Day 311: God Fights for You (2024)
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How my name is brother maxims and you're listening to the bible in a year podcast where we encounter god's voice and live life to the lengths of scripture bible in the year, pod gas is rought to you by ascension using the great adventure bibo timeline will read all the way from genesis to revelation, discovering how the story of ovation and polls and how we at IT and to that story today in is day three hundred and eleven.

Working the second k of the maces chat fourteen, as well as the wisdom of Solomon on chapters seventeen and eight and proper chapter twenty five verses eighteen. As always, the bible translation on reading from is the revised standard version. Second category tion.

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In fact, i've never mentioned this before. I don't think um when IT comes to being able to subscribes, i'm so sorry that is taking me and don't take three hundred and eleven to note to everyone that you can submit to this. And if you do, you get daily episodes and daily updates and it's just makes things a lot easier. So I am so sorry that is taking me this long to mention IT but hopefully you can give you forgive me because it's day three eleven and we're reading second magamed after fourteen look of wisdom of Solomon on chapters seventeen nineteen and probably twenty five versus eighteen three twenty the second book of the maces chapter fourteen alchemist speaks against judice three years later, word came to judice and his men that the matrix, the sun of solution, is had sailed into the harbor of tripolis with a strong army and a fleet, and had taken possession of the country, having made away with antiquus and his guardian lacus.

Now a certain alchemist who had former leap in high priest, but had willfully defied the themselves in the times of separation, realized that there was no way for him to be safe or to have access again to the holy alter, and went to king demetrius in about the one hundred and fifty first year, presenting dma crown of gold and a palm. And besides these, some of the customary all of branches from the temple. During that day, he kept quiet, but he found an opportunity that furthered his mad purpose when he was invited by demetrius to a meeting of the council and was asked about the disposition and intentions of the jews, he answered, those of the jews who are called his sidibe, whose leader is due to macau, are keeping up war and string up edition and will not let the kingdom attain true ity.

Therefore, I have laid aside my ancestor of glory. I mean, the hype stood and have now come here, first because I am generally concerned for the interests of the king, and second because I have regard also for my fellow citizens for through the folly of those whom I have mentioned, our whole nation is now in no small misfortune since you are acquainted o king, with the details of this matter. Dane, to take thought for our country and our hard press nation with a gracious kindness which you show to all for as long as juice lives IT is impossible for the government to find peace.

When he had said this, the rest of the king's friends who are hostile to judice quickly inflamed the metric still more, and he immediately chose nicene, who had been in command of the elephants, appointed him governor of judea and sent him off with orders to kill judice and scatter his men and to set up alchemist as high priest of the greatest temple and the gentiles throughout judea who had fled before judice flat to join nick, or thinking that the misfortune and calamities of the jews would mean prosperity for themselves. Nick N O R makes friends with judi. When the jews heard of nikon is coming, and the gathering of the gentiles, they sprinkled dust upon their heads and prayed IT to him, who established his own people forever and always uphold his own heritage by manifesting himself at the command of the leader they set out from there immediately and engage them in battle.

At a village called the saw, Simon, the brother of juice, had encountered nicanor, but had been temporarily checked because of the sudden, constantly created by the enemy. Nevertheless, nick, or hearing of the value of judas and his men and their courage in battle for their country, shrink from deciding the issue by bloodshed. Therefore, he sent paedo onias anthea otis and matisse to give and receive pledges of friendship when the terms had been fully considered and the leader had informed the people and IT had appeared that they were of one mind, they agreed to the covenant and the leaders set that day, and which had to meet by themselves, a Cherry came forward from each army.

Seats of honor were set in place due to posted armed men and readiness and key places to prevent sudden twitch ery in the part of the enemy. They held the proper conference they can never stayed on in jerusalem, did nothing out of the way, but dismissed the flocks of people that had gathered. And he kept due is always in his presence.

