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November 14 Daily Reading- Read the Bible in 1 Year
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Today's reading will continue reading the letter Paul wrote to the Romans. It will include Chapter 13:1,3-14 and Chapter 14:1-14, 17-19, and 22-23.
Today Paul will tell us about why we need to choose to do what is right- not because we are are afraid of getting in trouble for doing what is wrong, but because doing what is right is what God wants us to do and we will feel better when we do what is right. Paul let's us in on a helpful hint: that love helps us obey God's laws.
In our discussion for daily application we will talk about a wonderful gift that God has given us- the gift of free will. God does not force us to do what is right. He allows us to choose. As we grow spiritually we need to make more decisions based on our understanding of what is right and wrong. Paul previously taught us about the battle that is going on inside us between God's Spirit and our body to do what is right. As we grow in our understanding of knowing God and knowing what He wants us to do we need to use our free will to choose to do what is right because it is the right thing to do, not because we feel we have to, like we did when we were less spiritually mature. (notice how these decisions have little to do with physical maturity (our age), but with spiritual maturity.)
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Transcript
Introduction and Purpose
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Welcome back, everybody. Today is November 14th. My name is Robin, if you didn't already know that, and I am with In the Family Way Coaching.
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Thank you so much for joining me as we go through the Bible this year, as we are using the Day by Day Kids Bible, written by Karen Henley. I am so glad that we are reading the Bible together this year.
Commitment to Daily Reading and Gratitude
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This has been and a very good commitment project for me i was so concerned at the beginning of the year that i wouldn't be able to do this every day but having this event available every day has given me the accountability to keep going and i am just really uh thrilled that we have been able to get through the bible this year that we are doing it we are going to read the whole Bible.
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And I just am so ecstatic about that. It is very exciting to me to be able to have this understanding of all of God's word in the whole big picture.
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So thank you for joining me here this as we go through the whole Bible. This event is being recorded in 2025, but I am going to be keeping it around. So whatever year you are getting around to watching this event, I am so glad that you are here with me.
Spreading the Word and Platform Availability
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My goal this year has been to spread the word about reading God's word. And I am just so excited that there are so many views and watches and listens across all of the different ways that you can watch or view this event.
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It's available on Spotify. It's available on Amazon Music, Apple Music, YouTube, YouTube Audio, Pandora, iHeartRadio.
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Podbean, Podfriend, Overcast, Castoff, and i think that's about it. Oh, and on my site. I do always have it available on my site under the heading of Read the Bible in One Year.
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So however you are finding this event, thank you for joining me this year. I really appreciate you being here with me. You are what is keeping me going and helping me to be so committed to getting through this entire journey.
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ah event in this one year.
Today's Reading from Romans
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So with that said, if you are following along on your bookmarking commitment calendar, it's time to get that sticker out.
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It's time to get your crayon, your marker, whatever you're using to cross off your days, because we're about to hear the Bible again today.
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We are presently reading in the book of Romans. This is a letter that Paul wrote to the community of believers and Jewish people also actually in Rome.
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And this takes place in about the year 56-57, winter ah after a d
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So we are going to be reading in chapters 13 and 14 today. And today we're going to be looking at why we do what is right.
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Why do we do it? There could be lots of reasons why we do what is right. We have lots of different motivations. But Paul is going to give us one today. And we're going to look at that as our whole big picture as Paul talks about doing right.
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So starting in chapter 13, Paul says, People should obey the leaders of their country. Leaders were put in charge by God.
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People who obey don't have to be a afraid. eight Leaders make sure that people obey the rules. But people who do wrong should be afraid.
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You don't want to be afraid of people in charge. So do what is right. Then they will tell you that you have done a good job.
Love Fulfills God's Rules
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And they are God's servants.
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They are supposed to do good for you. So obey the people in charge. And do it not just because you will get in trouble if you don't.
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Do it because this is what God wants. And you will feel better when you do what is right.
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And that's why people pay taxes, Paul tells us. It's because the people in charge are God's servants. And they make sure that everyone obeys the rules.
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So give them what you are supposed to give them. Are you supposed to pay them your taxes? Then pay them. Are you supposed to treat them as important people?
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Then treat them as important people. Pay back anything you owe to someone, but you will always owe people your love.
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And if you love people, then you have done what God wants. Remember God's rules? Rules such as have sex only with your wife or husband, or don't kill, or don't steal.
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there are other rules too. But one rule takes care of all the other ones. That rule says, love your neighbor the same way that you love yourself.
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Love doesn't hurt people. Love helps you obey God's laws.
Acceptance and Non-Judgment
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Now you need to understand what is happening now. It's time to wake up. It's time to watch. The time when we will be saved is near.
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And it's closer than it was when we first believed. It's as if the night is almost over. The day when we will be saved is almost here.
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So let's stop doing things that are bad. Bad people try to hide what is bad. But let's do what is right. We don't mind people seeing what is right.
