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Our reading today John 13-15. After the reading, I’ll have some comments for you. I’m calling today’s episode “Unity.”  

What Jesus shared with His disciples in these three chapters is so rich that an entire college semester could be devoted to its study. We don’t have that kind of time, so I am going to focus on just two topics. 

Jesus knows that this is the last meal he will share with His disciples before He will be crucified. They are in the Upper Room. They are going to have the Passover meal together. And knowing this is His last time with them, He wants to leave them with some final words. 

God uses repetition in the Bible to emphasize important points. 

John 13: 3x

John 13:34-35 “I give you a new commandment – to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples – if you have love for one another.”

John 15:12 My commandment is this – to love one another just as I have loved you.

John 15:17 This I command you – to love one another.

Why was loving one another so critical? Why did Jesus emphasize it so much? 

Jesus will soon be leaving them with a monumental task: to take His message of salvation to the entire world. Eleven men. He knew that in order for them to do this, they had to be united in every way. They had to be focused on the one purpose. They had to love one another. 

He said they were to love each other as He had loved them. And they did not yet know it, but in a few short hours He would demonstrate just what that meant. 

By loving one another, they would be able to overlook petty differences that always come up when people are involved.  1 Corinthians 13: 4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful. 6 It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends.

Where there is love, there is unity. When there is unity, great things can be accomplished. And when God is in it, nothing can stop the mission.

In chapter 15, from verse 18 to the end of the chapter Jesus told them that the world would hate them because it hates Him. In verse 25 he said, Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without reason.’ What he means there is they had no *good* reason. Of course they had a reason: they hated everything Jesus was and did and said. 

And that’s why the disciples needed to love one another. So that they could stand the attacks.

Beloved, we live in difficult times. And Jesus’ command still stands, for the same reason. If we allow the attacks of the world to divide us, we lose. Isn’t that what has been happening for decades? We’re divided because of race, sex, political party, age group, the neighborhood we live in, you name it. Why? Because when we are divided, we are weak. We are less effective. 

How are we going to win people to Jesus if we don’t love? We first have to love one another, and then we need to love the lost. But if we can’t even love other believers, why would non believers have a reason to listen to us? What do we have to offer them? 

I understand being passionate about your political views. But do divisive or insulting social media posts help or hurt the mission of sharing the love of Jesus? Don’t participate in spreading the hate, the division. We are called to be salt and light. To do that, people need to see Jesus in us. Let’s remember that next time we sign on to our social media accounts. 

Bible translation used in today’s episode: Ch. 13 GNT; Ch. 14 NASB; Ch. 15 NET

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Well, hi there. This is the Lifespring family Audio Bible coming to you from Riverside, California, podcasting since 2004. I’m your OG God caster Steve Webb, I’m so glad you’re here today. This is the daily show where we’re reading through the entire Bible in a year. Today, our reading is John 13 through 15. After the reading, I’ll have some comments for you and I’m calling today’s episode, unity. The show notes page for today’s episode is at Lifespring media.com/s 12 e 248. And my email address is Steve at Lifespring media.com. Let’s get started.

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John, chapter 13. It was now the day before the Passover festival, Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. He had always loved those in the world who were his own, and he loved them to the very end. Jesus and his disciples were at supper, the devil had already put into the heart of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, the thought of betraying Jesus. Jesus knew that the Father had given him complete power. He knew that he had come from God, it was going to God. So he rose from the table, took off his outer garment, and tied a towel around his waist. Then he poured some water into a wash basin and began to wash the disciples feet and dry them with a towel around his waist. He came to Simon Peter who said to him, are you going to wash my feet? Lord? Jesus answered him, You do not understand now what I’m doing. But you will understand later, Peter declared, never at any time when you wash my feet. If I do not wash your feet, Jesus answered, You will no longer be my disciple. Simon Peter Hansard, Lord, do not wash only my feet, then wash my hands and head to Jesus said, those who have taken a bath are completely clean, they do not have to wash themselves except for their feet. All of you are clean. All except one. Jesus already knew who was going to betray him. That is why he said, all of you, except one are clean. After Jesus had washed their feet, he put his outer garment back on and returned to his place at the table. Do you understand what I’ve just done for you? He asked. You call me Teacher and Lord. And it is right that you do so because that is what I am. i Your Lord and Teacher have just washed your feet. You then should wash one another’s feet. I’ve set an example for you so that you will do just what I have done for you. I am telling you the truth. No slaves are greater than their master. And no messengers are greater than the one who sent them. Now that you know this truth, how happy you will be if you put it into practice. I’m not talking about all of you. I know those I have chosen. But the scripture must come true that says the man who shared my food turned against me. I tell you this now before it happens, so that when it does happen, you will believe that I am who I am. I’m telling you the truth. Whoever receives anyone I send receives Me also. And whoever receives me receives him who sent me. After Jesus had said this, he was deeply troubled and declared openly. I’m telling you the truth, one of you is going to betray me. The disciples looked at one another completely puzzled about whom he meant. One of the disciples, the one whom Jesus loved, was sitting next to Jesus, Simon Peter motion to him and said, ask him who he’s talking about. So that disciple moved closer to Jesus side and ask, Who is it Lord? Jesus answered, I will dip some bread in the sauce and give it to him. He is the man. So he took a piece of bread, dipped it and gave it to Judas the son of Simon Iscariot. As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, hurry and do what you must. None of the others of the table understood why Jesus said this to him. Since Judas was in charge of the money bag, some of the disciples thought that Jesus had told him to go and buy what they needed for the festival. Judas accepted the bread and went out at once. It was night. After Judas had left, Jesus said, Now the Son of Man’s glory is revealed. Now God’s glory is revealed through him. And if God’s glory is revealed through him, then God will reveal the glory of the Son of man in himself and he will do so at once. My children, I shall not be with you very much longer. You will look for me, but I tell you now what I told the Jewish authorities, you cannot go where I am going. And now I give you a new commandment, love one another. As I have loved you So you must love one another. If you have love for one another, then everyone will know that you are my disciples. Where are you going? Lord? Simon Peter asked him, you cannot follow me now where I am going, answered Jesus, but later you will follow me. Lord, why can’t I follow you now as Peter, I’m ready to die for you. Jesus answered, are you really ready to die for me? I’m telling you the truth. Before the rooster crows, you will say three times that you do not know me.

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John, chapter 14, Do not let your heart be troubled, believe in God, believe also in Me, In my Father’s house are many dwelling places, if it were not, so I would have told you, for I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself that where I am, there you may be also. And you know the way where I am going. Tom has said to him, Lord, we do not know where you’re going. How do we know the way Jesus said to him, I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father, but through me. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him. And if seen him, Philip said to him, Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us. Jesus said to him, Have I been so long with you? And yet you have not come to know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father, how can you say, Show us the Father? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative. But the father abiding in me does his works. Believe me, that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me, otherwise believe because of the works themselves. Truly, truly I say to you, he who believes in me the works that I do, he will do also. And greater works than these he will do. Because I go to the Father, whatever you ask in my name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son, if you ask me anything in my name, I will do it. If you love me, you will keep My commandments. I will ask the Father and He will give you another Helper that he may be with you forever. That is the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him. But you know Him because He abides with you, and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans, I will come to you. After a little while the world will no longer see Me. But you will see me because I live you will live also. In that day, you will know that I am in the Father and you in Me and I in you. He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him. Judas not Iscariot said to him, Lord, what then has happened that you are going to disclose Yourself to us and not to the world. Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves Me, he will keep my word, and My Father will love him. And we will come to him and make Our abode with him. He who does not love me does not keep my words. And the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me. These things I’ve spoken to you while abiding with you, but the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you. Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you, not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful. You heard that I said to you, I go away and I will come to you. If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I go to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. Now I have told you before it happens so that when it happens, you may believe I will not speak much more with you, for the ruler of this world is coming in he has nothing in me. But so that the world may know that I love the Father. I do exactly as the Father commanded me. Get up. Let us go from here.

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John chapter 15. I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener. He takes away every branch that does not bear fruit in me. He prunes every branch that bears fruit so that it will bear more fruit. You are clean already because of the word that I have spoken to you. Remain in me and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine so neither can you unless you remain in me. I am the vine. You are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him bears much Root, because apart from me, you can accomplish nothing. If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch and dries up. And such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire and are burned up. If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you. My Father is honored by this, that you bear much fruit and show that you are my disciples. Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you remain in my love. If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love. Just as I have obeyed my father’s commandments, and remain in his love. I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. My commandment is this, to love one another, just as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, that one lays down his life for his friends. You are my friends, if you do what I command you, I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my father, you did not choose me. But I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that remains so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you this, I command you to love one another. If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first. If you belong to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world. For this reason the world hates you. Remember what I told you, a slave is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too. But they will do all these things to you on account of My name, because they do not know the one who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin, but they no longer have any excuse for their sin. The one who hates me hates my father too. If I had not performed among them the miraculous deeds that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen the deeds and have hated both me and my father. Now this happened to fulfill the word that was written in their law. They hated me without reason. When the advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who goes out from the Father, He will testify about me. And you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

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Well beloved, what Jesus shared with his disciples in these three chapters is so rich that an entire college semester could be devoted to its study. Of course, we don’t have that kind of time. So I’m just going to focus on a couple of topics. Now Jesus knows that this is the last meal that he’s going to share with his disciples before he’ll be crucified. Here they are in the upper room, and they’re going to have the Passover meal together. And knowing that this is his last time with them, Jesus wants to leave them with some final words. Now, you know, right that God uses repetition in the Bible to emphasize important points, right? Well, in John 1334, and 35, Jesus said, I give you a new commandment to love one another, just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. Everyone will know by this, that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. And then in chapter 15, verse 12, Jesus says, My commandment is this, to love one another, just as I have loved you. And then in verse 17, he says, this, I command you to love one another. So why do you suppose that loving one another was so critical? Why did he emphasize it so much at this last supper? Well, he soon going to be leaving them with a monumental task, to take his message of salvation to the entire world, just 11 men, no, not 12 because Judas is out of there. Jesus knew that in order for them to be able to do this, they had to be united in every way. They had to be focused on the one purpose. They had to love one another. He said that they were to love each other is he had loved them. And they didn’t know it yet. But in a few short hours, he would demonstrate just exactly what that meant. And by loving one another, they would be able to overlook the petty differences that always come up when people are involved. Right? Love is not just a warm, fuzzy feeling. And Paul talked about what love is in first Corinthians chapter 13. Paul said Love is patient. Love is kind. It is not envious. Love doesn’t brag it is not puffed up. It is not RWD it is not self serving, it is not easily angered or resentful. It is not glad about injustice but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things endures all things. Love never ends. You see, beloved, where there is love, there is unity, where there is unity, great things can be accomplished. And when God is in it, nothing can stop the mission. Of course, they also needed the Holy Spirit. And Jesus talked to them about him as well. But here we’re talking about love. But in chapter 15, from verse 18, to the end of the chapter, Jesus kind of switch gears. He told them that the world would hate them because it hates him. In verse 25, he said, Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law. They hated me without reason. What Jesus meant there was they had no good reason. Of course, they had a reason they hated everything Jesus was and to Edison said, and that’s why the disciples needed to love one another so that they could stand the attacks. Beloved, we live in difficult times, don’t we? And Jesus command still stands for the same reason. If we allow the attacks of the world to divide us, we lose. And isn’t that what’s been happening for decades now? We’re divided because of race because of sex, political party age group, the neighborhood we live in, you name it, why do they want to divide us? Because when we’re divided, we’re weak. We’re less effective. How are we going to win people to Jesus, if we’re divided, and if we don’t love? We first have to love one another, and then we need to love the last. But if we can’t even love other believers, why would non believers have a reason to listen to us? What do we have to offer to them? Now listen, I understand about being passionate about your political views, but do divisive or insulting social media posts help or hurt the mission of sharing the love of Jesus? Don’t participate in spreading the hate and the division. We’re called to be salt and light. And to do that, people need to see Jesus in us. Let’s remember that the next time we sign onto our social media accounts, you have a comment, let me know go to Lifespring media.com/s 12 e 248. Tomorrow we’ll read Second Timothy, chapters three and four.

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On this date in church history, May 7 1907 Kathryn Kuhlman was born she was an American itinerant evangelist and spiritual healer. She discovered her gift of healing while pastoring a small church in Pennsylvania when people in her congregation began reporting unexpected healings during her services. Her best known book is her 1962 autobiography, I believe in miracles.

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Let’s pray. Our heavenly Father, Lord, help us to love as you love. Show us how when there’s so much division and hatred around us, help us to love one another despite what we hear on the news or other sources. The enemy is sowing discord and division at every turn. And we know that these do not come from you. Help us to come together and to show love for each other for you. And for the last people who so desperately need you. Help us to be effective ambassadors for your kingdom. I pray God that you bless the Lifespring family today. I thank you for each one who’s listening right now. And I pray this in Jesus name, amen. If you have a prayer request or a praise, go to prayer dot Lifespring media.com.

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Paul of Seattle. God bless you!

Our reading today Joel. After the reading, I’ll have some comments for you. I’m calling today’s episode “Is There A Joel Out There.”  

In studying this book, I came upon a commentary by the 19th century English preacher, Joseph Parker. This man was known as a great orator, so I know I won’t do him justice in quoting him, but these are his words in regards to the prophet Joel: 

“We need a Joel today. For his wages we would award him starvation. He would not live in king’s houses. There is nothing today in Church or state that does not need pulling to pieces, cross examination, analysis, that all that is good therein…and there is much good…may be brought into new cohesion, and set to new and fuller uses. Men are bribing men, and then going to the Sunday school; many are saying, “If you will get this property on these terms through my hands it will be on the understanding that…” and the all but silent reply is…”That will, of course, be understood.” And then they go to church! If some Joel were to come he would be starved, he must be starved. No one ever came to do Messianic work who was not nailed and pierced and crucified. It is in vain to preach peace until we have first preached repentance; it is mischievous to say, peace, peace, where there is no peace; It is iniquity in the sight of God to daub the wall with untempered mortar. Nothing is settled until it is settled at the foundations.”

