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Before I ask the Lord for help, I have two requests for the members of Bethlehem. Number one, would you pray for Noel

and me as we go to Australia Sunday, tomorrow for you and today for those who are watching this on the video.

For a couple of weeks and both of us will be speaking and would you ask that God do a miracle a jet lag miracle?

Number two, would you generously,

sacrificed and joyfully give.

I'm talking to members through the rest of August

and into the fall.

The needs are great at the church and

God is able to meet every need. Let's pray. So Father we love

you and your son.

Your Holy Spirit has come into our lives

and inclined us away from the treasures of the world

so that we can let goods and kindred go this mortal life also

and live our lives sold for you.

So come now, open the eyes of the blind, open the ears of the death, grant

that we would see Christ and hear his word and that the lost would be found and the dead spiritually would come alive.

And that your saints would know you more, love you more deeply, follow you more closely, be more

bold in their witness.

I pray this in Jesus' name, amen.

Now up until now in chapter 10, Jesus has been unfolding a figure of speech.

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