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I believe it's going to bless you today.

If you have your Bibles, if you'll take those, and turn, if you will, to the Book of

Matthew, chapter 13.

I'm going to read a lengthy passage of scripture this morning. I know that's more customary

and contemporary preaching to read a passage or two, a verse or two, but this is not a passage that lends itself to be broken up. So I want to

read a lengthy passage, even so I'm not going to read the whole thing, but a great deal of

it. And I'm going to begin reading at verse 18 in the 13th chapter of

Matthew. So I'm going to be reading from the King James Version. Every now and again I get asked about that. The kids at the

universities used to ask me all the time. How come you always read from the

King James version? Well one reason was I went to high school with King James.

Jimmy, we call him Jimmy, it wasn't a king in high school.

The other is the flowery Shakespearean sound of the King James

version all of the these and thou's. They appeal to my theatrical spirit. I like it. But you do not have to have a King James

Bible to go to heaven. Let me make that clear. One will be given you when you get there.

But why stand in that long embarrassing line?

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