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I want to make sure I'm using this apparatus correctly

when we get it together.

Isn't that funny when you got to give a warning for a scripture?

I must tell you you should probably give a warning for the entire Holy Bible

if you take it seriously.

Mm-hmm. if you take it seriously. Well I am delighted to be before you this morning

back in the book of Ruth.

And before I even get started, I have one of my dear sisters in the house this morning,

Theresa Johnson, sitting over there.

And she is a bit of a Ruth to me, a wise godly woman filled with integrity.

And so I am delighted to see her this morning. We worked together for years at Calvin

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