A Walk Through The Word

October 6, 2019

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Sunday October 6, 2019 (NIV)

Jeremiah 6:16-8:7

¹⁶This is what the Lord says:

“Stand at the crossroads and look;
ask for the ancient paths,^(A)
ask where the good way^(B) is, and walk in it,
and you will find rest^(C) for your souls.
But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
¹⁷I appointed watchmen^(D) over you and said,
‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’^(E)
But you said, ‘We will not listen.’^(F)
¹⁸Therefore hear, you nations;
you who are witnesses,
observe what will happen to them.
¹⁹Hear, you earth:^(G)
I am bringing disaster^(H) on this people,
the fruit of their schemes,^(I)
because they have not listened to my words^(J)
and have rejected my law.^(K)
²⁰What do I care about incense from Sheba^(L)
or sweet calamus^(M) from a distant land?
Your burnt offerings are not acceptable;^(N)
your sacrifices^(O) do not please me.”^(P)

²¹Therefore this is what the Lord says:

“I will put obstacles before this people.
Parents and children alike will stumble^(Q) over them;
neighbors and friends will perish.”

²²This is what the Lord says:

“Look, an army is coming
from the land of the north;^(R)
a great nation is being stirred up
from the ends of the earth.^(S)
²³They are armed with bow and spear;
they are cruel and show no mercy.^(T)
They sound like the roaring sea^(U)
as they ride on their horses;^(V)
they come like men in battle formation
to attack you, Daughter Zion.^(W)”

²⁴We have heard reports about them,
and our hands hang limp.^(X)
Anguish^(Y) has gripped us,
pain like that of a woman in labor.^(Z)
²⁵Do not go out to the fields
or walk on the roads,
for the enemy has a sword,
and there is terror on every side.^(AA)
²⁶Put on sackcloth,^(AB) my people,
and roll in ashes;^(AC)
mourn with bitter wailing^(AD)
as for an only son,^(AE)
for suddenly the destroyer^(AF)
will come upon us.

²⁷“I have made you a tester^(AG) of metals
and my people the ore,
that you may observe
and test their ways.
²⁸They are all hardened rebels,^(AH)
going about to slander.^(AI)
They are bronze and iron;^(AJ)
they all act corruptly.
²⁹The bellows blow fiercely
to burn away the lead with fire,
but the refining^(AK) goes on in vain;
the wicked are not purged out.
³⁰They are called rejected silver,^(AL)
because the Lord has rejected them.”^(AM)

False Religion Worthless

7 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: ²“Stand^(AN) at the gate of the Lord’s house and there proclaim this message:

“‘Hear the word of the Lord, all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship the Lord. ³This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Reform your ways^(AO) and your actions, and I will let you live^(AP) in this place. ⁴Do not trust^(AQ) in deceptive^(AR) words and say, “This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord!” ⁵If you really change^(AS) your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly,^(AT) ⁶if you do not oppress^(AU) the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood^(AV) in this place, and if you do not follow other gods^(AW) to your own harm, ⁷then I will let you live in this place, in the land^(AX) I gave your ancestors^(AY) for ever and ever. ⁸But look, you are trusting^(AZ) in deceptive^(BA) words that are worthless.

⁹“‘Will you steal^(BB) and murder,^(BC) commit adultery^(BD) and perjury,^[a]^(BE) burn incense to Baal^(BF) and follow other gods^(BG) you have not known, ¹⁰and then come and stand^(BH) before me in this house,^(BI) which bears my Name, and say, “We are safe”—safe to do all these detestable things?^(BJ) ¹¹Has this house,^(BK) which bears my Name, become a den of robbers^(BL) to you? But I have been watching!^(BM) declares the Lord.

¹²“‘Go now to the place in Shiloh^(BN) where I first made a dwelling^(BO) for my Name,^(BP) and see what I did^(BQ) to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel. ¹³While you were doing all these things, declares the Lord, I spoke^(BR) to you again and again,^(BS) but you did not listen;^(BT) I called^(BU) you, but you did not answer.^(BV) ¹⁴Therefore, what I did to Shiloh^(BW) I will now do to the house that bears my Name,^(BX) the temple^(BY) you trust in, the place I gave to you and your ancestors. ¹⁵I will thrust you from my presence,^(BZ) just as I did all your fellow Israelites, the people of Ephraim.’^(CA)

¹⁶“So do not pray for this people nor offer any plea^(CB) or petition for them; do not plead with me, for I will not listen^(CC) to you. ¹⁷Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? ¹⁸The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough and make cakes to offer to the Queen of Heaven.^(CD) They pour out drink offerings^(CE) to other gods to arouse^(CF) my anger. ¹⁹But am I the one they are provoking?^(CG) declares the Lord. Are they not rather harming themselves, to their own shame?^(CH)

²⁰“‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign^(CI) Lord says: My anger^(CJ) and my wrath will be poured^(CK) out on this place—on man and beast, on the trees of the field and on the crops of your land—and it will burn and not be quenched.^(CL)

²¹“‘This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Go ahead, add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices^(CM) and eat^(CN) the meat yourselves! ²²For when I brought your ancestors out of Egypt and spoke to them, I did not just give them commands^(CO) about burnt offerings and sacrifices,^(CP) ²³but I gave them this command:^(CQ) Obey^(CR) me, and I will be your God and you will be my people.^(CS) Walk in obedience to all^(CT) I command you, that it may go well^(CU) with you. ²⁴But they did not listen^(CV) or pay attention;^(CW) instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts.^(CX) They went backward^(CY) and not forward. ²⁵From the time your ancestors left Egypt until now, day after day, again and again^(CZ) I sent you my servants^(DA) the prophets.^(DB) ²⁶But they did not listen to me or pay attention.^(DC) They were stiff-necked^(DD) and did more evil than their ancestors.’^(DE)

²⁷“When you tell^(DF) them all this, they will not listen^(DG) to you; when you call to them, they will not answer.^(DH) ²⁸Therefore say to them, ‘This is the nation that has not obeyed the Lord its God or responded to correction.^(DI) Truth^(DJ) has perished; it has vanished from their lips.

²⁹“‘Cut off^(DK) your hair and throw it away; take up a lament^(DL) on the barren heights, for the Lord has rejected and abandoned^(DM) this generation that is under his wrath.

The Valley of Slaughter

³⁰“‘The people of Judah have done evil^(DN) in my eyes, declares the Lord. They have set up their detestable idols^(DO) in the house that bears my Name and have defiled^(DP) it. ³¹They have built the high places of Topheth^(DQ) in the Valley of Ben Hinnom^(DR) to burn their sons and daughters^(DS) in the fire—something I did not command, nor did it enter my mind.^(DT) ³²So beware, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when people will no longer call it Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter,^(DU) for they will bury^(DV) the dead in Topheth until there is no more room. ³³Then the carcasses^(DW) of this people will become food^(DX) for the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.^(DY) ³⁴I will bring an end to the sounds^(DZ) of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride and bridegroom^(EA) in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem,^(EB) for the land will become desolate.^(EC)

8 “‘At that time, declares the Lord, the bones of the kings and officials of Judah, the bones of the priests and prophets, and the bones^(ED) of the people of Jerusalem will be removed^(EE) from their graves. ²They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and all the stars of the heavens, which they have loved and served^(EF) and which they have followed and consulted and worshiped.^(EG) They will not be gathered up or buried,^(EH) but will be like dung lying on the ground.^(EI) ³Wherever I banish them,^(EJ) all the survivors of this evil nation will prefer death to life,^(EK) declares the Lord Almighty.’

Sin and Punishment

⁴“Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord says:

“‘When people fall down, do they not get up?^(EL)
When someone turns away,^(EM) do they not return?
⁵Why then have these people turned away?
Why does Jerusalem always turn away?
They cling to deceit;^(EN)
they refuse to return.^(EO)
⁶I have listened^(EP) attentively,
but they do not say what is right.
None of them repent^(EQ) of their wickedness,
saying, “What have I done?”
Each pursues their own course^(ER)
like a horse charging into battle.
⁷Even the stork in the sky
knows her appointed seasons,
and the dove, the swift and the thrush
observe the time of their migration.
But my people do not know^(ES)
the requirements of the Lord.

Footnotes:

Jeremiah 7:9 Or and swear by false gods

Cross references:

New International Version (NIV)

Colossians 2:8-23

⁸See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy,^(A) which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces^[a] of this world^(B) rather than on Christ.

⁹For in Christ all the fullness^(C) of the Deity lives in bodily form, ¹⁰and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head^(D) over every power and authority.^(E) ¹¹In him you were also circumcised^(F) with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh^[b]^(G) was put off when you were circumcised by^[c] Christ, ¹²having been buried with him in baptism,^(H) in which you were also raised with him^(I) through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.^(J)

¹³When you were dead in your sins^(K) and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you^[d] alive^(L) with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,^(M) ¹⁴having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness,^(N) which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.^(O) ¹⁵And having disarmed the powers and authorities,^(P) he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them^(Q) by the cross.^[e]

Freedom From Human Rules

¹⁶Therefore do not let anyone judge you^(R) by what you eat or drink,^(S) or with regard to a religious festival,^(T) a New Moon celebration^(U) or a Sabbath day.^(V) ¹⁷These are a shadow of the things that were to come;^(W) the reality, however, is found in Christ. ¹⁸Do not let anyone who delights in false humility^(X) and the worship of angels disqualify you.^(Y) Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind. ¹⁹They have lost connection with the head,^(Z) from whom the whole body,^(AA) supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.^(AB)

²⁰Since you died with Christ^(AC) to the elemental spiritual forces of this world,^(AD) why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules:^(AE) ²¹“Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”? ²²These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish^(AF) with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings.^(AG) ²³Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility^(AH) and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.

Footnotes:

Colossians 2:8 Or the basic principles; also in verse 20
Colossians 2:11 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit; also in verse 13.
Colossians 2:11 Or put off in the circumcision of
Colossians 2:13 Some manuscripts us
Colossians 2:15 Or them in him

Cross references:

Colossians 2:8 : 1Ti 6:20
Colossians 2:8 : ver 20; Gal 4:3
Colossians 2:9 : S Jn 1:16
Colossians 2:10 : S Eph 1:22
Colossians 2:10 : S Mt 28:18
Colossians 2:11 : Ro 2:29; Php 3:3
Colossians 2:11 : S Gal 5:24
Colossians 2:12 : S Mt 28:19
Colossians 2:12 : S Ro 6:5
Colossians 2:12 : S Ac 2:24
Colossians 2:13 : Eph 2:1, 5
Colossians 2:13 : Eph 2:5
Colossians 2:13 : Eph 4:32
Colossians 2:14 : Eph 2:15
Colossians 2:14 : 1Pe 2:24
Colossians 2:15 : ver 10; Eph 6:12
Colossians 2:15 : Mt 12:29; Lk 10:18; Jn 12:31
Colossians 2:16 : Ro 14:3, 4
Colossians 2:16 : Mk 7:19; Ro 14:17
Colossians 2:16 : Lev 23:2; Ro 14:5
Colossians 2:16 : 1Ch 23:31
Colossians 2:16 : Mk 2:27, 28; Gal 4:10
Colossians 2:17 : Heb 8:5; 10:1
Colossians 2:18 : ver 23
Colossians 2:18 : 1Co 9:24; Php 3:14
Colossians 2:19 : S Eph 1:22
Colossians 2:19 : S 1Co 12:27
Colossians 2:19 : Eph 4:16
Colossians 2:20 : S Ro 6:6
Colossians 2:20 : ver 8; Gal 4:3, 9
Colossians 2:20 : ver 14, 16
Colossians 2:22 : 1Co 6:13
Colossians 2:22 : Isa 29:13; Mt 15:9; Tit 1:14
Colossians 2:23 : ver 18

New International Version (NIV)

Psalm 78:1-31

Psalm 78

A maskil^[a] of Asaph.

¹My people, hear my teaching;^(A)
listen to the words of my mouth.
²I will open my mouth with a parable;^(B)
I will utter hidden things, things from of old—
³things we have heard and known,
things our ancestors have told us.^(C)
⁴We will not hide them from their descendants;^(D)
we will tell the next generation^(E)
the praiseworthy deeds^(F) of the Lord,
his power, and the wonders^(G) he has done.
⁵He decreed statutes^(H) for Jacob^(I)
and established the law in Israel,
which he commanded our ancestors
to teach their children,
⁶so the next generation would know them,
even the children yet to be born,^(J)
and they in turn would tell their children.
⁷Then they would put their trust in God
and would not forget^(K) his deeds
but would keep his commands.^(L)
⁸They would not be like their ancestors^(M)—
a stubborn^(N) and rebellious^(O) generation,
whose hearts were not loyal to God,
whose spirits were not faithful to him.

⁹The men of Ephraim, though armed with bows,^(P)
turned back on the day of battle;^(Q)
¹⁰they did not keep God’s covenant^(R)
and refused to live by his law.^(S)
¹¹They forgot what he had done,^(T)
the wonders he had shown them.
¹²He did miracles^(U) in the sight of their ancestors
in the land of Egypt,^(V) in the region of Zoan.^(W)
¹³He divided the sea^(X) and led them through;
he made the water stand up like a wall.^(Y)
¹⁴He guided them with the cloud by day
and with light from the fire all night.^(Z)
¹⁵He split the rocks^(AA) in the wilderness
and gave them water as abundant as the seas;
¹⁶he brought streams out of a rocky crag
and made water flow down like rivers.

¹⁷But they continued to sin^(AB) against him,
rebelling in the wilderness against the Most High.
¹⁸They willfully put God to the test^(AC)
by demanding the food they craved.^(AD)
¹⁹They spoke against God;^(AE)
they said, “Can God really
spread a table in the wilderness?
²⁰True, he struck the rock,
and water gushed out,^(AF)
streams flowed abundantly,
but can he also give us bread?
Can he supply meat^(AG) for his people?”
²¹When the Lord heard them, he was furious;
his fire broke out^(AH) against Jacob,
and his wrath rose against Israel,
²²for they did not believe in God
or trust^(AI) in his deliverance.
²³Yet he gave a command to the skies above
and opened the doors of the heavens;^(AJ)
²⁴he rained down manna^(AK) for the people to eat,
he gave them the grain of heaven.
²⁵Human beings ate the bread of angels;
he sent them all the food they could eat.
²⁶He let loose the east wind^(AL) from the heavens
and by his power made the south wind blow.
²⁷He rained meat down on them like dust,
birds^(AM) like sand on the seashore.
²⁸He made them come down inside their camp,
all around their tents.
²⁹They ate till they were gorged—^(AN)
he had given them what they craved.
³⁰But before they turned from what they craved,
even while the food was still in their mouths,^(AO)
³¹God’s anger rose against them;
he put to death the sturdiest^(AP) among them,
cutting down the young men of Israel.