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So let's not have wild parties. Let's not get drunk. Let's not have sex with anyone but the person we marry. And let's not work to get things that belong to other people.
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Instead, let's get close to Jesus. Let's not think about things that might make us sin.
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Now, some people don't have much faith, but don't judge them. Some people believe that they can eat everything and other people only eat vegetables.
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The person who eats everything should not think that people who don't are silly. And the person who does not eat everything should not blame people who do.
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They belong to God too. So how can you judge a follower of God? Because God will say if his follower is standing close to him.
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And God will say if the person has fallen away from him. But we know that the person will stand close because God can help him do it. Now some people think that one day is more important than another.
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And other people think that every day is alike. And both ways are fine. Each person needs to choose what he thinks is right.
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Somebody thinks one day is more special. So he thanks God for it. Somebody eats meat. And he thanks God for that. And somebody does not eat meat.
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And he thanks God too. And nobody lives by himself. Nobody dies by himself. If we live, we live for God.
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And if we die, we die for God. Both ways, we belong to God. And that is why Jesus died.
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That's why he came back to life again. He did it so that he could be the Lord. He is Lord of people who die and of people who live.
God's Ultimate Judgment
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So why do you judge others? Why do you treat them like they are not important? All of us will stand in front of God someday, he will judge all of us.
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Isaiah wrote down these words from God. You can be sure that everyone will bow down in front of me. Every mouth will tell that I am God.
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And then each person will have to tell God what he did. and he will have to tell why he did it. So let's stop blaming each other. don't make people do things that they think are wrong.
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I'm sure it's all right to eat any kind of food, but some people think it's a sin to eat some foods. So for them, those foods are not good to eat.
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Now God's kingdom is not made of eating and drinking. It's made of what is right. It is made of shalom, of peace.
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It's made of joy in God's Holy Spirit. And God is happy with people who serve Jesus this way. Other people are happy with them too.
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So let's try to do things that bring peace. Let's do things that are good for everybody. And be careful of the things you say yes to.
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Make sure that they are not things that you can be blamed for. And good things will come if you do what is right. But if you think that something is wrong, don't do it.
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And that is the end of our reading today.
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Do you love how easy this reading is for us to understand God's word? I love it. Paul is is a wonderful teacher.
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And sometimes his readings, his writings can be ah very mature. They can be complicated to understand the way he explains things at times. Not always, but they can be complicated to newer believers or to people
Right Actions and Spiritual Maturity
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who are younger.
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and so I love this reading because this helps everybody understand without judging.
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So did you pick up on why we are supposed to do what is right? Why we are supposed to obey? Paul tells us today not to just obey because we'll get in trouble if we don't.
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Now he's speaking specifically about obeying our leaders. But you know what? All of these concepts can be applied elsewhere. So when somebody, whoever it is, tells us to do something, whether it's God, the Holy Spirit, Jesus, or boss, or a mom, a dad, a teacher,
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ah a mayor, a president, whoever is telling us what to do, we need to obey them. Why? Because we'll get in trouble if we don't.
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That's not a good reason. Now, when we are younger, We think and we act like we are younger. And so we will do things because we don't have the ability yet to make our own good decisions, to know everything that is right and wrong.
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So we have people like moms and dads and teachers and leaders and bosses to teach us how to do things, how we are expected to do them. We call that the right way, or at least how they think it is the right way.
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And so we can't know anything when we are born. My dad always told me, nobody knows anything when they are born. We all have to learn. And so teachers, whether it's a godly teacher, like a pastor or um your Sunday school teacher, or whether it's your parent or regular teacher at school, they teach us how to do what is right.
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And then we can be motivated to do what is right because we don't want to get in trouble for doing it wrong. But that's what we do when we are younger. When we decide, oh, I'll just, I'll do it anyways.
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And if nobody sees me, I won't get in trouble. I had an older brother and he used to tell me, it's only illegal if you get caught.
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Well, that's not true. if you may If you do something that is against the law, it's still against the law whether you got caught or not.
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If your mom or your dad or your teacher or anybody tells you, don't do that, and then you do it anyway when they're not looking, you are still sinning.
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Just because you didn't see, you didn't get caught by them, doesn't mean that God didn't see us do it. God sees everything. And so we are supposed to do and obey the things that are right out of an understanding that we are supposed to do what is right.
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Because that is what God wants us to do. We are learning how to do the right thing, not because we have to, but because we choose to.
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And Paul tells us here today that we will feel better if we do the right thing. God has given us a wonderful gift. And guess what? I'm not talking about the gift of Jesus' salvation for us.
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I'm talking about the gift of free will. God told Adam and Eve what was right and what was wrong when they were in the garden. And they had the choice to obey.
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He did not make it impossible for them to disobey. He told them what the rules were. and then he allowed them to be. They had to make their own choices.
