Welcome back to the podcast.

On Monday, we took a question from Rose, a woman who has emailed us several times over

the years.

She's emailed us the same brief question.

How do I pray for my husband to be saved?

It's a question from desperation and maybe from wearing this too.

So how does a woman, how does a wife like Rose not lose heart and praying for her husband

over years?

Maybe even over decades.

Pastor John there ended his answer with a brief mention of Luke 18 verses 1 to 8.

Parable.

A great parable for those who need motivation to endure in prayer.

But it's also a very odd parable.

It has sometimes been called the parable of the unjust judge, which is where one of the

problems rests.

Because of this, we often just skirt that problem and we just call it preferably the

parable of the persistent widow.

That's cleaner.

But no matter what we call it, this remains perhaps the oddest parable that Jesus ever

told, odd because of how many false correlations we need to untangle to understand it.

And that's what we do today in a clip from a sermon preached on January 9th at the end

of the first week of 1983.

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