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Good morning.

We stand for me, please, for the reading of God's word.

Our passage this morning is Matthew chapter 9, verses 35 through 38.

While you're finding that in your Bibles or pulling out your notes, I will just mention this

passage, this series of verses is the one that Charles Spurgeon said weighed the most heavily on his heart his

entire life as a Christian. So, brace yourselves. The passage says this, and Jesus went

throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the

gospel of the kingdom

and healing every disease and every affliction. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them

because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples,

the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

Therefore, pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.

This is the word of the Lord.

You may be seated.

There is a renewed call, and I'm glad for it, among some of the Christians and conservative people in our nation, to make our children do hard things.

There's even a renewed call to challenge ourselves to do hard things.

And in a lot of ways because of modern convenience

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