Hearing Christ, Not Chaos | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | November 3, 2022
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🗓️ 3 November 2022
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:09.0 | Our reading titled Hearing Christ, Not Chaos, was written by Patricia Rabin. |
| 0:15.4 | After watching TV news for hours each day, the elderly man grew agitated and anxious, worried the world was falling apart and taking him with it. |
| 0:28.1 | Please turn it off, his grown daughter begged him, just stop listening. |
| 0:33.9 | But the man continued to spend an excessive amount of time on social media and other news sources. |
| 0:41.4 | What we listen to matters deeply. We see this in Jesus' encounter with Pontius Pilate in |
| 0:49.0 | John chapter 18. Responding to criminal charges brought against Jesus by religious leaders, Pilots summoned him and asked, |
| 0:57.9 | Are you the king of the Jews? Jesus replied with a stunning question. Is that your own idea? |
| 1:06.4 | Or did others talk to you about me? The same question tests us. |
| 1:13.2 | In a world of panic, |
| 1:15.1 | are we listening to chaos or to Christ? |
| 1:19.4 | Indeed, my sheep listen to my voice, he said. |
| 1:23.7 | I know them, and they follow me. |
| 1:27.6 | Jesus used this figure of speech to explain himself to doubting religious leaders. |
| 1:33.0 | As with a good shepherd, he said that his sheep follow him because they know his voice. |
| 1:39.8 | But they will never follow a stranger. |
| 1:42.3 | In fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger's voice. |
| 1:49.2 | As our good shepherd, Jesus bids us to hear him above all. |
| 1:55.5 | May we listen well and find his peace. |
| 2:09.6 | Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from John chapter 10, |
| 2:13.3 | verses 1 through 6 and verse 27. |
| 2:21.3 | Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. |
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