9/02/2021 DAB Transcript

Ecclesiastes 1:1-3:22, 2 Corinthians 6:1-13, Psalm 46:1-11, Proverbs 22:15

Today is the 2nd day of September, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible, I’m Brian. It’s awesome to be here with you today as we gather and find our place around the Global Campfire and take the next step forward together and we’ve just stepped into a new month, but we are also stepping into a brand-new book in the Bible today. The book of Ecclesiastes, having finished the book of Job yesterday and Job and Ecclesiastes, as well as Proverbs and Song of Solomon and some of the Psalms, these are part of a grouping of books in the Scriptures known as wisdom literature. That’s where we are camping out of this portion of the year as we move through. And this new book. Ecclesiastes, traditionally is ascribed to Solomon. But that’s like so many other things in the Scriptures have been debated. A likely scenario is that this work did originate with Solomon and was updated and modified and translated and brought forward and modernized through time as…as the Scriptures have been, as they’ve been ported into new languages and all of the different meanings of different words have been debated and wrestled with, Ecclesiastes would be no different. So, Solomon we remember…remember King David and then his son Solomon, and he led ancient Israel to its greatest hour: the building of the temple, peace and prosperity on all sides, wisdom flowing among the people. So, we’ll notice that getting into Ecclesiastes is very different than what we might expect from one of the greatest people who ever lived, because in some ways it’s like depressing rant. But if we have a little bit of context, it’s really a deeply penetrating look into the human heart, into our own hearts because everybody has goals and dreams, right, aspirations, things we would like to achieve. And, we even have kind of far-fetched like oh pie-in-the-sky kind of stuff that we probably will never do. But Solomon didn’t have that issue. Solomon had the opposite. He had everything, everything he could possibly imagine or think of he could have. So, we get this perspective from a person who has essentially done it all and seen it all, nothing was off-limits, anything he wanted to pursue he could pursue. And, Ecclesiastes is kind of a look back over it all. And the person who’s done and seen it all, concludes that all of it can be completely meaningless. It can be chasing the wind, it can be something that you, can never be full, that there can never be enough and when you’ve accumulated it all then what do you have? Most people would be like yeah, I would like to have that problem. I would like to find out for myself. But few people ever achieve that, Solomon in the book of Ecclesiastes gives us a perspective from that place, and ironically, it’s not a bunch of self-worship and look how great I am and look at all of my stuff and glory over all of my achievements. It’s just a very, very different perspective than that and so this does come at a good time for us after the book of Job, after we’ve wrestled with suffering and moved through that territory to now come into some territory where we consider what would it be like if everything I ever wanted, what if I got everything I ever wanted. Would I be full? Would I be whole? Would I be complete? And so, let’s drink in together the book of Ecclesiastes. Today we will read chapters 1, 2 and 3; we’re reading from the New International Version this week.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. Thank You for this new territory that we’re moving into not only in the new month but in this new book Ecclesiastes. We invite Your Holy Spirit into our time interacting with Ecclesiastes and also looking at what is driving us, what is motivating us in different we get everything that is driving and motivating us, what do have will, will we be full, how can we appreciate the journey, paying attention to it as the days go by, appreciating what You have given us, appreciating what we have. Holy Spirit, we invite You to come into the questions that arise and the postures of our hearts, motivations of our actions and our thoughts and words. Come Jesus we pray in your mighty name. Amen.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

Hey Daily Audio Bible family, this is Kat in Texas. I’ve been listening since January of 2013. I’m a Double DABer. I don’t call in very often but I pray along with the Prayer Requests everyday and whether you call in or not, I lift you up in prayer. I don’t know your names but God always knows our names. I’m sitting in a hospital parking lot in Austin, Texas. My husband’s inside the hospital with his mom and his sister and it looks like his dad is gonna pass away. So, can you please put them and our family up in prayers. Thank you so much. I love you all.

Hi DAB friends, hope ya’ll are having a great day. I wanted to reach out and ask you if you would pray for my sister. I want to remain anonymous but I still wanted to reach out and ask for prayer. She’s been really battling with her mental health over the last year. She’s a wonderful believer and she actually is the first person that shared about Jesus with me and prayed for me to become a Christian also. So, she’s just got a huge place in my heart and it’s so hard to see her struggling the way she is and she’s gotten help over the last year but it’s been a bit up and down. We thought that she was doing better but her husband and I are getting a bit concerned. She seems likes she’s going downhill again but isn’t really aware of it and we’re just not really sure what to do. So, if you could please pray with us for her to have, for Jesus to give her a sound mind for Him to heal her depression and anxiety. For her to have peaceful sleep and just for her to be healed in the name of Jesus. So, thank you so much for praying with us, love you all. Bye.

Hello, Daily Audio Bible family I’m a first-time caller, Lou from Utah and I just need your prayers. A little over a week ago my sweetheart of 38 years took his own life. And he had been suffering with nerve pain and terrible panic attacks for a long, long time. He had a industrial accident 24 years ago and he has had pain ever since. Well, he just reached the point where he was just so done with pain. The kids and I, three kids, grown with their own kids. Their all trying to grapple with this and it’s hard. One minute you’re feeling one way and the next minute you feel another way and you wonder if you’re ever gonna feel kind of normal again. Just need your prayers for my family to find peace from this traumatic shock. And to be able to go on and serve our Lord without having a big wound. And I know you’ll pray for me cause I’ve been listening to you guys pray for others forever and your so faithful. I would appreciate it. God bless this Daily Audio Bible. Bye Bye.

Hi, this is GoldBerry from Sequwuachi County, Tennessee and I’m calling for Carmen. I’m so sorry for the lose of your son. I wanted to encourage you with a scripture from Psalm 27 I will remain confident of this I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord, be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. My daughter had a baby in February of 2020 and he died about 30 minutes after he was born and she lost another baby to miscarriage almost exactly a year later. And so I understand the grief and I know that it can be ongoing but I just wanted to encourage you that the Lord’s presence is with us even if our questions aren’t answered not so unlike Job. We can have his presence but we don’t always get the answer to the why. But stay with Him and walk with Him in your pain.  And don’t listen to the people around you who think you should be over it. I think it takes a lifetime to grieve something like that. Thank you to Renzo for your continued calls and prayers on the behalf of other DABers. And Jonathan, who called requesting for prayer, you are not disgusting, you have a beautiful vulnerable heart and your request for prayers will not go unheard. May God Bless you and keep you as you aspire to walk with Him and may God give you peace and mercy and grace without shame. God Bless you.

Hello DAB this is People on the Water from Indiana. Just wanted to call in really fast and just mention some people. There was a women who was waking up early to help her brothers take care of her parents, quick story short, come on, she was trying to help her dad and really see if he knew who Christ was and just share the Gospel with him. She’s been waking up early for work so she has a lot on her plate Lord. I’m not praying that you would take that away but I’m praying that you would give her wisdom in order to deal with that. Secondly, Jonathan from Denver, he stayed away from porn for a good amount of time. Dude, let’s go man, come on, come and he was praying for someone else. You know, I was thinking, you know, God very well may and is in the position to use that last time that you viewed pornography, that that may very well be your last time, just kind of encouraging on that. Okay, a man called him about his friend of 20 years and he was 82 years old and he was just praying for him and COVID and what not. Then the Harvey family whose also been introduced to this COVID and that was Terry the Trucker. I’m just praying for them; I’m lifting you up. Slave of Jesus in NC, I realize that you are the person that say’s “all right Holy Spirit let’s roll” and I just really like that. Okay, I got like 20 seconds left, okay, new people who are coming on DAB, thank you for coming on, welcome. I hope that me talking fast isn’t like anything bad to you, and lastly there was this person Dave from Pennsylvania sang a song and I just want to say that was cool okay bye.

