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Ezekiel 44:1-45:12, 1 Peter 1:1-12, Psalms 119:17-32, Proverbs 28:8-10

Today is the 22^nd day of November welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it’s wonderful to be here with you today as we continue the journey that we are on, you know, the one that’s leading us all the way through the Bible and all the way through this year together. We are continuing our journey through the book of Ezekiel in the Old Testament. In the New Testament we’ve got some new territory to move into. We concluded the book of James yesterday, which will lead us to another letter, this one known as first Peter. And we’ll talk about that when we get there, but first we are reading from the New English Translation this week. Ezekiel chapter 44 verse 1 through 45 verse 12.

Introduction to first Peter:

Okay. So, I mentioned at the beginning that we were moving into new territory in the New Testament, a letter known as first Peter. And this is the apostle Peter that we’re talking about. So, whereas we had never really heard from James all that much before we read his letter, we do have a bit of an understanding about the apostle Peter, not only from the Gospels and the life and ministry of Jesus, but also from the book of Acts, which spends pretty much the first half of the book centered around the ministry of Peter. So, we kind of understand Peter and who he was. But this will definitely be the first time that we’re hearing directly from him in…in sort of a letter fashion. And it’s been a while. It’s been a while since we’ve been around the apostle Peter in the Scriptures. And, so, this is kind of like we’re being reunited. And if we remember much about the apostle Peter as depicted in the New Testament, we know he’s a passionate person. Maybe even a person who, at least at one point, spoke before he thought. But a very passionate person. And, so, we’re going to find that Peter is no less passionate in letter form. And if we thought that the book of James was direct and was pretty much looking at us square in the face as it told us the truth first Peter will do the same thing in its own sort of way. So, if we buckled up to go through James Then we should just stay buckled up as we move into this new territory. But let’s talk about Peter himself. Peter’s…Peter’s name is actually Simeon or Simon. And, so, it’s not unusual to hear him referred to as Simon Peter. But where does the Peter part come from? It comes from Jesus, who renamed Simon and gave him the name Cephas, and that should also be a familiar name that we’ve heard before – Cephas, this is Peter. Cephas in Aramaic in the language that they were using means rock. So, Cephas is an Aramaic term and when it is translated into Greek, which is largely the language of the New Testament than the word is not Cephas anymore. It’s Petro’s. And as you can see, that sounds quite a bit familiar to Peter which is how we get to the name Peter. And we definitely did some traveling with Peter. Like I said, in the Gospels and the book of Acts we might remember that it was Peter who…who denied Jesus three times in the courtyard of Caiaphas, the high priest as Jesus was being tried by the Jewish people before being turned over to the Romans. And we followed that story, but we follow Peter all the way to a dramatic transformation. We see Peter in the upper room on the day of Pentecost when tongues of fire hovered and came down as the Holy Spirit fell upon the people in the upper room. Peter pretty much right after that preaches a powerful message in which 3000 people believe. So, a dramatic transformation in Peter’s life. And like I said, he’s still passionate and direct in this letter. But just…just like James, James wasn’t being passionate and direct just to be mean or forthright or just confrontational. He was trying to expose some things so that freedom would be available. Peter is also very direct but also encouraging. He’s lifting up those who are suffering because of Jesus, because of their faith in Jesus and he wants to remind them and us that there is profound hope profound hope in Jesus. And, so, let’s dive in. First Peter chapter 1 verses 1 throug 12.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word and we thank You for bringing us into this new week and this new territory with these new letters from Peter as we hear a voice that…that we got to know earlier in the year. And we pray Father that, You know, this is a really really old letter that it speak very very dynamically and personally to us as we continue our journey of growth, our journey through a year but a year that we repeat really want to grow in You. So, as we do most every day. Holy Spirit we need You. And You are always with us. We are just not always aware or paying attention. We need Your help. We need You to lead us into all truth. This is what the Scriptures tell us that You will do, and we believe that. And, so, we trust You that You will lead our thoughts, the things that we meditate on from the Scriptures, the attitudes that we take toward what we’re reading, that You will plant seeds in our lives and will bring a harvest of the fruit of the Spirit in our lives. We pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is home base, it’s the website, it’s where you find out what is going on around here. Here in the United States where I live in the rolling hills of Tennessee this is a holiday week. It’s Thanksgiving week for us and so we have this holiday coming up on Thursday, Thanksgiving. And then the day after that is black Friday and I think that is worldwide as we have this sort of retail day to mark the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. So, that’s all on the radar for this week.

We also have a brand-new resource that we began to talk about just a little over a week ago and the response has been really humbling. When…when a creative process…process begins or some kind of project, some kind of idea…that…you can have the idea in your mind that you want to write something, or you want to do something, or you want to create something and that’s fun. It’s fun to dream it up. But then you’ve got to count the cost and figure out how that’s gonna happen and…and then get involved in the process, and there’s no way to plan for everything. So, there’s gonna be all kinds of obstacles that come up in and so often we just kind of give up and think it’s too hard, but when you have a vision and you want to see something, no matter how long it takes, and you want to see something be born into the world and then it finally does happen, that is really rewarding feeling. And Promised Land, photographs from the land of the Bible, this brand-new resource fits that perfectly. It took years to make this and a massive amount of time and creative energy to make this. And, so, for it to be real, for it to be more than a dream or an idea, for it to be real and sitting on the coffee table and be able to look at it, that’s been really really rewarding and beginning to hear feedback that it is…it is really beautiful and really treasured is also really, really rewarding. This resource…it wasn’t created so it will be really really rewarding. It was created to…to locate some of these stories into the geography where they happened and to get a glimpse of what the biblical geography even looks like, what…what diversity there is because there’s a vast amount of diversity in a very very small space. And, so, with this coffee-table edition of Promised Land it’s easy to flip through the pages and visit the different terrain and geography and locations where some of the most pivotal and monumental things that happened in the Bible actually occurred. So, this brand-new resource, Promised Land photographs from the land of the Bible is available in the Daily Audio Bible Shop and you can get there from the web or from the app. Just go to dailyaudiobible.com and you’ll see…you’ll see the Shop in the navigation bar at the top, or if you’re using the app push the Drawer icon in the upper left-hand corner and it will pop open a drawer. And one of the selections is the Daily Audio Bile Shop. So, once you’re in the shop if you go in the Lifestyle section or the Book and Audiobooks section you will find this brand-new edition Promised Land, photographs from the land of the Bible is available now. So, check it out.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible you can do that at dailyaudiobible.com also. There is a link on the homepage. If you’re using the app, you can press the Give button in the upper right-hand corner or with a 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, which is 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:

Susan’s daughter, this is Christopher from the Pretzel City and I just heard your prayer request played on the 18^th. You didn’t leave your name but your left your mom’s name and your needs. So, we will be praying for healing for her and wisdom and peace for all of you in the mighty name of Jesus. I covet the prayers of the DAB family in the matter of a friend of the family and her daughter who is a close friend of my daughter. They are dealing with COVID. They’re both hospitalized and the daughter is 15 years old and is in the pediatric ICU fighting for her for life. So, please pray for Jenn and Elizabeth and let’s bring them home. I hope all of you have a blessed Thanksgiving and keep your eyes on Jesus y'all. Thanks.

Hello Daily Audio Bible family this His Girl Warrior and it is November 18^th and today I’m grateful for my baby girl. She’s my second born. She is drolly, humorous, a deep thinker, and she and I have been through a lot of life together – tears, struggles, shouting, scrunches, laughing, inside jokes, giggles, girl talk. I am grateful that at this point in her life we have a growing friendship and I look forward to the future. I would like to ask Daily Audio Bible to actively intercede for her salvation. She has seen a lot of stuff that isn’t great happen in my life and it…she just…she struggles. She’s honest. She’s like, “I believe God exists. I just don’t believe He’s good like the way you do, and I don’t see the need for Him.” So, if you guys would pray for her salvation, I would love that. Alright Daily Audio Bible I’m going to pray for all of our kids. Father, I pray for the children – small, middle school, high school age, grown children of the Daily Audio Bible participants. I pray for our children to know You and to have an intimate growing relationship with You Father. I thank You that they are never out of Your sight, never out of Your hands Father. We pray for their salvation in Jesus’ name. Amen. Alright guys I will talk to you later. Bye.

Good morning Daily Audio Bible this is Diane Olive Braun from Newburgh IN throwing my log the global campfire of the Daily Audio Bible community. And Jeff and I are heading for Beaver Island MI. I don’t know if you all heard the tragedy of the plane crash, the first in 107 years I think, where only one child…one child survived and the other people on the plane died. But Jeff and I are going there to be with these people and mourn with them. And please keep them in your prayers. And I’m so grateful and I’m so thankful for Daily Audio Bible. This is Thanksgiving and I’m thankful for the readings every day and I’ve added the Psalms, five-minute psalms to the readings of the Daily Audio Bible Chronological and Daily Audio Bible Kids and the traditional Daily Audio Bible, Brian. What more could I be thankful for? And all the friends, Radiant Rachel, Blind Tony. Happy birthday brother. I’m 72 and you’re in your 70s also. We’re in the same decade and oh, Radiant Rachel, oh it just so blesses my heart when your son comes on. And I’m grateful for…

Hello Daily Audio Bible prayer warriors this is Deb from Galbert again calling in for…for Samson and Clarence. They wanted to say that they appreciate your prayers for…especially Samson does it’s his son…but he hasn’t really heard by way of telephone for him. So, if you could continue to lift that need  up so that Sampson could get a call in here from his son that would be greatly appreciated. Samson wanted to thank Kingdom Seeker Daniel who wrote to him. And he wasn’t sure if you’d got it though. So, if you could give him a shout out that you received your letter. And for Little Sherry who wrote a beautiful letter to both Sampson and Clarence. But Clarence never received his letter. He…she mentiond it in her letter to Sampson. So, if you could resubmit a letter. I’ll give you Clarence’s address. Clarence is Clarence Daniel number 164876 PO Box 600 Grady Arkansas 71644-0600. Also wanted to let you know Samson’s birthday is coming up December 27^th and it takes about two weeks for a birthday card to get there. So, if those of you who have, you know, a heart for Samson, would you please send him a card. His address again is Samson Ellis number 69299 PO Box 600 Grady Arkansas 71644-0600. But that would be a joy for them. If somebody would like to write to Clarence, he would love to write back to people. He considers me a blessing because I share with him through Samson, but I would like for somebody else to reach out and be his special person or family that would be lifting up his needs. So, I’d ask that you ask God if you could be that special person for Clarence. They…they just love being a part of this community and to get a personal letter is…is the best for them. So, Lord we just lift these needs up to you and thank you for the way you’re going to meet them. God bless.

