04/06/2019 DAB Transcript

Deuteronomy 29:1-30:20, Luke 11:37-12:7, Psalms 78:1-31, Proverbs 12:19-20

Today is the 6th day of April. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian. It’s great to be here with you as we end another week together and they do just keep going by but thankfully they’re not idly going by. Every single day the word of God is being sowed into our days and weeks and months. And, so, as we close another of our weeks together we’ll allow God’s word to speak into this day. We’re reading from the book of Deuteronomy. Today we’ll read chapter 29 and 30 and we’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word and we thank You for another week in Your word. And as we conclude this week in Your word we take the words from the Scriptures found in the book of Deuteronomy to heart today. “I call heaven and earth as witnesses against You today that I have set before You life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life.” Father show us how to do that. We choose life. As You’ve said in Your word, it’s not too hard for us. It’s not like someone has to go to heaven and bring it down. It’s not like somebody has to go to the other side of the sea and bring it to us. It’s in our mouths and in our hearts. Well up within us Holy Spirit. We acknowledge, we want life, but we will chase every distraction that will lead only away from life. So, we ask for You to shepherd us, to Father us, to guide us, to lead us into all truth and our role is to trust and obey for there is no other way as the old hymns says, to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey. And, so, we trust You as we step forward and prepare for the next week. We trust You and we will obey You and will choose life. Come Holy Spirit we pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is the website, its home base, its where you find out what’s going on around here. So, be sure to stay tuned and stay connected.

Go into the community section at the website and you’ll find all the different links to the different social media channels that we participate in. Some that are groups where constant discussion is taking place and others where we just post little reminders from the days reading or announcements for the Daily Audio Bible. It’s great to follow Daily Audio Bible on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram just to stay connected to the journey that we are on together.

Also, the Daily Audio Bible shop is at dailyaudiobible.com. There’s resources there for the journey. So, check that out.

All these things are available in the Daily Audio Bible app as well by pushing the little drawer icon in the upper left-hand corner.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, you can do that dailyaudiobible.com as well. There’s a link that’s on the homepage. Thank you for your partnership humbly and profoundly. 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 comment, 877-942-4253 is the number to dial.

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 DABbers, this is Christopher in Pretzel City. Could you please pray for Kassidy? She is an infant who has been diagnosed with retinoblastoma. She is in Madison currently and they are evaluating how big this tumor is and how to treat it. She will, unless a miracle happens, lose her left eye and her family is taking this hard but we are maintaining faith and we are believing in a full healing that will glorify God and we covet your prayers and this. So please join me in this declaration and thank you so much.

Good morning my DAB family this is Paula calling from Albuquerque. I’m gonna try and talk fast. I haven’t even finished listening to community prayer from Saturday but there’s a couple of things that have been on my heart and I just haven’t called. So, I’m going to do it now. Dash, you’ve been on my heart. From the first time I heard your call I couldn’t figure out why that name was familiar to me. Please don’t take this lightly. I recognized the name from watching the Incredibles with my kids and my grandkids. He is a fictitious character, but do you know the background of his name means that he could walk on water? And we can each walk on water when we keep our focus on the Lord. So, there’s some food for thought for you and we’ll continue to pray for you. The mom called from Chicago about your son, been there done that too. 10 years ago, I had to kick my son out. My first grandchild was on the way and I was terrified, but I chose to be obedient to the Lord. By the time she was born less than a year later our relationship was back on track. We were able to reconcile. It still is a rough road at times because he’s not walking with the Lord, neither is his wife but I pour into my two grandchildren as I can because that’s what we need to do as believers and mothers and grandmothers and people that have influence in their life. The other thing is I just wanted to remind all of you, I mean I pray when I listen but a very wise friend of mine shared with me several years ago and I hold fast, whoever is in our thought process, they are harmless, they are defenseless against our prayers. So just keep praying. I know there are many that are praying that we never hear about. Thank you for your prayers. Thank you for your support. I love you all.

This is Denise. This is going to be in unusual prayer request. I don’t hear this often as I’ve been listening for the past several years, but this is very important to me. I’ve been in the marriage for more than 20+ years and __ marriage ha,s changed __ years __ grown apart. And to make a long story short, my husband cheated on me some years back and it caused…changed the dynamic of our relationship to the point where it destroyed our intimacy and it destroyed our closeness. We’re still partners, we’re still sticking with it, we try to still love each other but, needless to say, I personal relationship is damaged and I’m here to admit that I started an affair. It’s been a long-term affair for years but I only did it because I wasn’t getting what I thought I needed from my husband but God convicted me to try to get close to God and I decided to break that relationship off and I broke the relationship off __ God __ me despite what I don’t have what I don’t get from a relationship from my marriage I was going to get from God. But I called today to ask you to pray for my strength because I want to be what God wants me to be. I want to be the wife who I need to be to my husband and I want the love and compassion that I have for him that I had in the affair. I pray for continued strength because even though I broke off the affair I deeply, deeply, deeply miss him. __ allow myself to call __ contact me __ ways because I promised God I was cutting it off and I ask that you pray my strength.

Hi family this is little his low Cherry from Canada with another creative way to pray. This month’s idea is very simple and symbolic, which are two of my favorite things. Maybe you have someone who’s really on your heart. Why not put the picture in your pocket to carry with you throughout the day? if you don’t have a picture of them maybe doodle their name on a piece of paper or write their name on a small stone and put that in your pocket and then whenever you touch it say a prayer for them? You are literally carrying them in prayer all day long when you do that. Another version of this idea is to carry someone’s picture or name with you on a walk and I particularly like to do this through the rain. On a spring day in Canada when it’s actually raining and not snowing I’ll take my umbrella and walk with someone’s picture held in my hand, which is especially meaningful if that person is going through something difficult because the symbolism is that even in the rain they are being held and you can pray as you walk that they will sense and know that the Father is carrying them even in the storm. So, I’m sure you can think about many of the versions of this. There’s no right or one way to do it. So, experiment, get creative, have fun. Picture prayer walks, another creative way to pray from the banqueting table of prayer. Thanks family. Bye for now.

04/05/2019 DAB Transcript

Deuteronomy 29:1-30:20, Luke 11:37-12:7, Psalms 78:1-31, Proverbs 12:19-20

Today is the 6th day of April. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian. It’s great to be here with you as we end another week together and they do just keep going by but thankfully they’re not idly going by. Every single day the word of God is being sowed into our days and weeks and months. And, so, as we close another of our weeks together we’ll allow God’s word to speak into this day. We’re reading from the book of Deuteronomy. Today we’ll read chapter 29 and 30 and we’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word and we thank You for another week in Your word. And as we conclude this week in Your word we take the words from the Scriptures found in the book of Deuteronomy to heart today. “I call heaven and earth as witnesses against You today that I have set before You life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life.” Father show us how to do that. We choose life. As You’ve said in Your word, it’s not too hard for us. It’s not like someone has to go to heaven and bring it down. It’s not like somebody has to go to the other side of the sea and bring it to us. It’s in our mouths and in our hearts. Well up within us Holy Spirit. We acknowledge, we want life, but we will chase every distraction that will lead only away from life. So, we ask for You to shepherd us, to Father us, to guide us, to lead us into all truth and our role is to trust and obey for there is no other way as the old hymns says, to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey. And, so, we trust You as we step forward and prepare for the next week. We trust You and we will obey You and will choose life. Come Holy Spirit we pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is the website, its home base, its where you find out what’s going on around here. So, be sure to stay tuned and stay connected.

Go into the community section at the website and you’ll find all the different links to the different social media channels that we participate in. Some that are groups where constant discussion is taking place and others where we just post little reminders from the days reading or announcements for the Daily Audio Bible. It’s great to follow Daily Audio Bible on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram just to stay connected to the journey that we are on together.

Also, the Daily Audio Bible shop is at dailyaudiobible.com. There’s resources there for the journey. So, check that out.

All these things are available in the Daily Audio Bible app as well by pushing the little drawer icon in the upper left-hand corner.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible, you can do that dailyaudiobible.com as well. There’s a link that’s on the homepage. Thank you for your partnership humbly and profoundly. 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 comment, 877-942-4253 is the number to dial.

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 DABbers, this is Christopher in Pretzel City. Could you please pray for Kassidy? She is an infant who has been diagnosed with retinoblastoma. She is in Madison currently and they are evaluating how big this tumor is and how to treat it. She will, unless a miracle happens, lose her left eye and her family is taking this hard but we are maintaining faith and we are believing in a full healing that will glorify God and we covet your prayers and this. So please join me in this declaration and thank you so much.

Good morning my DAB family this is Paula calling from Albuquerque. I’m gonna try and talk fast. I haven’t even finished listening to community prayer from Saturday but there’s a couple of things that have been on my heart and I just haven’t called. So, I’m going to do it now. Dash, you’ve been on my heart. From the first time I heard your call I couldn’t figure out why that name was familiar to me. Please don’t take this lightly. I recognized the name from watching the Incredibles with my kids and my grandkids. He is a fictitious character, but do you know the background of his name means that he could walk on water? And we can each walk on water when we keep our focus on the Lord. So, there’s some food for thought for you and we’ll continue to pray for you. The mom called from Chicago about your son, been there done that too. 10 years ago, I had to kick my son out. My first grandchild was on the way and I was terrified, but I chose to be obedient to the Lord. By the time she was born less than a year later our relationship was back on track. We were able to reconcile. It still is a rough road at times because he’s not walking with the Lord, neither is his wife but I pour into my two grandchildren as I can because that’s what we need to do as believers and mothers and grandmothers and people that have influence in their life. The other thing is I just wanted to remind all of you, I mean I pray when I listen but a very wise friend of mine shared with me several years ago and I hold fast, whoever is in our thought process, they are harmless, they are defenseless against our prayers. So just keep praying. I know there are many that are praying that we never hear about. Thank you for your prayers. Thank you for your support. I love you all.

This is Denise. This is going to be in unusual prayer request. I don’t hear this often as I’ve been listening for the past several years, but this is very important to me. I’ve been in the marriage for more than 20+ years and __ marriage ha,s changed __ years __ grown apart. And to make a long story short, my husband cheated on me some years back and it caused…changed the dynamic of our relationship to the point where it destroyed our intimacy and it destroyed our closeness. We’re still partners, we’re still sticking with it, we try to still love each other but, needless to say, I personal relationship is damaged and I’m here to admit that I started an affair. It’s been a long-term affair for years but I only did it because I wasn’t getting what I thought I needed from my husband but God convicted me to try to get close to God and I decided to break that relationship off and I broke the relationship off __ God __ me despite what I don’t have what I don’t get from a relationship from my marriage I was going to get from God. But I called today to ask you to pray for my strength because I want to be what God wants me to be. I want to be the wife who I need to be to my husband and I want the love and compassion that I have for him that I had in the affair. I pray for continued strength because even though I broke off the affair I deeply, deeply, deeply miss him. __ allow myself to call __ contact me __ ways because I promised God I was cutting it off and I ask that you pray my strength.

