Month: February 2019

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02/03/2019 DAB Transcript

Exodus 15:19-17:7, Matthew 22:1-33, Psalms 27:1-6, Proverbs 6:20-26

Today is the 3rd day of February. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and its wonderful to be here with you today as we cross the threshold into a shiny and sparkly, new week. And this will be our first full week in the 2nd month of the year. And, as is our custom, we read from a new translation each week and this week will read from the Amplified Bible we’ll pick up where we left off yesterday, Exodus chapter 17 verse 8 through 19 verse 15.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for this brand-new week that we are entering into and this first full week of this second year or second month of February. We thank You God for bringing us this far. We thank You for all that You are speaking to us through Your word and all that You have yet to speak and all the ways that You are transforming us from within. We open ourselves to You fully. We announce, there’s nothing off-limits to You, in fact we say this aloud, there’s nothing off limits to You. We open ourselves fully to You. We trust You fully. Come Holy Spirit we pray into this coming week. We ask for Your guidance, Your counsel, Your protection, Your comfort, even Your rebuke if necessary. Come Holy Spirit we pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi DAB family, this is to give you an update on Bill Berryman. I had contact with Bill the last time at the beginning of 2018. He’d sent me a message asking me how I was doing and told me that he had some medical problems, that he was at home. He told me a little bit about his boys, how much he missed his boys and just asked for continued prayers. And since then I haven’t heard anything from him, but we do have a mutual friend and that friend contacted me a couple weeks ago to let me know that Bill is, yeah, he has dementia. His memory is not all there. He has a little bouts here and there that he remembers the boys in Africa. But as many of you know how dementia works, his memory is just, it’s going unfortunately and he’s now in a permanent home. I don’t know if he has biological children. I know that he loved his boys, him and his wife. His wife passed away some years ago. So, for all of you that have called in while he may not mentally know it, God knows that we are all praying for him. You can find him on Facebook. If you’ve written him don’t be surprised that he’s not written back. He doesn’t have the capacity anymore. So, let’s just continue to lift our brother Bill Berryman up in prayer. And I personally thank everyone of you who have asked about him and continue to pray for him. It’s amazing thing in this community when people come in and have no idea of the family that they are adopting in Christ the Lord. So, I want to thank you all also for continuing to pray for me and my family. Brian and the entire Hardin family, everyone behind the scenes that make this happen, thank you. I can’t believe it’s going on 13 years. It’s changed my life, it continues to change my life. I thank you all who have been praying for me and a second baby G, but more important, that God just continue to be first in my life. I love you all. Continue to keep your eyes on the Lord. Cheers. Asia…

Hi, my name is Kay calling from sunny Southern California. I just wanted to call in and lift up Brian and his family in prayer. I am so thankful for coming across this podcast. It has been so beneficial for me at this time of my life. The word is so important and it’s so important for me and everyone to be filled with God’s word and this is…it’s important to me because I’m a blind. And, so, this is a good opportunity for me to get the word. And I have other health issues too. And I’m just so thankful to God that he put Brian and China in my path to receive the word every day. I can rephrase the word now and it is so beautiful to have that opportunity, so wonderful and I’m thankful to God and I pray that God continues to bless Brian and his family for being so faithful to what they’re doing. And I’m new to DAB. This just…I started on October…

Good morning DABbers, this is Walta from Charlotte, I’m a Burning Bush that will not be Devoured for the Glory of our God and King. I just heard sister Angela calling from California about thoughts been going through her mind and works in her head and just the suicidal…she’s battling suicidal thoughts. And, so, I want to tell you, today is the 28th January. I’m actually listening to the 24th today and I don’t believe it’s by mistake because for those…Angela, I want you to know I’m praying for you…but I also want to share for all those who think you’re running behind on listening to the DAB and sometimes you want to skip the prayers, don’t skip the prayers because God is intentionally allowing you to listen on that particular day. So, four days ago or whenever it was, somebody listened to her prayer and prayed for her and then the day after somebody else is going to be listening to the 24th and they’ll listen to Angela’s prayer and they’ll pray for her. And today Angela, I am covering you with the blood of Jesus. And I come against and every attack of the enemy on your life. You are chosen. You are chosen by God and the fact that you called and is indeed a miracle because you are not the only person struggling with suicidal thoughts. There are other people listening who are struggling with the same things and it makes it even harder for them because they feel like they’re the only person on the planet struggling with it. So, as Brian always says, “well done for calling in.” And I cover you with the blood of Jesus, I cover your family right now. There is no problem too big or too small for God to solve. I speak life over you in the name of Jesus. Father God, I pour the oil of joy over her. I speak from the top of her head to the soles of her feet. Father God, you pour Your oil and anointing upon your daughter right now in the name of Jesus. You are covered, you are loved Angela. I will pray for you every day. In Jesus’ name. Amen. Love you guys.

Hi, this is Joanne of Happy Valley with a prayer request. I’m currently reading Brian’s book Passages, which talks about how DAB came to be, and I am on page 145 where we’re talking about God’s love and he says, “__ in this profound aspect of Gods story. God truly and deeply loves you.” And here’s my response. Dear Lord, help me. I can’t do this myself. I’ve never experienced love I could trust. My parents abandoned me by dying. I took my children’s love for granted and ended up putting them in harm’s way even though in a broken I loved them, and I loved my grandchildren. I am uncomfortable with the concept of love and just can’t comprehend your loving me Lord. Please help me. That it. Thanks. Love you all in my own broken way. Signing off now. Bye.

Hello this is the Norwegian from North Dakota calling in. I’ve been listening to Daily Audio Bible for about six years. Mike called in the other day from London and he challenged us and said, “pray, lean on God, God takes care of all those things and God’s prayers don’t go unanswered” and he said, “be patient”. And I want to address Grace, who was aired on January 13th. Grace, you talked about up poor marriage and had a hard time getting along I want to first give you my email, pa53muri@gmail.com. I understand poor marriage, hard getting along. I had 35 years of it Grace. And three years ago we had a breakthrough and I want to talk to you, I want to encourage you, I want to let you know that I heard what you had to say and I want to talk to women out there totally. This is when my turnaround point came. My husband said to me one day, get this lady’s, listen, “I’m tired of you saying things to me to intentionally make me feel stupid.” Ouch. Big time. Hard spiritual spanking that I got from God. Oh, I couldn’t sit for a long time and I know you’re not pointing fingers at me because there’s 55,000 of you women out there that have been possibly saying things to make your husbands feel stupid. And that’s what we’re going to stop doing because God’s not pleased with that. Praise God and I know that Jill does not do that otherwise Brian couldn’t come on the air and do such a phenomenal job. So, God has convicted me a that, our marriage has turned around, and I’m excited. And grace, I pray that you’ll have time to call me or email me and that we can connect. And last thing I want to say is, I’m so thankful for this ministry. I write in my journal every day, I love the teas, I love listening to everybody and I thank you, thank you, thank you for what you’re all doing. Amen. Let’s go for…