Footnotes:

Psalm 78:1 Title: Probably a literary or musical term

Cross references:

Psalm 78:1 : Isa 51:4; 55:3
Psalm 78:2 : S Ps 49:4; S Mt 13:35*
Psalm 78:3 : S Jdg 6:13
Psalm 78:4 : S Dt 11:19
Psalm 78:4 : S Dt 32:7; S Ps 71:18
Psalm 78:4 : Ps 26:7; 71:17
Psalm 78:4 : S Job 5:9
Psalm 78:5 : Ps 19:7; 81:5
Psalm 78:5 : Ps 147:19
Psalm 78:6 : S Ps 22:31
Psalm 78:7 : S Dt 6:12
Psalm 78:7 : S Dt 5:29
Psalm 78:8 : S 2Ch 30:7
Psalm 78:8 : S Ex 32:9
Psalm 78:8 : S Ex 23:21; S Dt 21:18; Isa 30:9; 65:2
Psalm 78:9 : ver 57; 1Ch 12:2; Hos 7:16
Psalm 78:9 : S Jdg 20:39
Psalm 78:10 : S Jos 7:11; S 2Ki 17:15
Psalm 78:10 : S Ex 16:28; S Jer 11:8
Psalm 78:11 : Ps 106:13
Psalm 78:12 : S Ne 9:17; Ps 106:22
Psalm 78:12 : Ex 11:9
Psalm 78:12 : S Nu 13:22
Psalm 78:13 : S Ex 14:21; Ps 66:6; 136:13
Psalm 78:13 : S Ex 14:22; S 15:8
Psalm 78:14 : Ex 13:21; Ps 105:39
Psalm 78:15 : S Nu 20:11; 1Co 10:4
Psalm 78:17 : ver 32, 40; Dt 9:22; Isa 30:1; 63:10; Heb 3:16
Psalm 78:18 : S Ex 17:2; 1Co 10:9
Psalm 78:18 : S Ex 15:24; Nu 11:4
Psalm 78:19 : Nu 21:5
Psalm 78:20 : S Nu 20:11; S Isa 35:6
Psalm 78:20 : Nu 11:18
Psalm 78:21 : S Nu 11:1
Psalm 78:22 : S Dt 1:32; Heb 3:19
Psalm 78:23 : Ge 7:11; S 2Ki 7:2
Psalm 78:24 : Ex 16:4; Jn 6:31*
Psalm 78:26 : S Nu 11:31
Psalm 78:27 : S Ex 16:13; Nu 11:31
Psalm 78:29 : S Nu 11:20
Psalm 78:30 : S Nu 11:33
Psalm 78:31 : Isa 10:16

New International Version (NIV)

Proverbs 24:26

²⁶An honest answer
is like a kiss on the lips.

New International Version (NIV)

October 5, 2019

10/05/2019 DAB Transcript

Jeremiah 4:19-6:15, Colossians 1:18-2:7, Psalms 77:1-20, Proverbs 24:23-25

Today is the 5^th day of October. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian and it’s great to be here with you as we close the books on another one of our weeks together and this would be the first weekend in the month of October, the final quarter of the year and I’m still moving into this month. I can’t believe that we’re in October. But it’s an exciting time and it’s an exciting time to be here with you as we take the next step forward in the Scriptures. And we moved into Jeremiah this week and we also moved into the letter to the Colossians this week and that’s what we will end week with, taking the next step forward in these writings. So, first, Jeremiah chapter 4 verse 19 through 6 verse 15. And we’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. And again, as we do so often when we come to the end of the week, we mark the time, we thank You for bringing us this far, we thank You for bringing us through this week, we thank You for bringing us into this month and as the days go by, we thank You for Your faithfulness to us and Your kindness and Your love that is beyond description and beyond comprehension. Thank You for Your patience with us as we continue to walk this path of faith and we invite Your Holy Spirit to plant the word that we’ve heard this week into the soil of our lives. Come Holy Spirit we pray. In Jesus’ name we ask. Amen.

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Good morning family this is Shannon from Salem Oregon. I have a praise report and prayer request to share with you. I had applied to a lot of school counselor positions, 13 to be exact. I had five interviews. I was a finalist for two and I wasn’t selected for any of them. However, the one where the principal called to recruit me to apply for that counselor position, she ended up asking me to apply for a long-term sub position in her building and I didn’t think I could because I don’t have the right license for that. My license admits me to 10 consecutive days of something and this was over a six-week position. But she helped me to get the license that I need to do that. And, so, I took that position and in my first full week. It’s been a big challenge. So that’s part of my prayer request. The kids…there are several really just strong behavior issues in that classroom. The classroom itself isn’t really a classroom. It was a reading room and so it’s very small, so we don’t have a lot of room for movement and things which second graders need. There’s a lot of other challenges which I won’t go into, but I just want to ask you for your prayers. I’m still in my master’s program for school counseling as well. So, being a full-time employee and a full-time student and having a family, it’s…it’s really tiring and I’m sick right now. You might be able to hear my voice I have a sinus infection and/or probably some kind of virus. So, please pray. My husband travels two weeks at a time every month to England for his work also. Please pray for us thank you. Bye.

Hi Daily Audio Bible this Sierra Tango Papa on the Eastern front and just praising God for all that He’s doing in the amazing amazing things that I’m seeing Him move through and in. I just…as I listen to all the prayer requests, one of the things that is so evident is that we are all in process. There is struggle and strive and trial. God wants to be there with us. He wants to walk through that process with us and that’s where we grow and that’s where we have life, that’s where we change and are transformed. And He ask that we join with Him and that His word be that center pole, that north star, that guiding light. So, I just pray for you all, that you’ll just join with me to just press into God and see what He’s doing and join Him in the process and just allow His victory to come through in every situation. I love you all and I’m praying for you all and I know that God is moving in ways that you just can’t even imagine. Looking forward to hearing your story. Bye-bye.

Hi this is Stephanie the Lord’s Chic in Enid Oklahoma. Just wanted to let everybody know that Shane who has the stage for lymphoma is home. He got in last night. And I just want a big shout out to the Portland DABbers - Margie and Jim and Rob - who went out of their way. You guys didn’t know us from Adam and you went and you ministered to him and you brought him food and encouraged him. So, it’s gonna be a long journey. I walked right past him in the airport. I did not recognize my own son because he had lost so much weight and lost his hair. So, if you all would keep us in prayer that the hoops that we’re gonna jump through with insurance and, you know, chemo, and paying for things while that’s pending, we would really appreciate it. But gosh, I can’t believe that through this ministry that people were actually able to put hands on him and touch him and hug his neck while he was in a place where he was alone. You guys are amazing! May God bless you all back a thousand times. And just keep us in your prayers please. It’s gonna be a long road yet. All right. God bless.

Hi Daily Audio Bible my name is Crystal I’m from Illinois. This is my second year listening to Daily Audio Bible and I just love coming into this community in the word every day. This is my first time calling. It’s truly been like a renewing time just in the last year and a half that I’ve been listening, especially since last year was my first time reading through the Bible as a whole and it’s been a spiritual turning point for me. So, thank you Daily Audio Bible and Brian and Jill just for all you guys do. I do have a few prayer requests. First, for my husband Paul who works with my brother-in-law. They’re contractors and their company has had a hard time lately just running into a lot of obstacles and things going wrong. So, just prayer for them for strength, for renewed faith, for…just them to continue to look to God through it all and grow. And also, for my daughter Bella. She is a kindergartner and has had some very grown-up questions lately and is struggling a lot with fear and she’s super smart, but just prayers that she continues to understand the character of God and just grow her young faith. And then prayers for my friend Allura. She has not been able to find a job lately and she needs a new place to live in less than a couple weeks and she has a new faith in Jesus. So, just prayers for her through all of those trials right now because that’s just been a huge struggle for. And then lastly, my right shoulder was injured a few weeks ago and I’m out of work right now. So, healing for me so that I can get back to work. Thank you, guys. Love you all.

Hi Daily Audio Bible family. I just wanted to lift up Carl in prayer today. Heavenly Father I ask that You move into Carl’s life in a way that he could feel Your presence. Lord surround him with love. Help them to know that love comes from You and to recognize when the enemy is lying to him and telling him that he’s worthless. Please help him to find meaningful work and a safe place to live. Protect him, protect his sweet dog. Thank You, Lord. You care about us. In Jesus name. Amen.

October 5, 2019

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Saturday October 5, 2019 (NIV)

Jeremiah 4:19-6:15

Jeremiah’s Lament

¹⁹My anguish, my anguish!^[a] I writhe in agony!
Oh, the pain in^[b] my heart!^(A)
My heart pounds;
I cannot be silent.
For you, my soul,
have heard the sound of the ram’s horn—
the shout of battle.
²⁰Disaster after disaster^(B) is reported
because the whole land is destroyed.
Suddenly my tents are destroyed,
my tent curtains, in a moment.
²¹How long must I see the signal flag
and hear the sound of the ram’s horn?
²²“For my people are fools;
they do not know me.
They are foolish children,
without understanding.^(C)
They are skilled in doing what is evil,
but they do not know how to do what is good.”^(D)
²³I looked at the earth,
and it was formless and empty.^(E)
I looked to the heavens,
and their light was gone.^(F)
²⁴I looked at the mountains,
and they were quaking;^(G)
all the hills shook.
²⁵I looked, and there was no human being,^(H)
and all the birds of the sky had fled.^(I)
²⁶I looked, and the fertile field^(J) was a wilderness.^(K)
All its cities were torn down
because of the Lord
and his burning anger.^(L)

²⁷For this is what the Lord says:

The whole land will be a desolation,^(M)
but I will not finish it off.^(N)
²⁸Because of this, the earth will mourn;^(O)
the skies above will grow dark.^(P)
I have spoken; I have planned,
and I will not relent or turn back from it.^(Q)

²⁹Every city flees^(R)
at the sound of the horseman and the archer.
They enter the thickets
and climb among the rocks.^(S)
Every city is abandoned;
no inhabitant is left.
³⁰And you, devastated one, what are you doing^(T)
that you dress yourself in scarlet,
that you adorn yourself with gold jewelry,
that you enhance your eyes with makeup?^(U)
You beautify yourself for nothing.
Your lovers reject you;^(V)
they intend to take your life.^(W)
³¹I hear a cry like a woman in labor,^(X)
a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child.
The cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath,
stretching out her hands:^(Y)
“Woe is me, for my life is weary
because of the murderers!”

The Depravity of Jerusalem

5 Roam^(Z) through the streets of Jerusalem.
Investigate;^[c]
search in her squares.
If you find one person,^(AA)
any who acts justly,
who pursues faithfulness,
then I will forgive her.^(AB)
²When they say, “As the Lord lives,”^(AC)
they are swearing falsely.^(AD)
³Lord, don’t your eyes look for faithfulness?^(AE)
You have struck them, but they felt no pain.^(AF)
You finished them off,
but they refused to accept discipline.^(AG)
They made their faces harder than rock,^(AH)
and they refused to return.^(AI)

⁴Then I thought:

They are just the poor;
they have been foolish.
For they don’t understand the way of the Lord,^(AJ)
the justice of their God.^(AK)
⁵I will go to the powerful
and speak to them.
Surely they know the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.^(AL)
However, these also had broken the yoke
and torn off the chains.^(AM)
⁶Therefore, a lion from the forest will strike them down.^(AN)
A wolf from arid plains will ravage them.
A leopard^(AO) stalks their cities.
Anyone who leaves them will be torn to pieces
because their rebellious acts are many,^(AP)
their unfaithful deeds numerous.^(AQ)

⁷Why should I forgive you?
Your children have abandoned me
and sworn by those who are not gods.^(AR)
I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery;^(AS)
they gashed themselves^(AT) at the^[d] prostitute’s house.
⁸They are well-fed,^[e] eager^[f] stallions,^(AU)
each neighing^(AV) after someone else’s wife.^(AW)
⁹Should I not punish them for these things?^(AX)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Should I not avenge myself^(AY)
on such a nation as this?

¹⁰Go up among her vineyard terraces and destroy them,^(AZ)
but do not finish them off.^(BA)
Prune away her shoots,
for they do not belong to the Lord.^(BB)
¹¹They, the house of Israel and the house of Judah,
have dealt very treacherously with me.^(BC)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
¹²They have contradicted the Lord
and insisted, “It won’t happen.^[g]^(BD)
Harm won’t come to us;
we won’t see sword or famine.”
¹³The prophets become only wind,
for the Lord’s word is not in them.
This will in fact happen to them.

Coming Judgment

¹⁴Therefore, this is what the Lord God of Armies says:

Because you have spoken this word,
I am going to make my words
become fire in your mouth.^(BE)
These people are the wood,
and the fire will consume them.^(BF)
¹⁵I am about to bring a nation
from far away against you,^(BG)
house of Israel.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
It is an established nation,
an ancient nation,
a nation whose language you do not know
and whose speech you do not understand.^(BH)
¹⁶Their quiver is like an open grave;^(BI)
they are all warriors.
¹⁷They will consume your harvest and your food.^(BJ)
They will consume your sons and your daughters.
They will consume your flocks and your herds.
They will consume your vines and your fig trees.
With the sword they will destroy
your fortified cities^(BK) in which you trust.

¹⁸“But even in those days”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“I will not finish you off.^(BL) ¹⁹When people ask, ‘For what offense has the Lord our God done all these things to us?’ You will respond to them, ‘Just as you abandoned me^(BM) and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’^(BN)

²⁰“Declare this in the house of Jacob; proclaim it in Judah, saying:

²¹Hear this,
you foolish and senseless^[h] people.^(BO)
They have eyes, but they don’t see.
They have ears, but they don’t hear.^(BP)
²²Do you not fear me?
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Do you not tremble before me,
the one who set the sand as the boundary of the sea,
an enduring barrier that it cannot cross?^(BQ)
The waves surge, but they cannot prevail.
They roar but cannot pass over it.
²³But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts.^(BR)
They have turned aside and have gone away.
²⁴They have not said to themselves,
‘Let’s fear the Lord our God,^(BS)
who gives the seasonal rains, both autumn and spring,^(BT)
who guarantees to us the fixed weeks of the harvest.’
²⁵Your guilty acts have diverted these things from you.
Your sins have withheld my bounty from you,^(BU)
²⁶for wicked men live among my people.
They watch like hunters^[i] lying in wait.^[j]^(BV)
They set a trap;^(BW)
they catch men.
²⁷Like a cage full of birds,
so their houses are full of deceit.^(BX)
Therefore they have grown powerful and rich.
²⁸They have become fat^(BY) and sleek.
They have also excelled in evil matters.
They have not taken up cases,
such as the case of the fatherless, so they might prosper,
and they have not defended the rights of the needy.^(BZ)
²⁹Should I not punish them for these things?
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Should I not avenge myself^(CA)
on such a nation as this?

³⁰An appalling, horrible thing
has taken place in the land.^(CB)
³¹The prophets prophesy falsely,^(CC)
and the priests rule by their own authority.
My people love it like this.
But what will you do at the end of it?^(CD)

Threatened Siege of Jerusalem

6 “Run for cover^(CE)
out of Jerusalem, Benjaminites.
Sound the ram’s horn^(CF) in Tekoa;^(CG)
raise a smoke signal^(CH) over Beth-haccherem,^[k]
for disaster threatens from the north,^(CI)
even a crushing blow.
²Though she is beautiful and delicate,
I will destroy^[l] Daughter Zion.
³Shepherds and their flocks will come against her;
they will pitch their tents all around her.^(CJ)
Each will pasture his own portion.
⁴Set them apart for war^(CK) against her;
rise up, let’s attack at noon.
Woe to us, for the day is passing;
the evening shadows grow long.
⁵Rise up, let’s attack by night.
Let us destroy her fortresses.”

⁶For this is what the Lord of Armies says:

Cut down the trees;^(CL)
raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem.
This city must be punished.
There is nothing but oppression within her.^(CM)
⁷As a well gushes out its water,
so she pours out her evil.^[m]
Violence and destruction^(CN) resound in her.
Sickness and wounds keep coming to my attention.
⁸Be warned, Jerusalem,
or I will turn away from you;^(CO)
I will make you a desolation,
a land without inhabitants.^(CP)

Wrath on Israel

⁹This is what the Lord of Armies says:

Glean the remnant of Israel^(CQ)
as thoroughly as a vine.
Pass your hand once more like a grape gatherer
over the branches.

¹⁰Who can I speak to and give such a warning^[n]
that they will listen?
Look, their ear is uncircumcised,^[o]^(CR)
so they cannot pay attention.
See, the word of the Lord has become contemptible to them—
they find no pleasure in it.^(CS)
¹¹But I am full of the Lord’s wrath;
I am tired of holding it back.^(CT)
Pour it out on the children in the street,^(CU)
on the gathering of young men as well.
For both husband and wife will be captured,
the old with the very old.^[p]
¹²Their houses will be turned over to others,^(CV)
their fields and wives as well,
for I will stretch out my hand^(CW)
against the inhabitants of the land.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

¹³For from the least to the greatest of them,^(CX)
everyone is making profit dishonestly.^(CY)
From prophet to priest,
everyone deals falsely.^(CZ)
¹⁴They have treated my people’s brokenness superficially,
claiming, “Peace, peace,”^(DA)
when there is no peace.
¹⁵Were they ashamed when they acted so detestably?
They weren’t at all ashamed.
They can no longer feel humiliation.^(DB)
Therefore, they will fall among the fallen.
When I punish them, they will collapse,^(DC)
says the Lord.

