11/04/2020 DAB Transcript

Ezekiel 10:1-11:25, Hebrews 6:1-20, Psalms 105:16-36, Proverbs 27:1-2

Today is the 4th day of November welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is a joy, it is an honor, it is a privilege, it is a gift, sometimes I even think it’s a miracle that we can be together like this today, right now, around the Global Campfire just coming in out of the chaos of it all finding a place to sit, it’s warm, friends are here. We look across the fire, we see each other, and we know that we are united in spirit, we’re after the same thing - to let God’s word speak truth. It is one of the joys of life to be around this campfire with you and take the next step forward. And, so, let’s do that. We are reading from the EHV, the Evangelical Heritage Version this week and continuing our journey through the book of Ezekiel. Today chapters 10 and 11.

Commentary:

Okay. Let’s go back to the Proverbs again. The Proverbs are giving us these, you know, one or two sentences yesterday and today again that are just so penetrating and so now and so immediate and so much of a mirror into our own souls, and so much of a light shining into the world around us, So, today we had two verses, two sentences, and they say a ton. “Do not boast about tomorrow because you do not know what a day may produce.” Right there…I mean right there should bring just a generous dose of humility. No matter what eventualities we have prepared for we have no idea what is coming in our direction. And the humbling thing is that our Father does. We are under the shadow of His wings for us but for us to be out there running our mouths about what we’re gonna do tomorrow, like what’s coming is ultimately not certain. No matter what kind of certainty we say it with there is no way that we can know that outside of walking with God. And in a lot of ways this entire year has been that kind of a metaphor, all kinds of unexpected transitional things in our lives and in our world that we’ve had to adapt to and kinda fight against and accept and all kinds of disruption letting us know how fragile the whole thing is. And we’ve spent so much of our energy just trying to figure out how to get back to how it was when God is only going forward. We’re being invited forward not backward. But then on the heels of the confidence and the boasting about what we’re gonna to do tomorrow, like about how confident we are in our strength and whatever may come we have this second sentence right on the heels of it –“let someone else praise you, not your own mouth, a stranger not your own lips.” You know people who are just…just…like…like their selves are the only thing they think about, apparently, because that’s the only thing they talk about? You know what I’m talking about, where somebody…you can be sharing your day, you can be sharing something deep in your life, but one way or another all they seem to think about is themselves? And, so, they’ll flip the whole thing back around, they’ll acknowledge you, but what they really want to do is just talk about themselves. And you know how challenging it can be to be in a relationship with that kind of a person because it’s only about them. And, so, ultimately this kind of self-promotion, this bragging constantly, the boasting, the praising of self continually out of their mouths, they are awesome and their spouse is awesome and their children are awesome and their everything is awesome…ahh…that just gets repellent after a while. That kind of person ends up alone eventually because…well…for a couple reasons. First of all, it’s a front, it’s that layer of falseness that we were talking about yesterday. So, eventually it all comes down like a house of cards. Nobody is as interested as one might have thought and people begin to back away because really this person doesn’t want to be in a relationship with anybody else. They just need to be seen by other people. Like, they’re on the stage and everybody else in the world is in the audience. So, the world is there stage and everybody else is a bit player in their story. And eventually there’s like no life there. And, so, people retreat and back away when all of this fronting. all of this boasting, all of this drawing attention to oneself really is exposing something very needy underneath, that this person needs to trust, this person needs to find a true friendship, one were the fake…like the Halloween costume comes off and what’s real is really exposed to somebody trusted. And ultimately this leads us to the fact that…yah…it can be dangerous to be in relationships, but you have to start with a foundation of trust in God. God already knows you’re faking. You can’t fool God. He already knows everything that’s going. He can’t be duped. And He still loves you as you are right now with the deep desire and hope that you will enter into relationship with Him where these broken things can be healed and you can be utterly transformed, transformed so much that you begin to resemble Him. You become Christ like. That’s what’s going on here. That’s the goal. And the more layers of falseness that we apply to this, the more difficult the challenge until life one day confronts us and strips it all away. And then we find that to be such a difficult process but then we reflect back upon it, we realize that was the moment we became free because all that we had feared finally happened and it wasn’t as bad as we thought it was and now we’re free to be who we are and to delight in who everybody else is because we don’t need to be better, we don’t need to compare, we’re not in a competition. There is no game going on. There is no cosmic God game where He’s looking to see which one of us human beings is going to achieve the most to be the number one human being. We’re His children. We’re His kids. That’s not what you do to your kids. So, why are we doing it to each other? Because it only leads us into falseness. So once again, “do not boast about tomorrow because you do not know what a day may produce. Let someone else praise you, not your own mouth, a stranger, not your own lips.”

Prayer:

Father, we enter into that acknowledging, even though we don’t live like this most of the time, the thing that we need is You. It…it's…it’s Your words of praise, it’s Your words of encouragement, it’s Your drawing year that we need. It’s being seen by You that we long for and we exchange it and we try to compete with each other and we try to live in a very, very backward way that is never gonna work, which is essentially what You were saying Jesus in the Beatitudes – this is a backward world, this is not gonna work, it’s the opposite of what You think it is. And, so, help us Holy Spirit to get our minds right, to get our minds in alignment with Yours, the mind of Christ on things, to get our Spirits right, to know that we are inseparably intertwined with You, to get on the same page that we might actually be free. Come Holy Spirit we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. 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:

Our Father who art in heaven ancient of days
omnipotent and omniscient worthy of all praise
Jehovah raphe Jehovah jireh our healer our provider
we come to you open with our hearts and minds hoping
that you are still willing to bless as we humbly confess
that you’re worthy of all honor though we’ve given you much less
wondering in confusion because we buy into illusion
greedily gulping down a great big slice of the devils pie
exchanging your wonderful truth for a lie
and we need you to heal us both outside and in
strengthen us father revive us again
Jehovah nisi our banner our fortress our friend
please help us heavenly father we love you Amen

blindtony1016@gmail.com like to give a shout out to David Michael, Dice and Darlene Dice. Matthew Fouts it was good hearing your voice again. Know you are all loved and on my prayer list daily. And once again Brian and the Hardin family thank you for this wonderful podcast for God’s Holy Spirit to flow. Keep it flowin’ y’all. All right. Bye-bye.

Hey this is Jared calling from Duluth Minnesota it’s day 555 in my journey since April 26, 2019 in the Daily Audio Bible renewal time where God wakes me up every morning early in the morning to spend time with Him. What a great time it was today in Hebrews chapter 4 verse 12 saying for the word of God is quick and powerful sharper than any two-edged sword. And then going on that God has been tempted in all points like as we are yet without sin and we lay naked before Him. He knows us better than what we know ourselves and yet we can come boldly to the throne of grace to find help in a time of need. And there’s a time of great need and all of our lives right now. The world is turned upside down, full of turmoil. I know personally I appreciate your prayers for my son Steve as we’ve been estranged from him for now year as he got mad at us and disowned us and hasn’t spoke to us now for almost…almost a year. On the fourth is his birthday. He’s coming up from the cities, Twin Cities, tomorrow and I’ve reached out to him to see if we can get together and…and…and talk and chat and for him to…to be reconciled with him. I appreciate your prayers that that might happen. But in any case, we know that God is in control through all the trial and turmoil of what’s going on right now. May God give us grace, mercy, help in time of need. God bless.

Good morning DABbers this is Running Desperately to Jesus also known as Staying Connected Desperately to Jesus which right now that is definitely my filling, running desperately and staying desperately connected. I am…have always struggled with depression and was on medication and therapy for some time. My therapist retired in 2016 after she was able to get me stable from being sexually assaulted. Today I’m feeling quite depressed. I don’t know if it’s this Covid or what’s going on but I am in definitely a dark place now and what is crossing my mind a lot lately for the past couple days is suicide and I know that is definitely Satan’s work and I’m having a difficult time hearing of God’s word and His voice. So, I’m asking all my DABbers to lift me up to pray me through. I don’t want to go back into therapy because since my…as I said earlier…my therapist that I was formerly with who is very good retired, and I don’t want to start over again. I know that this can be fought with word…with God’s word but right now because I am in a dark place, I cannot even call upon His word. So, DABbers I’m just asking again that you stand in the gap for me to lift me up and to help pull me through this dark space, these dark thoughts, especially the source idle thoughts. I don’t have any friends that really call to check on me. So, I’m actually in this by myself. Running Desperately to Jesus.

Hello, it’s John from Bristol in the UK again. I called a couple months back about my father. He has mental health issues and it’s causing a separation between him and my mother. So, he still has the same delusions. He’s adamant he doesn’t want to go home, and they had such a happy marriage before he had this psychotic episode. But…and he’s still in hospital but he’s…he’s much more stable than he was which is an improvement but mom and dad have a meeting on Wednesday this week. So, if you guys would just cover that in prayer for reconciliation of their marriage that would be wonderful. Thank you so much. God bless.

Hi, DAB it’s Emmy from Illinois just calling in with continued prayer requests for my marriage. I’m struggling right now. Things are a lot better than they were but I’m feeling extremely lonely. Just…I miss…miss having relationships with people, especially right now when the one person in my life doesn’t really want a relationship with me. I know God’s at work. I know that He’s still called me to stand for my marriage but I’m really struggling right now to just want something to be done either finally ended or create a breakthrough. And I don’t know what’s happening and I’m just getting lonely. And as we get closer to the holidays and my 40th birthday it just makes it even worse because I know I won’t be seeing friends or family. So, if you could just continue to pray for me, I would appreciate it. Thank you.

