A Walk Through The Word

July 23, 2021

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Friday July 23, 2021 (NIV)

2 Chronicles 8:11-10:19

¹¹Solomon moved his wife, Pharaoh’s daughter, from the City of David to the new palace he had built for her. He said, “My wife must not live in King David’s palace, for the Ark of the Lord has been there, and it is holy ground.”

¹²Then Solomon presented burnt offerings to the Lord on the altar he had built for him in front of the entry room of the Temple. ¹³He offered the sacrifices for the Sabbaths, the new moon festivals, and the three annual festivals—the Passover celebration, the Festival of Harvest,^[a] and the Festival of Shelters—as Moses had commanded.

¹⁴In assigning the priests to their duties, Solomon followed the regulations of his father, David. He also assigned the Levites to lead the people in praise and to assist the priests in their daily duties. And he assigned the gatekeepers to their gates by their divisions, following the commands of David, the man of God. ¹⁵Solomon did not deviate in any way from David’s commands concerning the priests and Levites and the treasuries.

¹⁶So Solomon made sure that all the work related to building the Temple of the Lord was carried out, from the day its foundation was laid to the day of its completion.

¹⁷Later Solomon went to Ezion-geber and Elath,^[b] ports along the shore of the Red Sea^[c] in the land of Edom. ¹⁸Hiram sent him ships commanded by his own officers and manned by experienced crews of sailors. These ships sailed to Ophir with Solomon’s men and brought back to Solomon almost seventeen tons^[d] of gold.

Visit of the Queen of Sheba

9 When the queen of Sheba heard of Solomon’s fame, she came to Jerusalem to test him with hard questions. She arrived with a large group of attendants and a great caravan of camels loaded with spices, large quantities of gold, and precious jewels. When she met with Solomon, she talked with him about everything she had on her mind. ²Solomon had answers for all her questions; nothing was too hard for him to explain to her. ³When the queen of Sheba realized how wise Solomon was, and when she saw the palace he had built, ⁴she was overwhelmed. She was also amazed at the food on his tables, the organization of his officials and their splendid clothing, the cup-bearers and their robes, and the burnt offerings^[e] Solomon made at the Temple of the Lord.

⁵She exclaimed to the king, “Everything I heard in my country about your achievements^[f] and wisdom is true! ⁶I didn’t believe what was said until I arrived here and saw it with my own eyes. In fact, I had not heard the half of your great wisdom! It is far beyond what I was told. ⁷How happy your people must be! What a privilege for your officials to stand here day after day, listening to your wisdom! ⁸Praise the Lord your God, who delights in you and has placed you on the throne as king to rule for him. Because God loves Israel and desires this kingdom to last forever, he has made you king over them so you can rule with justice and righteousness.”

⁹Then she gave the king a gift of 9,000 pounds^[g] of gold, great quantities of spices, and precious jewels. Never before had there been spices as fine as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

¹⁰(In addition, the crews of Hiram and Solomon brought gold from Ophir, and they also brought red sandalwood^[h] and precious jewels. ¹¹The king used the sandalwood to make steps^[i] for the Temple of the Lord and the royal palace, and to construct lyres and harps for the musicians. Never before had such beautiful things been seen in Judah.)

¹²King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba whatever she asked for—gifts of greater value than the gifts she had given him. Then she and all her attendants returned to their own land.

Solomon’s Wealth and Splendor

¹³Each year Solomon received about 25 tons^[j] of gold. ¹⁴This did not include the additional revenue he received from merchants and traders. All the kings of Arabia and the governors of the provinces also brought gold and silver to Solomon.

¹⁵King Solomon made 200 large shields of hammered gold, each weighing more than 15 pounds.^[k] ¹⁶He also made 300 smaller shields of hammered gold, each weighing more than 7 1⁄2 pounds.^[l] The king placed these shields in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon.

¹⁷Then the king made a huge throne, decorated with ivory and overlaid with pure gold. ¹⁸The throne had six steps, with a footstool of gold. There were armrests on both sides of the seat, and the figure of a lion stood on each side of the throne. ¹⁹There were also twelve other lions, one standing on each end of the six steps. No other throne in all the world could be compared with it!

²⁰All of King Solomon’s drinking cups were solid gold, as were all the utensils in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon. They were not made of silver, for silver was considered worthless in Solomon’s day!

²¹The king had a fleet of trading ships of Tarshish manned by the sailors sent by Hiram.^[m] Once every three years the ships returned, loaded with gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.^[n]

²²So King Solomon became richer and wiser than any other king on earth. ²³Kings from every nation came to consult him and to hear the wisdom God had given him. ²⁴Year after year everyone who visited brought him gifts of silver and gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses, and mules.

²⁵Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his horses and chariots, and he had 12,000 horses.^[o] He stationed some of them in the chariot cities, and some near him in Jerusalem. ²⁶He ruled over all the kings from the Euphrates River^[p] in the north to the land of the Philistines and the border of Egypt in the south. ²⁷The king made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stone. And valuable cedar timber was as common as the sycamore-fig trees that grow in the foothills of Judah.^[q] ²⁸Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt^[r] and many other countries.

Summary of Solomon’s Reign

²⁹The rest of the events of Solomon’s reign, from beginning to end, are recorded in The Record of Nathan the Prophet, and The Prophecy of Ahijah from Shiloh, and also in The Visions of Iddo the Seer, concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat. ³⁰Solomon ruled in Jerusalem over all Israel for forty years. ³¹When he died, he was buried in the City of David, named for his father. Then his son Rehoboam became the next king.

The Northern Tribes Revolt

10 Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had gathered to make him king. ²When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard of this, he returned from Egypt, for he had fled to Egypt to escape from King Solomon. ³The leaders of Israel summoned him, and Jeroboam and all Israel went to speak with Rehoboam. ⁴“Your father was a hard master,” they said. “Lighten the harsh labor demands and heavy taxes that your father imposed on us. Then we will be your loyal subjects.”

⁵Rehoboam replied, “Come back in three days for my answer.” So the people went away.

⁶Then King Rehoboam discussed the matter with the older men who had counseled his father, Solomon. “What is your advice?” he asked. “How should I answer these people?”

⁷The older counselors replied, “If you are good to these people and do your best to please them and give them a favorable answer, they will always be your loyal subjects.”

⁸But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the older men and instead asked the opinion of the young men who had grown up with him and were now his advisers. ⁹“What is your advice?” he asked them. “How should I answer these people who want me to lighten the burdens imposed by my father?”

¹⁰The young men replied, “This is what you should tell those complainers who want a lighter burden: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist! ¹¹Yes, my father laid heavy burdens on you, but I’m going to make them even heavier! My father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions!’”

¹²Three days later Jeroboam and all the people returned to hear Rehoboam’s decision, just as the king had ordered. ¹³But Rehoboam spoke harshly to them, for he rejected the advice of the older counselors ¹⁴and followed the counsel of his younger advisers. He told the people, “My father laid^[s] heavy burdens on you, but I’m going to make them even heavier! My father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions!”

¹⁵So the king paid no attention to the people. This turn of events was the will of God, for it fulfilled the Lord’s message to Jeroboam son of Nebat through the prophet Ahijah from Shiloh.

¹⁶When all Israel realized^[t] that the king had refused to listen to them, they responded,

“Down with the dynasty of David!
We have no interest in the son of Jesse.
Back to your homes, O Israel!
Look out for your own house, O David!”

So all the people of Israel returned home. ¹⁷But Rehoboam continued to rule over the Israelites who lived in the towns of Judah.

¹⁸King Rehoboam sent Adoniram,^[u] who was in charge of forced labor, to restore order, but the people of Israel stoned him to death. When this news reached King Rehoboam, he quickly jumped into his chariot and fled to Jerusalem. ¹⁹And to this day the northern tribes of Israel have refused to be ruled by a descendant of David.

Footnotes:

8:13 Or Festival of Weeks.
8:17a As in Greek version (see also 2 Kgs 14:22; 16:6); Hebrew reads Eloth, a variant spelling of Elath.
8:17b As in parallel text at 1 Kgs 9:26; Hebrew reads the sea.
8:18 Hebrew 450 talents [15.3 metric tons].
9:4 As in Greek and Syriac versions (see also 1 Kgs 10:5); Hebrew reads and the ascent.
9:5 Hebrew your words.
9:9 Hebrew 120 talents [4,000 kilograms].
9:10 Hebrew algum wood (also in 9:11); perhaps a variant spelling of almug. Compare parallel text at 1 Kgs 10:11-12.
9:11 Or gateways. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
9:13 Hebrew 666 talents [23 metric tons].
9:15 Hebrew 600 [shekels] of hammered gold [6.8 kilograms].
9:16 Hebrew 300 [shekels] of gold [3.4 kilograms].
9:21a Hebrew Huram, a variant spelling of Hiram.
9:21b Or and baboons.
9:25 Or 12,000 charioteers.
9:26 Hebrew the river.
9:27 Hebrew the Shephelah.
9:28 Possibly Muzur, a district near Cilicia.
10:14 As in Greek version and many Hebrew manuscripts (see also 1 Kgs 12:14); Masoretic Text reads I will lay.
10:16 As in Syriac version, Latin Vulgate, and many Hebrew manuscripts (see also 1 Kgs 12:16); Masoretic Text lacks realized.
10:18 Hebrew Hadoram, a variant spelling of Adoniram; compare 1 Kgs 4:6; 5:14; 12:18.

New Living Translation (NLT)

Romans 8:9-25

⁹But you are not controlled by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you. (And remember that those who do not have the Spirit of Christ living in them do not belong to him at all.) ¹⁰And Christ lives within you, so even though your body will die because of sin, the Spirit gives you life^[a] because you have been made right with God. ¹¹The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.

¹²Therefore, dear brothers and sisters,^[b] you have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do. ¹³For if you live by its dictates, you will die. But if through the power of the Spirit you put to death the deeds of your sinful nature,^[c] you will live. ¹⁴For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children^[d] of God.

¹⁵So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children.^[e] Now we call him, “Abba, Father.”^[f] ¹⁶For his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God’s children. ¹⁷And since we are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ we are heirs of God’s glory. But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering.

The Future Glory

¹⁸Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later. ¹⁹For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are. ²⁰Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope, ²¹the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay. ²²For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. ²³And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children,^[g] including the new bodies he has promised us. ²⁴We were given this hope when we were saved. (If we already have something, we don’t need to hope^[h] for it. ²⁵But if we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.)

Footnotes:

8:10 Or your spirit is alive.
8:12 Greek brothers; also in 8:29.
8:13 Greek deeds of the body.
8:14 Greek sons; also in 8:19.
8:15a Greek you received a spirit of sonship.
8:15b Abba is an Aramaic term for “father.”
8:23 Greek wait anxiously for sonship.
8:24 Some manuscripts read wait.

New Living Translation (NLT)

Psalm 18:16-36

¹⁶He reached down from heaven and rescued me;
he drew me out of deep waters.
¹⁷He rescued me from my powerful enemies,
from those who hated me and were too strong for me.
¹⁸They attacked me at a moment when I was in distress,
but the Lord supported me.
¹⁹He led me to a place of safety;
he rescued me because he delights in me.
²⁰The Lord rewarded me for doing right;
he restored me because of my innocence.
²¹For I have kept the ways of the Lord;
I have not turned from my God to follow evil.
²²I have followed all his regulations;
I have never abandoned his decrees.
²³I am blameless before God;
I have kept myself from sin.
²⁴The Lord rewarded me for doing right.
He has seen my innocence.

²⁵To the faithful you show yourself faithful;
to those with integrity you show integrity.
²⁶To the pure you show yourself pure,
but to the crooked you show yourself shrewd.
²⁷You rescue the humble,
but you humiliate the proud.
²⁸You light a lamp for me.
The Lord, my God, lights up my darkness.
²⁹In your strength I can crush an army;
with my God I can scale any wall.

³⁰God’s way is perfect.
All the Lord’s promises prove true.
He is a shield for all who look to him for protection.
³¹For who is God except the Lord?
Who but our God is a solid rock?
³²God arms me with strength,
and he makes my way perfect.
³³He makes me as surefooted as a deer,
enabling me to stand on mountain heights.
³⁴He trains my hands for battle;
he strengthens my arm to draw a bronze bow.
³⁵You have given me your shield of victory.
Your right hand supports me;
your help^[a] has made me great.
³⁶You have made a wide path for my feet
to keep them from slipping.

Footnotes:

18:35 Hebrew your humility; compare 2 Sam 22:36.