He was warmly attached to the man, and he urged him to marry an and have children. So he married, settled down and share the common life. The gore turns against the judice, but when alchemists notice they're good will for one another, he took the covenant that had been made and went to the metris. He told him that nikon, or was this loyal to the government, he had appointed that conspirator against the kingdom, judice, to be his successor.

The king became excited and, provoked by the false accusations of that deprived man, wrote a tiny or stating that he was displeased with the governments and commanding him to send a macos to anti ac as a prisoner without delay when this message came to nick or he was troubled and grieved that he yet to and their agreement when the man had done no wrong since IT was not possible to oppose the king, he watched for an opportunity to accomplish this by a strategic but ncb us. Noticing that nick or was more austere in his dealings with him and was meeting him more rude than had been, his custom concluded that this austerity did not spring from the best motives. So he gathered not a few of his men and went into hiding from nick.

Or when the letter became aware that he had been cleverly outweighed by the man, he went to the great and holy temple while the priests were offering the customary sacrifices and commanded them to hand the man over. And when they declared red on oath that they did not know where the man was, whom they sought, he stretched out his right hand toward the sanctuary, ary and sore this oath, if you do not hand due this over to me as prisoner, I will level this pricing of god to the ground and tear down the alter. And I will build here a splendid temple.

tononi. Sis, having said this, he went away. Then the priest stretched forth their hands toward heaven and called upon the constant defender of our nation in these words, o lord of all who have need of nothing.

You are pleased that they're be a temple for your habitation among us. So now a holy one, lord of ball holiness, keep the filed forever. This house that has been so recently purified, rosie dies for his country.

A certain russie, one of the elders of jerusalem, was announced to nicknames as a man who loved his fellow citizens and was very well thought of and for his goodwill was called father of the jews for informer times when there was no mingling with the gentle, he had been accused of judaism. And for judaism, he had, with all zeal, risked body and life. Nicko, wishing to exhibit the enmity which he had for the juice, sent more than five hundred soldiers to arrest him.

He thought that by arresting him, he would do them in injury. When the troops were about to capture the tower and were forcing the door of the courtroom ard, they ordered that fire be brought and the doors burned. Being surrounded, rosey fell upon his own.

Sd preferred to die nobly, rather than to fall into the hands of sinners and suffer outrages unworthy of his noble birth. But in the heat of the struggle, he did not hit exactly, and the crowd was now rushing in through the doors. He bravely ran up on the wall, and methley threw himself down into the crowd. But as they quickly drew back, a space opened and he fell in the middle of the empty space, still alive and a flame with anger, he rose.

And though his blood gushed forth and his wounds were severe, he ran through the crowd and standing upon a steep rock, with his blood now completely drained from him, he took out his entrails, took them with both hands and hurt them at the crowd, calling upon the lord of life and spirit to give them back to him again. This was the manner of his death. The wisdom of Solomon chapter seventeen, the plague of darkness and death great are your judgements, and hard to describe.

Therefore, uninstructed souls have gone to stray for when lawless men suppose that they held the holders in their power, they themselves lay as captives of darkness and prisoners of long night shut in under their roofs, exiles from eternal providence for thinking that in their secret, since they were unobserved behind a dark curtain of forgetful this, they were scattered, terribly alarmed and appalled by spector, for not even the inner chAmber that help them protected them from fear. But terrifying sounds rang out around them, and dismore phantoms with gloomy faces appeared, and no power of fire was able to give light. Nor did the brilliant flames of the stars are available to illumine that hateful night.

Nothing was shining through to them except a dreadful self, kindle fire and in terror they deemed the things which they saw to be worse than that unseen appearance. The delusions of their magic art lay humbled, and their boosted wisdom was scornfully rebuked. For those who promised IT to drive off, the fears and disorders of a six were sick themselves with ridiculous phear for even if nothing disturbing frightened them, yet scared by the passing of beast and the hissing of serpent, they parishes in trembling fear, refusing to look even at the air that with nowhere could be avoided for weakness is a cowardly thing.