11/03/DAB Transcript

Ezekiel 7:1-9:11, Hebrews 5:1-14, Psalms 105:1-15, Proverbs 26:28

Today is the 3rd day of November welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is a joy and an honor and everything good to be here with you today as we move into the Scriptures and take the next step forward together. And it’s so good that we can be together today in God’s word. So, let’s set let’s dive in. We’re reading from the Evangelical Heritage Version this week. Ezekiel chapters 7, 8, and 9 today.

Commentary:

Okay. The book of Proverbs today tells us that two things are not good things - a lying tongue and a smooth mouth. And, so, I suppose this is as good of a day as any to talk about what the Proverbs are talking about. And yeah, we…we can certainly look out…outward and see all this stuff but as is always the case once we identify it in the world what’s going on then, we need to turn it back inward to discover whether we’re part of the noise, whether we’re part of the problem, or if we’re part of the solution. So, a lying tongue hates the one it crushes. So, what is a lying tongue? I mean, we could probably say that’s sort of self-evident. It's…it’s the tongue that doesn’t speak what is true. But there are so many nuances to the way that we lie to each other aren’t there? Like we sort of think that we’re telling the truth as long as we have some sort of morsel of truth in the thing that we are fabricating but we have a…we are like being deceptive. So, if we’re willing to embellish and puff up or the opposite, to diminish or crush down the truth, the actual truth, in order to manipulate somebody or in order to hide behind something and try to protect ourself from exposure then we’re not only gonna be crushing people, we’re gonna be doing it with hatred. That is a massive, massive thing to realize. If we’re gonna flatter, if we’re gonna manipulate, if we’re gonna nuance the things that we’re gonna say and they aren’t really what we mean in order to kinda like get close to somebody or get into somebody’s life because they have something that we want or they have something that we need, that we think that we need, we need to get close to them, then it’s going to cause a ruin everywhere ultimately because it’s foundation is false. It’s a lie. It’s gonna crush. And there’s something in me that’s saying stop. Like don’t keep trying to reexplain this with…with other metaphors or analogies. Like this is enough. Its stark. A lying tongue hates those it crushes and a smooth mouth causes ruin. So, if that’s you, then this is where the road is going. If that’s not you, then this is what to avoid because it brings destruction.

Prayer:

Father, we come before You on this and it rings true and it’s convicting, and it does penetrate. It makes us reflect. It makes us consider but the deeper that we consider the more we realize that our entire culture is based on this kind of sidestepping. We are a world of people so afraid of being exposed the truth of who we are that we do everything possible to nuance and to hide when we are all guilty. Like, were any of us, anybody to be fully exposed then we would be fearful of the judgment that would come against us, but we are all in the same boat. It would happen to anybody. And You have invited us into the light. You have essentially said, “that’s the world. That’s how it works. It’s a system built in falseness and held captive by the author of deception and lies.” You have invited us to be free, to walk into the light, to be in the truth. And no matter what that may bring, to know that we don’t have a divided heart or a divided mind. We don’t always have to figure out which personality we have to put on depending on what circumstances we’re in. We just get to be who You made. This is freedom indeed, but it flies in the face of the structures of the world that we live in. And, so, living like this…well…it would indeed be living like You lived Jesus. It would look like You. And we can see the raging of the world against You. And, so, we scratch our heads because it doesn’t make sense because freedom is available, but the system is so rigged against freedom that we find ourselves just trying to find ways to cope and manage when You are offering freedom, that we can live in the light, that we can live in the truth. So, come Holy Spirit and help us over these coming days as we meditate upon this, as we catch ourselves being false or as we become more and more aware of the falseness around us, as we begin to see it. We need Your help to navigate it. There’s no way we’ll be able to figure this out. So, come Holy Spirit we open ourselves to You, well up within. Lead and guide our steps, the thoughts and intents of our hearts. We pray in the mighty name, the victorious name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

Announcements:

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Kind of have to be under a rock to not know that today is election day in the United States. Probably no matter where you are in the world. And, yeah, we’ve been on the radar kind of all year, with all kinds of stuff and Covid hasn’t helped and there’s just a lot of swirl going on. And I make it a very, very specific, very intentional point to do what we do here, to take the rhythm of the Scriptures and let it be a part of our lives every day. And I feel like the Scriptures In our lives can comment on what’s going on in our world better than me being some…just another noisemaker. So, I would like to give as simple, as trivial, as obvious of advice as I can give you. Maybe you’re one of the people who have already voted. Great. Awesome. If you’re going to the polls today, pray, listen, obey and then walk away in peace. There’s nothing else to do here. I mean I’ve lived long enough that I’ve been through several elections and even from my youth I cannot think of an election where the rhetoric hasn’t amped up to the point where we are led to believe that what we are about to do is the most pivotal thing we have ever done in the nation’s history, maybe in the history of all humanity. That's…that’s not true. The most important thing we have ever done is to become a part of the family of God. We are a part of a kingdom that is upon this earth that spans and crosses every single border. This is our allegiance - the kingdom of God. And God will not be toppled my brothers and sisters over this or anything else. And, you know how this goes. This ends at some point and somebody is…is the winner and that’s gonna leave about half the people bumbed and about half the people rejoicing. And we can all do what people do these days - get on the Internet and just start making noise, start sending out memes. Take all of the divisiveness that has been amped up this entire year and really live into it, like really live into it and make this country an “us versus them” understanding that we are making the body of Christ, then divided in “us versus them” because so many of us are believers who are completely and totally opposite in their political convictions. So, the last thing that I have to say isn’t my opinion, isn’t anything to do with me other than it’s my voice reminding you. We have a Savior. His name is Jesus. He loved us when we were still His enemy. He loved us as a people despite our animosity and he laid his life down that we might live. And just mere hours before He did that, He was sitting with his friends having his last meal. And at that last meal He said something that must reverberate through everything about our lives, including all of what happens today. He said a new commandment I give to you, that you love one another as I have loved you. So, friends it gets pretty simple then. When you pray and listen and obey and walk away in peace and love one another as we have been loved as we come out of this, the most divisive of all seasons that we experience as a nation every four years. If there…if there ever were a time to be a city on a hill, to be the salt of the earth, to be light in the darkness, to be the hands and feet of Jesus to love one another as we have been loved, well it that would be coming out of this wouldn’t it. And, so, let’s walk through this day at peace loving one another as we have been loved.

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:

Hi everyone, this is Lisa the Encourager. I’m calling tonight to pray for our elderly parents or just our parents in general. I’ve certainly called in for our children many times, but I definitely want to focus on our parents today. I know Howard called in about his mom being in rehab and how difficult that was and how she looked very weak. And I just want to pray for him and his mom. And I have a similar situation with my dad going through that. So, I can empathize with your situation Howard. And also, Charlie called in about his parents and them being diagnosed with Covid. So, I want to also pray for his parents and anyone else out there that is going through a difficult time with their parent’s health and how stressful that can be and making a lot of hard decisions. And I’m just gonna pray that God is gonna guide us through those things and that they will be as peaceful and as comfortable as possible. So, let’s go to the Lord in prayer about all of our parents. And also, I wanted also to just say, I respectfully admire Brian for what he went through with his mom and continued to be a ministry to all of us. So, I just thank you again Brian for that because I know that had to be a hard time when you lost your mom. Dear God, I thank you so much for Pastor Brian and what he means to all of us and also thank you God for these…all of our parents Lord that are getting older in life. And I just pray God that your hand will be upon them, that they can recover, and you can comfort them where they need your comfort…

Hey DAB family this is Danny from Southern Oregon I wonder if you could please pray for my 15-year-old grandson Christopher and his friends. The other day these four friends skipped school and they were heading to one of the boy’s houses. And Christopher’s not allowed there. And anyway, shortly after he left school the school called my son and his mom, and they immediately began looking for him and texting him and calling him. And it appears that Christopher got a little bit worried that he was and I get into trouble so when he was about two blocks from this boy’s house he ended up going home to his mom’s and that was about 11 o’clock in the morning. And at 1230 the police were dispatched to a fatality. One of the…my grandsons’ best friends accidentally shot and killed one of the other boys and the third boy was standing right next to him and I’m sure is suffering a lot of PTSD from what he witnessed. And I know…I’m so thankful my grandson was not there but he’s so upset that he’s lost his best friend and they ended up arresting the boy for murder because some things just didn’t add up. And so please…please pray for Tony. He was the one standing next to him and ended up just covered head to toe in brain matter. It was point-blank. And…and pray for Dustin who’s been arrested for murder, that the truth come out and maybe they would all come to know the Lord through this. Thank you.

This is Kathy from Kentucky. I have a different kind of prayer request. I’m gonna take a test in martial arts specifically, Shaolin in two weeks. If I pass, I’ll be a 2nd degree brown belt and well on my way to black belt. When I was a girl growing up, I was not allowed to play team sports __ passed after I got out of high school. And I would’ve been good at some kind of sport. I trained on the swim team the summer before I graduated from high school and then after that I was too old. So, it’s important to me to be able to do something at my age, 67. So, please pray for my martial arts test Shaolin on the second Saturday of November the 14th.