New Living Translation (NLT)

Proverbs 19:26

²⁶Children who mistreat their father or chase away their mother
are an embarrassment and a public disgrace.

New Living Translation (NLT)

July 23, 2021

07/22/2021 DAB Transript

2 Chronicles 6:12-8:10, Romans 7:14-8:8, Psalm 18:1-15, Proverbs 19:24-25

Today is the 22nd day of July, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible, I’m Brian, it’s great to be here with you today. Wonderful to come around the Global Campfire and take the next step forward together in our week, in our month and in our year. This week we’ve been reading from the New Living Translation which is certainly what we plan to continue to do for the rest of the week. We have begun the book of 2 Chronicles this week and so that’s where we find ourselves 2 Chronicles chapter 6 verse 12 through 8 verse 10 today.

Commentary:

Okay, so as we continue our journey through the letter to the Romans, we see Paul being really vulnerable and deeply confessional about his own life by telling us he does the things he doesn’t want to do and the things that he wants to do he doesn’t do, that he’s in a battle. So, lets zoom out just a little bit and understand that this is part of an ongoing conversation about the law and sin and how the law reveals sin. But if the law wasn’t there, then how could you sin, you wouldn’t know you did anything wrong. It’s the law than that reveals you have transgressed. And, now Paul’s kind of talking about this dichotomy of when you die with Christ and are raised up, the law that had claimed, the law of sin that had claimed to you, no longer has any claim to you. There’s this dichotomy that we still choose to do what we know is not right. So, the question is, is the law bad then because if it didn’t exist then we would never be able to do anything wrong. We can do whatever we wanted, and if we have died to the law and are resurrected in Christ and the law of sin has no more control or claim to us than we can do whatever we want because we’re free in Christ. This is the type of argument or the type of conversation that Paul is systematically leading us through. So, as we begin our reading today, he says so, the trouble is not with the law, for it is spiritual and good, right. The law itself isn’t the problem. It’s there to show you not to transgress against it, because if you do, you step into spiritual sin. Same things apply in laws of our lands. Right, I mean, if you’re in like a subdivision and there’s a speed limit of 20 mph and you decide you, you’re not…you’re going to not obey…obey that law, you’re going a hundred. Then you are going to be jeopardizing people and you could kill someone so, you can break that law and maybe get away with it, but eventually that law is going to get you because it’s there to protect people, to protect things. So, Paul’s like the law isn’t the problem. The law isn’t the bad thing. It’s transgressing, it’s choosing to break it which is what leads us to Paul’s confessional language and some now I quote…I quote this because Paul’s saying it from thousands of years ago, but I believe it pretty much nails every single one of us. Paul says “the trouble is with me, for I am all too human, a slave to sin. I don’t really understand myself for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate. But if I know that what I’m doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good, so I am not the one doing wrong. It is sin living in me that does it.” So, what Paul is saying here is, if I do what I know is wrong then I am affirming the law because if it wasn’t there, what I’m doing, that I know is wrong wouldn’t be wrong because there’d be nothing to disobey. But then Paul acknowledges what a challenge this is and he almost kind of gives sin a personality or personifies in some sort of way like it’s an entity of some kind, as opposed to a concept of some kind. He’s like, if I do what I don’t want to do, I’m not really the one doing wrong. It’s sin living in me that does it. And let’s continue, I have discovered this principle of life, that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. I love God’s law with all my heart. But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind this power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. What a miserable person I am. Okay, so that’s very confessional and very vulnerable and very much, pretty much I believe all of our story. This is what we’re experiencing. But, how can we be free from the claims of sin and the power of sin still resides within us? Well, that’s because we have a choice. In some ways it’s almost as if we have been made free and we have been given permission to live free. A claim of sin no longer has a hold over us and the primary implication of that is we are not separated from God. We can have an intimate, ongoing, always on, never off relationship with God directly. Not to sacrifice animals or any of the rituals, we are restored to God through Christ Jesus. In the Garden of Eden before Adam and Eve partook of the forbidden fruits, they were in right standing with God. Everything was as it was supposed to be and even in that state, they had a choice and they made the choice. So, even in that freedom from sin state that we have in Christ Jesus. We still have choice. Sin is kind of like a squatter. Sin has no right to be here. We don’t have a contract with sin that allows it to have certain access to our hearts at certain times of the day, and it pays rent. We already understand that the rent or the wages that it’s going to pay is death. So, when we choose it, that’s what we’re choosing. It doesn’t have a right to be here. We just let it squat for free and bring death, which is weird when we think about it in those terms. Weird. So, what are we supposed to do? According to Paul, and I quote Paul “who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? Thank God the answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So, you see how it is, in my mind I really want to obey God’s law but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.” So, in so many ways, Paul is saying, sin was a perpetual state. Christ came and set us free from the claims, the power of sin. We still can enter into sin any time we want. We can allow it to squat in our lives and bring the destruction that it brings. And it’s a constant battle, but we are free from its claims through the Lord Jesus Christ and we do not have to participate. Paul says it like this and its famous “so now, there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus, because you belong to Him the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death. The Law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature. So, God, did what the law could not do, He sent His own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have and in that body God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving His Son as a sacrifice for our sins. He did this so that the just requirement of the law would be fully satisfied for us who no longer follow our sinful nature but instead follow the Spirit.” So once again, we circle back to the fact that we are utterly dependent upon God. We can’t do this but He has done it. We can choose to enter into sin and suffer the repercussions of it, but it has no claim to us. It can entice us so that we become a slave to it because, as Paul told us, we’re slaves to whatever we obey. But we are under no obligation here to allow this stuff to squat in our lives anymore.

Prayer:

So Holy Spirit, we invite you into that, so often we just we just try to make peace with some of this stuff, we know it’s not helpful, we know it’s harmful, just kinda always been there, it’s just kinda how things are done and how we cope, how we get along. But You’ve invited us to raise the bar. We continually ask You to help us grow and to open our eyes. We’re showing up here every day to allow the Scriptures to speak into our lives and so we have determined, at least in some part of our heart, we need to go further and that we need to go deeper and then this needs to matter more in our walk, in our journey through life. And so, You’re gonna continue to go after the big and little things inside of us. And sin, sin leads only one place and it’s not at all where we’re going and so there may be squatters in our lives that keep tripping us up and that we keep obeying and enslaving ourselves that just need to be evicted, just permanently evicted. They don’t have a right to be here. Help, help us Lord, help us Lord, we are utterly dependent upon You because we can’t in our own strength do much of anything. So, come Holy Spirit and help us make moves in the right direction we pray in the name of Jesus we ask. Amen.

Prayers and Encouragements:

Hello Daily Audio Bible family, this is a Treasured Possession. My husbands out mowing the lawn and he’s getting a new job on Monday and my grandkids, I’m no longer watching them and he’s actually gonna go back to work, we’ve all been vaccinated and he’ll be wearing a mask and be safe and stuff. But, for the first time in a while I will be completely alone. And I gotta say I’m kind of scared about it. And so, I’m being outrageously brave cause I don’t normally ask for prayer because if…if you know a heart, a hope deferred makes the heart sick and I’ve experienced a lot of that in my life. So, I’m coming to you and I’m asking for prayer please help me. Please ask God to help me and really strengthen me. So, I don’t go down a weird rabbit hole. So that I can get my own schedule cause I’ve been so dependent on his schedule because we’re autistic. And I know you don’t know what that means but it…suffice it to say we’re just wired differently and we work together really well as a unit. But it’s just a bit odd. And I know that…I know I may come across as a bit odd but I’m hoping that as the Spirit in Christ is the same amongst all of us you guys can understand and hear…hear me. But I love you, I listen to you. You basically keep my life smooth. And thank you so much. God Bless you and thank you.

Hello fellow DABers. I want to let you know that I pray for you every day on the prayer line and on the weekend community prayer. Let’s do what God expects of us and leave Him to do His part. All He expects is that we believe He is able to handle all that we’re experiencing. My call today is for Vincent Walking in Love in Connecticut. Vincent the promise Jesus made in John 10:10 abundant life is absolutely true. If this was not the case then Jesus would be a liar and he is not, however, there are conditions we must abide in him. John 15:4 for starters. I gave my life to Christ Jesus while I was a teenager in school and I’ve continued to walk with him ever since. Now, I’m in my 60s and I’ve never regretted for one moment, committing to my life to Christ. Someone said when God saves you, He not only save your soul but your life and as I look back I can see how God take care of me even when I made decisions that led me into sinning. I repented and got his forgiveness. God has indeed been gracious to me over the years. I have peace of mind, a family, a career, a good paying job and resources so I can share above all His presence. David said unless I had belief to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living, I would’ve fainted some Psalm 27:13-14. God is faithful and you…He can be trusted to make His abundant life a reality for you. Just get to know Him. Randolph from Toronto.

Good afternoon DAB family today is July 18. Tomorrow marks a year when my sister found me unconscious in her room and I am just so incredibly grateful and that God saw fit that should still be here. That I can celebrate this occasion, this moment with my sister and just look back at what I’ve overcome and I couldn’t be more thankful, grateful now to my sister who was my rock during this whole ordeal. That I had gone through different transfers of hospitals and rehab. Not once did COVID touch me and I had some setbacks but nothing so serious that my life was in danger and I’m just so incredibly thankful. And I just feel so blessed and I had to share this and it seems so inconsequential to just keep saying thank you Lord, thank you but that’s…that’s all I have. And to just say I am just so blessed to have family and friends who prayed for me and who hung in there with my family and just stayed in the fight with us and I’m just so thankful. I just had to say this. Thank you for allowing me to have this forum. Thank you, Brian and I love you DAB family. Take care.

Hi everyone this is Souring on Eagles Wings from Canada on Sunday, July 18th. __ from California you’re battling things in your mind you are doing things you don’t want to do and you want freedom from the strongholds that are seeming to overpower you, your right knee needs healing and your children and grandchildren you’re asking for prayers. I am praying for you and I and I am praying with you. Mike from New York you’re also being bombarded with in your mind with feelings of death and I’m taking both of you to the throne of grace this evening. Ephesians 6 verse 11 through 12 says put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the whiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand. So, I am praying for both a you as you wrestle with these things that are wanting to overpower your mind, that our heavenly Father through his Holy Spirit would deliver you from that which is wanting to take you down and you will focus on our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given us some authority to tear down strongholds in his name and I tear down the strongholds over both of you so that you would have freedom to enjoy the life that the Lord has given you and in service to Him. I pray for your children and grandchildren too.

Hello Daily Audio Bible family, I’m Zack and I was gonna call to ask for prayer for guidance for me and my wife. We’ve been through a lot and we’re trying to find, just guidance through a rough patch but I want more so pray for the woman that says she’s been shipwrecked. I just want you to know that if anyone understands how you’re feeling or going through, it’s the Lord who sees you. It’s the Lord that that hears you. It’s the one that knows you and is acquainted with all of your ways according Psalm 139. And when you talk about that like this place, you’re at it reminds me of Psalm 42 like this pit that you feel like you came from this miry clay that you can’t get out. And one thing I love about…about the Lord is the passage where it says cast your cares on the Lord for, he cares for you. Another translation is cast your anxieties on Him for He cares for you. Many people in this life, ask us how we are doing multiple times a day without really carrying how you’re actually doing. But God is the one person you don’t have to explain or worry about misunderstanding. He’s the one person that when you actually pour out your heart to, He casts your cares Him, He actually cares for you and how beautiful that is. And I hope that your…I hope you know that God sees you and I pray that God restores you and comes alongside you, and if anything, that you would not feel alone, because I know…I feel like I can relate to you if anything, maybe you can pray for my wife and I where we felt stuck. But if anything, I just pray God responds with his perfect love.

July 22, 2021

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Thursday July 22, 2021 (NIV)

2 Chronicles 6:12-8:10

Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication

¹²Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire community of Israel, and he lifted his hands in prayer. ¹³Now Solomon had made a bronze platform 7 1⁄2 feet long, 7 1⁄2 feet wide, and 4 1⁄2 feet high^[a] and had placed it at the center of the Temple’s outer courtyard. He stood on the platform, and then he knelt in front of the entire community of Israel and lifted his hands toward heaven. ¹⁴He prayed,

“O Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like you in all of heaven and earth. You keep your covenant and show unfailing love to all who walk before you in wholehearted devotion. ¹⁵You have kept your promise to your servant David, my father. You made that promise with your own mouth, and with your own hands you have fulfilled it today.

