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June 18 Daily Reading- Read the Bible in 1 Year
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Today's reading will cover Jeremiah Chapters 22:13-17 and 26: 1-16, 2 Kings Chapters 23:31-37 and 2 Chronicles Chapters 35 and 36:1-5. Today we will read about King Josiah celebrating the Pass Over festival with the kingdom of Judah and providing the sheep and goats for the sacrifice. Then we will read about his death when he failed to obey God and instead got involved in a battle with Egypt, even though the king of Egypt told him that he would be killed if he got in the way of him obeying God by going to battle with Babylon. We will read about the ascension of Josiah's sons to be king of Judah and read about King Jehoiakim building riches while treating the people unfairly. God sent him a message through Jeramiah telling him that he needed to first obey God and do good, like his father had, and then he would also be provided with riches. We will read in Matthew 6:19-34 when Jesus taught not to seek after riches, which are here today and gone tomorrow, but to instead build treasure in Heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy and to seek God's Kingdom and His righteousness first and then everything else we need will be given to us, rather than chasing after things we think we need like people who do not believe in God. Our heavenly Father knows what we need before we even ask and provides for even the birds and flowers. How much more will He provide for us, His children?!
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Introduction to the Daily Bible Reading
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Hi everyone. Today is June 18th and you're here with Robin. I am with In the Family Way Coaching and we're here for our daily Bible reading. We are going through the Bible this year using the Day by Day Kids Bible written by Karen Henley.
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If you are just finding this event, don't be discouraged by the fact that this says it's kids Bible because this is not just for kids. This just means that it's written but so that we can understand it and it's written in a story format and it is written in chronological order so that we can understand God's big story all the way from Genesis through Revelation and understand what we are reading.
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This doesn't contain every single detail, but it gives us a great picture of the overall story in the Bible. So thank you for finding this event. I hope you stick around and listen for the rest of the
Resources for Bible Reading
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year.
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If you've missed any it episodes here, we have been doing this since January 1st. So feel free if you are looking for a particular part of the story or to start at the beginning, or if you're here 2026 other later year,
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go ahead and check that out because this a series will be available for the entire year on reading the whole Bible in a year. So if you are following along on your commitment calendar, go ahead and get that out and your sticker or however you're following along because you're about to hear the Bible today.
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For those of you just finding this event, you can find a commitment calendar of your own to download for free. You don't have to enter your email address. You don't have to subscribe to anything. You don't have to sign up for anything.
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I simply have that available as is a download at
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and you click on the tab for Read the Bible in One Year. I am planning on maintaining this. So in the future years, even if you are beyond 2025, head on over to that site because I do have the calendars available there. I am making the commitment to keep up every month in the years that follow.
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to post the updated calendar. So for anybody in the future, that calendar will be available to you. Don't think that just because this event happened in ah prior year, that this calendar is no longer an option for you.
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I would love to keep that available for you. And so that is my goal is to maintain that in perpetuity so that anybody wanting to do that can follow along on their own commitment calendar.
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So thank you for joining me today, whether you are listening or watching, I am so glad that you are here.
Availability and Future Plans
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If you are interested in a different way of listening, this event is available on Amazon Music, Spotify,
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YouTube, YouTube Music, Apple Music, Pandora, and you can always head over to my site at that inthefamilywaycoaching.com, and below that tab for Read the Bible in One Year, you will find each one of the months, as well as the audio or video version.
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Now at the beginning of the year, I wasn't posting the audio version, but I do have that available for most of the months. I may be able to get that up there next year. I lost my recordings from January through March on the audio, so I'm not sure how I would do that. I've transferred them to an external drive, and then immediately my drive said, oh, this drive is corrupted, and nothing you put on this is available.
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So... I don't have those.
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But they do have the video versions available because I have been posting it to YouTube. I also have these posted on TikTok. So if anybody is watching or would like to participate on TikTok, I do also have them posted there.
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So thank you so much for my listening for my long intro there today. I try to give some information periodically so that anybody finding this event will know what's going on.
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So for those of you who have been here for a while, thank you for your patience as i go through the spiel of the intro.
King Josiah's Story
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Today we are going to be reading more about King Josiah of Judah, and we are going to be picking up in 2 Kings chapter...
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Oh, 2 Chronicles chapter 35. And then there will be some from 2 Kings chapter 23. And then 2 Chronicles chapter 36. And Jeremiah chapter 22. As well as Jeremiah chapter 26.
