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11/03/2015
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Ezekiel 7:1-9:11 ~ Hebrews 5:1-14 ~ Psalm 105:1-15 ~ Proverbs 26:28
Today is November 3rd. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it is my honor and my pleasure to be here with you today, moving our way through our week together. So we’ve been spending the week reading from the New Life Version, which is what we’ll do all week, and we find ourselves in the book of Ezekiel.
Commentary
There are points where the Proverbs begin to speak about speaking. They begin to unpack the power that is packed inside of the words that we choose to speak out of our mouths. It has been doing that. It is important that we at least pay close attention because it is easy to kind of just check out, as a nice little vitamin of wisdom for the day, but to sit with what is being said is to understand that what is packed into a sentence here in the book of Proverbs has profound implications.
If you are a liar, then you hate the people you crush with your lies.
Sit with THAT for a second. That is pretty profound. That has some depth to it.
A mouth that speaks false words destroys.
That is not lightweight stuff and so it should challenge us in the ways that we’re choosing to nuance the truth – for our own gain, for our own appearance, or for whatever reason. We can hate, crush and destroy with a lying tongue with that which is false.
I think of my own little boy Ezekiel who is 3 years old now and he really hasn’t learned to be false. You know how you have a toddler that can communicate and they speak well, but they don’t really know the nuances of all of the social little things. They are just true and so they are just willing to say the truth as they kind of figure things out. They are going to learn to be false or nuanced from their culture and from primarily their family. So Ezekiel might say something that is blunt or this is what he sees or this is what he wants to know about, but there is an innocence about it that is just true and acceptable. As we grow into adults we lose the wonder of learning and we have to pretend that we know everything and we introduce so much falseness and so much nuance into the things that we do. According to the Bible, that can destroy. That one word jumped off the page to me because of something Ezekiel did last week.
I was coming in from the road and I brought him these little superhero gloves because he likes to pretend he is a superhero and they make a noise and they flash a light. So he runs around the house destroying the bad guys. So he and I were playing and I was chasing him around the house. I'm chasing him and he's laughing. He's giggling. He turns around and he throws his little hand out and there is the light that flashes and makes all the noise and I jump back like he got me. He said, “Don’t worry, daddy. I won't destroy you.”
May we remember that we can destroy and crush with falseness, with weaving together partial truths and partial lies and making them plausible and feeding them to people. I guess we need to remember the innocence of the truth. There is just an innocence and wonder to the truth. We can each always think in our minds when we’re about to tell a lie, ‘don’t worry, I won't destroy you. I'm not going to do this,’ and speak the truth in love as the scripture tells us.
Prayer
Father, we can’t be true people if we are not being true in every way and we want to be true. It is one of the things we are seeking and coming to the scriptures every day to do -- to weed out what is false, the false idols we may have given our hearts to in worship, the falseness that is within us because of wounds and insecurities. This is not how we were created. So we come here every day to reorient ourselves to you so that we can walk in relationship with you and be guided by the power of your Holy Spirit in each and every day, that you would lead us into all truth as you’ve promised to do. So we invite you. Lead us into all truth and away from what is false. May we not be destroyers. May we not crush with what is a lie. Come Holy Spirit, we pray. In Jesus’ name, amen.
Announcements
Www.DailyAudioBible.com is the website. It’s home base. It’s where you find out what’s going on around here. So we’re just kind of getting ourselves into the rhythm of the 11th month of the year. It will be a fun month. A couple more weekends on the Reframe Tour before we knock off for the rest of the year. This coming Sunday – Chattanooga, TN, we’ll be at Mission Chattanooga, a church that I love, and I'm looking forward to being there. If you are in the region, visit www.MissionChattanooga.org and you can find their address. They have three services, if I remember right. I think one is like 8:00, one is at 11:00, one is at 5:00 p.m., but check the website to verify that. I think that is right, but maybe that first one is at 9:00. I don’t know. Anyway, check it out. Www.MissionChattanooga.org. Looking forward to seeing you this weekend. Then November 15th we will be in the San Diego area at La Jolla Christian Fellowship. Their website is www.ChurchatLaJolla.org and looking forward to being there.
It's November. The audio edition of Reframe has been released and is available wherever it is that you get your books. You can certainly find some links at www.ReframeBook.com to order up. Yeah, I think if you’ve gone through Reframe or even if you haven’t, even if you’ve been kind of waiting for this, the audio edition is definitely, at least for me, the way I wanted it to be read. So check that out. Www.ReframeBook.com.
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That’s it for today. I’m Brian. I love you and I’ll be waiting for you here, tomorrow.
Community Prayer Requests and Praise Reports
Hey Daily Audio Bible family. It is Elbanita from Kentucky, now in Charlotte. First, thanks Brian and Jill for this amazing community. It is awesome to hear you all every morning. I'm not sure of the sister's name that encouraged us to call in even if there is no update, but thank you so much for saying that and giving us the courage to press forward. So my update is I'm doing better since the passing of my dad. The days have gotten a little bit easier and when I need to cry I cry. Special shout-out to Sinner Redeemed for the prayers and, yeah, life is what it is, but I am coming to the end of myself and trusting the Lord more every day and he continues to bless me with beautiful surprises and answers prayers that I prayed when I was a child and I forgot about. He brings them as reminders that he's still listening. He's still for us and not against us. So I love him every day. And thank you all so much for praying. I’ve accepted a seasonal part-time job just to have income coming in. We’ll see what the Lord says about seminary which I'm considering. Continue to call in, friends and family. I’ll be praying for you. I love you all. Miss Christy from Kentucky, I miss you so much. Please call in and let us know how you're doing. Okay, take care family. Bye.