We don’t speak like that today, do we? Let me try to paraphrase Rev. Parker: We need someone like Joel today. The church and the culture needs to be completely re-examined to find what is good so that there can be a new and unified partnership with them in order for them to be effective. There is corruption and deal making, even among so called believers. It is foolish to call for peace until we first call for repentance, a turning from our sins and to Almighty God. It is wrong in the sight of God to try to bring repairs with corrupt methods and people. Nothing will stand unless the foundation is strong.

As we look at our world today, I think we would have to agree with Rev. Parker’s message. The world is in turmoil. People call for peace and unity, but there is neither peace nor unity. Why? Because God has been expunged from our governments, our schools, our society. We will never have peace until the people turn back to him. 

Several shows back I asked you to pray with me for a world wide revival. I believe that is the only way we’ll see sanity return to the world. 2 Chronicles 7:14 says, “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”

Like God promised through Joel to heal Israel, I believe he can do the same now. We don’t know God’s plan for us now, but I do believe it is our responsibility to pray, to confess our sins and to ask God to move on people’s hearts. 

Bible translation used in today’s episode: Ch. 1-3 HCSB

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I’ve got a short introduction here for you before we begin the reading. The name Joel means Jehovah is God. And we don’t know the exact time that Joel wrote this book, but many scholars believe that it was about 835 BCE, if that’s accurate than his time was before the exile to Babylon. Joel wrote to Israel and his message can be summed up as the day of the Lord is coming to bring judgment for God’s enemies in restoration for God’s people. That summation is from Charles Savelle, currently adjunct professor of Bible exposition at Dallas Theological Seminary.

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Joel chapter one. The word of the Lord that came to Joel son of pith you’ll hear this you elders. Listen oh you inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your ancestors? Tell your children about it and let your children tell their children and their children the next generation. What the devouring locust has left. This warming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust has left. The young locust has eaten and what the young locust is left, the destroying locust has eaten. Wake up you drunkards and weep. Whale all you wine drinkers because of the sweet wine for it has been taken from your mouth. For a nation is divided my land, powerful and without number. Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and it has the fangs of a lioness. It has devastated my great fine and splintered my fig tree. It is stripped off its bark and thrown it away. Its branches have turned white. grieve like a young woman dressed in sackcloth, morning for the husband of her youth, grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the Lord. The priests who are ministers of the Lord mourn. The fields are destroyed, the land grieves, indeed the grain is destroyed. The new wine has dried up and the olive oil fails, be ashamed you farmers well you vinedressers over the wheat and the barley because the harvest of the field is perished. The grape vine is dried up and the fig tree is withered, the pomegranate, the date palm in the apple. All of the trees of the orchard have weathered indeed, human joy has dried up, dress in sackcloth and lament you priests. Well you ministers of the altar. come and spend the night in sackcloth you ministers of my god because grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your god announced the sacred fast proclaim and assembly. Gather the elders and all the residents of the land at the house of the LORD your God and cry out to the Lord. Whoa because of that day, for the day of the Lord is near and will come as devastation from the Almighty has it the food been cut off before our eyes joy and gladness from the house of our God. The seeds lie shriveled in their casings. The store houses are in ruin and the greeneries are broken down because the grain has withered away. How the animals grown the herds of cattle wandering confusion since they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep suffer punishment. I call to you Lord for fire has consumed the pastures of the wilderness and flames have devoured all the trees of the countryside. Even the wild animals cry out to you for the riverbeds are dried up and fire has consumed the pastures of the wilderness. Joel chapter two.

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Blow the horn in Zion sound the alarm on my holy mountain led all the residents of the land tremble for the day of the Lord is coming. In fact, it is near a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds in dense overcast like the dawn spreading over the mountains. A great and strong people appears such as never existed in ages past and never will again in all the generations to come. A fire destroys in front of them and behind them a flame devours. The land in front of them is like the Garden of Eden. But behind them it is like a desert wasteland. There is no escape from them. Their appearance is like that of horses and they gallop like war horses. They bound on the tops of the mountains. Their sound is like the sound of chariots, like the sound of fiery flames consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for war. nations rise in horror before them, all faces turn pale. They attack is warriors attack. They scale walls as men of war do. Each goes on his own path, and they do not change their course. They do not push each other. Each man proceeds on his own path. They dodge the arrows never stopping. They stormed the city, they run on the wall, they climb into the houses, they enter through the windows like thieves, the earthquakes before them, the sky shakes, the sun and moon grow dark and the stars cease their shining. The Lord raises his voice in the presence of his army. His camp is very large. Those who carry out his command are powerful. Indeed, the day of the Lord is terrible and dreadful, who can endure it? Even now, this is the Lord’s declaration turned to Me with all your heart with fasting, weeping and mourning. Tear your hearts not just your clothes and return to the Lord your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger rich in faithful love, and he relents from sending disaster who knows he may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind him so you can offer grain and wine to the Lord your God. Blow the horn in Zion announced the sacred fast proclaiming assembly. Gather the people sanctify the congregation, assemble the aged gather the children, even those nursing at the breast. Let the groom leave his bedroom and the bride her honeymoon chamber. Let the priests the Lord’s ministers weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say, have pity on your people, Lord, and do not make your inheritance a disgrace and object of scorn among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples where is their God? Then the Lord became jealous for his land in spared his people. The Lord answered his people. Look, I am about to send you grain, new wine and olive oil. You will be satiated with him and I will no longer make you a disgrace among the nations. I will drive the northerner far from you and banish him to a dry and desolate land. His front ranks into the Dead Sea and his rear guard into the Mediterranean Sea. His stench will rise Yes, his rotten smell will rise for he has done catastrophic things. Don’t be afraid land. Rejoice and be glad for the Lord has done great things. Don’t be afraid wild animals for the wilderness pastures have turned green. The trees bear their fruit and the fig tree and the grape vine yield their riches. children of Zion rejoice and be glad in the Lord your God because he gives you the autumn rain for your vindication. He sends showers for you both autumn and spring rain is before the threshing floors will be full of grain and the vats will overflow with new wine and olive oil. I will repay you for the years that the swarming locusts ate the young locust, the destroying locust and the devouring locust, my great army that I sent against you, you will have plenty to eat and be satisfied. You will praise the name of Yahweh your God who has dealt wondrously with you. My people will never again be put to shame. You will know that I am present in Israel and that I am Yahweh your God and there is no other My people will never again be put to shame. After this, I will pour out my spirit on all humanity. Then your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will have dreams and your young men will see visions. I will even pour out my spirit on the male and female slaves in those days. I will display wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood fire and columns of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the great and on inspiring day of the Lord comes. Then everyone who calls on the name of Yahweh will be saved for there will be an escape for those on Mount Zion it in Jerusalem is the Lord promised among the survivors the Lord calls.

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Joel chapter three. Yes, in those days and at that time when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all the nations and take them to the valley of Jehoshaphat. I will enter into judgment with him there because of my people my inheritance Israel. The nations have scattered the Israelites in foreign countries and divided up my land. They cast lots for my people. They bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink and also tyre Sidon and all the territories of Philistia What are you to me? Are you paying me back or trying to get even with me? I will quickly bring retribution on your head adds, For you took my silver and gold and carried my finest treasures to your temples. You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks to remove them far from their own territory. Look, I’m about to rouse them up from the place where you sold them. I will bring retribution on your heads. I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Serbians to a distant nation for the Lord has spoken. Proclaim this among the nations prepare for Holy War rouse the Warriors let all the men of war advance that attack. Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning knives into Spears lead even the weakling say I am a warrior. Come quickly all US surrounding nations gather yourselves bring down your warriors their Lord, let the nations be roused in come to the valley of Jehoshaphat for their I will sit down to judge all the surrounding nations swing the sickle because the harvest is ripe. Come and trample the grapes because the wine presses full. The wine vats overflow because the wickedness of the nations is great. Multitudes, multitudes and the valley of decision for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. The Sun and Moon will grow dark and the stars will cease their shining. The Lord will roar from Zion and raise his voice from Jerusalem. Heaven and earth will shake but the Lord will be a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the Israelites. Then you will know that I am Yahweh your God who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain, Jerusalem will be holy, and foreigners will never overrun it again. In that day, the mountains will drip with sweet wine and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will flow with water and a spring will issue from the Lord’s house watering the Valley of acacias. Egypt will become desolate and Edom, a desert wasteland because of the violence done to the people of Judah in whose land they shed innocent blood. But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. I will pardon their blood guilt which I have not pardoned for the Lord dwells in Zion.

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In studying this book, beloved, I came upon a commentary by the 19th century English preacher Joseph Parker. The good Reverend Parker was known as a great orator. So I know I won’t do him justice in quoting him, but these are his words in regards to the prophet Joel. He said, “We need a Joel today for his wages, we would award him starvation, he would not live in Kings houses. There is nothing today in church or state that does not need pulling to pieces, cross examination analysis, that all that is good they’re in and there is much good, may be brought into new cohesion and set to new and fuller uses. Man are bribing men and then going to the Sunday school. Men are saying, if you will get this property on these terms through my hands, it will be on the understanding that and the all but silent reply is, that will of course be understood. And then they go to church. If some Joel were to come, he will be starved he must be starved. No one ever came to do messianic work who was not nailed and pierced and crucified. It is in vain to preach peace until we have first preached repentance. It is mischievous to say peace, peace where there is no peace. It is iniquity in the sight of God to dab the wall with untempered mortar. Nothing is settled until it is settled at the foundations.” Well, we don’t speak like that today. Do we? Let me try to paraphrase Reverend Parker. We need someone like Joel today, the church and the culture needs to be completely re examined to find what is good so that there can be a new and unified partnership with them in order for them to be effective. There is corruption and dealmaking even among so called believers, it’s foolish to call for peace until we first call for repentance, a turning from our sins and to Almighty God. It is wrong in the sight of God to try to bring repairs with corrupt methods and people. Nothing will stand unless the foundation is strong. Well as we look at the world today, I think we’d have to agree with Reverend Parker’s message. The world is in turmoil. People call for peace and unity but there’s neither peace nor unity because God has been expunged from our governments, our schools and our society. We will never have peace until the people turned back to him. Several shows back I asked you to pray with me for a worldwide revival. Do you remember that? I believe that this is the only way we’ll see Saturday returned to the world. Second Chronicles 714 says if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked Ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Like God promised through Joel to heal Israel, I believe that he can do the same thing. Now, beloved, we don’t know God’s plan for us right now. But I do believe that it’s our responsibility to pray to confess our sins, and to ask God to move on people’s hearts. I would love to hear from you comment on the show notes page at Lifespring media.com/s 12 e 247. Tomorrow, we’re going to read John 13 through 15. Boost.

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Paul of Seattle signed up for a $20 donation yesterday, that makes him today’s associate producer. Thank you, brother, very much appreciated. Here’s part of what Paul of Seattle wrote. He said, I want you to know that I very much appreciate the time and effort you put into the podcast, it is a lot more than a lot. I would not have the time to dedicate to doing this on a daily basis. Because I know it takes hours not only to study, but to just record and produce. Well, Paul of Seattle, thank you very much for that. God bless you. I noticed today that this is episode 247 of season 12 of the Lifespring family Audio Bible. And you know what that means? Right? That means that episode 250 is just three days away. Next Monday, May 9 2022. Seems to me like that sounds like perhaps an opportunity for a special donation. How about it? lately? A few people in writing their notes with their donations have mentioned that they’ve meant to make a donation, but they just now got around to it. Well, maybe you too have been meaning to donate, but haven’t done it yet. How about letting this be the time, make a special episode 250 donation with $2.50 or $25, or $250, or even $2,500, or an equivalent amount of sets. Normally, a one time donation of $100 earns an associate producer credit. But if your donation of just $25 comes in by 6pm Pacific Daylight Time, this Sunday, May 8, you’ll be given an associate producer credit on the show. And usually a one time donation of $300 or more earns an executive producer credit. What if I told you that a one time donation of $250 would do it? If the donation comes in by 6pm? Pacific Daylight Time this coming Sunday, May 8? Well, I’m not going to tell you that. How about this. Normally a one time gift of $500 or more earns the highly honored distinguished producer credit. But for Episode 250, your gift of $250 We’ll learn to distinguish producer credit. Yeah. And with that you choose any upcoming Lifespring family Audio Bible episode that you’d like your credit to apply to? Do you have a favorite scripture that we haven’t read yet on the show? Well, that can be the episode you use your distinguished producer ship on. That’s just one idea. The point is you choose the episode. And as high an honor as distinguished producer is there is an even higher honor that can be earned within the halls of the Lifespring media compound. Am I laying it on thick enough here? Well, what could that be you ask? We read of the Bereans and X 1710 through 15. You can look that up. But the key verse For our purposes here is verse 11. B which says the Bereans were eager to hear what Paul and Silas said. And they studied the scriptures every day to find out if these things were true. So in my mind, the highest title I can imagine is that of Berean. So for our episode 250 donation, a $2,500 donation would be most appreciated for sure. But since a one time donation of just $1,000 $1,000 earned to the brewery and title, how about this, with your $2,500 donation, I will produce in your name, a special episode of any of these Lifespring media podcasts you choose. I’ll do an episode of the original Lifespring podcast. Or I’ll do an episode of in touch with God’s character or an episode of Lifespring him stories, or the Lifespring weekend music show or how to pronounce Bible names. You choose one of those and I will produce a very special episode of that show in your name. The show will go out on the podcast feed for that show, of course, but it’ll also be on the Lifespring all shows feed and I’ll even put it in the feed for this show. As a special episode Bereans will also earn the title of brother or sister as in brother Mark or sister Martha and you’ll get a signed copy of my book webs easy Bible names Pronunciation Guide. I don’t know I think that would be pretty special. Now I’m talking about the whole package, not just the book. Now listen All episode 250 donations will have to be in by 6pm Pacific Daylight Time, this coming Sunday, May 8 2022. That gives me time to produce Monday show which has to go out at 10 o’clock on that day. So if you’ve been meaning to donate, and you haven’t yet now it’d be a great time to do it. The reason this show exists is to help you read through the entire Bible in a year, and to present the good news of a risen Christ without compromise. To take some of the scriptures we read and comment on them and make you think, to perhaps even help you grow closer to the God who loves you and who gave his life for you. If the show is succeeding in this for you, please go to Lifespring media.com/support and donate. All thank you and I think God bless you.

