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September 3 Daily Reading- Read the Bible in 1 Year
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Today's reading will include Matthew Chapter 10:1-16, 40-42, 14:1-12, Mark Chapter 6:7-11, 14-29, and Luke Chapter 9:1-9.
Today we will read about Jesus sending the disciples out with the ability to get rid of bad spirits (demons), heal people, and bring those who have died back to life. We will also read about the death of John the Baptist because Herod made a promise he had to keep.
In our discussion for daily application we will talk about the command Jesus gave His disciples when He sent them out - to freely give away what they had been given for free. Everything we have comes from God. We may be afraid that if we give away what we have that we won't have enough left for ourselves. God, however, has promised us that with the measure we give, so He will give to us. God has also promised us that if we seek His Kingdom first, everything else will be provided for us. We don't need to be worried about having enough. We will always have enough, if we follow the formula of giving back to God first and sharing freely what God has given us with others, whether it is our time, talent, gifts, money, clothes, food, whatever it is! God is generous. We cannot out give Him!
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Transcript
Introduction and Commitment Calendar
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Hello, hello! I hope you are having a great day today. Today is the reading for September 3rd, and we are reading out of the Day by Day Kids Bible, written by Karen Henley.
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My name is Robin, and I am with In the Family Way Coaching, and I am pleased to have this event with you this year. If you are following along with your commitment calendar, bookmarking calendar, whatever you like to call it, go ahead and get that out and get your sticker ready or whatever you're using to mark it off because you're about to hear the Bible today.
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Today, we are going to get right into our reading. I'm a little short on time today. i am running behind in my day. Shock and surprise.
Jesus Sends Disciples: Mission and Instructions
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So today we are going to be starting with our first section entitled, Like Sheep, Going Where Wolves Are.
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So ah yesterday we left off and Jesus said to ask God to ah send workers into the field and the workers can bring in the people. Now, after this occurred, Jesus called his 12 special friends.
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In the big Bible, they're his disciples. But in this version, we're just calling them his 12 special friends. And he told them to go out two by two. And he gave them power that was stronger than bad spirits.
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They could send bad spirits away and they could make people well. Go to the Jews, said Jesus, and teach God's message.
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Tell people that the kingdom of heaven is near. Heal people who are sick, said Jesus. Make people alive again after they have died.
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Send bad spirits away from people.
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You were given what you have for free, said Jesus. Now you give it away for free. Don't take gold or silver and don't take a bag for your trip.
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Do not take more than one shirt. Don't take more than one pair of shoes. Don't take a walking stick. You are a worker and people should help you out.
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In our big Bible, it says the worker is worth his wages.
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Go into the town, said Jesus, and look for people who will help you. Stay with them until you leave that town and go into their homes. Be friendly and pray for peace to come to them.
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If they welcome you, keep praying for peace. In the Big Bible, it says, let your peace rest on that house. And if they do not welcome you, do not let your peace rest on that house or don't pray for peace for them.
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What if people won't listen to you, said Jesus? then shake the dust off your feet when you leave that town, because the truth is, someday God will judge the world, and then the bad city of Sodom will be better off than that town.
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You are like sheep going where the wolves are, said Jesus. So be as smart as snakes, but be as peaceful as a dove.
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People who are friendly to you, are being friendly to me. People who welcome me ah really welcoming God, said Jesus.
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Welcome a prophet just because he is a prophet. Then God will give you the same good things that he gives the prophet.
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Welcome people who do what is right because of the right things they do, said Jesus. Then God will give you the same good things he gives them.
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You follow me, so you might give just a cup of cold water to someone. And if you do, you will get good things from God.
John's Criticism and Herod's Reaction
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John the Baptist in Trouble Now John, who had baptized people, was still around, and he had talked to many people about God's way. He had even talked to King Herod.
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Now King Herod had married his own brother's wife, and her name was Herodias. Now John had told Herod that it's not right to marry your brother's wife. So King Herod had put John into jail.
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Herodias was angry at John too, and in fact, she wanted to have him killed, but she couldn't because Herod was afraid of John, and he was afraid that people would be upset.
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So he kept John safe.
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King Herod knew that John was a good man, and he knew that John did what was right. Herod liked to listen to John, even though the things John said were like a mystery to him.
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Now one day King Herod had a party. It was his birthday party. And all the leaders of the land came. Now Herodias had a daughter who could dance.
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And she came too. And she danced for the people. And they all liked the way she danced. So Herod promised to give her anything she wanted.
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Just ask me, he said, and I will give you whatever you want. You can even have half of my kingdom. So the girl went out and told her mother and asked her, what should I ask for?
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Ask Herod to kill John, said Herodias, and tell him that you want John's head. So the girl went back to King Herod and she said, I want John's head on a plate right now.
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Now this made Herod very upset, but he had promised. and he didn't want to say no in front of everyone. So he sent a man to the jail and he gave the man orders to kill John. And they did.
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Then the man put John's head on a plate and he brought it to King Herod. The king gave it to the girl and she gave it to her mother.
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John's friends came and they got his body and they put it in a grave.
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Now, Jesus and his friends were traveling from town to town, and they told the people the good news about Jesus.
Discussion on Jesus' Identity and Divine Role
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They made many people well, too. People talked about Jesus everywhere, and even Herod heard about Jesus.
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ah Some people kept saying, Jesus is really John the Baptist, and he has come back to life. And that's why great powers work in him. Other people said, Jesus is really Elijah.
