Oh, send thy Spirit, Lord, now
unto me, That He may touch my eye and make me see. Show me the truth, my dear, Within
my words, within my words, I see the Lord. Thank you, Robin. Marianne Lethbury,
author of that hymn. Very few people know her, and
I know very little about her. I haven't read anything. But
that's a great hymn, isn't it? The truth, didn't you? Because
you knew Christ. Luke chapter 9. The Gospel of
Luke chapter 9. We'll pick up next Wednesday
with the Psalms that you've requested. Next one is Psalm 48. John Sheasley,
Jr. requested. Luke chapter 9. Right
after the Lord had miraculously healed a man whom the Scripture
says he had a deaf and dumb spirit. And the Lord removed that deaf
and dumb spirit. Meaning, he could not hear. He
could not speak intelligibly. He could not speak plainly. He
could not hear anything. Verse 43, after this, it says,
they were all amazed. They were all amazed at the mighty
power of God. They attributed this to God.
It was Jesus Christ who did this. He is God. That's what we just
read. Even his enemies said things
like this. No man can do the things that
he does except God be with him. They were all amazed at the mighty
power of God. So am I. So are we, aren't we? We're just like, most of us,
just like that man the Lord just healed. Death. There was a time
when I could not and I would not hear the truth. John chapter
8, our Lord said this. He said this to some who heard
him out of curiosity or because he was a good speaker. He said,
why do you not understand my speech? He says, because you
Cannot hear my word. You can't. And no man can unless
the Lord open our deaf ears. Is that not right? Does this
verse ring a bell? The hearing ear and the seeing
eye. The Lord hath made even them
both. If we have ears to hear this
book, his word, eyes to see things as they truly are, as God says
they are, as they truly are, God gave us those ears to hear
and those eyes to see. And deaf and dumb, those who
are usually deaf or dumb, they cannot speak intelligibly. If
they do speak, They have an impediment in their speech. The Lord one
time healed a man in Mark's gospel, says he had an impediment in
his speech. You can tell when someone is hard of hearing for
that reason. The impediment that man has in
his speech, what he always speaks of, is himself. Or it's murmuring
and complaining, or cursing and bitterness. Romans 3 says his
mouth is full of cursing and bitterness, the poison of asps
under his lip. No thanks to God. He doesn't
think about God. He doesn't know God. He won't
hear God's Word. He won't give glory to God. He
won't thank God. He rebels against his Creator.
And it takes the amazing grace of God to change somebody like
that. And that's what the Lord did
to that man. And that's what he did to you. John Newton was
a slave trader. John Newton wrote the hymn Amazing
Grace. Did you know that he was a slave
trader? He would go to Africa. Now somebody
that would go and hunt down human beings like animals and take
them from their families and sell them like cattle is a wild
man, a mad man, isn't he? John Newton didn't have that.
But God chose him. And later on he wrote, amazing
grace, how sweet the sound, by grace you say, that saved a wretch
like me. I once was lost, but now I'm
found. Was blind, but now I see. And that was me. That was him.
Well, his disciples were just like that man before the Lord
Chose them, remember? Peter, Simon, Peter, Andrew,
James, John. They were fishermen. That was
their life. I began to think today about James and John. They
were sons of Zebedee. Their father's name was Zebedee.
What happened to Zebedee? Anybody know anything about Zebedee?
Doesn't say. They left Zebedee. The Lord came
by where they were in their boats out there fishing and he called
them like you'd call a dog. And they followed him. And they
left everything. They left their boats, their
nets. They left their father. They left their family business.
They just dropped everything and started following this man
they didn't know. How? Why? Because where the word of the
Lord is, there's power. Follow me. And they did. What
happened to Zebedee? Apparently the Lord didn't call
him. It's his prerogative that he didn't. But he called them.
And they all knew it. To a man, they all knew it. Because
the Lord came by and chose me and caused me to hear his voice. That's the only reason that I
followed him. Right? A hearing ear and a seeing
eye, the Lord hath made even both of them. And those who have
ears to hear, and he said in another place, blessed are your
ears they hear, and your eyes they see. He said, many prophets
desired to see the things that you see, to hear the things that
you hear, and heard them none. Have bliss. In Revelation 1,
it says, Christ himself said, blessed are they that read the
words of this book. Most people have a Bible, but
they don't read it. They don't care. He said, blessed
are they that read the words of this book. Blessed are they
that hear it. Not only read it, but want to
hear it proclaimed. Want to hear it explained. And
he said, blessed are they that keep the words of this book,
that lay hold of it like it's life or death. And it is to his
people. One time our Lord, he was saying
some things difficult, hard. The people heard what he was
saying. They said, these are hard sayings. We can't take this
anymore. And many of them walked no more with him. And he turned
to his disciples, Simon and Andrew and James and John and Thomas.
