Digging Deeper Daily: By Daily Bible Reading PodcastSample

Be curious! When you find something in the Bible that brings up a question, there usually are good answers. You can find a selection of ‘shovels’ for digging deeper in the READ-THIS-FIRST pages that are linked in the header of dailybiblereading.info.

GENESIS 9-10:
In chapter 8 the flood receded. After everyone came out of the boat, Noah made a sacrifice.

JOB 5:
In chapter 4 Eliphaz implied that Job’s guilt was the reason he was being punished:

“Stop and think! Do the innocent die?
When have the upright been destroyed?
8 My experience shows that those who plant trouble
and cultivate evil will harvest the same. (NLT)

MARK 4a:
In chapter 3 we have seen that opposition to Jesus was mounting from the Jewish religious leaders. They were already plotting to kill him and saying he performed miracles by the power of Satan.

I want to comment briefly about the sin of blaspheming or reviling the Holy Spirit that we heard about at the end of chapter 3. Some people worry about whether they have done this and committed the unforgivable sin. Note the context here. The experts in the law were saying the Jesus was working by the power of Satan. But Jesus was working by the power of the Holy Spirit. A person in a frame of mind like those Law experts will never repent. So Jesus was warning the Pharisees, because they were mighty close to blaspheming the Holy Spirit by what they were saying about Jesus. I want you to know this: If you worry about whether in some past time you have blasphemed the Holy Spirit, then you haven’t! If you are the kind of person who feels sorrow for sins already committed and are ready to repent of sin, then you have never blasphemed the Holy Spirit, nor are you likely to ever do so.