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June 28 Daily Reading- Read the Bible in 1 Year
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Today's reading will cover Ezekiel Chapters 11:1-8, 16-25, 12:1-13, 16, and 16. Today we will read about God taking Ezekiel in the Spirit to Jerusalem to prophesy against the leaders there who were telling lies to God's people. We will hear God tell the people that He took care of the people like a baby no one wanted, and provided for her like a faithful husband, but the people trusted in their riches and forgot about Him, seeking other gods to worship unfaithfully. Through it all, we will see God's declarations of love and promise to forgive them after being disciplined. In our discussion for daily application we will talk about the fact that God disciplines those whom He loves. He loves His people. The purpose of discipline is to bring people to repentance. God will always forgive us. He wants to be our God and He wants us to be His people. There is nothing that can separate us from the love of God that is in Jesus! Even before Jesus, God's love for His people was always faithful, merciful, and unending, as we read today. There is nothing we can do that will stop God from loving us! No matter what you have done, turn back to God and continue walking with Him!
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00:00:03
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Good day, everybody.
Introduction to Bible Reading
00:00:05
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Today is June 28th, and you are here with Robinette in the Family Way Coaching. We are here for our daily Bible reading. We are reading through the whole Bible and getting the big picture all the way from Genesis to Revelation using the Day by Day Kids Bible written by Karen Henley.
00:00:22
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Thank you so much for joining me, whether you are following along on your podcast or watching on video. If you are using the commitment calendar, it's time to get that out and your sticker or however you're marking it off because you're about to hear the Bible today.
00:00:39
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We are almost done with the month of June. Oh my goodness. Half of the year is almost gone. We are halfway through our Bible. Oh my gosh, this is great.
00:00:52
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I don't know about you, but the time is just flying by for me.
Ezekiel's Visions and Prophecies
00:00:58
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We are going to be picking up in the book of Ezekiel today, reading through chapters 11 and 12 and 16.
00:01:08
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We left off yesterday where God's greatness left the front of the worship house and it stopped above the beings. And we are going to pick up from there.
00:01:21
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It says in our next section, it's entitled, Picked Up by the Spirit.
00:01:28
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Then the Spirit picked me up. He took me to the east gate of the worship house. I saw 25 there. It doesn't tell us in our version of the Bible, but these same men were the ones who were in secret, seen by Ezekiel in the secret room, worshiping the pictures on the wall of the animals and of the idols.
00:01:53
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They were the leaders. And so these are the same people. It actually lists them in the big version of the Bible.
00:02:00
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God said, these men plan bad things. They tell lies to people. They say that soon it will be time to build houses. So speak against them.
00:02:14
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God's spirit came to me. He gave me these words to say. You killed many people, so I will send you out of the city. You are afraid of fighting, but that's just what I'm going to bring.
00:02:30
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I put my face down to the ground. I said, God, are you going to get rid of everybody?
00:02:38
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Then God said, I sent some of my people far away. I sent them to other lands. Tell them that I will bring them back to Israel.
00:02:50
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They will come back and get rid of idols. I will put a new spirit in them. I will take away their hard heart. I will put a soft heart in them, and then they will obey my laws.
00:03:04
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They will be my people, and I will be their God.
00:03:09
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Our version doesn't mention, but as Ezekiel was prophesying these things to the men, one of the leaders fell down dead right there.
00:03:22
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And that is why Ezekiel asked, God, are you going to get rid of everybody? It's because one of them fell dead right then and there.
00:03:31
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The beings held their wings out and God's greatness went up from the city. It stopped over the mountains to the east. Then the spirit picked me up and he took me back to the people in Babylon.
00:03:46
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The dream in my mind faded away and I told the people everything God had shown me.
Symbolic Actions and Comparisons
00:03:56
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Sometime later, God spoke to me. You live with people who turn away from me. They have eyes to see with, but they don't look. They have ears to hear with, but they don't listen.
00:04:11
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So pack up your things like you are going away. Go out in the daytime. Let people watch you. Go to another place. Maybe they will understand.
00:04:25
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Dig through the wall and take your things through the hole in the wall. Carry your things on your shoulders. Take them out as the sun goes down. Cover your face so you can't see the land.
00:04:39
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This will be a sign for the people.
00:04:43
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So I did what God said. I packed my things. I took them out in the daytime. In the evening, I dug through the wall. I carried my things out as the sun went down.
00:04:56
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I carried them on the shoal on my shoulders, and the people watched. The next morning, God spoke to me again. Did my people ask you what you were doing?
00:05:09
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Tell my people in Jerusalem that they will have to do this too. Another nation will take them away. The prince will carry his things on his shoulders.
00:05:21
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He will leave as the sun goes down. He will go through a hole in the wall. He will cover his face so he can't see the land. I will bring him to Babylon.
00:05:34
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He will die there. But I will save some of the people. They will be sorry in the lands where I send them.
00:05:45
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Ezekiel chapter 16. The baby no one wanted.
00:05:51
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Then God said to tell Jerusalem, you were like a baby that no one wanted, but I took care of you. You were mine. I made you beautiful.
00:06:04
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I gave you everything you needed. You had fine flour and honey and olive oil. Everyone knew who you were. You were like a queen.