He said, will you also go away? Do you remember what Simon said? To whom shall we go? You have
words of life. This is life to me. Your words
are life to me. I hang on your every word. That's
what they were saying. And so do I. While most people
could care less what Jesus Christ said, I cast all my care on what
He said. Luke chapter 9 says in verse
43, they were all amazed at the power of God, but why they wondered,
every one of them, at all the things which He did. And there's
no denying what our Lord did. History recounts it. Scriptures
tell it. Thomas Jefferson one time, he
made his own Bible up. He cut out all the miracles out
of it because he didn't believe them. Well, I do. But people then,
and even some now, are amazed at the things that Christ said
and did while they don't really follow Him and don't really believe
Him. They don't really. Most are just amazed and just
admire, admirers of the Lord Jesus Christ. They wondered at
the thing. But he turned and said, look at verse 43, that
he said to his disciples, once again, the things that he said,
the personal things, the revelations that he made were to his disciples. And I just quoted to you John
8. People everywhere heard him, but they didn't believe him.
They wanted to argue, they wanted to catch him at his words, they
wanted to argue with him. And he wouldn't.
And he said, why don't you believe me? Because you cannot. He said,
my sheep hear my voice. He that is of God, heareth God's
word. And our Lord had chosen these men to reveal Himself to
them, and He's speaking to them. Alright? So that's who I'm speaking
to tonight. If you're a believer on the Lord
Jesus Christ, if you hang your soul, if your life depends on
what He said, listen and let these sayings sink down deep
in your ears. This is what He said. Look at
it. Verse 44, let these sayings sink down into your ears. We just read, how shall we escape
if we neglect so great a salvation? The things that we've heard.
The first four chapters of Hebrews tells us, listen now, listen
now. So they heard, they heard, but
it wasn't mixed with faith. Let these sayings sink down deep
into your ears. What sayings? Well, everything
he said. You know, you can take or leave
something that I said, can't you? Man, mankind, whatever. The rulers, the supposed wise
men of our day, whatever they say, scientists, whoever, leaders,
rulers, whatever they say, you can really take it or leave it.
Right? Because it's liable to change.
It will change. And scripture says God has made
foolish the wisdom of this world. But not the word of God. It hasn't
changed. It's the absolute truth. And
he says, now let these sayings sink down deep in your ears. Meaning, let them go all the
way to your heart and stay there. And lay hold of them as truth,
absolute truth. And something you can depend your life and your soul
upon. Let these sayings sink down deep in your ears. we hear
comes in one ear and goes out the other, and should most of
what we hear. But not this. Don't let this.
Our Lord said, listen to what I'm saying. What I'm saying. Now, these disciples were grown
men. They were grown men. Some of them were probably older
than Him in human years. And yet he called them little
children. All the time he called them little children. And they
didn't mind. It didn't bother them. It didn't offend them. Why? Because compared to him,
this is... One time he said, Philip said,
show us the Father. Show us God, he said. And I've
been so long time with you. And you don't know me. He that
has seen me has seen the Father. What he's saying is, I am God. He is. And they argued then,
they argue now, he can't be. He's just a man. Well, his disciples
knew. And they weren't offended. He
called them little children. Little children. Now, little children,
their attention span is so short isn't it? So short. And so he's saying to them, he
knows our Frank, and he's saying to them, even though they're
grown men, let these sayings sink down deep in your ears.
