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Monday, May 6, 2024

Bear Coloring Page: The Eyes Of The Lord are In Everyplace



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Sunday, March 10, 2024

Have a Clean Heart

Matthew 6:1




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Monday, April 24, 2023

The Seeds of Influence

                                  

 The Seeds of Influence

 

Spring is here, and there is so much to do.  I look out my window and think, look at all the work I have to do!

In the Spring a lot of things that look like they are dead and gone, start growing.  We see the fruit from seeds that grow from last year.  We are not talking about oranges and grapes but about tulips, peonies, and multiple other perennials. This is something that happens normally in the spring. As we see the garden grow, we are seeing more and more of what it’s producing. 

Everything we do or don’t do in life is like planting seeds.  When we are dead and gone the seeds planted by our lives will continue to grow. 

My dad died when my youngest child was a baby.  My dad was a dedicated provider for his family.  He worked three jobs to provide for our family when I was a toddler.  He liked to rebuild engines and he had a lot of friends. My dad liked to listen to me sing. I loved both my mom and my dad. My dad died suddenly from a massive heart attack. He died at 57 yrs old while chopping wood. He was always working up to the day he died.  

My mother and my stepfather died about a year ago. I miss them both and think about them every day,

My mother was an excellent cook and consistently had meals on the table.  She was a good housekeeper and could do any craft.  She was a very gifted manager and a hard worker.  I looked up to her for all her good qualities.  My mother always used endearing words, like, Sweetheart, Honey, and Baby.  

 

 My stepfather was a very hard worker and consistently took care of their property.  He took his mother with him to his work and she ran her little crafting/ flee market business up until she was in her 90s.  They died at the same time.  Their funerals were at the same time. They both worked up until the day they died. 

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Just recently, three people died that impacted my life. My Son In-laws mother died.  She was only 9 years older than me. She was the other grandmother to my grandchildren. She was a sweet Christian, a beautiful person.  She has been an influence on my grandchildren and my daughter.  She has planted some good seeds and those seeds will continue to grow in our hearts and the hearts of so many. 

This past week two other great people died, Patch the Pirate and also Charles Stanley, both these men, through their ministries, impacted my life and also my family’s life.  As a young mother, I started listening to Charles Stanley and also Patch the Pirate.  I often sang Patch the Pirate songs as I reminded my children to be good and to have a better attitude.  I didn’t really have a stable home life in my youth, my mother left us. My dad had his own life. I quit school after my mother left and no one was there to encourage me otherwise.  Eventually, I did take the GED test.  When I was a teenager, I sought God even though I didn’t always make good decisions. I attended church and Sunday School consistently. The people of my church picked me up every Wednesday and Sunday for all services.  

I made a profession of faith at seven years old and was baptized with my mother.  I made sure of my salvation and I was re-baptized just after turning 15 years old. I was saved in an Independent F Baptist Church. I met my husband and married at 23 years old.  We've been married for 36 years.  

I did not know how to raise children and looked for that counsel through Charles Stanley’s Radio Ministry.  Patch the Pirate and also Focus on The Family’s Odyssey Audio Ministry was the biggest influence in raising our children in a way that would please God. I asked God to help me each day and I still ask God to help me each day.  He helped me through good people and their influence.  

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You will always be an influence in our lives.  We miss you more each day and appreciate you more and more.  Your influence will be the flowers that grow in our hearts and lives and the strength that helps us to stand.  Love you Forever.

God uses our influence when we think our influence is done. 

Susan Y Nikitenko

April 24, 2023 ©


 

2 Corinthians 9:6 
But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly, and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.




Coloring Page

Heart and Flowers Hand Drawn Susan Nikitenko 2023





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Saturday, May 28, 2022

Somebody Loves Me











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Saturday, February 26, 2022

Bulletin Board Jelly Bean Hearts Borders









Put together strips by cutting an edge and gluing with a glue stick.
Staple them on.

I used flannel on this board.

If you put sandpaper onto the back of the pictures
you're using to teach with.
they will stick to flannel. 