Footnotes:

4:19 Lit My inner parts, my inner parts
4:19 Lit the walls of
5:1 Lit See and know
5:7 Or adultery and trooped to the, or adultery and lodged at the; Hb obscure
5:8 Lit well-equipped; Hb obscure
5:8 Lit early-rising; Hb obscure
5:12 Lit “He does not exist
5:21 Lit without heart
5:26 Lit hunters of birds
5:26 Hb obscure
6:1 = House of the Vineyard
6:2 Or silence
6:7 Or well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps her evil fresh
6:10 Or and bear witness
6:10 They are unresponsive to God.
6:11 Lit with fullness of days

Cross references:

4:19 : Is 16:11; Hab 3:16; Rm 9:1-2
4:20 : Ezk 7:26
4:22 : Ps 82:5; Is 1:3
4:22 : Rm 16:19
4:23 : Gn 1:2; Jb 26:7; Is 45:18
4:23 : Is 5:30; 13:10
4:24 : Jdg 5:5; Ps 46:1-3
4:25 : Gn 2:5
4:25 : Zph 1:3
4:26 : Jr 2:7
4:26 : Ps 107:34
4:26 : Ps 76:7
4:27 : Is 6:11
4:27 : Neh 9:31; Jr 5:10,18; Rm 11:1-7
4:28 : Jr 8:13; 14:2; Hs 4:3
4:28 : Ps 105:28; Is 13:10; 50:3; Ezk 30:18
4:28 : Nm 23:19; Is 46:11; 48:15; Ezk 37:14
4:29 : 2Kg 25:4
4:29 : Is 2:19-21
4:30 : Is 10:3
4:30 : 2Kg 9:30
4:30 : Jr 30:14; Lm 1:19
4:30 : Ezk 23:9-10,22
4:31 : Ps 48:6; Is 13:8; 21:3; 42:14; Jr 6:24; 13:21; 22:23; 30:6; 50:43; Mc 4:9-10; 1Th 5:3
4:31 : Is 1:15
5:1 : 2Ch 16:9
5:1 : Ps 14:1-3; Ezk 22:30; Rm 3:10
5:1 : Gn 18:26-32
5:2 : Jr 4:2
5:2 : Lv 19:12; Is 48:1; Jr 7:9
5:3 : 2Ch 16:9; Ps 51:6
5:3 : Pr 23:35
5:3 : Pr 27:22
5:3 : Ezk 3:7-9
5:3 : Hs 11:5
5:4 : Gn 18:19; 2Kg 17:26; 21:22; Ps 95:10; Jr 8:7; Hs 4:6
5:4 : Mc 3:1
5:5 : Ps 103:7
5:5 : Ps 2:3; Jr 2:20
5:6 : 2Kg 17:26; Jr 4:7; 25:38
5:6 : Hs 13:7; Rv 13:2
5:6 : Is 59:12
5:6 : Jr 3:6,8,11-12,22; 14:7; 30:15; Am 5:12
5:7 : Dt 32:21; Jos 23:7; Gl 4:8
5:7 : Hs 4:10
5:7 : 1Kg 18:24
5:8 : Ezk 23:20
5:8 : Jr 13:27
5:8 : Ex 20:14; Ezk 22:11
5:9 : Jr 5:29; 8:10; 9:9
5:9 : Dt 32:35; Heb 10:30
5:10 : 2Kg 24:2
5:10 : Jr 4:27
5:10 : Hs 1:9
5:11 : Is 21:2; 24:16; 48:8; Hs 6:7
5:12 : Is 28:15; Jr 23:17
5:14 : Hs 6:5; Rv 11:5
5:14 : Zch 12:6
5:15 : Is 10:3; 13:5; 30:27; Jr 4:16
5:15 : Dt 28:49; Is 28:11; 33:19; 1Co 14:21
5:16 : Ps 5:9; Rm 3:13
5:17 : Lv 26:16; Dt 28:31,33,51
5:17 : Hs 8:14
5:18 : 2Ch 12:12; Jr 4:27; 5:10; 30:11; Ezk 11:13; 20:17; Rm 11:1-5
5:19 : Dt 28:20; 29:24-25; 31:16; Jdg 2:12; 1Sm 8:8; 1Kg 9:8-9; Is 1:4,28; Jr 1:16; 2:13,17,19; 16:11; 17:13
5:19 : Dt 4:27-28; 28:47-48
5:21 : Dt 32:6
5:21 : Ps 115:5-6; 135:16-17; Is 6:9; 42:20; Ezk 12:2; Mt 13:14; Mk 8:18
5:22 : Jb 26:10; 38:10-11; Ps 104:9; Pr 8:29
5:23 : Dt 21:18,20; Ps 78:8; Is 1:5; Heb 3:12
5:24 : Pr 9:10; Hs 6:1
5:24 : Dt 11:14; Jl 2:23; Mt 5:45
5:25 : Is 59:2
5:26 : Pr 1:11
5:26 : Ps 10:9
5:27 : Ps 10:7; 50:19; Is 3:14; 5:18; 30:12; Jr 8:5; Zph 1:9; Ac 13:10; Rm 1:29
5:28 : Dt 32:15
5:28 : Dt 24:14; Jb 29:16; 30:25; 31:19; Ps 82:3-4; 140:12; Pr 14:31; 31:9; Is 1:23; Zch 7:10; Ac 4:34
5:29 : Jr 5:9; 8:19; Heb 10:30
5:30 : Hs 6:10
5:31 : Jr 6:13; 8:10; 14:14; 20:6; 23:14,25-26,32; 27:10,14-16; 28:15; 29:9,21,31; Lm 2:14; Zch 13:3
5:31 : Dt 32:29; Is 10:3
6:1 : Ex 9:19; Is 10:31; Jr 4:6
6:1 : Jr 4:5; 51:27; Am 3:6
6:1 : 2Sm 14:2; 2Ch 11:6; 20:20
6:1 : Jdg 20:38,40; Neh 3:14
6:1 : Jr 1:13; 4:6,20; 6:22; 15:12; 47:2; 50:3,9,41; 51:48
6:3 : Jr 4:17
6:4 : Jr 51:27; Mc 3:5
6:6 : Dt 20:19-20
6:6 : Is 30:12; 59:9-15; Jr 22:17; Ezk 22:7,12,29; Am 3:9; Hab 1:3
6:7 : Jr 20:8; Am 3:10; Hab 1:3
6:8 : Ezk 23:18; Hs 9:12
6:8 : Jr 9:11; 25:9; 29:18; 34:22; Ezk 30:12
6:9 : Is 10:20; Jr 31:7; Ezk 9:8; 11:13; Mc 2:12; Zph 3:13
6:10 : Lv 26:41; Jr 9:26; Ezk 44:7,9
6:10 : 1Sm 15:23; Jr 8:9
6:11 : Jr 20:9; Hs 5:10
6:11 : Jr 9:21
6:12 : Jr 8:10-12
6:12 : Ex 3:20; Jr 15:6; Ezk 6:14; 14:13; 25:7; Zph 1:4
6:13 : Est 1:20; Jr 8:10; 31:34; 42:1,8; 44:12
6:13 : Pr 1:19; 15:27; Hab 2:9
6:13 : Jr 5:31; 8:10; 14:14; 20:6; 23:14,25-26,32; 27:10,14-16; 28:15; 29:9,21,31; Lm 2:14; Zch 13:3
6:14 : 1Ch 12:18; Is 57:19
6:15 : Jr 3:3; 8:12
6:13-15 : Jr 8:10-12

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

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Colossians 1:18-2:7

¹⁸He is also the head of the body, the church;
he is the beginning,^(A)
the firstborn from the dead,^(B)
so that he might come to have
first place in everything.
¹⁹For God was pleased to have
all his fullness^(C) dwell in him,^(D)
²⁰and through him to reconcile
everything to himself,
whether things on earth or things in heaven,
by making peace^(E)
through his blood,^(F) shed on the cross.^[a]^(G)

²¹Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds expressed in your evil actions. ²²But now he has reconciled you by his physical body through his death,^(H) to present you holy, faultless,^(I) and blameless before him^(J)— ²³if indeed you remain grounded and steadfast in the faith^(K) and are not shifted away from the hope^(L) of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has been proclaimed in all creation^(M) under heaven,^(N) and I, Paul,^(O) have become a servant of it.

Paul’s Ministry

²⁴Now I rejoice in my sufferings^(P) for you, and I am completing in my flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for his body,^(Q) that is, the church. ²⁵I have become its servant, according to God’s commission that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known, ²⁶the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints. ²⁷God wanted to make known among the Gentiles the glorious wealth of this mystery, which is Christ^(R) in you, the hope^(S) of glory. ²⁸We proclaim him, warning and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ. ²⁹I labor for this, striving^(T) with his strength that works powerfully in me.^(U)

2 For I want you to know how greatly I am struggling^(V) for you, for those in Laodicea,^(W) and for all who have not seen me in person. ²I want their hearts to be encouraged^(X) and joined together in love, so that they may have all the riches of complete understanding and have the knowledge of God’s mystery^(Y)—Christ.^[b]^(Z) ³In him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom^(AA) and knowledge.^(AB)

Christ versus the Colossian Heresy

⁴I am saying this so that no one will deceive you with arguments that sound reasonable. ⁵For I may be absent in body, but I am with you in spirit,^(AC) rejoicing to see how well ordered you are and the strength of your faith in Christ.

⁶So then, just as you have received^(AD) Christ Jesus as Lord,^(AE) continue to live in him, ⁷being rooted and built up in him^(AF) and established in the faith, just as you were taught,^(AG) and overflowing with gratitude.

Footnotes:

1:20 Other mss add through him
2:2 Other mss read mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ; other ms variations exist on this v.

Cross references:

1:18 : Gn 1:1; Mk 1:1; Jn 1:1; Ac 26:4
1:18 : Ac 26:23; 1Co 15:20,23; Rv 1:5
1:19 : Ps 72:19; Is 6:3; Jr 23:24; Ezk 43:5; 44:4; Jn 1:14,16; Eph 3:19; Php 2:6; Col 2:9
1:19 : Dt 12:5
1:20 : Ac 7:26; Eph 2:14
1:20 : Heb 9:12
1:20 : Lk 9:23; 23:26
1:22 : Php 2:8
1:22 : Jd 24
1:22 : 2Co 4:14
1:23 : Gl 2:16; Jd 3
1:23 : 1Th 1:3
1:23 : Rv 3:14
1:23 : Rm 10:18; Eph 6:9
1:23 : Ac 13:9
1:24 : 2Co 1:4; Php 1:29; 3:10
1:24 : Eph 4:4
1:27 : Col 2:2
1:27 : 1Th 1:3
1:29 : Jd 3
1:29 : 1Co 15:10
2:1 : 2Tm 4:7
2:1 : Col 4:13-16; Rv 1:11; 3:14
2:2 : Lk 16:25; Col 4:8
2:2 : Php 3:8
2:2 : Col 1:27
2:3 : Pr 3:19; Is 11:2; 45:3; Jr 23:5; Ac 7:22; 1Co 1:21
2:3 : 1Co 14:6
2:5 : Ps 51:12; 1Th 2:17
2:6 : Jd 3
2:6 : Eph 3:11
2:7 : Eph 2:20
2:7 : Eph 4:21; Heb 13:9

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Psalm 77

Confidence in a Time of Crisis

For the choir director: according to Jeduthun. Of Asaph.^(A) A psalm.

¹I cry aloud to God,
aloud to God, and he will hear me.^(B)
²I sought the Lord in my day of trouble.
My hands were continually lifted up
all night long;
I refused to be comforted.^(C)
³I think of God; I groan;
I meditate; my spirit becomes weak.^(D)Selah

⁴You have kept me from closing my eyes;
I am troubled and cannot speak.^(E)
⁵I consider days of old,
years long past.^(F)
⁶At night I remember my music;
I meditate in my heart, and my spirit ponders.^(G)

⁷“Will the Lord reject forever
and never again show favor?^(H)
⁸Has his faithful love ceased forever?
Is his promise at an end for all generations?^(I)
⁹Has God forgotten to be gracious?
Has he in anger withheld his compassion?” ^(J)Selah

¹⁰So I say, “I am grieved
that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”^[a]^(K)
¹¹I will remember the Lord’s works;
yes, I will remember your ancient wonders.^(L)
¹²I will reflect on all you have done
and meditate on your actions.^(M)

¹³God, your way is holy.
What god is great like God?^(N)
¹⁴You are the God who works wonders;
you revealed your strength among the peoples.^(O)
¹⁵With power you redeemed your people,
the descendants of Jacob and Joseph.^(P)Selah

¹⁶The water saw you, God.
The water saw you; it trembled.
Even the depths shook.^(Q)
¹⁷The clouds poured down water.
The storm clouds thundered;
your arrows flashed back and forth.^(R)
¹⁸The sound of your thunder was in the whirlwind;
lightning lit up the world.^(S)
The earth shook and quaked.^(T)
¹⁹Your way went through the sea
and your path through the vast water,
but your footprints were unseen.^(U)
²⁰You led your people like a flock^(V)
by the hand of Moses and Aaron.^(W)

Footnotes:

77:10 Hb obscure

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Proverbs 24:23-25

²³These sayings also belong to the wise:^(A)
It is not good to show partiality in judgment.^(B)
²⁴Whoever says to the guilty, “You are innocent”^(C)—
peoples will curse him,^(D) and nations will denounce him;
²⁵but it will go well with those who convict the guilty,
and a generous blessing will come to them.

Cross references:

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

October 4, 2019

10/04/2019 DAB Transcript

Jeremiah 2:31-4:18, Colossians 1:1-17, Psalms 76:1-12, Proverbs 24:21-22

Today is the 4^th day of October. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is great to be here with you today as we continue our journey through the Scriptures this year. And as we transition into this new month, we’ve been doing a little bit of transition as we close and open new books, so we concluded the book of Isaiah and began the book of Jeremiah yesterday while at the same time concluding Paul’s letter to the Philippians yesterday. So, we’ll continue our journey in Jeremiah but when we get to the New Testament portion of our reading, we’ll begin a new letter, Paul’s letter to the Colossians, but first we’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible. Jeremiah chapter 2 verse 31 through 4 verse 18 today.