I’m calling from my porch in Georgia with my dog and I just wanted to reach out today for a lady who called in, called herself Blind Angel I believe from Happy Valley and pretty much just asking God to bless her health. Just hearing her list off she sounds like a strong lady who has trusted God for a while and that is now in need of a miracle. So, I just pray that as the lady who touched the hem of Jesus’ garment and was healed, as the two beggars cried out even over the voices of the disciples who told him to be quiet, they kept crying out and wanted Jesus to heal them, and as the man who was lower to the ceiling by friends, was lowered to Jesus and he was healed, I pray that for her, that she would experiencing healing and she would acknowledge God through that healing and that…that Jesus would be glorified as she walks around and is able to share in how God healed her. And I ask all these things in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Hi Daily Audio Bible my name is Kaylee. I’ve actually never called before, and I am calling to lift up a coworker named Kendra who just found out about a month ago that she has breast cancer, but only recently did she find out that it has metastasized in her spine and her pelvis. And I felt so burdened to pray for her because this is the same diagnosis as my mother’s seven years ago. And we were surrounded by the church and so many people prayed for my mother and my family and she’s growing strong and is such an encouragement to others and so I wanted to do the same for this friend. Thank you so much.

Ezekiel 42:1-43:27, James 5:1-20, Psalms 119:1-16, Proverbs 28:6-7

Today is the 21^st day of November welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it’s great to be here with you today. What an honor. Here we are again at the threshold of a brand-new sparkly week and it’s just bright and clean and we haven’t amassed anything up. We haven’t done anything good either. It’s in the future. It’s out in front of us. And here we are. Not to many more of these beginnings of a week left for us in this journey through this particular year, but this is a…a shiny new sparkly threshold for us to walk into and so let’s walk into it together. It’s pretty much not a secret that before this week’s out we will pretty much find ourselves officially in the holiday season, this being Thanksgiving week for us here in the United States. And things have been getting a little more hasty. That’s how the year works, but, yeah, when we get done with this week and prepare to move into next month, it it seems to be the most fast-paced busiest season and month of the year. And, so, let’s remind ourselves that finishing well…we didn’t start this to not finish, right? And if we’ve made it this far, we gotta…we gotta keep putting one foot in front of the other day by day, step-by-step, and that’s exactly what we will do. Our next step leads us back into the book of Ezekiel, we will read from the New English Translation this week. Ezekiel chapters 42 and 43.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word and we thank You for this threshold of a brand-new week. And You give it to us every week and You give us a fresh start. Your mercies are new every morning, every day. And, so, we pay attention to the fact that every time that we acknowledge that we have a new beginning we understand that You are making all things new all of the time, including remaking our hearts into Your own image. And, so, as we move into this shiny week, we invite Your Holy Spirit to do just that. May we be different at the end of this week then we are now in a good way because we paid attention, not only to what You are saying in Your word, but in how You were leading and directing us and how our motivations were shifting and how our attitudes were shifting and how our speech shifts as a result. We need Your help. We can’t do this without You. And yet You are offering and You have only ever come for us. And, so, we accept and humble ourselves before You, inviting You to lead us forward. We ask this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi this is Royal and the Holy Spirit’s been thumping my heart to share my testimony. So, here goes. I was born out of wedlock. My dad left my mom before I was one. I was molested by one of my grandpas when I was only six. I asked Jesus into my heart when I was eight. I was molested by my brother and stepbrother when I…from the time I was 10 to 13. When I was 16 my boyfriend was killed in a car accident. So, that’s when eternity became very real to me when I said goodbye to him in his open casket. So, I got plugged into youth group. When I was 19 my fiancé was killed in a car accident. He was a Bosnian refugee who survived a terrible war. So, I was mad at God in my grief over that for a long time. I started reading the left behind series and listening to Christian radio. I got married when I was 22 to a man I’d only known two months who claimed to be a Christian, but right away there was physical and emotional abuse. I felt trapped but despite the abuse I really wanted to be a mom, so I stayed in the heartache, but the hopes of motherhood never came to pass. My husband left our marriage after nine years and eventually disclosed he was with my best friend and broke up her family. My faith and fellowship were in pieces as I went through the divorce. Honestly, the most painful thing I’ve ever experienced though was losing my beloved aunt who was like a mother and a mentor to me. The day after Thanksgiving she got in an accident. So, I have battled so many seasons of deep depression and multiple close calls with suicide. So, fast forward to today. I found my biological dad. He’s buried in Las Vegas, and I was able to forgive him. I was able to forgive my ex-husband. I found healing in God’s word through worship. My faith is fed and lifted up by countless answered prayers. My cousin asked me to get ordained and I got the honor to be a minister. So, I just hope this encourages someone. Don’t give up on your faith.

So, I wept much because no one was found worthy to open and to read the scroll or to look at it. But one of the elders said to me do not weep, behold the lion of the tribe of Judah the root of David has prevailed to open the scroll and to lose its seven seals. Heavenly Father we come before You today Lord as this family and community all over this planet Lord and we thank You that You alone are worthy. We thank You Lord that You are…have provided salvation for us in our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. You have provided healing for us. By His stripes we are healed. And heavenly Father we just come before You Lord and we just stand on Your healing promises. We stand on Your word to be transformed into the image of Your son. And Father I just want to lift up Blind Angel before You this…this morning Lord. And we pray for Blind Angel Lord that You’ll send laborers to come along and to hold her hand to be here, to love her Lord, to share her Your word and to read Your scriptures to You. Father You said that You comfort us so that we can be a comfort, by the same comfort where would You comfort us when we were going through these sufferings and trials. And heavenly Father I pray that we won’t just be looking for comfort, but we will go forth and…and be that comfort to those around us. Father send laborers for the fields are  ripe for the harvest for salvation, for healing, for love. And time is growing short Father. And we just pray Lord that You’ll help us to be what it is that we’re looking for in this world. And we pray Lord Jesus and I just want to pray and let all Your brothers and sisters know that…that sometimes it just is overwhelming hearing some of some of the desires that hurts that are going on in Your lives and…and I just pray…

Hi family this is Grateful to be a Mother. I had called last week two with a praise report because our son had asked if he could come home and try to get his life on track. And he has no ID. So, I could not quarter a bus ticket for him. So, I sent him some money and I guess that was the wrong thing to do but it was the only thing…only way I knew how to do it and he’s back on the streets. We are so disappointed. I don’t know what to do. I keep trying to give it to the Lord and taking it back and it’s like every minute there’s a struggle inside of me to…that goes to worry because I want my child to be…to be right. So, I ask your prayers and as I continue to pray for all of our children and all of our family he is on the streets in Gulfport Ms, and we’re in another state. Just…just please pray. Pray, pray. Thank you.

Good morning DABbers it’s your girl Val in Vegas. I’m late calling in. It’s the morning of the 18^th. Hallelujah guys. Hey, I just wanted to let you guys know praise report. I got a promotion. Most of you guys knows I started my job April 6^th 2021, right? Yeah…yeah…no 2020…2020. Oh, my goodness. And anywho a year and a half later I’ve been promoted. I start my new role January 21^st 2022 and it’s a huge raise guys and I’m so grateful. You know, but there’s people that are struggling financially and don’t have jobs. So, let’s pray for them. Lord God right now I ask that You open up doors Lord, open up windows Lord open up ways heavenly Father, open up resources Father. Give us more than we need Lord Jesus. Lord God provide work for everyone on this call Lord but good work God. We know that we work for You Lord Jesus. So, God provide us with the work that we can do that is pleasing to You Lord Jesus. And God in that work, bless us Lord so that we can be a blessing. Lord open up so much Father that we can’t even hold it in our store houses Lord. I love You guys so much. And I just want everyone to have everything they need. Thank You, Father.

Good morning DAB this is Mike from Harrisburg PA. First and foremost, I just want to thank Brian and the whole Hardin family for their dedication over these past 15, 16, 17 years. I’ve lost track. But just the amazing platform that they’ve created for us all to just pray for anyone and everyone all around the world. That in itself is a miracle. And the ability to know that every single day you’re going to hear the word from Brian or Jill or little E and just the way that that’s going to impact everyone is just…it’s mind boggling. My son is 11 years old. He just was baptized a few weeks ago and during my last call both my parents had passed in January and with that that brought together my son’s mother and her fiancé as well as myself and my wife. And on that Sunday when he was baptized, he asked us all to be in the water with him. And I can’t express how beautiful it was to hear his story and to hear how he prayed for a miracle that my mom and my dad would be saved but instead he ended up bringing both families together. That’s a miracle.