Hi this is Julie from California I just started listening to the Daily Audio Bible about a week and a half ago. It was recommended through another podcast that I listen to and it has been up total and complete godsend. The last three years or so have been just really horrible. My marriage was almost at its end. My father-in-law passed away. We sold everything and moved out of state to take care of my mother-in-law at a very remote place where I had no support and found out she had Alzheimer’s and ended up staying for 2 ½ years when our plan was to stay a year. And then my dad passed away while we were gone, and my mom was diagnosed with leukemia. She’s in remission and doing phenomenally well praise God, but also there were issues with my son and now he no longer talks to us and I lost my job and we filed bankruptcy. Like, just thing piled on after thing piled on after thing and really kind of wrecked my relationship with God for a long time because I really couldn’t read my Bible, I couldn’t focus, I couldn’t do journaling. I mean I was on…I was on a regular track of reading the Bible in the year every year for like three or four years and then I just stopped. And this is miraculous because I actually am feeling like I’m getting the word in me and feeling more joy and I just am really thankful for you guys and I would just appreciate prayers where…where you feel like praying for me and a…a word. I’m happy to hear a word if you have a word for me because I need God so much right now. Thank you. God bless.

Hi family this is Peggy in California. And I, like so many of you, just absolutely love this community and appreciate it so much. It’s a place to share our deepest hurts and our joys and it’s just wonderful and I thank you all for participating and making it what it is. I’m calling today like many others who have called for my adult children. In particular one of my sons, he’s a twin, actually. I got a call from his twin yesterday telling me that his brother’s not doing well, he’s very depressed and seems to be disinterested in…in life, in not moving forward. Recently had a breakup with a girlfriend that I think what’s…he’s exhibiting is actually something that started before that. So, of course, I’m heartbroken and I worry about him. And he was raised in the church, but he doesn’t seem to have a very strong connection if any. So, I just pray that would lift Mason up in your prayers. And I thank you for doing that for me. Have a good day.

11/02/2020 DAB Transcript

Ezekiel 3:16-6:14, Hebrews 4:1-16, Psalms 104:24-35, Proverbs 26:27

Today is the 2nd day of November welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it’s wonderful to be here with you today as it is every day. It’s my oasis just like it might be your oasis coming in around the Global Campfire and letting all the other stuff go. And when is there never not other stuff to focus or obsess on or be brought down by. But just to come in here and know that I’m not alone in here, that we are in here together and then God’s word is gonna speak and wash into our hearts and lives. That…yeah…that’s my oasis too. And, so I’m so grateful that we can be in this together as we take the next step forward. So, let’s do that. We’re reading from the Evangelical Heritage Version this week. We began the book of Ezekiel, another book of major prophecy. And again, the major prophets aren’t major because they’re more important. The major prophets are…well…they’re called the major prophets because of the volume of material in these books. And then when finish the major prophets we’ll move into the minor prophets, which it doesn’t mean they’re like the minor leagues of prophets just hoping one day the be called up to the big game. It’s just…they’re shorter, more direct, or focused. And, so, we will get there when we get there, but we are here at the beginning of a new month and the beginning of the week or at least the beginning of the workweek. And, so, let’s dive in. Ezekiel chapter 3 verse 16 through 6 verse 14.

Commentary:

Okay. So, in the book of Hebrews today we encountered a very, very, very famous passage of Scripture. “For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any double-edged sword. It penetrates even to the point of dividing soul and spirit, joint and marrow, being able to judge the ideas and thoughts of the heart.” This is a scripture so famous that we may have committed to memory, but have you…have you ever thought about what kind of instrument we are talking about when we are talking about how deep the Scriptures can penetrate? I mean, so like many of you have medical backgrounds, many of you have psychology backgrounds. Like what scalpel, what tool, what can go that deep? And even if we said we could go that deep, maybe not with a scalpel because how would we even find where soul and spirit divide? But if we could approach that in some way, in some kind of psychological capacity, like how long would it take to get there, to the essence, to the core of the true self? This is the claim that the author of Hebrews is making about the word of God. And we just talked about like, where do soul and spirit meet? Where would that be? How do you even find that place? Well…if the soul, as many believe is the seed of consciousness, like the awareness that you are you. And if it encompasses our emotional nature and our moral convictions. And if the spirit is…is what makes us alive, if it is the source of life, it is God within animating life itself then we’re talking about…I think we’re talking about as deep as you can talk about. Like this is at the level of consciousness. This is at the level of our instincts. This is at the level of…of love and feeling and emotion and conviction. This is where we make choices. This is where we decide what our bodies are going to do and then our bodies go and do those things that we’ve decided that they’re going to do, whether they’re good things or bad things. According to Hebrews this is how deep the word of God can penetrate. So, it just…it cuts through all the crap that we invent to cope and it cuts through all of the façade of personality that we create to have some sort of place in this world and to cope and move around. And it goes below, beneath, under all of the wounding of our lives, all of the things that have pulled us into isolation. It gets under or behind all of that to a place that’s true and speaks there. It speaks truth there. That’s why we’re showing up here every day. I mean that’s why we come around this Global Campfire because the word of God speaks deep things into our deepest truest self and over time, that changes things. We might call this transformation. We might call this sanctification, if we want to be all theological. But what’s happening is that we’re being changed. Our identity is coming into alignment with the nature of our Father as we have been adopted into His family as His sons and daughters. And according to Hebrews, the Scriptures guide that process. What a joy.

Prayer:

Father what a…what a relief. Thank You for this gift. Thank You for giving this to us. Thank You for every day bringing Your word into our lives in a way that we need coming at us from every angle. And we’ve spent a year in Your word, and You have come at us from every angle, encouraging and rebuking us in ways that we simply can’t hide because You’re touching every aspect of our lives. And, so, we are grateful for that and we are deeply committed to finishing this year well as we move forward into all that You have yet to speak to us. We’re hearing loud and clear. It’s been a disruptive year and it’s been very, very difficult on many levels but such a reset on so many fundamental levels in so many primary ways. You have done the hard work of inviting us into starting over in a lot of ways, and we are thankful for that and we look forward to all that You have yet to speak, not only in the days and weeks ahead of this year, but for the rest of our lives. So, we are thankful for Your word and we are thankful that it is something that can get to the core beyond our own deception of even ourselves, it can get the core. And, so, we commit ourselves to continuing the relationship that we have with the Scriptures, allowing it to speak to us each day. Come Holy Spirit we pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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And, as always, if you have a prayer request or encouragement, you can hit the Hotline button in the app, it’s the little red button at the top, you can’t miss it or there are numbers that you can call. If you’re in the Americas 877-942-4253 is the number to dial. If you are in the UK or Europe 44-20-3608-8078 is the number to dial. And if you are in Australia or that part of the world 61-3-8820-5459 is the number to call.

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:

Hello DAB family this is Michael from Fort Worth Texas. I just wanted to call in today basically to encourage and be thankful. And I’m thankful for Brian Hardin and this whole DAB family community all the people behind the scenes that work hard to put this on and I am thankful for all those people and China for her…her effort on the Chronological side and all the people that do the different languages and all that stuff going on. This whole app is an awesome thing and I’m just thankful for that. And I would encourage anybody who doesn’t contribute to challenge themselves to give monthly to the DAB to keep the servers spinning, to keep the updates coming and keep this great ministry viable from now on, from today to the future for…for everybody and for anybody new that would come on board. Also just wanted to say thank you for all the faithful prayer warriors who call in diligently daily and all the new ones we got now are very awesome and appreciate all you guys your encouragement your words of wisdom that you share with us your songs love all that stuff and just thankful for all you guys. Stay safe. Love you all. Again, Michael from Texas. Stay safe. Love you.

Hello Daily Audio Bible family. First of all, I want to say thank you very much. This is Jane Roos from Nebraska. I…I want to say that when Brian says, “don’t shoulder your problems alone”, believe him. This is a praise report. From the moment that you speak out your prayer request to the moment that you realize that God is holding you and this fellowship is praying for you, it is phenomenal what God is doing because I have experienced an amazing, amazing transformation in so many ways. And, so, let me just say thank you. I can’t even go into everything that has happened in detail and I won’t. First of all, let me say you are all loved. How does my daddy love me? With all his heart no matter what I do forever and always. I borrowed that from a pastor. I have been experiencing ADHD in a big way. My conscious mind always processes…only processes 40 bits per second but my subconscious processes 40 million bits per second. It’s scary. My mouth won’t say what my head wants…my head needs to say. I just want you all to know that you are loved.

