A Walk Through The Word

January 20, 2020

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Monday January 20, 2020 (NIV)

Genesis 41:17-42

¹⁷Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, ^(A)in my dream I was standing on the banks of the Nile. ¹⁸Seven cows, plump and attractive, came up out of the Nile and fed in the reed grass. ¹⁹Seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I had never seen in all the land of Egypt. ²⁰And the thin, ugly cows ate up the first seven plump cows, ²¹but when they had eaten them no one would have known that they had eaten them, for they were still as ugly as at the beginning. Then I awoke. ²²I also saw in my dream seven ears growing on one stalk, full and good. ²³Seven ears, withered, thin, and blighted by the east wind, sprouted after them, ²⁴and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears. And ^(B)I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”

²⁵Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one; ^(C)God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do. ²⁶The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years; the dreams are one. ²⁷The seven lean and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears blighted by the east wind are also ^(D)seven years of famine. ²⁸It is as I told Pharaoh; ^(E)God has shown to Pharaoh what he is about to do. ²⁹There will come ^(F)seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt, ³⁰but after them there will arise ^(G)seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. ^(H)The famine will consume the land, ³¹and the plenty will be unknown in the land by reason of the famine that will follow, for it will be very severe. ³²And the doubling of Pharaoh's dream means that the ^(I)thing is fixed by God, and God will shortly bring it about. ³³Now therefore let Pharaoh select a discerning and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt. ³⁴Let Pharaoh proceed to appoint overseers over the land and take one-fifth of the produce of the land^[a] of Egypt during the seven plentiful years. ³⁵And ^(J)let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming and store up grain under the authority of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it. ³⁶That food shall be a reserve for the land against the seven years of famine that are to occur in the land of Egypt, so that the land may not perish through the famine.”

Joseph Rises to Power

³⁷This proposal pleased Pharaoh and all his servants. ³⁸And Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find a man like this, ^(K)in whom is the Spirit of God?”^[b] ³⁹Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discerning and wise as you are. ⁴⁰^(L)You shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command.^[c] Only as regards the throne will I be greater than you.” ⁴¹And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “See, ^(M)I have set you over all the land of Egypt.” ⁴²Then Pharaoh ^(N)took his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and ^(O)clothed him in garments of fine linen ^(P)and put a gold chain about his neck. ⁴³And he made him ride in his second chariot. ^(Q)And they called out before him, “Bow the knee!”^[d] Thus he set him ^(R)over all the land of Egypt. ⁴⁴Moreover, Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, and ^(S)without your consent no one shall lift up hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.” ⁴⁵And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah. And he gave him in marriage Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On. So Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

⁴⁶Joseph was thirty years old when he ^(T)entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt. ⁴⁷During the seven plentiful years the earth produced abundantly, ⁴⁸and he gathered up all the food of these seven years, which occurred in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities. He put in every city the food from the fields around it. ⁴⁹And Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, ^(U)like the sand of the sea, until he ceased to measure it, for it could not be measured.

⁵⁰Before the year of famine came, ^(V)two sons were born to Joseph. Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore them to him. ⁵¹Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh. “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father's house.”^[e] ⁵²The name of the second he called Ephraim, “For God has ^(W)made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”^[f]

⁵³The seven years of plenty that occurred in the land of Egypt came to an end, ⁵⁴and ^(X)the seven years of famine began to come, ^(Y)as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. ⁵⁵When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do.”

⁵⁶So when the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses^[g] and ^(Z)sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt. ⁵⁷Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe ^(AA)over all the earth.

Joseph's Brothers Go to Egypt

42 When ^(AB)Jacob learned that there was grain for sale in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?” ²And he said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain for sale in Egypt. Go down and buy grain for us there, that we may ^(AC)live and not die.” ³So ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt. ⁴But Jacob did not send Benjamin, ^(AD)Joseph's brother, with his brothers, for ^(AE)he feared that harm might happen to him. ⁵Thus the sons of Israel came to buy among the others who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

⁶Now Joseph was governor ^(AF)over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and ^(AG)bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground. ⁷Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he treated them like strangers and ^(AH)spoke roughly to them. “Where do you come from?” he said. They said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.” ⁸And Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him. ⁹And Joseph ^(AI)remembered the dreams that he had dreamed of them. ^(AJ)And he said to them, “You are spies; you have come to see the nakedness of the land.” ¹⁰They said to him, “No, my lord, your servants have come to buy food. ¹¹We are all sons of one man. We are honest men. Your servants have never been spies.”

¹²He said to them, “No, it is the nakedness of the land that you have come to see.” ¹³And they said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one ^(AK)is no more.” ¹⁴But Joseph said to them, “It is as I said to you. You are spies. ¹⁵By this you shall be tested: by the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go from this place unless your youngest brother comes here. ¹⁶Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, while you remain confined, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you. Or else, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies.” ¹⁷And he put them all together in custody for three days.

Footnotes:

Genesis 41:34 Or over the land and organize the land
Genesis 41:38 Or of the gods
Genesis 41:40 Hebrew and according to your command all my people shall kiss the ground
Genesis 41:43 Abrek, probably an Egyptian word, similar in sound to the Hebrew word meaning to kneel
Genesis 41:51 Manasseh sounds like the Hebrew for making to forget
Genesis 41:52 Ephraim sounds like the Hebrew for making fruitful
Genesis 41:56 Hebrew all that was in them

Cross references:

English Standard Version (ESV)

Matthew 13:24-46

The Parable of the Weeds

²⁴He put another parable before them, saying, ^(A)“The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, ²⁵but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds^[a] among the wheat and went away. ²⁶So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also. ²⁷And the servants^[b] of the master of the house came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?’ ²⁸He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ So the servants said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’ ²⁹But he said, ^(B)‘No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them. ³⁰Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, ^(C)“Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

The Mustard Seed and the Leaven

³¹He put another parable before them, saying, ^(D)“The kingdom of heaven is like ^(E)a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. ³²It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.”

³³He told them another parable. ^(F)“The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in ^(G)three measures of flour, till it was ^(H)all leavened.”

Prophecy and Parables

³⁴^(I)All these things Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed, he said nothing to them without a parable. ³⁵This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet:^[c]

^(J)“I will open my mouth in parables;
^(K)I will utter what has been hidden ^(L)since the foundation of the world.”

The Parable of the Weeds Explained

³⁶Then he left the crowds and went into ^(M)the house. And his disciples came to him, saying, ^(N)“Explain to us the parable of the weeds of the field.” ³⁷He answered, “The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. ³⁸The field is the world, and the good seed is ^(O)the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are ^(P)the sons of the evil one, ³⁹and the enemy who sowed them is the devil. ^(Q)The harvest is ^(R)the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. ⁴⁰Just as the weeds ^(S)are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at ^(T)the end of the age. ⁴¹^(U)The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all ^(V)causes of sin and ^(W)all law-breakers, ⁴²^(X)and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place ^(Y)there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. ⁴³Then ^(Z)the righteous will shine like the sun ^(AA)in the kingdom of their Father. ^(AB)He who has ears, let him hear.

The Parable of the Hidden Treasure

⁴⁴“The kingdom of heaven ^(AC)is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy ^(AD)he goes and sells all that he has and ^(AE)buys that field.

The Parable of the Pearl of Great Value

⁴⁵“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls, ⁴⁶who, on finding ^(AF)one pearl of great value, ^(AG)went and sold all that he had and ^(AH)bought it.

Footnotes:

Matthew 13:25 Probably darnel, a wheat-like weed
Matthew 13:27 Or bondservants; also verse 28
Matthew 13:35 Some manuscripts Isaiah the prophet

Cross references:

English Standard Version (ESV)

Psalm 18:1-15

The Lord Is My Rock and My Fortress

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, ^(A)the servant of the Lord, ^(B)who addressed the words of this ^(C)song to the Lord on the day when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said:

18 I love you, O Lord, my strength.
²The Lord is my ^(D)rock and my ^(E)fortress and my deliverer,
my God, my ^(F)rock, in ^(G)whom I take refuge,
my ^(H)shield, and ^(I)the horn of my salvation, my ^(J)stronghold.
³I call upon the Lord, who is ^(K)worthy to be praised,
and I am saved from my enemies.

⁴^(L)The cords of death encompassed me;
^(M)the torrents of destruction assailed me;^[a]
⁵^(N)the cords of Sheol entangled me;
the snares of death confronted me.

⁶^(O)In my distress I called upon the Lord;
to my God I cried for help.
From his ^(P)temple he heard my voice,
and my cry to him reached his ears.

⁷Then the earth ^(Q)reeled and rocked;
the foundations also of the mountains trembled
and quaked, because he was angry.
⁸Smoke went up from his nostrils,^[b]
and devouring ^(R)fire from his mouth;
glowing coals flamed forth from him.
⁹He ^(S)bowed the heavens and ^(T)came down;
^(U)thick darkness was under his feet.
¹⁰He rode on a cherub and flew;
he came swiftly on ^(V)the wings of the wind.
¹¹He made darkness his covering, his ^(W)canopy around him,
thick clouds ^(X)dark with water.
¹²Out of the brightness before him
^(Y)hailstones and coals of fire broke through his clouds.

¹³The Lord also ^(Z)thundered in the heavens,
and the Most High uttered his ^(AA)voice,
hailstones and coals of fire.
¹⁴And he sent out his ^(AB)arrows and scattered them;
he flashed forth lightnings and ^(AC)routed them.
¹⁵Then ^(AD)the channels of the sea were seen,
and the foundations of the world were laid bare
at your ^(AE)rebuke, O Lord,
at the blast of ^(AF)the breath of your nostrils.

Footnotes:

Psalm 18:4 Or terrified me
Psalm 18:8 Or in his wrath

Cross references:

English Standard Version (ESV)

Proverbs 4:1-6

A Father's Wise Instruction

4 ^(A)Hear, O sons, a father's instruction,
and be attentive, that you may ^(B)gain^[a] insight,
²for I give you good ^(C)precepts;
do not forsake my teaching.
³When I was a son with my father,
^(D)tender, ^(E)the only one in the sight of my mother,
⁴he ^(F)taught me and said to me,
^(G)“Let your heart hold fast my words;
^(H)keep my commandments, and live.
⁵^(I)Get wisdom; get ^(J)insight;
do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
⁶Do not forsake her, and she will keep you;
^(K)love her, and she will guard you.

Footnotes:

Proverbs 4:1 Hebrew know

English Standard Version (ESV)

January 19, 2020

01/19/2020 DAB Transcript

Genesis 39:1-41:16, Matthew 12:46-13:23, Psalms 17:1-15, Proverbs 3:33-35

Today is the 19^th day of January, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it’s great to be here with you as we begin a new week. And this is the third beginning of a new week already in this new year. And, so, we…we…we’re definitely moving along at a good clip, and it’s always nice at the beginning of a new week to realize that it’s a new beginning. It’s a fresh start. All the days that are out in front of us that will make up this week, we haven’t lived into those yet so, we can decide in advance even though there are plenty of unknown things that we will face in the coming week, we can decide in advance what the posture of our heart will be. And one of the ways that we do that is to just invite the Scriptures to speak into our lives, which is the purpose of us meeting here every day around this Global Campfire. So, we’ve got a brand-new week. This week we’ll read from the English Standard Version and we’ll be picking up where we left off yesterday. So, in the Old Testament we’ve got this story and we’re gonna settle into it. It’s essentially the story of Abraham’s great grandson Joseph who is the son of Jacob, whose name has become Israel. So, Joseph is one of Israel’s children. And he’s young man. He’s got older brothers. He’s a little on the arrogant side it appears. He has dreams. He’s definitely a dreamer, but he’s definitely a young man, right? So, he doesn’t exactly have all of his manners and…and wisdom in communication. So, he has dreams and these dreams seem to indicate that his family will one day be bowing down before him, which certainly doesn’t go well with his older brothers and it really doesn’t go that well with his father. Joseph’s kind of the favored one because he was born to his wife, Rachel, and he loved her, and he was a child that she longed for. And, so, he’s a favored child and his mom is passed away. And, so, I mean all of that kinda comes together and his brothers just don’t like him. And in the end, they take him and we…we see the first clear depiction of human trafficking in the Bible. Joseph was sold into slavery, trafficked by his own family, by his own brothers. And, so, he ends up in Egypt and that’s where we pick up the story. Genesis chapter 39 verse 1 through 41 verse 16.

