01/02/2019 DAB Transcript

Genesis 1:1-2:25, Matthew 1:1-2:12, Psalms 1:1-6, Proverbs 1:1-6

Today is the 2nd day of January. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is awesome to be here with you today. We set sail yesterday into this new year and we’re barely away from shore, but we are certainly on the voyage of the year and of a lifetime as we go through the entire Bible this year and do it together, do it in community and it’s hard to describe what that’s like until you make one trip and we are on that trip. We’re just all sort of getting moved in for the year, kind of getting everything situated, understanding where everything goes and how it all works and that’ll happen, we just step-by-step day by day a little bit more gets unpacked and then we find a rhythm and off we go, sailing through the year. So, we established yesterday that will be reading a little bit of the Old Testament, a little bit from the new Testament, a little bit from Psalms, and a little bit from Proverbs every day as we take this journey. And we did that yesterday, but every time that we come to a new book, we will talk about it, give a little context, that’s a big deal around here, the context of any particular book. This helps us to understand who it was written to, when it was written, and what it was trying to communicate, and how those who had originally heard it would’ve understood it so that we can contextualize it into our own lives appropriately and get the knowledge that God has bestowed upon us through the Scriptures. So, we began in the Old Testament yesterday with the book of Genesis and we talked about that. Today when  we get to our New Testament portion we’ll talk about the book of Matthew, which we began yesterday, but, like I said, we’re slowly moving into the year finding our rhythm. So, before we talk about Matthew let’s go into the book of Genesis and see where we are in the story. We’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week. Genesis chapter 3 verse 1 through 4 verse 26

Introduction to the book of Matthew:

Okay. So, now we have come to our New Testament reading for the day, this will be our second day in the book of Matthew and we talked about the book of Genesis yesterday to get into our year and so now let’s talk about what we’re reading in the book of Matthew. Matthew, just like Genesis is a part of a grouping of books and this particular grouping of books has four titles in it: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and these are known as the Gospels. Now, in terms of time, like, when these books were written, Mark is the first of the Gospels to be written, followed by Matthew, then by Luke, and then by John. So, we’re reading the book of Matthew first and you might think, like, why are they not in the order they are written? We’ll get to that in a second. The first three Gospels: Matthew, Mark, and Luke are known as the synoptic Gospels and their called this because they share the same blueprint and it is thought that that blueprint is the gospel of Mark, the first gospel. So, Matthew, Mark, and Luke share a lot of the same stories, actually in a lot of the same exact wording, but not entirely. So, Mark comes first, you know, it’s sort of the first roughhewn gospel written about the life of Jesus ever. This happens, maybe 10, 15 years after Jesus death. The gospel of Matthew comes about a decade, decade and half later and Matthew has a specific purpose. Yes, it’s utilizing some of the stories found in Mark but it expands upon those stories and it’s written for a specific purpose, to reveal that Jesus is the fulfillment of so much of what had been foretold in the Old Testament, which is a fitting way to begin the New Testament, by reviewing that the Old Testament prophecies have and are being fulfilled in this person of Jesus - God in the flesh come to earth. Now, Matthew is one of the 12 apostles of Jesus and so he speaks, you know, with the voice of a first-hand witness to the events that are recorded. And, in terms of Matthew, as we’ll see, Jesus calls him, but he was a tax collector. And in the first century he worked for the Roman authorities he’s collecting taxes from his Hebrew brothers and sisters and so these people are thought of as traders and that’s why the tax collector in the New Testament is like an outcast person, they betray their own people and exploit their own people and so their hated, but, you know, they’re willing to do it because it’s a lucrative thing and they can become wealthy up and above and be perceived more as aligned with the Roman culture instead of the outcast Hebrews. So, when Jesus calls Matthew he has everything to lose and he leaves it all behind and follows Jesus. So, from that perspective what we’re reading is from a man who gave up a life that he knew that was working for him in exchange for this fantastic leap of faith to follow a man that he believed was the son of God. And, you know, since the topic of the Gospels is centered around the life and ministry of Jesus, we’ll start to get to know Jesus pretty well in this book and we’ll start to understand His personality and His style, and we’ll encounter over 20 parables in the gospel of Matthew. And parables are like symbolic picture stories that Jesus used a lot in his ministry to not just, you know, give information, but to draw a picture that spoke to something deeper, the issues of the heart, the interior life, where, according to Jesus, the kingdom of God is, and is coming, and is now, and is among us. And that is one thing we will be hard-pressed to miss in the book of Matthew, the rumblings of the kingdom of heaven, and that it is near, and that it is now, and that Jesus came to not only be the king of this kingdom, but to announce it. And, so, we take our second step from the book of Matthew. Today, Chapter 2 verse 13 to 3 verse 6.