My beautiful family, this is Pastor Gene from Bradenton Florida. Before I came to the United States I practiced law in Panama, my country of national origin, for eight years. When I graduated law school I majored in international law and one of the __ topics of interest in international law was preemptive strikes. And Preemptive strikes are when you know when a country claims that an attack is imminent, and they attack first because they know it’s only a matter of time before the enemy attacks them. So, they are preemptive, they preemptively strike their enemies. I bring this up because I’m feeling this sense of urgency as I pray for so many of our families and I want to encourage you today whether your husband a wife or a child a brother or sister to launch a preemptive attack against the enemy of our souls. Family, let’s not wait for our marriage to be about to end up in divorce, let’s not wait to see our kids suffering or bothers are sisters. Let’s not wait for those of us that are already in those situations. There’s absolutely nothing we can do but fight on our knees and trust God to bring a resolution to the situation. So, for those of us that are experiencing a period of peace and comfort, let’s face it family, it’s not going to stay that way if we are not careful. We need to preemptively attack, and we do that by praying with our Father. We do that by having kindness and attention towards our __ . We do that by __ and writing love notes and being kind and spending time together and spending time on our needs together and opening the word and speaking to our kids and being respectful. Let’s preemptively attack the enemy before it’s too late. I love you family. Pastor Gene from Bradenton Florida. Bye.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Sunday February 3, 2019 (NIV)

Exodus 17:8-19:15

Amalek Fought

8 Then [a]Amalek [and his people] came and fought with Israel at Rephidim. 9 So Moses said to [b]Joshua, “Choose men for us and go out, fight against Amalek [and his people]. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.” 10 So Joshua did as Moses said, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and [c]Hur went up to the hilltop. 11 Now when Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and when he lowered his hand [due to fatigue], Amalek prevailed. 12 But Moses’ hands were heavy and he grew tired. So they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. Then Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side and one on the other side; so it was that his hands were steady until the sun set. 13 So Joshua overwhelmed and defeated [d]Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this in the book as a memorial and [e]recite it to Joshua, that I will utterly wipe out the memory of Amalek [and his people] from under heaven.”(A) 15 And Moses built an altar and named it [f]The Lord Is My Banner; 16 saying, “The Lord has sworn [an oath]; the Lord will have war against [the people of] Amalek from generation to generation.”

Jethro, Moses’ Father-in-law

18 Now Jethro (Reuel), the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel His people, and that the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt. 2 Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Moses’ wife Zipporah, after he had sent her away [from Egypt], 3 along with her two sons, of whom one was named Gershom (stranger), for Moses said, “I have been a stranger in a foreign land.” 4 The other [son] was named Eliezer (my God is help), for Moses said, “The God of my father was my help, and He rescued me from the sword of Pharaoh.”

5 Then Jethro, his father-in-law, came with Moses’ sons and his wife to [join] Moses in the wilderness where he was camped, at the mountain of God [that is, Mt. Sinai in Horeb]. 6 He sent a message to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons [who are] with her.” 7 So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and he bowed down [in respect] and kissed him. They asked each other about their well-being and went into the tent. 8 Moses told his father-in-law about all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, and about all the hardship that had happened during the journey, and how the Lord had rescued them. 9 Jethro rejoiced over all the good things the Lord had done to Israel, in that He had rescued them from the hand of the Egyptians. 10 Jethro said, “Blessed be the Lord, who has rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of Pharaoh, and who has rescued the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. 11 Now I know that the Lord is [g]greater than all gods; indeed, it was proven when they acted insolently toward Israel [and the Lord showed Himself infinitely superior to all their gods].” 12 Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and [other] sacrifices [to offer] to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a meal with Moses’ father-in-law before God.

13 Now the next day Moses sat to judge [the disputes] the people [had with one another], and the people stood around Moses from dawn to dusk. 14 When Moses’ father-in-law saw everything that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why are you sitting alone [as a judge] with all the people standing around you from dawn to dusk?” 15 Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to ask [about the will] of God. 16 When they have a dispute they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor and I make known the statutes of God and His laws.”

Jethro Counsels Moses

17 Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “The thing that you are doing is not good. 18 You will certainly wear out both yourself and these people who are with you, because the task is too heavy for you [to bear]; you cannot do it alone. 19 Now listen to [h]me; [i]I will advise you, and may God be with you [to confirm my advice]. You shall represent the people before God. You shall bring their disputes and causes to Him. 20 You shall teach them the decrees and laws. You shall show them the way they are to live and the work they are to do. 21 Furthermore, you shall select from all the people competent men who [reverently] fear God, men of truth, those who hate dishonest gain; you shall place these over the people as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens. 22 They shall judge the people at all times; have them bring every major dispute to you, but let them judge every minor dispute themselves. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you. 23 If you will do this thing and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure [the responsibility], and all these people will also go [back] to their tents in peace.”

24 So Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything that he had said. 25 Moses chose able men from all Israel and made them heads over the people, leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens [from the highest to the lowest judicial levels]. 26 And they judged the people at all times; they would bring the difficult cases to Moses, but every minor dispute they judged and decided themselves. 27 Then Moses [j]said goodbye to his father-in-law, and Jethro went back to his own land (Midian).

Moses on Sinai

19 In the third month after the children of Israel had left the land of Egypt, the very same day, they came into the Wilderness of Sinai. 2 When they moved out from Rephidim, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai and they camped there; Israel camped at the base of the mountain [of Sinai]. 3 Moses went up to God [on the mountain], and the Lord called to him from the mountain, saying, “Say this to the house of Jacob and tell the Israelites: 4 ‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to Myself. 5 Now therefore, if you will in fact obey My voice and keep My covenant (agreement), then you shall be My own special possession and treasure from among all peoples [of the world], for all the earth is Mine; 6 and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation [set apart for My purpose].’ These are the words that you shall speak to the Israelites.”

7 So Moses called for the elders of the people, and told them all these words which the Lord commanded him. 8 All the people answered together and said, “We will do everything that the Lord has spoken.” And Moses reported the words of the people to the Lord. 9 The Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I will come to you in a thick cloud, so that the people may hear when I speak with you and may believe and trust in you forever.” Then Moses repeated the words of the people to the Lord.

10 The Lord also said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow [that is, prepare them for My sacred purpose], and have them wash their clothes 11 and be ready by the third day, because on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai [in the cloud] in the sight of all the people. 12 You shall set barriers for the people all around [the mountain], saying, ‘Beware that you do not go up on the mountain or touch its border; whoever touches the mountain must be put to death. 13 No hand shall touch him [that is, no one shall try to save the guilty party], but the offender must be stoned or shot through [with arrows]; whether man or animal [that touches the mountain], he shall not live.’ When the ram’s horn sounds a long blast, they shall come up to the mountain.”(B) 14 So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified them [for God’s sacred purpose], and they washed their clothes. 15 He said to the people, “Be prepared for the third day; do not [k]be intimate with a woman.”

