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Open the Bible UK Daily

3 minute daily Bible reflections from Open the Bible UK, authored by Colin Smith, read by Sue McLeish.

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02:58

(1) Your Struggle with God

Open the Bible UK Daily ·

2025/05/06

"You shall have no other gods before me."Exodus 20:3The first commandment calls you to a life-long response of gratitude and loving loyalty to the God who loved you and gave Himself for you.Positively, this means cultivating affection for Him, remembering Him, appreciating Him, honouring Him, choosing Him, loving Him, and fearing Him. It means trusting Him, hoping in Him, and delighting in Him. It means calling upon Him and giving thanks to Him.Loyalty to God means giving Him more weight in your

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02:54

Meet the Commander

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2025/05/05

I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.Exodus 20:2The Ten Commandments begin with the appeal of a gracious God who is committed to the good of His people, not an appeal on the basis of raw power.God could have said, “I am your Creator. I own the cosmos.” That’s true. He could have said, “I have more power than a million nuclear bombs, so you better knuckle down and worship me.” That’s true too. But that’s not what He said.He said, “I am Yahweh,

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02:57

Where Do You Stand in Relation to the Ten Commandments?

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2025/05/04

The young man said to him [Jesus], “All these I have kept.”Matthew 19:20Take a moment to consider where you stand in relation to the Ten Commandments. Here are three possibilities:Some of us think we’ve climbed the wall. A man was talking with Jesus about the Ten Commandments, and he said, “I’ve kept them all!” He hadn’t murdered anyone, told any whopping lies, or raided a bank. He was a good citizen who flossed his teeth and paid his taxes, but he misunderstood the commands. They aren’t limited to

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02:18

The Law Is Like a Mentor

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2025/05/03

The law was our guardian until Christ came.Galatians 3:24The law is like a tutor, a coach, or a mentor. The law, properly understood, will walk you to Jesus Christ. It’s just like a good mentor who shows you where you need to go and then is willing to walk with you so that you get there.This is precisely what the law, applied by the Spirit, will do in the life of a person. The law will show you where you need to go (the kind of life that God calls you to live), and then it will walk you to Christ.If

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03:20

The 10 Greatest Struggles of Your Life

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2025/05/02

In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.Hebrews 12:4Let’s review the Ten Commandments from Exodus 20 and name our greatest struggles.10. Your struggle with contentment: You shall not covet (20:17). Something within us wants more.9. Your struggle with truth: You shall not bear false witness (20:16). Sometimes it isn’t easy to handle the truth.8. Your struggle for integrity: You shall not steal (20:15). What can you be trusted with?7. Your struggle

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02:52

Life Is a Struggle

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2025/05/01

My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved.Psalm 121:2-3Life is a struggle. It is also an adventure. Like climbing a rock face, it is a dangerous business. But it is magnificently worth it. There will be moments of triumph as you conquer some dangerous part of the climb. But there’s always another challenge ahead.The entire Christian life is spent on the rock face, and one day you’ll stand at the summit, but not until you’re with Jesus.Some of us have

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02:35

In the Father’s Hands

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2025/04/30

“Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!”Luke 23:46The whole life of Jesus had been in the hands of His Father, and now at His death, Jesus committed His spirit into the Father’s hands.Here’s what happens at death to a believer—your spirit goes into the immediate presence of God: To be “away from the body” is to be “at home with the Lord” (2 Cor. 5:8). Whatever happens to your body, your spirit is safe in the Father’s hands.Your body may be ravaged with cancer. Your body may be horribly injured

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03:05

The Last Time Jesus Spoke from the Cross

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2025/04/29

It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour, while the sun’s light failed. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.Luke 23:44-46Do you see the significance of these words? The hell was over. The price was paid. The infinite agonies endured by the Son of God had passed, and the light of the Father’s love

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02:47

Is Satan’s Power Really Broken?

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2025/04/28

It is finished.John 19:30When Jesus said these words, He was surrounded by darkness and on the edge of death. As He hung there in the darkness, it hardly looked like Satan’s power had been broken, or hell’s gates had been splintered, or death’s sting had been drawn out.One month after Jesus died, the world didn’t look very different either. The same could be said after a year, a century… a millennium. Does the world really look any different than it did the day Jesus said these words?When Jesus

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03:31

You Can Rest in All That Jesus Has Done for You

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2025/04/27

“It is finished.”John 19:30Jesus finished. You haven’t. But with Him you will. What does this mean? When you are united to Jesus by faith—the Bible often refers to this as being “in Christ”—all that He accomplished on the cross becomes yours. Here are four things that are yours when you are in Christ:Jesus completed His work of atonement, so you are forgiven, accepted, and loved.If you are in Christ, you don’t have to do anything else to be loved and accepted. All that you need is in Him: “There is…

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02:09

Don’t Miss This!