Condemned by its own testimony, distressed by conscience, IT has always exaggerated the difficulties, for fear is nothing but surrender of the helps that come from reason and the inner expectation of help. Being weak prefers ignorance of what causes the torment. But throughout the night, which was really powerless, in which we set them from the recesses of powerless hates, they all slept the same sleep, and now were driven by monstrous spectre, and now were paralyzed by their souls, surrender for sudden and unexpected fear, overwhelmed them. And whoever was there fell down.

And this was kept shut up in a prison not made of iron, for whether he was a farmer or a shepherd or a workman who toiled in the wilderness, he was seized and endured the capable fate for with one chain of darkness they all were bound, whether there came a whistling wind, or a maladies sound of birds and widespreading branches, or rhythm of violence rushing water, or the harsh crash of rocks hurled down, or the unseen running of leaping animals, or the sound of the most savage roaring beast, or an echo thrown back from a hollow of the mountains IT paralized them with terror for the whole world was a loomed with brilliant light and was engaged in unhindered work. While over those men alone, heavy night was spread, an image of the darkness that was destiny to receive them. But still, haier than darkness were aid to themselves jeppe eighteen.

But for your holy ones, there was very great light. Their enemies heard their voices but did not see their forms encounter them happy for not having suffered. And we're thankful that you're holy ones, though previously wronged. We're doing them no injury. And they beg their partner for having been at variance with them.

Therefore, you provided a flaming pillar of fire as a guide for your people's unknown journey, and a harmless sun for the glorious wandering for their enemies deserved to be deprived of light and in prison, in darkness, those who had kept your sons in prison, through whom the impartial light of the law was to be given to the world when they had resolved to kill the infants of your holy ones, and one child had been exposed and rescued in punishment, you took away a multitude of their children, and you destroyed them all together by a mighty fund. That night was made known beforehand to our fathers so that they might rejoice. Ensure knowledge of the odds in which they trusted the deliverance of the righteous and the destruction of their enemies were expected by your people.

Provide the same means by which you puni shed our enemies you call us to yourself and glorified us for, in secret, the holy children of good men offered sacrifices. And with one accord agreed to the divine law that the states would share, like the same things, both blessings and dangers. And already they were singing the prairies of their fathers, but the discordant cry of their enemies echo back, and their petition lament for their children was spread abroad.

The slave was punished with the same penalty as the master, and the common man suffered the same loss as the king. And they, altogether, by the one form of death, had corporations too many to count for the living. We're not sufficient even to bury them, since in one instant their most valued children had been destroyed, although they had disbelieved everything because of their magic arts.

Yet when their first born were destroyed, they acknowledged your people to be god's sun for while gentle silence enveloped all things at night in its swift course was now have gone your all powerful word leaped from heaven, from the royal throne into the midst of the land that was doomed a stern warrior Carrying the sharp sort of your authentic command and stood and filled all things with death in touch heaven while standing on the earth than at once. Operations and dreadful dreams greatly troubled them, and unexpected fears assail them. And one here and another there hurled down half.

Did made known why they were dying for the dreams which disturbed them, forewarn them of this so that they might not. Paris, without knowing why they suffered the experience of death, touched also the righteous. And a play came upon the multitude in the desert.

But the rat did not long continue, for a blameless man was quick to act as their champion. He brought forward the shield of his ministry, prayer and perpetuation. By instance, he withstood the anger and put an end to the disaster, showing that he was your servant.

He conquered the path, not by strength, the body, and not by force of arms, but by his word, he subdued the purifier, appealing to the odd's and convenance given to our fathers for when the dead had already fAllen on one another in heats. He intervened and held back the path and cut off its way to the living for upon his long robe, the whole world was depicted, and the glory of the fathers were engraved on the four rows of stones. And you're majesty on the died them upon his head to these the destroyer yield ded these he feared for merely to test the rat was enough.

