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July 6 Daily Reading- Read the Bible in 1 Year
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Today's reading will cover Jeremiah Chapter 40: 7-16, and Lamentations Number 1, Number 2:9, 14, 16-17, 20, 22 and Number 3: 21-27, 31-42, 49-50. In our discussion for daily application we will talk about Lamentations 3: I have hope because of what I remember. God has great love. We will talk about God's faithfulness and love in the past giving us hope in current circumstances. When we are having a difficult time with any situations we can have hope by remembering how God has been there for us in the past and He will be there for us now, too. God's love never ends! He always cares for us and nothing can separate us from the love of God which is in Jesus!
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Introduction to Daily Bible Reading
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Welcome back, everybody. Today is July 6th, and you're here with Robin at In the Family Way Coaching. We are here for our daily Bible reading as we are going through the dayby Day by Day Kids Bible, which is written by Karen Henley.
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Thank you for joining me today. I love that you are joining me for this adventure as we go through the entire Bible, understanding the whole big picture from Genesis to Revelation. I'm thankful whether you're here on your ah listening on your podcast app or whether you are watching the video.
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Just so you know, I do also have it available on my site in case you don't want to use an app or YouTube. You can watch it directly from my site, which is still a YouTube type of view. i have it embedded there from YouTube, but you don't have to actually open YouTube to see it or listen. They're on my site.
00:00:52
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So thank you for being here with me. If you are following along on your commitment calendar, go ahead and get that out and your sticker or however you're marking your dime off because you're about to hear the Bible today.
Overview of Lamentations
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We are going to be starting the book of Lamentations today. A lamentation is a sad song or poem, and these have been written by Jeremiah. I didn't know we were going to be including these. Our version is so complete.
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I know that we reference the Lamentations ah towards the beginning, maybe... I think of Jeremiah's readings, ah but I didn't think that that they were going to be included. So I got a pleasant surprise when I saw there it was, Lamentations.
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And just like the Psalms, they are separated by individual lamentation, which is an individual poem or song. And so we will be looking at different ones as well as reading ah from a little bit of the book of Jeremiah.
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We are almost at the very end of the book of Jeremiah. I thought we were going to be at the very end, but there is still a little bit left in Jeremiah's book. So here we go.
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We are going to head up and start with Lamentations number one, which has been entitled From a Queen to a Slave. You may remember that God compared the people and said that they used to be like a queen and now they were a slave. And God said, my people were not born to be slaves.
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But here we go. This is ah taken directly from that. And that is the title of Jeremiah's ah Lamentation today.
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But in the actual Bible, they're just given numbers.
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Jeremiah wrote this sad poem. The city is like a desert. Once it was full of people. Now it's like a woman who has lost her husband.
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Once the city was a great nation. It was like the queen of the land. Now it's like a slave. The roads cry because no one comes for the special holidays for God.
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No one comes through the gates. The enemies are in charge now. The enemies have peace. And it's all because of the people's sins.
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If you are watching the video in between ah at the end of our last reading there, I have a little buddy who was scratching at the door to come in. So he's hard to see, but I have and Put him up here where he wants to sit for a minute.
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This is Scooby if you're new to the videos.
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Lamentations number two. Enemies laugh. The city gates sank into the dirt. God broke the bars.
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The king and princes were taken away. God's laws are gone. The prophets don't hear from God any anymore. What your fake prophets saw was no good.
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They didn't tell you that you had sinned. What they told you was a lie. They led you the wrong way.
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Your enemies opened their mouths wide against you. They laughed. They put their teeth together. They say, we ate up Jerusalem and this is the day we were waiting for.
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We lived to see this day.
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God did what he planned to do. He kept his promise. It's what he said long ago. He let the enemies win over you. He made your enemies stronger than you.
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God, look and think about it. Who did you ever treat like this? You called trouble to come just like you'd call for dinner. Nobody got away on the day God got mad.
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I took care of my people. I watched them grow, but the enemy has torn them down.
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Lamentation number three, great love. This one is beautiful. I loved this one. I remember one thing I have hope because of what I remember.
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God has great love, so we are not lost. God's care never ends.
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His care is new every morning. It's great the way he keeps his promises. I tell myself, God is what I want, so I will wait for him.
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He is good to people who look for him, and it's good to wait for God to save you. It's good for people to have hard times when they're young. God doesn't leave his people forever.
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He might bring sadness, but he will show his care too. His love is great. It never ends. He doesn't want to bring hard times.
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He doesn't want to make his people sad. But God sees it when people put others down. God knows. He sees when people don't give others what they need.
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He sees when people aren't fair. God sees. Who can make things happen if God hasn't planned it? Both good times and trouble come from God.
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Why should people make a fuss when God brings them trouble for sinning? Let's look at how we act. Let's come back to God. Let's say we sinned.
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We turned away from you. You have not forgiven us. Tears will flow without stopping. Nothing can cheer me up until God looks down and sees me.
