Click here for the DRB Daily Sign Up form! TODAY'S SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 4-6; Acts 14Click HERE to give! Get Free App Here! One Year Bible Podcast: Join Hunter and Heather Barnes on 'The Daily Radio Bible' for a daily 20-minute spiritual journey. Engage with scripture readings, heartfelt devotionals, and collective prayers that draw you into the heart of God's love. Embark on this year-long voyage through the Bible, and let each day's passage uplift and inspire you. TODAY'S EPISODE: Welcome back to the Daily Radio Bible podcast, dear listeners. I'm Hunter, your Bible reading coach and brother in faith, here with you every day as we journey through the pages of the Bible. Today, in our 38th day of exploration, we're diving into the depths of Leviticus chapters 4 through 6 and Acts chapter 14. We'll unravel the seemingly complex systems of offerings and understand how they foreshadow the good things promised in Christ, offering us a glimpse of the ultimate cleansing and renewal that awaits us. We'll also witness the powerful acts of Paul and Barnabas as they boldly proclaim the good news, facing opposition with unwavering faith. So grab your Bible and join me as we warm our hearts by the fire of God's presence and love, knowing full well that you are deeply loved and not alone in this journey. Let’s delve deeper and discover the life that has been graciously offered to us through His word. TODAY'S DEVOTION: Bulls, goats, and birds, how does any of this stuff have anything to do with Jesus? These things can seem so strange and far removed from our own lives. Not many of us have seen an animal offered on an altar. What does it all mean? Hebrews ten one through two says this: the old system under the law of Moses was only a shadow, a dim preview of the good things to come, not the good things themselves. The sacrifices under that system were repeated again and again, year after year, but they were never able to provide perfect cleansing for those who came to worship. If they could have provided perfect cleansing, the sacrifices would have stopped, for the worshipers would have been purified once for all time, and their feelings of guilt would have disappeared. The good thing to come is your perfect cleansing for all time and your feelings of guilt disappearing. That's the good thing that we're only seeing a shadow of in these strange things we read about in Leviticus. This shadow play and detailed systems of sacrifices didn't change the way they felt on the inside. That's why they came back year after year. And sadly, too often, so it is today. The shadow play that we make up to get rid of all our bad feelings of guilt doesn't work either. But we've been made right with God, not through a ram or a bull or a bird. Jesus is the perfect lamb who takes away the sins of the world, cleansing you, making you new. God wants us to know that, and He also wants us to know that in that sacrifice of love, He has also given us His life now. He not only atoned for your sin, but He also offers you His gracious life today. So let's live it. Live today in the light of your perfect cleansing. Live today in the light of what you have become because of what He's done. That's the prayer that I have for my own soul. That's the prayer that I have for my family, for my wife and my daughters and my son. And that's the prayer that I have for you. May it be so. TODAY'S PRAYERS: Lord God Almighty and everlasting father you have brought us in safety to this new day preserve us with your Mighty power that we might not fall into sin or be overcome by adversity. And in all we do, direct us to the fulfilling of your purpose through Jesus Christ Our Lord amen. Oh God you have made of one blood all the peoples of the earth and sent your blessed son to preach peace to those who are far and those who are near. Grant that people everywhere may seek after you, and find you. Bring the nations into your fold, pour out your Spirit on all flesh, and hasten the coming of your kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. And now Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. And where there is sadness, Joy. Oh Lord grant that I might not seek to be consoled as to console. To be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. For it is in the giving that we receive, in the pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in the dying that we are born unto eternal life. Amen And now as our Lord has taught us we are bold to pray... Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our tresspasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not unto temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. ...