Introduction to the book of Colossians:

Okay. So, as we just mentioned a little bit ago we’re entering another of Paul’s letters today. This is the 12^th book, although not all of the writings in the New Testaments are books per se. This is the 12^th distinct different writing that we’re encountering in the New Testament and it’s written by the apostle Paul to the Colossians. So, this city, Colossae wasn’t unfamiliar Paul. It was a city maybe a hundred miles from Ephesus. And Ephesus is a place that Paul spent a lot of time, several years. And archaeologists have found the ruins of ancient Colossae in the western part of what is now modern-day Turkey. But even though they’ve been identified, and this is true in lots of places in Israel as well, even though they’ve been…you know…there’s been like some preliminary digging and research there hasn’t been…like Colossae is not a ruin that you can go and get an interpreted visit to, but during Paul’s life Colossae wasn’t an abandoned ruin. It was a cultural stew, a lot of mingling of philosophical and religious ideas. And, so, a lot of that had kind of made its way as a part of the conversation into the Colossian church. And, so, Paul’s letter was written as a response. And just like Ephesians and Philippians, the letters that we’ve just recently concluded, Colossians for the most part is considered to be another of Paul’s letters that were written from prison in Rome while he was waiting…awaiting an audience…a trial before the Emperor. And this letter to the Colossians kind of…kind of breaks down into two sections. The first part of the letter is his doctrinal in nature. So, there are people who that come into the church who were teaching a form of angelic worship and other rituals. And Paul addressed this by basically reiterating that Jesus is supreme over everything, over all of creation. I mean, He wrote that the universe itself was created by and through Jesus and is sustained and continues to exist through His Lordship. So, he’s been pretty clear that worshiping lesser things, right? I mean, same story. Like we’ve been through the story so many times in the Bible and yet don’t we find ourselves turning to so many other things for life. So, it’s still a problem that we deal with today. But then Paul also addressed the circumcised versus uncircumcised controversy that…well…it seems to show up in most of the letters to different…to differing degrees. And this issue would find its way to Colossae and as usual, Paul shared his views about the matter. So, we have the benefit…like we’re reading these letters in succession…we have the benefit of a collection of Paul’s letters, so it allows us to see the different challenges and for that matter the different victories and encouragements of the early church because Paul's…well because the issues are common and Paul’s writing individual letters to a lot of people where a lot of the same territory is covered. The thing is, even though we can see this being common in the early church, these challenges are still with us in one form or another. So, as we read Paul’s letters, we can also experience growth and correction in our own lives, provided that we kinda understand the context of what’s going on. So, understanding the Colossians was written by a man awaiting a life or death judgment, like the other prison letters, allow them to carry some weight, some gravity. Colossians is a magnificent testimony to the Lordship of Jesus in our lives and…and because of that Lordship the implications, the overwhelming reality of what that Lordship offers to humanity, to all who believe. And, so, we begin. Colossians chapter 1 verses 1 through 17 today.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word and we thank You for bringing us into the conclusion of another week and we thank You for transitioning us this week into new territory, from Isaiah to Jeremiah, from Philippians to Colossians. Holy Spirit as we continue this territory through books of prophecy and these letters of the apostle Paul we ask that You would continue to be a lamp for our feet, a light to our path, that You would lead us on the narrow path that leads to life, that You would lead us into all truth as You promised. And, so plant these words that we’ve read deep into our lives today and may our hearts be fertile soil so that the fruit of the Spirit can grow freely. We pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Hi this is Rachel. I wanted to pray for Carl. Dear God, please help Carl to feel Your love and to feel like he is important and that his life has value. Please help him to find his place and to be able to turn his life around and become, you know, more stable and on his feet. Please bless him financially, you know, let him know that You hear his prayers and that You are a true living God and not an empty, you know, an empty idol or something, that You do love him and You do care about him and You do answer prayer. So, please I want to lift Carl up. Please get rid of his depression, you know, just take it away completely and give him new life and a new Spirit and…and turn things around for him. And Carl I just want to let you know that there are, you know, listeners from the Daily Audio Bible that…that do pray, we do here your prayers. Sometimes they’re not aired after the…the readings and they’re aired in the community prayer, but we are still here and we’re listening and we’re praying for you.

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Hi Daily Audio Bible family this is Prophetic Intercessor from North Carolina. I haven’t called in such a long time, but I’m determined to finish out the year strong with DAB. I was calling specifically to lift up caregivers. I was talking to an aunt of mine caring for her sister, which is another aunt and she was so weary and so tired and so downtrodden. And then this morning when I listened to the prayer…prayers on October 1^st there was another lady who was talking about taking care of her 94-year-old mother. So, I just want to lift up caregivers this morning. Father in the name of Jesus I come before you to lift up every caregiver in the Daily Audio Bible community. I bring them before you now God and I ask that you would endow them with supernatural strength and comfort on today. God, I ask that the angels would be dispatched into their homes God, to breath a fresh wind of air through that home Lord that would bring encouragement, that would bring peace. God, in the name of Jesus I break off every spirit of heaviness of weariness of depression and oppression. And God, I pray that you would exchange that for your peace, exchange it for your strength, exchange it for your comfort. And where they’ve been failing in the hearts oh God, I pray that you would renew them Lord for you said in your word that they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall walk and not grow weary, they shall run and not faint. And God and I pull down eagles wings this morning to attach to their backside God. Send angels into their room God to breathe healing upon them, not only upon their loved ones but upon them God. I come against every manner of sickness and disease and I apply the stripes of Jesus Christ and I pray that the healing balm of Gilead would touch you today and touch your loved one from the crown of their heads to the soles of their feet. Be encouraged. Know that God is the lifter of her head and the strength of your days and He is your dwelling place in all generations. May the…

Hi guys this is Gerta calling from Germany again. I wanted to share a way way beautiful story with you. Today I went to the __. I took my bike and __ station and I fixed it there with a chain that it holds and nobody can take. And on the other side as I waited for the __ I saw a little man going down and doing something on a screw and I went over and asked him what he’s doing there. And he said, “I’ve seen it a few times.” And he’s all by himself. He really really really must be fixing it for me. And I thought that’s so lovely. And the issue was I knew the holder for the protection of the chain over the bike was one screw was lose and I thought, where do I get this screw and how it can affect said. And, so, I want to say thank you Jesus. God is taking care little little small things in unexpected moments where you don’t really think on it and I don’t really believe that somebody’s interested and still know how to fix it or because I didn’t want to buy 30 of 50 screw only to fix one. And, so, thinking about where do I get i? God takes care of little things. Trust Him in moments we don’t expect Him. So, okay thanks again for the program. I enjoyed it with the poems from Blind Tony and stay blessed. So, thank you. Have a wonderful time speak to you soon. Bye. Thanks, Brian for everything

Hi Daily Audio Bible family this is Megan from California just wanted to call and to thank you all for your prayers for my marriage. I’ve been just so blown away. I’m blessed. It’s still just an ongoing battle and struggle but I really feel the presence of the Lord and I just so appreciate you all lifting me up. I wanted to share an incredible story of the Lord’s love despite a very difficult destructive marriage. On the 27^th of September my husband called me while I was listening to the Daily Audio Bible and as you know if you’re listening on the app it interrupts the DAB. And I took the call and it was really damaging conversation and really destructive. And, so, when the call ended it picked right back up. And September 27^th, you know, we were reading through the passage in Ephesians of wives submitting to their husbands and husbands loving their wives and Brian’s commentary, I felt like he was speaking to me and it was just so encouraging when he says, you know why wives, we talked about husband’s being Jesus to their wives and then he says wives, you know, let’s think about sacrifice. I wrote it down. His commentary was so good. That’s what Jesus did for you. Not every woman in this world but you…you His desire and love compelled Him forward. He loved you that much. That’s how much you are loved and that’s how you are to submit to your husbands as you would to the Lord which does not mean you are supposed to be abused. That’s not how Jesus treats you. That’s not how you’re supposed to be treated. That’s not God’s intention for you. What’s being revealed here is that if your husband is loving you as Christ loved the church then you have a have to respond to that respectfully as you would to Jesus. And I just am so thankful for Brian’s commentary, for this app, and how does just this community’s love…

October 4, 2019

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Friday October 4, 2019 (NIV)

Jeremiah 2:31-4:18

³¹Evil generation,
pay attention to the word of the Lord!
Have I been a wilderness to Israel
or a land of dense darkness?^(A)
Why do my people claim,
“We will go where we want;^[a]
we will no longer come to you”?
³²Can a young woman forget her jewelry^(B)
or a bride her wedding sash?
Yet my people have forgotten me^(C)
for countless days.
³³How skillfully you pursue love;
you also teach evil women your ways.
³⁴Moreover, your skirts are stained
with the blood of the innocent poor.^(D)
You did not catch them breaking and entering.^(E)
But in spite of all these things
³⁵you claim, “I am innocent.^(F)
His anger is sure to turn away from me.”
But I will certainly judge you
because you have said, “I have not sinned.”^(G)
³⁶How unstable you are,^(H)
constantly changing your ways!
You will be put to shame by Egypt^(I)
just as you were put to shame by Assyria.
³⁷Moreover, you will be led out from here
with your hands on your head^(J)
since the Lord has rejected those you trust;^(K)
you will not succeed even with their help.^[b]

Wages of Apostasy

3 If^[c] a man divorces his wife
and she leaves him to marry another,
can he ever return to her?^(L)
Wouldn’t such a land^[d] become totally defiled?
But you!
You have prostituted yourself with many partners^(M)—
can you return to me?^(N)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
²Look to the barren heights^(O) and see.
Where have you not been immoral?
You sat waiting for them beside the highways^(P)
like a nomad in the desert.
You have defiled the land
with your prostitution and wickedness.^(Q)
³This is why the showers haven’t come^(R)—
why there has been no spring rain.
You have the brazen look^(S) of a prostitute^[e]
and refuse to be ashamed.^(T)
⁴Haven’t you recently called to me, “My Father.^(U)
You were my friend in my youth.^(V)
⁵Will he bear a grudge forever?^(W)
Will he be endlessly infuriated?”
This is what you have said,
but you have done the evil things
you are capable of.

Unfaithful Israel, Treacherous Judah

⁶In the days of King Josiah the Lord asked me, “Have you seen what unfaithful Israel has done? She has ascended every high hill and gone under every green tree to prostitute herself there.^(X) ⁷I thought, ‘After she has done all these things, she will return to me.’^(Y) But she didn’t return, and her treacherous sister Judah^(Z) saw it. ⁸I^[f] observed that it was because unfaithful Israel had committed adultery that I had sent her away and had given her a certificate of divorce.^(AA) Nevertheless, her treacherous sister Judah was not afraid but also went and prostituted herself.^(AB) ⁹Indifferent to^[g] her prostitution, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones^(AC) and trees.^(AD) ¹⁰Yet in spite of all this, her treacherous sister Judah didn’t return to me with all her heart^(AE)—only in pretense.”

This is the Lord’s declaration.

¹¹The Lord announced to me, “Unfaithful Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.^(AF) ¹²Go, proclaim these words to the north, and say,

‘Return, unfaithful Israel.^(AG)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
I will not look on you with anger,^[h]
for I am unfailing in my love.^(AH)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
I will not be angry forever.^(AI)
¹³Only acknowledge your guilt^(AJ)—
you have rebelled against the Lord your God.^(AK)
You have scattered your favors to strangers
under every green tree^(AL)
and have not obeyed me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

¹⁴“‘Return, you faithless children^(AM)—this is the Lord’s declaration—for I am your master,^[i]^(AN) and I will take you,^(AO) one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion. ¹⁵I will give you shepherds who are loyal to me,^[j]^(AP) and they will shepherd you with knowledge and skill. ¹⁶When you multiply and increase in the land,^(AQ) in those days—this is the Lord’s declaration—no one will say again, “The ark of the Lord’s covenant.”^(AR) It will never come to mind, and no one will remember or miss it. Another one will not be made.^[k] ¹⁷At that time Jerusalem will be called The Lord’s Throne,^(AS) and all the nations will be gathered to it,^(AT) to the name of the Lord in Jerusalem.^(AU) They will cease to follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts. ¹⁸In those days the house of Judah will join with the house of Israel,^(AV) and they will come together from the land of the north to the land I have given your ancestors to inherit.’”^(AW)

True Repentance

¹⁹I thought, “How I long to make you my sons
and give you a desirable land,
the most beautiful inheritance^(AX) of all the nations.”
I thought, “You will call me ‘My Father’
and never turn away from me.”
²⁰However, as a woman may betray her lover,^[l]
so you have betrayed^(AY) me, house of Israel.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

²¹A sound is heard on the barren heights:
the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy,
for they have perverted their way;
they have forgotten the Lord their God.^(AZ)

²²Return, you faithless children.
I will heal your unfaithfulness.^(BA)
“Here we are, coming to you,
for you are the Lord our God.

²³Surely, falsehood comes from the hills,
commotion from the mountains,^(BB)
but the salvation of Israel
is only in the Lord our God.^(BC)
²⁴From the time of our youth
the shameful one^[m] has consumed
what our fathers have worked for—
their flocks and their herds,
their sons and their daughters.
²⁵Let us lie down in our shame;
let our disgrace cover us.^(BD)
We have sinned against the Lord our God,^(BE)
both we and our fathers,
from the time of our youth even to this day.^(BF)
We have not obeyed the Lord our God.”

Blessing or Curse

4 If you return,^[n] Israel—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
you will return to me,^(BG)
if you remove your abhorrent idols^(BH)
from my presence
and do not waver,
²then you can swear, “As the Lord lives,”^(BI)
in truth,^(BJ) in justice, and in righteousness,^(BK)
then the nations will be blessed^[o] by him^(BL)
and will pride themselves in him.^(BM)

³For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem:

Break up the unplowed ground;^(BN)
do not sow among the thorns.^(BO)
⁴Circumcise yourselves to the Lord;
remove the foreskin of your hearts,^(BP)
men of Judah and residents of Jerusalem.
Otherwise, my wrath will break out like fire
and burn with no one to extinguish it^(BQ)
because of your evil deeds.

Judgment from the North

⁵Declare in Judah, proclaim in Jerusalem, and say:

Blow the ram’s horn throughout the land.^(BR)
Cry out loudly and say:
Assemble yourselves,
and let’s flee to the fortified cities.
⁶Lift up a signal flag toward Zion.^(BS)
Run for cover! Don’t stand still!
For I am bringing disaster from the north—
a crushing blow.^(BT)
⁷A lion has gone up from his thicket;^(BU)
a destroyer of nations has set out.
He has left his lair
to make your land a waste.
Your cities will be reduced to uninhabited ruins.^(BV)
⁸Because of this, put on sackcloth;
mourn and wail,^(BW)
for the Lord’s burning anger^(BX)
has not turned away from us.

⁹“On that day”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“the king and the officials will lose their courage. The priests will tremble in fear, and the prophets will be scared speechless.”

¹⁰I said, “Oh no, Lord God, you have certainly deceived^(BY) this people and Jerusalem, by announcing, ‘You will have peace,’^(BZ) while a sword is at^[p] our throats.”

¹¹“At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, ‘A searing wind^(CA) blows from the barren heights in the wilderness on the way to my dear^[q] people. It comes not to winnow or to sift; ¹²a wind too strong for this comes at my call.^[r] Now I will also pronounce judgments against them.’”^(CB)

¹³Look, he advances like clouds;^(CC)
his chariots are like a storm.^(CD)
His horses are swifter than eagles.^(CE)
Woe to us, for we are ruined!^(CF)
¹⁴Wash the evil from your heart,^(CG) Jerusalem,
so that you will be delivered.
How long will you harbor
malicious thoughts?^(CH)
¹⁵For a voice announces from Dan,
proclaiming malice from Mount Ephraim.
¹⁶Warn the nations: Look!
Proclaim to Jerusalem:
Those who besiege are coming
from a distant land;^(CI)
they raise their voices
against the cities of Judah.
¹⁷They have her surrounded^(CJ)
like those who guard a field,
because she has rebelled against me.^(CK)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
¹⁸Your way and your actions
have brought this on you.^(CL)
This is your punishment. It is very bitter,
because it has reached your heart!