Hi family I’m calling in today to pray for Brian from Austria, his first time calling today on October 29th he called in for prayers and support. Brian I’m so thankful that you called in and you shared your heart with us about your wife being unfaithful. And you are so right. You can’t do this alone. Many of us have been where you are in some form of betrayal in our marriage one way or another and I just want to encourage you. I want you to know I’m going to be praying for you and your wife for a long time. As many of us have experienced healing in our marriages, we know that it’s possible for you. So, Father, Holy Spirit we just lift up Brian and his wife to You. We thank You that we all come to the foot of the cross, needing forgiveness restoration healing, places in our lives that have been broken. And sometimes that causes us to not be faithful in areas of our lives or our marriage. So, Father I thank You for complete healing for Brian and his wife. I thank You for restoration, healing, intimacy. I thank You that You would encourage Brian to pursue his wife as they were first dating and coming together that You would pour out Your love and Your love is there. I know…I know it’s already there…

Hello DABbers. Just reaching out to say hello and follow up with another thanks. I’m just thankful for all of you, thankful that Kingdom Seeker Daniel has a great idea for the month of November and that’s for everyone just to call in thanks. I mean I could go on and on and it’s just crazy but, you know, we have so much to be thankful for every day no matter what’s going on, like just whose we are, God, all that He’s done. We could just go on and on about all He’s done. And then, all that He’s doing and then all that He will do. It’s just…to focus our mind on those things and just praise Him, I want to do that. I love living that way, but I want to do that with all of you. So, it’s just an encouragement and to let you know that I’m thankful for you every day. I don’t call in to say it but I am. So, thank You Jesus. Thank You, Lord for all that You are and all that You give. You just give so much. We are so blessed and may we just focus on that every day, but especially next month maybe inspire us Holy Spirit to just do that together. That would be really cool. Love You all. Bye.

11/01/2020 DAB Transcript

Ezekiel 1:1-3:15, Hebrews 3:1-19, Psalms 104:1-23, Proverbs 26:24-26

Today is the 1st day of November welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it’s great to be here with you as we greet the new month while simultaneously greeting a brand-new, sparkly, shiny week. So, this is one of those rare opportunities where we’re…we’re starting all over, like it’s a brand-new start here to the month and the week. And welcome to the 11th month of the year and the 306th day of the year. And on top of all of this newness we have a brand-new book we’re going to move into as we begin a new week and a new month. So, we moved to the prophecies of Jeremiah and then we saw those prophecies come true and then we moved through the book of Lamentations and lamented that all of the stuff that had been prophesied did come true pertaining to the destruction of Jerusalem. And, so, now we find ourselves on the threshold of the book of Ezekiel.

Introduction to the book of Ezekiel:

Ezekiel is another major book of prophecy in the…in the Scriptures in the Old Testament. And here’s what we know about Ezekiel. We know that he was a well-educated person, we know that he was deeply loyal to God. We discover that in this in this text. And we also understand that he was loyal to the traditions of the people, the Hebrew people. He came from a priestly family and…and like Jeremiah he used his prophetic ministry as instructed by God symbolically in a lot of ways. He symbolically acted out what he was prophesying. And Jeremiah had been prophesying previous to Ezekiel, but they also had a time where they were prophesying alongside of each other it’s just they were doing it from two different locations speaking on behalf of God from both sides of a story basically. Jeremiah prophesied from Jerusalem. Ezekiel’s prophecies were from exile in Babylon and there was considerable upheaval in the world of that time, a lot of empires going against other smaller nations and assimilating and conquering them while other empires were fighting…well…empire against Empire. So, Babylon, the Babylonian Empire had conquered the Assyrian Empire. And if we remember from the Scriptures, it was the Assyrian Empire that came and conquered Israel and took the 10 tribes and just deported them. They disappeared from history after that. And then Egypt and Babylon were clashing inside the land of ancient Israel because that was kind of like a land bridge between continents. So, controlling that major trade route is what made this land so important and so valuable. And we’ve watched the different alliances in the Scriptures, especially going through the book of…the book of Kings and Samuel and Chronicles. And, so, there were times where were the Hebrew people were vassals where they paid tribute to Kings who had conquered them then they would rebel and maybe regain their freedom and it was kind of a back-and-forth thing on a continual basis But we also watch in the Scriptures the generational decline of the entire system. So, in 597 B.C. the Babylonians subdued Jerusalem. And they did start deportations, they did take people into exile in order to assimilate them into the empire in different regions. And Ezekiel was among the first to go into exile and then a few years later, Zedekiah who had been installed as the king rebelled against Babylon. This is something that Jeremiah prophesied against as we were going through his…his work in the book of Jeremiah. So then in 588 the Babylonians came back to Jerusalem, laid siege to the rebellious city, and two years later they broke in and conquered Jerusalem and completely destroyed Jerusalem. Up to this point even though things had changed hands and tribute was being paid and all this stuff was going on Jerusalem hadn’t been destroyed. But the Babylonians destroyed it. There…like there’s evidence in Jerusalem until today of the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem. So, similar to Jeremiah, Ezekiel in his early years of prophecy in exile was prophesying of…of the destruction of Jerusalem. Jeremiah was in Jerusalem prophesying the same thing from Jerusalem. So, we’re just at two sides…like at two different points in the same story. Jeremiah’s in Jerusalem, Ezekiel is in exile in Babylon. But as we just talked about, eventually the Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem. And, so, after the fall of Jerusalem and the Temple was destroyed then Ezekiel’s prophecies transform and some of the most beautiful hope filled messages of encouragement and restoration in all of the Bible can be found. Things like Ezekiel 37, which has been such an important portion of Scripture in my life and in the life of the Daily Audio Bible – the…the valley of dry bones, the spirit instructing Ezekiel to call to the four winds the breath of life. So, significant. And we’ll get there. Ezekiel also has really interesting imagery, almost like visions that are cinematic. Kind of like Daniel, or even the book of Revelation - apocalyptic literature it’s called as a genre. And, so, Ezekiel shares place along with Daniel and Revelation and many other portions of Scripture for those studying eschatology - the study of the Apocalypse, the end times. And, so, as we go through Ezekiel it's…it’s like going through any of the other books of prophecy. We understand…we have to understand that this is the genre this is a prophetic narrative that includes visions. And, so…well…basically we have to understand that things speak to us in different ways. So, if you’re sitting on a mountaintop and you have a really nice picnic and you’re there with somebody you love and it’s a perfect day and the scenery is wonderful, you can be having your lunch just looking out over it all not saying anything to each other because words don’t need to be said. You’re in this moment and nature is speaking to you, beauty is speaking to you, the power of God and His creation is speaking to you. And then after lunch if you pick up a novel and start reading then that book is gonna speak to you differently than nature did. And then if you read for a while and you pick up the newspaper, well the newspaper’s gonna speak to you in a different way than the novel did. And if you spend the whole day there and you watch the sun go down then the sunset is gonna speak to you different than the newspaper did. So, let’s just invite God to speak to us in whatever way that we’re listening as we move through the book of Ezekiel and to guide us into what we need to hear for the days ahead in our own lives. And, so, let’s begin. We got a brand-new month. We got a brand-new week. We’ll read from the Evangelical Heritage Version of the Scriptures this week. Ezekiel chapter 1 verse 1 through 3 verse 15.

Prayer:

Father we thank You for Your word. We thank You that we have this image of all things new - brand-new week, brand-new month, brand-new territory in the Scriptures - and it brings us a sense of sigh. Like we’ve been through a lot this year and we are here, and You have been faithful, and You continue to lead us forward. We are so deeply grateful. And, so, Father as we move through these days, they have been indeed tumultuous days this year on a number of levels and continue to be on a number of levels right now as we continue to move through this time. May we find comfort and rest under the shadow of Your wings, that we are cradled and protected by Your mighty strong arm, that we are Your children and we are here bearing witness to the birth of new things because You are doing a new thing, You are continually doing a new thing and we want this new thing to continue in our hearts, this transformation, this sanctification, this setting us apart, that we lose our taste for the world and hunger and thirst for Your kingdom. Declaring along with the psalmist, better is one day in Your courts than a thousand anywhere else. And, so, as we move into this final couple months of the year we already know where gonna need You. When do we not?  We think we don’t sometimes and then we take things up in our own power and strength and crash them. We’re not doing that anymore. We learned our lesson. We need You and only You. And we need Your ways and only Your ways in our hearts and in our lives. This is what will lead us on the narrow path that leads to life. And its life that we are looking for and life comes from You. You are the source, the source of life. And, so, come Holy Spirit we pray as we…as we consecrate this week and this month to You. Come Jesus in Your mighty name we ask. Amen.

Announcements:

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Man, this is it like not one of my favorite days of the year, not because there’s anything really, really bad going on. It's…it’s…this is the day where in the clocks…the clocks set back. And, so, in the time zone that I live here in Nashville that just makes for…that makes…that makes it dark. It’s gonna be dark maybe a few minutes after 5 PM. By the time Christmas gets here it’ll be dark by 430 in the afternoon and that’s…that’s not my favorite. There’s nothing wrong…everything’s fine…it’s just not my favorite. But I’ll be looking forward to it getting dark in our earlier today as will many of you. And, so, that is what’s going on around here right now, but there are always different things going on in the Daily Audio Bible world especially at the Prayer Wall. It’s an ongoing ever-growing ever-present thing where we can always have a place to go for prayer and always have a place to go and offer prayer. So, be aware of that. That’s in the Community section of the website. If you’re using the Daily Audio Bible app you can press the little Drawer icon. That’s in the upper left-hand corner and you can also get to the Prayer Wall. So, check that out.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, thank you, humbly and profoundly. Thank you for your partnership. There is a link on the homepage. If you’re using the Daily Audio Bible app, you can press the Give button in the upper right-hand corner or the mailing address, if that is your preference, is PO Box 1996 Spring Hill Tennessee 37174.

