100:00:00,840 –> 00:00:02,920Hell200:00:02,920 –> 00:00:09,520Hell is a place of torment and the irony of discontent is that the discontented300:00:09,520 –> 00:00:17,559person becomes his or her own tormentor. When discontent gets a grip in your life400:00:17,559 –> 00:00:24,000it really does bring a taste of hell, right here, right now to you.500:00:24,000 –> 00:00:28,920Welcome to Open the Bible with Pastor Colin Smith and David Pick. And Colin600:00:29,320 –> 00:00:32,259That’s something I think most Christians understand, that hell is a place of700:00:32,259 –> 00:00:36,279torment. But I don’t think many of us have thought about discontent has hap—800:00:36,279 –> 00:00:40,919being anywhere near that. It’s a very strong statement you’ve made. Well for900:00:40,919 –> 00:00:45,200sure that’s got to be part of the experience there, and of course the1000:00:45,200 –> 00:00:47,680reason that we’re looking at that is that we want to go in the opposite1100:00:47,680 –> 00:00:52,799direction. What we want to go after is contentment. This great grace that the1200:00:52,799 –> 00:00:57,720Bible commends to us. And where we’re starting is at the beginning of this1300:00:57,740 –> 00:01:02,119journey in which we’re trying to get from anger to peace from frustration to1400:01:02,119 –> 00:01:07,500satisfaction, and from anxiety to trust. That’s the heart of what contentment is.1500:01:07,500 –> 00:01:14,660And we’re beginning by naming discontent for what it is. It is a hellish sin. Got to1600:01:14,660 –> 00:01:18,860deal with that wherever it rears its ugly head in my life, in order to get on1700:01:18,860 –> 00:01:22,860the path to contentment. So that’s what we’re doing in today’s broadcast, so join1800:01:22,940 –> 00:01:27,639us if you can, in Exodus 17 as we continue the message, The Hellish Sin of1900:01:27,639 –> 00:01:32,459Discontent. Here’s Colin. In the Old Testament as you know well, we have the2000:01:32,459 –> 00:01:38,900story of Job, a good and a godly man, a man wonderfully blessed by God. His2100:01:38,900 –> 00:01:43,379family was blessed, his business was blessed. Job was living the dream as we2200:01:43,379 –> 00:01:49,300would say until one day, through a series of disasters, this good and godly man2300:01:49,559 –> 00:01:54,919lost everything. And Job said, you remember these famous words, the Lord2400:01:54,919 –> 00:02:03,040gave, the Lord has taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. Now, that’s what a2500:02:03,040 –> 00:02:09,800godly person says. An ungodly person, a discontented person, says something2600:02:09,800 –> 00:02:13,899different. You see the discontented person says, the Lord gave ,and he should2700:02:14,100 –> 00:02:22,179have given more. The Lord has taken away, and he should not have done that, which2800:02:22,179 –> 00:02:27,440is why Jude speaks about the harsh things that ungodly sinners speak2900:02:27,440 –> 00:02:34,399against God. Discontent is a hellish sin, because at its heart it is3000:02:34,399 –> 00:02:38,899a rebellion against God. Any person who believes in a sovereign God, and then is3100:02:38,899 –> 00:02:44,660discontent is guilty of rebellion because God is sovereign, over all of my3200:02:44,660 –> 00:02:53,300life. Paul pictures it this way, in the book of Romans, he said, imagine a piece3300:02:53,300 –> 00:03:04,740of clay, saying to the potter whose hands mold it, why are you making me like this,3400:03:05,059 –> 00:03:11,100why have you made me like this, have you ever said that to God? God, you should3500:03:11,100 –> 00:03:14,380have done something different and remember how the Apostle Paul answers3600:03:14,380 –> 00:03:22,259that, he says who are you, O man, to talk back to God. He’s God. But you see, all3700:03:22,259 –> 00:03:28,559discontent at its heart is an expression of horrible rebellion against God, it’s a3800:03:28,559 –> 00:03:32,919manifestation of pride, it is an expression of rebellion, it is thirdly a3900:03:33,500 –> 00:03:39,699fruit of unbelief and this is why we read from Exodus in chapter 17 this4000:03:39,699 –> 00:03:46,539morning. It tells the