Footnotes:

2:31 Or “We have taken control, or “We can roam
2:37 Lit with them
3:1 One Hb ms, LXX, Syr; other Hb mss read Saying: If
3:1 LXX reads woman
3:3 Lit have a prostitute’s forehead
3:8 One Hb ms, Syr read She
3:9 Lit From the lightness of
3:12 Lit not cause my face to fall on you
3:14 Or husband
3:15 Lit shepherds according to my heart
3:16 Or It will no longer be done
3:20 Lit friend
3:24 = Baal
4:1 Or Repent
4:2 Or will bless themselves
4:10 Lit sword touches
4:11 Lit to the daughter of my
4:12 Lit comes for me

Cross references:

2:31 : Jr 50:12; Hs 2:3
2:32 : Is 61:10
2:32 : Ps 106:21; Jr 13:25; 18:15; Ezk 22:12; 23:35; Hs 8:14
2:34 : 2Kg 21:16; 24:4; Ps 106:38; Jr 19:4; 22:3,17
2:34 : Ex 22:2
2:35 : Jb 33:9
2:35 : Pr 28:13; 1Jn 1:8,10
2:36 : Jms 1:8
2:36 : Is 30:3
2:37 : 2Sm 13:19
2:37 : 1Sm 15:23,26; 2Kg 17:20; Jr 7:29
3:1 : Dt 24:1-4
3:1 : Ezk 16:26,28
3:1 : Hs 2:7
3:2 : Dt 12:2; Ezk 16:52
3:2 : Gn 38:14; Pr 7:10-12; Ezk 16:25
3:2 : Nm 14:33
3:3 : Zch 14:7
3:3 : Ezk 3:7-8
3:3 : Jr 6:15; 8:12
3:4 : Ex 4:22; Is 1:2; 64:8; Hs 11:1; Gl 4:6
3:4 : Ps 71:17; Hs 2:15
3:5 : Lv 19:18; Ps 103:9; Is 57:16; Nah 1:2
3:6 : Jr 2:20
3:7 : Hs 14:1
3:7 : Ezk 16:46
3:8 : Dt 24:1-4; Is 50:1; Hs 2:2
3:8 : Ezk 23:11
3:9 : Is 57:6
3:9 : Dt 28:36; Jr 2:27; Ezk 20:32; Hab 2:19; Rv 9:20
3:10 : Hs 7:14
3:11 : Ezk 16:51-52; 23:11
3:12 : Pr 28:13
3:12 : Ps 86:5; 145:17
3:12 : Ps 103:9; Is 57:16; Mc 7:18
3:13 : Lv 26:40; 1Jn 1:9
3:13 : 2Kg 18:20; Is 36:5; Jr 2:29
3:13 : Dt 12:2; 2Kg 16:4; 2Ch 28:4; Is 57:5; Jr 2:20; 3:6,13; Ezk 20:47
3:14 : Hs 14:1
3:14 : Hs 2:16-17
3:14 : Hs 2:19-20
3:15 : 1Sm 13:14; Jr 23:4; Ezk 34:23; Ac 20:28; Eph 4:11
3:16 : Gn 1:28; Ex 1:12
3:16 : Ex 37:1-9; Dt 31:24-29; 1Kg 8:6
3:17 : Ezk 43:7; Rv 22:1,3
3:17 : Is 2:2-4; 43:9; 56:6-7; 66:18; Jr 16:19
3:17 : Dt 12:5
3:18 : Is 11:12-13; Jr 50:4-5; Ezk 37:15-22; Hs 11:1
3:18 : Am 9:15
3:19 : Dt 32:8-9; Ps 16:6; Lm 2:15; Ezk 20:6,15
3:20 : Ex 21:8-9; Is 48:8; Hs 1:2; 5:7; 6:7
3:21 : Is 17:10
3:22 : Is 57:18; Hs 5:15—6:3; 14:1-3
3:23 : Ps 121:1-2
3:23 : Ps 3:8; Jr 17:5-8
3:25 : Jb 8:22; Ezr 9:6
3:25 : Is 64:5; Jr 8:14; 14:7,20; Lm 3:42; 5:16; Dn 9:5
3:25 : Ezr 9:7; Ezk 2:3
4:1 : Zch 1:3
4:1 : Jr 7:30; 16:18; 32:34
4:2 : Dt 6:13; 10:20; Jr 5:2
4:2 : Is 65:16
4:2 : Hs 2:19
4:2 : Gn 26:3-4
4:2 : Gn 12:1-3; 18:18; 22:18; 1Co 1:31
4:3 : Hs 10:12
4:3 : Mt 13:7
4:4 : Gn 17:14; Dt 10:16; Jr 9:25; Rm 2:28-29
4:4 : Is 1:31; Jr 21:12; Am 5:6; Mal 4:1
4:5 : Jr 6:1; Hs 5:8; Jl 2:1; 1Th 4:16-17
4:6 : Is 62:10
4:6 : Is 14:31; 41:25; Jr 1:13; 4:20; 6:1; 15:12; 47:2; 50:3,9,41; 51:48; Ezk 26:7
4:7 : Ps 10:9; 17:12; Is 5:29; Jr 2:15; 5:6; 25:38; 49:19; 50:17,44
4:7 : Is 1:7; 6:11
4:8 : Jl 1:13
4:8 : Nm 25:4; Ps 78:49
4:10 : 1Kg 22:22; Ezk 14:9; 2Th 2:11
4:10 : Jr 6:14; 23:17
4:11 : Ezk 17:10
4:12 : Jr 1:16; Ezk 5:8
4:13 : Rv 1:7
4:13 : Is 5:28; 66:15
4:13 : 2Sm 1:23; Jb 9:26; Lm 4:19
4:13 : Lm 5:16
4:14 : Ps 51:2,7; Is 1:16; Jr 2:22; Ti 3:5; Jms 4:8
4:14 : Ps 119:113
4:16 : Is 39:3
4:17 : 2Kg 25:1-4
4:17 : Is 1:20
4:18 : Ps 107:17; Pr 1:31; Jr 7:3,5; 17:10; 18:11; 23:22; 25:5; 26:3,13; 32:19; Hs 4:9; 12:2; Zch 1:4,6

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Colossians 1:1-17

Greeting

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by God’s will,^(A) and Timothy^(B) our brother:

²To the saints in Christ at Colossae, who are faithful brothers and sisters.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father.^[a]

Thanksgiving

³We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, ⁴for we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all the saints ⁵because of the hope reserved for you in heaven. You have already heard about this hope in the word of truth,^(C) the gospel ⁶that has come to you. It is bearing fruit^(D) and growing all over the world,^(E) just as it has among you since the day you heard it and came to truly appreciate^(F) God’s grace.^[b]^(G) ⁷You learned this from Epaphras,^(H) our dearly loved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ^(I) on your^[c] behalf, ⁸and he has told us about your love in the Spirit.^(J)

Prayer for Spiritual Growth

⁹For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking^(K) that you may be filled with the knowledge^(L) of his will^(M) in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,^[d] ¹⁰so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work^(N) and growing in the knowledge of God,^(O) ¹¹being strengthened^(P) with all power,^(Q) according to his glorious^(R) might, so that you may have great endurance and patience, joyfully ¹²giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you^[e] to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light.^(S) ¹³He has rescued^(T) us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom^(U) of the Son^(V) he loves.^(W) ¹⁴In him we have redemption,^[f] the forgiveness of sins.

The Centrality of Christ

¹⁵He is the image of the invisible God,^(X)
the firstborn over all creation.^(Y)
¹⁶For everything was created by him,^(Z)
in heaven and on earth,
the visible and the invisible,
whether thrones or dominions
or rulers or authorities—
all things have been created through him and for him.^(AA)
¹⁷He is before all things,^(AB)
and by him all things^(AC) hold together.

Footnotes:

1:2 Other mss add and the Lord Jesus Christ
1:6 Or and truly recognized God’s grace
1:7 Other mss read our
1:9 Or all spiritual wisdom and understanding
1:12 Other mss read us
1:14 Other mss add through his blood

Cross references:

1:1 : 1Co 1:1; 2Co 1:1; Eph 1:1; 2Tm 1:1
1:1 : Ac 16:1; 1Tm 1:2
1:5 : Ps 119:142; Jn 14:6; 2Co 11:10; Eph 1:13; 2Tm 2:15; 3Jn 3
1:6 : Mk 4:8
1:6 : Mt 13:38; 24:14; Rm 3:6; 2Pt 2:20
1:6 : 2Th 2:10
1:6 : 2Pt 3:18
1:7 : Col 4:12; Phm 23
1:7 : Mt 1:17; Eph 5:2
1:8 : Ps 51:11; Jn 1:33; Ac 2:4; Rm 8:9; Ti 3:5; Rv 1:10; 3:22
1:9 : Jn 14:13; Jms 1:5
1:9 : Pr 2:6; Col 3:10
1:9 : Eph 1:9
1:10 : 2Co 9:8; Gl 3:10
1:10 : Pr 2:6; Jn 17:3; 2Pt 1:2; 1Jn 4:8
1:11 : Php 4:13
1:11 : Ac 4:33; 2Co 13:4
1:11 : Lk 9:32; Jn 17:24; 2Co 3:18; 2Pt 3:18
1:12 : Ps 36:9; Jn 12:46
1:13 : Mt 27:43
1:13 : Mt 3:2; Mk 1:15; Ac 20:25
1:13 : Jn 5:19; Heb 1:2
1:13 : Mt 3:17; Jn 3:16; 15:10; 17:26; 1Jn 4:16
1:15 : Php 2:6
1:15 : Jn 1:3; Rv 3:14
1:16 : Gn 1:1; Mk 13:19
1:16 : Jn 1:3; Rm 11:36; 1Co 8:6; Eph 1:10,21
1:17 : Jn 1:1-2; 8:58; Heb 1:2-3
1:17 : Ps 104:24

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Psalm 76

God, the Powerful Judge

For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A psalm of Asaph.^(A) A song.

¹God is known in Judah;
his name is great in Israel.^(B)
²His tent is in Salem,
his dwelling place in Zion.^(C)
³There he shatters the bow’s flaming arrows,
the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war.^(D)Selah

⁴You are resplendent and majestic
coming down from the mountains of prey.^(E)
⁵The brave-hearted have been plundered;
they have slipped into their final sleep.
None of the warriors was able to lift a hand.^(F)
⁶At your rebuke, God of Jacob,
both chariot and horse lay still.^(G)

⁷And you—you are to be feared.^[a]
When you are angry,
who can stand before you?^(H)
⁸From heaven you pronounced judgment.
The earth feared and grew quiet^(I)
⁹when God rose up to judge
and to save all the lowly of the earth.^(J)Selah
¹⁰Even human wrath will praise you;
you will clothe yourself
with the wrath that remains.^[b]^(K)

¹¹Make and keep your vows
to the Lord your God;^(L)
let all who are around him bring tribute
to the awe-inspiring one.^[c]^(M)
¹²He humbles the spirit of leaders;
he is feared by the kings of the earth.^(N)

Footnotes:

76:7 Or are awe-inspiring
76:10 Hb obscure
76:11 Or tribute with awe

Cross references:

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Proverbs 24:21-22

²¹My son, fear the Lord, as well as the king,^(A)
and don’t associate with rebels,^[a]
²²for destruction will come suddenly from them;
who knows what distress these two can bring?

Footnotes:

24:21 Or those given to change

Cross references:

24:21 : Mt 22:21; Rm 13:1-7; 1Pt 2:13-14,17

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

October 3, 2019

10/03/2019 DAB Transcript

Jeremiah 1:1-2:30, Philippians 4:1-23, Psalms 75:1-10, Proverbs 24:17-20

Today is the 3^rd day of October. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it is a pleasure…a pleasure to keep moving into this new month and keep moving forward, day by day step-by-step, and the steps have brought us to crossroads, a crossroads that the entire 66 times each year and that is the threshold of a new book. So, in the Old Testament, we have concluded the book of Isaiah, which leads us now into one of the most intriguing books of prophecy that is in the Bible and it’s found in the Old Testament and it’s called Jeremiah.

Introduction to the book of Jeramiah:

And it’s intriguing partly because of Jeremiah himself. He was committed to obeying God but not like everything that he was being asked to do. And there were plenty of times he wanted to just, you know, throw the whole thing out and wash his hands of it all and walk away because it seemed nobody was listening to him. And it wasn’t all in his head. Israel and turned her back on God and for more than two decades Jeremiah seemed to be the lone voice warning everybody that this path, this path is going nowhere and it’s not gonna be a pleasant end, which often led Jeremiah to be in conflict with the people. So, like the voice of judgment, a prophetic voice of an impending judgment isn’t really, it’s not easy to receive when everything’s going well. And, so, Jeremiah is prophesying at a time when powerful people and business is going right, and prosperity is happening. And, so, people were getting fed up with Jeremiah, but he was faithful to God and through all that, through the marginalization and persecution and trial he stayed faithful and he was right. His warnings were accurate. The Babylonian Empire and we’ve read of the Babylonian conquest in other books as we’ve wound our way here, but as we go into the book of Jeremiah we need to go before that happened. So, the Babylonian Empire invaded the land in 587 BC and then Jerusalem fell in that conquest and Solomon’s Temple which is known as the first Temple was utterly destroyed. And, so, as we go into the book of Jeremiah, we go back into the time leading up to that and we’ve been reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week, which is what we’ll continue to do. Jeremiah chapter 1 verse 1 through 2 verse 30 today.

Commentary:

Okay. So, we began our journey through the book of Jeremiah today and we talked about a little bit of its context as we went into it.

And we also concluded Paul’s letter to the Philippians today. And Philippians concludes with some of the most famous portions of Scripture in the New Testament. And man every year, we get to this chapter and it’s a power packed, and I look at these verses and apply what Paul is saying and I’m like, “man I can see the places where I haven’t done this and I can see the places where I have” and he’s right. So, we quote this one particular passage to each other quite a bit, “the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.” And this is one of the blinking signposts that we talk about nearly every year that we pass this territory, I guess in part because every time every time I pass this territory it’s a blinking light for me. Yes, the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding is promised here, the kind of peace that is beyond our understanding and guards our hearts and minds. So, no wonder we would quote that verse to each other but we kinda quoted to each other, like “if…if you just remember…like…if you would just memorize this Scripture then it will happen for you.” Like, we just try to remind each other “just remember the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding will guard your heart and mind.” That’s not how this works, though. That’s the thing. That’s why it’s a blinking light. Paul as he’s prone to do lists out some things that are prerequisites and post requisites, if that’s a word and this idea that “the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus” that’s sandwiched in the middle, like that’s the filling. So, can we go back through this again because I don’t think it’s just a blinking light for me. I don’t think we come to this passage of Scripture every year and it’s just like, “well I got that last year and I’ve kinda mastered that and I don’t really need to read this anymore.” So, we’re talking about the peace of God. And we’re talking about the kind of peace that is so deeply inside of us that it is really hard for us to describe or name or understand it, but it's…it’s undeniable and it guards us, it guards our hearts. So, here’s the path to that. “Rejoice in the Lord always.” I will say it again. “Rejoice. Let your graciousness been known to everyone. The Lord is near. Don’t worry about anything, but in everything through prayer and petition with thanksgiving present your requests to God and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there’s any moral excellence and if there is anything praiseworthy, dwell on these things.” So, there it is. There it is, that famous passage of Scripture in its context. Although I would say the entire passage is famous but there it is. Like there’s nothing esoteric here, right? There’s nothing we got a really, really deeply dive into to find out exactly what the context is and what people were thinking. Like, this is pretty straight forward. Here. There is a posture of heart that puts us in the right mind, the right place, to become aware of the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding that is guarding our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. If we’re not going to live into that posture, that we just reviewed, that we just read again, well…then we can’t just spout off to people, “the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds” not if you’re not rejoicing in the Lord, not if you’re not letting your graciousness be known to everyone, not if you’re not aware that the Lord is near, not if you’re worried about everything, and you’re not in a conversation with God. So, let’s understand that this is a collaboration, that we have a role to play, that we have responsibilities that were supposed to live up to hear. But it’s all available. And then at the very, very end of the letter as Paul’s kind of signing off, he says something that’s very, very, very, famous, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” And it’s doubtful that he would be saying that if you were not practicing the posture that he’s instructing us to live into in order to experience the peace of God. So, when Paul says, “I’m able to do all things through Christ”, he is actually talking about a different matter. He’s talking about how he has survived and how the Philippians have supported him, and how they’ve kinda been one of the only ones who did. And he’s just blessing them for that at the same time saying how much it was necessary. And that’s when he says, “I’ve learned how to be content in whatever circumstances I find myself.” Alright, let’s just pause there for second. “I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I find myself.” How many days a week can you say that? I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I find myself. I know both how to make do with little and I know how to make do with a lot.” Man, we’re all…we’re all wanting to be in that place of contentment no matter what’s going on, right? Paul’s like, “whether I have been well fed or whether I was hungry, whether I was in abundance or in need, I found the secret of being content. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” And one of Paul’s major points all along was, without Christ, everything, everything is a loss. Everything I’ve tried to do doesn’t matter. And, so he’s found this contentment by focusing his attention and his heart, aiming his posture toward what is good and worth thinking about. And worry and anxiety, all of those things that kind of plague us will, according to Paul, in the light of the fact that we are hopelessly dependent upon God then all of the stress and worry and anxiety that we focus so much of our attention on and that consumes so much of our lives isn’t really worth thinking about anyway and it definitely does not lead to peace. So, we have to learn the same things Paul is learning as he signs off this letter. In our own strength we are so limited, but we can do all things through Christ. And a lot of times when I hear that Scripture quoted, you know, it's…it’s a rallying cry. It’s like a word of encouragement to help someone rise up and fight on. But Paul’s kind of in a place where he’s in jail, he could die, and this is ultimate surrender. “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” And maybe another way of looking at this is, “Christ can do in me and through me whatever He wants. I will not limit him in any way by all of the other stuff I am obsessed about. I will focus on what is good and true and pure. I will allow myself to become aware that Christ is in me and there is nowhere that I can flee from his Spirit and I will become aware of the peace that that brings knowing that in my own surrender I have simply acknowledged my inability to be sovereign and I surrender to the sovereign Lord who can do whatever He wants through me.”

