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🗓️ 23 September 2025

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0:00.0	I serve the Lord with great humility and with tears and in the midst of severe testing.
0:07.7	Acts 20, verse 19.
0:11.8	Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread.
0:16.2	Saving Lives was written and read by Mike Whitmer.
0:21.7	Acts chapter 20, verses 17 through 24.
0:26.9	From Miletus, Paul sent to Ephesus for the elders of the church.
0:32.3	When they arrived, he said to them,
0:35.1	You know how I lived the whole time I was with you. From the first day I came into the
0:41.0	province of Asia. I served the Lord with great humility and with tears, and in the midst of severe testing
0:48.6	by the plots of my Jewish opponents. You know that I have not hesitated to preach anything that would be helpful to you,
0:56.0	but have taught you publicly and from house to house. I have declared to both Jews and Greeks
1:02.2	that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus. And now, compelled by the
1:10.0	spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will
1:14.6	happen to me there. I only know that in every city, the Holy Spirit warns me that prison and
1:20.7	hardships are facing me. However, I consider my life worth nothing to me.
1:32.8	My only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me,
1:37.1	the task of testifying to the good news of God's grace.
1:41.7	Saving Lives Adolfel Kaminsky knew how to remove Indelible Ink from paper.
1:48.0	As a member of the anti-Nazi resistance in France,
1:51.0	he altered identification cards to save hundreds from concentration camps.
1:56.0	Once he was given three days to forge 900 birth and baptismal certificates and ration cards for 300 Jewish children.
2:05.7	He labored two straight days without sleep, telling himself,
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