Day 18: The Heart of Israel (2025)

The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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🗓️ 18 January 2025

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Summary

Fr. Mike talks about how God accomplishes his will through us, in spite of our brokenness, and how he is always faithful to his promises. Today's readings are Genesis 35-36, Job 25-26, and Proverbs 3:19-24.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast where we
0:07.9	encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a year podcast
0:12.3	is brought to you by Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way
0:17.4	from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds
0:21.6	and how we fit into that story today. This is day 18, and let's get started. Let's keep on going
0:26.6	through Genesis Job and Proverbs. Today we'll be reading from Genesis chapter 35 and 36, Job
0:32.0	chapter 25 and 26 in Proverbs chapter 3 versus 19 through 24. As always, I am reading from the revised standard version of Catholic edition,
0:41.6	and I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension.
0:43.9	If you want to get your own Bible in a year reading plan,
0:46.9	just go to ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year.
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1:14.6	And you'll get updates and you'll get whatever kind of information you might need to follow along. Today, we are going,
1:22.2	as I said, Genesis chapter 35 and 36. We're continuing on with the story of Jacob, now Israel,
1:28.4	and his family. And gosh, yeah, how the family's going to unfold. They're going to continue to grow.
1:33.2	He's got a number of sons and they are getting older and things are getting complicated.
1:38.8	Things are always complicated. Man, we yesterday, what did his sons do? His sons took vengeance upon the family of Shechem, Hamor, that whole, that whole entire family after they had agreed to make a
1:46.3	covenant with them because Shechem had raped their sister. And so the family continues to grow.
1:53.5	This is Genesis chapter 35 and 36. God said to Jacob, arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there, and make there an altar to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.
2:07.6	So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, put away the foreign gods that are among you and purify yourselves and change your garments, then let us arise and go up to Bethel, that I may make there an altar to the God who answered me in the day of my distress, and has been with me wherever I have gone.
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