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Series B – Fifth Sunday After Epiphany – Sunday, February 4, 2018 | Pr. Chris Rosebrough

Welcome to the Teaching Ministry of Kongsvinger Lutheran Church. Kongsvinger is a beacon for the Gospel of Jesus Christ and is located on the plains of Northwestern Minnesota. We proclaim Christ and Him crucified for our sins and salvation by grace through faith alone, and now, here’s a message from Pastor Chris Rosebrough:

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0:22	The holy Gospel
0:29	According to Saint Mark chapter 1 verses 29-39 immediately Jesus left the synagogue
0:36	entered the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John now Simon’s mother-in-law lay ill with a fever and
0:43	immediately they told him about her and he came and took her by the hand and
0:49	lifted her up and the fever left her and she began to serve them that evening at
0:54	sundown they brought to him all who were sick or oppressed by demons and the
0:59	whole city was gathered together at the door and he healed many who were sick with various diseases and cast out many
1:05	demons and he would not permit the demons to speak because they knew him and Rising very early in the morning
1:12	while it was still dark he departed and went out to a desolate place and there he prayed and Simon and those who were
1:19	with him searched for him and they found him and said to him everyone is looking
1:24	for you and he said to them let us go to the next towns that I may preach there also for that is why why I came out and
1:33	he went throughout all Galilee preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons this is the gospel of the Lord in
1:40	the name of Jesus all right last time I saw you I was sick
1:46	and I’ve spent the majority of my time this week fighting the flu that means I’ve done a lot of resting
1:53	against my will really thinking sleeping a lot of that and coming to grips with
1:59	the physical limitations that have been imposed On Me by this flu how ironic
2:05	that after a few bouts of the fever this week that I would end up preaching on this text it’s kind of funny sometimes
2:10	you sit there on your back and you look up to heaven and you say really God really serious you got a sense of humor
2:17	what I’d like to do today as we look back at Our Gospel text if you want to put your finger there as we look back at
2:24	Our Gospel text I would like to consider Our Gospel text in light of the topic of prayer and in order to discuss prayer
2:31	we’re going to talk a little bit about what prayer is not there’s a lot of misunderstanding regarding prayer and
2:37	I’m going to mention a few of them number one many times people think that prayer is kind of a last resort I’ve
2:43	mentioned this before in a sermon but it Bears repeating and it’s this idea that if somebody is truly ill very sick
2:50	somebody might meekly say something to the effect of I think we might want to
2:55	consider praying for this in such a person and somebody might let out a gasp and go oh my goodness has it really come
3:01	to that we’re really to the point where we’ve got to pray that’s not a good way of looking at prayer but another way
3:08	that people think about prayer and it’s a false way of praying and I must step
3:13	on some toes here is that many of the people who are in Roman Catholicism they
3:18	spend a lot of time praying to Saints we’re praying to the Virgin Mary we’re going to talk a little bit about that as
3:24	well now don’t think that I’m not an equal opportunity discerner here in
3:30	American evangelicalism if you listen to Christian radio or Christian television you may have come across a fellow or
3:37	nowadays there’s preachers who are women who are preaching and teaching that we as Christians when we pray that somehow
3:44	we are to exercise authority over well flues and diseases and demons and things
3:51	like this and so rather than humble in praying to God God have mercy on us please help us or please heal us they
3:58	instead do this crazy thing where they literally say ow you flew I bind you in
4:04	the name of Jesus and I cast you off of people and it was kind of funny this week while I was Ill somebody I think
4:12	they were trying to make me laugh but it actually kind of made me upset sent me a video of Gloria Copeland the wife of the
4:19	televangelist Kenneth Copeland and Kenneth Copeland’s wife literally was saying that no Christian needs to have a
4:25	flu shot and that Jesus has already given them a flu shot and all they have to do is exercise their faith and say I
4:32	will not get the flu and they won’t get it well clearly I didn’t do the right thing I ended up flat on my back and it
4:38	was just too late for me but we’ll talk about that a little bit as well but the other thing that happens is that we as
4:45	Christians oftentimes despair we literally think who am I I’m so small
4:50	I’m so insignificant that why on Earth would the god of Heaven listen to me why
4:59	on Earth should I feel like he’s going to answer my prayers and so sometimes in our experience we are tempted to believe
5:05	that our prayers somehow we pray them and then they bounce right off the ceiling and fall on the carpet but
