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April 20, 2025 Daily Reading- Read the Bible in 1 Year
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Thank you for joining me as we learn about the connection between Passover, First Fruits, and Easter today. As part of understanding and observing the festivals that God has appointed for us to observe we count the Omer today and then we will have our daily Bible reading session!
Here is the link for a downloadable devotional if you would like to count the Omer for yourself. It has been put out by the Messianic Congregation Shoresh David in Florida: https://www.shoreshdavid.org/download/counting-the-omer-booklet/
Here is the link to the fantastic article I read aloud to us today, written by Jewish Voice, that explains the connection of Jesus' resurrection being fulfilled in the Feast of First Fruits and how the Christian church came to institute the celebration of the resurrection on what is now called Easter Sunday: https://www.jewishvoice.org/read/blog/do-messianic-jews-celebrate-easter
It is my prayer and hope that my fellow Gentile (Christian) brothers and sisters in Christ prayerfully consider adopting the return of the celebration of Jesus' resurrection in future years in conjunction with the Biblical time of First Fruits, as Jesus is the first fruit of the resurrected dead spoken about in 1 Corinthians 15:20. This would serve to unite us with our more traditional Jewish brothers and sisters in Christ. It is my belief that as more and more "Christians" return to celebrating Biblical "Jewish" festivals at GOD'S appointed times versus celebrating them during the times that people have instituted (and thereby creating an intentional rift between Jewish and Gentile believers in Christ), that we as Christians would gain greater understanding of and be more in alignment with God's will for our lives as well as foster more complete reconciliation and unity within the Body of Christ.
In our proverbs reading today we will read the topic of All Kinds of People. In our daily application we will discuss Proverb 25: 6-7 which tells us not to make ourselves look important (exalt ourselves) but instead allow others to lift us up as being important so we won't look foolish in front of others. We will read Luke chapter 14 verses 1, and 7- 11 where Jesus teaches us that "everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted." We will discuss how Jesus fulfills even the Proverbs and how He gave us wonderful examples of how to live them out practically in our own lives. These examples are just as relevant now as they were over 2,000 years ago!
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Introduction and Bible Reading Plan
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Hi there, everybody. Today is Easter Sunday, April 20th, 2025, and you are here with Robin at In the Family Way Coaching. We are reading through the Bible this year.
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We are using the Day by Day Kids Bible, and it's been written by Karen Henley. If you are tracking along with your calendar, it's time to get that out and get your sticker ready or however you are marking it off because you're about to hear the Bible today.
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I have my calendar out and I've marked it off.
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We are almost done with this month. We have a little over ah about a week and a half and then we will be done with this month. Well, I am so glad that you are here joining with me as we read through the Bible this year.
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Thank you for joining me, whether you are watching or listening.
Platform Availability
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So wherever you are able to listen or watch, I am so glad that you are here with me. I also have these available on my site at www.inthefamily.com.
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way coaching dot com And you click on that tab for read the Bible in one year, and then you can choose whether you would like to listen to the audio versions for the month or for the video versions.
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So I'm so glad that you are finding this event, however God has led you here and however it is convenient for you to do so. We are having a very busy month this month, or 50 days actually, or thereabouts, because we are also counting the Omer.
Jewish Festivals and Christian Beliefs
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If you have been with me for a couple of days now, then you may already know that we are counting the Omer. And these are the days that occur a couple of days after Passover. I have been learning about things like ah the festivals in the Bible that are given to us to still practice.
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And it turns out that these are things that we were meant to practice forever. And they all are fulfilled with Jesus, but they were foreshadows of Jesus, our Messiah.
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So traditionally in the Messianic Jewish congregations, they believe that Jesus is the Messiah. Yay, praise God. And they recognize how Jesus has fulfill fulfilled the festivals that they have been observing all of these years.
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And I would like to share some of that with you. That is one of the great things about this event is that I have the opportunity to share the things that I am learning about and that I feel are relevant and in our Christian lives.