And, as always, if you have a prayer request or encouragement 877-942-4253 is the number to dial or just hit the Hotline button. It’s the little red button in the app if you’re using the app. And if you’re not, you should be using the app. This is the portal…this is…this is where we’re developing community. And, so, be familiar. Be aware. That’s where the…that’s where the Hotline button is. So, check that out.

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:

Hey my friends it’s Mike and I’ve been in this journey with you for over 10 years and when you offer a prayer request you should know that there are people like me who are just instantly praying with you and for you. And when you feel alone you’re not alone and when you feel like you can’t go on and there’s no one in your corner look over your shoulder you got your DAB back there just cheering you on and praying for you and believing with you. So, this…this call is really to challenge and encourage and…and really ask everyone in the DAB to journey through the Daily Audio Proverb for the next 30 days, hopefully for the month of November. Each day invest five minutes in…in the Daily Audio Proverb and you can hit it right there in the app and if you do and if you let it permeate your life, your relationships, how you respond, it will have a dramatic impact. Proverbs 8 says you’ll have more joy, you will find life and grace. And then actually if we don’t get wisdom or if we refuse wisdom that we’re only hurting ourselves. We’re actually moving toward death and not towards life. And I…I found this myself a couple years ago, how I was…I was responding foolishly, and I realized, “wow! I need more wisdom. Where do I get that?” And I heard Brian mention the Daily Audio Proverb. Changed my life. I invite you to take the challenge for the next 30 days, five minutes a day, Daily Audio Proverb. You won’t regret it and you’ll be glad you did. Your Father is madly in love with you any he gave you this gift. I love you guys. Bye.

Good morning my name is __ I am calling in for prayer. I’m having a hard time right now. I need a place to live. I’ve been watching…listening to Brian for about four or five years. It’s my first-time calling in. I would like for all of you to pray for me to help…to ask God to help me find a place to live. I’m kinda down right now but I’m trying to pull myself up and keep going and wait on the Lord to guide me and help me find a place to live. So, please pray for me. I love you all and thank you Brian for what you do every day. Bye.

This prayer goes out to Brian from Australia. I heard his call for prayer about saving his marriage and being patient and stepping up to stay in it and I just wanted to say I’ve been there my brother. The strength you’re showing is amazing. Your love for your wife is amazing and for your family and kids is amazing. I just pray that God directs you and guides you and keeps your family safe and together. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. And good luck brother.

This is Candace from Oregon please join me in prayer is for Radiant Rachel’s stepdaughter Gabby, I believe her name is Gabby. Lord, we ask You to surround this beautiful Young woman. We ask You that she would be completely freed from all foul spirits that have been harassing her in any way and that the only spirit allowed to surround her is the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ over and under her, in front of her, behind her, and on either side. I pray Lord that she would just become free to become everything that You made her to be in all her beauty Lord. I pray that she will take medicines that are helpful, that You will just restore her health by any means You choose Lord, that You give her robust health. We ask these things in Jesus’ name and for His sake. We ask You Lord to bless Radiant Rachel’s entire household. Pour out Your blessing on them Lord and put a hedge of protection around even the building, the house itself and especially guard the hearts of each person and their family. We ask this in Jesus’ name and for His sake and to His honor and glory. May we all become obedient to You Lord, taking every thought captive to the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

10/29/2020 DAB Transcript

Lamentation 1:1-2:22, Philemon 1:1-25, Psalms 101:1-8, Proverbs 26:20

Today is the 29th day of October welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is wonderful to be here with you today as we continue the journey. And this is kind of a special day, doesn’t happen too often where we are beginning new territory in both Old and new Testaments. So, in the Old Testament we’re about to move into the book of Lamentations and then we get to the New Testament we will be encountering the final of the Pauline material in the New Testament, the final letter of Paul to Philemon. And we’ll talk about that when we get there. But since we’re at the beginning and we’re going into Lamentations…Lamentations let’s just orient ourselves because this is a different kind of territory than we've…we’ve really been in before.

Introduction to Lamentations:

And lamenting isn’t something that we…well…it’s probably not even a word we use that often and it’s certainly not something we are on a waiting list to get into usually, although lamenting and having language for what is brought up when we are lamenting is very important for our lives. So, basically as we move into Lamentations, we’ll find poetic language. Lamentations is essentially five poems, poems of sadness, poems of lament, the kind of gut-wrenching things that are almost beyond words. And in specific here, these laments come out of the realization that Jerusalem is gone. Like God’s holy city, the temple of the most-high God, it’s conquered and burned and destroyed and it’s not something that’s just being heard from far away and, you know, like suffering in a land far away where you just kind of shake your head and go, “that is so sad”, and even pray that the Lord have mercy but we don’t really have an actual connection to what’s going on. But in this case, it’s like the smoke is still rising from the burned-up city and ashes everywhere and the blood of the slain is still visible. In Hebrew, this this book Lamentations is called Ica, which means “how”. Like how can this happen? And we know how it could happen. The Babylonians finally broke down the wall and broke into the city and destroyed it. That’s how it could happen but it’s a deeper question than that, right? When we find out like our lives have been turned upside down sometimes, we have those questions, “how could this happen?” And we may understand the process, like the circumstances that coalesced together to bring such pain, but just knowing the parameters you still have that deeper, deeper heart cry, “how? How can this happen?” And that brings up even more grief because how it could happen was really what we read about all through the book of Jeremiah. For decades the prophet was warning that this could happen that this will happen if there isn’t a change. And, so, now as we move into Lamentations those prophecies have become realities. And limitations doesn’t self-reveal the author inside of the text. Traditionally it…it’s attributed to Jeremiah. He was the one that was in Jerusalem prophesying before there was even an inkling that this would happen. He was saying this is coming and all during it he was speaking. And, so, this is one of the reasons why Lamentations follows Jeremiah in the Bible because it’s thought that Jeremiah wrote these words of lament. This whole story had been his whole prophetic ministry, his entire prophetic life. But…but scholar’s debate this like everything else. And, so, there’s plenty of compelling theories that…that would name Jeremiah as the author but there’s lots of compelling reasons why he couldn’t be the author. But the one thing that everybody does agree on is that whoever wrote Lamentations probably saw what they were talking about, probably felt what they were saying. They were an eyewitness to the destruction of life as it had been known. And, so, the Babylonians conquered and then leveled Jerusalem, and this is in 586 B.C. And it’s likely than that these words of lament, they’re fresh words, that they came soon after that. And even today in the Hebrew culture on the ninth day Ov Lamentations is read. It’s a day a fasting. It's…it's…it’s the commemoration of the fall of Jerusalem. And it still matters in the culture today. And the reading of each of the poems then gives a backdrop for lament, for deep personal heart wrenching honest reflection. And sometimes we have to go there. It’s the place we avoid, but as we’ve seen, Job brought us through some of this territory, Ecclesiastes brought us through some of this territory and Lamentations will. And, so, we could say that this is a…the Bible spends a lot of time in this portion of life, the lower, the darker places of life. They must matter. They must not be there to avoid. They must be there to embrace because in those places we actually find the truth, the truth about our faith, the truth about ourselves, the truth about our convictions, the truth, the truth about our beliefs. It’s in those places that we find out what’s really real. And that’s hard and I hate that too, but we have a tendency to say the right things but not actually be able to live into the right things. And Lamentations, this language, going into the depths of our hearts and facing what’s there, that’s what brings what we do and what we say together into a cohesive conviction that we live. Because when we’re grieving, like when we’re crying out, there really aren’t words. Have you ever been in that place where you might’ve said everything you could say? It wasn’t enough and so you sit in silence and it’s just very, very painful or you just cry because the words aren’t there. But then later after that’s done, like after you’ve emptied that out for a while then there’s a calm that comes after that, right, sort of a sense of peace. The whole thing hasn’t fixed itself but there’s this sense that we’ve released something and we’re in this space and there’s a bit of calm because we’ve released something, we’re being washed, its cleaning, it’s clearing, it…it…it strips us down. Like, it takes all the varnish off and gets down to the wood. It sands off all the paint and gets us down to the wood. It strips away everything that isn’t bedrock. And…yeah…I …t’s intensely…intensely painful, but it’s also unbelievably freeing. Like when we’re at the bottom in the depths of our own sadness then there’s hope there. It’s that calm we feel even in the midst of it all. And lamenting gives language to that suffering and it helps us let go, it helps us name things and see them and let them go. And, so, the backdrop here is certainly going to be a terrible destruction of Jerusalem and the complete upheaval of the people, but as we go into this we just have to think, “what is our Jerusalem? Like what is that place in us as we give language to this kind of suffering?” And, so, we’re reading from the English Standard Version this week. Lamentations chapters 1 and 2.

