Free in the Spirit | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | July 8, 2023
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🗓️ 8 July 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm Mike Whitmer, and I titled our reading, Free in the Spirit. |
| 0:14.8 | Neither Orville nor Wilbur Wright had a pilot's license. |
| 0:20.6 | Neither had gone to college. |
| 0:22.6 | They were bicycle mechanics with a dream and the courage to try to fly. |
| 0:27.6 | On December 17, 1903, they took turns piloting their right flyer on four separate flights. |
| 0:35.6 | The longest lasted only a minute, but it changed our world |
| 0:40.5 | forever. Neither Peter nor John had a preaching license. Neither had gone to seminary. They were |
| 0:48.5 | fishermen who, filled with the Spirit of Jesus, courageously proclaimed the good news found in Acts 412. Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind, by which we must be saved. The Wright brothers' neighbors didn't immediately appreciate their accomplishment. Their hometown newspaper didn't believe |
| 1:11.4 | their story, and said that, even if true, the flights were too brief to be significant. |
| 1:17.6 | It took several more years of flying and refining their planes before the public recognized |
| 1:23.6 | what they had truly done. The religious leaders didn't like Peter and John, and they ordered them to stop telling |
| 1:30.8 | others about Jesus. |
| 1:33.0 | Peter said, no way. |
| 1:35.5 | We cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard. |
| 1:40.8 | You may not be on the approved list. Perhaps you're scorned by those who are. |
| 1:46.6 | No matter, if you have the Spirit of Jesus, you're free to live boldly for him. |
| 1:57.8 | Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Acts chapter 4, verses 12 through 22. |
| 2:06.3 | Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind, by which we must be saved. |
| 2:15.4 | When they saw the courage of Peter and John, |
| 2:18.2 | and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, |
| 2:21.7 | they were astonished, |
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