Footnotes:

  1. Exodus 17:8 These were a group of nomads descended from Amalek, a grandson of Esau, Jacob’s twin brother.
  2. Exodus 17:9 Joshua, leader of the tribe of Ephraim, was one of the great warriors of the OT and was an attendant to and the successor of Moses.
  3. Exodus 17:10 According to Josephus, Hur was the husband of Miriam, the sister of Moses and Aaron.
  4. Exodus 17:13 These nomadic people were the descendants of Esau.
  5. Exodus 17:14 Lit put in the ears of.
  6. Exodus 17:15 Heb YHWH (Yahweh)-Nissi.
  7. Exodus 18:11 Jethro is affirming that the Lord (Yahweh) proved Himself superior over the Egyptian deities in the plagues and the exodus.
  8. Exodus 18:19 Lit my voice.
  9. Exodus 18:19 Instead of speaking directly to Moses, God used Jethro. Jethro’s willingness to speak and Moses’ willingness to listen reflects beautifully on the spiritual and emotional maturity of both men and the value of such a relationship.
  10. Exodus 18:27 Lit sent off his father-in-law.
  11. Exodus 19:15 Lit go near.

Cross references:

  1. Exodus 17:14 : 1 Sam 15:2-8
  2. Exodus 19:13 : Num 24:8
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Matthew 22:34-23:12

34 Now when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced (muzzled) the Sadducees, they gathered together.(A) 35 One of them, a lawyer [an expert in Mosaic Law], asked Jesus a question, to test Him: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”(B) 37 And Jesus replied to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’(C) 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself [that is, unselfishly seek the best or higher good for others].’(D) 40 The whole Law and the [writings of the] Prophets depend on these two commandments.”

41 Now while the Pharisees were [still] gathered together, Jesus asked them a question:(E) 42 “What do you [Pharisees] think of the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed)? Whose Son is He?” They said to Him, “[a]The son of David.” 43 Jesus asked them, “How is it then that David by the inspiration of the Spirit, calls Him ‘Lord,’ saying,

44 
‘The Lord (the Father) said to my Lord (the Son, the Messiah),
“Sit at My right hand,
Until I put Your enemies under Your feet”’?(F)

45 So then, if David calls Him (the Son, the Messiah) ‘Lord,’ [b]how is He David’s son?” 46 No one was able to say a word to Him in answer, nor from that day on did anyone dare to question Him again.

Pharisaism Exposed

23 Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples, 2 saying: “The scribes and Pharisees have seated themselves in Moses’ chair [of authority as teachers of the Law]; 3 so practice and observe everything they tell you, but do not do as they do; for they preach [things], but do not practice them. 4 The scribes and Pharisees tie up [c]heavy loads [that are hard to bear] and place them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves will not lift a finger [to make them lighter]. 5 They do all their deeds to be seen by men; for they make their [d]phylacteries (tefillin) wide [to make them more conspicuous] and make their [e]tassels long.(G) 6 They love the place of distinction and honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues [those on the platform near the scrolls of the Law, facing the congregation], 7 and to be greeted [with respect] in the market places and public forums, and to have people call them Rabbi. 8 But do not be called Rabbi (Teacher); for One is your Teacher, and you are all [equally] brothers. 9 Do not call anyone on earth [who guides you spiritually] your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven. 10 Do not let yourselves be called leaders or teachers; for One is your Leader (Teacher), the Christ. 11 But the greatest among you will be your servant. 12 Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and whoever humbles himself shall be raised to honor.

Footnotes:

  1. Matthew 22:42 The Pharisees may have thought of the Messiah merely as a human descendant of David.
  2. Matthew 22:45 See note Mark 12:35.
  3. Matthew 23:4 I.e. detailed instructions of rabbinic interpretations of the Law.
  4. Matthew 23:5 Small cases containing Scripture passages, worn on the left arm and the forehead.
  5. Matthew 23:5 Tassels (tzitzit) were worn on the garments of all Jewish males, according to the Law.

Cross references:

  1. Matthew 22:34 : Mark 12:28-31; Luke 10:25-28
  2. Matthew 22:36 : Mark 12:28
  3. Matthew 22:37 : Deut 6:5
  4. Matthew 22:39 : Lev 19:18; Matt 19:19
  5. Matthew 22:41 : Mark 12:35-37; Luke 20:41-44
  6. Matthew 22:44 : Ps 110:1
  7. Matthew 23:5 : Ex 13:9; Num 15:38; Deut 6:8
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Psalm 27:7-14

7 
Hear, O Lord, when I cry aloud;
Be gracious and compassionate to me and answer me.
8 
When You said, “Seek My face [in prayer, require My presence as your greatest need],” my heart said to You,
“Your face, O Lord, I will seek [on the authority of Your word].”
9 
Do not hide Your face from me,
Do not turn Your servant away in anger;
You have been my help;
Do not abandon me nor [a]leave me,
O God of my salvation!
10 
Although my father and my mother have abandoned me,
Yet the Lord will take me up [adopt me as His child].(A)

11 
Teach me Your way, O Lord,
And lead me on a level path
Because of my enemies [who lie in wait].
12 
Do not give me up to the will of my adversaries,
For false witnesses have come against me;
They breathe out violence.
13 
I would have despaired had I not believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord
In the land of the living.
14 
Wait for and confidently expect the Lord;
Be strong and let your heart take courage;
Yes, wait for and confidently expect the Lord.

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 27:9 Lit forsake.

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 27:10 : Ps 22:10
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Proverbs 6:27-35

27 
Can a man take fire to his chest
And his clothes not be burned?
28 
Or can a man walk on hot coals
And his feet not be scorched?
29 
So is the one who goes in to his neighbor’s wife;
Whoever touches her will not be found innocent or go unpunished.
30 
People do not despise a thief if he steals
To satisfy himself when he is hungry;
31 
But when he is found, he must repay seven times [what he stole];
He must give all the property of his house [if necessary to meet his fine].
32 
But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks common sense and sound judgment and an understanding [of moral principles];
He who would destroy his soul does it.
33 
Wounds and disgrace he will find,
And his reproach (blame) will not be blotted out.
34 
For jealousy enrages the [wronged] husband;
He will not spare [the guilty one] on the day of vengeance.
35 
He will not accept any ransom [offered to buy him off from demanding full punishment];
Nor will he be satisfied though you offer him many gifts (bribes).

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02/02/2019 DAB Transcript

Exodus 15:19-17:7, Matthew 22:1-33, Psalms 27:1-6, Proverbs 6:20-26

Today is the 2nd day of February. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it is great to be here with you at the crossroads, right? We’re ending a week even as we’re beginning a month and even as we pass these thresholds in time that help us be aware of the transitions of our lives this is happening to us spiritually. Now that we’ve come this far in the Bible we are transitioning, spiritually, and may that continue every day of the rest of this year and for that matter every day for the rest of our lives. So, here we are at the end of week and we’ve been reading from the Common English Bible this week, which is what we’ll do today, and we’ll pick up the story of the slaves who have been set free and what happens next for them from the book of Exodus. Today, Exodus 15 verse 19 through 17:7.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word and we thank You for bringing us through another week of the rhythm of having Your word in our lives every day, we thank You for bringing us into this brand-new month. And here we are, it’s all out in front of us. So, come Holy Spirit and lead us into all truth, let us live this month of February walking with You every moment because we have a choice every moment, but we need Your Holy Spirit’s counsel. So, come Holy Spirit into this month and all the territory that we will journey through as we continue this adventure through the Scriptures. We need You and we need each other and You have provided both. Thank You. So, come Holy Spirit we pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.

