You Need a Team | The Writings | 1 Chronicles 12

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🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Do you think you can live the Christian life on your own? Spoiler alert: you can't. We all need help. In today's episode, Keith looks to 1 Chronicles 12 to discuss how God uses the people around you to accomplish his plan. 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: 1 Chronicles 12

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.
0:11.0	I'm Keith Simon.
0:17.0	Maybe you've seen some of the YouTube videos of runners helping their competitors across the finish line when they couldn't make it there on their own.
0:20.8	I think those videos and those stories behind them are really remarkable and I usually don't
0:26.0	get sucked into videos like that but once I start watching these I have a hard time stopping.
0:31.8	It almost always happens in a long distance race where toward the finish line,
0:35.5	maybe say the last hundred yards or so, one runner falls from exhaustion. The runner is so close to the end,
0:41.8	but he just can't finish.
0:44.0	I've seen it in high school and college and some of the well-known marathons as well.
0:48.0	At their lowest point, when they can't make it on their own, one or more of their competitors stops to help them up and assist them to the end.
0:55.0	Sometimes they even have to carry them to the end.
0:58.0	Even the best runners need help.
1:00.0	Maybe you just recently watched the Super Bowl, I don't know if you're a fan of the Chiefs or the 49ers or maybe neither team.
1:07.0	But you might know that at the end of the game, Patrick Mahomes, the quarterback for the Chiefs was named the most valuable player, the MVP. the And that is I couldn't have done this without my teammates.
1:23.1	They give credit to their teammates because they know in Mahome's case that football is a team sport.
1:28.8	No one wins on their own.
1:31.1	Well the Christian life is a team sport. No one makes it to the finish line on their own.
1:36.6	We all need help.
1:38.6	Every Christian is in a situation now or they will be soon where they need help. We've needed someone to
1:45.8	pick us up and get us going again. Well help is one of the main themes in
1:51.4	First Chronicles 12. The author of the book themes in First Chronicles 12.
1:53.0	The author of the book is telling the story of Saul and David's kingship in Israel.
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