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Thursday September 2, 2021 (NIV)

Ecclesiastes 1-3

Everything Is Meaningless

The words of the Teacher,[a](A) son of David, king in Jerusalem:(B)

“Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”(C)

What do people gain from all their labors
at which they toil under the sun?(D)
Generations come and generations go,
but the earth remains forever.(E)
The sun rises and the sun sets,
and hurries back to where it rises.(F)
The wind blows to the south
and turns to the north;
round and round it goes,
ever returning on its course.
All streams flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
there they return again.(G)
All things are wearisome,
more than one can say.
The eye never has enough of seeing,(H)
nor the ear its fill of hearing.
What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;(I)
there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which one can say,
“Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.
11 No one remembers the former generations,(J)
and even those yet to come
will not be remembered
by those who follow them.(K)

Wisdom Is Meaningless

12 I, the Teacher,(L) was king over Israel in Jerusalem.(M) 13 I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens.(N) What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind!(O) 14 I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.(P)

15 What is crooked cannot be straightened;(Q)
what is lacking cannot be counted.

16 I said to myself, “Look, I have increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before me;(R) I have experienced much of wisdom and knowledge.” 17 Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom,(S) and also of madness and folly,(T) but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.

18 For with much wisdom comes much sorrow;(U)
the more knowledge, the more grief.(V)

Pleasures Are Meaningless

I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure(W) to find out what is good.” But that also proved to be meaningless. “Laughter,”(X) I said, “is madness. And what does pleasure accomplish?” I tried cheering myself with wine,(Y) and embracing folly(Z)—my mind still guiding me with wisdom. I wanted to see what was good for people to do under the heavens during the few days of their lives.

I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself(AA) and planted vineyards.(AB) I made gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. I made reservoirs to water groves of flourishing trees. I bought male and female slaves and had other slaves(AC) who were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me. I amassed silver and gold(AD) for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces.(AE) I acquired male and female singers,(AF) and a harem[b] as well—the delights of a man’s heart. I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem(AG) before me.(AH) In all this my wisdom stayed with me.

10 I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;
I refused my heart no pleasure.
My heart took delight in all my labor,
and this was the reward for all my toil.
11 Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done
and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;(AI)
nothing was gained under the sun.(AJ)

Wisdom and Folly Are Meaningless

12 Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom,
and also madness and folly.(AK)
What more can the king’s successor do
than what has already been done?(AL)
13 I saw that wisdom(AM) is better than folly,(AN)
just as light is better than darkness.
14 The wise have eyes in their heads,
while the fool walks in the darkness;
but I came to realize
that the same fate overtakes them both.(AO)

15 Then I said to myself,

“The fate of the fool will overtake me also.
What then do I gain by being wise?”(AP)
I said to myself,
“This too is meaningless.”
16 For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered;(AQ)
the days have already come when both have been forgotten.(AR)
Like the fool, the wise too must die!(AS)

Toil Is Meaningless

17 So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.(AT) 18 I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me.(AU) 19 And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish?(AV) Yet they will have control over all the fruit of my toil into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless. 20 So my heart began to despair over all my toilsome labor under the sun. 21 For a person may labor with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune. 22 What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun?(AW) 23 All their days their work is grief and pain;(AX) even at night their minds do not rest.(AY) This too is meaningless.

24 A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink(AZ) and find satisfaction in their own toil.(BA) This too, I see, is from the hand of God,(BB) 25 for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment?(BC) 26 To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom,(BD) knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth(BE) to hand it over to the one who pleases God.(BF) This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

A Time for Everything

There is a time(BG) for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:

a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,(BH)
a time to kill(BI) and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent(BJ) and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.

What do workers gain from their toil?(BK) 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race.(BL) 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time.(BM) He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet[c] no one can fathom(BN) what God has done from beginning to end.(BO) 12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. 13 That each of them may eat and drink,(BP) and find satisfaction(BQ) in all their toil—this is the gift of God.(BR) 14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.(BS)

15 Whatever is has already been,(BT)
and what will be has been before;(BU)
and God will call the past to account.[d]

16 And I saw something else under the sun:

In the place of judgment—wickedness was there,
in the place of justice—wickedness was there.

17 I said to myself,

“God will bring into judgment(BV)
both the righteous and the wicked,
for there will be a time for every activity,
a time to judge every deed.”(BW)

18 I also said to myself, “As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals.(BX) 19 Surely the fate of human beings(BY) is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath[e]; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless. 20 All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.(BZ) 21 Who knows if the human spirit rises upward(CA) and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”

22 So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work,(CB) because that is their lot.(CC) For who can bring them to see what will happen after them?

Footnotes:

  1. Ecclesiastes 1:1 Or the leader of the assembly; also in verses 2 and 12
  2. Ecclesiastes 2:8 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.
  3. Ecclesiastes 3:11 Or also placed ignorance in the human heart, so that
  4. Ecclesiastes 3:15 Or God calls back the past
  5. Ecclesiastes 3:19 Or spirit

Cross references:

  1. Ecclesiastes 1:1 : ver 12; Ecc 7:27; 12:10
  2. Ecclesiastes 1:1 : S Pr 1:1
  3. Ecclesiastes 1:2 : Ps 39:5-6; 62:9; Ecc 12:8; Ro 8:20-21
  4. Ecclesiastes 1:3 : Ecc 2:11, 22; 3:9; 5:15-16
  5. Ecclesiastes 1:4 : S Job 8:19
  6. Ecclesiastes 1:5 : Ps 19:5-6
  7. Ecclesiastes 1:7 : Job 36:28
  8. Ecclesiastes 1:8 : Pr 27:20
  9. Ecclesiastes 1:9 : Ecc 2:12; 3:15
  10. Ecclesiastes 1:11 : Ge 40:23; Ecc 9:15
  11. Ecclesiastes 1:11 : Ps 88:12; Ecc 2:16; 8:10; 9:5
  12. Ecclesiastes 1:12 : S ver 1
  13. Ecclesiastes 1:12 : Ecc 2:9
  14. Ecclesiastes 1:13 : S Job 28:3
  15. Ecclesiastes 1:13 : S Ge 3:17; Ecc 3:10
  16. Ecclesiastes 1:14 : Ecc 2:11, 17; 4:4; 6:9
  17. Ecclesiastes 1:15 : Ecc 7:13
  18. Ecclesiastes 1:16 : S 1Ki 3:12
  19. Ecclesiastes 1:17 : Ecc 7:23; 8:16
  20. Ecclesiastes 1:17 : Ecc 2:3, 12; 7:25
  21. Ecclesiastes 1:18 : Jer 45:3
  22. Ecclesiastes 1:18 : Ecc 2:23; 12:12
  23. Ecclesiastes 2:1 : ver 24; Ecc 7:4; 8:15
  24. Ecclesiastes 2:2 : S Pr 14:13
  25. Ecclesiastes 2:3 : ver 24-25; S Jdg 9:13; Ru 3:3; Ecc 3:12-13; 5:18; 8:15
  26. Ecclesiastes 2:3 : S Ecc 1:17
  27. Ecclesiastes 2:4 : 2Ch 2:1; 8:1-6
  28. Ecclesiastes 2:4 : SS 8:11
  29. Ecclesiastes 2:7 : 2Ch 8:7-8
  30. Ecclesiastes 2:8 : S 1Ki 9:28
  31. Ecclesiastes 2:8 : S Jdg 3:15
  32. Ecclesiastes 2:8 : S 2Sa 19:35
  33. Ecclesiastes 2:9 : Ecc 1:12
  34. Ecclesiastes 2:9 : 1Ch 29:25
  35. Ecclesiastes 2:11 : S Ecc 1:14
  36. Ecclesiastes 2:11 : S Ecc 1:3
  37. Ecclesiastes 2:12 : S Ecc 1:17
  38. Ecclesiastes 2:12 : S Ecc 1:9
  39. Ecclesiastes 2:13 : Ecc 7:19; 9:18
  40. Ecclesiastes 2:13 : Ecc 7:11-12
  41. Ecclesiastes 2:14 : Ps 49:10; Ecc 3:19; 6:6; 7:2; 9:3, 11-12
  42. Ecclesiastes 2:15 : ver 19; Ecc 6:8
  43. Ecclesiastes 2:16 : S Ps 112:6
  44. Ecclesiastes 2:16 : S Ecc 1:11
  45. Ecclesiastes 2:16 : Ps 49:10
  46. Ecclesiastes 2:17 : S Ecc 1:14
  47. Ecclesiastes 2:18 : Ps 39:6; 49:10
  48. Ecclesiastes 2:19 : S ver 15
  49. Ecclesiastes 2:22 : S Ecc 1:3
  50. Ecclesiastes 2:23 : S Ecc 1:18
  51. Ecclesiastes 2:23 : S Ge 3:17; S Job 7:2
  52. Ecclesiastes 2:24 : ver 3; 1Co 15:32
  53. Ecclesiastes 2:24 : S ver 1; Ecc 3:22
  54. Ecclesiastes 2:24 : S Job 2:10; Ecc 3:12-13; 5:17-19; 7:14; 9:7-10; 11:7-10
  55. Ecclesiastes 2:25 : S Ps 127:2
  56. Ecclesiastes 2:26 : S Job 9:4
  57. Ecclesiastes 2:26 : S Job 27:17
  58. Ecclesiastes 2:26 : S Pr 13:22
  59. Ecclesiastes 3:1 : ver 11, 17; Ecc 8:6
  60. Ecclesiastes 3:2 : Isa 28:24
  61. Ecclesiastes 3:3 : S Dt 5:17
  62. Ecclesiastes 3:7 : S Est 4:14
  63. Ecclesiastes 3:9 : S Ecc 1:3
  64. Ecclesiastes 3:10 : S Ecc 1:13
  65. Ecclesiastes 3:11 : S ver 1
  66. Ecclesiastes 3:11 : S Job 11:7
  67. Ecclesiastes 3:11 : S Job 28:23; Ro 11:33
  68. Ecclesiastes 3:13 : Ecc 2:3
  69. Ecclesiastes 3:13 : Ps 34:12
  70. Ecclesiastes 3:13 : S Dt 12:7, 18; S Ecc 2:24
  71. Ecclesiastes 3:14 : S Job 23:15; Ecc 5:7; 7:18; 8:12-13
  72. Ecclesiastes 3:15 : Ecc 6:10
  73. Ecclesiastes 3:15 : S Ecc 1:9
  74. Ecclesiastes 3:17 : S Job 19:29; Ecc 11:9; 12:14
  75. Ecclesiastes 3:17 : ver 1
  76. Ecclesiastes 3:18 : S Ps 73:22
  77. Ecclesiastes 3:19 : S Ecc 2:14
  78. Ecclesiastes 3:20 : S Ge 2:7; S Job 34:15
  79. Ecclesiastes 3:21 : Ecc 12:7
  80. Ecclesiastes 3:22 : S Ecc 2:24
  81. Ecclesiastes 3:22 : S Job 31:2
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2 Corinthians 6:1-13

As God’s co-workers(A) we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.(B) For he says,

“In the time of my favor I heard you,
and in the day of salvation I helped you.”[a](C)

I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.

Paul’s Hardships

We put no stumbling block in anyone’s path,(D) so that our ministry will not be discredited. Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses; in beatings, imprisonments(E) and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger;(F) in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit(G) and in sincere love;(H) in truthful speech(I) and in the power of God;(J) with weapons of righteousness(K) in the right hand and in the left; through glory and dishonor,(L) bad report(M) and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors;(N) known, yet regarded as unknown; dying,(O) and yet we live on;(P) beaten, and yet not killed; 10 sorrowful, yet always rejoicing;(Q) poor, yet making many rich;(R) having nothing,(S) and yet possessing everything.(T)

11 We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians, and opened wide our hearts to you.(U) 12 We are not withholding our affection from you, but you are withholding yours from us. 13 As a fair exchange—I speak as to my children(V)—open wide your hearts(W) also.

Footnotes:

  1. 2 Corinthians 6:2 Isaiah 49:8
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Psalm 46

Psalm 46[a]

For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. According to alamoth.[b] A song.

God is our refuge(A) and strength,(B)
an ever-present(C) help(D) in trouble.(E)
Therefore we will not fear,(F) though the earth give way(G)
and the mountains fall(H) into the heart of the sea,(I)
though its waters roar(J) and foam(K)
and the mountains quake(L) with their surging.[c]

There is a river(M) whose streams(N) make glad the city of God,(O)
the holy place where the Most High(P) dwells.(Q)
God is within her,(R) she will not fall;(S)
God will help(T) her at break of day.
Nations(U) are in uproar,(V) kingdoms(W) fall;
he lifts his voice,(X) the earth melts.(Y)

The Lord Almighty(Z) is with us;(AA)
the God of Jacob(AB) is our fortress.(AC)

Come and see what the Lord has done,(AD)
the desolations(AE) he has brought on the earth.
He makes wars(AF) cease
to the ends of the earth.
He breaks the bow(AG) and shatters the spear;
he burns the shields[d] with fire.(AH)
10 He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;(AI)
I will be exalted(AJ) among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”

11 The Lord Almighty is with us;
the God of Jacob(AK) is our fortress.(AL)

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 46:1 In Hebrew texts 46:1-11 is numbered 46:2-12.
  2. Psalm 46:1 Title: Probably a musical term
  3. Psalm 46:3 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 7 and 11.
  4. Psalm 46:9 Or chariots
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Proverbs 22:15

15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.(A)

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 22:15 : S Pr 13:24; S 20:30
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09/01/2021 DAB Transcript

Job 40:1-42:17, 2 Corinthians 5:11-21, Psalms 45:1-17, Proverbs 22:14

Today is the 1st day of September welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is a joy and a privilege to be here with you today just like it is every day, but it’s always nice on these brand-new beginnings. And here we are, throwing ourselves into a brand-new month. Today is the 244th day of the year which means it’s the 244th time that we’ve been able to get together like this and do what we do, take the next step forward together and that next step forward will lead us back into the book of Job. And as we begin this month, we will conclude the book of Job today. And just reminding us, Job’s been looking for God, trying to figure out where he could find an audience with God to plead his case. And God showed up yesterday and had unanswerable questions for Job. And God will continue to speak in today’s reading as we conclude the book of Job. We’re reading from the New International Version this week. Job 40, 41, and 42 today.