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We are what is considered the Gentile root the that it's been ah that has been grafted into the the tree the wild olive branch, as as the ah rabbi likes to say at the congregation where I attend.
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And so ah we don't always know because the Christian church made it ah made ah a separation rather than remembering what Paul wrote for us in the New Testament, that Jesus was first came for the Jews and even he said, first I'm coming to my own people.
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And then we are the Gentiles who are being grafted in. And so we have lost touch with some of that Jewish heritage. And so one of the things that we are meant to do is to count the Omer.
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But before we get into that, I want to mention that in ah and Judaism and in Messianic Judaism, they don't celebrate Easter like we do as Christians.
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They actually recognize the risen Lord on the day of first fruits. And they we are told in 1 Corinthians that Jesus was the first fruit of the re resurrection of the dead.
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So it turned out that while Jesus was crucified and pat ah and killed at the same time as the Passover lamb during the Passover celebration,
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that when he rose, that actually occurred on first fruits. So by the Jewish accounting, his resurrection has already occurred. And that happened on Monday because we had Passover last week.
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And I didn't actually, I knew that he his resurrection was was associated with the first fruits, um but i was ah I've been trying to learn, so I've been a little bit confused as to the timeline of everything.
Messianic Jewish View on Easter
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Now, as Jewish people, because they don't have the temple, they don't actually celebrate. the first fruits and it's not on the biblical thunder so i was trying to figure it out and i didn't realize it it was already um kind of done i should have but i didn't because it's not on the calendar that i was looking at and it the calendars because they don't but more but they recognize it as he is being the first fruits So I wanted to share with you a little bit about what I have been learning in that since today is our traditional Christian Easter and we are celebrating the resurrection.
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And I wanted to give this to us from our Jewish brothers and sisters in Christ from this perspective.
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Let's see.
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I found a wonderful article on this, and I am going to put the link for this because this is not my own writing. This is a reading from an article that's been written by JewishVoice.org, and it is entitled, um Do Messianic Jews Celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus?
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And that answer is a definitive yes. It's more a matter of when we celebrate the Messiah's resurrection. And this will give you a little bit of the history as to why we have the Christian date of Easter instead of recognizing it in the Passover and that the first fruits, which in all honesty, we really should be.
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the These are biblical holidays to commemorate and to remember how God fulfilled his word. And we are failing to see the connection in them by the early church establishing an Easter day, separate and apart from what we should have been observing through our Jewish roots.
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Messianic Jews view New Covenant faith in Jesus through a Hebraic lens. Such an understanding reveals marvelous continuity in the whole of God's words spanning from old and new covenants.
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Jesus died at Passover and he rose on the feast of first fruits. Messianic Jews understand that this is more than coincidence.
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It is God's sovereign design.
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Passover is the commemoration of God's deliverance of the Hebrew slaves in Egypt.
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And the Feast of First Fruits was an agricultural observance a few days after Passover in which the Israelites brought the first of their first of their spring barley harvest as an offering to God, which we've spoken about this week.
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They were not allowed to eat of the harvest until the very first had been offered to God.
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Each of the biblical feasts of Israel established by God in Leviticus chapter 23 has layers of meaning. Many of the feasts are commemorative, honoring God's provision and gifts in Israel's history, and God commanded that they be observed throughout the generations.
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That means that they haven't been commanded to stop. Jesus told us that he came to fulfill the law, not to abolish it. And within each feast, there is also prophetic foreshadow of God's future redemptive plan.
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So the piece the feast of Passover contains a shadow of Jesus's sacrificial death. And Jesus fulfilled the imagery contained in Passover when he shed his blood to cover our sins.
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And he fulfilled the prophetic picture of first fruits when he rose from the dead, the first of the resurrection that will be completed in the last days when the dead and Messiah will rise.