Hi family this is little his low Cherry from Canada with another creative way to pray. This month’s idea is very simple and symbolic, which are two of my favorite things. Maybe you have someone who’s really on your heart. Why not put the picture in your pocket to carry with you throughout the day? if you don’t have a picture of them maybe doodle their name on a piece of paper or write their name on a small stone and put that in your pocket and then whenever you touch it say a prayer for them? You are literally carrying them in prayer all day long when you do that. Another version of this idea is to carry someone’s picture or name with you on a walk and I particularly like to do this through the rain. On a spring day in Canada when it’s actually raining and not snowing I’ll take my umbrella and walk with someone’s picture held in my hand, which is especially meaningful if that person is going through something difficult because the symbolism is that even in the rain they are being held and you can pray as you walk that they will sense and know that the Father is carrying them even in the storm. So, I’m sure you can think about many of the versions of this. There’s no right or one way to do it. So, experiment, get creative, have fun. Picture prayer walks, another creative way to pray from the banqueting table of prayer. Thanks family. Bye for now.

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Saturday April 6, 2019 (NIV)

Deuteronomy 29-30

Renewing the Covenant

29 These are the words of the covenant(A) the Lord commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb.(B) Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “You have seen with your own eyes(C) everything the Lord did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to his entire land. You saw with your own eyes the great trials and those great signs and wonders.(D) Yet to this day the Lord has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.(E) I led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes and the sandals on your feet did not wear out;(F) you did not eat food or drink wine or beer—so that you might know that I am the Lord your God.(G) When you reached this place, King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.(H) We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh.(I) Therefore, observe the words of this covenant(J) and follow them, so that you will succeed in everything you do.(K)

10 “All of you are standing today before the Lord your God—your leaders, tribes, elders, officials, all the men of Israel, 11 your dependents, your wives, and the resident aliens in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water— 12 so that you may enter into the covenant of the Lord your God, which he is making with you today, so that you may enter into his oath 13 and so that he may establish you today as his people and he may be your God as he promised you and as he swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.(L) 14 I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you, 15 but also with those who are standing here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God and with those who are not here today.

Abandoning the Covenant

16 “Indeed, you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and passed through the nations where you traveled. 17 You saw their abhorrent images and idols made of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which were among them.(M) 18 Be sure there is no man, woman, clan, or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the Lord our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Be sure there is no root among you bearing poisonous and bitter fruit.(N) 19 When someone hears the words of this oath, he may consider himself exempt,[a] thinking, ‘I will have peace even though I follow my own stubborn heart.’ This will lead to the destruction of the well-watered land as well as the dry land. 20 The Lord will not be willing to forgive him. Instead, his anger and jealousy will burn against that person, and every curse written in this scroll will descend on him. The Lord will blot out his name under heaven,(O) 21 and single him out for harm from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law.

22 “Future generations of your children who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant country will see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses the Lord has inflicted on it. 23 All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown, producing nothing, with no plant growing on it, just like the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord demolished in his fierce anger.(P) 24 All the nations will ask, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this land? Why this intense outburst of anger?’ 25 Then people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he had made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. 26 They began to serve other gods, bowing in worship to gods they had not known(Q)—gods that the Lord had not permitted them to worship.(R) 27 Therefore the Lord’s anger burned against this land, and he brought every curse written in this book on it. 28 The Lord uprooted them from their land in his anger, rage, and intense wrath, and threw them into another land where they are today.’ 29 The hidden things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things belong to us and our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.

Returning to the Lord

30 “When all these things happen to you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you come to your senses while you are in all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you,(S) and you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey him with all your heart and all your soul(T) by doing[b] everything I am commanding you today, then he will restore your fortunes,[c](U) have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.(V) Even if your exiles are at the farthest horizon,[d] he will gather you and bring you back from there.(W) The Lord your God will bring you into the land your fathers possessed, and you will take possession of it.(X) He will cause you to prosper and multiply you more than he did your fathers.(Y) The Lord your God will circumcise your heart(Z) and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love him with all your heart and all your soul so that you will live.(AA) The Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you. Then you will again obey him and follow all his commands I am commanding you today. The Lord your God will make you prosper abundantly in all the work of your hands,(AB) your offspring,[e] the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land. Indeed, the Lord will again delight in your prosperity, as he delighted in that of your fathers, 10 when you obey the Lord your God by keeping his commands and statutes that are written in this book of the law and return to him with all your heart and all your soul.

Choose Life

11 “This command that I give you today is certainly not too difficult or beyond your reach. 12 It is not in heaven so that you have to ask, ‘Who will go up to heaven, get it for us, and proclaim it to us so that we may follow it?’ 13 And it is not across the sea so that you have to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea, get it for us, and proclaim it to us so that we may follow it?’ 14 But the message is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may follow it.(AC) 15 See, today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and adversity.(AD) 16 For[f] I am commanding you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commands, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live[g] and multiply, and the Lord your God may bless you in the land you are entering to possess. 17 But if your heart turns away and you do not listen and you are led astray to bow in worship to other gods and serve them, 18 I tell you today that you will certainly perish and will not prolong your days in the land you are entering to possess across the Jordan. 19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life(AE) so that you and your descendants may live, 20 love the Lord your God, obey him, and remain faithful[h] to him. For he is your life, and he will prolong your days as you live in the land the Lord swore to give to your fathers(AF) Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

Footnotes:

  1. 29:19 Lit may bless himself in his heart
  2. 30:2 Lit soul according to
  3. 30:3 Or will end your captivity
  4. 30:4 Lit skies
  5. 30:9 Lit hands in the fruit of your womb
  6. 30:16 LXX reads If you obey the commands of the Lord your God that
  7. 30:16 LXX reads ordinances, then you will live
  8. 30:20 Lit and hold on
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Luke 11:37-12:7

Religious Hypocrisy Denounced

37 As he was speaking, a Pharisee(A) asked him to dine with him. So he went in and reclined at the table. 38 When the Pharisee saw this, he was amazed that he did not first perform the ritual washing[a](B) before dinner.(C) 39 But the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed(D) and evil.(E) 40 Fools!(F) Didn’t he who made the outside make the inside too? 41 But give from what is within to the poor,[b](G) and then everything is clean(H) for you.

42 “But woe(I) to you Pharisees! You give a tenth[c](J) of mint, rue, and every kind of herb, and you bypass[d] justice(K) and love for God.[e](L) These things you should have done without neglecting the others.

43 “Woe to you Pharisees! You love the front seat(M) in the synagogues(N) and greetings in the marketplaces.

44 “Woe to you![f] You are like unmarked graves; (O) the people who walk over them don’t know it.”

45 One of the experts in the law(P) answered him, “Teacher, when you say these things you insult us too.”

46 Then he said: “Woe also to you experts in the law! You load people with burdens(Q) that are hard to carry, and yet you yourselves don’t touch these burdens with one of your fingers.(R)

47 “Woe to you! You build tombs[g] for the prophets,(S) and your fathers killed(T) them. 48 Therefore, you are witnesses(U) that you approve[h](V) the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their monuments.[i] 49 Because of this, the wisdom of God(W) said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles,(X) and some of them they will kill and persecute,’(Y) 50 so that this generation(Z) may be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world[j](AA) 51 from the blood of Abel(AB) to the blood of Zechariah,(AC) who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.

“Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held responsible.[k]

52 “Woe to you experts in the law! You have taken away the key to knowledge.(AD) You didn’t go in yourselves, and you hindered(AE) those who were trying to go in.”

53 When he left there,[l] the scribes and the Pharisees began to oppose(AF) him fiercely and to cross-examine him about many things; 54 they were lying in wait(AG) for him to trap him in something he said.[m](AH)

Beware of Religious Hypocrisy

12 Meanwhile, a crowd of many thousands came together, so that they were trampling(AI) on one another. He began to say to his disciples first,(AJ) “Be on your guard(AK) against the leaven[n](AL) of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.(AM) There is nothing covered that won’t be uncovered,(AN) nothing hidden that won’t be made known.(AO) Therefore, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in an ear in private rooms(AP) will be proclaimed on the housetops.(AQ)

Fear God

“I say to you, my friends,(AR) don’t fear(AS) those who kill the body, and after that can do nothing more. But I will show you the one to fear: Fear(AT) him who has authority to throw people into hell(AU) after death. Yes, I say to you, this is the one to fear! Aren’t five sparrows sold for two pennies?[o] Yet not one of them is forgotten in God’s sight.(AV) Indeed, the hairs of your head are all counted. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

Footnotes:

  1. 11:38 Lit he did not first wash
  2. 11:41 Or But donate from the heart as charity
  3. 11:42 Or a tithe
  4. 11:42 Or neglect
  5. 11:42 Lit the justice and the love of God
  6. 11:44 Other mss add scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
  7. 11:47 Or graves
  8. 11:48 Lit witnesses and approve
  9. 11:48 Other mss omit their monuments
  10. 11:50 Lit so that the blood of all... world may be required of this generation,
  11. 11:51 Lit you, it will be required of this generation
  12. 11:53 Other mss read And as he was saying these things to them
  13. 11:54 Other mss add so that they might bring charges against him
  14. 12:1 Or yeast
  15. 12:6 Lit two assaria; a small copper coin
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Psalm 78:1-31

Psalm 78

Lessons from Israel’s Past

A Maskil of Asaph.(A)

My people, hear my instruction;
listen to the words from my mouth.(B)
I will declare wise sayings;
I will speak mysteries from the past(C)
things we have heard and known
and that our fathers have passed down to us.(D)
We will not hide them from their children,
but will tell a future generation
the praiseworthy acts of the Lord,
his might, and the wondrous works
he has performed.(E)
He established a testimony in Jacob
and set up a law in Israel,
which he commanded our fathers
to teach to their children(F)
so that a future generation—
children yet to be born—might know.
They were to rise and tell their children(G)
so that they might put their confidence in God
and not forget God’s works,
but keep his commands.(H)
Then they would not be like their fathers,
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation whose heart was not loyal
and whose spirit was not faithful to God.(I)

The Ephraimite archers turned back
on the day of battle.(J)
10 They did not keep God’s covenant
and refused to live by his law.(K)
11 They forgot what he had done,
the wondrous works he had shown them.(L)
12 He worked wonders in the sight of their fathers
in the land of Egypt, the territory of Zoan.(M)
13 He split the sea and brought them across;
the water stood firm like a wall.(N)
14 He led them with a cloud by day
and with a fiery light throughout the night.(O)
15 He split rocks in the wilderness
and gave them drink as abundant as the depths.(P)
16 He brought streams out of the stone
and made water flow down like rivers.(Q)

17 But they continued to sin against him,
rebelling in the desert against the Most High.(R)
18 They deliberately[a] tested God,
demanding the food they craved.(S)
19 They spoke against God, saying,
“Is God able to provide food in the wilderness?
20 Look! He struck the rock and water gushed out;
torrents overflowed.(T)
But can he also provide bread
or furnish meat for his people?” (U)
21 Therefore, the Lord heard and became furious;
then fire broke out against Jacob,
and anger flared up against Israel(V)
22 because they did not believe God
or rely on his salvation.(W)
23 He gave a command to the clouds above
and opened the doors of heaven.(X)
24 He rained manna for them to eat;
he gave them grain from heaven.(Y)
25 People[b] ate the bread of angels.[c]
He sent them an abundant supply of food.(Z)
26 He made the east wind blow in the skies
and drove the south wind by his might.(AA)
27 He rained meat on them like dust,
and winged birds like the sand of the seas.
28 He made them fall in the camp,
all around the tents.(AB)
29 The people ate and were completely satisfied,
for he gave them what they craved.(AC)
30 Before they had turned from what they craved,
while the food was still in their mouths,
31 God’s anger flared up against them,
and he killed some of their best men.
He struck down Israel’s fit young men.(AD)