Commentary:

Okay, so we…we concluded the book of Job today and let’s remember that Job had an entire case prepared to present to God. He had a significant amount of questions to ask God. He had worked through some of those questions with his friends, but they had no answers and he…he didn’t want their human wisdom because he knew what they were going to say. He wanted God to answer him. And then God showed up and started asking really big God sized questions and Job then realized he didn’t actually have anything to say after all. And, so, when God is like, “okay, buddy. You got questions and you’re spewing them out? Then let’s play the game of questions.” And God asks questions that Job cannot answer while God reveals just how involved he is in all of the different aspects of the world. And in many ways this is what the text is leading us toward. There are always going to be questions. There are always bigger questions. There will always be things that we do not understand but when we come into the presence of God all of our pride and arrogance and all of the questions and all of the stuff that we’re going to say, it like…it’s just…it’s gone. There’s nothing to say which is what Job said. He said I had only heard about you before, but now I see you and I don’t have anything to say…like I put my hand over my mouth and shut up. So, it’s interesting because it leaves us with some questions. Like when we find ourselves in a time or season of suffering do we need God to fix it or do we need God? Do we need the answers that we may or may not understand or do we need God? What the book of Job…Job leads us to conclude is that there is way more going on than we ever understand. We get very very self…self-absorbed, especially if we’re in trial, we’re in pain of some sort, we’re suffering in some sort of way, it becomes our obsession. It might even become our dark idol. It’s the only thing we’re giving our energy to. It’s the only thing we’re giving our life to, this pain-and-suffering and the questions that ensue and swirl around it. And, so, when we invite God into that we certainly invite Him into it, but the idea is that He would fix it. What if He’s not gonna fix it? What if there’s more going on than we understand? What if all of our questions would only lead to bigger questions that we could never answer? What Job discovers is that he wanted God and he wanted a conversation but when he got into the presence of God he didn’t need that conversation anymore. And that’s hard. It’s really really hard to have that kind of perspective when suffering is upon us, but it’s not likely that we suffer the way Job suffered. And we watched the way that the story went. He…he met with tragedy. He met with morning and terrible suffering in his soul and body. He had questions. He talked to people, right? He got counseling. He was told all kinds of stuff he processed it all, but he still was in pursuit of God because, at least intuitively, he knew that the only person that could answer, the only person that could explain, the only person that held anything that he didn’t already know would be God. And, so, he sought God but then in God’s presence he realized he had only been operating on a working assumption. All of them had only been operating in a working assumption, like a theological framework about who God is and what God does. But in God’s presence, what Job and his friends thought they knew…well…all the conventional wisdom as it turned out, was incorrect. So, the thing for us to contemplate is Job’s response once he’s in God’s presence.

Prayer:

Holy Spirit we invite You into that. We’ve had all kinds of attitudes. You have seen and heard them all. You have listened to us flail around before You in Your presence all by ourselves. You’ve heard us talking about the things we’ve been suffering. We’ve acted like Job before. We’ve gotten all the counsel. We’ve listened all the answers. We’ve even dispensed the answers. We’ve been on both sides of the equation. And the book of Job, ancient as it is, is showing us that this rationale, this kind of way of doing things has been going on thousands and thousands and thousands of years and so we’re simply enmeshed in what we’ve always been doing is humanity, asking these questions. And we seek wisdom, and we seek answers but so often when we are faced with something that doesn’t have an adequate answer, at least to our liking, we start blaming, we start accusing. And it was the accuser. And the accuser in the story of Job is Satan. We have no desire whatsoever to be playing that role. Forgive us. There’s more going on than we know, and it is difficult for us to not have understanding and yet at that very point is where our faith begins. So, come Holy Spirit because we need Your comfort. We need Your guidance. We need Your direction. We need Your clarity. We need You. Come Holy Spirit we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Hello DAB family this is Anne from Arizona, and it is August the 27th. I am so encouraged to hear Gigi call in and talk about how she’s come to the realization that God brought her through these things, through Lyme disease, through all these things that she was going through and that He’s a good good father. Be encouraged. As Psalm 95 says oh come let us sing to the Lord. Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come into His presence with Thanksgiving. Let us make a joyful noise to Him with songs of praise for the Lord is a great God and a great king above all gods. God is a good good father. God is great. God is worthy of our praise. He’s worthy of our trust. Be encouraged that God is good and that God sees you and hears you. I’m so encouraged, and it gives me so much hope just to hear those words of encouragement from Gigi. Be…

Hi Daily Audio Bible family I wanted to call in for two things today. One is to say thank you to Sparky. I’ve just listened to the Aug 27th podcast and just loved hearing Sparky’s encouragement of how God has changed his life, brought transformation, brought him to be doing a master’s degree when that was something that was just so seems so impossible in the past and how He’s brought new life and New Hope. Thank you for sharing that Sparky it really encouraged me, touched my heart and I just think you’ve got a really powerful story there of God’s goodness. So, bless you and I pray God’s blessing on your studies and God’s blessing on your marriage. And second thing I wanted to ask for is your prayers everyone as I am heading back to England. I’ve lived in the US for six years and really loved it. Over the past twelve months though I've…I’ve sensed God’s prompting to move back and so I am. So, next week I’m relocating back to England and as you can imagine there's…there’s always lots to do. There’s places to live and jobs to find church communities to become part of. So, we’d love your prayers for…for all of that process and for me to no God’s peace and God’s provision on the journey. And I’m excited that I’m going to continue to be part of the Daily Audio Bible family. So, I’ll be listening, I’ll be praying, and you’ll sometimes hear from me as well. But I’ll become Ben the Brit from Brighton instead of end the Brit…

Hi everyone, it’s Shana your sister from South Dakota. I just wanted to call and offer some encouragement to the dad from Duluth. You see, I was an IV drug addict, alcoholic, pothead, smoker relationship addict among other things, a liar, a cheat, a thief. I really ran my parents through the wringer for over a decade with my behaviors and being in and out of jail. And my mom even had all the jails within a certain distance of our hometown on speed dial. I’ve been in prison. I…with my last child didn’t tone down my partying and my using. Thank God he’s a healthy boy. He’s now almost 10 years old. But the Lord can heal. He can take away that compulsion to use and I know that without a doubt in my life today and I know it’s because of the prayers that came from those that loved me. I’m in school working on my bachelors in counseling. I have one year left. I have a pretty good GPA. I am married now. Crazy! I have relationships with all my children. And I was even given the gift of my parents before they passed away in this last year, some time with them seeing me living right. You and your daughter are in my prayers. It will be done. I believe that. Bye everybody.

