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This is David Knockler with the OPC Committee on Diacon Ministries. We're bringing this to you as part of a series of special episodes of the Reformed Deacon. These episodes consist of the audio of the many plenaries and workshops presented at the fourth OPC National Diaconal Summit held in Wheaton, Illinois in June 2022. It's our desire that deacons who were not able to attend the summit or those who simply miss one of the many wonderful workshops offered will benefit from this practical content. If you find this episode especially invigorating, please consider sharing it with your fellow deacons. If it's an episode that's particularly suited to the work of your diagonal, consider watching the video version of this presentation together with your fellow deacons and discussing it. The videos can be found on opccdm.org. And now I hope you enjoy this episode.

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It's a joy to be here. It's been good too to be here again and see the CDM members bringing back memories of the years of service with them. We've seen the Lord do wonderful things through the ministry of this committee, and I am grateful for their example and their service to the wider church. And the sessions we've had these days, we've learned much. I trust, too, that you've enjoyed the fellowship over the meals. Those conversations have encouraged your hearts. I am encouraged as I come to these summits and see the commitment of the deacons, your desire to do your service well and to take up the service of Christ's Church. So it's a great honor to bring the word to you tonight, and it's very humbling. Thank you. I was asked to preach from this text, and we trust that the Lord will use it in our hearts tonight. Let's pray as we come to the Word. Our Father, we thank you that you've given this Spirit to us to give us an understanding to your word, especially as we come to the verses and texts that are familiar. We pray that they will be newly applied to our hearts. We pray that you will cause us to see ourselves, most of all, cause us to see our Savior, his love for us, and cause us to respond as we should with a greater love for him. Thank you for each of these brothers for their place in your kingdom, for their call to service. We pray for each heart tonight. Perhaps some of our brothers are here. We've been asked to pray. Seth has asked us to pray for a deacon in Neon, Kentucky. We don't know his needs or the situation, but we are grateful that our Savior prays for us and the Holy Spirit brings requests before you. Our Father, it's so good to be your children and to have you as our Father. We ask that you would apply your word to us tonight. In Jesus' name. Amen. So asked to bring our sermon tonight on the account of Mary and Martha from Luke 10. I would like to read the verses that preceded, which is the parable of the Good Samaritan, because I'm coming to understand that this is really one text. And Mary and Martha is intentionally, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, added to the account of the Good Samaritan to make the whole story, the rest of the story. So I'm reading God's word, beginning with Luke 10, verse 25. And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said to him, What is written in the law? How do you read it? And he answered, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and with all your strength, with all your mind, and your neighbor is yourself. And he said to him, You have answered correctly, do this, and you will live. But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who's my neighbor? Jesus replied, A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him he had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. And then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. And the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, Take care of him, and whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back. Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers? He said, The one who showed him mercy. And Jesus said to him, You go and do likewise. And now, as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village, and a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she went up to him and said, Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me. But the Lord answered her, Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion which will not be taken away from her. Only Luke tells us of this incident with Mary and Martha. In fact, this is the only time Martha's mentioned in Luke's gospel. You wonder why this has been recorded in Scripture. What is the Holy Spirit's reason to attach it here to the account of the Good Samaritan? Jesus is making a comparison between Mary and Martha. But that's our question. What is he comparing? What's the Lord's lesson for us, especially at the diaconal summit? I think we need to first remind ourselves what Christ is not contrasting. Christ is not contrasting the what's. Mary, Martha, and Lazarus were among Jesus' closest disciples and friends. Jesus would weep at Lazarus' death. And we learn elsewhere that Martha was a woman