Commentary:

Okay. So, we covered some significant territory and were not like even away from shore yet, right? We’re just like day two into our voyage through the Scriptures and we’re just getting out of the harbor and we’ve covered some significant territory. Today in the book of Genesis we see one of the saddest portions of Scripture that we’re going to encounter and there are some pretty sad scenes that we’ll find in the Bible, but this one is particularly sad because it sets the trajectory for the human race. There’s a garden and it’s called Eden and there’s a tree of life and there’s a tree of the knowledge of good and evil and we probably all know this story and we know that Eve has a conversation with serpent and she eats from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that she was forbidden to eat from, she gives the fruit to Adam, they eat. This is known as the fall of man and, you know, it’s sad on a number of levels but it’s a sad scene to see God walking in the garden at the end of an evening looking for his children to spend some time with them and their hiding and they never knew to hide before, they never knew fear like that before, they ever knew they were naked before. And, so, when God finds them He says, “what are doing here?” And they’re like, “I was naked, so I hid.” That right their friends pretty much describes our lives if you’ll think about it for a moment. I was naked, I was exposed so I hid. And it’s just sad because God looks at them and says, “what have you done?” And here we are here, here we are, and this is the trajectory that we chose and now we see how we got from there to here, and we see murder introduced and we see hatred introduced into the story in today’s reading alone. So, there’s this plenty to think about and meditate upon just from the book of Genesis today.

And then we came to the New Testament and we read from the book of Matthew and we discussed Matthew already, but probably if you were paying attention, you can see that, you know, like you can’t turn around in the book of Matthew without Jesus fulfilling some sort of prophecy. That is the intention of this particular gospel, is to connect those dots from the ancient Hebrew story to what God was doing in the world when Jesus came because it was a new thing and people were having a very, very difficult time and we’ll talk about that as we move through the entire new Testament. Matthews gospel as well as so many of the other writers in the New Testament are to reveal to the Hebrew people this is not a surprise, this is been foretold all along, what is happening is something that we have been looking for and waiting for. And we’ll see how that story pans out and how it unfolds as we continue in the book of Matthew and through the rest of the Gospels.

And then we get into our reading from Proverbs today and we’re told that the fear of the Lord, and this is the awe and respect, the overwhelming awareness of how sovereign and how powerful and how almighty that God is, and there’s no way we can comprehend that with our minds. So, we come to a place of silence and awe because there’s no way to…its too…God is too powerful, too big, too beyond us and the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge and it is a fool who despises wisdom and discipline. So, this is just day 2. We aren’t even out of the harbor and the Bible is speaking to the depths of our identity. I mean, stir that around in your cup today, “I was naked and so I hid” and realize how much that describes your life or meditate upon the fact that the fear of the Lord is beginning of knowledge, that’s where we start, that is the starting point and there’s so much there to contemplate.

Prayer:

Father, we thank you for your word, we thank you for bringing us into this new year and letting us set sail once again for a journey that will take us physically all the way around the sun and we will experience all of the seasons of where we live on this planet and every day will be a new beginning for us and we will have the opportunity to make choices that are going to matter and are gonna add up to what this year of our life looks like. And you have given us a gift that no matter what is going on we can consult and we can come back to and you can speak to us through your word. And, so, we are grateful and we’re looking at it and seeing this does touch everything and you’ve touched some deep things in our lives today alone, but by the time this year is over you will have…you will have touched everything about our identity and who we are and we will have choices to make. And, so, come Holy Spirit. Lead us into all truth. This is your promise and this is why we come here, to allow your word to speak on its own behalf, to hear every word that is in this book and to understand its context, and not to not be confused about it anymore. And the less we become confused about your word the less we become confused about our lives because it is showing us how to live here. So, we thank you and we invite you. Come Holy Spirit we pray. In Jesus’ name we ask. Amen.

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

Genesis 3-4

The Temptation and the Fall

Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?” (A)

The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden. But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.’”(B)

“No! You will not die,” the serpent said to the woman.(C) “In fact, God knows that when[a] you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God,[b] knowing good and evil.” The woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.(D) Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

Sin’s Consequences

Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze,[c] and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.(E) So the Lord God called out to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”

10 And he said, “I heard you[d] in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”

11 Then he asked, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

12 The man replied,(F) “The woman you gave to be with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate.”

13 So the Lord God asked the woman, “What is this you have done?”

And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”(G)

14 So the Lord God said to the serpent:

Because you have done this,
you are cursed more than any livestock
and more than any wild animal.
You will move on your belly
and eat dust all the days of your life.(H)
15 I will put hostility between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring.
He will strike your head,
and you will strike his heel.(I)

16 He said to the woman:

I will intensify your labor pains;
you will bear children with painful effort.(J)
Your desire(K) will be for your husband,
yet he will rule over you.

17 And he said to the man, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

The ground is cursed because of you.(L)
You will eat from it by means of painful labor[e]
all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.(M)
19 You will eat bread[f] by the sweat of your brow
until you return to the ground,(N)
since you were taken from it.
For you are dust,
and you will return to dust.”

20 The man named his wife Eve[g] because she was the mother of all the living. 21 The Lord God made clothing from skins for the man and his wife, and he clothed them.