Footnotes:

  1. 78:18 Lit in their heart
  2. 78:25 Lit Man
  3. 78:25 Lit mighty ones
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Proverbs 12:19-20

19 Truthful lips endure forever,
but a lying tongue, only a moment.(A)

20 Deceit is in the hearts of those who plot evil,
but those who promote peace have joy.(B)

Cross references:

  1. 12:19 : Ps 52:4-5; Pr 19:9
  2. 12:20 : Pr 14:22
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04/05/2019 DAB Transcript

Deuteronomy 28:1-68, Luke 11:14-36, Psalms 77:1-20, Proverbs 12:18

Today is April 5th. I don’t know what I was gonna say. What do I usually say? Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible? I like I turned the mic on before my head was…my mind was engaged. Let’s do this again. Today is April 5th. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is great to be here with you and it’s a joy as we reach the end of another work week to continue forward into this changing of the seasons and just allow this rhythm that is the word of God in our lives every day to continue to pull us forward into our year. So, we’ve been reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week. We’ll continue to do that through the end of the week today and go back out into the book of Deuteronomy. And, once again, Deuteronomy is the final book of the Torah, of the Pentateuch, and it is the last things, the last three discussions or discourses that Moses has with the children of Israel, his final words before he will leave them and disappear from our history and we will continue forward under a new leader as we prepare to move across the Jordan River and into the book of Joshua. But that’s getting ahead of ourselves, that’s just a reminder of what it is we are reading in Deuteronomy. So, today, Deuteronomy chapter 28.

Commentary:

Alright. So, in the book of Deuteronomy today we spent some time in some pretty ominous territory, some pretty dark things that could happen to the children of Israel. And, so, let’s back up for a second. The children of Israel are being told by Moses that when they get into the promised land there supposed to go to the top of Mount Gerizim with half of their tribes and pronounce the blessings of the covenant and the other tribes are supposed to go up on the top of Mount Ebal and pronounce the curses of breaking the covenant. And these are actual geographical locations, Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim. And back when we were in Israel just…I guess…I guess a little more than a month ago…we went to the top of Mount Gerizim. It is one of the places where the last remaining Samaritan people live, and it was the Mount of blessing. And, so, we went up there and had it been a clear day, we would’ve been able to look down upon a biblical Shechem and over to Mount Ebal, the mount of curses, but it was socked in and raining sideways and cold. And, so, we didn’t get to see all that but we did get to get out in it, those of us who wanted to and it’s the second time I’ve done that, stood on top of the mount a blessing and let the wind blow because I’ve just learned of my life that blessing doesn’t always look like…we don’t get to exactly choose what that’s gonna look like. Like, when we open ourselves to God’s direction then it may be disruptive before it’s complete. But I’m kind of sidetracking here. We heard of the blessings and it was kind of a short, concise declaration that essentially said, if you follow…if you follow these commands, if you live like this, if you press in and be my people, then there’s nothing that will harm you and you will be blessed in everything that you do. Then we get to the curses and it’s much more ominous about what’s going to happen. This is a good time for us to understand what we’re reading here because we can read of ominous things that are so horrible like eating your own children because you’re starving in a besieged city. There we’re like, “what the heck? You know, what’s happening here? And why is God so angry? This usually comes from prophetic utterances that depict this type of destruction. Let’s get on the same page here. This is a prophetic utterance about something that could happen not about something that would happen. It would happen if the people abandon God. Their path will lead them to complete destruction and the kind of destruction that we’re talking about is being outlined so that they will know this is what will happen, but it does not need to happen. Unfortunately, even though they are being given advance prophetic warning and a clear picture of where abandoning God will lead them, they will still abandon God and they will unfortunately witness and experience these things. But as we continue forward, especially as we get into more prophetic works in the Old Testament we’ll see these kinds of prophecies that can give us such a sense of foreboding when they are prophecies of things that have not happened and do not need to happen if the people will turn back, will come back, will return to the covenantal relationship that they have entered into. And the same is true in our own lives. It’s just that a lot of times we’ll step out of the covenant, we’ll betray God, and then then things will go sideways in our lives and we’ll be mad at God for it when it’s not His fault and He did not do it and he did send his prophets through the Scriptures to say, “don’t go that way. That’s only going to destroy you. Please don’t go down that path. Here’s what will happen if you do you don’t have to do this. Stay with me.”

Prayer:

Father, we invite You into that. We’ve confessed many times that we’ve blamed You for things that You didn’t do and it’s a continual thing for us this, this kind of reestablishing relationship with You and understanding that this is a two-way street. And yes, You are the solemn God but also yes You have condescended Yourself down to a place where we can actually have a relationship with You that is personal. And, so, we’re sorry for the myriad of ways that we estrange ourselves from You and blame You for things You don’t have anything to do with. And, so, even as we’re moving through toward the end of the Torah, the book of Deuteronomy here, we see You giving warnings and we understand that if we look back over our lives the warnings were there before we made the wrong decision, we just pay attention, we just didn’t slow down and look, or we just simply didn’t care. But we are learning so much and we are seeing cause and effect in the Scriptures and we are seeing it in our own lives and its starting to lock in and make sense and we realize that You are a redeemer and You will rush to our defense at any point that we will surrender to You and return to You. And, so, we do right now. We come back, we repent, we apologize for the ways that we’ve betrayed You and the ways that we’ve blamed You. Come Holy Spirit, lead us into all truth. We ask in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is the website, its home base, its where you find out what’s going on around here. So, be sure to stay tuned and stay connected.

Check out the resources that are available in the Daily Audio Bible shop for this journey. Some of these places, like Mount Gerizim, the mount of blessing, this is all something that you can view in the promised land films. So many of the places that we visit in the Scripture are places that you can see for yourself in those films. So, that’s a resource to certainly have as we move our way through the Scriptures. That can be found in the Daily Audio Bible shop.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible in the mission that we share here to bring God’s spoken word read fresh every day and offered freely to anyone who will listen, anywhere on this planet, anytime of day or night and to use this rhythm to build community so that we know that we are never alone. No matter where we are in the world we are never alone. If that is life-giving to you, then thank you for your partnership. So, there’s a link on the homepage at dailyaudiobible.com. 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 comment, 877-942-4253 is the number to dial.

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:

Good morning Daily Audio Bible family this is Christine from Washington state and I heard Dustin, his call…or Dustin from Spokane…call and Spokane is my home town. And, so, Dustin and I heard your just voice…was just crushed and I can just feel your pain and I am praying for you __ my called. And then I heard a woman call from the Pacific Northwest today, which is Monday, April 1st and said she was having temptations, she’s married. And you just…you cannot…you cannot…you can’t get involved with this man. First of all, it’s just Satan tempting you. And, you know, Satan started in the garden of Eden with Adam and Eve trying to break them up. So, do not. You need to pray for your husband. I have a husband that’s an unbeliever and I thought about doing the same thing you did, and God just stopped me. He stopped me. He protected me. And it is not His will for you to do that. So, just be strong, keep praying for your husband, pray for him every day. Some days I just pray God’s will over him because I know anything I pray specifically is something I want. So, just pray God’s will or your husband and just keep praying and praying. I am seeing stuff change in my husband and believe me it’s been a long road but it’s just better than…than sinning against God and doing something you’ll both feel bad about even if it’s this man of God that you know and have met. Don’t…just don’t do it. So, I’m praying for all of you. And I’m so sad. I’m gonna miss the More Conference. It is so phenomenal, and Jill and Brian just do a beautiful job….

Hi community this is Charis from Texas. I was really inspired to call when I was listening the other day and I can’t remember the woman’s name but she cleans houses for a living and she listens to the prayer requests over and over again while she’s cleaning house and she’s praying for people and as I was thinking about my own situation I was like, oh, I just want that lady to be praying over my son. I have a son, he’s an adult and he deals with undiagnosed bipolar disorder and he has the clear signs of mental illness but won’t really acknowledge that he could get help with medication or __ therapy or behavior modification. And when you’re living close to someone that you love that is bipolar or has certain types of mental illness and they’re not getting help it is like watching…you hear the train coming and you can go, I think there’s a train coming, and then it’s full-blown, yup, it’s coming, and then it goes in front of you and it’s just loud and chaotic and then finally the trains passing and noise dyes down and there’s a calm for a little while before the next train comes. And that’s what it’s like with mental illness, you start seeing signs in the cycle that concern you and you go, oh my goodness, you know, he just had an explosive moment or this or that and then the symptoms and the cycle just build up and build up and build up and, then they blow up and then things start to die down before the calm again. And I’m just asking the community to pray for those of us that are dealing with this. Praying for my son, Timothy and his wife and our family as…

Good morning or wherever you are this is That Girl in Korea. I’m just calling…I was listening this morning to a woman that called in about meeting this beautiful godly man while she’s married to a non-Christian and I was just feeling really convicted to say that, you know, whatever God has brought together let no man separate. I think it should be very encouraging that God showed you this beautifully godly man and that you should, you know, highlight those…the qualities that you find so attractive and just pray that over your current husband. He really needs the strength of the Lord and the convictions of the Holy Spirit. And I think you’re in a really good place to pray for your husband and to pray for protection over your own heart. In the Lord’s prayer it says forgive us our trespasses and lead us not into temptation Lord for yours is the glory and power and honor forever and ever. So, this morning just be encouraged that wherever you are, sorry that I forget your name, but do not fall into temptation over this sweet godly man that is single. Pray for him as a brother but pray for your husband that as a brother as well. He needs you as his wife, he needs you praying for him and for his __ for salvation and for him to find Jesus. And also, it’s great that you get to see this godly man just to remember the kind of godly standards that you can, in your mind, in your heart, hold your husband to in prayer and encouragement and in love. I know it must be difficult but praying for you sister wherever you are, for you to have a great day and for the Lord guide you…

Hi everyone, it’s Christi from Kentucky. I am so amazed at our most faithful and loving God. I know that Kathy Baker called in and told you that we are almost neighbors, seriously. When Kathy had posted about her brother Denver, that he was in hospice and he was about to make his journey home. When I saw that I knew she was from Kentucky, so I looked at her profile and I found out that she’s from Lexington. And friends, we literally live from 2 miles away from one another. And, so, we met at a local hospital chapel and we were able to pray together. It was just such a beautiful time and we have so much in common. God is so good. And listen to this. Today I’m having lunch with a friend of mine from church, her name is Debbie and she’s married to Tim. And during lunch Tim texted her and she just said, “oh no” and I said, “what’s wrong?” She said, “one of our friends…I just found out that he passed away” and I said, “I’m so sorry Debbie. What’s his name?” and she said, “Denver” and I said, “Debbie did his last name happen to be Baker? and she said, “yeah…like…how do you know?” Friends, that is Kathy Baker’s brother, Denver Baker and my friend Debbie and Tim went to the same church together. Matter of fact Tim taught the Sunday school class that Denver was in. Isn’t that amazing? God orders every one of our steps and He makes Himself known to us in the most beautiful ways. So, Kathy I want you to know that I want you to meet Tim and Debbie. And, you know, I know that the Lord is…

04/05/2019 DAB Transcript

Deuteronomy 28:1-68, Luke 11:14-36, Psalms 77:1-20, Proverbs 12:18

Today is April 5th. I don’t know what I was gonna say. What do I usually say? Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible? I like I turned the mic on before my head was…my mind was engaged. Let’s do this again. Today is April 5th. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is great to be here with you and it’s a joy as we reach the end of another work week to continue forward into this changing of the seasons and just allow this rhythm that is the word of God in our lives every day to continue to pull us forward into our year. So, we’ve been reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week. We’ll continue to do that through the end of the week today and go back out into the book of Deuteronomy. And, once again, Deuteronomy is the final book of the Torah, of the Pentateuch, and it is the last things, the last three discussions or discourses that Moses has with the children of Israel, his final words before he will leave them and disappear from our history and we will continue forward under a new leader as we prepare to move across the Jordan River and into the book of Joshua. But that’s getting ahead of ourselves, that’s just a reminder of what it is we are reading in Deuteronomy. So, today, Deuteronomy chapter 28.