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as well as jeremiah chapter twenty six So what this means is that not that we are reading through all of the chapters, it means that our continuous chronological story is taken from excerpts from each of those books.
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And there are only certain verses in each book for which today's story pertains to. So whatever ah portion of the story is available in those verses, those are the ones that will be listed in the description.
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It's not the entire chapter necessarily. So I just want to make that clear in case anybody is like, oh my gosh, that's a lot of reading. It's not.
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Starting at 2 Chronicles chapter 35, we're going to be reading about both a holiday and then later on a fight.
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King Josiah made plans for the Passover holiday in Jerusalem. He chose priests to serve at the worship house. And he said, put God's ark box in the worship house and get ready to have the Passover holiday.
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Do it just like God told Moses to do. and King Josiah gave sheep and goats to all the people. The animals were offered to God as gifts and the other leaders gave cows to the people.
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The cows were also gifts to God. So I'm going to explain a little bit what that means is that in order for each family to have their Passover lamb or goat, depending on ah how small their family was, they ah King Josiah, in order to make sure that everybody was able to observe the Passover, he was giving them the Passover lambs and goats for sacrifice.
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The people who played music stood in the right places. The gatekeepers stayed by the gates. And the Passover holiday lasted for seven days. There had not been a Passover holiday like this in Samuel's time.
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No king ever had such a Passover as Josiah did. Sometime later though, so this occurred, ah just so we understand our timeline, this Passover occurred in Josiah's 18th year of his reign.
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So he was 26 at the time because he was eight years old. when he came into power as king. So he was now 26 years old and Josiah's reign lasted 31 years.
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So now this last section that's in that we're about to read took place in his final year, in his 39th year of his life. So he was 39. So he was 26 when the Passover was ordered and now he is 39. That's how much time has passed in this accounting.
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Sometime later, Egypt's army went to fight Babylon, and then Josiah took Judah's army out to fight Egypt's army. Necho was the king of Egypt, and Necho sent a letter to Josiah.
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I'm not mad at you, he said, and I'm not fighting you. I'm fighting Babylon. God told me to hurry. So stop getting in the way, because if you don't, God will get rid of you.
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But Josiah would not stop. Josiah dressed like an army man and he went out to fight King Necho. Josiah did not listen to what God had told Necho to do.
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And so Josiah got shot with an arrow in the fight. He told his army leaders, get me out of here. I'm hurt very bad. So they took him out of the chariot and they put him in another chariot and they took him to Jerusalem.
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There, King Josiah died. All of the people of Judah cried for their king. Jeremiah wrote sad songs telling good things about King Josiah, and people sing these songs to remember him.
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Before we continue, I want you ah to know then that, so I looked that up. It says Jeremiah wrote but sad songs telling good things about King Josiah, and people sing these songs to remember him.
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The book of Lamentations is written by Jeremiah. And it does not look like that is covered here in our big story because they are songs. They don't actually tell the accounting of what happened necessarily.
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But just, but, um, Jeremiah wrote the Lamentations book and he wrote about, so apparently he was a songwriter and a poet and he wrote about King Josiah's death as well as the, his witnessing of Babylon coming into Judah and taking the the people away and what happened during that time.
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So his writing did not stop with just his book of Jeremiah. It extended to the book of Lamentations. A lamentation is like a funeral song. It's a sad song.
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So these are things that were sad that Jeremiah wrote about. And you may remember that Jeremiah was called the weeping prophet. He was very sensitive as a person.
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God made him to have a very sensitive heart.
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Our next section comes from 2 Kings chapter 23, 2 Chronicles 36, and Jeremiah chapter 22.
Transition of Kingship in Judah
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Josiah's son Jehoahaz became Judah's next king. He was a bad king. He did what was wrong. Jeremiah wrote about Jehoahaz.
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Don't cry for the king who died. Instead, cry for the one who was taken away. And here's what God says about Jehoahaz. He won't come back.
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He will die in the land they took him to. he will never see this land again.
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Jehoahaz was king for only three months. King Necho from Egypt put Jehoahaz in jail, and then King Necho made the people pay him silver and gold. Later, he took Jehoahaz to Egypt, and that is where Jehoahaz died.
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King Necho then chose Josiah's son Eliakim to be the next king, and he changed Eliakim's name. He called him Jehoiakim.
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Jehoiakim also had to pay silver and gold, and he got it by making the people pay taxes. Jehoiakim was a bad king too, and he did what was wrong.
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Then Jeremiah wrote these words,
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There's bad news for a king who builds big kingdoms by sinning. He makes people work hard, but he doesn't pay them. He says, I will build a great palace for myself. I will make big rooms upstairs.