Ezekiel 40:28-41:26, James 4:1-17, Psalms 118:19-29, Proverbs 28:3-5

Today is the 20^th day of November welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it’s great to be here with you today as we bring another one of our weeks to a close continuing forward on the journey that will bring us to the end of the year and the end of the Bible. We are at the part of the Bible that is known as the book of Ezekiel and we’re working our way through Ezekiel in the Old Testament. We have been reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week. Today Ezekiel 40 verse 28 through 41 verse 26.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for another week in the Scriptures together and this magnificent gift of Your word that You have given us, and that is always available to us. We are humbled. We are grateful and we take to heart what we read from James today, “humble Yourselves before the Lord.” We are told to do this, which means that we can do this, that we may humble ourselves before You and You will exalt us. And, so, we humble ourselves before You and not exalt ourselves. We exalt You and…and You, alone. Only You are worthy of praise. And, so, we worship You ad we pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Announcements:

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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:

Good morning DAB family this is Ray I’m calling today about my sister Alice. About 10 days ago the doctor said she had what’s called a stroke of her spine and she’s lost feeling and use of her legs from her waist down. Well, I know how our God works so I’m asking you to pray for healing and the desire to get better and not to settle in this, not to be OK with where she’s at but to work hard. The doctors say that if she rehabs and works at it that she could get her mobility back. And, so, I’m asking for you to pray for that. And also, we want, I want her in her family to get closer to Jesus and not to be caught up in religion but to be caught up in His arms. Thank you so much for praying. We love you very much. Amen.

Lord God, thank You for Your love and faithfulness. Thank You, Lord for where You have placed us. Thank You for our homes and our communities and our various networks and thank You Lord for our families and our friends and our neighbors. And I pray that You would help us to be a shining light in our community. I pray Lord that You would be equipping us and filling us with Your Spirit and helping us to be salt and light to those around us and giving us the tools we need to overcome the hurdles that we face. Thank You, Lord that You are with us and that You help us to face those giants. Lord we lift up our loved ones to You thinking especially of my cousin William and others like him. Thank You, Lord that You are at work. We pray Lord that…that he might come to know You more. Thank You, Lord for his apprenticeship. Thank You, Lord for what…for the opportunities that he has. And thank You Lord that he’s taking them. And I pray Lord that You’d be blessing him greatly. Father God we do lift up those who are searching, whether they’re searching for meaning or searching for their place in the world. And I pray Lord that You would show them the way, that You would be giving them opportunities and equipping them to take them, help them to be the best version of themselves. Thank You, Lord for Your love and Your faithfulness and that we can come to You with these things.

Hi family this is Janice from phoenix AZ. I…I wanted to update you on my husband Dave. He’s back in the hospital for a few days now and the doctor called me today and said that we need to discuss Hospice services. He’s just had one too many strokes. And he tries so hard to come back but thinks the Lords calling him home. And lucky him is all I can say. It’s weird. I feel like I’m gonna throw up and yet I have perfect peace inside. It’s a strange combo but I’m thanking the Lord for that peace. So, if you could just pray that the Lords will be done that Dave won’t have to suffer. He’s a little confused and he thinks he’s in a Mexican jail and he wants me to help him break out. It’s heartbreaking and funny at the same time. He’s a…he’s a funny guy. OK family I’ll keep you posted. God bless you all and thank you…

Hi this is Pug Mum 3 from Georgia I am calling in in response to a prayer request from Blind Angel in Happy Valley. I heard your prayer request today on November 17^th. My heart reaches out to you. You have such a full plate, but I know that God never gives us more than we can handle. And that sounds very trite, but I know it is so true because He proves character to us every single day, His intense and unfailing love for us. I pray God would just wrap his arms around you, that your infections would be healed, that your kidney would be functioning and that your transplant is successful. I pray for comfort for you regarding the loss that you’re experiencing in your life and just that you would know deep in your spirit and in your soul and your heart the deep an unending love that God has for you. Thank you. God bless.

Oh, good morning, friends this is Erin in Michigan. Holy moly. It’s Wednesday the 17^th but I just finished Monday the 15^th and I am shaken, and you’ll see why that is the perfect word for this. I’m listening to Brian talk to God shaking everything that can be shaken and so that everything that remains is unshakable. I’m out for my walk, that’s why I’m breathing heavy friends. Ok, so anyway wow wow wow wow wow. So, I have gone through since April the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do with my life. I ended a 23-year relationship with someone I thought it would be with for the rest of my life. But that’s not exactly true because God told me several years ago that I needed to leave the relationship and I wouldn’t do it. And, so, finally in April I had to and I’m not proud of how I ended it, but I know that I had to end it. I know God told me too. So, fast forward to Monday, the day that this podcast dropped this particular one and I had a feeling of sadness. I had a feeling of missing that person in my life. I had a feeling of wishing I had never left. And now after hearing what Brian said I see that for what it was. That was the Israelites wanting to go back to slavery because they missed cucumbers, right? So, the cool cool thing is that I have this podcast. And friends, God loves us so, so, so much. So, if he’s shaking you as He’s shaking me let us remember forever that He is getting rid of anything that is shakeable and what will be left will be unshakable. Praise you Jesus. Have a great day.

Ezekiel 39:1-40:27, James 2:18-3:18, Psalm 118:1-18, Proverbs 28:2

Today is the 19th day of November, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian it is fantastic to be here with you today, as we continue our journey through this month, through this year through the Scriptures around the Global Campfire together. It’s my favorite place, my favorite place to be is right here with you around this Global Campfire, moving forward together and so let’s do that. We are continuing our journey through the book of Ezekiel. We’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week, Ezekiel chapter 39 verse 1 through 40 verse 27.

Commentary:

Okay, we have been in the letter from James for a few days and we should be pretty clear it’s got a different kind of complexion, it’s very direct and we’ve kind of moved through the halfway point in the letter and it should be pretty clear what the point is: James is saying that you gotta have faith, there is, it’s impossible to please God without faith. Faith is the activator, faith is the point, faith is the way that we enter into a relationship with God. But faith isn’t just a concept. Faith isn’t just a definition. It’s not just made up of words, it actually goes into action, it changes the way we do everything and if what you are calling your faith is essentially a definition, a theological formula, words or even an understanding that is not actually incorporated into the way that we live then it’s not faith. At least of faith, that’s alive, it’s dead, it’s not words and songs that we reserve for the weekend and get spiritual and then forget all about, faith, it is everything, it touches everything. It’s not a compartment in our lives. You know, like some kind of drawer that says faith on it and we keep all our faith-y things in that drawer of our lives, but the stuff in the faith drawer doesn’t really incorporate into the rest of the stuff in our lives, that isn’t faith. Faith touches all of us. Everything, all that we do, all that we say, all that we think. It’s how we navigate in this world or to put it concisely, in the words of James, “Just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.” And we’ve noticed over the last couple of days when James is driving a direct point home, gives some kind of analogy so that it makes sense, like yesterday he was saying, faith without corresponding action is like looking at yourself in the mirror and walking away and forgetting what you look like. So, in today’s reading he brings another example that should pretty well fall squarely in our laps, unavoidable because one of the ways that we put our faith into action and not just make it words is that our words and our deeds are in alignment. Our mouths get us into all kinds of trouble. Our tongues are a small thing, but so is a rutter of a ship, so is a bit in a horse’s mouth. These small things can turn big things. Our tongue turns our life, navigates our lives and according to James we can take our lives and burn them down with our tongues. James says we use that tongue, the tongue that we’ve been given that forms words to worship the Almighty God and to curse our brothers and sisters made in his image with the same tongue, with the same mouth and it’s not acceptable. It’s not right. If that’s not landing, like if that isn’t landing, we need to meditate upon it some more. Maybe we’re not like that. But if we’re not aware enough to know that that is what is going on out there, then maybe you’re doing the right thing by avoiding social media and that kind of, and just talking head news, just analysis type stuff because this is all of the time going on. We can bless God and curse our brothers and sisters with the same mouth, in the same conversation and it’s not right. And so, James is giving us well, first of all, he’s telling us we know, we know this, we’re just usually not paying attention and we usually don’t apply it to our, like it easy to pick out in other people’s lives. We don’t usually pick it out in our own and say yeah, I got a fundamentally change because I have to align my thoughts, words and deeds so that I’m a true person. James is giving us an opportunity today to take something that we very well understand, a concept that we can clearly grasp, an issue that that we all face, our words, what we say, how we react, what comes out of our mouths, that that is a wonderful place to start the work of faith, and aligning our thoughts, words and deeds. Actually, if we can’t get this one little thing which is a very big thing, but if we can’t get this tongue under control. If we can’t change that, then it’s gonna keep burning things down all around us. It’s gonna slash and cut and destroy. And then we’re going to try to use self-words, kind kindness, gracious words to do healing and so we can be, we can be like a messenger from heaven or we can be like a pathological killer using the same instrument called our tongue. Let’s give that some thought.

Prayer:

And so, Father, we do, we’re thinking about it now. We have a lot of work to do, we understand that. But this being brought up as a category, being brought up as a category so directly so that it’s not like some kind of foreign concept. The outcomes are clear, the outcomes are if we have incongruency between what we say and what we do then, then the thing we are claiming is faith is…is dead. Or maybe not even present. Stark as that is we need to look at it and we need to look at it through Your eyes. We need Your Holy Spirit to help us. There is no way we will master this on our own. What we need to do is surrender it. Humble ourselves before You and start paying attention to what we’re saying. Come, Holy Spirit into this we ask, in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Ezekiel 37:1-38:23, James 1:19-2:17, Psalms 117:1-2, Proverbs 28:1

Today is the 18^th day of November welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is a privilege to be here with you today around the Global Campfire where we can keep warm and find comfort in fellowship with one another and nourishment from the scriptures for our souls. So, wonderful, wonderful to be here with you today as we do take that next step forward. We’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week and our next step forward is Ezekiel chapters 37 and 38.