Don't let this slide. Listen very carefully to what
I'm saying. Because you can't let this pass. Everything depends
on this. Now, what did he say? Listen
carefully. Verse 44. The Son of Man shall
be delivered into the hands of men. That's it. Most would say, they read that,
I don't understand. And it says that they didn't
understand. He'd been telling them for a
year or more. Look at verse 22. He said, the
Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected of the elders,
the chief priests, and the scribes. Now all of this is according
to the Old Testament scripture prophesied Way back a hundred,
even a thousand or more years before then, of what Christ,
who He was, and why He came, and what He did, and who He'd
do it for, and His cause. That's what the whole Old Testament's
about, is who it was that was coming, Him. And He said, now,
the Son of Man must suffer many things, according to Scripture.
and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and the scribes
and be slain and raised the third day. What he's talking about
is his crucifixion. Christ crucified. The Son of
Man. Now, I was taking a shower and
that kept running through my head. The Son of Man. The Son
of Man. He called himself that often. The Son of Man. The Son
of Man. He's the son of God. Scripture
says he's the only begotten, that is the only bodily image
of God. And yet he called himself the
son of man. That's what Christ called himself. Why? Well, many reasons. And some we don't know. It's
a mystery. But one reason is to tell us
that he who was God actually became a man. Why? There's a
reason. Many reasons. The first man,
1 Corinthians 15 talks about Adam. The first man, Adam. It says the first man is of the
earth, earthy, and we're just like him. And all of us came
from him. The world doesn't believe that.
We do. Christ said so. Jesus Christ
said so. I believe him. But it says the
first man was of the earth, earthy, just like us, and we're just
like him. And that's how we'll be. What's that? Ignorant, blind, sinful, fallible,
fickle, fallible, foolish, failing, faltering, fallen man. That's
it. Foolish. That's vain. It says
a second man. Second Adam. You've got two covenant
heads according to Scripture. One Adam. In Adam all died. Second
man. Christ. In Christ. All in Christ. Made alive. That's what this
book says. He's the second Adam. He's the
second man. Though he wasn't born of a man,
the seed of man, or even the egg of a woman, but born of God. Yet he calls himself the son
of man. I'm a man, but not like you. Like you in that he was
tempted in all point, yet without sin. He had to be a man. He had to become a man for men
to do a work. To do a work. In Adam we fell.
In Adam we die. In Christ we rise. In Christ
we live. And you know these things. That's
why he came. He came to be a covenant head. He came to be the law keeper.
He came to be a substitute. He came to be a sin bearer. The world calls this foolishness.
Old fashioned, bloody, archaic. foolish notion of ignorant mountain
people. No. It's what Jesus Christ said. It's what Jesus Christ said. And he's
no fool. I say he's a fool who doesn't
believe Jesus Christ. That's what he said. He said,
I came for this cause. Christ said, I came for this
cause. To go to the cross. To be a sin-bearer,
to be a substitute, to be a burnt offering, to be a scapegoat. People like to use that term.
Where did it come from? Leviticus 16, which talks of
Jesus Christ having all the sins and all the guilt and all the
blame of all of God's people laid on Him and Him taking it
away. I need that. I need Him. Let these sayings sink down deep
in your ears. There aren't too many people
interested. He said to his people, you let these sayings sink down
deep in your ears. This is the sum and substance
of all truth. This is the truth. Christ said,
I am the truth. I am the way, the truth, and
the light. You don't know the truth if you
don't know him. You don't know the way. You don't know anyone.
There is a way that seemeth right to man. The end is destruction.
That's what he said. You have not life. Don't care
what you have. If you don't have no Christ,
you don't have life. That's what he said. And I believe him. Don't
you? There was a time when I didn't. I didn't. But I do now. With
all my heart. With all my heart. And I want
even more, though, these sayings to sink down so deep. Down to
the recesses of my heart where no man where nothing and no one
can take them away. And no one can convince me otherwise. The Son of Man came and shall
be delivered into the hands of men. Alright, just a couple of
scriptures. Acts chapter 2. Who crucified
Jesus Christ? Acts chapter 2. Time magazine
years ago, and you know, they like controversy. They like to,
you know, drum up controversy. There have been many cover pictures
with so-called Jesus on them, and had headings like, Who is
Jesus? Years and years ago, back in
the 60's I think it was, it says, God is dead. You remember that,
Ron? You don't? I don't know if you
remember that. You remember that? Time magazine. God is dead. Things
like that. Who is Jesus? Well, one year
it had this on the front cover. Who killed Jesus? Do you remember
that? It caused an uproar, a furore. The Jews. The modern Jews went
in an uproar. We didn't do it. The scripture says they did.
