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Dear brothers and sisters
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in Christ,
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meet St. Peter the preacher.
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Peter is a confessor,
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he is an author and he
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is also a preacher.
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He has seven different speeches
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or sermons in the Book of Acts
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and he has been preaching
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a lot in churches lately,
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for the last two weeks at least.
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He preached in millions of
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churches on Pentecost Sunday and
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in lots and lots of churches
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on Holy Trinity Sunday.
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Today he preached
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in this chapel.
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We actually came late.
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He was beginning the second
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movement or the second
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part of his sermon,
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and we didn't let him finish.
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We cut him off before he moved
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into his third movement.
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But then again,
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verse 33 is a fitting climax,
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as we will see.
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Now,
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if you preach in this chapel,
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you should be advised that you
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are running some risks.
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One of them is that there is
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a member of the homoletics
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department sitting and chapel
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and he will take your sermon to
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the lab and there he will
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perform an anatomy
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of the sermon.
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So this is exactly what's
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going to happen today.
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Not in a lab out there,
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but right here in this pulpit.
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Not with what is going
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to be said from here,
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but what we listened from over
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there from the Lectern. St.
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Peter's sermon.
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Anatomy of a sermon by St.
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Peter.
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Now you may protest and say, no,
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not St. Peter.
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He is or concur.
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He is one of a kind.
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This is scripture.
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We should not be doing this.
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And Peter may himself be saying,
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oh no, spare me of this.
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But I would say, hang in there,
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it won't hurt. And believe me,
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you did a fine job.
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So on then to the Anatomy
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of a sermon.
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In order to do this,
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I need a tool, an analytical tool,
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a scalpel, a magnifying glass
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of sorts.
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And I decided to take Dr.
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Schmitt's wonderful essay in
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Concordia Journal, spring 2011.
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It's called the Tapestry
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of Preaching.
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You may not be familiar
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with this,
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but he summarizes this as
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follows faith full preaching is
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an art. Oh, yeah, it's an art.
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It's not a science.
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It's not exact.
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The pastor weaves together four
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threads of discourse to form a
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sermon that is based on a text
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of Scripture centered in the
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death and resurrection of Christ
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for the forgiveness of sins,
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for the benefit of the hearers
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in faith and life.
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These four threads work together
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to form the event of the sermon.
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Four threads text, theology,
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gospel, hearer interpretation.
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For homiletical reasons,
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I'll pick them up in
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a different order.
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I will start with hearer
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interpretation.
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This is one of the toughest
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things to do,
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but it should be as bright
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as this yellow color.
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Hearer interpretation.
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Now, what is that?
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Dr.
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Schmitt explains,
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frequently
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preachers can create a
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caricature of their hearers
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rather than recognition of them.
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Their sermons take on
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a timeless quality,
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able to be preached at
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any time to anyone,
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rather than to those particular
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people on this particular day.
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Now,
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I submit that Peter is
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doing a wonderful job
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in this regard.
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He is not speaking to
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whom it may concern.
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He is speaking to Bible
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believing people.
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They have a high regard
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for David.
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He has a lot to say about God,
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and he does not belabor what
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people know already.
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At one point he says,
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as you yourselves know,
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that's Jesus's Galilean
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ministry.
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I don't have to tell you about
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this because you are
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aware of this.
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I move on to the
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Second thread.
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The red thread of Gospel
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proclamation.
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We used to say that the Gospel
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is a red thread that goes
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through all of Scriptures.
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Gospel proclamation
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it's a message centered in the
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death and resurrection
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of Christ.
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Now for a Pentecost sermon
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there is a lot of Jesus in
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this sermon by Peter.
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Peter has law and gospel,
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he says,
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and this is the end of his
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second movement here. He says,
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this Jesus whom you crucified,
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and at the beginning he says,
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you killed him through the
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hands of lawless people.
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Now that's law.
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But Peter has also gospel
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because the people had their
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hearts pierced at
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the end of this.
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And they asked, brothers,
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what should we do?
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And then Peter says, well,
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God raised him up.
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God made this Jesus both Lord
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and Christ the Jesus
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you crucified.
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Now,
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this may not sound like good
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news. We killed him,
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now he is alive.
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He may come and get us.
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But then Peter goes on in the
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third movement, he says,
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you can be baptized,
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each one of you,
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for forgiveness of sins,
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and you will receive the gift,
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the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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And the promise is for you,
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for your children and for
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everybody that's far off.
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So this is law and gospel
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proclamation in Peter's sermon.
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He's doing fine,
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I think.
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The third thread is
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textual exposition.
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This purple or blue,
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it's very solid.
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It has to be
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so. A sermon is supposed to be
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based on a text of scripture.
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Well,
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this is more easily
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said than done.
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Dr. Schmidt explains it, saying,
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sometimes preachers can begin
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to stray from the text
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in preaching.
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They mention the text,
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but then leave it behind as they
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launch into their personal
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beliefs or contemporary topics
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that have nothing to
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do with the text.
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But okay,
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not so with Peter.
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He has a lot of scripture.
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He has a big chunk of Psalm 16.
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And if that were not enough,
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he also quotes Psalm 110 100,
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110.
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So better two texts than one,
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and better one text than none.
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Two witnesses are important.
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So again, Peter is doing well.
