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Ezekiel 27:1-28:26, Hebrews 11:17-31, Psalm 111:1-10, Proverbs 27:15-16

Today is the 13th day of November, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it’s great to be here with you, as we move into a brand-new, shiny, sparkly week and move our way through the center of another one of our months together and we only have one more after this one, before we complete this revolution through the Bible. I don’t want to start thinking about that just yet though. We got a ways to go, a lot of territory to cover and what a joy it is to be able to gather around the Global Campfire every day and move forward together. So, we got a brand-new week, it’s out in front of us, how we live it will be the story of this week and the story of this week will combine with all of the other weeks of this month and we’ll tell the story of this month right, and then all those months are gathered together and tell the story of our year. But here we are with a brand-new week in front of us. So, let’s walk the path of wisdom and let’s continue to immerse ourselves in the Scriptures each and every day. So, it’s a brand-new week, we’ll read from the New International Version this week and will go back and pick up where we left off, which takes us back into the book of Ezekiel. Today, we will read chapters 27 and 28.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word and we thank You for this brand-new week that we have entered into, we thank You for all of the weeks of our lives and Your faithfulness to us in all of it, even when we were anything but faithful, we love You, Lord. There is no love like Your love and through faith, we have this relationship intimately with You, as we are learning as we read through the book of Hebrews and walk down all of these examples of how faith was the irreplaceable part of this story, that this story couldn’t have happened without faith and that is true of us. Our story couldn’t have happened without faith and so we put our faith and our trust in You. Our loyalty and allegiance is to You. Come Holy Spirit, and lead us into all truth, we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

Prayer and Encouragements:

Hello, my sisters and brothers, this is Sunset Cindy, calling November 9th. And I just listened to Taylor, bless your heart sweetie. You are in despair; you’re having such a time that you’re just tired and you wanna go to heaven. And I just wanna tell you that Jesus does love you, God loves you so much. He sent His Son for you, to die so that that would prove to you how much He loves you and there’s nothing you can do, to end that love or fall out of favor. So, I just wanna say, when you’re feeling like you just don’t want to go on, if you could just pray to Jesus, all you have to say is His name. Say His name, over and over. And you know how the Israelites, those people, they just kept falling down too. God’s chosen people just kept falling down. He kept picking them up and they would head off on another journey and He would be with them. And that is your case as well, sweetheart. You just, you’re on a very hard struggling journey, right now. And I want you to stay strong and do not leave this world by your own hand. Your daughter, she will just be in total agony. All, all of the people that love you and I know this from this happening to my children when their father left by his own hand. They’ve been struggling now for over 30 years. Jesus is walking with them though but let me tell you, it’s a struggle. Please, just leave when Jesus takes you home. Okay, not on your own and just call out to Jesus and see yourself holding His hand. Jesus, hold my hand, just, and He’ll lift your head up and walk with you. I love you; we all love you.

Hi, this is Grateful in Tennessee, yeah, I haven’t really called in. I’ve been a part of this community for a few years, from a standpoint of listening and praying but not really calling in. But I’m very grateful for each and every one of you guys. It thrills me whenever you guys come on and share and talk and pray. And I couldn’t imagine not being a part of this community. But my, my best friend called me yesterday and he said that his mom, she’s got cancer in her eye, and it’s gone back into her sinuses and it’s just a matter of time. She’s been kind of hard to deal with. She was, I mean, she was like my second mom growing up and she always called me her son number two. But she’s gotten, you know, kind of cranky and onery, and he said you gotta realize now that she’s so isolated now and she can’t hear that well or see that well and she’s kind of stuck in her house, so she kind of understands why she might be a little bit like that. But she’s also such a, such a joy. I mean, she was always so good to me, so good to us. As from, you know, being rambunctious teenagers, to street preachers, to whatever else we’ve tried to do. But anyway, I told him, I said I would make sure that I got you guys to pray for her cause I know that you will. And her name is Sue and she’s, she’s a believer, she, she helped me so much in my younger days learning about, about Jesus. So, if you guys could pray for Sue and pray for her comfort and peace. And just, that she feels a connection and connected. And pray for my friend Tom, that he, that he has the patience that he needs to help his mom out and all that. You guys are awesome, and I appreciate that, and I know that you will do that. This is Grateful in Tennessee. Thank you.

Hey family, it’s JC from Washington. Don’t really know how to ask for this prayer other than just to say it, not, no real way to sugar coat it. But my middle stepdaughter’s kind of been estranged from, I’ve had a little bit of contact with her over a few years. But she’s definitely been estranged from her mother for seven or eight years. And I’ve been in touch with her here and there and just kind of these cryptic interactions and kind of new something was up. But last weekend we found out she had gone to jail for some threat chargers among other things. And then, we found out from her boyfriend’s mother that she had been basically crashing in their basement for the last year or so. And she’s on fentanyl. Then we found out that she’s living with this dude in Kirkland who’s potentially trafficking her and she’s 18-years-old. So, she’s you know, he’s got her phone, he’s kind of monitoring all her texts and calls so, I haven’t been able to get ahold of her. So, it’s a pretty dire situation. And it appears there’s nothing we can really do about it. You know, so, and I know I’ve kind of expressed to her multiple times, without accusing her of you know, being an addict that you know, I’d be willing to help her. It’s just, she’s not really acknowledging that she needs help. So, I know, when it comes to addiction, there’s, if they’re not reaching out for help and they haven’t reached rock bottom you know, there’s nothing we can do. So, I know this fentanyl the kids usually end up dead. So, just prayers for her, God knows her name. Thank guys, love you. Bye.

This is Kathy from Kentucky. I continue to need your prayers. It’s a difficult time for me just trying to work at my age and keep up with inflation on gas and groceries, maintain my health. I keep my home together, getting in ready for winter. I think I’ve got rid of the bed bugs and mice. Just a lot of different things happening in my life when I look back over the last four to five years, I’ve lost six family members. And then we had COVID and now we have inflation to deal with. It’s not easy to live alone. And sometimes it’s very lonely and very hard. And I ask your prayers for me. Thank you. Kathy from Kentucky, in Jesus name.

Ezekiel 24:1-26:21, Hebrews 11:1-16, Psalms 110:1-7, Proverbs 27:14

Today is the 12^th day of November welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian and it’s great to be here with you. Oddly, this concludes our…it’s taken us 12 days but this will conclude our first full week in the month of November and we’ll continue our journey full speed ahead, which will lead us back to where we left off yesterday, and that happens to be back in the book of Ezekiel. Today we will read from the New English Translation, which is what we’ve been doing this week and we’ll read Ezekiel chapters 24, 25 and 26 today.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. We thank You for another day to gather around it. We thank You for the presence of Your Holy Spirit leading us into all truth as we allow the Scriptures to seep down into our lives watering the soil of our hearts. And we thank You Father for a bountiful harvest in our lives, the fruit of the Spirit. May it be ever-growing within us, and may we share it freely with all that we encounter. We love You and we take this moment and make it a moment of gratitude. We love You. We thank You, we worship You, we trust You, and we pray these things in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Good morning DAB family this is Saved by Grace in California. I’d just like to lift up that…the gentleman who came on and asked for prayer. It’s been a week and his wife, and his daughter has left him. And Father God I just lift up my brother to You Father and I just pray that he would see Your hand in this situation. Father, he says that he…his church…and he sounds like he’s a member Father but I just pray Lord that You will show him and be ever present in this situation for our brother. Comfort his heart Father God that’s grieving the loss right now Lord. I pray for restoration. I pray for Father God for a new relationship not amending of the old Father God, but I pray new total newness in this situation. I pray that they will put You first in their marriage and in the rearing of their child. I ask God that You would give him favor in the eyes of the wife Lord God and that there’ll be a forgivingness Father, that You would remove all resentment, bitterness, and unforgiveness in this situation in the name of Jesus. And I pray that thy will be done forever in this…in his life Father God and in this situation and I thank You for the powerful testimony that this couple will have that will lead others Father God to trust in You and to rely on You in the name of Jesus I pray. Amen.

Hey good morning Daily Audio Bible family this is John calling from Westminster MA I hope everyone is doing well. Today is the 9^th of November and it’s the 313^th day of the year, which is just mind boggling. Brian thank you so much for your commitment and loyalty to Jesus Christ and for your outpouring of love that is the love of Christ in your heart to everybody here in the community. We are great benefactors of the mighty work that God is doing in and through you and we’re entirely blessed that you and your family are so on fire for the Lord. And that fire continues to spread and we’re glad to be caught in it. We’re Catching Fire so thank you Brian. I wanted to call in today to pray for Prodigal Princess from Massachusetts. I heard your prayer request play on the 312^th day of the year so the 8^th of November and you were just talking about how you’re a child in the faith and that you are…you desire to become strong in the faith so that…you know right now you knew you need milk, but you know you do desire that you can have solid food. Sister, you are…you are on the right path and on the right track. You’ve got strongholds that are broken in Jesus’ name, chains that are of bound you that are broken in Jesus’ name. You’re a new child and a new creation. What had you held back in the past is projecting you propelling you forward into the future, and I can’t wait to hear your testimony. This is John from Massachusetts.

This is Hands to Heaven. Father God, I lift up the troubled ones to You to night. You know them Lord, the ones who are caught in the storms of life and are so busy bailing out the boat they haven’t had time for more than an SOS prayer. Each time they feel like they’ve made headway another wave of trials complications and difficulties swamps the boat and they’re once more struggling just to keep afloat. Strengthen the troubled ones, Lord. Help them to carry on knowing that You haven’t abandoned them but are right beside them encouraging them. Give them the faith to keep their eyes above the waves. Fill them with the assurance that storms always end, and many are followed by a rainbow, the promise that You will never break Your word, never forsake Your children, never send more than You can help us bear. And Lord when the waves cease, and the rain abates let the troubled ones turn to You and thanksgiving and praise and let them tell the others whose boats are still floundering in deep waters that You are faithful, and You are present in each moment. Let them share how You helped them through their problem into Your promises in Jesus’ name I pray. This is Hands to Heaven. God bless you all.