Commentary:

Alright. So, in the book of Deuteronomy today we spent some time in some pretty ominous territory, some pretty dark things that could happen to the children of Israel. And, so, let’s back up for a second. The children of Israel are being told by Moses that when they get into the promised land there supposed to go to the top of Mount Gerizim with half of their tribes and pronounce the blessings of the covenant and the other tribes are supposed to go up on the top of Mount Ebal and pronounce the curses of breaking the covenant. And these are actual geographical locations, Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim. And back when we were in Israel just…I guess…I guess a little more than a month ago…we went to the top of Mount Gerizim. It is one of the places where the last remaining Samaritan people live, and it was the Mount of blessing. And, so, we went up there and had it been a clear day, we would’ve been able to look down upon a biblical Shechem and over to Mount Ebal, the mount of curses, but it was socked in and raining sideways and cold. And, so, we didn’t get to see all that but we did get to get out in it, those of us who wanted to and it’s the second time I’ve done that, stood on top of the mount a blessing and let the wind blow because I’ve just learned of my life that blessing doesn’t always look like…we don’t get to exactly choose what that’s gonna look like. Like, when we open ourselves to God’s direction then it may be disruptive before it’s complete. But I’m kind of sidetracking here. We heard of the blessings and it was kind of a short, concise declaration that essentially said, if you follow…if you follow these commands, if you live like this, if you press in and be my people, then there’s nothing that will harm you and you will be blessed in everything that you do. Then we get to the curses and it’s much more ominous about what’s going to happen. This is a good time for us to understand what we’re reading here because we can read of ominous things that are so horrible like eating your own children because you’re starving in a besieged city. There we’re like, “what the heck? You know, what’s happening here? And why is God so angry? This usually comes from prophetic utterances that depict this type of destruction. Let’s get on the same page here. This is a prophetic utterance about something that could happen not about something that would happen. It would happen if the people abandon God. Their path will lead them to complete destruction and the kind of destruction that we’re talking about is being outlined so that they will know this is what will happen, but it does not need to happen. Unfortunately, even though they are being given advance prophetic warning and a clear picture of where abandoning God will lead them, they will still abandon God and they will unfortunately witness and experience these things. But as we continue forward, especially as we get into more prophetic works in the Old Testament we’ll see these kinds of prophecies that can give us such a sense of foreboding when they are prophecies of things that have not happened and do not need to happen if the people will turn back, will come back, will return to the covenantal relationship that they have entered into. And the same is true in our own lives. It’s just that a lot of times we’ll step out of the covenant, we’ll betray God, and then then things will go sideways in our lives and we’ll be mad at God for it when it’s not His fault and He did not do it and he did send his prophets through the Scriptures to say, “don’t go that way. That’s only going to destroy you. Please don’t go down that path. Here’s what will happen if you do you don’t have to do this. Stay with me.”

Prayer:

Father, we invite You into that. We’ve confessed many times that we’ve blamed You for things that You didn’t do and it’s a continual thing for us this, this kind of reestablishing relationship with You and understanding that this is a two-way street. And yes, You are the solemn God but also yes You have condescended Yourself down to a place where we can actually have a relationship with You that is personal. And, so, we’re sorry for the myriad of ways that we estrange ourselves from You and blame You for things You don’t have anything to do with. And, so, even as we’re moving through toward the end of the Torah, the book of Deuteronomy here, we see You giving warnings and we understand that if we look back over our lives the warnings were there before we made the wrong decision, we just pay attention, we just didn’t slow down and look, or we just simply didn’t care. But we are learning so much and we are seeing cause and effect in the Scriptures and we are seeing it in our own lives and its starting to lock in and make sense and we realize that You are a redeemer and You will rush to our defense at any point that we will surrender to You and return to You. And, so, we do right now. We come back, we repent, we apologize for the ways that we’ve betrayed You and the ways that we’ve blamed You. Come Holy Spirit, lead us into all truth. We ask in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is the website, its home base, its where you find out what’s going on around here. So, be sure to stay tuned and stay connected.

Check out the resources that are available in the Daily Audio Bible shop for this journey. Some of these places, like Mount Gerizim, the mount of blessing, this is all something that you can view in the promised land films. So many of the places that we visit in the Scripture are places that you can see for yourself in those films. So, that’s a resource to certainly have as we move our way through the Scriptures. That can be found in the Daily Audio Bible shop.

If you want to partner with the Daily Audio Bible in the mission that we share here to bring God’s spoken word read fresh every day and offered freely to anyone who will listen, anywhere on this planet, anytime of day or night and to use this rhythm to build community so that we know that we are never alone. No matter where we are in the world we are never alone. If that is life-giving to you, then thank you for your partnership. So, there’s a link on the homepage at dailyaudiobible.com. 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 comment, 877-942-4253 is the number to dial.

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:

Good morning Daily Audio Bible family this is Christine from Washington state and I heard Dustin, his call…or Dustin from Spokane…call and Spokane is my home town. And, so, Dustin and I heard your just voice…was just crushed and I can just feel your pain and I am praying for you __ my called. And then I heard a woman call from the Pacific Northwest today, which is Monday, April 1st and said she was having temptations, she’s married. And you just…you cannot…you cannot…you can’t get involved with this man. First of all, it’s just Satan tempting you. And, you know, Satan started in the garden of Eden with Adam and Eve trying to break them up. So, do not. You need to pray for your husband. I have a husband that’s an unbeliever and I thought about doing the same thing you did, and God just stopped me. He stopped me. He protected me. And it is not His will for you to do that. So, just be strong, keep praying for your husband, pray for him every day. Some days I just pray God’s will over him because I know anything I pray specifically is something I want. So, just pray God’s will or your husband and just keep praying and praying. I am seeing stuff change in my husband and believe me it’s been a long road but it’s just better than…than sinning against God and doing something you’ll both feel bad about even if it’s this man of God that you know and have met. Don’t…just don’t do it. So, I’m praying for all of you. And I’m so sad. I’m gonna miss the More Conference. It is so phenomenal, and Jill and Brian just do a beautiful job….

Hi community this is Charis from Texas. I was really inspired to call when I was listening the other day and I can’t remember the woman’s name but she cleans houses for a living and she listens to the prayer requests over and over again while she’s cleaning house and she’s praying for people and as I was thinking about my own situation I was like, oh, I just want that lady to be praying over my son. I have a son, he’s an adult and he deals with undiagnosed bipolar disorder and he has the clear signs of mental illness but won’t really acknowledge that he could get help with medication or __ therapy or behavior modification. And when you’re living close to someone that you love that is bipolar or has certain types of mental illness and they’re not getting help it is like watching…you hear the train coming and you can go, I think there’s a train coming, and then it’s full-blown, yup, it’s coming, and then it goes in front of you and it’s just loud and chaotic and then finally the trains passing and noise dyes down and there’s a calm for a little while before the next train comes. And that’s what it’s like with mental illness, you start seeing signs in the cycle that concern you and you go, oh my goodness, you know, he just had an explosive moment or this or that and then the symptoms and the cycle just build up and build up and build up and, then they blow up and then things start to die down before the calm again. And I’m just asking the community to pray for those of us that are dealing with this. Praying for my son, Timothy and his wife and our family as…

Good morning or wherever you are this is That Girl in Korea. I’m just calling…I was listening this morning to a woman that called in about meeting this beautiful godly man while she’s married to a non-Christian and I was just feeling really convicted to say that, you know, whatever God has brought together let no man separate. I think it should be very encouraging that God showed you this beautifully godly man and that you should, you know, highlight those…the qualities that you find so attractive and just pray that over your current husband. He really needs the strength of the Lord and the convictions of the Holy Spirit. And I think you’re in a really good place to pray for your husband and to pray for protection over your own heart. In the Lord’s prayer it says forgive us our trespasses and lead us not into temptation Lord for yours is the glory and power and honor forever and ever. So, this morning just be encouraged that wherever you are, sorry that I forget your name, but do not fall into temptation over this sweet godly man that is single. Pray for him as a brother but pray for your husband that as a brother as well. He needs you as his wife, he needs you praying for him and for his __ for salvation and for him to find Jesus. And also, it’s great that you get to see this godly man just to remember the kind of godly standards that you can, in your mind, in your heart, hold your husband to in prayer and encouragement and in love. I know it must be difficult but praying for you sister wherever you are, for you to have a great day and for the Lord guide you…

Hi everyone, it’s Christi from Kentucky. I am so amazed at our most faithful and loving God. I know that Kathy Baker called in and told you that we are almost neighbors, seriously. When Kathy had posted about her brother Denver, that he was in hospice and he was about to make his journey home. When I saw that I knew she was from Kentucky, so I looked at her profile and I found out that she’s from Lexington. And friends, we literally live from 2 miles away from one another. And, so, we met at a local hospital chapel and we were able to pray together. It was just such a beautiful time and we have so much in common. God is so good. And listen to this. Today I’m having lunch with a friend of mine from church, her name is Debbie and she’s married to Tim. And during lunch Tim texted her and she just said, “oh no” and I said, “what’s wrong?” She said, “one of our friends…I just found out that he passed away” and I said, “I’m so sorry Debbie. What’s his name?” and she said, “Denver” and I said, “Debbie did his last name happen to be Baker? and she said, “yeah…like…how do you know?” Friends, that is Kathy Baker’s brother, Denver Baker and my friend Debbie and Tim went to the same church together. Matter of fact Tim taught the Sunday school class that Denver was in. Isn’t that amazing? God orders every one of our steps and He makes Himself known to us in the most beautiful ways. So, Kathy I want you to know that I want you to meet Tim and Debbie. And, you know, I know that the Lord is…

The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Friday April 5, 2019 (NIV)

Deuteronomy 28

Blessings for Obedience

28 “Now(A) if you faithfully obey the Lord your God(B) and are careful to follow all his commands I am giving you today,(C) the Lord your God will put you far above all the nations of the earth.(D) All these blessings will come and overtake(E) you, because you obey the Lord your God:

You will be blessed in the city
and blessed in the country.(F)
Your offspring[a] will be blessed,
and your land’s produce,
and the offspring of your livestock,
including the young of your herds
and the newborn of your flocks.(G)
Your basket and kneading bowl will be blessed.
You will be blessed when you come in
and blessed when you go out.(H)

“The Lord will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you from one direction but flee from you in seven directions. The Lord will grant you a blessing on your barns and on everything you do;[b](I) he will bless you in the land the Lord your God is giving you.(J) The Lord will establish you as his holy people,(K) as he swore to you, if you obey the commands of the Lord your God and walk in his ways. 10 Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you bear the Lord’s name,(L) and they will stand in awe of you.(M) 11 The Lord will make you prosper abundantly with offspring,[c] the offspring of your livestock, and your land’s produce in the land the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. 12 The Lord will open for you his abundant storehouse,(N) the sky, to give your land rain in its season and to bless all the work of your hands.(O) You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. 13 The Lord will make you the head and not the tail;(P) you will only move upward and never downward if you listen to the Lord your God’s commands I am giving you today and are careful to follow them. 14 Do not turn aside to the right or the left from all the things I am commanding you today,(Q) and do not follow other gods to worship them.