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January 19, 2020

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Sunday January 19, 2020 (NIV)

Genesis 39:1-41:16

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife

39 Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and ^(A)Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, ^(B)had bought him from the ^(C)Ishmaelites who had brought him down there. ²^(D)The Lord was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, and he was in the house of his Egyptian master. ³His master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord ^(E)caused all that he did to succeed in his hands. ⁴So Joseph ^(F)found favor in his sight and attended him, and he made him overseer of his house ^(G)and put him in charge of all that he had. ⁵From the time that he made him overseer in his house and over all that he had, the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house ^(H)for Joseph's sake; the blessing of the Lord was on all that he had, in house and field. ⁶So he left all that he had in Joseph's charge, and because of him he had no concern about anything but the food he ate.

Now Joseph was ^(I)handsome in form and appearance. ⁷And after a time his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, “Lie with me.” ⁸But he refused and said to his master's wife, “Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and ^(J)he has put everything that he has in my charge. ⁹He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and ^(K)sin against God?” ¹⁰And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he ^(L)would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her.

¹¹But one day, when he went into the house to do his work and none of the men of the house was there in the house, ¹²^(M)she caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me.” But he left his garment in her hand and fled and got out of the house. ¹³And as soon as she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled out of the house, ¹⁴she called to the men of her household and said to them, “See, he has brought among us a Hebrew to laugh at us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice. ¹⁵And as soon as he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled and got out of the house.” ¹⁶Then she laid up his garment by her until his master came home, ¹⁷and she told him the same story, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought among us, came in to me to laugh at me. ¹⁸But as soon as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment beside me and fled out of the house.”

¹⁹As soon as his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, “This is the way your servant treated me,” his anger was kindled. ²⁰And Joseph's master took him and ^(N)put him into the ^(O)prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison. ²¹But ^(P)the Lord was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love ^(Q)and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. ²²And the keeper of the prison ^(R)put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever was done there, he was the one who did it. ²³The keeper of the prison paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph's charge, because ^(S)the Lord was with him. And whatever he did, the Lord made it succeed.

Joseph Interprets Two Prisoners' Dreams

40 Some time after this, the ^(T)cupbearer of the king of Egypt and his baker committed an offense against their lord the king of Egypt. ²And Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker, ³^(U)and he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison where Joseph was confined. ⁴The captain of the guard appointed Joseph to be with them, and he attended them. They continued for some time in custody.

⁵And one night they both dreamed—the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison—each his own dream, and each dream with its own interpretation. ⁶When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were troubled. ⁷So he asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, ^(V)“Why are your faces downcast today?” ⁸They said to him, ^(W)“We have had dreams, and there is no one to interpret them.” And Joseph said to them, ^(X)“Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell them to me.”

⁹So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph and said to him, “In my dream there was a vine before me, ¹⁰and on the vine there were three branches. As soon as it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters ripened into grapes. ¹¹Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup and placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand.” ¹²Then Joseph said to him, ^(Y)“This is its interpretation: ^(Z)the three branches are three days. ¹³In three days Pharaoh will ^(AA)lift up your head and restore you to your office, and you shall place Pharaoh's cup in his hand as formerly, when you were his cupbearer. ¹⁴Only remember me, when it is well with you, and please do me the kindness to mention me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this house. ¹⁵For ^(AB)I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and ^(AC)here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit.”

¹⁶When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I also had a dream: there were three cake baskets on my head, ¹⁷and in the uppermost basket there were all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating it out of the basket on my head.” ¹⁸And Joseph answered and said, ^(AD)“This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days. ¹⁹^(AE)In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head—from you!—and ^(AF)hang you on a tree. And the birds will eat the flesh from you.”

²⁰On the third day, which was Pharaoh's ^(AG)birthday, he made a feast for all his servants and ^(AH)lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants. ²¹^(AI)He restored the chief cupbearer to his position, and ^(AJ)he placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand. ²²But he ^(AK)hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them. ²³Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.

Joseph Interprets Pharaoh's Dreams

41 After two whole years, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile, ²and behold, there came up out of the Nile seven cows, attractive and plump, and they fed in the reed grass. ³And behold, seven other cows, ugly and thin, came up out of the Nile after them, and stood by the other cows on the bank of the Nile. ⁴And the ugly, thin cows ate up the seven attractive, plump cows. And Pharaoh awoke. ⁵And he fell asleep and dreamed a second time. And behold, seven ears of grain, plump and good, were growing on one stalk. ⁶And behold, after them sprouted seven ears, thin and ^(AL)blighted by the east wind. ⁷And the thin ears swallowed up the seven plump, full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream. ⁸So in the morning ^(AM)his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the ^(AN)magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was none who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

⁹Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “I remember my offenses today. ¹⁰When Pharaoh was ^(AO)angry with his servants ^(AP)and put me and the chief baker in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, ¹¹^(AQ)we dreamed on the same night, he and I, each having a dream with its own interpretation. ¹²A young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. When we told him, ^(AR)he interpreted our dreams to us, giving an interpretation to each man according to his dream. ¹³And ^(AS)as he interpreted to us, so it came about. I was restored to my office, and the baker was hanged.”

¹⁴^(AT)Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they ^(AU)quickly brought him ^(AV)out of the pit. And when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came in before Pharaoh. ¹⁵And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. ^(AW)I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.” ¹⁶Joseph answered Pharaoh, ^(AX)“It is not in me; ^(AY)God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.”^[a]

Footnotes:

Genesis 41:16 Or (compare Samaritan, Septuagint) Without God it is not possible to give Pharaoh an answer about his welfare

Cross references:

English Standard Version (ESV)

Matthew 12:46-13:23

Jesus' Mother and Brothers

⁴⁶While he was still speaking to the people, behold, ^(A)his mother and his ^(B)brothers^[a] stood outside, asking to speak to him.^[b] ⁴⁸But he replied to the man who told him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” ⁴⁹And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! ⁵⁰For ^(C)whoever ^(D)does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

The Parable of the Sower

13 That same day Jesus went out of the house ^(E)and sat beside the sea. ²And great crowds gathered about him, ^(F)so that he got into a boat and sat down. And the whole crowd stood on the beach. ³And ^(G)he told them many things in parables, saying: ^(H)“A sower went out to sow. ⁴And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. ⁵Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, ⁶but ^(I)when the sun rose they were scorched. And since they had no root, ^(J)they withered away. ⁷Other seeds fell among ^(K)thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. ⁸Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some ^(L)a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. ⁹^(M)He who has ears,^[c] let him hear.”

The Purpose of the Parables

¹⁰Then the disciples came and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” ¹¹And he answered them, ^(N)“To you it has been given to know ^(O)the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. ¹²^(P)For to the one who has, more will be given, and he will have an abundance, but from the one who has not, ^(Q)even what he has will be taken away. ¹³This is why I speak to them in parables, because ^(R)seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, ^(S)nor do they understand. ¹⁴Indeed, in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:

^(T)“‘“You will indeed hear but never understand,
and you will indeed see but never perceive.”
¹⁵For this people's heart has grown dull,
and with their ears ^(U)they can barely hear,
and ^(V)their eyes they have closed,
lest they should see with their eyes
and hear with their ears
and ^(W)understand with their heart
and ^(X)turn, and I would heal them.’

¹⁶But ^(Y)blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. ¹⁷^(Z)For truly, I say to you, ^(AA)many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.

The Parable of the Sower Explained

¹⁸^(AB)“Hear then the parable of the sower: ¹⁹When anyone hears the word of ^(AC)the kingdom and ^(AD)does not understand it, ^(AE)the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path. ²⁰As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately ^(AF)receives it with joy, ²¹yet he has no root in himself, but ^(AG)endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately ^(AH)he falls away.^[d] ²²As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but ^(AI)the cares of ^(AJ)the world and ^(AK)the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. ²³As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and ^(AL)understands it. He indeed ^(AM)bears fruit and yields, in one case ^(AN)a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.”

Footnotes:

Matthew 12:46 Or brothers and sisters; also verses 48, 49
Matthew 12:46 Some manuscripts insert verse 47: Someone told him, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, asking to speak to you”
Matthew 13:9 Some manuscripts add here and in verse 43 to hear
Matthew 13:21 Or stumbles

Cross references:

English Standard Version (ESV)

Psalm 17

In the Shadow of Your Wings

A ^(A)Prayer of David.

17 Hear a just cause, O Lord; ^(B)attend to my cry!
Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit!
²From your presence ^(C)let my vindication come!
Let your eyes behold the right!

³You have ^(D)tried my heart, you have ^(E)visited me by ^(F)night,
you have ^(G)tested me, and you will find nothing;
I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.
⁴With regard to the works of man, by the word of your lips
I have avoided the ways of the violent.
⁵My steps have ^(H)held fast to your paths;
my feet have not slipped.

⁶I ^(I)call upon you, for you will answer me, O God;
^(J)incline your ear to me; hear my words.
⁷^(K)Wondrously show^[a] your steadfast love,
O Savior of those who seek refuge
from ^(L)their adversaries at your right hand.

⁸Keep me as ^(M)the apple of your eye;
hide me in ^(N)the shadow of your wings,
⁹from the wicked who do me violence,
my deadly enemies who ^(O)surround me.

¹⁰^(P)They close their hearts to pity;
with their mouths they ^(Q)speak arrogantly.
¹¹They have now surrounded our ^(R)steps;
they set their eyes to ^(S)cast us to the ground.
¹²He is like a lion eager to tear,
as a young lion ^(T)lurking in ambush.

¹³Arise, O Lord! Confront him, subdue him!
Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword,
¹⁴from men by your hand, O Lord,
from ^(U)men of the world whose ^(V)portion is in this life.^[b]
You fill their womb with treasure;^[c]
they are satisfied with ^(W)children,
and they leave their abundance to their infants.

¹⁵As for me, I shall ^(X)behold your face in righteousness;
when I ^(Y)awake, I shall be ^(Z)satisfied with your likeness.

Footnotes:

Psalm 17:7 Or Distinguish me by
Psalm 17:14 Or from men whose portion in life is of the world
Psalm 17:14 Or As for your treasured ones, you fill their womb

Cross references:

English Standard Version (ESV)

Proverbs 3:33-35

³³^(A)The Lord's curse is on the house of the wicked,
but he ^(B)blesses the dwelling of the righteous.
³⁴Toward the ^(C)scorners he ^(D)is scornful,
^(E)but to the humble he gives favor.^[a]
³⁵The wise will inherit honor,
but fools get^[b] disgrace.

Footnotes:

Proverbs 3:34 Or grace
Proverbs 3:35 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain

Cross references:

English Standard Version (ESV)

January 18, 2020

01/18/2020 DAB Transcript

Genesis 37:1-38:30, Matthew 12:22-45, Psalms 16:1-11, Proverbs 3:27-32

Today is the 18^th day of January, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it’s great to be here with you today as we end a…end a week. This is actually…I’m looking at a calendar…this is the third weekend of this new decade. I guess I hadn’t realized that until just now. Nevertheless, we have set sail. We have moved all the way here 18 days on our journey and we will continue that journey today. We’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week, which is today, and we have been working our way through the stories of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, whose name became Israel. And now we’re going to pick up the story of Israel and Jacob’s son Joseph. So, today Genesis chapters 37 and 38.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word and we thank You for another complete week together in Your word and starting to feel the rhythm of the year now, this new decade upon us, starting to settle in, which is one of the words that we spoke of this year. And, so, we ask that You help us to do that, to find within ourselves, amidst all of the disruption that the Bible can bring to us, that what’s really happening here is that what’s false is being shaken. And sometimes we didn’t even know it was false until it’s exposed. But there is the truth deep within us where You live where the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells and this place is true and we want to learn about this place within us, because this is the place that Your word speaks to. And, so, come Holy Spirit to lead us into all truth. This is the promise the Scriptures give us, and we believe that You will. Lead us on the narrow path that leads to life. Come Holy Spirit we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi, this is Candace from Oregon. I love you Daily Audio Bible. Have I told you that lately? And Brian and Jill thank you so much. Oh Lord that none of us ever take for granted this amazing situation. I want to thank Rachel from Pennsylvania and everyone else who’ve been praying for me and my household. We were under terrible attacks. Starting in November, it went on all the way into January and made…the holidays were good…but this was sort of underlying it and very stressful. I think it’s much better now. Please pray. January 28^th, I have a beloved in law who might…who has to go to court and might end up doing some jail time. So, please pray that whatever is the best thing for this dear one will occur, be that jail time or not and that the judge and everyone he has to interact with will know how to point him in the right direction. Lord have your way. Also, please for my February 8^th piano recital, that all the students will do well and that the whole experience of taking these lessons will be part of drawing them into a relationship with the Lord Jesus. Thank you so much for your prayers and I am praying for all of you as well. May the Lord’s name be praised.