 







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Monday, February 21, 2022

Be Strong In The Lord Ephesians 6:10

 




Eph 6:10  Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.











Will You Love God?






 this was taught with our lesson yesterday.

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Sunday, February 20, 2022

Trust In The Lord - God is The Rock


 Deuteronomy  32:4
 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.



God Gives Us Strength.

This is going with the bible story of how God provides water from the rock.
God told Moses to strike the rock with his rod.
God proves his love through provision.
They would have died without water. We need water to live.

We would have died in our sins without Jesus.
He is our salvation. His love is strong and never fails us.
God helps us love each other the way he loves us.
God gives us the strength to do what He wants us to do.
We can do nothing within ourselves that is righteously worthy.
Christ enables us as God enabled Moses.

We are learning the hymn.... The Old Rugged Cross.

Below:



I'm going to read the writing I wrote yesterday - God Proved His Love.

or if you'd rather sing it....




We are painting rocks today in class and talking about how God has a rock-solid
love for us and how he supplies our needs.

You'll Need
Smooth hand-sized stones,
fabric markers, and heart stickers.
You'll need helpers if you have several kids.




We are starting this lesson out with several stories. The few two are to be quickly reviewed.
You'll need visuals for these stories. The visuals you will need are "One Example of the plagues on Egypt." "The blood being applied to the doorpost," "Moses holding his rod up at the opening of the red sea,'' and "Moses striking the rock.


1.

Blood On The Doorposts





Moses Parts The Red Sea - Isreal Crosses On Dry Ground


All Egypt Army and Pharaoh Die In The Red Sea.


In The Wilderness

Moses Struck The Rock



Arrange your visuals up on cardboard or the wall in the order they happen in the bible.
That way you can refer to your pictures without holding them.

God told Moses to go to Egypt and to tell Pharoah to let his people, go.

Act out as you teach, Tell Moses to take off his shoes, he's on holy ground


In each of the stories of the old testament it always comes back to the same thing. God provides to those who ask and to those that trust him.

Follow directly below: If you want to know how to be saved...... an invitation.

Will You Love Him?





The God of our Salvation

Today we are going to talk about these stories from the Bible Stories of Moses.

Moses at the burning bush,  Moses and the plagues, blood on the doorposts and being delivered from death,   The crossing of the Red Sea, the death of Pharoah and his army and  God supplies water from the rock once again saving the lives of the Jews.  The plagues God sent upon Egypt.   A reminder of the stubbornness of Pharoah and that God is much bigger than us or our enemies.

While we talk about these things remember to express yourself in an acting role.  Act things out while you teach, as though it is happening.  

Refer to your picture as you review 

Moses has found a burning bush. Shockingly God talks to Moses through the burning bush.  God told him to take off his shoes because He was standing on holy ground.   God told Moses to go back to Egypt and tell Pharoah to let his people go.  God's people were in slavery and were treated very poorly.  They were hit, killed, hurt, on a daily basis.  Some worked so hard in the hot sun that they died while being hit with a whip.  Their cries rose up to heaven and God heard them and knew all about the harshness they had to endure or they would die.  

God gave Moses someone to speak for him.  Aaron was Moses' helper.  He did the majority of the speaking for Moses.  Moses and Aaron obeyed the Lord.  they went before Pharoah several times.

Each time stubborn Pharoah said no.  God responded to his rebellion and through Moses did many wondrous things.  We can quickly read through this chart.  (The Ten Plagues)  Each time Moses went to Pharoah, Phoaah said no, to letting, God's people go. Pharaoh said no and God sent a plague, Pharaoh said no and God sent a plague, and on and on. 

(Refer to the pictures)

The last time Pharoah said, no God sent a final plague.  God would send a death angel, for the firstborn from each household would die.   

God gave his people special instructions.  If they followed the instruction as God commanded, no one would die from their family.

They were to kill a male lamb that was in perfect condition.  God told them to put the blood onto the doorposts.   They were protected by the blood on the doorposts.  