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2025/04/26

“It is finished.”John 19:30There was only one person who could ever truly say, “It is finished.” None of us will be able to say that when we die, because none of us have been able to say it while we live.None of us will be able to say to God “I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do” (John 17:4). It’s impossible. None of us have been able to say this about a single day of our lives. None of us completes the work.As a Christian, you have begun the work of all the

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02:45

Jesus’ Perfect Sacrifice Was Offered

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2025/04/25

“It is finished.”John 19:30What did Jesus come into the world to do? He came to seek and save the lost. He came to give His life as a ransom for many, and on the cross He said, “It is finished.”What is finished? Jesus finished bearing the guilt of our sins. He finished enduring the punishment of our hell. The divine wrath was finished being poured out on Him. The justice of God was satisfied. The perfect sacrifice was offered. Complete atonement was made. Hell was vanquished. The condemnation was

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02:48

The Decisive Battle with Jesus’ Enemy Was Over

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2025/04/24

“It is finished.”John 19:30Humanity’s conflict with the devil goes back to the beginning. Satan tempted the man and the woman and led them into the sin that forfeited paradise. They got the knowledge of evil and came under the power of the evil one. That’s been our story ever since.But God promised a Redeemer. He said to Satan, “He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel” (Gen. 3:15). What a picture—the Redeemer stomping on the head of the snake. The snake bites His foot with deadly

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02:31

The Full Course of Jesus’ Obedience Was Complete

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2025/04/23

“It is finished.”John 19:30Why did Jesus come into the world? One important reason the Son of God became a man was to live the life you and I would have to live in order to enter heaven.Jesus lived the perfect life. There was no sin in Him, and the night before He died He was able to say to the Father,“I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do” (17:4). None of us can say these words to God. We’ve never been able to say them, even on the best day of our lives. No

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02:29

The Sixth Time Jesus Spoke from the Cross

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2025/04/22

When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.John 19:30What was finished? One thing that was finished was the long night of Jesus’ suffering. Jesus knows about suffering from the inside. He has been to the edge of endurance.Jesus knows about excruciating suffering more than anyone else has ever known it. But He is not suffering now. He is not on the cross now. He is done with that. It is finished.Jesus is no longer in the grave

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03:02

Why Jesus Said He Was Thirsty on the Cross

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2025/04/21

After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.”John 19:28We could list passage after passage from the Old Testament that was fulfilled by Jesus’ words here, but let’s focus on just two of them:First, Psalm 22 is an amazing prophecy depicting the cross in extraordinary detail. It was written a thousand years before the time of Christ, in a culture where crucifixion was unknown:“All who see me mock me… they wag their heads; ‘He trusts in the LORD; let

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02:58

The Fifth Time Jesus Spoke from the Cross

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2025/04/20

After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.” A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.John 19:28-30The same Jesus who once called out to a crowd, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink” (7:37), also cried out from the cross, “I thirst.” This is

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02:32

How to Rejoice in the Cross

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2025/04/19

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.John 3:16Think about it: the Father’s love was beyond Jesus’ reach. He was shut out from the Father’s love, and yet He said, “My God, my God…”This is of huge importance for our faith. God said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you” (Heb. 13:5). That is His promise. But there will be dark times in your life when you simply cannot feel the love of God. When these times come,

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02:51

How to Rejoice in the Cross

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2025/04/18

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”John 3:16What did it mean for the Father to give up His dearly loved Son to a cross? What did it mean for the Holy Son of God to give Himself up to become our sin-bearer and be shut out from the love of the Father?Christians sometimes say something like this: “I know Jesus died for my sins, but I don’t feel that God loves me.” If that’s you, consider what God has done for

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03:56

The Fourth Time Jesus Spoke from the Cross

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2025/04/17

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”Matthew 27:45-46The clearest revelation of hell is at the cross. Hell has six dimensions and Christ experienced all of them on the cross…1. Jesus was in conscious suffering. Hell is a place of weeping and gnashing of teeth (Luke 13:28), and Jesus entered into all of its

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