of deep feeling, of spiritual conviction and faith. She was a true follower of Jesus Christ. Remember, it was to Martha that Jesus made the profound revelation: I am the resurrection and the life. And whoever believes in me, even though he dies, yet he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this? Jesus asked Martha. And she said, Yes, Lord, I believe you are the Christ, the Son of God. She loved Christ. She rejoiced that he was the Messiah. It was an honor for her to have the Lord in her home. She was a believer. And Martha was attending to legitimate needs. Her work was good. She's the hostess. Text tells us that it's her home, so it implies that her parents are not living. And it seems she's the oldest. So all the responsibilities fall on her to host. She's serving here, and she's meeting legitimate needs. The Bible does not teach dualism, that the body is bad, the spirit's what's really good. This is not a text to say that the spiritual needs are more important compared to the needs of the body. Comparing, the comparison is not that preparing a meal is not as important as what Mary was doing, having a spiritual lesson. I grew up in a background where you would hear things like, it's okay to be an engineer, but if you really want to be knowing the Lord's blessing, you need to be a missionary. And there is a dualism, but it's not biblical. And it's not biblical to think that Mary is doing the better because she's learning a spiritual truth, and Martha was inferior because she's focusing on a meal. No, these were legitimate needs. The Bible doesn't teach dualism. Christ is not contrasting what they're doing. And this was legitimate service. It was good for Martha to provide for the group to eat. We're not told if this was a planned visit or if everybody just showed up. We do get this impression that this was not the first time that the Lord and some of his disciples had eaten at their home. Verse 38 says, they, so it's Jesus and his disciples. It's a good group that's come. Probably her house was crammed full of the Lord's disciples. And some, if not most, of the twelve, together with her family, perhaps others, and she was glad they were there. She wasn't, didn't begrudge the work. She was obviously somebody had to prepare a meal. And in the Middle East, in that time, as well as today, this would not have just been a sandwich. Hospitality was a very high value, and so she was preparing a very generous meal. It's legitimate needs, legitimate service, and this was a legitimate response. This is tied to the parable of the Good Samaritan. Martha is doing exactly what Jesus taught in the Good Samaritan. When God providentially places people in your life with needs, Jesus said, Go and do likewise, then that's what she's doing. The parable, we've heard it referred to a couple times these days. The lawyer's question in verse 29, he asks the definition, who's my neighbor? What's the real question? He's really asking, who's not my neighbor? Who do I not need to love? Which groups are the exceptions to the commandment to love your neighbor as yourself? Where can I draw the line? Where's my out? Where are the people that I don't have to love? It was the mindset of that generation of the Jewish people that he was expecting Jesus to answer the question, who is your neighbor? And he was expecting the answer, well, it's only the kosher Jews. It's only people just like you who've kept all the necessary food laws and kosher laws. And even an unclean Jew was not considered your neighbor. Certainly not the blind, not the lame, they're excluded, and certainly Gentiles, and certainly Samaritans, they're not neighbors. He was really asking who's not my neighbor? Who do I not need to love? And Samaritans, you know, are worse, they were hated and despised. And he's asking the question, surely, all these people they're not included in this group who are my neighbor. And Jesus paraphrased as can be saying, as long as you're asking that question, who's my neighbor, then you don't love your neighbor. The lawyer asks the question, and then Jesus follows it up with a parable. This man was walking 18 miles between Jericho and Jerusalem, and he's ambushed, and he's beaten, and he's robbed, he's stripped, he's left for dead. And there's no help from the priest, there's no help from the Levites. He gets help from a Samaritan who's the Jewish man's enemy. Jesus' audience is expecting a completely different answer in the story. Who's the person that's to come to the rescue? Well, it would be another good Jewish person who's come to help the Samaritan. And so they're shocked to hear that this is actually a Samaritan helping a Jew. Samaritan is the hero, not a Jewish priest or Levite, not even an ordinary Jewish person. The application, of course, primarily is Christ is the Good Samaritan. He gave us compassion in our need. He's the Good Samaritan who is, by his incarnation, has traveled into a foreign, dangerous country. He's showed mercy to us, beaten victims. He's borne the cost for our healing. All debts were paid on the cross, and there's nothing more needs to be paid to those who receive Christ by faith. Might even say