A Migrating Savior | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | October 4, 2025

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🗓️ 4 October 2025

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0:00.0	Get up, he said, take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt.
0:05.9	Matthew 2, verse 13.
0:09.6	Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread.
0:13.7	A migrating savior was written by Matt Lucas and read by Wes Ward.
0:21.5	Matthew chapter 2 verses 13 through 15.
0:25.8	When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream.
0:31.7	Get up, he said, take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt.
0:36.7	Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to
0:40.2	search for the child to kill him. So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night,
0:46.3	and left for Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord
0:52.8	had said through the prophet.
0:54.9	Out of Egypt, I called my son.
0:59.8	A migrating savior, written by Matt Lucas.
1:04.5	In 1947, with the dissolution of the British Indian Empire,
1:09.9	more than 15 million people migrated for
1:12.7	religious reasons. The upheaval was worsened by monsoon flooding and the spread of disease.
1:19.8	More than a million refugees died. Throughout history, people have migrated, seeking freedom,
1:27.2	safety, or a better life.
1:29.6	The urge to move is ingrained in the human experience.
1:33.3	The most famous example in Scripture is the Exodus story of the Hebrews to the promised land.
1:41.0	Migration wasn't foreign to Jesus either.
1:44.0	As a young baby, his parents fled to Egypt to protect his life from the murderous Herod.
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