00:06:18
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But you trusted in your beauty. You turned away from me. You made idols. You didn't remember how I saved you long ago.
00:06:31
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There is bad news for you. You made me angry, so I sent enemies to you. They took your country. You are like a wife who leaves her husband.
00:06:42
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She leaves him so she can love another man. You left me so you could love idols. So I will give you to nations who worship idols.
00:06:53
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They will throw rocks at you. They will cut you with their swords. They will burn your houses down. i will pay you back for the wrong things you have done.
00:07:05
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But you will remember what you did. You will feel bad about it. I promise to be your God. And you will know i am the Lord.
00:07:18
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I will forgive you. You will feel bad and be quiet, says God.
00:07:27
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And that's the end of our reading today.
00:07:33
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So as we've been seeing through both the books of Jeremiah and the books of Ezekiel, God is quite upset over the entire nations of Israel and Judah's unfaithfulness to him by worshiping other gods and other idols, which are not even real.
00:07:52
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And God is telling them today that they were like a baby that nobody wanted. God saw them in the very beginning and he chose Abraham out of all the people.
00:08:09
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He chose Jacob out of the children, and he made the families his people. He took them out of Egypt. He brought them.
00:08:19
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He gave them the land. He provided for them. It was a land flowing with milk and honey, and they became wealthy, and they forgot that it was God who had given them everything that they had.
00:08:34
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And instead of staying faithful to him, they were now doing worse than the other nations. They were worshiping anything and everything, as we saw yesterday in the reading, where God took Ezekiel to see what was going on.
00:08:53
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But... all throughout each one of these things that God is telling them, God reassures that he is not going to stop being their God.
00:09:05
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There is nothing that will separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus now either. So although the people are unfaithful, he is getting rid of the people who are unfaithful, but in every area he is still preserving people for himself those he whom he knows will turn back to him and will know that they have done wrong and it will be a lot of years and unlike what the leaders are telling people by saying that oh we are the top people and we can do anything we want and nothing's going to happen and we're going to be able to rebuild here soon and we're not going to have to go to babylon
00:09:51
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God had encouraged them, if you remember, to go to Babylon and they would be taken care of and remembered.
God's Promises and Mercy
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He told them to pray for the goodwill of the cities where they were so that things would go well for them.
00:10:06
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Throughout everything, even today, we are seeing over and over again God's promise that he still loves them. God is so merciful.
00:10:17
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It doesn't sound like he is being merciful, but God disciplines those whom he loves. If God was not interested in returning the people to him, he would have simply walked away.
00:10:30
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But the goal of going to Babylon, we said in the very beginning of reading Jeremiah, is that this would be a purification. The purpose of God's discipline is for the people to see that they have been doing wrong and turn back to him.
00:10:48
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That has always been the central theme is not just that God is going to give them consequences for what they have done, but that God ultimately desires for his people to turn back to him and remember him.
00:11:04
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He says today that i will promise put and They will come back and get rid of idols. I will put a new spirit in them.
00:11:16
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This is also referring to when God brings us Jesus with the Holy Spirit. God has given us a new spirit. He has taken away our hard hearts and he has given us soft hearts.
00:11:31
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says, they will obey my laws, they will be my people, and I will be their God. God loves us so much and that he sent his only son that whoever would believe in him would not perish but have eternal life with him.
00:11:49
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So we see here today that our overarching theme is God's mercy, God's wisdom, God's grace.
00:12:00
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And we want to take that as our daily application today. We want to make sure that we are listening with our ears and seeing with our eyes and remembering what God has done.
00:12:13
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We don't want to forget what God has done for us. We read today that the people, once he had blessed them, trusted in their own abilities. They trusted in their beauty.
00:12:25
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We want to be sure that we are not trusting in the things that God has given us and remember that we are to trust in him alone. God wants us to go to him in prayer. He wants us to bring our concerns and the things that we are caring about to him.
00:12:41
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Ask him for what we think we need. He is faithful to provide for us. He is never going to stop loving you. There is nothing you can do that can separate you from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus.
00:12:59
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So I hope that you are encouraged and feel that God has lit your light today as we read about how God is always gracious. No matter how bad things get, you can turn back to him at any point in time.
00:13:13
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God always desires for us to return to him. None of us is perfect. We are all like sheep going astray, chasing after our own thoughts and desires. But God always calls us back. He is our good shepherd.
00:13:27
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And I hope that that lights your light today and encourages you. Don't feel like you can't turn back now. Don't let the enemy lie to you and tell you that you have done something that is unforgivable.
00:13:41
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Jesus paid the price for your sins. And you can always turn back to him. Even before we had Jesus, God was always showing that he just wants the people to turn back to him.
00:13:54
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So if he was faithful and merciful and loving, even before he sent Jesus, how much more so now that we have had Jesus, whose mercies are new every morning, that nothing can separate us from God's love that is in him.
Conclusion and Encouragement
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So thank you for joining me today. Please click that light button so that we can point to God and so other people can hear that message of turning back to God. If they are at a point in their life where they need to hear this message, this will encourage them to check the event out. Check out today's podcast.
00:14:31
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reading so that they too may hear God's word. Together, let's spread the word about reading God's word. And I hope you will have a fantastic, blessed rest of your day.
00:14:42
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And I will see you or be here for you again tomorrow.