5:11	that’s not what happens with our prayers and so we’re going to consider Our Gospel text then today in light of what
5:19	real prayer is and you’re going to find how amazingly well humble it is it’s not
5:25	flashy it’s not showy in fact it’s quite simple if you get it down at its core along the way kind of debunks some of
5:32	these bad ideas regarding prayer so our gospel text begins with these words immediately Jesus left the synagogue he
5:38	entered the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John now Simon’s mother-in-law lay ill with a fever this
5:46	Bear’s note is that the Roman Catholicism teaches that Peter is the very first pope and you’re going to
5:51	notice that he has a mother-in-law now I only know one way in which you can acquire a mother-in-law and that is you
5:58	have to marry a gal I’m just saying so this would mean that Peter was married I
6:03	want to put that out there so his mother-in-law is ill she has a fever and I know exactly how miserable that is
6:09	it’s very recent memory and so listen to this immediately they told him about her
6:16	I would like you to think about that at its core that is exactly what prayer is
6:24	it’s really that simple you have a need or your neighbor has a need and prayer
6:31	is as simple as telling Jesus about the person who is in need it doesn’t you
6:38	don’t have to pray in King James English you don’t have to learn your thieves and thou’s and dies and dines
6:44	does that make any sense no you can just simply say your prayers
6:49	can be just as simple as Jesus my neighbor has a problem what are you
6:54	going to do about it that it could be really that simple and you’ll note that even that prayer
7:00	expects that Jesus is going to do something about it so they go to Jesus and they tell Jesus about Peter’s
7:07	mother-in-law and Jesus answers the prayer this time he answered The Prayer
7:12	by deciding that it was his will that she would be healed and so he came and I
7:17	love this picture he took her by the hand and lifted her up you’ll see this again in the gospel of Mark with the
7:23	story of jarius’s daughter jarius’s daughter who had died and while Jesus was on the way to heal her and when he
7:31	gets into the upper room he takes her by the hand and he says to her talitha kume which means little girl arise
7:39	and it’s a term of endearment kind of the same thing is happening here there’s there’s Simon’s sick mother-in-law he
7:46	takes her by the hand what kindness our Lord has and he lifts her up and the fever left her and she began to
7:54	serve them in a cross-reference the Greek actually says that Jesus forgave her the fever and I think a good way to
8:00	think of it then is this is that every time we’re sick or we’re down with a cold or a flu we’re having a little bit
8:06	of a wrestling match with death each illness is kind of like that and so when
8:11	Jesus heals us whether he heals us via the doctors or he allows your body to do its natural thing with its immune system
8:18	and you’re able to be restored to health that’s kind of if you would a little mini Resurrection little being raised
8:25	from the dead I love the picture there so there’s an example of what prayer looks like tell somebody about Jesus
8:32	Jesus answers it’s that simple it’s not that hard now another picture we see
8:38	then in what follows is another example of prayer and sometimes prayer doesn’t
8:43	involve words it involves actions and so here’s what it says that evening at sundown they brought to Jesus all who
8:50	were sick or who were oppressed by demons and so in this case the prayer is actually them saying Jesus is there I’m
8:57	going to take you to where Jesus is and in this case you can kind of think of it this way your unbelieving neighbors and
9:04	friends and family members bringing them here to church or bringing them to a church where they can hear the gospel
9:10	that is a form of action prayer if you would knowing that Jesus is present to
9:16	help them to heal them to open their eyes to free them from the Demonic to give them faith and forgive their sins
9:22	so this is an action prayer if you would not spoken with words but put into
9:28	effect by action taking somebody to where Jesus is so the whole city they gathered together at the door and he
9:34	healed many who were sick with various diseases and he cast out many demons and he would not permit the demons to speak
9:40	because they knew him yeah Jesus doesn’t like it when demons speak and then here’s a list the last part of our
9:47	gospel text that I would like us to consider you would think that Jesus Christ the son of God God in human flesh
9:53	that if anybody had the right to walk around the the countryside and have a little bit of a God complex it would be
10:00	him but he doesn’t and you’re going to note that in Philippians 2 we’re reminded
10:05	that Christ in his Incarnation has humbled himself and although he is God
10:10	in human flesh and he is equal with God he here in his work in taking on our our
10:17	human flesh and living a sinless life for us he lives as a man who has a god
10:24	it’s a kind of an important thing and so listen to what it says this Rising very early in the morning while it was still