Good afternoon, everybody it is I, the Slow Boat. A young man called on November 1^st. His first name is Jonathan and I think his last name is Santos or Lopez. I didn’t quite get it. Anyway, he asked for our prayers as he reaches his 20^th birthday and he’s concerned about a job. He’s reaching a new stage in his life. Jonathan, I would like to praise you for two reasons. First, you took your courage in your hands and called us. Second, you are serious about moving on to your next stage. While I want you to have every success, that you get a great job that pays well that teaches you a lot, that if you go on in your education you get good grades in whatever courses you take and you finish them up with honors. The DAB is a family, and we welcome you. Stay in touch. Call if you need to. I am praying for you as you requested and happy birthday.

Ezekiel 23:1-49, Hebrews 10:18-39, Psalm 109:1-31, Proverbs 27:13

Today is the 11th day of November, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it’s great to be here with you today. It’s great to come around the Global Campfire together. And as we often say, let it go, leave it at the entrance, this little circle around this Global Campfire is a safe place for us. We’re here to allow the Scriptures to wash into our lives and speak to us and honestly, being here right now around the Global Campfire together with you, this is one of my very favorite places in the world to be. And so, it is great to be here with you today, as we gather and take the next step forward. And that next step forward, leads us back into the book of Ezekiel today, we will read Ezekiel chapter 23.

Prayer:

Thank You, Father, for Your word. Thank You for another day. Thank You for allowing us to be in the book of Ezekiel and read the letter to the Hebrews, to be in the Psalms, to be in the Proverbs and that this just is a relationship that never ends. Not only a relationship with You that never ends but with a relationship with Your Word, day-by-day, step-by-step, it is guiding us, transforming us, challenging us, restoring us and giving us the promises of things yet to come, and we hope in these things. We thank You for what we’re learning in the book of Hebrews, from a Hebrew context, that we, that we can enter the Most Holy place, that we can move through the curtain into the Holy of Holies, that we, through Jesus, can have intimacy and relationship with You, Lord. And this is the most spectacular thing that we, can have a relationship with the Almighty, the Most High. So, we worship You, we thank You for making this possible, because it wasn’t something we earned, it wasn’t something that we did, we weren’t so righteous that one day You said I can’t keep You out of my presence you’re too righteous. We were never that, on our own we will never be that. You are that, You are righteous, and You have come to restore us and through You, we have been made righteous. We rejoice in this, we rejoice in You and praise Your holy name in the name of Jesus, we declare these things. Amen.

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And as always if have a prayer request or encouragement, you can hit the Hotline button in the app or you can dial 877-942-4253.

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

Prayer and Encouragements:

Rest in peace DAB family. This is David from Tyrone. And I have been with the DAB community now for almost 4 years. It has been quite a journey. I’ve gotten so much out of listening to Brian and his insights into Scripture. Haven’t come out to the Community much on the Prayer Line. I’ve really only done it once and that was in January of 21 when my mom passed. But last night at the hospital with my wife, we got some news that she has several abscesses on her colon and doctors had to go in last night and do an emergency procedure to put a line in to allow the infection to drain in hopes that it would promote healing of her colon. And if that doesn’t work, we’re looking at having to have at least a third of her colon removed. And so, I’ve reached out to my church family, I’ve reached out to my friends and family, asking for their prayers. And I would be remiss if I didn’t ask this DAB Community to pray for my wife, as well. So, that’s what I’m doing, I’m asking that each and every one of you would pray for my wife Lynn. Pray for comfort and healing and help us to just be strong in our faith. Understand God’s will and accept that but most important Lord, we’re praying for her, her healing. So, thank you family. And God bless you.

Hey, this one goes out to Brian. This is Micah in Awe, in Kansas City. I just wanted to mention how excellent your commentary was today. The Scriptures were so awesome, the end of Hebrews. I don’t remember it ever being, as like, caught up in the end of Hebrews as, er, this part of Hebrews as I was today. Like, catching that Scripture so thoroughly today. It just really, really hit me hard today. Made me almost, almost weep; I’m a weeper. Almost made me weep. I was like, daaaang. We are grafted in, like you said, that’s in Romans but like I really felt that this was towards the Israelites, but I know that we’re grafted in. And God’s saying that He’s no longer gonna hold our sins against us and like, that’s, that was the change, that’s like, Him telling us things are gonna be different, right. He saw all of our, all of our error, all of our inability to follow the law and do what was right. And He loves us so much, He loves us and even though we were like a cheating spouse, and like, the Scriptures point that out, He still cared for us so much, that He made a way for us. And I felt that in my Spirit, like when I’m doing something wrong, the Spirit shows me and convicts me of it and then sometimes the Spirit, like, nudges me and pushes me towards doing something that I believe is what you would call good, like, that God wants that’s good. And man, I just love this whole thing. And like, those things that you said, literally the word “grafted in” came to my mind as I heard that, like, this is for the Israelites, but I’m grafted in. And then, in your commentary you said that, so that you said that, reminds me of these themes, that the Holy Spirit, gives to His people. Like, all of, all of us Christians share these messages from the Holy Spirit and I really, it’s just confirmation that God is in this. I love you.

Hey, DAB family, this is Your Sister Ashley from California. And I just wanted to come on here and share with you all, an update about my son Jackson. He has been in and out of the hospital, we’ve been admitted for low sodium and blood pressure issues and all sorts of fun stuff. But today, last night, November 7th we came home and so he’s home right now. And thank You Jesus, thank You so much Lord, for just Your goodness and Your mercy and the modern and Your grace and medicine and just everything that You’re doing. And guys, I just wanna say thank you too for praying. It’s like, it’s like your prayers are all these pearls, like these beads of pearls that have just like wrapped the room and decorated. It’s such a beautiful and comforting thing to think of. But I also wanted to share with you. Brian, we go the Sleep soundtrack and one time we were in the hospital and Jackson was having a hard time sleeping. And he said, I put it on for him and then a little bit later when he had woken up again, he said, mommy, put on the guy from the DAB again. So, I just wanted to say thank you for that because it has really been a blessing. And I just want to let you know guys that I’m praying for you because praying for you helps my heart too. So, I love you DAB family and I’ll let you know what’s going on soon.

Hello, my beautiful DAB family. This is my very first time calling. But I pray for you all right there and then when the petitions are requested. This is my fifth year studying the Bible with you all. I just want to thank Brian for standing before us, with his wonderful mission of yours and your family. I’m so grateful for that. And I wanted to share that, before the release of the Sleep, Contemplative Journey was released, I already was falling asleep with repeating the same study of the day. I’m so grateful for this new release, it helps me contemplate more than the Bible and God’s Word, rather than my problems. I am so grateful; thank you, I love you all.

So, this is Vincent, Walking in Love. At least, I used to, or I try to. I don’t know, even if this will get played but I’m really trying to understand our Heavenly Father. How, how in His name does He put love in your life and take it away? What is the point of all of this, of any of this? And I’m not trying to be funny. I just don’t get it. I just don’t get it. God bless, you all.

Eze 21:1-22:31, Heb 10:1-17, Ps 108:1-13, Pr 27:12

Today is the 10^th day of the month of November, the 10^th day of the 11^th month, if you will, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it’s great to be here with you today as we gather like we do every day around the Global Campfire and take the next step forward on our adventure through the Scriptures. And our adventure continues in the book of Ezekiel. We’re reading from the New English Translation this week and today, Ezekiel chapters 21 and 22.

Commentary:

Alright. So, we spent some time yesterday and the book of Hebrews just discussing…well…first of all, that Hebrews was written to Hebrews. And, so, it’s from one worldview into the same worldview. So, there are some common tapestries and understandings about things and how they work that we, if we had grown up in a Hebrew culture, would also understand. Wherever we live on this earth…like I live here in the United States…there is a culture here. Actually, there are many cultures here. It’s a melting pot. But there are regional cultures. I live in the south of the United States. It has a particular culture that’s different than say the Pacific Northwest. But when you kind of live in a culture then there are all kinds of things that aren’t spoken that don’t need to be spoken that everybody just sort of knows. And, so, that is going on in the New Testament. That is going on in the book of Hebrews. And, so, we have to peel back some layers sometimes to just at least get context. Even though context doesn’t give us a worldview or give us the advantage of having grown up in a culture, we can at least get closer, we can understand better. And, so, yesterday we were talking about those nuances and how we can read the theological statements, the truth statements in the letter to the Hebrews and go, yeah, everybody knows that. But when these things were being said originally 2000 years ago. in the first century it wasn’t like, yeah, everybody knows that. It wasn’t a part of the fabric of the culture that they understood. And these teachings about Jesus seemed off because nobody was talking about that in the culture or they seemed heretical, like leading people into deception. The writer of Hebrews is trying to say no no no no no no that’s not what’s going on here. It is a part of our culture. It has been foretold. We have been waiting for this day. Our objective here is to recognize that it’s happening instead of just missing it. Like…like our ancestors missed the voice of the prophets so often we need to not miss that God is doing a new thing but a thing that was foretold. So, we obviously continued forward today the next reading from the letter to the Hebrews. And in our reading today knowing all of that back story of nuance and culture and tapestry we need understand that what the writer of Hebrews said today was a big deal. And, so, let me quote. “For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come, but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable by the same sacrifices offered continually year after year to perfect those who come to worship. For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered since the worshipers would’ve been purified once for all and so have no further consciences of sin? But in those sacrifices, there is a reminder of sins year after year. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.” Okay, so if you were in a Hebrew centric culture, had grown up understanding Mosaic law, understanding the rituals, understanding the customs, understanding the holidays and celebrations living inside of this culture worshiping at the temple atoning for your sins through sacrifices and somebody came along and said that’s over, that’s over that didn’t work anyway, it was just a shadow it was a foretelling of something to come but it wasn’t a reality, you might very well think this person is out of their mind or a complete heretic. And if you were in a first century Hebrew culture you also might have some…some ethnic pride going on. Like, who are you saying these things, Hebrew as you might be? Who are you saying these things as if we’ve never heard of God. Like we are God’s chosen people. This isn’t our first rodeo. We’ve been studying God’s law for an awful long time, like since He gave it to us. Who are you to say this is a copy, a shadow, it’s not real, it didn’t work, or it wasn’t the endgame. And, so, we can see, the writer of Hebrews is attaching the story of God doing a new thing to the story of God foretelling that He would do this. It’s the only link that Hebrew people might understand that they knew this was coming. They’ve been waiting for this. They have been hoping for this. They’ve been praying for this, that they need to recognize that it is upon them. But we can also see the challenge of people who have grown up in the culture trying to obey the law, trying to be righteous before God by obeying the law. And this is all a part of the culture. Like this is all a part of every celebration, every ritual, every…everything. We can see why it would be challenging. I mean, let’s just try to put ourselves in this position. We read things and have read things all year long in the Bible that have showed us about atoning sacrifices and very very specific typical ways of doing things and as Christian people 2000 years into the future we could say, yeah, that…that is the old covenant. That is how it worked. That is what God was doing but, phew, thank goodness we don’t have to do any of that stuff. We’re free from all that stuff. And yet, if we take a couple steps back, we realize we too are a part of a culture and even a subculture and probably a sub subculture, probably many different nuances of culture, but we live somewhere and so there’s a culture attached to that. We grew up somewhere and so there’s a culture attached to that. Those could be the same things, or they can be blended, which has enhanced our understanding of culture. We are also Christian people, disciples of Jesus which creates its own subculture, sort of a language and an…an…a common understanding, that no matter where we go in the world, we have brothers and sisters who have common faith. And, so, we can find commonality in that subculture. And in that subculture of Christianity, we have rituals, celebrations, holidays, customs, language. We have all of the stuff of culture and we’re used to it. Perhaps it’s been our reality since the day we were born. Let’s just take Christmas. Without like trying to dissect Christmas, let’s say Christmas is a day around the world where people who believe in Jesus commemorate and celebrate His arrival, His birth, right? It won’t be that many weeks from now until we’re celebrating that very thing. We could have studied the origin as origins and been like, okay, yeah, this…this kind of evolved over time, but nevertheless we celebrate Jesus’ birth on Christmas day and we do all kinds of other things like maybe we receive the Eucharist or communion every week at church or once a month at church. We have these rhythms and rituals that bind us together and remind us of the story that were in. So, let’s just say on YouTube some super…like I don’t even…like some superduper superduper famous theologian or pastor of thousands and thousands and thousands of people somewhere in the world, somebody with a really really big megaphone comes along and does this YouTube thing and says, it’s been revealed. The time that were in right now has come to an end. There’s no more Christmas. We won’t be observing that anymore. God is doing a new thing in the world. And, so, we won’t actually be observing any of these Christians centric holidays anymore. What God is speaking to the world now, and to His followers in the world is that we’ve had this season and now He’s going back to where we started and we’re all going back together. And, so, January 1st we will all then need to really get brushed up on Torah because what God wants is for us to return to Mosaic law and its customs and its holidays and its language. We’re going back to the sacrificial system and we don’t have a lot of time because Christmas is coming and this will be our last Christmas and then January 1^st we’re gonna need to be ready, actually. So, we’re gonna need to get some sheep, learn how to raise them because they’re going to be part of our ritual sacrifices. And we’re just really going to understand what God was saying in the Torah and bring it into a modern era. This is what God wants His people to do thus saith the Lord. Well, that might get a lot of views. It might get some thumbs up and it might get a lot of thumbs down, but it would create controversy. Some people would say God is doing a new thing and yeah, I’m on board, I’m going back to the Torah. Other people would say, why would God do such a thing. And, you know, and then there would be a million other comments, a running commentary on what everybody thinks about everything about this. But to get everybody who believes in Jesus on board with something like this, could that even happen? And I’m not suggesting it’s supposed to happen. This is an example. What would it take to convince everybody who’s grown up a certain way, believing a certain thing to…not to let go of what they have believed, but to become aware that God is going to do a new thing. It’s been foretold, and it’s happening now, and we need to recognize it. Like we would naturally probably resist against that sort of change. We might even call that famous theologian or pastor, the one with the big megaphone a heretic. It would definitely make that person very controversial. That’s not unlike what we’re talking about here in the stew of the first century in which this letter was written. This was going to require a leap of faith. Obviously, many took that leap of faith and over the last couple of thousand years many billions of people have taken that leap of faith. And, so, that the…the subculture of Christianity around the world is the largest religious grouping of people on earth today. So, along with the gospel writers, along with the apostle Paul, along with Peter, and James, and John, who also wrote in the New Testament we have this letter to the Hebrews. Obviously, the message got out. Obviously, it ignited many hearts and continues to do that until this day, so people take the leap of faith. But at this point in time when this is all beginning, we see that it was a true leap of faith. And, so, it’s a good point for us to ask ourselves like, can God do anything in us? And if you wanted to do a new thing in us, would we recognize it? Because it would be disruptive. It would shake us. It would cause us to ask questions. It might even sound wrong. But then the more we think about it only sounds wrong because of the voices of our culture and the whole tapestry and backdrop of how we have lived. And, so, we get over that and we think, okay for me to allow this new thing to happen inside of me that seems that God might be leading me toward, might mean that I find myself at odds or sort of in the no man’s land for a minute because God is doing a new thing and He wants to do a new thing among all of us, but some of us see it sooner than others. And, so, there’ll be this, can I handle that without always questioning whether or not I’m wrong? You…you see the wrestling. And, so, that kind of wrestling has always been going on in faith, but it is certainly going on now. And, so, the fundamental question for us is, if God wants to do a new thing can he do a new thing? Will we let him do that new thing in us? And I’m not saying God isn’t sovereign and that God can…that He is prohibited from doing what He wants to do. I’m saying He collaborates with people. He wants covenantal relationship. These things we know from the Scriptures. He loves us. We know that. He wants to be loved back. We know that. This is a relationship. And, so, if He’s like, look, we need to move in a different direction. I need to bring you over here. We’re going to do a new thing and it’s can it change some things about how you see my people, and it’s gonna change some things about how you understand the culture that you’re in would we let it happen or when we run for the cover where we feel like we are safe in numbers? Like, we pray regularly in our Christian culture for God to do a new thing, for God to shake us or wake us up or revive us or send revival. We want God to do something big and magnificent and noticeable and new. But what we would we do if He does because that is exactly what we’re looking at when we look at the story of Jesus in the Scriptures, something foretold, a brand-new paradigm, the end of one covenant, the inauguration of a new one. And if all you ever knew was the old one it would be a leap of faith to jump into the new one. It’s just that God isn’t afraid of those kinds of things. We can build paradigms and theological formulas all that we want but God isn’t willing to follow our formulas if it will thwart what He wants to get done. God is sovereign and will do what is right. And He will shatter paradigms. And He will even use the Scriptures to do it. So, going back to what I read earlier in Hebrews chapter 10. “The law possesses a shadow of the good things to come, but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable by the same sacrifices offered continually year after year to perfect those who come to worship.” This is fundamentally saying that…that way of doing things and that way of understanding God has come to an end and a new thing has begun that no longer requires sacrifice or that type of atonement. The price has been paid once and for all. There has been a final sacrifice in the system. It is over. Sin isn’t a category for those who believe. Sin has no claim. We can go right into the holy of holies to our Father. So, God is willing to blow up paradigms, actually pretty big ones, which means that He’s not afraid to blow up smaller paradigms in our lives in order to pull us forward and deeper. The question might be, would we resist or would we leap in faith? Some things for us to think about today.

Prayer:

Holy Spirit, come. We invite You into all of this. To discern that You are doing something new, that You are calling us into the unknown, that You are shattering a paradigm and we are going to have to take a leap of faith, that can be tricky on all kinds of levels - the cultural level, the relational level and just the fear level - that what we seem to see You pulling us toward is something that requires us to leap out into the dark in faith, letting go what we thought we knew about You or letting go what we thought we knew at all. These are challenging things. They’re supposed to be challenging. It’s an invitation to grow, but an invitation that requires profound discernment. And, so, Comforter, come. Give us wisdom. Lead us into all truth but allow us to understand that You will always be pulling us into a place that is uncomfortable where we must grow. You are Fathering us. You love us. You want us to understand the ways of Your kingdom and its authority. And so often that means a challenge to what we thought we knew. And, so, help us walk this narrow path that leads to life and live this life of faith as a grand adventure with You. We pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Good morning DAB family my name is Barbara and at 1:00 o'clock this morning my husband passed away of 41 years and I just want to say thank you because I started listening to the Daily Audio Bible back in February of this year and it has brought so much comfort to me through this…through this time. And I just wanna say thank you. I’ve also downloaded the Sleep thing last night for him. He was very restless and I guess he was just getting ready to meet his Creator but he um he was very restless and he listened to that and he just became so calm. And when he died this…this morning at 1:00 AM he was at peace, and he even had a little smile on his face. So, thank you. Thank you for being there for me and encouraging me throughout this year. And I will continue to…to listen to it. And I want a shout out to Kayla young girl who that sounded like…that called in on this day, I don’t know what time…just she’s very unhappy and distraught and I just pray. I pray for her Lord, that she would find Your love, that she would not give up on life, but that You have so much more in store for her life. So, thank you DAB, __…

Dear heavenly Father, I have just listened to the November 6^th call in on DAB and I heard that sweet Kayla at the end of it calling for prayer and wanting to go home. Lord, I just pray right now that You touch her, that You send Your angels to comfort her and give her strength Lord that she knows she has a reason to live, that she has a beautiful daughter that needs her to live. Lord, whatever she’s going through we just call upon You right now. I believe it that You are protecting her, that someone is there hugging her and lets her know she is worthy, and You have not forsaken her, that You are there with her Lord Jesus. We just give You all the honor and all the glory Lord. Just bless her. Send those angels to comfort her Lord where she is, that they find her. Thank You for who You are. I thank You for this group, this community. You have been my rock when I have been so weak. So, I am lifting her up right now Lord Jesus. Protect her. Let her know it is not time Lord. Protect her. See her through it and send some people, some angels to comfort her and give her strength and show her the purpose that You have for her life and she has a reason to live for her daughter in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Hi this is Heidi in Texas first time caller but absolutely love hearing your prayer requests and praises and encouragements. I’m a little behind but this is for…identified as Lazarus and wanted to change his name to legion. And I hear in your voice a hesitancy of just letting it being OK that you have screwed up. We all have dude and I just want to pray for you right quick. God I just lift this precious man who is broken. And You’ve promised us that You are near to the broken hearted. Father, I pray that Your beautiful peace will pierce his heart and surround him with Your goodness and Your love and Your grace. God, I pray for a miracle in his marriage and the wife that he has realized he has hurt over many years. God, I pray for a massive miracle of forgiveness of understanding of reuniting. God, I stand against the enemy when he is coming to destroy the marriages in the church and in the godly families. God, I stand against that and I pray unity over any kind of strongholds the enemy has put on the marriages. God be with this man who identifies as Lazarus and just resurrect his marriage, resurrect his heart and his soul. God, we praise You. Amen.

