Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast,

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Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,

discovering how the story of salvation unfold, and I weave it into that story today.

Congratulations, you guys, you made it today, 224, and the beginning of the book of salvation unfold and I weave it into that story today. Congratulations.

You guys who made it today, 224 and the beginning of the book of the prophet Jeremiah,

where we're reading today from Jeremiah chapter 1 and Ezekiel chapter 27,

so only two chapters or one chapter apiece from both our prophets, Jeremiah and Ezekiel,

as well as reading from Proverbs chapter 14 verses 5 through 8.

As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the revised standard version, second Catholic edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year. You can also subscribe in your podcast app to this podcast and receive daily episodes. I don't know if you knew that. Not many people say that and I rarely have ever mentioned it. So if that's something that you are interested in, please feel free to follow that interest and unravel that piece of thread and keep pulling on it until you subscribe. As I said, it is day 224. We're reading from the beginning of the book of the prophet Jeremiah. We're going to hear today of the call of Jeremiah to be a prophet and his commission is being sent by the Lord to be a prophet. We're also going to hear Jeremiah, you know, kind of push back a little bit on this call. And as well as we're going to go into the book of the prophet Ezekiel. Yesterday I mentioned that Ezekiel had prayed that, you know, I didn't get the right line, but it was basically the idea that we want to love what God loves. We want to, we want to hate what God hates. And I mentioned a song, I just want to say it right off the bat. The line was, I was like, how did I not get this? It's a line that says, break my heart for what what breaks yours and ezekiel is going to be praying

that but he today is going to be lamenting over a foreign nation he's going to be lamenting over

the nation of tyre the city of tyre really and we get to be part of that as well as proverbs 14

versus 5 through 8 so once again we're reading the state 224 to 24 gosh easy for me to say we're reading j this date 224, two hundred and twenty four, gosh, easy for me to say.

We're reading Jeremiah 1, Ezekiel 27, Proverbs 14, verses 5 through 8.

The book of Jeremiah, chapter 1, introduction.

The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkaya, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of

Benjamin, to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the 13th year of his reign. It came also in the days of Jojahicim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, and until the end of the 11th year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month.

Jeremiah's call and commission. Now, the word of the Lord came to me saying,

Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. And before you were born, I consecrated you. I appointed

you a prophet to the nations. Can I said, Ah, Lord God, behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth. But the Lord said to me, do not say I am only a youth, for to all to whom I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Be not afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you,

says the Lord. Then the Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me,

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