10:30	dark he departed and went to a desolate place and there he prayed and you’ll see that’s a recurring theme throughout all
10:37	of the gospels that Jesus was a man of prayer which should tell us something
10:43	Jesus is God in human flesh and he made a point of praying now I and you we are
10:52	Saints and we are also still Sinners at the same time we are not God in human
10:58	flesh we are regenerate believers who still have a sinful nature
11:03	if God and human flesh has got to pray maybe we should consider just how
11:08	important it is and not despise it or look at it as if it doesn’t mean anything over and again I’m surprised at
11:15	how many people despise baptism it seems so humble tap water I baptize you in the
11:20	name of the father Son and Holy Spirit what’s the big deal well the big deal is that God’s word reveals what goes on in
11:26	baptism it’s huge you’re United with Christ and his death and his resurrection your sins are washed away
11:32	your heart is circumcised by the very hand of Christ himself that’s important stuff and so we dare not despise what
11:39	looks so humble in the same way prayer looks so humble but don’t believe for a second that it’s
11:46	not important in fact I think it is so important that this is one of the reasons why the devil tries to get our
11:53	mind off track when it comes to prayer because the devil just the devil knows exactly how important it is so Jesus
12:01	himself is a man of prayer now I would like to frame then the rest of our discussion as we look at this concept of
12:08	Prayer in light of the first commandment the first commandment says you shall
12:14	have no other gods and I think Martin Luther’s explanation from the large
12:20	catechism the opening paragraphs in the large catechism really will help us get what this is talking about and then how
12:27	it relates to prayer and if I could I’d like to quote Luther from the large catechism just a little bit right here
12:33	and here’s what Luther says you shall have no other gods that is you shall regard me alone as your God and that’s
12:40	God’s speaking so what does this mean how is it to be understood what is it to
12:46	have a god what is a God I mean what’s the point of having one and what what’s that all mean
12:51	the great questions and so he says a God is that to which we look for all good
12:57	and in which we find refuge in every time of need to have a God is nothing
13:04	else than to trust and believe him with our whole heart as I have often said the
13:11	trust that trust and faith of the Heart Alone make both God or it could also
13:17	make an idol if your faith and trust are right then your God is true is the true
13:23	God but on the other hand if your trust is false and it’s wrong then you have
13:28	not the true God for these two Belong Together faith and God that to which
13:35	your heart clings and entrusts itself is I say really your God so the purpose of
13:42	this commandment therefore is to require true faith and confidence of the heart
13:47	and these fly straight to the one true God and they cling to him alone so the
13:53	meaning is this see to it that you let me alone be your God and never seek another God in other
14:01	words whatever good you lack look to me for it seek it from me and whenever you
14:08	suffer Misfortune and distress come and cling to me I am the one who will
14:14	satisfy you and I am the one who will help you out of every need only let your
14:20	heart cling to no one else and so you’ll see then this idea and I
14:25	think Luther is on to something this idea that our God is the one to
14:30	whom we look in our time of need and prayer is intricately linked with
14:36	that because prayer connects us with God and has us communicating to God what our
14:43	needs are and when we pray to God we are praying with the expectation and trust
14:48	that he hears us loves us and will meet our needs and so you’ll note then that
14:55	true faith in the one true God that prayer is the natural thing that comes about as a result of it now this is the
15:02	reason why then prayers to Saints and prayers to the Virgin Mary are actually Blasphemous note that by praying to them
15:09	I would be expecting them it to be doing what Christ has promised
15:15	to do what God has promised to do and I would be putting my faith in them and
15:21	you’ll note that within Roman Catholicism they have saints for just about any occasion that or any need that
15:27	you might have so are you a fellow in need of selling his house there’s a
15:33	saint for that that’s Saint Joseph are you traveling and in need of protection while you’re traveling well there’s a
15:40	saint for that and are you burdened down with burdens well apparently there’s a saint for that
15:45	as well and I learned that that’s saying to Saint Christopher but I went and learned that that the story about Saint
15:52	Christopher isn’t even true he didn’t even really exist so your prayers to him go nowhere are you an artilleryman and
15:59	are you in need of protection on the battlefield well then you say you pray to Saint Barbara
16:04	I’m not making that up that’s true and you’re going to note then that when I’m expecting these