Introduction to Philemon:

Okay. So, now we’re moving into the New Testament and we’ve got this second…second writing that we’re gonna enter into today. And actually, we’re gonna enter into it and complete it in one day, and in one reading. It's…it’s a note and it’s the final of Paul or the Pauline corpus, the Pauline material that’s in the Bible. And this letter to Philemon, it’s…it’s a personal letter to a man named Philemon. And just about all biblical scholars are on the same page. This is an authentic…authentic letter of Paul, he wrote this. And Philemon, the one he is writing to, was…spear…appears to be one of the more wealthy and influential churchmen living in Colossae. I mean, according to the…the letter itself, there’s a congregation that met in Philemon’s home. And Philemon had a servant and that the servant’s name was Onesimus and Onesimus ran away from Philemon and he was…he probably stole from Philemon in the process and these offenses were like…these were capital offenses punishable by death. So, Onesimus then fled. Don’t know exactly his path, but he ended up in Rome and probably ended up in a big city to disappear. But as it turns out the apostle Paul happen to be in Rome too. And he wasn’t there visiting. He was in prison awaiting trial. And just the beautiful serendipity of it all. Onesimus came in contact with Paul and became a follower of Jesus and then…then began to serve Paul in Rome and…and care for his needs while he was…while Paul was under arrest. So, then…then later, Paul, who wrote lots of letters…we’ve been reading his letters for a while now…wrote a letter to the church in Colossae, probably the one we know as Colossians. And he was going to send another helper Tychicus on the journey to hand-deliver it. And in the process of sending Tychicus to deliver Colossians to the church in Colossae he wrote a little note, a second little note, personal note to Philemon and then he sent Onesimus along with Tychicus back to his hometown and back to Philemon his master. And you can…you can imagine the position that put Onesimus in, like the kind of step of faith that he was gonna need to take because this…like his life could be taken. Like he could be executed for what he did. But Paul’s imprisonment and the way Paul was…was preaching the gospel in spite of the predicament certainly had an influence on Onesimus who subsequently had to leave his life in God’s hands in order to do the right thing. I think I should say that again. He had to leave his life in God’s hands in order to do the right thing. And, so, even though this is just a note, even though we’re gonna read it right now and finish it today it does reveal a lot, the importance of forgiveness when you’ve been directly wronged. But then just a kind of reconfiguration of how it was that you were wronged because it shows that our authority over somebody else is never total and complete. And if they’re a believer in Christ then they are a brother, they are a sister in the family of God. But we also see in the story of Philemon and Onesimus a living example of God truly working things together for the good of those who love Him. And, so, we began and read in its entirety the letter to Philemon. And by the way, this does end Paul’s letters. So, those of you that have the Daily Audio Bible app, etc. and are checking off your days as we listen to them then you’re gonna get the letters of Paul badge because we are completing that territory in the Scriptures today. So, let’s read Philemon.

Prayer:

Father we thank You for Your word. We thank You for this new territory that we are entering into, even as we reach the conclusion of another month. And we thank You for Lamentations. It’s again, not the kind of thing we really think about as a…as a good cleansing clearing purifying thing, but as we go through this territory we ask Holy Spirit that You accompany us, that You lead us into whatever steps we need to go into and lament and let it out and allow Your healing balm to come into those places that have been sore and bruised and infected for so long and we've…we’ve crushed them down and hidden them in the dank basement of our life. And we don’t go down there. But You’re inviting us and You are good and we trust You. And, so, Holy Spirit, accompany us, lead us where we need to go. We pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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10/28/2020 DAB Transcript

Jeremiah 51:54-52:34, Titus 3:1-15, Psalms 100:1-5, Proverbs 26:18-19

Today is the 28th day of October welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian as I have been every day since we started this. So, if this is your first day then…good to meet you, welcome aboard. We are on this journey and we’re well on this journey as we continue our journey through the Bible this year. So, let’s get to that. We’re reading from the English Standard Version this week. Jeremiah chapter 51 verse 54 through 52 verse 34 today.

Commentary:

Okay. So, in the letter to Titus today we find these words, they’re characteristics, they’re like descriptors of the life of faith. “Be submissive to rulers and authorities. Be obedient. Be ready for every good work. Speak evil of no one. Avoid quarreling. Be gentle. Show perfect courtesy toward all people.” Okay are you seeing that all around you right now? Like if you turn on the news are you seeing that? If you just look around, are you seeing that? If you go online onto social media are you seeing that? The answer would be no, that you’re probably not. And I’m not. I’m kind of…kind of witnessing the opposite of that most of the time. Maybe the better question though is, “am I being this way I? Am I speaking evil of no one? Am I avoiding quarreling? Am I being gentle? Am I showing perfect courtesy toward everyone? Am I ready to do every good work? Or am I just participating in adding to the chaos and the noise that is deafening?” These characteristics, this little list in the letter to Titus, these things are supposed to be an outgrowth of the fact that Christ has come and redeemed us. I just continue to quote from the letter. “We ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another”, which is pretty much what we see all around us a lot of the time. But the letter goes on. “When the goodness and the loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, He saved us, not because of things we did, but because He was merciful”, right? And that is the basic hope of the gospel. And once again we see these contrasts, where it’s like, “that’s supposed to do something.” Lile when you believe, when you enter into the journey of faith, when the intimacy of God draws near, that’s supposed to irreversibly change us. And when we are irreversibly changed, then the things that we once did are…well…they’re changed and we reflect this gratitude that goes so deep that it permeates everything about us so that we walk around in a state of grace, a state of gratitude that spills out from us and affects the way that we interact and behave toward other people because we realize how lucky we are, like how fortunate that the intimacy of God has drawn near, that God has come near and rescued us transforming us the by day step-by-step. We are not who we once were. And, so, our lives should reflect that. These are such good words for the times that we are in right now when divisiveness seems to be like the game we’re playing.

And then we’ve got the Proverb. I mean yesterday the proverb gives us this one sentence about meddling and about dog ears and today like we get this other visual, this one sentence, “like a madman.” So, let’s just picture that, a crazy person “who throws firebrands, arrows and death.” Okay, so a crazy person with lethal intent. Are we on the same page? The kind of person we don’t exactly want to encounter unaware. That kind of person is the man who deceives his neighbor and then says, “I was joking.” In other words, “I said it, but I didn’t mean. It was a joke. What’s the big deal? What’s wrong with you? Can’t you take a joke? In other words, the person who actually who really wanted to hurt you with the words like firebrands and arrows, and then when confronted is just like, “oh that was just a joke. I didn’t mean that.” You may know people like that. You may be a person like that. If you know, people like that or if you’re on the receiving end of that it really can…it can make you question whether your all their, like are you going crazy? Because it’s like you have thin skin and you just keep getting wounded and hurt and you keep thinking, “you're…but you’re trying to hurt me. Like I know that you’re trying…you’re using these words to hurt me but then you’re saying like it’s just a joke and it’s not just a joke.” But there’s no way to like, confront that. It’s like he said she said. And, so, you’re in your head going crazy like, “I know that was meant…I know that was meant to hurt me.” And we’re seeing all kinds of name-calling and all kinds of sidestep little joking things…like all kinds of stuff going on in the world around us. We’re seeing this kind of stuff. It’s like a crazy person with lethal intent. Those are…that’s a good ancient description that feels very, very accurate. So, you know, if you’ve been on the receiving end of that, then it’s being called out in the Bible. It’s being named for what it is in the Bible and you should take heart that you’re not actually going crazy here. You…you have the behavior of an arrow toting firebrand wielding vicious crazy person and that’s what’s going on. But this could also be a mirror and you could realize, “I do that. Why do I do that? Like, why am I like that? What is going on here?” Well then you…you’ve got a visual that might make it stark, what’s actually happening. It’s like a crazy person with lethal intent who just wants to sidestep, like wants to do the damage then step away and go like, “I don’t know what…I don’t know what happened. I don’t know why you’re all bloody. I was just…I was…it was just a joke. I don’t know why you’re crying here. It was just…I was just kidding.” Yeah, we’ve examined some things today. These are kind of deep things from Titus and Proverbs because these are connected to deep motivations and deep brokenness and wounding. Like, this is bringing up a lot if we’ll take the time to examine it and explains a lot when we look around us and kind of see the same thing going on in the world. And, so, let’s heed the Scriptures and come into alignment with what things are supposed to look like because we are so grateful to even be here at all. The fact that we’re gonna draw the next breath is the evidence of God’s life-giving force within us. We’re gonna exhale and it’s gonna be a step of faith, believing that the next breath is coming. We should be grateful to be breathing. If we could just start there and realize “I’m alive!” And maybe life is looking like I want it to look but if I stop comparing my life, if I stop listening to the noise and chaos and fighting and divisiveness, of I just got to the baseline, “grateful to be here” place well then some things could change. We could start spreading the evidence of our transformation into the world, which is the point. We’re the body. We’re the city on a hill. We’re the salt of the earth. We have a role to play in preserving the whole thing, which is what salt does. So, I guess fundamentally from our reading today we can examine ourselves and look at the repercussions of our lives, the implications of us being here. Are we filled with gratitude and want to bring good channeling the kingdom of heaven into this world on earth as it is in heaven or are we just adding to the annoyance?