I just listened to the airing on November 6^th, and I heard my sweet sister Kayla praying. Kayla, I couldn’t help but pick up the phone and hold it to my chest and give you a virtual hug. My heart broke with yours. It’s so hard when our feelings don’t line up with the truth. There is nothing that you can do to make God love you less and I’m sure you know that but I just wanted to remind you of that. You are so dearly loved and I am so sorry that you don’t feel that. Father, I just ask you to lavish your love on my sweet sister Kayla and let her feelings align with your truth. Give her the strength to hold on and be there and be strong for her sweet daughter. Strengthen her and be everything that she needs in every area of her life I pray to your glory in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Hi my name is Savon I was just coming on here to seek prayer and blessings from the Lord. There’s a lot of stuff going on in the world right now and people and me and my family and it gets to a point sometimes where it’s just a lot to handle and I was just asking to come for prayer and I just wanna say thank you. You guys have helped me a lot. God has blessed me a lot and I have been…I’ve been trying to listen to this every day. Sometimes I do be failing but I just want to get in a good light of God and I’m trying to. You know it seems really hard. Sorry, I’m crying. But I appreciate you guys and I hope God blesses you all. Please just keep me in your prayers. God bless you guys.

Ezekiel 20:1-49, Hebrews 9:11-28, Psalm 107:1-43, Proverbs 27:11

Today is the ninth day of November, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian, it is fantastic to be here with you today, as we gather again around the Global Campfire and take the next step forward together. The next step always begins, right where the last one left off, which will lead us back into the book of Ezekiel and today we will read Ezekiel chapter 20.

Commentary:

Okay so yesterday, we kind of dove into the book of Ezekiel and actually just talked about prophecy and God’s heart as He revealed in Ezekiel. And just talked about how our hearts can find a vengeful God in these profits when things didn’t have to happen that way, prophets came and offered choices. And often the people ignored their own peril. We talked about covenants. Today, let’s dive into the…the Hebrew context of Hebrews by first of all, remembering Hebrews is written to Jewish people. Hebrews was written to Hebrews. So, it’s within that context, and if we don’t really understand the Hebrew context, then we can read lots of things in letters like the letter to the Hebrews, and it seem incredibly tedious, highly theological and that we don’t get what the big deal is. If we understand the context, we understand a lot of why this is revolutionary. And so, let’s just put this to the test. Pretend for a second, no matter how much of a Hebrew context or how much first century Roman Empire, province of Syria, Jewish history you’ve study like, pretend you don’t know anything about the Hebrew customs, rituals or religion. And now I’m saying, I’m quoting out of the letter to the Hebrews. I’m quoting this from Hebrews, but let’s pretend we don’t know anything about the Hebrew context. So, I read “He entered once for all into the most Holy Place, not by the blood of goats and cows, but by His own blood. And so, He Himself secured eternal redemption.” Like if you have no context at all, what does that even mean? If someone just walked up to you and they were trying to tell you some really, really good news and they’re like, yeah, He entered once for all into the Most Holy place. Isn’t that amazing? And it wasn’t by the blood of the sacrifice of a goat or a calf, it was His own blood, and He secured eternal redemption through His own blood. Right, like are we taken a couple of steps backward away from this person, like what are you saying, what is going on here? So, without a little bit of context, the first being, Hebrews is written to Hebrews in a Hebrew context, it’s super easy to get lost. Since we have a bit of context from the Scriptures we understand, there was a sacrificial system in place. This had been in the Hebrew culture for centuries. This covenantal worship had a temple, it was in Jerusalem, inside that temple was a Most Holy place. Priests served at this temple, the chief of them being the High Priest and sacrifices happened there. Sacrifices were ongoing and were a part of the ritualistic worship of the God of Israel. What the writer of Hebrews is saying is, the final sacrifice in a system that has lasted for centuries has been made, the covenant that governed this sacrificial system, has come to an end and a new covenant has been inaugurated, presided over by God himself, in the form of Jesus, who is a permanent eternal High Priest and a permanent eternal Holy of Holies. The previous system was a copy and now this is the real thing. So, if you were a Hebrew or are a Hebrew in a Hebrew context, the…the terminology all makes sense. And what everything is connected to, all makes sense, and this news would have been good news if it were true, right. Like, if the final sacrifice has been made, there is a new covenant with God and all can enter into eternal life, fulfilling the obligations of the old covenant by believing in Jesus. That’s really, really good news, but it’s also really, really hard to believe, which is why the writer of Hebrews is going to great lengths to say the thing is friends, this was expected. We’ve been expecting this to happen. We’ve been looking for this to happen, let’s not miss that it’s happening. But it still would’ve been a reach because there’s a whole system in place for how to remove sin and how to become righteous before God and the announcement is, that system has come to a close, you are righteous before God through Jesus and the rituals of the culture will not draw you closer in intimate relationship with God but through Jesus, you can come into the Holy of Holies yourself, and crawl up on the lap of the Father and call Him, Abba. Really, really good news, but also really difficult for devout Hebrew people to accept. At the same time, this is what the Hebrew people were hoping for. They were looking for a Redeemer, they desired righteousness before God and the writer of Hebrews is saying yeah, that’s possible. It can happen. Or I quote from Hebrews, “After Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many, to those who eagerly await Him, He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation.” This is the good news. There aren’t any hoops to jump through. We can go directly into the presence of God and have an intimate relationship, forever. We can know God personally and although we can do supremely unrighteous things, we are not supremely unrighteous, through our faith in Jesus we are made righteous. In other words, through Jesus, everything that we would have been trying to achieve in this Hebrew context was achieved. This is the good news of the gospel, from a Hebrew perspective and it was indeed revolutionary. And it indeed brought all kinds of persecution along with it because many people were against it. As good of news as it might’ve been, they considered it to be some sort of fabrication. So, those early believers, the ones who this letter is written to, were facing some of the hardships. So, they were experiencing the joy of their salvation and intimacy with God, but they were also getting hammered by their culture and marginalized and persecuted and so some people were just kinda disappearing. And the writer of Hebrews is saying don’t shrink back, don’t disappear. This is the good news the world has been waiting to hear. And we have been given this message, as we always have been, to be a light to the nations, to tell everybody don’t disappear. So, this gives us some context for what we’re moving through in the letter to the Hebrews.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You, thank You for all that Your word unpacks for us and reveals to us, all that we get to learn of and understand, the story that stretches back thousands and thousands and thousands of years. We get to find that we are a part of that story too. So, come Holy Spirit, lead us into all truth, this is a constant prayer. That’s what we seek. We don’t come here to the Scriptures, every day around the Global Campfire to see how much deception we can find ourselves in. We come here to seek what is right, what is true and how we should live. And so, we thank You for all of the different perspectives, that touch all of the different parts of who we are. Lead us into all truth, lead us deeper into Jesus. We pray in His name we ask. Amen.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

This is Concerned Daddy from Florida. My oldest son and his wife got married 5 years ago. And they both professed Christ, at the time. Then over the years, the world has slipped in, they’ve made decisions and fallen away, stopped going to church. Now, it appears, the Lord is definitely working on my son, he may be truly born again out of this experience. But our daughter-in-law has been unfaithful. And it’s been really difficult on him. They’re going through counseling now. But she’s just not acting properly, not thinking clearly. Is really under bondage, is what it comes down to. And so, I just ask the community if you could pray for her. I’ll leave their names out of it, the Lord knows who they are. But she’s just really under spiritual bondage. And has a upbringing in legalism and just lot of baggage there. Just pray that she would truly come to know our risen Savior and what He did on the cross for us. And that even this could be forgiven. And my son is willing to forgive and move on with counseling. So, pray for them, please.

Hey DABers, this is Slave of Jesus in North Carolina. Alright, Holy Spirit, let’s roll. Let’s armor up. Ready, we’re gonna armor, as Doctor John, I think said, let’s get ready to tell Satan to shut up. So, realize, if you say Satan, get behind me. You are speaking Scripture. And it’s not the way you know, want to walk around all day long, mumbling to ourselves, like the guy on Law. But there’s some key times where God, through Jesus, taught us how to fight the enemy. How to fight this spiritual war. And I know you guys are warriors, I know you guys are warriors. So, we’re gonna teach you, we’re gonna look at how Jesus fought temptation, lust, greed, fear, all that stuff. These are all sins that can be fought in the spiritual world. So, you gotta go get yourself a scripture. Cause we know that that’s how Jesus fought the enemies. He would say, it is written, in Matthew 4. And then He would say a Scripture, out loud. And how did He do that? Well, we know He would pray in the morning and in the night, Matthew 14. I love Mark 1:35, He goes out early in the morning before anyone wakes up. And that actually works for me. But you know, we got lives, we got all this stuff. But we got to understand, we’re in a battle. So, you gotta go to Bible Gateway or go whatever and type in whatever that thing is that you think is between you and God: lust, money, fear, anxiety. Find a Scripture weapon, say it the morning, say it at night. You know, when I first started fighting lust, I used 2 Timothy 2:23, I would say it a hundred times a day. You know mumbling under myself, but every single time you’re tempted, just like when Jesus did, you say that Scripture out loud, and that’s how you become, you’re like a sniper, you’re a warrior. It’s like fingernails to the demons that are around you. It lets them know, I am the child of God, you are the child of God. And so, you say the Scripture out loud, memorize it, memorize it, memorize it. And tomorrow, we’ll talk about how you meditate on it and really take it to the next level. Love ya’ll, have a great day.