[singing starts] I will send out an army to find you in the middle of the darkest night. It’s true I will rescue you. I will never stop marching to reach you in the middle of the hardest fight. It’s true I will rescue you [singing ends]. Hey this is for Anonymous who called back on December 27^th and to anyone else who thinks since God’s so good and we’re so bad we’re not worthy and He doesn’t want anything to do with us, but like the song says He’s doing everything He can to get to us and He will rescue you. So, just a little encouragement.

Good morning Daily Audio Bible family this is Carla Jean from Las Vegas calling today asking you to pray for my son Noah. He’s 23 years old and has been fighting a spiritual battle most of his life. I keep thinking that God must have great plans for this boy for him to be so pursued by Satan. He’s 23 and he contacted me yesterday in the middle of an anxiety attack and we Facetimed for an hour trying to get him to seek help. He lives in a different state and he’s afraid because he has no health insurance and I told him I don’t care, just get the help you need, and I will take care of it financially. I’ve asked him if he wants me to come to him and he does not want me to go there. He is a sweet boy and I’m just…am asking you to storm heaven with me. Matthew 8:16 said many who were demon possessed were brought to him and He drove out the spirit with a word and healed all the sick. That’s my prayer for my son Noah and I’m praying for all of you who are fighting spiritual demons right now. May the Lord grant us all peace. Amen.

Some skim the surface while others dig deep
yet both of them say Your commandments they keep
one says confess and believe in your heart
and you shall be saved you’ll have a new start
and nothing and no one can take that away
salvation is yours, whatever may
but then the other one says action speaks louder than words
and faith without works is just air for the birds
if God is in your life then there should be some change
all things are new if they’re not something strange
but both of them say that Christ is the way
that judgment is coming and you should trust and obey
but yet and still both of them put others down
including each other the cycle just goes round
vicious in nature and not from our God
which they both claim to represent which really seems odd
traditions and customs leading to sin
the Sadducees and Pharisees all over again
what will it lead to where will it end
misleading the children of God is a terrible sin
though not by intention for they too are deceived
but that original serpent also fooled Eve
some skim the surface while others dig deep
yet both of them say your commandments they keep

blindtony1016@gmail.com. Like to give a shout out to Sherlock Washington and Kim and Michelle from LA. Hope you both are doing well and know you’re all in my prayers daily. And once again Brian and the Hardin family thank you for this wonderful podcast for God’s Holy Spirit flow. Keep it flown’ y’all. All right bye-bye.

Hello sweet DABber family this is Trusting Father in South Carolina. It is Sunday the 12^th about 4 o’clock in the morning and I’m a five-year listener, this is my second time calling in, the first time being about a year and a half ago when my daughter had an affair. Since then she divorced and went into another relationship, a real bad relationship and from that she is pregnant, and we have a precious little baby boy on his way in April. But also, in her family she has two other little boys, one is five and the other soon to be three and I’m asking prayer for her. She…I don’t even know how to put it into words, but she is…she is very confused. She is in a high-powered job and, you know, before she went into her affair, she and her husband were…you know…they like to party and…and I’m…I just…I don’t even know. I feel like her…she’s just messed up mentally, emotionally, physically and, of course spiritually. So, I need to also tell you this, that I have a son who’s an alcoholic and a recluse and he’s 34 years old and we have another daughter who’s been in a 10 year relationship with another woman and my husband has been depressed before we were even married when where we are age 19 and 20. So, it has been very intense here, especially lately. And I want to, I don’t know, I just felt very led to reach out just ask for your prayer and I’m just so grateful in knowing that Father’s faithful. And thank you so much.

Hello this is Duncan from Fredericksburg Texas. I’ve tried…I’ve been on here once at least, I know that. For the lady in South Carolina whose sister is…is in…is in ICU let me pray right now. Oh Father so many hurting people and there are many listening to this who are broken and hurting and at various stages of grief, various stages of anger, various stages of anything that’s not good. Father, I know I’ve been in…I’m still…the post-holiday __ or hardships of life are…are sometimes harder to deal with and especially Father for those of us who have lost loved ones as I have lost my wife back in October. Father just take care of…of this gal, just please touch her and heal. Father just raise up people, more people who will love her back…back to health. Father, I believe that can be done with encouragement and father with being ministered to and I just ask you to do that for this lady who is suffering from bipolar and is in the ICU. And for…I cannot remember names, so many of them. So, just take care of them Jesus. Thank you. Amen. And now, just for me. I request, I am a pianist, I am…just happened to be totally blind but that doesn’t stop me. I’m 73 years old that does not stop me either. And I will be going to upstate New York next weekend and then to Long Island and then finally back up to Buffalo. I leave Saturday the 27^th and then come back…no…Saturday the 18^th and then come back the 27^th then a player local gig on the 28^th. So, I just ask you to pray for me…

Hello Daily Audio Bible family this is J from Nashville. Got a little bit of a something going on with my throat, but I wanted to take a moment to pray for the people who just feel like they can’t catch a break. Heavenly Father, in the precious and mighty magical name of Jesus Christ, God we come before You this morning adoring You and lifting up the holy name of Jesus. Mighty God bless You as we confess of any sins that we may have committed knowingly or unknowingly. Lord we rest in Your forgiveness and we thank You for Your grace and mercy allowing us to come to You again and again receiving this precious gift that You give us. Father, we need You in this moment. We pray for Your comfort. We pray that Your Holy Spirit will give us wisdom and understanding in these times where we just feel like giving up, where You feel like all the odds are against us and we can’t find a single way out. Lord we ask that in these moments of despair, confusion, fear, we ask that You will remind us in a way that only You know how, that You are there and You will always be there and You are in control. We love You Father. We praise You Jesus. We glorify You God and we thank You. In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen. I love you family. I miss you. Until next time.

January 18, 2020

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Saturday January 18, 2020 (NIV)

Genesis 37-38

Joseph’s Dreams

37 Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.^(A) ²These are the family records of Jacob.

At seventeen years of age, Joseph tended sheep with his brothers. The young man was working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives,^(B) and he brought a bad report about them to their father.^(C)

³Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons because Joseph was a son born to him in his old age,^(D) and he made a robe of many colors^[a] for him. ⁴When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not bring themselves to speak peaceably to him.

⁵Then Joseph had a dream. When he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more. ⁶He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had: ⁷There we were, binding sheaves of grain in the field. Suddenly my sheaf stood up, and your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.”^(E)

⁸“Are you really going to reign over us?” his brothers asked him. “Are you really going to rule us?” So they hated him even more because of his dream and what he had said.

⁹Then he had another dream and told it to his brothers. “Look,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun, moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

¹⁰He told his father and brothers, and his father rebuked him. “What kind of dream is this that you have had?” he said. “Am I and your mother and your brothers really going to come and bow down to the ground before you?” ¹¹His brothers were jealous of him,^(F) but his father kept the matter in mind.^(G)

Joseph Sold into Slavery

¹²His brothers had gone to pasture their father’s flocks at Shechem. ¹³Israel said to Joseph, “Your brothers, you know, are pasturing the flocks at Shechem. Get ready. I’m sending you to them.”

“I’m ready,” Joseph replied.

¹⁴Then Israel said to him, “Go and see how your brothers and the flocks are doing, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him from the Hebron^(H) Valley, and he went to Shechem.

¹⁵A man found him there, wandering in the field, and asked him, “What are you looking for?”

¹⁶“I’m looking for my brothers,” Joseph said. “Can you tell me where they are pasturing their flocks?”

¹⁷“They’ve moved on from here,” the man said. “I heard them say, ‘Let’s go to Dothan.’”^(I) So Joseph set out after his brothers and found them at Dothan.

¹⁸They saw him in the distance, and before he had reached them, they plotted to kill him.^(J) ¹⁹They said to one another, “Oh, look, here comes that dream expert!^[b] ²⁰So now, come on, let’s kill him and throw him into one of the pits.^[c] We can say that a vicious animal ate him. Then we’ll see what becomes of his dreams!”

²¹When Reuben heard this, he tried to save him from them.^[d] He said, “Let’s not take his life.”^(K) ²²Reuben also said to them, “Don’t shed blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him”—intending to rescue him from them and return him to his father.

²³When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped off Joseph’s robe, the robe of many colors that he had on. ²⁴Then they took him and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty, without water.

²⁵They sat down to eat a meal,^(L) and when they looked up, there was a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead.^(M) Their camels were carrying aromatic gum, balsam, and resin, going down to Egypt.^(N)

²⁶Judah said to his brothers, “What do we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood? ²⁷Come on, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay a hand on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh,” and his brothers agreed. ²⁸When Midianite^(O) traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took Joseph to Egypt.^(P)

²⁹When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes.^(Q) ³⁰He went back to his brothers and said, “The boy is gone! What am I going to do?” ^[e] ³¹So they took Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a male goat, and dipped the robe in its blood. ³²They sent the robe of many colors to their father and said, “We found this. Examine it. Is it your son’s robe or not?”

³³His father recognized it. “It is my son’s robe,” he said. “A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph has been torn to pieces!” ^(R) ³⁴Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days. ³⁵All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” And his father wept for him.

³⁶Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and the captain of the guards.

Judah and Tamar

38 At that time Judah left his brothers and settled near an Adullamite^(S) named Hirah. ²There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite named Shua; he took her as a wife and slept with her. ³She conceived and gave birth to a son, and he named him Er.^(T) ⁴She conceived again, gave birth to a son, and named him Onan. ⁵She gave birth to another son and named him Shelah. It was at Chezib that^[f]^[g] she gave birth to him.

⁶Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. ⁷Now Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the Lord’s sight, and the Lord put him to death.^(U) ⁸Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law^(V) and produce offspring for your brother.”^(W) ⁹But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he released his semen on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother. ¹⁰What he did was evil in the Lord’s sight, so he put him to death also.

¹¹Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.”^(X) For he thought, “He might die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.

¹²After a long time^[h] Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to Timnah^(Y) to his sheepshearers. ¹³Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.” ¹⁴So she took off her widow’s clothes, veiled her face,^(Z) covered herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim,^[i] which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife. ¹⁵When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

¹⁶He went over to her and said, “Come, let me sleep with you,” for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law.^(AA)

She said, “What will you give me for sleeping with me?”

¹⁷“I will send you a young goat from my flock,” he replied.

But she said, “Only if you leave something with me until you send it.”

¹⁸“What should I give you?” he asked.

She answered, “Your signet ring, your cord, and the staff in your hand.” So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him. ¹⁹She got up and left, then removed her veil and put her widow’s clothes back on.

²⁰When Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite in order to get back the items he had left with the woman, he could not find her. ²¹He asked the men of the place, “Where is the cult prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?”

“There has been no cult prostitute here,” they answered.

²²So the Adullamite returned to Judah, saying, “I couldn’t find her, and besides, the men of the place said, ‘There has been no cult prostitute here.’”

²³Judah replied, “Let her keep the items for herself; otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send this young goat, but you couldn’t find her.”

²⁴About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law, Tamar, has been acting like a prostitute, and now she is pregnant.”

“Bring her out,” Judah said, “and let her be burned to death!” ^(AB)

²⁵As she was being brought out, she sent her father-in-law this message: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Examine them. Whose signet ring, cord, and staff are these?”

²⁶Judah recognized them and said, “She is more in the right^[j] than I,^(AC) since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not know her intimately again.