Curses for Disobedience

15 “But if you do not obey the Lord your God by carefully following all his commands and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overtake(R) you:(S)

16 You will be cursed in the city
and cursed in the country.
17 Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.
18 Your offspring will be cursed,
and your land’s produce,
the young of your herds,
and the newborn of your flocks.
19 You will be cursed when you come in
and cursed when you go out.

20 The Lord will send against you curses, confusion,(T) and rebuke in everything you do until you are destroyed and quickly perish,(U) because of the wickedness of your actions in abandoning me.(V) 21 The Lord will make pestilence cling to you until he has exterminated you from the land you are entering to possess.(W) 22 The Lord will afflict you with wasting disease, fever, inflammation, burning heat, drought,[d] blight, and mildew;(X) these will pursue you until you perish. 23 The sky above you will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron. 24 The Lord will turn the rain of your land into falling[e] dust; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed. 25 The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions.(Y) You will be an object of horror(Z) to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the earth, with no one to scare them away.(AA)

27 “The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt,(AB) tumors, a festering rash, and scabies, from which you cannot be cured. 28 The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness, and mental confusion,(AC) 29 so that at noon you will grope as a blind person gropes in the dark.(AD) You will not be successful in anything you do. You will only be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will help you.(AE) 30 You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it.(AF) You will plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit. 31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away from you and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will help you. 32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes grow weary looking for them every day. But you will be powerless to do anything.[f](AG) 33 A people you don’t know will eat your land’s produce and everything you have labored for. You will only be oppressed and crushed continually.(AH) 34 You will be driven mad by what you see. 35 The Lord will afflict you with painful and incurable boils on your knees and thighs—from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.(AI)

36 “The Lord will bring you and your king that you have appointed to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone.(AJ) 37 You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.(AK)

38 “You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because locusts will devour it. 39 You will plant and cultivate vineyards but not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them. 40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory but not moisten your skin with oil, because your olives will drop off. 41 You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will be taken prisoner. 42 Buzzing insects will take possession of all your trees and your land’s produce. 43 The resident alien among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink lower and lower. 44 He will lend to you, but you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.

45 “All these curses will come, pursue, and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the Lord your God and keep the commands and statutes he gave you. 46 These curses will be a sign and a wonder(AL) against you and your descendants forever. 47 Because you didn’t serve the Lord your God with joy and a cheerful heart,(AM) even though you had an abundance of everything, 48 you will serve your enemies the Lord will send against you, in famine, thirst, nakedness, and a lack of everything. He will place an iron yoke(AN) on your neck until he has destroyed you. 49 The Lord will bring a nation from far away, from the ends of the earth,(AO) to swoop down on you like an eagle,(AP) a nation whose language you won’t understand,(AQ) 50 a ruthless nation,[g] showing no respect for the old and not sparing the young. 51 They will eat the offspring of your livestock and your land’s produce until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, fresh oil, young of your herds, or newborn of your flocks until they cause you to perish. 52 They will besiege you within all your city gates until your high and fortified walls, that you trust in, come down throughout your land. They will besiege you within all your city gates throughout the land the Lord your God has given you.

53 “You will eat your offspring,[h] the flesh of your sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you(AR) during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you. 54 The most sensitive and refined man among you will look grudgingly[i] at his brother, the wife he embraces,[j] and the rest of his children, 55 refusing to share with any of them his children’s flesh that he will eat because he has nothing left during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you in all your towns. 56 The most sensitive and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her refinement and sensitivity, will begrudge the husband she embraces, her son, and her daughter, 57 the afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you within your city gates.

58 “If you are not careful to obey all the words of this law, which are written in this scroll, by fearing this glorious and awe-inspiring name—the Lord, your God— 59 he will bring wondrous plagues on you and your descendants, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses. 60 He will afflict you again with all the diseases of Egypt,(AS) which you dreaded, and they will cling to you. 61 The Lord will also afflict you with every sickness and plague not recorded in the book of this law, until you are destroyed. 62 Though you were as numerous as the stars of the sky, you will be left with only a few people, because you did not obey the Lord your God. 63 Just as the Lord was glad to cause you to prosper and to multiply you, so he will also be glad to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be ripped out of the land you are entering to possess. 64 Then the Lord will scatter you among all peoples from one end of the earth to the other,(AT) and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone,(AU) which neither you nor your fathers have known.(AV) 65 You will find no peace among those nations, and there will be no resting place(AW) for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despondent spirit. 66 Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be in dread night and day, never certain of survival. 67 In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread you will have in your heart and because of what you will see. 68 The Lord will take you back in ships to Egypt by a route that I said you would never see again.(AX) There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

Footnotes:

  1. 28:4 Lit The fruit of your womb, also in v. 18
  2. 28:8 Lit you put your hand to, also in v. 20
  3. 28:11 Lit abundantly in the fruit of your womb
  4. 28:22 Or sword
  5. 28:24 Lit powder and
  6. 28:32 Litday, and not for power your hand
  7. 28:50 Lit a nation strong of face
  8. 28:53 Lit eat the fruit of your womb
  9. 28:54 Lit you his eye will be evil
  10. 28:54 Lit wife of his bosom

Cross references:

  1. 28:1-14 : Lv 26:3-13
  2. 28:1 : Ex 15:26; 19:5; 23:22; Dt 11:13; 15:5; Jr 17:24; Zch 6:15
  3. 28:1 : Dt 13:18; 30:8
  4. 28:1 : Gn 18:18; 22:18; Jr 33:9; Zch 12:3
  5. 28:2 : Dt 28:15,45; Is 35:10; 51:11; Zch 1:6
  6. 28:3 : Dt 28:16
  7. 28:4 : Dt 7:13
  8. 28:6 : Dt 28:19; 2Kg 19:27; Is 37:28
  9. 28:8 : Pr 3:10
  10. 28:8 : Dt 15:4; 30:16
  11. 28:9 : Ex 22:31; Dt 7:6; 14:2,21; 26:19; Is 62:12; 63:18
  12. 28:10 : 1Kg 8:60; 2Ch 6:33; Zph 3:20
  13. 28:10 : Dt 2:4; Mc 7:17
  14. 28:12 : Ps 135:7; Jr 10:13; 51:16
  15. 28:12 : Dt 2:7; 14:29; 16:15; 24:19; 30:9
  16. 28:13 : Dt 28:44
  17. 28:14 : 1Sm 6:12; 12:21; 1Kg 15:5; 2Kg 22:2; 2Ch 34:2
  18. 28:15 : Jb 27:20; Ps 7:5; 40:12; 69:24; Hs 10:9; Zch 1:6
  19. 28:15-68 : Lv 26:14-46
  20. 28:20 : Ezk 7:7
  21. 28:20 : Dt 7:23,24; 28:45,48,51,61; Jos 23:15
  22. 28:20 : Jr 4:4; 21:12; 26:3; 44:22
  23. 28:21 : 1Sm 15:18; Jr 9:16; 49:37
  24. 28:22 : Am 4:9
  25. 28:25 : Dt 28:7
  26. 28:25 : 2Ch 29:8; Jr 15:4; 24:9; 29:18; 34:17
  27. 28:26 : Ps 79:2; Is 5:25; 34:3; Jr 7:33; 16:4; 19:7; 34:20; Ezk 6:5; Nah 3:3
  28. 28:27 : Ex 9:9-11
  29. 28:28 : 2Kg 9:20; Zch 12:4
  30. 28:28-29 : Jb 5:14; Ps 91:6; Is 59:9-10; Am 8:9; Mt 27:45
  31. 28:29 : Dt 22:27; 1Sm 11:3; 2Sm 22:42; Ps 18:41; Is 47:15
  32. 28:30 : Ac 1:20
  33. 28:32 : Neh 5:5
  34. 28:33 : Jdg 10:8; Jb 20:19; Hs 5:11; Am 4:1
  35. 28:35 : Jb 2:7; Is 1:6
  36. 28:36 : Dt 4:28; 28:64; Dn 5:23
  37. 28:37 : Dt 4:27; 1Kg 9:7; 2Ch 7:20; Jr 24:9
  38. 28:46 : Ex 7:3; Dt 4:34; 6:22; 7:19; 26:8; Is 8:18; Jr 32:20
  39. 28:47 : Pr 15:15; Ec 9:7
  40. 28:48 : Jr 28:13-14
  41. 28:49 : Is 5:26
  42. 28:49 : Jr 48:40; 49:22
  43. 28:49 : Jr 5:15
  44. 28:53 : Lv 26:29; 2Kg 6:25-29; Jr 19:9; Lm 2:20; 4:10; Ezk 5:10
  45. 28:60 : Dt 7:15
  46. 28:64 : Lv 26:33; Dt 4:27; Neh 1:8; Ezk 22:15
  47. 28:64 : Dt 4:28; 28:36; 2Kg 19:18; Ezk 20:32; Dn 5:4,23
  48. 28:64 : Dt 8:16; 13:6; 28:36
  49. 28:65 : Gn 8:9; Dt 12:9
  50. 28:68 : Dt 17:16
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Luke 11:14-36

A House Divided

14 Now(A) he was driving out a demon(B) that was mute.(C) When the demon came out, the man who had been mute spoke, and the crowds were amazed. 15 But some of them said, “He drives out demons by Beelzebul,(D) the ruler(E) of the demons.”(F) 16 And others, as a test,(G) were demanding of him a sign(H) from heaven.

17 Knowing their thoughts,(I) he told them, “Every kingdom divided(J) against itself is headed for destruction, and a house divided against itself falls. 18 If Satan(K) also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom(L) stand? For you say I drive out demons by Beelzebul. 19 And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons(M) drive them out? For this reason they will be your judges. 20 If I drive out demons by the finger of God,(N) then the kingdom of God(O) has come upon you. 21 When a strong man, fully armed, guards his estate, his possessions are secure. 22 But when one stronger than he attacks and overpowers(P) him, he takes from him all his weapons[a](Q) he trusted(R) in, and divides up his plunder.(S) 23 Anyone who is not with me is against me,(T) and anyone who does not gather with me scatters.

