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on a life that was otherwise pretty good. No, Jesus came to transform you. Find out how today.

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Now, let's join Kurt for today's episode. Hello, friends. Welcome back to the old studio here in Fredericksburg. I'm looking forward to jumping back into Matthew chapter 9. And I've said it

before, but I'll say it again. I just love these sections of the Bible that talk about Jesus.

Of course, we know the whole Bible talks about Jesus,

but just thinking about how he lived his life and how he lived for others and these miracles.

Amazing.

We're in Matthew 9.

We stopped actually in the middle of that feast that Jesus was

having at the House of Matthew. I remember the Pharisees didn't understand. They went to the

disciples of Jesus and they tried to cause a division. But there were also some well-meaning people.

The Pharisees weren't well-meaning, but there were some well-meaning people that also struggled.

And those people were the disciples of John the Baptist.

So John the Baptist, as you know, had been imprisoned by Herod Antipus and eventually executed.

His disciples that followed him always kind of had an issue with Jesus' disciples. And the reason for that was, remember back in

John, I think it was three, where in the early days of Jesus ministry, the disciples of Jesus were baptizing more than the

disciples of John, and John's disciples got competitive. They went to John and said, they're

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