Hello Daily Audio Bible prayer warriors. This is Elizabeth from Delaware calling in. I wanted to ask you if you keep Samson Alice in your prayers. He’s gonna get his second treatment with this new three-part combination of medication. They’re gonna do it in two different days, instead of three, so that’s an improvement. His side effects are minimum, and we praise You God, that You are comforting him and filling him with joy and that he is not sick. And we pray Lord, that You would make this medication totally remove all forms of lymphoma in his body and that he could return to his studies back at the __ unit. We thank You Jesus, for what You’re doing in Samson’s life and the peace You’re filling with him. Also, prayer warriors, if you could pray for my sister. She was sexually attacked at a Halloween party, as they were all leaving, it happened. It happened so suddenly but people couldn’t believe it happened. But the evidence in her body and what she experienced is very there and the police are involved, they’ve got the evidence, they’ve got. So, please pray for her healing and that you would, that God Lord, that You would touch her and have her reconnect with You Lord, and You would heal all that has been broken in her spirit. And these people who were supposed to be friends and they’re not friends. And they, and when she told them by text mail what had happened, only one person responded to her. So, these people do not care about her Lord. So, give her new friends, Lord Jesus. And fill her with peace. And Lord, we pray that the DNA that they police and the hospital took, will be detected in her body. Because it took her a couple days to realize, she really should report this. So, Lord, we also pray for her relationship with her husband because he too doubted this could have happened. But it did happen and there’s pictures and DNA all over. So, Lord, we just pray Lord, that you would heal her and bring this man to justice. In Jesus name we pray. Thank you, prayer warriors, for your prayers. God bless you. Bye Bye.

Hello, my DAB family, this is Jamie in New Jersey, Standing on the Word of God. I humbly ask you please pray with me. Dear Father in Heaven, there seems to be a feeling of discouragement in so many of my brothers and sisters. Today, we pray for encouragement and strength. Thank You for being with us in the good times and the bad. Thank You for never giving up on us, even when we feel like giving up on ourselves. Please speak louder than the doubts. Read us the Scriptures that speak into our circumstances and remind us of Your presence and promises. Your word is active, it’s sharper than any sword, pierce the lies that the world tries to inflict on us. Silence the enemy. Please preserve our testimony and keep our faith firmly and deeply rooted in You and Your promises. You are our sure defense. The only one who can keep us safe and secure. We know that You are always with us and that You will never leave us. Help us to remember that as we are feeling down and discouraged. We pray in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you for praying along with me, my brothers and sisters. I love you all dearly. Have a good night.

Ezekiel 18:1-19:14, Hebrews 9:1-10, Psalms 106:32-48, Proverbs 27:10

Today is the 8^th day of November welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it’s wonderful to be here with you today as we gather around the Global Campfire and move forward together a step at a time. And we’re here for the next step and that next step leads us back into the book of Ezekiel. We’re reading from the New English Translation this week. And today Ezekiel chapters 18 and 19.

Commentary:

Okay. So, we have been working through some prophetic books for a while now. And, so, with book after book chapter after chapter page after page of what seems like impending doom it’s really easy for a subtle shift to start taking place in our hearts about what we think God is like, how our perception of his heart is. And yet we came upon a passage in the book of Ezekiel today where God is speaking about how his heart is on his own behalf. Like I said, it’s easy for us to go book after book chapter after chapter page after page that of words feel like vengeance and impending doom and no mercy. And, so, we get this sort of like other side of God. We have Jesus and that shows us what God is like but there’s this other side of God that we’re not so sure about and we don’t know how to demystify. He’s an angry God and He absolutely hates disobedient people. It’s important for us to remember that the prophets are prophesying. They’re talking about an outcome that hadn’t happened yet but was going to happen if things didn’t change. In other words, the path the people were following was going to lead them to destruction. The prophets come along and flesh out what that destruction is going to actually look like. But it hadn’t happened yet. Now, we’re read plenty of things in the Scriptures where the people just continued on their way, ignored the prophecies of people like Jeremiah who prophesied for two decades before the fall of Jerusalem, but he was ignored and then it happened. The sad thing is, in so many of the cases of the prophets these things didn’t have to happen. They happen because they were ignored. And, so, indeed we have read of some really catastrophic stuff that happened the Hebrew people. But what does this have to say about God? Well God speaks to that in the book of Ezekiel today and I quote. “do I”, and this is God speaking, “do I actually delight in the death of the wicked, declares the Sovereign Lord? Do I not prefer that he turned from his wicked conduct and live?” Well there’s God speaking into this on his own behalf, which lets us know that the books of prophecy that we find in the Bible are like memorialization’s of a time when God could not keep His act together and was so angry and had woken up on the wrong side of the bed and decided that lightning and thunder and smiting the people of the earth was what He was going to do today and this is just all written down by the prophets so that we can understand what a vengeful God, an erratic, unpredictable God we serve. Typically what we find is a very thorough explanation of where things are going and why. And usually, this boils down to a breaking of covenant or a turning to a false lover in idolatry, which is a breaking of covenant. And words like that, words that are mostly found in biblical discourse like covenant, our eyes can kind of glaze over. Covenant. Like whose…whose obeying covenants. Ironically, we all are. It’s still part of our story. It’s not foreign. It’s not a foreign concept even for us in the modern era. We enter into covenants all the time. Mostly now we call them contracts. I mean if you go to a restaurant and you use a credit card to pay for your meal and they bring a receipt back that you have to sign, you’re signing a covenant that you’re gonna pay. All the way up to the covenant of marriage. You’re going to enter into an agreement with another person that you will be loyal and faithful to them until death do you part, in sickness and in health. This is a covenant. And using the idea of marriage covenant here or marriage contract here, anyone who’s ever been through the breaking of that covenant or has observed friends breaking that covenant for various reasons, bad things usually happen. It can be devastating on families, it can be devastating on lives. It takes years to recover from this kind of stuff. So, if the Lord sent a prophet when the marital problems began, and said if you keep going in this direction, utter doom and destruction are coming upon you. Your family will be broken apart. Your life will never be the same again. Stop what you’re doing. Return to God. Repent. Come home. And they don’t. And then it does happen, and their lives get blown apart and their family gets ruined. Is it God’s fault? Did He wake up on the wrong side of the bed for sending someone to say this is not going to work out. Ironically, the story of the Hebrew people found in the Bible is one of covenant breaking on a repetitive regular interval. The people broke the covenant and served other gods and were disloyal to each other. For God to send a prophetic voice to say this is going in the wrong direction and if you keep going in this direction it’s going to blow up on you and here is what that will look like. Is that God waking up on the wrong side of the bed or is that God being long-suffering and continually trying to send warnings of where things are headed. Did God need to send warning messengers at all? Was He obligated to do that? Couldn’t the people have just broken covenant and gone on to their own destruction? Because they knew it going into the covenant what would happen if they broke the covenant. So basically, what we find when we’re moving through prophetic voices is God sending a messenger to say hey, we had an agreement and I have been faithful to my end of the agreement. You entered into a covenant with Me. You are eating, you are breaking the covenant. And, so, all of the things, the curses of the covenant, the repercussions of breaking the covenant are headed your way. Destruction is upon you. Turn back. But even if you don’t, even if you are absolutely determined to be destroyed, I can’t forget you. I love you. I’ll be waiting on the other side of this. In the end I will restore you and make all things new again. Come home to me. Trust me. Or how about we take it out of my own paraphrase or my own ill equipped words and just simply read from the word of God quoting the Lord as he spoke to the prophet Ezekiel. “I will judge each person according to his conduct house of Israel, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and turn from all your wickedness, then it will not be an obstacle leading to iniquity. Throw away all your sins you have committed and fashion yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel? For I take no delight in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and live.” So, that’s what’s going on here when we read through the prophets. God doesn’t want to destroy people because He woke up on the wrong side of the bed. He wanted and wants to destroy the things that destroy people and anything that will seduce people away from God is ultimately going to lead to their destruction and the breaking of a covenant, a pledge. We pledge our hearts and our loyalty to the King of Kings and Lord of lords. Anything that will cause us to walk away from that is not good for us. It will lead to our destruction. And like the children of Israel we’ll either listen or we won’t. The choice is ours. It is a life-and-death choice as we’ve seen several times in the Scripture. Choose life is what we are always encouraged to do in this situation. And, so, if we’ve been afraid that God woke up on the wrong side of the bed and is smiting us maybe we really need to realize that He is trying to rescue us and we are smiting ourselves. We woke up on the wrong side of the bed. We are smiting ourselves by walking away from the only true thing we have in life and that is our covenantal relationship with God. Some things to think about today.

Prayer:

Holy Spirit, we ask that you help us to think about these things today, to re-examine our lives and look at the ways that we’ve created havoc and then blamed you for it. We are sorry. We don’t want to walk the path that walks away from you. That is walking the path of destruction. Forgive us. We stop in our tracks here and now. As you suggested through the prophets, we stop here and now and turn around and come home. Forgive us for what we’ve blamed you for. Forgive us for what we’ve done to ourselves. Forgive us for what we’ve done to each other. Forgive us for walking away. We pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

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Ezekiel 16:42-17:24, Hebrews 8:1-13, Psalm 106:13-31, Proverbs 27:7-9

Today is the seventh day of November, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian, it is great to be here with you around the Global Campfire, as we gather and release all of the stresses of life and come into this little oasis for a few minutes. This little safe space, a little place where, yup, we’re just taking a break from the stresses of life. We’re opening ourselves to allow God’s word to speak to us and allow the Holy Spirit to lead us. We can go back out into the chaos; it’ll be there waiting for us. But this, is our safe space, a clean, safe place to hear from God, together in community, but then go back out into the world and face whatever we’re facing, maybe with a completely changed perspective. So, great to be here with you around the Global Campfire today. We are reading from the New English Translation this week and picking up where we left off yesterday, leads us back out into the book of Ezekiel. Today, Ezekiel chapter 16 verse 42 through 17 verse 24.