An Unclean Spirit’s Return

24 “When(U) an unclean spirit(V) comes out of a person, it roams through waterless places looking for rest,(W) and not finding rest, it then[b] says, ‘I’ll go back to my house that I came from.’ 25 Returning, it finds the house swept and put in order. 26 Then it goes and brings seven other spirits(X) more evil than itself, and they enter and settle down there. As a result, that person’s last condition is worse than the first.”(Y)

True Blessedness

27 As he was saying these things, a woman from the crowd(Z) raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you and the one who nursed you!” (AA)

28 He said, “Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God(AB) and keep it.”(AC)

The Sign of Jonah

29 As the crowds were increasing, he began saying: “This generation(AD) is an evil generation.(AE) It demands a sign,(AF) but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.[c](AG) 30 For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so also the Son of Man(AH) will be to this generation. 31 The queen of the south(AI) will rise up at the judgment(AJ) with the men of this generation and condemn(AK) them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon,(AL) and look—something greater than Solomon is here. 32 The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at Jonah’s preaching, and look—something greater than Jonah is here.

The Lamp of the Body

33 “No(AM) one lights a lamp(AN) and puts it in the cellar or under a basket,[d] but on a lampstand, so that those who come in may see its light. 34 Your eye is the lamp of the body.(AO) When your eye is healthy, your whole body is also full of light. But when it is bad,(AP) your body is also full of darkness. 35 Take care, then, that the light in you is not darkness. 36 If, therefore, your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, it will be entirely illuminated, as when a lamp shines its light on you.”

Footnotes:

  1. 11:22 Gk panoplia, the armor and weapons of a foot soldier; Eph 6:11,13
  2. 11:24 Other mss omit then
  3. 11:29 Other mss add the prophet
  4. 11:33 Other mss omit or under a basket
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Psalm 77

Psalm 77

Confidence in a Time of Crisis

For the choir director: according to Jeduthun. Of Asaph.(A) A psalm.

I cry aloud to God,
aloud to God, and he will hear me.(B)
I sought the Lord in my day of trouble.
My hands were continually lifted up
all night long;
I refused to be comforted.(C)
I think of God; I groan;
I meditate; my spirit becomes weak.(D)Selah

You have kept me from closing my eyes;
I am troubled and cannot speak.(E)
I consider days of old,
years long past.(F)
At night I remember my music;
I meditate in my heart, and my spirit ponders.(G)

“Will the Lord reject forever
and never again show favor?(H)
Has his faithful love ceased forever?
Is his promise at an end for all generations?(I)
Has God forgotten to be gracious?
Has he in anger withheld his compassion?” (J)Selah

10 So I say, “I am grieved
that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”[a](K)
11 I will remember the Lord’s works;
yes, I will remember your ancient wonders.(L)
12 I will reflect on all you have done
and meditate on your actions.(M)

13 God, your way is holy.
What god is great like God?(N)
14 You are the God who works wonders;
you revealed your strength among the peoples.(O)
15 With power you redeemed your people,
the descendants of Jacob and Joseph.(P)Selah

16 The water saw you, God.
The water saw you; it trembled.
Even the depths shook.(Q)
17 The clouds poured down water.
The storm clouds thundered;
your arrows flashed back and forth.(R)
18 The sound of your thunder was in the whirlwind;
lightning lit up the world.(S)
The earth shook and quaked.(T)
19 Your way went through the sea
and your path through the vast water,
but your footprints were unseen.(U)
20 You led your people like a flock(V)
by the hand of Moses and Aaron.(W)

Footnotes:

  1. 77:10 Hb obscure
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Proverbs 12:18

18 There is one who speaks rashly,
like a piercing sword;(A)
but the tongue of the wise brings healing.(B)

Cross references:

  1. 12:18 : Ps 57:4
  2. 12:18 : Pr 4:22; 15:4
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04/04/2019 DAB Transcript

Deuteronomy 26:1-27:26, Luke 10:38-11:13, Psalms 76:1-12, Proverbs 12:15-17

Today is the 4th day of April. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It’s great to be here with you and just settle in and let the word of God be spoken over us and into our lives. What a joy, what a pleasure to come around the global campfire together with you. So, we’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week and we are kinda rounding the corner on the book of Deuteronomy and that will conclude the Torah. We’re not there, we’ve got a few days to go but we are rounding the corner and we’ll finish up within the next week. So, let’s dive. We’ll be reading Deuteronomy chapters 26 and 27 today. And again, from the Christian Standard Bible this week okay.

Commentary:

So, in the gospel of Luke today, we encounter this little brief story about Mary and Martha and we know from other gospels and other stories, Mary and Martha were sisters of Lazarus who was a friend of Jesus, and who has a story of his own in the Scriptures, but in this story, we have a well-worn visual, right? Martha is working and she’s busy serving and doing all the things that need to be done all around Jesus while Mary is sitting at his feet and listening to Him. And, so, the lesson that we can glean from this is apparent, right? All of our frantic activity and all of our motion and all of our addiction to the motion, even if it is in service to God and his people, this flurry of activity, isn’t the thing that’s going to draw us closer to Jesus, it’s actually being with Jesus. When we live our lives it seems at times, from crisis to crisis and activity to activity, and it’s just a continual perpetual motion and God is kind of whipped into that and off we go, when Jesus…Jesus speaks some things that we can remember here. “You are worried and upset about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary made the right choice and it won’t be taken away from her.” So, let’s remember that today as we go into the chaos of every day, of all of the unknowns of every day, and all of the flurry of activity and all of the obligations and responsibilities. You are worried and upset about many things, but one thing is necessary and that one thing is to sit at Jesus feet to actually be with Him. And if we think, “well maybe He doesn’t even want to be with me” He goes on to tell us, “look you who are evil know how to give good things to your children, do you not think that your Father knows how to take care of you. So ask and it will be given, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you.” And we have to ask ourselves, how much of our flurry of activity even if it’s on behalf of God is asking seeking or knocking because it fundamentally boils down to what we after here? What are we hoping for? What we trying to achieve? What is the goal here? If the goal is that God is an add-on, an upgrade to our lives, our ace in the hole to take care of the problems as they come then we’re going to find that to be lacking. If we understand that we are invited into life with God, that’s different. And if we ask and we seek and we knock we will find what we’re looking for or in the words of Jesus, “if you then who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?”

Prayer:

Father, we are asking, Holy Spirit come, well up from within us that we might sense Your presence and Your guidance and Your leadership and Your comfort in our lives that is always available but usually we’re so frantically busy that we’re not even aware. Come Holy Spirit, let us slow down, slow the whole thing down and see that You are present in leading us forward. We ask this in Your mighty name, the name of Jesus, the name above every name. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

hi this is Kiki from Arizona. This is my first time calling. I’d like to ask for a prayer request for my husband. We’ve been married from just over 26 years. We both have some disabilities. He is not Christian, he’s agnostic. He has a very rare muscular dystrophy and he fell this last year and broke his leg very badly and it’s very hard for me because he had to go into surgery and to think that if something happened to him that he would not be in heaven. And I’ve prayed for a very long time that he’d become a Christian and I’ve been listening to the Daily Audio Bible since February and caught up all through January and I just thought if I called in, the more the merrier for praying for him. So, would you please pray for my husband, his name is Bob and also for his muscular dystrophy that it never get any worse than it is now. He’s had it for 12 years. That would sure be a blessing. It’s similar to ALS but not as fast progression. And my other prayer request would be for a friend I know that lives in Long Island and she’s also on disability. She’s had cancer several times. Her sister’s selling the house that she lives in with her daughter and her grandson and her daughter’s boyfriend and another woman who’s on disability and she was __ Social Security and she has no idea where she’s gonna live, her daughter and her boyfriend, and grandson are going to move into his parents. And for $500 a month in New York she has no idea. So, if you can help and pray for her and also that her cancer doesn’t come back, I greatly appreciate that. So, thank you very much and Brian I thank you for what you’re doing. It’s really made a difference in my life already…

Good morning Daily Audio Bible family, this is Terry from upstate New York, first time calling in, year and a half listener, just loving this community. I’m calling for a woman whose name I couldn’t quite make out but she was from the Pacific Northwest. This is April 1st that I heard her message. She said she was involved with a man of God that was not her husband. I just want to talk to her and speak to her heart about this because I have been on the wrong side of that type of thing. I’ve been the husband who my wife left for a supposed man of God, which was devastating to my children and myself, still is. I would question whether a man of God is a man of God if he is pursuing a married woman. I’m just reminding you that the heart is desperately wicked and deceitful, and I understand your emotions because I’ve seen my wife at the same thing, but the devastation left behind is not worth it. You asked for God’s will. It’s pretty clear in God’s will what the covenant of marriage is and I urge you to seek out Scripture on God’s will. I don’t have time to go into it all. And just know this, that the author of confusion is the devil and you said you were confused. So, please, just dive into the Scripture on the subject. I’m praying for you because I understand the emotion behind it all but it…knowing what God’s will on it, it is that you honor your vows and pray for your marriage and seek out people that will pray with you for that. So, I’d have to say, I know the devastation for being on your husband’s side of it…

Good morning family, it’s Monday morning, April the 1st and I heard a call from a sister who is being tempted right now by godly man and I just want to say thank you sister for being so open and honest and just calling in for prayer. And, so, I wanted to pray for you. Father God, I come to You in Jesus’ name Lord and I come on behalf of our sister Lord who just showed her heart to us God and was transparent to us and to You God that she is in a temptation right now God and we know that that is from the enemy Lord God and we know Father God that You are able God to strengthen her and show her way out of this Father. God I lift her up to You and I just pray Lord that You would be her husband right now God while You are doing that work in her earthly husband while she’s waiting for him to be transformed God by You God, that You would be the husband that she needs Father, that she would fall more deeply in love with You Father God and she would not look outside of a relationship with her earthly husband and with You for anything else God. What she is missing, what she is longing for God, that You would come and fill that void that’s in her heart right now Father. God, I know that You know all her needs Father. You know God the deepest places of her heart and I just ask that You would go there and bring healing and restoration Father and just help her Lord as she falls more in love with You God that she can see her husband from Your eyes and just be praying for him for his transformation Father. And Lord I just lift up all marriages that the enemy’s coming against, that You would bring healing and restoration Father. There was a man called Oscar who called for his marriage and there’s been others God and just restoration…

Good morning Daily Audio Bible family community, this is Ann from Charlotte North Carolina. I’m very thankful for all of you for Brian and Jill and the ministry and everybody that calls in and I wanted to ask for prayer about the 10th commandment, which I have been very convicted about lately about the sin of coveting. It’s a sin that really made the apostle Paul realize that he wasn’t the perfect pharisee that he thought he was, that he failed obeying the law in the area of coveting. And the Holy Spirit is opening my eyes to how infested I can so easily be with this sin of coveting, meaning wishing that I had what someone else has and it can be anything, everything, literally anything that they have or are or have achieved or…it’s just astonishing how easy it is for me to covet and I want so to be free of this sin and I know that the answer is contentment in a relationship with Jesus Christ and I just want to prayer for that and I imagine there’s others of you that have a similar struggle in looking at anything and at others and they have or are and wishing you could be that way or have that or whatever…it’s just endless what it can be. And, so, it robs us of being…

04/04/2019 DAB Transcript

Deuteronomy 26:1-27:26, Luke 10:38-11:13, Psalms 76:1-12, Proverbs 12:15-17

Today is the 4th day of April. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It’s great to be here with you and just settle in and let the word of God be spoken over us and into our lives. What a joy, what a pleasure to come around the global campfire together with you. So, we’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week and we are kinda rounding the corner on the book of Deuteronomy and that will conclude the Torah. We’re not there, we’ve got a few days to go but we are rounding the corner and we’ll finish up within the next week. So, let’s dive. We’ll be reading Deuteronomy chapters 26 and 27 today. And again, from the Christian Standard Bible this week okay.