Prayer:

Holy Spirit, well up from within us. These are deep things. And the answer is that we…we try…we don’t do it on purpose, but we…we try to live in both of those spaces sometimes being so deeply grateful that Your love just pours out of us, but the next day it could be the opposite of that and we’re walking in the darkness and we’re perpetuating the darkness. And that shouldn’t be. That’s a divided heart, that’s a double mind. And the Scriptures tell us that’s basically not going to end well or go anywhere. And, so, we need an undivided heart and we need the renewal of our minds. In fact, we need more than that. We need the mind of Christ to navigate this world. And it’s available. It’s not hidden It’s everywhere. We’re just not paying attention. We’re not slowing down and observing ourselves to any degree and seeing the implications of our lives. But we’re here at this moment kind of examining, “what am I bringing? What am I birthing? What am I giving? What is happening in this world because I’m here? Is it good or is it evil? Holy Spirit, we want it to be good…good. We want to be mature representatives and ambassadors for Your kingdom upon this earth and we’re gonna need Your help. And we’re gonna need Your help a lot right now. So, come. We become aware of You. We surrender to You. We humble ourselves and ask for Your guidance and we ask in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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10/27/2020 DAB Transcript

Jeremiah 51:1-53, Titus 2:1-15, Psalms 99:1-9, Proverbs 26:17

Today is the 27th day of October welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it’s great to be here with you today as we continue our journey through this month and through this week and see the seasons change. And for us, here in the South in the rolling hills of Tennessee, it’s kind of a transition into more of the rainy season, the wet season, wintertime. We don’t get much snow here. So, it’s kind of like a rainy season. So, we’re transitioning our way and I’m sure everywhere that experiences autumn it’s kind of the same. The temperatures cool, the leaves change, the rains come and then in the midst of all that there’s these beautiful days that are just spectacular. So, let’s enjoy where we are as we are as we move forward. We’re reading from the English Standard Version this week. Today, Jeremiah chapter 51 versus 1 through 53.

Commentary:

Okay. Well let's…let’s talk about dog ears then. Let’s talk about dog ears and meddling straight out of the Proverbs today. So, dogs…like I’ve been around dogs, you know, most of my life I…I suppose…now that I think about it. Yeah. I have a couple of dogs now, we do, Jill and I, the family. We have a couple of dogs. We have Lucy. She’s an Australian Shepherd and she’s a little princess and she’s the best dog I’ve ever had. And then we have Maggie who is a little Yorky Poo with a completely different personality than Lucy. And they’re both sweethearts and Lucy just wants to please and she wants to love. And Peggy, she’s kind of a bit of an opportunist but they’re good girls and we love them and we play with them and you can…you can be playing with your dog and they can be growling at you and you can have your hand in their mouth and you’re moving a toy around or whatever, and everybody knows that this is play. And, so they’re trying to pull something out your hand and you’re trying to jerk back or whatever. But you sneak up…if…if you sneak up on any of them…if I sneak up, especially on Maggie, she will snap. She’s scared. She snaps. It’s like grabbing her ears and not letting them go, she would be so angry. But if you sneak up on a dog and don’t just spook them so that they bark but you sneak up on them and grab their ears and that’s how they become aware of your presence, that’s gonna…well…I’d have to try it to find out what happens but I’m pretty sure I don’t want to try. They’re gonna snap back, which is what happens to us when we meddle in something that isn’t ours to be involved in, that we have inserted ourselves into a conflict that isn’t ours, but we have an opinion about it all. Or we insert ourselves into a conversation that may be a debate but we just amp it up to the next level because we’ve got to tell what we think, Like, we’ve got to be seen and heard. And, of course, we probably know people to do that about just about everything even though there was never an invitation to offer the opinion. And, so, the same thing happens to us. When somebody inserts themselves unexpectedly into something that is none of their business it’s almost like we were a dog and they snuck up and grabbed us by the ears because we want to snap at that. We want to put it in its place. And man, the proverb couldn’t come at a better time, right? I mean, there’s a lot of that going around. And it’s interesting, when we insert ourselves and meddle in something and then get snapped at then we have his righteous indignation like we’ve been wronged when we were the one that inserted ourselves into the story and got snapped at. So, Proverbs has told us one sentence about a dog and about meddling and we have to look deeper below the surface. What’s going on here? What is the wisdom here? And we could say, “well the baseline wisdom here is don’t meddle if you don’t want to be snapped at.” But like one layer below that is, “why do we feel the need to insert ourselves and meddle in this particular thing in the first place? What pulls us continually into these kinds of things where we’re inserting ourselves? And then maybe one side question to that would be, “is God inviting me to insert myself into this?” which would be a different story, which would then be like, “well if I get snapped at in that kind of scenario then I know I'm…I’m going into it with love. I'm…I’m trying to be the hands and feet of Jesus in the situation. And if I get snapped at in the process then I can understand what’s going on here.” But most of our meddling isn’t that. Most of our meddling isn’t that. We meddle. We insert ourselves and stir up the pot and get involved in things that have nothing to do with us. So, asking simply, “how will this play out? If I go into this and I haven’t been invited by God to insert myself into this, will I be able to represent the kingdom in this? How will this affect all of these relationships and the witness of the kingdom of God that I’ve devoted myself to?” If the answer is like, “there’s no real redeeming value here. I’m not being asked by God to do this. It is my need to be heard. It is my need to give my two cents but really nothing good probably can come from this.” Probably not a good idea to grab the dog’s ears then. Only gonna get snapped at. So, underneath it all, this little proverb, this little sentence about dog ears and meddling is a proverb that forces us to check our own motives before we get involved in anything. Why are we about to go into this kind of battle or this kind of confrontation? Can anything redeeming come of it? Good words for these days.

Prayer:

Father, we invite You into that. It’s again a reminder that our mouths and the things that we form with our mouths have unmeasurable power in this world. The wrong word at the wrong time causes terrible mayhem and we know that well because we’ve caused it and we’ve been swept into it and we’ve meddled in places that we don’t belong. And, so, come Holy Spirit help us with that, help us to slow down. Really what’s required, and so many of these wise Proverbs are the active slowing down in our decision-making process, that we take a beat before we speak, that we take a beat before we act and consider the trajectory. What good can come of this? Can I represent the kingdom of God in this? Help us to ask these questions now as much as has ever been needed. We need this. Come Holy Spirit we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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10/26/2020 DAB Transcript

Jeremiah 49:23-50:46, Titus 1:1-16, Psalms 97:1-98:9, Proverbs 26:13-16

Today is the 26th day of October welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it’s great to be here with you today as we continue our journey through this week and approach the end of a month. Today is the 300 the day of the year believe it or not. What a year to remember. But we’re 300 days into this year since it’s a leap year. So, we will continue our journey forward. We’re working our way well…well into the back portion of the…of the prophecy of Jeremiah but when we get to the New Testament today we will be encountering the third and final grouping of letters known as the pastoral epistles. So, we’ll, of course talk about that when we get there. But first we’re reading from the English Standard Version this week. Jeremiah chapter 49 verse 23 through 50 verse 46.

Introduction to Titus:

Okay. So, as we…as we were talking about when we began our time together today, we’re at the New Testament, so we are about to encounter another letter. This one is called Titus and as I said this is the third of a group of letters known as the pastoral letters or the pastoral epistles. And we…we’ve talked about this. Like, there’s nothing new between first Timothy second Timothy and Titus in certain regards. They are personal letters. They are disputed letters, at least in terms of penned these letters. Obviously, they have been attributed to Paul for a very long time but for also almost an equally longtime scholars have…have questioned whether that’s possible mostly because of the development structures of the church. So, one of the things in Titus that we will encounter that we also encountered in Timothy would be some characteristics to be looked at in a person who wants to seek ministry or ordination. Titus and Timothy are both still consulted until this day for that purpose as we’ll see when we read it but there are other somewhat confusing things about Titus. One of the things is just trying to place it historically, trying to figure out Paul’s imprisonment in Rome after he appealed to Caesar and what happened between, you know, the time that he sailed to Rome and the time that he was executed by…by being beheaded. Somewhere in there if this is within Paul’s life, somewhere within there is when these letters were written. So, trying to sort that out has been a point of scholarly debate for a very, very long time. So, here's…here’s kind of the lay of the land. Titus was converted early in the apostle Paul’s ministry. We find his name mentioned in many of the letters. It appears that once…once he converted or once he believed in Jesus he was a part of Paul’s ministry from then on. And an interesting thing about Titus is that he…he accompanied Paul and Barnabas to Jerusalem to attend the Jerusalem Council that we read about in the book of Acts, the first church council, the one that opened up the can of worms about who gets to be in and the Jew and Gentile debate that we’ve talked about so many times as we’ve moved…as we’ve moved through the letters. So, at that Jerusalem Council pretty big decisions were being made. Like do you have to convert to Judaism and then you can follow Jesus and you have to do all the stuff like circumcision and all that or what? And we know the outcome of that. What’s interesting is that Titus was at this Council as a Gentile. And that indeed would make a difference. It’s way easier to marginalize or stereotype people when you don’t know them, right, when you can just make assumptions about them and thrust them to the side which is the case here with the Gentiles. But when you are actually having a conversation with a Gentile who is full of the Holy Spirit then you too have to say, “well who am I to stand in the place of God on this?” And, so, Titus was there at the Council. Now, back to like “where did this fall in Paul’s imprisonment? Or what’s going on here?” There is a scenario that Paul was released from prison, his first imprisonment, the one that he appealed to Caesar, that he was subsequently released and was for a period of time able to move around again and so went on another missionary journey, this time to the island of Crete. The Cretans apparently had never heard the word of the Lord, the Good News. And that the Cretans were notoriously, you know, carnal but when…when the Good News was spoken it captured…it captured many of them a…a community formed as was the custom as happened so often when Paul traveled around to bring the Good News. And, so, this new community on Crete forms and Paul then leaves Titus to be the pastor of the church in Crete, not permanently but to stand in for him while he continued to move around. And, so, it was left to Titus to kind of form the leadership, form the community, teach the people, raise them up into leadership. And, so, then the thought here is that Paul wrote this letter after he had departed Crete. Probably if…if it were Paul, if we’re following that line than this would have to be like the same time, he writes like first Timothy he writes also Titus. And, so, a letter, like a personal letter from Paul to Titus would give Titus then this apostolic authority of Paul. Like he would have in writing, like if he…like if he’s being challenged in Crete by the Cretans about his authority then he’d have this letter to say like, you know, “Paul…Paul put me here. It’s under that authority that I’m forming the church. It’s under that authority that I’m saying the things that I've…I’ve said. It’s under that authority that the decisions we’re making as a community are being made.” And, so, that’s generally what we find in the letter to Titus. Of course, as I’ve said, most biblical scholars today would say, “no. These kinds of church structure things, these were outgrowths of what God was doing, but after Paul’s lifetime.” And, so, that…so, this letter comes later and is written as a Pauline letter following kind of Paul’s ethos but was written by somebody who was in one of these churches and as a disciple of Paul of some sort somewhere in the emerging next-generation this letter comes. So, there you go. There is some context which we try our best to keep before us at all times as…as we’re continuing our journey through the Scriptures. So, that’s the lay of the land. Let’s begin. Titus chapter 1.