²⁷When the time came for her to give birth, there were twins in her womb. ²⁸As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand, and the midwife took it and tied a scarlet thread around it, announcing, “This one came out first.” ²⁹But then he pulled his hand back, out came his brother, and she said, “What a breakout you have made for yourself!” So he was named Perez.^[k]^(AD) ³⁰Then his brother, who had the scarlet thread tied to his hand, came out, and was named Zerah.^[l]

Footnotes:

37:3 Or robe with long sleeves; see 2Sm 13:18,19
37:19 Lit comes the lord of the dreams
37:20 Or cisterns
37:21 Lit their hands
37:30 Lit And I, where am I going?
38:5 LXX reads She was at Chezib when
38:5 Or He was at Chezib when
38:12 Lit And there were many days, and
38:14 Or sat by the mouth of the springs
38:26 Or more righteous
38:29 = Breaking Out
38:30 = Brightness of Sunrise; perhaps related to the scarlet thread

Cross references:

37:1 : Gn 26:3
37:2 : Gn 30:1-13
37:2 : 1Sm 2:22-24
37:3 : Gn 44:20
37:7 : Gn 42:6,9; 43:26; 44:14
37:11 : Ac 7:9
37:11 : Dn 7:28; Lk 2:19,51
37:14 : Gn 13:18; 35:27
37:17 : 2Kg 6:13
37:18 : Ps 31:13; 37:12,32; Mk 14:1; Jn 11:53; Ac 23:12
37:21 : Gn 42:22
37:25 : Gn 42:21
37:25 : Gn 39:1
37:25 : Gn 43:11; Jr 8:22; 46:11
37:28 : Dt 25:5,7; Jdg 8:22-24; Mt 22:24; Mk 12:19; Lk 20:28
37:28 : Gn 45:4-5; Ps 105:17; Ac 7:9
37:29 : Gn 44:13; Nm 14:6; 2Sm 1:11; 3:31; Jb 1:20
37:33 : Gn 44:28
38:1 : Jos 15:35; 1Sm 22:1
38:3 : Gn 46:12; Nm 26:19
38:7 : 1Ch 2:3
38:8 : Dt 25:5-10
38:8 : Mt 22:24
38:11 : Ru 1:12-13
38:12 : Jos 15:10,57
38:14 : Gn 24:65
38:16 : Lv 18:15
38:24 : Lv 20:14
38:26 : 1Sm 24:17
38:29 : Gn 46:12; Nm 26:20; 1Ch 2:4; Mt 1:3

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

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Matthew 12:22-45

A House Divided

²²Then a demon-possessed man^(A) who was blind and unable to speak was brought to him. He healed him, so that the man^[a] could both speak and see.^(B) ²³All the crowds were astounded and said, “Could this be the Son of David?” ^(C)

²⁴When the Pharisees heard this, they said, “This man drives out demons only by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons.”^(D)

²⁵Knowing their thoughts,^(E) he told them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is headed for destruction, and no city or house divided against itself will stand. ²⁶If Satan^(F) drives out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand? ²⁷And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons drive them out? For this reason they will be your judges.^(G) ²⁸If I drive out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.^(H) ²⁹How can someone enter a strong man’s house and steal his possessions unless he first ties up^(I) the strong man? Then he can plunder his house. ³⁰Anyone who is not with me is against me,^(J) and anyone who does not gather with me scatters. ³¹Therefore,^(K) I tell you, people will be forgiven every sin and blasphemy,^(L) but the blasphemy against^[b] the Spirit will not be forgiven.^[c] ³²Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man,^(M) it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the one to come.^(N)

A Tree and Its Fruit

³³“Either make the tree good and its fruit will be good, or make the tree bad^[d] and its fruit will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.^(O) ³⁴Brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks from the overflow^(P) of the heart. ³⁵A good person produces good things from his storeroom of good, and an evil person produces evil things from his storeroom of evil.^(Q) ³⁶I tell you that on the day of judgment^(R) people will have to account^(S) for every careless^[e] word they speak.^[f] ³⁷For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”

The Sign of Jonah

³⁸Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”^(T)

³⁹He answered them,^(U) “An evil and adulterous generation demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.^(V) ⁴⁰For as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish^[g]^(W) three days and three nights,^(X) so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights. ⁴¹The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it,^(Y) because they repented at Jonah’s preaching; and look—something greater than Jonah is here.^(Z) ⁴²The queen of the south^(AA) will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and look—something greater than Solomon is here.

An Unclean Spirit’s Return

⁴³“When an unclean spirit comes out of a person, it roams through waterless places looking for rest but doesn’t find any.^(AB) ⁴⁴Then it says, ‘I’ll go back to my house that I came from.’ Returning, it finds the house vacant, swept, and put in order. ⁴⁵Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and settle down there. As a result, that person’s last condition is worse than the first.^(AC) That’s how it will also be with this evil generation.”

Footnotes:

12:22 Lit mute
12:31 Or of
12:31 Other mss add people
12:33 Or decayed; lit rotten
12:36 Lit worthless
12:36 Lit will speak
12:40 Or sea creature; Jnh 1:17

Cross references:

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Psalm 16

Confidence in the Lord

A Miktam of David.^(A)

¹Protect me, God, for I take refuge in you.^(B)
²I^[a] said to the Lord, “You are my Lord;
I have nothing good besides you.”^[b]^(C)
³As for the holy people who are in the land,^(D)
they are the noble ones.
All my delight is in them.
⁴The sorrows of those who take another god
for themselves will multiply;
I will not pour out their drink offerings of blood,
and I will not speak their names with my lips.^(E)

⁵Lord, you are my portion^[c]
and my cup of blessing;
you hold my future.^(F)
⁶The boundary lines have fallen for me
in pleasant places;
indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.^(G)

⁷I will bless the Lord who counsels me^(H)—
even at night when my thoughts trouble me.^[d]^(I)
⁸I always let the Lord guide me.^[e]
Because he is at my right hand,
I will not be shaken.^(J)

⁹Therefore my heart is glad
and my whole being rejoices;
my body also rests securely.^(K)
¹⁰For you will not abandon me to Sheol;^(L)
you will not allow your faithful one to see decay.^(M)
¹¹You reveal the path of life to me;
in your presence is abundant joy;^(N)
at your right hand are eternal pleasures.^(O)

Footnotes:

16:2 Some Hb mss, LXX, Syr, Jer; other Hb mss read You
16:2 Or “Lord, my good; there is none besides you.”
16:5 Orallotted portion
16:7 Or at night my heart instructs me
16:8 Lit I place the Lord in front of me always

Cross references:

16:0 : Ps 56—60
16:1 : Ps 94:22
16:2 : Ps 73:25
16:3 : Dt 7:6; 14:2; 26:19
16:4 : Ex 23:13; Jos 23:7
16:5 : Nm 18:20; Ps 119:57; Lm 3:24
16:6 : Jr 3:19
16:7 : Ps 73:24
16:7 : Ps 77:6
16:8 : Ps 15:5; 112:6
16:9 : Ps 4:7-8; 13:5
16:10 : Ps 49:10; 86:13
16:10 : Jb 33:18,28; Ps 30:3; 103:4; Ac 13:35
16:11 : Ps 21:6
16:8-11 : Ac 2:25-28

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Proverbs 3:27-32

Treat Others Fairly

²⁷When it is in your power,^[a]
don’t withhold good^(A) from the one to whom it belongs.
²⁸Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go away! Come back later.
I’ll give it tomorrow”—when it is there with you.^(B)
²⁹Don’t plan any harm against your neighbor,^(C)
for he trusts you and lives near you.
³⁰Don’t accuse anyone without cause,^(D)
when he has done you no harm.
³¹Don’t envy a violent man^(E)
or choose any of his ways;
³²for the devious are detestable to the Lord,
but he is a friend^[b] to the upright.^(F)

Footnotes:

3:27 Lit in the power of your hands
3:32 Or confidential counsel

Cross references:

3:27 : Gl 6:10
3:28 : Lv 19:13; Dt 24:15
3:29 : Pr 6:14; 14:22
3:30 : Pr 24:28; Rm 12:18
3:31 : Ps 37:1; Pr 23:17; 24:1,19
3:32 : Ps 25:14; Pr 11:20; 12:22; 15:8-9

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

January 18, 2020

01/17/2020 DAB Transcript

Genesis 35:1-36:43, Matthew 12:1-21, Psalms 15:1-5, Proverbs 3:21-26

Today is the 17^th day of January, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it’s great to be here with you as we take the next step forward in the Scriptures, but the next step forward into the end of our week. We have already successfully passed the center of this month and the strangest thing will happen, we’ll just keep doing this and one day we’ll wake up and we’ll be passing through the center of June and we’ll say, “wasn’t it just January? Didn’t just start his voyage? But that’s what seems to happen as we just keep showing up every day, day by day, step-by-step being transformed as God’s word speaks to us. So, let’s get that. We’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week and we’ve been tracking with the story of Jacob, whose name has become Israel, which snaps a lot of things into place because Jacob or Israel has kids, those kids are his children, the children of Israel and we’re watching that take shape as we continue forward in the story of Jacob. So, today Genesis chapters 35 and 36.

Commentary:

Okay. In the book of Genesis, we’ve been watching the story of Jacob since he fled Esau, right? And, so, he goes to Laban, he requires a household and a family, he leaves Laban, he meets Esau, they make their peace. There is a ton of drama involved, but they make their peace. And then so then Esau takes his household and moves away. Jacob kind of moves into the Land. He had the birthright he had his father’s blessing. And although there was a time that this was some mortal conflict and looked like somebody was going to die, a couple of decades have past, the brothers have both prospered, Esau moves further east and in the same way that Jacob, his name becomes Israel we see that Esau’s name becomes Edom and he becomes the father of the Edomites. And we spent a good deal of time reading the ancestral line of the Edomites and we might be like, “well what…you know…I understand there’s gonna be genealogies in the Bible, I just hope that they would make some sense as far as why they’re there. And it does. It does. We just simply need to understand. This is Esau’s family. They’re brothers. So, like, the Edomites and the Israelites are literally blood relations coming from two blood brothers, the sons of Isaac. We’re getting a good look at them now, because later on they’re not going to be acting like brothers and that’s going to be a problem. In fact, such a problem that an entire book of prophecy, a small one, but an entire book of prophecy will be dedicated to this conflict. But won’t happen until we get toward the end of this year. So, let’s just kind of place a marker here after the same fashion that Jacob did, a little rock, a little marker here so that we can remember where we are in the story. Jacob and Esau. The Israelites and the Edomites.

Okay. Then we get into the book of Matthew and this week we sort of…we sorta hit a stride as we’re walking along through the gospel of Matthew and walking along with Jesus and observing His ministry and hearing what He is saying. And we got a distinct understanding and had plenty of time to talk about it this week about how backward…how backward the world seems to be or seemed to be in that time to the worldview that Jesus is describing in His ministry. He’s discussing and revealing a kingdom and His words, and His deeds have certainly captured the attention and set the hearts of His hearers on fire. People are following Jesus and what they thought of Jesus we get clues to that in the Gospels when they say things like, “nobody ever talked about this before” or “this man preaches like He has authority that it is unlike any of our other scribes and Pharisees and rabbis.” So, we get the benefit of hearing what Jesus is saying but we also get clues about how that was impacting people. And we’ve talked about Jesus teaching wisdom. We’ve talked about Jesus being a miracle worker at a prophet and…and being perceived this way as He reveals God’s kingdom. And although we know that Jesus did claim to be the way the truth and the life, and I for one believe that fully, that doesn’t seem to be the mission that He’s on, to convince everyone that He’s the way the truth and the life. The mission that He seems to be on is one in which a shift in the way the world is seen can occur in the hearts of people, a change in worldview or a change in awareness or even a change in consciousness so that they can wake up to realize that God is doing something in the world already. It’s not something to be waited for, it’s something to be participated in now. So, in today’s reading Jesus continues to minister and heal. I mean, He’s beginning to get into trouble over just about everything now because the religious people are picking at Him. So, today’s confrontation was over the Sabbath day. And He’s gonna be in trouble about doing things on the Sabbath day on a number of Sabbath days, but simply to illustrate the vast difference between Jesus view of the world and humanity and humanity’s view of themselves and of Jesus, all we need to do is read two verses that sum up our reading today. “Then he told the man, stretch out your hand. So, he stretched it out and it was restored as good as the other, but the Pharisees went out and plotted against Him, how they might kill him.” This illustrates how the light came into the darkness, but the darkness comprehended it not. And it was the religious leaders who missed it, the ones who should…the ones who should have saw it the most clear were the most blinded. And as we probably already know from the story of Jesus, we will see just how dark the darkness can be doing.