Hi Daily Audio Bible family. This is Ida from Whittier. I haven’t called in for quite some time now. I began calling in with prayers for relationship trials in my life and as time went on, things seemed to get harder. I stopped calling in. Sometimes it feels like you're all alone, but when I hear what everybody else is going through, I realize that there are a lot of God-fearing, God-loving people who are being tried. There is a lot of pain and sorrow. Sometimes our circumstances, they just grip our heart and our hearts are broken. I just wanted to call and reach out and just let you guys know that I'm continuously seeking the Lord. He has begun to heal me. I do feel his joy again. It has been a very difficult week and I struggle sometimes, but I have a lot of __________ little things that he has done that have really just like brought that joy back to my heart. I'm just reaching out and ask that all you continue to pray that my faith is strengthened and that I continue to go forward in faith and that I continue to proclaim his praises and that he will use this in a mighty way for his glory. I just thank you, family, for being there. I love you. Ida in Whittier.
G’day Dabbers. It's Richard C. from Albury-Wodonga. I know I haven’t called in for a little bit because I suppose I’ve been waiting for some news to give to you about me and my family and our situation. Nothing has really changed as I sit here this morning. It's Sunday, the 1st of November. I had my birthday yesterday and the youngest of my eight kids had his birthday on Friday, the 30th. But I haven’t seen any of the boys for 11 weeks. It was 11 weeks ago today that I lost my temper with one of them and I pushed him and he has been badly hurt. Well, not badly hurt, but been hurt, hurt enough for the authorities to come in and take the five younger boys from us that were placed with us through the foster caring system. The reason I'm ringing this morning is 10 weeks ago God gave my wife and I a promise. We were in a church in Melbourne and through amazing circumstances, a lady who doesn’t normally go to that church, we don’t normally go to that church, had a word __________ called Like My Wife's Life, saying that he will. She said I don’t know what the means to you guys, but it I just feel God saying he will. __________ at the time was will he restore our family and so we believe that was a word from God that he will. But it's been 11 long weeks and we feel like there is a spiritual fight going on for these boys’ lives. So if you would pray that the devil and the principalities and powers that set themselves up against these boys would be wiped out and that God's sovereign hand would be at play in this.
Sin in the present, tempting the mind's eye. Sins from that past that are reluctant to die. Calling so softly, ‘don’t leave me, my love. Come back once again. Be a hand for my glove. I’ll cling to you tightly. I’ll shield you from pain. I’ll fill you with gladness as I float through your vein.’ But I remember Lot's wife. You called to her too. She listened intently, looked back and was through. My past is not your present and we will not renew, because stuck looking back, Stupid, is all you can do. I guess you can say I'm the one that got away. Thank you, dear Lord, I most fervently pray. Hold to my hand as you lead me away. Keep my heart humble. Make me stronger each day. Because I remember Lot's wife and the words that you said, never look back, keep your eyes straight ahead. BlindTony1016@gmail.com. Delta Alpha Foxtrot, haven’t heard from you in awhile. Time to check in, brother. Alright, and Steve of the Redwoods, where are you, brother? I know you're still there. Anyway, I would like to thank all of the Daily Audio Bible family just for being who you are in the Lord and in his Word. And thank you Brian and your family for this wonderful forum for God's Holy Spirit to flow. Alright, bye-bye.
This is Dawson, Chicago area. November 1st Pastor Gene called in and talked about the struggles her whole life with her relationship with her mother and though she loves her mother, she is separating herself. I totally, totally relate. My situation is my mother is 85 and she has never loved me and I am her caretaker as it were. She is emotionally dependent on me and physically dependent on me in so many ways. I have a brother and he is a good guy, but he is married, so I am the primary here. I have always struggled with her verbal abuse and judgment. My situation is I am single and I’ve always been single and I know this is where God has me. I’ve known it many years ago, before there had been any changes in my family relationships as far as my dad passing away and older brother. So I understand this is where God has me, but this is also where I feel a lot of pain and definitely am growing stronger in the Lord. He is teaching me so much through everything in my life including my relationship with my mother, which is always the most painful. Father God, I don’t understand how a mother or a father could not love their child growing up or even as an adult. Father God, I don’t understand. Father God, I pray for Pastor Gene and her mother and myself and my mother, Holy God. Only you can break through something like this. Only you can bring light to it. Only you can bring love and understanding, strength and peace both to Pastor Gene and I as daughters and our mothers, whatever is their struggle and whatever is their bondage, Father God. Hear our hearts, Father God. In Jesus’ holy, mighty, precious, awesome name. Amen.
Hi, this is Candace from Oregon. Brian, thank you for Ezekiel, for reading to us from that book. It also meant a lot to me. When I was a brand new baby Christian at the age of 16 and one of the first songs I wrote was inspired by it and these are the lyrics. I was sinking into a deep, dark tunnel of loneliness and strife when Jesus came. I’ll interject now – he came through my aunt and her testimony and her plea to me that I needed to ask Jesus into my heart. Jesus came and fished me out and gave me a brand new life. Thank you Lord. I will always thank you forevermore. Life without him would be worse than having no life at all. He has opened the treasures of heaven to me and from his narrow path I don’t fall. Thank you Lord. I will always thank you forevermore. But as you said through the prophet Ezekiel, Lord, woe unto him who goes his own way. It leads only to death. And I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, says the Lord, so turn and live. O God, thank you. You who are life, bring life to us on this new day, each and every day. In Jesus’ name, for his sake, amen.
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