Good hot day to you all. I was just listening to the August 27th version of the DAB, and I just wanted to give some shout outs. This is People on the Water from Indiana. First GG from gville my heart is jumping with joy. You said…you talked about the account found in the gospel where the paraplegic was brought by what was it three friends into Jesus so that he could be healed. It was the faith of the friends that brought the healing, that brought healing to the friend. And it was through Jesus that all of that happened. And honestly just your child, your baby, that’s your baby. I am so grateful that you see it that way. And the beautiful words that you’d spoken over us, it just sounded like poetry to me and that was just really encouraging. Dana from South Carolina, you’re a first-time caller and you’re praying for someone who is praying for someone. Like that’s just awesome and I’m just lifting up that prayer for that Lady who is in pain and for the lady who lost her son that God walks us through this. And then Mandy from Georgia just talking about how God uses our history, how God uses our history in order to deal with us in our future. I mean God uses our history. God uses our __ in our past to express love in unique and fun ways. And then Sarah from London finishes, “there is nothing too big for our God.” And I’m going to leave that with you. I love you all. And thank you for all that you are doing. In Jesus’ name I pray, and I ask. Amen.

Hey family this is Eyes of a Dove here. I just wanted to jump on and record a quick thank you message to all my friends on the DAB Facebook. The last 24 hours has been the most intense experience as a parent and coparent I think Billy and I have ever dealt with. Izzy went to youth group last night. She was in her mother’s custody and instead of attending youth group with my three children she grabbed another young girl who struggles with transgender stuff and the two of them hung out in Snoqualmie all over the town. But Izzy never came home to her mom. So, I queued in her mom that Izzy was missing, and we were unable to locate Izzy until this morning at 8:30 AM. We had the church leadership and pastor staff, we had the police officers and ourselves, all of us scouring the woods and all over the town. And in the morning, she contacted us with a real prideful condescending kind of irritation with us and when she finally made it home, she concocted quite a few lies that it was everyone else’s fault that no one was at the church to get her. It was her only option, and it wasn’t. So, any who…just asking you guys if you see this message, I’m sure it’s already happened but we’re heading over to the biological mom’s home. Just pray that I stay peaceful, and I button my mouth and allow those parents to do their parenting and help me to be a prayer intercessor for those two parents as they mitigate their rebellious daughter. And Father I ask that you would enter into Izzy’s heart father that she would come to know you and set aside the things of the world that trouble her and give her anxiety and cause her to be selfish Lord and help her to understand other people’s feelings and to make right and healthy choices. Thank you, friends for supporting us.

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Wednesday September 1, 2021 (NIV)

Job 40-42

40 The Lord said to Job:(A)

“Will the one who contends with the Almighty(B) correct him?(C)
Let him who accuses God answer him!”(D)

Then Job answered the Lord:

“I am unworthy(E)—how can I reply to you?
I put my hand over my mouth.(F)
I spoke once, but I have no answer(G)
twice, but I will say no more.”(H)

Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm:(I)

“Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.(J)

“Would you discredit my justice?(K)
Would you condemn me to justify yourself?(L)
Do you have an arm like God’s,(M)
and can your voice(N) thunder like his?(O)
10 Then adorn yourself with glory and splendor,
and clothe yourself in honor and majesty.(P)
11 Unleash the fury of your wrath,(Q)
look at all who are proud and bring them low,(R)
12 look at all who are proud(S) and humble them,(T)
crush(U) the wicked where they stand.
13 Bury them all in the dust together;(V)
shroud their faces in the grave.(W)
14 Then I myself will admit to you
that your own right hand can save you.(X)

15 “Look at Behemoth,
which I made(Y) along with you
and which feeds on grass like an ox.(Z)
16 What strength(AA) it has in its loins,
what power in the muscles of its belly!(AB)
17 Its tail sways like a cedar;
the sinews of its thighs are close-knit.(AC)
18 Its bones are tubes of bronze,
its limbs(AD) like rods of iron.(AE)
19 It ranks first among the works of God,(AF)
yet its Maker(AG) can approach it with his sword.(AH)
20 The hills bring it their produce,(AI)
and all the wild animals play(AJ) nearby.(AK)
21 Under the lotus plants it lies,
hidden among the reeds(AL) in the marsh.(AM)
22 The lotuses conceal it in their shadow;
the poplars by the stream(AN) surround it.
23 A raging river(AO) does not alarm it;
it is secure, though the Jordan(AP) should surge against its mouth.
24 Can anyone capture it by the eyes,
or trap it and pierce its nose?(AQ)

41 [a]“Can you pull in Leviathan(AR) with a fishhook(AS)
or tie down its tongue with a rope?
Can you put a cord through its nose(AT)
or pierce its jaw with a hook?(AU)
Will it keep begging you for mercy?(AV)
Will it speak to you with gentle words?
Will it make an agreement with you
for you to take it as your slave for life?(AW)
Can you make a pet of it like a bird
or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?
Will traders barter for it?
Will they divide it up among the merchants?
Can you fill its hide with harpoons
or its head with fishing spears?(AX)
If you lay a hand on it,
you will remember the struggle and never do it again!(AY)
Any hope of subduing it is false;
the mere sight of it is overpowering.(AZ)
10 No one is fierce enough to rouse it.(BA)
Who then is able to stand against me?(BB)
11 Who has a claim against me that I must pay?(BC)
Everything under heaven belongs to me.(BD)

12 “I will not fail to speak of Leviathan’s limbs,(BE)
its strength(BF) and its graceful form.
13 Who can strip off its outer coat?
Who can penetrate its double coat of armor[b]?(BG)
14 Who dares open the doors of its mouth,(BH)
ringed about with fearsome teeth?
15 Its back has[c] rows of shields
tightly sealed together;(BI)
16 each is so close to the next
that no air can pass between.
17 They are joined fast to one another;
they cling together and cannot be parted.
18 Its snorting throws out flashes of light;
its eyes are like the rays of dawn.(BJ)
19 Flames(BK) stream from its mouth;
sparks of fire shoot out.
20 Smoke pours from its nostrils(BL)
as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
21 Its breath(BM) sets coals ablaze,
and flames dart from its mouth.(BN)
22 Strength(BO) resides in its neck;
dismay goes before it.
23 The folds of its flesh are tightly joined;
they are firm and immovable.
24 Its chest is hard as rock,
hard as a lower millstone.(BP)
25 When it rises up, the mighty are terrified;(BQ)
they retreat before its thrashing.(BR)
26 The sword that reaches it has no effect,
nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.(BS)
27 Iron it treats like straw(BT)
and bronze like rotten wood.
28 Arrows do not make it flee;(BU)
slingstones are like chaff to it.
29 A club seems to it but a piece of straw;(BV)
it laughs(BW) at the rattling of the lance.
30 Its undersides are jagged potsherds,
leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.(BX)
31 It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron(BY)
and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.(BZ)
32 It leaves a glistening wake behind it;
one would think the deep had white hair.
33 Nothing on earth is its equal(CA)
a creature without fear.
34 It looks down on all that are haughty;(CB)
it is king over all that are proud.(CC)

Job

42 Then Job replied to the Lord:

“I know that you can do all things;(CD)
no purpose of yours can be thwarted.(CE)
You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’(CF)
Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me to know.(CG)

“You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.’(CH)
My ears had heard of you(CI)
but now my eyes have seen you.(CJ)
Therefore I despise myself(CK)
and repent(CL) in dust and ashes.”(CM)

Epilogue

After the Lord had said these things to Job(CN), he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends,(CO) because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.(CP) So now take seven bulls and seven rams(CQ) and go to my servant Job(CR) and sacrifice a burnt offering(CS) for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer(CT) and not deal with you according to your folly.(CU) You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.”(CV) So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite(CW) did what the Lord told them; and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.(CX)

10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes(CY) and gave him twice as much as he had before.(CZ) 11 All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before(DA) came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the Lord had brought on him,(DB) and each one gave him a piece of silver[d] and a gold ring.

