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Speaker 1: Matthew seventeen twenty seven. When I get caught up in

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Speaker 1: my final outcome. Through You God, I acknowledge that in

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Speaker 1: Lord in Jesus' name. Amen, thanks for making prayer a

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Speaker 1: priority in your life. To hear the Bible come to life,

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Speaker 2: The tax and the Great Warning. In our last story,

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Speaker 2: Now we learn about Jesus's provision for Peter during the

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Speaker 3: Hello, I'm Jack Graham of today's episode of the Bible.

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Speaker 3: In a year, the last time we were together, we

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Speaker 3: Jesus is his son. Today we'll hear about God's provision

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Speaker 2: Jesus took his disciples to Capernium. It was tax season

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Speaker 3: As we have already seen, Jesus often went against convention,

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Speaker 3: and continued teaching that anyone who receives a child receives him,

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Speaker 3: in Him we are not strangers but children of the King.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for today's reading that it teaches us about greatness,

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Speaker 3: thank you for your grace that modeled this kind of

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