story of how God’s people had been greatly blessed. They4100:03:46,539 –> 00:03:50,679had been brought out of slavery in Egypt. They had crossed the Red Sea without4200:03:50,679 –> 00:03:54,940getting their feet wet. God had given them manna to feed them4300:03:54,940 –> 00:04:01,179in the wilderness and here’s something fascinating. Why is it that those who are4400:04:01,179 –> 00:04:11,740most evidently blessed are often most discontent. Nimay, this was an4500:04:11,740 –> 00:04:17,359overwhelming impression made upon me the very first time I came to India. Meeting4600:04:17,359 –> 00:04:22,220brothers and sisters who have so much less than I have in my life, so much less4700:04:22,220 –> 00:04:30,619than the vast majority of us have. And seeing that the was a far greater general4800:04:30,660 –> 00:04:34,440level of contentment among Christian believers than typically is experienced4900:04:34,440 –> 00:04:43,660here. Why is that? That so often those who are blessed the most are content the5000:04:43,660 –> 00:04:49,079least. Why would that be? And the answer of course is that contentment has5100:04:49,079 –> 00:04:54,579nothing whatsoever to do with what you have or what you do not have in life.5200:04:54,679 –> 00:05:02,440Contentment is a condition of heart. That is why adding to what you have cannot5300:05:02,440 –> 00:05:06,940bring contentment. It just doesn’t work. It doesn’t happen. The world always says5400:05:06,940 –> 00:05:10,500to us, if you can bring what you have up to what you want, then you will be5500:05:10,500 –> 00:05:16,279content. It never happens what you want, just moves. Contentment is a condition of5600:05:16,279 –> 00:05:23,820heart. Now, at one point God’s people who had been so greatly blessed, they come to5700:05:23,820 –> 00:05:28,799a place where they had no water. Now that is a legitimate concern. And there5800:05:28,799 –> 00:05:34,380obviously are times in life where we may have a legitimate concern as to how God5900:05:34,380 –> 00:05:40,079will supply what we need. But what happened was that their legitimate6000:05:40,079 –> 00:05:50,440concern metastasized into unbelief. Version XVII of Exodus 17. They tested the6100:05:50,440 –> 00:06:00,660Lord by saying is the Lord among us or not. Now here are redeemed people, God’s6200:06:00,660 –> 00:06:06,220people brought through the Red Sea, and within a very short space of time they6300:06:06,220 –> 00:06:12,459have lost confidence that God is with them. If you no longer believe that God6400:06:12,459 –> 00:06:17,500is with you, you will no longer be confident that he will supply what you6500:06:17,880 –> 00:06:22,760and it will not be longer before the grumbling, the complaining begins and6600:06:22,760 –> 00:06:26,980you will find yourself sliding into the hellish sin of discontent. Because it is6700:06:26,980 –> 00:06:32,739the fruit of unbelief! It arises from a loss of confidence that God is actually6800:06:32,739 –> 00:06:37,540with you that he cares for you, and that he will as we’re gonna see later in the6900:06:37,540 –> 00:06:44,720series, wonderfully supply all that you need. So discontent, it really is a7000:06:44,720 –> 00:06:50,899hellish sin. Why? Because it leads to hell! It’s the defining characteristic of the7100:06:50,899 –> 00:06:58,299ungodly, always discontent. It comes from hell. It is a manifestation of horrible7200:06:58,299 –> 00:07:05,480pride, rebellion against God and of unbelief, lack of trust in Him. And then7300:07:05,480 –> 00:07:11,480thirdly discontent can rightfully be described as a hellish sin because it7400:07:12,320 –> 00:07:20,880brings a taste of hell into your own experience right now. Hell is a place of7500:07:20,880 –> 00:07:27,619torment and the irony of discontent is that the discontented person becomes his7600:07:27,619 –> 00:07:36,500or her own tormentor. When discontent gets a grip in your life it really does7700:07:36,540 –> 00:07:44,720bring a taste of hell right here right now to you, and for that reason it is a7800:07:44,720 –> 00:07:50,700very, very costly thing. Jeremiah Burroughs, one of the things that he