¹⁶“And now, O Lord, God of Israel, carry out the additional promise you made to your servant David, my father. For you said to him, ‘If your descendants guard their behavior and faithfully follow my Law as you have done, one of them will always sit on the throne of Israel.’ ¹⁷Now, O Lord, God of Israel, fulfill this promise to your servant David.

¹⁸“But will God really live on earth among people? Why, even the highest heavens cannot contain you. How much less this Temple I have built! ¹⁹Nevertheless, listen to my prayer and my plea, O Lord my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is making to you. ²⁰May you watch over this Temple day and night, this place where you have said you would put your name. May you always hear the prayers I make toward this place. ²¹May you hear the humble and earnest requests from me and your people Israel when we pray toward this place. Yes, hear us from heaven where you live, and when you hear, forgive.

²²“If someone wrongs another person and is required to take an oath of innocence in front of your altar at this Temple, ²³then hear from heaven and judge between your servants—the accuser and the accused. Pay back the guilty as they deserve. Acquit the innocent because of their innocence.

²⁴“If your people Israel are defeated by their enemies because they have sinned against you, and if they turn back and acknowledge your name and pray to you here in this Temple, ²⁵then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and return them to this land you gave to them and to their ancestors.

²⁶“If the skies are shut up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, and if they pray toward this Temple and acknowledge your name and turn from their sins because you have punished them, ²⁷then hear from heaven and forgive the sins of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them to follow the right path, and send rain on your land that you have given to your people as their special possession.

²⁸“If there is a famine in the land or a plague or crop disease or attacks of locusts or caterpillars, or if your people’s enemies are in the land besieging their towns—whatever disaster or disease there is— ²⁹and if your people Israel pray about their troubles or sorrow, raising their hands toward this Temple, ³⁰then hear from heaven where you live, and forgive. Give your people what their actions deserve, for you alone know each human heart. ³¹Then they will fear you and walk in your ways as long as they live in the land you gave to our ancestors.

³²“In the future, foreigners who do not belong to your people Israel will hear of you. They will come from distant lands when they hear of your great name and your strong hand and your powerful arm. And when they pray toward this Temple, ³³then hear from heaven where you live, and grant what they ask of you. In this way, all the people of the earth will come to know and fear you, just as your own people Israel do. They, too, will know that this Temple I have built honors your name.

³⁴“If your people go out where you send them to fight their enemies, and if they pray to you by turning toward this city you have chosen and toward this Temple I have built to honor your name, ³⁵then hear their prayers from heaven and uphold their cause.

³⁶“If they sin against you—and who has never sinned?—you might become angry with them and let their enemies conquer them and take them captive to a foreign land far away or near. ³⁷But in that land of exile, they might turn to you in repentance and pray, ‘We have sinned, done evil, and acted wickedly.’ ³⁸If they turn to you with their whole heart and soul in the land of their captivity and pray toward the land you gave to their ancestors—toward this city you have chosen, and toward this Temple I have built to honor your name— ³⁹then hear their prayers and their petitions from heaven where you live, and uphold their cause. Forgive your people who have sinned against you.

⁴⁰“O my God, may your eyes be open and your ears attentive to all the prayers made to you in this place.

⁴¹“And now arise, O Lord God, and enter your resting place,
along with the Ark, the symbol of your power.
May your priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation;
may your loyal servants rejoice in your goodness.
⁴²O Lord God, do not reject the king you have anointed.
Remember your unfailing love for your servant David.”

The Dedication of the Temple

7 When Solomon finished praying, fire flashed down from heaven and burned up the burnt offerings and sacrifices, and the glorious presence of the Lord filled the Temple. ²The priests could not enter the Temple of the Lord because the glorious presence of the Lord filled it. ³When all the people of Israel saw the fire coming down and the glorious presence of the Lord filling the Temple, they fell face down on the ground and worshiped and praised the Lord, saying,

“He is good!
His faithful love endures forever!”

⁴Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices to the Lord. ⁵King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep and goats. And so the king and all the people dedicated the Temple of God. ⁶The priests took their assigned positions, and so did the Levites who were singing, “His faithful love endures forever!” They accompanied the singing with music from the instruments King David had made for praising the Lord. Across from the Levites, the priests blew the trumpets, while all Israel stood.

⁷Solomon then consecrated the central area of the courtyard in front of the Lord’s Temple. He offered burnt offerings and the fat of peace offerings there, because the bronze altar he had built could not hold all the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and sacrificial fat.

⁸For the next seven days Solomon and all Israel celebrated the Festival of Shelters.^[b] A large congregation had gathered from as far away as Lebo-hamath in the north and the Brook of Egypt in the south. ⁹On the eighth day they had a closing ceremony, for they had celebrated the dedication of the altar for seven days and the Festival of Shelters for seven days. ¹⁰Then at the end of the celebration,^[c] Solomon sent the people home. They were all joyful and glad because the Lord had been so good to David and to Solomon and to his people Israel.

The Lord’s Response to Solomon

¹¹So Solomon finished the Temple of the Lord, as well as the royal palace. He completed everything he had planned to do in the construction of the Temple and the palace. ¹²Then one night the Lord appeared to Solomon and said,

“I have heard your prayer and have chosen this Temple as the place for making sacrifices. ¹³At times I might shut up the heavens so that no rain falls, or command grasshoppers to devour your crops, or send plagues among you. ¹⁴Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land. ¹⁵My eyes will be open and my ears attentive to every prayer made in this place. ¹⁶For I have chosen this Temple and set it apart to be holy—a place where my name will be honored forever. I will always watch over it, for it is dear to my heart.

¹⁷“As for you, if you faithfully follow me as David your father did, obeying all my commands, decrees, and regulations, ¹⁸then I will establish the throne of your dynasty. For I made this covenant with your father, David, when I said, ‘One of your descendants will always rule over Israel.’

¹⁹“But if you or your descendants abandon me and disobey the decrees and commands I have given you, and if you serve and worship other gods, ²⁰then I will uproot the people from this land that I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I have made holy to honor my name. I will make it an object of mockery and ridicule among the nations. ²¹And though this Temple is impressive now, all who pass by will be appalled. They will ask, ‘Why did the Lord do such terrible things to this land and to this Temple?’

²²“And the answer will be, ‘Because his people abandoned the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of Egypt, and they worshiped other gods instead and bowed down to them. That is why he has brought all these disasters on them.’”

Solomon’s Many Achievements

8 It took Solomon twenty years to build the Lord’s Temple and his own royal palace. At the end of that time, ²Solomon turned his attention to rebuilding the towns that King Hiram^[d] had given him, and he settled Israelites in them.

³Solomon also fought against the town of Hamath-zobah and conquered it. ⁴He rebuilt Tadmor in the wilderness and built towns in the region of Hamath as supply centers. ⁵He fortified the towns of Upper Beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon, rebuilding their walls and installing barred gates. ⁶He also rebuilt Baalath and other supply centers and constructed towns where his chariots and horses^[e] could be stationed. He built everything he desired in Jerusalem and Lebanon and throughout his entire realm.

⁷There were still some people living in the land who were not Israelites, including the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. ⁸These were descendants of the nations whom the people of Israel had not destroyed. So Solomon conscripted them for his labor force, and they serve as forced laborers to this day. ⁹But Solomon did not conscript any of the Israelites for his labor force. Instead, he assigned them to serve as fighting men, officers in his army, commanders of his chariots, and charioteers. ¹⁰King Solomon appointed 250 of them to supervise the people.

Footnotes:

6:13 Hebrew 5 cubits [2.3 meters] long, 5 cubits wide, and 3 cubits [1.4 meters] high.
7:8 Hebrew the festival (also in 7:9); see note on 5:3.
7:10 Hebrew Then on the twenty-third day of the seventh month. This day of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar occurred in October or early November.
8:2 Hebrew Huram, a variant spelling of Hiram; also in 8:18.
8:6 Or and charioteers.

New Living Translation (NLT)

Romans 7:14-8:8

Struggling with Sin

¹⁴So the trouble is not with the law, for it is spiritual and good. The trouble is with me, for I am all too human, a slave to sin. ¹⁵I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate. ¹⁶But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good. ¹⁷So I am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.

¹⁸And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.^[a] I want to do what is right, but I can’t. ¹⁹I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway. ²⁰But if I do what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.

²¹I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. ²²I love God’s law with all my heart. ²³But there is another power^[b] within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. ²⁴Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? ²⁵Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God’s law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.

Life in the Spirit

8 So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. ²And because you belong to him, the power^[c] of the life-giving Spirit has freed you^[d] from the power of sin that leads to death. ³The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature.^[e] So God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins. ⁴He did this so that the just requirement of the law would be fully satisfied for us, who no longer follow our sinful nature but instead follow the Spirit.

⁵Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit. ⁶So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace. ⁷For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God’s laws, and it never will. ⁸That’s why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God.

Footnotes:

7:18 Greek my flesh; also in 7:25.
7:23 Greek law; also in 7:23b.
8:2a Greek the law; also in 8:2b.
8:2b Some manuscripts read me.
8:3 Greek our flesh; similarly in 8:4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12.

New Living Translation (NLT)

Psalm 18:1-15

Psalm 18

For the choir director: A psalm of David, the servant of the Lord. He sang this song to the Lord on the day the Lord rescued him from all his enemies and from Saul. He sang:

¹I love you, Lord;
you are my strength.
²The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior;
my God is my rock, in whom I find protection.
He is my shield, the power that saves me,
and my place of safety.
³I called on the Lord, who is worthy of praise,
and he saved me from my enemies.

⁴The ropes of death entangled me;
floods of destruction swept over me.
⁵The grave^[a] wrapped its ropes around me;
death laid a trap in my path.
⁶But in my distress I cried out to the Lord;
yes, I prayed to my God for help.
He heard me from his sanctuary;
my cry to him reached his ears.

⁷Then the earth quaked and trembled.
The foundations of the mountains shook;
they quaked because of his anger.
⁸Smoke poured from his nostrils;
fierce flames leaped from his mouth.
Glowing coals blazed forth from him.
⁹He opened the heavens and came down;
dark storm clouds were beneath his feet.
¹⁰Mounted on a mighty angelic being,^[b] he flew,
soaring on the wings of the wind.
¹¹He shrouded himself in darkness,
veiling his approach with dark rain clouds.
¹²Thick clouds shielded the brightness around him
and rained down hail and burning coals.^[c]
¹³The Lord thundered from heaven;
the voice of the Most High resounded
amid the hail and burning coals.
¹⁴He shot his arrows and scattered his enemies;
great bolts of lightning flashed, and they were confused.
¹⁵Then at your command, O Lord,
at the blast of your breath,
the bottom of the sea could be seen,
and the foundations of the earth were laid bare.

Footnotes:

18:5 Hebrew Sheol.
18:10 Hebrew a cherub.
18:12 Or and lightning bolts; also in 18:13.

New Living Translation (NLT)

Proverbs 19:24-25

²⁴Lazy people take food in their hand
but don’t even lift it to their mouth.

²⁵If you punish a mocker, the simpleminded will learn a lesson;
if you correct the wise, they will be all the wiser.

New Living Translation (NLT)

July 21, 2021

07/21/2021 DAB Transcript

2 Chronicles 4:1-6:11, Romans 7:1-13, Psalms 17:1-15, Proverbs 19:22-23

Today is the 21^st day of July welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian and it’s great to be here with you, it is wonderful to be here with you just have this place, this Global Campfire to be at. When life has its ups and downs it is so good to have this daily rhythm to come together and just continue to retell ourselves the story of our faith and to continue to grow deeper in it. So, let's…let’s dive in for today. We began the book of second Chronicles yesterday in the Old Testament and we picked up with the reign of Solomon, which is where we’re at right now. The temple is under construction. And, so, we’ll continue with that story before moving forward in the letter to the Romans in the New Testament. But first, second Chronicles chapter 4 verse 1 through 6:11.