Commentary:

Okay. So, while we were reading through the letter to the Hebrews, we had all kinds of theological concepts. We had all kinds of discussion that gave us the story from a Hebrew perspective and connected Jesus to the Hebrew story, explaining that this was always expected to happen. And, so, we had those kinds of concepts. In the letter to the Romans, another long letter in the New Testament we got a lot of theology that that forms Christian theology from the apostle Paul. We should be noticing now that we’re just a couple of days into reading this rather short letter from James that this is different. This isn’t like trying to explore theological concepts per se sort of to give us an underpinning or an understanding of things. It’s very, very, very practical. It’s sort of like, okay so you’ve got the theology. If you don’t live the theology though, like if you don’t live what you have learned, if it’s just information it’s a problem. So, he’s practically trying to get us to sow into our lives what we’ve learned, what we’ve heard so that it becomes a way of life. So, I quote from James because he says it better. “Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like someone looking at his own face in a mirror. For he looks at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what kind of person he was.” So, that’s the analogy that James chooses to use. And we can…we can understand it just as well today as they would’ve been able to understand it in the first century. If you are just gonna hear and you’re gonna to take on board the Bible as information for informational purposes but you don’t implement anything that you’ve heard, it doesn’t actually begin to transform your life because you're…you’re adapting yourselves to it, than that is the same as look…as looking at yourself in the mirror, walking away and forgetting what you look like, right? So, we can see that James is interested in our actions. It’s a nonbiblical proverb but one that we’ve all heard, “actions speak louder than words.” And this is basically James’ point. And sort of the next point that he’s making that has to be put into action and that we should listen to is that favoritism, making a distinction that someone is better than someone else or making a distinction between us, we are better in some way than someone else is completely misguided. He also tells us today that you think your religious and you think you’re walking it out, but you can’t control your tongue then you are only fooling yourself. And like, we should take a long pause on that one. If your words and your deeds are not in alignment there is a disconnect in your life and you’re fooling yourself. I told you. James is unflinching and we were led into probably the most famous passage in James, “faith without works is dead” and that’s what he’s been leading up to. You’re fooling yourself if you’re just talking a talk but not living into it or walking the walk. I don’t want to be to cliché here, but I don't…I mean what could be more poignant in our world today? And let's…James is not trying to externalize this so not…let’s not go, “oh yeah, it’s really bad out there, a lot of people are duplicitous. A lot of people are saying things that they don’t do or they’re talking out of both sides of their mouths.” That’s all true. What about you? What about me? What about us? This is in our laps. James isn’t gonna let us divert. We’re njot gonna be able to disassociate from our own selves while judging everybody else. And, so, putting it back in the words of James, I quote, “what good is it my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can such faith save him?” And then he says, “faith without works is dead.” And he uses another example to show us how that’s true. So, you have somebody. You see somebody that is suffering that has a lack, that is in need, without clothes, they don’t have enough food and you encounter them, pat them on the back and tell them to go in peace and stay warm. Maybe even say a prayer for them and ask God to give them food but you don’t help them, then faith without works is dead. So, I quote, “if a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily food and one of you says to them go in peace, stay warm and be well fed but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it? In the same way faith if it does not have works, is dead by itself.” Just kind of what to leave it there. I’m kind of wanting to leave it there for my own self, but I don’t want to fill in a bunch more words. This is what it is saying, and we have some things to examine and they’re not gonna go away just because we ignore them. We can keep reading the Bible and ignore this until we come to James next November and it’s still gonna be true, and we will have reaped what we sowed. We have to change the way that we are living our faith and make our speech and our action both be true of one another. I dream for that. I dream for that in myself, but I dream for that in the body of Christ. We would change the world if we were true. If our faith was actually in action, we would…we would change the world. And it’s not as if we haven’t been a part of many changes in the world over history, but the world really needs a witness right now. The world…the world really needs light in the darkness, salt as a preservative, a city on a hill that can’t be hidden. And it seems so often, like we fellow believers, we’re just playing king of the mountain. We want to individually be a city on a hill or whatever and so we’ll push everybody else down so we can be on the top and then somebody will push us down and then we’ll just battle each other for who gets to be on top when it’s like beside the point. And, so, I hope, especially after all that we’ve been through in the world over the last couple of years now, going on a couple of years with just the craziness that we’ve seen on display in ways that we’ve never really seen before and have endured things that have never been faced by anybody that’s alive today. We’ve had to deal with some things and we need to stop warring with each other over who gets to be right and get about the business of saving the world as the body of Christ where all are necessary, everyone is irreplaceable, everyone has a role to play, everybody has a part in this story, the story of redemption. That’s our story. It’s our story to tell and if our words and deeds are in alignment, then we are being true and telling the truth.

Prayer:

Father, we invite You into that. We invite You into all that was spoken from the letter from James today. We’re sitting up and paying attention. We’re not zoning out or pretending that this doesn’t apply to us in some way because it’s directly speaking to us clearly and we know we need to repent, and we know we’ve got to make changes. And, so, Holy Spirit we can’t do it without You. We have too much wounding, too much baggage, too much history, too much all kinds of pull to comply and fit into our culture. We have all kinds of things that pull us in all kinds of directions, and we are encouraged to be false. You are encouraging us that freedom is being true. So, Holy Spirit come. Help us catch ourselves, help us see the ways that we’re not being true. May our words and our deeds tell the truth, we pray. In the name of Jesus we ask. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Hey, my outstanding DAB fam this is Kingdom Seeker Daniel. Hey Beautiful Sunsets, I’m praying for your family for the restoration for the freedom for the peace and the reuniting that the Lord is at work in even now. And I agree with you and I’m standing with you for Isaiah 54:17 that that would be the umbrella that God would raise up over you that no weapon formed against you and your family will prosper but every lie that will come against you it shall be condemned in the Lord. That’s your heritage. And, so, be encouraged to know that the Lord is fighting for you and your family. To my brother Terry the brother that’s incarcerated. Man, I appreciate you for the shout out for the love man. Know that God is with you. He’s with you in this struggle, He’s with you in the fight, He’s with you in the test. Whether it’s testing or tempting God is with you. We know God, God doesn’t tempt us. So, He’s definitely in the test…in the testing process with you but you will win, you will overcome, and God is setting up reinforcements even now for you behind the walls my brother. So, know that He’s protecting you, He’s watching out for you. So, be encouraged man. Keep running. He’s got you. And for Jenny, the sister from the Bay Area, sister I so appreciate you and your fight and you’re pressing life and going after your masters and even for the class that you’re going away for right now. I pray that God is watching over your 11 your 15-year-old and just appreciate you for your determination sis. And know that He is with you on this journey, and you shall overcome. To Holly from California, your 8-year-old grandson Jackson is struggling to get to know other kids and blend in. I pray God will come around him and give him the friends that he needs in Jesus’ name. Love you.

Hi, I’m calling on behalf of my mom Susan who is a faithful listener of the DAB. She has…she has many else problems one of them being diabetes and she’s very sick with COVID right now. So, she’s requesting prayer and she believes in the power of prayer and would be so encouraged to know that the DAB family is praying for her and interceding on her behalf. So, please pray for wisdom for us and peace for her and a full recovery. And we’re just so thankful for this community and the support. Thank you.

Hey DAB family this is Jasmine calling from New York and I haven’t called in a while but I just wanted to let you guys know that it’s basically been a full year of me listening to this podcast and, yeah, I just wanted to say thank you to Brian and Jill for the podcast, just creating it, yeah and y’all’s obedience to the Lord. I just thank you because it really has brought me through a lot and it was basically the beginning of my journey with Christ in my faith and it helped grow my faith with Jesus. So yeah, I thank you all. And I just wanted to encourage others out there who are just beginning to listen to this podcast to just keep going even if you miss a day. Just keep going because it is taking you somewhere. And yeah, it’s all working for our good. So…

Good afternoon DAB family God bless you all. Jerry, you called in saying that you’re fighting the enemy trying to drag you back in the name of Jesus Satan we command you right now in the name of Jesus we declare those chains broken in Jesus’ name. You could not have Jerry anymore. He is no longer a part of that. He is now a new creation in Christ a son of the most high king and you must release him right now in the name of Jesus. And Jerry you are no longer the man incarcerated you are now Jerry birthed in freedom in the name of Jesus. Jesse, you called in regarding your grandmother sick for a year now standing and walking across the room in the name of Jesus Father God. We thank you Lord for the healing that is continuing to take place Father God in the name of Jesus. A woman called in seven times or recorded seven times Father is purely good. Yes He is for us. The enemy is a liar. We must continue to declare that every moment of every day. Rebecca in the name of Jesus I am declaring peace, peace among our brothers and sisters in this Ethiopian civil war Father God. Father God we break those chains in Jesus name of hatred Father God, of strife Father God, of jealousy and bring them together Father God to dine at a table of love Father God in the name of Jesus Father God. James, you called in how many times you moved and changed churches and now in a divorce. We bind that in the name of Jesus Father God. We’re declaring marriage reconciliation Father God in the name of Jesus. Nothing’s too late for you Father God in the name of Jesus and thank God the DAB has been a constant for us. Mikey you called in regarding your baby. Thank you for calling as a first-time caller. And we’re praying for your baby. We’re praying for that spirit of auditory neuropathy to be gone in the name of Jesus Father God we’re declaring healing over this baby Father God in the name of Jesus Father God. I love you Esther…

Hello this is Max from Madison. I am a little behind as usual on Daily Audio Bible. Listened to November 5^th today, the prayer requests and Elene ileen from I believe it was Colchester called in about her son Daniel and I just want to say a prayer for Daniel and for Elene and let you know that you are not alone. You have many brothers and sisters suffering the same. 1 Peter 5:7. And the best thing to do is know and let Daniel know that he’s not alone. And if there is a support group, a youth support group in your area I would highly advise because that helped me a lot when I was his age. Also, I want to praise report. I’ve been working on for several years trying to help teens in my local neighborhood using the performing arts and I almost lost hope a year ago when I called in and it looked like it’s going to happen. I’m partnering with the local school district, and it looks like we might have our first club meetings in June, and I’ll actually be paid and have a job career doing what I love. And, so, just let Daniel know that he is loved. Lord Daniel is your child, he’s in pain right now but let him know that You have him. You have in your embrace and give his mom Elene strength to deal with this in compassion and love. God bless you all. Bye.