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Thus, Jesus is our Passover lamb and the first fruits of the resurrection from the dead.
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First Corinthians 5, 7 tells us, for Messiah, our Passover lamb has been sacrificed. And in first Corinthians 15, 20, we are told, but now Messiah has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.
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So you see, even in the very beginning, the disciples recognized that Jesus was fulfilling first fruits.
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So if Jesus died on Passover and rose on first fruits, how did we get Easter?
Historical Shift from Passover to Easter
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Jesus' his first followers were Jewish and considered members a sect within Judaism.
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But by the fourth century AD, most of quote, the church was composed of Gentiles and had become infected with anti-Semitic attitudes.
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And in 325 AD, the Council of Nicaea concluded with a letter to the emperor declaring in remarkably malicious language that they wanted nothing to do with the Jewish people.
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Though the resurrection occurred on the Sunday following Passover, the council abandoned the Jewish religious calendar for a new quote, Christian calendar built on the Gregorian system.
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And this is also where we deviated from the lunar calendar.
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I've lost my internet. I've been having a little difficulty with my internet connection lately. So sorry for this skip in the middle of the recording here. I'm going to have to do some editing to combine the videos.
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those the resurrection occurred on Sunday the following Passover I'm so sorry if this is repeated the council abandoned the Jewish religious calendar for a new Christian calendar built on the Gregorian system and this is also where we stopped using the lunar calendar the group declared the resurrection would be celebrated the first Sunday after the new moon following the spring equinox It adopted the date of an existing pagan holiday to the goddess Ishtar and separated the Messiah's death and resurrection from the Jewish origins of Passover and first fruits.
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This detachment obscured the intentional correlation that was designed by God to reveal his redemptive thread connecting the old and new covenants.
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The council overlooked that the gospel was, according to Romans 1.16, for the Jew first, and that the Gentiles are grafted in to the covenant god made into the covenant God made with the Jewish people, Romans 11, through Jesus.
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The decision shows just how soon...
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The decision shows just how soon in history the church let the Apostle Paul's word fade from their understanding. For Messianic Jews, the death and resurrection of Jesus are inseparably tied to Passover week.
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So while you will not find maia Messianic Jewish congregations celebrating Easter, You will find them worshiping the Messiah Jesus each Sabbath.
Reconsidering Easter Celebrations
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And at Passover, Messianic Jews commemorate the biblical feast commanded by God, along with its prophetic fulfillment in Jesus' death and resurrection, to deliver us from our bondage to sin and free us to eternal life.
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They did a beautiful job writing that at jewishvoice.org. And I'm going to have that link to that article in the description below. So thank you for helping me as we understand as that wild vine grafted in that Easter is not really the the correct ah celebration of Jesus's resurrection.
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And so I want to encourage us in the future to celebrate next year and in the following years, now that we are learning God's truth and how this is actually promoting anti-Semitic or anti-Jewish ah beliefs and attitudes in our culture.
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That if we as a church start making a return to the original fulfillment and in honoring Jesus's resurrection at first fruits time, this will serve to bring us both together in these times.
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And so I would like to ask you to prayerfully consider that over the next year. And as we go through the counting of the Omer, which has also been commanded to be done so that we can ah celebrate the bountiful harvest that God is giving us in these 50 days in that before he gave us the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, which was also a fulfillment, which we will get to on another day.
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In the meantime, thank you for listening. Let's go into our counting of the Omer. If you have been following along with the counting of the Omer, today is day seven.
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And you may know that this is, first there is a blessing that is spoken, and then we simply count the Omer. and say what day it is.
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I'm heading over to my Omer devotional page, which I found at shoreshdavid.org, and it's available as a free download there. And so I have the link to that in ah the description below as well, if you are interested in your own devotional counting of the days of the Omer this year.
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Today is Sunday, April 20th,
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And first, if you would like to join with me in counting the Omer, repeat after me first the blessing and then the counting.
