DAB March 02 - 2026

Today is the second day of March. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian, and I am grateful to be here with you today. Coming to you from Jordan. We were supposed to be heading out last night, but we're still here for a few days. We talked about that. ah well Jill and I talked about that yesterday and if you haven't heard that you can check that out but grateful to be here grateful to be safe grateful to be healthy and very grateful to be able to take the next step forward together with you which leads us back to Leviticus where we are continuing our journey with chapter 25 verse 47 to 27, verse 13. If an alien or temporary resident living among you prospers, but your brother living near him becomes destitute and sells himself to the alien living among you or to a member of the resident alien's clan, He has the right of redemption after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him. His uncle or cousin may redeem him, or any of his close relatives from his clan may redeem him. If he prospers, he may redeem himself. The one who purchased him is to calculate the time from the year he sold himself until the year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years. it will be set for him like the daily wages of a hired worker. If many years are still left, he must pay his redemption price in proportion to them based on his purchase price. If only a few years remain until the year of Jubilee, he will calculate and pay the price of his redemption in proportion to his remaining years. He will stay with them like a man hired year by year. A resident alien is not to rule over him harshly in your sight. If he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he and his children are to be released at the year of Jubilee. For the Israelites are my servants. They are my servants that I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. Do not make worthless idols for yourselves. Set up a carved image or sacred pillar for yourselves, or place a sculpted stone in your land about down to it, for I am the Lord your God. Keep my Sabbaths and revere my sanctuary. I am the Lord. If you follow my statutes and faithfully observe my commands, I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruits. Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time. You will have plenty of food to eat and live securely in your land. I will give peace to the land and you will lie down with nothing to frighten you. I will remove dangerous animals from the land and no sword will pass through your land. You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword. Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand. Your enemies will fall before you by the sword. I will turn to you, make you fruitful, and multiply you, and confirm my covenant with you. You will eat the old grain of the previous year, and will clear out the old to make room for the new. I will place my residence among you, and I will not reject you. I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, so that you would no longer be their slaves. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to live in freedom. But if you do not obey me and observe all these commands, If you reject my statutes and despise my ordinances, and do not observe all my commands, and break my covenant, then I will do this to you. I will bring terror on you, wasting disease and fever that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it. I will turn against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you and you will flee even though no one is pursuing you. But if after these things you will not obey me, I will proceed to discipline you seven times for your sins. I will break down your strong pride. I will make your sky like iron and your land like bronze, and your strength will be used up for nothing. Your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit. If you act with hostility toward me and are unwilling to obey me, I will multiply your plagues seven times for your sins. I will send wild animals against you that will deprive you of your children. ravage your livestock, and reduce your numbers until your roads are deserted. If, in spite of these things, you do not accept my discipline, but act with hostility toward me, then I will act with hostility toward you. I also will strike you seven times for your sins. I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a pestilence among you, and you will be delivered into enemy hands. When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and ration out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied. And if in spite of this you do not obey me, but act with hostility toward me. I will act with furious hostility toward you. I will also discipline you seven times for your sins. You will eat the flesh of your sons. You will eat the flesh of your daughters. I will destroy your high places, cut down your shrines, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will reject you. I will reduce your cities to ruins and devastate your sanctuaries. I will not smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices. I also will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to live there will be appalled by it. But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword to chase after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become ruins. Then the land will make up for its Sabbath years during the time it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time, the land will rest and make up for its Sabbaths. As long as it lies desolate, it will have the rest it did not have during your Sabbaths when you lived there. I will put anxiety in the hearts of those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a wind-driven leaf will put them to flight, and they will flee as one flees from a sword and fall though no one is pursuing them. They will stumble over one another as if fleeing from a sword though no one is pursuing them. you will not be able to stand against your enemies you will perish among the nations The land of your enemies will devour you Those who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away because of their iniquity. They will also waste away because of their ancestors' iniquities, along with theirs. But when they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their ancestors, their unfaithfulness that they practiced against me and how they acted with hostility toward me and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies and when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they make amends for their iniquity then I will remember my covenant with Jacob I will also remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham and I will remember the land. For the land abandoned by them will make up for its Sabbaths by lying desolate without the people, while they make amends for their iniquity, because they rejected my ordinances and abhorred my statutes. Yet in spite of this, while they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or abhor them so as to destroy them and break my covenant with them, since I am the Lord their God. For their sake I will remember the covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the Lord. These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws