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[0:00] Well, I'm putting the mic on. If you want to turn your Bibles to the book of Matthew, we're going to be in chapter 15 today.

[0:15] ! Interesting passage, quite a few verses to cover. Sometimes that's good, sometimes it's bad, sometimes it's tough, easy. You can easily break this passage up into two or three, but it does flow well with one as well.

[0:31] So hoping to come away with a couple points. I was talking to, well, John Kluppel always has the feeling that a good message is a one-point message, right, John?

[0:44] If he can remember one thing, there's like three points in here, so if you remember one, that's great. I was talking to a guy yesterday, and I told him that. I said, you know, he said all these things he was going to say, and I said, you know, one-point messages oftentimes are good because I can take away something.

[1:00] And I said, by the way, last time you spoke, you were really good. And he said, what did you like most about what I spoke on last time? And I was like, I was like, listen, Dave, not Baumgartner, I'm not going to lie, I don't really remember the topic. I just remember you were really good.

[1:23] So I said to him, what did you speak on last time? And he could remember some of it, but not a lot of it. So, with that being said, if you get one point, great. If you get zero points, I'll forgive you.

[1:35] So, Matthew 15. Let's go ahead and read the text this morning, then we'll open up in prayer. We're going to be in, again, verses 1 down through 20.

[1:46] It says, It says, It says,

[3:49] It says, It says,

[6:49] It says, It says,

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[26:51] It says, It says, It says, It says, It says, It says, It says, It says, It says, It says, It says, It says, It says, It says, It says, It says,

[27:53] It says, It says, It says, It says, It says, It says, It says, It says, It says, It says, It says, It says, It says, It says, where he's going to sacrifice himself for you and for me.

[28:23] We're going to see he is God, he is man, ultimately he is truth, and he is worthy of our praise. Tradition over truth.

[28:33] The object of your faith, trust in yourself or trust in him. I assure you that particular equation is undefeated as to the outcome.

[28:46] Trust in him. Heavenly Father, we thank you for these words. We thank you for your word and the truth. We know, Lord, heaven and earth pass away. Your word remains forever. We thank you, Lord, that you aren't someone who's far off and who's distant, but, Lord, that you've come to earth, Lord, that you have come to offer salvation.

[29:05] Lord, we thank you for your goodness. We thank you for your mercy. Thinking of the song we sang this morning, our sins, they are many, but your mercies are more. Our sins are finite.

[29:17] There's only a sin. We'll sin for the time we're a baby to the time we die, but your mercies are greater than those numbers, and we thank you for that, Lord. We thank you for your goodness. We thank you for your truth, Lord, in your name.

[29:29]  Amen. Amen. Amen.