22 The Lord God said, “Since the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, take from the tree of life, eat, and live forever.”(O) 23 So the Lord God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. 24 He drove the man out and stationed the cherubim and the flaming, whirling sword east of the garden of Eden to guard the way to the tree of life.(P)

Cain Murders Abel

The man was intimate with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, “I have had a male child with the Lord’s help.”[h] She also gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel became a shepherd of flocks, but Cain worked the ground. In the course of time Cain presented some of the land’s produce as an offering to the Lord.(Q) And Abel also presented an offering—some of the firstborn of his flock and their fat portions.(R) The Lord had regard for Abel and his offering,(S) but he did not have regard for Cain and his offering. Cain was furious, and he looked despondent.[i]

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you furious?(T) And why do you look despondent?[j] If you do what is right, won’t you be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.”(U)

Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.”[k] And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.(V)

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”

“I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s guardian?”

10 Then he said, “What have you done? Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground!(W) 11 So now you are cursed, alienated from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood you have shed.[l] 12 If you work the ground, it will never again give you its yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”(X)

13 But Cain answered the Lord, “My punishment[m] is too great to bear! 14 Since you are banishing me today from the face of the earth, and I must hide from your presence and become a restless wanderer on the earth, whoever finds me will kill me.”(Y)

15 Then the Lord replied to him, “In that case,[n] whoever kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.”[o] And he placed a mark(Z) on Cain so that whoever found him would not kill him. 16 Then Cain went out from the Lord’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

The Line of Cain

17 Cain was intimate with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain became the builder of a city, and he named the city Enoch after his son. 18 Irad was born to Enoch, Irad fathered Mehujael, Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech. 19 Lamech took two wives for himself, one named Adah and the other named Zillah. 20 Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of the nomadic herdsmen.[p] 21 His brother was named Jubal; he was the father of all who play the lyre and the flute. 22 Zillah bore Tubal-cain, who made all kinds of bronze and iron tools. Tubal-cain’s sister was Naamah.

23 Lamech said to his wives:

Adah and Zillah, hear my voice;
wives of Lamech, pay attention to my words.
For I killed a man for wounding me,
a young man for striking me.
24 If Cain is to be avenged seven times over,
then for Lamech it will be seventy-seven times!

25 Adam was intimate with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, for she said, “God has given[q] me another child[r] in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.” 26 A son was born to Seth(AA) also, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to call on the name of the Lord.(AB)

Footnotes:

  1. 3:5 Lit on the day
  2. 3:5 Or gods, or divine beings
  3. 3:8 Lit at the wind of the day
  4. 3:10 Lit the sound of you
  5. 3:17 Lit it through pain
  6. 3:19 Or food
  7. 3:20 Lit Living, or Life
  8. 4:1 Lit the Lord
  9. 4:5 Lit and his face fell
  10. 4:6 Lit why has your face fallen
  11. 4:8 Sam, LXX, Syr, Vg; MT omits “Let’s go out to the field.”
  12. 4:11 Lit blood from your hand
  13. 4:13 Or sin
  14. 4:15 LXX, Syr, Vg read “Not so!
  15. 4:15 Or suffer severely
  16. 4:20 Lit the dweller of tent and livestock
  17. 4:25 The Hb word for given sounds like the name “Seth.”
  18. 4:25 Lit seed
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Matthew 2:13-3:6

The Flight into Egypt

13 After they were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Get up! Take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. For Herod is about to search for the child to kill him.”(A) 14 So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night, and escaped to Egypt. 15 He stayed there until Herod’s death, so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled: Out of Egypt I called my Son.[a](B)

The Massacre of the Innocents

16 Then Herod, when he realized that he had been outwitted by the wise men, flew into a rage. He gave orders to massacre all the boys in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, in keeping with the time he had learned from the wise men.(C) 17 Then what was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:

18 A voice was heard in Ramah,

weeping,[b] and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children;
and she refused to be consoled,
because they are no more.[c](D)

The Return to Nazareth

19 After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,(E) 20 saying, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, because those who intended to kill the child are dead.” 21 So he got up, took the child and his mother, and entered the land of Israel. 22 But when he heard that Archelaus was ruling over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. And being warned in a dream, he withdrew to the region of Galilee.(F) 23 Then he went and settled in a town called Nazareth to fulfill what was spoken through the prophets, that he would be called a Nazarene.(G)

The Herald of the Christ

In those days John the Baptist came,(H) preaching in the wilderness of Judea(I) and saying, “Repent, because the kingdom of heaven has come near!” (J) For he is the one spoken of through the prophet Isaiah, who said:

A voice of one crying out in the wilderness:
Prepare the way for the Lord;
make his paths straight![d](K)

Now John had a camel-hair garment with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. Then people from Jerusalem, all Judea, and all the vicinity of the Jordan were going out to him, and they were baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.(L)

Footnotes:

  1. 2:15 Hs 11:1
  2. 2:18 Other mss read Ramah, lamentation, and weeping,
  3. 2:18 Jr 31:15
  4. 3:3 Is 40:3
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Psalm 2

Psalm 2

Coronation of the Son

Why(A) do the nations rage(B)
and the peoples plot in vain?(C)
The kings of the earth take their stand,(D)
and the rulers conspire together
against the Lord and his Anointed One:[a](E)
“Let’s tear off their chains
and throw their ropes off of us.”(F)