Then we get into the Psalms today, Psalms chapter 15, and there’s these questions that we want answers to. “Who can dwell in your tent”, right? So, “who gets to live in your house? Who gets to be in your presence Lord? Who gets to live on your holy mountain?” And the questions are answered, “the one who lives blamelessly, practices righteousness, and acknowledges the truth in his heart, who does not slander with his tongue, does not harm his friend or discredit his neighbor, who despises the one rejected by the Lord, but honors those who fear the Lord, who keeps his word, whatever the cost or does not lend his silver at interest or take a bribe against the innocent. The one who does these things will never be shaken.” Now we could go like, “okay. there’s my list, that’s what I need to live into.” And there are lots of lists like this in the Bible of things that we ought to live into and…and we should: however, if we just go like, “alright. Well here’s my first list. I’m going to try to live into this this week” and we write these characteristics down and by brute force we try to harness ourselves to be successful at this, we’re gonna find that we won’t be successful, we will eventually fail because what we have going on here is the Bible speaking to us inwardly and us often processing it in ways outwardly. That's…that’s nothing more than rearranging the furniture in our lives, but not actually changing anything. So, David says, “who can dwell in your tent? The one who lives blamelessly, practices, righteousness and acknowledges the truth in his heart.” Let’s work backwards on this. The one who acknowledges the truth in his heart. If there’s one thing that we’re seeing in the gospel of Matthew right now in the person of Jesus it is someone who is true in his heart. It’s actually that truth, that light that is causing problems for Him because as we talked about, truth will set you free but not before it confronts what is false. So, we go back to the Psalm. “Who can live in your tent?” The one who acknowledges the truth in his heart. In other words, the one who will allow the voice of wisdom in the presence of the Holy Spirit to expose what is false. The one who practices righteousness will dwell in God’s presence. Practices righteousness. Not the one who has achieved mastery at being righteous in their own strength upon this earth. The one who practices righteousness. Alright. So, if we’re practicing righteousness and we are acknowledging the truth in our hearts then we got a good shot at a blameless life, but we’ve got a bunch of other characteristics we gotta live into, like the one that doesn’t slander with her tongue. “Alright. now I gotta control my tongue. The one who doesn’t harm his friend. “Well. I don’t normally do that but sometimes I might accidentally say something I shouldn’t.” The one who discredits his neighbor. They don’t get to be in God’s presence. “Well. I do that sometimes. Like we can go down this list but it's…it’s actually quite simple. If you practice righteousness and acknowledge the truth in your heart and live a blameless life, then you are walking in wisdom. And if you are walking in wisdom then you are also walking in love. And will often find that when we get these kinds of lists from the Bible none of the things that we should avoid are things that we can possibly do in love. So, for example, can you slander with your tongue in love? Can you harm your friend in love? Can you discredit your neighbor in love? In the name of Jesus can you take a bribe against innocent if you love them? So, there are all kinds of things in the Bible that can give us lists that are very helpful because they name things. And Paul does this a lot. But then we can, you know, we can get these lists and then feel like they are overwhelming characteristic behavior modification projects and it can get absolutely overwhelming when actually all we have to do is ask ourselves, “can I do this in love?” And that makes the lists really clear.

Prayer:

Father we thank You for Your word. We thank You for leading us this far even though we’re just beginning, leading us this far into the journey and we thank You for all of the things that You are already touching, the things that You are already beginning to move around inside of us and we open ourselves to You. We invite You to continue this process that we might be one who acknowledges the truth in our hearts, that we might practice righteousness, that we might live in this world in love, Your love flowing out through us into the world. And we are learning plenty about the voice of wisdom. And Proverbs speaks to us clearly today, to maintain sound wisdom and discretion, to never lose sight of them. We will lose sight of them without Your guidance. So, guide us Father because the Scriptures tell us that wisdom and discretion will be the light for us and adornment for our necks. We’ll be able to go safely on our way if we walk with wisdom and discretion. Our feet won’t stumble. When we lie down, we won’t be afraid. Our sleep will be pleasant and restorative. We won’t have to fear the suddenness of danger or the ruin of the wicked. You’ll be our confidence. You’ll keep our feet from snares if we are willing to maintain wisdom and discretion. Come Holy Spirit that is precisely what we want to do. Come Holy Spirit and show us how. We pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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January 17, 2020

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Friday January 17, 2020 (NIV)

Genesis 35-36

Return to Bethel

35 God said to Jacob, “Get up! Go to Bethel and settle there.^(A) Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”^(B)

²So Jacob said to his family and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you.^(C) Purify yourselves and change your clothes.^(D) ³We must get up and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to the God who answered me in my day of distress.^(E) He has been with me everywhere I have gone.”^(F)

⁴Then they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and their earrings, and Jacob hid them under the oak near Shechem. ⁵When they set out, a terror from God came over the cities around them, and they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.^(G) ⁶So Jacob and all who were with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel^(H)) in the land of Canaan. ⁷Jacob built an altar there and called the place El-bethel^[a] because it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

⁸Deborah, the one who had nursed and raised Rebekah,^[b]^(I) died and was buried under the oak south of Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bacuth.^[c]

⁹God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan-aram, and he blessed him. ¹⁰God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; you will no longer be named Jacob, but your name will be Israel.”^(J) So he named him Israel. ¹¹God also said to him, “I am God Almighty.^(K) Be fruitful and multiply.^(L) A nation, indeed an assembly of nations, will come from you,^(M) and kings will descend from you.^[d]^(N) ¹²I will give to you the land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac.^(O) And I will give the land to your future descendants.” ¹³Then God withdrew^[e]^(P) from him at the place where he had spoken to him.

¹⁴Jacob set up a marker at the place where he had spoken to him—a stone marker. He poured a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.^(Q) ¹⁵Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

Rachel’s Death

¹⁶They set out from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult. ¹⁷During her difficult labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you have another son.”^(R) ¹⁸With her last breath—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni,^[f] but his father called him Benjamin.^[g] ¹⁹So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem^(S)). ²⁰Jacob set up a marker on her grave; it is the marker at Rachel’s grave still today.

Israel’s Sons

²¹Israel set out again and pitched his tent beyond the Tower of Eder.^[h] ²²While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it.^(T)

Jacob had twelve sons:^(U)

²³Leah’s sons were Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn),

Simeon, Levi, Judah,

Issachar, and Zebulun.

²⁴Rachel’s sons were

Joseph and Benjamin.

²⁵The sons of Rachel’s slave Bilhah

were Dan and Naphtali.

²⁶The sons of Leah’s slave Zilpah

were Gad and Asher.

These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

Isaac’s Death

²⁷Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre^(V) in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron^(W)), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed. ²⁸Isaac lived 180 years. ²⁹He took his last breath and died, and was gathered to his people,^(X) old and full of days. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Esau’s Family

36 These are the family records^(Y) of Esau (that is, Edom^(Z)). ²Esau took his wives from the Canaanite women: Adah daughter of Elon the Hethite,^(AA) Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter^[i] of Zibeon the Hivite, ³and Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.^(AB) ⁴Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath bore Reuel, ⁵and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These were Esau’s sons, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.

⁶Esau took his wives, sons, daughters, and all the people of his household, as well as his herds, all his livestock, and all the property he had acquired in Canaan; he went to a land away from his brother Jacob. ⁷For their possessions were too many for them to live together,^(AC) and because of their herds, the land where they stayed could not support them.^(AD) ⁸So Esau (that is, Edom) lived in the mountains of Seir.^(AE)

⁹These are the family records of Esau, father of the Edomites in the mountains of Seir.

¹⁰These are the names of Esau’s sons:^(AF)

Eliphaz son of Esau’s wife Adah,

and Reuel son of Esau’s wife Basemath.

¹¹The sons of Eliphaz were

Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.

¹²Timna, a concubine of Esau’s son Eliphaz,

bore Amalek to Eliphaz.

These are the sons of Esau’s wife Adah.

¹³These are Reuel’s sons:

Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.

These are the sons of Esau’s wife Basemath.

¹⁴These are the sons of Esau’s wife Oholibamah

daughter of Anah and granddaughter^[j] of Zibeon:

She bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah to Edom.

¹⁵These are the chiefs among Esau’s sons:

the sons of Eliphaz, Esau’s firstborn:

chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,

¹⁶chief Korah,^[k] chief Gatam, and chief Amalek.

These are the chiefs descended from Eliphaz

in the land of Edom.

These are the sons of Adah.

¹⁷These are the sons of Reuel, Esau’s son:

chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, and chief Mizzah.

These are the chiefs descended from Reuel

in the land of Edom.

These are the sons of Esau’s wife Basemath.

¹⁸These are the sons of Esau’s wife Oholibamah:

chief Jeush, chief Jalam, and chief Korah.

These are the chiefs descended from Esau’s wife Oholibamah

daughter of Anah.

¹⁹These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom),

and these are their chiefs.

Seir’s Family

²⁰These are the sons of Seir the Horite,^(AG)

the inhabitants of the land:

Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

²¹Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.

These are the chiefs among the Horites,

the sons of Seir, in the land of Edom.

²²The sons of Lotan were Hori and Heman.

Timna was Lotan’s sister.

²³These are Shobal’s sons:

Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.

²⁴These are Zibeon’s sons: Aiah and Anah.

This was the Anah who found the hot springs^[l] in the wilderness

while he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.

²⁵These are the children of Anah:

Dishon and Oholibamah daughter of Anah.

²⁶These are Dishon’s sons:

Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.

²⁷These are Ezer’s sons:

Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.

²⁸These are Dishan’s sons: Uz and Aran.

²⁹These are the chiefs among the Horites:

chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah,

³⁰chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief Dishan.

These are the chiefs among the Horites,

clan by clan,^[m] in the land of Seir.

Rulers of Edom

³¹These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom^(AH)

before any king reigned over the Israelites:

³²Bela son of Beor reigned in Edom;

the name of his city was Dinhabah.

³³When Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah reigned in his place.

³⁴When Jobab died, Husham from the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.

³⁵When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad reigned in his place.

He defeated Midian in the field of Moab;

the name of his city was Avith.

³⁶When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah reigned in his place.

³⁷When Samlah died, Shaul from Rehoboth on the Euphrates River reigned in his place.

³⁸When Shaul died, Baal-hanan son of Achbor reigned in his place.

³⁹When Baal-hanan son of Achbor died, Hadar^[n] reigned in his place.

His city was Pau, and his wife’s name was Mehetabel

daughter of Matred daughter of Me-zahab.

⁴⁰These are the names of Esau’s chiefs,

according to their families and their localities,

by their names:

chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth,

⁴¹chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,

⁴²chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,

⁴³chief Magdiel, and chief Iram.

These are Edom’s chiefs,

according to their settlements in the land they possessed.

Esau^[o] was father of the Edomites.

Footnotes:

35:7 = God of Bethel
35:8 Lit Deborah, Rebekah’s wet nurse; Gn 24:59
35:8 = Oak of Weeping
35:11 Lit will come from your loins
35:13 Lit went up
35:18 = Son of My Sorrow
35:18 = Son of the Right Hand
35:21 Or beyond Migdal-eder
36:2 Sam, LXX read Anah son
36:14 Sam, LXX read Anah son
36:16 Sam omits Korah
36:24 Syr, Vg; Tg reads the mules; Hb obscure
36:30 Lit Horites, for their chiefs
36:39 Many Hb mss, Sam, Syr read Hadad
36:43 Lit He Esau

Cross references:

35:1 : Gn 28:19
35:1 : Gn 27:43
35:2 : Gn 31:19; Jos 24:23; 1Sm 7:3
35:2 : Ex 19:10
35:3 : 1Sm 7:9; 2Sm 24:25; Jb 12:4; Ps 20:1; 34:4
35:3 : Gn 28:10-22
35:5 : Ex 23:27
35:6 : Gn 28:19; 48:3
35:8 : Gn 24:59
35:10 : Gn 17:5; 32:28
35:11 : Gn 17:1; 28:3; Ex 6:3
35:11 : Gn 9:1,7
35:11 : Gn 48:4
35:11 : Gn 17:6,16; 36:31
35:12 : Gn 12:7; 13:15; 26:3-4; 28:13; Ex 32:13
35:13 : Gn 17:22; 18:33
35:14 : Gn 28:18-19; 31:45
35:17 : Gn 30:24
35:19 : Mc 5:2; Mt 2:18
35:22 : Gn 49:3-4
35:22-26 : 1Ch 2:1-2
35:27 : Gn 13:18; 18:1; 23:19
35:27 : Jos 14:15
35:29 : Gn 25:8,17; 49:33; Nm 20:24,26; Dt 32:50
36:1 : Gn 2:4; 36:9
36:1 : Gn 25:30
36:2 : Gn 26:34
36:3 : Gn 28:9
36:7 : Gn 13:6
36:7 : Gn 17:8; Heb 11:9
36:8 : Dt 2:5
36:10-14 : 1Ch 1:35-37
36:20-28 : Gn 14:6; Dt 2:12,22; 1Ch 1:38-42
36:31-43 : Gn 17:6,16; 35:11; 1Ch 1:43-54

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Matthew 12:1-21

Lord of the Sabbath

12 At that time Jesus passed through the grainfields on the Sabbath.^(A) His disciples^(B) were hungry and began to pick and eat some heads of grain. ²When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “See, your disciples are doing what is not lawful^(C) to do on the Sabbath.”

³He said to them, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and those who were with him were hungry: ⁴how he entered the house of God, and they ate^[a] the bread of the Presence—which is not lawful for him or for those with him to eat, but only for the priests?^(D) ⁵Or haven’t you read in the law that on Sabbath days the priests in the temple violate the Sabbath and are innocent?^(E) ⁶I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.^(F) ⁷If you had known what this means, I desire mercy and not sacrifice,^[b]^(G) you would not have condemned the innocent. ⁸For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”^(H)

The Man with the Shriveled Hand

⁹Moving on from there, he entered their synagogue.^(I) ¹⁰There he saw a man who had a shriveled hand, and in order to accuse him they asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” ^(J)

¹¹He replied to them, “Who among you, if he had a sheep that fell into a pit on the Sabbath, wouldn’t take hold of it and lift it out?^(K) ¹²A person is worth far more than a sheep; ^(L) so it is lawful to do what is good on the Sabbath.”