Commentary:

Alright. So, it’s really easy when we read through the letters of Paul and we hear things like, “you are free from the curse of the law” and stuff like that. It’s really easy to go, “well…than the law is a bad thing. I’m free from its curse. Thank God. Like I don’t have to…I don’t have to do all that stuff.” And, so, we can think that the law of God, or what would be known as the Mosaic law is…is an outmoded or outdated or antiquated or somehow a less powerful thing when we read through Paul. And that is what the people hearing Paul at the time of Paul were accusing him of, speaking against the law of God. Actually, what Paul is doing is interpreting the purpose of the law differently than had been customarily understood. What Paul is saying is, “look, the law came from God, the law is good, but its purpose is to show us our sin, so we have a law, and we know when we break it. If it hadn’t been there, we wouldn’t know about our unrighteousness. Now we know. And in trying to obey that law, we see a larger story and that is that nobody can achieve this perfectly ongoingly so as to become ultimately righteous before God. So, therefore the law is revealing that we have an inability, that we are utterly hopeless to achieve this. No matter how hard we try, and no matter how many animal animals get sacrificed, in our own strength we cannot achieve righteousness and perfection before God. That teaching or that posture definitely got Paul in a lot of arguments and in a lot of trouble. Even though he was a scholar, even though his interpretation of the law had merit. Like he wasn’t making this stuff up out of whole cloth. He was arguing this theologically. It still constantly kept him in trouble. So, we continued with that discussion of the law and sin today that’s been ongoing here for the last little bit. And today Paul explains how it is that we are free from that curse…how we are free from the law. And he explains it in a way that we can understand because the principles that are ancient are actually still in effect until this very day, and that is the laws of…of a covenantal marriage relationship, right? And, so, Paul’s like. “if a woman gets married, then she’s bound. She’s bound by law and covenant for her life until death do us part, right? But if the husband dies while she’s married to him then there is no law or covenant for her to obey anymore. She’s free from it to move forward into another covenantal relationship.” Paul’s using that example as a way for us to understand what is happening with the good news of the gospel of Jesus. Jesus died and was resurrected back to life by God. According to Paul, the firstborn of many brethren to follow and that would be us. Christ was the first born into this new thing God was doing. This restored humanity where there are no…where sin is no longer an issue or a category of separation from God. Jesus is the firstborn. We who follow Him by believing through faith in Him, we also go through a spiritual death and resurrection, and when we are resurrected in Christ sin is no longer a category in our existence unless we choose to be a slave to sin. So, when it comes to living up to this law and constantly finding failure after failure after failure, what Paul is saying is, “you died though so that law doesn’t apply. All the sin that law was revealing to you in your previous existence, it’s no longer held against you. You are actually and truly free to live righteously before God and before your fellow brothers and sisters upon this planet. You can be a righteous person, like the righteousness of God in Christ is what we are supposed to look like.” And thank God for that freedom. I mean as we go through Romans, we are really at a fundamental level understanding the implications of the good news of the gospel. And if we truly understand these implications, then we should also understand that we really are new creatures. We really have absolute full-blown permission to be righteous people upon this earth, imitating and being exactly like Jesus. That’s the good news. May we embrace it fully.

Prayer:

Father, we invite you into that, what we just said, that we embrace it fully. We are so often half-in-half out and tomorrow it will be the other half and just…we’re so all over the place all the time when what you’ve invited us into is a stable covenantal forever relationship in which we are clean, we’re not running from anything, we are true. That’s freedom and You’re inviting us into it. Help us to live it we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Good morning, good morning, good morning. Giving all praise and glory and honor to my Lord and savior Jesus Christ who is the head of my life. This is Laura Walking in the Wilderness in Georgia and I want to send a word of encouragement to Colton from Georgia, the 13-year-old who called in and said that he started strong in July reading the Bible or…or…or following the DAB and then in February because of school going back non-virtual he was just overwhelmed. And, so, he started back July 14^th and he heard a message that made him realize that he made a mistake and knows that when he has issues or when it seems overwhelming that we don’t turn away from God, we turn more towards God. And son, I will be lifting you up continually in prayer. You so touched my heart this morning. And please know that we all fall…come short of the glory of God every day but thank God He’s always there with His arms stretched wide to receive us, to welcome us where we are. And son, you continue to draw your strength from the Lord. And I will continue to lift you up in prayer. And please, call in every chance that you get. I lift you up as you prepare for school that will be starting soon, that God will strengthen you, will guide you, and give you that extra dose that you need every day. I lift up all the prayer warriors and those who are needing a touch from God. All these I pray in Your precious son Jesus’ name. Amen. Peace.

This is Laquita from Veneta. You mighty man of valor you have fought the fight to overcome and to continue seeking after the word of God. What a blessing it was to hear you, hear your repentance, hear your desire. And Lord I just pray that You continue to bless him. I pray that You continue to encourage him. I pray Father Lord that You would help him with his schoolwork. I pray that You would surround him with Your peace and Your wisdom. I pray Father Lord that the anointing of Your Holy Spirit will be upon him and that You would lead him and direct him down that path that You have for him. You don’t know what a blessing you were to me. We all struggle but to see you overcome is so great. God bless you.

Hey 13-year-old Colton Pole from Georgia. I think that’s your name. This is Grandpa Bob from Michigan. I just want to thank you for sharing your call and your struggle. We all have trouble sometimes when the world pulls us away from our time with the Lord. So, you’re not alone. But man, you encourage me. For such a young man being willing to share his soul and desire to be closer to the Lord. So, I’m praying for you man. I’m proud of you. You’re a good kid and the Lord is going to bless your efforts. So, stick with it. Check those blocks off when you read that day and let app be an accountability partner for you. If you get behind, just catch up. We’re proud of you man. Keep it up. God bless.

Hey DAB family this is Jessica from California. I was listening to last week’s prayer and encouragement, and I heard a call from Alicia from Michigan and she’s a stay-at-home mom with two children and she lives out in the middle of nowhere and she’s experiencing some health problems and stress and I just want to say a prayer for her. So, dear heavenly father I just come before you on behalf of Alicia Lord. I just wanted her to know that she is heard. Even though she’s out there in the middle of nowhere she’s connected to this great family that you’ve set up for her Lord and that all of us that have heard her prayer are standing with her and standing around her and giving her our support. And I just want her to know that raising two children is…at home is a very hard job and a very honorable job. And I just…I pray Lord that you help her to have less stress and to feel the support of her brothers and sisters here and also any family that she may have, that they see her struggling, that they see her…what she’s going through. She feels like she’s under stress and maybe feels like she’s drowning in responsibility and maybe people don’t acknowledge the work that she puts in. And I just pray that…Lord that they see her, they see how hard she tries to do her best and I just thank you that she’s called in and she’s asked us for help. And you see her, we you know that Jesus. So, thank you and we love you Alicia and we hope it gets better. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

Hi, I’m Cindy from California. Today is July 17^th. This is the second time I called. I have RSD. The past two years it’s been 7/24 with pain. I’m experiencing lately my two legs and my two arms hurting so bad. I’m asking all of you my daily family to please please pray for me. This pain is getting unbearable. I pray for everybody that is experiencing RSD. It’s the most horrible pain you can live with. We’re so blessed to have Brian and this family to say how we feel and to pray for all of us. So, if you’re experiencing pain right now, I know God is going to heal us because He will take the pain, like today. It’s been horrible. Thank you so much Brian. I love…I love God He’s my healer in the name of Jesus. Amen.

July 21, 2021

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Wednesday July 21, 2021 (NIV)

2 Chronicles 4:1-6:11

Furnishings for the Temple

4 Solomon^[a] also made a bronze altar 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high.^[b] ²Then he cast a great round basin, 15 feet across from rim to rim, called the Sea. It was 7 1⁄2 feet deep and about 45 feet in circumference.^[c] ³It was encircled just below its rim by two rows of figures that resembled oxen. There were about six oxen per foot^[d] all the way around, and they were cast as part of the basin.

⁴The Sea was placed on a base of twelve bronze oxen, all facing outward. Three faced north, three faced west, three faced south, and three faced east, and the Sea rested on them. ⁵The walls of the Sea were about three inches^[e] thick, and its rim flared out like a cup and resembled a water lily blossom. It could hold about 16,500 gallons^[f] of water.

⁶He also made ten smaller basins for washing the utensils for the burnt offerings. He set five on the south side and five on the north. But the priests washed themselves in the Sea.

⁷He then cast ten gold lampstands according to the specifications that had been given, and he put them in the Temple. Five were placed against the south wall, and five were placed against the north wall.

⁸He also built ten tables and placed them in the Temple, five along the south wall and five along the north wall. Then he molded 100 gold basins.

⁹He then built a courtyard for the priests, and also the large outer courtyard. He made doors for the courtyard entrances and overlaid them with bronze. ¹⁰The great bronze basin called the Sea was placed near the southeast corner of the Temple.

¹¹Huram-abi also made the necessary washbasins, shovels, and bowls.

So at last Huram-abi completed everything King Solomon had assigned him to make for the Temple of God:

¹²the two pillars;
the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;
the two networks of interwoven chains that decorated the capitals;
¹³the 400 pomegranates that hung from the chains on the capitals (two rows of pomegranates for each of the chain networks that decorated the capitals on top of the pillars);
¹⁴the water carts holding the basins;
¹⁵the Sea and the twelve oxen under it;
¹⁶the ash buckets, the shovels, the meat hooks, and all the related articles.

Huram-abi made all these things of burnished bronze for the Temple of the Lord, just as King Solomon had directed. ¹⁷The king had them cast in clay molds in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zarethan.^[g] ¹⁸Solomon used such great quantities of bronze that its weight could not be determined.

¹⁹Solomon also made all the furnishings for the Temple of God:

the gold altar;
the tables for the Bread of the Presence;
²⁰the lampstands and their lamps of solid gold, to burn in front of the Most Holy Place as prescribed;
²¹the flower decorations, lamps, and tongs—all of the purest gold;
²²the lamp snuffers, bowls, ladles, and incense burners—all of solid gold;
the doors for the entrances to the Most Holy Place and the main room of the Temple, overlaid with gold.

5 So Solomon finished all his work on the Temple of the Lord. Then he brought all the gifts his father, David, had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and the various articles—and he stored them in the treasuries of the Temple of God.

The Ark Brought to the Temple

²Solomon then summoned to Jerusalem the elders of Israel and all the heads of tribes—the leaders of the ancestral families of Israel. They were to bring the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant to the Temple from its location in the City of David, also known as Zion. ³So all the men of Israel assembled before the king at the annual Festival of Shelters, which is held in early autumn.^[h]

⁴When all the elders of Israel arrived, the Levites picked up the Ark. ⁵The priests and Levites brought up the Ark along with the special tent^[i] and all the sacred items that had been in it. ⁶There, before the Ark, King Solomon and the entire community of Israel sacrificed so many sheep, goats, and cattle that no one could keep count!

⁷Then the priests carried the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant into the inner sanctuary of the Temple—the Most Holy Place—and placed it beneath the wings of the cherubim. ⁸The cherubim spread their wings over the Ark, forming a canopy over the Ark and its carrying poles. ⁹These poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Holy Place,^[j] which is in front of the Most Holy Place, but not from the outside. They are still there to this day. ¹⁰Nothing was in the Ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Mount Sinai,^[k] where the Lord made a covenant with the people of Israel when they left Egypt.

¹¹Then the priests left the Holy Place. All the priests who were present had purified themselves, whether or not they were on duty that day. ¹²And the Levites who were musicians—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and all their sons and brothers—were dressed in fine linen robes and stood at the east side of the altar playing cymbals, lyres, and harps. They were joined by 120 priests who were playing trumpets. ¹³The trumpeters and singers performed together in unison to praise and give thanks to the Lord. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments, they raised their voices and praised the Lord with these words:

“He is good!
His faithful love endures forever!”

At that moment a thick cloud filled the Temple of the Lord. ¹⁴The priests could not continue their service because of the cloud, for the glorious presence of the Lord filled the Temple of God.

Solomon Praises the Lord

6 Then Solomon prayed, “O Lord, you have said that you would live in a thick cloud of darkness. ²Now I have built a glorious Temple for you, a place where you can live forever!”

³Then the king turned around to the entire community of Israel standing before him and gave this blessing: ⁴“Praise the Lord, the God of Israel, who has kept the promise he made to my father, David. For he told my father, ⁵‘From the day I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have never chosen a city among any of the tribes of Israel as the place where a Temple should be built to honor my name. Nor have I chosen a king to lead my people Israel. ⁶But now I have chosen Jerusalem as the place for my name to be honored, and I have chosen David to be king over my people Israel.’”

⁷Then Solomon said, “My father, David, wanted to build this Temple to honor the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. ⁸But the Lord told him, ‘You wanted to build the Temple to honor my name. Your intention is good, ⁹but you are not the one to do it. One of your own sons will build the Temple to honor me.’

¹⁰“And now the Lord has fulfilled the promise he made, for I have become king in my father’s place, and now I sit on the throne of Israel, just as the Lord promised. I have built this Temple to honor the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. ¹¹There I have placed the Ark, which contains the covenant that the Lord made with the people of Israel.”