that this is an illustration of healing from an enemy. While we were still his enemies, Christ died for us. And he didn't just dress up physical wounds, but our souls for eternal life. And he didn't do this just that potential risk of being run out of town, but he required his death on the cross. While we were his enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his son, Romans 5.8. And God shows his love for us in this that while we're still sinners, Christ died for us, Romans 5.8. And the application to Christ's disciples, if you claim to be a follower of Christ, then we are to be the Good Samaritan. You go do likewise, Jesus said. There's no limits for who you show love to. You show love to all those that we find outside of our comfort group, our own class, our race, our political party, our age group, our economic status. There's no limits. Not just the people we like, not our friends and family, not just other believers. The Apostle Paul wrote, Do good to all people as we have opportunity, especially the household of faith, Galatians 6.10. Means you should show love to those we don't get along with, personality that grates against us. Yes, even those who are our enemies, those who've wronged us, those who've sinned against us, those who hate us. Love your enemies and do good and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful. Luke 6 35. God our Father is merciful to all, and therefore we are to be merciful to all. And that's all we need to know. We're to show love to our neighbor, even if it's costly, even if it calls for commitment, if it's not easy. Whenever the Lord puts those needs in our path, that's the point of the good Samaritan. He's responding to a situation that God has providentially put in his path. That's what Martha's doing. Martha's being a good Samaritan. So the lesson with Mary and Martha is not that Martha's hard work in serving others or her generous hospitality was itself wrong or misplaced or unnecessary. Jesus is not contrasting what the two sisters are doing. He's just commanded his disciples, go and do likewise, be merciful. And the Bible commands us to be hospitable. So the lesson here is not that Martha was wrong to serve and she should have instead been with Mary, listening to Jesus, doing what Mary was doing. Jesus isn't contrasting the what's. What's he doing? He's contrasting the whys. Why are you each doing what you're doing? We're told that Mary had the right priority. Why was she doing what she was doing? Because she loved the Lord. It's the same Mary in John 12 after the resurrection of Lazarus. They're again in Martha's home. And Mary anoints Jesus' feet with very expensive perfume, worth a year's wages. These perfumes were not used for ordinary use, going out for a nice dinner. They were kept and reserved for anointing the dead, shows they were wealthy. And Mary takes that perfume and she shows her love and gratitude to Christ by pouring it on his feet for the forgiveness. Her love for Christ that he has forgiven her of her sins. She's showing her treasure is now Christ. And so she can pour her treasure on Christ. That's Mary's why. She loves Christ. And here in Luke 10, she's learning from Christ as the priority. She's growing in the knowledge and the love of Christ. It's the greatest thing for her. Verse 39 says, she's sitting at the Lord's feet. It's remarkable that that would be recorded that a woman was doing that. It wasn't forbidden, technically, for a woman to learn theology in those days, but it is remarkable that it was being done. So she was there learning theology, but it's even more remarkable the term sitting at his feet. That's not telling us where she was sitting in the room on the carpet. It's a term that implies she actually became a disciple of the rabbi, as Saul's training was at the feet of Gamel. She was considered a disciple of Jesus. She was there out of love for Christ. That's her why. And Martha is rebuked then for her why. What's wrong with her motives? Verse 41 Jesus rebukes her very tenderly. Martha, Martha repeating her name shows tenderness. And Martha is rebuked for her attitude toward Mary. Certainly she's irritated. Mary's not pulling her weight. She's annoyed that Jesus hasn't told Mary to come and help her. But her irritation is only telling us what her deeper motives weren't right. Why is she so frustrated with Mary? And Martha's rebuked that her her reasons are out of balance. The moral of the story is not, Martha, stop serving, stop what you're doing, and go in and listen and do what Mary is doing. Then there would have been no dinner. The application is not, don't get so busy in life that you don't have time for reflection or Bible reading or learning of Christ. If Christ is not the center of your life, other your life will get full of lots of other stuff. Keep undivided devotion. Although those are truths and those are important in our Christian life. But I don't think that's the primary, exactly the comparison that Jesus is making here. And certainly the moral is not that Martha was doing much. She was planning too big of a dinner, and Christ would have been satisfied with a smaller lunch. So the moral is don't have false expectations of what Jesus requires from you, or live a simple life, or we need to ask more often what would Jesus want me to do in this situation? No, it's none of that. The contrast is not between what they're doing, but why they're doing what they're doing. And I believe the contrast is that Martha's being called to do her service with the same devotion and love for Christ that Mary has. The contrast is not between what the two sisters are doing, but why they're doing it. Martha was distracted from doing this out of love for Christ. So that Christ would say to her in verse 41, You're getting anxious. It's not the anxiety there that's fearful, it's the anxiety that's you're getting weighed down with stuff. 