¹³Then he told the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and it was restored,^(M) as good as the other. ¹⁴But the Pharisees went out and plotted against him, how they might kill him.^(N)

The Servant of the Lord

¹⁵Jesus was aware of this and withdrew. Large crowds^[c] followed him, and he healed them all.^(O) ¹⁶He warned them not to make him known,^(P) ¹⁷so that what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:

¹⁸Here is my servant whom I have chosen,
my beloved in whom I delight;
I will put my Spirit on him,
and he will proclaim justice to the nations.^(Q)
¹⁹He will not argue or shout,
and no one will hear his voice in the streets.
²⁰He will not break a bruised reed,
and he will not put out a smoldering wick,
until he has led justice to victory.^[d]
²¹The nations will put their hope in his name.^[e]^(R)

Footnotes:

12:4 Other mss read he ate
12:7 Hs 6:6
12:15 Other mss read Many
12:20 Or until he has successfully put forth justice
12:18-21 Is 42:1-4

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Psalm 15

A Description of the Godly

A psalm of David.

¹Lord, who can dwell in your tent?^(A)
Who can live on your holy mountain?^(B)

²The one who lives blamelessly, practices righteousness,
and acknowledges the truth in his heart^(C)—
³who does not slander with his tongue,^(D)
who does not harm his friend
or discredit his neighbor,^(E)
⁴who despises the one rejected by the Lord^[a]
but honors those who fear the Lord,^(F)
who keeps his word whatever the cost,^(G)
⁵who does not lend his silver at interest^(H)
or take a bribe against the innocent^(I)—
the one who does these things will never be shaken.^(J)

Footnotes:

15:4 Lit in his eyes the rejected is despised

Cross references:

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Proverbs 3:21-26

²¹Maintain sound wisdom and discretion.
My son, don’t lose sight of them.^(A)
²²They will be life for you^[a]^(B)
and adornment^[b] for your neck.
²³Then you will go safely on your way;
your foot will not stumble.^(C)
²⁴When you lie^[c] down, you will not be afraid;^(D)
you will lie down, and your sleep will be pleasant.
²⁵Don’t fear sudden danger
or the ruin of the wicked when it comes,^(E)
²⁶for the Lord will be your confidence^[d]
and will keep your foot from a snare.^(F)

Footnotes:

3:22 Or be your throat
3:22 Or grace
3:24 LXX reads sit
3:26 Or be at your side

Cross references:

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

January 16, 2020

01/16/2020 DAB Transcript

Genesis 32:13-34:31, Matthew 11:7-30, Psalms 14:1-7, Proverbs 3:19-20

Today is the 16^th day of January, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is wonderful to be here with you today as we continue the voyages that we have begun just days ago. So, we have set sail and we are moving our way into and through the Bible this year. We’re working our way through the book of Genesis in the Old Testament, in book of Matthew in the New. We’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week. Today Genesis chapter 32 verse 13 through 34 verse 31. And we’re talking about Jacob right now. We have met Abraham. We have met Isaac. And now we are encountering the life of Isaac’s son Jacob who had to flee away from his brother Esau because of his conniving. Now he is on his way home and he has experienced the other side of his conniver-y with his…his uncle Laban. So, where we pick up the story, Jacob has left Laban and is returning to his family. It’s been two decades. Laban found out about it and chased him down and there was a confrontation and a treaty was made. Now Jacob is continuing south toward his family and he sent some servants out in front of them to make contact with his brother Esau. And Esau is now on his way to meet Jacob with 400 mercenaries. So..so, Jacob has split his camp into two hoping that if one gets attacked the other might have a chance of survival. And that’s where we are. Genesis chapter 32 verse 13 through 34 verse 31.

Commentary:

Okay. There’s a few things that we need to talk about in order to keep our place in the story and in order to keep the Bible speaking…speaking into our stories. So, in the book of Genesis, we’ve been working…working our way through the story of Jacob. Jacob’s on his way back toward where his family has been dwelling to the south and Esau finds out he’s on his way and before they all meet up there’s this really interesting story where Jacob wrestles with somebody and that somebody has been a point of theological conjecture for a long, long, long…centuries, where some biblical scholars would say he's…he’s actually wrestling with God, like actually wrestling with…with an embodied version of God on the earth. And other people would say, “no. He’s wrestling with his brother Esau who found him and them they kind of fought it out because later on Jacob’s like, “seeing you is like seeing the face of God.” And…and, you know, we could try to really dig deep there, but what happened there is what is so important to where the story is headed because Jacob who is the grandson of Abraham, right? So, Abraham has Isaac his son, who then has Jacob his son. Jacob does this wrestling match and then in the process is given a new name and that new name is important. That new name is Israel and that shift actually bestowed identity upon his children as well because…well…from this point forward, we will begin to start seeing them as one people, the children of Israel.

Okay. Then in Matthew we have to look underneath the surface and see how people are responding to Jesus teachings and what people are thinking about Him Because we can read it from a couple of thousand years into the future and just, you know, try to pull out Jesus good moral teachings, and, you know, people today can read Jesus and be like, “who…who doesn’t agree with all this?” But the people during Jesus time, they did not agree with all that he was saying, in part because Jesus was describing the plot behind the story. Like He’s describing how things really are and nobody comprehends it. He’s revealing a kingdom that nobody can see and yet He’s talking as they would have expected the Messiah to talk. So, we know that John announced the way and even baptized Jesus and we know that John was arrested, and he was imprisoned. And at the end of our reading yesterday he had sent some of his disciples to Jesus with an important question, “are you the one or should we be looking for somebody else”, which is a fascinating question when you were the prophet that announced the arrival of the Savior. So, now John’s in prison going, “is He the One?” Like…and that gives us a lot of clues about what people were expecting, including John. The idea of a restoration of the people to God, where they could come under their own governing rule and be their own sovereign people set apart to God once again, that was an old story. It hadn’t been that way for these people for a very, very long time. So, this…this person, this miracle worker, wisdom teacher, prophet figure named Jesus shows up on the scene. We know who He is so I’m not saying only a wisdom teacher or whatever, but they didn't…like…He shows up on the scene and He sets their hearts on fire, but they don’t fully comprehend. And even John is like, “hang on. Are you the one, because we were, you know, like, I want…I need somebody to bust me outta here in time for the revolution?” And Jesus says, “look. Go back and tell John what you’ve seen. Go tell Him what I’m doing, that the…the eyes of the blind are being opened and the ears of the deaf are being able to hear and the dead are being raised and good news is being told to the poor and disenfranchised people. Go…go tell him that.” So, Jesus is saying, “what do you mean am I the one? I’m revealing the kingdom. Everywhere I go the kingdom is revealed. The kingdom is touching people’s eyes. The kingdom is touching people’s ears. The kingdom is touching people’s lives.” Right? So, we get this clear understanding that what the people were expecting in a Messiah was different than what God was revealing to them and the kingdom that they were hoping would come was already among and within them and they couldn’t see it. And Jesus is trying to show it to them, to reveal it to them, to open their eyes to it, which is the kind of things He says all the time. In other words, that their consciousness will become aware of something greater than they were already perceiving, that they would become intimately aware of something greater than themselves right there as opposed to the God that they had put in the box called a temple. So, as we begin in Matthew today Jesus is still talking about John. His disciples have left to go give John the message but He’s talking to the people. “Why did you go…why did you go out into the wilderness to see John? What was…what was…what were you looking for? Looking for a read swaying in the wind? Then what we looking for? Were you looking for somebody in nice clothes? Then you went to the wrong place. You need to go to the royal palace to find place…people like that. Why did you go see John? Did you go to see a prophet?” There you go. He is a prophet. And then he says something really, really interesting. “Among those born of women no one greater than John the Baptist has appeared, but the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he, for from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has been suffering violence and the violent been seizing it by force.” Okay, is a super popular passage of Scripture, but it feels confusing until you understand what’s going on here. Jesus is talking about the kingdom of heaven and He’s not talking about it as a future thing. He’s revealing the kingdom and inviting those with ears to hear and eyes to see to step into it and the first step is to become aware of it. And, so, He’s saying like, “there’s no one greater than John the prophet in the world except those who have stepped into the kingdom.” But this will remain confusing throughout Jesus ministry because it remains confusing now. Jesus is revealing a kingdom that exists now and the journey to it is inward and all they were looking for was external. And, so, here Jesus words, “let anyone who has ears listen.” He says it all the time. And then he keeps commenting. He’s basically saying, “it’s been sitting here in front of you in a number of ways, and you can’t see it.” So, He’s like, “what should I compare this generation to? This generation’s like kids sitting in the marketplace and they call out to other kids. We played the flute for you, but you didn’t dance. We sang a lament, but you didn’t mourn.” In other words, “we gave you the song and you ignored it.” Jesus said, “John came and neither eating nor drinking and everybody said he has a demon. And, so, then I come and I eat and I drink and you’re like you’re a glutton and a drunkard and you’re a friend of sinners and tax collectors.” So, what we’re watching here is pure truth, pure wholeness be completely misunderstood and mis-judged by people living backward to the way they were designed. And Jesus is like, “it’s right here calling to you and your labeling it the wrong things. Your labeling John as a person who has a demon. You’re labeling me as a son of Beelzebul. You’re claiming I’m a glutton because I eat and drink. You’re claiming I’m a drunkard and a friend of sinners because I hang out with people who need help.” So, what is it underneath all this that Jesus can see? What is it he can see that nobody else can see? What is he trying to get them to understand? We touched on this earlier. Jesus is walking the path of wisdom and revealing it with anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear. In fact, He’s, like, “you say John is a demon because he doesn’t eat or drink. You say I’m a glutton because I do, yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.” In other words, Jesus is saying to the people the same things He said to John’s disciples, “look at what I’m doing.” In fact, Jesus goes on to pray to the Father. “I praise You Father, Lord of heaven and earth because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent.” In other words, those who think they know. “And have revealed them to infants.” In other words, children. And He goes on to pray, “this is the good pleasure of the Father” and that “all things have been entrusted to Jesus by the Father” and…and “nobody knows the Son except the Father” and “no one knows the Father except the Son” and “anyone to whom the son desires to reveal Him.” And then He has does reveal Him. “Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me because I’m lowly and humble in heart, and you’ll find rest for your souls. My yoke is easy, my burden is light.” Again, super, super famous quotable stuff there. We’ll recite it like a mantra when were in the chaos of life, “His yoke is easy, His burden is light. He’ll give me rest for my soul.” We don’t understand this is a whole conversation that Jesus is having, one in which He’s telling His friends essentially, people aren’t gonna get you and that can get really nasty at times, even to the point where you get hauled into court and not know what to say, but if you will trust God He’ll tell you what to say. But they’re not going to get you. You’re the light of the world and the darkness doesn’t like the light. It exposes what’s in the dark and nobody wants that. Everybody’s claiming they just want the truth but what they want is just a better way to curate their lives and keep hidden what’s hidden and what’s exposed exposed. But Jesus is saying like the truth will set you free. I’m here for all light everywhere, nothing hidden. Everything that’s hidden will be revealed. And that is going to infuriate many people along the way because they won’t necessarily see it as an invitation to their freedom. The same kind of principles apply in recovery programs, right? Like you need to reach the end of yourself. You need to reach your rock bottom. In other words, all your shenanigans and all your games and all the things you’re trying to make life look as if it’s working, that all has to come crumbling down until you’re at the very very bottom and then you can begin. Jesus is fundamentally saying, all the constructs that you have made about yourself and all of the darkness that you’ve hidden in those places, that all has to come down and then you can begin. And if you realize that most of your life is built in pride and fear and constructs around that, and contrast that with Jesus who is lowly, humble in heart, we can see the plot that Jesus is telling is to a different story than the one we’re living. We’re so often seduced by our culture. It’s got to be bigger, it’s got to be better, it’s got a stronger, it’s gotta be faster, it’s got to be more individual, it’s gotta be more noticeable, it’s gotta throw us up the charts, it’s gotta put the spotlight on us, it’s got to reveal to the world what one single person can do. We gotta keep clawing, we gotta keep scratching, we gotta keep not taking no for an answer, we gotta out do those around us, we’ve gotta be superior to them, we’ve gotta be above them. It’s says, if that’s the goal we gotta put…put ourselves in a position where we have no vulnerabilities. And we remember that you can’t be known without vulnerability. And remember that Jesus said, there’ll be people who prophesied my name and I’ll say I never knew you.” And, so, what we’re seeing is Jesus saying, “there’s a different way to be human in this world. Your Father knows what you need and if you are only looking around you at everybody else. If you are only looking at what you can experience with your five physical senses, you will only ever experience lack because that’s not all there is. You have a heart made for God and you can let the mind of Christ open in you, or you can chase the chaos and keep trying to make your own self in your own image. It’s up to you.

