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June 2, 2025 Daily Reading- Read the Bible in 1 Year
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Today we will read 2 Kings Chapter 17. We will read about nation of Israel being taken over by Assyria and taken away as captives. We will read that God tried very hard to get His people to stop doing wrong and worshipping idols but their hearts were hard and they did not obey. In our discussion for daily application we will read from Hebrews and Revelation to see that even though we are forgiven for our sins God still has expectations for us. We are not to continue to live in sin or it will have the effect of hardening our hearts, the same way the Israelites' hearts were hardened by their continuous sin. We will read in Revelation that God still takes worship of false gods seriously and that we are not to worship false gods such as Buddha, or Hinduism or look to the stars for our horoscopes to know the future. We are called to be holy, set apart from the world and be God's people. God disciplines those whom He loves, and He loves us, so He WILL discipline us if we are disobedient to Him, just like we read about today.
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Introduction and Welcome
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Hi there, everybody. Today is Monday, June 2nd. It is 2025 and you are here with Robin at In the Family Way Coaching. We are here for our daily Bible reading as we go through the Day by Day Kids Bible written by Karen Henley.
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And if you are following along on that daily commitment calendar, it is time to take that out and get your sticker ready or however you're marking off your calendar. Because that's right, you're about to hear the Bible today.
Significance of Shavuot
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Today is the 50th day of the Omer, and it's too late for us to count it together. But today has been Shavuot, and I hope that you have had an amazing day today.
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I have posted a video for you so that you can know all about Shavuot and why you would want to observe it and celebrate it as a Christian. The video did cut off at the very end when my internet cut out and video terminated, but I do have a very short conclusion video that I have ah connected very close to it, but not as part of it.
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I was unable to connect them together into one video due to the size of the first video being too long for my free programming. But it is up there, so thank you for your understanding on that.
Bible Reading: Lions in the Land
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We are going to get right into our reading today. We are reading in 2 Kings chapter 17. And although it is a short reading, we have a lot to talk about.
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Today's reading is entitled Lions in the Land. Back in Israel, Hosea was the king. And Israel was paying money to the king of Assyria.
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And that kept Assyria from fighting them. But then King Hoshea asked Egypt for help. So he stopped paying Assyria. And when Assyria's king found out, he sent out his army and the people in the army went out to fight Israel.
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They put King Hoshea in jail.
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Assyria's army fought the capital city of Israel for three years. At last, the people of Assyria took over the whole land. they didn't Then they took the people of Israel away and they made God's people live in cities far away.
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Then the people from Assyria took people from other nations and they put them to live in the they sent them into Israel's land to live. And all of this happened because Israel had stopped obeying God.
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God had said, don't worship idols, but they worshiped idols anyways, and they did wrong things in secret. They acted like the nations around them, and they made God angry.
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God sent prophets to them. He said, stop doing wrong, obey me. But the people of Israel would not listen.
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They had hard hearts and they didn't trust in God.
Judah's Disobedience and Consequences
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So God was very angry at Israel. And that's why he sent them out of the land.
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Only Judah was left. But Judah started doing the same things Israel had done. So God turned away from all of his people.
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Now people from other nations were living in Israel's land. At first, they didn't worship God. So God sent lions into the land and the lions killed some of the people there.
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Someone told the king of Assyria, you sent people into Israel, but they don't know how to worship the God there of that land. He sent lions into the land and the lions are killing people.
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The king said, get one of the priests we took away and send him back to live there. Tell him to teach the new people how to worship his God.
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So they sent a priest back to the land of Israel, and he taught the people how to worship God. But the people made idols too. They worshiped God, but they also worshiped idols.
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God and his people had made a promise together. God said, don't worship any other gods. Don't bow down to them. Bow down to me.
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I am the one to worship. I took you out of Egypt with my power. Don't worship other gods. Keep my laws.
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Don't forget the promise we made together. Worship me, the Lord your God. I am the one who will save you from your enemies.
God's Love and Discipline
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But the people wouldn't listen.
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That's the end of our reading today.
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So we see that the people of Israel are being disciplined by God. God disciplines those whom he loves. God loved his children very much.
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And guess what? God loves you and me too, so much that he sent Jesus to be our savior. And whoever believes in him will not die, but have eternal life.
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He gave us the forgiveness of all of our sins. So what does that mean if we still don't worship God all the way? Does that mean that we just are okay to just do whatever we want to do?
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That is not the case. I want to bring us into the new covenant and read some of Hebrews, the book of Hebrews.