12 The Lord blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys. 13 And he also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch. 15 Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.

16 After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. 17 And so Job died, an old man and full of years.(DC)

Footnotes:

  1. Job 41:1 In Hebrew texts 41:1-8 is numbered 40:25-32, and 41:9-34 is numbered 41:1-26.
  2. Job 41:13 Septuagint; Hebrew double bridle
  3. Job 41:15 Or Its pride is its
  4. Job 42:11 Hebrew him a kesitah; a kesitah was a unit of money of unknown weight and value.

Cross references:

  1. Job 40:1 : S Job 5:8; S 10:2
  2. Job 40:2 : S Job 13:3
  3. Job 40:2 : S Job 9:15; S 11:8; S 33:13; Ro 9:20
  4. Job 40:2 : S Job 9:3
  5. Job 40:4 : Job 42:6
  6. Job 40:4 : S Jdg 18:19; S Job 29:9
  7. Job 40:5 : S Job 9:3
  8. Job 40:5 : S Job 9:15
  9. Job 40:6 : S Ex 14:21; S Job 38:1
  10. Job 40:7 : S Job 38:3
  11. Job 40:8 : S Job 15:25; S 27:2; Ro 3:3
  12. Job 40:8 : S Job 2:3; S 34:17
  13. Job 40:9 : S 2Ch 32:8; S Ps 98:1
  14. Job 40:9 : Isa 6:8; Eze 10:5
  15. Job 40:9 : S Ex 20:19; S Job 36:33
  16. Job 40:10 : Ps 29:1-2; 45:3; 93:1; 96:6; 104:1; 145:5
  17. Job 40:11 : S Job 20:28; Ps 7:11; Isa 5:25; 9:12, 19; 10:5; 13:3, 5; 30:27; 42:25; 51:20; Jer 7:20; Na 1:6; Zep 1:18
  18. Job 40:11 : Ps 18:27; Isa 2:11, 12, 17; 23:9; 24:10; 25:12; 26:5; 32:19
  19. Job 40:12 : Ps 10:4; Isa 25:11; Jer 48:29; 49:16; Zep 2:10
  20. Job 40:12 : S 1Sa 2:7; S Ps 52:5; 1Pe 5:5
  21. Job 40:12 : Ps 60:12; Isa 22:5; 28:3; 63:2-3, 6; Da 5:20; Mic 5:8; 7:10; Zec 10:5; Mal 4:3
  22. Job 40:13 : Nu 16:31-34
  23. Job 40:13 : S Job 4:9
  24. Job 40:14 : Ex 15:6, 12; Ps 18:35; 20:6; 48:10; 60:5; 108:6; Isa 41:10; 63:5
  25. Job 40:15 : S Job 9:9
  26. Job 40:15 : Isa 11:7; 65:25
  27. Job 40:16 : S Job 39:11
  28. Job 40:16 : Job 41:9
  29. Job 40:17 : Job 41:15
  30. Job 40:18 : Job 41:12
  31. Job 40:18 : Isa 11:4; 49:2
  32. Job 40:19 : Job 41:33; Ps 40:5; 139:14; Isa 27:1
  33. Job 40:19 : S Job 4:17; S 9:9
  34. Job 40:19 : S Ge 3:24
  35. Job 40:20 : Ps 104:14
  36. Job 40:20 : Ps 104:26
  37. Job 40:20 : S Job 5:23
  38. Job 40:21 : S Ge 41:2; Ps 68:30; Isa 35:7
  39. Job 40:21 : Job 8:11
  40. Job 40:22 : Ps 1:3; Isa 44:4
  41. Job 40:23 : Isa 8:7; 11:15
  42. Job 40:23 : S Jos 3:1
  43. Job 40:24 : 2Ki 19:28; Job 41:2, 7, 26; Isa 37:29
  44. Job 41:1 : S Job 3:8
  45. Job 41:1 : Am 4:2
  46. Job 41:2 : S Job 40:24
  47. Job 41:2 : Eze 19:4
  48. Job 41:3 : 1Ki 20:31
  49. Job 41:4 : S Ex 21:6
  50. Job 41:7 : S Job 40:24
  51. Job 41:8 : S Job 3:8
  52. Job 41:9 : Job 40:16
  53. Job 41:10 : S Job 3:8
  54. Job 41:10 : S 2Ch 20:6; S Isa 46:5; Jer 50:44; Rev 6:17
  55. Job 41:11 : S Job 34:33; Ro 11:35
  56. Job 41:11 : Ps 24:1; 50:12; S Jos 3:11; S Job 10:4; Ac 4:24; 1Co 10:26
  57. Job 41:12 : Job 40:18
  58. Job 41:12 : S Job 39:11
  59. Job 41:13 : S Job 30:11; S 39:10
  60. Job 41:14 : Ps 22:13
  61. Job 41:15 : Job 40:17
  62. Job 41:18 : S Job 3:9
  63. Job 41:19 : Da 10:6
  64. Job 41:20 : Ps 18:8
  65. Job 41:21 : S Job 4:9; Isa 11:4; 40:7
  66. Job 41:21 : Ps 18:8; Isa 10:17; 30:27; 33:14; 66:14-16; Jer 4:4
  67. Job 41:22 : S Job 39:11
  68. Job 41:24 : Mt 18:6
  69. Job 41:25 : Job 39:20
  70. Job 41:25 : S Job 3:8
  71. Job 41:26 : S Jos 8:18; S Job 40:24
  72. Job 41:27 : ver 29
  73. Job 41:28 : Ps 91:5
  74. Job 41:29 : ver 27
  75. Job 41:29 : S Job 5:22
  76. Job 41:30 : Isa 28:27; 41:15; Am 1:3
  77. Job 41:31 : 1Sa 2:14
  78. Job 41:31 : Eze 32:2
  79. Job 41:33 : S Job 40:19
  80. Job 41:34 : Ps 18:27; 101:5; 131:1; Pr 6:17; 21:4; 30:13
  81. Job 41:34 : Job 28:8
  82. Job 42:2 : S Ge 18:14; S Mt 19:26
  83. Job 42:2 : S 2Ch 20:6; S Job 16:19; Ac 4:28; Eph 1:11
  84. Job 42:3 : S Job 34:35
  85. Job 42:3 : S Job 5:9
  86. Job 42:4 : S Job 38:3
  87. Job 42:5 : S Job 26:14; Ro 10:17
  88. Job 42:5 : Jdg 13:22; Isa 6:5; S Mt 5:8; Lk 2:30; Eph 1:17-18
  89. Job 42:6 : Job 40:4; Eze 6:9; Ro 12:3
  90. Job 42:6 : S Job 34:33
  91. Job 42:6 : S Ex 10:3; S Ezr 9:6; S Job 2:8; S 6:29
  92. Job 42:7 : S Jos 1:7
  93. Job 42:7 : Job 32:3
  94. Job 42:7 : ver 8; S Job 9:15
  95. Job 42:8 : Nu 23:1, 29; Eze 45:23
  96. Job 42:8 : Job 1:8
  97. Job 42:8 : S Ge 8:20
  98. Job 42:8 : Jas 5:15-16; 1Jn 5:16
  99. Job 42:8 : Ge 20:7; Job 22:30
  100. Job 42:8 : S ver 7
  101. Job 42:9 : Job 2:11
  102. Job 42:9 : S Ge 19:21; S 20:17; Eze 14:14
  103. Job 42:10 : Dt 30:3; Ps 14:7
  104. Job 42:10 : S Job 1:3; Ps 85:1-3; 126:5-6; Php 2:8-9; Jas 5:11
  105. Job 42:11 : S Job 19:13
  106. Job 42:11 : S Ge 37:35
  107. Job 42:17 : S Ge 15:15
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2 Corinthians 5:11-21

The Ministry of Reconciliation

11 Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord,(A) we try to persuade others. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience.(B) 12 We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again,(C) but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us,(D) so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart. 13 If we are “out of our mind,”(E) as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. 14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.(F) 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves(G) but for him who died for them(H) and was raised again.