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Blessed are you, o Lord our God, King of the universe, who has set us apart by your commandments and has commanded us to count the Omer.
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Today is the seventh day of the first week and day seven. I have counted the Omer.
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Thank you so much for counting the Omer with me. I can't wait until we get to the description of a Pentecost. I will maybe give that tomorrow.
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i was doing God has led me to a lot of ah powerful information on these things. And I feel that ah since we are reading the Bible and we are looking for daily application in our lives, that God has put it upon my heart to share these with you, my brothers and sisters in Christ, so that we can together honor God as much as we can, because we are to we are called to love our Lord, our God, with all of our hearts, with all of our minds, and with all of our souls.
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And so I pray that you are finding God calling you to observe these as well in the method in which he prescribed them, not by the method in which human beings have decided that we should or should not, as the case may be.
Proverbs on Wisdom and Family
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So join with me today as we begin our reading in Proverbs. And I hope that I don't have any more internet disconnection issues. I'm going to have a lovely time trying to blend those together here today.
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Our Proverbs selection today is one section and it is entitled All About People.
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A wise child makes father happy. a foolish child makes mother sad. A wise servant will rule over the family's foolish children.
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The wise servant will be treated like one of the family. Sorry for that long pause there, I lost my place. Grandchildren are like a crown to grandmothers and grandfathers.
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Children are proud of their mothers and fathers. Gray hair is like a bright crown. You get it by doing what's right.
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Strength makes a young person great, but gray hair makes an old person great. Have you seen a beautiful woman who is foolish?
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It's like seeing a gold ring in a pig's nose.
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A good wife is like a crown to her husband, but a foolish wife makes him rot from the inside out.
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A wise woman takes care of her family, but a foolish woman tears her family apart.
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A man who finds a wife finds something good. God is bringing good things to him.
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A foolish child hurts his father. A wife who makes a fuss is like water dripping in the sink.
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Mothers and fathers give their children houses and riches, but God gives their children wise people to marry.
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Be happy to live on the corner of the roof. That's better than living with someone who makes a fuss.
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Be happy to live in the desert. That's better than living with someone who gets angry a lot.
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A fussy wife is like rain that keeps dripping. Trying to stop her is like trying to stop the wind. It's like trying to hold oil in your hand.
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A king is great when he rules lots of people. But what if he has no one to rule? Then he is not a king.
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a king is glad when he has a wise servant. But he is angry when he has a foolish servant.
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Kings are glad to hear people tell the truth. A person who tells the truth is important to them. When a king's face gets bright with a smile, that means you'll live.
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When he likes you, it's like a cloud bringing spring rains. A king's anger is like a lion's roar. Whoever makes the king angry gives up his life.
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When a king judges, his eyes can tell what's wrong. A king stays safe if he is always loving and keeps his promises.
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God is in charge of the king's heart and God makes it do what he wants. He turns it as he pleases like he turns rivers.
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Love a heart that does not sin and talk kindly. Then the king will be your friend. When you eat with the king, look at all the food.
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Don't let yourself eat too much. Don't keep wanting his rich food. That kind of food tricks you.
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Look up to God and the king. Don't go along with people who don't obey. God and the king will get rid of them.
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God can hide how he does things. That shows God is great. A king tries to find out things that show the king is great.
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Take the dirt out of silver, and then you have something the silver worker can use. Take sinful people away from the king. Then he will do what is right.
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Don't make yourself look important when you're with the king. It's better for the king to make you look important. That's better than looking foolish in front of great people.
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Some rulers are mean to helpless people. Those rulers are like lions that roar. They're like bears that jump on people. When a ruler listens to people who lie, all the leaders become sinful.
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A king who is fair to poor people will rule for a long time. And that's the end of our reading today.
00:22:38
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We had a lot of proverbs in there dealing with the king and like that. but ah And while we don't necessarily have a king, we do have a president and we can substitute that even just for people who are in a position of authority.