Prayer:

Holy Spirit we invite You into that. We want all of the promises, we want to be able to do all things through Christ. We want the peace of God that passes all understanding but we’re not always aware that this isn’t an add on. It’s not like we read these Scriptures and somehow, they become like an energy pack that we can just stir in the water and drink and all the sudden we become superhuman. This is about our becoming aware of how powerless we actually are and how unmatched unparalleled Your power is within us. Come Holy Spirit make this real for us. Lead us into all truth we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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October 3, 2019

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Thursday October 3, 2019 (NIV)

Jeremiah 1:1-2:30

1 The words of Jeremiah,^(A) the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests living in Anathoth^(B) in the territory of Benjamin. ²The word of the Lord came to him in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah^(C) son of Amon, king of Judah. ³It also came throughout the days of Jehoiakim^(D) son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah^(E) son of Josiah, king of Judah, when the people of Jerusalem went into exile.

The Call of Jeremiah

⁴The word of the Lord came to me:

⁵I chose you before I formed you in the womb;
I set you apart before you were born.^(F)
I appointed you a prophet to the nations.^(G)

⁶But I protested, “Oh no, Lord God! Look, I don’t know how to speak^(H) since I am only a youth.”^(I)

⁷Then the Lord said to me:

Do not say, “I am only a youth,”^(J)
for you will go to everyone I send you to
and speak whatever I tell you.^(K)
⁸Do not be afraid of anyone,^(L)
for I will be with you to rescue you.^(M)
This is the Lord’s declaration.

⁹Then the Lord reached out his hand, touched my mouth,^(N) and told me:

I have now filled your mouth with my words.^(O)
¹⁰See, I have appointed you today
over nations and kingdoms
to uproot and tear down,
to destroy and demolish,^(P)
to build and plant.^(Q)

Two Visions

¹¹Then the word of the Lord came to me, asking, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” ^(R)

I replied, “I see a branch of an almond tree.”

¹²The Lord said to me, “You have seen correctly, for I watch over^[a] my word to accomplish it.”^(S) ¹³Again the word of the Lord came to me asking, “What do you see?”

And I replied, “I see a boiling pot,^(T) its lip tilted from the north to the south.”

¹⁴Then the Lord said to me, “Disaster will be poured out^[b] from the north^(U) on all who live in the land. ¹⁵Indeed, I am about to summon all the clans and kingdoms of the north.”^(V)

This is the Lord’s declaration.

They will come, and each king will set up his throne
at the entrance to Jerusalem’s gates.
They will attack all her surrounding walls
and all the other cities of Judah.

¹⁶“I will pronounce my judgments against them for all the evil they did when they abandoned me to burn incense to other gods and to worship the works of their own hands.^(W)

¹⁷“Now, get ready. Stand up and tell them everything that I command you. Do not be intimidated by them^(X) or I will cause you to cower before them. ¹⁸Today, I am the one who has made you a fortified city,^(Y) an iron pillar, and bronze walls^(Z) against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the population. ¹⁹They will fight against you but never prevail over you,^(AA) since I am with you to rescue you.”^(AB)

This is the Lord’s declaration.

Israel Accused of Apostasy

2 The word of the Lord came to me: ²“Go and announce directly to Jerusalem that this is what the Lord says:

I remember the loyalty of your youth,^(AC)
your love as a bride—
how you followed me in the wilderness,
in a land not sown.
³Israel was holy to the Lord,^(AD)
the firstfruits of his harvest.^(AE)
All who ate of it found themselves guilty;^(AF)
disaster came on them.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.

⁴Hear the word of the Lord, house of Jacob
and all families of the house of Israel.
⁵This is what the Lord says:
What fault did your fathers find in me^(AG)
that they went so far from me,
followed worthless idols,^(AH)
and became worthless themselves?^(AI)
⁶They stopped asking, “Where is the Lord^(AJ)
who brought us from the land of Egypt,
who led us through the wilderness,^(AK)
through a land of deserts and ravines,
through a land of drought and darkness,^[c]
a land no one traveled through
and where no one lived?”
⁷I brought you to a fertile land^(AL)
to eat its fruit and bounty,
but after you entered, you defiled my land;^(AM)
you made my inheritance^(AN) detestable.
⁸The priests quit asking, “Where is the Lord?”
The experts in the law no longer knew me,^(AO)
and the rulers^(AP) rebelled against me.
The prophets prophesied by^[d] Baal^(AQ)
and followed useless idols.^(AR)

⁹Therefore, I will bring a case against you again.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
I will bring a case against your children’s children.^(AS)
¹⁰Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus^[e]^(AT) and take a look.
Send someone to Kedar^(AU) and consider carefully;
see if there has ever been anything like this:
¹¹Has a nation ever exchanged its gods?^(AV)
(But they were not gods!^(AW))
Yet my people have exchanged their^[f] Glory
for useless idols.^(AX)
¹²Be appalled at this, heavens;^(AY)
be shocked and utterly desolated!
This is the Lord’s declaration.

¹³For my people have committed a double evil:
They have abandoned me,^(AZ)
the fountain of living water,^(BA)
and dug cisterns for themselves—
cracked cisterns that cannot hold water.^(BB)

Consequences of Apostasy

¹⁴Is Israel a slave?
Was he born into slavery?^[g]
Why else has he become a prey?
¹⁵The young lions have roared at him;^(BC)
they have roared loudly.
They have laid waste his land.^(BD)
His cities are in ruins, without inhabitants.
¹⁶The men of Memphis and Tahpanhes^(BE)
have also broken your skull.
¹⁷Have you not brought this on yourself^(BF)
by abandoning the Lord your God
while he was leading you along the way?
¹⁸Now what will you gain
by traveling along the way to Egypt^(BG)
to drink the water of the Nile?^[h]
What will you gain
by traveling along the way to Assyria^(BH)
to drink the water of the Euphrates?^(BI)
¹⁹Your own evil will discipline you;^(BJ)
your own apostasies will reprimand you.
Recognize^[i] how evil and bitter^(BK) it is
for you to abandon the Lord your God
and to have no fear of me.
This is the declaration of the Lord God of Armies.

²⁰For long ago I^[j] broke your yoke;^(BL)
I^[k] tore off your chains.
You insisted, “I will not serve!”
On every high hill
and under every green tree^(BM)
you lay down like a prostitute.^(BN)

²¹I planted you, a choice vine^(BO)
from the very best seed.
How then could you turn into
a degenerate, foreign vine?^(BP)

²²Even if you wash with lye
and use a great amount of bleach,^[l]^(BQ)
the stain of your iniquity is still in front of me.^(BR)
This is the Lord God’s declaration.
²³How can you protest, “I am not defiled;
I have not followed the Baals”?^(BS)
Look at your behavior in the valley;
acknowledge what you have done.^(BT)
You are a swift young camel
twisting and turning on her way,
²⁴a wild donkey^(BU) at home^[m] in the wilderness.
She sniffs the wind in the heat of her desire.
Who can control her passion?
All who look for her will not become weary;
they will find her in her mating season.^[n]
²⁵Keep your feet from going bare
and your throat from thirst.
But you say, “It’s hopeless;^(BV)
I love strangers,^(BW)
and I will continue to follow them.”

²⁶Like the shame of a thief when he is caught,
so the house of Israel has been put to shame.^(BX)
They, their kings, their officials,
their priests, and their prophets^(BY)
²⁷say to a tree, “You are my father,”
and to a stone, “You gave birth to me.”
For they have turned their back to me
and not their face,^(BZ)
yet in their time of disaster^(CA) they beg,
“Rise up and save us!”
²⁸But where are your gods you made for yourself?
Let them rise up and save you^(CB)
in your time of disaster if they can,
for your gods are as numerous as your cities, Judah.

Judgment Deserved

²⁹Why do you bring a case against me?^(CC)
All of you have rebelled against me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
³⁰I have struck down your children in vain;
they would not accept discipline.^(CD)
Your own sword has devoured your prophets^(CE)
like a ravaging lion.

Footnotes:

1:12 In Hb, the word for almond tree sounds like the word for watch over
1:14 LXX reads will boil
2:6 Or shadow of death
2:8 = in the name of
2:10 Lit to the islands of Kittim
2:11 Alt Hb tradition reads my
2:14 Lit born of a house
2:18 Lit of Shihor
2:19 Lit Know and see
2:20 LXX reads you
2:20 LXX reads you
2:22 Lit cleansing agent
2:24 Lit donkey taught
2:24 Lit her month

Cross references:

1:1 : 2Ch 35:25; 36:12; Ezr 1:1; Dn 9:2; Mt 2:17; 16:14; 27:9
1:1 : Jos 21:18; 1Kg 2:26; Jr 32:7
1:2 : 2Kg 21:24; 22:1; Jr 25:3; 36:2; Zph 1:1
1:3 : 2Kg 23:34; 24:2; 1Ch 3:15; Jr 22:18; 25:1; 35:1
1:3 : 2Kg 24:17-20; 1Ch 3:16; Jr 21:1; 27:1; 39:2
1:5 : 1Sm 1:22; Ps 22:9-10; 139:13-16; Is 44:2; 49:1-6; Lk 1:15; Gl 1:15
1:5 : Jr 25:15-26
1:6 : Ex 4:10; 1Co 2:1-5
1:6 : 1Kg 3:7
1:7 : 1Tm 4:12
1:7 : Dt 18:18; Jr 1:17; Ezk 2:7
1:8 : Ezk 2:6
1:8 : Gn 26:3; 31:3; Ex 3:12; Is 43:2; Jr 15:20
1:9 : Is 6:7
1:9 : Is 51:16
1:10 : 2Co 10:4-5
1:10 : Jr 12:14-17; 18:7,9; 19:7; 24:6; 31:28; Col 2:6-7
1:11 : Jr 24:3; Am 8:2; Zch 4:2
1:12 : Jr 31:28; Php 1:6
1:13 : Ezk 24:3
1:14 : Jr 4:6,20; 6:1; 15:12; 47:2; 50:3,9,41; 51:48
1:15 : Jr 25:9
1:16 : Ex 20:3; Is 37:19; 44:15; Ac 7:41
1:17 : Ezk 2:6-7; 1Th 2:2
1:18-19 : Jr 15:20
1:18 : Jr 6:27; Ezk 3:8-9
1:19 : Ps 129:2
1:19 : Jr 1:6
2:2 : Ezk 16:8,60; Hs 2:15; Rv 2:4
2:3 : Dt 7:6
2:3 : Jms 1:18
2:3 : Gn 12:3; Ps 105:14-15; Is 41:11
2:5 : Is 5:4; Mc 6:3
2:5 : 2Kg 17:15; Jr 2:25; Hs 2:5
2:5 : Ps 115:8; Hs 9:10; Rm 1:21
2:6 : Jdg 6:13; Jb 35:10
2:6 : Dt 8:15; 32:10
2:7 : Ex 3:8; Dt 8:7-10; Jr 4:26
2:7 : Nm 35:33; Ezk 36:17
2:7 : Jr 16:18
2:8 : Hs 4:6; Mal 2:7; Lk 11:52
2:8 : Jr 23:1-4; Ezk 34
2:8 : Jr 2:23; 9:14
2:8 : Hab 2:8
2:9 : Ex 20:5; Is 3:13; Mc 6:1-8
2:10 : Gn 10:4; Nm 24:24; Is 23:1,12; Am 6:2; Ac 13:4
2:10 : Ps 120:5
2:11 : Mc 4:5
2:11 : Jr 16:20; Gl 4:8
2:11 : Ps 106:20; Hs 4:7; Rm 1:23; 1Pt 1:18
2:12 : Dt 32:1; Is 1:2; Mc 6:1
2:13 : Jdg 10:13
2:13 : Ps 36:9; Jr 17:13; Jn 4:10
2:13 : Is 55:2; Gl 1:6-7
2:15 : Is 5:29
2:15 : Is 1:7
2:16 : Jr 44:1; 46:14,19; Ezk 30:13,16,18
2:17 : Jr 4:18
2:18 : Is 30:1-2; 31:1
2:18 : Hs 7:11
2:18 : Is 8:7
2:19 : Is 3:9; Hs 5:5
2:19 : Jr 4:18
2:20 : Lv 26:13; Is 10:27; Nah 1:13
2:20 : Dt 12:2; 1Kg 14:23; 2Kg 17:10; Is 57:5; Jr 3:6; Ezk 6:13; Hs 4:13
2:20 : Ezk 16:28; Hs 2:5
2:21 : Gn 49:11; Ps 80:8; Is 5:2
2:21 : Is 5:4
2:22 : Ps 51:2,7; Mal 3:2; Eph 5:26
2:22 : Ps 90:8
2:23 : Jr 2:8; 9:14
2:23 : Gn 3:13; 1Sm 15:13; Pr 28:13; Jr 3:13; 1Jn 1:8
2:24 : Jb 39:5; Hs 8:9
2:25 : Jr 18:12
2:25 : Dt 32:16; Jr 3:13
2:26 : Jr 2:36; 6:15; 8:9,12; Rm 6:21
2:26 : Ezr 9:7
2:27 : 2Ch 29:6; Jr 18:17; 32:33; Ezk 8:16
2:27 : Jdg 10:9-10; Is 26:16
2:28 : Dt 32:37-38; Jdg 10:14; Is 45:20
2:29 : Jr 2:9
2:30 : Pr 3:11; Is 1:5; 9:13; Jr 5:3; 17:23; 32:33; Am 4:10
2:30 : Mt 23:34

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Philippians 4

4 So then, my dearly loved and longed for brothers and sisters, my joy and crown,^(A) in this manner stand firm^(B) in the Lord, dear friends.

Practical Counsel

²I urge Euodia and I urge Syntyche to agree in the Lord. ³Yes, I also ask you, true partner,^[a] to help these women who have contended for the gospel at my side, along with Clement and the rest of my coworkers whose names are in the book of life. ⁴Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! ⁵Let your graciousness^[b] be known to everyone. The Lord is near.^(C) ⁶Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. ⁷And the peace of God, which surpasses^(D) all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.^(E)

⁸Finally^[c] brothers and sisters, whatever is true,^(F) whatever is honorable,^(G) whatever is just,^(H) whatever is pure,^(I) whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable—if there is any moral excellence^(J) and if there is anything praiseworthy—dwell on these things. ⁹Do what you have learned and received^(K) and heard from me, and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you.

Appreciation of Support

¹⁰I rejoiced in the Lord greatly because once again^(L) you renewed your care for me.^(M) You were, in fact, concerned about me but lacked the opportunity to show it. ¹¹I don’t say this out of need, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I find myself. ¹²I know both how to make do with little, and I know how to make do with a lot.^(N) In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being content—whether well fed or hungry, whether in abundance or in need. ¹³I am able to do all things through him^[d] who strengthens me.^(O) ¹⁴Still, you did well by partnering with me in my hardship.

