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September 13, 2024 Friday
Isaiah 17,18
Psalm 106:32-39
Proverbs 13
2 Corinthians 5
Isaiah 1:18 (KJV) Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
September 13, 2024 Friday
Isaiah 17
Summarize Isaiah 17 by explaining that it was a message of doom for Damascus, the capital city of Syria, and for the Northern Kingdom of Israel. Isaiah prophesied that these two nations would be conquered and scattered by the Assyrian army. One day sinner will experience this.
Isaiah 18
Isaiah 18 describes how people were looking like they were going to flourish but that God had different plans and cut them off before the harvest could fully ripen. That seems harsh until you notice that it is because they were not planted in God’s holy land. They were planted in the land of the enemy. God will help us flourish the outcome of actions. But if we do anything wrong God will take it away.
Psalm 106:32-39
•The people angered God at the waters of strife, and Moses suffered because of them.
•The people adopted customs from other nations.
•The people worshipped idols, which became a trap for them.
•The people sacrificed their sons and daughters to false gods.
•The people shed innocent blood, and the land was desecrated by their blood.
When Jesus died on the cross Pilate tried to wash the blood from his hands. The rest of his life he tried to get rid of the blood.
Proverbs 13
A wise son heeds his father’s instruction: The fact that Solomon delivered this proverb to his own son does not make it any less true. Children are wise to listen to instruction from their parents. A scoffer does not listen to rebuke: The scoffer is fool enough to reject all guidance and therefore never learns.
Pay attention to what your Father tells you to do and don’t scoff in his face.
2 Corinthians 5
God has prepared eternal bodies for all who are in Christ and has given to them the Holy Spirit as a guarantee of what we will receive when this life is done (2 Corinthians 5:1–5). Paul acknowledges that he is ready to be at home with the Lord, right now, free of his earthly body.
We Christians should look to the heavens ready to accept our heavenly bodies.
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Day 1 Reading completed 
9/13/2024
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Great job for creating this thread!
I was doing this since October 2023. And let me tell you it changed my life. I would take a walk in the morning and listen to the “Bible in a year” podcast from father mike. Later I would go back home and read the chapters I heard in the morning and take notes. Like a study session.
I couldn’t do it every single day because it would take a total of 2-3 hours of my day to listen, read and study. But I did 153 days out of 365. Listening to, reading and studying the Bible is one of the best things you can do. THE best thing is to do true repentance and ask for His grace to not only forgive you, but also to transform you. Believe me, you will not beat this sin until you’ve asked for His grace and believed you received it. You can have some guidance on how to do this in the book “Finally Free” from Heath Lambert. I believe he explained it in chapter 1 of the book.
Ask for His grace, pray in the morning & at night, read the Bible and apply the teachings in your daily life… To rely on God for strength and for His presence in your moments of difficulties is the way to be finally free. I’m saying this as someone who has relapsed only 2-3 times since October 2023 ( while I used to do so daily before truly repenting and asking for His grace.
Keep relying on God. The moment you have urges, think of Jesus immediately and ask for His help.
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Day 1 reading completed. 13/9/24✔️
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Daily Reading Complete for 09/13/2024
@Kanzo Alright! 
I’m glad you joined us! 
@TonyTheChristian , @saon Glad to meet y’all! Welcome!
@grobbik I think I forgot to welcome you, too. 
Sorry I missed you. We’re glad to have you!
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Thank you @user1234567890 
You being here, also motivated me to get in😂
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I’ll tell you, this challenge has really helped to motivate me to get in the Word more! Plus, with all the different areas that you read from every day, I feel like I’m getting a little bit of everything. Think of it as a Biblical Buffet 
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We Will never be hungry again😂
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If you have bible comentary, please send me. I need it to study more deeply.
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You can try Blue Letter Bible or Logos. Both have free versions with many commentaries. E sword is great as well.
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Great! I’ll give it a try 
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Thanks . Glad to be here
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September 14, 2024 Saturday
Isaiah 19,20
Psalm 106:40-48
Proverbs 14
2 Corinthians 6
Revelation 3:20 (KJV) Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
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September 14, 2024 Saturday
Isaiah 19
The first part of chapter 19 contains the main oracle against Egypt in the form of a poem. Isaiah describes the Lord’s coming judgment against Egypt in the three areas of her supposed great strength. These are the religious life of the people, the economic bounty produced by the Nile River, and her international reputation for great wisdom and insight (Isaiah 19:1–15).