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And so I want us to be able to understand what we are reading in the perspective of that it can be, a they these things can be applied to the anybody in authority. doesn't have to necessarily be the king, which we don't have particularly in the United States, ah but it could be the referring to like the president.
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And we had a lot of things to read today that were of good advice, but for our daily application today, We're going to look at the verse that says, don't make yourself look important when you're with the king.
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It's better for the king to make you look important. that's That's better than looking foolish in front of great people.
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So Jesus spoke about this as well. And I'm going to read to us from Luke chapter 14.
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where it says, I'm going to start with verse one, where it says, now when Jesus went into the home of one of the leaders of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the Sabbath, they were watching him closely.
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I'm going to skip the part about where he heals because it's not relevant to our daily application.
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Jesus began telling a parable to those who had been invited. This picks up in verse seven. when he noticed how they were choosing the seats of honor.
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So Jesus is at ah at a dinner being thrown by the Pharisees, leaders of the Pharisees, and he's noticing that people who come in are all sitting in a place of honor.
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They take the first seats as places of honor. And Jesus says to them, when you are invited by someone one to a wedding, Don't take the place of honor, for someone more highly esteemed than you may have been invited by him.
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Then the one who invited both of you will come to you and say, give up this seat. And with shame, you would proceed to take the lowest seat.
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But when you are invited, go and recline in the lowest seat so that when the one who invited you comes, he may say to you, friend, move up higher.
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Then you shall be honored in the presence of all those who are dining with you. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.
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Exalted means to be lifted up to a place of honor. So if we try to make ourselves look important, it may be that someone who is more important than us comes along and then we look foolish.
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And so Jesus is telling us to instead humble ourselves and don't assume that we are the most important person wherever we go and try to be like we are the most important, but instead let others exalt us.
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And that is our daily application for today. So oftentimes we can go somewhere and we sit in tables together and we we form what are called cliques. And we have a tendency to exclude other people.
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And even it can be the case like at workplaces where people eat together. It's like we're still in school and there are the popular kids tables and the least lesser popular people's tables where it's like you're not worthy to go sit at one of their tables.
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And if you just try to jump in on one of these other tables, you'll get told to move it along because they don't want you there. That seat is reserved for somebody in their group. So it's always better to be invited, to be seen by someone else, than it is to try to force ourselves into what we think we deserve to be on or to be in.
00:26:54
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And so that is our daily application today as we look through the Proverbs. I'm always amazed that God has such fulfillment.
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Jesus, as we said, came to not abolish the law, and that's not a law, this is a proverb. But even in the Proverbs, Jesus is teaching the same and fulfilling it. He is showing us and giving us different examples, and he is in agreement with everything that our Old Covenant and our Proverbs told us.
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Jesus didn't come along and establish new sets of rules. He came to teach us how the old ways are fulfilled and how to do them. And he gave us beautiful examples of how to behave.
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So instead of just having a proverb to read, Jesus also gave us example of when we can use that proverb and why it would be beneficial for us to do so. I love how understanding our God is and how he gives us not just words to that are wise to live by, but he shows us practically how to live these ways out in our lives every day.
Applying Bible Readings to Life
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And that's what I love about reading God's word. And that's why the goal for this event is to show that even in our day-by-day Bible,
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God has daily application for all of us every day in our lives by reading his word. So thank you for joining me today for our little lesson on Jesus fulfilling the first fruits and his resurrection as we celebrate our ah traditional Easter day. And thank you for counting the Omer with me. And thank you for learning about ah the Proverbs today in our daily reading.
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I hope everybody has a great rest of their day and I will be here for everybody again tomorrow. And again, i pause I apologize for any a disconnect there was in my internet today.
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And I hope that I'm able to get the video ah situated between the three different takes I think it took. So if it seemed a little skippy today, I'm sorry for that.
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I we will be here for everybody again tomorrow.