Commentary:

Okay so, let’s dive into what we read in the letter to the Hebrews today, and there is a touch of irony here because while we were reading from the book of Hebrews today, we spent most of our time reading from the book of Jeremiah. So, like the longest Old Testament quote that is found in the New Testament, is found in the book of Hebrews chapter 8, which is what we read today and the longest quote from the Old Testament is Jeremiah chapter 31. So, that’s cool stuff to know. But how does that affect my day, like what I do with that today. It’s a little perspective that we need. Why would Jeremiah 31 be the longest quoted section of the Old Testament that’s found in the New Testament? It’s largely because of what we said we began the book of Hebrews; Hebrews is written to Hebrews, Hebrews is an entirely Jewish context, written to encourage Hebrew believers in Jesus, to not depart from the faith. So, we can read Hebrews from 2000 years in the future and see it is a highly theological treatise and it is highly theological. But when we understand like, it’s in a Hebrew context, it’s told to people who know what’s being said here and are be encouraged, being encouraged not to abandon their faith in Jesus, this starts to make sense. And one of the things that we begin to see is were reading the letter to the Hebrews is, if you have no Jewish or Hebrew context at all, none of this makes any sense at all, into a completely Gentile mindset and a Gentile worldview, all of these things that seem so important in the book of Hebrews, you never even heard of them before, they don’t, they don’t make any sense. The Hebrew context is so important to understanding the book of Hebrews, but it’s so important in understanding the Bible itself. So, we have been talking for the last couple of days in the book of Hebrews, about covenants and new high priests and new covenants. And Hebrews quotes at length from the book of Jeremiah today, because of the prophecy foretold that a new covenant would be inaugurated. At the time the letter to the Hebrews was written, Jeremiah’s prophecy was 700 years old, but they knew about this prophecy, and we have recently read the book of Jeremiah. So, we saw Jeremiah prophesying from Jerusalem that Babylon is coming, and Babylon is going to win. And we saw Jeremiah write letters to the exiles that had been carried away into Babylon, settle in, this is gonna take a generation, but I have plans for you, you’re coming back. Jeremiah talked about this; a new covenant being established. So, the writer of Hebrews is simply saying, all that’s happening right now, is what we expected would happen. We’re not inventing a brand-new religion, we’re not naming a brand-new God that we worship; what is happening was foretold, a new covenant has been inaugurated with the people of God. And so, I quote from Hebrews “If that first covenant had been faultless, no one would have looked for a second one.” So, that’s a statement by the writer of Hebrews but then they go to Jeremiah for support and then quoting from Jeremiah, “Look, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will complete a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds, and I will inscribe them on their hearts, and I will be their God and they will be my people, and there will be no need at all for each one to teach his countrymen or each one to teach his brother, saying no the Lord. Since they will all know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful toward their evil deeds and their sins I will remember no longer.” Right, so, this new covenant is foretold, and the writer of Hebrews is telling the Hebrews, it’s here; we find it in Jesus. And so, the logic here is, if it’s a new covenant it needs to be presided over by a new high priest, and we have such a new high priest. The letter to the Hebrews is telling us; a high priest named Jesus who will never die. He’s not a high priest that needs to sacrifice on his own behalf, to atone for his own sins. He has fulfilled it all and He presides over this new covenant, not in a place that can be destroyed or tarnished but in heaven. Most of us are Gentiles. So, even if we can get our minds around the concept by saying okay, this is a Hebrew context and the more I understand the Hebrew context, the more I understand how revolutionary this is. From a Gentile perspective, it seems intricate right, it seems tedious but for a devout, first century Jewish person who understood the Scriptures, this is so revolutionary that many can’t get on board, and it causes a great division. Because without diving into it deeply and considering it deeply, it just sounds like heresy. But the point of the letter to the Hebrews wasn’t to talk them out of being Jewish and to convert over to this other faith, it was to reveal to them that Jesus is fulfilling what was promised to the Hebrew people. This is something new that God is doing, something that they’d been waiting for, the old covenant that had been broken was being replaced by a new, an unbroken covenant, that is presided over by a new and sinless high priest, Jesus. On the one hand, getting that concept into their minds would’ve seemed, well, it would’ve, it would’ve been very difficult. It would’ve been awesome, almost too good to be true because sin isn’t an issue anymore. The law is fulfilled so they would have had to start thinking what comes, like if that’s done now, what do we do? And for so many, that was a bridge too far, even if it had been foretold. So, Hebrews being written to Hebrews and not just Hebrew people but Hebrew believers in Jesus, some people are thinking this through, they’re facing marginalization, they’re facing opposition and they’re just shrinking back into the culture that they know, into the worship that they understand, and the writer of Hebrews is essentially saying, but you’re on the ground floor of something brand-new. We don’t have to live under the bondage we used to have to live under, there is a new covenant promised and it has been inaugurated and we have a new high priest, a perfect one, a sinless one. We are being invited to move dramatically forward in the story because God is doing a new thing. Typically, we rejoice about stuff like this when we begin understand it, especially 2000 years in the future from a Gentile mindset, usually from a Western culture mindset. So, we look at this and go, okay this is really, really good news. For us to kind of understand the predicament, we have to consider can God do a new thing now and if God decided to do anything now, first, would we be able to see it, second would we be on board with it or would we fight for the old traditions. That begins to help us, at least, understand what’s going on here as these things are being said, what people are grappling with and how much they actually have to leap into faith and into the arms of Jesus because of what following Jesus may cost them. Most of us, it doesn’t really cost us any, like we’re not worried about whether or not we get to wake up tomorrow, if we believe in Jesus. But at this point, it’s getting more and more difficult to embrace this message because it is being opposed the more that it is known, the more that it is being opposed. And so, this gives us a little bit of the lay of the land. We have a lot to do, a lot left in the letter to the Hebrews, to move through, but this kind of gives us perspective about the environment in which this letter is being written and how it’s being received and how some people are having a difficult time processing it all, while being marginalized and sidelined in their culture.

Prayer:

So, thank You, Father for the letter to the Hebrews. Thank You for this perspective and thank You for what You have done among the Hebrew people, throughout history and what we are reading in the Scripture. And thank You for grafting us into the story and making us, we Gentiles, a part of Your family. And help us, Holy Spirit, as we read through things like the letter to the Hebrews, to not just gonna wax over, let our eyes glaze over and go, this doesn’t really apply to me, like I don’t really understand what’s going on. Help us to understand that You did something new, and it changed everything, and You have invited us to participate in it. We ask this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

Good morning Daily Audio Bible family, this is John from Texas. I’m calling for my amazing wife. She has tinnitus and struggles with just an irritating, aggravating noise playing in her head, 24/7, 365. And there can be nothing worse than just an irritating sound no matter where you are but to have it inside your head and not be able to get rid of it has just been an incredible challenge for her these past months. And I know this is a praying community and I know prayer changes things. And I know prayer tares down walls, heals the sick and even raises the dead. And so, I’m asking for you and for your prayers that I covet, to lean into the throne of God and ask for an outpouring of His Spirit to bring healing to her, deliverance to her and restore the peace and hope that she has by illuminating tinnitus, once and for all. Thank you.

Hello, I’m sorry my sister Luke 1:45, that called in on November 3rd, or I’m not sure when you called in but your prayer request was on November 3rd. And I couldn’t help but respond because your story is kind of my story. I had endometriosis my whole life. And but I did give birth on October 26th and my birthday is November 11th as well. So, to me that was a sign from God, a nudge from the Holy Spirit to call in and give you encouragement. Whether you’re able to continue with IVF or not, whether you get pregnant or not, God is with you, God loves you and He wants you to be encouraged and He wants you to be at peace. And just, just know that there’s a bigger plan for you, there is a plan for you. And because we have all these things in common, I just know that I was meant to call in to give you this message. There’s no, as soon as I heard endometriosis, as soon as I heard October 26th, as soon as I heard November 11th, I was like, okay, three similar days, that’s enough to call in for Luke 1:45.

DAB family, this is Echo Hope. I’m just so delighted to tell you, whoo weee, I got out of prison on October 26th. So, it’s just like last month, I’ve got two jobs and now I get to volunteer at the Disabled American Veterans Thrift Store on my time off. And they got a vehicle for me, a Honda Pilot, for $2000. And they’re gonna help me get my own place and they are just really delighted to help me there at the Disable American Vets, here in Prescit. And I’m just so enthrilled and I just love to pray for my beautiful brother because when I was in prison, aw, I loved to hear his poems; Blind Tony, I love you sooooo much, brother. You’re just on my heart, maaaan. Jackson, I love you buddy. You’re on my heart, yes. Joyfully Jo, you gotta be like my mother. I was going through some of the similar things, exactly, the same things that you and your, that you were going through with your sons. And I want you to know that I’ve been delivered from it. I want you to know, three different times, Joyfully Jo, God used your prayers in prison to confirm things and align things and help me understand things. I thank you for that Psalm that you spoke, it was like a Psalm, and it said new song, and that’s exactly the recover home that I ended up choosing and going to and I’m now staying at. And I get to be a part of your anointing in my life, over me, all of you. I swam deep into the depth of your prayers as they just engulfed me and surrounded me. I was in the atmosphere family.

Hey guys, this is Joyful James in Olympia, Washington. And I just want to let you guys know that I love you. Just wanted to give a shout out to a couple of people, remind everyone here of your impact having such a rippling affect. His Little Sharie and His Yellow Flower, I wanted to thank you so much, and many more, to giving a letter to my friend Chris. I put a request to you guys, anyone who was able to write letters to my friend, he’s a very, very dear and close friend of mine. It was a couple years ago that I put this request out and you should be receiving a letter here, soon, for those letters changed his life so dramatically that he’s beginning a ministry to help other people get the same kind of love and encounters. Where, if they’re in prison, they don’t really have anyone and you can go out and write letters to them, and you can receive letters from them, and they just get completely loved on. I mean, Chris was getting so many letters that everyone was wondering what was going on and how come he’s getting so many letters. And the Daily Audio Bible shined with brilliant light, and I just speak this testimony of every single one of your prayers having such a ripple effect, such a God, move of God on them, that the smallest word in the Spirit, just breaks down walls and strongholds. And I’m glad to say, Chris is saved now, and he is running passionately after the Lord and I’m so grateful. So, praise the Lord and thank you guys for all that you do. Talk to you again soon.