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And that’s it for today. I’m Brian I love you and I’ll be waiting for you here tomorrow.

Community Prayer and Praise:

So, I heard that lady talk for…this is Rebecca from Michigan…the lady talk about wishing for a baby for two years and got one. She’s feeding a five-month baby. And I’ve just wished for a husband for years and I’m almost 53 but…and I told myself, “God that I know had a baby at nine years old”, but I remember I was sitting at church and talking to God about, you know, something that happened in my past that maybe nobody would be interested in me or want me. And God told me, “I don’t hold the past against anybody. People hold the past against…it’s usually you’re holding the past against yourself __ yourself.” So, I don’t know if you guys know. I have a kid out of marriage 33 years ago. __ and this year she’ll be 33. And the father told me have an abortion or put her up for adoption and he is into drugs and alcohol and his mom tried to warn me of him, but that’s a long story. So, yeah, I hold the past against me. He said that I needed a tragedy to happen to me that’s why he did what he did to me. And I met him at a Bible college. So, yeah, I want prayers that God will show me His grace in this area of my life. Thank you.

Hey Daily Audio Bible family it’s Monica from Kentucky and I want to pray to God and praise Him for the Prodigal. Dear heavenly father, thank you for the life of Prodigal. Lord, thank You that He heard You through the DAB. God, thank You for the way that the DAB family came together in unity and prayer and petition for the life of Your son Prodigal. Lord, whatever You reveal to Prodigal on the feast of the Epiphany, cleanse that revelation deep in the heart of our brother and Your child Prodigal. God, even prophets like Jonah and Elijah wanted their lives to end while they walked the earth, but You gave them exactly what they needed just like You’ve given Prodigal exactly what he needs to sustain him. Inspire prodigal to repent daily and seek You daily and know that when we are stripped bare You provide what we need cause You are all we need. Help us all to know this regardless of our circumstances in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Hello, this is Joyce from Virginia calling to pray for Margo the missionary from Australia. Join me in prayer family. Precious Father, Lord Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit, we thank You for our sister Margo for the love she has for You, for her sweet Spirit, for Your willingness to follow where You lead. Surround Margo with Your love and comfort as she navigates this transition in her life. Help her to sense Your presence close to her Lord. I pray that You would arrange personal connections for Margo at every stage of her journey, connections that make her feel at home. And Lord, remind Margo of Your word, that everyone who has left __ or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands for Your name’s sake will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life. In Jesus’ name. Amen. God bless You sister. Call in to let us know how You’re doing.

Hi, my name is Tyler from Canada in Kelowna BC. I’m just currently in the ICU in the hospital because I have a medical device inside my body that may be infected and causing all sorts of problems to me. I’m a quadriplegic a __ two, three quadriplegic, which means I can only move my left arm a little bit and everything else is paralyzed. And I’ve been this way for 14 years but just recently this device has started to cause a lot of problems in my body and I’ve gotta go into surgery again. And I probably, you know, I might not make it because this has almost killed me about three times since June of this summer. And it might do it again, so, I mean, I just need prayer for this situation because I’m kind of scared honestly to die even though I’m a believer. I sometimes struggle with my security of salvation even though I’ve been preaching this stuff to other people for years. But anyways I do want to go over my two minutes. So, family please, I need prayer for possibly whatever’s going on in my body, which means if the device has to come out, which I cannot live without and that the doctors revive and then secondly just assurance of my faith in God and just having people around me who can assure me of that. And just God reaching out to me and just really assuring me. So, __ to be on this show. I love the show and listen to you regularly. Thank you.

Help me dear Lord to stay in your spirit
to walk in your ways and always to fear it
the sound of your voice please help me to hear it
I long for your presence and I long to draw near it
help me stay sheep-like I need your direction
and when I make choices please guide my direction
I can’t allow anything to break this connection
so safeguard my heart and keep it free from deception
and when there’s temptation Lord help me look away
help me stand fast in my faith and to pray every day
but if I get week Lord help my feet walk away
I want the things that I do to match the things that I say
the demons are out there I don’t want them back
they’ve had me for years now and I’m finally on track
all that they need is one tiny crack
they’re watching and waiting and I know that’s a fact
but God’s on my side and their time is short
I can’t win the fight without God’s support
they tremble in fear but will not abort
they’ll fight to the end I’ve read the report
but they read it too that’s why they tremble
God’s word is alive it’s not just a symbol
it quickens the spirit it strengthens the heart
the word can break the works of the flesh all apart
I now can see clearly how much I’m in need
I’m begging for mercy so I can stay free
alive in His spirit I serve Him afresh
as daily I’m learning to die to the flesh

Blindtony1016@gmail.com. Like to give a shout out to Alfio from Delaware and to Walta The Burning Bush that will not be Consumed. Know you’re both in my prayers every day. And once again Brian, thank you for this wonderful podcast for God’s Holy Spirit to flow. Keep it flowin’ ya’ll. All right. Bye-bye.

Hello Daily Audio Bible family, this is Amy from Indiana. I have listened to the Daily Audio Bible for a while and I’ve never called in before and I wanted to, and I just felt that I needed to. I need prayer, but I just want is hope the Lord. We have been struggling financially for about a decade down. Every time I try to find a job, things just don’t seem to work out and we wake up most days we’re negative in our checking account and I’m just feeling such a sense of hopelessness in my heart and I’m trying so hard to trust God and not lose my faith in Him but it’s just been really, really hard for us. So, if you could just pray for me, especially for my faith that I would lose hope, that God sees us and He knows us, but that I could find something that could help us financially because I know that this isn’t sustainable for us to live this way. And this has been such an incredible source of encouragement for me and when I feel the enemy whispering to me I really try to get on here and listen to this and fill my mind with the truth. So, thank you for taking time to pray for us. I appreciate it so much.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Saturday February 2, 2019 (NIV)

Exodus 15:19-17:7

19 When Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and cavalry went into the sea, the Lord brought back the waters of the sea over them. But the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground.

Miriam’s victory song

20 Then the prophet Miriam, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand. All the women followed her playing tambourines and dancing. 21 Miriam sang the refrain back to them:

Sing to the Lord, for an overflowing victory!
Horse and rider he threw into the sea!

Turning bitter water sweet

22 Then Moses had Israel leave the Reed Sea[a] and go out into the Shur desert. They traveled for three days in the desert and found no water. 23 When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink Marah’s water because it was bitter. That’s why it was called Marah.[b] 24 The people complained against Moses, “What will we drink?” 25 Moses cried out to the Lord, and the Lord pointed out a tree to him. He threw it into the water, and the water became sweet.