Ezekiel 35:1-36:38, James 1:1-18, Psalm 116:1-19, Proverbs 27:23-27

Today is the 17th day of November, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible, I’m Brian. It is, it’s, it’s, it’s a joy to be here around this Global Campfire together with you as we continue our journey forward and take the next step together. That next step will lead us into the book of Ezekiel, I can’t talk today, back into the book of Ezekiel which we are winding down and working our way through. When we get to the New Testament today, we have some new territory. We concluded the letter to the Hebrews yesterday which will bring us to the book of, or the letter from James and I we’ll talk about James when we get there, but firsts Ezekiel chapters 35 and 36 today.

Introduction to the Book of James:

Alright so, as we mentioned a few minutes ago, we’re moving into some new territory as we approach the New Testament today and we’ll be moving into the epistle or letter of James. James is somebody that we’ve heard of before in the Scriptures, although there is debate about what James we’re even talking about when we talk about this letter. But nevertheless, no matter which James we’re talking about, this is not a voice that we’ve heard. This is not somebody that has spoken to us through Scripture in a voice that we’ve heard before. So, this is kind of new territory for us in the New Testament. And, like I said, there has been scholarly debate for quite a while about who this James, who exactly, which James we’re talking about and that makes then dating James a bit difficult because trying to identify the exact author. But there is a likely scenario, one that does have quite a bit of traditional and solid support and that would be that this letter very likely, probably, was written by James, who was the half-brother of Jesus Christ, who was not a believer in Jesus divinity, he grew up with him, he was His brother, he didn’t believe in Jesus during his earthly ministry. It seems like that scenario changed for lots of people after Jesus was, arose from the dead. And you can imagine why of course, but James the brother of Jesus did become a leader of the early church. And he was involved in really pivotal monumental decisions like the Jerusalem Council, the decision that we read of in the Book of Acts and talked about it extensively then, the decision that invited Gentiles into the faith that made it an inclusive, encompassing faith. That all you had to do was believe, you didn’t have to have a certain ethnicity or abide by Hebrew customs and Mosaic law. One of the reasons that this James, the brother of Jesus, rises to the top is because he was leader of the church in Jerusalem and it’s, it’s like Hebrews, we…we don’t exactly know who the author of Hebrews is, but whoever did write the letter to the Hebrews it was preserved, it held authority, it was kept, it was passed down and it’s a long letter. James is like that as well. Whichever James we’re talking about, people in the early church, the early believers, preserved and held onto this letter. And we’re not certain of another specific James that would hold that kind of clout. You can imagine that you would hold onto a letter, I would. Would you not hold onto a letter that was written to you by the brother of our Lord? And so, this is probably the James that we’re talking about. This James was not a Gentile, was definitely a Hebrew and this letter is very much written from a Hebrew perspective. It’s addressed to the 12 tribes that are scattered which helps us know who this is written to and it kind of opens up a can of worms to: is he writing to all of the Hebrew people throughout all of the world who have been scattered through exile all over the earth, or is he talking more to more immediate times, that persecution and marginalization has begun and so people are fleeing looking for a freedom to worship. We remember from the Book of Acts that Stephen, in Jerusalem, he was stoned, became the first martyr, the first person to actually die for the name of Jesus and the apostle Paul, who was Saul at the time, was there watching this all go down. So, some of that could have been a catalyst, it would’ve been a catalyst for a lot of things. And you have somebody in your church that gets murdered by…by a mob right, even in this day and age, that would be a catalyst. So if James is writing to those people who are just gonna fleeing and looking for freedom and persecution in quieter places, then they may have at one point been a part of the mother church, the Jerusalem church, in which James was the pastor and so you would be writing a letter that gets passed around to people that he had been a pastor to. Which, then, kind of gives even more credibility to James, the brother of Jesus, being the author because yes you would preserve a letter that you received from the brother of the Lord. But if you received a letter from the brother of the Lord who had also previously been your pastor and was the leader of the Jerusalem church, a place that you had had to leave and flee from but still felt your hearts connection to then, you’d see why these, this letter would be held and kept in high regard and copied and passed around. If this all is true than this is an early Christian document. Many scholars think like first Thessalonians is the earliest Christian writing that exists but this letter of James, many people feel is very, very early Christian document, many scholars find in the letter from James’s sort of an encapsulation of a Hebrews centric understanding of the faith that is nuanced a little bit from Paul. And some of this comes from the idea in James that faith, and look, if we haven’t got the idea that faith animates our entire experience with God, then we should get that pretty clear. It should be pretty clear because the Bible’s been shouting it all along, like faith is the thing that animates our intimacy and relationship with God. And Paul’s pretty clear that this is all a gift and there’s no way to earn it and we can’t. Whereas James preserves maybe a tradition a little more Hebrew-centric when he says faith though, faith yes, but faith without works is dead. Which means it’s not an alive faith and so even famous people in church history, like the Roman Catholic priest Martin Luther, who began sort of inaugurated, a domino thing that happened that became the Protestant Reformation. He was not a big fan of this letter from James because of that, because of that, that one thing right there: faith without works is dead. I guess when we get to that particular passage, we should talk about but we could probably all reason that if you don’t live what you say, especially in this day and age, anybody can say anything, oh my goodness. Anybody can say anything about anything. So, if you don’t actually live what you say, well anybody can say anything and that’s kind of James point. If you’re not living what you’re saying then, is that even really faith? It’s not an alive faith, at least according to James. But I guess, we’ll get there when we get there. One thing that I can tell you is that we need to buckle up. We need to open our hearts and lower our defenses. If there is a book that is direct, a letter that is direct, like words that are intended to be looking at you directly in the eyes, eyes to eyes, right into your soul, it will be James. There’s no flinching here. This is a very direct letter. Nearly every time we come to this place and we’re beginning James I say like this, if, just prepare to have your butt kicked if…if you’re open to it. This book does not back down, it’s a butt kicker and it’s ultimately trying to tell us that we do have to live our lives by faith and we have to live our faiths in by what we do and that’s just as relevant, now as it would’ve been in the first century, maybe even, maybe even more, I’m not sure how to quantify, but the opportunities for duplicity in our world today because of technology and stuff, we have been opportunities to assume all kinds of different identities and be all kinds of different ways which is not a unified faith. And James is essentially saying that isn’t faith and wants nothing to do with it. So, with that in mind, let’s get going. James chapter 1 verses one through 18.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. We thank You for all of the nuances and complexions that we find and that we encounter in all of the different nuanced kinds of people that we encounter because we are so nuanced and complex as people and so we find ourselves in these stories, we find You in these stories, it gives us context for our own lives and we are grateful. So, as we continue this journey and now into the letter of James, we open ourselves to You that You might correct, that You might reprioritize and make the way straight before us. We ask this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Ezekiel 33:1-34:31, Hebrews 13:1-25, Psalms 115:1-18, Proverbs 27:21-22

Today is the 16^th day of November welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is awesome to be here with you today. It’s a privilege and an honor to come around this Global Campfire together and continue our journey through this week and month and year and the Bible. Our journey takes us back into the book of Ezekiel in the Old Testament and into the book of…or the letter to the Hebrews in the New Testament. We will conclude Hebrews today and prepare to move forward as we continue our journey. We’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week. Ezekiel chapters 33 and 34 today.

Commentary:

Okay. So, just a few minutes ago we concluded the book of Hebrews or the letter to the Hebrews. And once again, let’s just remember, Hebrews is the gospel written through Hebrew…through a Hebrew lens to Hebrew believers. So, it’s one of the greatest texts found in the New Testament that reflects back on the Hebrew Scriptures or what we know as the Old Testament and brings the story of Jesus through that lens or through that Hebrew experience into the hearing and into the hearts of people who believed and people who were investigating. And as we were talking about when we began this journey through the letter to the Hebrews, it is a supremely difficult task to completely separate the Christian faith from its origin story which is in the Hebrew context. And, so, we who are mostly Gentile and have heard the good news and maybe have been around the faith for a while, there’s a lot of things that we can take for granted. But having never grown up in that culture with that background, we can look at the different things that are being said and say, “wait a second, we take these apart one by one. This is very, very interesting and very very different” because the terminology and the understanding, because of the terminology and the ritual practice aren’t things that we mostly do. And, so, some of the ways that the gospel is so revolutionary, and for that matter really controversy don’t always shine through. But once we start looking through a Hebrew lens then we can see pretty clearly. For example, as we’re ending the letter today, and let me just quote. “We have an altar”…again…just put yourself in this position where you don’t have this background, you don’t have this Hebrew background and so you’re hearing this terminology about Jesus. Jesus Christ is being tied to this terminology. You can see the things that we just kind of take for granted. “We have an altar.” If I just stop there after the first four words that we’re reading from this verse. We do? Where? Like, I don’t have an altar anywhere in my house. But let’s continue. “We have an altar from which those who worship at the tabernacle.” If we had no background, we wouldn’t know what the tabernacle was. “For those who worship at the tabernacle do not have a right to eat”, right? And again, what can you eat after it’s been sacrificed? This is for the priest. There are rules about this. We don’t normally practice these things. And, so, we don’t really have the context for them. But I continue. “For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the most holy place by the high priest as a sin offering.” Right? Just this sentence. Blood? Most holy place? High priest? Sin offering? This is kind of fundamental to the Christian story, but we can see how the terminology is something that can just blow by us. We’ve heard it many many times. We understand the concepts, but we don’t always understand how profound what’s being said actually is. So, let me read this sentence again because I’m stopping to say too much. “For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the most holy place by the high priest as a sin offering are burned outside the camp”, which is Mosaic law by the way. “Therefore, Jesus also suffered outside the gate so that He might sanctify the people by His own blood. Let us then go to Him outside the camp bearing His disgrace.” So, the language here is attaching Jesus to the sacrificial system in a way that shows Jesus as the final sacrifice in that system while acknowledging the argument of the fact that Jesus was nailed onto a cross by Romans, who were executing Him in disgrace and humiliation and then attaching that to the current Hebrew believers by telling them we must associate ourselves with that disgrace and humiliation because we must associate ourselves and give ourselves over completely to the…the person that was disgraced and humiliated who happens to be the Lord of Heaven’s armies, God incarnate, Jesus God in flesh. That is a word of encouragement to people who are being marginalized because of what they believe about Jesus. And, so, this idea that you go outside the city wall, is you go outside the camp has multiple meanings. It’s following the tradition of the Mosaic law, but it’s also saying like, “hey, you’re not going to be understood. People aren’t going to get this. Not everybody is going to get this. So, you might have to go outside the camp and bear the disgrace associating yourself, associating ourselves with the Savior”, which is to say that we should generally expect the same type of treatment that we saw the Savior undergo, which will require endurance. And, so, from here as we’ve concluded the last sentence of Hebrews, if we look back over the letter we see that we’ve learned God was doing a new thing in the world and He was doing that new thing in person in the person of Jesus. And the new thing that He was doing was instituting a new covenant, one that doesn’t require the blood of animals or animal sacrifice or atonement once a year for all of the people but…but generally we’re separated from God because of our sinfulness. This new covenant dealt with sin once and for all, end of the story. There is not a separation between us and God in this new covenant. We can enter the holy of holies, as it were, which is to enter God’s presence and we can do this as a child…a child coming to be with its Father. And those of us who are fathers or parents, like we don’t expect any of our kids to go kill something and bring it to us so that they can be in our presence. They don’t have to atone for something. Something doesn’t have to die so that they can come and ask us if we can take him to the store or if we’ll play with them. And now we have access to the most-high God personally. And the way that that is engaged is through faith, which…which is what started the Hebrew story, which we find in the writings of Paul and the writings…the letter to the Hebrews when we go back to Abraham. Faith started the story, faith as animated the story, faith is what is required. Without faith it is impossible to please God. And, so, it is our faith that we must live into, and it is our faith that we must strengthen and in order to strengthen anything there will be resistance. We might call this endurance. And this is like exercise. And, so, we train to run the race set before us. And as we read today part of that endurance or perseverance is…is standing in the face of being marginalized or even persecuted. We’re not supposed to slink back and disappear. We’re city on a hill, we are the salt of the earth. We are the witness to the world that this is a true story. So, rather than slinking back we live boldly. And often we confuse that boldness with what we post on social media rather than looking at our lives and saying, “am I a light in the darkness.” Do I bring light? Do I bring life? Do I bear good news?” And, so, often we get distracted in trying to correct each other instead of trying to be the light of the world and exercising our faith. And, so, Hebrews has brought us plenty. I mean we could literally just start Hebrews over and go through it again and then do it again and then do it again. There’s always something more there, and it’s really really valuable in the New Testament, especially when we’re reading the whole Bible in a year like we are because it really really brings things together in a Hebrew perspective that really ties Jesus through the Old Testament story through the Jewish story, the Hebrew story. And without that context, we lose a lot of the deep powerful truths that are expressed through the life of Jesus and for that matter through the New Testament.

Prayer:

Father we thank You. We thank You for the letter to the Hebrews. We thank You for…we thank You for everything in the Scriptures. We thank You for the opportunity that we can pour over them anytime we want pretty much and that it’s always available to us. We are deeply, deeply grateful. We are deeply grateful to be included in this story at all. The further we go through the Scriptures and the further that we go through life we become more and more aware of how we do not deserve fellowship with You. We take it for granted. We treat You like Santa Claus and we do not deserve to even be known. We do not deserve Your presence, and yet it is always available. May we hold it in deep dear reverence as we look back at the heritage and where this story came from and how we would have never dreamed of having any kind of personal relationship with You and yet You have adopted us and Your family as children. This is such a world changing thing. Forgive us for taking our salvation for granted and may we live into it with all of our heart, with all of our increasing faith as You continue to lead us forward. We pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Hello DAB family this is Gin in Min which is short for Virginia in Minnesota. I’m calling to bring up to you my dear friend Sue Yantzer in Michigan. She is in the ICU suffering from complications of COVID. She sent me a text a couple minutes ago and asked for my church family to pray for her and I thought of you. I have a local church for sure here, but I thought of my DAB family. This family that I hear prayer request upon prayer request and loves people. And, so, would you please pray for my dear friend Sue Yantzer in Michigan for being in the ICU, complicated…respiratory complications with COVID. She also has a twin sister Suzanne who is also suffering from COVID but she’s home. They both need to be covered and lifted up. And I love this community. Thank you for everything that you do. My heart is warmed by the fire, and I’m so encouraged that I can bring this to you and know that you hear. This is Gin ion Min. Bye.

Hey Daily Audio Bible my name is Irene and I have called in a couple of times anonymously just praying for different people, but I never like really called in for prayer request. But I’m going to try to keep this really short and simple. So, I had been adopted into this wonderful amazing family and I came from the country of Zambia which is in Africa for those who didn’t know and my whole life I’ve grown up, you know, in a very different world and the Lord has protected me in a lot of ways from a lot of racial things, you know, scary things that have happened to other black people. Even most places I go to, like going to the South, I’ve had no problems. I enjoy it very much but I think with me being a senior this year and I’m, you know, 17 and I’m going off to college, the realization that because I’ve been sheltered, and not intentionally. It’s just so happens to be that way because my parents are both white. I’ve just kind of come to the realization of the dark evil wicked people in this world who don’t have the Lord and who will despise and hate me for my skin color primarily. And I have another actually have been afraid of this before, like I’ve never truly been afraid of what people think because I’ve mostly just always…set on God will take care of my enemies. But God will, not only that, but I don’t know…I just don’t want to battle with it. I am…I’ve cried, I’ve been scared and I’m like, Lord I don’t know what to do. And, so, I just really appreciate your prayers that I would overcome this fear and that I would endure. And listening to Brian’s thing about faith, I think this is where my faith is meant to grow and I just help and prayer through this. So, thank you so much. Alright. Bye.

Hello DAB family this is Thankful and Still in Texas it is the 13^th of November. I wanted to call up and pray for a couple of you all. I want to lift up Rodney. I know there’s been a lot of calls praying for you, but God Rodney I am praying for you too and I’m just praying that that God work healing in your…in your mind and in your heart and in your body and that He would bring reconciliation between your wife and you and that you all would be unified as a family. I do pray for her return in Jesus’ name. And I want to pray for Holly Heart as you were talking about a lupus flare up after your trip your vacation, I just pray that God’s healing hand be upon you, that He comfort you through the flare up and get you past it and that you would be full of energy and just feeling back to yourself in Jesus’ name. And I want to lift up Shannon from Texas. I just heard you right now. It’s 11/13 or the 13^th of November. And, so, I know that feeling of being attacked and I know that God’s purpose is so great for you. And be encouraged because yes, God is with you. And I was just reading this morning in James, to count it joy when you face these different trials because the trying of your faith is going to produce perseverance. So, I pray that the fruit of all of these attacks be made evident to you and that you would have peace and that God would uphold you, just like it says in Isaiah, don’t be…don’t be weary. He is your God, and He will strengthen you and He will help you and He will uphold you with His righteous right hand. And I pray that upon you Shannon in Jesus’ name. And I do lift up your son to God, that He would do His work in him too. In Christ’s name.

Hi DAB family this is Harvester from Missouri. I just want to encourage Shannon from Texas. I heard your message today on November 13^th and that you have a son who got out of rehab and that’s been abusive and it’s kind of getting you down and you weren’t able to go to work. I mean, I’m reminded of this story about Moses when he was tired and couldn’t hold his arms up for the battle and they started losing so he had two people on either side of him to hold his arms up so that he would have strength to continue the battle. And I just encourage you to find a couple friends from your ministry or something, maybe that can help hold your arms up. And I know we will join with you in prayer also. I do know what it’s like to be in an abusive situation. I was abused for several years while I…when I was in my home growing up. And it does get to you and you…you need somebody that you can talk to. And if you don’t have any friends right now, I know you can find people in the Celebrate Recovery program or in an Al-Anon program that would understand what you’re going through and can help you through this time. God, I just lift up to You Shannon from Texas and i ask that You would bless her, that You would encourage her, and that You would give her Your comfort and Your strength and Your love in Jesus name Amen.

Good morning, DABbers this is Mommy’s Little Rock in Arkansas. Today is November 13^th and it’s my mother’s birthday. It’s my first birthday without my mother. She passed on New Year’s Eve of 2020. So, this has been a year of firsts as they say and I’ve navigated through it as best as I guess you can, you know, when you lose a parent. So, I’m asking for prayers for myself and My family. This has been an interesting year without my mom. And my brother and I and my uncle are left to cherish her memory and all the things that she taught us and gave us over the years. So, as I celebrate her day, I just ask for y'all’s prayers. I just ask that you keep me in mind, and you pray for my heart because I know she’s with the Lord. And boy oh boy what a birthday to be in heaven and celebrating with her family and friends that are there and the Lord. And, so, I just ask that you just keep us in prayer, and I thank you all so much. I love you. Take care. God bless.

Ezekiel 31:1-32:32, Hebrews 12:14-29, Psalm 113:1-114:8, Proverbs 27:18-20

Today is the 15th day of November, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian. It’s great to be here with you today. I guess, hear we are in the middle, the middle point of the 11th month of the year, crossing through the center and continuing our journey forward. We are continuing our journey through the book of Ezekiel, so let's…let’s do what we do, let’s take the next step forward together. We’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week, Ezekiel chapters 31 and 32.