First, Isaiah describes the Lord as riding into Egypt on a swift cloud. The Egyptians imagined their god Baal as riding on clouds, but Isaiah insists that it is the Lord, not Baal, who will arrive. He further drives home this point by saying that these false idols will know fear in the presence of the one true God. The people will share their terror, perhaps recalling what the God of the Israelites did to Egypt’s ancestors (Exodus 3:19–20) during the time of Israel’s exodus (Isaiah 19:1).
In response to the Lord’s judgment, the Egyptian people will turn on each other. At every level of society, there will be infighting and violence. Great despair will fall on the people. They will turn for help to idols and those who claim to channel the dead. In this weakened condition, the nation will be conquered by a tyrant and ruled by a fierce king. God’s rhetorical question is this: why would Judah try to rely on a people so easily defeated (Isaiah 19:2–4)?
Next, the Lord will judge Egypt by means of a drought. Egypt’s economy was prosperous because of the rich resources provided by the predictable flooding of the Nile River. Unless there was drought, the river would flood and recede at the same time every year, creating temporary “seas” and depositing sediment. That sediment would become the fertile soil of the following years crops when the waters receded. Without the Nile, Egypt’s economy will sink and many people will become destitute. This is one of the judgment God promises: to dry up the Nile and eliminate this source of resources (Isaiah 19:5–10).
Finally, Egypt was famous in the world for its great men of wisdom. That reputation came, in part, because of an emphasis on education. It’s likely that Egypt’s prosperity contributed to a view that its leaders were wise men. The final piece of the Lord’s judgment will reveal Egypt’s counselors to be fools. These supposed wise men will be unable to understand the plans of Israel’s God, causing the nation to stumble around in confusion (Isaiah 19:11–15).
After describing these harsh judgments, the prophecy takes a sudden turn. Isaiah looks into Egypt’s far future, likely during the reign of Messiah as king of Israel and the world. After a time of trembling in fear about the Lord’s power over them, the people of Egypt will repent and swear allegiance to the Lord, worshiping Him with sacrifices, offering, and vows. The Lord will respond by making Himself known to the people of Egypt, even rescuing them from their enemies. He will discipline Egypt by striking it but will also listen to the people’s pleas for mercy and heal them (Isaiah 19:16–22).
Finally, and shockingly to those reading these words during Isaiah’s life, the Assyrians will join Egypt in worshiping the God of Israel. Egypt, Assyria, and Israel will stand together as a blessing to the world as they are blessed by God (Isaiah 19:23–25).
Isaiah 20
Chapter 20 concludes Isaiah’s oracle from the Lord regarding Egypt (Isaiah 19:1). He concludes with an object lesson to demonstrate that Egypt is not strong enough to save anyone from the Assyrians. Egypt cannot even save themselves. Judah must not put its hope in Egypt.
Isaiah begins by focusing on a devastating event. The Assyrian king Sargon sent his commander in chief—tartān’ in Hebrew—to attack and defeat the Philistine city of Ashdod. The king of Ashdod had allied with the Egyptians against the Assyrians. After Ashdod made this alliance, they had apparently stopped paying tribute to Assyria. When the Assyrians arrived to crush Ashdod, Egypt was nowhere to be found. The defeat of Ashdod by the Assyrians in 711 BC is also described in the Assyrian annals and by fragments of a pillar unearthed in Ashdod in 1963 (Isaiah 20:1).
The prophet moves on to say that the Lord had told him to take off his sackcloth outer garment and sandals and to walk around that way. Though the Hebrew term ārom’ is often translated as “naked,” the main idea is an implication of shame, and not always a complete lack of clothing. It’s highly likely the prophet kept a loincloth on but was seen in a humbling state of undress. Given the customs of the day, anyone who saw the prophet in public in this manner of exposure would not forget the image. Apparently, this instruction was given three years before the fall of Ashdod (Isaiah 20:2).