The Lord made a regulation and a ruling there, and there he tested them. 26 The Lord said, “If you are careful to obey the Lord your God, do what God thinks is right, pay attention to his commandments, and keep all of his regulations, then I won’t bring on you any of the diseases that I brought on the Egyptians. I am the Lord who heals you.”

27 Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees. They camped there by the water.

Wilderness food: manna and quail

16 The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Sin desert, which is located between Elim and Sinai. They set out on the fifteenth day of the second month[c] after they had left the land of Egypt. 2 The whole Israelite community complained against Moses and Aaron in the desert. 3 The Israelites said to them, “Oh, how we wish that the Lord had just put us to death while we were still in the land of Egypt. There we could sit by the pots cooking meat and eat our fill of bread. Instead, you’ve brought us out into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death.”

4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “I’m going to make bread rain down from the sky for you. The people will go out each day and gather just enough for that day. In this way, I’ll test them to see whether or not they follow my Instruction. 5 On the sixth day, when they measure out what they have collected, it will be twice as much as they collected on other days.” 6 So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “This evening you will know that it was the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt. 7 And in the morning you will see the Lord’s glorious presence, because your complaints against the Lord have been heard. Who are we? Why blame us?” 8 Moses continued, “The Lord will give you meat to eat in the evening and your fill of bread in the morning because the Lord heard the complaints you made against him. Who are we? Your complaints aren’t against us but against the Lord.”

9 Then Moses said to Aaron, “Say to the whole Israelite community, ‘Come near to the Lord, because he’s heard your complaints.’” 10 As Aaron spoke to the whole Israelite community, they turned to look toward the desert, and just then the glorious presence of the Lord appeared in the cloud.

11 The Lord spoke to Moses, 12 “I’ve heard the complaints of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat. And in the morning you will have your fill of bread. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.’”

13 In the evening a flock of quail flew down and covered the camp. And in the morning there was a layer of dew all around the camp. 14 When the layer of dew lifted, there on the desert surface were thin flakes, as thin as frost on the ground. 15 When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, “What[d] is it?” They didn’t know what it was.

Moses said to them, “This is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat. 16 This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Collect as much of it as each of you can eat, one omer[e] per person. You may collect for the number of people in your household.’” 17 The Israelites did as Moses said, some collecting more, some less. 18 But when they measured it out by the omer, the ones who had collected more had nothing left over, and the ones who had collected less had no shortage. Everyone collected just as much as they could eat. 19 Moses said to them, “Don’t keep any of it until morning.” 20 But they didn’t listen to Moses. Some kept part of it until morning, but it became infested with worms and stank. Moses got angry with them. 21 Every morning they gathered it, as much as each person could eat. But when the sun grew hot, it melted away.

22 On the sixth day the people collected twice as much food as usual, two omers per person. All the chiefs of the community came and told Moses. 23 He said to them, “This is what the Lord has said, ‘Tomorrow is a day of rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. Bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil. But you can set aside and keep all the leftovers until the next morning.’” 24 So they set the leftovers aside until morning, as Moses had commanded. They didn’t stink or become infested with worms. 25 The next day Moses said, “Eat it today, because today is a Sabbath to the Lord. Today you won’t find it out in the field. 26 Six days you will gather it. But on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be nothing to gather.”

27 On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather bread, but they found nothing. 28 The Lord said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to obey my commandments and instructions? 29 Look! The Lord has given you the Sabbath. Therefore, on the sixth day he gives you enough food for two days. Each of you should stay where you are and not leave your place on the seventh day.” 30 So the people rested on the seventh day.

31 The Israelite people called it manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and tasted like honey wafers. 32 Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Let an omer of it be kept safe for future generations so that they can see the food that I used to feed you in the desert when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”

33 Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar, and put one full omer of manna in it. Then set it in the Lord’s presence, where it should be kept safe for future generations.” 34 Aaron did as the Lord commanded Moses, and he put it in front of the covenant document for safekeeping. 35 The Israelites ate manna for forty years, until they came to a livable land. They ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan. (36 An omer[f] is one-tenth of an ephah.)

Water from a rock

17 The whole Israelite community broke camp and set out from the Sin desert to continue their journey, as the Lord commanded. They set up their camp at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. 2 The people argued with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.”

Moses said to them, “Why are you arguing with me? Why are you testing the Lord?”

3 But the people were very thirsty for water there, and they complained to Moses, “Why did you bring us out of Egypt to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”

4 So Moses cried out to the Lord, “What should I do with this people? They are getting ready to stone me.”

5 The Lord said to Moses, “Go on ahead of the people, and take some of Israel’s elders with you. Take in your hand the shepherd’s rod that you used to strike the Nile River, and go. 6 I’ll be standing there in front of you on the rock at Horeb. Hit the rock. Water will come out of it, and the people will be able to drink.” Moses did so while Israel’s elders watched. 7 He called the place Massah[g] and Meribah,[h] because the Israelites argued with and tested the Lord, asking, “Is the Lord really with us or not?”

Footnotes:

  1. Exodus 15:22 Or Red Sea
  2. Exodus 15:23 Or bitter
  3. Exodus 16:1 April–May, Iyar
  4. Exodus 16:15 Heb man (= What?); cf Exod 16:31
  5. Exodus 16:16 Two quarts
  6. Exodus 16:36 Two quarts
  7. Exodus 17:7 Or test
  8. Exodus 17:7 Or argument
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Matthew 22:1-33

Parable of the wedding party

22 Jesus responded by speaking again in parables: 2 “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding party for his son. 3 He sent his servants to call those invited to the wedding party. But they didn’t want to come. 4 Again he sent other servants and said to them, ‘Tell those who have been invited, “Look, the meal is all prepared. I’ve butchered the oxen and the fattened cattle. Now everything’s ready. Come to the wedding party!” ’ 5 But they paid no attention and went away—some to their fields, others to their businesses. 6 The rest of them grabbed his servants, abused them, and killed them.

7 “The king was angry. He sent his soldiers to destroy those murderers and set their city on fire. 8 Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding party is prepared, but those who were invited weren’t worthy. 9 Therefore, go to the roads on the edge of town and invite everyone you find to the wedding party.’

10 “Then those servants went to the roads and gathered everyone they found, both evil and good. The wedding party was full of guests. 11 Now when the king came in and saw the guests, he spotted a man who wasn’t wearing wedding clothes. 12 He said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But he was speechless. 13 Then the king said to his servants, ‘Tie his hands and feet and throw him out into the farthest darkness. People there will be weeping and grinding their teeth.’

14 “Many people are invited, but few people are chosen.”

Question about taxes

15 Then the Pharisees met together to find a way to trap Jesus in his words. 16 They sent their disciples, along with the supporters of Herod, to him. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are genuine and that you teach God’s way as it really is. We know that you are not swayed by people’s opinions, because you don’t show favoritism. 17 So tell us what you think: Does the Law allow people to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”

18 Knowing their evil motives, Jesus replied, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites? 19  Show me the coin used to pay the tax.” And they brought him a denarion. 20 “Whose image and inscription is this?” he asked.

