocrisy Denounced

Beware of Religious Hypocrisy

Fear God

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Psalm 78:1-31

The Narrow Door^(A)

Jesus' Love for Jerusalem^(E)

A Prayer for the Nation's Deliverance^[a]

A Maskil of Asaph.^(A)