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September 25 Daily Reading- Read the Bible in 1 Year
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Today's reading will include the books of Mark Chapter 24:41-44., and Chapter 13, Luke Chapter 21:1-36 and Matthew Chapter 24:1-36.
Today we will read about the widow who gave more of her money than those who were rich, and the signs that Jesus will be returning again soon.
In our discussion for daily application we will talk about applying the idea of giving all we have back to God to our very lives and the time we have each day. God is zealous and jealous for our time. He can never get enough of us! He wants us to live our lives with Him! He lives in us with His Holy Spirit! We even have an "internal voice" that we use to talk to ourselves about things. Let's redirect the conversation and use that inner voice to talk to God instead. I believe that is what it is for, rather than talking to ourselves. Let's give God ALL OF US, every part of our lives. Let's involve God in everything we do and truly abide in HIM. He already lives in us. We need to also live in HIM. We do this by making Him a part of EVERYTHING we are doing in life! Let's not just give God time out of our surplus; instead, let us give Him ALL of our time, ALL of OURSELVES.
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Introduction and Daily Routine
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Hello! Today is September 25th. Welcome to today's daily reading out of the Day by Day Kids Bible, written by Karen Henley. My name is Robin. I am with In the Family Way Coaching, and I will be our hostess today.
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I will also be our reader. If you have been around listening for a while, then you might have one of these. What is that?
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That's our commitment calendar. Go ahead and get that out and your sticker or whatever you are using to mark up your days because we are going to hear the Bible today.
Teachings of Jesus Before Passover
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I'm so glad that you are listening along today, however you have found this event, whether you are watching on YouTube somewhere. YouTube seems to be our most popular venue, aside from maybe like Apple Music.
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And so I want to say if you are finding this popping up on your feed, stick around. This is not your average Bible listening activity.
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We are going to be talking about daily application on how today's reading can be useful in our lives. This is not using like an NIV version. This is a chronological story, and we are reading it from front to back.
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So we are getting the whole big picture of God's plan and story for us. It has been a great year so far. And if you are just finding this event, we are towards the end of Jesus's time for his ministry here on earth.
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And ah we are going to be picking up where he is close to the Passover time. So he is getting closer to the time of his crucifixion.
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We will be getting to that on October 7th or somewhere around the... um It's October 4th, so we are almost there.
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This is a very, there was a lot going on. a very concentrated amount of of information that was given in such a short period of chronological time.
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So today are going to be looking at giving all you have. We're going to give today's reading a little broader application than what you might be accustomed to hearing.
Warnings of Future Events and End Times
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So let's see, when we pick up from yesterday, Jesus was being questioned by some leaders. And Jesus was, of course, answering very well. And so he finally, they finally stopped asking him questions.
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So now Jesus sat down at the worship house and he was across from the place where the people gave their money. And he was watching people put money into the offering box.
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Lots of rich people came by, and they threw in lots of money. But then a poor woman walked up. Her husband had died, and she dropped in two small pennies.
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Look, said Jesus to his friends. This woman put the most money into the offering box. It's more than what the rich people put in.
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because the other people only gave part of their riches. But this poor woman, she gave all the money she had.
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Now Jesus and his helpers left the worship house. Look, said one of his friends, look how big the stones are in the worship house. What wonderful buildings.
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Yes, look at all these big buildings, said Jesus. Someday they will all be torn down. not one stone will be left upon another.
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and Jesus walked up all of mountain and he sat down. From there, he could see the city across the valley and he could see the worship house. Peter, James, John, and Andrew came up to Jesus.
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They said, when will that happen? And what will happen to let us know that you are going to come, you're you're coming again? How will we know when the end of time is coming?
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Be careful, said Jesus. Don't let anyone trick you. You will hear people say, i am the one God promised to send. And they will fool lots of people.
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And you will also hear about wars. And don't be scared because this has to happen. That doesn't mean that the end of time has come yet.
Preparedness for the Return of Jesus
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Nations will fight against each other.
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Kingdoms will fight each other. And sometimes there won't be enough food, Jesus said. The ground will shake in different places. But this is just the beginning.
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You will have to be careful, said Jesus. People will send you to judges and they will beat you. And it's because of me. Then you will tell rulers and kings about me and I will help you know what to say.
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There will be more and more sin, said Jesus. Most people's love will grow cold.
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People will hate you because you belong to me. But keep loving me and you will be saved. The good news of the kingdom will be told.
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It will be told all over the world, said Jesus. All nations will hear it. Then the end will come. One day you will see armies all around Jerusalem, and then you will know the bad times are coming for Jerusalem.