1 Corinthians 7 33 uses the same word. Word translated, the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife. You're getting your heart and your mind all tied up. And she was troubled about many things. It's the word that's used of a crowd getting into an uproar. The New English Bible translates, you're fretting and you're fussing about so many things. Martha, you've forgotten why you should be doing this. Martha, keep your focus. Why are you doing all this work and preparing the meal and the hospitality? Jesus is saying to Martha, is do you remember why you're doing this? Is it out of love for me? If that was her motive, the first commandment, loving the Lord with all of her heart and soul and mind, then she wouldn't have been so irritated with her sister. If the perspective was what a joy this is, an opportunity to express my love for Christ by preparing this meal. And she had lost perspective of why she was doing what she was supposed to be doing. Contrast, I don't believe, is Jesus is making a contrast between what they're doing. He's making a contrast between why they were doing what they were doing. So what's the challenge for us? Just in the positive, it means a personal relationship to Christ and love for Christ must be the reason and the focus for all of our work and all of our ministry. To say the same thing in the negative, it means that very legitimate demands for service and ministry, they're not the priority unless they're done for Christ and out of love for Him. We can forget this, we can get unbalanced in different ways. And I would challenge you in your diaconal work that we can lose sight of why we're doing what we're doing. And we have forgotten that we are to do it out of love for Christ. Let me give you three cautions. The first is we can very easily get overwhelmed at all the needs. We must remember that we'll never be able to meet all the needs. Christ didn't heal everyone who was sick in Palestine during his earthly ministry. He'd leave one village still with sick people. His priority wasn't to heal all, and yet we never read that Christ was overwhelmed with all the needs around him. We can get, I can get overwhelmed at all the diaconal needs in this broken world. Recently read Counterculture, some of the statistics. 19,000 children die every day from preventable diseases. And the Christian responds, how do I respond to these needs? A billion people in the world lack access to clean water. Across the world, forty-two million abortions every year, which is a hundred and fifteen thousand every day. To endorse or even to be neutral about the killing of innocent children created in God's image is unthinkable in the scriptures. It was unthinkable to Christians in church history and should be unthinkable to Christians today. 153 million children worldwide live as orphans, meaning they've lost at least one parent. 18 million have lost both parents. And this does not include the vast multitudes who live as social orphans, meaning that if a parent is alive, the children rarely, if ever, see them. The world is filled with 245 million widows, 115 million of whom live in poverty. Today there's more than 27 million people who live in slavery. That's more than any time in history. That's more than that were seized from Africa in the four centuries of the transatlantic slave trade. Many of these millions are being bought and sold and exploited for sex, and which has become one of the fastest-growing industries on earth. The statistics of the persecuted church. During one month alone in Egypt, 38 churches were destroyed, 23 others were vandalized. The homes of 58 Christians were burned, 85 shops were looted, seven Christians were kidnapped, six Christians killed in one month. The following month, suicide bombers exploded their vests in front of the All Saints Church in Peshawar, Pakistan, murdering 81 church members. On average, a hundred Christians are killed every month for their faith in Christ. Some estimate the number to be much higher. We read these statistics. John Stott tells us 10,000 people die every day of starvation. Then you hear of the challenges from war and the challenges to refugees and the wounded and the grieving and the homeless. I sat through Eric Watson's presentation today, and I could add those to the list, the struggle for injustice. The list goes on. And we can assume in many of these situations, believers are included in those statistics, and we