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If you have your Bibles with you tonight, please turn with me to Matthew chapter 5.

Look at verse 1 through 5.

Matthew 6, I said 5 the first time,

1 chapter later.

Matthew 6, 1 through 5.

Page 811 in the Pugh Bible in front of you.

Beware of practicing your righteousness before other men in order to be seen by them,

for then you will have no reward from your father who is in heaven.

Thus when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you,

as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets,

that they may be praised by others.

Truly I say to you they have received their reward.

But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing

so that your giving may be in secret, and your father who sees in secret will reward you. And when you pray you must not be like the

hypocrites for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the

street corners that they may be seen by others.

Truly I say to you, they have received their reward.

But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your father who is in secret

That your father who sees in secret will reward you.

Let's pray.

Father, I asked for Bethlehem in this week at the beginning of 2009 and in this year and indeed in this decade I asked for a spirit of supplication. A spirit of grace, a spirit of deep, humble childlike

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