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Then God will claim you as his own son. He makes the sun shine on the good, the bad, and the ugly, and sends 'em all the same rain to boot.

Jesus told him, "Don't say a word about this to anyone. Instead, head to town and let the priest have a look at you. Take something with you so you can offer it to God for healin' you. This is how you will let people know you've been healed."

John the Baptist's day workers came and questioned Jesus about worshiping God by not eating. They asked, "Why is it that the religious know-it-alls and us fast, but your cowhands don't have to?"

It won't be you who'll be talkin' at 'em, it'll be the Spirit of God speakin' through you.

"If you tell everyone at the livery, the feed store, the cow sale, the boot shop, and anywhere else you go, that you belong to my crew, I will tell God you ride with me.

God will bless those who won't shy away or be ashamed of ridin' with me."

"Oh what a heavy price that Chorazin and Bethsaida are gonna have to pay. If the miracles that had been done there had been done in Tyre or Sidon, they would have stopped all their sinning and given glory to God.

That's when Jesus said, "Thank you God for hiding all these things from the know-it-alls and the pompous wise men, and showin' it all to little kids.

Jesus rode through a wheat field on the day God had told everyone to relax and rest. His cowboys were famished and picked some of the grain to eat.

He entered God's church, and all of them ate the food that had been left there as offering to God. They weren't supposed to do that. Only the priests are supposed to eat that food.

Cowboys mean a lot more to God than calves do! There ain't nothin' wrong with healin' on the day of rest."

But if I bust demons out of people by the power of God, then that means that God is right here with ya.

I'm tellin' you straight that every sin and wrongdoing will be forgiven except sinning against the power of God.

You can talk trash about me and it will be forgiven. But if you say that the Spirit of God is just hogwash and you will never want to ride with me or believe in God, for this, you will not be forgiven—in this time, or any time that comes.

When Jonah got out of the fish, he went to Nineveh and told them to quit behavin' like they were or they were goin' to hell. That city listened to him and turned to God. Now standin' before you is a cowboy greater than Jonah and you still don't believe.

Even the Queen of Sheba, who didn't even know who God was, came and asked Solomon where he got his great wisdom. She listened to him and believed. She will rise up and not speak favorably of all of y'all when Judgment Day comes because you do not believe or change after you've heard the truth. Now one greater and wiser than Solomon is standing here and you still refuse to believe.

This is what happens when men are cleaned up, but don't start ridin' for God. They end up worse than when they started."

Y'all ain't nothin' but snake-oil salesmen! Old Isaiah was tellin' the truth when God spoke through him and said,

Jesus looked at 'em and said, "Cowboys can't get themselves in, that would be impossible. But with God, all things are possible."

They wanted a reason to throw him in jail, but they were afraid because the people thought he was sent from God.