the Lord established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai. The Lord spoke to Moses. Speak to the Israelites and tell them, When someone makes a special vow to the Lord that involves the assessment of people, If the assessment concerns a male from 20 to 60 years old, your assessment is 50 silver shekels measured by the standard sanctuary shekel. If the person is a female, your assessment is 30 shekels. If the person is from 5 to 20 years old, your assessment for a male is 20 shekels and for a female, 10 shekels. If the person is from one month to five years old, your assessment for a male is five silver shekels, and for a female your assessment is three shekels of silver. If the person is sixty years or more, your assessment is fifteen shekels for a male and ten shekels for a female. But if one is too poor to pay the assessment, he is to present the person before the priest, and the priest will set a value for him. The priest will set a value for him according to what the one making the vow can afford. If the vow involves one of the animals that may be brought as an offering to the Lord, any of these he gives to the Lord will be holy. He may not replace it or make a substitution for it, either good for bad or bad for good. But if he does substitute one animal for another, both that animal and its substitute will be holy. If the vow involves any of the unclean animals that may not be brought as an offering to the Lord, the animal must be presented before the priest. The priest will set its value, whether high or low. The price will be set as the priest makes the assessment for you. If the one who brought it decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value. Mark 10, 32-52 They were on the road again, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them. The disciples were astonished, but those who followed him were afraid. Taking the twelve aside again, he began to tell them the things that would happen to him. See, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death. Then they will hand him over to the Gentiles and they will mock him, spit on him, flog him and kill him and he will rise after three days. James and John, the sons of Zebedee, approached him and said, Teacher, we want you to do whatever we ask you. What do you want me to do for you? He asked them. They answered him, Allow us to sit at your right and at your left in your glory. Jesus said to them, You don't know what you're asking. Are you able to drink the cup I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with? We are able, they told him. Jesus said to them, You will drink the cup I drink, and you will be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with. But to sit at my right or left is not mine to give. Instead it is for those whom it has been prepared. When the ten disciples heard this, they began to be indignant with James and John. Jesus called them over and said to them, You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them. and those in high positions act as tyrants over them. But it is not so among you. On the contrary, whoever wants to become great among you will be your servant, and whoever wants to be first among you will be a slave to all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many. They came to Jericho, and as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a large crowd, Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road. When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me. Many warned him to keep quiet, but he was crying out all the more, Have mercy on me, son of David! Jesus stopped and said, Call him. So they called the blind man and said to him, Have courage. Get up, he's calling for you. He threw off his coat, jumped up, and came to Jesus. Then Jesus answered him, What do you want me to do for you? Rabboni, the blind man said to him. I want to see. Jesus said to him, Go, your faith has saved you. Immediately he could see and began to follow Jesus on the road. Psalm 45 A Royal Wedding Song For the choir director, according to The Lilies, a mascal of the Sons of Korah, a love song. My heart is moved by a noble theme as I recite my verses to the king. My tongue is the pen of a skillful writer. You are the most handsome of men. Grace flows from your lips. Therefore, God has blessed you forever. Mighty warrior, strap your sword at your side. In your majesty and splendor in your splendor ride triumphantly in the cause of truth humility and justice May your right hand show your awe axe Your sharpened arrows pierce the hearts of the king's enemies. The peoples fall under you. Your throne, God, is forever and ever. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of justice. You love righteousness and hate wickedness. Therefore, God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of joy more than your companions. Myrrh, alas, and cassia perfume all your garments. From ivory palaces, harps bring you joy. King's daughters are among your honored women. The queen, adorned with gold from Ophir, stands at your right hand. Listen, daughter. Pay attention and consider. Forget your people and your father's house, and the king will desire your beauty. Bow down to him, for he is your lord. The daughters of Tyre, the wealthy people, will seek your favor with gifts. In her chamber, the royal daughter is all-glorious, her clothing embroidered with gold. In colorful garments she is led to the king. After her, the virgins, her companions, are brought to you. They are led in with gladness and rejoicing. They enter the king's palace. Your sons will succeed your ancestors. You will make them princes throughout the land. I will cause your name to be remembered for all generations. Therefore the peoples will praise you forever and ever. Proverbs 10.22 The Lord's blessing enriches, and He adds no painful effort to it. Okay, so in the Gospel of Mark, we're walking with Jesus on the journey toward Jerusalem, on the journey toward His death. And this is fresh, fresh in my mind, fresh in our minds, we walk this path actually in the places where these things happened just days ago. So the disciples, they're following along and Jesus is telling them the truth about what's going to happen, but they're expecting a different, like it's going to be different. They're expecting these big things to happen in the holy city. and Jesus is explaining that there are big things that are going to happen but they're going to be less about some kind of uprising and revolt against Rome and a revolt against the oppressive religious system they were living under and more about his own death. But they don't quite understand and we see this scene again. James and John pull them aside for a private word. They want a favor. they want Jesus to give them positions of glory by seating them on his right and his left hand, like his right hand and his left hand man, like in his kingdom, in his glory, which the other disciples, once they figure this out, find to be appropriately arrogant, right? Like, so they kind of come against them. Can you imagine, I mean, the audacity of that, but can you imagine Jesus is clearly saying what's going to happen? And the emotional weight of what is going to be before him has to slump his shoulders. It's like carrying the knowledge of what is