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He has a lot of scripture in his
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preaching and he does exactly
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what homileticans
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advise you to do.
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He has only that information
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from the text which is pertinent
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to the sermon.
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Clarifying for this day this
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aspect of this text.
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So Peter is not all over the
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place talking about
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biblical poetry,
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about the nature of
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Hades or Sheol.
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He is focusing on one thing.
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He is simply focusing
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on this one thing.
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The Holy One of God was not
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abandoned to Hades,
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nor did his flesh see
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corruption. He was not allowed.
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God did not allow his body
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to rot in the grave.
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But Peter does more.
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As Dr. Schmitt explains,
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there is a second function in
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dealing with Scriptures in
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a preaching, in a sermon.
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It offers the hearers a model of
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how to interpret scriptures.
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And boy,
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Peter could not be
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more on the mark.
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He hits the nail on the head.
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He teaches us psalm
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interpretation.
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You see,
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Psalm 16 is a Davidic psalm.
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It is by David.
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And how do you read
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a psalm by David?
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I've seen lots of psychologizing
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or psychologized interpretation.
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I once heard the guy say, well,
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you know,
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David was kind of bipolar during
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the day on the battlefield,
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he was fierce and brave.
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And then back home in his
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bedroom, he would kneel and say,
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oh Lord, I'm so desperate,
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I don't know exactly what to do.
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Well,
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this may have been the
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case with David,
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but this is not how Peter
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reads Psalm 16.
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It is David speaking,
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but he's not speaking about
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himself. David was a prophet.
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So what
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he says in Psalm 16 is
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not about himself,
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but about somebody else,
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about the Jesus you crucified
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and whom God raised
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back to life.
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This lesson is hard to learn,
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but this is the way the New
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Testament reads the Psalms.
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This is the way the church
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fathers read the psalms.
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This is the way Luther reads the
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psalms. We should do likewise.
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The Psalmist is the Messiah.
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I move on to the fourth thread,
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theological confession.
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It's green.
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See, it's not dry.
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This is lively. This is lush.
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This is lively.
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This is important theological
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confession.
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Dr.
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Peter writes through the sermon,
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the preacher makes confession
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of the teachings of faith,
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and this confession models how
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we think theologically.
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Now,
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Peter,
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in this Pentecost sermon,
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preached in chapel today during
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the week of Holy Trinity Sunday,
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he has a lot of theology
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to teach.
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To begin with,
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he tells us God is never
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caught by surprise.
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He's never taken or
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caught unawares.
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What happened
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according to a definite plan and
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the foreknowledge of God.
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He has a lot of Christology
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in this sermon.
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He has the embryonic version
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of the first and great
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Christological confession in the
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New Testament. Jesus is Lord.
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But in this week of
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Holy Trinity,
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there must be a trinitarian
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emphasis in this sermon,
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otherwise the formulators of the
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lectionary would not have
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invited him to preach on this
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particular Sunday. And bingo
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there you have it in verse 33.
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Being therefore exalted at
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the right hand of God,
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and having received from the
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Father the promise of
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the Holy Spirit,
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he has poured out this that you
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yourselves are seeing
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and hearing.
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Okay,
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we might spend the rest of the
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day meditating and wondering
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on this theological aspect,
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the perfect harmony
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in the Trinity.
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In a sense. In Peter's sermon,
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we hear a conversation
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in the Trinity. The
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Father is saying,
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my dear Son,
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take the Holy Spirit.
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He's all yours now.
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I know you don't need
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him anymore,
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so I know you promised your
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friends another advocate,
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so send the Spirit their way.
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And the Son would answer
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or reply, yes, Father,
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but I also told them that I
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would ask you to send them
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another advocate.
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And I asked them to stay in town
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until the promise would
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be fulfilled.
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And then the Father again, okay,
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son,
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but if you are sending Him or
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you are pouring Him out,
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it's as much as it's the same
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as if I were doing it.
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And the paraclete the Holy
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Spirit, isn't it?
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So you could go on your own.
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So it's my sending your pouring
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his going Him glorifying you and
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the disciples being led
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into all truth.
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So there is a trinitarian kernel
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here in Peter's theological
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confession.
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Somebody calls it a deep
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structure of Trinity,
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of the Trinitarian doctrine.
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A deep structure that later
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theologians would bring to the
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surface and define in more
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precise language.
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For as someone said,
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it's possible for someone to
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speak perfectly grammatically
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without ever consciously
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knowing any grammar.
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So Peter is speaking perfect
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grammatical trinitarian
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language,
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language that later theologians
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would analyze and express
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in different
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words, saying, for instance,
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the Catholic faith is this that
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we worship one God in Trinity,
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in Trinity, in unity,
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neither confusing the persons
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nor dividing the substance.
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Brothers and sisters,
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I've come full circle.
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I had hearer interpretation,
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I had gospel proclamation,
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textual analysis,
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theological proclamation,
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four threads. Now,
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if you combine them,
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if you weave them together,
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you have a beautiful sermon.
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It couldn't be better.
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And it is so marvelous.
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This is a biblical sermon,
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a wonderful sermon.
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That we could listen again and
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again and again and then worship
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and praise the Lamb on His
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throne and to say in the name of
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the Father and of the Son
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and of the Holy Spirit,
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Amen.