16:10	Saints to do under this system is the thing that God has promised to do for me
16:15	why would I pray to a saint and expect the good that I expect from God from
16:21	them you see it doesn’t make any sense and scripture is very clear in first Timothy 2 5 there is one God and there’s
16:29	one mediator between God and men and that is the man Jesus Christ
16:34	so we are to pray to the father we are to pray to Christ we are not to pray to
16:40	anybody else whether they were saintly in this life or not now the other thing
16:46	that we mentioned at the beginning of the sermon was this temptation to believe that God does not hear our
16:52	prayers it is a real Temptation I don’t know if you’ve ever had those seasons in your
16:57	life where you have a great need and you are diligent in your prayers and
17:05	yet the answer from Heaven seems to be slow in coming it’s as if you had
17:10	ordered a need off of a mail order catalog and it got ordered from China and the boat somehow sank somewhere in
17:17	the Pacific and you’re waiting for it to arrive and you’re thinking does God even hear my
17:23	prayers well our Old Testament text helps us in this sense our Old Testament text actually gives us the right way of
17:31	understanding these things and I would like you to consider open up to Isaiah 40 21-31 and listen to how God is assuring
17:40	us of his great power and might and how his great power in might is not used by
17:46	him to ignore us but his great power and Sovereign
17:51	knowledge is an assurance that he hears us and there’s a wonderful promise at
17:57	the end of our Old Testament text here’s what it says do you not know do you not hear has it not been told to you from
18:04	the beginning and have you not understood from the foundations of the Earth it is he who sits above the circle of
18:10	the earth and its inhabitants are all like grasshoppers who stretches out the heavens like a curtain spreads them like
18:16	a tent to dwell in and he brings princes to nothing makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness now that sounds like a
18:22	scary thing but you’re going to note there those of you who believe in the Flat Earth this just got blown away by
18:27	the fact that God sits above the circle of the earth just saying yeah we had a lunar eclipse and you’ll notice that
18:34	that when the earth passed you know in front of the Moon and with big circle
18:39	you know yeah that’s because we’re on a globe but all of this is to note this that God himself is describing himself
18:46	as sitting above the Earth and he sees us like Grasshoppers and he’s the one in
18:52	his mighty power who stretched out the heavens and scarcely he says they are planted talking about the princes he’s
18:58	the one who puts heads of states in power in years past it was kings and
19:03	queens and now it’s presidents and prime ministers but he’s the one who was establishes them and he is the one who
19:09	takes them out of office as well and so he’s the one who scarcely has planted them scarcely sown them when their stem
19:17	is taken root and then he blows on them and they wither and the Tempest carries them off like stubble we always rejoice
19:24	when presidents we don’t like it blown away like that and we would prefer the ones we like to stay a little bit longer
19:29	but God is the one who puts them in and takes them out so he says to this he says this to whom will you then compare
19:36	me that I should be like him says the Holy One lift up your eyes and see who
19:41	created these he who brings out their host by number calling them all by name by the greatness of his might and
19:48	because he is strong in power not one is missing and here we have this wonderful picture of God in the heavens and we
19:55	know the names of different stars and nebulas and galaxies and things like that God has them all already named and
20:02	he says none of them are missing and he says why do you say oh Jake Jacob and
20:08	Speak O Israel my way is hidden from the Lord and my right is disregarded by my
20:14	God and see God is saying do you not understand I see it all nothing is missing my might
20:24	and my knowledge is so deep and unfathomable that I know when a sparrow
20:29	dies out in the field and you are not missed by God you are not missing and so
20:37	he’s assuring us he’s assuring us that he has not disregarded us he says have
20:42	you not known have you not heard the Lord is the Everlasting God he’s the
20:48	creator of the ends of the Earth he does not faint or grow weary his understanding is unsearchable and listen
20:56	to this then he gives power to the faint and that’s me and that’s you and to him
21:03	who has no might he increases strength even youth shall faint and be weary and
21:11	young men shall fall exhausted I always think it’s funny that the Olympic
21:17	athletes and I’m an Olympic guy I love the Olympics looking forward next couple weeks when the Olympics get rolling but
21:22	I always find it fascinating that these young really well-carved athletic types
21:28	that after they’ve competed in their events there they are off to the side going
21:33	the strongest Among Us have a limited amount of power oh if only I had half of
