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January 3 2025 Daily Bible Reading
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Welcome to January 3, 2025 Read the Bible in 1 Year in About 7 Minutes a Day. Today's story is from Genesis 6-11 and covers the story of the great flood and the tower of Babel.
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Transcript
Welcome and Introduction
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Hello and welcome to January 3rd, 2025. I'm Robin with In the Family Way Coaching and today we are going to be resuming our daily reading for the Day by Day Kids Bible. Read the Bible in one year in about seven minutes a day.
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I'm so glad to see you today. And for those of you who are keeping track with their attendance, we have our daily calendar where you can see I've already put my sticker on there for January 3rd. And for those of you interested in a membership and supporting this event, I will be happy to send you a copy of that calendar, but it's also available for free download on my website.
00:00:47
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as well as a set of stickers for the month so that you can keep track of your attendance. Of course, you can use whatever method you like, whether it's to check it off or if you have your own set of stickers, but I do want to offer that as an option for those interested in supporting this event.
The Truth of Bible Stories
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As we begin our daily reading, one of the things I wanted to mention is that the stories in the Bible are all true. While we may be reading this in story form, that does not change the fact that God himself gave us the Bible. He gave the Bible to noah or to Moses, and he ah told Moses what to write. And so that is how we have the first books of the Bible in the Old Testament.
00:01:33
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because we didn't have it written down prior to God giving it to Moses. And so when we are reading these stories in Genesis right now where we've started out with Adam and Eve then and Cain and Abel and hearing about the snake's trick, God gave that information to Moses so that he would know and that we would all know so that we could learn and where we came from and about our history.
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So I just wanted to point out that while you may already know or you may have already heard, I want to make sure everybody is aware, if they are finding this video anywhere, that these are not just stories that we are telling. And it's not just a story that is being read. These are true stories. And they're very important for us to know because they help us know how much God loves us. And God wanted us to know them. So they must be important for us to know.
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So thank you very much for ah joining me
Noah's Ark: A Divine Plan
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today. And we're going to begin today with January 3rd, 2025. We're going to be listening to ah the story of about a world underwater, which as you can guess is probably about Noah and the arc and the flood.
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This comes to us from Genesis 6 through 9. So if you are interested in more in-depth reading, you are welcome to bring out your Bible when you are finished with this. If you have ah more and more curiosity about more details, if you feel that the story is not detailed enough for you. More children were born. They grew up and had children. And their children grew up and had children.
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But God saw that people had turned bad. Everything they thought of was bad. It made God's heart hurt. I will get rid of people, he said. I'll get rid of people and animals. I'm sorry I ever made them. But God was happy with Noah. That's because Noah did what was right. Noah trusted God.
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Noah had three sons. Their names were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. God told Noah, I'm going to get rid of people. They are mean and hateful. So build a boat, an ark, make it out of wood, cover it with tar inside and out, make it 450 feet long,
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Make it 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. Make a window in it. Put a door in the side. Build a bottom deck, a middle deck, and a top deck. I will bring flood water to cover the earth. I will get rid of everything. So bring two of every animal into the ark. Bring all kinds of food in.
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You can feed yourselves and the animals.
Flood and Covenant
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Noah did everything God told him to do. Then God said, take your family into the ark. Take seven of every animal I tell you to take. Next week, I will send rain. And you will also take two of the other animals. So Noah and his wife went into the ark.
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His sons and their wives went into the ark. The animals also went into the ark, two by two. A week passed. Then the flood water came. But God had shut the door behind Noah. Rain kept falling for 40 days and 40 nights. The water got higher and higher. The ark began to float.
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Soon the water covered all of the mountains. Everything living on the earth died. But God did not forget Noah and his family. He did not forget all the animals on the ark. Rain stopped falling. God sent wind to blow across the earth.
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The water began to go down. After 150 days, that's five months, the Ark landed on the Ararat Mountains. Soon the water was down even more. Other mountaintops showed. Noah opened the window in the Ark. He let a raven fly out. It kept flying back and forth. Then he let a dove out.
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Noah wanted to see if the water was off the ground, but the dove couldn't find any place to land. There was still too much water on the ground, so she flew back to the Ark. Noah held out his hand. The dove landed on it, and Noah took her back into the Ark. Another week passed, and then Noah let the dove fly out again. The dove came back that evening.
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She had a fresh leaf from an olive tree in her beak. So Noah knew the water had gone down. Trees were showing. A week later, Noah let the dove fly out again. And this time, she did not come back. Then Noah opened the door of the ark and he looked out. He saw that the wat flood water was going down.
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Two months later, the ground was dry. God said, you may all go out of the ark now. So Noah and his family went out. All the animals went out. Then Noah made a big pile of rocks. It was going to be an altar for worshiping God. Noah put some fresh meat on it as a gift to God.
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God said, I'll never get rid of all living things again. There will always be a time to plant. There will always be a time to pick the crops. There will always be cold and heat. There will always be summer and winter. There will always be a day and night. These will be around as long as the earth lasts.
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God said, have children and fill the earth. You are in charge of all the animals now. I'm making a promise to you and all the animals. It's a promise that will last forever. I will never get rid of everything by floodwater again. Here's the sign that shows my promise is true, said God. I'm putting a rainbow in the clouds.
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I will remember my promise when I see the rainbow.
The Tower of Babel
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Genesis 11 tells us about the tower. After some time, there were many people in the world. Everyone spoke the same language. Some of the people moved to a flat land. Let's make some bricks, said the people. Let's stick them together with tar.
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We will build the tower as high as the sky and then everyone will know who we are. But God then, and that will help us stay together as a group. But God saw the city and the tower. He said, these people speak the same language so they can plan together to do many things like this.
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Let's mix up their language. Then they won't understand each other. So God gave them different languages. Then the people stopped building. They did not stay together. They went here and there around the earth. Everyone called the city Babel. That's because God mixed up their language there. And that is the end of today's story.
00:10:32
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I wanted to give you a little bit of thought about why God mixed up the language and why he was not happy about that tower being built. When God let Noah come out of the ark, he told them, have children and fill the earth. He did not say, stay in one place and make one giant city.
00:10:58
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He said to fill the earth. And in the city of Babel there, they said, let's stick together. Let's build a city and a tower. Then everyone will know who we are. And that will help us stay together as a group. So they were not obeying God by moving out and going across the earth. They were trying to stick together.
00:11:25
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And so that is why God was not happy about that city and he mixed up their language so that they wouldn't and understand each other and be able to come together as one solid group.
Engagement and Support
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So that's all we have for today. Thank you very much for joining me.
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00:12:06
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And then if you click the video itself, um again, it will take you to YouTube itself. And there you will find a Like button if you are interested in following that extra step. And just doing so will help the video gain a little bit of notice so that YouTube knows people are watching and liking the video.
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So thank you very much for joining me today. I hope to see you again tomorrow and join me again for our daily Bible reading in 2025. And I hope you have a great day.