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Morning, Church.

My name is Jeff Ray.

My wife Ashley and I serve as pre-marital mentors.

I serve in men's Bible study and on the worship team and in the choir.

And today we're reading from Luke chapter 18, verses 1 through 8.

And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.

He said,

In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man.

And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying,

give me justice against my adversary.

For while he refused, for a while he refused.

But afterward he said to himself,

though I neither fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me,

I will give her justice so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.

And the Lord said,

Here what the unrighteous judge says

and will not God give justice to his elect who cried to him day and night?

Will he delay long over them?

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