Prayer:

Father, we invite You into that. These…these themes, they’re…they’re so constant in the Scriptures that we invite Your Holy Spirit to continue to bring them up in us because they will change us. Like, we will either come to the place where we close the Bible and set it down and walk away and say, “that is not where I want to go” or will say, “this is…this…this is what I’ve been looking for my whole life and I embrace it fully.” But this half and half out that we continually try to live, it doesn’t work. It won’t. And, so, we invite Your Holy Spirit to come and show us what “all in” looks like with You. And we have what we need to see because we are seeing You go “all in” on our behalf as we read the Gospels. So, come Holy Spirit we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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January 16, 2020

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Thursday January 16, 2020 (NIV)

Genesis 32:13-34:31

¹³He spent the night there and took part of what he had brought with him as a gift for his brother Esau:^(A) ¹⁴two hundred female goats, twenty male goats, two hundred ewes, twenty rams, ¹⁵thirty milk camels with their young, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys, and ten male donkeys. ¹⁶He entrusted them to his slaves as separate herds and said to them, “Go on ahead of me, and leave some distance between the herds.”

¹⁷And he told the first one: “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘Who do you belong to? Where are you going? And whose animals are these ahead of you?’ ¹⁸then tell him, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau. And look, he is behind us.’”

¹⁹He also told the second one, the third, and everyone who was walking behind the animals, “Say the same thing to Esau when you find him. ²⁰You are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’” For he thought, “I want to appease Esau with the gift that is going ahead of me. After that, I can face him, and perhaps he will forgive me.”

²¹So the gift was sent on ahead of him while he remained in the camp that night. ²²During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two slave women, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of Jabbok.^(B) ²³He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions.

Jacob Wrestles with God

²⁴Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.^(C) ²⁵When the man saw that he could not defeat him, he struck Jacob’s hip socket as they wrestled and dislocated his hip. ²⁶Then he said to Jacob, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”

But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

²⁷“What is your name?” the man asked.

“Jacob,” he replied.

²⁸“Your name will no longer be Jacob,”^(D) he said. “It will be Israel^[a] because you have struggled with God^(E) and with men and have prevailed.”

²⁹Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.”

But he answered, “Why do you ask my name?” ^(F) And he blessed him there.

³⁰Jacob then named the place Peniel,^[b] “For I have seen God face to face,” he said, “yet my life has been spared.”^(G) ³¹The sun shone on him as he passed by Penuel^[c]^(H)—limping because of his hip. ³²That is why, still today, the Israelites don’t eat the thigh muscle that is at the hip socket: because he struck Jacob’s hip socket at the thigh muscle.^[d]

Jacob Meets Esau

33 Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two slave women. ²He put the slaves and their children first, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last. ³He himself went on ahead and bowed to the ground^(I) seven times until he approached his brother.

⁴But Esau ran to meet him, hugged him, threw his arms around him, and kissed him. Then they wept.^(J) ⁵When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, “Who are these with you?”

He answered, “The children God has graciously given your servant.”^(K) ⁶Then the slaves and their children approached him and bowed down. ⁷Leah and her children also approached and bowed down, and then Joseph and Rachel approached and bowed down.

⁸So Esau said, “What do you mean by this whole procession^[e] I met?” ^(L)

“To find favor with you, my lord,”^(M) he answered.

⁹“I have enough, my brother,” Esau replied. “Keep what you have.”

¹⁰But Jacob said, “No, please! If I have found favor with you, take this gift from me. For indeed, I have seen your face, and it is like seeing God’s face, since you have accepted me. ¹¹Please take my present that was brought to you, because God has been gracious to me and I have everything I need.” So Jacob urged him until he accepted.

¹²Then Esau said, “Let’s move on, and I’ll go ahead of you.”

¹³Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are weak, and I have nursing flocks and herds. If they are driven hard for one day, the whole herd will die. ¹⁴Let my lord go ahead of his servant. I will continue on slowly, at a pace suited to the livestock and the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.”

¹⁵Esau said, “Let me leave some of my people with you.”

But he replied, “Why do that? Please indulge me,^[f] my lord.”^(N)

¹⁶That day Esau started on his way back to Seir, ¹⁷but Jacob went to Succoth. He built a house for himself and shelters for his livestock; that is why the place was called Succoth.^[g]^(O)

¹⁸After Jacob came from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely^(P) at Shechem^(Q) in the land of Canaan and camped in front of the city. ¹⁹He purchased a section of the field where he had pitched his tent from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.^[h]^(R) ²⁰And he set up an altar there and called it God, the God of Israel.^[i]

Dinah Defiled

34 Leah’s daughter^(S) Dinah, whom Leah bore to Jacob, went out to see some of the young women of the area. ²When Shechem—son of Hamor the Hivite, who was the region’s chieftain—saw her, he took her and raped her. ³He became infatuated with Jacob’s daughter Dinah. He loved the young girl and spoke tenderly to her.^[j] ⁴“Get me this girl as a wife,”^(T) he told his father.

⁵Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah, but since his sons were with his livestock in the field, he remained silent until they returned. ⁶Meanwhile, Shechem’s father Hamor came to speak with Jacob. ⁷Jacob’s sons returned from the field when they heard about the incident and were deeply grieved and very angry. For Shechem had committed an outrage against Israel by raping Jacob’s daughter,^(U) and such a thing should not be done.

⁸Hamor said to Jacob’s sons, “My son Shechem has his heart set on your^[k] daughter. Please give her to him as a wife. ⁹Intermarry with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves. ¹⁰Live with us. The land is before you. Settle here, move about, and acquire property in it.”

¹¹Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Grant me this favor,^[l] and I’ll give you whatever you say. ¹²Demand of me a high compensation^[m] and gift; I’ll give you whatever you ask me. Just give the girl to be my wife!”

¹³But Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully because he had defiled their sister Dinah. ¹⁴“We cannot do this thing,” they said to them. “Giving our sister to an uncircumcised man is a disgrace to us. ¹⁵We will agree with you only on this condition: if all your males are circumcised as we are.^(V) ¹⁶Then we will give you our daughters, take your daughters for ourselves, live with you, and become one people. ¹⁷But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and go.”

¹⁸Their words seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem. ¹⁹The young man did not delay doing this, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. Now he was the most important in all his father’s family. ²⁰So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city^(W) and spoke to the men of their city.

²¹“These men are peaceful toward us,” they said. “Let them live in our land and move about in it, for indeed, the region is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters as our wives and give our daughters to them. ²²But the men will agree to live with us and be one people only on this condition: if all our men are circumcised as they are. ²³Won’t their livestock, their possessions, and all their animals become ours? Only let us agree with them, and they will live with us.”

²⁴All the men^(X) who had come to the city gates listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and all those men were circumcised. ²⁵On the third day, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi,^(Y) Dinah’s brothers, took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and killed every male. ²⁶They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and went away. ²⁷Jacob’s sons came to the slaughter and plundered the city because their sister had been defiled. ²⁸They took their flocks, herds, donkeys, and whatever was in the city and in the field. ²⁹They captured all their possessions, dependents, and wives and plundered everything in the houses.

³⁰Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me,^(Z) making me odious to the inhabitants of the land,^(AA) the Canaanites and the Perizzites.^(AB) We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”^(AC)

³¹But they answered, “Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?”

Footnotes:

32:28 In Hb, the name Israel sounds like “he struggled (with) God.”
32:30 = Face of God
32:31 Variant of Peniel
32:32 Or tendon
33:8 Lit camp
33:15 Lit May I find favor in your eyes
33:17 = Stalls or Huts
33:19 Lit 100 qesitahs; the value of this currency is unknown
33:20 = El-Elohe-Israel
34:3 Lit spoke to her heart
34:8 The Hb word for your is pl, showing that Hamor is speaking to Jacob and his sons.
34:11 Lit “May I find favor in your eyes
34:12 Or bride-price, or betrothal present

Cross references:

32:13 : Gn 43:11
32:22 : Dt 2:37; 3:16; Jos 12:2
32:24 : Hs 12:3-4
32:28 : Gn 35:10; 2Kg 17:34
32:28 : Hs 12:3-4
32:29 : Jdg 13:18
32:30 : Gn 16:13; Ex 24:10-11; 33:20; Nm 12:8; Jdg 6:22; 13:22
32:31 : Jdg 8:8
33:3 : Gn 18:2; 42:6; 43:26
33:4 : Gn 45:14
33:5 : Gn 48:9; Ps 127:3; Is 8:18
33:8 : Gn 32:13-16
33:8 : Gn 32:5
33:15 : Gn 34:11; 47:25; Ru 2:13
33:17 : Jos 13:27; Jdg 8:5; Ps 60:6
33:18 : Gn 28:21
33:18 : Jos 24:1; Jdg 9:1; Ps 60:6; Ac 7:16
33:19 : Jos 24:32; Jn 4:5
34:1 : Gn 30:21
34:4 : Jdg 14:2
34:7 : Dt 22:20-30; Jdg 20:6; 2Sm 13:12
34:15 : Gn 17:23-27
34:20 : Ru 4:1; 2Sm 15:2
34:24 : Gn 23:10
34:25 : Gn 49:5-7
34:30 : Jos 7:25
34:30 : Ex 5:21; 1Sm 13:4; 2Sm 10:6
34:30 : Gn 13:7; 34:2
34:30 : Gn 46:26-27; Dt 4:27; 1Ch 16:19; Ps 105:12

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Matthew 11:7-30

⁷As these men were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swaying in the wind?^(A) ⁸What then did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothes? See, those who wear soft clothes are in royal palaces. ⁹What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.^(B) ¹⁰This is the one about whom it is written:

See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you;
he will prepare your way before you.^[a]^(C)

¹¹“Truly I tell you, among those born of women no one greater than John the Baptist has appeared,^[b] but the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. ¹²From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been suffering violence,^[c] and the violent have been seizing it by force. ¹³For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. ¹⁴And if you’re willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who is to come.^(D) ¹⁵Let anyone who has ears^[d] listen.^(E)

An Unresponsive Generation

¹⁶“To what should I compare this generation? It’s like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to other children:

¹⁷We played the flute for you,
but you didn’t dance;
we sang a lament,
but you didn’t mourn!^[e]

¹⁸For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’^(F) ¹⁹The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard,^(G) a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’^(H) Yet wisdom is vindicated^[f] by her deeds.”^[g]

²⁰Then he proceeded to denounce the towns where most of his miracles were done, because they did not repent: ²¹“Woe to you, Chorazin!^(I) Woe to you, Bethsaida!^(J) For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon,^(K) they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes long ago. ²²But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment^(L) than for you. ²³And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will go down to Hades.^(M) For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until today. ²⁴But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”

The Son Gives Knowledge and Rest

²⁵At that time Jesus said,^(N) “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and revealed them to infants.^(O) ²⁶Yes, Father, because this was your good pleasure.^[h] ²⁷All things have been entrusted to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son desires^[i] to reveal him.^(P)

²⁸“Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.^(Q) ²⁹Take up my yoke and learn from me,^(R) because I am lowly and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.^(S) ³⁰For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

Footnotes:

11:10 Mal 3:1
11:11 Lit arisen
11:12 Or has been forcefully advancing
11:15 Other mss add to hear
11:17 Or beat your chests in grief
11:19 Or declared right
11:19 Other mss read children
11:26 Lit was well-pleasing in your sight
11:27 Or wills, or chooses

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Psalm 14

A Portrait of Sinners

For the choir director. Of David.