Footnotes:

4:1a Or Huram-abi; Hebrew reads He.
4:1b Hebrew 20 cubits [9.2 meters] long, 20 cubits wide, and 10 cubits [4.6 meters] high.
4:2 Hebrew 10 cubits [4.6 meters] across . . . 5 cubits [2.3 meters] deep and 30 cubits [13.8 meters] in circumference.
4:3 Or 20 oxen per meter; Hebrew reads 10 per cubit.
4:5a Hebrew a handbreadth [8 centimeters].
4:5b Hebrew 3,000 baths [63 kiloliters].
4:17 As in parallel text at 1 Kgs 7:46; Hebrew reads Zeredah.
5:3 Hebrew at the festival that is in the seventh month. The Festival of Shelters began on the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. This day occurred in late September, October, or early November.
5:5 Hebrew the Tent of Meeting; i.e., the tent mentioned in 2 Sam 6:17 and 1 Chr 16:1.
5:9 As in some Hebrew manuscripts and Greek version (see also 1 Kgs 8:8); Masoretic Text reads from the Ark.
5:10 Hebrew Horeb, another name for Sinai.

New Living Translation (NLT)

Romans 7:1-13

No Longer Bound to the Law

7 Now, dear brothers and sisters^[a]—you who are familiar with the law—don’t you know that the law applies only while a person is living? ²For example, when a woman marries, the law binds her to her husband as long as he is alive. But if he dies, the laws of marriage no longer apply to her. ³So while her husband is alive, she would be committing adultery if she married another man. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law and does not commit adultery when she remarries.

⁴So, my dear brothers and sisters, this is the point: You died to the power of the law when you died with Christ. And now you are united with the one who was raised from the dead. As a result, we can produce a harvest of good deeds for God. ⁵When we were controlled by our old nature,^[b] sinful desires were at work within us, and the law aroused these evil desires that produced a harvest of sinful deeds, resulting in death. ⁶But now we have been released from the law, for we died to it and are no longer captive to its power. Now we can serve God, not in the old way of obeying the letter of the law, but in the new way of living in the Spirit.

God’s Law Reveals Our Sin

⁷Well then, am I suggesting that the law of God is sinful? Of course not! In fact, it was the law that showed me my sin. I would never have known that coveting is wrong if the law had not said, “You must not covet.”^[c] ⁸But sin used this command to arouse all kinds of covetous desires within me! If there were no law, sin would not have that power. ⁹At one time I lived without understanding the law. But when I learned the command not to covet, for instance, the power of sin came to life, ¹⁰and I died. So I discovered that the law’s commands, which were supposed to bring life, brought spiritual death instead. ¹¹Sin took advantage of those commands and deceived me; it used the commands to kill me. ¹²But still, the law itself is holy, and its commands are holy and right and good.

¹³But how can that be? Did the law, which is good, cause my death? Of course not! Sin used what was good to bring about my condemnation to death. So we can see how terrible sin really is. It uses God’s good commands for its own evil purposes.

Footnotes:

7:1 Greek brothers; also in 7:4.
7:5 Greek When we were in the flesh.
7:7 Exod 20:17; Deut 5:21.

New Living Translation (NLT)

Psalm 17

A prayer of David.

¹O Lord, hear my plea for justice.
Listen to my cry for help.
Pay attention to my prayer,
for it comes from honest lips.
²Declare me innocent,
for you see those who do right.

³You have tested my thoughts and examined my heart in the night.
You have scrutinized me and found nothing wrong.
I am determined not to sin in what I say.
⁴I have followed your commands,
which keep me from following cruel and evil people.
⁵My steps have stayed on your path;
I have not wavered from following you.

⁶I am praying to you because I know you will answer, O God.
Bend down and listen as I pray.
⁷Show me your unfailing love in wonderful ways.
By your mighty power you rescue
those who seek refuge from their enemies.
⁸Guard me as you would guard your own eyes.^[a]
Hide me in the shadow of your wings.
⁹Protect me from wicked people who attack me,
from murderous enemies who surround me.
¹⁰They are without pity.
Listen to their boasting!
¹¹They track me down and surround me,
watching for the chance to throw me to the ground.
¹²They are like hungry lions, eager to tear me apart—
like young lions hiding in ambush.

¹³Arise, O Lord!
Stand against them, and bring them to their knees!
Rescue me from the wicked with your sword!
¹⁴By the power of your hand, O Lord,
destroy those who look to this world for their reward.
But satisfy the hunger of your treasured ones.
May their children have plenty,
leaving an inheritance for their descendants.
¹⁵Because I am righteous, I will see you.
When I awake, I will see you face to face and be satisfied.

Footnotes:

17:8 Hebrew as the pupil of your eye.

New Living Translation (NLT)

Proverbs 19:22-23

²²Loyalty makes a person attractive.
It is better to be poor than dishonest.

²³Fear of the Lord leads to life,
bringing security and protection from harm.

New Living Translation (NLT)

July 20, 2021

07/20/2021 DAB Transcript

2 Chronicles 1:1-3:17, Romans 6:1-23, Psalm 16:1-11, Proverbs 19:20-21

Today is the 20th day of July, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible, I’m Brian, it’s great to be here with you today in the balmy, humid, sweaty summer time, here the rolling hills of Tennessee. And hopefully wherever you are, things are pleasant and full of joy. Course we know that’s like a roller coaster ride up and down and up and down and so whether we are the highest of heights, or the lowest of lows, we have this place called the Global Campfire. We come here and we sit together and we let God’s word speak into the situations that we’re facing or dealing with, or contemplating. So, let’s get to it we’re reading from the New Living Translation this week. Yesterday, we concluded the book of 1 Chronicles, which means we’ll begin 2 Chronicles today. And there’s not a whole lot for us to specifically talk about; 1 and 2 Chronicles were originally one text and are broken up for ease. And so, one thing that we can notice as we’ve read 1 Kings and 2 Kings and we’ve read 1 Chronicles and we…we would’ve noticed that 1 Kings and 1 Chronicles both end and the end of David’s reign. And so, we’ll be picking up in 2 Chronicles after the same fashion that we picked up with 2 Kings if that’s not confusing. We’ll be picking up with the reign of Solomon, 2 Chronicles chapters 1 through 3 today.

Commentary:

Okay, in Paul’s letter to the Romans today, we are now focusing some of the discussion on the topic of sin. Sin being something that interrupts the flow of God’s work and will in our lives or in the lives of those around us or in the world like the interruption of the way things are supposed to be. We might call the way things are supposed to be Shalom and we do interpret that word as peace, but it’s like an all-encompassing peace, it’s like the peace and order of things as they are supposed to be, as they were intended to be. And so, we could consider that anything that we willfully do that interrupts that we’re moving in a sinful direction. We read a very famous passage today: The wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life. So, there’s the contrast. A if you’re gonna sin, then you get paid in death, and even when taxes are taken out you’re still dead. The gift, the thing you can’t earn, the gift of God is eternal life. So, you can work your way to death or you can say wait, I’ll receive this gift of eternal life. But sin stands in the way of these things, like in between this, or does it? So, let’s just look back, because Romans is so thick and so dense if we…we gotta kinda hold onto the thread. We remember we talked about this yesterday. Abraham is where the story started. Abraham didn’t have a law to break, so he had no way to actually commit a sin that he became completely aware of. What he had was a covenant with God and he would of understood that that meant everything about him belonged to God and everything about God belonged to Abraham like this is the covenant. And so, to walk out of that covenant is to break the covenant that would be sin. But there was no Mosaic Law for Abraham to break, that came much later, much, much, centuries later. And Paul’s central argument, that is controversial, is that yeah, if you can obey the law perfectly you can find righteousness before God, that would be a pathway to be righteous before God, but nobody can do that, it’s not possible. And so, that’s not really the purpose of the law. The purpose of the law, since no one can live up to it, is to reveal our inability to live up to it. Like it reveals our sin because every time we rub up against the law and break it, we have sinned. It gives us this clear picture that we have stepped outside of the bounds, that we have sinned against God. So, when we can begin to realize we inside of our…like we can think we’re pretty good people. Maybe we are even very good people, but we cannot make ourselves righteous before God. God can bestow that upon us but we can’t earn it, it’s a gift. So, Paul goes on to then tell us that even while we were in the depths of sin, completely estranged from God, even enemies of God completely out of bounds and not in any type of relationship with God, even then, even then, God came for us, even while we were his enemies, He still died for us. So, essentially what we’re saying is we are in a situation that we can’t get ourselves out of. We can only realize it and when we fully do realize it, we realize we are helpless and hopeless. But even in that state of realization of helplessness and hopelessness, God is there in that moment saying I have always been there for you, like I’ve always pursued you, you’ve just now seen that, receive My gift of eternal life. I will give you what you can never earn if you will believe, if you will simply trust me. Which is what brings us to the majority of what Paul’s discussing today sin. When we do trust God and receive that gift, through faith by believing and are baptized then it is Paul’s conviction that who we were, estranged from God, that being dies an actual death and we are resurrected in Christ. And the repercussions or the implications of that are that sin no longer…like we, there is no claim against us before God anymore. The sins that…that we’ve committed that we’re earning death by are eliminated and there is nothing between God and ourselves anymore. We’re actually free. God’s not mad, he’s not disappointed, he’s not crossing his arms and shaking his head left to right in a disgusted no. There’s nothing between us. The thing is, we know our failures and they’re daily. Right, maybe even minute by minute, like, there before us all the time and so we know that it’s true we can’t find righteousness before God and we keep still trying to not by brute force sin, but it’s …there is just so many things that come against us that we react to incorrectly in some sort a way and that’s really where this all begins as we’ve reacted in some sort of way without taking a second to think about it and think about the repercussions. And so, then it’s easy enough to look at everybody else and go well they’re doing worse things than I am and that’s how we judge ourselves and then we begin to judge others when none of this is being held against anybody. Like, God’s not looking at us this way. He’s inviting us into freedom, like eternal life doesn’t begin at the moment of death, it begins at the moment of rebirth, we’re in it, we’re living it right now. This is part of it, it never ends and we’re free, we are free. If we would just learn that and people were obviously, because Paul’s answering these questions. People were thinking okay if I’m free than I can do whatever I want and Paul’s like, no absolutely not. That’s now…that’s not what we’re talking about here. You’re free from these things that are going to give you death in the end, you don’t have to be that way anymore. You have been re-created. You are a new creation. It all boils down to our choices. So, I quote from Paul “Don’t you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living.” The Holy Spirit is pretty clear. This is the good news of the gospel that we’re unpacking here. This is the offer. This is the exchange. Our inability to become righteous before You ever, in exchange for your free gift that makes us righteous before You. This is the good news and so often we continue to live and struggle as if…as if we’re not free and that bondage ends up enslaving others around us when we’ve been free this whole time.

Prayer:

Come Holy Spirit help this to sink in. Because this changes the way we live. We ask this in the precious name of Jesus, our Savior, who made this possible. Amen.

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July 20, 2021

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Tuesday July 20, 2021 (NIV)

2 Chronicles 1-3

Solomon Asks for Wisdom

1 Solomon son of David took firm control of his kingdom, for the Lord his God was with him and made him very powerful.

²Solomon called together all the leaders of Israel—the generals and captains of the army,^[a] the judges, and all the political and clan leaders. ³Then he led the entire assembly to the place of worship in Gibeon, for God’s Tabernacle^[b] was located there. (This was the Tabernacle that Moses, the Lord’s servant, had made in the wilderness.)

⁴David had already moved the Ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the tent he had prepared for it in Jerusalem. ⁵But the bronze altar made by Bezalel son of Uri and grandson of Hur was there^[c] at Gibeon in front of the Tabernacle of the Lord. So Solomon and the people gathered in front of it to consult the Lord.^[d] ⁶There in front of the Tabernacle, Solomon went up to the bronze altar in the Lord’s presence and sacrificed 1,000 burnt offerings on it.

⁷That night God appeared to Solomon and said, “What do you want? Ask, and I will give it to you!”

⁸Solomon replied to God, “You showed great and faithful love to David, my father, and now you have made me king in his place. ⁹O Lord God, please continue to keep your promise to David my father, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth! ¹⁰Give me the wisdom and knowledge to lead them properly,^[e] for who could possibly govern this great people of yours?”

¹¹God said to Solomon, “Because your greatest desire is to help your people, and you did not ask for wealth, riches, fame, or even the death of your enemies or a long life, but rather you asked for wisdom and knowledge to properly govern my people— ¹²I will certainly give you the wisdom and knowledge you requested. But I will also give you wealth, riches, and fame such as no other king has had before you or will ever have in the future!”

¹³Then Solomon returned to Jerusalem from the Tabernacle at the place of worship in Gibeon, and he reigned over Israel.