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Their choices brought them consequences and they had to pay for those consequences with death. God told them that if you do this, if you eat of this particular fruit on the tree of knowledge of good and evil, he said, then you will surely die.
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But they had their free choice. God could have not placed that tree there. He could have prohibited them. He could have put the the the sword that was flam the flaming sword that he put in front of the Garden of Eden afterwards to keep them out of the garden.
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He could have put that in front of the tree. But he did not. He told them what not to do, and then he allowed them the choice to obey or disobey.
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God wants us to choose to obey because it's the right thing to do. And when we are younger, we may not understand that we are we are supposed to learn to do the right thing because it's the right thing to do.
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And you know what? Not even all grownups do it too. It's not even just about kids. We are still learning to do what is right and to do it not because we are afraid of punishment for it, but because we need to understand that it's the right thing to choose to do.
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That's what obeying God is about. That's what loving people is about. We have directions. We have Jesus that we've been reading about who told us to love one another, to forgive one another.
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So he is telling us the right things to do. We have this beautiful book, the Bible, that is written to teach us how to do the right things, what is right and what is wrong.
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And we don't always make the right choices, but we need to work on our motivation for why we are choosing to do them. God gives us free will.
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And for a while, we kind of, in our immaturity, we are scared. And we say, oh, I will do the right thing because I don't want God to punish me.
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and And even sometimes I will do that. I'm not perfect. Sometimes I really want to do something that I want to do. and And I'm afraid sometimes when I disobey and I know I have disobeyed and I say, oh, I hope God doesn't punish me for this.
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And sometimes like there is consequence for that. But we have to make the right choices as we go through life to become increasingly more responsible in our decision making.
Understanding Free Will
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to make the right choices because they are the right thing to do, not because we have to. God doesn't stand here all day, every day with his pen saying, when you do this, I'm going to mark it down and and there's going to be a consequence for that.
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God gave us free will. He doesn't want us to
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have to do things. He tells us what the right thing to do is, but we get to make those right and wrong decisions. And Isaiah said it today, read about it, that Paul tells us, that i that God tells us that, let's see, you can be sure that everyone will bow down in front of me and every mouth will tell that I am God.
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Someday all of us will have to stand before God and be judged. That's why his gift of salvation is a choice. It is free.
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We have to choose to acknowledge Jesus as Lord. We have to still make choosing decisions to make the right choices to then allow him to transform our mind so that we can do the right things and we will never be perfect.
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Thank goodness for grace. I'm so thankful that we have God's grace and his forgiveness that when we ask him to forgive us, he always is faithful. And that's why he tells us we also need to forgive.
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He says that as you are as you forgive others, that is how he forgives us. That the same measure we use is the measure that will be used against us.
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And that's why Paul also is telling us today not to judge other people. So there's lots of things that we can go on and on about what we should not do. But Paul tells us today that the one rule that covers all of them is to love everybody.
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To love one another. He says, love your neighbor the same way you love yourself. Love does not hurt people and love helps you obey God's rules.
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So I hope that as you grow in your spiritual maturity, not just in your age, but in your spiritual maturity, that you will think about the things when you make choices.
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And that you will have awareness that when we make our decisions to do the right thing, it's not supposed to be out of a sense of fear of consequence.
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It is supposed to be because this is what we know God wants us to do. That's that fight between the spirit and the flesh. And we need to remember that when we do choose to do the right thing, we will feel good about it.
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versus not feeling good about it.
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Well, hope that you feel that God has lit your light today. And I hope that you have enjoyed our daily reading and our daily application today. I know I did. ah it's that That was a big one. I thought that was really big.
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Why we choose to do the right things. Not just about obeying leaders and teachers, but in everything we do. So I hope that you feel that this was and a wonderful daily reading.
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I know I did. i really enjoyed it. There was so much. We could have talked about anything, but I really feel that that was the big picture. Remember, we're focusing on the big picture, not on every single detail.
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And all of what we read about today has to do with doing the right thing. And we choose to do the right thing because it's, it's what God wants us to do.
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We want to make God happy. We want to learn how to be more like God and love one another, not to be like people. We're not supposed to be like the world. So thank you for joining me today.
Encouragement to Share and Support
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If you did enjoy this reading and you feel like God has lit your light today, kindly click that light button at the end. You know the one. It looks like a thumbs up. It looks like a heart.
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It looks like a follow, a share of subscribe. And help us spread the word about reading God's word. When we click those light buttons, it helps attract other listeners or other viewers so that they can hear God's word.
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And that's what we're looking to do this year. It's to help one another with that, to spread the word about reading God's word. So I hope you have a fantastic rest of your day.
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Whatever day you get around to listening or watching this November 14th daily reading out of the Day by Day Kids Bible. And i hope that you will be hungry tomorrow and that you will join me again for tomorrow's reading.
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And I will definitely be here tip for you to enjoy that reading as well. I will catch you next time. Until then, have a very blessed day.