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People living nearby will need to run to the mountains. People in the city should just get out. People in the country should not go back to the city.
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This will pay God's people back for their sins. Pray that you won't have to leave in the winter, and pray that you won't have to leave on a worship day. There will be lots of trouble, said Jesus.
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Things will be worse than they have ever been since the beginning of time.
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Things will never be that bad again. Some people will be killed, he said, and others will be taken to live in other lands. People who are not Jewish will control Jerusalem for a while.
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This won't last long. If it did, no one would live through it. The time will be short because of God's people. Someone might say, look, here's Jesus.
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They might say, there he is. But do not believe them. Fake promised ones will come and they will even do great wonders.
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They will try to fool God's people if they can. See, said Jesus, I have told you all of this before it happens. Someone might say, there is Jesus.
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He is out in the desert. Do not go out. They might say, here he is. He's in one of the rooms of this building. Do not believe it When I come, it will be like lightning, said Jesus.
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You can see it when you are in the east. You can see it when you're in the west. Now, right after the hard times, the sun will turn dark. The moon will not shine its light.
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Stars will fall from the sky. And then my sign will show up in the sky.
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Nations will cry, said Jesus. They will see me coming through the sky on clouds. I will come with power. I will send my angels out with a loud call from a horn.
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The angels will bring my people together, said Jesus. They will come from one end of the sky to the other. they will be There will be signs in the sun.
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There will be signs in the moon. There will be signs in the stars. The sea will roar and toss, and people will wonder about it. People will be afraid of what's coming.
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Look up when this starts to happen. Watch, said Jesus. That means it's time for you to be saved. Learn a lesson from the fig tree.
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You can see his leaves coming out, and so you know that summer will soon be here. You may see these things that I have talked about, and then you will know the time is coming soon.
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One day there will be an end to the sky, said Jesus, and there will be an end to the earth. But there will never be an end to my words.
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Nobody knows when this will happen, said Jesus. Even the angels in heaven don't know. Even hi the sun and don't know. Only the Father knows.
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And I am telling everyone the same thing. Watch.
Dedication to Serving and Loving God
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And that is the end of our reading today.
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We've talked a little bit before about the fact that nobody knows when the day will come. I wanted to point out, did you hear the description about the great horn that will be blown?
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It says, the angels will bring my people together after When Jesus comes with power, he he will send his angels out. They're not just any angels. These are his angels.
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Jesus says, I will send my angels out with a loud call from a horn. And this is why we celebrated the Feast of the Trumpet, the great shout blowing of the Shafar Day.
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We just had that this past week on the 23rd.
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That was an appointed time. God wants us to never forget that this will happen. It will be like when the ah exile was coming for the people in Jerusalem.
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They had heard for so long. that God was going to send them away from the nation because of their sins. And they just felt like, we've been hearing this same old story for so long.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's coming. Okay, sure, sure, sure. We don't believe it. This is not going to happen. And we can feel the same way. Oh, this will never happen in my lifetime.
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And even if it doesn't, we are still to watch and be ready. Jesus taught us that it is good for us to be found doing what we are supposed to be doing when he does come.
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So it's like the servant who is waiting up for his master to come home from a wedding party. And the servant says, my master is taking a very long time to come.
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And so he's not there. He's not ready. And then when the master comes home, the servant is not ready for him. We are Jesus's servants. We are to be doing the work that we are given to do before he comes.
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And there will be signs in the sky. And it says that his sign will come. And I'm not 100% sure, but I'm guessing it has to do with like the star that appeared on his birth.
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So I don't know. Maybe it will be something like that. But nobody knows. So we need to be conscientious about the fact that people always make videos and they say, oh, the rapture is going to be coming in 2025. Oh, this is going to be coming in 20 something or in 19 something.
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Many times people have claimed that God was coming on a certain particular date. We are not to believe these things because nobody, not even Jesus, knows the date that this will happen.
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We can be watching for signs and say, it is coming soon. And we can be prepared. And he says to look up at the sky. But we are not to declare that we know when it is coming because that is a lie.
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And if somebody else declares it, that is a lie. And if somebody declares that Jesus is has come and you missed it and you didn't know it happened, that will be a lie.
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And there will be fake prophets who claim to be him. And they will even do great wonders that will fool even the elect if possible. So we need to be very aware not to be deceived because Jesus tells us that when he comes, it will be like lightning from the from the sky.
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You can see it across the whole sky. So this is not the first time he has told us this. He wants us to be sure that we get this message, that we know. And that's why he says, I have told you ahead of time.
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So that might seem like it's our daily application, but it was just very important reading. Today, we're also going to look at the woman who gave all that she had instead of the people who gave out of their wealth, and they only gave a part of what they had.