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So he makes big windows and he covers the walls with wood and he paints the palace red. Does having a palace make you a king? Your father had food to eat.
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He did what was right and fair. So good things came to him. He cared about poor people. So good things came to him. Isn't that how to show you know me?
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asks God. But what you want is riches.
Jeremiah's Prophecy and Survival
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You sin to get them and you give other people a hard time.
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Chapter 26 Jeremiah should die.
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Now when Jehoiakim was king of Judah, God said these words to Jeremiah. Stand in the yard of the worship house. Tell the people what I say. Don't leave out even one word.
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Maybe they will listen and maybe they will stop doing wrong. Then I'll change my mind and I won't bring trouble on them. These are the words God told Jeremiah to say.
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Listen to me, obey my laws, listen to my prophets. I sent prophets to you over and over again. I sent them even though you did not listen.
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What if you still don't listen? Then I will tear down this worship house. There will be nothing good left to say about this city. Priests, prophets, and people heard what Jeremiah said, and they came and they took a hold of him.
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The people gathered around Jeremiah. You have to die, they said. Why do you say that God will tear down this worship house? Why do you say no one will be left in this city?
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The leaders of Judah heard about this. They left the palace and went to the worship house, and they stood at the new gate. The priests and prophets and people said, Jeremiah should die.
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He spoke against our city. You heard it with your own ears. Then Jeremiah said, God sent me to speak about this city.
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Now change the way you live and change the way you act. Obey God. Then he will change his mind and he won't bring trouble to you. I am in your hands, said Jeremiah.
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Do whatever you want with me. But if you kill me, you will pay for it. I didn't do anything wrong. The truth is God sent me to tell you these things.
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And then every everyone said, Jeremiah should not die. God sent him to speak to us.
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And that's the end of our reading today.
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There's actually in the big in our big version of the Bible, it tells us that ah some of the elders came forward and said that in the past, there had been another prophet who had spoken up and said that destruction was headed its way to Jerusalem if the people did not correct their ways.
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And the elders said, did we kill that prophet? If we kill him, there will be a great deal of trouble laid on our heads for this. And the princes were there from the palace, not just the leaders, the princes were there, it says in the Big Bible.
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So it attracted the attention of the royalty, despite the fact that they were not making the right decisions. They did choose not to ah bring calamity further on themselves by killing Jeremiah.
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There was another prophet, though, that is mentioned at the end of Jeremiah chapter 26 that says that he agreed with Jeremiah and was also sent by God to prophesy. Just like God says here that he sent other prophets and that they were not listening.
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And that prophet they did kill. And it says that they they tracked him all the way down to Egypt when he fled, trying to stay away and save his life. They tracked him to Egypt, brought him back and killed him.
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So Jeremiah was spared, but the other prophet who was prophesying at the same time, who does not have a book specifically, he was killed for bringing these messages from God.
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So today we are going to and talk about
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King, let's see, what was his name? King Jehoiakim. Josiah's son Eliakim, his name was changed to Jehoiakim.
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So I just want to point out that here we have another name change. I did not spend the time to look up what each of the names meant, and I should have done that, but they weren't ah specific to our daily application.
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But I just want to point out that there are many places in the Bible where we see a name change. And so it is not something that was uncommon. And we talked about that and we're seeing now a lot of name changes.
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So I just want to continue to encourage you, if you have not already done so, to ask God for the name that he has given you.
Significance of Biblical Name Changes
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This is something that he has really put upon my heart to share. And so it's very important that God wants people to know their identity in him, that we do not receive our identity from other people.
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We receive it from God. We don't receive our identity. Nowadays, we we have a tendency to say ah we identify with being and state a ah sexual preference.
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I identify with being a woman. I identify with being a man. And God tells us that our identity is not given in our gender. Our identity is given in him.
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So I just want to point that out in today's society today. So if you are listening here and you are questioning that with your identity, know that God it does not give you your identity through your gender or through your orientation.
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He gives it to you by name. You receive your identity from him. And you can find that out by simply saying, God, my parents named me. And then state your name.
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Who do you say that I am? And then listen. And he will tell you the name that he has given you. He gives us many names. We spoke about that yesterday. So if you did not listen to yesterday's session, ah know that God gives us many names.
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And even Jesus tells us that when he comes again, he will be given another new name. And we will also be given new names when we get to heaven too.
