Hey guys, really looking forward to today's podcast. Jesus gives some teaching today that is just so

amazing. He validates his own ministry. He validates the ministry of the Holy Spirit, and he utters a

really profound word of warning. You won't want to miss it. Listen on it. Welcome to Everyday Truth with Kurt Skelie.

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Hi, friends.

Thank you for coming back today to participate in another episode.

And I hope that that's a good word, participate, because as you listen to the Word

of God, it's important that you view that activity as

participation, because I'm hearing not just from Kurt Skelly over the radio waves or the

radio waves. Listen to me. Podcast. I am, I'm showing my age. You're not just hearing me.

Boy, as we go through the Word of God, we're hearing from the Holy Spirit himself. And God is never content for us just to be

hearers of the word. But we must find ways to apply that word to the way that we live and the priorities that we have,

the schedules that we keep, and the people that we influence, all of it.

So I hope that you are participating as we do this day by day.

We're in Matthew chapter 12 and verse 22, right in a series of stories that talk about Jesus healing and Jesus dealing with

the opposition, how anybody could oppose the healing, humble ministry of Jesus, I'll never know.

But we know that Satan is behind all of it. But it says here in

verse number 22, then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind and dumb. In other words,

he could not speak. He was mute. And he, Jesus healed him in so much that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.

So the indication, at least publicly, that Jesus had done the real work, the spiritual work on the inside,

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