The booga proverb chapter twenty five versus eighteen through twenty, a man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a war club or a sword or a sharp arrow. Trust in a faithless man in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a foot that slips he who sings songs to a heavy heart is like one who takes off a garment on a cold day and like vinegar on a wound. Father haven't give you praising glory.

Thank you so much. Thank you for this day. Thank you for the opportunity to be able to once again come into your presence to allow your words to speak to us, to shape our minds, our hearts, to tell us not only who you are, but how to love, how to live in this world.

We ask you, please continue to open our minds, continue to shape our vision, and continue to call us your own. In jesus name, we pray a man and the name of the father and the son. Spring, we get some graphic.

You know, the battles in second babies are all the bible, obviously, in reading the entire old testament up till now. Now we have one more day, and then it's all the testament all the time, which is really incredible. In two days from now that after tomorrow we started in the gospel of luke and we will go through the gospel look about a week plus because it's it's a long gospel board.

A gift has been we get to see maybe in ways that we've never seen before, the amount of, gosh, I guess I want to see violence in the scriptures, but I want, just want to hide the violence. I want to highlight the fact that he has got working through broken us. He has got working through broken people.

He has got working through even these horrible situations. And one of the things we recognize is that life is not a hallmark movie. I have mentioned this before in the past.

I know there's a lot of people who are part of this community who are not not necessarily from the west, not necessarily from a north america, or where you might have the hallmark channel, but the hallmark movie version, Christianity, right, is so what i'm talking about is there are not things called hallmark movies, how mark movies um things are really neat and things are clean and uh, guy meets girl. Girl likes guy, guy likes girl, but they have some kind attention keeping apart from each other. And at the end of the movie, everything's fine and everyone's happy.

And even sometimes the enemy or the person trying to keep them apart is still has found happiness to like everyday, it's all clean. It's all meat. It's all tidy and orderly.

And we recognize that he is the bible. Here is the story of life in this world. Here is the story of god interacting with these people.

And IT is not neat. IT is not tidy. IT is powerful, but it's not clean. It's messy. And we also recognize that the power of god entering into the messiness.

And now when I say messy, we're not just talking well, there is a little bit of in here or some surfing over there. We're talking the trail. We're talking that thousands of people dead.

We're talking about the end of the chapter fourteen second mac abies where you have this man ruses um you caught this right? He tries to kill himself by falling upon his words so they couldn't abuse him. Doesn't work super well so on told himself off to height IT folds the mits to the people onto the ground.

Still enraged, they still alive. And this is very forty five, still alive in a flame with anger, he rose, and there was blood gush forth in. His wounds were severe. He wanted the crowd.

He taught his entrails, took them with both hands and holding them at the crowd, calling upon the lord of life in spirit to give them back to him IT again. And i'm so sorry, I probably should. They had a little alert on this one as well beforehand, but just this sense of, wow, that is very graphic, and that is a very horrible way to die.

And yet that in the bible, what do we do make of this? And what we are to make of IT in so many ways, is, here is the story. Here is our story.

Here is the way in which god is present, evening crazy scenarios like this. Here's the way god is present, even in remarkable scenarios that we would just think, is this from a horror movie, because that is disgusting and horrible. And yet, here's got somewhere in the midst of all of IT, just like in my life, he's somewhere in the midst of all of IT.

Some days we see IT more clearly than others. Some day we know IT more certainly than others. But every day we know that it's true.

And is that we moving on to the the most Solomon chapter seventeen couple and eighteen couple things are highlight. The very beginning of chapter seventeen is just has this line. IT says this, he says, for thinking that in their secret scenes they were unobserved behind a dark curtain of forgetfulness.

They were scattered, terribly alarmed and appalled by spector for not even the inner chAmber that help them protected them from fear. And there's a thing of like thinking that in their secret since they were unobserved, how often there is that reality of secret since how often is there that reality that we attempted to just give ourselves a pass, because I will, no one knows about this. There's anonymity here. There is a certain idea that this is not hurting anybody. It's unobserved no one to find out.

