Weakness as Power | The Writings | 2 Chronicles 26-27

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🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Where does your strength come from? Where do you look for power? In today's episode, Jeff discusses 2 Chronicles 26-27 and encourages you to find strength through God's power alone. Read the Bible with us in 2024! This year, we’re tackling a group of Old Testament books traditionally known as “The Writings”— Psalms, Chronicles, Proverbs, Daniel, Ruth and more! Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter@TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: 2 Chronicles 26-27

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.
0:05.0	Where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:09.0	In the time it takes to get to work.
0:11.0	I'm Jeff Parrot. Sometimes the most striking observations come from
0:16.7	unexpected places. One of my favorite reflections on how we as people live comes from the fictional character Linus from the Peanuts comic strip.
0:27.0	Linus has this hilarious yet piercing line.
0:30.0	He says this,
0:31.0	I'm never quite so stupid as when I'm being smart.
0:35.1	It's so funny and smart and yet it's tragic because of how accurately it names the nature of the human condition.
0:44.3	When we think we're being smart,
0:45.7	we're often being magnificently stupid.
0:49.2	When we think we're strong, we're actually weak.
0:52.2	We have a tendency to deceive ourselves with our conceit.
0:55.0	That word conceit is really interesting.
0:59.1	It comes from a combination of two other words, conceive and deceit. So we consider ourselves wrongly. We trick ourselves.
1:09.9	We're never quite so stupid as when we think we're being smart. We live out of touch with reality.
1:15.4	We're not seeing the real world and that hinders our ability to live in the real world.
1:21.5	And conceit, it's corrosive. It destroys our connection to God and others and even ourselves.
1:30.0	The destructive power of conceit shows up in many places throughout the Bible and Second Chronicles 26 through 27 is one of them.
1:38.0	As we explore this narrative, we'll clarify how conceit ruins our lives and consider how to combat that so that we can grow
1:46.4	in faithfulness during a time of exile.
1:49.7	Before we dig in, let's ask for God's grace to move through our time in the Bible.
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