Juror Number 8 | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | February 15, 2023
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🗓️ 15 February 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:09.3 | Our reading titled Juror Number 8 was written by Tim Gustafson. |
| 0:15.1 | One man is dead. Another man's life is at stake, says the judge somberly in the classic 1957 film, |
| 0:22.6 | Twelve Angry Men. |
| 0:24.2 | The evidence against the young suspect appears overwhelming, but during deliberations, |
| 0:30.2 | it's the brokenness of the jury that's exposed. |
| 0:33.2 | One of the 12, juror number eight, votes not guilty. |
| 0:42.9 | A heated debate ensues in which the lone juror is mocked as he points out discrepancies in the testimony. |
| 0:49.4 | Emotions escalate, and the jury members' own murderous and prejudicial tendencies come to light. |
| 0:54.2 | One by one, the jurors switch their votes to not guilty. |
| 0:59.7 | When God gave his instructions to the New Nation of Israel in Exodus chapter 23, |
| 1:02.5 | he insisted on honest courage. |
| 1:06.1 | When you give testimony in a lawsuit, God said, |
| 1:09.4 | do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd. |
| 1:14.4 | Interestingly, the court was neither to show favoritism to a poor person, |
| 1:17.9 | nor to deny justice to your poor people. |
| 1:24.4 | God, the righteous judge, desires our integrity in all our proceedings. |
| 1:30.3 | In 12 Angry Men, the second juror to vote not guilty said of the first, it's not easy to stand alone against the ridicule of others. Yet that's what God requires. |
| 1:37.3 | Juror number eight saw the real evidence, as well as the humanity of the individual on trial. |
| 1:43.3 | With the gentle guidance of His Holy Spirit, |
| 1:47.2 | we too can stand for God's truth and speak for the powerless. |
| 1:57.7 | Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from Exodus chapter 23 verses 1 through 9. |
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