21 “Caesar’s,” they replied.

Then he said, “Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.” 22 When they heard this they were astonished, and they departed.

Question about resurrection

23 That same day Sadducees, who deny that there is a resurrection, came to Jesus. 24 They asked, “Teacher, Moses said, If a man who doesn’t have children dies, his brother must marry his wife and produce children for his brother.[a] 25 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married, then died. Because he had no children he left his widow to his brother. 26 The same thing happened with the second brother and the third, and in fact with all seven brothers. 27 Finally, the woman died. 28 At the resurrection, which of the seven brothers will be her husband? They were all married to her.”

29 Jesus responded, “You are wrong because you don’t know either the scriptures or God’s power. 30  At the resurrection people won’t marry nor will they be given in marriage. Instead, they will be like angels from God. 31  As for the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read what God told you, 32 I’m the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?[b] He isn’t the God of the dead but of the living.” 33 Now when the crowd heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.

Footnotes:

  1. Matthew 22:24 Deut 25:5
  2. Matthew 22:32 Exod 3:6, 15-16
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Psalm 27:1-6

Psalm 27

Of David.

27 The Lord is my light and my salvation.
Should I fear anyone?
The Lord is a fortress protecting my life.
Should I be frightened of anything?
2 When evildoers come at me trying to eat me up—
it’s they, my foes and my enemies,
who stumble and fall!
3 If an army camps against me,
my heart won’t be afraid.
If war comes up against me,
I will continue to trust in this:
4 I have asked one thing from the Lord—
it’s all I seek:
to live in the Lord’s house all the days of my life,
seeing the Lord’s beauty
and constantly adoring his temple.
5 Because he will shelter me in his own dwelling
during troubling times;
he will hide me in a secret place in his own tent;
he will set me up high, safe on a rock.

6 Now my head is higher than the enemies surrounding me,
and I will offer sacrifices in God’s tent—
sacrifices with shouts of joy!
I will sing and praise the Lord.

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Proverbs 6:20-26

Danger of adultery

20 My son, keep your father’s command;
don’t abandon your mother’s instruction.
21 Bind them on your heart for all time;
fasten them around your neck.
22 When you walk around, they will lead you;
when you lie down, they will protect you;
when you awake, they will occupy your attention.
23 The commandment is a lamp and instruction a light;
corrective teaching is the path of life.
24 They guard you from the evil woman,
from the flattering tongue of the foreign woman.
25 Don’t desire her beauty in secret;
don’t let her take you in with her eyelashes,
26 for a prostitute costs a loaf of bread,[a]
but a married woman hunts for a man’s very life.

Footnotes:

  1. Proverbs 6:26 Heb uncertain
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02/01/2019 DAB Transcript

Exodus 13:17-15:18, Matthew 21:23-46, Psalms 26:1-12, Proverbs 6:16-19

Today is the 1st day of the 2nd month of the year, also known as February. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. Welcome to a brand-new month. And, I guess, you know, you get this far and we’re starting to really settle in. If you make it another couple week’s till Valentine’s Day then the chances are that you’ll make it the whole way. So, well done. Well done on the first full month of the year. It’s, you know, we’ve sailed outside of shore and we’re out into the deep now as we journey through the year together and head toward the end of the year and the next year. So, happy February. We’re still in the same week so, we’ll obviously be reading from the Common English Bible, which is what we’ve been reading from this week and we’ll still be picking up the story where we left off with the children of Israel newly set free and trying to figure out what comes next. And quite a bit of opposition still out in front of them. Exodus chapter 13 verse 17 to 15 verse 18.

Commentary:

Okay. So, paying attention that proverb would be important since it outlines seven things that God hates. So, it would be good to know the things that God hates and to look and see if we’re doing any of the things that God hates because I mean, if we’re gonna do things God hates that’s probably a nonstarter and probably not on the narrow path that leads to life. So, reviewing these things that God hates would be helpful to go back to today.

In the book of Matthew though, we have interesting conversation, but also confrontation happening between Jesus and the Pharisees. So, between Jesus, who is God made flesh, and the religion that had formed around God. And, so, we have to at least acknowledge what we’re seeing here. Jesus greatest confrontations and conflict were with what had become of the religion that grew out of the Mosaic law. So, there’s this law in place and there are the keepers of the traditions, right, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Sanhedrin collectively. And then there’s Jesus, almost a self-styled rabbi who hasn’t come up through the system. And yet He is more compelling and signs and wonders are following Him. And, so, they’re coming to Jesus and saying essentially, “who gave you the right to do this.” And, so, quoting from Scripture, “what kind of authority do you have for doing these things? Who gave you this authority?” Of course, Jesus knows what’s going on here. Like, they’re essentially telling Him, “you didn’t come up through the system. Like, you know, right, you’re an outsider. What do you think you’re doing?” But they can’t argue with the fact that the hearts of the people are turning toward Jesus and this is bringing up a lot of jealousy but also a lot of paranoia because there is a very, very tenuous power share going on between the Romans and the leaders of the Jewish religion and if they can’t control Jesus and the hearts of the people are beginning to turn toward Jesus and He’s gaining momentum then Jesus could be a problem. So, from the perspective of where we sit 2000 years in the future and being able to look back at the story, it’s sad and comical in a way that these people would be trying to defend their power, defend their power share, defend their control over the people and the hearts of the people against God. Oh, but my friends, we do it too. In all kinds of big and small ways we do it too. We’ll look at anyone who doesn’t believe the way that we do even though they may be believers in Jesus and love the Lord. Maybe they this see some things nuanced in ways that we don’t. And, so, we go after them defending the traditions, defending what we think the truth is. This is what the Pharisees were doing and basically what they had done over the millennia is build an infrastructure, a religious infrastructure, that would not allow God to do a new thing at all. Of course, that didn’t stop God from doing a new thing. In fact, He came in person to make all things new and do a new thing and in the process blew up a bunch of stuff. Let’s not think that He wouldn’t do that again. Let’s not think that He’s ever stopped doing that. We will never run a circle around God with our theology that He can’t escape or that he even really cares about. So, Jesus told a couple of stories and its…this is really a beautiful moment where we see how Jesus uses stories because He uses the stories to confront situations where everybody knows what’s being talked about and yet He’s simply telling a story. He’s not directly confronting a person but rather critiquing a situation that involves a lot of people. So, He says a man had two sons and he went to his first son and said, “son I need you to go work in the vineyard today.” And the first son said, “I don’t want to do that.” But then later he thought it through and obeyed his father. And then he went to the to the second son and said, “son I need you to go work in the vineyard today.” And the son said, “yes”, but he didn’t go. And Jesus question is, “who did the will of father?”. And the answer, of course, is the one who obeyed the father. Even though he said, “no, I don’t want to do that”, he changed his mind and he went and obeyed, whereas the other kid said that he would go and he didn’t. So, in this scenario the son that said, “no, I don’t want to, I don’t want to obey you” but then and later changed his mind, these are the people that Jesus is ministering to and He brings even tax collectors and prostitutes into  His conversation as an example, people who might have heard the call of God, who might have been raised up to understand an awareness of God. And God comes and compels them to move forward but they’re like, “no”. They’re like living in rebellion, they’re living in sin but later change their mind and go and obey. Then ultimately they went and obeyed the father, whereas the person who gave lip service to what the father invited them to do and then didn’t do it, well that kinda represents for Jesus what the Pharisees, what the religious system has become, had become. And then He tells a famous story about the tenant farmers, right? So, a landowner leases the farm to tenant farmers who raise a harvest and then the landowner sends for his share and then there’s all kinds of this drama, people getting killed and all this kind of stuff until the farmer sends his son thinking, like, this is the heir, like, this is the owner of this property, they’ll respect him but they don’t, they kill him. And Jesus is asking the question, “what will the landowner do?” And, of course, they’re like, he’ll destroy those wicked farmers. But the thing is, those wicked farmers in that story were religious leaders, were the Pharisees. Like, they’re the keepers of the law, they’re the keepers of the traditions of God that God handed down through Moses, all the weight going back to Abraham. And then God comes and says, “okay, now it’s time to open this up, it’s time to…give me my share.” And they’re more interested in trying to take over the field. So, to try to take over the religious system and own and control it and be the de facto judge about who is right and who is wrong, who needs to be judged, and who needs to receive mercy, and the keepers of all the recipes for how to worship the Lord. So, in this story God sends His son and they kill the son, which is a bit of prophetic utterance about the future for Jesus ministry. But to properly think this through we have to wonder how much more success Jesus would have if He came today. No really, if somebody came claiming to be the son of God with signs and wonders…I mean…it would be kind of the same scenario. And, so, what becomes compelling is when we read the stories that Jesus used as illustrations during this confrontation and try to find out who we would be in those stories. And we can very easily go, like, “I wouldn’t even be in that story. That’s not like…if I’m in that story…I’m one of the disciples of Jesus” until we actually begin looking at our actions and our biases and the way that we treat one another, the way that we judge each other, which is something we’ve been talking about out pretty poignantly as we’ve wandered this far into the Scriptures. So, the work for today is really to do that, to revisit these particular parables and understanding their context trying to locate where we would be because we’re probably more like the Pharisees than we would like to admit. And, so, as we go through the Gospels we’re gonna keep observing the Pharisees and we’re gonna keep observing the way that Jesus interacts with them and, you know, we’re gonna continually be invited to decide or to observe what we’re most closely like and what might need to change, what might need to be repented of.