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On this date in church history, May 6 1809 William Walker was born he was a Southern American music teacher and inventor of the seven shaped note musical system. He spent much of his life collecting traditional tunes of the southern Appalachians or Appalachians, depending on where you’re from. I had never heard of the seven shaped note musical system. And so I looked it up. It’s really interesting if you are at all a lover or a student of music, seven shaped note musical system. Happy birthday, William Walker.

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Let’s pray. Our gracious heavenly father once more, we plead with you to bring a global revival. nations everywhere have turned from you and it seems like judgment is coming or even starting. But Lord, we know that there are millions billions who don’t know you. You’ve told us that you take no pleasure in the destruction of people. So we ask that you use us and that you raise up your people around the world who will bring the message of salvation to those who don’t know you. Soften hearts, Lord, bring more people to yourself, turn people to you. In Jesus name. Lord, please bring a revival. And I thank You, Lord for the Lifespring family. You have specifically called each one here. No one is here by accident. And Lord, I’m so thankful. I pray that you would bring each of us to a greater understanding of who you are. As we read your word together, and that our love for you would be stronger. Bless each one today I pray in Jesus name, amen. Send your prayer requests and your praises to prayer dot Lifespring media.com.

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Comment on the show and Lifespring media.com/s 12 e 247. Or email me at Steve at Lifespring media.com Thanks to Paul of Seattle for supporting the show at the associate producer level today. God bless you brother. And thanks to Kirsty for publishing the newsletter. Perhaps by the time you hear this episode, the new newsletter is out. And thanks to Sean of San Pedro for making sure the chapters get done every day and for consistently streaming those SATs and boosting. God bless Paul of Seattle. God bless Kirstie and God bless Sean of San Pedro and God bless you. Until tomorrow. May God bless you richly. My name is Steve Webb. See you tomorrow. Bye.

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Our reading today Proverbs 22. After the reading, I’ll have some comments for you. I’m calling today’s episode “What Will They Say?”  

You should want a good name more than you want great riches. To be highly respected is better than having silver or gold.

Proverbs 22:1 NIRV

My wife, the Lovely Lady LeeAnn, doesn’t like it when I talk about this, but Proverbs 22:1 brought it to mind, so I must. 

I’m at the age where I sometimes think about how I will be remembered when I’m no longer around. At close to 68 years old, I think I have eased out of middle age. Wouldn’t you agree? As a matter of fact, at this point I have lived longer my biological father, and three of his four brothers. The paternal side of my family didn’t live long lives. My mother’s side of the family mostly lived into their 80’s and 90’s, so it’s anybody’s guess what the chances are that I’ll live to be an old man. I tease about being old now, but 68 really isn’t considered to be old like it was in past generations. Is it??? Maybe I’m just kidding myself.

But I do think about how I’ll be remembered. One thing is for sure, I have no interest at all in being remembered for how wealthy or poor I was. I have never lived my life to see how much wealth I could acquire. Sure, I tried to provide as comfortable life as I could for the Lovely Lady LeeAnn and my kids, but I never made it a goal to see how large I could grow my business or bank account.

I had a childhood friend who I was very close to, even into our twenties. We were both Christians and grew up in middle class families, we played sports together at our high school, and generally had the same values. Around the age of about 30 we began to grow apart, mostly because our lives just got busy with family and trying to earn livings for ourselves. 

But then this friend of mine got into a business that eventually made him a multi-millionaire. It’s a good business. He is well respected in his industry, as far as I know, and he travels the world and has all the trappings of success. Except it does not appear that he has a relationship with the Lord. Again, I am no longer close him, but I see him occasionally. Obviously I can’t know what is in his heart. But I cannot say that there is any observable evidence that Jesus has a place in his life.

Sure, when he is gone people will know that he had great wealth. From that perspective, his life will have been a success. When we were in our twenties, I remember having conversations about gaining wealth, and that was one of his top goals. So he made it.

But when people remember me, I want to be remembered as a godly man. I want my kids and grandkids to know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I loved God, and I lived my life for Him. Of course, they’ll remember I was far from perfect, but I hope they’ll know that despite my flaws, I was one hundred percent in love with my Lord. I hope that I have many more years to build memories with them that they’ll be able to look back on when I’m gone that will cause them to say, “Yes. He was a good man, an honest man, a fair man, a man of integrity, and above all, a godly man.”

That matters far more to me than leaving them a big inheritance. I would much rather leave a legacy of living for the Lord, than how to become wealthy. 

Bible translation used in today’s episode: Ch. 22 NIRV

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Hey, let’s do this again. This is the Lifespring family Audio Bible coming to you from Riverside, California, podcasting since 2004. I’m your OG God caster Steve Webb, welcome. This is the daily show where we’re reading through the entire Bible in a year. Today, our reading is Proverbs 22. After the reading, I’ll have some comments for you. And we’re going to do something a little bit different in the prayer requests section today. I’m calling today’s episode, what will they say? The show notes page for today’s episode is at Lifespring media.com/s 12 e 246. My email address is Steve at Lifespring media.com. Are you ready? Let’s go.

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Proverbs chapter 22. You should want a good name more than you want great riches. To be highly respected is better than having silver or gold. The Lord made rich people and poor people. That’s what they have in common. Wise people see danger and go to a safe place, but childish people keep going and suffer for it. Have respect for the Lord in Don’t be proud that will bring you wealth and honor and life. Thorns and traps lie in the paths of evil people, but those who guard themselves stay far away from them. Train a child in the way he should go. When he is old, he will not turn away from it. Rich people rule over those who are poor borrowers are slaves to lenders. Anyone who plants evil gathers a harvest of trouble. His power to beat others down will be destroyed. Anyone who gives freely will be blessed. That’s because he shares his food with those who are poor. If you drive away those who make fun of others, fighting also goes away. Arguing and unkind words will stop. Have a pure and loving heart and speak kindly, then you will be a friend of the king. The eyes of the Lord keep watch over knowledge. But he does away with the words of those who aren’t faithful. People who don’t want to work say there’s a lion outside or they say, I’ll be murdered if I go out into the streets. The mouth of a woman who commits adultery is like a deep pit. Any man the Lord is angry with will fall into it. A child is going to do foolish things, but correcting him will drive his foolishness far away from him. One person may beat poor people down in order to get rich. Another person may give gifts to rich people, both of them will become poor. Pay attention and listen to the sayings of those who are wise. Apply your heart to the sayings I teach. It is pleasing when you keep them in your heart. Have all of them ready on your lips. You are the one I’m teaching today. I want you to trust in the Lord. I have written 30 sayings for you. They will give you knowledge and good advice. I am teaching you words that are completely true, then you can give the right answers to the one who sent you. One. Don’t take advantage of poor people just because they’re poor. Don’t beat down those who are in need by taking them to court. The Lord will stand up for them in court, he will take back the stolen goods from those who have robbed them, too. Don’t be a friend with anyone who burns with anger. Don’t go around with a person who gets angry easily. You might learn his habits, and then you will be trapped by them. Three, don’t agree to pay for what someone else owes. Don’t put money up for him. If you don’t have the money to pay, your bed will be taken right out from under you for don’t move old boundary stones that your people set up long ago. Five. Do you see a man who does good work, he will serve kings. He won’t serve ordinary people.

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Proverbs 22:1 said you should want a good name more than you want great riches to be highly respected is better than having silver or gold. My wife a lovely lady Leanne doesn’t like it when I talk about this. But proverbs 22. One brought it to mind. So let’s dive in. I’m at the age where sometimes I think about how I’ll be remembered when I’m no longer around. I’m close to 68 years old and therefore, I think I’ve eased out of the middle age period of my life would you agree? As a matter of fact, at this point, I’ve lived longer than my biological father did and three of his four brothers. Yeah, the paternal side of my family didn’t live very long. Now my mom’s side of the family is quite a bit different. They lived until they were into their 80s and 90s. So really, it’s any buddies guess what the chances are that I’ll live to be an old man. I tease about being old now. But 68 isn’t really considered to be old, like it was in past generations, is it? Or maybe I’m just getting myself. But I do think about how I’ll be remembered. One thing is for sure, I have no interest at all in being remembered for how wealthy or how poor I was. I’ve never lived my life to see how much wealth I could acquire. Yes, I tried to provide as comfortable a life as I could for Leann and the kids. But I really never made it a goal to see how large I could grow my business or my bank account. Of course, I don’t want to check out as a Plopper. But gaining wealth has never been important to me. I had a childhood friend who I was very close to even into our 20s, we were both Christians as we grew up, and we grew up in middle class families, we played sports together. And we generally had the same values. But at around the age of about 30, we began to grow apart, mostly because our lives just kind of got busy with family and trying to earn a living for ourselves. But then this friend of mine got into a business that eventually made him a multimillionaire. It’s a good business. He’s well respected in his industry, as far as I know. And he travels around the world with some of the most amazing kinds of trips, and he’s got all the trappings of success, except it doesn’t appear that he has a relationship with the Lord. Again, I’m no longer close to him. But I see him occasionally. And I can’t know what’s in his heart, of course, but I can’t say that there’s any observable evidence that Jesus has any place in his life. Yeah, when he’s gone, people will know that he had great wealth. And from that perspective, I guess his life will have been a success. Because when we were in our 20s, I remember having conversations with him about gaining wealth. And that was one of his top goals. So he made it. But when people remember me, I want to be remembered as a godly man. I want my kids and my grandkids to know beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I love God, and that I lived my life for him. Yeah, they’ll remember that I was not a perfect guy. But I hope that they’ll know that despite my flaws, I was 100% in love with my Lord, as he I hope I have many more years to build memories with him that they’ll be able to look back on when I’m gone, that will cause them to say, Yeah, grandpa was a good man. He was an honest man, a fair man, a man with integrity. But what I remember most about grandpa, he loved God. Yeah, that matters more to me than leaving them a big inheritance there, because there’s really no chance of that. But honestly, I would much rather leave a legacy of living for the Lord than how to become wealthy. What do you think? Tell me your thoughts. Go to Lifespring media.com/s 12 e 246. And tell me what you think. Our reading tomorrow will be the book of Joel. That’s one of the Minor Prophets. And there are three chapters Boost.

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As I said at the top of the show, the prayer requests section is going to be a little bit different today. So let’s get into it. I got an email this afternoon from Cindy. She said, Hi, Steve. I know you won’t read this until after the fact. But I wanted to let you know that I’m praying that the procedure went well today and that your back held up okay. And you weren’t in too much pain. You are a blessing. Sign Cindy will send you thank you. That’s very sweet. I did have the CT scan. And it was pretty easy. No problems there. The worst part of the process was not being able to have my morning coffee and breakfast, but mostly the coffee. They required that I have a four hour fast before the scan. And since it happened in the morning, that meant that I couldn’t have anything to eat or drink when I got up. But they held the worst part back from me until after the scan. Because what they had to do was inject some sort of a dye into my veins that would make the veins and arteries in my heart show up well on the scan. And because this dye has to be flushed out through the kidneys, they want you to drink a lot of water after the scan. And the radiologist told me I couldn’t have any coffee for at least eight hours more. He said drink that water drink a lot of it. You got to flush that die out of your kidneys. But you can drink anything that’s a diuretic like coffee. Talk about ruining a guy’s day. Oh, well. Well, let me tell you about the process. The whole thing was only about 20 minutes start to finish. The radiologist had me lay on my back on this little narrow table. And then he put four different leads on my chest for the EKG part of the test. And then he put an IV in my arm through which the die was injected. And then he left to go into his control room. Really makes you feel good, right? They say you’re gonna stay in here and I’m gonna go in that other room where it’s safe. Now he didn’t say the safe part, but that’s kind of how you feel. So he went into the control room and then once he got his computer set up the table that I was lying on moved me Feet first into the scanner that reminded me of a big donut standing on edge. Now, why would I be thinking about donuts on a morning that I had no breakfast. So I went into this doughnut hole, feed first. And once my heart was lined up with this big donut, the radiologist told me through a little speaker in the donut to hold my breath for about eight seconds or so while he took pictures of my heart, I guess. And then the table moved again. And we went through the same thing, I don’t know, 234 times. And then there’s something inside the donut that goes around and around and around really quickly, and it made it make some noise. And did that happen for about a minute or so I think maybe he moved me back and forth on that table while that was happening. And then it was over. Then he came out of the control room, took the leads off my chest, took the IV out, and then gave me the bad news about the coffee and sent me on my way. So it really it was today was easy. The part that’s going to hurt my back is when we do the procedure on the 27th. That’s the time that I have to lay on my back for six hours. But thank you all for your prayers. I got Cindy’s email this afternoon and Shaun of San Pedro sent me a message this morning as well. And so I thank you guys for your prayers. I really do appreciate it. And please do remember to pray for the lovely lady Leanne. She’s flying out tonight for Florida. And also we need to pray for Kathy del tells me that she’s not eating enough. If she doesn’t eat, she can’t regain her strength. But she always feels nauseous because of the cancer drugs that she’s on. So we need to pray for her. Let’s pray. Our heavenly Father, Lord, we thank You for Your word in the wisdom that you have put into it. Help us Lord to put more effort into being godly people than building our bank accounts. Make us the kind of people that when they look at us, they see Jesus we want to reflect you Lord. Lord, I pray that You would give Kathy an appetite. strengthen her body, Lord, bring her healing in Jesus name. And be with Leanna she flies out tonight. Help her to make her connections. Show her the way calm her nerves. Make this a fun adventure for her instead of a scary trial. And thank you, Lord for the care you’re giving me through the doctors and the nurses and all the technicians. Father, I pray that You would bless the Lifespring family today. May they know that you’re with him today. I pray this in Jesus name. Amen. Send in your prayer requests and praises at prayer dot Lifespring media.com.

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I love it when you guys comment on the show. Please do that at Lifespring media.com/s 12 e 246. Email me at Steve at Lifespring media.com and support the show please at Lifespring media.com/support. And thanks to Kirsty and Sean of San Pedro, for helping me to get this show out for you. Thank you guys. God bless you. And it’s a short one today. But until tomorrow may God bless you richly. My name is Steve Webb. I’ll see you tomorrow. Bye bye

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In a world where almost nothing feels private anymore, Jesus gives us a beautiful invitation: there is still one room no one can enter but you and your Heavenly Father.

Today’s verse is Matthew 6:6.