Christ said they did. They're the Gentiles, the Romans,
the Romans. No, we didn't do it. The Jews
did it. This book says, and Christ says,
they all did it. It says we did it. If we'd have
been there, we'd have done it. Man is such a bloodthirsty creature. The sight of blood, he just gathers
to it, and they're just like packing a wild dog on him. And
man hates the truth and hates God so much, when he came, they
said, kill him. And to ignore him is the same
as saying kill him. So I don't care about him. I
don't care if he came and lived or died or what he did or what
he said. It's the same as killing him. And that was me. And that
was you wasn't it? But God. Amazing grace. Acts chapter 2,
look at this. It says in verse, Peter is preaching
at Pentecost. To all the people that came from
all places, Acts chapter 222, he says, You men of Israel, hear
these words, Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you
by miracles and wonders and signs which God did by him in the midst
of you, as you yourselves also know, him being delivered by
the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. You have taken, and by
wicked hands have crucified and slain. So who delivered him?
God did. Or else they couldn't have taken
him. They tried several times, remember?
They tried several times. All his life he was pursued first
by Herod, wasn't it? When he was a baby. Herod had
all the children killed in the coast of Bethlehem from two years
old and under. Trying to kill the Christ. You can't kill the
Son of God. You can't kill the Christ. You
can't silence the truth. They tried to kill Him. All His
life, He was hated and rejected and despised of men as an adult. Every time He preached, a crowd
of people would get so mad at what He said that they'd try
to lay hold of Him and throw Him off a cliff. They'd say,
He passed right through them. He said, Jesus Christ said, no
man taketh my life from me. Remember that? No man taking
my life from me. He said, I lay it down of myself. I decide when I die and how I
die. In fact, the Father has decided
long ago. And for this cause I came. To
live, yeah, but to die willingly, according to the will of the
Father, according to the purpose of God, according to Scripture.
This is why I came. Let these sayings sink down deep
in your ears. And as He is, so are we. No,
especially now. God's people are immortal until
he is through with us. That's not fatalism, it's Bible. He said in chapter 4, verse 27,
Peter is preaching again. No, the people are praying it.
After Peter preached. It says in verse 27, of a truth
against thy holy child whom thou hast anointed both Herod and
Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and the people of Israel were
gathered together for to do whatsoever thy counsel determined before
to be done. And you remember scriptures like
this in Romans 8. It says that He that spared not
his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not
with him also freely give us all things? But who delivered
him? The Son of Man must be delivered. God delivered Him. He was delivered of God into
the hands of men for men as their substitute. He was delivered
to be the substitute to be our deliverer. To deliver us from
bondage by being taken captive himself. Deliver us from death
by dying himself. A substitute. Let these sayings
sink down deep in your ear. This is the whole gospel. It is. Christ and Him crucified.
So let these sayings sink down. Alright. They were afraid. Back
to our text. They heard what he said. But
they understood not. Verse 45 says it was hid from
them. It was hid from them. You know,
he had been telling them where he was going, why. Going to Jerusalem
to be taken and condemned and crucified and killed and said
he would rise again the third day. He kept telling them that
and they were afraid to talk about it. They didn't want to
talk about it. And they didn't really understand,
like people do now, why he came. But it was hid from them, you
see that? One reason for this is that one
time Simon Peter took, our Lord said, I'm going to Jerusalem
and I'm going to be taken by the leaders there and I'm going
to be abused and crucified. And Simon Peter took him aside
and said, no, no, no, Lord, we're not going to Jerusalem. No, we
can't do that. Do you remember what our Lord did?
Do you remember what He said? Get behind me, Satan. Talking
to Peter. Someone was trying to work through
Peter to keep our Lord from going to the cross. And that's why
He came. That's why He came. And he said,
get behind me Satan, thou carest not, savourest not the things
that be of God, but the things that be of man. Simon Peter, knowing Simon Peter,
he'd have tried to take everybody on. And he did, in the garden.
They came to get our Lord, and Simon Peter took a sword out.
You can't have it. He said, Simon, put up your sword.
Don't you know I could call 12 legions of angels right now?