Commentary:

Okay, have you ever looked at us set of circumstances that you are navigated and, navigating and felt like I’m kind of on thin ice here or I’m kind of on shaky ground here. We say those euphemisms because we don’t feel stable in the situation that we’re in. Not everything is lining up, not everything feels secure. There seems to be some missing pieces. Things feel like they’re shaking. The writer of Hebrews talks about this today and he’s talking to people, Hebrew people, Jewish people who have, who have believed in Jesus and are following Jesus, but instead of things getting smoother and more glorious, things have started to shake up around them. They feel like they’re on thin ice. They don’t feel like they’re in a secure position. So, what’s happening is that many people are trying to kind of fade, fade into the woodwork of the culture. Just kind of fade back into Judaism and believe in Jesus but kind of keep that quiet or others are just rejecting, going back into more Orthodox Judaism. The writer of Hebrews is…is trying to warn these believers. These early believers that are really, that really are in a shaky situation, that are starting to…to be oppressed on all sides. They’re being warned not to fade. In fact, as with the rest of the letter of Hebrews where Jesus is brought in as a context of something to be expected that they had been expecting a Savior, the writer of Hebrews is also trying to say you should’ve also been expecting that things would get shaky. And so, I’m quoting from Hebrews here, “See to it that you do not reject the one who speaks” in this case this would be God, “for if they did not escape” and in this case they’re talking about their…their spiritual ancestors, “if they did not escape when they rejected Him who warned them on earth even less will we if we turn away from Him who warns us from heaven”. So, the writer of Hebrews here is encouraging steadfastness, endurance, sticking to what you started, holding fast and firm to your faith. And I continue to quote “His voice shook the earth at that time, but now He has promised yet once more, will I shake, not only the earth but also the heavens. This expression yet once more indicates the removal of what can be shaken, that is, created things. So, that what is not shaken, might remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful.” Okay, we don’t like things shaking, we don’t want to be on thin ice. We don’t want to be on shaky ground. And yet, the writer of Hebrews is telling the people reading this letter then and us today that things are going to be shaky. So, is the point that we are constantly disrupted and never feel like we’re on firm ground? That is not the intention here, and what we’re being told is essentially this, everything that can shake is going to be shaken so that in the end, all that’s left is what cannot be shaken. So, if you’re in a situation in your life where you’re on thin ice or shaky ground and you don’t like it one single bit, you don’t like this shaking and you want it to stop. Fair enough. Who doesn’t want that. Even the Lord wants that, but He is willing to disrupt us and we may find ourselves in a time of shaking because there are things that need to be shaken loose and shaken off so that what remains is unshakable. So, that might be helpful to just kind of keep with us when we’re feeling like we’re in these seasons where things are very shaky. It’s in those times that we should maybe look at what is being shaken and is it unshakable or is it time that it be shaken loose and shaken free and shaken off. We may have a desire and even a prayer that this shaking stops when maybe if we look closer at what’s being shaken we can participate and realize I don’t need this. This thing that’s making me disrupted and uncomfortable, I don’t, this can be shaken off and I can take the next step forward toward unshakeability.

Prayer:

And so Father, we invite Your Holy Spirit into that because very often we find ourselves misinterpreting things we see as we see in how we see is through a glass darkly and we don’t have the full view and we don’t have a complete understanding of anything but You do and You are our Father and You love us as Your children. And so, if things are shaking, sometimes it can be just the disruption of life but sometimes You may be shaking us awake and shaking us free and all we’re asking is that You make us comfortable again when what we need is to be unshakable. And so, help us to discern, help us to become aware of Your activity in our lives. We ask in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, if the mission that we share together to bring the spoken word of God read fresh every day and given freely to whoever will listen, if that has made a difference in your life then thank you for your partnership. There’s a link on the homepage at dailyaudiobible.com or 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 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:

Hi, it’s Mya here, I called once before in March I think about asking for prayers for my mum for, cause she needed to have a knee replaced, like knee replacement surgery and she was really scared and she didn’t want it but I know it was gonna happen but we didn’t’ know the date. And then it took a while and she had her surgery recently. And everything went fine, everything went well and kind of a funny thing that the doctor after the surgery, doctor came in to talk to her and he said like are you lucky cause a week after her surgery they’re going in some sort of a lock down cause in my country there kind of in lock down now. So, it’s, so doctor said you got lucky cause so many surgeries got canceled after that. And then I thought after my mum said that I said, I thought, she didn’t get lucky it was, that was God’s plan and God, God, I believe that our prayers got answered and my mum got the surgery. She wasn’t scared. Everything went fine and yeah, there is no such thing as luck. I believe that and yeah, the only thing now, what’s left now is to pray for my mum so her knee heals all good and she can walk finally and not, she’s not in pain anymore. And thank you for everyone, for prayers and I’m praying for everyone, I’m kind of one of the background, background prayers, praying people, who don’t really call in. This is my second time and thank you very much. Bye.

Hello, this is Stan calling from Maryland. I just finished listening to Tammy from the OutterRondacks and her crying for emotional healing for just overall relief from the pressure for caring for her husband and the physical recovery that she had to have a hysterectomy to address her own cancer issue. So, Father, I lift Tammy before You and her husband. I pray most of all that she would, that You would lavish Your presence, Your peace, Your patience, Your kindness, Your gentleness, Your self-control, over her. Father, I know what it’s like to be caught up in depression. To see that that tunnel is dark and there is no light down it. The end. So, I pray Father, that You would illuminate the light, that You would illuminate the way out for Tammy. That You would hear Father, the cry of her heart to be healed and You would be gracious with You hand and heal her. I pray these things in the name of Jesus for His glory. Amen.

Hello my Daily Audio Bible family, this is His Beloved calling in. I am just wanting to piggyback on something I just heard from James, not from California anymore, the Teacher. I feel the exact same and it just, I just wanted to call in and say I love you all so much. And like James, I have moved more times than I want to think about in the last several years since I joined the Daily Audio Bible in 2000 I don’t know, I think it was 13. And changed churches, been divorced and married. But the one consistent family I have is you guys. And I start my day everyday, I pray for everyone every day. Brian, Jill, your beautiful family thank you so much for creating this platform for all of us to come together. And all the prayer warriors out there and all the members of our family. We are so strong together as a family praying for one another. And I haven’t called in, in a while but I’m here praying on the sidelines, standing in the gap for all of you. And I love you muah. And I will speak to you soon. God Bless. Bye.

Good afternoon DAB family. Today is Friday, November 12th and yesterday I went for my sixth month follow-up because last year after my stay in the hospital I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. But the cancer was induline or I should say is induline or slow acting. And initially they had me on every three months and then in May of this year my hematologist moved me to six months. And I wasn’t really sure what to expect, I was hoping for you know, that it was still induline. And they did lab work yesterday and I got a phone call from the lab saying that everything looked normal, that my labs looked good and blood work looked good and they will see me in six months and I just broke. My sister called me and I just broke. And I also told her, I said it’s like holding your breath and you didn’t realize you were and I’m just so thankful to God. I’m so thankful Lord. And I was just, I just hope and pray that it continues to be induline for a very long time. And I just had to share this with my DAB family. And I forgot to say that this is Avery from Washington State, I’m just so happy I forgot about that. So, thank you family. Love you all. I pray everything goes well with you and that you stay faithful to the Lord. And I’m still working on it myself.

Hello my DAB family. This is Mark Street from Sydney Australia. Today is Friday the 12th. I’ve just been listening to the podcast and I heard James the Teacher from LA. James, I wish there was more time but I just wanna support you, send a tide, I know you were giving praise that you’re still on your path James. But, I want to, I just want to give you some support my brother. I’ve been through the same path as you. I’m ten years down the track, 11 years down the track actually now and I was very blind to a lot of the same. I’m a sinful man and it was sifting through the Daily Audio Bible 11 years that God has been doing wonderful, wonderful, wonderful things for me. He’s opened my eyes to everything to my sins and I’ve been slowly, He’s been slowly bringing back things for me. Giving me back things. It’s not an easy journey as Brian said, we’ve gotta have, we’ve gotta have some endurance, we’ve gotta learn endurance. Endurance is not easy as you know. But, I’m behind you brother. Believe me, keep the faither and keep coming and praying and God will restore everything to you. I promise you. Love Mark Street from Sydney Australia. Bye.

Matthew 28 and Mark 16

It’s the 14th day of November. I am Jill and you are listening to Daily Audio Bible Chronological, welcome. So great to have you here as we do journey through the Bible every single day and we do it in chronological order and we’re going to do it so that we can get through the entire Bible in a year. And you do that in community, whether you know it or not, whether you do it and listen individually, you are connected by a far greater community, people listening. And that’s the beauty of it, that we can meet here together at the global campfire. We’re going to center ourselves around the Scripture, settle our minds, settle our hearts and our spirits, quiet our souls and just listen, listen for what God will say and speak and do in us through us and among us. And it’s a great day because it is a brand new week around here, brand new mercy awaiting you. And there’s a brand new translation that we are going to begin and read throughout this week. Together. Today we’re reading the book of Matthew, the chapter is the 28th chapter, and then we’re going to jump over to Mark and read the 16th chapter of Mark. And this week our translation is the Christian Standard Bible. Now listen, we’re gonna jump into reading here, but real quick, brand new thing starting tomorrow on the Daily Audio Bible Chronological DABC. And you wanna be here and you don’t want to miss it, because you’re gonna wanna be a part of it, because I need you to be a part of it, because I want you to be a part of it. So if you have a friend, call them, text them, message them and make sure that they’re listening tomorrow so that we can all get caught up no matter where you’re at, you abandon where you’re at and jump into today so that we can all participate in this exciting, great new thing that’s happening for this week. Okay. Matthew 28 Christian Standard Bible.