Matthew 6:6 is often remembered as Jesus’ instruction about private prayer. However, there is something deeper here. Jesus is not merely telling us where to pray. He is teaching us who our audience should be.

In the verse just before this, Jesus warns against praying in order to be seen by others. The problem is not prayer, of course. The problem is performance. Therefore, when Jesus tells us to go into our room and shut the door, He is inviting us to leave every other audience outside.

No reputation to maintain. No need to sound impressive. No concern about whether anyone thinks we are “good” at praying.

Just you and your Father.

Moreover, Jesus does not say, “Pray to God who is in secret.” He says, “Pray to your Father.” That changes everything. The One who sees in secret is not an auditor, inspector, or distant ruler. He is your Father. He sees your fears, weaknesses, disappointments, and unspoken questions—and still invites you in.

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Why this episode matters: Many believers quietly edit themselves before God, trying to sound more faithful, thankful, confident, or spiritual than they really feel. Matthew 6:6 reminds us that secret prayer is not a performance. It is relationship.

Jesus’ command to shut the door is not about hiding from the world as much as it is about choosing an audience of One. In that quiet place, editing becomes unnecessary because the Father already knows everything and still welcomes us.

This episode also emphasizes that prayer is not only speaking. Because prayer is relationship, it also involves listening. As we quiet our hearts, open God’s Word, and wait before Him, the Holy Spirit can bring Scripture to mind, provide wisdom, conviction, comfort, and encouragement.

Finally, Jesus promises that the Father who sees in secret will reward us. Perhaps the greatest reward is not simply answered prayer, but the Father Himself—peace, rest, safety, and the joy of being fully known and fully loved.

Matthew 6:6 (ESV) — “But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”

Read it in context here: Matthew 6 (BibleGateway, ESV)

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Our reading today Psalms 105-107. After the reading, I’ll have some comments for you. I’m calling today’s episode “They Forgot His Mighty Deeds.”  

Chapter 106 opens with a call to praise the Lord and give thanks because He is good and His loyal love endures. In fact, the first five verses are a joy to read. We’re sort of saying, “Yes! Amen!” along with the author.

And then at verse seven things take a darker tone. The author confesses that we have sinned like our ancestors. There is talk of sin and judgement, betrayal and anger. Deliverance and forgetfulness. 

And then, in the second to the last verse, the writer pleads for God to deliver us. He promises to give thanks and tell of God’s marvelous deeds. And the last verse proclaims that the Lord God of Israel deserves praise forever, and urges everyone to say, “We agree! Praise the Lord!”.

What I make of this is that even in the midst of judgement and pain, God is worthy of praise. Why? Because, as it says in the very first verse, “His loyal love endures forever.” Judgement and anger don’t come because God no longer loves us. On the contrary. If God didn’t love us, he would be indifferent to us. He would turn us over to our own wicked ways, which we know from scripture that He does do to those who have hardened their hearts to him. But if we seek him, if we turn from our rebellion, His love for us is shown by forgiveness and redemption. 

As a matter of fact, God already proved that over 2,000 years ago with the death and resurrection of Jesus, His son. We have only to accept that fact and believe that He died for our sins, and then allow Him to guide our actions and decisions, to experience that loyal and enduring love. I’m so glad I don’t have to depend on my own effort or my own faithfulness. I fail more often than I care to admit. But he sees it all, and he offers forgiveness. 

The Lord God of Israel deserves praise, in the future and forevermore. Say with me, “We agree! Praise the Lord!”

In this Psalm there are several calls to give thanks to the Lord, for he is good and his loyal love endures.  We hear this refrain four times: “Let them give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for people! ” 

The Psalm ends with this: Let them consider the Lord’s acts of loyal love!

Have you been delivered from an enemy? Give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for you!

Have you been delivered from hunger or thirst? Give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for you!

Have you been a prisoner or a captive? God was and is there to bring freedom. Give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for you!

Have you been sick? God is the creator of our bodies. He is the Master Physician. Give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for you!

Have you experienced a raging storm and known the calm brought by the Word of God? Give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for you!

Have you experienced loss, but seen God miraculously provide? Give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for you!

God’s loyal love. It never fails. It never wavers. God is love.

Bible translation used in today’s episode: Ch. 105 CEV; Ch. 106-107 NET

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God to the rescue

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Psalms chapter 105. Praise the Lord in pray in His name. Tell everyone what he has done. Sing praises to the Lord, tell about his miracles, celebrate in worship His holy name with all your heart. Trust the Lord and His mighty power, remember His miracles and all his wonders in his fair decisions. You belong to the family of Abraham, his servant, you are his chosen ones, the descendants of Jacob, the Lord is our God bringing justice everywhere on earth. He will never forget his agreement or his promises. Not in 1000s of years, God made an eternal promise to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when he said, I’ll give you the land of Canaan. At the time, there were only a few of us and we were homeless. We wandered from nation to nation from one country to another. God did not let anyone mistreat our people. Instead, he protected us by punishing rulers and telling them Don’t touch my chosen leaders are harmed by prophets. God kept crops from growing until food was scarce everywhere in the land. But he had already sent Joseph sold as a slave into Egypt, with chains of iron around his legs and neck. Joseph remained a slave until his own words had come true. And the Lord had finished testing him. Then the king of Egypt set Joseph free and put him in charge of everything he owned. Joseph was in command of the officials and he taught the leaders how to use wisdom. Jacob and his family came and settled in Egypt as foreigners. They were the Lord’s people so he let them grow stronger than their enemies. They served the Lord and He made the Egyptians plan hateful things against them. God sent his servant Moses. He also chose and said Aaron to his people in Egypt, and they worked miracles and wonders there. Moses and Aaron obeyed God and he sent darkness to cover Egypt. God turned their rivers into streams of blood and the fish all died. frogs were everywhere, even in the royal palace. When God gave the command, flies and nets swarmed all around. In place of rain, God sent hailstones and flashes of lightning. He destroyed their grapevines and their fig trees, and he made splitters of all the other trees. God gave the command and more grasshoppers came than could be counted. They ate every green plant and all the crops that grew in the land of Egypt. Then God took the life of every firstborn son. When God led Israel from Egypt, they took silver and gold and no one was left behind. The Egyptians were afraid and gladly let them go. God hid them under a cloud and guided them by fire during the night. When they asked for food, he sent more birds than they could eat. God even split open a rock and streams of water gushed into the desert. God never forgot his sacred promise to His servant Abraham. When the Lord rescued his chosen people from Egypt, they celebrated with songs. The Lord gave them the land and everything else the nations had worked for. He did this so that his people would obey all his laws. Shout praises to the Lord.

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Of Psalm 106 Derek Kidner wrote, this psalm is the dark counterpart of its predecessor, a shadow cast by human self will in its long struggle against the light. And this is what Charles Spurgeon had to say, “Israel’s history is here written with a view of showing human sin, even as the preceding Psalm was composed to magnify divine goodness. It is, in fact, a national confession.” And Alexander McClaren added, “The keynote of Psalm 105 is remember his mighty deeds, that of Psalm 106 is, they forgot his mighty deeds.”

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Psalm 107 begins the last of the five books of the Psalms. Though it does not have a title given in the text, Derek Kidner called it God to the rescue. In this song God’s deliverance is shown in four vignettes and were shown that even though we all have different events in our lives. There are remarkable similarities in that God’s love takes us through the most difficult circumstances.

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Psalms 107. Give thanks to the Lord for He is good and his loyal love endures. Let those delivered by the Lord speak out, those whom he delivered from the power of the enemy and gathered from foreign lands from east and west from north and south. They wandered through the wilderness on a desert road, they found no city in which to live. They were hungry and thirsty, they fainted from exhaustion, they cried out to the Lord in their distress, he delivered them from their troubles, he led them on a level road that they might find a city in which to live. Let them give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love and for the amazing things he has done for people. For he has satisfied those who thirst and those who hunger he has filled with food. They sat in utter darkness bound in painful iron chains because they had rebelled against God’s commands and rejected the instructions of the Sovereign King. So he used suffering to humble them. They stumbled and no one helped them up. They cried out to the Lord in their distress, he delivered them from their troubles. He brought them out of the utter darkness and tore off their shackles. Let them give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love and for the amazing things he has done for people. For he shattered the bronze gates and hacked through the iron bars. They acted like fools in their rebellious ways and suffered because of their sins. They lost their appetite for all food, and they drew near the gates of death. They cried out to the Lord in their distress. He delivered them from their troubles, he sent them and assuring word and healed them. He rescued them from the pits where they were trapped. Let them give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love for the amazing things he has done for people. Let them present thank offerings and loudly proclaim what he has done. Some traveled on the sea and ships and carried cargo over the vast waters. They witnessed the acts of the Lord his amazing feats on the deep water. He gave the order for a wind storm and it stirred up the waves of the sea. They reached up to the sky then dropped into the depths. The sailors strength left them because the danger was so great. They swayed and staggered like a drunk and all their skill proved ineffective. They cried out to the Lord and their distress, he delivered them from their troubles, he calmed the storm and the waves grew silent. The sailors rejoiced because the waves grew quiet and he led them to the harbor they desired. Let them give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love and for the amazing things he has done for people. Let them exalt Him in the assembly of the people. Let them praise him in the place where the leaders preside. He turned streams into a Desert Springs of water into arid land, and a fruitful land into a barren place because of the sin of its inhabitants. As for his people, he turned a desert into a pool of water and a dry land into springs of water. He allowed the hungry to settle there, and they established a city in which to live. They cultivated fields and planted vineyards which yielded a harvest of fruit. He blessed them so that they became very numerous, he would not allow their cattle to decrease in number. As for their enemies, they decreased in number and were beaten down because of painful distress and suffering. He would pour contempt upon princes and made them wander in a wasteland with no road. Yet he protected the needy from oppression and cared for his families like a flock of sheep. When the godly see this, they rejoice and every sinner shuts his mouth. Whoever is wise, let him take note of these things. Let them consider the Lord’s acts of loyal love.

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Chapter 106 opens with a call to praise the Lord and to give thanks because he is good, and his loyal love endures. In fact, the first five verses are a joy to read. We find ourselves saying Yes, amen. Along with the author. And then at verse seven things take a darker tone. The author confesses that we have sinned like our ancestors. There is talk of sin and judgment, betrayal and anger, deliverance and forgetfulness. And then in the second to the last verse, the writer pleads for God to deliver us. He promises to give thanks and tell of God’s marvelous deeds. In the last verse proclaims that the Lord God of Israel deserves praise forever, and urges everyone to say we agree praise the Lord. What I make of this is that even in the midst of judgment in pain, God is worthy of praise. Why? Because as it says in the very first verse, he is loyal. love endures forever. Judgment and anger don’t come because God no longer loves us. On the contrary, if God didn’t love us, he would be indifferent to us, he would turn us over to our own wicked ways, which we know from Scripture that he does do to those who have hardened their hearts to Him. But if we seek Him, if we turn from our rebellion, His love for us is shown by forgiveness and redemption. As a matter of fact, didn’t God already proved that over 2000 years ago with a death and resurrection of Jesus, we have only to accept that fact and believe that He died for our sins, and then allow Him to guide our actions and our decisions to experience that loyal and enduring love. I’m so glad I don’t have to depend on my own effort or my own faithfulness. I fail more often than I care to admit. But he sees it all, and he offers forgiveness. The Lord God of Israel deserves praise in the future and forevermore. Say with me, we agree, praise the Lord.

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And in Psalm 107, there are several calls to give thanks to the Lord for He is good, and his loyal love endures. We hear this refrain four times, let them give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for people. The psalm ends with this, let them consider the Lord’s acts of loyal love. Have you ever been delivered from an enemy? Give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for you. Have you been delivered from hunger or from thirst? Give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love and for the amazing things he has done for you. Have you been a prisoner or a captive? God was it is there to bring freedom. Give thanks to the Lord and for his loyal love and for the amazing things he has done for you. Have you been sick? God is the creator of our bodies. He is the master physician. Give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love and for the amazing things he has done for you. Have you experienced a raging storm and known the calm brought by the word of God? Give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love and for the amazing things he has done for you. Have you experienced loss but seen God miraculously provide Give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love and for the amazing things he has done for you. God’s loyal love. It never fails. It never wavers. God is love. I’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave a comment at Lifespring media.com/s 12 e 245. Our reading tomorrow will be Proverbs chapter 22.

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Well, we heard the other day that Kirsty has been diligently trying to get caught up and I got this comment this morning from her. She said I love the commentary on numbers 12 Three that made me laugh. And in case you don’t remember that’s where I talked about Moses calling himself the most humble man in the world. Although not really but if you didn’t hear the episode that included numbers 12 go back and listen to it. Anyway, Kirsty continue. She said that was a great mini sermon on numbers. 12. Being a loving parent, and having been a child of loving parents, I feel I have the tiniest glimpse into how God feels about us as His children, that innate desire to do good things for your kids, even when they frustrate you to bits, or consistently whinge and do the wrong thing. I have to stop right there. That’s the first time I’ve ever seen that word whinge. Is that a word you say a lot in Australia. I’ve never heard it here in America had to look it up anyway, or consistently whinge and do the wrong thing. I’m so thankful that God feels that way about me, because I am sure not the perfect daughter of Christ. PS, I’m finally caught up on the episodes. Well, Christy, thank you for that. And I’m so glad you’re caught up. And I’m glad that the commentary on numbers 12 helped me to see God as a loving parent. That’s a good thing.

