07/19/2021 DAB Transcript

1 Chronicles 28:1-29:30, Romans 5:6-21, Psalms 15:1-5, Proverbs 19:18-19

Today is the 19th day of July welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is wonderful, truly a privilege, truly an honor that we can have this place, that we lovingly…we lovingly call the Global Campfire, that we have this place, and we can come and sit down and find rest for our weariness and let God’s word speak, wash into our lives, changing the atmosphere. It is wonderful to be here with you. So, let’s dive in. We have been working our way through the book of first Chronicles for a bit. Today we will conclude first Chronicles and begin the second Chronicles tomorrow while at the same time continuing our journey through the book of Romans. So, first, First Chronicles chapters 28 and 29.

Commentary:

Okay. Since we have begun our journey through the letter to the Romans we’ve been reading Paul sort of laying out a foundational argument. And in part it is, are we adherence to Moses or are we adherence to Abraham. So, at the time, as Paul is speaking this at least as it relates to Hebrew like Orthodox Hebrew people who are trying to obey the Mosaic law, that’s where their devotion really is, to that law, to the law of Moses. Moses is their great profit who led them into the promised land. They have to obey this law. It was revealed and given through Moses. And everybody could agree, like, okay, that’s understandable. Paul’s argument though is, wait…wait…Moses came later in our story, though, like a lot later, like centuries later. And, so, Paul’s like we do have a person that would be known as like our our father, like the patriarch, like the origin story and his name was Abraham. He’s the one that received the promise from God. God is the one that introduced himself to Abram and said come into a land I will show you and Abraham obeyed and believed and trusted God. That’s the beginning of the story. And even there we can go, like, you, everybody would agree with that. But that’s where it gets a little bit controversial because what…what Paul is laying out is Abraham didn’t have the Mosaic law to obey. And, so, he couldn't…he couldn’t fulfill it nor could he break it because it didn’t exist. And yet Abraham still found a way to be righteous before God, right? And, so, all of the people are working and working working through the Mosaic law trying to adhere to the Mosaic law to be transformed and to become righteous before God thinking this is the path this is the way when Paul is saying, wait our father Abraham was counted righteous before God, not because he was circumcised or because he was following any of the prescribed laws and statutes. They didn’t exist. He wasn’t circumcised. He was righteous because he believed God, and God counted that faith, that belief, as a righteousness toward him. And, so, Paul’s saying, hang on. We gotta think this through. The law isn’t gonna get us there. We’ve been trying to achieve it for thousands of years. Nobody can achieve perfection through the law because nobody can obey it perfectly. And, so, to Paul then the law becomes something that reveals that, that reveals our sin, that reveals that we break God’s law. It’s there to know that we’ve broken it and realize that we are helpless, and we are hopeless to ever achieve righteousness in our own strength before God. That’s kind of where we pick up today. That’s how our reading starts today. When we were on utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners. And that kinda catches up…catches up to where we are. And we who believe, you know, we…we…we…this is…these are essential Christian faith things to know and understand and…and live into. So, we know these things and we can read them in letters like Romans and go what’s the big deal. like it’s so clear. it makes so much sense or it…it…it bears witness to my heart and I believe. But at the time, at the time that this letter is being written and being read this quite controversial because it looks like Paul is diminishing the power of the Mosaic law and that law is what the people have organized themselves around. It is sort of a centerpiece to their society and their understanding of how to how to live. So, for Paul to be speaking against the law of Moses this is heresy this is…I mean this is…this is why in the book of Acts we see people taking vows to kill Paul if they can get a chance to assassinate him. And make no mistake, this is radical…this is…these are radical declarations that the law shows us our sin and we are utterly dependent on God and our par, our role is…is to believe. We believe that that we are sinless because of Christ. Like, that’s the thing. We believe that we have been made righteous before God, and we are not wallowing in our sin. We are free from it through Christ Jesus. That's…that still needs to sink into our hearts and souls and minds because we still walk around feeling like we’re failing a lot of the time, and we then look at everybody else and how they’re feeling and we become judgmental and it really, really twists us inside and…inside-out when what the radical nature of the gospel is is that we are free, sinless, free through Christ Jesus. We can still choose to rebel. We still have a will. We can walk away anytime we want to walk away, but we don’t have to, and it’s not being held against us. That is radical, very radical at the time, but still transformative. It has shifted the world. And were we to be able to embrace it fully it would shift our existence in this world.

