Three Kings | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | October 27, 2023
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🗓️ 27 October 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. I'm Mike Whitmer, and I call today's |
| 0:11.6 | reading Three Kings. In the hit musical Hamilton, England's King George III is humorously portrayed |
| 0:19.6 | as a cartoonish, deranged villain. However, a new biography on King George III is humorously portrayed as a cartoonish deranged villain. However, a new biography |
| 0:24.5 | on King George, see he was not the tyrant described in Hamilton or America's Declaration |
| 0:29.7 | of Independence. If George had been the brutal despot that Americans said he was, he would |
| 0:35.4 | have stopped their drive for independence with extreme |
| 0:37.7 | scorched earth measures, but he was restrained by his civilized, good-natured temperament. |
| 0:44.6 | Who knows if King George died with regret? Would his reign have been more successful if he'd |
| 0:50.5 | been harsher with his subjects? Not necessarily. In Second Chronicles we read of King Jehoram, |
| 0:57.5 | who solidified his throne by putting all his brothers to the sword along with some of the |
| 1:02.8 | officials of Israel. Jehoram did evil in the eyes of the Lord. His ruthless reign alienated his |
| 1:09.8 | people, who neither wept for his gruesome death, nor made |
| 1:13.6 | a funeral fire in his honor. Historians may debate whether George was too soft or Jehoram was |
| 1:20.7 | surely too harsh. A better way is that of King Jesus, who is full of grace and truth. Christ's expectations are |
| 1:30.5 | firm. He demands truth. Yet he embraces those who fail. He extends grace. Jesus calls us who |
| 1:38.7 | believe in him to follow his lead. Then, through the leading of His Holy Spirit, he empowers us to do so. |
| 1:52.1 | Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from 2 Chronicles chapter 21, |
| 1:57.9 | verses 4 through 7, and 16 through 20. When Jehoram established himself firmly over his father's |
| 2:05.3 | kingdom, he put all his brothers to the sword, along with some of the officials of Israel. |
| 2:11.3 | Jehoram was 32 years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He followed the ways of the kings of |
| 2:19.6 | Israel, as a house of Ahab had done, for he married a daughter of Ahab. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord. |
| 2:27.8 | Nevertheless, because of the covenant the Lord had made with David, the Lord was not willing to destroy |
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