Day 71: The Source of the Law (2025)

The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Mike shares more details surrounding the Old Testament laws, including why God would give us these laws in the first place. Today's readings are Numbers 23, Deuteronomy 24-25, and Psalm 106.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast
0:07.4	where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture.
0:12.0	The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:15.1	Using the great adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,
0:19.7	discovering how the story of salvation
0:21.2	unfolds and how we fit into that story today. It is day 71. You have done such a good job
0:27.1	in keeping up with this. This might not be day 71 for you in the sense of it's not necessarily
0:32.0	the 71st day of 2021. Whenever you are listening to this, it is your day 71. And you are here. You showed up,
0:39.0	and that's phenomenal. We are reading today from Numbers chapter 23 and Deuteronomy chapter 24 and
0:44.1	25. So we're going 23, 24, 25. We're also praying from Psalm 106. As always, I am reading from
0:50.2	the revised standard version, second Catholic edition, using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension.
0:54.8	And you can also download for free your own Bible in a year reading plan
0:59.2	by visiting ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year.
1:02.3	If you have not yet subscribed to this podcast, go ahead and do that.
1:05.8	I'm not telling you what to do, just a suggestion.
1:08.0	That's all this is.
1:09.1	It's day 71.
1:10.4	And this is Numbers 23, Deuteronomy
1:12.3	24 and 25 in Psalm 106. The book of Numbers, Chapter 23, Balaam's first oracle. And the next day,
1:25.4	Balak took Balaam and brought him up to Bamath Baal, and from there he saw the nearest of the people.
1:31.8	And Balam said to Balak, build for me here seven altars, and provide for me here seven bowls and seven rams.
1:38.7	Balak did, as Balak had said, and Balak and Balak offered on each altar a bowl and a ram.
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