That's 144,000 angels. Don't you know I could call 12
legions of angels? One of whom could wipe the whole... Put up
your sword, Simon Peter. This is why I came. They couldn't stop him. They
couldn't know perfectly. They would have tried to stop
him. They can't stop him. No one can. Nothing can. He has
to go to the cross. If he doesn't, We're all goners. So, that's why these things were
hid from them at the time. When he arose from the grave,
and as I said, he was preaching to them on the road to Emmaus
another time. After that, he expanded on them. See, this is
what I was telling you. Ought not Christ to have suffered
these things and entered into His glory. He said that. Now
they understood. Now they finally understood.
Okay. And nothing and no one could
or should stop this. That's why He came. Well, look
at the next verse. They were afraid. Verse 45. They
were afraid. They were afraid. They feared to ask Him of that
saying. They were afraid. Two or three
reasons we don't ask questions. A few people ask questions. Two
or three reasons why we don't ask questions. Number one, they're
not interested. Or number two, we think we have the answer,
we don't need to ask. Well, that wasn't them. And number three,
they were afraid of the truth. That's why people don't ask.
Don't want to face the truth. I don't want to know. Don't tell
me. Don't ask, don't tell. That was
the end of it. And that's a lot of people that
were afraid of the truth. Well, but they loved him so much
and depended on him so much, like little children, that when
they finally realized he's leaving, they were distraught. And they
were like little children begging him to stay. Don't go. He said, I'm coming back. And he did. Alright, then the
next verse. Here it is. This is amazing.
Just as amazing as the grace and power of God and the wisdom
of God is, How amazing is the foolishness of man. Right after
that, right after he said, let these sayings sink down in your
ears, who I am, why I came, what I came to do, this is it. There arose a reasoning among
them which of them should be the greatest. It's not funny, is it? I'm laughing at their ignorance. And that's mankind, isn't it?
That's why what's happening right now is happening. Pride of man. Foolishness of man. Man despises
and rejects his Creator. So God, he that sits in the heavens,
Scripture says, laughs. Man's so proud of what he says,
so God says, cover your mouth. So proud of his beauty, so God
says, cover your faces. Beautiful people, wise people.
It's hard to be proud with a mask over your face. We see that. We see that very
clearly. If they argued or they reasoned among themselves, which
of them should be the greatest? Who were these fellows? Where
did they come from? Fishermen. And now, after three
years, they've got all the answers. And they're going to be the greatest.
They argued about who should be the greatest, and none of
them were. Paul, Saul of Tarsus, who was
later, his name changed to Paul, was the chief apostle, wasn't
he? That they all deferred to, that they all learned from, even
Simon Peter said that. Paul said, I'm less than the
least, I'm not fit to be called a disciple. It's only by the
grace and mercy of God that I'm a disciple of his at all, let
alone apostle or preacher of the gospel. And that's who God
said, OK, you're going to be the greatest. And he had him
write 14 books in the New Testament. Some of the apostles never wrote
a book. Most of them did not write a book. Just a few of them. Paul wrote 14. He said, I'm less
than the least. Who was the greatest man in the
Old Testament? Clearly it was Moses, wasn't it? Scripture says
he was the meekest man on the earth. When God came and chose
him and revealed himself to him on the mountain before the burning
wood, he said, I'm going to send you, Moses, to deliver my people.
Moses said, don't send me. Send Aaron. Aaron's a better
speaker than I am. Remember that? He said, I can't
speak. Aaron's a good speaker. Call Aaron. Don't send me. I'm just a shepherd. So what
did God do? He raised up Moses. Those that
are nothing and know themselves to be nothing, God makes something
of them. Who was the greatest man in the
New Testament? Jesus Christ. Or the old, for that matter.
He said, take my yoke upon you and learn of me. I am meek and
lowly. He who only had the right to
be proud and high and lifted up, came meek and lowly. He said, I'm your servant. I'm
a servant. Look at that. Our Lord, perceiving
the thought of their heart, took a child, verse 47, and set him
by him. Took a little child. I wish Josh
was up here right now, but I don't think he'd sit long enough for
me to use him as an illustration. I did one time years ago, was
it you Emma, or one of the, when they were real young, I took
two children and sat them up there beside me. And you all
were forced to look at those little faces, you know. It's
a good illustration. You know, kids are, you know, kids are, they believe
you. Don't they? They're enthusiastic. They have no guile, no trickery,
no cunning. Well, they lied, but not really. But they're just somewhat innocent
in that respect. Right? You tell them something,
really. They believe you. If they love you and they trust
you, they believe everything you say. And our Lord said, except you
become as little children. You're not going to enter the
kingdom of heaven. This kingdom is for those who value it. For those who hang on His every
word. For those who believe Him like little children. For those
who are excited about it. For those who think, I can't
get there unless you take me. That's a little child, isn't
it? All their lives when they were little children, everything
they had, you gave it to them. Learned, you taught it to them.
