Hi friends, I'm Annie F. Downs. Let's read the Gospels. The Gospels are the first four

books of the New Testament in the Bible, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. These are the stories

of Jesus Christ's life on earth, the friendships, the parables, the sacrifices, the meals, and the

miracles. Something we say around here often is you don't have to be in the Gospels every

day to be changed, but every day you are in the Gospels will change you. I'm so glad you're

here with us today. So each month we read all four books. Here's how it works. I'm going

to read three chapters to you today. You can listen or read along in your own Bible or online,

and then I'll pray, and that's it. So today is June 11th, day 11, and I'll be reading Matthew,

chapters 15 through 17. And this month I'm reading from the N-R-S-V. Matthew 15. Then Pharisees

and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, why do your disciples break the tradition of

the elders? For they do not wash their hands before they eat. He answered them. And why do you

break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? For God said, honor your father and

your mother. And whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die. But you say that whoever

tells father or mother, whatever support you might have had for me is given to God, then that

person need not honor the father. So for the sake of your tradition, you make void the word of God,

you hypocrites. Isaiah prophesied rightly about you when he said, this people honors me with their

lips, but their hearts are far from me, and vain to they worship me, teaching human precepts as

doctrines. Then he called the crowd to him and said to them, listen and understand, it is not what

goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles.

Then the disciples approached and said to him, do you know that the Pharisees took offense when

they heard what you said? He answered every plant that my Heavenly Father has not planted will be

uprooted. Let them alone, they are blind guides of the blind. And if one blind person guides another,

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