Jeremiah's Leadership and Political Context
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And now we're going to read Jeremiah chapter 40. And this is entitled, Summer Fruit.
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Some of Judah's army leaders and their men were out in the country. And they had heard that Babylon's king had put Gedalia in charge. So they came to Gedalia. Gedalia said, don't be afraid to let the people of Babylon rule over you.
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Move into the land and do what the king of Babylon says. Then things will go well. I will stay here and talk to people who come from Babylon. You go out and bring in the wine.
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Gather the summer fruit. Bring in the oil. Store everything in jars. Live in the towns.
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Some Jews had moved to the countries of Moab, Ammon, and Edom, and they heard that Gedalia was in charge, so they came back to Judah too. They gathered the wine and summer fruit,
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There was more than enough. Then some army leaders came to Gedalia. They said, Ammon's king is sending Ishmael to kill you.
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But Gedalia did not believe them. Johanan, one of the leaders, went to Gedalia alone. Let me kill Ishmael, he said. Nobody will know who did it.
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Why should he kill you? Then all the Jewish people will run away. No, said Gedalia. Don't kill Ishmael. He would never kill me.
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And that is the end of our reading today.
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Well, we see that Gedalia is trying to do the right thing here, don't we? We see that he has advised the people the same message as what God had been giving Jeremiah is to go into exile or to now that they were left behind there, they were told to obey Babylon's leaders and then things would go well for them.
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God had told the people in exile to plant gardens and eat the food and have children. and that if they prayed for peace for the towns where they lived in the areas where they lived and things went well for the Babylonians, things would go well for them too, because God knew the plans that he had for them, plans for hope and a future.
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And here Gedalia is following along with God's words. So we see here also in the Lamentation for Great Love, that was my favorite.
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And this is our daily application today.
Trust and Hope in God's Faithfulness
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Jeremiah says, i remember one thing. i have hope because of what I remember. And one of the things that we have been talking about this year is remembering and seeing how faithful and great our God is.
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God is worthy of our love and our praise and our trust in him. And so we need to remember how God has been faithful to us in the past so that each day when we experience difficulties, we know that we can rely on him.
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We have hope because we remember. We remember God's great love for us, and we know that if he was faithful in the past, like what we are seeing here in these stories in the Bible, that God will still be faithful to us here in the present, even though it was it is many thousands of years later.
00:10:55
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Our God is still our great God who loves us and whose care never ends. One thing that has changed is that in Jeremiah's time, he did not yet have Jesus.
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So Jeremiah notes that they had their sins had not been forgiven. But now we have Jesus, and our sins are forgiven. Jesus paid the price for our sins.
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We no longer need to have an atonement sacrifice made each year, and we should be so thankful for that. It is just more evidence of God's great love for us. that we know that God loved us so much that he sent his son to save us from our sins.
00:11:34
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Over and over, we see how great God's love is, and we've learned God is love. And we've talked about our identity this year.
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Our identity are names that God gives us and names that we can call ourselves, names that are false. And when we say God is love, that's like a name for him.
00:11:58
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God is love. It's like one of his names. And I love that. So he is our great God of love and his care is new every morning. In our big version, it would say his mercies are new every morning.
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And we have God's great new covenant with us where he has cared so much about us that he has also put his word in our hearts that we have been given the Holy Spirit and And he, but God is just his, we could go on and on and on about all the many wonderful things God has done.
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And so our application today is to remember these things. Jeremiah says, i have hope because of what I remember. And hope is where we have faith in things that we have not yet seen that will happen.
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We have faith and we know that God has helped in the past. And while we may not have seen it yet in the future or in the present here, we know that God is faithful and he will never leave us nor forsake us.
Encouragement and Call to Action
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So if you are having troubles today, which every day is different, so we have different things to think about and worry about each day, but Jesus tells us not to spend a lot of time worrying about them because nobody's life is extended by worrying.
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To instead seek God's kingdom first, and everything we need, God will take care of. And we have seen that that is true throughout all of the Bible. So that is our daily application today, to have hope because we remember God's great love for us.
00:13:33
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I hope that you are in encouraged today by our reading. that you feel God's light is lit bright inside of you. And let's not put that light under a bowl.
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Let's put it up on the mountain top high. Let's click that light button so that others will be attracted to God's light through us and that they will be encouraged and hear God's word. Because we are trying to spread the word about reading God's word.
00:13:58
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Then others will also be encouraged to know God's great love for them and that they can have hope because God is faithful for you who are watching anytime in the future from the time that we put this out.
00:14:10
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Anytime, every day, God's mercies are new. His care is new every day and he loves you. So thank you so much for joining me today. Whether you are following along on your podcast or on your on your video somewhere like Spotify, please click that light and follow and subscribe button.
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And together, let's spread the word about reading God's word. I hope you have a fantastic rest of your day today, wherever you are. And I will be here for everyone again tomorrow.