Prayer:

Father we thank you for your word. Every day we thank you for your word. That’s why we’re here, that’s  why we come around the Global Campfire every day, is to allow your word to come into our lives into our senses into our minds into our hearts challenging and correcting and rebuking and comforting and moving us forward in the way that we act, in the way that we determine our choices and decisions. We are so grateful. You’ve touched everything about us, and you continue to do that daily. And, so, we are so deeply grateful. And as we continue this journey move…moving further into new territory we are eager with excitement at all that you have yet to teach and tell us before this year is over. And we recognize that as we get to the end of the year, we encounter a lot of shorter and shorter books. And, so, we’re just…it’s gonna seem like we’re moving faster and faster, but we are out in front of it and we are asking you to help us slow down, stay focused, and not only finish this month well but finish this year well. And we finish this year well by starting now. And, so, come Holy Spirit we pray. In the mighty name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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The Community section at the website or in the app for that matter, if you’re using the app you just press the Drawer icon in the upper left-hand corner will Lead you to where the Prayer Wall is and lead you into different points of connection on social media. So, be aware of that. Check that out if you haven’t already. The Daily Audio Bible Shop is available as well. There are resources there for the journey that we are on as I’ve said many times. So, check that out if you haven’t. There’s also a new resource that we released earlier this year. It’s not in the Daily Audio Bible Shop. You would get it from the iTunes store or Google Play or wherever you get music. It’s called Heart, a Contemplative Journey and it’s a guided prayer and musical journey that just…just allows us to take about an hour, maybe go for a walk, maybe lay down, maybe go for a drive, just get somewhere still, somewhere quiet where we feel kind of safe and open and then just begin to pray with the prayers that are in the Heart project. Just pray and kind of allow the music to kind of wash into the emotions that we’re speaking with the Lord about, opening ourselves to Him and His healing touch. That is at the Heart project and you can get that at iTunes. Now, you can’t stream that like on Apple music. You have to actually purchase it at the iTunes Store or the Google play store. But if you just search for…for my name, Brian Hardin or search for a Contemplative Journey…Heart, a Contemplative Journey you’ll find it.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, you can do that dailyaudiobible.com as well and through the app. There’s a link on the homepage of the website. If you’re using the app you can press the Give button and that’s in the upper right-hand corner or, if you prefer, the mailing address is PO Box 1996 Spring Hill Tennessee 37174.

And, as always, if you have a prayer request or encouragement, you can press the Hotline button it’s in the app, super convenient no matter where you are on this planet and share from there, or if you prefer the telephone there are numbers that you can use. In the Americas 877-942-4253 is the number. If you’re in the UK or Europe 44-20-3608-8078 is the number to call…I was trying to say dial and call at the same time…either one of those will work. And if you are in Australia or that part of the world 61-3-8820-5459 is the number to call.

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

10/25/2020 DAB Transcript

Jeremiah 48:1-49:22, 2 Timothy 4:1-22, Psalms 95:1-96:13, Proverbs 26:9-12

Today is the 25th day of October welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it’s great to be here with you today as we launch ourselves into the final week of October, the 10th month of this year. And as we round out this month, we will be…yeah…will be closing the door on another one of our months and moving forward. But that’s not where we are right now. Where we are is at the threshold of a shiny sparkly new week. And, so, we not only need to think about how we’re gonna live into this week, we need to…well…we have the opportunity to think about how we are going to finish this month well. And, so, let’s dive in. We’re reading from the English Standard Version this week. Jeremiah chapter 48 verse 1 through 49 verse 22.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word and we thank You for the Scriptures. We thank You for daily opportunities to meditate upon, to ingest, to hear, to just allow Your word to speak to us and direct us and the choices and interactions that we have before us that we encounter. We are so grateful. And, so, as we cross this threshold and move into this final week of this 10th month of the year, we invite Your Holy Spirit. May we be aware, may we be in lockstep, may we see what You are doing and where You are leading us. May we get our minds off of what You might be doing in everybody else’s life and pay attention to where You are leading us. Holy Spirit, well up from within we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is home base, it's…it’s where you find what’s going on around here. So, I say it every day because that’s home for us. That’s where the Global Campfire is burning. So, check it out. There’s just a…I mean it’s really easy to navigate, there’s a few sections to be aware of.

The Community section is where the Prayer Wall lives. It’s also where there are links to get connected on social media. So, check that out. There is the Daily Audio Bible Shop that has a number of resources in all kinds of directions. Some just plain fun stuff to be…just to identify with the journey that we’re on but also serious things to take the journey deeper. So, check that out.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, if…if the mission here is making a difference in your life then thank you for your partnership. We wouldn’t be here if we weren’t doing this together and deeply grateful that we are. So, there’s a link on the homepage at dailyaudiobible.com. If you’re using the Daily Audio Bible app…and if you're…if you’re not…you should…you should be. It is all of the time becoming more and more and more the portal into community here at the Daily Audio Bible. So, if you’re using the Daily Audio Bible app, you can press the Give button in the upper right-hand corner or, if you prefer, the mailing address is PO Box 1996 Spring Hill Tennessee 37174.

And, as always, if you have a prayer request or encouragement and you’re using the app, the Daily Audio Bible app, you can press the Hotline button, it’s the little red button at the top, you can’t miss it or you can dial 877-942-4253.

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

10/24/2020 DAB Transcript

Jeremiah 44:24-47:7, 2 Timothy 2:22-3:17, Psalms 94:1-23, Proverbs 26:6-8

Today is the 24th day of October welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is a pleasure, it’s always truly, truly…like to be able to come be together with you every day, hat is a joy. And, so, thank you for letting me have that privilege. And it’s great to be here with you today as we bring to a close another one of our weeks together. You know, we start this journey, it’s like all those weeks are out in front of us, 52 whole ones, out in front of us but we’re kinda narrowing down now and like we’re within our last 10, if my calendar…well I’m just doing that with a calendar in my head but I think that’s somewhere in the vicinity of right. So, we have traveled far and journeyed long and I wouldn’t say we’re on the home, final homestretch, but it won’t be long. And, so, let’s press in ever deeper into finishing strong and finishing well and staying open as we…as we take the next step forward. So, we’ve been reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week, which is what will do today because it’s the end of week. Jeremiah chapter 44 verse 24 through 47 verse 7 today.

Prayer:

Thank You, Father for Your word and thank You Father for another week, another week in Your word, another week in community, another week in this world in life, the gift, the grand gift of life that You have bestowed upon us. And as we live may we be giving that gift back to You, giving our lives back to You. And, so we thank You. You continue to teach us, that You continue…continue to guide us, that You continue to correct us, that You continue to press in upon us and lead us forward in our transformation in our sanctification. We love You. Only You can do this. We could never make ourselves righteous. And yet You come and day by day step-by-step You do exactly that and we are grateful, and we acknowledge You in all things. May we become more and more aware of Your Holy Spirit’s presence and Your guidance in our lives we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is home base, it’s the website, of course. It’s the home of Global Campfire. It’s where you find out what’s happening around here. So, ways to get connected are found in the Community section. And that’s where the Prayer Wall lives as well. So, be familiar with that. Check out the Daily Audio Bible Shop. There are resources there for…well…for what we’re doing, taking this journey through the Scriptures this year and deepening our understanding and awareness of the Scriptures, and at the same time opening our hearts for God to use the Scriptures to transform our lives. So, check that out in the Daily Audio Bible Shop.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, you can do that at dailyaudiobible.com as well. There is a link on the homepage, and I thank you with all humility and…and just gratefulness for your partnership. If you’re using the Daily Audio Bible app you can press the Give button in the upper right-hand corner or, if you prefer, the mailing address is PO Box 1996 Spring Hill Tennessee 37174.

And, as always, if you have a prayer request or encouragement you can hit the Hotline button in the app, which is the little red button at the top or you can dial 877-942-4253.

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