Morning this is Early Riser. I’ve been listening to the prayers. I’m on my way to work right now and so many of the prayers were for people struggling with depression and anxiety, grief and medical issues, lost relationships. And I know that we serve a God who intervenes miraculously. And I also know that we serve a God who sometimes takes a slower path and uses one another, uses the body to minister and move towards change. So, my prayers for all of the heavy burdens that people carry. My prayer is that you also find encouragement from a doctor, or a counseling, pastor or a good friend, a pet, neighbor, Sunday School Teacher, coach. And that you’d give someone here in this life an opportunity to walk along side to help carry the burden. Trusting that our Heavenly Father will sometimes work miraculously and sometimes sends a neighbor to carry that burden. To continue to pray and fast. Maybe go for a walk, drink some water, take a nap, do some stretching, read a good book, remember that you’re a body here on this planet and sometimes the Lord uses another body to help heal the body.

Ezekiel 14:12-16:41, Hebrews 7:18-28, Psalms 106:1-12, Proverbs 27:4-6

Today is the 6^th day of November welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is wonderful to be here with you today. A brand-new week is out in front of us, and we will march into it together as this journey continues day by day, step-by-step. And our journey currently has us sailing through the book of Ezekiel, which is what we’ll continue to do. This week we’ll read from the New English Translation, the NET Bible and picking up where we left off yesterday, Ezekiel chapter 14 verse 12 through 16 verse 41.

Prayer:

Father, we thank you for your word, we thank you for bringing us into this brand-new shiny sparkly week that we get to…that…that we get to live into and write the story of our lives upon it as we walk with you. And we thank you that the Scriptures do indeed transform the way we write the story of our lives. We thank you that they challenge all that is false with in us and bring out what is true, and we ask Holy Spirit that that continue as we submit and collaborate with you in your work within us. We thank you for what we read in the book of Ezekiel today, the way that you love your people and the way that your people betray you as an adulterous lover. That is not the story we want to be telling as we write the story of our lives this week or as we write the story of our lives this month or for the rest of this year or for the rest of our lives. That is not the story that we want. We want a story of faithfulness, that we would lean to you for dear life, but also that we would fall in love with you irreversibly as you have shown us that you have fallen in love with us. So Holy Spirit come, certainly lead us into all truth, lead us on the pathways of righteousness, lead us deeper into love with you, we pray. In Jesus’ name we ask. Amen.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi neighbors, it’s Lisa the Encourager I wanted to call in to pray for Chris Ann and I heard the anguish and sorrow in your voice in asking us to pray for your marriage to be reconciled with your husband and your true faith for holding on for so long and just asking God to help you. And I’m praying for you Chris Ann. I’m praying for your reconciliation with your marriage and that your husband, his life will be turned around from Christ and that he will see what he’s missing in such a beautiful, wonderful woman as you are. And I also want to pray for Tim, Christy from Kentucky’s sweet husband. I just enjoyed my friendship with Chrissy for many years now to the campfire and I just wanna pray for her sweet husband that he can be healed from this illness that he has and that everything will…the doctors will be able to find a good cure for whatever it is that he has. And we know that ultimately Christ is the healer of all and we have faith that He will heal Tim as well. And I also wanted to say just a quick little shout out to Grant and Aiden Sparky’s sons and say it was nice to hear from you both and I’m glad you’re doing good in football and I’m glad you’re making friends and it was really nice for you to both come on and say hello to us. So, dear God let’s all pray together for Chris Ann and Tim. I pray God for Chris Anne’s marriage to be restored dear Lord. I pray God that Your heavenly and will be laid upon their marriage and they will be able to reconcile soon to all and give all the glory you because we…

Good morning, DABbers this is Jerry who lives in Wyoming and currently in Peoria AZ. I’m here with…in the home of my sister and brother-in-law. I’m here visiting for the first time after quite a few years, more than 20 years. Oh gosh it’s even been even more than that. And my sister has mid stage dementia and my brother-in-law has…has stage four prostate cancer. He has weeks maybe only days to live. I’ve been here for a couple of days and I have to go back home and get my stuff in order then hopefully, hopefully, I pray that I will be able to come back and help them out. I just ask for prayers for strength and courage and prayers of healing. I haven’t seen my sister in forever and we never really got along but now she’s wanting to have me here and she’s felt such comfort when she saw me. And I just pray that God will work it all out so that I can be here with them and that it’s not too late that I can be back in to see the two of them within the next week or so, however God sees fit. Please pray for complete healing and…and that God is so sad. I love you all for your prayers. Thank you. Bye.

Hello, my wonderful DAB family this is Rosie also known as Great to be Free in Jesus. I was just calling to say thank you for the Sleep it contemplative journey. It was available last night so I was able to listen to it and I just think it’s a God thing because the very next day after we’re…the very first time we could even listen to it, the Bible is talking about rest. In Hebrews 4:8-11. First Joshua had given them rest. God would not have spoken of another day later on. So then there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from His. Let us therefore strive to enter that rest so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.” And that’s the kind of rest that we need. And I’m so thankful for it because I went to sleep faster last night, and I feel so rested today. And I can’t tell you when the last time was, I had such good deep sleep. But anyway, I just wanted to say thank you and I love you my wonderful DAB family. And I’m still praying for you and your families every day. And God bless you.

Hey it’s Kayla. I don’t know if God loves me anymore, but I don’t really care anymore. I’m just ready to go home to heaven. I hate to leave behind __ and my daughter, but I just can’t do this. I’m living in a hell on earth. Thank you to all who pray for me. I don’t know what else to do. I don’t wanna survive anymore.

Ezekiel 12:1-14:11, Hebrews 7:1-17, Psalm 105:37-45, Proverbs 27:3

Today is the fifth day of November, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it is a joy and a privilege and an honor to be here with you today, as we gather around the Global Campfire and take the next step forward together and bring another one of our weeks, that we get to spend together, to a close. Which means that we will enter the first full week of this 11th month of the year, tomorrow. But regardless of where we are on the calendar, we are here to do something very specific, and that is to take the next step forward together on our journey through the Scriptures, that next step leads us back into the book of Ezekiel. We’re reading from the English Standard Version this week and today, Ezekiel chapter 12 verse 1 through 14 verse 11.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word and we thank You for another week. And the weeks are beginning to wind down. And that brings a sense of melancholy, but also a sense of excitement. We have some of the busiest weeks of the year that are, that are out in front of us. So, as we just mark where we are in time and look at what’s going on, we thank You for Your faithfulness in our lives and we confess, yet again, our utter dependence upon You and our ultimate need of You and Your guidance and direction in our lives. We thank You once again for the gift of the Scriptures in our lives, transforming us, leading us on the narrow path that leads to life. So, come Holy Spirit and plant what we’ve read this week into our hearts. We look forward longingly, to all that You have yet to reveal to us through Your word this year, lead and guide us, we pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com that is home base, that is where you can find out what’s going on around here. The Daily Audio Bible app will do that in the palm of your hand, and you can download that for free, wherever it is, whatever app store works with your phone or your tablet. And so, check that out, search for Daily Audio Bible, download the app and move forward from there.

We have been talking about what’s going on around here because it’s, it’s been kind of release week for a brand-new resource here in the Global Campfire community. It’s called Sleep, A Contemplative Journey and it is a resource that is designed to create space and that musical space and atmosphere for rest, for calm, for drifting away into a peaceful, restorative sleep. And that is something that we each need and that is something that will be challenged as we move forward into the more busy portions of the year, even the most stressful portions even though they’re joyous, some of the most joyous moments in the year, leading up to and around all of that can be an awful lot of stress, trying to figure out an awful lot of things and that can find its way into our sleep. And so, this resource has been created to give us space, it feels restful, it feels calming and that just kind of lulls us into a deep, restorative sleep. So, that resource is available now, came out this week. It is available wherever it is that you stream your music or purchase your downloadable music like iTunes, etc. worldwide, all the different distributors, all the different streaming services throughout the world should have Sleep, A Contemplative Journey. And so, you can check that out and I hope that you will.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible. Thank you, humbly, thank you, we wouldn’t be here if we weren’t in this together and so thank you. There is a link on the homepage at dailyaudiobible.com. If you’re using the app, you can press the Give button in the upper right-hand corner or the mailing address is P.O. Box 1996 Springhill, Tennessee 37174.

And as always, if you have a prayer request or encouragement, you can hit the Hotline button in the app, that’s the little red button up at the top or you can dial 877-942-4253.

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

Prayer and Encouragements:

Good morning family, this is Inna from London. Praise God, we made it to November, today, the 1st, we made it to the 11th month. We praise our Father; we thank Him for bringing us so far. Oh Brian, I waited yesterday, up till midnight, to get my copy of Sleep, because I had pre-ordered it. So, I used that yesterday. I haven’t really, I’ve been off from work, I haven’t been able to sleep that much. You know, so I’ve been off for over 4 weeks now. So, yesterday, oh goodness sake. I waited until midnight to get my copy. I don’t even know how long I was listening to sleep before I feel asleep. And I woke up in the middle of night and just put it on again. It’s so soothing. My goodness, it’s so soothing. And hearing your voice Brian, just put me to sleep. Oh, I haven’t had this kind of sleep for a very long time. Because I toss and turn and turn the whole night. But yesterday, I slept like a baby. I’m just waking up now you know. I woke up in the morning and went back to sleep, it’s actually 11 o’clock. I’m just waking up now. This resource, guys, you won’t want to miss out. Everybody’s that’s having problems sleeping or just wants a soothing voice, go for it, go for it.

Yes, DAB family, praise the Lord, this is Pastor Steven in Southwest Ohio. Just wanting to call and give God praise for His continued mercies and blessings every day. And for all of you who call in, and I’ve heard so many requests, concerning of course many different things. And I just want to say, the Lord is in control. The Holy Spirit is leading and directing all of you. Even for those of you who seem to be downhearted and discouraged or physically not well. Just want to lift up a prayer for you right now. Heavenly Father, in Jesus name, and through the power and presence of Your Holy Spirit and by his precious blood, touch and heal and mend as only You can, and we’ll give you the glory. For every name that’s been called in, I lay at your feet. I thank You for Your blessings upon me and my family. And just give You all the praise. Look forward to talking with you all again and may God richly continue to bless in every way. Take care, bye bye now.

