Test of Our Faith | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | July 27, 2025
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🗓️ 27 July 2025
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| 0:00.0 | We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels, as well as to human beings. |
| 0:07.7 | 1 Corinthians 4.9 |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:16.2 | Test of our faith was written by Matt Lucas and read by West Ward. First Corinthians chapter 4 verses 9 |
| 0:24.8 | through 13. For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, |
| 0:33.8 | like those condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to human beings. |
| 0:43.7 | We are fools for Christ, but you are so wise in Christ. |
| 0:49.0 | We are weak, but you are strong. |
| 0:52.0 | You are honored. |
| 0:53.6 | We are dishonored. To this very hour, we go hungry and thirsty. |
| 0:59.0 | We are in rags. We are brutally treated. We are homeless. We work hard with our own hands. |
| 1:07.2 | When we are cursed, we bless. When we are persecuted, we endure it. When we are slandered, we answer kindly. We have become the scum of the earth, the garbage of the world, right up to this moment. |
| 1:24.9 | Test of Our Faith, written by Matt Lucas. |
| 1:29.0 | In 8304, the Roman Emperor Maximian |
| 1:33.0 | victoriously entered the city of Nicomedia. Parades were ordered as the city |
| 1:38.5 | gathered to thank pagan gods for the victory, everyone except for a church full of people who worshipped only the one true |
| 1:46.6 | God. Maximian entered the church with an ultimatum, escaped punishment by renouncing faith in Christ. |
| 1:54.9 | They refused. All were killed when Maximian ordered the church set on fire with the believers inside. |
| 2:03.0 | The Apostle Paul understood the cost of following Christ. In 1 Corinthians 4, he confronted the believers |
| 2:10.6 | living in the Greek city of Corinth with his testimony. Paul stated that the apostles had |
| 2:16.6 | suffered for Jesus and for their sake. They had been made |
| 2:20.4 | a spectacle to the whole universe as they served Christ. Similarly, the apostle Peter reminded us how |
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