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Open your Bibles, if you would, to the Gospel of Mark chapter 9.

Mark chapter 9 I mentioned a couple months ago I felt like I needed to take at least this summer,

I don't know, maybe a little longer we'll see the times that I talk to bring up subjects

that are very very familiar for us. But the analogy that I talk to bring up subjects that are very, very familiar for us.

But the analogy that came to my mind here a couple months ago was when a trucker

takes off with his load, he will drive a distance and oftentimes pull over and tighten down

the load. And after this last year, I think we have a load that needs to be tightened.

And so I have felt the need to review some things, and so that's what I've been doing.

And I'm going to talk to you about one of my most favorite subjects today,

and I'm going to look in a story that is a favorite story.

I read these to learn.

There are nuances in these stories that I need so much,

because the longer I walk with Jesus,

the more I find out he thinks different than me,

and he's not going to change.

And I'm no one that's to change.

So that's the journey I'm on.

So what I'm going to do, though, is I'm going to, we're going to take a story out of Mark

9, but I'm going to read a verse out of Matthew 13 out of the parable of the seed and the

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