says7900:07:50,700 –> 00:07:58,579about the cost of discontent and it was very striking to me. He says by murmuring8000:07:58,579 –> 00:08:10,500and discontent in your hearts you come to lose a great deal of time, a great8100:08:10,500 –> 00:08:20,600deal of time, and that has been very striking to me. How much time is wasted8200:08:20,899 –> 00:08:31,119over brooding over what might have been, if I had done this? If I had pursued that?8300:08:31,119 –> 00:08:38,960If I had taken this other fork in the road? If only I had not made that foolish8400:08:38,960 –> 00:08:46,419mistake. And then your time and your energy can be increasingly sucked into a8500:08:46,760 –> 00:08:55,159different life. What might have been? Friends, do not waste the time that you8600:08:55,159 –> 00:09:00,700have by dreaming of a life that you have not been given. It is a waste. God is8700:09:00,700 –> 00:09:04,700calling you to live the life you have been given, the life that you have, the8800:09:04,700 –> 00:09:09,099life that you have now the situation that you’re in now and to do it for his8900:09:09,219 –> 00:09:17,940glory. Secondly, it brings this awful cost, this hellish sin of discontent. Not9000:09:17,940 –> 00:09:23,880only…you just waste time, you waste your life with it, but it costs you your9100:09:23,880 –> 00:09:29,940discernment, you lose discernment. Now this is especially clear in the story9200:09:29,940 –> 00:09:34,859recorded in Numbers in chapter 16 where we read about God’s people grumbling in9300:09:34,859 –> 00:09:39,020the desert and they begin complaining. It’s one of these scenes that occurs in9400:09:39,020 –> 00:09:44,659the Old Testament story and what is so fascinating, and I want you to see this,9500:09:44,659 –> 00:09:54,659is that as they complain, they lose touch with reality. Now just remember this, if9600:09:54,659 –> 00:10:03,020you are in the company of someone who often complains, say this to yourself,9700:10:03,039 –> 00:10:11,179this person often complains, I must therefore remember not to trust his or9800:10:11,179 –> 00:10:19,179her discernment. Because complaining directly costs discernment when it9900:10:19,179 –> 00:10:24,280becomes habitual, and I’ll show you that here in Numbers chapter 16 in verse 3.10000:10:24,280 –> 00:10:28,119It’s so clear. Here are God’s people and again they’re10100:10:28,539 –> 00:10:33,099to Moses, Numbers chapter 16, and they say this. How is this for losing touch10200:10:33,099 –> 00:10:41,719with reality? You have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey.10300:10:41,719 –> 00:10:45,559Not you’re taking us to a land of milk and honey, you brought us…10400:10:45,559 –> 00:10:49,020Egypt is now apparently a land that was flowing with milk and honey.10500:10:49,020 –> 00:10:51,359They’ve forgotten all about the bricks being made without straw and10600:10:51,359 –> 00:10:55,200apparently their memory has got so clouded, they’re so distorted by10700:10:55,359 –> 00:10:59,900their own complaining, that their memory of Egypt is transformed from10800:10:59,900 –> 00:11:02,880the reality of what it actually was. And then they say something else.10900:11:02,880 –> 00:11:06,580You’ve brought us out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in11000:11:06,580 –> 00:11:13,500the wilderness, that you must also make yourself a prince to be over us.11100:11:13,500 –> 00:11:16,380So you see what they’re saying to Moses. You’re just wanting to make11200:11:16,380 –> 00:11:22,059yourself a prince. Wait a minute, where was Moses brought up?11300:11:22,119 –> 00:11:26,039He was brought up in a palace. And what did he do for the sake of the11400:11:26,039 –> 00:11:30,179people of God? He gave up being a prince. He gave up the palace in order11500:11:30,179 –> 00:11:33,340to take his stand with a very persecuted people of God.11600:11:33,340 –> 00:11:37,099But you see, these folks have got into the habit of complaining to such a degree11700:11:37,099 –> 00:11:42,979that they have lost their own discernment. That’s what it does to you.11800:11:42,979 –> 00:11:48,539You become a malcontent, you can no longer