¹The fool says in his heart, “There’s no God.”^(A)
They are corrupt; they do vile deeds.
There is no one who does good.
²The Lord looks down from heaven on the human race^[a]^(B)
to see if there is one who is wise,
one who seeks God.
³All have turned away;
all alike have become corrupt.
There is no one who does good,
not even one.^(C)

⁴Will evildoers never understand?
They consume my people as they consume bread;^(D)
they do not call on the Lord.^(E)

⁵Then^[b] they will be filled with dread,
for God is with those who are^[c] righteous.^(F)
⁶You sinners frustrate the plans of the oppressed,^(G)
but the Lord is his refuge.^(H)

⁷Oh, that Israel’s deliverance would come from Zion!
When the Lord restores the fortunes of his people,^[d]
let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.^(I)

Footnotes:

14:2 Or the descendants of Adam
14:5 Or There
14:5 Lit with the generation of the
14:7 Or restores his captive people

Cross references:

14:1 : Ps 10:4; 53:1
14:2 : Ps 33:13-15
14:1-3 : Ps 12:1; 53:1-3; Mc 7:2; Rm 3:10-12
14:4 : Ps 27:2; Mc 3:3
14:4 : Is 64:7
14:5 : Ps 53:5
14:6 : Ezr 4:5
14:6 : Ps 9:9; 94:22
14:7 : Ps 53:6

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Proverbs 3:19-20

¹⁹The Lord founded the earth by wisdom^(A)
and established the heavens by understanding.
²⁰By his knowledge the watery depths broke open,^(B)
and the clouds dripped with dew.^(C)

Cross references:

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

January 15, 2020

01/15/2020 DAB Transcript

Genesis 31:17-32:12, Matthew 10:24-11:6, Psalms 13:1-6, Proverbs 3:16-18

Today is the 15^th day of January, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible, I’m Brian it’s great to be here with you. And I suppose at some point halfway through today we…we cross the center of month number one, halfway through the first month of a new year and decade. So, well done…well done. And let’s just take a moment here to reflect on the first two weeks of the Bible. Like the Bible has been speaking to us. It is an amazing voyage that we have embarked on together. And, so, let’s continue that journey. Today…well…this week we’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible. And today Genesis chapter 31 verse 17 to 32 verse 12. And we continue to read of the great drama of the patriarch Jacob.

Commentary:

Alright. Let’s look at what Jesus is talking about in the book of Matthew today. He’s still commissioning, He’s still instructing His followers as they’re being sent out and He’s basically telling them, “this is what you can expect.” So, “a disciple isn’t above the teacher. A slave isn’t above the master. It’s enough for a disciple to become like his Teacher, which is why we aspire to become Christlike in our faith. But that’s not Jesus point. Jesus point is, “don’t expect to be treated differently then you’re watching me be treated. If you want to become like your Master, then you should see the things that your Master goes through. This is what you ‘e gonna go through.” And, so, He says, “if they call the head of the house Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household?” This word, Beelzebul or Beelzebub. We’ve probably heard it before. We’ve probably heard it Beelzebub like referring to the devil. Although this wouldn’t have been a name, I suspect that the evil one would’ve chosen for itself. So, Beelzebul, means Baal the Prince. And we’re just a couple weeks into the Bible but we’re gonna see Baal worship a lot. So, Beelzebub is probably a distortion of this, and it means the Lord of the flies. More…more specifically like Lord of…of the…the manure pile. Alright. And, so, the subjects would be the flies. So, Jesus is saying like, “you’re becoming a part of this divine family, this household and I am the head of the house and if they’re gonna call me that how much more are they gonna call you that.” And this is another opportunity for us to pause right at the beginning of this journey because it clicks so many things into place about our own personal faith journey because we believe that when we…when we come into a relationship with Jesus and begin to follow that path then we become children of God and so blessing becomes apparent all around us and this is what we have to look forward to. And, so, it becomes really confusing then when we have to face supreme struggles in life. And what we have to become aware of is that Jesus, God made flesh dwelling among us as a human being faced and predicted of the struggles of life that we’re going to face. This idea that the opposition will come our way and that it that…that it must be endured and that we must press into and press through these things. This isn’t hidden in the Bible, it’s like blinking all over the place, and ultimately where going to find out how necessary challenge is to our growth. But nevertheless, Jesus is preparing His first friends to go into the world, and this is what He’s telling them to expect. So, after we talk about the Lord of flies He says, “don’t be afraid of them. There’s nothing covered that won’t be uncovered and nothing hidden that won’t be made known. What I tell you in the dark, speak in the light. What you hear in a whisper, proclaim to the house tops. Don’t fear those who can kill the body but aren’t able to kill the soul. Fear the one who can do both. Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not even one of them falls to the ground without the Father’s consent. And even the hairs of the head…the hairs of your head have been counted. So, don’t be afraid. You’re worth more than many sparrows.” So, what are Jesus fundamental instructions here. He’s telling His friends, “people are gonna say some pretty bad things about you. They’re gonna make all kinds of weird and awful references about you because they’re doing that to me and you are a part of me. So, this is what you can expect. They’re gonna…they’re gonna say all kinds of stuff about you, but don’t worry. Nothing that’s covered is gonna stay uncovered and there’s nothing that’s hidden that won’t be made known.” In other words, keep going, keep being true, keep announcing the kingdom. In the end what’s in the dark will be drug out into the light. Keep enduring, keep moving forward, keep going. “Those that acknowledge me before others, I will acknowledge before the Father in heaven and those who deny I’ll deny before the Father in heaven.” Okay and then this is where it gets really, really challenging. I’m quoting Jesus. “Don’t assume that I came to bring peace on the earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. For I came to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies will be the members of his household.” And that’s Jesus quoting from the prophet Micah when He goes on. “The one who loves a father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. The one who loves a son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever doesn’t take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Anyone who finds his life will lose it, and anyone who loses his life because of me will find it.” If those words are disruptive to you, like if…if they kind of shake you a bit and you’re like, “okay. How…how would I…how do I even think about doing that successfully? Then good. Then Jesus has spoken words that have gotten your attention. And you can imagine that if you were standing in a crowd around Jesus as these things were being spoken that they would have your attention. But how do we do this? Like, how do we love father or mother less and love him more so that we’re worthy or how do we love son or daughter less so…so that we’re worthy? Is that even quantifiable, right? Like, could you ever think to yourself, “okay. I love my daughter with all of my heart but a little less than I love Jesus and I see that on my love gauge meter.” What’s underneath all this? What is Jesus getting at? Why is He saying disruptive things to get our attention? What are we supposed to know here? Basically lets just remember our journey and its beginning, like on day two, when we were crossing through Genesis chapter 3 and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the rebellion and the eyes of Adam and Eve being opened and their shame and their awareness of their nakedness. The way that we describe this in the Christian faith is often like a canyon or a chasm, a separation from God. Like, that’s very, very common imagery. Let’s go into that for a second. If you are separate from something, then you are aware that you are other than that thing, right? But that separation was never intended to be the way we viewed reality. And awareness of our separateness from God was not our created state. So, anyone who’s ever gone through a situation where the reality that you thought you understood was not the whole picture, like there was a whole lot more and it’s overwhelming. Like, that can be devastating. For example, if you’re a married person, you find out your spouse has been unfaithful, that is a complete shift in consciousness and awareness, and a complete reframing of the reality that you thought you knew. And when something like that happens, the union that you thought you had is blown apart, and you couldn’t feel more separate than you do. We could say you become acutely aware of the separation between you. When these sorts of things happen, what do you hear? We’ve decided to separate. So, you can imagine Adam and Eve becoming aware for the first time of these categories, that they even exist. And we see from the Scriptures, they’re…they’re eyes are opened, and they feel ashamed and they feel naked and they hide and then…then they’re covered and then they’re covering themselves from then on. When our natural state is naked and unashamed and unafraid, like a child. After this, a reality that wasn’t the intended one was made manifest, became their reality and required them to create an identity that was shaped around themselves because this is all they need to do. And at some point, along the line we began to call this our “self”. It’s the thing. It’s the construct of that we have that tells us we are separate from somebody else and we have our own way of looking at things. Okay, let’s go back into our story here. Jesus is saying all of these things. Like why is He telling His friends, “they’re calling me Lord of the flies, Lord of the manure pile. They’re gonna call you that too.” Like why would anybody call pure light and love and graciousness, why would anybody call a true, fully, whole human being like Jesus anything like that? Truth and true humanity came into the world and were modeled and humanity had fallen so far from God that it could not not only recognize God, but rather confuse God with Beelzebub and eventually plot and succeed to assassinate God. The religious leaders who were doing the work of stewarding the souls of the people in their relations to God could not see beyond themselves in order to acknowledge God. To maybe put it more in the vernacular of the Bible, “the light came into the darkness and the darkness comprehended it not. Couldn’t understand, couldn’t become aware.” So, this “self”, and we all have one of those, right, this awareness of our separateness, this “self” and all these things that we attach it to in order to have an identity can actually serve to reinforce our separation from God. The very thing that this Jesus that we are learning and reading about came to bridge; however, in crossing that bridge…and again this is Christianity 101…in crossing that bridge we have to leave something behind, ourselves. We’re instructed in the Scriptures to die to ourselves and become alive unto God and in the process become awakened and aware of who we really are in Christ, which we will explore very deeply as we move through the New Testament. So, fundamentally what Jesus is saying is that anything you are holding onto, any attachment that you have in your life, whether that’s to a person or to a place or to a thing, if you are more attached to that, if you’re looking for that to be your source of life then you aren’t worthy of me. This…this isn’t something new. This is the whole Bible. We’re just gonna repeatedly watch different people over different periods of time try to create a world that they can control and live in only to find it destroys them because we do not live in a godless world and this world will not work without Him. And the only way forward is into full and utter surrender. And when that comes into our lives, when we think about Jesus and surrendering to Him, we might be able to get our minds around surrendering to God but then when we look at our lives functionally, we realize we’re not doing a whole lot of surrendering or sacrificing. And people don’t like to be told to do. People don’t like to submit and surrender. People don’t want the truth enough to search for it with all of their hearts no matter what it might bring them to. The truth will and does set us free, but not before it confronts what is false. And we as people are notoriously not good at accepting that. So, that brings Jesus words, “don’t assume that I came to bring peace on the earth. I didn’t come to bring peace but a sword.” What we’re talking about here is the truth, the truth of how things are. And the more we listen to Jesus and His teachings and explore this, the more we will see how distant from that reality the world is. And it’s easy for us to think like, “why can’t everybody just get on the same page? Why can’t we just figure out hunger? Why can’t we just figure out peace? Like, we’re people. We’re in this together. Why can’t we figure this out?” That’s kind of what God has been saying all along and that’s kind of what he says throughout all of the Bible. “You guys. Return to me. The whole story can change.” One kingdom does not replace another kingdom without conflict and disruption though, and that happens in our own hearts. In fact, it happens here first. And so, let’s embrace it.

Prayer:

Jesus, we…it’s hard to consider the disruption even when we know you are in it. It’s hard to consider it good until later…you…because it’s unpleasant, it…it shakes what we think we know, it…it causes us to…to feel out of sorts. And all you’re doing is exposing our need for control and all of the false constructs of our lives. And, so, we’re here and we trust you. You are God and we trust you. And, so, we invite your Holy Spirit to lead us into all truth. And this is a common thing that we pray for. We..we need it desperately, we need it daily, we need it hourly, we need it every minute. So, come Holy Spirit we pray. Lead us into all truth we ask in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Genesis 41:17-42

Joseph Rises to Power

Joseph's Brothers Go to Egypt

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Matthew 13:24-46

The Parable of the Weeds

The Mustard Seed and the Leaven

Prophecy and Parables

The Parable of the Weeds Explained

The Parable of the Hidden Treasure

The Parable of the Pearl of Great Value

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Psalm 18:1-15

The Lord Is My Rock and My Fortress

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, (A)the servant of the Lord, (B)who addressed the words of this (C)song to the Lord on the day when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said:

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Proverbs 4:1-6

A Father's Wise Instruction

Footnotes:

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Genesis 39:1-41:16

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife

Joseph Interprets Two Prisoners' Dreams

Joseph Interprets Pharaoh's Dreams

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Matthew 12:46-13:23

Jesus' Mother and Brothers

The Parable of the Sower

The Purpose of the Parables

The Parable of the Sower Explained

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Psalm 17

In the Shadow of Your Wings

A (A)Prayer of David.

Footnotes:

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Proverbs 3:33-35

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Genesis 37-38

Joseph’s Dreams

Joseph Sold into Slavery

Judah and Tamar

Footnotes:

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Matthew 12:22-45

A House Divided

A Tree and Its Fruit

The Sign of Jonah

An Unclean Spirit’s Return

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Psalm 16

Psalm 16

Confidence in the Lord

A Miktam of David.(A)

Footnotes:

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Proverbs 3:27-32

Treat Others Fairly

Footnotes:

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Genesis 35-36

Return to Bethel

Rachel’s Death

Israel’s Sons

Isaac’s Death

Esau’s Family

Seir’s Family

Rulers of Edom

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Matthew 12:1-21

Lord of the Sabbath

The Man with the Shriveled Hand

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, ^(A)the servant of the Lord, ^(B)who addressed the words of this ^(C)song to the Lord on the day when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said:

A ^(A)Prayer of David.

A Miktam of David.^(A)