Day 293 of Heart Dive 365. I'm your Bible study friend Kanoi. Welcome to the Heart Dive podcast.

Welcome back to Bible Study friends. If you're studying with us in real time, happy Sunday.

Hope you guys are able to get to church. We always love to encourage people to try to get into a local church,

a good Bible teaching church. This is a wonderful place of fellowship, and we are so glad that you are

here. But of course, it is always good to gather with the brethren in person, although we're

definitely not condemning anybody if this is the only place that you're able to get to. Because I

believe that Jesus will meet us right where we're at as we gather together, even through technology. So today we are covering Matthew chapter 16 and Mark chapter 8, as Jesus is now kind of retreating with his disciples, going to fully reveal who he is to them, reading from the ESV by Crossway Translation, but of course, before we get started, if we could just take care a little bit of business because we do need to do this to make sure that we're able to continue in a fruitful ministry if you've been a part of the Heart Die family. If you could just help us out, partner with us, and hit the thumbs up button. It's just a very small action that you can take to be able to tell the bots of YouTube that we are productive around here.

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So we encourage that.

And of course, that always helps with the fellowship aspect of this, you know, and not feeling

like you're just sitting behind a screen listening to me jabber on or read the word to you.

We want this to be a conversation. And thank you to those of you who always comment, who are

always encouraging and in there because we see you and we appreciate you. We love you. You are

a part of what God is doing. You are claiming a huge stake in that. You are playing a role in it. So we appreciate you. But if you're new to this Bible study, please let us know in the comments where you're watching from and how you found us. And don't forget to check out the show notes or the description box. Right below the video, you might have to hit the more button to expand it out to be able to access all of the notes that we provide, any additional resources and links that we have down there for you. We have a lot of answers to your questions that you probably have. You're just getting started. And you can always go to our website, heartdive.org, to see what we're about and what we do. But we just love God's Word. We love Jesus, and that is our goal to get other people to feel the same way. So we're going to go ahead and jump into it. But before we do, let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank you for this day. We thank you so much for giving us breath in our lungs today. We thank you for waking us up and refilling us with joy and strength. We know your mercies are new each and every day, and we're grateful for that because we need it,

Lord. making us up and refilling us with joy and strength. We know your mercies are new each and every day,

and we're grateful for that because we need it, Lord.

Every single one of us fall short of the glory of God,

and so we're just grateful that your grace is able to be heaped upon us

and cover every single missed mark,

every single fault, every single overstep, harsh word, criticism, blatant sin, sin of omission,

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