read the scriptures. If one part of the body suffers, the whole part suffers with it. Do we? How do we respond? You say, well, never mind the whole world. Maybe it's just the needs in your own life. You feel like you can't keep on top of things. The needs of running your own home, caring of children. Perhaps you have an elderly parent that you're responsible for, and you always feel at the end of the day there's more I could have done. Didn't get all the lists done. You try to balance just your own work and your home and your marriage, and then as deacons, you add on to that, the care of the church and the elderly and the shut-ins and the young believers and the children that need ministering too, and there's always so much more. And you come to a summit like this and the list expands. I learned a long time ago that the urgent is not the call. Even the need is not the call. Christ told us you'll have the poor with you always. It's a broken world. It won't be healed until Christ returns. The first caution is we can get overwhelmed at all the needs. Be careful. The second caution is we can get distracted by pressing needs. Remember, love for Christ is not the same as religious duty. A man can serve with great zeal, with great devotion to the church. Encourage many people, accomplish much good. He alone knows his heart. Is he doing it out of a love for Christ? Love for Christ is not the same as sacrificial service. A man can get very busy, exhausted from church ministry, burnout. But that's not the same necessarily as love for Christ. Love for Christ is not the same thing as privilege. It's not the same thing as giftedness. Peter and James and John were the three most favored. They saw more miracles than the other. They saw the miracles that were done in private. They saw the Lord's glory on the Mount of Transfiguration. They saw him in the garden, suffering in prayer, and yet it was to Peter that Jesus said, Don't you love me? Even if a person is a martyr and gives their body to be burned without love, 1 Corinthians 13. A man can have remarkable gifts, be blessed with a unique calling for ministry and service. And we have been blessed. Lord has placed us in the Reformed and Presbyterian tradition. What gifts He's given to us. But is the love for Christ the motive for all that we do? Is your motive of serving as a deacon out of love for Christ? Being busy for the Lord is not the same thing as loving the Lord. And when we get overwhelmed with the needs and the demands, the Lord isn't calling us to work harder in your own strength, but to draw upon him the branch, must abide in the vine. Without me you can do nothing, Jesus said, John 15. First caution is we can get overwhelmed at all the needs. We can get distracted by pressing needs. And third, we can forget why we're working to meet those needs. We know we can't meet all the needs, even the legitimate ones. And there is a place to resist false guilt. We need to be in prayer, knowing our calling, knowing our gifting, knowing our resources, knowing our limits. And then when God is providentially placed in our path, we need to respond. How can I respond? But we need to remember above all things that we do our ministry out of love for Christ, not just to be busy. Don't allow the many needs of others, the many activities, many duties to displace the Lord Himself at the very presence, the very center of our conscious hearts. I think Dr. Rayburn put it well. He said, We are most of us not tempted to reject the Lord or to become indifferent to living for him. We love him and we want to serve him. Our danger is far more likely to be a distraction, such as Martha experienced. We're busy with all the things we have to do, duties and obligations that we must fulfill. Things at home, things at work, activities and responsibilities with our wives or husbands, with our children, with our Christian friends, with the church and with our neighbors. Our lives are crowded with important, necessary things that must be done. We fully intend to serve the Lord in and by doing all of this, but by a subtle, unrecognized and unwitting loss of perspective, we allow these activities and these duties to displace the Lord Himself and His presence at the center consciousness of our hearts. We're just doing. We're not in all of that doing, actively believing in the Lord, loving him, and acting in the conscious awareness of his presence with us. And as any thoughtful Christian knows from his experience, this unmindfulness of the Lord, this lack of concentration on him, this busyness in which we forget him, and his grace and his presence happens every day and without our conscious recognition, such it was in Martha's case, and such it is very often in ours. Our Christian life in this way is reduced, at least at that moment, to a set of beliefs and to a system of duties. It's not at that moment an affair of the heart, an active dependence of our souls on him, a seeking of the Lord Jesus Himself. That was Martha's mistake. She should have realized that she was serving the Lord, that he loved her for that service, that it counted for even more because she was doing it for him and doing it