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In chapter 3, we are encouraged to listen and obey God or harden and fall away. In chapter, ah verse 7 rather, it says, Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion on the days of testing in the wilderness.
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There your fathers put me to the test, and though they saw my works for forty years, therefore I was provoked by this generation, and I said they always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.
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and as I swore in my wrath, they shall not enter my rest. Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil heart of unbelief that falls away from the living God.
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But encourage in at one another day by day, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partners of Messiah if we hold our original conviction firm until the end.
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We need to hold our original conviction firm until the end. And we see that the people in Israel were not holding firm to their conviction until the end.
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They were constantly worshiping other gods in addition to our Lord.
Obedience and Avoiding Sin
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We're going to go then to chapter 10.
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And in chapter 10, verse 26, it says, For if we keep on sinning willfully, after we have received the knowledge of truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but only a terrifying expectation of judgment and a fury of fire about to devour the enemies of God.
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any Anyone who rejected the Torah of Moses dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses, meaning that they would be stoned to death if they were guilty of ah disobeying the word of the law.
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How much more severe do you think the punishment will be for the one who has trampled the Son of God underfoot and has regarded as unholy the blood of the covenant by which he was made and has insulted the spirit of grace?
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And then we're going to look at Revelation chapter 2, where Jesus is talking to John and he's giving him letters to the different churches.
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He writes to the church in Ephesus.
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I know all about your deeds and your work and your patient endurance and that you cannot bear those who are evil. You have tested those who call emissaries and are not and have found them to be liars.
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You have perseverance and have endured for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary. But this I have against you, that you have forsaken your first love.
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Remember then from where you have fallen. Repent and do the deeds you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your menorah from its place until you repent.
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God doesn't want us to stay in a place of just continually sinning and in a way to take advantage of the grace that he has given us.
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He also speaks to the church of Smyrna and he says,
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not Smyrna, the church of Pergamum. He says, beware the trap of Balaam
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Thus says the one who has a sharp two-edged sword. I know where you live, where Satan's throne is. Yet you continue to hold firm to my name, and you did not deny your faith to me, even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness who was killed among you, where Satan resides.
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But I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold to the teachings of Balaam, who was teaching Balak to a stumbling block before the is before the children of Israel, to eat food sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
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Likewise you also have those who hold to the teachings of the Nicolaitans. Repent then. If not, I will come to you soon and make war against them with the sword of my mouth.
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He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to Messiah's communities. To him who overcomes, I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and written on that stone a new name that no one knows except the one who receives it.
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There is so much that is still to come in our final days. And we are still to keep away from worshiping false idols. We are to keep from worshiping false gods. We are to keep from things like Buddhism, Hinduism,
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Anything where it it is not worshiping God. It is looking to the stars for our horoscopes, things of that nature. Those are all things that are detestable to God.
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We are not to do these things. And even in the final revelation, Jesus was telling John to write letters to those churches and warn them.
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He's aware of what is going on. Jesus and God know who is worshiping with their heart and who is worshiping false idols. What we read today that the people in Israel were doing things in secret.
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It may have been secret to the other children of Israel, but nothing is secret from God. God knows who is actually a believer and he knows if we are worshiping other gods and those things do not make him happy.
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They make him very angry as we have seen today and God will discipline those whom he loves.
Conclusion and Closing Remarks
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And since he loves his children, he sent Jesus to be our Savior, that whoever would believe in him would not perish but have eternal life.
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It is not okay for us to take advantage of that grace and those forgiveness of sins by continuing in worship to false idols and false gods.
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So that's the end of our lesson today. And I hope that you feel that God has lit your light. And even though it may seem like it's not a very in ah happy subject to talk about, it is definitely very important to have these discussions to know how god what God expects of us.
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We've been reading this year that God desires for us to know him. And so it's very important to us. It's very important for us that we know him um and not turn away from him, that we know what he approves of and what he does not so that we can obey our God and live in obedience to Jesus.
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And we have that Holy Spirit inside of us now with the word written on our heart. So let's not let our hearts become hard like we we are warned about in Hebrews and what we see happen to the children of Israel.
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Let's not let our hearts become hard by continually ah living in sin, but to do the right thing. So thank you for joining me today.
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I hope that you have a fantastic rest of your day, wherever you are, and whatever day or time you are getting around to hearing today's reading. It is quite late now. I'm not even going to get this posted until the 3rd of June ah because I recorded this and then i was unsatisfied with the recording.
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So here I am. putting it out late, but it will still be there for you. So thank you so much for joining me on this event, and I will be here for everyone again tomorrow.