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All right. Well, today I have a couple of personal prayer requests. Depending on when you’re hearing this, I might be in the midst of a CT scan, even as you’re listening. If you’re listening on Wednesday, May 4, I’m scheduled to check in this morning at 845. What’s the CT scan for? Well, they’ll be sort of getting a map of my heart for the cardiac ablation procedure that I’m going to be having this month on the 27th. Yep, I’m gonna have it done. In case you didn’t hear, I’ve been having periods of atrial fibrillation or AFib for a few years, and I had a recent period where it was happening fairly often. The doc says that if we don’t do something about it, it could get progressively worse. And I could end up having to have a pacemaker installed in my chest. That’s not something that I really want to have done if I can avoid it. Obviously, none of us know how long the Lord will keep us here. But it is possible that I’ll be around for maybe a couple of more decades at my age. So I’m thinking that having this procedure is the right idea. On the 27th, the lovely lady Liana and I will check into the hospital in Los Angeles at 630 in the morning, which means that we’ll probably leave home here in Riverside between 430 and five o’clock in the morning. Yeah, the procedure is supposed to take between four and six hours. And then I’ll be in recovery for at least another six hours. And this is the worst part of the whole thing. I’ll have to be flat on my back that entire six hours, I’ve got a bad back in laying flat on my back for that length of time is going to be agony. So I’m dreading that, but after that, I should be able to go back home that day. Now before I go in, I will get a few episodes recorded in advance just in case I don’t feel up to recording after the procedure. So please, if you would keep me in your prayers, I would appreciate it. And then tomorrow night, Thursday night, Leanne is going to be flying out to Florida so that she can go to our daughter in law’s baby shower. She’ll be gone for four days. Let’s pray for a safe and enjoyable trip. Leanne gets pretty nervous when she travels alone. She worries about making her connecting flights. We haven’t done a lot of air travel in our marriage. So she’s not used to navigating in the airports. So please do remember her in your prayers. So let’s pray. Our heavenly Father, Lord, we are so thankful that you’re loyal. love endures forever. No matter what’s going on in our lives, whether difficult or joyful. You’re loyal. love endures forever, how good you are to us. You love us far more than we deserve. But your loyal love endures forever. Thank you, Lord, we love you. We praise you, we worship you. Father, I asked you to keep me safe as I go through this episode with my heart. You gave this heart to me. And I’m so thankful that you’ve been with me through the various problems that have happened over the past several years. And I know that I am in your loving capable care. So I’m not really worried about what’s coming up. If you’d heal my heart, that would be awesome. But if not, that’s okay too. I just pray that you would be with me and guide my decisions about the care and that you would guide the doctors hands as she does the procedure. And, Lord as I’m laying there in the bed in the recovery room, I pray that the time would go quickly and that the discomfort would be bearable. I pray that your presence would be there with me in a powerful way. And I pray for Leanne’s trip to Florida Lord calmer heart and guide her through the airports. I pray that her time with Valerie and Tim is sweet as they celebrate the soon birth of this precious little girl that will be here the first part of June. I put Leann and Valerie and Tim and this newest little web in your care. And I pray that this little girl would be healthy. But even more than that, that she would be a blessing to Tim and Val, and that she would grow to be a faithful woman of God. We can’t wait to meet her Lord, and we thank you for this little life that you’re bringing to us. I thank You, Lord, so much for the Lifespring family. You’ve brought each person here and I’m so happy to share time around your word with them. Bless each one, and may they be encouraged by the songs we’ve read today. Me there walk with you grow closer, I pray this in Jesus name. Amen. Sharing prayer requests is something that we’re told to do in the Word. And if you have a prayer request, or if God is doing something great in your life, please go to prayer dot Lifespring media.com. And let me know about it there. I’ll pray for you. And I’ll rejoice with you in my private prayer time, and we’ll share on the show.

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Well howdy Hi there. This is the Lifespring family Audio Bible and I’m coming to you from Riverside, California, podcasting since 2004. I’m your OG God caster Steve Webb, welcome. This is the daily show where we’re reading through the entire Bible in a year. Our reading today is Psalms 105 through 107. You know the routine before I read each chapter, I’ll give you a brief introduction. And then when I’m done reading all the chapters, I’ll have some comments for you. The show notes page for today’s episode is at Lifespring media.com/s 12 e 245. My email address, as always is Steve at Lifespring media.com. I’d love to hear from you. Are you ready? Though not attributed to David the first 15 chapters of Psalm 105 are the same as First Chronicles 16 A through 22, where David gave him to ASAP and his relatives to sing so it’s quite possible that David wrote them quite probable that he wrote them of Psalm 105. G. Campbell Morgan wrote this and the following Psalm our companions, they reveal the two sides of the relation between God and His people during a long period. This one sings the song of his faithfulness and power, while the next tells the sad story of repeated failure and rebellion on the part of his people.

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Psalm chapter 106. Praise the Lord. Give thanks to the Lord for He is good. It is loyal love endures. Who can adequately recount the Lord’s mighty acts are relate all his praiseworthy deeds? How blessed are those who promote justice and do what is right all the time. Remember me, oh Lord, when you show favor to your people. Pay attention to me when you deliver so I may see the prosperity of your chosen ones. Rejoice along with your nation, and boast along with the people who belong to you. We have sinned like our ancestors we have done wrong. We have done evil. Our ancestors in Egypt failed to appreciate your miraculous deeds. They failed to remember your many acts of loyal love, and they rebelled at the sea by the Red Sea. Yet he delivered them for the sake of his reputation that he might reveal His power. He shouted at the Red Sea and dried it up. He led them through the deep water as if it were a desert. He delivered them from the power of the one who hated them and rescued them from the power of the enemy. The water covered their enemies, not even one of them survived. They believed his promises. They sang praises to Him. They quickly forgot what he had done. They did not wait for his instructions. In the wilderness. They had an insatiable craving for meat. They challenged God in the desert. He granted their request then struck them with a disease. In the camp they resented Moses and Aaron the Lord’s holy priest. The earth opened up and swallowed Nathan. It engulfed the group led by a Byram fire burned their group. The flames scorched the wicked. They made an image of a calf at horrid and worshipped a metal idol. They traded their majestic God for the image of an ox that eats grass. They rejected the God who delivered them. The one who performed great deeds in Egypt amazing feats in the land of Han, mighty acts by the Red Sea. He threatened to destroy them, but Moses His Chosen One interceded with him and turned back his destructive anger. They rejected the fruitful land, they did not believe his promise. they grumbled in their tents, they did not obey the Lord. So he made a solemn vow that he would make them die in the desert, make their descendants die among the nations and scattered them among foreign lands. They worshiped Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to the dead. They made the Lord angry by their actions, and a plague broke out among them. Phineas took a stand and intervened in the plagues subsided. This brought him a reward, an eternal gift. They made him angry by the waters of Meribah had Moses suffered because of them, for they aroused his temper and he spoke rashly. They did not destroy the nations as the Lord had commanded them to do. They mixed in with the nations and learned their ways. They worshipped their idols which became a snare to them. They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons. They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted by bloodshed. They were defiled by their deeds and unfaithful in their actions. So the Lord was angry with his people and despise the people who belong to him. He handed them over to the nations and those who hated them ruled over them. Their enemies oppressed them, they were subject to their authority. Many times he delivered them, but they had a rebellious attitude, and he graded themselves by their sin. He took notice of their distress when he heard their cry for help. He remembered his covenant with them and relented because of his great loyal love. He caused all their conquerors to have pity on them. Deliver us, O Lord our God, gather us from among the nations. Then we will give thanks to your holy name, and boast about your praise worthy deeds. The Lord God of Israel deserves praise in the future and forevermore. Let all the people say we agree, praise the Lord.

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On this date in church history, May 4 1923, William Robertson nickeled passed away, he was a British religious journalist and editor, the son of a Scottish Free Church minister, he edited the British Journal, the expositor, in the 50, volume, get that 50 Volume expositors Bible, that’s a project that took from 1888 to 1905. It just dawned on me, it took him 17 years to do that. I’ve been behind this microphone doing a podcast for the same amount of time. I wonder if there’s a message there, huh?

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Since today is Tuesday, we’ll be reading from one of the books of History. We’re currently working our way through  1 Chronicles, and today we’ll read chapters 20-24. After the reading, I’ll have some comments for you. I’m calling today’s episode “A Special Spot.”  

1 Chronicles 21:18 Then the angel of the Lord spoke to Gad. He said, “Tell David to build an altar to worship the Lord. David must build that altar near the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

David went against the word of the Lord and ordered a census of the Israelites, which angered the Lord, and He punished Israel. David repented, and asked God to forgive him. God told David’s seer, Gad, that David must choose between three punishments, and David chose to put himself in God’s hands, instead of man’s.

In the midst of the punishment, which brought a sickness on the people of Israel in which 70,000 died, God stayed the hand of the angel which He had sent to destroy Jerusalem. At this point, the angel of the Lord was standing at the threshing floor of Araunah (Ornan in other translations) the Jebusite.

David saw the angel, and he asked God to punish him and his family and not the people, because it was he (David) who had sinned. And the angel of the Lord spoke to Gad. He said, “Tell David to build an altar to worship the Lord. David must build that altar near the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

There are some interesting facts concerning this event and this place. 

1) This is the only altar before any of Israel’s exiles that God had commanded to be built 

2) This threshing floor was on Mount Moriah, which is where Abraham offered Isaac and is in the same hills where Jesus was crucified.

3) Mount Moriah is inside what was to become the city of Jerusalem, and is where Solomon built the Temple, and where it will someday be rebuilt. So during the Millennial reign of Jesus, He will again stand on this land. 

I think it’s safe to say that this is one of the most significant places on earth!

Bible translation used in today’s episode: Ch. 20 NCV; Ch. 21-22 ERV; Ch. 23-24 NET

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This is one of the most significant places on the entire face of the earth.

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Coming to you from Riverside, California, this is the Lifespring family Audio Bible and podcasting since 2004. I’m your OG God cast your Steve Webb, welcome. It’s really great to see you today. This is the daily show where we’re reading through the entire Bible in a year. And since today is Tuesday, we’ll be reading from one of the books of history. We’re currently working our way through First Chronicles and today we’re going to read chapters 20 through 24. I’ve got an idea after today’s reading, I’ll have some comments for you. I’m calling today’s episode, a special spot. The show notes page for today’s episode is at Lifespring media.com/s 12. E 251. My email address is Steve at life’s free media.com. And if you checked out all the content at Lifespring media.com. Almost every podcast episode I’ve done since 2004 is still there. There’s interviews there’s music, there’s even wedding advice, not marriage advice, but wedding advice. LeeAnn used to do a show called your wedding your way that shows even still there. What is there is a bunch take a look at Lifespring media.com. Well, what do you say we get started?

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First Chronicles chapter 20. In the spring, the time of year when kings normally went out to battle Joab bled out the army of Israel let David stayed in Jerusalem. The army of Israel destroyed the land of Amman and went to the city of Rabbah and attacked it. David took the crown off the head of their King and had it placed on his own head. That gold crown weighed about 75 pounds and it had valuable gems in it. And David took many valuable things from the city. He also brought out the people of the city and forced them to work with saws, iron picks and axes. David did this to all the Ammonites cities. Then David and all his army returned to Jerusalem. Later it geezer war broke out with the Philistines Sybil chi the use of ICT killed sippy who was one of the descendants of the Rafale knights, so those Philistines were defeated. Later there was another battle with the Philistines. l Hainan son of Jair killed Lumie the brother of Goliath, who was from the town of gaff, his spear was as large as a weaver’s rod. At Gath. Another battle took place, a huge man was there, he had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot 24 fingers and toes and all. This man also was one of the sons of refa when he spoke against Israel, Jonathan, son of Shamia, David’s brother killed him. These descendants at refa from gaff were killed by David and his men.

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First Chronicles chapter 21. Satan was against the Israelites, he encouraged David to count the Israelites. So David said to Joab and the leaders of the people go and count all the Israelites count everyone in the country, from the town of Beersheba all the way to the town of Dan, then tell me so I will know how many people there are. But Joab answered, may the Lord make his nation 100 times as large, sir, all the Israelites are Your servants. Why do you want to do this thing, my lord and king, you will make all the Israelites guilty of sin. But King David was stubborn. Joab had to do what the king said. So Joab left and went through all the country of Israel, counting the people. Then he came back to Jerusalem and told David how many people there were. In Israel, there were 1,100,000 men who could use a sword. And there were 470,000 men and Judah who could use a sword Joab did not count the tribes of Levi and Benjamin because he did not like King David’s order. David had done a bad thing in God’s sight. So God punished Israel. Then David said to God, I have done something very foolish. I have committed a terrible sin by counting the Israelites. Now I beg you to take the sin away from me your servant. Gad was David seer. The Lord said to Gad, go and tell David. This is what the Lord says. I’m going to give you three choices. You must choose one of them, then I will punish you the way you choose. Then gad went to David. He said to David, the Lord says, David, choose which punishment you want. Three years without enough food, or three months of running away from your enemies while they use their swords to chase you. Or three days of punishment from the Lord. Terrible sicknesses will spread to the country and the Lord’s angel will go through Israel destroying the people. David, God sent me now you must decide which answer I will give to him. David said to God, I’m in trouble. I don’t want some man to decide my punishment. The Lord is very merciful. So let him decide how to punish me. So the Lord sent terrible sin In essence to Israel and 70,000 people died, God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But when the angel started to destroy Jerusalem, the Lord sought and felt sorry for all the suffering. So he said to the angel who was destroying the people stop, that is enough. This happened when the angel of the Lord was standing at the threshing floor of Araunah, the Jebusite David looked up and saw the Lord’s angel in the sky. The angel was holding his sword over the city of Jerusalem. Then David and the elders bowed with their faces touching the ground. They were wearing the special clothes to show their sadness. David said to God, I am the one who sinned, I gave the order for the people to be counted. I was wrong. The Israelites did not do anything wrong. Lord, my God, punish me and my family, but stop the terrible sicknesses that are killing your people. Then the angel of the Lord spoke to gad. He said, tell David to build an altar to worship the Lord. David must build that altar near the threshing floor of a Rana the Jebusite. God told David this and David went to a rawness threshing floor. A Rana was threshing the wheat. He turned around and saw the angel. His four sons ran away to hide. David walked up the hill to a Rana Rana saw him and left the threshing floor. He walked to David and bowed with his face to the ground in front of him. David said to a Rana, sell me your threshing floor, I will pay you the full price, then I can use the area to build an altar to worship the Lord, then the terrible sicknesses will be stopped. Iran has said to David, take this threshing floor, you are my Lord and King. So do whatever you want. Look, I will also give you cattle for the burnt offering. You can have the wooden threshing tools to burn for the fire on the altar. And I will give the wheat for the grain offering. I will give all of this to you. But King David answered Irana No, I will pay you the full price. I will not take anything that is yours and give it to the Lord. I will not give offerings that cost me nothing. So David gave a Ronna about 15 pounds of gold for the place. David built an altar for worshiping the Lord there. David offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, he prayed to the Lord. The Lord answered David by sending fire down from heaven. The fire came down on the altar of burnt offering. Then the Lord commanded the angel to put his sword back into his sheath. David saw that the Lord had answered him on the threshing floor of Aruna, so David offered sacrifices there. The Lord’s holy tent, and the altar of burnt offerings were at the high place in the town of Gideon. Moses had made the holy tent while the Israelites were in the desert. David could not go to the holy tent to speak with God because he was afraid. He was afraid of the angel of the Lord and his sword.