Every place they went, you took them. That's me. Isn't it? That's the child of
God. That's the people of God. And we say, we owe everything
to You, our Father. They hang on His every word.
They believe Him implicitly. Trust Him. They think He's bigger than everybody.
It is. Stronger than everybody. And
He is. And He is! That's what He said. But He said
here, "...whosoever receiveth this child in my name, receiveth
me. Whosoever receiveth me, receiveth him. God that sent me. He that
is least among you all, the same shall be great." What does that
mean? Well, the followers of Christ were nothings and nobodies. Our Lord chose His people, His
disciples, His followers. He chose them. There were not
many wise men at the flesh. There were not many mighty. There
were not many noble that were called. They were common people.
They were ordinary people. He said the publicans and the
harlots are my people. Didn't He? And the Pharisees
and the scribes and the doctors and the lawyers looked down on
all these little people. These no good God, ignorant,
foolish people. Our Lord said to them, they know
more than you do. They know Me. And they're going to be in the
Kingdom of Heaven, you're not. And that's why they got mad. Oh no,
no, we're going to get there because we're smarter than everybody
else. You're going to get there one way, Christ said, Me. You're not going to get there
by that. And they hated that. The Jews said, no, we're going
to get there by our morality, by our devotion, by our consecration,
by our religious works and all. He said, no, you're going to
get there by me. The Greeks said, we're going to get there by our
philosophy, by our wisdom, by our intellect, by our attainments.
No, you're not. You're going to get there by
me, Christ said. No man cometh unto the Father,
but by me, Christ said. And they hated that. I don't. Only those that think themselves
to be wise hate that. Only those that think themselves
to be something hate that. Those that know themselves to
be nothing love it. Here it is. Here's the paradox
and I'll close with it. And our Lord said these things
which the world doesn't understand. Blessed are the poor in spirit.
The world thinks it's the opposite. Blessed are they that mourn.
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst. after righteousness. That's not what the world does.
Blessed are they that are persecuted, Christ said, for my sake. Things
like that. Here's the paradox. Here's the
paradox. The way up is down. The way in
is to be cast out by the world. You must be poor to be rich. Now this is what the scriptures
teach. Must be poor to be rich. The last is going to be first,
and the first is going to be last. He must be blind to see. That's what he said. He must
be dirty to be clean. He must be deaf to hear. I don't understand. I do. Ask
the man who was deaf. You must be blind to see. Ask
the man who was blind. He said, I know this much. I
was blind, now I see, and he did it. Most people don't think they're
blind. They see perfectly. You must be lost to be found. You must be dead to live. You must be hopeless to have
any real hope. You must be weak to be strong. You must hate yourself to be
loved by God. That which is highly esteemed
among men is an abomination to God. I'm quoting scripture. That
which is highly esteemed of God is hated by man. The wisdom of
God is foolishness to man. The wisdom of man is foolishness
to God. It's the scripture. Those that
think themselves to be beautiful are ugly to God. Those that think
themselves, know themselves to be ugly are altogether lovely
to God. Those that think themselves to
be something are nothing. But those that know themselves
to be nothing are something. Those that are least are the
greatest. And on and on I could go with
that. This is the truth according to
Him who is the truth. And he said, let these sayings,
and not my sayings, they're his sayings. Let them sink down deep
in your ear. Write them on the tables of your
heart. Okay, stand with me. Our Father, thank You for
Your Word. Where would we be without it?
In darkness. Desperate without hope. You said
of the world in Isaiah 8, darkness, dimness, anguish of spirit, desperation,
fear. But the people, you said in chapter
9, that walked in darkness have seen a great light. Christ, the
light of the world. And we thank you, Lord. Oh Lord,
cause that light to shine dark hearts, we pray, in our heart. We're often blinded by all that's
around us. We're often deafened by the many
voices we hear. Let us hear your word and let
these sayings sink down deep in our ears. That's our prayer.
In Christ's name, amen. You're dismissed. Thank you. I am a...