Hello Daily Audio Bible family, this is Ethan from the greater Phoenix area, Arizona, United States. I’d like to pray for the man who called on October 30th, the one who applied to over 300 jobs and just sounded like he was at absolute rock bottom. I, my heart broke for this man. I remember him saying he wanted people to pray that he, that God doesn’t wake him up in the morning or that God wipes his name and any joy associated from it, in the history books. If you’re listening sir, I am not gonna pray for that. I’m not gonna pray for that. I’m gonna pray for something else. I’m gonna pray that God renews your sense of joy, that shows that this time in your life, though is devastating and as unbearably painful as it may be, He’s not done with you. You’re still valuable to Him.

He Daily Audio Bible Family, this is Joyful James and just wanted to pray for Mikayla from Glosster. And just to let you know Mikayla, I really enjoy hearing from you. I enjoy hearing your voice and all that you’ve done with the Daily Audio Bible community. You truly are a gem. I want to lift up your family in prayer today. So, let’s do it. Alright Holy Spirit let’s go. We have a family that just needs You, Lord. Thank You for being about family. Thank You that family is not of this planet, it is of a Heavenly Devine system that You have created Lord. And when we have family and do family, it just pleases you so well. It’s a Heavenly design. I’m so grateful for our Lord. Thank You for this new marriage, even though it is a ten-year-old relationship, all that bounty and the open gates of blessing through submitting to You Lord, is truly amazing. We want to bless Mark and Sue in their marriage. Lord, and that it would prosper, and that prosperity would flow and trickle down into every aspect of their lives, their kids and their kids and their kids and so forth. We lift up Taylor right now, and his mental capacity to be only in the moment. I ask that he would, You would open his eyes to a more grand picture, Lord. It seems like when we get discouraged, we get so focused on just what’s in front of us. Lord, I ask that he would see and understand the great grand picture that You have for him, Lord. I want to life up his parents Jay and Kate, Lord, as they are leading and working with Taylor, Lord. Just their love being poured out in extravagant ways as parents, Lord, I thank You for that relationship. Lord, You are amazing and thank You for working in this family.

Ezekiel 10:1-11:25, Hebrews 6:1-20, Psalms 105:16-36, Proverbs 27:1-2

Today is the 4^th day of November welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is wonderful to be here with you today as we get ourselves moved into this brand-new month and continue putting one foot in front of the other, picking up where we left off and moving forward in the Scriptures. So, we are reading from the English Standard Version this week and we have moved into the book of Ezekiel. Today we will read Ezekiel chapters 10 and 11.

Commentary:

Okay. So, I have been listening to a lot of music that is old and actually this is kind of been going on for several years now. And it’s not I only listen old music, but it’s that I have found in the melodies of my childhood like all kinds of childhood memories are there attached to the songs. And, so, you know, I hear all the songs that I can kinda remember. I was just too little to really have favorite bands or favorite songs, but I can remember. And there was this song…I don’t remember the name of it…maybe looking for love. I don’t know, but it was like looking…I’m looking for love in all the wrong places, I’m looking for love in too many faces, and that’s about all I can remember from it. Like I can remember the melody but I won't…I won’t offer that. I can remember being just a little guy and my mom kind of explaining the song to me like…like you don’t ever look for love in the wrong places will you? Will…you won’t do that, will you? And of course, I said no and all of that. And, so, even that little piece of melody or piece of lyric that I can remember is attached to a memory of my mom trying to instruct her little…her little son in the way that he should go. And that sentiment is really found in what we read in the book of Proverbs today. And we had to verses. “Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring. Let another phrase you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.” Now we probably have been around or even know well people to listen to the sentiment and that proverb. These are people who are not waiting for others to praise them. They go seeking it out and that materializes in all kinds of ways. They will insert themselves into every conversation that they can get themselves into and they will flip that conversation onto themselves in short order, right? So, you’re talking to a friend, you’re comparing parenting notes, you’re talking about your kids and before you know it you’re talking about their kids. And it’s not really just comparing notes. The whole thing was shifted. Regardless of the topic, they’re listening to what you have to say. Even if you’re pouring out your soul, they’re listening for the opportunity to dive in and begin to shift it. Even if it’s just, you know, I know how that feels, I remember this one time when… And that’s it. Whatever you’re going through is gone and now you’re here to hear them talk. They’re looking for love in all the wrong places because the person who attaches themselves to other people, only to get validated or affirmed or loved and they to shift everything onto themselves in some kind of weird conversational maneuver so that five minutes later you…you go wait a second, we were talking about a totally different thing. How is that this keep…keeps getting shifted back onto something that you’re going through? And so often comparison enters these kinds of conversations. You’re going through something. They’ve gone through it, but they’re killing it now. They’re doing awesome now. You should follow the pathways that they have taken to their bliss and superiority. And so often these things come from deep-seated places of actual insecurity, that just simply needs to be filled. We’re looking for love in all the wrong places. The proverb says, let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips. When we’re looking for love, affirmation, validation in all the wrong places, if it’s something that we have to conjure up, if we have to arrive in a place, set up the lights, figure out where we’re gonna shine the lights on that seat, sit in that seat, and shine all the light on ourselves we’re looking the wrong places. And the irony is that people like that. And we may be a person like that. So, like we may have some inner work to do for some outer examination to just see how our communication style actually is and how it lands on people. We all know people like this. We are all a person capable of this, the grandstanding, the conceit, the bragging. And the funny thing is, when you’re around a person like that you be kind, you can be tolerant, but you don’t usually…like you usually walk away feeling like…ehhh…like what was that? And when you’ve had to move through a session like that and you had this conversation and then this conversation got flipped and switched and them you know it and then you know it going into the next one. You start building up this idea of what’s gonna happen and you begin to avoid those kinds of situations. And, so, what the person actually needs, which is just to be seen or just to be heard, or just to be affirmed is being demanded and extracted from other people. And usually that’s not appreciated and so it becomes repellent. And, so, the very thing that the person is looking for is the very thing that they can’t get. After a while it runs its course and people begin to avoid. Usually what’s actually needed is trusted, deep, loyal, abiding relationships and friendships with people that have permission to speak into our lives frankly and that have given us permission to speak lovingly and frankly and honestly into their lives. That feels a lot more like being seen and actually validated or affirmed then demanding it of people through bragging or hijacking conversations. Let another praise you the proverb says, not to run mouth, a stranger and not your own lips. And If we have a habit of doing that we need to take some time and ask why. What are we looking for? What are we going for? What are we lacking? What are we missing here? What…what are we demanding? What are we trying to get from people? What is so important to us that we will draw all kinds of attention to ourselves and even become false and pretend to be somebody else to be seen. Like what is that about? It seems to me that we are ultimately looking for, ultimately, is to know that our Father sees us and that He loves us and that that is the original cornerstone, like that is the foundational building block to our very identity. And if we skip that foundational cornerstone then…well…then we don’t have a foundational cornerstone. And, so, we’re trying to fill in the gap in all kinds of ways, ways that ultimately push people away from us. So, let’s spend some time with this idea today given to us from the book of Proverbs. It’s like so many of the other things in the book of Proverbs. We can read them. We can understand them. But then we have to take some time for personal reflection and observe ourselves and pay attention to ourselves so that we can understand how to apply wisdom to ourselves. If we are looking for love in the wrong places, if we’re demanding it in the wrong ways, if we’re not able to see other people where they are and who they are and affirm them and love them then how is it that we think we can demand it back and that it be real? And if we don’t understand that we have a loving Father that is fathering us through this life and have a sense of affirmation of His smile upon us we can go searching for all kinds of things in all kinds of places that end up being the wrong places and spend a lifetime wandering in the wilderness when we were loved all along and could’ve reflected that love out into the world instead of demanding all of the light be upon us and all of the affirmation being poured into our brokenness. So often we find healing in our own lives by offering healing in other people’s lives. And so often it’s so easy, so often it’s just getting the attention off of ourselves and being present with another person. And, so, let’s give that some thought, maybe even practice a little bit and see what happens as we seek first the kingdom, seek first the chance to be an ambassador for Jesus in this world, by loving one another and seeing if we don’t, in fact reap what we sow.

Prayer:

Holy Spirit, we invite You into that. We live in a culture that is very self-absorbed and that gets very validated. It really is all about us we are told and what we find in life is that really isn’t, that we find meaning in our interactions and in our genuine affection and love for one another. And, so, when we use people to affirm ourselves then that’s what we’re doing, using people, which is ultimately not giving us what we seek. Holy Spirit help us to love like You love and know that we are loved by You matter what. We pray this in the precious and mighty name of Jesus. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com, that is homebase, that his home on the Global Campfire. That’s where you find out what is going on around here unless you’re using the Daily Audio Bible app. And that puts it all in the palm of your hand. You can get the Daily Audio Bible app free from…from the app store that works with your phone or your tablet, your smart device. So, check that out.

It's…it’s release week. And, so, that’s what’s going on around here. There’s a new resource in the community here around the Global Campfire. It is called Sleep, a contemplative journey and it is available now, wherever it is that you stream or download your digital music onto that smart device that we were just talking about. Wherever it is that you do that you should be able to find the Sleep album. And just look for Sleep, a contemplative journey and you should be able to find it no problem. It is available among all the different digital distributors throughout the world. We’re familiar with certain ones in the country that I live in the United States, but there are others and they’re all over the world and it has been released worldwide. And so, wherever you may be, you should be able to find it and maybe enjoy it. Enjoy, allowing space to be created for rest. It’s an actual human necessity. And so often our rest is…is disrupted in any number of ways, whether that be just the anxieties that our subconscious is kind of wrestling through or whether that be just that our bodies are resting fitfully. This is space to move into and simply drift away into a restful sleep. And, so, check that out. It is available now.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, thank you humbly. Thank you. We wouldn't…we wouldn’t be here around the Global Campfire every day if we weren’t here together. And, so, thank you humbly and deeply for your partnership. There is a link on the homepage at dailyaudiobible.com. If you’re using the app, you can press the Give button in the upper right-hand corner, or the mailing address is PO Box 1996 Spring Hill Tennessee 37174.

And, as always, if you have a prayer request or encouragement, you can hit the Hotline button in the app. That’s the little red button up at the top or you can dial 877-942-4253.

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

Community Prayer and Praise:

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