Commentary:

So, in the gospel of Luke today, we encounter this little brief story about Mary and Martha and we know from other gospels and other stories, Mary and Martha were sisters of Lazarus who was a friend of Jesus, and who has a story of his own in the Scriptures, but in this story, we have a well-worn visual, right? Martha is working and she’s busy serving and doing all the things that need to be done all around Jesus while Mary is sitting at his feet and listening to Him. And, so, the lesson that we can glean from this is apparent, right? All of our frantic activity and all of our motion and all of our addiction to the motion, even if it is in service to God and his people, this flurry of activity, isn’t the thing that’s going to draw us closer to Jesus, it’s actually being with Jesus. When we live our lives it seems at times, from crisis to crisis and activity to activity, and it’s just a continual perpetual motion and God is kind of whipped into that and off we go, when Jesus…Jesus speaks some things that we can remember here. “You are worried and upset about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary made the right choice and it won’t be taken away from her.” So, let’s remember that today as we go into the chaos of every day, of all of the unknowns of every day, and all of the flurry of activity and all of the obligations and responsibilities. You are worried and upset about many things, but one thing is necessary and that one thing is to sit at Jesus feet to actually be with Him. And if we think, “well maybe He doesn’t even want to be with me” He goes on to tell us, “look you who are evil know how to give good things to your children, do you not think that your Father knows how to take care of you. So ask and it will be given, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you.” And we have to ask ourselves, how much of our flurry of activity even if it’s on behalf of God is asking seeking or knocking because it fundamentally boils down to what we after here? What are we hoping for? What we trying to achieve? What is the goal here? If the goal is that God is an add-on, an upgrade to our lives, our ace in the hole to take care of the problems as they come then we’re going to find that to be lacking. If we understand that we are invited into life with God, that’s different. And if we ask and we seek and we knock we will find what we’re looking for or in the words of Jesus, “if you then who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?”

Prayer:

Father, we are asking, Holy Spirit come, well up from within us that we might sense your presence and your guidance and your leadership and your comfort in our lives that is always available but usually we’re so frantically busy that we’re not even aware. Come Holy Spirit, let us slow down, slow the whole thing down and see that you are present in leading us forward. We ask this in your mighty name, the name of Jesus, the name above every name. Amen.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Thursday April 4, 2019 (NIV)

Deuteronomy 26-27

Giving the Firstfruits

26 “When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance,(A) and you take possession of it and live in it, take some of the first of all the land’s produce that you harvest from the land the Lord your God is giving you and put it in a basket. Then go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to have his name dwell.(B) When you come before the priest who is serving at that time, say to him, ‘Today I declare to the Lord your[a] God that I have entered the land the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.’

“Then the priest will take the basket from you and place it before the altar of the Lord your God. You are to respond by saying in the presence of the Lord your God:

My father was a wandering Aramean.(C) He went down to Egypt with a few people and resided there as an alien.(D) There he became a great, powerful, and populous nation. But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, and forced us to do hard labor. So we called out to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our cry and saw our misery, hardship, and oppression.(E) Then the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, with terrifying power, and with signs and wonders. He led us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.(F) 10 I have now brought the first of the land’s produce that you, Lord, have given me.

You will then place the container before the Lord your God and bow down to him. 11 You, the Levites, and the resident aliens among you will rejoice(G) in all the good things the Lord your God has given you and your household.

The Tenth in the Third Year

12 “When you have finished paying all the tenth of your produce in the third year,(H) the year of the tenth, you are to give it to the Levites, resident aliens, fatherless children and widows, so that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied. 13 Then you will say in the presence of the Lord your God:

I have taken the consecrated portion out of my house; I have also given it to the Levites, resident aliens, fatherless children, and widows, according to all the commands you gave me. I have not violated or forgotten your commands. 14 I have not eaten any of it while in mourning, or removed any of it while unclean, or offered any of it for the dead.(I) I have obeyed the Lord my God; I have done all you commanded me. 15 Look down from your holy dwelling, from heaven, and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Covenant Summary

16 “The Lord your God is commanding you this day to follow these statutes and ordinances. Follow them carefully with all your heart and all your soul. 17 Today you have affirmed that the Lord is your God and that you will walk in his ways, keep his statutes, commands, and ordinances, and obey him. 18 And today the Lord has affirmed that you are his own possession as he promised you, that you are to keep all his commands, 19 that he will elevate you to praise, fame, and glory above all the nations he has made, and that you will be a holy people(J) to the Lord your God as he promised.”

The Law Written on Stones

27 Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, “Keep every command I am giving you today. When you cross the Jordan into the land the Lord your God is giving you, set up large stones and cover them with plaster.(K) Write all the words of this law on the stones after you cross to enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey,(L) as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you. When you have crossed the Jordan, you are to set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I am commanding you today, and you are to cover them with plaster. Build an altar of stones there to the Lord your God—do not use any iron tool on them.(M) Use uncut stones to build the altar of the Lord your God and offer burnt offerings to the Lord your God on it. There you are to sacrifice fellowship offerings, eat, and rejoice in the presence of the Lord your God. Write clearly all the words of this law on the plastered stones.”

The Covenant Curses

Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel, “Be silent, Israel, and listen! This day you have become the people of the Lord your God. 10 Obey the Lord your God and follow his commands and statutes I am giving you today.”

11 On that day Moses commanded the people, 12 “When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes will stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin. 13 And these tribes will stand on Mount Ebal to deliver the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.(N) 14 The Levites will proclaim in a loud voice to every Israelite:

15 ‘The person who makes a carved idol or cast image, which is detestable to the Lord, the work of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret is cursed.’

And all the people will reply, ‘Amen!’

16 ‘The one who dishonors his father or mother is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

17 ‘The one who moves his neighbor’s boundary marker is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

18 ‘The one who leads a blind person astray on the road is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

19 ‘The one who denies justice to a resident alien, a fatherless child, or a widow is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

20 ‘The one who sleeps with his father’s wife is cursed, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.’[b]

And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

21 ‘The one who has sexual intercourse with any animal is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

22 ‘The one who sleeps with his sister, whether his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

23 ‘The one who sleeps with his mother-in-law is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

24 ‘The one who secretly kills his neighbor is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

25 ‘The one who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

26 ‘Anyone who does not put the words of this law into practice is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

Footnotes:

  1. 26:3 LXX reads my
  2. 27:20 Lit has uncovered the edge of his father’s garment; Ru 3:9; Ezk 16:8
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Luke 10:38-11:13

Martha and Mary

38 While they were traveling, he entered a village, and a woman named Martha(A) welcomed him into her home.[a] 39 She had a sister named Mary, who also sat at the Lord’s[b] feet(B) and was listening to what he said.[c] 40 But Martha was distracted by her many tasks, and she came up and asked, “Lord, don’t you care(C) that my sister has left me to serve alone? So tell her to give me a hand.”[d](D)

41 The Lord[e] answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and upset about many things,(E) 42 but one thing is necessary.[f](F) Mary has made the right choice,[g] and it will not be taken away from her.”

The Lord’s Prayer

11 He was praying(G) in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”(H)

He said to them, “Whenever you pray, say,(I)

Father,[h](J)
your name(K) be honored as holy.(L)
Your kingdom come.[i](M)
Give us each day our daily bread.[j](N)
And forgive us our sins,(O)
for we ourselves also forgive everyone
in debt to us.[k](P)
And do not bring us into temptation.”[l](Q)

Ask, Search, Knock

He also said to them: “Suppose one of you[m] has a friend and goes to him at midnight and says to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, because a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I don’t have anything to offer him.’ Then he will answer from inside and say, ‘Don’t bother me! The door is already locked, and my children and I have gone to bed. I can’t get up to give you anything.’ I tell you, even though he won’t get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his friend’s shameless boldness,[n] he will get up and give him as much as he needs.(R)

“So(S) I say to you, ask,(T) and it will be given to you. Seek,(U) and you will find. Knock,(V) and the door will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. 11 What father among you, if his son[o] asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, who are evil,(W) know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father(X) give the Holy Spirit(Y) to those who ask him?”

Footnotes:

  1. 10:38 Other mss omit into her home
  2. 10:39 Other mss read at Jesus’s
  3. 10:39 Lit to his word or message
  4. 10:40 Or tell her to help me
  5. 10:41 Other mss read Jesus
  6. 10:42 Some mss read few things are necessary, or only one
  7. 10:42 Lit has chosen the good part, or has chosen the better portion; = the right meal
  8. 11:2 Other mss read Our Father in heaven
  9. 11:2 Other mss add Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven
  10. 11:3 Or our bread for tomorrow
  11. 11:4 Or everyone who wrongs us
  12. 11:4 Other mss add But deliver us from the evil one
  13. 11:5 Lit Who of you
  14. 11:8 Or persistence
  15. 11:11 Other mss read son asks for bread, would give him a stone? Or if he
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Psalm 76

Psalm 76

God, the Powerful Judge

For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A psalm of Asaph.(A) A song.

God is known in Judah;
his name is great in Israel.(B)
His tent is in Salem,
his dwelling place in Zion.(C)
There he shatters the bow’s flaming arrows,
the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war.(D)Selah

You are resplendent and majestic
coming down from the mountains of prey.(E)
The brave-hearted have been plundered;
they have slipped into their final sleep.
None of the warriors was able to lift a hand.(F)
At your rebuke, God of Jacob,
both chariot and horse lay still.(G)

And you—you are to be feared.[a]
When you are angry,
who can stand before you?(H)
From heaven you pronounced judgment.
The earth feared and grew quiet(I)
when God rose up to judge
and to save all the lowly of the earth.(J)Selah
10 Even human wrath will praise you;
you will clothe yourself
with the wrath that remains.[b](K)

11 Make and keep your vows
to the Lord your God;(L)
let all who are around him bring tribute
to the awe-inspiring one.[c](M)
12 He humbles the spirit of leaders;
he is feared by the kings of the earth.(N)

Footnotes:

  1. 76:7 Or are awe-inspiring
  2. 76:10 Hb obscure
  3. 76:11 Or tribute with awe
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Proverbs 12:15-17

15 A fool’s way is right in his own eyes,(A)
but whoever listens to counsel is wise.

16 A fool’s displeasure is known at once,
but whoever ignores an insult is sensible.(B)

17 Whoever speaks the truth declares what is right,
but a false witness speaks deceit.(C)

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04/03/2019 DAB Transcript

Deuteronomy 23:1-25:19, Luke 10:13-37, Psalms 75:1-10, Proverbs 12:12-14

Today is April 3rd. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian. It is my pleasure, just a joy to come around the global campfire, come in out of the cold, come in out of the dark, throw another log on and gather together and let God’s word wash over and speak to us as we just step away from whatever else the chaos of life may be bringing our way and center ourselves in this space in this time and hear from God through His word. So, we’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this week and our next step forward will take us back into the book of Deuteronomy. Today we’ll read chapters 23, 24, and 25.