The one enthroned[b] in heaven laughs;
the Lord ridicules them.(G)
Then he speaks to them in his anger
and terrifies them in his wrath:(H)
“I have installed my king
on Zion, my holy mountain.”(I)

I will declare the Lord’s decree.
He said to me, “You are my Son;[c]
today I have become your Father.(J)
Ask of me,
and I will make the nations your inheritance
and the ends of the earth your possession.(K)
You will break them with an iron scepter;
you will shatter them like pottery.”(L)

10 So now, kings, be wise;
receive instruction, you judges of the earth.
11 Serve the Lord with reverential awe
and rejoice with trembling.(M)
12 Pay homage to[d] the Son or he will be angry
and you will perish in your rebellion,[e](N)
for his anger may ignite at any moment.(O)
All who take refuge in him are happy.(P)

Footnotes:

  1. 2:2 Or anointed one
  2. 2:4 Lit who sits
  3. 2:7 Or son, also in v. 12
  4. 2:12 Lit Kiss
  5. 2:12 Lit perish in the way
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Proverbs 1:7-9

The fear of the Lord
is the beginning of knowledge;(A)
fools despise wisdom and discipline.(B)

Avoid the Path of the Violent

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction,
and don’t reject your mother’s teaching,(C)
for they will be a garland(D) of favor on your head
and pendants[a] around your neck.(E)

Footnotes:

  1. 1:9 Lit chains
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01/01/2019 DAB Transcript

Genesis 1:1-2:25, Matthew 1:1-2:12, Psalms 1:1-6, Proverbs 1:1-6

Today is the 1st day of January. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian and it is a pleasure and an honor and a joy to be here with you today as you’ll hear me often say, because it’s the truth every day, but of course this is especially true today. It’s a brand-new, year happy new year. This is the first day of 2019. We got ourselves a brand-new shiny, sparkly new year to live into and it’s all out in front of us. And the reality is the decisions that we start making today will add up to what this year is going to look like and one of the best decisions we could make is to center ourselves around the rhythm of the Bible in our lives every single day this year, allowing it to speak into us and to guide our steps as we move into the year. So, welcome aboard. If this is your first day with Daily Audio Bible, welcome to the family and that’s what you’ll find is going on around here, a community wrapped all over the globe and it doesn’t matter what time of day or night it is, you’ll never be listening to the Daily Audio Bible alone. Someone somewhere will also be with you listening. And if you were here yesterday, you closed 2018 down and your back for 2019, welcome back, this is the beginning of our 14th year broadcasting the Bible seven days a week. I haven’t missed a day in 13 full years and now today begins our 14th year of the Daily Audio Bible. And if this is day one for you, then just kind of hang around for week and you’ll kind of have the rhythm of everything, we’ll just explain how it all works, how we do what we do, and what to expect, and how to interact, and just how to navigate. And pretty much how you navigate is that you get up every day and push play at some point and we’ll get to all of that over the course of the next week, but what we’ve come here to do today and what we will come here to do every day is to immerse ourselves in the Scriptures. And, so, let’s dive in for the first time in our new year. And, so, today being the first day of the year, we’re starting the Bible. And, so, the way that we’ll go through the Bible this year is a portion from the Old Testament, a portion from the New Testament, a portion from Psalms, and a portion from Proverbs every day as we move our way through the Bible. So, that being said, we’re starting for sections from the Bible, Old, New Testaments, Psalms, and Proverbs. So, rather than spending a bunch more time talking about all of the books that we’re beginning, we’ll spend a couple of days just moving into the new year. Every time we encounter a new book we usually talk about it. Context is an important aspect of biblical study. And, so, kind of understanding the lay of the land as we walk into the land is helpful in us unpacking with the Bible is telling us. So, we’ll do like a flyover of Genesis and Matthew and Psalms and Proverbs, we’ll take one per day for the next few days and just move into our new year. So, we’re going to begin with the book of Genesis.

Introduction to the book of Genesis:

Not only is Genesis the first book in the Bible it’s also the first book in a series of books that are known as the Pentateuch or the Torah which is comprised of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. So, that kind of lays out our first portion of the year, that’s the territory we’ll be heading into. And although Genesis doesn’t specifically reveal the author’s name, traditionally these are the books of Moses. And, you know, most biblical scholars will would have some divergent opinions on exactly who wrote the Torah, especially like the book of Genesis, because we’re covering the story of creation and Moses certainly couldn’t have been an eyewitness to the creation story. So, if Moses is the author of this book then this is a collection of the oral traditions that were happening long before the children of Israel, who we’ll meet soon enough, began to become a people, a people who would be later known as Jewish people or Hebrews. And, so, that’s how we call the Scriptures that we’re about to read the Hebrew Scriptures. And since we’re starting with Genesis and, you know, Genesis reputation is that it’s the origin story or the creation story, we can often lose the fact that the book of Genesis actually covers more territory or more historical time then then any of the other books in the Bible. In fact, it covers more time than the rest of the Old Testament put together. So, we’ll start at the creation in the beginning, of course, and then we’ll go all the way until we have met the children of Israel, and they arrive in in the land of Egypt and grow into mass of people that will become a nation. So, inside the first 11 chapters of the book of Genesis we’re gonna cover a couple of thousand years and a couple of thousand miles and then we’ll slow down and find our pace and our rhythm and cover a couple hundred years to the end of the book. And, so, are you ready? Off we go into our brand-new year. We’ll read from the Christian Standard Bible for the rest of this week. Genesis chapter 1 verse 1 through 2 verse 25.