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We've been talking lately about being who God made us to be and to use what he gave us to use and to ah be...
Human Relationships and God
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growing with it.
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When we read the story about the servants who were each given just one piece of money, that that symbolizes the gifts that people were given, are given. So God gives us resources.
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He gives us gifts. He gives us work to do. And we are meant to do everything to the best of our ability. We're not to be stingy with it.
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We're not to say, You know, oh, I'll give some time. Oh, i will I will do a little bit. We were created with a purpose.
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It's not just to live a life. We are to live our life to further the kingdom of God. There is something that all of us can be doing. We are meant to be serving one another.
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And it's it's great when we do little bits here and there to help, but we want to give all that we can. This is ah big purpose. yeah We can't do too much.
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We want to be sure that we are giving out of everything that we have, not just our extra time, not just our extra resources. This woman, this story is talking about just tithing.
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that they gave money for offering and tithe, and they still had some left. Are we spending our lives, our whole lives, for and living for Jesus? Or are we giving Jesus only a part of our life?
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So that is our daily application today. We are meant to give Jesus and to serve Jesus with our whole life, not simply a part of our lives. But the whole life, we are to love Jesus and God with all of our heart, all of our mind, all of our strength, and all of our soul.
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And it's the same thing with how we are to serve him and live our lives with him. He doesn't want just a part of our lives. He wants all of our lives.
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God is zealous for us. He wants us for himself. God told us that when he gave us the commandments. He says, I am a jealous God. And you know, one of the things that I've i've talked with people individually about is that We can have a tendency to be in a relationship and we can want that person to give us all of their time or at least like most of it.
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And we get very upset sometimes when we don't feel that people are giving us enough of their time. If we feel like that with one another, how much more so does God feel like that with us?
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God created us. We belong to him. And we're going to take that a step further. People are not meant to satisfy and fulfill our longing for connection and that attention.
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we We can't possibly give a person all the attention that they want all the time. We would call that needy or dependent. We are meant to to have our own lives and to do our own good works.
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And we are meant to spend time with people, you know, and and and as ah and of an appropriate amount of time for relationship that we exist together, but we also exist apart.
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But you see with God, we are never apart from him. He is always with us. So every part of our lives should belong to him. Everything we do in our lives, we should be doing with him and God never, never,
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thinks we are wanting too much of him. That's exactly what God wants us to do. Instead of chasing the person that we are in a relationship with down to say, you know, I want you to spend all of your time with me.
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That's the way we need to be chasing God down. He is the one that will never say, too much, too much. I need some personal space.
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Sometimes mamas and daddies, we just need, we need some personal space, don't we? But God doesn't. God doesn't.
Conclusion and Audience Interaction
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So I want to encourage us to live our lives fully for with God.
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Make God a part of all of your life. Everything that we do. We have a voice in our head that we use to talk to ourselves. And i believe that that voice is not really meant for talking to ourselves, but that it's meant for talking to God.
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When we are thinking about things and pondering things, instead of directing our conversation to ourselves, we need to be directing that conversation to God. That would be giving all of what we am and all of what we are and all of what we have to God, not just giving him our extra time.
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Make sense? That is our daily application today. So while we may have looked at that story and thought it was just about money, it can also be used to discuss our personal relationship with God and giving all we have to be with him.
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Well, thank you for joining me today. i hope that you feel that God has lit your light and given you something to think about. I hope that you are encouraged to abide with Jesus. we mean That means to live with him.
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He is already here with us. He is in you. He is in me. He's promised that he will never leave us. He will never forget us. We just have a tendency to forget about him.
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So let's remember where we are. We are connected to to God through his Holy Spirit and Jesus. Let's not take that for granted and and just give him little bits of ourselves here and there.
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Let's give him all of us. Well, hope that you have a wonderful day, whatever day you are getting around to listening or watching this September 25th daily reading out of our Day by Day Kids Bible written by Karen Henley.
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And if you have any questions or you want to connect on this subject, you can always feel free to comment on the audio version of the YouTube video um because the video version is set to made for kids.
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So it's a safety feature on YouTube that you cannot comment, but you can comment on the audio. And you can also leave me a message on my site at inthefamilywaycoaching.com.
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And you can click on the tab for Read the Bible in One Year. And ah you will find a purple box that says, Leave me a message letting me know you watched. Or if you're on the audio page, letting me know you listened today.
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And i will get back to every message personally. So I hope you have a fantastic rest of your day, whatever day you have been watching or listening. And you know where to find me tomorrow.
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Wherever you are listening or watching, we will have our daily reading again tomorrow. Until then, have a very blessed day.