01/23/2021 DAB Transcript

Genesis 46:1-47:31, Matthew 15:1-28, Psalms 19:1-14, Proverbs 4:14-19

Today is the 23rd day of January welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is great to be here with you today as we bring to a close another week. And there are 52 of those, but we’ve already move through a couple, actually three. So, look at how time flies. 49 more weeks and we’ll be at the end of another year. And it’s great to know that we we’ll be doing that together as we continue our journey through the Scriptures. So, we’re in the book of Genesis, we have been following along with the story of Joseph. And not to be redundant, but it’s important to kinda remember this family that we are examining because they affect so much of the Bible. Abraham, Isaac, who was Abraham’s son, and Jacob who was Isaac’s son. And Jacob’s name was changed to Israel and then he had children and those of the children of Israel. And this story of Joseph that we’re following along with is one of those sons of Israel. And Jacob or Israel hadn’t seen his son Joseph in decades literally believing that he was dead for decades. And, so, we have kind of a resurrection moment happening. Genesis chapter 46 and 47 today. And we’re reading from the New International Version this week.

Commentary:

Okay. So, as we bring this week to a close, we look back into the book of Genesis, and we’ve been following this Joseph story and finally Joseph and his father Israel or Jacob are reunited, and it is a beautiful beautiful beautiful scene. And, so, the children of Israel 70 in all according to the Scriptures as they start out in Egypt have moved to Egypt. We have some ground to cover, but this is how the children of Israel got to Egypt. And as the Bible has already alluded to, they prospered there. They increase in number is there. They actually grow into a great nation there, but they will also be enslaved there. And we’re gonna spend 400 years in Egypt and then we will meet the next person that we are going to be traveling with and his name will be Moses.

Then we turn into the book of Matthew today and Jesus quotes the prophet Isaiah, “these people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.” That prophecy spoken from Jesus from Isaiah really is the plot of the ministry of Jesus in so many ways. He’s trying to call the truth out in people’s lives and the truth is borne out in how they conduct themselves not in what they say. Because what they say or sad and had led into great hypocrisy and control in all kinds of…well…all kinds of hiding, echoes back from Genesis chapter 3 - naked and ashamed. And that’s how humanity came out of that and hiding ever since, putting a false front out there while the truth remains hidden in the darkness of their hearts. Jesus is calling out the truth. He’s saying like, “let’s unite what you say with who you are not who you pretend to be. Then you can be true. Then you will have eyes to see and ears to hear that the kingdom of heaven is among you now.” So, that can help us understand the trajectory of Jesus ministry, butit should…it’s no less relevant right now. This culture around the world that we live in, the world, the world that we live in is naked and ashamed and hiding. We are all trying to present a perfect version of ourselves, but it is exhausting. Why don’t we just relax and be made perfect for real so that we don’t have to hide naked and ashamed so that we can be true and reveal the kingdom of heaven that is among us.

Prayer:

Jesus, we invite You into that. We’re certainly not done talking about these kinds of things because in the Scriptures You are certainly not done talking about these kinds of things. And, so, as we follow along in the Scriptures it’s like we are following along in Your ministry. We are walking alongside You. We are drinking up every word that You say. Holy Spirit plant these words in the soil of our lives. We want to move toward springtime. Even though that seems a ways away, we want to move toward springtime and see this new life that we are planting right now begin to poke up in our lives so that we might begin to see that we actually are being transformed, that the way we think about things and the way we react to things is changing. Holy Spirit come we pray. And all of this we ask in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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