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And other people said, Jesus is a prophet and he is like one of the prophets from long ago.
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When Herod heard about Jesus, he said, it's John. I cut his head off, but he's alive again. and Herod tried to see Jesus for himself.
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Now that is the end of our reading today.
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Wow, this was some amazing stuff we read today, don't you think? Jesus was sending out his disciples and he gave them the ah ability to not only cast out demons, but to also heal people and bring people back to life again after they had died.
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I want to think we have that same ability today. When we go out to tell people about Jesus, we've heard amazing stories about people who have done healings for people.
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And I think it has to do with our faith. Jesus says that for those who believe it will be done according to what, how they believe. And for those who don't believe, then they can't.
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Now,
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I wanted to talk a little bit about King Herod before we get into our daily application. First, it's important to make a conscious decision about what we make promises about.
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Herod made a promise in haste. He was delighted with this girl's dancing, and he told her she could have whatever she wanted, and then he had to do something he didn't want to do.
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So we need to be careful about when we make promises. Herod kept the promise because he didn't want to say no in front of the people who had witnessed him saying he could do, he he would give her whatever she wanted.
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So he did it. And it had a big consequence and it cost John his life. So we need to be careful about what we promise people because we don't know what they're going to ask for if we make such a promise like that.
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The next thing is, is that people didn't know who Jesus was. Was Jesus John come back to life? Nope. Was Jesus Elijah? Nope.
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Jesus told the people already who he was. He had said that John was the Elijah that was to come to prepare the way for him. And he was not just a prophet.
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He is God's son. He is the one who was prophesied about who was to come and save the people so that by his death, the word would be written on our hearts with the receiving of the Holy Spirit.
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The Holy Spirit is God's spirit. When the Holy Spirit talks through us, our big Bible says that it is our father's spirit talking through us.
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We read about the Holy Spirit being the one who would speak for us when it comes time. when if we are um When Jesus was saying that people would be brought to the synagogues and and brought to leaders.
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and that And they were not to be afraid of what to say because it was God's Spirit who would be speaking through them at that time.
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So that is only possible because Jesus is God's son and he sent us the Holy Spirit.
Teachings on Generosity and Provision
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So our daily application today, however, is that Jesus told the disciples, his friends, that they were being given something freely and that they needed to freely give it away.
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We need to not be greedy or stingy with what we have, thinking we don't have enough of something to be able to give it away. Whatever God has given us, share it.
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Freely have we been given, so freely do we need to give it away. It's very simple. We just wanna be sure that we are sharing the abundance of what God has given us.
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and God always gives us enough because he tells us that if we seek his kingdom first, God will take care of everything else. Jesus told us that God knows that we need clothes and that we need food.
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Whatever we have, God has given us. We need to share it with others. We will always have enough, just like the widow who was to provide for Elijah.
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when they had the drought and he came to her and he told her to make him some food and bring him some water. And she said, I only have a little bit of food left. It's just enough for my son and I, and then we're just going to wait to die. And Elijah told her that they would not run out of food until after it rained.
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And that's exactly what happened. God will make sure we have enough. He provides us with everything. Throughout the old covenant, we've been reading that we are to give food to people who don't have food.
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We are to help by giving clothes to people who don't have enough clothes. And when we do these things, God always gives us more. And Jesus promised that that would be the case, that when we give, God will give as we give.
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So the more we give, the more God will give us. it's it's We can't out give God. And God gives us freely. He doesn't ask for us to pay for it.
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Everything God gives us, he gives us. He even gave us his the life of his son. He gives us the gift of salvation for free.
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We need to tell people about that gift, as well as give away the things that God has given us. Jesus will tell us in our reading, That it's difficult for a rich man to enter heaven because he doesn't want to part with his riches.
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We want to make sure that we are not keeping what we have for ourselves, but we are sharing it freely because God has given us things freely.
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Jesus taught us recently that for those who have been given much, much will be expected of them. And for those who have been given little, then little is expected of them, but everyone is expected to give.
Encouragement in Sharing and Discreet Giving
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So I hope that you feel that God has lit your light today, and I hope that you feel encouraged to give to whatever it is that God has given you, of your talent, of whatever God has provided for you.
00:14:30
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And knowing that when we do, God will also reward us. Jesus told us today that even if we just give a cup of cold water to somebody, that he will reward us.
00:14:43
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We need to be sure that we are giving for the right reasons, but know that when we do, God will always see what we do. Jesus told us many times, too, that when we do things, to do them without making a big fuss over it, not to draw attention so that we can gain ah fame and joy.
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notoriety for what we are doing, but to just do it. You don't need to say, hey, guess what I'm doing? I'm doing this, I'm doing this, I'm doing this. Because God says, then we will have received our reward in full.
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However, when God has given us things, we need to be sure that we share it. We want to be sure we do that. And our Father in heaven who sees what we do will reward us. Not that that is our motivation, but just to know that it will not go unseen.
00:15:34
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So thank you for joining me today. If you feel that God has lit your light today, please click that light button so that we can spread the word about reading God's word and that other people will see and hear God's word here.
00:15:48
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And then if you know of somebody who could benefit from hearing today's reading, kindly share this with them. And I will hope you have a great rest of your day, whatever day you get around to hearing or ah watching today's September 3rd reading.
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And I will be here for everyone again tomorrow. See you then.