Commentary:

Alright. So, in the gospel of Luke today Jesus told a very famous story, the parable of the Good Samaritan and oh gosh this parable is so loaded and so pertinent to our lives it’s remarkable. So, just quickly understanding who Samaritans were is a little bit helpful but at this point in the year it’s not completely apparent because all the stories that lead us to who Samaritans are haven’t been told yet. So, briefly, the children of Israel are going to make their way into the promised land. You probably know that and they’re gonna settle the promised land. You probably know that too and there’s gonna be seasons that are good and seasons that are not so good, which will eventually lead them to having kings, which will eventually lead them to split into two different nations known as the northern kingdom and the southern kingdom. The northern kingdom of Israel, which is 10 tribes, will eventually be conquered by the Assyrian Empire and they will be carried away into exile. This is the way the empires built the empires or one of the ways. They would conquer a people and then relocate them forcibly into another part of the Empire while moving other conquered peoples into the land that was previously vacated, like, moving people around, mixing them all up so that over the course of a generation or two people would stop remembering who they used to be and only know themselves as part of the Empire. So, when Assyria conquered the northern kingdom and displaced a lot of them and moved a bunch of other people in, what came in was a lot of different religious practices and idolatry. So, the people are worshiping however they’re gonna worship but there’s problems with that. And, so, they request that a priest of Yahweh be brought back to teach them how to worship the God of this land. The problem is that the priest that they bring back…like the priests of the northern kingdom have already been practicing a very, very skewed version of the worship of Yahweh, of the worship that’s happening in Jerusalem in the Temple. This is because the first King of the northern kingdom, his name was Jeroboam. He built two temples and put a golden calf in each one of them and had the people worship this golden calf as Yahweh. And, so, it just got all messed up as you can imagine. So, by the time we get to Jesus time this land is very different and the people are worshiping very differently, and they become Samaritans because the northern kingdom’s capital and its land was known as Samaria. So, those being Orthodox and true down in Jerusalem, they never looked at the Samaritans as anything but, you know, people to not be trusted, people who had a very, very strange way of trying to practice the same worship. And, so, they avoided, they looked down upon, they stayed away from the Samaritans. So, getting back to the story Jesus is telling, there’s the man saying, “what do I need to do to have eternal life”? Jesus asks him a really, really interesting question, “how do you read it? In other words, here’s God talking to a person and asking him how he reads the Bible or the Scriptures. Fascinating. And the man says, “what is true, if you love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength and you love your neighbor as yourself then you’ve fulfilled the law.” That’s still true today. That’s, what we’re supposed to be doing. And Jesus affirms that. And then the man’s like, “who is my neighbor?” That’s what launches Jesus into the story of the good Samaritan. And this road between Jerusalem and Jericho, this is a very, very ancient road still visible today and it winds through a very, very deep, dark valley, very dangerous place to be. And even today, you can see many parts of that and kinda, from different angles, begin to understand, yeah, that's…there’d be all kinds of…there’s nowhere to run and lots of places to hide. So, very dangerous road indeed. So, Jesus is kind of critiquing the religion of the time, the Hebrew religion, by placing a priest and a Levite who step around a very injured man and he makes the Samaritan the hero of the story, which is so counter cultural and, like, such a disruptive message at the time because these were people that were not trusted, people that shouldn’t be the heroes of the story. And, so, in effect Jesus saying, to love your neighbor as yourself is to look around you and see anyone whether they’re your perceived enemy or whether you don’t understand them or whether their people group is foreign to you or whether they’re worshiping in a completely different way from you. If you find a human being that it is in your power to help in some sort of way even if that’s just a smile, then you should do it. That would be loving your neighbor as yourself.

Prayer:

Father, there are endless opportunities for this. It just forces us to be aware because we are so focused on the obligations and responsibilities of any given day that we’re just trying to maintain our lives and we don’t really have time to be paying attention to anything else. And, so, we’re recognizing again, even as we continue to move through this season of Lent that we are humbling ourselves before You, laying all of the obligations and responsibilities of our lives before You and asking You to reorder and reprioritize us, removing things that don’t need to be in our lives anymore, putting things in that do belong so that we can have a life that is something that can be maintained while still having the freedom to follow Your Holy Spirit and be observant about loving our neighbors as we love ourselves because it’s not just about people with cardboard signs on sides of roads. It’s anyone, anywhere, anytime that is in need when we observe it. So, come Holy Spirit. And during this season of Lent we commit to paying more attention to this but what we’re asking is for a life that has space to live, space to actually be Your hands and feet in this world instead of just space where we’re just juggling all of the balls trying to keep them in the air, trying to maintain an oversized life when there is freedom waiting for us and an adventure with You if we would simply allow You to show us what is a priority. Come Holy Spirit into these issues we ask in Jesus’ name. Amen.

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I was thinking about this parable and just thinking about how many different vantage points of seeing this rift. It’s basically…it’s the Kidron valley that runs through Jerusalem and the valley runs, winds all the way down to Jericho. And yeah, it’s a treacherous place. There’s a longer conversation about this parable and about what we’ve just been talking about today, an entire chapter is devoted to this story found in my book Sneezing Jesus, which is available wherever you can get books, including dailyaudiobible.com or audiobooks, wherever you get audiobooks. It’s worth it…it’s worth it to listen to a read if you want to go deeper into this story and that resource is available at dailyaudiobible.com or pretty much anywhere.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi Cherry Chase, this is Betsy from Indiana. I heard your voice today and I was so sad because you are such a shining and bright energetic light for our family and I’m sad that there is such imperfect humans that are leading you to feel at your workplace that it is a difficult as it is and I just pray that the Lord will help open up your eyes to see what’s really going on with those imperfect people and bring that to a resolution that is tolerable for you. Also, Christine with the bumpy dog, I wanted to let you know I’ve been praying for you and thinking of you almost every day during this time of transition. You mentioned it’s really a time of waiting between treatments and I know that can be difficult. I kind of was thinking the other day that I could say I was…your Christie with the bumpy dog and I could be Betsy with a bumpy life and I think all of us can probably relate to that. And I also wanted to shout out to Mary Lynn who has now dubbed what I can only think of as the vacuum ministry. I loved your call, I love your idea. I put my headphones in the other day when I needed to vacuum, and I thought of you and I thought of our community and I loved your suggestion. And also, Scott from Alaska, safe travels to you. Thanks for your insights about traveling this road of life and how often we can see that far into it. I love you all and hope you have a good week.

This Protected by His Wings in Virginia. Thank you, Jesus Christ for giving up your perfect life for my sinful one. Thank you, Brian and Jill that all those behind the scenes for this wonderful podcast, such a blessing to my life. Since I’ve started listening about eight months ago to the Daily Audio Bible there have been several callers involving singleness, loneliness, seeking a mate, have been seeking a mate but it ended, followed a potential mate to another state but it did work out, all asking for prayer and God’s direction. I’ve been all of you. If you’re willing to hear this, here is my advice. Never follow a potential mate. All husbands follow a wife. If they or you are not committed to marriage, they are not someone you should follow. If you start dating someone and then ask God to bless it, don’t expect Him to do so. Instead, ask God’s advice before you ask someone out on a date or you say yes to someone whose asked you on a date. First John 5:14, “Now this is the confidence we have before him. Whenever we ask for anything according to His will He hears us. James 4:3, “You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly so that you may spend it on your own desires.” Psalms 66:18, “If I had been aware of malice in my own heart, the Lord would not have listened.” Thanks be to God who loves us so much He gave us His only begotten son and who should ever believe on him shall not perish but have everlasting life. Thank you, Jesus. Amen.

Good morning family this is Erin from Michigan. Let’s pray. Father God I thank You for this day. I thank You for the fact that You are the great Creator and through we You we are able to create also. I thank You Lord God that You are the lover of all people, all nations, all hues, all groups Lord God. Help us to grow in Your love. I lift up Cherry Chase to You today Lord God. I lift up her pain. I lift up the trouble that she’s having at work Lord God. I pray for these people who are using their race, prejudice, and the power that they have behind them to harm Cherry Chase Lord God. I lift You up and thank You for her. Thank for creating her Lord God and thank You for her voice. I thank You for her heart and her mind Lord God. I thank You for her perseverance and her strong faith in You Lord God. I ask You to bind the demons of racism. Lord God I ask You to bind it and send it to the pit of hell. I acknowledge before You and all of my family Lord God that racism is a total afront to Your holiness. You have created us as one race Lord God, the human race Lord God and I know it breaks Your heart. I ask You to help it to break our hearts as well Lord God. I ask You not to let us shy away from this issue that will define us Lord God. If we say nothing when others are __  to do something but You never meant to divide us Lord God. I ask You, break our hearts Lord God. I lift up Cherry Chase. Help her to be strong Lord God, help her to feel Your presence, Your patients, Your abundance Lord God, Your perseverance. I pray for Cherry Chase Lord God. I thank You for the Daily Audio Bible. I thank You for Brian Lord God and I pray that You make us bold, bold in Your name against the demons of racism Lord God. Help us to be bold. Help us to speak Your name and show Your love. Thank You…

Hi everyone, this is Liz calling from Toronto. I have been listening to the Daily Audio Bible since January the share but today for the first time I listened to the community prayer in its entirety and I’ve got to tell you for the first time I feel like I feel the fullness of the family of all you DABbers. I now have a really great understanding of the prayers that we hear daily and the names of some of the callers that make it a regular practice. I think it’s awesome. I know it’s a three-hour commitment, but I would encourage everyone to listen in and find a way to hear all of the prayers and praise reports. I certainly will from now on. So, I have a praise report and a request for today. I called in the beginning of February I think it was to ask for prayer for the journey that my son Nathaniel is on with his search for a new school as he was transferring to a soccer program at Syracuse University. Well, praise God, it looks like he’ll be committing to the University of Alabama Birmingham on a full tuition scholarship. So, thank you so much for very for your prayers. Its very far from home but as I listened to the community prayer today I heard about five or six colors from Alabama. So, I’m reminded of how God covers us in the body of Christ, right? So, that’s very encouraging to me. I would also like to lift up in prayer my dear friend, Linda. She’s suffering from a shoulder injury that’s causing some really severe pain right now. She recently took the step to retire from a long career in a hairdressing and she’s relying on working from home to support her financially. So, the shoulder injury is preventing her from cutting hair. She can’t lift her arm up. Her rent is due tomorrow. She lives alone. So, please pray that she’ll be healed, and that God would give her a renewed sense of his provision. Thank you, Daily Audio Bible family. I love you and bye for now.