Next Isaiah reveals the Lord’s purpose behind his time of public “nakedness.” Isaiah spent three years serving as a sign of what the Egyptian captives and the exiles of their neighbor Cush will look like when Assyria defeats them. They will be stripped down and marched into captivity. It was common for prisoners at this time to be stripped as a sign of their defeat and to keep them in line (Isaiah 20:3–4).
When that day comes, all the inhabitants of the coastland who were boasting that Egypt would save them from Assyria will ask each other what hope is for them? How will they escape the crushing assault of the Assyrian army (Isaiah 20:5–6)?
The Lord’s message to Judah, both in words and by Isaiah’s visual example, was that God’s people must not put their faith in other nations to save them from Assyria. They must trust in the Lord and rely on Him alone to protect them.
Psalm 106:40-48 in the King James Version of the Bible is a passage that describes God’s anger at his people, his deliverance of them, and his mercy:
Verses 40-41: God is angry with his people and gives them over to their enemies
Verses 42-43: God delivers his people, but they continue to rebel and sin
Verses 44-45: God notices his people’s distress and remembers his covenant with them
Verses 46-48: God causes his people to be pitied by their captors and asks for them to be saved.
One thing the book of Revelation teaches us is that God sends his judgments upon the world to warn people to turn to him. When it comes to specific events that happen, we may speculate but we must not adamantly assign to God that which he has not said he has done. God is in complete control and he can use fire or he can use storms, he can use foreign nations or he can use an uprising within a nation of people. He can use pestilence or he can send diseases. It is within his realm of authority to use a wicked ruler or a servant from the lowest household.
Whether it is a car accident, sickness, or financial loss, it is up to each of us to look at our own lives and decide if we have drifted away from God and if we need to change from our hearts. Have we adopted beliefs or made our own gods to fit our image instead of honoring Jesus with all authority? Self-examination is a must for us from time to time and then see that we conform to his word. It is in this kind of absolute submission and obedience that God is honored and his name is glorified.
Proverbs 14
Reverence and Speech (14:1–10)
The material in Proverbs chapters 10–29 is to some extent more scattered than the content of Proverbs 1–9, 30–31. This not to say that the proverbs here are inferior; rather, it is merely the case that, for the most part, the sayings in these chapters tend to be more individual in nature, being only loosely tied together. Note that many of the proverbs in Prov. 14:1–10 relate to one’s speech. For instance, Prov. 14:3 says, “In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride.” Furthermore, Solomon writes, “A false witness will utter lies. . . . Go from the presence of a foolish man when you do not perceive in him the lips of knowledge” (Prov. 14:5, 7). The idea here is that the words we speak reveal the condition of our hearts. Jesus taught, “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. . . . Those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart” (Matt. 12:34; 15:18).
One of the recurring themes in Prov. 14:1–10 is the contrast between wisdom and foolishness. If fact, almost every verse in this chapter juxtaposes these two spiritual states. Observe that in Prov. 14:2 Solomon restates a principle he had first given at Prov. 1:7—that is, “He who walks in his uprightness fears the Lord.” Recall that the fear of the Lord does not refer to terror, but to reverence. Although most of the verses in Prov. 14:1–10 relate to one’s speech, several other sayings are present. For example, Prov. 14:4 says, “Where no oxen are, the trough is clean, but much increase comes by the strength of an ox.” This teaching is not ultimately about oxen, but about the goodness of labor—an idea that is present all throughout the book of Proverbs. Another important and recurring teaching is in Prov. 14:6, where Solomon writes, “Knowledge is easy to him who understands.”
Understanding and the Heart (14:11–21)
Prov. 14:11–21 touches upon many different issues, but one of the repeated themes in this passage is the importance of understanding one’s own spiritual condition, as well as being aware of the different results of foolishness and wisdom. In Prov. 14:12, Solomon writes, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” Here Solomon is not teaching that believers ought to second-guess every decision, for wisdom does give guidance (cf. Prov. 3:4–5). Rather, Solomon is teaching that in its natural state, the heart of mankind is not a reliable guide. Observe Jeremiah’s rhetorical question, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” (Jer. 17:9; cf. Eccl. 9:3). Another important saying here is “Even in laughter the heart may sorrow” (Prov. 14:13). Note, however, that we dare not reach conclusions based upon brief observation of the external.
