Let's get to it. Would you turn with me to Luke chapter 18 as we continue our through the Bible study?

Seven more chapters through the Bible and that'll be two times for Athy Creek through the Bible.

Isn't that amazing? Seven chapters to go and then we'll have done two full laps.

This particular lap took us about 15 years. The first lap took 13 years. We'll see how long the next lap takes.

But today, Luke chapter 18, one of the things that's fun about the Gospels, when we see the

harmony of the Gospels, is a lot of the stories, we get different angles and perspectives from the

various gospel writers. And some of these stories, we get different angles and perspectives from the various gospel writers.

And some of these people in this narrative of Luke 18 are people that you're familiar with.

If you've been in our studies since Matthew, we've already covered some of these people and characters,

but this is a different perspective. I'd like to take a look at Luke chapter 18 in context of itself and kind of treat it like we're going to meet some new people.

So that's the thing. People to meet, lessons to learn in each one of the people groups.

And so I'd like to try to take Luke 18 in a little faster, more hard-hitting kind of pace as we've covered many of these

already in previous gospels, but we can pull out kind of the differences and what have you.

So there's a lot of people we're going to meet here.

We're going to meet a poor widow.

We're going to meet an unjust judge.

We're going to meet a Pharisee and, you know, some children, a penitent sinner, a rich young ruler, a poor blind man.

We're going to see all these characters in the stories that we're about to read.

The first story is about prayer, and we start in verse one.

And he spake a parable unto them to this end that men ought always to pray and not to faint.

Verse one is the main point of the parable.

You say, well, why do we even need to hear a parable then?

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