¹⁴Solomon built up a huge force of chariots and horses.^[f] He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses. He stationed some of them in the chariot cities and some near him in Jerusalem. ¹⁵The king made silver and gold as plentiful in Jerusalem as stone. And valuable cedar timber was as common as the sycamore-fig trees that grow in the foothills of Judah.^[g] ¹⁶Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt^[h] and from Cilicia^[i]; the king’s traders acquired them from Cilicia at the standard price. ¹⁷At that time chariots from Egypt could be purchased for 600 pieces of silver,^[j] and horses for 150 pieces of silver.^[k] They were then exported to the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.

Preparations for Building the Temple

2 ^[l]Solomon decided to build a Temple to honor the name of the Lord, and also a royal palace for himself. ²^[m]He enlisted a force of 70,000 laborers, 80,000 men to quarry stone in the hill country, and 3,600 foremen.

³Solomon also sent this message to King Hiram^[n] at Tyre:

“Send me cedar logs as you did for my father, David, when he was building his palace. ⁴I am about to build a Temple to honor the name of the Lord my God. It will be a place set apart to burn fragrant incense before him, to display the special sacrificial bread, and to sacrifice burnt offerings each morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, at new moon celebrations, and at the other appointed festivals of the Lord our God. He has commanded Israel to do these things forever.

⁵“This must be a magnificent Temple because our God is greater than all other gods. ⁶But who can really build him a worthy home? Not even the highest heavens can contain him! So who am I to consider building a Temple for him, except as a place to burn sacrifices to him?

⁷“So send me a master craftsman who can work with gold, silver, bronze, and iron, as well as with purple, scarlet, and blue cloth. He must be a skilled engraver who can work with the craftsmen of Judah and Jerusalem who were selected by my father, David.

⁸“Also send me cedar, cypress, and red sandalwood^[o] logs from Lebanon, for I know that your men are without equal at cutting timber in Lebanon. I will send my men to help them. ⁹An immense amount of timber will be needed, for the Temple I am going to build will be very large and magnificent. ¹⁰In payment for your woodcutters, I will send 100,000 bushels of crushed wheat, 100,000 bushels of barley,^[p] 110,000 gallons of wine, and 110,000 gallons of olive oil.^[q]”

¹¹King Hiram sent this letter of reply to Solomon:

“It is because the Lord loves his people that he has made you their king! ¹²Praise the Lord, the God of Israel, who made the heavens and the earth! He has given King David a wise son, gifted with skill and understanding, who will build a Temple for the Lord and a royal palace for himself.

¹³“I am sending you a master craftsman named Huram-abi, who is extremely talented. ¹⁴His mother is from the tribe of Dan in Israel, and his father is from Tyre. He is skillful at making things from gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and he also works with stone and wood. He can work with purple, blue, and scarlet cloth and fine linen. He is also an engraver and can follow any design given to him. He will work with your craftsmen and those appointed by my lord David, your father.

¹⁵“Send along the wheat, barley, olive oil, and wine that my lord has mentioned. ¹⁶We will cut whatever timber you need from the Lebanon mountains and will float the logs in rafts down the coast of the Mediterranean Sea^[r] to Joppa. From there you can transport the logs up to Jerusalem.”

¹⁷Solomon took a census of all foreigners in the land of Israel, like the census his father had taken, and he counted 153,600. ¹⁸He assigned 70,000 of them as common laborers, 80,000 as quarry workers in the hill country, and 3,600 as foremen.

Solomon Builds the Temple

3 So Solomon began to build the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to David, his father. The Temple was built on the threshing floor of Araunah^[s] the Jebusite, the site that David had selected. ²The construction began in midspring,^[t] during the fourth year of Solomon’s reign.

³These are the dimensions Solomon used for the foundation of the Temple of God (using the old standard of measurement).^[u] It was 90 feet long and 30 feet wide.^[v] ⁴The entry room at the front of the Temple was 30 feet^[w] wide, running across the entire width of the Temple, and 30 feet^[x] high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.

⁵He paneled the main room of the Temple with cypress wood, overlaid it with fine gold, and decorated it with carvings of palm trees and chains. ⁶He decorated the walls of the Temple with beautiful jewels and with gold from the land of Parvaim. ⁷He overlaid the beams, thresholds, walls, and doors throughout the Temple with gold, and he carved figures of cherubim on the walls.

⁸He made the Most Holy Place 30 feet wide, corresponding to the width of the Temple, and 30 feet deep. He overlaid its interior with 23 tons^[y] of fine gold. ⁹The gold nails that were used weighed 20 ounces^[z] each. He also overlaid the walls of the upper rooms with gold.

¹⁰He made two figures shaped like cherubim, overlaid them with gold, and placed them in the Most Holy Place. ¹¹The total wingspan of the two cherubim standing side by side was 30 feet. One wing of the first figure was 7 1⁄2 feet^[aa] long, and it touched the Temple wall. The other wing, also 7 1⁄2 feet long, touched one of the wings of the second figure. ¹²In the same way, the second figure had one wing 7 1⁄2 feet long that touched the opposite wall. The other wing, also 7 1⁄2 feet long, touched the wing of the first figure. ¹³So the wingspan of the two cherubim side by side was 30 feet. They stood on their feet and faced out toward the main room of the Temple.

¹⁴Across the entrance of the Most Holy Place he hung a curtain made of fine linen, decorated with blue, purple, and scarlet thread and embroidered with figures of cherubim.

¹⁵For the front of the Temple, he made two pillars that were 27 feet^[ab] tall, each topped by a capital extending upward another 7 1⁄2 feet. ¹⁶He made a network of interwoven chains^[ac] and used them to decorate the tops of the pillars. He also made 100 decorative pomegranates and attached them to the chains. ¹⁷Then he set up the two pillars at the entrance of the Temple, one to the south of the entrance and the other to the north. He named the one on the south Jakin, and the one on the north Boaz.^[ad]

Footnotes:

1:2 Hebrew the commanders of thousands and of hundreds.
1:3 Hebrew Tent of Meeting; also in 1:6, 13.
1:5a As in Greek version and Latin Vulgate, and some Hebrew manuscripts; Masoretic Text reads he placed.
1:5b Hebrew to consult him.
1:10 Hebrew to go out and come in before this people.
1:14 Or charioteers; also in 1:14b.
1:15 Hebrew the Shephelah.
1:16a Possibly Muzur, a district near Cilicia; also in 1:17.
1:16b Hebrew Kue, probably another name for Cilicia.
1:17a Hebrew 600 [shekels] of silver, about 15 pounds or 6.8 kilograms in weight.
1:17b Hebrew 150 [shekels], about 3.8 pounds or 1.7 kilograms in weight.
2:1 Verse 2:1 is numbered 1:18 in Hebrew text.
2:2 Verses 2:2-18 are numbered 2:1-17 in Hebrew text.
2:3 Hebrew Huram, a variant spelling of Hiram; also in 2:11.
2:8 Or juniper; Hebrew reads algum, perhaps a variant spelling of almug; compare 9:10-11 and parallel text at 1 Kgs 10:11-12.
2:10a Hebrew 20,000 cors [4,400 kiloliters] of crushed wheat, 20,000 cors of barley.
2:10b Hebrew 20,000 baths [420 kiloliters] of wine, and 20,000 baths of olive oil.
2:16 Hebrew the sea.
3:1 Hebrew reads Ornan, a variant spelling of Araunah; compare 2 Sam 24:16.
3:2 Hebrew on the second [day] of the second month. This day of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar occurred in April or May.
3:3a The “old standard of measurement” was a cubit equal to 18 inches [46 centimeters]. The new standard was a cubit of approximately 21 inches [53 centimeters].
3:3b Hebrew 60 cubits [27.6 meters] long and 20 cubits [9.2 meters] wide.
3:4a Hebrew 20 cubits [9.2 meters]; also in 3:8, 11, 13.
3:4b As in some Greek and Syriac manuscripts, which read 20 cubits [9.2 meters]; Hebrew reads 120 [cubits], which is 180 feet or 55 meters.
3:8 Hebrew 600 talents [20.4 metric tons].
3:9 Hebrew 50 shekels [570 grams].
3:11 Hebrew 5 cubits [2.3 meters]; also in 3:11b, 12, 15.
3:15 As in Syriac version (see also 1 Kgs 7:15; 2 Kgs 25:17; Jer 52:21), which reads 18 cubits [8.3 meters]; Hebrew reads 35 cubits, which is 52.5 feet or 16.5 meters.
3:16 Hebrew He made chains in the inner sanctuary. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
3:17 Jakin probably means “he establishes”; Boaz probably means “in him is strength.”

New Living Translation (NLT)

Romans 6

Sin’s Power Is Broken

6 Well then, should we keep on sinning so that God can show us more and more of his wonderful grace? ²Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it? ³Or have you forgotten that when we were joined with Christ Jesus in baptism, we joined him in his death? ⁴For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives.

⁵Since we have been united with him in his death, we will also be raised to life as he was. ⁶We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin. ⁷For when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin. ⁸And since we died with Christ, we know we will also live with him. ⁹We are sure of this because Christ was raised from the dead, and he will never die again. Death no longer has any power over him. ¹⁰When he died, he died once to break the power of sin. But now that he lives, he lives for the glory of God. ¹¹So you also should consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus.

¹²Do not let sin control the way you live;^[a] do not give in to sinful desires. ¹³Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin. Instead, give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God. ¹⁴Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the freedom of God’s grace.

¹⁵Well then, since God’s grace has set us free from the law, does that mean we can go on sinning? Of course not! ¹⁶Don’t you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living. ¹⁷Thank God! Once you were slaves of sin, but now you wholeheartedly obey this teaching we have given you. ¹⁸Now you are free from your slavery to sin, and you have become slaves to righteous living.

¹⁹Because of the weakness of your human nature, I am using the illustration of slavery to help you understand all this. Previously, you let yourselves be slaves to impurity and lawlessness, which led ever deeper into sin. Now you must give yourselves to be slaves to righteous living so that you will become holy.

²⁰When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the obligation to do right. ²¹And what was the result? You are now ashamed of the things you used to do, things that end in eternal doom. ²²But now you are free from the power of sin and have become slaves of God. Now you do those things that lead to holiness and result in eternal life. ²³For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.

Footnotes:

6:12 Or Do not let sin reign in your body, which is subject to death.

New Living Translation (NLT)

Psalm 16

A psalm^[a] of David.

¹Keep me safe, O God,
for I have come to you for refuge.

²I said to the Lord, “You are my Master!
Every good thing I have comes from you.”
³The godly people in the land
are my true heroes!
I take pleasure in them!
⁴Troubles multiply for those who chase after other gods.
I will not take part in their sacrifices of blood
or even speak the names of their gods.

⁵Lord, you alone are my inheritance, my cup of blessing.
You guard all that is mine.
⁶The land you have given me is a pleasant land.
What a wonderful inheritance!

⁷I will bless the Lord who guides me;
even at night my heart instructs me.
⁸I know the Lord is always with me.
I will not be shaken, for he is right beside me.

⁹No wonder my heart is glad, and I rejoice.^[b]
My body rests in safety.
¹⁰For you will not leave my soul among the dead^[c]
or allow your holy one^[d] to rot in the grave.
¹¹You will show me the way of life,
granting me the joy of your presence
and the pleasures of living with you forever.^[e]

Footnotes:

16:Title Hebrew miktam. This may be a literary or musical term.
16:9 Greek version reads and my tongue shouts his praises. Compare Acts 2:26.
16:10a Hebrew in Sheol.
16:10b Or your Holy One.
16:11 Greek version reads You have shown me the way of life, / and you will fill me with the joy of your presence. Compare Acts 2:28.

New Living Translation (NLT)

Proverbs 19:20-21

²⁰Get all the advice and instruction you can,
so you will be wise the rest of your life.

²¹You can make many plans,
but the Lord’s purpose will prevail.

New Living Translation (NLT)

July 19, 2021

07/19/2021 DAB Transcript

1 Chronicles 28:1-29:30, Romans 5:6-21, Psalms 15:1-5, Proverbs 19:18-19

Today is the 19^th day of July welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is wonderful, truly a privilege, truly an honor that we can have this place, that we lovingly…we lovingly call the Global Campfire, that we have this place, and we can come and sit down and find rest for our weariness and let God’s word speak, wash into our lives, changing the atmosphere. It is wonderful to be here with you. So, let’s dive in. We have been working our way through the book of first Chronicles for a bit. Today we will conclude first Chronicles and begin the second Chronicles tomorrow while at the same time continuing our journey through the book of Romans. So, first, First Chronicles chapters 28 and 29.