Commentary:

Okay, so we just finished our first reading for the year and boom, the Bible starts speaking right out of the gate. So, in the book of Genesis we find out our origin story, we find out how it is we got here and what things looked like before they got to the way that they. And, I mean, the Bible doesn’t mess around with kind of getting us into the story. We’ll find out how things got the way that they are in tomorrow’s reading.

Then in the book of Matthew, off we go, we have the origin story of the birth of Jesus and the genealogy and we read a bunch of names and, you know, a lot of times you read these genealogies in the Bible and that’s where people’s eyes glaze over, “like, what are all these names and what does this all matter” and we’ll get to that soon enough, but the story or the genealogies that we read today, these are names that may seem obscure to you at this point but we’re gonna meet a lot of those people in the stories that we will encounter as we move through the Bible this year and we need to remember that every single one of those names represents a life that was lived, and a generation that walked the earth leading from one generation to the next to the next of the next all the way until the birth of Jesus. And, of course, we’re in the Gospels now and we’ll be spending some time, the first half of this year getting to know Jesus very well.

Then the book of Psalms starts and gives us two paths and what we’re gonna find out is that the Bible does this repeatedly, like constantly gives us a picture of two paths and two outcomes and then like a perfect gentleman allows us to choose the path that we’re gonna to take. And then as we immerse ourselves in a relationship with the Bible, we’ve gotta start scratching our head about why it is that we blame God for the paths that we choose when we knew where the path was going to lead. So, Psalm tells us, “how happy is the one who does not walk in the advice of the wicked or stand in the pathway with sinners or sit in the company of mockers. Instead, his delight is in the Lord’s instruction and he meditates on it day and night. He’s like a tree planted beside flowing streams that bears fruit in its season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.” So, right out of the gate, there it is, the path before us. The path that we are on right now is the one that we delight in the Lord’s instruction and meditate on it day and night. If we will stay on that path we are not gonna be the same people 365 days from now. Life is not going to be as confusing as it might be right now. Context and purpose and the filling in of the blanks begins to happen right now and it doesn’t stop. And we’re taking the first of 365 steps, so, 364 more steps and we’ll be at the end of the year and it’s gonna be different in profound, yet hard to describe ways.

Then we launched into the book of Proverbs today, which is essentially giving us the context for why it exists. It is the ancient wisdom of all time that has stood the test of time that has plopped itself into our laps as a friend saying, I can tell you how to demystify your life. I can tell you how to live this thing right. And we will find that on a continual basis the Proverbs, and we don’t read a lot of Proverbs in any given day, but they are so succinct and so powerful that in one sentence it can just expose all of the falseness within us and force us to, again, consider what path it is that we’re walking and where it is that we’re hoping to end up.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for this brand-new year. Here we are, we walked through the threshold, everything is shiny, everything is sparkly, we haven’t a messed up anything yet. It’s all out here in front of us and You have greeted us at the doorway of this new year, arms outstretched, inviting us to walk with You not only into this year but through this year, and that we might do this in community and have the counsel of the Scriptures every day. What did we wait so long for? We are so excited Father to what You will do, and what You will speak to us in this year. And, so, we invite You. Come Holy Spirit we pray. In Jesus’ name we ask. Amen.

Announcements:

Okay. So that is our first days reading. We are off and underway and like I said, we’ll move into this year. It doesn’t all have to happen at the same time. We’ll move into this year, we’re creating a rhythm, a rhythm of coming together in community. We liken it to a global campfire. I couldn’t tell you where that came from, it just popped into my head one day…I just…it was just like we’re all around this…the light of the word of God, we come in out of the cold, we set aside a little bit of time each day and come into a quiet place in community where we can allow God’s word to speak and we’re in this together. And, so, as as dark as the night be and as cold as it might get, you’re not alone, and this fire is always burning, the word of God is always being sent out into the world and we’re always here for each other as we’ll soon find out. So, like I said at the beginning, if this is like…if you were here yesterday…and maybe you’ve been here for 10 years…maybe you’ve been here all…since day one…or maybe last year was your first year…welcome back. This is…what you’ll find is that the journey this year will not be the same as the journey last year. None of the journeys are the same because we are always in constant change in our lives and yet the Bible speaks to us where it is that we are and gives us a hand of friendship to lead us forward to where we’re going. So, welcome back friends because it is a joy to have another year together in community. If this is day one for you, or maybe, you know, you listened to a couple of days ending the year and you’re gonna stick with this, I could not be more happy and the smile on my face is because we have been on a collision course with the Scriptures for a long time. Whatever has been going on in your life, all of the millions of decisions that were made, not only to bring you to planet Earth by your ancestors but all of the decisions that you’ve made throughout your life have brought you to today, and somehow we ended up here, right now and it is not purposeless, what happens from here dictates the rest of our lives and placing the Scriptures in our lives is the safest, best thing we could possibly do. So, I normally say something like this on January 1st. It does not matter how you got here. It does not matter the peaks and valleys. It doesn’t matter the choices that you made, even the horrible choices that you might’ve made, even though horrible choices that you might’ve made as recently as last night. This is a new year, and this is a new day, and this is a new beginning, and what comes next starts now. So welcome on board, I am so excited that we’ve set sail together and I look forward to each and every day that we will spend together as we take these steps that will lead us through the year and through the Bible and you’ll see what I’m saying. Look in the mirror at some point today, look really, really close, spend a few moments, maybe even take a selfie, look into your eyes, you see that fatigue, you see that worry, see those lines, you see that insecurity, you see that comparison, you see all of the things that have brought you here, remember your face, this is where you area and this is where you are right now. 364 days from the right now will be New Year’s Eve, the last day of this year, what, that day is going to look like is completely predicated on the decisions that we make from this day forward each and every day. And as the rhythm of the Bible becomes a part of our lives it’s gonna start changing things. We will look in the mirror this time next year, one year from today and be looking into the eyes of a person who has been irreversibly transformed in profound ways. So, I am so excited for all of us, myself included, because, well, this is year 14 and I look in the mirror and don’t see the same person any year. Things shift in profound and unspeakable but deep and irreversible ways. So, it doesn’t matter what’s come before this moment it matters what comes after this moment and yeah, it’s a jungle out there but we don’t have to go through it alone and we certainly don’t have to go through it confused. And no, the Bible isn’t gonna give us magic spells and incantations that are going to keep all the, you know, all the problems of life from facing us and trying to take us out but the Bible will certainly tell us how to navigate and the Bible will certainly give us context for what is going on. And, so, we are in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing and if we will keep doing this in a straight line, remarkable things happen. So, welcome aboard. Happy new year.

Song:

Into the Wild – Manic Drive

Stuck in an ocean, staying in motion are we too comfortable

Have we settled short? Has the city made us fragile?

Cage for safety, glass and concrete protect us from all fear

I know there’s shelter here, but I’m running to the frontier

And in this moment, it’s all clear

I don’t have to go, but I can’t stay here

Now that I see it, see it

Guess I’ll be leaving, leaving

Into the wild

It’s a jungle out there, jungle out there

We don’t care about the lions

When we march towards the giants

Into the wild

It’s a jungle out there, jungle out there

So we dance and be courageous

Even though these wilds are dangerous

Though we’ve never been there before

This adventure is an open door

Tell me, whatcha been waiting for?

Why don’t we go, why don’t we go

Into the wild

It’s a jungle out there, jungle out there

We don’t care about the lions

When we march towards the giants

Twists and turns, still lessons learned when we find out where to go

So we take these winding roads into the great unknown

It won’t be easy, there’s hills and valleys, cliffs and waterfalls

But they look so beautiful, so we keep on moving forward

And in this moment, it’s all clear

I don’t have to go, but I can’t stay here

Now that I see it, see it

Guess I’ll be leaving, leaving

Into the wild

It’s a jungle out there, jungle out there

We don’t care about the lions

When we march towards the giants

Into the wild

It’s a jungle out there, jungle out there

So we dance and be courageous

Even though these wilds are dangerous

Though we’ve never been there before

This adventure is an open door

Tell me, whatcha been waiting for?

Why don’t we go, why don’t we go

Into the wild

It’s a jungle out there, jungle out there

We don’t care about the lions

When we march towards the giants

Father, just tell me where to go

Take the lead, and I will follow

Even when I leave my comfort zone

Even if I’m far from, even if I’m far from home

Where my heart is

But my heard is battling my conscience

And I have convictions to be honest

Even if believers don’t believe it

Some will call me sinner, some will call me saint

They can call me whatever, I ain’t doing this for them

So I’m taking my music and I’m taking Your Name

And I’m reaching the lost in this wilderness

Though we’ve never been here before

This adventure is an open door

Tell me whatcha been waiting for?

Into the wild

It’s a jungle out there, jungle out there

We don’t care about the lions

When we march towards the giants

Into the wild

It’s a jungle out there, jungle out there

So we dance and be courageous

Even though these wilds are dangerous

Though we’ve never been there before

This adventure is an open door

Tell me, whatcha been waiting for?

Why don’t we go, why don’t we go

Into the wild

It’s a jungle out there, jungle out there

But, we don’t care

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Tuesday January 1, 2019 (NIV)

Genesis 1-2

The Creation

In the beginning(A) God created the heavens and the earth.[a](B)

Now the earth was formless and empty,(C) darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.(D) Then God said, “Let there be light,”(E) and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” There was an evening, and there was a morning: one day.

Then God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, separating water from water.”(F) So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above the expanse.(G) And it was so. God called the expanse “sky.”[b] Evening came and then morning: the second day.

