Go ahead and turn with us this evening, please, to Matthew the 15th chapter.

And we want to continue on.

You ready for me to preach at you a little bit?

Yes.

All right.

I told Phyllis I had too many notes this afternoon.

It started out with 20 pages and I had to work it down to three here, so.

You know, I haven't, when I got into ministry, I should say it like that, I hadn't seen some of my

relatives for a while. I've been in the ministry for about 10 years.

And I came back in and the last time they saw me, I wasn't in the ministry.

And of course, I've been in the ministry a lot longer than that now. I'm talking about

back then about 10 years ago. And they said, so you're a preacher now? And I said, yeah.

They said, you mean you don't have a job?

You don't work? And I know that ministry, the way some people do it, you know, is play golf all day and goof off and get a little something out of the

Reader's Digest and talk about it for 10 minutes.

There's not too much work to that.

But ministry, if you do it right, it is work.

I assure you, there's been many a day I looked out the window and thought, boy, it'd be a lot easier digging a ditch than doing this.

I mean, this is looking for answers, you know, and believe in God and pressing.

But it's my job as leader of the church here to lead and to feed.

Amen.

And that's what we are setting out to do.

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