Commentary:

Okay. Since we have begun our journey through the letter to the Romans we’ve been reading Paul sort of laying out a foundational argument. And in part it is, are we adherence to Moses or are we adherence to Abraham. So, at the time, as Paul is speaking this at least as it relates to Hebrew like Orthodox Hebrew people who are trying to obey the Mosaic law, that’s where their devotion really is, to that law, to the law of Moses. Moses is their great profit who led them into the promised land. They have to obey this law. It was revealed and given through Moses. And everybody could agree, like, okay, that’s understandable. Paul’s argument though is, wait…wait…Moses came later in our story, though, like a lot later, like centuries later. And, so, Paul’s like we do have a person that would be known as like our our father, like the patriarch, like the origin story and his name was Abraham. He’s the one that received the promise from God. God is the one that introduced himself to Abram and said come into a land I will show you and Abraham obeyed and believed and trusted God. That’s the beginning of the story. And even there we can go, like, you, everybody would agree with that. But that’s where it gets a little bit controversial because what…what Paul is laying out is Abraham didn’t have the Mosaic law to obey. And, so, he couldn't…he couldn’t fulfill it nor could he break it because it didn’t exist. And yet Abraham still found a way to be righteous before God, right? And, so, all of the people are working and working working through the Mosaic law trying to adhere to the Mosaic law to be transformed and to become righteous before God thinking this is the path this is the way when Paul is saying, wait our father Abraham was counted righteous before God, not because he was circumcised or because he was following any of the prescribed laws and statutes. They didn’t exist. He wasn’t circumcised. He was righteous because he believed God, and God counted that faith, that belief, as a righteousness toward him. And, so, Paul’s saying, hang on. We gotta think this through. The law isn’t gonna get us there. We’ve been trying to achieve it for thousands of years. Nobody can achieve perfection through the law because nobody can obey it perfectly. And, so, to Paul then the law becomes something that reveals that, that reveals our sin, that reveals that we break God’s law. It’s there to know that we’ve broken it and realize that we are helpless, and we are hopeless to ever achieve righteousness in our own strength before God. That’s kind of where we pick up today. That’s how our reading starts today. When we were on utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners. And that kinda catches up…catches up to where we are. And we who believe, you know, we…we…we…this is…these are essential Christian faith things to know and understand and…and live into. So, we know these things and we can read them in letters like Romans and go what’s the big deal. like it’s so clear. it makes so much sense or it…it…it bears witness to my heart and I believe. But at the time, at the time that this letter is being written and being read this quite controversial because it looks like Paul is diminishing the power of the Mosaic law and that law is what the people have organized themselves around. It is sort of a centerpiece to their society and their understanding of how to how to live. So, for Paul to be speaking against the law of Moses this is heresy this is…I mean this is…this is why in the book of Acts we see people taking vows to kill Paul if they can get a chance to assassinate him. And make no mistake, this is radical…this is…these are radical declarations that the law shows us our sin and we are utterly dependent on God and our par, our role is…is to believe. We believe that that we are sinless because of Christ. Like, that’s the thing. We believe that we have been made righteous before God, and we are not wallowing in our sin. We are free from it through Christ Jesus. That's…that still needs to sink into our hearts and souls and minds because we still walk around feeling like we’re failing a lot of the time, and we then look at everybody else and how they’re feeling and we become judgmental and it really, really twists us inside and…inside-out when what the radical nature of the gospel is is that we are free, sinless, free through Christ Jesus. We can still choose to rebel. We still have a will. We can walk away anytime we want to walk away, but we don’t have to, and it’s not being held against us. That is radical, very radical at the time, but still transformative. It has shifted the world. And were we to be able to embrace it fully it would shift our existence in this world.

Prayer:

Holy Spirit, come. We invite You most every day to lead us into all truth, to lead us deeper into Jesus to enlighten and open our eyes to see Your kingdom at work in this world and to give us an understanding heart and mind as we continue our journey through the Scriptures so that we might live into this reality through faith in You. We ask in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi this is Bonnie from Virginia today is July 14^th and I heard 16-year-old teenaged boy asking for prayer as he had __ and was requesting for prayers. We’ll be praying for you. You didn’t leave your name but since you said you were 16 years old, we will be remembering you in our prayer. It’s so great to know that Brian and family I would like to thank you because this podcast has been blasting to everyone. I hear children calling, teenagers, young adults, and adults. It has blessed everyone in this world. Thank you for doing this. And I also wanted to pray for Andrew the 21-year-old, I think you said your name is Andrew and is going to college and was asking for some guidance about prayer help. It is so wonderful to see and hear these teenagers and young adults also listening to this podcast and trusting in God and praying for each other. It’s very wonderful. Please continue to trust in God and He will always be with you all especially the teenagers, kids, and the young adults. We all love you.

Good afternoon DAB family this is Shandra calling from Maryland. I’m going to try to get through this as quickly as I can without crying. Thank everyone, thank you Brian, thank you Jill, thank you the whole Hardin family. I thank you Blind Tony. I thank you for all of the trusting encouragers and intercessors who just leave the messages when they feel one way but the fact that what they left really encourages us. And in saying that I wanted to reach out to Tessie from Texas. I heard your message concerning the prayer by a little Sherry. I just wanted to share with both of you I completely understand. I have been dealing with multiple sclerosis since 2002 and in 2016 after a fall I’ve been in a wheelchair since then. And at first it was very hard but by God’s grace He used some other people and some things to help me be able to deal with that and not to lose hope. And I won’t just I just want to encourage not only both of you but everyone else like ourselves who are going through __ issues whether they’re in a wheelchair, a crutch or a cane, that, you know, the Lord has made us who we are and I thank you for the encouraging word from Isaiah chapter 40. Even though I’ve heard it many at times I have another perspective that I can use to apply to my life and I ask that you all to not only continue to pray for me but pray for everyone else especially who’s going through any type of fatigue or injury or dealing with some kind of issue…

[singing starts] there is a balm in Gilead. There is a balm in Gilead, and he is mighty, and He is holy, and He has come to save. There is a balm in Gilead. There is a balm in Gilead, and He is righteous, and He is worthy, and He has risen from the grave [singing stops]. Gracious heavenly Father, Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit I just come before You Lord and I ask for Your blessing and Your love, outrageous lovingkindness upon those in our family that are hurting today. I especially think of Lady of Victory, and I ask Lord that You would just comfort her and her daughters and her ex-husband Lord God and Kingdom Seeker Daniel and all of our family Father God that are morning with them. Lord God surround them with love and bless them in Jesus’ name. Amen. Treasured Possession.

I’m Hopelessly Shipwrecked and I need your prayers to help me get back on track with God. I served God for 50 years in ministry and I’ve failed many times. I’ve sinned and in darkness and depression I feel like I’ve lost everything that I ever hoped for. I’m not even sure if I belong to Him anymore. And I feel like I’m being…we’re in the middle of a spiritual war that I can’t seem to climb out of the darkness. And I've…I lost a daughter years ago and I just recently lost my son on Mother’s Day for…with COVID and many others this year. And I just need prayers to find God again in my life and help me fight the spiritual battles and know that I’ve been forgiven as I can be right with God again. Thank you.

Hello Daily Audio Bible this is Irina from Boise ID I’ve been listening to DAB since 09 but this is my first time calling and I want to just leave this message for pastor Brian Hardin. And I say thank you so much for today’s message. This is July 16^th and I just I just loved…I love every day when you read and how you explain everything, but it blesses me so much. And today I really got blessed by your message about imperfections, how you said I am imperfect but I’m in a relationship with perfection who is God. And that blessed me so much because I’m not boasting about my imperfections, I’m boasting about a perfect God who loves me despite my imperfections. And He helps me see His goodness past my imperfections. Because sometimes I have people that say how can you be so nice because they did so and so to you this and that and then I tell them, well I’m glad you asked. See, I serve a perfect God who loves imperfect me. He gives me strength to be…to love others even with their imperfections. So, thank you brother so much for the time you put in with us, for the love that we feel from you, and just your dedication to God’s word is just blesses each and every person that ever listens. So, God bless you. Continue a great work for the Lord and we love you all. Bye-bye.

July 19, 2021

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Monday July 19, 2021 (NIV)

1 Chronicles 28-29

David’s Instructions to Solomon

28 David summoned all the officials of Israel to Jerusalem—the leaders of the tribes, the commanders of the army divisions, the other generals and captains,^[a] the overseers of the royal property and livestock, the palace officials, the mighty men, and all the other brave warriors in the kingdom. ²David rose to his feet and said: “My brothers and my people! It was my desire to build a Temple where the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant, God’s footstool, could rest permanently. I made the necessary preparations for building it, ³but God said to me, ‘You must not build a Temple to honor my name, for you are a warrior and have shed much blood.’

⁴“Yet the Lord, the God of Israel, has chosen me from among all my father’s family to be king over Israel forever. For he has chosen the tribe of Judah to rule, and from among the families of Judah he chose my father’s family. And from among my father’s sons the Lord was pleased to make me king over all Israel. ⁵And from among my sons—for the Lord has given me many—he chose Solomon to succeed me on the throne of Israel and to rule over the Lord’s kingdom. ⁶He said to me, ‘Your son Solomon will build my Temple and its courtyards, for I have chosen him as my son, and I will be his father. ⁷And if he continues to obey my commands and regulations as he does now, I will make his kingdom last forever.’

⁸“So now, with God as our witness, and in the sight of all Israel—the Lord’s assembly—I give you this charge. Be careful to obey all the commands of the Lord your God, so that you may continue to possess this good land and leave it to your children as a permanent inheritance.

⁹“And Solomon, my son, learn to know the God of your ancestors intimately. Worship and serve him with your whole heart and a willing mind. For the Lord sees every heart and knows every plan and thought. If you seek him, you will find him. But if you forsake him, he will reject you forever. ¹⁰So take this seriously. The Lord has chosen you to build a Temple as his sanctuary. Be strong, and do the work.”

¹¹Then David gave Solomon the plans for the Temple and its surroundings, including the entry room, the storerooms, the upstairs rooms, the inner rooms, and the inner sanctuary—which was the place of atonement. ¹²David also gave Solomon all the plans he had in mind^[b] for the courtyards of the Lord’s Temple, the outside rooms, the treasuries, and the rooms for the gifts dedicated to the Lord. ¹³The king also gave Solomon the instructions concerning the work of the various divisions of priests and Levites in the Temple of the Lord. And he gave specifications for the items in the Temple that were to be used for worship.

¹⁴David gave instructions regarding how much gold and silver should be used to make the items needed for service. ¹⁵He told Solomon the amount of gold needed for the gold lampstands and lamps, and the amount of silver for the silver lampstands and lamps, depending on how each would be used. ¹⁶He designated the amount of gold for the table on which the Bread of the Presence would be placed and the amount of silver for other tables.

¹⁷David also designated the amount of gold for the solid gold meat hooks used to handle the sacrificial meat and for the basins, pitchers, and dishes, as well as the amount of silver for every dish. ¹⁸He designated the amount of refined gold for the altar of incense. Finally, he gave him a plan for the Lord’s “chariot”—the gold cherubim^[c] whose wings were stretched out over the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant. ¹⁹“Every part of this plan,” David told Solomon, “was given to me in writing from the hand of the Lord.^[d]”

²⁰Then David continued, “Be strong and courageous, and do the work. Don’t be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you. He will see to it that all the work related to the Temple of the Lord is finished correctly. ²¹The various divisions of priests and Levites will serve in the Temple of God. Others with skills of every kind will volunteer, and the officials and the entire nation are at your command.”

Gifts for Building the Temple

29 Then King David turned to the entire assembly and said, “My son Solomon, whom God has clearly chosen as the next king of Israel, is still young and inexperienced. The work ahead of him is enormous, for the Temple he will build is not for mere mortals—it is for the Lord God himself! ²Using every resource at my command, I have gathered as much as I could for building the Temple of my God. Now there is enough gold, silver, bronze, iron, and wood, as well as great quantities of onyx, other precious stones, costly jewels, and all kinds of fine stone and marble.

³“And now, because of my devotion to the Temple of my God, I am giving all of my own private treasures of gold and silver to help in the construction. This is in addition to the building materials I have already collected for his holy Temple. ⁴I am donating more than 112 tons of gold^[e] from Ophir and 262 tons of refined silver^[f] to be used for overlaying the walls of the buildings ⁵and for the other gold and silver work to be done by the craftsmen. Now then, who will follow my example and give offerings to the Lord today?”