¹⁵And you Philippians^(P) know that in the early days of the gospel,^(Q) when I left Macedonia,^(R) no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you alone. ¹⁶For even in Thessalonica^(S) you sent gifts for my need^(T) several times. ¹⁷Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the profit^[e]^(U) that is increasing to your account. ¹⁸But I have received everything in full,^(V) and I have an abundance. I am fully supplied,^[f] having received from Epaphroditus^(W) what you provided—a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing^(X) to God. ¹⁹And my God^(Y) will supply all your needs according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. ²⁰Now to our God and Father^(Z) be glory forever and ever.^(AA) Amen.^(AB)

Final Greetings

²¹Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me send you greetings. ²²All the saints send you greetings, especially those who belong to Caesar’s^(AC) household.^(AD) ²³The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.^[g]^(AE)

Footnotes:

4:3 Or true Syzygus, possibly a person’s name
4:5 Or gentleness
4:8 Or In addition
4:13 Other mss read Christ
4:17 Lit fruit
4:18 Or Here, then, is my receipt for everything, I have an abundance, for I am fully supplied
4:23 Other mss add Amen.

Cross references:

4:1 : Rv 12:1
4:1 : Rm 14:4; 1Co 16:13; Php 1:27; 2:2
4:5 : 1Co 16:22; Php 1:6; Heb 10:24-25; Jms 5:8; Rv 1:7; 3:11; 22:20
4:7 : Php 2:3
4:7 : Rm 16:7; Eph 2:6; Php 1:1,15; 1Pt 5:14
4:8 : Jn 8:14
4:8 : 1Tm 3:8,11; Ti 2:2
4:8 : Rm 1:17
4:8 : 2Co 7:11; 11:2; 1Tm 5:22; Ti 2:5; Jms 3:17; 1Pt 3:2; 1Jn 3:3
4:8 : 1Pt 2:9; 2Pt 1:3,5
4:9 : Jd 3
4:10 : Php 1:5
4:10 : 2Co 8:1-2; 11:9
4:12 : 1Co 15:58
4:13 : 2Co 12:9; Eph 3:16; Col 1:11; 1Tm 1:12; 2Tm 4:17
4:15 : Php 1:1
4:15 : Ac 16:6-40; Php 1:5
4:15 : Ac 16:9
4:16 : Ac 17:1
4:16 : Mt 6:8
4:17 : Mt 3:8; Rm 1:13; Gl 5:22
4:18 : Php 1:5
4:18 : Php 2:25
4:18 : Heb 13:21
4:19 : Mt 27:46; Rm 1:8; Php 1:8
4:20 : Gl 1:4; 1Th 1:3; 3:11,13
4:20 : Gl 1:5; 1Tm 1:17; 2Tm 4:18; Heb 13:21
4:20 : Rm 11:36; Rv 22:21
4:22 : Mt 22:17; Lk 20:22
4:22 : Php 1:7
4:23 : Rm 1:9

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Psalm 75

God Judges the Wicked

For the choir director: “Do Not Destroy.” A psalm of Asaph.^(A) A song.

¹We give thanks to you, God;
we give thanks to you, for your name is near.
People tell about your wondrous works.^(B)

²“When I choose a time,
I will judge fairly.^(C)
³When the earth and all its inhabitants shake,
I am the one who steadies its pillars.^(D)Selah
⁴I say to the boastful, ‘Do not boast,’
and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn.^(E)
⁵Do not lift up your horn against heaven^[a]
or speak arrogantly.’”^(F)

⁶Exaltation does not come
from the east, the west, or the desert,
⁷for God is the Judge:
He brings down one and exalts another.^(G)
⁸For there is a cup in the Lord’s hand,
full of wine blended with spices, and he pours from it.
All the wicked of the earth will drink,
draining it to the dregs.^(H)

⁹As for me, I will tell about him forever;
I will sing praise to the God of Jacob.^(I)

¹⁰“I will cut off all the horns of the wicked,^(J)
but the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.”^(K)

Footnotes:

75:5 Lit horn to the height

Cross references:

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Proverbs 24:17-20

¹⁷Don’t gloat when your enemy falls,
and don’t let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,^(A)
¹⁸or the Lord will see, be displeased,
and turn his wrath away from him.

¹⁹Don’t be agitated by evildoers,
and don’t envy the wicked.^(B)
²⁰For the evil have no future;^(C)
the lamp of the wicked will be put out.^(D)

Cross references:

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

October 2, 2019

10/02/2019 DAB Transcript

Isaiah 66:1-24, Philippians 3:4-21, Ps 74:1-23, Proverbs 24:15-16

Today is the 2^nd day of October. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It’s a joy and it’s a pleasure and it’s exciting even to be here with you today as we keep moving into this new month and keep taking steps forward together. We’ll complete the book of Isaiah today in our Old Testament reading, which will take us into some new territory beginning tomorrow. We’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week. Isaiah chapter 66 today

Commentary:

Okay. So, a bunch of you in this community are married. A bunch of you are not married, but if you are married, then I’d say this a pretty good…better-than-average chance that you have a wedding ring. And, so, like I have a wedding. Like I’m looking at my wedding ring right now. Is that wedding ring…and I’m looking at mine. Look at yours. Is that wedding ring your marriage? So, is that precious metal, whatever it is wrapped around your finger. Is it your marriage? Right? So, like whether it’s exotic and expensive and fantastic or wether it’s super super thin and basic, none of us can say our wedding ring is our marriage. Right? It’s rather a symbol representing the fact that we have entered into marriage. So, actually being married is way different from wearing a symbol of marriage on our finger. And this is fundamentally what Paul is saying in our reading from Philippians today, but fundamentally what he’s been saying throughout all of the writings, what he said throughout his entire ministry, the covenantal relationship that God offered his people had become empty ritual, kind of like a ring without a marriage. So, the heart and the soul and the commitment required of the relationship had become rules. And Paul had tried. So, for Paul obeying the rules even being a scholar of the rules in order to be made righteous before God had proven unfruitful. It didn’t make him righteous. And, you know, we shouldn’t think of the apostle Paul as like some dude that’s kind of a nominal participant in his faith, that’s not what was going on and he was talking about it today, like, “am I a Hebrew? Yes, I’m of the tribe of Benjamin. I was born of Hebrews. Talk about my zeal, I persecuted the…” like he was saying, “I was all in” in other words. He had obeyed the rules with every effort and he still couldn’t find a relationship with God in them. And, so that’s what he was articulating in our reading from Philippians today. Paul was convinced that only the righteous could ever hope to see God. And, so, prior to meeting Jesus the Christ the resurrected One he applied himself to becoming righteous through the rituals and ceremonies of his faith. It just didn’t make them righteous. It revealed his inability to be righteous, which is like the heart, the crux of so much of his theology and so much of his argument. But even though he had tried his very best and found that he couldn’t become righteous through the law someone did fulfill the law, which was so compelling to Paul, Jesus. And, so, he diligently searched the Scriptures and received direct revelation from Jesus and realized that faith could make a person righteous but law or the rules, the behaviors, the behavior modifications, those things couldn’t make him righteous. And, so, he was compelled to put all of his faith in Jesus, believing that God was doing a new thing in the world and restoring humanity to God through Jesus because now there was a path toward righteousness that was out of the reach of humanity…like out of the reach of us being able to achieve it on our own. And, so, this…well…tipped Paul’s life upside down and to the point that he considered all of the effort that he had put in prior at being righteous he considered it all a waste. So, quoting him, “I consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Jesus my Lord. Because of him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them as dung” right? So, he’s, like “dude…I tried so hard to find God and I worked so hard and my good behaviors piled up and I was righteous before the Lord, but now I look at that and see it was just a big pile of crap. Compared to an actual relationship with Jesus it’s all garbage.” Now I realize this theme, this isn’t in our first time encountering these foundational truths that are fundamental to the Christian faith. They’re all over Paul’s writings but there all throughout the New Testament. But sometimes we actually need the things that keep getting brought up in the Bible. We need it because…because we’re often mistaking the ring for the relationship as we try to walk through every day trying to obey the rules so that God will notice us. And because Paul is so pointed, because he is so direct about these topics and because they repeat themselves in so many of the letters, we have to start wondering like, “what…like…what campaign is Paul trying to wage here? Is it that he’s trying to do away with all of the rules? Like, is that the point? Do the tenets of our faith and the rituals of our faith have any value?” I mean is if salvation actually is a gift it’s something that we can never earn, but only something that we can receive. Then what’s the point of trying…what’s the point of trying to live by any kind of rule? Look at the wedding ring that we were looking at a little bit ago. Like, I’m looking at it again. Can you make your spouse love you? Like I’m looking at a ring that says I got married and my wife’s name is Jill and she’s around here somewhere and I know that I can do very, very kind things toward her but I also know I can be a complete jerk too. Like we’re all capable of all kinds of things but no matter how I am, if I set my affection upon her to practically be her servant and do everything that I can I still can’t make her love me. Love is given, love is offered, love is a gift. So, you’re married, and you’ve been given the gift of your spouse’s love. So, then can you do whatever you want in the marriage simply because you been given this love? Right? Hardly! That will not work. When we exchange love between each other we’re taking a big risk and it’s gonna require supreme loyalty, at least if it’s gonna work. And, so, if the relationship is healthy, then the rules of the relationship become apparent, they don’t need to be spoken, we don’t have to follow them out of coercion. The rules define our love. Right? So, Jill and I were married, and we were given the covenant of marriage. We were like…we had to sign documents. It’s a contract. Like our state of Tennessee recognizes that we have the contract of marriage. We…I…we…I don’t even know where it is. I doubt she does either. Like, we have never gotten into a spat that turned into a fight and then one of us went somewhere and came back out holding a manila envelope with our marriage contract. We never reviewed…we never reviewed it. Like this thing that keeps us together is love. And, so, there are things that I will…there are things that I will not do because I will not break my wife’s heart. There are positions I will not get myself into because I won’t even take that chance. And yet it has nothing to do with whether or not that was written down as a rule in my marriage contract and I imagine that you’re pretty similar and this has always been Paul’s point. He was convinced that we’re on a journey to wholeness and restoration and that can happen through faith and entering into a relationship with God that we’ve been offered to Jesus. So, if we’re gonna…if we’re gonna be…I mean I mean we just talked about what it’s like to be in love with our spouse but if we’re gonna be in love with Jesus then we have to act like it. It’s more than a symbol or an icon. It’s more than a ring around your finger. Those are symbols of a reality and may we live ever deeper into that reality today.

Prayer:

Holy Spirit we invite You into that because a lot of times we major on the optics, like we major on how we look like we’re in a relationship with You. Like we get around our faith communities and so it’s all about saying the right versus and the right euphemisms and have our hands raised or, You know, whatever it is that we do so often we’re simply portraying an image like a ring with our marriage. And we want to relationship. It’s not about what it looks like and it’s not about how well we’re doing with the rules, it’s how well we’re doing at losing our self in love with You. So, come Holy Spirit. We’re reminded again and You continue to remind us and we need to be continually reminded because we forget things so quickly that are so much embedded into the fabric of our relationship and so much our reality. So, come Holy Spirit we pray. In Jesus’ name we ask. Amen.

Announcements:

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And I…I did a little fireside chat that should’ve showed up in your feed today kinda giving the whole story but today is a really special day because we’re releasing a resource today that is so much the DNA of the Daily Audio Bible that it…that it is kind of the DNA of the Daily Audio Bible in some respects, a brand-new written resource called The God of Your Story or The One Year Adventure With The God Of Your Story. And it’s a new book, that, yeah, I needed to actually create a different podcast to talk about so that we could just talk about the story of how it came to be. I mean, I have been a writer for a while now and I’ve published several books. And I mean, before all that I was a record producer, I was in the music business. So, I know kind of how releasing things works in the world and the world of distribution and all of this. And, so, in the past any time I’ve mentioned something new, a new resource, a new work that’s coming, it’s, you know, it’s a couple weeks away and just letting everybody know and talking…talking about it. It’s a little different this time, so different on a number of levels. First of all, there is no fanfare. This is the fanfare, the God of Your Story is out today and that is largely because I just felt this sense from the Lord that…that this is something to blow trumpets about, this is something to be humble with. And, so, I’m obeying that. And as I explained on the fireside chat, this…this is something that took 600 days of writing to accomplish, something that I thought would be far easier than it ever was. In fact, it ended up being way more of a mountain than I…I think I was even prepared to climb. But here we are. So, mountain got climbed but it was…it was something that has been done before, which seems to be the way of things around here often. And essentially what The God of Your Story is…is…is the gold…is the gold of the Daily Audio Bible or at least what we talk about when we talk about the Bible on the Daily Audio Bible. The challenge was to determine whether or not what we do here every day on the Daily Audio Bible, we read the scriptures and then we usually talk about them. If what we talk about, could that become a written work. That’s a fairly sizable project because we’re talking about the journey through the entire Bible in a year. And I thought, yeah kind of…kind of gonna be a piece of cake other than it’s going to be a lot of work, it’s gonna be pretty straightforward, do this every day. But man, when you try to take what is spoken and make it written. It’s a totally different thing. Nevertheless, when we began the Daily Audio Bible we were reading from a plan and this is the 14^th time through it, this one-year Bible plan. And, so, knowing that this has been our rhythm, we partnered with the one-year Bible, the one-year brand, which is owned by Tyndale House and created a 365-day commentary through the entire Bible as we do on the Daily Audio Bible. So, it’s every day, the kinds of stuff that we talk about, even though no time through the Bible on the Daily Audio Bible is the same. Those of you who have been here for several years like…you know…like every year is a different thing and we move in different directions but finding that path in written form is what the God of Your Story. And I’m not gonna say any more about it than that today to take up any more of your time. I’ve given the story. I’ve told of the journey in the fireside chat. So, check that out. But the God of Your Story is available today, right now at dailyaudiobible.com. Just look in the initiatives section and you’ll find God of Your Story or you can find it in the Daily Audio Bible Shop. 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October 2, 2019

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Wednesday October 2, 2019 (NIV)

Isaiah 66

Final Judgment and Joyous Restoration

66 This is what the Lord says:

Heaven^(A) is my throne,^(B)
and earth is my footstool.^(C)
Where could you possibly build a house for me?
And where would my resting place be?^(D)
²My hand made all these things,
and so they all came into being.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
I will look favorably on this kind of person:
one who is humble,^(E) submissive^[a] in spirit,^(F)
and trembles at my word.
³One person slaughters an ox, another kills a person;
one person sacrifices a lamb, another breaks a dog’s neck;
one person offers a grain offering, another offers pig’s blood;
one person offers incense, another praises an idol—
all these have chosen their ways
and delight in their abhorrent practices.^(G)
⁴So I will choose their punishment,
and I will bring on them what they dread
because I called and no one answered;
I spoke and they did not listen;
they did what was evil in my sight
and chose what I did not delight in.^(H)
⁵You who tremble at his word,^(I)
hear the word of the Lord:^(J)
“Your brothers who hate and exclude you
for my name’s sake have said,^(K)
‘Let the Lord be glorified
so that we can see your joy!’
But they will be put to shame.”^(L)
⁶A sound of uproar from the city!
A voice from the temple—
the voice of the Lord,
paying back his enemies what they deserve!^(M)
⁷Before Zion was in labor, she gave birth;
before she was in pain, she delivered a boy.
⁸Who has heard of such a thing?
Who has seen such things?
Can a land be born in one day
or a nation be delivered in an instant?
Yet as soon as Zion was in labor,
she gave birth to her sons.
⁹“Will I bring a baby to the point of birth
and not deliver it?”
says the Lord;
“or will I who deliver, close the womb?”
says your God.
¹⁰Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her,
all who love her.^(N)
Rejoice greatly with her,
all who mourn over her—
¹¹so that you may nurse and be satisfied
from her comforting breast
and drink deeply and delight yourselves
from her glorious breasts.

¹²For this is what the Lord says:

I will make peace flow to her like a river,^(O)
and the wealth^[b] of nations like a flood;^(P)
you will nurse and be carried on her hip^(Q)
and bounced on her lap.
¹³As a mother comforts her son,
so I will comfort you,^(R)
and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.
¹⁴You will see, you will rejoice,
and you^[c] will flourish like grass;^(S)
then the Lord’s power will be revealed to his servants,
but he will show his wrath against his enemies.
¹⁵Look, the Lord will come with fire^(T)—
his chariots are like the whirlwind^(U)—
to execute his anger with fury
and his rebuke with flames of fire.
¹⁶For the Lord will execute judgment
on all people^(V) with his fiery sword,
and many will be slain by the Lord.

