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🗓️ 10 June 2025

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Are you consistently getting in God's Word? Is there a problem with Bible apps? What's one step you can take toward experiencing God? In today's episode, Tanya shares how 2 Samuel 6:1-11 encourages us to ground our lives in Scripture. If you're listening on Spotify, tell us about yourself and where you're listening from! Read the Bible with us in 2025! This year, we’re exploring the Historical Books—Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, and 1 & 2 Kings. 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 Samuel 6:1-11

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.9	I'm Tanya Wilmuth. A couple of years ago, our neighbors were doing a controlled burn, and it started off just like they planned.
0:18.2	It was small, manageable, seemingly under control. But pretty soon,
0:22.5	things shifted. I think the wind picked up and before long the fire had gotten out of control.
0:28.3	And what started as a routine burn turned into a pretty near disaster when it started encouraging
0:33.7	on our neighbor's property. So then five or six trucks, fire trucks were on the scene.
0:39.1	I think it was pretty embarrassing to have all these people out fighting this fire, but they were
0:43.6	trying to contain the flames before they spread into the neighbor's pasture. So it's not that fire is
0:49.2	bad, but fire is powerful. Fire demands our attention.
0:55.4	It demands our respect.
0:58.9	When it's handled with care, it can be useful, even good.
1:06.8	But when we get casual with it or when things that we can't control come into the picture like wind,
1:09.2	it can turn destructive really fast.
1:12.8	That's a picture of what's happening in 2nd Samuel 6.
1:16.2	Before there was a temple, there was an ark.
1:17.7	The ark.
1:21.2	A physical symbol of God's presence among his people.
1:24.5	And for a while, the ark had been out of sight.
1:28.9	It was tucked away on the outskirts after a pretty messy history with the Philistines.
1:36.5	See, the Philistines had captured in battle. They quickly realized it brought more harm than good, and they returned it in fear.
1:42.5	And it's not because God causes more harm than good. It's because they didn't understand God's holiness.
1:46.1	They treated the ark like a spiritual object.
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