Then God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered into one place,(H) and let the dry land appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering of the water he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good. 11 Then God said, “Let the earth produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.”(I) And it was so. 12 The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 Evening came and then morning: the third day.

14 Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night. They will serve as signs(J) for seasons[c] and for days and years.(K) 15 They will be lights in the expanse of the sky to provide light on the earth.” And it was so. 16 God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night—as well as the stars.(L) 17 God placed them in the expanse of the sky to provide light on the earth, 18 to rule the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness.(M) And God saw that it was good. 19 Evening came and then morning: the fourth day.

20 Then God said, “Let the water swarm with[d] living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.” 21 So God created the large sea-creatures[e] and every living creature that moves and swarms in the water,(N) according to their kinds. He also created every winged creature according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them: “Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters of the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”(O) 23 Evening came and then morning: the fifth day.

24 Then God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that crawl, and the wildlife of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. 25 So God made the wildlife of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that crawl on the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

26 Then God said, “Let us(P) make man[f] in[g] our image, according to our likeness.(Q) They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, the whole earth,[h] and the creatures that crawl[i] on the earth.”(R)

27 So God created man
in his own image;
he created him in[j] the image of God;
he created them male and female.(S)

28 God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth,(T) and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls[k] on the earth.” 29 God also said, “Look, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the surface of the entire earth and every tree whose fruit contains seed. This will be food for you,(U) 30 for all the wildlife of the earth, for every bird of the sky, and for every creature that crawls on the earth—everything having the breath of life in it—I have given[l] every green plant for food.”(V) And it was so. 31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good indeed.(W) Evening came and then morning: the sixth day.

So the heavens and the earth and everything in them were completed.(X) On the seventh[m] day God had completed his work that he had done, and he rested[n] on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.(Y) God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, for on it he rested(Z) from all his work of creation.[o](AA)

Man and Woman in the Garden

These are the records(AB) of the heavens and the earth, concerning their creation. At the time[p] that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, no shrub of the field(AC) had yet grown on the land,[q] and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not made it rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground. But mist would come up from the earth and water all the ground. Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground(AD) and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils,(AE) and the man became a living being.(AF)

The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east,(AG) and there he placed the man he had formed. The Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden,(AH) as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.(AI)

10 A river went[r] out from Eden to water the garden. From there it divided and became the source of four rivers.[s] 11 The name of the first is Pishon, which flows through the entire land of Havilah,[t](AJ) where there is gold. 12 Gold from that land is pure;[u] bdellium[v] and onyx[w] are also there. 13 The name of the second river is Gihon, which flows through the entire land of Cush. 14 The name of the third river is Tigris,(AK) which runs east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.(AL)

15 The Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and watch over it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree of the garden,(AM) 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.”(AN) 18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper corresponding(AO) to him.” 19 The Lord God formed out of the ground every wild animal and every bird of the sky, and brought each to the man to see what he would call it.(AP) And whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the sky, and to every wild animal; but for the man[x] no helper was found corresponding to him. 21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to come over the man,(AQ) and he slept. God took one of his ribs and closed the flesh at that place. 22 Then the Lord God made the rib he had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man.(AR) 23 And the man said:

This one, at last, is bone of my bone
and flesh of my flesh;
this one will be called “woman,”
for she was taken from man.(AS)

24 This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.(AT) 25 Both the man and his wife were naked, yet felt no shame.

Footnotes:

  1. 1:1 Or created the universe
  2. 1:8 Or “heavens.”
  3. 1:14 Or for the appointed times
  4. 1:20 Lit with swarms of
  5. 1:21 Or created sea monsters
  6. 1:26 Or human beings; Hb ‘adam’, also in v. 27
  7. 1:26 Or as
  8. 1:26 Syr reads sky, and over every animal of the land
  9. 1:26 Or scurry
  10. 1:27 Or man as his own image; he created him as
  11. 1:28 Or and all scurrying animals
  12. 1:30 I have given added for clarity
  13. 2:2 Sam, LXX, Syr read sixth
  14. 2:2 Or ceased, also in v. 3
  15. 2:3 Lit work that God created to make
  16. 2:4 Lit creation on the day
  17. 2:5 Or earth
  18. 2:10 Or goes
  19. 2:10 Lit became four heads
  20. 2:11 Or of the Havilah
  21. 2:12 Lit good
  22. 2:12 A yellowish, transparent gum resin
  23. 2:12 Identity of this precious stone uncertain
  24. 2:20 Or for Adam
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Matthew 1:1-2:12

The Genealogy of Jesus Christ

An(A) account(B) of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David,(C) the Son of Abraham:(D)

From Abraham to David

Abraham fathered[a] Isaac,

Isaac fathered Jacob,

Jacob fathered Judah and his brothers,(E)

Judah fathered Perez and Zerah by Tamar,

Perez fathered Hezron,

Hezron fathered Aram,(F)

Aram fathered Amminadab,

Amminadab fathered Nahshon,

Nahshon fathered Salmon,

Salmon fathered Boaz by Rahab,

Boaz fathered Obed by Ruth,

Obed fathered Jesse,(G)

and Jesse fathered King David.