21:39	it next life next life right but here’s what God promises us he says this even
21:46	you shall feign and be weary young men shall fall exhausted but they who wait on Yahweh they shall renew
21:55	their strength and here is a promise for the resurrection and the life to come
22:02	now we languish under the curse now the wages of sin is death now our bodies age
22:08	and Decay and grow old and oh if I can only do a hundred meter swim like I used
22:13	to when I was 18. I’d probably kill me now right but we all know what this
22:19	feels like but here God is promising us not only do I hear you not only are you
22:24	not disregarded I am promising you that if you wait on me I will renew your
22:30	strength you yourselves will Mount up with like wings like eagles you will run
22:35	and you will not be weary you will walk and not be faint
22:40	you see God hears all of your pleas for Mercy he heals hears all of your prayers
22:46	for healing and here’s the fun thing in this is that here we see that all of our
22:53	prayers in Christ ultimately are yes and amen and you think about this for a
22:58	second we have prayed for those who have been terminally ill here at Kong’s finger and they have died
23:05	we have prayed that God and His Mercy would heal them and they stop breathing
23:10	and now they’re out there and yet this text teaches us that all of our prayers
23:17	for healing ultimately have a yes and that yes is in the resurrection
23:23	and in that yes we learn that although now our bodies fall apart that then when
23:29	he calls us from the grave that in that day we will Mount up with wings like eagles we will run not be weary we will
23:36	walk and not be faint and that we will totally be healed and that’s the promise
23:42	so prayer then is not ignored by God that’s the part that we need to get into
23:48	our heads now keep this in mind now I know I’ve been making a lot about prayer and some of you in hearing this
23:57	may be saying pastor I hear what you’re saying but you got to understand you’re
24:03	actually kind of stepping on my toes here because as you’ve been talking about prayer and
24:10	things that people do wrong about it I realize I have not trusted God as I
24:15	ought to have trusted him and I have not been calling upon God in my times of
24:21	trouble and need and I have not asked him to help me as I ought to instead
24:27	I’ve trusted in myself I’ve trusted in my bank account I’ve trusted in my
24:32	ability to put together a cool scheme or a cunning plan or I have trusted in my
24:38	and then just fill in the blank what have you trusted him
24:43	Now worse you may have also trusted in the false words of a false teacher I
24:50	made mention of Gloria Copeland earlier and this is the part I’d like to put this in here
24:55	Gloria Copeland in the video that was sent to me literally in her prayer this was her prayer these were her exact
25:01	words flew I bind you off the people in the name of Jesus and you people just
25:08	need to keep saying I will never have the flu I will never have the flu put words inoculate yourself with the word
25:16	of God that’s not a prayer that is not a prayer and here’s the
25:23	problem remember prayer ultimately identifies in whom or what you are
25:28	trusting if you think that somehow prayer is saying to the flu I bind you I cast you
25:37	off who’s your god you are
25:43	listen I’m a terrible God I want to get out of this God business altogether and that’s the problem with my sinful nature
25:49	in your sinful nature your miserable little Gods too you’re awful at it so get out of the god business and stop
25:56	thinking that you can somehow command and control flus and diseases and stuff like this and instead trust in the one
26:02	who can actually do something about it who actually has the authority to take the flu off of you and that’s God not
26:09	you and see that’s the problem with with this false teaching that has invaded the church regarding prayer it turns
26:15	Christians into little deities who rather than asking God and trusting in
26:20	Him for the good that they need are trusting in themselves in their own authority and their own power as if
26:27	somehow they have the authority to cast these things off and they don’t so all of that being said let’s end our
26:35	sermon today by noting this that each and every one of us we have not prayed
26:42	as we ought this is the reality some of you
26:47	have erred in prayer in different ways even than when I have described and what
26:53	that reveals is that we are guilty collectively of breaking the first
26:58	commandment and having a different God whether that God is yourself whether
27:05	that God is your cunning schemes and plans with that God is your money
27:10	doesn’t matter we all have fallen short in this way and when we fall short it
27:17	actually condemns us it makes us feel guilty because we realize ah I do not pray have not prayed as God
27:26	would have me pray and to this I would say this is true and scripture says that that’s a sin
27:34	and scripture has given us the solution to our sin in Jesus Christ and tells us
