Being the Church | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | December 9, 2025
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🗓️ 9 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | The Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved. |
| 0:04.8 | Acts 2.47. |
| 0:08.5 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:12.5 | Being the Church was written by Anne Cetus and read by Rochelle Traub. |
| 0:21.5 | Acts chapter 2, verses 36 through 47. |
| 0:26.7 | Therefore, let all Israel be assured of this. |
| 0:30.2 | God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah. |
| 0:36.6 | When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, |
| 0:42.6 | Brothers, what shall we do? |
| 0:45.1 | Peter replied, repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the |
| 0:52.1 | forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift |
| 0:55.6 | of the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:57.5 | The promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far off, for all whom the |
| 1:03.4 | Lord our God will call. |
| 1:06.6 | With many other words He warned them, and he pleaded with them, save yourselves from this corrupt |
| 1:13.0 | generation. Those who accepted his message were baptized and about 3,000 were added to their |
| 1:19.8 | number that day. They devoted themselves to the Apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the |
| 1:26.5 | breaking of bread, and to prayer. |
| 1:29.7 | Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the Apostles. |
| 1:35.3 | All the believers were together and had everything in common. |
| 1:39.2 | They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. |
| 1:47.8 | Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. |
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