tell truth from lies.11900:11:48,580 –> 00:11:52,619You can no longer discern good from bad, better from worse.12000:11:52,619 –> 00:11:55,979It costs you. Here’s what discontent does.12100:11:55,979 –> 00:12:01,859Discontent leads you to an exaggeration of the blessings of yesterday and to losing12200:12:01,859 –> 00:12:05,299sight of the blessings and the opportunities of today.12300:12:05,299 –> 00:12:10,219That’s what discontent does. And it’s a hellish sin.12400:12:10,219 –> 00:12:13,479You’re listening to Open the Bible with Pastor Colin Smith and a message12500:12:13,479 –> 00:12:17,419called The Hellish Sin of Discontent.12600:12:17,419 –> 00:12:22,619It’s based on Exodus 17 and is part of our series The Art of Contentment.12700:12:22,619 –> 00:12:26,239And if you ever miss one of the series – don’t forget you can always catch up or go back12800:12:26,239 –> 00:12:31,479and listen again online at our website openthebible.org.uk12900:12:31,479 –> 00:12:35,520Or find us as a podcast, and those are on all the main podcast sites.13000:12:35,520 –> 00:12:40,900Search for Open the Bible UK and subscribe if you want to receive regular reminders.13100:13:11,500 –> 00:13:18,119There are many examples of this in the Bible, but the one that is most striking to me – and13200:13:18,119 –> 00:13:23,659it’s a very tender story, and I have thought long about this one – it’s the story of13300:13:23,659 –> 00:13:28,119Rachel, who was married to Jacob.13400:13:28,119 –> 00:13:33,960She saw her sister Leah – you remember this story – having children, and as the years13500:13:33,960 –> 00:13:36,919passed – it got to her.13600:13:37,200 –> 00:13:39,640Rachel wanted children, and she had none.13700:13:39,659 –> 00:13:45,960Now, what a tender and what a sensitive issue.13800:13:45,960 –> 00:13:49,840And you may would like to identify that issue, or you may like to broaden it out to some13900:13:49,840 –> 00:13:52,640other issue, but you find yourself saying,14000:13:52,640 –> 00:14:03,200Here is something that I really want in my life, and God has not given it to me.14100:14:03,200 –> 00:14:07,979And for some, that may be the gift of children, or the gift of grandchildren, or of marriage,14200:14:07,979 –> 00:14:13,559or of some particular ministry, or of some particular position, or a dream of something14300:14:13,559 –> 00:14:18,580that you looked for and it has not come to pass.14400:14:18,580 –> 00:14:20,739Well, Rachel was in that position.14500:14:20,739 –> 00:14:22,940She was not happy.14600:14:22,940 –> 00:14:28,739She was not content with what God had given to her in her life.14700:14:28,739 –> 00:14:30,179And your heart goes out to her.14800:14:30,179 –> 00:14:33,880You sympathize with her.14900:14:33,880 –> 00:14:43,400But Scripture records that when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied15000:14:43,400 –> 00:14:55,760her sister and she said to Jacob, give me children or I die.15100:14:55,760 –> 00:14:58,179Extraordinary words.15200:14:58,179 –> 00:15:04,539Give me children or I die.15300:15:04,539 –> 00:15:11,859If I don’t have this, my life isn’t worth living.15400:15:11,859 –> 00:15:14,780I have to have it.15500:15:14,780 –> 00:15:19,219I have to have it.15600:15:19,219 –> 00:15:25,559And, that discontent costs Rachel her life.15700:15:25,640 –> 00:15:30,320Because, she had a child and she died in childbirth.15800:15:30,320 –> 00:15:35,260Now, let me be clear, Rachel is a dearly loved child of God.15900:15:35,260 –> 00:15:38,440All who are in Christ will see her in Heaven.16000:15:38,500 –> 00:15:45,200God is the Great Redeemer, and the first child born to Rachel, of course, was Joseph,16100:15:45,200 –> 00:15:50,000and the child born that cost her her life was Benjamine.16200:15:50,119 –> 00:15:54,539And we know from that story how God’s great, great purpose of grace was wonderfully16300:15:54,539 –> 00:15:55,840advanced through them.16400:15:55,840 –> 00:16:04,400But we must not miss from this story that it is possible to want something,16500:16:04,960 –> 00:16:10,440that God has not given so much, that you bring sorrow into your