Death was everywhere in Egypt, but God's people were saved because of the blood.

Pharoah gave in after the last plague and he finally let God's people go. Once Pharaoh realized what Egypt would be without slaves.  He called all his army together and He and his army went after them to bring them back.  Once again God held back the army of Egypt, with a pillar of fire.  

God brought them to the edge of the Red Sea.  Moses held up his rod and then they saw the mighty works of God.  With joy, they moved forward upon the dry ground.  Soon Eygpt and Pharoah too followed when the Jews were more than halfway through.  God let go of the waters on Egypt's side of things and Pharoah and all his army drown'd. 

All of God's people sang and gave praises to God.  They were saved from the terrors of slavery.

Now, they are in the wilderness.  The wilderness is not what we think of as a wilderness.  We think a wilderness is full of beautiful trees of every kind., with deer and a stream running through. Deer and bears, squirrels and coons but in the bible, it is a dry thirsty land.  

Now there are numerous bible stories about the Jews in the wilderness.  (Refer to the pictures)

We are going to talk about Moses striking the rock.  God's people were very thirsty, there was not any water anywhere.  The people became angry and some wanted to go back to Egypt. They put a lot of pressure on Moses and they grievously complained. Moses went to pray and talked to God.  God told him to strike the rock.  Moses had a temper, he was angry at God's people.  They were being faithless and mean.  You would think after everything God had done for them they wouldn't have doubted what God can do.   Moses struck the rock as God told him to, but He struck it twice.  Water started gushing from the rock.  It was a wondrous miracle, it was like a flowing river.  Without water, they would have died.  God saved them from thirsting to death.

Nothing is too big for God to handle.   He can put down the greatest king.

He has power over life and death over land and sea.

He can make water flow from the depth of the earth.

Because God loves his people more than anything.

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He made a way for them to be saved and he made a way for us to be saved.

When Moses struck the rock he struck it twice.  God later told Moses he would not enter the promised land because He smote the rock a second time.  He didn't follow exactly what God wanted him to do.

David writes in the Psalms that "God is the Rock" of my strength.  This symbolizes Jesus Christ.

Jesus was struck in his side by the Centurian spear.  Water and blood gushed from his side. Just as a river of life flowed from the rock.

Jesus was smitten once for our sins and that's all it took boys and girls.  Jesus died once for all.

Just as the blood on the doorpost saved the lives of the firstborn.  Jesus' blood was shed for you.  If he had not died we would not live we would die in our sins.  

God's love is rock solid because he did everything to free His people just as he gave himself for us.

There is nothing too big for God when it comes to his children.

He loves You and that is absolutely true.

Will You Love Him?

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Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, 

 Psalms 62:7 In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

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Lesson:  Susan Y Nikitenko

February 27th, 2022 ©

Dear Father in Heaven, be with each person here today. Open their ears and their hearts to your truth.  Father invite them to yourself this morning. Help them understand how much you love them.

Just as your love shows for your children over and over in the old testament.  You parted the Red Sea for them, You made things happen, great things, mighty things because you loved them.

You gave your Son Jesus to pay our sin debt.  You made a Way. It's up to us to believe and obey.

I ask that those listening,  today, will humble themselves and pray.

and also believe upon your Son Jesus Christ, who shed his blood for our sin. In Christ's Name,

 I pray this. Amen




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Monday, August 5, 2019

Make a Sunshine Basket

Make yourself a basket ahead of time.  Show the kids your basket ahead of time.
 Talk about attitude, being thankful and rejoicing in the Lord.








I used two scrapbooking card stock pages.
The basket is larger than the video
I printed out verses.
I used tape because this is a craft I used
with a toddler.  It doesn't look as neat because it
is not made with glue.
I kept it simple for a small child.


I cut out all the pieces out ahead of time.
Everything folded ahead of time.
A sample example ahead of time.

