Glory to God. Thank you, Lord. He's a good God. And I'm sticking with that all the days of my life.

Thank you, Lord. Glory to God. We'll open your Bibles to Matthew 13. We've been talking about a number of things, but they all seem to be related.

In the past several weeks on Friday night, we've been talking about several things.

And tonight, I titled the message, Hearing, 2020 Hearing.

You always have 20-20 vision.

Well, in the spirit, you can't have 20-20 vision, spiritually speaking,

without having good hearing. You need 20-20 hearing because the hearing is what produces the vision.

What you hear is what produces what you see. So many times, even in the natural, you know,

we've talked about this before. If I said tan dog,

then everybody got a picture of a tan dog. Now, everybody can get the same picture because they

got the picture of the dog they knew, right? Like we used to have a golden retriever. He was tan,

and I thought about him. Some people thought about the tan dog that bit them. Right?

And so they say, tan dogs are mean.

Well, that's not experience, that's lack of experience.

Right?

You'd say, well, my experience is that tan dogs are mean.

Why?

Because I had one that bit me.

Well, that doesn't mean all tan dogs are mean.

Amen? In fact is, the truth is, most tan dogs are mean. Amen?

In fact is, the truth is, most tan dogs are nice.

There's only a few of them that are mean.

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