alone, and that he would never fail to appreciate her sacrifice because he loved her and he loved what she was doing. She should have reveled in the fact that she was making it possible for her sister to sit at the Lord's feet, but too often the person of Jesus Himself recedes into the background, and activities replace him in our active consciousness. Even those activities that we're ostensibly doing in his name for his sake. End of quote. Three cautions were to remember that we will not meet all the needs. We need to know what the Lord has called you to do. And we can get distracted by present, pressing needs. They're not the same as loving the Lord. And like Martha, number three, we will forget why we're working to meet those needs. Don't allow the activities and these duties to displace your love for the Lord. The account reminds us of the scripture standard for the believer. The account of the Good Samaritan illustrates we're to love our neighbors as ourselves. Jesus said, Go and do likewise. But I've become convinced meditating on the scripture, but that's not where the account ends. Go and do likewise. It ends with Mary and Martha. The account with Martha illustrates that in all your serving, being a good Samaritan must be out of love for Christ first. All things must be done for him, through him, and by him, and out of love for him. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, with all your mind. See, the incident with Martha and Mary illustrates that we're to love the Lord with all of our heart, as the reason why we are to love our neighbor. That's the reason why, Martha, you're to be in the kitchen making that meal. And Jesus says, one thing is necessary. And finally, it's not a thing at all, it's a person. It's the Lord Jesus Himself. Don't forget what Martha forgot. We must on all of our serving and all the busyness of life keep the love for Christ first. It all must be done for him and through him and by him and out of love for him. One thing is necessary. And it's finally not a thing at all, it's a person, the Lord Jesus Himself. Maybe you've read the classic book by Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God, and quoting him not as an unqualified endorsement of all that he said or who he was, but he's a good illustration of Martha. He was a 17th-century lay monk. His book was a favorite of John Wesley and the 20th century evangelical A.W. Tozer. Brother Lawrence's job was in the monastery kitchen, and it was his tedious chores of preparing meals and cleaning up after them, washing dishes, that he developed his conviction about keeping the presence of the Lord in the center of his active consciousness. He came to understand that having a proper heart about his tasks made every detail of his life possess the value. He writes, I began to live as if there were no one save God and me in the world. He felt that he cooked the meals, he ran the errands, he scrubbed the pots, he endured the scorn of the world alongside God in his presence. Quoting him again, referring to his life in the kitchen. This time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were upon my knees at the Blessed Sacrament. He admitted that coming to have this sense of God's presence with him in the kitchen wasn't easy. He spent years disciplining his heart and his mind to see that he was always in God's presence. As often as I could, I placed myself as a worshiper before him, fixing my mind upon his presence, recalling it, when I found it wandering from him, and this proved to be an exercise frequently painful, yet I persisted through all difficulties. He learned the one thing that his kitchen work was unto the Lord out of love for the Lord in his presence. And that's what the Lord was calling Martha to remember. Why are you doing all this? Is it out of love for me? May William Wilberforce's prayer be our prayer. Oh God, make me more earnest for thy glory. And may I act more from real love and gratitude to my redeeming Lord. Oh God, make me more earnest for thy glory. And may I act more from real love and gratitude to my redeeming Lord. One thing is necessary, and it's finally not a thing at all. It's a person, it's the Lord Jesus Christ. Shall we pray? Our Father, we come to you even asking for the love that we might respond back to you. We know that you have loved us first, and that's why we love you. We know that when you show us how much you have forgiven us and how great your grace has been to us, how you've been long-suffering and patience with us, our response is love. And so we are so grateful with all of our own sin and inadequacies and struggles to see that you use the likes of us and you've brought us into your kingdom and you've called us and given us good service and good work to do. How could you love the likes of us? We love you back. And O our Father, we pray that you would give us more and more this consciousness. Don't let us lose this from day to day. That we are to do all things, all of our work, all of our ministry, from this perspective that we love you with all of our heart. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

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