Morning Shot

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team),

• The vows man makes are not only heard by God but attended to by God. No covenant member is allowed to carelessly make idle vows to the Lord.
• God's covenant members must have integrity in their words. He is using them to steward His redemption plan. They will both administer His wrath and His blessing. Their word must not be maligned before Him or the nations.

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In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team),

• We learn that the inheritance God provides for every family of Israel is important. Women are not inferior in God's community. Leadership in God's kingdom is built on submissive roles.
• God prescribes special sacrifices intended for the benefit of the entire nation. The picture of God's redemptive promise--the shedding of the blood of the innocent on behalf of the guilty--must be preserved throughout every year in every generation.

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In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team),

• Balaam advises Balak in a scheme to bring God's wrath on the people He blesses. God's blessing is never a license for sin. His blessing is a call to obedience. Obedience is the boundary line for blessing.
• Phinehas demonstrates a zealousness for the righteousness of God. His story teaches us how obedience pleases God.

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In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team),

• Balaam struggles with the incentive of a big payday! His story teaches us about the destructive results of God's servant attempting to straddle the fence. Man cannot serve both God and riches.
• God uses messy, broken people to accomplish His purpose. He is always working on multiple levels--acting in multi-layered storylines with short-term and long-term outcomes. He administers the eras to accomplish His redemption plan. He speaks, acts, and reveals so that current and future generations might seek Him and find Him.

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In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team),

• God provides a way for Israel to navigate the overwhelming number of deaths among them in the wilderness.
• Moses and Aaron’s rock incident teaches us valuable lessons in biblical leadership.
• Two seemingly obscure stories have great meaning in the context of the whole of Scripture. Edom and the bronze serpent will play important roles in our Bible literacy as we move through the story.

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In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team),

• God calls faithful believers to lead His covenant community. He defends them and provides for them.
• Israel experiences the administering of God’s pronounced judgment—everyone twenty years and older at Israel’s refusal to go into the Land of Promise will die in the wilderness.

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In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team),

• Israel stands between two opposing testimonies. Then spies testify that God is unfaithful to His word, Moses is a fraud, and death is certain. Joshua and Caleb testify that God will accomplish all He says, the land is just as God reported, and God’s presence is manifest among them.
• A complaining culture renders Israel blind to who God is, what He has done, and what He will do.
• When Israel rejects God by refusing His inheritance, Moses rushes to lead well. He is motivated not by the saving of the people, but by the majesty and power of the name of God.

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In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team),

• I have been so personally convicted that today's entire podcast is a devotional thought. I write it for myself and to myself. Do you need to listen along with me?

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In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team),

• God makes provisions for any covenant member to set themselves apart as holy unto the Lord. The Levites do not corner the holiness market.
• God's name is the seal of His covenant with Israel. God desires all nations to acknowledge His name and become covenant members.

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In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team),

• Because God’s holiness must not be distorted, the Levites must handle the tabernacle and its furnishings according to God’s prescribed responsibilities.
• God reveals the value of a covenant member. He also provides protection for a wife under the suspicion of her husband. This is a perspective of community and value of women no other nations failed to prioritize.

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©2023joelstrahan