Our Calling in Christ | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | September 4, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Ezra had devoted himself to the study and observance of the law of the Lord. |
| 0:05.9 | Ezra 7, verse 10. |
| 0:09.6 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:13.9 | Our calling in Christ was written and read by Tom Felton. |
| 0:22.0 | Ezra, chapter 7, verses 6 through 11, and 27 and 28. |
| 0:28.2 | This Ezra came up from Babylon. |
| 0:30.9 | He was a teacher well-versed in the law of Moses, which the Lord, the God of Israel, |
| 0:36.0 | had given. |
| 0:37.3 | The king had granted him everything he asked, for the hand of the Lord, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted him everything he asked, |
| 0:40.0 | for the hand of the Lord, his God was on him. Some of the Israelites, including priests, |
| 0:46.5 | Levites, musicians, gatekeepers, and temple servants also came up to Jerusalem in the seventh year |
| 0:52.9 | of King Ardizerxes. |
| 0:55.8 | Ezra arrived in Jerusalem in the fifth month of the seventh year of the king. |
| 1:01.4 | He had begun his journey from Babylon on the first day of the first month, |
| 1:05.9 | and he arrived in Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month, |
| 1:09.9 | for the gracious hand of his God was on him. |
| 1:13.3 | For Ezra had devoted himself to the study and observance of the law of the Lord, and to teaching |
| 1:19.3 | its decrees and laws in Israel. |
| 1:22.6 | This is a copy of the letter King Artaxerxes had given to Ezra the priest, a teacher of the law, |
| 1:29.1 | a man learned in matters concerning the commands and decrees of the Lord for Israel. |
| 1:35.3 | Now picking up at verse 27, praise be to the Lord, the God of our ancestors, who has put it into |
| 1:43.7 | the king's heart to bring honor to the |
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