27:39	to repent tells us to acknowledge and confess that we are guilty of breaking the first commandment and scripture also
27:47	commands us to be forgiven I would remind you brothers and sisters that
27:52	Jesus himself being a man of prayer that we have an example of one of his prayers that is well worth looking at and it’s
27:59	found in the Gospel of John chapter 17. and I’m not going to read it in its
28:05	entirety because it would take quite a bit of time but I would want to point out to you that toward the end of this
28:13	High Priestly prayer that Jesus in this prayer he prays for
28:18	his disciples but I want you to note something that in his prayer he also has
28:24	prayed for you have you considered that
28:29	and I want you to listen to these words of Christ I’ll start part way through the prayer and Jesus says this he says I
28:36	have manifested your name father to the people whom you gave me out of the world yours they were and you gave them to me
28:44	and they have kept your word now they know that everything that you have given me is from you for I have given them the
28:52	words that you gave to me and they have received them and have come to know the truth that I have come from you and they
28:59	have believed that you sent me and I am praying for them I am not praying for
29:05	the world but For Those whom you have given to me for they are yours all mine
29:10	are yours and yours are mine I am glorified in them I am no longer in the
29:16	world but they are in the world I am coming to you then Holy Father keep them in your name which you have given me
29:22	that they may be one even as We Are One while I was with them I kept them in
29:29	your name which you have given to me I have guarded them and and not one of them has been lost except for the son of
29:35	Destruction that the scripture might be fulfilled but now I am coming to you and
29:41	these things I speak in the world that they may have my joy fulfilled in
29:46	themselves I have given them your word and the world has hated them because they are not of the world just as I am
29:54	not of the world I do not ask that you take them out of the world but that you keep them from the evil one they are not
30:01	of the world just as I am not of the world so sanctify them in the truth your
30:06	word is truth and so you’re going to note here Christ praying for his disciples praise that the father would
30:14	sanctify them and sanctify them through the word and the word itself is truth as you sent
30:20	me into the world so I have sent them into the world and for their sake I consecrate myself that they also may be
30:26	Sanctified in the truth and then he goes on and listen to these words I do not ask for these only so far Jesus
30:35	in this prayer is praying for his disciples who were with him while he was praying and this is on the night that he
30:41	was betrayed this is Monday Thursday the day before he goes to the Cross so he says I do not ask for these only but
30:46	also for those who will believe in me through their word that they may all be
30:52	one just as you father are in me and I in you that they also may be in us so
30:59	that the world may believe that you have sent me you’re going to note Jesus prayed for you
31:06	because you brothers and sisters believe in Jesus because of the word
31:11	that was written down and preached by the apostles you are believing through
31:16	the word that they have given and so Jesus here is praying for you and he says this the glory that you have given
31:23	me I have given to them that they may be one as we are one i in them you and me
31:28	that we may become perfectly one so that the world may know that you sent me and love them even as you love me and now
31:36	listen to this father I desire that they also that’s you that
31:43	you whom you have given me that they may be with me where I am to see my glory
31:50	that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world
31:55	think of it this way yes we have fallen short Christ has forgiven us but more
32:02	than that he has also prayed for you and here he has explicitly said in his
32:08	prayer that is Jesus’s will that you be where he is
32:14	that’s his will he is continuing to sanctify you to sustain you in the one
32:20	true Faith to convict you of your sins even today he’s going to feed you with
32:25	his very body and blood broken and shed for the Forgiveness of your sins you see you are prayed for
32:34	you are bled for you are died for and in Jesus prayer we see him humbly
32:40	expressing his desire and will for you to be where he is
32:45	so as we travel in our Wilderness wanderings towards the promised land of the new Earth
32:52	as we wait for Christ to return know this brothers and sisters yes we fall short
32:59	but Christ has prayed for you he Wills for you to be where he is he has
33:04	forgiven you he is sustaining you and he has prayed that the father would continue to sanctify you in the word
33:11	they say the prayers of a righteous man availeth much I cannot think of a more righteous man than Christ
33:18	and his prayers for you still redound to this day
33:24	so therefore you who are prayed for pray
33:30	in the name of Jesus amen

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