The idea that believers are to seek to understand the difference between wise and foolish actions is reiterated all throughout this passage. In Prov. 14:15–16 Solomon writes, “The prudent considers well his steps. A wise man fears and departs from evil.” When Christians make wise choices, such acts result in divine blessing. In this passage Solomon notes, “The tent of the upright will flourish. . . . A good man will be satisfied from above. . . . The prudent are crowned with knowledge” (Prov. 14:11, 14). In contrast to those who make wise choices, this passage teaches that a foolish man will be overthrown (Prov. 14:11), is gullible (Prov. 14:15), will rage (Prov. 14:16–17), is hated (Prov. 14:17, 20), will inherit folly (Prov. 14:18), and will bow before the good (Prov. 14:19). These results of foolishness are designed to encourage mankind toward God.
Labor and Leadership (14:22–35)
One of the main themes in Prov. 14:22–35 is the idea of labor. This subject, as well as the related topic of wealth and poverty, is a common theme in the book of Proverbs (Prov. 14:4). Solomon teaches, “In all labor there is profit, but idle chatter leads only to poverty. The crown of the wise is their riches, but the foolishness of fools is folly” (Prov. 14:23–24). God’s people are to labor, for this is God’s divinely designed way of meeting the material needs of mankind. Recall that God usually works through means, and not through miracles. Along these same lines, Prov. 14:31 notes, “He who oppresses the poor reproaches their Maker, but he who honors Him has mercy on the needy” (Matt. 25:31–46). A second main theme in this passage is the idea of wise leadership. Solomon notes wise leadership results in flourishing, exaltation, and favor (Prov. 14:28, 34–35).
2 Corinthians 6
Paul is writing to people he cares deeply about. He helped to establish the church in Corinth and led many people there to faith in Christ. Now he seems concerned that some among them who have heard the clear message of the gospel from him have not come to full faith in Christ alone for their salvation. This may be based on continued association with idol worship, or false teachers among them distorting the gospel of Jesus and accusing Paul of being a false apostle.
This chapter appeals to those in Corinth not to receive God’s grace in vain, insisting that the day of salvation has come. That “day,” however, will not last forever. Eventually, Christ will return and the opportunity to receive God’s free gift will pass (2 Corinthians 6:1–2).
Paul insists that he and those who work with him have not done or said anything that would keep anyone from believing in Jesus. He commends their ministry to the Corinthians, giving them evidence to present to anyone who would accuse Paul of being false or having a hidden and self-serving agenda (2 Corinthians 6:3).
This evidence included everything Paul and his co-workers for the gospel have suffered in order to proclaim the message of Jesus. These afflictions include beatings, imprisonments, attacks by angry mobs, exhausting work, sleepless nights, and going hungry. Their character, though, has remained Christlike and God’s power has been clearly seen in and through them. No matter how they were treated, they have kept going, kept accomplishing God’s mission through them. Paul puts it plainly: Their sacrifice is bringing the riches of eternal life to many people. He and his team continue to rejoice in this (2 Corinthians 6:4–10).
In other words, Paul says, they have done nothing to cause the Corinthians to have anything against them. He and his friends have wide open hearts toward everyone in Corinth. He asks them to open their hearts to him, as well, as children toward a father (2 Corinthians 6:11–13).
Next, Paul commands them clearly not to be “unequally yoked” with—or “harnessed to”—unbelievers. He seems to be referring to contracted relationships that would bind a Christian to a non-Christian in some formal way. That would certainly include marriage, as well as serious business or personal ties. This doesn’t forbid believers from ever associating with unbelievers (1 Corinthians 5:10), but from participating in relationships that would obligate them to unbelievers, perhaps especially in areas involving idol worship.
He asks a series of questions to show how absurd such relationships are. Light and darkness cannot fellowship together. Christ and Satan don’t work together. Everyone knows how terrible it would be for Jewish people to worship an idol in the Jewish temple. Christians are now God’s temple, Paul writes. This is true because the Holy Spirit lives in them. These temples, then, must never be used for anything that is opposed to God.
Paul references several Old Testament Scriptures to illustrate that this was true of God’s covenant relationship with Israel and is true of His covenant relationship with all who come to Him through faith in Christ. Because God lives in them, Christians must separate themselves from everything that does not please God. He is the believer’s Father (2 Corinthians 6:14–18).
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God is great 
readed.
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