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greetings and welcome back to issues et cetera live on this Monday afternoon June the 12th.

I'm Todd Wilkin. Thanks for tuning us in. We continue our series on the distinction between

law and gospel with Pastor Will Whedon of the word of the Lord and doers forever.

Then in hour two we'll be looking forward to Sunday morning according to the three-year

electionary, the third Sunday after Pentecost with Pastor Sean Denzer, Director of Worship

for the Lutheran Church, Missouri Senate. Pastor Will Whedon is assistant pastor at St. Paul

Lutheran Church in Hamill, Illinois. Formerly served as Director of Worship for the Lutheran

Church, Missouri Senate. He's author of the books celebrating the Saints,

thank praise, serve and obey and see my Savior's hands. He hosts the daily 15-minute

verse by verse Bible study, produced by Lutheran public radio called the word of the Lord and doers

forever. We'll welcome back. Thank you, Todd. Before Walter gets into his kind of the heart thesis

of these these he's on the long gospel where he essentially says long gospels the only way to

rightly understand holy scripture makes sense of it. He spends some time talking about

scriptures clarity. What does he have to say? Yeah, he he is dealing with with an accusation that

sort of runs around especially from Rome and the East. Then implies that the scripture by itself

is not sufficient and sufficiently clear to convey the full truth of what God wants people to know

and believe. So I'd like to let Walter actually speak for himself a little bit as he starts this

out and then I'm going to sort of interrupt him if that's okay. If the holy scriptures were really

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