Commentary:

I don’t know about you, but does anybody else just love the fact that the person that Jesus first showed himself to after his resurrection was a woman who was formally demon possessed? Does that strike anybody else? Let’s just sit with this fact for a second. If you think that you are too damaged for Jesus to show himself to you, to be used by him for anything productive in this world or for the Kingdom of heaven, can you just remember the fact that Jesus, after his death and his resurrection, showed himself to a woman who was formerly demon-possessed, but he cast those demons out of her, especially in a time period where women did not hold the place that they hold like they do today. We still have issues with women being second rate citizens in some parts of the world, and certain denominations or faith. But let’s just talk about 2000 years ago, like both of my grandmother’s grandmothers, both my mother’s mother and my father’s mother obtained the right to vote in their lifetime, and I never asked them about it. Well, I never met one of them. But my other grandmother, I never thought to ask her. So even in the last 100 or so years of this time period, we have evolved greatly in equality of women. But we’re talking about a period where we would not be able to relate. And this is what makes Jesus so amazing is that Jesus, in all of these stories, relates to the women. He refuses no woman who approaches him. And I love love that we read today that Mary Magdalene is the person that Jesus reveals himself to after his resurrection. Prayer: Father, we thank you that you continually amaze us at every turn on every page in the Bible and every page in the story of our lives. When we look for you, you are there and you continually amaze us. But we must remember to look- to intentionally look and we will find you. We will see you. We will seek you, when we seek you with our whole heart. And Father, that is the desire of my heart to know you with my whole heart, to leave nothing back. Thank you for your intentionality with us, especially us as women. Thank you for this reminder today that we tend to continually discount and diminish our own selves, thinking that there’s nothing here that you could use. You use it all when we allow you to heal us from the inside out, you redeem it, renew it and make us whole and new again. We thank you for it. We love you for it. We praise you for it. We give you all the glory for the work that you have done in our lives. We thank you for that which is still yet to do. We give you glory, honor and praise Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.

Announcements: 

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Community Prayer Line: 

Hey guys, this is Refined by the Fire in Ohio, and I’m not sure how I missed November 9. I was all caught up, I thought, but this morning I downloaded it and Jill just slayed my soul. Your reading with the passion and the brokenness that we all carry. And that reminder that Christ absolutely covered everything we have and will ever do. And it never changes how he views us, how he accepts us, how he calls us, how he longs for us, how he pursues us. And just thank you so much again for this journey together. Love you guys- have a great day.

Hello. This is Tilly from Florida. Was just listening on the 9th and I listened to the lady at the very end request about a husband who found out that he’s qualifies for the definition of the narcissist. Your Grace in that situation was beautiful. And yet, however, you’re obviously going to need strength to get through that because that stronghold is not easily broken without complete and 100% forgiveness. So I’m going to pray for you right now. Lord Jesus. I don’t remember the lady’s name at this time, but her story was really striking to me, so I lift her up to you and ask that would give her a good measure of grace to help her get through this situation. But on that strength of character and I do lift up her husband ask that he would be driven to an avenue of full repentance from his behavior, which may require departed forgiveness….that got into his life and even deliverance from that spirit. Thank you for answering this prayer, in Jesus’ name.

Hello, DABC. Family, this is Zina from London. I haven’t called for a while, but I’m here listening and going through the Bible for the first time, enjoying it. And thank you all families for always been there for each other. Thank you for praying for people. I’m praying, although I don’t come on to pray, but I do in my own time. Lift up some people in prayer. Jill today the 8 November, your commentary convicted me so deeply. I’m always making excuses like, oh, I’m just a new convert. I don’t know a lot about the Bible. I don’t feel confident in speaking to people about the gospel, but I know the little that I have. God is asking me to use it, especially with my family coming from a Muslim family. I think I have just what I need this ten months, I’ve been listening to the Daily Audio Bible and DAB as well. I think I’m well, a kid. Family, I just want you to pray for me because I’m going on a vacation December, and I’m meeting up with my family, and I just want to have that courage. I just want to have that bold faith to be able to preach the word of God. All Moses needed was a rod. All he needed was a staff to part the water. All I need I have already. You know? Just pray God ignites the fire in us- all of us to be able to use what we really have. Have a lovely day DABC family. Love you all. Bye.

Luke 23 and John 18-19

Welcome to Daily Audio Bible Chronological. I’m Jill. It’s the 13th day of November and it’s so great to be here with you as we have turned the page together, the story of our own lives and we have turned the page together in the Word of God as we are walking through it every single day on this journey of daily Audio Bible Chronological. Listen, I want you to stick around, make sure that you are here next week. I’m going to be announcing a brand new thing for chronological that has never been done before and it requires you. So I need you to be here and to listen and to participate. And that will start the day after tomorrow on the 15th. Right now we are here to read the Bible. So we’re beginning today in the book of Luke in the 23rd chapter, and then we’ll jump over to John and read chapters 18 and 19. And today is the last day in the Evangelical Heritage version, Luke chapter 23.

Commentary:

So we have now finished the four Gospels narrative of death of Jesus. And I tell you what, I wish we could all just be in a big living room with candles lit and some soft music in the background, just like here, just in the presence of friends and just hear. Just hear what? What did you hear? What stands out to you? What surprises you? What do you notice this time that you’ve never noticed before? What do you hear in the words of Jesus? What do you feel in the emotions of Jesus? What comes up inside of you? What bubbles up to the top?
What’s at the surface right now? What are you feeling? We would just talk. We would just remember. And we would just sit calmly, silently in contemplation and gratitude in Holy somber. And I would probably challenge us to lean into the ache right now, lean into the pain, hear the words of Jesus dying on a cross, yet caring for his mother in his absence, see his humanity, see his humility in being asked questions that could possibly change the fate of what was about to happen. And he chose silence. Jesus chose silence in a world where it’s become so noisy, so oversaturated with noise and people being so loud and demanding that we declare our Christianity and to literally, I see and hear people say, make some noise. I have read on four accounts now where Jesus, who had a right to speak up, to defend himself, to speak the truth, declare the truth of what was being asked of him and chose silence. I believe there is a time to speak out on the goodness of God. And I believe there is a time where we sit silently and we let our lives be a living example of the love, the unconditional love, the sacrificial love, the unfathomable love of Jesus Christ.

Prayer:

Father, we have heard the accounts of the death of Jesus now here. We have sat and listened. We have intentionally paused and remembered. We have been intentional with our feelings and what has come up to the surface as we have listened to the account of the death of an innocent man, Jesus. It seems difficult to say thank you, knowing that he was so brutally beat that he was unrecognizable. But what we see, what we hear, what we know, is that Jesus willingly went to the cross and died a brutal, unnecessary death. An innocent man so that we could all come into belief in Him could be free. And there are no words. There are no adequate words to say thank you. There are no adequate words to describe how much we feel. We don’t deserve such an act of love. But Jesus said otherwise. So, Father, may our lives be a representation of the love, the sacrificial love that you have shown to us so that all would come to the table and come to the knowledge that you are the way, the truth and the life.And we thank you that we enter in. May we come boldly, freely, without hesitation, the invitation of such love. We love you in return. Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. 

Announcements:

 Daily Audio Bible that is home base. That’s the website. You can take a look around, if you have not. There is a prayer wall. It’s just at the tip of your fingertips just to click away. It is on the website, but it’s also on your mobile device, just right at your fingertips literally. You can also download the app, if you have not. It is a free app. If you would like to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, thank you immensely for your partnership. If you’re giving by mail DAB PO box 1996, Spring Hill, Tennessee 37174 or you can hit the Give icon. It is up at the top right hand corner of your mobile device, or you can hit the Give icon on your website as well. If you need prayer. If you’d like to call in and pray for someone that’s previously called in for prayer, you can do so. 800-583-2164 or hit the red circle button. It’s at the right hand corner of your mobile app as well. Make sure you hit submit, turn the wheel to chronological and it will get to the right place. It’s going to do it for me today. I’m Jill. We will turn the page together. I’m so grateful to have you here with me on this journey and I’m grateful, humbled that I get to be a part of this with you every day as a new adventure. Every day the view changes, but I can tell you that every day the view is extraordinary. I’m Jill. Until tomorrow. Love one another.

Community Prayer Line: 

Good morning, my dear family. It’s Susan from Canada. God’s Yellow Flower calling in. Beth from Atlanta. I want to pray for your friend whose family is being struck with Huntington’s Korea. I know it’s a very devastating disease, but in our family we have a genetic form of buying this. And when I found out I had it, I prayed against my children having it and God has been faithful. So I’m going to pray that your friend- it will stop right where it is and of course, healing for your friend. So, Lord God, I just lift up this Beth’s friend to you with Huntington’s, Korea, I ask for a healing touch upon his body, for strength and wisdom and courage to face what he needs to face in the future. And I ask dear God that this genetic predisposition will just stop right where it is, that it will not be passed from children to children to children, that it will be arrested and disappear from the genetic line in Jesus precious and Holy name, I pray. Amen.

Good morning, DABC family. This is Sonia in Austin, Texas, just doing an update. The young child that was in my room that had been moved out is being moved back into my room come tomorrow because someone from downtown said he legally can’t be in another room with just one other student until he is identified. He is in line to get tested, but that it could take six months and they wanted to know why the principal moved him. And the reason is because so many children are getting hurt. It’s not because nobody’s getting an education. That’s not the reason. The reason is because so many other children are getting hurt. When he gets mad, he kicks and he punches anyone who is near him and he deliberately will pick things up and throw them towards people. I’ve had to go to the minor emergency for him taking my finger and bending it all the way back and have been hit in private areas and punched in my glasses and hair pulled. So he is coming back on Monday. I’m just asking for prayer for our classroom and for him to get the testing that he needs and the help that he needs as soon as possible. I also have two other students waiting in line to be tested. One young boy doesn’t speak and is in a pull up and still is in line waiting to be tested. And it’s been two months now and they are way behind. So please, I need help. I need help for these students. They need to get the services that they should be getting by law. But of course, the system takes a long time, but we know God can move the system. Thank you.

It’s November 9. And Jill, thank you so much for your word, pointing out the words of the Last Supper where Jesus said that you’re all invited to partake and that all includes even those who still planning to be sinful and deceitful. Crooked. I just thank you so much for that. And I just want to pray for those loved ones. There’s family members that hurt us. There’s people in our lives, whether we know them well, they’re the closest people to us or whether they’re strangers that have caused hurt and trauma. I lift them up to you, Lord, and I just thank you that even if they are still continuing on their path of wrongdoing harm, deceitfulness that you….invited them to partake.