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First Chronicles chapter 22. David said, the temple of the Lord God in the altar for burnt offerings for the Israelites will be built here. David gave in order for all foreigners living in Israel to be gathered together. He chose stone cutters from that group of foreigners. Their job was to cut stones ready to be used for building God’s temple. David got iron for making nails and hinges for the gate doors. He also got more bronze than could be weighed and more cedar logs than could be counted. The people from the cities of Sidon and tyre brought mini cedar logs to David. David said, we should build a very great temple for the Lord. But my son Solomon is young does not yet have enough experience to know how to do it well, it should be so great and beautiful that it will be famous among all the nations. So I will prepare what is needed to build it. So before David died, he prepared everything needed to build a great temple. Then David called for his son Solomon and told him to build the temple for the Lord, the God of Israel. David said to Solomon, my son, I wanted to build a temple for the name of the Lord, my God. But the Lord said to me, David, you have fought many wars, and you have killed many people. So you cannot build a temple for my name. But you have a son who was a man of peace, I will give your son a time of peace. His enemies around him will not bother him. His name is Solomon, and I will give Israel peace and quiet during the time that he is King. Solomon will build a temple for my name, he will be my son, and I will be his father. I will make his kingdom strong and someone from his family will rule Israel forever. They’ve also said, Now son, may the Lord be with you. May you be successful and build the temple for the Lord your God as He said you would. He will make you the king of Israel. May the Lord give you wisdom and understanding so that you can lead the people and obey the law of the Lord your God. And you will have success if you are careful to obey the rules and laws that the Lord gave Moses for Israel, be strong and brave. Don’t be afraid. Solomon I have worked hard making plans for the Lord’s temple. I have given 3750 tonnes of gold and about 37,500 tons of silver. I have given so much bronze and iron that it cannot be weighed. And I have given wood and stone, Solomon, you can add to them. You have many stone cutters and carpenters. You have men skilled in every kind of work. They are skilled and working with gold, silver, bronze and iron. You have more skilled workers than can be counted. Now begin the work and may the Lord be with you. Then David ordered all the leaders of Israel to help his son Solomon, David said to these leaders, the Lord your God is with you. He has given you a time of peace. He helped me defeat the people living around us, the Lord in His people are now in control of this land. Now give your heart and soul to the Lord your God and do what he says, Build the holy place of the Lord God, then bring the box of the Lord’s agreement and all the other holy things into the temple built for the Lord’s name.

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First Chronicles chapter 23. When David was old and approaching the end of his life, he made his son Solomon king over Israel. David assembled all the leaders of Israel along with the priests and the Levites. The Levites, who are 30 years old and up were counted. There were 38,000 men, David said, of these 24,000 are to direct the work of the Lord’s temple 6000 are to be officials and judges. 4000 are to be gatekeepers, and 4000 are to praise the Lord with the instruments I supplied for worship. David divided them into groups corresponding to the sons of Levi, Gershon, Kohath, and Moray, the Gershonites included laden and shimmy AI, the sons of laden Jihyo, the oldest, Zi thumb and Joel three and all the sons of shimmy AI, shallow moth, hazy yo and heron, three and all. These were the leaders of the family of Laden, the sons of shimmy AI, J half, Xena, G ash and Mariah, these were shimmy II sons for in all. J half was the oldest incisa the second oldest, G ash and Mariah did not have many sons, so they were considered one family with one responsibility. The sons of Kohath Amram izhar, Hebron, and Ezio for in all the sons of Amram, Aaron and Moses, Aaron and his descendants were chosen on a permanent basis to consecrate the Most Holy items to offer sacrifices before the Lord, to serve Him, and to praise his name. The descendants of Moses, the man of God were considered Levites the sons of Moses, Gershom and Eliezer, the son of Gershom should Buell the oldest, the son of Eleazer, was re Habiba the oldest Eloisa had no other sons, but Rhea baya had many descendants, the son of his har Shalom if the oldest, the sons of Hebron DARIAH, the oldest Amariah, the second to Hazel The third jakka Miam, the fourth, the sons of Asiel mica, the oldest and his Shaya, the second, the sons of Moray, malai and mu Shai, the sons of malai Eliezer and Kish Eliezer, died without having sons he had only daughters, the sense of Kesh their cousins married them, the sons of mu Shai malai, eater, and Jeremiah three and all. These were the descendants of Levi according to their families. That is the leaders of families as counted and individually listed, who carried out assigned tasks in the Lord’s temple, and were 20 years old and up. For David said, The Lord God of Israel has given his people rest in his permanently settled in Jerusalem, so the Levites no longer need to carry the tabernacle or any of the items used in its service. According to David’s final instructions, the Levites 20 years old and up were counted. Their job was to help Aaron’s descendants in the service of the Lord’s temple. They were to take care of the courtyards, the rooms, ceremonial purification of all holy items, and other jobs related to the service of God’s temple. They also took care of the bread that is displayed the flour for offerings, the unleavened wafers, the round cakes, the mixing, and all the measuring. They also stood in a designated place every morning and offered thanks and praise to the Lord. They also did this in the evening. And whenever burnt sacrifices were offered to the Lord on the Sabbath, and it New Moon festivals that assemblies, a designated number were to serve before the Lord regularly in accordance with regulations. They were in charge of the meeting tent and the holy place and helped their relatives the descendants of Aaron in the service of the Lord’s temple.

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First Chronicles chapter 24. The divisions of Aaron’s descendants were as follows The sons of Aaron Nadab, a by Hugh Eliezer and Ithamar may daban. Obi who died before their father did, they had no sons, Eliezer and Ithamar served as priests, David Ze, Doc, a descendant of Eliezer, and Ahimelech, a descendant of Ithamar divided them into groups to carry out their assigned responsibilities. The descendants of Le aser had more leaders than the descendants of Ithamar. So they divided them up accordingly, the descendants of Le A’s are had 16 leaders, while the descendants of Ithamar had eight. They divided them by lots for there were officials of the holy place and officials designated by God among the descendants of both Eliezer and Ithamar. The scribe Shemaiah, son of Nathanael, a Levite wrote down their names before the king, the officials, ze doc the priest, Ahimelech, son of Abiathar, and the leaders of the priestly and Levite families. One family was drawn by lot from a laser and then the next from Ithamar. The first lot went to Jehovah rib, the second to Judea, the third to harem, the fourth to see Yoram the fifth to Mao Kaija, the sixth to menjamin. The seventh to hackers, the eighth to Obeida, the knights to Joshua, the 10th, to second nya the 11th to Eliashib. The 12th to Jake him, the 13th to Hapa the 14th to just Shibby ab the 15th to Bilger the 16th to imer the 17th to hazer the 18th to happen says the 19th to Petha HYAH the 20th to Jahaz Cal, the 21st to Jaken the 22nd to gamble, the 23rd to delay the 24th to may Uzziah. This was the order in which they carried out their assigned responsibilities when they entered the Lord’s temple, according to the regulations given them by their ancestor Aaron, just as the Lord God of Israel had instructed him. The rest of the Levites included shoe bale from the sons of Amram. Judea from the sons of shoe bale. The firstborn is Shi’a from rehab via and the sons of rehab via Shalom off from the Israelites. J hath from the sons of shalom off the sons of Hebron DARIAH and Mariah, the second J zo the third and jeca miam the fourth, the son of Osito. Mica shamer from the sons of mica, the brother of mica, the Shi’a, Zechariah from the sons of a Shi’a, the sons of Moray malai and mu Shai, the son of J. Uzziah. Beano, the sense of Moray from J. Uzziah. Beano, shoham Zacher. And in Bri from Mali, le aser, who had no sons, from Kish, Jeremy to the sons of new Shai, my ally, eater, and Jeremiah. These were the Levites listed by their families, just like their relatives, the descendants of Aaron. They also cast lots before King David ze doc Ahimelech, the leaders of families, the priests and the Levites, the families of the oldest son cast lots along with those of the youngest.

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In chapter 21, verse 18, we read tell David to build an altar to worship the Lord David must build that altar near the threshing floor of Aruna, the Jebusite. All right, beloved, so what’s going on here? As you heard, David went against the word of the Lord and ordered a census of the Israelites which angered God, and He punished Israel. Well, that caused David to repent, and he asked God to forgive him. And God told David seer or prophet, a guy by the name of Gad, the David must choose between three punishments, and David chose to put himself in God’s hands instead of man’s. I think that was a wise decision, don’t you? Well, in the midst of the punishment, which brought a sickness on the people of Israel in which 70,000 died, God stayed the hand of the angel which he had sent to destroy Jerusalem. At this point, the angel of the Lord was standing at the threshing floor of Aruna, or Ornan, in other translations of David saw the angel and he asked God to punish him and his family and not the people because it was he David who had sinned. And the angel of the Lord spoke to GATT. He said, tell David to build an altar to worship the Lord and he must build that altar near the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite Well, the reason I bring this up to you is that there are some interesting facts concerning this event in this place. Number one is, this is the only altar before any of Israel’s exiles that God had commanded to be built? Isn’t that interesting. And number two, this threshing floor was on Mount Moriah, which is where Abraham offered Isaac, and it’s also in the same hills where Jesus was crucified. Number three, Mount Moriah is inside what was to become the city of Jerusalem, and is where Solomon built the temple and where it will someday be rebuilt. So during the millennial reign of Jesus here on earth, He will again stand on this very land. Isn’t that cool? Well, I think it’s safe to say that this is one of the most significant places on the entire face of the earth. You agree? Never comment. Have you ever been to Jerusalem? Let me know. Go to the shownotes page at Lifespring media.com/s 12 e 251. Tomorrow is Wednesday. So we’ll read Psalms 108 through 110. Here’s your cue to boost.

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On this date in church history, May 10 1886 Karl Barth was born. He was a Swiss reformed theologian, when he was asked to summarize the essence of his theology. He once replied, Jesus loves me. This I know for the Bible tells me so. Karl Barth was an important figure and while I don’t agree with him on every point, I do agree with that. Jesus loves me this I know for the Bible tells me so. By the way, I did an episode of Lifespring him stories about that song Jesus loves me. If you’d like to listen to it, I’ll have a link on the show notes page.

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Prayer requests. Well praise the Lord, the lovely lady LeeAnn got home safe and sound. I thank you for your prayers. And my brother in law, Mike was taken to the ER today with chest pains. I don’t have any other information yet. I texted Lee and Sister Lisa, Micah’s her husband, and asked for an update, but the text won’t go through. So she’s probably she’s probably in the hospital with her phone turned off, which I totally understand. So let’s pray together. Our Heavenly Father, I thank you for bringing LeeAnn home safely. And I pray that you’ll give her good rest to recharge on her days off today and tomorrow. And I pray for Mike, you know what’s wrong with him and I pray that you’d be with him and bring him healing and give wisdom to the doctors and the staff as they treat him. And me come out of this just fine. Lord, I thank you for the Lifespring family. I asked God that you would bless them and bring them back here tomorrow. Guide our steps today, Lord and give us opportunities to share the good news with those who need to know about Jesus. Help us to build relationships, and help us to love others as you love us. I pray this in Jesus name. Amen. If you’ve got a prayer request or praise, go to prayer dot Lifespring media.com.

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This is episode s12e250! Yay!

Our reading today Numbers 13-16. After the reading, I’ll have some comments for you. I’m calling today’s episode “Stubborn.”  

Stubborn, stubborn, stubborn. Korah leads a rebellion against Moses and Aaron, and God causes the ground to swallow up all those associated with him. And the people saw and knew that it was the Lord who did it, and that the Lord was confirming that Moses was his chosen leader for them. But the very next day the entire nation of Israel came against Moses and Aaron again! saying they “killed the people of the Lord.” Hello? Were you not listening? So once again God was prepared to wipe them all out with a plague. But Moses, with a pastor’s heart, told Aaron to quickly prepare a sacrifice for the people, and they stopped the plague before it killed everyone. 

I remember the first time I tried to read through the Bible (unsuccessfully, I might add). I had only been a Christian for about five years at this point. I said, “Right after God does something miraculous, they turn their backs on Him! How can these people be so dumb?” And the Lord spoke to my heart and said, “You do the same thing.”

Beloved, we are so much like the children of Israel. How many times have we seen God’s will, either through God’s word, a message from the pastor, or the Holy Spirit speaks to our heart, and then we, in our rebellion, go the opposite way? Multiple times. And yet, the blood that Jesus shed on the cross brings forgiveness to us again and again. His sacrifice paid the price, once…for all. 

God knows that we are a stubborn lot. He knows that just because we know right from wrong does not mean that we will always choose what’s right. That is why He paid such an enormous price for us. Because the debt was so huge, the payment had to be inconceivably large. It took the brutal death of His only begotten Son to bring atonement for my sins, and for yours. It is nearly unthinkable, but as Hebrews 9:22 says, “…without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness (of sins).

We can never repay the debt. All we can do is give all we can. And all we have is all we are. All I have…is me. I came into the world naked, and naked I will go out. The best I can do is give my life to Him in the time between those two events. I cannot earn salvation. I cannot pay Him back. I can only give my life back to Him in gratitude and love. And this I freely choose to do.

What about you?

Bible translation used in today’s episode: Ch. 13 NIRV; Ch. 14 NIV; Ch. 15 NLT; Ch. 16 ESV

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Welcome. Thank you for inviting me into your day today. This is the daily show where we’re reading through the entire Bible in a year. Our reading today is numbers 13 through 16. After the reading, I will of course have some comments for you. The show notes page for today’s episode is at Lifespring media.com/s 12 e 250. If you’d like to email me, please do so at Steve at Lifespring media.com. Let’s get started.