life16600:16:10,440 –> 00:16:14,200that you would not have had otherwise.16700:16:14,200 –> 00:16:19,340What if getting what you want should prove to be the heaviest burden16800:16:19,460 –> 00:16:23,179and the greatest cross of your life?16900:16:23,179 –> 00:16:29,400The scripture says God withholds no good thing from those who walk uprightly.17000:16:29,400 –> 00:16:35,419In other words, everything that will wonderfully nourish and advance His purpose in your life,17100:16:35,419 –> 00:16:39,219the good and the bad, the sovereign hand brings.17200:16:39,219 –> 00:16:40,940He will withhold no good thing.17300:16:40,940 –> 00:16:48,679What if God’s withholding is actually part of His kindness towards you?17400:16:50,119 –> 00:16:56,700It is possible, friends, to want something that God has not given too much.17500:16:56,700 –> 00:17:00,859And there is all the difference in the world between humbly coming before God17600:17:00,859 –> 00:17:05,359and saying from the heart, Lord, give me children,17700:17:05,359 –> 00:17:08,079but whatever happens, I will love you,17800:17:08,079 –> 00:17:11,020and I will live for your glory.17900:17:11,020 –> 00:17:16,339There’s a big difference between that and the spirit of Rachel that says,18000:17:16,339 –> 00:17:23,140Give me children or my life isn’t worth living, give me children or I die.18100:17:23,140 –> 00:17:28,300That’s idolatry, isn’t it? That’s idolatry.18200:17:28,300 –> 00:17:32,380So remember the principle of the manna.18300:17:32,380 –> 00:17:39,699When you gather what God gives, it is a blessing to you,18400:17:39,699 –> 00:17:43,180but when you try to grasp more,18500:17:43,339 –> 00:17:45,660it goes bad on you.18600:17:45,660 –> 00:17:48,780That’s the principle of the manna.18700:17:48,780 –> 00:17:51,260And discontent is a hellish sin,18800:17:51,260 –> 00:17:54,020first because it leads to hell like we learn from Jude,18900:17:54,020 –> 00:17:56,219second because it comes from hell,19000:17:56,219 –> 00:17:59,619it is characterized by the things that are at the very heart of hell,19100:17:59,619 –> 00:18:02,339pride and rebellion, and unbelief itself.19200:18:02,339 –> 00:18:06,260And discontent is a hellish sin because it brings into your life right now,19300:18:06,260 –> 00:18:07,579if you allow it to take root,19400:18:07,579 –> 00:18:14,140a taste of hell in which you become your own tormentor.19500:18:14,140 –> 00:18:18,619So I hope that all of us are now ready to deal with discontent.19600:18:19,140 –> 00:18:21,579I hope that every person in this first service today19700:18:21,579 –> 00:18:23,219is at the place of saying,19800:18:23,219 –> 00:18:25,500I didn’t think too much about this before,19900:18:25,500 –> 00:18:29,380but now I see that I need to deal with this hellish sin20000:18:29,380 –> 00:18:32,619wherever it rears it’s ugly head in my life.20100:18:32,619 –> 00:18:34,219I need to get beyond thinking20200:18:34,579 –> 00:18:36,660that moaning and complaining does not matter.20300:18:36,660 –> 00:18:41,380I need to get serious about moving from anger to peace20400:18:41,380 –> 00:18:43,819and from frustration to satisfaction20500:18:45,020 –> 00:18:47,540and from anxiety to trust.20600:18:49,180 –> 00:18:53,579Friend, thank God today,20700:18:53,579 –> 00:18:56,540don’t you thank God with me today20800:18:56,540 –> 00:19:01,420that there is a saviour for this hellish sin.20900:19:02,339 –> 00:19:05,339A saviour to whom we can come21000:19:05,339 –> 00:19:07,699with all of our discontent today.21100:19:08,900 –> 00:19:13,760A saviour we can ask to forgive this hellish sin21200:19:13,760 –> 00:19:17,099whatever we see it in our own lives.21300:19:17,099 –> 00:19:19,660A saviour, we can ask to cleanse us,21400:19:19,660 –> 00:19:22,900to wash this out of the very fabric of my life,21500:19:22,900 –> 00:19:25,619oh God do that in our hearts today.21600:19:26,939 –> 00:19:28,660A saviour, to whom we can come and say,21700:19:28,660 –> 00:19:30,819you came to deliver me from every sin21800:19:30,880 –> 00:19:33,180that leads to hell, I want you to deliver me from this,21900:19:33,180 –> 