This section introduces the topic, explains the structure followed in each study, and offers tips for those approaching the study on their own as well as those participating in a group.

When the people whom God has chosen call to him day and night, he will save them from their enemies. He may let them wait a time. Jesus instead said “Martha, you worry and become upset about too many things. Mary has chosen to do the right thing.” Moral When he came near the city of Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the road. He was begging for money. The bridegroom was taking a long time to come, and soon, all the women fell asleep. Their lamps all burned out.OMAR: Later, when the man went to see his second son, he was surprised to see that he wasn't helping at all! Jesus’ disciples were still surprised every time He did a miracle. Right after the story of Jesus feeding 4,000 people they brought a man to Him who was blind. They were in the city of Bethsaida. He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”

The parables of the Embarrassed Guest the Luncheon for the Poor and the Slighted Invitation (Luke 14:7-24) also show God’s goodness, but emphasise that we ought to respond with humility. Suddenly there were many more angels who came to tell the shepherds about the new baby. They told them that they could find the baby Jesus in a manger. The parables of the Friends at Midnight and the Persistent Widow (Luke 11:5-13, Luke 18:1-8), further illustrate the compassion and kindness ofGod and show the need to seek it.After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. 18 “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.”