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Numbers chapter 13. The Lord spoke to Moses, he said, Send some men to check out the land of Canaan. I’m giving it to the people of Israel send one leader from each of Israel’s tribes. So Moses sent them out from the desert of Perrin. He sent them as the Lord had commanded. All of them were leaders of the people of Israel. Here are their names that were semua from the tribe of Ruben Shem. Ewa was the son of Zacher. They were che fat from the tribe of Simeon shape that was the son of hooray. There was Caleb from the tribe of Judah. Caleb was the son of Jephunneh. There was a gal from the tribe of Issachar. I gal was the son of Joseph. They were so Shia from the tribe of Ephram, Oh Shia was the son of Nun. There was bow tie from the tribe of Benjamin bow tie was the son of refu. There was Gabrielle from the tribal Zebulon Gatto was the son of so die. There was Gabbi from the tribe of Manasseh gad I was the son of Su sai Manasa was a tribe of Joseph. There was Amiel from the tribe of Dan Amiel was the son of Gamal I, there was Seetha from the tribe of Asher seethrough was the son of Michael. There was nearby from the tribe of Naphtali. Nearby was the son of off Sai. There was Gil from the tribe of Gad. Gill was the son of May chi. Those are the men Moses sent to check out the land. He gave the name Joshua to Hosea, the son of Nun, Moses set them to check out Canaan, he said, go up through the Negev desert, go on into the central hill country. See what the land is like? See whether the people who live there are strong or weak. See whether they are few or many. What kind of land did they live in? Is it good or bad? What kind of towns do they live in? Do the towns have high walls around them or not? How was the soil? Is it rich land or poor land? Are there trees on it or not? Do your best to bring back some of the fruit of the land. It was the season for the first ripe grapes. So the men went up and checked out the land. They went from the desert of zin as far as rehab, it was in the direction of libo Hayworth, they went up through the Negev desert and came to Hebron. That’s where a hymen shy and tall my left. They belong to the family line of a neck. Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan Zoan was a city in Egypt. The men came to the Valley of Eshkol. There they cut off a branch that had a single bunch of grapes on it. Two of them carried it on a pole between them. They carried some pomegranates and figs along with it. That place was called the Valley of ash call. That’s because the men of Israel cut off a bunch of grapes there. At the end of 40 days, the men returned from checking out the land. The men came back to Moses, Aaron and the whole community of Israel. The people were at k dash in the desert of patron. There the men reported to Moses and Aaron and all of the people. They showed them the fruit of the land. They gave Moses their report, they said, we went into the land you said his to it really does have plenty of milk and honey, here’s some fruit from the land. But the people who live there are powerful. Their cities have high walls around them and are very large. We’ve and some members of the family line have a knack there. The Amalekites live in the Negev desert. They Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the central hill country. The Canaanites live near the Mediterranean Sea. They also live along the Jordan River. Then Caleb interrupted the men who were speaking to Moses. He said, We should go up and take the land. We can certainly do it. But the men who had gone up with him spoke they said, We can’t attack those people. They’re stronger than we are. The men spread a bad report about the land among the people of Israel. They said the land we checked out destroys those who live in it. All of the people we saw there were very big and tall. We saw the Nephilim there. We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and that’s also how we seem to them. The children have a knack came from the Nephilim.

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Numbers chapter 14. That night all the members of the community raised their voices and wept aloud. All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them, If only we had died in Egypt, or in this wilderness, why is the Lord bringing us to this land only to let us fall by the sword? Our wives and children will be taken as plunder? Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt, and they said to each other, we should choose a leader and go back to Egypt. Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown in front of the whole Israelite assembly gathered there, Joshua, son of Nun, and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had explored the land, tore their clothes and said to the entire Israelite assembly, the land we pass through and explored is exceedingly good. If the Lord is pleased with us, He will lead us into that land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and will give it to us only do not rebel against the Lord, and do not be afraid of the people of the land because we will devour them. Their protection is gone, but the Lord is with us. Do not be afraid of them. But the whole assembly talked about stoning them. Then the glory of the Lord appeared at the 10 of meeting to all the Israelites, the Lord said to Moses, how long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the signs I have performed among them, I will strike them down with a plague and destroy them. But I will make you into a nation greater and stronger than they. Moses said to the Lord, then the Egyptians will hear about it. By your power you brought these people up from among them, and they will tell the inhabitants of this land about it. They have already heard that you, Lord are with these people, and that you Lord have been seen face to face that your cloud stays over them, and that you go before them and a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. If you put all these people to death, leaving none alive. The nations who have heard this report about you will say the Lord was not able to bring these people into the land he promised them on oath, so he slaughtered them in the wilderness. Now may the Lord strength be displayed just as you have declared, The Lord is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion, yet he does not leave the guilty and punished. He punishes the children for the sin of the parents, to the third and fourth generation in accordance with your great love. forgive the sin of these people, just as you have pardoned them from the time they left Egypt until now, the Lord replied, I have forgiven them as you asked. Nevertheless, as surely as I live, and as surely as the glory of the Lord fills the whole earth, not one of those who saw my glory in the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, but who disobeyed me and tested me 10 times, not one of them will ever see the land I promised on oath to their ancestors. No one who was treated me with contempt will ever see it. But because my servant Caleb was a different spirit, and follows me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it. Since the Amalekites and the Canaanites are living in the valleys, turned back tomorrow and set out toward the desert along the route to the Red Sea. The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, how long will this wicked community grumble against me? I have heard the complaints of these grumbling Israelites, so tell them as surely as I live, declares the Lord, I will do to you the very thing I heard you say, in this wilderness, your bodies will fall, every one of you 20 years old or more who was counted in the census, and who has grumbled against me, not one of you will enter the land ice war with uplifted hand to make your home except Caleb, son of Jephunneh. And Joshua son of Nun, as for your children, that you said, would be taken as plunder, I will bring them in to enjoy the land you have rejected. But as for you, your bodies will fall in this wilderness. Your children will be shepherds here for 40 years suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness for 40 years, one year for each of the 40 days you explored the land, you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you. I the LORD have spoken. And I will surely do these things to this whole wicked community, which has banded together against me. They will meet their end in this wilderness here they will die. So the men Moses had sent to explore the land who returned and made the whole community grumble against him by spreading a bad report about it. These men who were responsible for spreading the bad report about the land were struck down and died of a plague before the Lord of the men who went to explore the land. Only Joshua’s son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh survived. When Moses reported this to all the Israelites they mourned bitterly. Early the next morning, they set out for the highest point in the hill country saying, now we’re ready to go up to the land the Lord promised, surely we have sinned. But Moses said, Why are you disobeying the Lord’s command, this will not succeed, do not go up because the Lord is not with you. You will be defeated by your enemies, for the Amalekites and the Canaanites will face you there. Because you have turned away from the Lord, He will not be with you and you will fall by the sword. Nevertheless, in their presumption, they went up toward the highest point in the hill country, though neither Moses nor the Ark of the Lord’s covenant moved from the camp. Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down and attack them, and beat them down all the way to hormone.

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Numbers chapter 15. Then the Lord told Moses, give the following instructions to the people of Israel. When you finally settle in the land I’m giving you, you will offer special gifts as a pleasing aroma to the Lord. These gifts may take the form of a burnt offering a sacrifice to fulfill a vow, a voluntary offering, or an offering at any of your annual festivals, and they may be taken from your herds of cattle or your flocks of sheep and goats. When you present these offerings, you must also give the Lord a grain offering of two quarts of choice flour mixed with one quart of olive oil. For each lamb offered as a burnt offering or a special sacrifice. You must also present one quart of wine as the liquid offering. If the sacrifice is a ram, give a grain offering a four quarts of choice flour mixed with a third of a gallon of olive oil, and give a third of a gallon of wine is the liquid offering. This will be a pleasing aroma to the Lord. When you present a young bull as a burnt offering or as a sacrifice to fulfill a vow or as a peace offering to the Lord. You must also give a grain offering of six quarts of choice flour mixed with two quarts of olive oil and give two quarts of wine is a liquid offering. This will be a special gift a pleasing aroma to the Lord. Each sacrifice of a bull RAM lamb or young goat should be prepared in this way. Follow these instructions with each offering your present. All of you native born Israelites must follow these instructions when you offer a special gift as a pleasing aroma to the Lord. If any foreigners visit you or live among you and want to present a special gift is a pleasing aroma to the Lord. They must follow the same procedures. Native born Israelites and foreigners are equal before the Lord and are subject to the same decrees. This is a permanent law for you to be observed from generation to generation, the same instructions and regulations will apply both to you and to the foreigners living among you. Then the Lord said to Moses, give the following instructions to the people of Israel. When you arrive in the land where I am taking you and you eat the crops that grow there, you must set some aside is a sacred offering to the Lord. Present a cake from the first of the flour you grind, and set it aside is the sacred offering as you do with the first grain from the threshing floor. throughout the generations to come. You are to present a sacred offering to the Lord each year from the first of your ground flour. But suppose you unintentionally failed to carry out all these commands that the Lord has given you through Moses. And suppose your descendants in the future failed to do everything the Lord has commanded through Moses. If the mistake was made unintentionally, and the community was unaware of it, the whole community must present a young bull for a burnt offering is a pleasing aroma to the Lord. It must be offered along with its prescribed grain offering and liquid offering. And with one male goat for a sin offering. With it the priests will purify the whole community of Israel, making them right with the Lord, and they will be forgiven. For it was an unintentional sin and they have corrected it with their offerings to the Lord. The special gift and the sin offering. The whole community of Israel will be forgiven, including the foreigners living among you, for all the people were involved in the sin. If one individual commits an unintentional sin, the guilty person must bring a one year old female goat for a sin offering. The priest will sacrifice it to purify the guilty person before the Lord and that person will be forgiven. The same instructions apply both to native born Israelites and to the foreigners living among you. But those who brazenly violate the Lord’s will whether native born Israelites or foreigners have blasphemed the Lord, and they must be cut off from the community. Since they have treated the Lord’s word with contempt, and deliberately disobeyed his command, they must be completely cut off and suffer the punishment for their guilt. One day while the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they discovered a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day. The people who found him doing this took him before Moses, Aaron and the rest of the community, they held him in custody because they did not know what to do with him. Then the Lord said to Moses, the man must be put to death, the whole community must stone him outside the camp. So the whole community took the man outside of the camp and stoned him to death just as the Lord had commanded Moses. Then the Lord said to Moses, give the following instructions to the people of Israel. throughout the generations to come, you must make tassels for the hems of your clothing, and attach them with a blue cord. When you see the tassels you will remember and obey all the commands of the Lord, instead of following your own desires and defiling yourselves as you are prone to do. The tassels will help you remember that you must obey all my commands and be holy to your God. I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that I might be your God, I am the Lord your God.

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Numbers chapter 16. Now Cora, the son of is our son of Kohath, son of Levi, and Nathan and the Byram, the sons of Eliab. And on the son of pilaf, sons of Reuben took men. And they rose up before Moses with a number of the people of Israel 250 chiefs of the congregation, chosen from the assembly, well known men, they assemble themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You have gone too far. For all in the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord? When Moses heard it, he fell on his face. And he said to Cora, and all his company, in the morning, the Lord will show who he is, and who is holy, and we’ll bring him near to him, the one whom he chooses, he will bring near to him, do this, take sensors, Cora and all his company, put fire in them, and put incense on them before the Lord tomorrow, and the man whom the Lord chooses shall be the holy one, you have gone too far sons of Levi. And Moses said to Cora, here now you sons of Levi, is it too small a thing for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you nearer to himself, to do service in the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them? And that he has brought you near him? And all your brothers, the sons of Levi with you? And would you seek the priesthood also? Therefore, it is against the Lord, that you and all your company have gathered together? What is Aaron that you grumble against him? And Moses sent to call Nathan at a Bairam, the sons of Eliab. And they said, We will not come up, is it a small thing, but you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you must also make yourself a prince over us. Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards Will you put out the eyes of these men, we will not come up. And Moses was very angry and said to the Lord, do not respect their offering, I have not taken one donkey from them, and I have not harmed one of them. And Moses said to Cora, be present you and all your company before the Lord you and they and Aaron tomorrow and let every one of you take his sensor and put incense on it. And every one of you bring before the Lord has sensor 250 sensors, you also and Aaron each his sensor. So every man took his sensor and put fire in them and laid incense on them and stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron. Then Cora assembled all the congregation against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And the glory of the Lord appeared to all the congregation. And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron saying, separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. And they fell on their faces and said, Oh God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin and will you be angry with all the congregation and the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Say to the congregation, get away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and a Byron. Then Moses rose and went to Dayton in a Bairam. And the elders of Israel followed him. And he spoke to the congregation, saying, depart please from the tents of these wicked men and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be swept away with all their sins. So they got away from the dwelling of Cora, David and a Byron and day Then in a Byram came out and stood at the door of their tents together with their wives, their sons and their little ones. And Moses said, hereby you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, and that it has not been of my own accord. If these men die as all men die, or if they are visited by the fate of all mankind, then the Lord has not set me. But if the Lord creates something new, and the ground opens his mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into shield, then you shall know that these men have despised the Lord. And as soon as he had finished speaking, all these words, the ground under them split apart, and the earth opened up its mouth and swallowed them up with their households and all the people who belong to to Cora, and all their goods. So they had all that belong to them went down alive into Schiele, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly. And all Israel who were around them fled it their cry for they said, Let the earth swallow us up, and fire came out from the Lord and consumed the 250 men offering the incense. Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Tell Lea czar, the son of Aaron, the priest, to take up the sensors out of the Blaze, then scattered the fire far and wide, for they have become holy. As for the sensors of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered plates as the covering for the altar, for they offered them before the Lord, and they became holy. Thus they shall be assigned to the people of Israel. So le A’s are the priest took the bronze sensors, which those who were burned had offered. And they were hammered out as a covering for the altar, to be a reminder to the people of Israel, so that no outsider who is not of the descendants of Aaron should draw near to burn incense before the Lord, lest he become like Cora and his company, as the Lord said to him through Moses. But on the next day, all the congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have killed the people of the Lord. And when the congregation had assembled against Moses and against Aaron, they turned toward the Tent of Meeting, and behold, the cloud covered it and the glory of the Lord appeared. And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Get away from the midst of this congregation that I may consume them in a moment. And they fell on their faces. And Moses said to Aaron, take your sensor and put fire on it from the altar, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them. For Wrath has gone out from the Lord, the plague has begun. So Aaron took it as Moses said, and ran into the midst of the assembly. And behold, the plague had already begun among the people. And he put on the incense and made atonement for the people. And he stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped. Now those who died in the plague were 14,700 Besides those who died in the affair of Korra, and Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tent of meeting when the plague was stopped.