00:19:37,660I want you to bring me into a place of growing contentment22000:19:37,660 –> 00:19:40,859and do it, oh Lord, in increasing measure even this month.22100:19:42,500 –> 00:19:46,800And as you set, as it were, your sail for this journey,22200:19:46,800 –> 00:19:48,119from anger to peace,22300:19:48,119 –> 00:19:50,060from frustration to satisfaction,22400:19:50,060 –> 00:19:53,000from anxiety to trust,22500:19:53,000 –> 00:19:55,579you will find the peace in life comes22600:19:55,579 –> 00:19:58,119from knowing that everything that concerns you22700:19:58,119 –> 00:20:00,619really is in the hands of a saviour who loves you.22800:20:01,760 –> 00:20:03,619But satisfaction lies in knowing22900:20:03,619 –> 00:20:07,380that in Jesus Christ you really do have all that you need.23000:20:08,520 –> 00:20:10,760And trust begins when you know and see again23100:20:10,760 –> 00:20:13,660that he really is faithful and those who look to him23200:20:13,660 –> 00:20:17,359are never, never, never put to shame.23300:20:18,439 –> 00:20:20,939I end with a quote from one of my heroes23400:20:20,939 –> 00:20:24,119of the faith in this last generation, Alan Redpath.23500:20:24,119 –> 00:20:26,939I know his ministry at Moody meant much23600:20:26,939 –> 00:20:30,640to many who still remember him from these years23700:20:30,640 –> 00:20:34,880and Alan Redpath went through some extraordinarily23800:20:34,880 –> 00:20:37,359difficult times in his life, especially when23900:20:37,359 –> 00:20:39,800after returning from Moody, he came to my home church24000:20:39,800 –> 00:20:42,260in Edinburgh, Scotland, Charlotte Chapel24100:20:42,260 –> 00:20:44,260and then he had a stroke, was laid on his back24200:20:44,260 –> 00:20:46,319for a prolonged period of time,24300:20:46,319 –> 00:20:48,680then made a very slow and gradual recovery.24400:20:50,260 –> 00:20:52,760And Alan Redpaths wrote these words24500:20:53,920 –> 00:20:56,780and at a time that was most difficult in my life,24600:20:57,599 –> 00:21:00,140I wrote them out, stuck them in my Bible24700:21:00,140 –> 00:21:04,040and probably read them every few days in the fly leaf.24800:21:05,699 –> 00:21:07,520There is nothing, Redpaths said,24900:21:08,780 –> 00:21:12,839no circumstance, no trouble, no testing25000:21:12,839 –> 00:21:17,280that can ever touch me, until first of all,25100:21:17,280 –> 00:21:20,839it has gone past God, past Christ and through to me.25200:21:22,579 –> 00:21:24,500If it has come that far,25300:21:24,500 –> 00:21:27,060it has come with a great purpose,25400:21:27,060 –> 00:21:30,300which I may not understand at the moment,25500:21:30,300 –> 00:21:33,800I may not know what his great purpose is,25600:21:33,800 –> 00:21:38,500but, and I just love this, I refuse to panic.25700:21:40,400 –> 00:21:42,420And as I lift my eyes to Him,25800:21:42,420 –> 00:21:45,260no circumstance will cause me to fret,25900:21:45,260 –> 00:21:50,260for I shall rest in the joy of what my Lord is,26000:21:50,260 –> 00:21:54,780and that is the rest of victory.26100:21:55,800 –> 00:21:57,439You’ve been listening to Pastor Colin Smith26200:21:57,439 –> 00:21:58,540on Open the Bible,26300:21:58,540 –> 00:21:59,400with the message called,26400:21:59,400 –> 00:22:01,660The Hellish Sin of Disconsent.26500:22:01,660 –> 00:22:02,479I don’t know about you,26600:22:02,479 –> 00:22:04,119but perhaps we don’t really think26700:22:04,119 –> 00:22:06,880of grumbling and complaining as a hellish sin,26800:22:06,880 –> 00:22:09,859it seems there must be many much worse sins.26900:22:09,859 –> 00:22:12,699But I think today’s message shows us the power of this sin,27000:22:12,699 –> 00:22:15,020and the importance of dealing with it.27100:22:15,020 –> 00:22:16,819If you ever want to listen to the message again,27200:22:16,819 –> 00:22:19,660or any of the messages which have already gone out on air,27300:22:19,699 –> 00:22:22,020you can do that by coming online to our website,27400:22:22,020 –> 00:22:24,060openthebible.org.uk.27500:22:24,060 –> 00:22:28,300Or look for them as a podcast on all the main podcast sites27600:22:28,300 –> 00:22:30,920by