Father Mike Schmitz

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The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) · Day 270: God's Favor with Ezra (2026) · 27 Sep 2026 podcast

Just it wasn't just this kind of um uh antiseptic kind of laboratory. voice-verified

Uh this is I'm studying this because it's good to know. voice-verified

He studied it in order to do it, in order for that to actually change his own life, change to change his own heart, and that's remarkable. voice-verified

And thirdly, he says to go on and to teach his statutes and ordinances in Israel. voice-verified

So these third things, three three things, Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the Lord, to do it, and to voice-verified

To teach it. voice-verified

And that is just um it there's something really, really remarkable about this where I think it's worth noting. voice-verified

That's what we're doing. voice-verified

We're striving to to understand the word of God so that we can live it. voice-verified

And then w whoever we teach it to, that might be to our our children, it might be to all the people around us, might be to, you know, at a religious ed class, or in my case, uh to the students here on campus, or to all of us who are journeying voice-verified

Through this Bible in here. voice-verified

It's just a g it's a remarkable gift. voice-verified

So here, Artaxerxes has this letter, all these gifts. voice-verified

But one of the things that is really interesting, I thought, was that in chapter 8, it says, um, Ezra, speaking in the first person, says, I proclaimed a fast there at the river Ahava. voice-verified

Ahava means love, FYI, in Hebrew. voice-verified

Um, I proclaimed a fast there, that we might humble ourselves before our God and to seek from him. voice-verified

A straightway for ourselves, our children, and all our goods. voice-verified

And he says why? voice-verified

Because or for I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us, since we had told the king the hand of our God is for good upon all who seek him, and the power of his wrath is against all that forsake him. voice-verified

And so and so basically he's like, We really talked up the fact that God has got our back, we don't need any extra help. voice-verified

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