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Stubborn, stubborn, stubborn, Cora led a rebellion against Moses and Aaron, and God caused the ground to swallow up all those associated with him. And the people saw in knew that it was the Lord who did it, and that the Lord was confirming that Moses was his chosen leader for them. But the very next day, can you believe it? The entire nation of Israel came against Moses and Aaron again, saying they killed the people of the Lord. Hello, Israel, were you not listening. So once again, God was prepared to wipe them all out with a plague. But Moses with a pastor’s heart, told Aaron to quickly prepare a sacrifice for the people. And they stopped the plague before it killed anyone, man. I remember the first time I tried to read through the Bible, unsuccessfully, I might add. I’d only been a Christian for about five years at this point. And I said to myself, right after God does something miraculous, they turn their backs on him. How can these people be so dumb? And the Lord spoke to my heart and he said, You do the same thing. Beloved, we are so much like the children of Israel. How many times have we seen God’s will either through His Word or a message from the pastor or the Holy Spirit speaks to our heart and then we in our rebellion, go the opposite way, so many times and yet, the blood that Jesus shed on the cross brings forgiveness to us again and again and again. His sacrifice paid the price once for all. God knows that we’re as stubborn lot. He knows that just because we know right from wrong does not mean that we will always choose what’s right. And that is why he paid such an enormous price for us. Because our sin debt was so huge that payment had to be inconceivably large. It took the brutal death of His only begotten Son to bring atonement for my sins and for yours. It’s, it’s almost unthinkable. But as Hebrews 922 says, without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins. We can never repay the debt. And all we can do is give all we can, and all we have is all we are. All I have is me. I came into the world naked and naked, I’ll go out, the best I can do is give my life to him in the time between those two events. I can’t earn salvation. I can’t pay him back. I can only give my life back to him in gratitude, and love. And this is something that I freely choose to do about you. You have a comment? Let me know Lifespring media.com/s 12 e 250. Reading tomorrow is First Chronicles 20 through 24.

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And we’ve got not one but two associate producers today. Kevin of Edmonton sent in a $25 Canadian dollar donation. And Kevin God bless you for that. And then also Kirsty, you know, Kirsty you’ve heard that name right once or twice, Kirsty send in a $25 donation as well. Thank both of you for that. This is the first time the show’s had two associate producers on the same day. So I think that’s fantastic. Thank you for responding. God bless you guys.

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On this date in church history may 9 1760 Nicholas Ludwig Count von Zinzendorf, who was a German pious reformer and a huge pioneer in foreign missions, and reorganize the unit is Fratrum into the Moravian, or bohemian Brethren Church passed away on this date in 1760. And on May 9 1983, Pope John the second announced the reversal of the Catholic Church’s 1633 condemnation of Galileo the 17 century scientists who first espoused the Copernican or sun centered theory of our solar system from 1633 to 1983. Well, good on Pope John Paul the second.

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Prayer requests. Well as I record this, the lovely lady LeeAnn is in the air flying back to me from Florida, according to flightaware.com right now she’s over Arkansas. She has a layover in Las Vegas than it’s just a short hop to the Ontario airport where I’ll be picking her up tonight at midnight, or as you’re hearing this last night at midnight Pacific time, so please join me in praying for his safe and uneventful flight. A little bit of a report here she had a great time with Tim and valley in Florida. Their church did a baby shower at the home of one of their best friends who are also on the worship team with them. I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it on the show before but Tim plays guitar and Val sings. It’s kind of funny, but his friends names are Steve and Val. We all kind of share names, I guess. LeeAnn and I met Steve and Val when we were back there earlier this year. Well actually, we met them on New Year’s Eve. So I guess it was last year. That was the trip you might remember where LeeAnn and I got the Rona in had to come home early. We had planned to stop in Fredericksburg to meet up with Adam Curry and his wife, Tina. But we didn’t want to make them sick. And then a few weeks later, Adam got it anyway. So back to LeeAnn’s trip.

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They went to church this morning, and the church had set up a really nice place for families to take Mother’s Day pictures. So I’ll post one of those on the show notes page if you’d like to see it, that a show notes pages at Lifespring media.com/s 12 e 250. And if you’re using one of the new fancy podcasting 2.0 podcast apps to listen to the show, I’ll have that picture in the chapter art right about now.

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And good news, Kathi is doing much better. She went to the urgent care yesterday since she was having such a hard time and they found out that she had an infection. So now that she’s got antibiotics going, she’s improved a lot. So praise the Lord for that. Thank you for your prayers there.

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Our reading today 2 Timothy 3-4. After the reading, I’ll have some comments for you. I’m calling today’s episode “Equipped.”  

In the beginning of chapter 3, Paul said that in the last days things would be difficult because of how evil people will be, and he listed some of the characteristics they would have. Here’s the list again: lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power.

You know, one thing social media has done is allowed pretty much anybody with a computer or smart phone to put their life on display for all to see. And it used to surprise me what some people chose to post. It doesn’t surprise me any more, but we’ve all seen every one of the characteristics Paul listed shown on social media. 

Now, let me hasten to say that there some wonderful people there as well who display the opposite traits, but I must admit that I had no idea how many of the other kind there were in the world.

The final four verses of chapter three really encapsulate the reason I do the Lifespring Family Audio Bible. Here they are again: You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them, 15and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; 17so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.

To continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, you need to be a continuing student of Scripture. Most believers agree with that but have a hard time doing it, me included. So this show helps me to stay in the Scriptures, and I hope that it helps you, too.

Bible translation used in today’s episode: Ch. 3 and 4 NASB

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Paul told Timothy to continue in the things you’ve learned to become convinced of.

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This is the Lifespring family Audio Bible coming to you from Riverside, California and podcasting since 2004. I am your OG God caster Steve Webb, Happy Mother’s Day to you moms out there. This is the daily show where we’re reading through the entire Bible in a year. Today are reading a second Timothy three through four and after the reading I’ll have some comments for you. I’m calling today’s episode equipped. The shownotes page for today’s episode is at Lifespring media.com/s 12 e 249. Want to send me an email, send it to Steve at Lifespring media.com. Let’s get started.

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Second Timothy chapter three. But realize this that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revisers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self control, brutal haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power. AVOID SUCH MEN AS THESE four among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins lead on by various impulses, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Just as Janus and Jambres opposed Moses. So these men also oppose the truth, man of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith, but they will not make further progress for their folly will be obvious to all jest is Janice and Jabra is folly was also. Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance, persecutions and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch at Iconium and Atlas DRA what persecutions I endured and out of them all, the Lord rescued me. Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, but evil men and imposters will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. You however, continue on the things you have learned and become convinced of knowing from whom you have learned them. And that from childhood, you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training and righteousness, so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.

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Second Timothy chapter four. I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His Kingdom, preach the Word, be ready in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with great patience and instruction, for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. But you be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry, for I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come, I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course I have kept the faith in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing. Make every effort to come to me soon for DMOZ having loved this present world has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica crescents has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. Only Luke is with me, pick up mark and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service, but tickets I have sent to Ephesus, when you come bring the cloak, which I left at Trofast with carpus and the books, especially the parchments, Alexander the Coppersmith did me much harm the Lord will repay him according to his deeds, be on guard against him yourself, for he vigorously opposed our teaching. At my first defense, no one supported me but all deserted me may have not be counted against them. But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me. So that threw me the proclamation might be fully accomplished, and that all the Gentiles might hear, and I was rescued out of the lion’s mouth. The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and will bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen. Greet Prisca and Aquila and the household of on a syphilis. Erasmus remained in Corinth, but Trophimus I left sick in my Letus make every effort to come before winter. You beuliss greets you also Putin’s and Linus, and Claudia and all the brethren, The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.

Steve Webb 5:28
In the beginning of chapter three, Paul said that in the last days, things would be difficult because of how evil people will be and he listed some of the characteristics that they’d have. Here’s the list again. lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revisers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self control, brutal haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power. You know, beloved, one thing social media has done is allowed pretty much anybody with a computer or a smartphone to put their life on display for all to see. And back in the early days of social media, it used to surprise me what some people chose to post. It doesn’t surprise me anymore, of course. But you know, we’ve all seen every one of those characteristics that Paul listed shown on social media. Let me quickly say that there are some wonderful people there as well who display the opposite traits. But I’ve got to admit that I really had no idea how many of the other kind there were in the world. And then the final four verses of chapter three really do encapsulate the reason I produced the Lifespring, family, Audio Bible. Here are those verses again, you however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of knowing from whom you’ve learned them. And that from childhood, you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training and righteousness, so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. Paul told Timothy to continue in the things you’ve learned and become convinced of. How do you do that? By continuing to be a student of Scripture, and most believers, I think, agree with that, but they have a hard time doing it. Me included. So this show helps me to stay in the scriptures and I hope that it helps you too. I’d love to hear from you. You have a comment? Let me know go to Lifespring media.com/s 12 e 249. Tomorrow our reading will be numbers 13 through 16 Boost.

Steve Webb 7:56
Someone donated 5555 sats anonymously yesterday at Lifespring media.com/support. Whoever you are, I thank you very much. God bless you. And I’ve gotten several anonymous 1000 sat boosts from someone using the pod friend app. So God bless you as well. And Sean of San Pedro was a consistent streamer and booster using the fountain app to everyone that supports the show from boosting and streaming SATs, I want you to know that I see them coming in. And I really appreciate your faithfulness. You’re awesome. Thank you. God bless you. Well, you know what tomorrow is tomorrow is episode 250 of season 12 of the Lifespring family Audio Bible. That means that tonight at six o’clock Pacific Daylight Time is the deadline for getting your episode 250s donations in if the Lifespring family Audio Bible is helping you to be in the word every day, and if the show is helping you to get through the Bible, maybe even for the first time in your life, then this would be a good time to donate make a special episode 250 donation with $2.50 $25 $250 or even $2,500 or the equivalent amount of Satoshi now normally a one time donation of $100 earns an associate producer credit but if your donation of $25 comes in by six o’clock tonight, Pacific Daylight Time, you’ll be given an associate producer credit on tomorrow’s show. And normally a one time gift of $500 or more earns the highly honored distinguished producer credit. But for Episode 250, your gift of just $250 We’ll learn to distinguish producer credit and then you can choose any upcoming Lifespring family Audio Bible episode that you’d like your credit to apply to. So if you’ve got a favorite scripture that we haven’t yet read on the show, if you want that can be the episode your distinguished producer ship will be on. That’s just one idea. You choose the episode and then there’s an even higher honor, we read of the Bereans and X 1710 through 15. In verse 11 It says the Bereans were eager to hear what Paul and Silas said and studied the scriptures every day to find out if these things is where true. So the highest title is that of Berean. And for our episode 250 donation, if you send in a $2,500 donation, I’ll produce in your name one of these Lifespring media podcasts you choose the original Lifespring podcast or in touch with God’s character or Lifespring hem stories or the Lifespring weekend music show or how to pronounce Bible names. The show will go out on the podcast feed for that show, of course, and it’ll be on the Lifespring all shows feed, and I’ll even put it in the feed for this show as a special episode. And when you become a brand you earn the title of brother or sister as in brother Mark or sister Martha and I’ll send you a signed copy of my book webs easy Bible names pronunciation guide, but remember all episode 250 donations have to be in bite tonight at 6pm. Pacific Standard Time, May 8 2022. That’ll give me time to produce Monday show which has to go out at about 10pm Pacific. Of course you can send any amount that you like, I just thought we could have some fun with the 250s The main thing is make the donation means something to you. And truly the size of the donation doesn’t matter no matter what you send. I’ll thank you and I really believe God bless you.

Steve Webb 11:25
On this date in church history may 8 1655 Edward Winslow passed away he was an English born Puritan separatist Mayflower pilgrim. He was a signer of the Mayflower Compact, and he later became governor of Plymouth colony. And on this date in church history, May 8 1816. In the Dutch Reformed Church in New York City, delegates from 35 Bible Societies met to establish the American Bible Society and the American Bible Society seeks to promote a wider circulation of the scriptures, and accompanied by notes or comments. So maybe they wouldn’t like this show since I always comment on the scriptures. Happy birthday to the American Bible Society.

Steve Webb 12:17
Prayer requests. Well, to the mothers out there listening again, Happy Mother’s Day to you. The lovely lady Leanne will be flying home from Florida tonight. So for the first time in our marriage, I haven’t been able to see her on Mother’s Day. I’ll be picking her up at about midnight. So Mother’s Day will have completely passed next time I see her. But I hope you had a great Mother’s Day. But let’s pray that Leanne has a safe, uneventful flight. Let’s pray. Our heavenly Father, you are holy and you’re merciful. You are the one true and only God, there is no other. Thank you for loving us, Lord, and because of your love, you’ve made it possible for us to have a relationship with you. And we praise you for that. And we thank you for your word and for equipping us to do the work you’ve called us to do. Thank you, Lord, for all the mothers that are out there. And I pray God that you bless them today in a very, very special way. And I ask Lord that you bring Leanne home safely tonight? May she have an easy flight and make her connections with no trouble? I pray God that you would bless the Lifespring family members today. I thank you for each one. And I pray this in Jesus name. Amen. If you’ve got a prayer request or a praise please do send it in at prayer dot Lifespring media.com

Steve Webb 13:40
If you have any comments on the show, please go to Lifespring media.com/s 12 e 249. And let me know email me at Steve at Lifespring media.com And don’t forget the clock is ticking 6pm Pacific Daylight Time tonight is the deadline to get your episode 250 donation in $2.50 $25 $250 $2,500 or 2.5 mil. Any amount that’s significant to you and equal to the value you receive from the Lifespring family Audio Bible Lifespring media.com/support Thanks to Kirstie and Sean of San Pedro for helping me to get the show done. First he publishes the newsletter and Sean of San Pedro does the chapters I could still use some help on the on the chapter art but if you’ve got a podcasting 2.0 podcast app, you can see the art that I’m producing. If you think you could do a better job, let me know until tomorrow. May God bless you richly. My name is Steve Webb. See you tomorrow. Bye.

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