searching for open the Bible UK,27700:22:30,920 –> 00:22:34,180or following the link from our website.27800:22:34,180 –> 00:22:36,579Open the Bible is able to stay on the radio27900:22:36,579 –> 00:22:40,219and on the internet because of the very generous donations28000:22:40,219 –> 00:22:41,660made by our listeners.28100:22:41,660 –> 00:22:44,540So if you already give to support Open the Bible,28200:22:44,540 –> 00:22:46,060thank you so much.28300:22:46,060 –> 00:22:48,300If that’s something that you’ve been considering doing28400:22:48,300 –> 00:22:49,180in the future,28500:22:49,380 –> 00:22:52,339each month we aim to offer a special gift28600:22:52,339 –> 00:22:55,219in return for setting up a new support payment28700:22:55,219 –> 00:22:56,680for Open the Bible.28800:22:56,680 –> 00:22:59,420If you’re able to set up a new monthly direct debit28900:22:59,420 –> 00:23:01,959of five pounds per month or more,29000:23:01,959 –> 00:23:04,739or a one off gift of 50 pounds or more,29100:23:04,739 –> 00:23:06,500we’d love to say thank you29200:23:06,500 –> 00:23:09,020by sending you a copy of Colin Smith’s book29300:23:09,020 –> 00:23:10,780Fly Through The Bible.29400:23:10,780 –> 00:23:13,339Here’s Open The Bible’s Amanda Cunningham29500:23:13,339 –> 00:23:14,699to talk about the book29600:23:14,699 –> 00:23:17,260and also about some other exciting resources29700:23:17,339 –> 00:23:19,579which are free for everyone to receive.29800:23:19,579 –> 00:23:22,500Thanks David, well if you’ve been listening for a while29900:23:22,500 –> 00:23:24,719you’ll know that we love to give away30000:23:24,719 –> 00:23:27,300a free book each month when you donate.30100:23:27,300 –> 00:23:29,819Either a one off gift of 50 pounds or more30200:23:29,819 –> 00:23:33,800or by setting up a new direct debit of at least five pounds.30300:23:33,800 –> 00:23:35,380But this July and August30400:23:35,380 –> 00:23:37,739we’re doing something extra special.30500:23:37,739 –> 00:23:40,939We’ve launched a campaign full of free resources30600:23:40,939 –> 00:23:43,699to help you open the Bible with others30700:23:43,760 –> 00:23:45,859because we know that can be hard30800:23:45,859 –> 00:23:47,739and we want to equip you.30900:23:47,739 –> 00:23:49,979So yes you’ll still get a free copy31000:23:49,979 –> 00:23:52,319of Fly Through the Bible when you donate31100:23:52,319 –> 00:23:57,319but anyone can now access a whole set of free tools.31200:23:57,599 –> 00:23:59,219We’ve got a video series,31300:23:59,219 –> 00:24:01,959where Colin Smith walks through each session31400:24:01,959 –> 00:24:03,979of the Fly Through the Bible course on our website.31500:24:03,979 –> 00:24:06,339There’s a free app,31600:24:06,339 –> 00:24:09,939just search Fly Through the Bible in your app store.31700:24:09,939 –> 00:24:12,859And if you’re a church leader thinking ahead to September31800:24:12,859 –> 00:24:17,099head to openthebible.org.uk forward slash fly31900:24:17,099 –> 00:24:21,540and download our free small group discussion guide.32000:24:21,540 –> 00:24:24,219We really pray these resources bless you32100:24:24,219 –> 00:24:27,739and those around you as you open the Bible together.32200:24:27,739 –> 00:24:29,540And what better place to start32300:24:29,540 –> 00:24:32,219than a journey through the Bible story.32400:24:32,219 –> 00:24:35,619Thanks Amanda, you can access these free resource32500:24:35,619 –> 00:24:39,540at our website openthebible.org.uk32600:24:39,540 –> 00:24:42,280and you can download the Fly app32700:24:42,280 –> 00:24:45,339at the Apple App Store or Google Play.32800:24:45,339 –> 00:24:47,760Our offer to send you a copy of Colin’s book32900:24:47,760 –> 00:24:51,000Fly Through the Bible is available all this month.33000:24:51,000 –> 00:24:53,260If you would like to receive this free gift33100:24:53,260 –> 00:24:56,959select the monthly giveaway under project fund33200:24:56,959 –> 00:24:59,579and please do not give anonymously33300:24:59,579 –> 00:25:01,040as we can only send a book33400:25:01,040 –> 00:25:03,119if we have 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