Prayer:

Jesus, this is where we are, this is what has come up in the Scriptures today. And, so, this is where we are and we open ourselves to Your counsel and we invite Your Holy Spirit to speak, to show us all these little subtle things that actually create our character in the way that we look at the world. And the truth is in each of us there’s far more judgmentalism then we’re ever really aware of or admit to and often this comes from our fear of just getting it wrong about You. So, we get together and we really really try to nail down every aspect of what it might be like to walk with You and be in a relationship with You and be doing it right. And yet it just won't…it won’t distilled down into that kind of a formula. And, so, we keep those efforts to get it right and become more and more like the Pharisees just trying to define every eventuality when relationships…just…they don’t work that way and You’ve invited us into a relationship, an adventure, an intertwining, that we get to be on this earth as You intended us to be because we die to ourselves and allow You to live through us. So, come Holy Spirit into all of the Pharisees and that might be found in our lives. We reject that and renounce that. We want to follow the path that You are leading. And, so, as we see the stories unfolding in the Gospels we’re continually given an opportunity to examine ourselves. So, come Holy Spirit into that examination. We pray in Jesus name. Amen.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Friday February 1, 2019 (NIV)

Exodus 13:17-15:18

God leads the way

17 When Pharaoh let the people go, God didn’t lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, even though that was the shorter route. God thought, If the people have to fight and face war, they will run back to Egypt. 18 So God led the people by the roundabout way of the Reed Sea[a] desert. The Israelites went up out of the land of Egypt ready for battle. 19 Moses took with him Joseph’s bones just as Joseph had made Israel’s sons promise when he said to them, “When God takes care of you, you must carry my bones out of here with you.” 20 They set out from Succoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the desert. 21 The Lord went in front of them during the day in a column of cloud to guide them and at night in a column of lightning to give them light. This way they could travel during the day and at night. 22 The column of cloud during the day and the column of lightning at night never left its place in front of the people.

Israel crossing the sea

14 Then the Lord said to Moses: 2 Tell the Israelites to turn back and set up camp in front of Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea in front of Baal-zephon. You should set up camp in front of it by the sea. 3 Pharaoh will think to himself, The Israelites are lost and confused in the land. The desert has trapped them. 4 I’ll make Pharaoh stubborn, and he’ll chase them. I’ll gain honor at the expense of Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord. And they did exactly that.

5 When Egypt’s king was told that the people had run away, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about the people. They said, “What have we done, letting Israel go free from their slavery to us?” 6 So he sent for his chariot and took his army with him. 7 He took six hundred elite chariots and all of Egypt’s other chariots with captains on all of them. 8 The Lord made Pharaoh, Egypt’s king, stubborn, and he chased the Israelites, who were leaving confidently. 9 The Egyptians, including all of Pharaoh’s horse-drawn chariots, his cavalry, and his army, chased them and caught up with them as they were camped by the sea, by Pi-hahiroth in front of Baal-zephon.

10 As Pharaoh drew closer, the Israelites looked back and saw the Egyptians marching toward them. The Israelites were terrified and cried out to the Lord. 11 They said to Moses, “Weren’t there enough graves in Egypt that you took us away to die in the desert? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt like this? 12 Didn’t we tell you the same thing in Egypt? ‘Leave us alone! Let us work for the Egyptians!’ It would have been better for us to work for the Egyptians than to die in the desert.”

13 But Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. Stand your ground, and watch the Lord rescue you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never ever see again. 14 The Lord will fight for you. You just keep still.”

15 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry out to me? Tell the Israelites to get moving. 16 As for you, lift your shepherd’s rod, stretch out your hand over the sea, and split it in two so that the Israelites can go into the sea on dry ground. 17 But me, I’ll make the Egyptians stubborn so that they will go in after them, and I’ll gain honor at the expense of Pharaoh, all his army, his chariots, and his cavalry. 18 The Egyptians will know that I am the Lord, when I gain honor at the expense of Pharaoh, his chariots, and his cavalry.”

19 God’s messenger, who had been in front of Israel’s camp, moved and went behind them. The column of cloud moved from the front and took its place behind them. 20 It stood between Egypt’s camp and Israel’s camp. The cloud remained there, and when darkness fell it lit up the night. They didn’t come near each other all night.