¹⁷“Those who dedicate and purify themselves to enter the groves^(W) following their leader,^[d] eating meat from pigs, vermin,^[e] and rats, will perish together.”

This is the Lord’s declaration.

¹⁸“Knowing^[f] their works and their thoughts, I have come to gather all nations and languages;^(X) they will come and see my glory. ¹⁹I will establish a sign among them, and I will send survivors from them to the nations—to Tarshish, Put,^[g] Lud (who are archers), Tubal, Javan,^(Y) and the coasts and islands far away—who have not heard about me or seen my glory. And they will proclaim my glory among the nations.^(Z) ²⁰They will bring all your brothers from all the nations as a gift to the Lord on horses and chariots, in litters, and on mules and camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem,”^(AA) says the Lord, “just as the Israelites bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of the Lord. ²¹I will also take some of them as priests and Levites,”^(AB) says the Lord.

²²“For just as the new heavens and the new earth,^(AC)
which I will make,
will remain before me”—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
“so your offspring and your name will remain.
²³All mankind will come to worship me
from one New Moon to another
and from one Sabbath to another,”
says the Lord.

²⁴“As they leave, they will see the dead bodies of those who have rebelled against me;^(AD) for their worm^(AE) will never die, their fire will never go out,^(AF) and they will be a horror to all mankind.”^(AG)

Footnotes:

66:2 Lit broken
66:12 Or glory
66:14 Lit your bones
66:17 Hb obscure
66:17 Lit abhorrent things
66:18 LXX, Syr; MT omits Knowing
66:19 LXX; MT reads Pul

Cross references:

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Philippians 3:4-21

⁴although I have reasons for confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more: ⁵circumcised the eighth day;^(A) of the nation of Israel,^(B) of the tribe of Benjamin,^(C) a Hebrew born of Hebrews; regarding the law,^(D) a Pharisee; ⁶regarding zeal,^(E) persecuting^(F) the church; regarding the righteousness that is in the law,^(G) blameless.^(H)

⁷But everything that was a gain to me, I have considered to be a loss because of Christ. ⁸More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value^(I) of knowing Christ^(J) Jesus my Lord. Because of him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them as dung, so that I may gain Christ^(K) ⁹and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own from the law,^(L) but one that is through faith in Christ^[a]—the righteousness from God based on faith.^(M) ¹⁰My goal is to know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings,^(N) being conformed to his death,^(O) ¹¹assuming that I will somehow reach the resurrection from among the dead.

Reaching Forward to God’s Goal

¹²Not that I have already reached the goal or am already perfect, but I make every effort to take hold^(P) of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus. ¹³Brothers and sisters, I do not^[b] consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind^(Q) and reaching forward to what is ahead, ¹⁴I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly^[c] call in Christ Jesus.^(R) ¹⁵Therefore, let all of us who are mature think this way. And if you think differently about anything, God will reveal^(S) this also to you. ¹⁶In any case, we should live up to whatever truth we have attained. ¹⁷Join in imitating me, brothers and sisters, and pay careful attention to those who live according to the example you have in us. ¹⁸For I have often told you, and now say again with tears, that many live as enemies of the cross^(T) of Christ. ¹⁹Their end is destruction; their god is their stomach; their glory^(U) is in their shame. They are focused on earthly things, ²⁰but our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly wait for a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ. ²¹He will transform the body of our humble condition into the likeness of his glorious^(V) body,^(W) by the power that enables him to subject everything to himself.

Footnotes:

3:9 Or through the faithfulness of Christ
3:13 Other mss read not yet
3:14 Or upward

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Psalm 74

Prayer for Israel

A Maskil of Asaph.^(A)

¹Why have you rejected us forever, God?
Why does your anger burn
against the sheep of your pasture?^(B)
²Remember your congregation,
which you purchased long ago
and redeemed as the tribe for your own possession.^(C)
Remember Mount Zion where you dwell.^(D)
³Make your way^[a] to the perpetual ruins,
to all that the enemy has destroyed in the sanctuary.^(E)
⁴Your adversaries roared in the meeting place
where you met with us.^[b]
They set up their emblems as signs.^(F)
⁵It was like men in a thicket of trees,
wielding axes,^(G)
⁶then smashing all the carvings
with hatchets and picks.^(H)
⁷They set your sanctuary on fire;
they utterly^[c] desecrated
the dwelling place of your name.^(I)
⁸They said in their hearts,
“Let us oppress them relentlessly.”
They burned every place throughout the land
where God met with us.^[d]^(J)
⁹There are no signs for us to see.
There is no longer a prophet.
And none of us knows how long this will last.^(K)
¹⁰God, how long will the enemy mock?
Will the foe insult your name forever?^(L)
¹¹Why do you hold back your hand?
Stretch out^[e] your right hand and destroy them!^(M)

¹²God my King is from ancient times,
performing saving acts on the earth.^(N)
¹³You divided the sea with your strength;
you smashed the heads of the sea monsters in the water;^(O)
¹⁴you crushed the heads of Leviathan;
you fed him to the creatures of the desert.^(P)
¹⁵You opened up springs and streams;^(Q)
you dried up ever-flowing rivers.^(R)
¹⁶The day is yours, also the night;
you established the moon and the sun.^(S)
¹⁷You set all the boundaries of the earth;
you made summer and winter.^(T)

¹⁸Remember this: the enemy has mocked the Lord,
and a foolish people has insulted your name.^(U)
¹⁹Do not give to beasts the life of your dove;^[f]
do not forget the lives of your poor people forever.^(V)
²⁰Consider the covenant,^(W)
for the dark places of the land are full of violence.^(X)
²¹Do not let the oppressed turn away in shame;
let the poor and needy praise your name.^(Y)
²²Rise up, God, champion your cause!^(Z)
Remember the insults
that fools bring against you all day long.^(AA)
²³Do not forget the clamor of your adversaries,
the tumult of your opponents that goes up constantly.^(AB)

Footnotes:

74:3 Lit Lift up your steps
74:4 Lit in your meeting place
74:7 Lit they to the ground
74:8 Lit every meeting place of God in the land
74:11 Lit From your bosom
74:19 One Hb ms, LXX, Syr read life that praises you

Cross references:

74:0 : 1Ch 16:5,7
74:1 : Ex 32:11; Ps 60:1,10; 108:11
74:2 : Is 63:17; Jr 10:16; 51:19
74:2 : Is 8:18
74:3 : Ps 79:1; Is 61:4
74:4 : Nm 2:2; Lm 2:6-7
74:5 : Jr 46:22
74:6 : Lm 2:2
74:7 : 2Kg 25:9; Ps 79:1
74:8 : Ps 83:4
74:9 : 1Sm 3:1; Lm 2:9; Ezk 7:26
74:10 : Ps 79:12; 89:51
74:11 : Ps 59:13; Lm 2:3
74:12 : Ps 47:6-8; 95:3; Jr 10:10
74:13 : Ex 14:21; Is 51:9; Ezk 32:2
74:14 : Jb 41:1; Ps 104:26; Is 27:1
74:15 : Ps 104:10-11
74:15 : Is 42:15; 44:27
74:16 : Gn 1:14-18; Ps 104:19
74:17 : Gn 8:22; Jb 38:10-11; Pr 8:29; Jr 5:22
74:18 : Ps 14:1; 53:1; 89:51
74:19 : Ps 9:18; 68:10
74:20 : Dt 4:31; Ps 106:45
74:20 : Ezk 7:23
74:21 : Ps 9:9; 103:6; Is 41:7
74:22 : Ps 9:19; 82:8
74:22 : Ps 79:12
74:23 : Ps 65:7

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Proverbs 24:15-16

¹⁵Don’t set an ambush, you wicked one,
at the camp of the righteous man;^(A)
don’t destroy his dwelling.
¹⁶Though a righteous person falls seven times,
he will get up,^(B)
but the wicked will stumble into ruin.^(C)

Cross references:

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

October 1, 2019

10/01/2019 DAB Transcript

Isaiah 62:6-65:25, Philippians 2:19-3:3, Psalms 73:1-28, Proverbs 24:13-14

Today is the 1st day of October. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it’s great to be here with you. It’s fun to step into a new month together and we’re stepping into the final quarter of the year. So, three months ago and in my experience, it’s crazy how fast these three months can get going, but it’s also profound what we’ll find in the Scriptures as we move through this three months. So, welcome to the final quarter of the year. I don’t know if I’d call this the home stretch because it’s a whole 25% of the year, but we’ll take it day by day, step-by-step together in community as we continue our journey. And our journey this week has us in the book of Isaiah. We’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week. And today, Isaiah chapter 62 verse 6 through 65 verse 25.

Commentary:

Okay. So, as we were talking about when we began our time together today, this is…this is a new month and this is also the final quarter of the year, and this is actually kind of important because it’s gonna get busier. Like, this year’s only gonna get more busy from here and we’re out in front of it right now. But the truth is, three months from today is January 1, right? The years over and we’re in a new year. And what I have found about finishing…finishing anything…but finishing the Scriptures in year is to finish strong, or to finish at all we have to be committed to finishing. And, so, we’re entering this fourth quarter of the year and we’ve made it this far. And, so let’s commit together to finishing strong, which…which is pretty much the opposite of what Asaph was feeling as we read from the 73^rd Psalm today. He wasn’t feeling strong at all. He was frustrated, he was angry, he was bewildered because of what he was seeing in the world. And we could just pause there and in some ways, we could just go, “yeah. get it. Feel the same way.” For Asaph, and we’re going back thousands of years here, about 3000 years here, it just seemed that everywhere he looked, the unrighteous were really the prosperous and blessed people and the people that were trying to be true, the people that were trying to live into their faith, they were the one struggling, they were languishing away. So, he’s like, “I almost lost my footing. My feet were slippering”…no…slipping…slipping…“my feet were slipping.” I don’t suppose he wouldn’t mind that he put slippers on his feet. His feet were slipping. “I was almost gone. I envied the proud when I saw them even in their wickedness be prosperous.” And, man again, we gotta go, “I kinda know what that feels like. Like that’s been me at one time or another in my life.” And that’s probably been all of us at one point or another in our lives because all of our efforts to live upright before God, you know, that’s…it’s a difficult path. It’s a narrow path. And then we look around and see everybody else who doesn’t even think about it, like isn’t even paying attention to their spirituality as a category in life and they just seem to be having easy. And, so, we get frustrated, we get to bewildered, right? Our hope takes a hit. So, let’s listen to Asaph’s words from several thousand years ago and see if they don’t describe this. He says, “did I purify my heart and wash my hands in innocence for nothing? For I am afflicted all day long and punished every morning. If I had decided to say these things allowed, I would’ve betrayed your people. When I try to understand all this it seemed hopeless.” So, if you’ve ever felt like that and maybe…maybe you feel like that now, it’s important to know that this is a crossroads because…because when we find ourselves in that place where we are frustrated and angry and hopeless, the very next decision may very well dictate the direction of the rest of our lives. Like the next choices that we make are for sure going to dictate the short-term path ahead. And if the short-term path ahead is to descend deeper into anger and hopelessness, well I guess the Bible has already been clear about where that paths gonna lead. We can…we can throw our hands up in disgust. We can walk willingly into sin. But it’s not gonna work and we know it. And Asaph…Asaph contemplated the same thing, but he made a different decision. So, quoting…quoting Asaph, “when I try to understand all this, it seemed hopeless until I entered God’s sanctuary. Then I understood their destiny.” So, a lot of what Asaph had been saying in this Psalm was pretty passive-aggressive stuff and he’s contemplating where to go because it seems like a hopeless situation. So…and…and we…we can relate to all of this. So, rather than stepping into like passive-aggressive sin or wickedness, Asaph chose to go back into God’s presence. In God’s presence is where he realized there’s a lot more going on than we know and that’s something that the Bible has been showing us all along. Asaph realized that this foundation that was apparently there for the wicked wasn’t really there at all. It was nothing, when considered from an eternal perspective. Whatever security they may seem to have in this life will not protect them in the next where they will have no protection at all. So, what Asaph began to understand is that what was tormenting him really wasn't…wasn’t about whether the wicked prospered, it’s that they were prospering as compared to him in his own mind. So, it was his envy, it was bitterness that came from comparison and he confessed it to God. So, quoting Asaph again. “When I became embittered and my innermost being was wounded, I was stupid and didn’t understand. I was an unthinking animal toward you, yet I am always with you. You hold my right hand. You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will take me up in glory.” So, this 73^rd Psalm gives us incredibly powerful and usable counsel, but it also gives us a posture as we move into the final quarter of the year. Comparison and envy, they…they are all over this quarter of the year, this final quarter of the year as things get materialistic as we move toward the holidays. And so here we are. If you find yourself like battling that as we go into this season, as we go into this final quarter of the year, bookmark this, write it down. Psalm 73. Like, come back here and follow the path of Asaph again. Remembering that you’re comparing yourself to somebody else or how well somebody else may be doing as compared to you is not interesting and is not the point. God is the strength of your heart and that is very interesting and very much the point.

Prayer:

Father, we come into Your presence again because You’ve brought this up again and this is something that…that comes up is a recurring theme because it’s a part of our lives. We are continually trying to figure out how well we’re doing as compared to someone else and it's…it just…it doesn’t get us anywhere to compare our story to someone else’s story. Our story is ours and we’re living it and their story is theirs and usually what we know of each other’s stories is what we’ve curated to expose and reveal to other people. It’s not the whole story. And yet, You are here involved in the whole story of our lives, all of it, the highs and the lows, the clean and unfortunately the times when we step into the unclean. You are invested into this story fully. And, so, our question is, “Jesus, how do You see us” because we’ve been looking for those answers by trying to figure out what everybody else thinks and what we think of everybody else. But what do You think because that’s the only thing that matters? And Your word has shown is pretty clearly what You think, that we are Your beloved children. And, so, we’re sorry for the comparison, we’re sorry for the…the way that we’ve diminished ourselves and haven’t lived fully into all that You are leading us into because we’re too busy comparing. Forgive us Father we pray in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen.

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Jeremiah 6:16-8:7

False Religion Worthless

The Valley of Slaughter

Sin and Punishment

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Colossians 2:8-23

Freedom From Human Rules

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Psalm 78:1-31

Psalm 78

A maskil[a] of Asaph.

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Proverbs 24:26

Jeremiah 4:19-6:15

Jeremiah’s Lament

The Depravity of Jerusalem

Coming Judgment

Threatened Siege of Jerusalem

Wrath on Israel

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Colossians 1:18-2:7

Paul’s Ministry

Christ versus the Colossian Heresy

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Psalm 77

Psalm 77

Confidence in a Time of Crisis

For the choir director: according to Jeduthun. Of Asaph.(A) A psalm.

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Proverbs 24:23-25

Cross references:

Jeremiah 2:31-4:18

Wages of Apostasy

Unfaithful Israel, Treacherous Judah

True Repentance

Blessing or Curse

Judgment from the North

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Colossians 1:1-17

Greeting

Thanksgiving

Prayer for Spiritual Growth

The Centrality of Christ

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Psalm 76

Psalm 76

God, the Powerful Judge

For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A psalm of Asaph.(A) A song.

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Proverbs 24:21-22

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Jeremiah 1:1-2:30

The Call of Jeremiah

Two Visions

Israel Accused of Apostasy

Consequences of Apostasy

Judgment Deserved

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Philippians 4

Practical Counsel

Appreciation of Support

Final Greetings

Footnotes:

Cross references:

Psalm 75

Psalm 75

God Judges the Wicked

For the choir director: “Do Not Destroy.” A psalm of Asaph.(A) A song.

Footnotes:

A maskil^[a] of Asaph.

For the choir director: according to Jeduthun. Of Asaph.^(A) A psalm.

For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A psalm of Asaph.^(A) A song.

For the choir director: “Do Not Destroy.” A psalm of Asaph.^(A) A song.

A Maskil of Asaph.^(A)