⁶Then the family leaders, the leaders of the tribes of Israel, the generals and captains of the army,^[g] and the king’s administrative officers all gave willingly. ⁷For the construction of the Temple of God, they gave about 188 tons of gold,^[h] 10,000 gold coins,^[i] 375 tons of silver,^[j] 675 tons of bronze,^[k] and 3,750 tons of iron.^[l] ⁸They also contributed numerous precious stones, which were deposited in the treasury of the house of the Lord under the care of Jehiel, a descendant of Gershon. ⁹The people rejoiced over the offerings, for they had given freely and wholeheartedly to the Lord, and King David was filled with joy.

David’s Prayer of Praise

¹⁰Then David praised the Lord in the presence of the whole assembly:

“O Lord, the God of our ancestor Israel,^[m] may you be praised forever and ever! ¹¹Yours, O Lord, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty. Everything in the heavens and on earth is yours, O Lord, and this is your kingdom. We adore you as the one who is over all things. ¹²Wealth and honor come from you alone, for you rule over everything. Power and might are in your hand, and at your discretion people are made great and given strength.

¹³“O our God, we thank you and praise your glorious name! ¹⁴But who am I, and who are my people, that we could give anything to you? Everything we have has come from you, and we give you only what you first gave us! ¹⁵We are here for only a moment, visitors and strangers in the land as our ancestors were before us. Our days on earth are like a passing shadow, gone so soon without a trace.

¹⁶“O Lord our God, even this material we have gathered to build a Temple to honor your holy name comes from you! It all belongs to you! ¹⁷I know, my God, that you examine our hearts and rejoice when you find integrity there. You know I have done all this with good motives, and I have watched your people offer their gifts willingly and joyously.

¹⁸“O Lord, the God of our ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, make your people always want to obey you. See to it that their love for you never changes. ¹⁹Give my son Solomon the wholehearted desire to obey all your commands, laws, and decrees, and to do everything necessary to build this Temple, for which I have made these preparations.”

²⁰Then David said to the whole assembly, “Give praise to the Lord your God!” And the entire assembly praised the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and they bowed low and knelt before the Lord and the king.

Solomon Named as King

²¹The next day they brought 1,000 bulls, 1,000 rams, and 1,000 male lambs as burnt offerings to the Lord. They also brought liquid offerings and many other sacrifices on behalf of all Israel. ²²They feasted and drank in the Lord’s presence with great joy that day.

And again they crowned David’s son Solomon as their new king. They anointed him before the Lord as their leader, and they anointed Zadok as priest. ²³So Solomon took the throne of the Lord in place of his father, David, and he succeeded in everything, and all Israel obeyed him. ²⁴All the officials, the warriors, and the sons of King David pledged their loyalty to King Solomon. ²⁵And the Lord exalted Solomon in the sight of all Israel, and he gave Solomon greater royal splendor than any king in Israel before him.

Summary of David’s Reign

²⁶So David son of Jesse reigned over all Israel. ²⁷He reigned over Israel for forty years, seven of them in Hebron and thirty-three in Jerusalem. ²⁸He died at a ripe old age, having enjoyed long life, wealth, and honor. Then his son Solomon ruled in his place.

²⁹All the events of King David’s reign, from beginning to end, are written in The Record of Samuel the Seer, The Record of Nathan the Prophet, and The Record of Gad the Seer. ³⁰These accounts include the mighty deeds of his reign and everything that happened to him and to Israel and to all the surrounding kingdoms.

Footnotes:

28:1 Hebrew the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds.
28:12 Or the plans of the spirit that was with him.
28:18 Hebrew for the gold cherub chariot.
28:19 Or was written under the direction of the Lord.
29:4a Hebrew 3,000 talents [102 metric tons] of gold.
29:4b Hebrew 7,000 talents [238 metric tons] of silver.
29:6 Hebrew the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds.
29:7a Hebrew 5,000 talents [170 metric tons] of gold.
29:7b Hebrew 10,000 darics [a Persian coin] of gold, about 185 pounds or 84 kilograms in weight.
29:7c Hebrew 10,000 talents [340 metric tons] of silver.
29:7d Hebrew 18,000 talents [612 metric tons] of bronze.
29:7e Hebrew 100,000 talents [3,400 metric tons] of iron.
29:10 Israel is the name that God gave to Jacob.

New Living Translation (NLT)

Romans 5:6-21

⁶When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners. ⁷Now, most people would not be willing to die for an upright person, though someone might perhaps be willing to die for a person who is especially good. ⁸But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. ⁹And since we have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God’s condemnation. ¹⁰For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life of his Son. ¹¹So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God.

Adam and Christ Contrasted

¹²When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned. ¹³Yes, people sinned even before the law was given. But it was not counted as sin because there was not yet any law to break. ¹⁴Still, everyone died—from the time of Adam to the time of Moses—even those who did not disobey an explicit commandment of God, as Adam did. Now Adam is a symbol, a representation of Christ, who was yet to come. ¹⁵But there is a great difference between Adam’s sin and God’s gracious gift. For the sin of this one man, Adam, brought death to many. But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and his gift of forgiveness to many through this other man, Jesus Christ. ¹⁶And the result of God’s gracious gift is very different from the result of that one man’s sin. For Adam’s sin led to condemnation, but God’s free gift leads to our being made right with God, even though we are guilty of many sins. ¹⁷For the sin of this one man, Adam, caused death to rule over many. But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and his gift of righteousness, for all who receive it will live in triumph over sin and death through this one man, Jesus Christ.

¹⁸Yes, Adam’s one sin brings condemnation for everyone, but Christ’s one act of righteousness brings a right relationship with God and new life for everyone. ¹⁹Because one person disobeyed God, many became sinners. But because one other person obeyed God, many will be made righteous.

²⁰God’s law was given so that all people could see how sinful they were. But as people sinned more and more, God’s wonderful grace became more abundant. ²¹So just as sin ruled over all people and brought them to death, now God’s wonderful grace rules instead, giving us right standing with God and resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

New Living Translation (NLT)

Psalm 15

A psalm of David.

¹Who may worship in your sanctuary, Lord?
Who may enter your presence on your holy hill?
²Those who lead blameless lives and do what is right,
speaking the truth from sincere hearts.
³Those who refuse to gossip
or harm their neighbors
or speak evil of their friends.
⁴Those who despise flagrant sinners,
and honor the faithful followers of the Lord,
and keep their promises even when it hurts.
⁵Those who lend money without charging interest,
and who cannot be bribed to lie about the innocent.
Such people will stand firm forever.

New Living Translation (NLT)

Proverbs 19:18-19

¹⁸Discipline your children while there is hope.
Otherwise you will ruin their lives.

¹⁹Hot-tempered people must pay the penalty.
If you rescue them once, you will have to do it again.

New Living Translation (NLT)

July 18, 2021

07/18/2021 DAB Transcript

1 Chronicles 26:12-27:34, Romans 4:13-5:5, Psalm 14:1-7, Proverbs 19:17

Today is the 18th day of July, welcome, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible, I am Brian it is wonderful to be here with you today, starting off a brand-new shiny sparkly week out in front of us. And this week we will read from the New Living Translation, picking up in 1 Chronicles. And by the way, we will be concluding 1 Chronicles with our reading tomorrow, but today 1 Chronicles chapter 26 verse 12 through 27 verse 34.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word, we thank You for another week to spend together in the Scriptures, we thank You for all that You continue to do to transform us. Your loving kindness, Your patience and yet a love that is pervasive and will not stop pressing in on us, it’s overwhelming at times how much it appears that You desire to be in a relationship with us and that’s mind blowing. Who are we and yet as we’re learning from the letter to the Romans, our part in this is to believe it and so help us Holy Spirit to embrace what You are doing within us fully and unreservedly, nothing is off-limits to You. Come and lead us into all truth as You’ve promised. We ask in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Prayers and Encouragements:

Hey DAB family it’s Margaret from California. I’ve been thinking about the caller from a couple days ago and you’re on my heart brother. You have been struggling with your infidelity, pass sins and issues that…and unforgiveness of yourself. And you’re not alone, I too, have gone through the same situation a couple years ago and I just…the pain in your voice truly resonated with me and I’m here to tell you that you are forgiven and you are loved deeply by our Father. And our Father does not want us to live in this place of turmoil and guilt and shame and beating ourselves up over and over and over again, it’s not what he wants for us. And we are not effective for His kingdom when we live in that place. Brother, forgive yourself now. The Lord loves you and He wants what’s best for you, do not let Satan win in this battle. And, gosh, I was going over Psalm 103 not…a couple days ago and I thought about you. I wanted to read a little bit for you. The Lord is compassionate and merciful, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. He will not constantly accuse us nor remain angry forever. He does not punish us for all our sins, He does not deal harshly with us as we deserve for His unfailing love toward those who fear Him is as greatest the height of the heavens above the earth. He has removed our sins as far from us as the East is to the West. The Lord is like a father to His children, tender and compassionate to those who fear Him. Be loved brother. Go in peace. Give others the Lords love constantly, it’s all that we got.

Hey DABers, I’m old enough to remember the pearl cream commercial that said a little dab will do ya. And Brian, thanks that you put it out there, I never knew when I grew older that I’d be reading a Bible app called DAB. But a little DAB will do all of us some good. So, let’s get in the word together and enjoy the Campfire. In Jesus name. Amen.

Good morning, my name ___ I’m calling from California. I tried to be as transparent as I can because I know God knows truth about me and where I am in life. So, I need prayer because I’ve been battling things in my mind and there’s things that I do that I don’t want to do and it feels like I keep being drawn back to it. And I don’t want to be drawn to it. So, I’m praying that I get a complete deliverance and set free from this stronghold that seems like it got me tied up and I can’t break free from it. I just need God to deliver me, set me free so that I can have the freedom to praise and to thank Him for the greatness He has done for me. But also, He was convicted I don’t want to go back and forth with God, I just, I want to be right with Him. And I also need prayer for healing of my right knee, I’ve been dealing with this for a long time. I want to be able to move around without this pain afflicting me every day. I also want prayer for my children and grandbabies. I thank you for taking the time praying for me and my family. And I pray that God will continue to be good. Thank you.

Hi, this is Nadene from Dubai. I’ve called in a couple of times and I’ve actually also called in for praise report and thank you to all of your prayers. Today I would like to pray for my country, South Africa. It’s really bad situation, as you all must know from the news. So, I just want to ask for prayers for all their God believers, Christians, our government, the police force, the army. Just that everything just gets sorted and everyone is safe and all the problems just goes away with God’s hand. And yes, that’s all I can say to pray for. Thank you very much for all of you. I’m a double DABer and many years, it’s all I can say is thank you. Okay, bye.

2 Chronicles 8:11-10:19

Visit of the Queen of Sheba

Solomon’s Wealth and Splendor

Summary of Solomon’s Reign

The Northern Tribes Revolt

Footnotes:

Romans 8:9-25

The Future Glory

Footnotes:

Psalm 18:16-36

Footnotes:

Proverbs 19:26

2 Chronicles 6:12-8:10

Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication

The Dedication of the Temple

The Lord’s Response to Solomon

Solomon’s Many Achievements

Footnotes:

Romans 7:14-8:8

Struggling with Sin

Life in the Spirit

Footnotes:

Psalm 18:1-15

Psalm 18

For the choir director: A psalm of David, the servant of the Lord. He sang this song to the Lord on the day the Lord rescued him from all his enemies and from Saul. He sang:

Footnotes:

Proverbs 19:24-25

2 Chronicles 4:1-6:11

Furnishings for the Temple

The Ark Brought to the Temple

Solomon Praises the Lord

Footnotes:

Romans 7:1-13

No Longer Bound to the Law

God’s Law Reveals Our Sin

Footnotes:

Psalm 17

Psalm 17

A prayer of David.

Footnotes:

Proverbs 19:22-23

2 Chronicles 1-3

Solomon Asks for Wisdom

Preparations for Building the Temple

Solomon Builds the Temple

Footnotes:

Romans 6

Sin’s Power Is Broken

Footnotes:

Psalm 16

Psalm 16

A psalm[a] of David.

Footnotes:

Proverbs 19:20-21

1 Chronicles 28-29

David’s Instructions to Solomon

Gifts for Building the Temple

David’s Prayer of Praise

Solomon Named as King

Summary of David’s Reign

Footnotes:

Romans 5:6-21

Adam and Christ Contrasted

Psalm 15

Psalm 15

A psalm of David.

Proverbs 19:18-19

A psalm^[a] of David.