about to happen has to be heavier than we can really imagine. And that's not even to mention the dread of physically torture. but the disciples are arguing about the greatest and the arrogance and pride and they're going after each other and Jesus carrying all of this weight steps into that argument and immediately changes the atmosphere completely by offering the posture of the kingdom of God and we should pay attention to this because we jockey for position spiritually and otherwise constantly and we go after the pride like we this is not an it's an unusual situation in the scriptures but it's not an unusual situation in life we see this constantly and so jesus speaks directly to this so he's speaking directly to our pride and arrogance as we do whatever it takes to be seen. Or he speaks to those of us who are like trying to pull that person down. You know that the rulers in this world lord it over their people, he says. You know that officials flaunt their authority over those who are under them. You know this. You see this every day. But among you, here, it's going to be different. if you want to be a leader then you have to be a servant and if you want to be first then you've got to humble yourself and serve everybody else because I did not come to be served I came to serve and to give my life as a ransom and that is so counter-cultural That idea goes so against the grain of our human nature and against the grain of our cultures that it can feel like counterintuitive because maybe the Bible says the meek will inherit the earth, but a lot of times it's the good guy that gets walked all over. So is it counterintuitive? Is Jesus wrong about this? or is it just our imprinting and indoctrination to live backward to the ways of the kingdom? Because if everybody were living the ways of the kingdom, then the world is flourishing. Everyone is flourishing. Let's just kind of, like we're in this new month and it's shiny and it's sparkly. So maybe, why don't we just take on board a test? Like, let's just put this whole theory to the test for the rest of this month. Intentionally, be a servant to your spouse. Intentionally, serve your colleagues. intentionally serve those in your faith community if you are able to lend a helping hand do and just like put it to the test what does that do i'm going to put this to the test too What does it do? What does it do inside of us? And what does it do, like what things adjust and begin to develop in our life and in our world around us and in the way that we look at things. If Jesus is right, then we find ourselves aware and intentional about what we are doing. And we will have then walked this path of the Savior, which is what we are invited into. So, like, just for this month, let's just put it to the test. Is it true that if you want to be first, you have to be humble and serve? is it true that being exalted is actually found through humility and gratefulness and to be the servant of all I mean even if we just start in our own houses in our own marriages, just for this month. I mean, imagine the possibilities. I mean, it's not going to get worse because of this. So let's put it to the test. and Holy Spirit, we invite you that we might remember what we're doing here, that we are intentionally taking this month to live intentionally this way as a servant in any way that we can, any way that makes sense, any way that's appropriate, especially among our marriages in our families and letting it spill out from there. How can we do that and just then measure the results? Lead us into all truth. Lead us deeper into Jesus. Help us to walk this narrow path that leads to life. We ask in his name. Amen. Hi, I'm Rebecca from South Carolina. I've been debating whether to call in for probably a couple hours now. So I really need the prayer, the prayers of the saints any dinner session. I don't know what's going on with me, but in my mind I have no peace. I'm very anxious and I'm probably depressed. I don't know how to self-diagnose. I believe I was saved at 18 years old, and I'm 43 now. I've been in church my whole life. I feel like I know the answers, but I'm just feeling such overwhelmed just every day. I'm overthinking and overthinking to the point that it's debilitating. I feel like this is a very selfish prayer. There's so many other needs out there, but I'm probably not alone in how I feel. So I just thought that I could reach out to you guys and that God would hear your prayers. And thank you guys. Hey, DAB family, this is God's Little Bird, and I'm calling in with a prayer request for myself, but I'm sure there's a lot of people who need this too. So I've actually been just spending way too much screen time on my phone, just watching dumb videos, stupid stuff that's not helpful, actually stuff that like is making me either angry or anxious. And I know it's not good. And yet I'm like still holding the phone in my hand and not putting it down. So it's a little bit of an addiction in a way. um so i'm i actually i'm doing a couple few different things to try to manage that um but i want to focus on this scripture philippians 4 8 finally brothers whatever's true whatever's noble whatever is right whatever is pure whatever is lovely whatever is admirable if anything is excellent or praiseworthy think about such things so last year i didn't do community prayer. But you know, like I'm trying to spend more time on good edifying things that the Lord would be happy with. So that's, that's why here I am on community prayer again this year. So I'm just going to pray for myself and for anyone else who has things they don't, they want to turn away from and focus on better things. So Lord, just help us to think of you and put you first and put you above things. And when we reach for something for comfort or rest or whatever it is, help us to reach for you instead. In the name of Jesus. Amen. This is Redeemed in Southern Illinois. I wanted to call in and pray for everyone that is going through transition with their kids, whatever that may be, for college, for struggles with school, to stay in school, moving out, whatever the changes are. Lord, be with the DAB families as change is going on and learning new roles and we just lift it all up to you. We love you, Jesus. Amen. This is Candice from Oregon. Ryan and Jill, I think my life should be called whatever this is because I don't know what it is, but I trust God to whom I have turned it over. Thank you for your Jordan, whatever this is, messages. It's been really, really good. I got to see some of it on Facebook. It's really been meaningful. Thank you. Please, everyone, pray for my friend. Her son, Steve, he's 50, but I've known him since he was a little boy. He's got a beautiful family. Their entire house burned down. They lost everything to really smoke damage. clothing, everything Lord restore their family Lord protect them from just the emotions of all this thank you that they were able to get out and no one got hurt and we pray for the peace that passes all understanding and that you will turn into great good anything the enemy has meant for evil that they'll come out even better than before as you use the suffering as a forge for their formation in you. In Jesus' name, thank you, Lord. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.