Prayer:

Holy Spirit, come. We invite You most every day to lead us into all truth, to lead us deeper into Jesus to enlighten and open our eyes to see Your kingdom at work in this world and to give us an understanding heart and mind as we continue our journey through the Scriptures so that we might live into this reality through faith in You. We ask in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi this is Bonnie from Virginia today is July 14th and I heard 16-year-old teenaged boy asking for prayer as he had __ and was requesting for prayers. We’ll be praying for you. You didn’t leave your name but since you said you were 16 years old, we will be remembering you in our prayer. It’s so great to know that Brian and family I would like to thank you because this podcast has been blasting to everyone. I hear children calling, teenagers, young adults, and adults. It has blessed everyone in this world. Thank you for doing this. And I also wanted to pray for Andrew the 21-year-old, I think you said your name is Andrew and is going to college and was asking for some guidance about prayer help. It is so wonderful to see and hear these teenagers and young adults also listening to this podcast and trusting in God and praying for each other. It’s very wonderful. Please continue to trust in God and He will always be with you all especially the teenagers, kids, and the young adults. We all love you.

Good afternoon DAB family this is Shandra calling from Maryland. I’m going to try to get through this as quickly as I can without crying. Thank everyone, thank you Brian, thank you Jill, thank you the whole Hardin family. I thank you Blind Tony. I thank you for all of the trusting encouragers and intercessors who just leave the messages when they feel one way but the fact that what they left really encourages us. And in saying that I wanted to reach out to Tessie from Texas. I heard your message concerning the prayer by a little Sherry. I just wanted to share with both of you I completely understand. I have been dealing with multiple sclerosis since 2002 and in 2016 after a fall I’ve been in a wheelchair since then. And at first it was very hard but by God’s grace He used some other people and some things to help me be able to deal with that and not to lose hope. And I won’t just I just want to encourage not only both of you but everyone else like ourselves who are going through __ issues whether they’re in a wheelchair, a crutch or a cane, that, you know, the Lord has made us who we are and I thank you for the encouraging word from Isaiah chapter 40. Even though I’ve heard it many at times I have another perspective that I can use to apply to my life and I ask that you all to not only continue to pray for me but pray for everyone else especially who’s going through any type of fatigue or injury or dealing with some kind of issue…

[singing starts] there is a balm in Gilead. There is a balm in Gilead, and he is mighty, and He is holy, and He has come to save. There is a balm in Gilead. There is a balm in Gilead, and He is righteous, and He is worthy, and He has risen from the grave [singing stops]. Gracious heavenly Father, Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit I just come before You Lord and I ask for Your blessing and Your love, outrageous lovingkindness upon those in our family that are hurting today. I especially think of Lady of Victory, and I ask Lord that You would just comfort her and her daughters and her ex-husband Lord God and Kingdom Seeker Daniel and all of our family Father God that are morning with them. Lord God surround them with love and bless them in Jesus’ name. Amen. Treasured Possession.

I’m Hopelessly Shipwrecked and I need your prayers to help me get back on track with God. I served God for 50 years in ministry and I’ve failed many times. I’ve sinned and in darkness and depression I feel like I’ve lost everything that I ever hoped for. I’m not even sure if I belong to Him anymore. And I feel like I’m being…we’re in the middle of a spiritual war that I can’t seem to climb out of the darkness. And I've…I lost a daughter years ago and I just recently lost my son on Mother’s Day for…with COVID and many others this year. And I just need prayers to find God again in my life and help me fight the spiritual battles and know that I’ve been forgiven as I can be right with God again. Thank you.

Hello Daily Audio Bible this is Irina from Boise ID I’ve been listening to DAB since 09 but this is my first time calling and I want to just leave this message for pastor Brian Hardin. And I say thank you so much for today’s message. This is July 16th and I just I just loved…I love every day when you read and how you explain everything, but it blesses me so much. And today I really got blessed by your message about imperfections, how you said I am imperfect but I’m in a relationship with perfection who is God. And that blessed me so much because I’m not boasting about my imperfections, I’m boasting about a perfect God who loves me despite my imperfections. And He helps me see His goodness past my imperfections. Because sometimes I have people that say how can you be so nice because they did so and so to you this and that and then I tell them, well I’m glad you asked. See, I serve a perfect God who loves imperfect me. He gives me strength to be…to love others even with their imperfections. So, thank you brother so much for the time you put in with us, for the love that we feel from you, and just your dedication to God’s word is just blesses each and every person that ever listens. So, God bless you. Continue a great work for the Lord and we love you all. Bye-bye.