There are all kinds of baskets in the world.
This activity is for any age.  Make it fit the age.

gift baskets
fruit baskets
food baskets
Easter baskets
apple baskets
craft baskets
bread baskets
storage baskets
wastebaskets
and now
 Sunshine baskets

smaller basket - video




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Saturday, February 23, 2019

The Ten Commandments


Exodus 20:2-17
1  I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
 6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
13 Thou shalt not kill.
14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15 Thou shalt not steal.
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.



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Wednesday, February 13, 2019

5 Artistic Wash Coloring Sheets Set 3


Artistic Was Coloring Sheets Set 3

Color With Color Pencils 
Follow Links Not Pictures

These  Coloring Pages Look

Great In Full Size 8X10












New Originals







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Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Bee A Repenter - Bee A Follower Of Christ Jesus Memory Work


















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Bee A Repenter Coloring Sheet And Poster




1 Peter 2:21 
For even hereunto were ye called: because 
Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, 
that ye should follow his steps:

Mark 1:4- 6
John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach 
the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. 
And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, 
and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized 
of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.
 And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with 
a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he 
did eat locusts and wild honey;





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Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Psalms 119 9-11 Memory Verse Chart Cutouts


Memory Verse Chart Cut Outs






Psalms 119:9 -11
Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.




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Friday, April 27, 2018

I Thank You From The Bottom Of My Heart





I Thank You From The Bottom Of My Heart

I thank-you from bottom of  my heart;  I thank-you from bottom of  my heart;
I was lost but now I'm found - Now I make a joyful sound.
I thank-you from the bottom of my heart.

I thank-you from bottom of  my heart; I thank-you from bottom of  my heart;
I was drowning in a sea -  But your love reached down to me.
I thank-you from the bottom of my heart.

When I think of all you've done for me; 
in your patience and your mercy;
I can't help but thank you in a ceaseless way, as I give you praise.

I thank-you from bottom of  my heart; I thank-you from bottom of  my heart;
You've blessed me day to day - Oh let me count the ways.
I thank-you from the bottom of my heart.

I thank-you from bottom of  my heart; I thank-you from bottom of  my heart;
For your unconditional love and that I am thought of.
I thank-you from the bottom of my heart.

When I have felt your presence near me;
When your still small voice comforts me;
I can't help but thank-you in a ceaseless way, as I give you praise.

I thank you from bottom of  my heart; I thank-you from bottom of  my heart;
You gave your life on Calvary, you filled my heart with joy.
 I thank-you from bottom of my heart.

Alone I sought thee, tearfully.
Your love was there to carry me;
I can't help but thank you - in a ceaseless way, as I give you praise.

I thank-you from the bottom of my heart.

Susan Y. Nikitenko
Praise Song
May 2nd, 2018

2 Corinthians 2:14a Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ









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Sunday, February 18, 2018

Lesson: The Hurt Heart




Prayer:
Song: 
Scripture Verse:

 Matthew 18:32-33
Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him,
 O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because
thou desiredst me: Shouldest not thou also have had compassion
 on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?

The Hurt Heart

    Let us start our class today by saying the pledge to the bible.  When we say the pledge we are making a promise to make (God's Word) what guides us in life through not only the best times of our lives but also the  darkest times in our lives.
    In life we have many hurts.  It could be a hurt that is temporary or a hurt that lasts a lifetime.  The hurts that last a lifetime are the ones that get to the heart.  In the pledge we promise to hide God's Word in our heart.  We do this by memorizing and understanding scripture.  The reason we hide God's Word in our heart is because it is through the heart our choices are made.  Our choices are made by either how we feel, our circumstances or what we want.   If we are right with God,  they will be made by prayer and what we  are taught in scripture first.  God knows that the devil wants our heart. 
     The devil will tempt us at the times we our most vulnerable, the times our heart has been hurt, at one of the very darkest points of grief or discouragement.  In these times we must follow what we know is true.  in a time of confusion, we can decipher  the truth from the fiction of what we are feeling and also from other people around us.
    