From David to the Babylonian Exile

David fathered Solomon[b] by Uriah’s wife,(H)

Solomon fathered Rehoboam,

Rehoboam fathered Abijah,

Abijah fathered Asa,[c]

Asa[d] fathered Jehoshaphat,

Jehoshaphat fathered Joram,[e]

Joram fathered Uzziah,(I)

Uzziah fathered Jotham,

Jotham fathered Ahaz,

Ahaz fathered Hezekiah,

10 Hezekiah fathered Manasseh,

Manasseh fathered Amon,[f]

Amon fathered Josiah,(J)

11 and Josiah fathered Jeconiah and his brothers

at the time of the exile to Babylon.(K)

From the Exile to the Christ

12 After the exile to Babylon

Jeconiah fathered Shealtiel,

Shealtiel fathered Zerubbabel,

13 Zerubbabel fathered Abiud,

Abiud fathered Eliakim,

Eliakim fathered Azor,(L)

14 Azor fathered Zadok,

Zadok fathered Achim,

Achim fathered Eliud,

15 Eliud fathered Eleazar,

Eleazar fathered Matthan,

Matthan fathered Jacob,

16 and Jacob fathered Joseph the husband of Mary,

who gave birth to Jesus who is called the Christ.(M)

17 So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations; and from David until the exile to Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the exile to Babylon until the Christ, fourteen generations.(N)

The Nativity of the Christ

18 The birth of Jesus Christ came about this way: After his mother Mary had been engaged[g] to Joseph, it was discovered before they came together that she was pregnant from the Holy Spirit.(O) 19 So her husband Joseph, being a righteous man,(P) and not wanting to disgrace her publicly, decided to divorce her secretly.(Q)

20 But after he had considered these things, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because what has been conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.(R) 21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus,(S) because he will save his people from their sins.”(T)

22 Now all this took place to fulfill what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet:

23 See, the virgin will become pregnant
and give birth to a son,
and they will name him Immanuel,[h]

which is translated “God is with us.”(U)

24 When Joseph woke up, he did as the Lord’s angel had commanded him. He married her(V) 25 but did not have sexual relations with her until she gave birth to a son.[i] And he named him Jesus.(W)

Wise Men Visit the King

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, wise men from the east arrived in Jerusalem,(X) saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews?(Y) For we saw his star at its rising(Z) and have come to worship him.”[j]

When King Herod heard this, he was deeply disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. So he assembled all the chief priests and scribes(AA) of the people and asked them where the Christ would be born.

“In Bethlehem of Judea,” they told him, “because this is what was written by the prophet:

And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
are by no means least among the rulers of Judah:
Because out of you will come a ruler
who will shepherd my people Israel.[k](AB)

Then Herod secretly summoned the wise men and asked them the exact time the star appeared. He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the child. When you find him, report back to me so that I too can go and worship him.”[l](AC)

After hearing the king, they went on their way. And there it was—the star they had seen at its rising. It led them until it came and stopped above the place where the child was. 10 When they saw the star, they were overwhelmed with joy. 11 Entering the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and falling to their knees, they worshiped him.[m] Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.(AD) 12 And being warned(AE) in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their own country by another route.

Footnotes:

  1. 1:2 In vv. 2-16 either a son, as here, or a later descendant, as in v. 8
  2. 1:6 Other mss add King
  3. 1:7 Other mss read Asaph
  4. 1:8 Other mss read Asaph
  5. 1:8 = Jehoram
  6. 1:10 Other mss read Amos
  7. 1:18 Or betrothed
  8. 1:23 Is 7:14
  9. 1:25 Other mss read to her firstborn son
  10. 2:2 Or to pay him homage
  11. 2:6 Mc 5:2
  12. 2:8 Or and pay him homage
  13. 2:11 Or they paid him homage
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Psalm 1

Psalm 1

The Two Ways

How happy is the one who does not
walk in the advice of the wicked
or stand in the pathway with sinners
or sit in the company of mockers!(A)
Instead, his delight is in the Lord’s instruction,
and he meditates on it day and night.(B)
He is like a tree planted beside flowing streams[a]
that bears its fruit in its season(C)
and whose leaf does not wither.(D)
Whatever he does prospers.(E)

The wicked are not like this;
instead, they are like chaff that the wind blows away.(F)
Therefore the wicked will not stand up in the judgment,(G)
nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,(H)
but the way of the wicked leads to ruin.(I)

Footnotes:

  1. 1:3 Or beside irrigation channels
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Proverbs 1:1-6

The Purpose of Proverbs

The proverbs of Solomon(A) son of David, king of Israel:
For learning wisdom and discipline;
for understanding insightful sayings;
for receiving prudent instruction
in righteousness, justice, and integrity;(B)
for teaching shrewdness to the inexperienced,[a](C)
knowledge and discretion(D) to a young man—
let a wise person listen and increase learning,(E)
and let a discerning person obtain guidance—
for understanding a proverb or a parable,[b]
the words of the wise, and their riddles.(F)

Footnotes:

  1. 1:4 Or simple, or gullible
  2. 1:6 Or an enigma
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