21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The Lord pushed the sea back by a strong east wind all night, turning the sea into dry land. The waters were split into two. 22 The Israelites walked into the sea on dry ground. The waters formed a wall for them on their right hand and on their left. 23 The Egyptians chased them and went into the sea after them, all of Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and cavalry. 24 As morning approached, the Lord looked down on the Egyptian camp from the column of lightning and cloud and threw the Egyptian camp into a panic. 25 The Lord jammed their chariot wheels so that they wouldn’t turn easily. The Egyptians said, “Let’s get away from the Israelites, because the Lord is fighting for them against Egypt!”

26 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the water comes back and covers the Egyptians, their chariots, and their cavalry.” 27 So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. At daybreak, the sea returned to its normal depth. The Egyptians were driving toward it, and the Lord tossed the Egyptians into the sea. 28 The waters returned and covered the chariots and the cavalry, Pharaoh’s entire army that had followed them into the sea. Not one of them remained. 29 The Israelites, however, walked on dry ground through the sea. The waters formed a wall for them on their right hand and on their left.

30 The Lord rescued Israel from the Egyptians that day. Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. 31 Israel saw the amazing power of the Lord against the Egyptians. The people were in awe of the Lord, and they believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses.

Moses’ victory song

15 Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the Lord:

I will sing to the Lord, for an overflowing victory!
Horse and rider he threw into the sea!
2 The Lord is my strength and my power;[b]
he has become my salvation.
This is my God, whom I will praise,
the God of my ancestors, whom I will acclaim.
3 The Lord is a warrior;
the Lord is his name.

4 Pharaoh’s chariots and his army he hurled into the sea;
his elite captains were sunk in the Reed Sea.[c]
5 The deep sea covered them;
they sank into the deep waters like a stone.
6 Your strong hand, Lord, is dominant in power;
your strong hand, Lord, shatters the enemy!
7 With your great surge you overthrow your opponents;
you send out your hot anger; it burns them up like straw.
8 With the breath of your nostrils the waters swelled up,
the floods surged up in a great wave;
the deep waters foamed in the depths of the sea.
9 The enemy said, “I’ll pursue, I’ll overtake,
I’ll divide the spoils of war.
I’ll be overfilled with them.
I’ll draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.”
10 You blew with your wind; the sea covered over them.
They sank like lead in the towering waters.
11 Who is like you among the gods, Lord?
Who is like you, foremost in holiness,
worthy of highest praise, doing awesome deeds?
12 You raised your strong hand;
earth swallowed them up.
13 With your great loyalty you led the people you rescued;
with your power you guided them to your sanctuary.
14 The peoples heard, they shook in terror;
horror grabbed hold of Philistia’s inhabitants.
15 Then Edom’s tribal chiefs were terrified;
panic grabbed hold of Moab’s rulers;
all of Canaan’s inhabitants melted in fear.
16 Terror and fear came over them;
because of your great power,
they were as still as a stone
until your people, Lord, passed by,
until the people you made your own passed by.
17 You brought them in and planted them on your own mountain,
the place, Lord, that you made your home,
the sanctuary, Lord, that your hand created.
18 The Lord will rule forever and always.

Footnotes:

  1. Exodus 13:18 Or Red Sea
  2. Exodus 15:2 Or song
  3. Exodus 15:4 Or Red Sea
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Matthew 21:23-46

Jesus’ authority questioned

23 When Jesus entered the temple, the chief priests and elders of the people came to him as he was teaching. They asked, “What kind of authority do you have for doing these things? Who gave you this authority?”

24 Jesus replied, “I have a question for you. If you tell me the answer, I’ll tell you what kind of authority I have to do these things. 25  Where did John get his authority to baptize? Did he get it from heaven or from humans?”

They argued among themselves, “If we say ‘from heaven,’ he’ll say to us, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’ 26 But we can’t say ‘from humans’ because we’re afraid of the crowd, since everyone thinks John was a prophet.” 27 Then they replied, “We don’t know.”

Jesus also said to them, “Neither will I tell you what kind of authority I have to do these things.

Parable of two sons

28 “What do you think? A man had two sons. Now he came to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’

29 “‘No, I don’t want to,’ he replied. But later he changed his mind and went.

30 “The father said the same thing to the other son, who replied, ‘Yes, sir.’ But he didn’t go.

31 “Which one of these two did his father’s will?”

They said, “The first one.”

Jesus said to them, “I assure you that tax collectors and prostitutes are entering God’s kingdom ahead of you. 32 For John came to you on the righteous road, and you didn’t believe him. But tax collectors and prostitutes believed him. Yet even after you saw this, you didn’t change your hearts and lives and you didn’t believe him.

Parable of the tenant farmers

33 “Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it to tenant farmers and took a trip. 34 When it was time for harvest, he sent his servants to the tenant farmers to collect his fruit. 35 But the tenant farmers grabbed his servants. They beat some of them, and some of them they killed. Some of them they stoned to death.

36 “Again he sent other servants, more than the first group. They treated them in the same way. 37 Finally he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.

38 “But when the tenant farmers saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come on, let’s kill him and we’ll have his inheritance.’ 39 They grabbed him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

40 “When the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenant farmers?”

41 They said, “He will totally destroy those wicked farmers and rent the vineyard to other tenant farmers who will give him the fruit when it’s ready.”

42 Jesus said to them, “Haven’t you ever read in the scriptures, The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. The Lord has done this, and it’s amazing in our eyes?[a] 43  Therefore, I tell you that God’s kingdom will be taken away from you and will be given to a people who produce its fruit. 44  Whoever falls on this stone will be crushed. And the stone will crush the person it falls on.”

45 Now when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard the parable, they knew Jesus was talking about them. 46 They were trying to arrest him, but they feared the crowds, who thought he was a prophet.

Footnotes:

  1. Matthew 21:42 Ps 118:22-23
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Psalm 26

Psalm 26

Of David.

26 Establish justice for me, Lord,
because I have walked with integrity.
I’ve trusted the Lord without wavering.
2 Examine me, Lord; put me to the test!
Purify[a] my mind[b] and my heart.
3 Because your faithful love is right in front of me—
I walk in your truth!
4 I don’t spend time with people up to no good;
I don’t keep company with liars.
5 I detest the company of evildoers,
and I don’t sit with wicked people.
6 I wash my hands—they are innocent!
I walk all around your altar, Lord,
7 proclaiming out loud my thanks,
declaring all your wonderful deeds!
8 I love the beauty[c] of your house, Lord;
I love the place where your glory resides.

9 Don’t gather me[d] up with the sinners,
taking my life along with violent people
10 in whose hands are evil schemes,
whose strong hands are full of bribes.
11 But me? I walk with integrity.
Save me! Have mercy on me!

12 My feet now stand on level ground.
I will bless the Lord in the great congregation.

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 26:2 LXX or investigate
  2. Psalm 26:2 Or kidneys
  3. Psalm 26:8 LXX; MT the dwelling of your house
  4. Psalm 26:9 Or my soul
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Proverbs 6:16-19

16 There are six things that the Lord hates,
seven things detestable to him:
17 snobbish eyes,
a lying tongue,
hands that spill innocent blood,
18 a heart set on wicked plans,
feet that run quickly to evil,
19 a false witness who breathes lies,
and one who causes conflicts among relatives.

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