And the reality, of course, is when we walk, in truth, when we walk in in wisdom, in the whole wisdom, we realize there is no such thing as secret since there's no such thing as a life that is unobserved or or that's forgotten he says talks about this dark curtain forgetfulness like no that doesn't exist and there's something so powerful about this um to convict us when we we're sitting and to comfort us when we're trying to walk in righteousness to convict this one more in instead to be able to say, okay, lord, you are present here lad. God, you do see these things and there is justice but also to have that the word of, the word of comfort, that word of assurance, were trying to strive after righteousness, that there's no secret virtue either. If there is no secret sins, there's also no secret virtue.

And we recognize, or even just attempt to, a virtue, the fact that you and I are trying to follow, the lord we're trying to belong to him is seen, he knows this. The lord god cares because you matter. Even you're attempt matters.

But when we have the secret scene, the end of chapters seventeen, and talks about this, IT says, while over those men alone, heavy night was presso. This are talking about in the kingdom of egypt, where the people of god were enslaved. And there was that section member where darkness came upon, where the egyptians lived, but there were still light where the hebes lived.

That's this, he says, well, over those men alone, heavy net was spread, right? So over the egyptians, heavy net was spread, an image of the darkness that was destined to receive them, that powerful poetry. But still haier, than darkness were they to themselves.

Gosh, while over those men alone, heavy nett was spread, an image of the darkness that was destined to receive them still heavier than darkness, where they are to themselves, because they belonged to false gods, because they had conspired to kill the first born, or the males of all the juice, males of all the hebrew parents. And they were darkness, heavy than darkness, were they to themselves? That goes on in cheering, first one.

But for your holy ones, that was very great light. Again, IT talks about the juice people being delivered basically by gods vengeance, by his justice, from slavery, egypt, through that whole next chapter, chapter eighteen. Now we're almost at the very end.

We have one chapter left in males. We have joined chapter left in the book of wismer Solomon. But there's this last a note in chapter eighteen.

This is incredible. Everything s fourteen. This is, I just imagine you go back to your scriptures and highlight this for a wild, gentle silence envelop ped all things. This is talking about the night of the destruction of the first born, for while gentle silence enveloped all things and night, in its swift course, was now have gone.

Your you got your all powerful word, leaped from heaven, from the royal throne into the midst of the land that was doomed, a stern where you're Carrying the sharp sort of your authentic command and stood and filled all things with death and touch heaven while standing on the earth. Now, this is the justice of god, right? This is the justice of got upon the egyptians that had killed all the males that were warned to the hebrew people.

But there's also a privacy here, right? I always think of Christmas. This is the nativity, for while gentle silence developed all things and night in its swift course was now have gone middle the night you're all powerful word, the word made flash, right, leaped from heaven, from the royal throne into the midst of the land that was doomed.

Stern warrior Carrying the sharp sort of your authentic command and stood and there is, he says, and stood, didn't fill all things with death in touch, heavy standing on earth. Now, obviously, we know that jess cries, came in to bring life, but also he came to conquer death. He also came to fight for us.

And this is the powerful news of the good news that were about to launch into for the rest of the year. That day after tomorrow is, here is jesus Christ himself, the word made flesh, leaving fourth from the throne with what? With a voice of thunder, leaving forth with a sort of truth and of the holy spirit, and fighting for you, not the key thing.

And fighting for me, fighting for us. Because, as we know here is god saying you're worth fighting for. There are things that are trying to kill you and you are worth fighting for.

So he thought for the word lept forth from the mighty throne of heaven to come to this earth and to fight. And so we trust in him. We trust in his ability to fight.

We trust his willingness to fight that he wants to fight for you today. So we trust in that. And we ask you, lord, is please fight for us.

I'm praying for you. Please pray for me and his brother mika cannot wait to see tomorrow, last day, tomorrow of the old testers, and then all new testable all the time. I can see you tomorrow, can't less.