Welcome to Form Now. I'm Tim Gray, president of the August Institute.

And today I'm going to continue our ongoing Bible study on the Gospel of Matthew.

Dr. Michael Barber is not going to be joining me today, but I'm going to be flying solo.

We have a bit of COVID going around at the August Institute, so all of our staff are staying at home right now.

So I want Michael to stay safe. So just pray for our AI staff that everybody can be safe

and healed up quickly those who are sick.

But I want to continue our Bible study.

So open up to the gospel of Matthew chapter 17.

Verse 14 is where we left off.

So Matthew chapter 17,

and we'll pick up in verse 14.

What just happened previously,

which Dr. Barbara and I talked about,

was the scene of Jesus going up on the mountain in Matthew's Gospel,

going up on the mountain with Peter, James, and John for the Transfiguration.

And of course, we know that that traditionally is Mount Tabor up in Galilee,

a beautiful mountain, and I love to go up there

and I find it to be a very prayerful, contemplative place.

And when Jesus comes down the mountain, down to the village, there's a bit of chaos going on down in the village.

And there's a man who has a son who's possessed by demons and the demons throw him around and he has these seizures and the disciples

are trying to cast out the demon but they can't do it and so it's kind of a bit chaotic and a bit

of a circus and it's interesting because one of the things that michael and i talked about last time

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