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Speaker 2: Com, Zechius and Vardimius. In our last story, the sting

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Speaker 2: Now we learn about two men who followed Jesus, one

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Speaker 3: In our last episode, we heard of the miraculous resurrection

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Speaker 3: see how Jesus encounters two different kinds of men, but

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Speaker 2: Jesus was passing through the city of Jericho. A sea

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Speaker 3: How could this dishonest, deceiful man manage to get an

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Speaker 3: Now remember this about salvation, what it means to be

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Speaker 3: This is the gift of God. But once we become

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Speaker 3: And when we come to faith in Jesus, we follow

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Speaker 3: Bartimaeus who heard Jesus was coming to his town. The

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Speaker 3: He kept saying, Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me.

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Speaker 3: Hearing his Christ, Jesus asked for the man to be

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Speaker 3: as it was with Zachias. This man's response in faith

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Speaker 3: glory of God. Let's pray thank you Lord that, like Zachieas,

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Speaker 3: we were lost without you, but you found us. You

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Speaker 3: that blind man Bartimaeus, we could not see you, but

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Speaker 3: we believed in you. The world says seeing is believing,

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Speaker 3: but we know you say believing is seeing. So Lord,

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Speaker 3: we look to you and in faith we trust you

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Speaker 3: and follow you with all of our hearts in Jesus' name. Amen.

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