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So our daily application, however, is to talk about when God is speaking through je Jeremiah to King Jehoiakim, who was Eliakim, who was Josiah's son, who was not doing well. He was treating people very badly.
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It says here that He was building a big kingdom by sinning. We would call that in today's society ill-gotten gains.
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Gains. Ill-gotten gains. Meaning to make money off of other people. To put the little guy down. he it says he makes people work hard, but he doesn't pay them.
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That could also be equated to not giving them fair wages. And the king was saying, I will build a great palace for myself. He's making a big home for himself. He's making a name for himself.
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So in today's society, we might consider that as making a name for yourself, making yourself known, making yourself stand out as being more important than others. And he was doing it by um taking advantage of other people, by treating other people and putting them down.
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God says, what you want is riches and you sin to get them and you give other people a hard time. He says, in contrast, your father, who was Josiah, he had food to eat and he did what was right and fair and he cared about poor people.
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So good things came to him. Isn't that how to show you know me? We've spoken a lot lately about God delights in the fact that he wants us to know him. He delights in us knowing him.
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So God wants to know that he cares about how we treat other people. We have never been able to claim godliness but with legalism by obeying rules if our heart is not in place.
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It's not simply a matter of checking the boxes to say, okay, well, I'm not killing. I'm not stealing. It has to do with the fact that our heart is what God is looking for. It's always been about the heart, and that's why God gave us his Holy Spirit.
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And we can see our New Testament parallel when Jesus speaks about this and he teaches us in Matthew chapter 6, verse 33.
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So we're going to turn there in our Bible and read some of Matthew chapter 6.
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I'm going to actually start at verse 19 because it is relevant to what King Jehoiakim was doing. He was building up riches. He thought that by having a big palace, a big house, that that made him a king.
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God said, does that make you a king? So having a lot of stuff is not what makes you important. Jesus tells us, starting in verse 19, "...do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
Prioritizing God's Kingdom Over Riches
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But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." So God was telling him, and Jesus is confirming, that he was putting his his love into wanting things and not by loving God.
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Verse 24, we're going to skip down. No one can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stick by one and look down on the other.
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And what he means is what he explains in this next sentence. You cannot serve God and money. So you have to make a choice. Are you going to simply serve God?
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are you going to look toward money as your goal in life?
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Jesus says there's an answer to that, how you can have both. He says, so I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink or about your body, what you will wear.
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Isn't life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air. They don't sow or reap or gather into barns. And yet your father in heaven feeds them.
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Are you not more valuable than they are? And which of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about clothing? A lot of emphasis is given today on expensive brand name clothes, isn't it?
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I know I see that in my household.
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Consider the lilies of the field and how they grow. They don't work or spin to make material. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these.
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Now if in this way God clothes the grass, which is here today and thrown into the fire tomorrow, will he not much more clothe you, oh you of little faith?
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Therefore do not worry, saying, What will we eat, or what will we drink, or what will we wear? For the pagans, those are people who don't believe in God at all. They eagerly pursue all of these things.
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That's the world. We are not to be like the world. Yet your Father in heaven knows that you need all of these. But seek first. Here's the answer to everything.
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Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. And all these things shall be added to you. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
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Each day has enough trouble of its own. So our big takeaway today for our daily application is to seek God's kingdom first.
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Everything else we need will be provided for us. King Jehoiakim didn't need to try to gather riches by being hard on other people, by taxing the people so hard.
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God tells him that his father had plenty of riches, and yet he was a good man. He did what was right in God's sight, and so all of those things were added to him.
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It's not the other way around. It's not like addition, where it's commutative, where it doesn't matter which order you put things in. In God's order, there is an order of operations.
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First, we seek his kingdom and his righteousness, meaning to do the things that are right to God. And then everything else we need will be taken care of by him. God knows what we need.
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He knows before we even ask him.
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So I hope that you are thinking about that today and putting God's kingdom first and not worrying about things, whatever it is that you have that you are worrying about to put your trust in God because God will take care of it.
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as long as we are seeking first his kingdom and not to put our, not to build our treasures up here on earth by trying to get more and more and more things. God spoke about that the other day where he said the people just want to get more and more things.
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That's the same thing we see today. Nothing has changed. People are still people thousands of years later. God's word is still relevant today as it was all those thousands of years ago. so I hope you feel that God has lit your light today. And if so, please click that light button after you have finished listening or watching. It looks like a heart or a thumbs up, but it's really a light button.
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Because together, our goal is to spread the word about reading God's word. So thank you for joining me today. And as always, I will be here for everyone again tomorrow.