16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly(I) point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ,(J) the new creation(K) has come:[a] The old has gone, the new is here!(L) 18 All this is from God,(M) who reconciled us to himself through Christ(N) and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them.(O) And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors,(P) as though God were making his appeal through us.(Q) We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.(R) 21 God made him who had no sin(S) to be sin[b] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.(T)

Footnotes:

  1. 2 Corinthians 5:17 Or Christ, that person is a new creation.
  2. 2 Corinthians 5:21 Or be a sin offering
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Psalm 45

Psalm 45[a]

For the director of music. To the tune of “Lilies.” Of the Sons of Korah. A maskil.[b] A wedding song.(A)

My heart is stirred by a noble theme
as I recite my verses for the king;
my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.

You are the most excellent of men
and your lips have been anointed with grace,(B)
since God has blessed you forever.(C)

Gird your sword(D) on your side, you mighty one;(E)
clothe yourself with splendor and majesty.(F)
In your majesty ride forth victoriously(G)
in the cause of truth, humility and justice;(H)
let your right hand(I) achieve awesome deeds.(J)
Let your sharp arrows(K) pierce the hearts(L) of the king’s enemies;(M)
let the nations fall beneath your feet.
Your throne, O God,[c] will last for ever and ever;(N)
a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom.
You love righteousness(O) and hate wickedness;(P)
therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions
by anointing(Q) you with the oil of joy.(R)
All your robes are fragrant(S) with myrrh(T) and aloes(U) and cassia;(V)
from palaces adorned with ivory(W)
the music of the strings(X) makes you glad.
Daughters of kings(Y) are among your honored women;
at your right hand(Z) is the royal bride(AA) in gold of Ophir.(AB)

10 Listen, daughter,(AC) and pay careful attention:(AD)
Forget your people(AE) and your father’s house.
11 Let the king be enthralled by your beauty;(AF)
honor(AG) him, for he is your lord.(AH)
12 The city of Tyre(AI) will come with a gift,[d](AJ)
people of wealth will seek your favor.
13 All glorious(AK) is the princess within her chamber;
her gown is interwoven with gold.(AL)
14 In embroidered garments(AM) she is led to the king;(AN)
her virgin companions(AO) follow her—
those brought to be with her.
15 Led in with joy and gladness,(AP)
they enter the palace of the king.

16 Your sons will take the place of your fathers;
you will make them princes(AQ) throughout the land.

17 I will perpetuate your memory through all generations;(AR)
therefore the nations will praise you(AS) for ever and ever.(AT)

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 45:1 In Hebrew texts 45:1-17 is numbered 45:2-18.
  2. Psalm 45:1 Title: Probably a literary or musical term
  3. Psalm 45:6 Here the king is addressed as God’s representative.
  4. Psalm 45:12 Or A Tyrian robe is among the gifts
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Proverbs 22:14

14 The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit;(A)
a man who is under the Lord’s wrath falls into it.(B)

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08/31/2021 DAB Transcript

Job 37:1-39:30, 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:10, Psalm 44:9-26, Proverbs 22:13

Today is the 31st day of August, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible, I’m Brian, it is great to be here with you today, today and every day. But today cause that’s the day we’re in for starters, we can’t be in another day, currently. I suppose we could be listening to a different day but it wouldn’t be today and today is today and today is the 31st of August. And I hope I’m ready for all of this, this month ending and getting ready for a new month. I was shocked at how quickly August flew by but here we are, last day of August and we will be continuing our journey through the book of Job, we will be concluding the book of Job tomorrow as we begin a new month and so were getting down to it now. So, we are, just by way of reminder, in the middle of Elihu’s discourse. So, we’ve listened to Job converse with three of his friends, friends throughout this book. And then Elihu, he steps forward and starts talking and essentially says I’m younger and so I was letting the wisdom speak first but there’s not a lot of wisdom here and I have plenty to say and so it’s my turn and that’s what we’re listening to his Elihu offering just Job straight in his reasoning. And so, let’s get to it, we’re reading from the New International Version, Job 37, 38 and 39 today.

Commentary:

Okay, so we, we have to talk about Job today because Job got what he wanted. He wanted, he wanted to find God and he did and God has shown up. So, let’s just look back because tomorrow we will be finishing the book of Job, God will continue his discussion tomorrow as we reach our conclusion of this book, but, we remember when we began Job right at the very beginning, Job had a day like no other in which he lost everything, he lost his children to death, his livestock, his shepherds were attacked and killed in pillaged, the livestock was taken, generally everything that Job cared about was taken from him in a day and we watched Job as he’s getting the news and when the news is fully delivered, he stands up and tears his robe as an active, deep sorrow and pain-and-suffering, and he falls down and worships God. It’s a riveting scene. He has this posture of the Lord gave me everything I have. The Lord has taken it away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. It’s riveting. Job reaches a place where even his own life is like curse God and die. So, that’s how bad things have gotten for Job and yet Job doesn’t understand why. He doesn’t believe he’s done anything wrong and he does believe that the tragedy the things that have come upon him are at the hand of the Lord. Just thinking, I mean the bitterness that’s available in that when everything is destroyed and you don’t know why but instead of cursing God and dying right, instead of going into that bitterness Job uses his energy to hold onto his innocence, to hold onto his integrity, and so he will not speak ill of God in any way, will not sin in any way. He believes he is righteous and innocent before God and all of this and what is happening to him is not just or at least in any kind of way that he can understand it to be just. So, it’s not too long before some of his friends show up, three of them. They see him from afar and they see just how wasted away he is and they arrive and they sit down with him and they sit with him in silence for a week. This is called Shiva, sitting Shiva, this is sitting with someone in their grief, not there to fix it, not there to give them promised scriptures over and over, just to offer presence, to acknowledge the pain, to be there and it, to simply offer our presence, not our words, and that’s what they’re doing. They sit with them for a week until he starts talking, that’s what they’re waiting for. And, he starts talking and he discusses how he wishes he had never been born, how on the night he was conceived that that would’ve been just blacked out. How he would’ve just died when he was born, how he would not how to face this. And, then he begins to talk about his innocence and he begins to talk about finding God. And, his friends all respond. And, we read through all of that, they all respond. It’s all rational, it all makes sense. It’s all in defense of God because Job is essentially saying what God is doing to me isn’t just, I don’t understand it. I haven’t done anything wrong. They spend the bulk of the book trying to convince him that that’s not possible, that he has indeed somewhere somehow done something wrong and they eventually begin to go after him because of the things that he is saying, as if his pride is the issue. Actually, Job’s friends sound a whole lot like the kind of things that we say to people when we find them in suffering and it ends up to be a full-blown argument because Job gets mad that they keep trying to insinuate that somehow, he isn’t innocent and then they get mad because he’s insinuating that he is sinless and righteous and what is happening to him, this judgment that’s happening to him, is unjust. That’s not a grid that they can fit the equation into which is the point. When bad things happen to good people, it’s hard to find the answers. And, this book wrestles with that fact and in part it does a good job of showing us that we, with all of the wisdom that we have in all of our understanding of God, that we might think that we have and all of the things that we say to people, we really don’t fully understand what we’re talking about when we’re talking about the most high God. In fact, it’s not that we don’t kind of don’t fully understand, it’s that we barely have scratched the surface. We are talking about the most high God, Creator of all things far and away beyond our capacity in every respect. So, in the end, what Job wants is God. What he wants is an audience with God. He’s prepared his case. He believes that if God gave him answers, he would then have the answers that he’s looking for. He doesn’t want answers from his friends. He doesn’t want human answers. He feels like everything that his friends are telling him he already knows, he’s already analyzed all that, they’re not wiser than he is. They can only offer human wisdom, and he needs God. And then the last person Elihu, the younger one steps forward with his opinions which he offers and we’ve listened to those opinions over the last couple of days and then God shows up today, “Brace yourself like a man. I have some questions of my own. You’ve been asking a lot of questions. I have some questions and you’re going to answer them.” I mean come on, that would scare me to death. Even reading it, it’s like can you, I mean on the one hand, God, like how do you get your mind around that God has shown up in some sort of tangible, understandable way and is speaking overwhelming, but what He is speaking is very directly aimed at the fact that for all Job’s questions, God is about to reveal that Job nor his friends know pretty much anything about anything. And then God begins to ask these giant, God sized questions, which is what will what we been reading today. And will continue until tomorrow. Let’s remember that Job had a case prepared, he knew what he was going to say to God, he just didn’t know where to find God but he knew what he would say. And then God comes to Job. So, finally Job’s gonna get to say what he needed to say and we’ll listen to what that is, as we conclude the book of Job tomorrow.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word every bit of it, all of the stories, all of the people, all of the time the passes, all of the different changes in the world that we can see, as customs and clothing change but people don’t. So, as we move toward the conclusion of Job, we invite Your Holy Spirit fully and all of our questions and may we watch Job tomorrow and learn quite a bit. We ask this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

Hello dear saints, my name is Mercy. I’ve been listening to DAB for many years. I’m calling for prayer. I have nine children, they’re all grown, 22 grandchildren so far. What I’m calling for prayer for is that we had a crushing blow that rocked our family. I would mostly probably actually describe it as more like a train wreck. My husband of 43 years, who everyone thought was a model Christian became evident that he was a pedophile. He took advantage of some of our little ones which cause severe damage and shattered the face of some. Please pray, he’s in prison now. But please pray for the healing of hearts and souls in my children and my grandchildren. I’m doing well, I’m surrounded by a network of Godly friends and family who carry me but please pray for my children. When you pray, pray for Mercy’s Children. Thanks, DABers, love you.

Hey guys it’s Sparky from Texas. I’m gonna try and get through this these are happy tears. I was listening to Dr. John and Jen’s call here on the 26th and it just broke me down in tears hearing the praise reports. I know, I know not everything gets fixed and God doesn’t fix everything but it just, it’s mind blowing to me how God is still healing and still moving lives and I just, I’d like to pray a minute. Father we thank You for your grace and we thank You that You that you’re not gone, Your not dead Father. You’re reaching into these people’s lives, You’re reaching in my family’s life. And, Father, You’re so real and when I hear these praise reports Father, it’s just, it’s so much to take on just the joy and the grace and Your love. Father, be with those that you don’t decide to heal and let them know that that’s Your plan Father. Lord, I just thank you so much for Your grace. I thank you for everybody on this. Father, we just appreciate You, we love You and just stay with us, help those who need, help us to show those who need your faith. Father, we thank You so much for Your son, Christ, it’s in that son’s name we pray. Amen. Love you guys, I pray for everyone of you. Praise God for praise reports. Have a great day.

Hello, my Daily Audio Bible brothers and sisters, my DAB family. This is Yolanda. After listening virtually every day, sometimes twice a day and lifting up my DABers prayers since 2012 I am moved to call in for the first time. Today I come to you on behalf of my dear, dear friend Birdie. Birdie is a mother of a sweet toddler. She is 37 weeks pregnant and is quite suddenly suffering from COVID pneumonia with fluid around her heart. Her mother and husband are frantic with worry, and caring for their toddler, well, unable to be with her in hospital while she faces labor and delivery, possibly a C-section without them. DABers, please join me as I fervently left Birdie and her sweet baby up in my prayers asking for complete healing for her and a healthy vaginal delivery for her sweet baby. Lord, please give Birdie peace during this time of intense trial, intense pain and sickness. Lord, please give the doctors and nurses, the knowledge and medicine to bring her to full recovery. In Jesus holy and precious name, I pray. Amen.

Hi DAB family this is God’s Life Speaker. While I was praying with my husband this morning as were struggling with our 21-year-old and he, he is depressed. However, he is seeking help for praise God for that. It dawned on us that there’s been some judgment that we’ve put on, on him, that is not fair. That’s the judgment that we use against him, that will be used on us so, this morning we repented. As parents and children of God, and you know, it’s the self-evaluation; we want things and people in our lives to look better, look right, fix themselves, yet, are we examining ourselves? Are we walking in a manner worthy of our calling? Are we imitators of Christ? Are we the peacemakers? Because God sees and God hears, He knows our thoughts, He knows what’s going on. He knows our heart aches too and I feel, as someone who likes to speak God’s word out into the atmosphere and change it and bring glory to God, I can get pretty low about what I’m seeing in my kids. And it hurts because we want them to be glorifying God and working towards that perfection that He calls us to. Yet, they are in training, even if they’re 21, they’re still in training and we are the ones that need to set that example so we needed to do some repenting this morning, some encouraging each other and spiritual gifts right. So, I asked that we would do that all. I’m praying for each one of your children and grandchildren and us ourselves in the name of Jesus, Amen.

Hey, everyone I just thought I would ring in and update you on how I’m going. It’s Margo here, missionary in Liberia. I have made it back to Australia for, we’re back here for a few weeks for my son’s wedding which is amazing because Australia has some very strict rules around travel. And so, getting back into the country actually was quite a miracle and in fact, even leaving the country again is a miracle and we already have our permit to leave in a few weeks’ time to go back. So, I thank the Lord for His help and His hand has been upon us. And I want to thank everyone for their prayers. I rung in a few weeks or maybe a couple of months ago and I was in a really bad way. And, I have noticed that I’ve really picked up. And I have really felt His comfort and His peace much more in my life. All the things that are out of my control, I’ve been much more able to leave them in His hands. And I’m so, so grateful for His comfort. I’m so grateful for your prayers. It’s…I should have rung in sooner. So, we’re in Australia for a few weeks and then heading back and you know, continue to pray for us. It’s not an easy calling we have, mind you, no one has an easy calling. So, I’m just grateful for this community, grateful for the prayers that we pray all for each other. And, God bless you all. Love you. Bye.