What's In Your Heart? | The Writings | 2 Chronicles 2-4

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🗓️ 14 March 2024

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Are you putting on a front for other people? Are you half-hearted when it comes to your faith in Jesus? Your faith isn't something to be careless about. In today's episode, Patrick uses 2 Chronicles 2-4 to warn against half-hearted devotion to God. Sign up here to receive the "Our Good King" Holy Week Devotional beginning on Palm Sunday, March 23rd, 2024. 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 2-4

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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.
0:10.0	I'm Patrick Miller.
0:19.2	When I was a kid, several movies came out around the same time exploring how humans love to mask over pain with the happiest of times. The most famous movie was called The Truman Show, some of you may remember it.
0:26.4	It starred Jim Carrey and it follows the almost picture perfect life of one man who is living in a picture perfect community
0:35.2	perfect houses manicured beaches perfect people who are nicer than Minnesotans the best
0:41.5	part is that he's lived his whole life there. He knows everyone and always
0:46.3	feels happy. But there's a dark secret. The entire town is fake. All the people in it are actors. Cameras are secretly situated throughout the entire city
0:56.7	to capture everything that happens. Only Jim Carrey's character is real. He has no idea that everybody around him,
1:04.4	from his parents to his friends are actors
1:07.6	and that he's the subject of a reality TV show.
1:10.8	Sometimes there's a darkness in the best of times. Sometimes a house looks perfect, but in truth
1:16.9	there's a rock growing in the walls. How's your life going? Do you put on a good face
1:21.3	for the people around you?
1:23.0	What's actually happening in your heart?
1:25.0	Do you find you actually desire the best things?
1:28.0	Want God, want to walk in his ways?
1:31.0	Or, in your heart, are you distracted from God, half-hearted in your devotion?
1:36.6	In First Chronicles 2 to 4, we read a story that sounds incredibly happy on the surface.
1:42.3	Solomon is finally building a temple for God,
1:45.0	and these are the best of times.
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