A couple weeks ago I surprised our church family by entering the room wearing a sheriff's badge.  They all called me Sheriff Susan.   They were all curious about it, but nobody asked.  Then we dismissed to Sunday School.  I told them  a story I heard a long time ago.  I heard about a police officer that was shot at while he was on duty.  Something kept him from being killed, something unusual.  The bullet hit his badge.  The badge kept the bullet from hitting his heart.  So I told the kids the true story of how the officer was saved by his badge.  The bible tells us to wear a shield, it is not a police badge, but is the shield of faith. 
     We are saved by faith, by taking God at His word.  Being saved by faith is our protection from belonging to the devil. While living by faith and hiding God's Word in our hearts is our shield against the fiery darts of the devil.

Now Today:
     I mentioned to them about the police officers that were killed checking out a 911 hang-up call.  They were shot and killed suddenly.  My husband knew one of them.  They grew up together, played football together and he attended our very small wedding 31 years ago.

    We heard of another shooting which Pastor prayed over this morning.  A deadly school shooting in Florida where many died.  I think about the coach that blocked the bullets from killing some of the students.  I'm sure He was a really big guy - most coaches are.  These violent killings happened because of hate, because of anger, because someones heart was being managed by the devil himself.  The young men who killed these valiant men and many other innocent people - had something messed up in their hearts.  When it's young people doing the shooting, we must talk about it.

    In sunday school,  I held my bible up over my heart and said..."Kids, the devil wants your heart and he wants it wounded. I'm not talking about your physical heart. I'm talking about your soul the very being of who you are.   He wants you to be bitter.  He wants you to stay angry. People will disappoint us, people could turn there backs on us, people you thought would always be there. but Jesus will never leave you nor forsake you.  There may not be anyone to cry to, no one to listen, but Jesus is your comforter, your shield your help in times of trouble.  The only defense we have as people against the fiery darts of satan is a Really Big shield.  I held the bible up over my heart and I pounded my hand on the Bible that covered my heart.  The Word Of God in our hearts mingled in faith blocks the fiery darts of the devil.  It won't allow Him to get to your heart.

Make Jesus the Biggest Valentine in your heart.  Love the Lord your God with all your heart.

     The devil wants us miserable , unhappy and defeated as Christians, but Jesus tells us we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.  Jesus is in every heart that has accepted Him by faith.
God promises to be there for us through our troubles, through our tears.

One of the biggest temptations in time of hurt is to become vengeful, unforgiving and bitter.  It is through these troubled dark times we must not allow these things to destroy  our faith.  It is through these things we must apply the scripture to our heartbreak and let it heal us by faith.
God teaches us that we have no choice but to forgive because we ourselves have never once deserved forgiveness.  Now there are some things that just cannot go without circumstances, but God does not want your heart remaining angry, or bitter.  His desire is that you overcome, by faith, trusting Him through what could be your hardest moments of life.

Jesus gives us a parable in scripture to teach us why we must forgive:

Read The Memory Verse Again  - Underline the Parts They Need To Memorize
Matthew 18: 21-35

Talk about it as you read it.  

Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?  Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven. 
Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants.  And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents.  But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.  The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.  Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt. 
But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest. {pence: the Roman penny is the eighth part of an ounce, which after five shillings the ounce is seven pence halfpenny; about fourteen cents}  
 And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.  And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.  So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done.   
Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me;  Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?  And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. 

 So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from the heart forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.

Father God,  I ask in the name of your Son, Christ Jesus that you heal  our broken hearts this morning, that we may renew our strength  and continue in faith, which we need to protect our hearts from the fiery darts of Satan.  If there are any here rebellious, unbelieving, wounded or doubting-  work the work of faith in their hearts today  and renew a right spirit within us.  That we may continue to obey you in faith ... heal the hurting.  Praise your name for what you will do in our hearts as we trust you. If there is anyone here that has not trusted Christ as there personal Saviour.  Jesus will not refuse anyone who genuinely wants Him to be the Lord of their lives. Christ Jesus died for your sins and arose victorious that you may be forgiven and become his child.  

Quiz:  Question And Answer Time About The Parable, About Forgiveness


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